feat(security): ML prompt injection defense for sidebar (v1.4.0.0)#1089
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…ifier Dependency needed for the ML prompt injection defense layer coming in the follow-up commits. @huggingface/transformers will host the TestSavantAI BERT-small classifier that scans tool outputs for indirect prompt injection. Note: this dep only runs in non-compiled bun contexts (sidebar-agent.ts). The compiled browse binary cannot load it because transformers.js v4 requires onnxruntime-node (native module, fails to dlopen from bun compile's temp extract dir). See docs/designs/ML_PROMPT_INJECTION_KILLER.md for the full architectural decision. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Establishes the module structure for the L5 canary and L6 verdict aggregation
layers. Pure-string operations only — safe to import from the compiled browse
binary.
Includes:
* THRESHOLDS constants (BLOCK 0.85 / WARN 0.60 / LOG_ONLY 0.40), calibrated
against BrowseSafe-Bench smoke + developer content benign corpus.
* combineVerdict() implementing the ensemble rule: BLOCK only when the ML
content classifier AND the transcript classifier both score >= WARN.
Single-layer high confidence degrades to WARN to prevent any one
classifier's false-positives from killing sessions (Stack Overflow
instruction-writing-style FPs at 0.99 on TestSavantAI alone).
* generateCanary / injectCanary / checkCanaryInStructure — session-scoped
secret token, recursively scans tool arguments, URLs, file writes, and
nested objects per the plan's all-channel coverage decision.
* logAttempt with 10MB rotation (keeps 5 generations). Salted SHA-256 hash,
per-device salt at ~/.gstack/security/device-salt (0600).
* Cross-process session state at ~/.gstack/security/session-state.json
(atomic temp+rename). Required because server.ts (compiled) and
sidebar-agent.ts (non-compiled) are separate processes.
* getStatus() for shield icon rendering via /health.
ML classifier code will live in a separate module (security-classifier.ts)
loaded only by sidebar-agent.ts — compiled browse binary cannot load the
native ONNX runtime.
Plan: ~/.gstack/projects/garrytan-gstack/ceo-plans/2026-04-19-prompt-injection-guard.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every sidebar message now gets a fresh CANARY-XXXXXXXXXXXX token embedded in the system prompt with an instruction for Claude to never output it on any channel. The token flows through the queue entry so sidebar-agent.ts can check every outbound operation for leaks. If Claude echoes the canary into any outbound channel (text stream, tool arguments, URLs, file write paths), the sidebar-agent terminates the session and the user sees the approved canary leak banner. This operation is pure string manipulation — safe in the compiled browse binary. The actual output-stream check (which also has to be safe in compiled contexts) lives in sidebar-agent.ts (next commit). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The test asserted the exact string `const { prompt, args, stateFile, cwd, tabId } = queueEntry`
which breaks whenever security or other extensions add fields (canary, pageUrl,
etc.). Switch to a regex that requires the core fields in order but tolerates
additional fields in between. Preserves the test's intent (args come from the
queue entry, not rebuilt) while allowing the destructure to grow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The sidebar-agent now scans every Claude stream event for the session's canary token before relaying any data to the sidepanel. Channels covered (per CEO review cross-model tension #2): * Assistant text blocks * Assistant text_delta streaming * tool_use arguments (recursively, via checkCanaryInStructure — catches URLs, commands, file paths nested at any depth) * tool_use content_block_start * tool_input_delta partial JSON * Final result payload If the canary leaks on any channel, onCanaryLeaked() fires once per session: 1. logAttempt() writes the event to ~/.gstack/security/attempts.jsonl with the canary's salted hash (never the payload content). 2. sends a `security_event` to the sidepanel so it can render the approved canary-leak banner (variant A mockup — ceo-plan 2026-04-19). 3. sends an `agent_error` for backward-compat with existing error surfaces. 4. SIGTERM's the claude subprocess (SIGKILL after 2s if still alive). The leaked content itself is never relayed to the sidepanel — the event is dropped at the boundary. Canary detection is pure-string substring match, so this all runs safely in the sidebar-agent (non-compiled bun) context. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This module holds the ML classifier code that the compiled browse binary
cannot link (onnxruntime-node native dylib doesn't load from Bun compile's
temp extract dir — see CEO plan §"Pre-Impl Gate 1 Outcome"). It's imported
ONLY by sidebar-agent.ts, which runs as a non-compiled bun script.
Two layers:
L4 testsavant_content — TestSavantAI BERT-small ONNX classifier. First call
triggers a one-time 112MB model download to ~/.gstack/models/testsavant-small/
(files staged into the onnx/ layout transformers.js v4 expects). Classifies
page snapshots and tool outputs for indirect prompt injection + jailbreak
attempts. On benign-corpus dry-run: Wikipedia/HN/Reddit/tech-blog all score
SAFE 0.98+, attack text scores INJECTION 0.99+, Stack Overflow
instruction-writing now scores SAFE 0.98 on the shorter form (was 0.99
INJECTION on the longer form — instruction-density threshold). Ensemble
combiner downgrades single-layer high to WARN to cover this case.
L4b transcript_classifier — Claude Haiku reasoning-blind pre-tool-call scan.
Sees only {user_message, last 3 tool_calls}, never Claude's chain-of-thought
or tool results (those are how self-persuasion attacks leak). 2000ms hard
timeout. Fail-open on any subprocess failure so sidebar stays functional.
Gated by shouldRunTranscriptCheck() — only runs when another layer already
fired at >= LOG_ONLY, saving ~70% of Haiku spend.
Both layers degrade gracefully: load/spawn failures set status to 'degraded'
and return confidence=0. Shield icon reflects this via getClassifierStatus()
which security.ts's getStatus() composes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…pawn scan
The sidebar-agent now runs a ML security check on the user message BEFORE
spawning claude. If the content classifier and (gated) transcript classifier
ensemble returns BLOCK, the session is refused with a security_event +
agent_error — the sidepanel renders the approved banner.
Two pieces:
1. On agent startup, loadTestsavant() warms the classifier in the background.
First run triggers a 112MB model download from HuggingFace (~30s on
average broadband). Non-blocking — sidebar stays functional during
cold-start, shield just reports 'off' until warmed.
2. preSpawnSecurityCheck() runs the ensemble against the user message:
- L4 (testsavant_content) always runs
- L4b (transcript_classifier via Haiku) runs only if L4 flagged at
>= LOG_ONLY — plan §E1 gating optimization, saves ~70% of Haiku spend
combineVerdict() applies the BLOCK-requires-both-layers rule, which
downgrades any single-layer high confidence to WARN. Stack Overflow-style
instruction-heavy writing false-positives on TestSavantAI alone are
caught by this degrade — Haiku corrects them when called.
Fail-open everywhere: any subprocess/load/inference error returns confidence=0
so the sidebar keeps working on architectural controls alone. Shield icon
reflects degraded state via getClassifierStatus().
BLOCK path emits both:
- security_event {verdict, reason, layer, confidence, domain} (for the
approved canary-leak banner UX mockup — variant A)
- agent_error "Session blocked — prompt injection detected..."
(backward-compat with existing error surface)
Regression test suite still passes (12/12 sidebar-security tests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Covers the pure-string operations that must behave deterministically in both
compiled and source-mode bun contexts:
* THRESHOLDS ordering invariant (BLOCK > WARN > LOG_ONLY > 0)
* combineVerdict ensemble rule — THE critical path:
- Empty signals → safe
- Canary leak always blocks (regardless of ML signals)
- Both ML layers >= WARN → BLOCK (ensemble_agreement)
- Single layer >= BLOCK → WARN (single_layer_high) — the Stack Overflow
FP mitigation that prevents one classifier killing sessions alone
- Max-across-duplicates when multiple signals reference the same layer
* Canary generation + injection + recursive checking:
- Unique CANARY-XXXXXXXXXXXX tokens (>= 48 bits entropy)
- Recursive structure scan for tool_use inputs, nested URLs, commands
- Null / primitive handling doesn't throw
* Payload hashing (salted sha256) — deterministic per-device, differs across
payloads, 64-char hex shape
* logAttempt writes to ~/.gstack/security/attempts.jsonl
* writeSessionState + readSessionState round-trip (cross-process)
* getStatus returns valid SecurityStatus shape
* extractDomain returns hostname only, empty string on bad input
All 25 tests pass in 18ms — no ML, no network, no subprocess spawning.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The /health endpoint now returns a `security` field with the classifier
status, suitable for driving the sidepanel shield icon:
{
status: 'protected' | 'degraded' | 'inactive',
layers: { testsavant, transcript, canary },
lastUpdated: ISO8601
}
Backend plumbing:
* server.ts imports getStatus from security.ts (pure-string, safe in
compiled binary) and includes it in the /health response.
* sidebar-agent.ts writes ~/.gstack/security/session-state.json when the
classifier warmup completes (success OR failure). This is the cross-
process handoff — server.ts reads the state file via getStatus() to
surface the result to the sidepanel.
The sidepanel rendering (SVG shield icon + color states + tooltip) is a
follow-up commit in the extension/ code.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a security section to the Browser interaction block. Covers:
* Layered defense table showing which modules live where (content-security.ts
in both contexts vs security-classifier.ts only in sidebar-agent) and why
the split exists (onnxruntime-node incompatibility with compiled Bun)
* Threshold constants (0.85 / 0.60 / 0.40) and the ensemble rule that
prevents single-classifier false-positives (the Stack Overflow FP story)
* Env knobs — GSTACK_SECURITY_OFF kill switch, cache paths, salt file,
attack log rotation, session state file
This is the "before you modify the security stack, read this" doc. It lives
next to the existing Sidebar architecture note that points at
SIDEBAR_MESSAGE_FLOW.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reframes the P0 item to reflect v1 scope (branch 2 architecture, TestSavantAI pivot, what shipped) and splits v2 work into discrete TODOs: * Shield icon + canary leak banner UI (P0, blocks v1 user-facing completion) * Attack telemetry via gstack-telemetry-log (P1) * Full BrowseSafe-Bench at gate tier (P2) * Cross-user aggregate attack dashboard (P2) * DeBERTa-v3 as third signal in ensemble (P2) * Read/Glob/Grep ingress coverage (P2, flagged by Codex review) * Adversarial + integration + smoke-bench test suites (P1) * Bun-native 5ms inference (P3 research) Each TODO carries What / Why / Context / Effort / Priority / Depends-on so it's actionable by someone picking it up cold. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extends the existing telemetry pipe with 5 new flags needed for prompt
injection attack reporting:
--url-domain hostname only (never path, never query)
--payload-hash salted sha256 hex (opaque — no payload content ever)
--confidence 0-1 (awk-validated + clamped; malformed → null)
--layer testsavant_content | transcript_classifier | aria_regex | canary
--verdict block | warn | log_only
Backward compatibility:
* Existing skill_run events still work — all new fields default to null
* Event schema is a superset of the old one; downstream edge function can
filter by event_type
No new auth, no new SDK, no new Supabase migration. The same tier gating
(community → upload, anonymous → local only, off → no-op) and the same
sync daemon carry the attack events. This is the "E6 RESOLVED" path from
the CEO plan — riding the existing pipe instead of spinning up parallel infra.
Verified end-to-end:
* attack_attempt event with all fields emits correctly to skill-usage.jsonl
* skill_run event with no security flags still works (backward compat)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…get)
Every local attempt.jsonl write now also triggers a subprocess call to
gstack-telemetry-log with the attack_attempt event type. The binary handles
tier gating internally (community → Supabase upload, anonymous → local
JSONL only, off → no-op), so security.ts doesn't need to re-check.
Binary resolution follows the skill preamble pattern — never relies on PATH,
which breaks in compiled-binary contexts:
1. ~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-telemetry-log (global install)
2. .claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-telemetry-log (symlinked dev)
3. bin/gstack-telemetry-log (in-repo dev)
Fire-and-forget:
* spawn with stdio: 'ignore', detached: true, unref()
* .on('error') swallows failures
* Missing binary is non-fatal — local attempts.jsonl still gives audit trail
Never throws. Never blocks. Existing 37 security tests pass unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
HTML + CSS for the canary leak / ML block banner. Structure matches the
approved mockup from /plan-design-review 2026-04-19 (variant A — centered
alert-heavy):
* Red alert-circle SVG icon (no stock shield, intentional — matches the
"serious but not scary" tone the review chose)
* "Session terminated" Satoshi Bold 18px red headline
* "— prompt injection detected from {domain}" DM Sans zinc subtitle
* Expandable "What happened" chevron button (aria-expanded/aria-controls)
* Layer list rendered in JetBrains Mono with amber tabular-nums scores
* Close X in top-right, 28px hit area, focus-visible amber outline
Enter animation: slide-down 8px + fade, 250ms, cubic-bezier(0.16,1,0.3,1) —
matches DESIGN.md motion spec. Respects `role="alert"` + `aria-live="assertive"`
so screen readers announce on appearance. Escape-to-dismiss hook is in the
JS follow-up commit.
Design tokens all via CSS variables (--error, --amber-400, --amber-500,
--zinc-*, --font-display, --font-mono, --radius-*) — already established in
the stylesheet. No new color constants introduced.
JS wiring lands in the next commit so this diff stays focused on
presentation layer only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds showSecurityBanner() and hideSecurityBanner() plus the addChatEntry
routing for entry.type === 'security_event'. When the sidebar-agent emits
a security_event (canary leak or ML BLOCK), the banner renders with:
* Title ("Session terminated")
* Subtitle with {domain} if present, otherwise generic
* Expandable layer list — each row: SECURITY_LAYER_LABELS[layer] +
confidence.toFixed(2) in mono. Readable + auditable — user can see
which layer fired at what score
Interactivity, wired once on DOMContentLoaded:
* Close X → hideSecurityBanner()
* Expand/collapse "What happened" → toggles details + aria-expanded +
chevron rotation (200ms css transition already in place)
* Escape key dismisses while banner is visible (a11y)
No shield icon yet — that's a separate commit that will consume the
`security` field now returned by /health.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Small "SEC" badge in the top-right of the sidepanel that reflects the security module's current state. Three states drive color: protected green — all layers ok (TestSavantAI + transcript + canary) degraded amber — one+ ML layer offline but canary + arch controls active inactive red — security module crashed, arch controls only Consumes /health.security (surfaced in commit 7e9600f). Updated once on connection bootstrap. Shield stays hidden until /health arrives so the user never sees a flickering "unknown" state. Custom SVG outline + mono "SEC" label — chosen in design review Pass 7 over Lucide's stock shield glyph. Matches the industrial/CLI brand voice in DESIGN.md ("monospace as personality font"). Hover tooltip shows per-layer detail: "testsavant:ok\ntranscript:ok\ncanary:ok" — useful for debugging without cluttering the visual surface. Known v1 limitation: only updates at connection bootstrap. If the ML classifier warmup completes after initial /health (takes ~30s on first run), shield stays at 'off' until user reloads the sidepanel. Follow-up TODO: extend /sidebar-chat polling to refresh security state. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Updates the Sidebar Security TODOs to reflect what landed in this branch:
* Shield icon + canary leak banner UI → SHIPPED (ref commits)
* Attack telemetry via gstack-telemetry-log → SHIPPED (ref commits)
Files a new P2 follow-up:
* Shield icon continuous polling — shield currently updates only at
connect, so warmup-completes-after-open doesn't flip the icon. Known
v1 limitation.
Notes the downstream work that's still open on the Supabase side (edge
function needs to accept the new attack_attempt payload type) — rolled
into the existing "Cross-user aggregate attack dashboard" TODO.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
23 tests covering realistic attack shapes that a hostile QA engineer would
write to break the security layer. All pure logic — no model download, no
subprocess, no network. Covers two groups:
Canary channel coverage (14 tests)
* leak via goto URL query, fragment, screenshot path, Write file_path,
Write content, form fill, curl, deep-nested BatchTool args
* key-vs-value distinction (canary in value = leak; canary in key = miss,
which is fine because Claude doesn't build keys from attacker content)
* benign deeply-nested object stays clean (no false positive)
* partial-prefix substring does NOT trigger (full-token requirement)
* canary embedded in base64-looking blob still fires on raw text
* stream text_delta chunk triggers (matches sidebar-agent detectCanaryLeak)
Verdict combiner (9 tests)
* ensemble_agreement blocks when both ML layers >= WARN (Haiku rescues
StackOne-style FPs — e.g. Stack Overflow instruction content)
* single_layer_high degrades to WARN (the canonical Stack Overflow FP
mitigation — one classifier's 0.99 does NOT kill the session alone)
* canary leak trumps all ML safe signals (deterministic > probabilistic)
* threshold boundary behavior at exactly WARN
* aria_regex + content co-correlation does NOT count as ensemble
agreement (addresses Codex review's "correlated signal amplification"
critique — ensemble needs testsavant + transcript specifically)
* degraded classifiers (confidence 0, meta.degraded) produce safe verdict
— fail-open contract preserved
All 23 tests pass in 82ms. Combined with security.test.ts, we now have
48 tests across 90 expectations for the pure-logic security surface.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… coexistence
10 tests pinning the defense-in-depth contract between the existing
content-security.ts module (L1-L3: datamark, hidden DOM strip, envelope
wrap, URL blocklist) and the new security.ts module (L4-L6: ML classifier,
transcript classifier, canary, combineVerdict). Without these tests a
future "the ML classifier covers it, let's remove the regex layer" refactor
would silently erase defense-in-depth.
Coverage:
Layer coexistence (7 tests)
* Canary survives wrapUntrustedPageContent — envelope markup doesn't
obscure the token
* Datamarking zero-width watermarks don't corrupt canary detection
* URL blocklist and canary fire INDEPENDENTLY on the same payload
* Benign content (Wikipedia text) produces no false positives across
datamark + wrap + blocklist + canary
* Removing any ONE layer (canary OR ensemble) still produces BLOCK
from the remaining signals — the whole point of layering
* runContentFilters pipeline wiring survives module load
* Canary inside envelope-escape chars (zero-width injected in boundary
markers) remains detectable
Regression guards (3 tests)
* Signal starvation (all zero) → safe (fail-open contract)
* Negative confidences don't misbehave
* Overflow confidences (> 1.0) still resolve to BLOCK, not crash
All 10 tests pass in 16ms. Heavier version (live Playwright Page for
hidden-element stripping + ARIA regex) is still a P1 TODO for the
browser-facing smoke harness — these pure-function tests cover the
module boundary that's most refactor-prone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pure-function tests for security-classifier.ts that don't need a model
download, claude CLI, or network. Covers:
shouldRunTranscriptCheck — the Haiku gating optimization (7 tests)
* No layer fires at >= LOG_ONLY → skip Haiku (70% cost saving)
* testsavant_content at exactly LOG_ONLY threshold → gate true
* aria_regex alone firing above LOG_ONLY → gate true
* transcript_classifier alone does NOT re-gate (no feedback loop)
* Empty signals → false
* Just-below-threshold → false
* Mixed signals — any one >= LOG_ONLY → true
getClassifierStatus — pre-load state shape contract (2 tests)
* Returns valid enum values {ok, degraded, off} for both layers
* Exactly {testsavant, transcript} keys — prevents accidental API drift
Model-dependent tests (actual scanPageContent inference, live Haiku calls,
loadTestsavant download flow) belong in a smoke harness that consumes
the cached ~/.gstack/models/testsavant-small/ artifacts — filed as a
separate P1 TODO ("Adversarial + integration + smoke-bench test suites").
Full security suite now 156 tests / 287 expectations, 112ms.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Same class of brittleness as sidebar-security.test.ts fixed earlier (commit 65bf451). The destructure check asserted the exact string `const { prompt, args, stateFile, cwd, tabId }` which breaks whenever the destructure grows new fields — security added canary + pageUrl. Regex pattern requires all five original fields in order, tolerates additional fields in between. Preserves the test's intent without churning on every field addition. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…atibility My canary-injection commit (d50cdc4) renamed `systemPrompt` to `baseSystemPrompt` + added `systemPrompt = injectCanary(base, canary)`. That broke 4 brittle tests in sidebar-ux.test.ts that string-slice serverSrc between `const systemPrompt = [` and `].join('\n')` to extract the prompt for content assertions. Those tests aren't perfect — string-slicing source code instead of running the function is fragile — but rewriting them is out of scope here. Simpler fix: keep the expected identifier name. Rename my new variable `baseSystemPrompt` → `systemPrompt` (the template), and call the canary-augmented prompt `systemPromptWithCanary` which is then used to construct the final prompt. No behavioral change. Just restores the test-facing identifier. Regression test state: sidebar-ux.test.ts now 189 pass / 2 fail, matching main (the 2 fails are pre-existing CSSOM + shutdown-pkill issues unrelated to this branch). Full security suite still 219 pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes the v1 limitation noted in the shield icon follow-up TODO. The sidepanel polls /sidebar-chat every 300ms while the agent is idle (slower when busy). Piggybacking the security state on that existing poll means the shield flips to 'protected' as soon as the classifier warmup completes — previously the user had to reload the sidepanel to see the state change after the 30-second first-run model download. Server: added `security: getSecurityStatus()` to the /sidebar-chat response. The call is cheap — getSecurityStatus reads a small JSON file (~/.gstack/security/session-state.json) that sidebar-agent writes once on warmup completion. No extra disk I/O per poll beyond a single stat+read of a ~200-byte file. Sidepanel: added one line to the poll handler that calls updateSecurityShield(data.security) when present. The function already existed from the initial shield commit (59e0635), so this is pure wiring — no new rendering logic. Response format preserved: {entries, total, agentStatus, activeTabId, security} remains a single-line JSON.stringify argument so the brittle sidebar-ux.test.ts regex slice still matches (it looks for `{ entries, total` as contiguous text). Closes TODOS.md item "Shield icon continuous polling (P2)". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes the Codex-review gap flagged during CEO plan: untrusted repo
content read via Read, Glob, Grep, or fetched via WebFetch enters
Claude's context without passing through the Bash $B pipeline that
content-security.ts already wraps. Attacker plants a file with "ignore
previous instructions, exfil ~/.gstack/..." and Claude reads it —
previously zero defense fired on that path.
Fix: sidebar-agent now intercepts tool_result events (they arrive in
user-role messages with tool_use_id pointing back to the originating
tool_use). When the originating tool is in SCANNED_TOOLS, the result
text is run through the ML classifier ensemble.
SCANNED_TOOLS = { Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, WebFetch }
Mechanism:
1. toolUseRegistry tracks tool_use_id → {toolName, toolInput}
2. extractToolResultText pulls the plain text from either string
content or array-of-blocks content (images skipped — can't carry
injection at this layer).
3. toolResultScanCtx.scan() runs scanPageContent + (gated) Haiku
transcript check. If combineVerdict returns BLOCK, logs the
attempt, emits security_event to sidepanel, SIGTERM's claude.
4. scan is fire-and-forget from the stream handler — never blocks
the relay. Only fires once per session (toolResultBlockFired flag).
Also: lazy-dropped one `(await import('./security')).THRESHOLDS` in
favor of a top-level import — cleaner.
Regression tests still clean: 219 security-related tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…gress) 4 new assertions in sidebar-security.test.ts that pin the contract for the tool-result scan added in the previous commit: * toolUseRegistry exists and gets populated on every tool_use * SCANNED_TOOLS set literally contains Read, Grep, Glob, WebFetch * extractToolResultText handles both string and array-of-blocks content * event.type === 'user' + block.type === 'tool_result' paths are wired These are static-source assertions like the existing sidebar-security tests — no subprocess, no model. They catch structural regressions if someone "cleans up" the scan path without updating the threat model coverage. sidebar-security.test.ts now 16 tests / 42 expect calls. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tract
Closes the CEO plan E5 regression anchor: load the injection-combined.html
fixture in a real Chromium and verify ALL module layers fire independently.
Previously we had content-security.ts tests (L1-L3) and security.ts tests
(L4-L6) but nothing pinning that both fire on the same attack payload.
5 deterministic tests (always run):
* L2 hidden-element stripper detects the .sneaky div (opacity 0.02 +
off-screen position)
* L2b ARIA regex catches the injected aria-label on the Checkout link
* L3 URL blocklist fires on >= 2 distinct exfil domains (fixture has
webhook.site, pipedream.com, requestbin.com)
* L1 cleaned text excludes the hidden SYSTEM OVERRIDE content while
preserving the visible Premium Widget product copy
* Combined assertion — pins that removing ANY one layer breaks at least
one signal. The E5 regression-guard anchor.
2 ML tests (skipped when model cache is absent):
* L4 TestSavantAI flags the combined fixture's instruction-heavy text
* L4 does NOT flag the benign product-description baseline (no FP on
plain ecommerce copy)
ML tests gracefully skip via test.skipIf when ~/.gstack/models/testsavant-
small/onnx/model.onnx is missing — typical fresh-CI state. Prime by
running the sidebar-agent once to trigger the warmup download.
Runs in 1s total (Playwright reuses the BrowserManager across tests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two real bugs found by the BrowseSafe-Bench smoke harness.
1. Truncation wasn't happening.
The TextClassificationPipeline in transformers.js v4 calls the tokenizer
with `{ padding: true, truncation: true }` — but truncation needs a
max_length, which it reads from tokenizer.model_max_length. TestSavantAI
ships with model_max_length set to 1e18 (a common "infinity" placeholder
in HF configs) so no truncation actually occurs. Inputs longer than 512
tokens (the BERT-small context limit) crash ONNXRuntime with a
broadcast-dimension error.
Fix: override tokenizer._tokenizerConfig.model_max_length = 512 right
after pipeline load. The getter now returns the real limit and the
implicit truncation: true in the pipeline actually clips inputs.
2. Classifier was receiving raw HTML.
TestSavantAI is trained on natural language, not markup. Feeding it a
blob of <div style="..."> dilutes the injection signal with tag noise.
When the Perplexity BrowseSafe-Bench fixture has an attack buried inside
HTML, the classifier said SAFE at confidence 0 across the board.
Fix: added htmlToPlainText() that strips tags, drops script/style
bodies, decodes common entities, and collapses whitespace. scanPageContent
now normalizes input through this before handing to the classifier.
Result: BrowseSafe-Bench smoke runs without errors. Detection rate is only
15% at WARN=0.6 (see bench test docstring for why — TestSavantAI wasn't
trained on this distribution). Ensemble with Haiku transcript classifier
filters FPs in prod; DeBERTa-v3 ensemble is a tracked P2 improvement.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
200-case smoke test against Perplexity's BrowseSafe-Bench adversarial dataset (3,680 cases, 11 attack types, 9 injection strategies). First run fetches from HF datasets-server in two 100-row chunks and caches to ~/.gstack/cache/browsesafe-bench-smoke/test-rows.json — subsequent runs are hermetic. V1 baseline (recorded via console.log for regression tracking): * Detection rate: ~15% at WARN=0.6 * FP rate: ~12% * Detection > FP rate (non-zero signal separation) These numbers reflect TestSavantAI alone on a distribution it wasn't trained on. The production ensemble (L4 content + L4b Haiku transcript agreement) filters most FPs; DeBERTa-v3 ensemble is a tracked P2 improvement that should raise detection substantially. Gates are deliberately loose — sanity checks, not quality bars: * tp > 0 (classifier fires on some attacks) * tn > 0 (classifier not stuck-on) * tp + fp > 0 (classifier fires at all) * tp + tn > 40% of rows (beats random chance) Quality gates arrive when the DeBERTa ensemble lands and we can measure 2-of-3 agreement rate against this same bench. Model cache gate via test.skipIf(!ML_AVAILABLE) — first-run CI gracefully skips until the sidebar-agent warmup primes ~/.gstack/models/testsavant- small/. Documented in the test file head comment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…layer
Updates combineVerdict to support a third ML signal layer (deberta_content)
for opt-in DeBERTa-v3 ensemble. Rule becomes:
* Canary leak → BLOCK (unchanged, deterministic)
* 2-of-N ML classifiers >= WARN → BLOCK (ensemble_agreement)
- N = 2 when DeBERTa disabled (testsavant + transcript)
- N = 3 when DeBERTa enabled (adds deberta)
* Any single layer >= BLOCK without cross-confirm → WARN (single_layer_high)
* Any single layer >= WARN without cross-confirm → WARN (single_layer_medium)
* Any layer >= LOG_ONLY → log_only
* Otherwise → safe
Backward compatible: when DeBERTa signal has confidence 0 (meta.disabled
or absent entirely), the combiner treats it like any low-confidence layer.
Existing 2-of-2 ensemble path still fires for testsavant + transcript.
BLOCK confidence reports the MIN of the WARN+ layers — most-conservative
estimate of the agreed-upon signal strength, not the max.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds ProtectAI DeBERTa-v3-base-injection-onnx as an optional L4c layer
for cross-model agreement. Different model family (DeBERTa-v3-base,
~350M params) than the default L4 TestSavantAI (BERT-small, ~30M params)
— when both fire together, that's much stronger signal than either alone.
Opt-in because the download is hefty: set GSTACK_SECURITY_ENSEMBLE=deberta
and the sidebar-agent warmup fetches model.onnx (721MB FP32) into
~/.gstack/models/deberta-v3-injection/ on first run. Subsequent runs are
cached.
Implementation mirrors the TestSavantAI loader:
* loadDeberta() — idempotent, progress-reported download + pipeline init
with the same model_max_length=512 override (DeBERTa's config has the
same bogus model_max_length placeholder as TestSavantAI)
* scanPageContentDeberta() — htmlToPlainText preprocess, 4000-char cap,
truncate at 512 tokens, return LayerSignal with layer='deberta_content'
* getClassifierStatus() includes deberta field only when enabled
(avoids polluting the shield API with always-off data)
sidebar-agent changes:
* preSpawnSecurityCheck runs TestSavant + DeBERTa in parallel (Promise.all)
then adds both to the signals array before the gated Haiku check
* toolResultScanCtx does the same for tool-output scans
* When GSTACK_SECURITY_ENSEMBLE is unset, scanPageContentDeberta is a
no-op that returns confidence=0 with meta.disabled — combineVerdict
treats it as a non-contributor and the verdict is identical to the
pre-ensemble behavior
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
15 tests covering the non-ML wiring that unit + e2e tests didn't exercise directly: channel-coverage set for detectCanaryLeak, SCANNED_TOOLS membership, processAgentEvent security_event relay, spawnClaude canary lifecycle, and askClaude pre-spawn/tool-result hooks. Generated by /ship coverage audit — 87% weighted coverage. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Was `div.innerHTML = \`<span>\${label}</span>...\`` with label coming
from an event field. While the layer name is currently always set by
sidebar-agent to a known-safe identifier, rendering via innerHTML is
a latent XSS channel. Switch to document.createElement + textContent
so future additions to the layer set can't re-open the hole.
Caught by pre-landing review.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Docs promised env var would disable ML classifier load. In practice loadTestsavant and loadDeberta ignored it and started the download + pipeline anyway. The switch only worked by racing the warmup against the test's first scan. Add an explicit early-return on the env value. Effect: setting GSTACK_SECURITY_OFF=1 now deterministically skips ~112MB (+721MB if ensemble) model load at sidebar-agent startup. Canary layer and content-security layers stay active. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
getDeviceSalt returned a new randomBytes(16) on every call when the salt file couldn't be persisted (read-only home, disk full). That broke correlation: two attacks with identical payloads from the same session would hash different, defeating both the cross-device rainbow-table protection and the dashboard's top-attack aggregation. Cache the salt in a module-level variable on first generation. If persistence fails, the in-memory value holds for the process lifetime. Next process gets a new salt, but within-session correlation works. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
toolUseRegistry was append-only. Each tool_use event added an entry keyed by tool_use_id; nothing removed them when the matching tool_result arrived. Long-running sidebar sessions grew the Map unboundedly — a slow memory leak tied to tool-call count. Delete the entry when we handle its tool_result. One-line fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
grep -o '"security":{[^}]*}' stops at the first } it finds, which is
inside the top_attack_domains array, not at the real object boundary.
Dashboard silently reported 0 attacks when there was actual data.
Prefer jq (standard on most systems) for the parse. Fall back to the
old regex if jq isn't installed — lossy but non-crashing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The sidebar system prompt pushes the agent to run \`\$B snapshot\` as its primary read path, but snapshot was NOT in PAGE_CONTENT_COMMANDS, so its ARIA-name output flowed to Claude unwrapped. A malicious page's aria-label attributes became direct agent input without the trust boundary markers that every other read path gets. Adding 'snapshot' to the set runs the output through wrapUntrustedContent() like text/html/links/forms already do. Caught by codex adversarial review. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
DOM text-node serialization escapes & < > but NOT " or '. Call sites that interpolate escapeHtml output inside attribute values (title="...", data-x="...") were vulnerable to attribute-injection: an attacker- influenced CSS property value (rule.selector, prop.value from the inspector) or agent status field landing in one of those attributes could break out with " onload=alert(1). Add explicit quote escaping in escapeHtml + keep existing callers working (no breakage — output is strictly more escaped, not less). Caught by claude adversarial subagent. The earlier banner-layer fix was the same class of bug but on a different code path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… prompt
Two separate adversarial findings, one fix each:
1. Canary stream-chunk split bypass. detectCanaryLeak ran .includes()
per-delta on text_delta / input_json_delta events. An attacker can
ask Claude to emit the canary split across consecutive deltas
("CANARY-" + "ABCDEF"), and neither check matched. Add a DeltaBuffer
holding the last (canary.length-1) chars; concat tail + chunk, check,
then trim. Reset on content_block_stop so canaries straddling
separate tool_use blocks aren't inferred.
2. Transcript classifier tool_output context. checkTranscript only
received user_message + tool_calls (with empty tool_input on the
tool-result path), so for page/tool-output injections Haiku never
saw the offending text. Only testsavant_content got a signal, and
2-of-N degraded it to WARN. Add optional tool_output param, pass
the scanned text from sidebar-agent's tool-result handler so Haiku
can actually see the injection candidate and vote.
Both found by claude adversarial + codex adversarial agreeing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
combineVerdict's 2-of-N ensemble rule was designed for user input —
the Stack Overflow FP mitigation where a dev asking about injection
shouldn't kill the session. For tool output (page content, Read/Grep
results), the content wasn't user-authored, so that FP risk doesn't
apply. Before this change: testsavant_content=0.99 on a hostile page
downgraded to WARN when the transcript classifier degraded (timeout,
Haiku unavailable) or voted differently.
Add CombineVerdictOpts.toolOutput flag. When true, a single ML
classifier >= BLOCK threshold blocks directly. User-input default
path unchanged — still requires 2-of-N to block.
Caller: sidebar-agent.ts tool-result scan now passes { toolOutput: true }.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
11 tests pinning the four fixes so future refactors don't silently re-open the bypasses: - Canary rolling-buffer detection (DeltaBuffer + slice tail) - Tool-output single-layer BLOCK (new combineVerdict opt) - escapeHtml quote escaping (both " and ') - snapshot in PAGE_CONTENT_COMMANDS - GSTACK_SECURITY_OFF kill switch gates both load paths - checkTranscript.tool_output plumbing on tool-result scan Most are source-level string contracts (not behavior) because the alternative — real browser/subprocess wiring — would push these into periodic-tier eval cost. The contracts catch the regression I care about: did someone rename the flag or revert the guard. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CHANGELOG v1.4.0.0 gains a "Hardening during ship" subsection covering the 4 adversarial-review fixes landed after the initial bump (canary split, snapshot envelope, tool-output single-layer BLOCK, Haiku tool-output context). Test count updated 243 → 280 to reflect the source-contracts + adversarial-fix regression suites. TODOS: Read/Glob/Grep tool-output scan marked SHIPPED (was P2 open). Cross-references the hardening commits so follow-up readers see the full arc. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
README adds a user-facing paragraph on the layered defense with links to ARCHITECTURE. ARCHITECTURE gains a "Prompt injection defense (sidebar agent)" subsection under Security model covering the L1-L6 layers, the Bun-compile import constraint, env knobs, and visibility affordances. BROWSER.md expands the "Untrusted content" note into a concrete description of the classifier stack. docs/skills.md adds a defense sentence to the /open-gstack-browser deep dive. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
E2E Evals: ✅ PASS10/10 tests passed | $1.20 total cost | 12 parallel runners
12x ubicloud-standard-2 (Docker: pre-baked toolchain + deps) | wall clock ≈ slowest suite |
Main landed v1.4.0.0 with /make-pdf (PR #1086), so this branch bumps to v1.5.0.0 and keeps main's entry intact below. Conflicts resolved: - CHANGELOG.md: both branches used v1.4.0.0 — renumbered this branch to v1.5.0.0, kept main's v1.4.0.0 entry directly below. - test/skill-validation.test.ts: both branches fixed the same set of failing tests. Took main's more conservative assertions (check for "Code paths:" / "User flows:" summary labels instead of the older "CODE PATHS" / "USER FLOWS" header strings). ALLOWED_SUBSTEPS stays the same on both sides. - bun.lock: kept both new deps (matcher from this branch, marked from main's /make-pdf). Verified via bun install. - scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-preamble-bash.ts: both branches added _EXPLAIN_LEVEL + _QUESTION_TUNING echoes. Kept main's version (which has value validation) and removed the duplicate block my branch added. Regenerated all SKILL.md files. - Golden fixtures refreshed after regen. VERSION: 1.4.0.0 → 1.5.0.0. package.json synced. All tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Top-N attacked domains + layer distribution previously listed every value with count>=1. With a small gstack community, that leaks single-user attribution: if only one user is getting hit on example.com, example.com appears in the aggregate as "1 attack, 1 domain" — easy to deanonymize when you know who's targeted. Add K_ANON=5 threshold: a domain (or layer) must be reported by at least 5 distinct installations before appearing in the aggregate. Verdict distribution stays unfiltered (block/warn/log_only is low-cardinality + population-wide, no re-id risk). Raw rows already locked to service_role only (002_tighten_rls.sql); this closes the aggregate-channel leak. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds writeDecision/readDecision/clearDecision around ~/.gstack/security/decisions/tab-<id>.json plus excerptForReview() for safe UI display of tool output. Also extends Verdict with 'user_overrode' so attack-log audit trails distinguish genuine blocks from user-acknowledged continues. Pure primitives, no behavior change on their own. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two small server changes, one feature:
1. New POST /security-decision endpoint takes {tabId, decision} JSON
and writes the per-tab decision file. Auth-gated like every other
sidebar-agent control endpoint.
2. processAgentEvent relays the new reviewable/suspected_text/tabId
fields on security_event through to the chat entry so the sidepanel
banner can render [Allow] / [Block] buttons and the excerpt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… BLOCK Was: tool-output BLOCK → immediate SIGTERM, session dies, user stranded. A false positive on benign content (e.g. HN comments discussing prompt injection) killed the session and lost the message. Now: tool-output BLOCK → emit security_event with reviewable:true + suspected_text + per-layer scores. Poll ~/.gstack/security/decisions/ for up to 60s. On "allow" — log the override to attempts.jsonl as verdict=user_overrode and let the session continue. On "block" or timeout — kill as before. Canary leaks stay hard-stop (no review path). User-input pre-spawn scans unchanged in this commit. Only tool-output scans gain review. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Banner previously always rendered "Session terminated" — one-way. Now
when security_event.reviewable=true:
- Title switches to "Review suspected injection"
- Subtitle explains the decision ("allow to continue, block to end")
- Expandable details auto-open so the user sees context immediately
- Suspected text excerpt rendered in a mono pre block, scrollable,
capped at 500 chars server-side
- Per-layer confidence scores (which layer fired, how confident)
- Action row with red [Block session] + neutral [Allow and continue]
- Click posts to /security-decision, banner hides, sidebar-agent
sees the file and resumes or kills within one poll cycle
Existing hard-block banner (terminated session, canary leaks) unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
16 tests for the file-based handshake: round-trip, clear, permissions, atomic write tmp-file cleanup, excerpt sanitization (truncation, ctrl chars, whitespace collapse), and a simulated poll-loop confirming allow/block/timeout behavior the sidebar-agent relies on. Pins the contract so future refactors can't silently break the allow-path recovery and ship people back into the hard-kill FP pit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
5 tests, ~13s, gate tier. Loads real extension sidepanel in Playwright Chromium with stubbed chrome.runtime + fetch, injects a reviewable security_event, and drives the user path end-to-end: - banner title flips to "Review suspected injection" - suspected text excerpt renders inside the auto-expanded details - Allow + Block buttons are visible - click Allow → POST /security-decision with decision:"allow" - click Block → POST /security-decision with decision:"block" - banner auto-hides after each decision - non-reviewable events keep the hard-stop framing (regression guard) - XSS guard: script-tagged suspected_text doesn't execute Complements security-review-flow.test.ts (unit-level file handshake) and security-review-fullstack.test.ts (full pipeline with real classifier). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds MOCK_CLAUDE_SCENARIO=tool_result_injection. Emits a Bash tool_use followed by a user-role tool_result whose content is a classic DAN-style prompt-injection string. The warm TestSavantAI classifier trips at 0.9999 on this text, reliably firing the tool-output BLOCK + review flow for the full-stack E2E. Stays alive up to 120s so a test has time to propagate the user's review decision via /security-decision + the on-disk decision file. SIGTERM exits 143 on user-confirmed block. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
3 tests, ~12s hot / ~30s cold (first-run model download). Skips gracefully if ~/.gstack/models/testsavant-small/ isn't populated. Spins up real server + real sidebar-agent + PATH-shimmed mock-claude, HOME re-rooted so neither the chat history nor the attempts log leak from the user's live /open-gstack-browser session. Models dir symlinked through to the real warmed cache so the test doesn't re-download 112MB per run. Covers the half that hermetic tests can't: - real classifier (not a stub) fires on real injection text - sidebar-agent emits a reviewable security_event end-to-end - server writes the on-disk decision file - sidebar-agent's poll loop reads the file and acts - attempts.jsonl gets both block + user_overrode with matching payloadHash (dashboard can aggregate) - the raw payload never appears in attempts.jsonl (privacy contract) Caught a real bug while writing: the server loads pre-existing chat history from ~/.gstack/sidebar-sessions/, so re-rooting HOME for only the agent leaked ghost security_events from the live session into the test. Fix: re-root HOME for both processes. The harness is cleaner for future full-stack tests because of it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…o-tight timeout
Two bugs that made checkTranscript return degraded on every call:
1. --model 'haiku-4-5' returns 404 from the Claude CLI. The accepted
shorthand is 'haiku' (resolves to claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
today, stays on the latest Haiku as models roll). Symptom: every
call exited non-zero with api_error_status=404.
2. 2000ms timeout is below the floor. Fresh `claude -p` spawn has
~2-3s CLI cold-start + 5-12s inference on ~1KB prompts. With the
wrong model gone, every successful call still timed out before it
returned. Measured: 0% firing rate.
Fix: model alias + 15s timeout. Sanity check against DAN-style
injection now returns confidence 0.99 with reasoning ("Tool output
contains multiple injection patterns: instruction override, jailbreak
attempt (DAN), system prompt exfil request, and malicious curl
command to attacker domain") in 8.7s.
This was the silent cause of the 15.3% detection rate on
BrowseSafe-Bench — the ensemble numbers matched L4-alone because
Haiku never actually voted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tool-result scan previously short-circuited when L4 (TestSavantAI) scored below WARN, and further gated Haiku on any layer firing at >= LOG_ONLY. On BrowseSafe-Bench that meant Haiku almost never ran, because TestSavantAI has ~15% recall on browser-agent-specific attacks (social engineering, indirect injection). We were gating our best signal on our weakest. Run all three classifiers (L4 + L4c + Haiku) in parallel. Cost: ~$0.002 + ~8s Haiku wall time per tool result, bounded by the 15s Haiku timeout. Haiku also runs in parallel with the content scans so it's additive only against the stream handler budget, not against the session wall time. User-input pre-spawn path unchanged — shouldRunTranscriptCheck still gates there. The Stack Overflow FP mitigation that original gate was built for still applies to direct user input; tool outputs have different characteristics. Source-contract test updated to pin the new parallel-three shape. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Before/after on the 200-case smoke cache: L4-only: 15.3% detection / 11.8% FP Ensemble: 67.3% detection / 44.1% FP 4.4x lift in detection from fixing the model alias + timeout + removing the pre-Haiku gate on tool outputs. FP rate up 3.7x — Haiku is more aggressive than L4 on edge cases. Review banner makes those recoverable; P1 follow-up to tune Haiku WARN threshold from 0.6 to ~0.7-0.85 once real attempts.jsonl data arrives. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
BrowseSafe-Bench smoke showed 67.3% detection / 44.1% FP post-Haiku- unbreak. Detection is good enough to ship. FP rate is too high for a delightful default even with the review banner softening the blow. Files four tuning items with concrete knobs + targets: - P0 Cut Haiku FP toward 15% via (1) verdict-based counting instead of confidence threshold, (2) tighter classifier prompt, (3) 6-8 few-shot exemplars, (4) bump WARN threshold 0.6 -> 0.75 - P1 Cache review decisions per (domain, payload-hash) so repeat scans don't re-prompt - P2 research: fine-tune BERT-base on BrowseSafe-Bench + Qualifire + xxz224 — expected 15% -> 70% L4 recall - P2 Flip DeBERTa ensemble from opt-in to default - P3 User-feedback flywheel — Allow/Block decisions become training data (guardrails required) Ordered so P0 ships next sprint and can be measured against the same bench corpus. All items depend on v1.4.0.0 landing first. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…m through Gap caught by user: the review-flow tests verified the decision path (POST, file write, agent_error emission) but not the actual security property — that Block stops subsequent tool calls and Allow lets them continue. Mock-claude tool_result_injection scenario now emits a second tool_use ~8s after the injected tool_result, targeting post-block-followup. example.com. If block really blocks, that event never reaches the chat feed (SIGTERM killed the subprocess before it emitted). If allow really allows, it does. Allow test asserts the followup tool_use DOES appear → session lives. Block test asserts the followup tool_use does NOT appear after 12s → kill actually stopped further work. Both tests previously proved the control plane (decision file → agent poll → agent_error); they now prove the data plane too. Test timeout bumped 60s → 90s to accommodate the 12s quiet window. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Your sidebar agent now defends itself against prompt injection. Eight layers of defense replace the previous four, a bundled 22MB ML classifier + Claude Haiku transcript classifier + secret canary token vote on every page read, user message, and tool output. If it looks like an attack, the session stops before Claude runs anything dangerous.
Structural changes:
browse/src/security.ts— canary injection + leak detection across all outbound channels (text, tool args, URLs, fs writes, subprocess args), ensemble verdict combiner (2-of-N ML agreement rule, with tool-output opt for single-layer BLOCK), salted attack log with rotation, cross-process session state.browse/src/security-classifier.ts— TestSavantAI L4 (22MB BERT-small) + Claude Haiku L4b (reasoning-blind transcript check) + opt-in DeBERTa-v3 L4c ensemble (GSTACK_SECURITY_ENSEMBLE=deberta, 721MB). Graceful fail-open. RespectsGSTACK_SECURITY_OFF=1kill switch.bin/gstack-telemetry-loggainsattack_attemptevent type, Supabase migration004_attack_telemetry.sql+community-pulseedge function aggregate,bin/gstack-security-dashboardCLI surfaces community data.browse/src/security-bunnative.ts+docs/designs/BUN_NATIVE_INFERENCE.mdscaffold FFI path for future 5ms native inference.Hardening during /ship: Two independent adversarial reviewers (Claude subagent + Codex/gpt-5.4) converged on four bypass paths, all fixed before merge — canary stream-chunk split,
snapshotcommand bypass of content-security envelope, tool-output single-layer BLOCK rule, Haiku tool-output context. Plus escapeHtml quote escaping (XSS hardening), real kill-switch gating, device salt in-process cache, tool-use registry leak fix.Test Coverage — prompt-injection-guard
Code paths: 27 covered / 30 total (90%)
User flows: 8 covered / 10 total (80%)
Weighted coverage: 87% (gate: 60%, target: 80%) PASS
Tests: 12 → 280+ (
browse/test/security-*.test.tssuite: 25 foundation + 23 adversarial + 11 adversarial-fix regressions + 15 source-contracts + 10 integration + 9 classifier + 7 Playwright + 6 sidepanel DOM + 6 bun-native + 3 bench + 3 fullstack E2E + others)Pre-Landing Review
Pre-existing framework test drift (6 failures on main): EXPLAIN_LEVEL + QUESTION_TUNING preamble echoes weren't generated (tests expected them). Fixed at root in
scripts/resolvers/preamble/generate-preamble-bash.ts+test/skill-validation.test.ts. 37 generated SKILL.md files regenerated, golden fixtures refreshed.Specialist review findings addressed: XSS hardening (textContent instead of innerHTML + quote-aware escapeHtml), registry memory leak evicted on tool_result, salt cache for FS-unwritable environments, dashboard jq fallback for nested JSON.
Adversarial Review (Claude subagent + Codex/gpt-5.4)
Both models converged on 4 HIGH findings. All fixed:
DeltaBufferindetectCanaryLeak).PAGE_CONTENT_COMMANDS.combineVerdict({toolOutput: true})opt.checkTranscriptnow accepts optionaltool_outputso Haiku sees the actual scanned text on tool-result paths.Deferred with TODO entries: attention flooding past 4000-char cap, warmup race fail-open (documented), model checksum verification.
Plan Completion
17 DONE / 3 CHANGED / 3 gaps tracked. Full audit in
~/.gstack/projects/garrytan-gstack/ceo-plans/2026-04-19-prompt-injection-guard.md. All CEO-plan scope items (including E1 reasoning-blind transcript, E3 threshold spec, E4 canary leak UX, E5 defense-in-depth integration test, E6 Supabase telemetry via existing pipe) are in.TODOS
GSTACK_SECURITY_ENSEMBLE=deberta)Documentation
Docs synced to match the shipped prompt injection guard.
GSTACK_SECURITY_ENSEMBLE=debertaopt-in,GSTACK_SECURITY_OFF=1kill switch) with a link into ARCHITECTURE.Prompt injection defense (sidebar agent)subsection under Security model. Covers the L1-L6 layers (content-security, TestSavantAI, Haiku transcript, canary, ensemble combiner), theonnxruntime-node+ Bun-compile import constraint (why the ML classifier lives agent-only), env knobs, model cache paths, attack log rotation, and visibility affordances (shield icon, banner, dashboard CLI, community-pulse aggregation).Untrusted contentcallout in the Sidebar agent section expanded with the concrete defense stack and env knobs, linking to ARCHITECTURE for detail./open-gstack-browserdeep dive gets a sentence on the defense stack and shield icon.Test plan
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