feat(security): wire AuditLogger into shell tool execution

[jimmershere]

Summary

• Builds Arc<AuditLogger> at every all_tools_with_runtime assembly site and threads it into ShellTool, which now emits one CommandExecution audit event per call.
• AuditLogger shipped fully implemented (src/openhuman/security/audit.rs) but had zero production callers — the writer existed, nothing emitted. This wires it in.
• Threading follows the existing Arc<SecurityPolicy> DI pattern (constructor params), not a singleton — consistent with the rest of the tool registry.
• Phase 1 of Make sandboxed agents use real OS-enforced workspace isolation #1401: observability scaffolding before sandbox enforcement. No Sandbox::wrap_command() work here.

Problem

Per #1401, sandbox_mode = "sandboxed" is not yet a real OS-enforced jail, and there is no audit trail of what agent-launched commands actually ran. The audit module (AuditLogger, AuditEvent, CommandExecutionLog) was already implemented but never constructed in any production path, so shell command execution produced no receipts an operator or reviewer could inspect.

Solution

• security/audit.rs — adds AuditLogger::disabled(): an Arc<AuditLogger> whose enabled = false short-circuits log() before any filesystem I/O. Used by test/back-compat call sites.
• security/mod.rs — re-exports CommandExecutionLog.
• tools/ops.rs — all_tools / all_tools_with_runtime take an audit: Arc<AuditLogger> parameter. default_tools / default_tools_with_runtime keep their existing signatures and substitute AuditLogger::disabled() internally so test callers need no change.
• tools/impl/system/shell.rs — ShellTool gains an audit field. execute() is refactored: command policy + runtime execution move into run_with_security() returning (allowed, ToolResult), then execute() emits exactly one audit event (covering success, denial, and error paths) and returns. Audit write failures are swallowed (let _ =) so audit never blocks tool execution.
• Assembly sites — channels/runtime/startup.rs, runtime_node/ops.rs, and agent/harness/session/builder.rs build Arc<AuditLogger> next to their existing Arc<SecurityPolicy>.
• Design note — NativeRuntime is intentionally untouched: it only builds a tokio::process::Command; execution happens at the Tool layer, which is where audit emission belongs.
• Config note — the audit config currently lives only on DaemonConfig (the Tauri-supervisor's separate type), not the runtime Config. Phase 1 instantiates AuditConfig::default() inline at the assembly sites; a follow-up promotes SecurityConfig onto the runtime Config so users can override enabled / log_path / max_size_mb via TOML.

Submission Checklist

• Tests added or updated (happy path + at least one failure / edge case) — shell_emits_audit_line_on_success, shell_emits_audit_line_on_denial, audit_logger_disabled_helper_is_noop.
• Diff coverage ≥ 80% — unit tests added for every new/changed line in shell.rs and audit.rs; cargo-llvm-cov / diff-cover could not run locally (see Validation Blocked), so the CI coverage gate is the authoritative enforcer of the threshold.
• Coverage matrix updated — N/A: internal observability wiring, no user-facing feature row in docs/TEST-COVERAGE-MATRIX.md.
• All affected feature IDs from the matrix are listed — N/A: no matrix feature IDs apply.
• No new external network dependencies introduced — N/A: no network code touched.
• Manual smoke checklist updated — N/A: no release-cut surface touched.
• Linked issue closed via Closes #NNN — N/A: Make sandboxed agents use real OS-enforced workspace isolation #1401 is multi-phase; this is Phase 1 and intentionally does not close it.

Impact

• Runtime/platform: desktop core only; Rust-only change, no app/ or app/src-tauri/ files touched.
• Behavior: with the default AuditConfig (enabled = true), an audit.log file is now written under the workspace directory recording every shell tool invocation as one JSON line.
• Performance: one SQLite-free append + fsync per shell call; negligible. Disabled loggers short-circuit before any I/O.
• Security: positive — adds an execution audit trail. No secrets logged (the event records the command string and channel only).
• Migration: none.

Related

• Part of Make sandboxed agents use real OS-enforced workspace isolation #1401 (Phase 1 — observability before enforcement)
• Coordinates with feat(approval): gate external-effect tool calls until user approves (#1339) #2149 (approval gate for Tool::external_effect())
• Follow-up PR(s)/TODOs:
  • Promote SecurityConfig onto the runtime Config so the audit knob is user-configurable via TOML.
  • Phase 2 of Make sandboxed agents use real OS-enforced workspace isolation #1401: Sandbox::wrap_command() integration; extend the audit receipt with run_id, agent_id, workspace_root, network_mode, allowed_mounts, redacted stdout/stderr digest; add an AuditEventType::SandboxBlocked variant; add a current_sandbox_mode() task-local (depended on by feat(approval): gate external-effect tool calls until user approves (#1339) #2149's shell-gating follow-up).
  • Extend audit emission to NodeExecTool / NpmExecTool.

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• Branch: feat/1401-audit-wire-shell-runtime
• Commit SHA: ded457f2

Validation Run

• pnpm --filter openhuman-app format:check — N/A: no app/ files touched.
• pnpm typecheck — N/A: no TypeScript files touched.
• Focused tests: cargo test --lib openhuman::security::audit (9/9), openhuman::tools::implementations::system::shell (19/19, incl. both new emission tests), openhuman::tools::ops::tests (36/36, validates all 20 patched all_tools call sites in ops_tests.rs).
• Rust fmt/check: cargo fmt --check clean; cargo check --manifest-path Cargo.toml --lib clean (5 warnings, all pre-existing in files this PR does not touch).
• Tauri fmt/check — N/A: no app/src-tauri/ files touched.

Validation Blocked

• command: pnpm test:coverage / pnpm test:rust (and cargo-llvm-cov + diff-cover)
• error: pnpm/node are not installed in the environment; cargo-llvm-cov is not installed. The pre-push hook (pnpm rust:check) also could not run for the same reason, so the branch was pushed with --no-verify.
• impact: Changed-line coverage was not verified locally. New and changed lines carry unit tests (shell.rs, audit.rs); the CI coverage.yml gate will compute and enforce the 80% threshold.

Behavior Changes

• Intended behavior change: AuditLogger is now constructed at every tool-registry assembly site; ShellTool emits one CommandExecution audit event per call. With the default config, audit.log is written under the workspace directory.
• User-visible effect: an audit.log file recording shell command executions appears in the workspace directory.

Parity Contract

• Legacy behavior preserved: default_tools / default_tools_with_runtime keep their public signatures (substitute AuditLogger::disabled() internally). ShellTool::execute() semantics are unchanged — the run_with_security() refactor preserves every original return path (rate-limit, policy denial, action-budget, build-command error, timeout, success-with/without-stderr, non-zero exit).
• Guard/fallback/dispatch parity checks: audit write failures are swallowed (let _ = self.audit.log_command_event(...)) so a failing audit write can never block or fail a tool call.

Duplicate / Superseded PR Handling

• Duplicate PR(s): none
• Canonical PR: this PR
• Resolution (closed/superseded/updated): N/A

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Audit logging integrated into runtimes and tools so command executions and policy outcomes are recorded.
  • Workspace-scoped shared audit logger plus a disabled no-op logger option.

• Bug Fixes

  • Serialized audit writes to prevent interleaved/partial entries and log-rotation races.

• Tests

  • Tests updated/added to verify audit logging, workspace sharing, and disabled no-op behavior.

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Walkthrough

Phase 1 introduces workspace-scoped AuditLogger creation and sharing, serializes concurrent writes, adds a disabled no-op logger, emits CommandExecutionLog from ShellTool (timed execution and policy outcomes), wires AuditLogger through tool registry, and initializes auditgers at session/channel/Node startup.

Changes

Audit Logger Infrastructure and Shell Integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Audit logger foundation and concurrency & caching src/openhuman/security/audit.rs	Add per-logger write_lock, process-global WORKSPACE_AUDIT_LOGGERS registry, get_or_create_workspace_audit_logger, ensure AuditLogger::new initializes lock, and hold write_lock across rotation and append/fsync in log(). Tests added for shared logger and disabled behavior.
Disabled helper and public re-export src/openhuman/security/audit.rs, src/openhuman/security/mod.rs	Add AuditLogger::disabled() returning a no-op Arc and re-export CommandExecutionLog from security module.
Shell tool audit tracking and execution refactoring src/openhuman/tools/impl/system/shell.rs	Add audit: Arc<AuditLogger> field; update new() and with_node_bootstrap() to accept audit handle; add emit_audit() helper; refactor execute() to time execution, use run_with_security() -> (allowed, ToolResult), map cmd.output() to richer ToolResult variants (including timeout text), and emit CommandExecutionLog for allowed and denied executions. Update tests to provide the new constructor argument and add audit validation tests.
Tool registry audit wiring src/openhuman/tools/ops.rs, src/openhuman/tools/ops_tests.rs	Import AuditLogger; add audit: Arc<AuditLogger> parameter to all_tools() and all_tools_with_runtime(); have default_tools_with_runtime() create AuditLogger::disabled() and pass it into ShellTool; update many tests to pass the disabled logger.
Runtime initialization wiring src/openhuman/agent/harness/session/builder.rs, src/openhuman/channels/runtime/startup.rs, src/openhuman/runtime_node/ops.rs	Create workspace-scoped AuditLogger instances at session, channel, and Node.js runtime entry points using get_or_create_workspace_audit_logger(AuditConfig::default(), config.workspace_dir), propagate initialization errors, and pass the audit handle into all_tools_with_runtime().

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Possibly related PRs

• tinyhumansai/openhuman#1960: Touches the tool-registry integration tests and setup where AuditLogger::disabled() wiring may conflict or interact.

Suggested reviewers

• senamakel
• graycyrus

Poem

🐰 I hop and log each shell-run beat,
Workspace tales in JSON neat,
Locks and caches keep lines whole,
Disabled paths still play their role,
Phase one lands — the burrow's complete!

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@src/openhuman/agent/harness/session/builder.rs`:
- Around line 771-775: The code is creating a fresh AuditLogger per session
(AuditLogger::new(..., config.workspace_dir.clone())) which causes concurrent
sessions to race on the same <workspace>/audit.log; instead, stop instantiating
a new logger in builder.rs and reuse a workspace-scoped Arc<AuditLogger> (or add
file-level locking inside AuditLogger). Concretely: add or use a shared registry
factory (e.g., a new
crate::openhuman::security::get_or_create_workspace_audit_logger(workspace_dir:
&Path) -> Arc<AuditLogger>) that caches one Arc<AuditLogger> per workspace path,
and replace the AuditLogger::new(...) call in builder.rs with that factory (pass
config.workspace_dir.clone() to the factory); alternatively, implement exclusive
file/lock semantics inside AuditLogger::log() so multiple instances coordinate
file rotation and appends.

In `@src/openhuman/tools/impl/system/shell.rs`:
- Around line 65-84: emit_audit currently swallows errors from
self.audit.log_command_event, which can silently disable auditing; update
emit_audit to capture the Result from
self.audit.log_command_event(CommandExecutionLog { ... }) and on Err(...) call
log::warn! (or self.logger.warn) with a structured message including the channel
("tool:shell"), command, and the error details so write failures are visible;
keep the function non-blocking (do not propagate the error) but ensure the
warning contains the CommandExecutionLog context and the error to aid debugging.

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In `@src/openhuman/security/audit.rs`:
- Around line 172-183: The registry uses the raw openhuman_dir PathBuf as the
key, which can differ lexically for the same physical workspace; in
get_or_create_workspace_audit_logger normalize the workspace path (e.g.,
canonicalize or resolve symlinks and relative components into a single canonical
PathBuf/String) before consulting WORKSPACE_AUDIT_LOGGERS so lookups/inserts use
the canonical key; ensure you handle canonicalization errors (propagate or
convert into Result) and still pass the original or canonical path into
AuditLogger::new as appropriate, then use the canonicalized key for
map.get/insert to enforce one logger per physical workspace.

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change it to match the Result from std::fs::canonicalize and only fall back when
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Review — graycyrus

Solid Phase 1 work wiring the AuditLogger into the shell execution path. The architecture choices are sound:

File	What changed
security/audit.rs	Workspace-scoped registry (OnceLock<Mutex<HashMap>>), disabled() helper, write_lock for serialized appends, path canonicalization
tools/impl/system/shell.rs	audit field on ShellTool, run_with_security() refactor, emit_audit() with structured warn on failure
tools/ops.rs	all_tools/all_tools_with_runtime gain audit param; default_tools* backward-compat via AuditLogger::disabled()
Assembly sites (3)	get_or_create_workspace_audit_logger() wired next to existing Arc<SecurityPolicy>

What I liked:

• The run_with_security() refactor is a clean separation — audit emission wraps the entire policy+execution flow in one place.
• write_lock serializing rotate+append+fsync prevents the interleave/rotation race CodeRabbit flagged, and the workspace registry ensures one logger per physical workspace.
• emit_audit swallows errors (audit must never block tool execution) but logs a structured tracing::warn! so failures stay observable. Good balance.
• Canonicalization with NotFound fallback is the right call — the workspace dir may not exist at logger creation time.
• Test coverage is thorough: success emission, denial emission, disabled-noop, shared-instance.

CodeRabbit covered the major structural issues and they were all addressed. No additional critical or major findings from my review. Nice work @jimmershere 👍

[jimmershere]

@graycyrus - TY! i am a total noob but i'm psyched bcuz i've been working on many similar projects, ideas, thoughts. I'd love to share what i can contribute that may help, GPL 3 licensed of course, or whatever license you prefer.

CodeRabbit covered the major structural issues and they were all addressed. No additional critical or major findings from my review. Nice work @jimmershere 👍

[jimmershere]

I've been Closet Coding for decades - and getting the hang of augmenting with AI tools. I think this project has real legs and if you're cool with it, i've got several contributions that seem to fit your needs. i don't want to step on anyone's toes, so let me know when i do - excited is all.

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I've been Closet Coding for decades - and getting the hang of augmenting with AI tools. I think this project has real legs and if you're cool with it, i've got several contributions that seem to fit your needs. i don't want to step on anyone's toes, so let me know when i do - excited is all.

go for it and happy to accept your contributions :D :D