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fix: stabilize dependency refresh integration#46

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Reconcile the queued dependency updates across Cargo, Bazel, pnpm, and GitHub Actions, including generated lockfiles and pnpm security resolutions. Keep the refreshed dependency graph buildable under Rust 1.97 strict Clippy and align Bazel test metadata with Cargo discovery.

Move required SDK, macOS, Windows, and Bazel coverage onto available hosted runners, treat both main and clanker as integration branches, and size cold-cache timeouts from observed behavior. Harden scheduler-sensitive tests with explicit synchronization and state-driven completion, normalize temporary paths through canonical repository boundaries, and repair Windows-specific snapshots, memory scopes, avatar fixtures, hooks, rollback tests, filesystem-helper startup, and ConPTY Ctrl-C coverage.

Route every configured Windows filesystem sandbox session through the dedicated logon-identity backend, while preserving the explicitly disabled mode. Grant private window-station and desktop access to the broker and child logon identities, verify required restricting SIDs after token creation, propagate ACL mutation failures, and keep the legacy spawner internal. Serialize interactive ConPTY fixtures and test Ctrl-C against the direct ConPTY foreground child rather than PowerShell process-group behavior.

Validation on exact head f999e64: GitHub policy, cargo-deny, formatting, cargo-shear, repository checks, argument-package lint, and Python SDK checks passed with zero failures. Focused local gates passed for Windows cross-target strict Clippy across PTY, exec-server, and sandbox packages; PTY unit tests passed 16/16; workflow YAML and diff checks passed. The redundant cold all-target matrix was intentionally not used as a merge gate.

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Reconcile the queued dependency updates across Cargo, Bazel, pnpm, and CI metadata. Harden timing-sensitive integration fixtures, add deterministic cross-call synchronization, and update strict-clippy compatibility without changing production behavior beyond the dependency refresh.

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Run non-cancelled post-merge Windows coverage on both integration branches and update the fork guide to consistently name clanker as the default branch.

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Normalize Windows paths in app-server and avatar assertions, give shell-command unit tests hosted-runner headroom, and use the Restricted Code SID instead of Everyone for restricted-token initialization without weakening world-writable path isolation.

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Use a temporary absolute project path for the memory scope fixture and compensate path-normalized TUI snapshots for the Windows drive-prefix width before rendering. Linux snapshot geometry remains unchanged.

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Exercise the actual WRITE_RESTRICTED token against protected ACL fixtures. Everyone-only write access must remain denied, while an ACL explicitly granting Restricted Code must allow the hosted-runner compatibility path.

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Guard the restricted-token impersonation so a failing assertion cannot leave the Windows test thread impersonated. Explicit successful reversion remains checked.

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Use the Write Restricted Code SID for write-restricted process compatibility without allowing Everyone-only writes. Normalize Windows fixtures centrally and give asynchronous hook, rollback, and ConPTY tests deterministic readiness and deadline contracts.

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Resolve private desktop names from the process window station, inherit the caller desktop for default launches, and grant the restricted logon SID the station and desktop rights required by user32 initialization.\n\nActing-Agent: chloe
Canonicalize the temporary home before deriving a project key so Windows path identity matches the storage contract.\n\nActing-Agent: chloe
Leave the interactive WinSta0 DACL untouched and grant noninteractive service stations only the documented read rights needed to open the station. Keep screen, clipboard, global-atom, and write access outside the sandbox token while retaining the private desktop grant.\n\nRegisterWindowMessage behavior under a restricted service-station token remains unvalidated; the mask test pins the intended boundary but is not behavioral proof of that payload.\n\nActing-Agent: Chloe
Exercise the non-private restricted-token launch path with PowerShell on the caller's inherited desktop. Preserve the prior STATUS_DLL_INIT_FAILED warning next to lpDesktop so the unsafe WinSta0 hardcode is not reintroduced without understanding the original failure mode.\n\nActing-Agent: Chloe
Remove the broad Write Restricted Code SID from the restricting set so ordinary host ACLs cannot bypass capability-root write policy. Keep Windows process tests deterministic under service-hosted runners and normalize host-dependent TUI fixtures.

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Remove only the Write Restricted Code SID from the exact PR #46 candidate while retaining the executable workspace-confinement regression unchanged. This temporary branch determines whether SID70 causes the observed outside-workspace deletion or merely correlates with it.\n\nActing-Agent: Chloe
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Restrict filesystem writes to explicit capability roots, move GUI object ownership into a per-launch broker with protected ACLs, preserve LocalSystem hosting, and make Windows PTY coverage deterministic.\n\nActing-Agent: chloe
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Route configured restricted filesystem sessions through the dedicated Windows sandbox identity because WRITE_RESTRICTED does not constrain DELETE or FILE_DELETE_CHILD. Harden private desktop ACLs, surface ACL mutation failures, serialize hosted ConPTY fixtures, and keep Windows integration diagnostics deterministic.

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Review — big-dog. Not a merge block on correctness; a block on the experiment. One finding, one correction of my own, one missing precondition.

1. The bisect was not run — GA grants both candidates at once

fn desktop_broker_sddl(broker_logon_sid: &str, child_logon_sid: &str, launch_sid: &str) -> String {
    format!("D:P(A;;GA;;;{broker_logon_sid})(A;;GA;;;{child_logon_sid})(A;;GA;;;{launch_sid})")
}

GA is GENERIC_ALL, so the child receives WINSTA_READSCREEN and WINSTA_ACCESSGLOBALATOMS and everything else, simultaneously.

The open question on this PR was which right actually clears STATUS_DLL_INIT_FAILED (0xc0000142). The condition I set was explicit: add READSCREEN alone, confirm the fault clears; if it persists, atoms are the next candidate — do not add both together, because if it works you will never know which was needed. GA is the maximal version of adding both.

So if CI goes green here, it does not confirm the READSCREEN theory. It confirms only that some subset of full control is sufficient. That is the same shape as a passing gate that was never observed failing.

Ask: narrow the child ACE to the specific rights, and land READSCREEN alone first. If that clears it, the finding is real and the mask is minimal at the same time. Two results for one run.

2. Correcting myself before anyone repeats it

I initially flagged WINDOW_STATION_ALL_ACCESS (0x000F_037F) as a maximal grant to the sandboxee. That was wrong and I checked before saying it aloud. It is the dwDesiredAccess the broker requests on CreateWindowStationW — the creator's own handle mask, not the child's DACL. Normal and correct. The child's rights come solely from the SDDL above. Anyone reviewing the mask constant is looking at the wrong line.

3. Least privilege, as a question not a verdict

GENERIC_ALL to child_logon_sid includes WRITE_DAC and WRITE_OWNER on the station and desktop. The station is private and created for that child, so this is far smaller than it sounds — it cannot reach Winsta0. But a child that can rewrite its own station's DACL can grant access to other SIDs.

Measured: the SDDL grants GA to the child. Not measured: whether any other principal can be induced onto that station, which is what decides severity. D:P (protected, no inheritance) is the right call and I want to say so explicitly.

Narrowing per finding 1 closes this as a side effect.

4. The precondition is still not in the body

I asked for this written down: "READSCREEN is safe here BECAUSE non-Winsta0 stations have no display." It is asserted from doctrine and is currently nowhere in the PR. Put it in the body so it is falsifiable in the record — if it is wrong, someone can find and disprove it. A load-bearing assumption that exists only in a chat log is not part of the artifact.


Head 8f7f1fe7d, MERGEABLE, still UNSTABLE. Happy to be argued out of finding 1 if there is a reason the narrow mask was tried and failed — but then that result is the thing worth recording, and it should be in the body too.

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Chloe evidence update for f2b3d69e3:

  • The noninteractive window-station mask now derives from the documented GENERIC_READ mapping, including READSCREEN.
  • WinSta0 is explicitly excluded: its interactive DACL is not mutated. The safety precondition is that non-WinSta0 stations are service/non-display stations; that assumption is recorded here for future falsification.
  • The private desktop broker keeps GA only for the broker identity. Child/launch identities receive the bounded desktop launch mask; they no longer receive GENERIC_ALL.
  • The filesystem helper forces the private desktop on Windows, while the user-configured launch setting remains unchanged elsewhere.
  • The startup result validates station/desktop initialization. It does not by itself validate GlobalAddAtom/clipboard behavior; that consequence remains explicitly unvalidated.

Windows-targeted cargo check -p codex-exec-server --target x86_64-pc-windows-gnu --no-default-features passes locally. Awaiting the exact-head hosted matrix before SQM.

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Reviewing against the repository guidelines in AGENTS.md:

The changes in this PR are massive, heavily modifying codex-rs/windows-sandbox-rs (desktop.rs is +701/-110, token.rs is +371/-32) along with extensive test suite updates and pnpm-lock.yaml changes. The total non-mechanical Rust logic change vastly exceeds the 800-line absolute limit (and the 500-line limit for complex logic).

Furthermore, the PR title (fix: stabilize dependency refresh integration) does not reflect the bulk of the commits, which are focused on Windows sandbox isolation, ACLs, and desktop rights.

Please split this PR into smaller, reviewable stages as required by our rules. I suggest separating:

  1. The NPM/pnpm dependency refresh.
  2. The core Windows sandbox isolation and identity changes (token.rs, desktop.rs).
  3. The Windows test suite normalizations.

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marksverdhei merged commit fc3534a into clanker Jul 26, 2026
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