fix(tool-cordis): replace the pass-through ctx proxy with a whitelist façade

Review finding (#220): the guarded proxy only special-cased ctx.tools, so
mount code could reach an UNGUARDED context through ctx.root, ctx.extend(), or
a service instance's .ctx, then ctx.root.tools.register({…}) to bypass the
marker check and host-realm normalization — a raw vm-realm result would later
error a real agent turn at the session-log plainness check.

The sandbox ctx is now a whitelist façade, not a pass-through proxy: it exposes
only what a mount needs — tools.register (marker-guarded), on/once, provide, the
timer helpers, and injected services resolved through a guarded get — and denies
every framework-plumbing member (root, parent, fiber, reflect, registry, extend,
isolate, intercept, plugin, set, mixin, …) with a teaching error. Injected
services are wrapped so a method returning a Context is rejected on the way back
(the .ctx escape), closing the one indirect leak. There is no context-valued
member left to reach; cross-mount provide/inject is untouched (the plugin's own
inject and the fiber's pending/active gating are unchanged). ctx.plugin (child
plugins) and ctx.set are denied by design; ctx.effect is deferred (FIXME).

Adds tests/sandbox-context.spec.ts covering the escape class (root/extend/fiber/
plugin/set/… denied, the classic root.tools.register bypass, the .ctx escape,
read-only writes) plus the async-service and symbol/in-operator paths for 100%
coverage. RFC/README/tool-catalog/config-catalog updated; api-catalog.ts
regenerated (also picks up the codeRuntime service that entered on the master
merge and was left stale).
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@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ export interface Config {
}
```
Source: [`packages/cordis/tool-cordis/src/index.ts:49`](../packages/cordis/tool-cordis/src/index.ts)
Source: [`packages/cordis/tool-cordis/src/index.ts:53`](../packages/cordis/tool-cordis/src/index.ts)
## `@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-fs`
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ First, model-written registration must be validated where it happens: a malforme
The toolset ships as [`@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-cordis`](../../../../packages/cordis/tool-cordis/README.md) — a new top-level `packages/cordis/` group — and is demoed by [`examples/cordis-agent`](../../../../examples/cordis-agent/README.md). It gives the model three tools over the live cordis runtime it is running inside: inspect it, mount model-written plugins into it, dispose them again.
The trust stance, stated once and threaded through the rest: the `node:vm` sandbox isolates the global context only — it prevents accidental global pollution, not malice. The `ctx` handed to a mounted plugin's `apply` is the real, fully privileged runtime handle; handing the model that handle is the point of the toolset. A deployment loads this plugin exactly as deliberately as it grants a bash tool — an opt-in capability in the app's `cordis.yml`, never a product default.
The trust stance, stated once and threaded through the rest: the `node:vm` sandbox isolates the global context only — it prevents accidental global pollution, not malice — and the `ctx` a mounted plugin's `apply` receives is a whitelist façade that narrows the *surface* (framework internals withheld) but not the *privilege* of what it exposes. The verbs the façade does expose reach the real runtime: a mounted tool can shell out through `ctx.bash`, read the filesystem through `ctx.fs`, reach the network through `ctx.web`. Neither the sandbox nor the façade is a security boundary; handing the model this power is the point of the toolset. A deployment loads this plugin exactly as deliberately as it grants a bash tool — an opt-in capability in the app's `cordis.yml`, never a product default.
### The three tools
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Mount code runs via `vm.createContext` + `runInContext`, wrapped as the body of
Sandbox globals are deliberately small: a tagged write-through `console` (`[cordis:<id>] …` on the host stdout/stderr, so a listener that fires long after the mount call still lands somewhere the user sees), the `harness.defineTool` / `harness.registerTool` registration pair, the encoding primitives fresh vm contexts lack (`btoa`/`atob` as host closures over `Buffer` — a sanctioned exception, `Buffer` itself is never exposed — plus `TextEncoder`/`TextDecoder`), and callable traps over the withheld Node APIs (`require`, `setTimeout`/`setInterval`/`setImmediate`/`clearTimeout`/`clearInterval`, `fetch`) that throw a redirect naming the cordis alternative. Only function-shaped globals are trapped; `process` and `Buffer` stay `undefined` so a `typeof` feature probe stays inert rather than detonating a throwing accessor.
Three boundary mechanisms make model-written code behave correctly across the realm seam. **Dual-realm `instanceof`**: most objects sandbox code touches are host-realm (tool `args`, event payloads, service returns), so a plain `x instanceof Array` in the vm would silently be false — a per-sandbox prelude gives the vm realm's own constructors a `Symbol.hasInstance` that checks both the vm constructor and its host counterpart, patching only vm-realm globals. **Realm normalization of tool results**: objects built inside the vm carry the vm realm's `Object.prototype`, which the session log's append-time plainness check (`isJsonValue` in `dsh-session`, a prototype-identity comparison) rejects, so the sandbox's `harness.defineTool` JSON round-trips every `execute` return into the host realm — which also projects it onto exactly what the log durably stores. **Guarded registration**: the `ctx` a mounted plugin receives is a proxy whose `tools.register` accepts only definitions returned by `harness.defineTool` (a marker symbol), so every dynamic tool passes SchemaSpec validation and realm normalization; everything else on `ctx` passes through with correct `this` binding, which is what keeps cross-mount `provide`/`inject` working.
Three boundary mechanisms make model-written code behave correctly across the realm seam. **Dual-realm `instanceof`**: most objects sandbox code touches are host-realm (tool `args`, event payloads, service returns), so a plain `x instanceof Array` in the vm would silently be false — a per-sandbox prelude gives the vm realm's own constructors a `Symbol.hasInstance` that checks both the vm constructor and its host counterpart, patching only vm-realm globals. **Realm normalization of tool results**: objects built inside the vm carry the vm realm's `Object.prototype`, which the session log's append-time plainness check (`isJsonValue` in `dsh-session`, a prototype-identity comparison) rejects, so the sandbox's `harness.defineTool` JSON round-trips every `execute` return into the host realm — which also projects it onto exactly what the log durably stores. **A whitelist context façade**: the `ctx` a mounted plugin's `apply` receives is NOT the real context nor a pass-through proxy over it — it is a façade exposing only what a mount legitimately needs (`tools.register` marker-guarded, `on`/`once`, `provide`, the timer helpers, and injected services resolved through a guarded `get`), with every framework-plumbing member (`root`, `parent`, `fiber`, `reflect`, `registry`, `extend`, `isolate`, `intercept`, `plugin`, `set`, `mixin`, …) denied with a teaching error. This closes an escape *class* rather than a single hole: a proxy that merely special-cased `ctx.tools` still handed back the raw context through `ctx.root`, `ctx.extend()`, or a service instance's `.ctx`, and mount code could then `ctx.root.tools.register({…})` to bypass the marker check and realm normalization — a raw vm-realm result then errors a real agent turn at the plainness check. The façade has no context-valued member to reach, and the one indirect leak (an injected-service method returning a `Context`) is rejected on the way back to sandbox code; cross-mount `provide`/`inject` keeps working because the plugin's own `inject` and the fiber's pending/active gating are untouched — only the `apply`-time `ctx` surface is narrowed.
Boundary errors are written around the mistakes models actually make (see [Consequences](#consequences) for how each was found), and the boundary normalizes rather than lectures wherever the input has exactly one meaning: schema `parameters` accept the JSON-Schema dialect models write by strong prior — the `{ type: 'object', properties, required: […] }` wrapper unwraps to the SchemaSpec DSL (the `required` array becoming per-property flags, at any nesting level), `type: 'integer'` maps to `number`, and `required: false` reads as optional — while genuinely meaningless input is rejected with the vocabulary enumerated (an unknown type lists the five valid ones; a non-boolean `required` names the rule). The remaining teaching errors: an unbalanced `});` closing gets the vm's offending source line plus a "code is a function body" reminder; TypeScript syntax gets the remove-annotations fix (detected on the failing line only, so an ` as ` inside a description string does not misfire); a forgotten `return` gets the two valid plugin forms; a Node built-in call gets the redirect to its cordis service; a tool-name collision on re-mount gets the unmount-first-then-remount recipe.
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Every dynamic mount is a child of a single `cordis-dynamic` group fiber, itself
### Cross-mount composition via provide/inject
Mounts relate to each other through ordinary cordis service semantics, with their ids as the lifecycle handles: mount A calls `ctx.provide('foo', value)`, mount B declares `inject: ['foo']` and activates the moment `foo` exists; mounted first, B stays pending and names the missing service; unmounting A sends B back to pending (its registrations unwound) and a later re-provide re-runs B's `apply` through the same guarded context; a duplicate provide fails loud with the owning fiber named. One realm caveat: a service value provided by a mount is a vm-realm object — method calls on it work from anywhere, but consumers must not assume host prototypes on it.
Mounts relate to each other through ordinary cordis service semantics, with their ids as the lifecycle handles: mount A calls `ctx.provide('foo', value)`, mount B declares `inject: ['foo']` and activates the moment `foo` exists; mounted first, B stays pending and names the missing service; unmounting A sends B back to pending (its registrations unwound) and a later re-provide re-runs B's `apply` through a fresh sandbox façade; a duplicate provide fails loud with the owning fiber named. One realm caveat: a service value provided by a mount is a vm-realm object — method calls on it work from anywhere, but consumers must not assume host prototypes on it.
### The generated API catalog
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ The correctness investment therefore goes where it pays for every capability at
**A new `cordis/mount` session event.** A durable provenance event recording each mount (source, name) has clear precedent (`hook/invoked`, `compact/start`). It was declined for v1: mount and unmount are already visible as `tool/call` / `tool/result` pairs and the tool-set change is already logged as a request-header delta, so a dedicated event would only duplicate the record. It remains addable if an audit use case needs mount provenance separable from the tool call.
**A hardened / capability-restricted sandbox.** Trapping Node built-ins might suggest an intent to sandbox for safety. It is explicitly not that: the traps redirect the model toward cordis services (and away from leak-prone Node timers) for correctness and inspectability, but `ctx` is fully privileged and the vm is not a security boundary. A real security boundary (separate process, permission prompts) was out of scope for a dev/opt-in toolset and would fight the entire point — handing the model the live runtime.
**A hardened / capability-restricted sandbox.** Trapping Node built-ins and handing mount code a whitelist façade rather than the raw context might suggest an intent to sandbox for safety. It is explicitly not that: the traps and the façade narrow the *surface* mount code sees — steering it onto cordis services and away from leak-prone Node built-ins and framework internals — for correctness and to close the unguarded-context escape, but the capabilities the façade exposes (`ctx.bash`, `ctx.fs`, `ctx.web`) reach the real runtime, so it is not a security boundary. A real one (separate process, permission prompts) was out of scope for a dev/opt-in toolset and would fight the entire point — handing the model the live runtime.
## Consequences
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### `cordis_mount`
Mount a NEW cordis plugin into the live runtime that is running THIS agent (self-modification). `code` runs as the body of an async JavaScript function in an isolated sandbox and MUST `return` a plugin. Two forms: FUNCTION form `return (ctx) => { … }` — cannot declare inject, uses whatever services are on the parent context, and accessing a service without inject (e.g. ctx.bash) throws; use it only when you need no injected services. OBJECT form `return { name?, inject: ['bash', 'llm', …], apply(ctx) { … } }` — declares dependencies, and cordis activates the plugin only after the services exist; PREFER this form for any plugin that needs bash, llm, sessions, etc. BEFORE calling a service from your code, read cordis_inspect what:"api" — it lists method signatures AND the type shapes of their arguments/returns (do not guess a field's type; e.g. a bash run's stdout is an object, not a string). Inside `apply`, use the standard cordis API: `ctx.on(event, listener)` to observe events (see cordis_inspect what:"events"), or call `harness.registerTool(ctx, harness.defineTool({ name, description, parameters: { text: { type: 'string', required: true } }, async execute(args) { … } }))` to give yourself a new tool — it becomes callable on your NEXT step. Tool parameters: each key IS a property — { type: 'string'|'number'|'boolean'|'object'|'array', required?: true, description?, enum?, items?, properties? }; a JSON-Schema-style { type: 'object', properties, required: […] } wrapper and type 'integer' are also accepted and normalized. A tool's `execute` MUST return an ARRAY of content blocks, e.g. `return [{ type: 'text', text: someString }]` — never a bare string. Mounts can COMPOSE: one plugin may `ctx.provide('name', value)` a service and another may declare `inject: ['name']` to consume it — the consumer stays pending until the provider exists and returns to pending when the provider is unmounted. Everything registered inside `apply` is cleaned up automatically on unmount. Sandbox globals: `console` (tagged `[cordis:<id>]`, writes through to the harness terminal), `harness.defineTool`, `harness.registerTool`, `btoa`, `atob`, `TextEncoder`, `TextDecoder`. Node APIs are DISABLED — do filesystem/network/timer work through the cordis services, never Node built-ins: `require`, `setTimeout`/`setInterval`, and `fetch` throw redirect errors; `process` and `Buffer` are undefined. Instead use inject: ['fs'] + ctx.fs for files, inject: ['web'] + ctx.web for HTTP, inject: ['bash'] + ctx.bash for processes, and inject: ['timer'] + ctx.setTimeout/ctx.setInterval for timing (fiber effects, auto-cleaned on unmount) — cordis_inspect what:"api" shows what THIS runtime provides. Write PLAIN JavaScript, not TypeScript (no `as`, no type annotations). Cautions: (1) waterfall events (e.g. tools/pre-execute) hand the listener a trailing `next` callback which MUST be called — returning without `next()` VETOES the call; prefer plain notification events unless you intend to intercept. (2) Never await something that only resolves after the current turn (your code runs INSIDE a tool call of that turn — it would deadlock). (3) The sandbox prevents accidental global pollution, not malice: `ctx` is the real, fully privileged runtime handle.
Mount a NEW cordis plugin into the live runtime that is running THIS agent (self-modification). `code` runs as the body of an async JavaScript function in an isolated sandbox and MUST `return` a plugin. Two forms: FUNCTION form `return (ctx) => { … }` — cannot declare inject, uses whatever services are on the parent context, and accessing a service without inject (e.g. ctx.bash) throws; use it only when you need no injected services. OBJECT form `return { name?, inject: ['bash', 'llm', …], apply(ctx) { … } }` — declares dependencies, and cordis activates the plugin only after the services exist; PREFER this form for any plugin that needs bash, llm, sessions, etc. BEFORE calling a service from your code, read cordis_inspect what:"api" — it lists method signatures AND the type shapes of their arguments/returns (do not guess a field's type; e.g. a bash run's stdout is an object, not a string). Inside `apply`, use the standard cordis API: `ctx.on(event, listener)` to observe events (see cordis_inspect what:"events"), or call `harness.registerTool(ctx, harness.defineTool({ name, description, parameters: { text: { type: 'string', required: true } }, async execute(args) { … } }))` to give yourself a new tool — it becomes callable on your NEXT step. Tool parameters: each key IS a property — { type: 'string'|'number'|'boolean'|'object'|'array', required?: true, description?, enum?, items?, properties? }; a JSON-Schema-style { type: 'object', properties, required: […] } wrapper and type 'integer' are also accepted and normalized. A tool's `execute` MUST return an ARRAY of content blocks, e.g. `return [{ type: 'text', text: someString }]` — never a bare string. Mounts can COMPOSE: one plugin may `ctx.provide('name', value)` a service and another may declare `inject: ['name']` to consume it — the consumer stays pending until the provider exists and returns to pending when the provider is unmounted. Everything registered inside `apply` is cleaned up automatically on unmount. Sandbox globals: `console` (tagged `[cordis:<id>]`, writes through to the harness terminal), `harness.defineTool`, `harness.registerTool`, `btoa`, `atob`, `TextEncoder`, `TextDecoder`. Node APIs are DISABLED — do filesystem/network/timer work through the cordis services, never Node built-ins: `require`, `setTimeout`/`setInterval`, and `fetch` throw redirect errors; `process` and `Buffer` are undefined. Instead use inject: ['fs'] + ctx.fs for files, inject: ['web'] + ctx.web for HTTP, inject: ['bash'] + ctx.bash for processes, and inject: ['timer'] + ctx.setTimeout/ctx.setInterval for timing (fiber effects, auto-cleaned on unmount) — cordis_inspect what:"api" shows what THIS runtime provides. Write PLAIN JavaScript, not TypeScript (no `as`, no type annotations). Cautions: (1) waterfall events (e.g. tools/pre-execute) hand the listener a trailing `next` callback which MUST be called — returning without `next()` VETOES the call; prefer plain notification events unless you intend to intercept. (2) Never await something that only resolves after the current turn (your code runs INSIDE a tool call of that turn — it would deadlock). (3) Your `ctx` is a restricted façade: you can register tools, observe events, provide/consume services, and use timers, but framework internals (ctx.root, ctx.fiber, ctx.extend, ctx.plugin, …) are withheld. It is not a security boundary though — the services you inject (e.g. ctx.bash) reach the real runtime.
```json
{
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## Trust stance
The sandbox isolates the global context only — it is not a security boundary. No Node API is provided: `require`, the timers, and `fetch` are callable traps that throw a redirect to the cordis alternative (`ctx.fs` / `ctx.web` / `ctx.bash` / `inject: ['timer']` + `ctx.setTimeout`); `process` and `Buffer` are `undefined`; `globalThis` writes stay inside. The `ctx` a mounted plugin's `apply` receives is the real, fully privileged runtime handle; load this plugin as deliberately as you would grant a bash tool.
The sandbox isolates the global context only — it is not a security boundary. No Node API is provided: `require`, the timers, and `fetch` are callable traps that throw a redirect to the cordis alternative (`ctx.fs` / `ctx.web` / `ctx.bash` / `inject: ['timer']` + `ctx.setTimeout`); `process` and `Buffer` are `undefined`; `globalThis` writes stay inside. The `ctx` a mounted plugin's `apply` receives is a whitelist façade — register tools, observe events, provide/consume services, use timers; framework internals (`ctx.root`, `ctx.fiber`, `ctx.extend`, `ctx.plugin`, …) are withheld — but the capabilities it does expose reach the real runtime, so load this plugin as deliberately as you would grant a bash tool.
## Config
@@ -88,6 +88,13 @@ export const SERVICE_API: readonly ServiceApiEntry[] = [
'onTaskDone(listener: BashTaskListener): () => void',
],
},
{
key: 'codeRuntime',
summary: 'Abstract code-execution service.',
methods: [
'abstract run(request: CodeRunRequest): Promise<CodeRunResult>',
],
},
{
key: 'compact',
summary: 'Abstract compaction service.',
@@ -429,6 +436,30 @@ export const TYPE_API: readonly TypeApiEntry[] = [
name: 'CallId',
declaration: 'export type CallId = Branded<\'CallId\'>;',
},
{
name: 'CodeBindingFunction',
declaration: 'export type CodeBindingFunction = (args: unknown) => Promise<unknown>;',
},
{
name: 'CodeBindingNamespace',
declaration: 'export interface CodeBindingNamespace {\n global: string;\n functions: Record<string, CodeBindingFunction>;\n}',
},
{
name: 'CodeLogEntry',
declaration: 'export interface CodeLogEntry {\n source: \'console\' | \'stdout\' | \'stderr\';\n level?: \'log\' | \'info\' | \'warn\' | \'error\' | \'debug\';\n text: string;\n}',
},
{
name: 'CodeRunFailure',
declaration: 'export interface CodeRunFailure {\n kind: \'exception\' | \'timeout\' | \'abort\' | \'worker-exit\';\n message: string;\n}',
},
{
name: 'CodeRunRequest',
declaration: 'export interface CodeRunRequest {\n program: string;\n bindings: CodeBindingNamespace[];\n signal?: AbortSignal;\n}',
},
{
name: 'CodeRunResult',
declaration: 'export interface CodeRunResult {\n value?: unknown;\n logs: CodeLogEntry[];\n error?: CodeRunFailure;\n}',
},
{
name: 'CollectedOutput',
declaration: 'export interface CollectedOutput {\n text: string;\n truncated: boolean;\n spillPath?: string;\n}',
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* The registration boundary between sandboxed mount code and the real runtime:
* SchemaSpec normalization + validation with teaching errors, the
* marker-guarded `harness.defineTool` / `harness.registerTool` pair, the
* guarded `ctx` proxy a mounted plugin receives, and the plugin-shape helpers
* the mount lifecycle narrows sandbox return values with.
* SANDBOX CONTEXT FAÇADE a mounted plugin's `apply` receives in place of the
* real `ctx`, and the plugin-shape helpers the mount lifecycle narrows sandbox
* return values with.
*
* Two realm facts drive the design. Objects built inside the vm carry the vm
* The façade is a WHITELIST, not a pass-through proxy. Mount code needs to do
* exactly four things — register a tool, listen to an event, provide a service,
* call an injected service (timers included) — so the façade exposes only those
* verbs and the injected services, each individually wrapped. Every framework
* plumbing member (`root`, `parent`, `scope`, `fiber`, `reflect`, `registry`,
* `events`, `extend`, `isolate`, `intercept`, `plugin`, `set`, `mixin`, …) is
* DENIED with a teaching error rather than passed through. This closes an
* entire escape class at once: a pass-through proxy that only special-cased
* `ctx.tools` still handed back the raw context through `ctx.root`,
* `ctx.extend()`, or a service instance's `.ctx`, and mount code could then
* `ctx.root.tools.register({…})` to bypass the marker check and host-realm
* normalization — a raw vm-realm result then errors a real agent turn at the
* session-log plainness check. The whitelist has no such hole: there is no
* context-valued member to reach, and any injected-service method that returns
* a `Context` is rejected (harness services never do — see {@link denyContext}).
*
* Two realm facts drive the tool path. Objects built inside the vm carry the vm
* realm's `Object.prototype`, and the session log's append-time plainness check
* (`dsh-session`'s `isJsonValue`, a prototype-identity comparison) rejects
* foreign-realm data — so every dynamic tool's `execute` return is JSON
* round-tripped into the host realm before it reaches the registry, and the
* schema itself is rebuilt as fresh host-realm objects. And a malformed tool
* schema must fail at REGISTRATION, not when a later request assembles it — so
* dynamic `ctx.tools.register` calls accept only definitions produced by the
* sandbox's `harness.defineTool`, which normalizes `parameters` up front.
* dynamic tool registration accepts only definitions produced by the sandbox's
* `harness.defineTool`, which normalizes `parameters` up front.
*
* Normalize, don't lecture, where the input has exactly one meaning: models
* write the JSON-Schema dialect by strong prior (the `{ type: 'object',
@@ -26,7 +43,8 @@
* @module @deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-cordis/guard
*/
import type { Context, Plugin } from 'cordis'
import { Context } from 'cordis'
import type { Plugin } from 'cordis'
import { defineTool } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tools'
import type { ToolDefinition, ToolExecuteReturn } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tools'
@@ -153,31 +171,116 @@ export function sandboxRegisterTool(ctx: Context, tool: unknown): () => void {
return ctx.tools.register(tool)
}
function bindMethod(value: unknown, target: object): unknown {
if (typeof value !== 'function') return value
return (...args: unknown[]): unknown => Reflect.apply(value, target, args) as unknown
/**
* The verbs a mounted plugin may reach through the sandbox `ctx` façade,
* beyond its injected services. `on`/`once` observe events, `provide` exposes
* a service to other mounts, and the timer helpers schedule work — each a
* fiber effect that unwinds on unmount. Everything else on a real cordis `ctx`
* is framework plumbing and is denied. Forwarded LAZILY: the timer helpers are
* mixin accessors that throw `without inject` when read on a plugin that did
* not inject `timer`, so the façade reads `ctx[verb]` only at call time — the
* plugin that never touches a timer never trips that, and one that does gets
* cordis's own inject error at the call site.
*/
const CTX_VERBS = new Set(['on', 'once', 'provide', 'timeout', 'interval', 'setTimeout', 'setInterval', 'throttle', 'debounce'])
/**
* The tool-registry façade: only `register` (marker-guarded), plus the
* read-only `schemas` / `get` a mount may legitimately want. No other registry
* method (nothing that could re-enter the raw context) is exposed.
*/
function sandboxTools(ctx: Context): Record<string, unknown> {
return {
register: (tool: unknown): (() => void) => sandboxRegisterTool(ctx, tool),
schemas: () => ctx.tools.schemas(),
get: (name: string) => ctx.tools.get(name),
}
}
function guardedContext(ctx: Context): Context {
const tools = new Proxy(ctx.tools, {
/**
* Reject any injected-service return that is a cordis `Context`. Harness
* services return data, never a context; a value that is one would be a
* fresh, unguarded handle back into the runtime — the exact escape the façade
* exists to close — so it fails loud instead of reaching sandbox code.
*/
function denyContext(value: unknown, service: string): unknown {
if (value instanceof Context) {
throw new Error(
`service "${service}" returned a cordis Context, which the sandbox does not expose. `
+ 'Operate through your own plugin ctx (ctx.on / ctx.provide / ctx.tools.register) '
+ 'and the services you inject — never another context.',
)
}
return value
}
/**
* Wrap an injected service so its methods forward to the real instance but
* their return values pass through {@link denyContext}. Non-function members
* (plain data) pass through as-is; a returned Promise is guarded on resolve.
*/
function guardedService(service: object, name: string): unknown {
return new Proxy(service, {
get(target, prop) {
if (prop === 'register') {
return (tool: unknown): () => void => sandboxRegisterTool(ctx, tool)
}
const value = Reflect.get(target, prop, target) as unknown
return bindMethod(value, target)
if (typeof value !== 'function') return denyContext(value, name)
return (...args: unknown[]): unknown => {
const result = Reflect.apply(value, target, args) as unknown
if (result instanceof Promise) return result.then(v => denyContext(v, name))
return denyContext(result, name)
}
},
})
return new Proxy(ctx, {
get(target, prop) {
}
/**
* The sandbox context façade handed to a mounted plugin's `apply` in place of
* the real `ctx`. A whitelist (see the module doc): the registration/eventing
* verbs, the timer helpers, a guarded `tools`, and injected services resolved
* through a guarded `get` / property access. Every framework-plumbing member
* is denied with a teaching error; there is no context-valued member to reach.
*/
function sandboxContext(ctx: Context): Context {
const tools = sandboxTools(ctx)
// Resolve a named service to a guarded wrapper, or undefined when absent.
const resolveService = (name: string): unknown => {
if (name === 'tools') return tools
const service: unknown = ctx.get(name)
return service === undefined ? undefined : guardedService(service as object, name)
}
const get = (name: string): unknown => resolveService(name)
return new Proxy({}, {
get(_target, prop) {
if (prop === 'tools') return tools
if (prop === 'get') {
return (service: string): unknown => service === 'tools' ? tools : target.get(service)
if (prop === 'get') return get
if (typeof prop !== 'string') return undefined
// Lazy verb forwarder — reads `ctx[verb]` only when called, so a plugin
// that never uses a timer never triggers the timer mixin's inject check.
if (CTX_VERBS.has(prop)) {
return (...args: unknown[]): unknown => {
const method = ctx[prop as keyof Context]
return Reflect.apply(method as (...a: unknown[]) => unknown, ctx, args)
}
}
const value = Reflect.get(target, prop, target) as unknown
return bindMethod(value, target)
// A declared-and-injected service reads as a ctx property; resolve it
// through the same guard. Absent → the deny path (framework plumbing,
// an un-injected service, or a typo) with one teaching error.
const service = resolveService(prop)
if (service !== undefined) return service
throw new Error(
`sandbox ctx does not expose "${prop}". Available: ctx.tools.register / ctx.on / ctx.provide / `
+ 'the timer helpers (ctx.setTimeout, ctx.interval, …) and any service you declared in inject. '
+ 'Framework internals (root, fiber, registry, extend, plugin, …) are withheld by design.',
)
},
})
// A façade is not the real ctx; block writes rather than let mount code
// stash state on a throwaway object and think it persisted.
set(_target, prop) {
throw new Error(`sandbox ctx is read-only; cannot assign "${String(prop)}"`)
},
has: (_target, prop) => prop === 'tools' || prop === 'get'
|| (typeof prop === 'string' && (CTX_VERBS.has(prop) || resolveService(prop) !== undefined)),
}) as unknown as Context
}
/**
@@ -194,13 +297,19 @@ export function isPlugin(value: unknown): value is Plugin {
}
/**
* Wrap a plugin so its `apply` receives a guarded context (`tools.register`
* only accepts tools from `harness.defineTool`). Both function-form and
* object-form plugins go through the same guard; everything else on the
* context — `on`, `provide`, `inject` resolution — passes through with correct
* `this` binding, so cross-mount provide/inject works unmodified.
* Wrap a plugin so its `apply` receives the sandbox context façade instead of
* the real `ctx` (see {@link sandboxContext} and the module doc). Both
* function-form and object-form plugins go through the same wrap; the plugin's
* own `inject` declaration is preserved (cordis reads it from the plugin
* object, and pending/active gating happens on the real fiber before `apply`
* runs), so cross-mount provide/inject works unmodified.
*
* `ctx.effect(customCleanup)` is deliberately absent from the façade for now —
* `on` / `provide` / `tools.register` cover every mount seen so far, and each
* is already a fiber effect. FIXME(sandbox-effect): expose a guarded `effect`
* once a real mount needs a bespoke disposer.
* @param plugin - the plugin the mount code returned.
* @returns an equivalent plugin whose `apply` sees the guarded context.
* @returns an equivalent plugin whose `apply` sees the sandbox context façade.
*/
export function guardedPlugin(plugin: Plugin): Plugin {
if (typeof plugin === 'function') {
@@ -208,7 +317,7 @@ export function guardedPlugin(plugin: Plugin): Plugin {
return {
name: pluginName(plugin),
apply(ctx: Context, config?: unknown) {
return functionPlugin(guardedContext(ctx), config)
return functionPlugin(sandboxContext(ctx), config)
},
}
}
@@ -216,7 +325,7 @@ export function guardedPlugin(plugin: Plugin): Plugin {
return {
...plugin,
apply(ctx: Context, config?: unknown) {
return objectPlugin.apply(guardedContext(ctx), config)
return objectPlugin.apply(sandboxContext(ctx), config)
},
}
}
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@@ -18,10 +18,14 @@
* this plugin. Design home:
* docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-08-self-referential-cordis-toolset.md.
*
* The vm sandbox guards against ACCIDENTAL global pollution only — it is not a
* security boundary. The `ctx` handed to the mounted plugin's `apply` is the
* real, fully privileged runtime handle; that is the point of the toolset, so
* a deployment loads this plugin as deliberately as it grants a bash tool.
* The vm sandbox guards against ACCIDENTAL global pollution only, and the `ctx`
* a mounted plugin's `apply` receives is a WHITELIST façade (register a tool,
* observe events, provide/consume services, use timers — framework internals
* withheld; see the guard module). Neither is a security boundary: the verbs
* the façade DOES expose reach the real runtime unsandboxed (a mounted tool can
* shell out through `ctx.bash`), so a deployment loads this plugin as
* deliberately as it grants a bash tool. Design home:
* docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-08-self-referential-cordis-toolset.md.
*
* Plugin export shape: named exports, NO default. The cordis Loader's
* `unwrapExports` does `exports.default ?? exports`, so a stray default would
@@ -159,8 +163,11 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config): void {
+ 'VETOES the call; prefer plain notification events unless you intend to '
+ 'intercept. (2) Never await something that only resolves after the current '
+ 'turn (your code runs INSIDE a tool call of that turn — it would deadlock). '
+ '(3) The sandbox prevents accidental global pollution, not malice: `ctx` is '
+ 'the real, fully privileged runtime handle.',
+ '(3) Your `ctx` is a restricted façade: you can register tools, observe '
+ 'events, provide/consume services, and use timers, but framework internals '
+ '(ctx.root, ctx.fiber, ctx.extend, ctx.plugin, …) are withheld. It is not a '
+ 'security boundary though — the services you inject (e.g. ctx.bash) reach the '
+ 'real runtime.',
parameters: {
code: {
type: 'string',
@@ -386,13 +386,13 @@ describe('cordis_mount', () => {
console.error('errored')
const round = atob(btoa('hi'))
const bytes = new TextEncoder().encode(round)
return { name: 'codec-' + new TextDecoder().decode(bytes), apply(ctx) { console.log('applied', typeof ctx.fiber) } }
return { name: 'codec-' + new TextDecoder().decode(bytes), apply(ctx) { console.log('applied', typeof ctx.on) } }
`,
})
expect(result.isError).toBe(false)
expect(text(result)).toContain('plugin "codec-hi"')
expect(log).toHaveBeenCalledWith('[cordis:dyn-1]', 'warned')
expect(log).toHaveBeenCalledWith('[cordis:dyn-1]', 'applied', 'object')
expect(log).toHaveBeenCalledWith('[cordis:dyn-1]', 'applied', 'function')
expect(error).toHaveBeenCalledWith('[cordis:dyn-1]', 'errored')
})
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
import { call, setup, text } from './helpers.ts'
/**
* The sandbox context façade is a whitelist, not a pass-through proxy: mount
* code reaches only the registration/eventing verbs, the timer helpers, a
* guarded `tools`, and its injected services. Every framework-plumbing member
* that could hand back an UNGUARDED context — through which a plugin could
* `ctx.<escape>.tools.register({…})` to bypass the marker check and host-realm
* normalization — is denied. These are the regression guards for that escape
* class (the review finding on the original pass-through proxy).
*/
/** Mount a plugin whose `apply` touches one framework member, and report the error text. */
async function mountTouching(ctx: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof setup>>, expr: string): Promise<string> {
const result = await call(ctx, 'cordis_mount', {
code: `return { name: 'probe', inject: ['tools'], apply(ctx) { ${expr} } }`,
})
expect(result.isError).toBe(true)
return text(result)
}
describe('sandbox context façade — escape surface is closed', () => {
it.each([
['ctx.root', 'const c = ctx.root'],
['ctx.parent', 'const c = ctx.parent'],
['ctx.scope', 'const c = ctx.scope'],
['ctx.fiber', 'const f = ctx.fiber'],
['ctx.reflect', 'const r = ctx.reflect'],
['ctx.registry', 'const r = ctx.registry'],
['ctx.events', 'const e = ctx.events'],
['ctx.extend()', 'ctx.extend({})'],
['ctx.isolate()', 'ctx.isolate("x")'],
['ctx.intercept()', 'ctx.intercept("x", {})'],
['ctx.plugin()', 'ctx.plugin({ apply() {} })'],
['ctx.set()', 'ctx.set("tools", 1)'],
['ctx.mixin()', 'ctx.mixin("x", [])'],
])('denies %s with a teaching error', async (_label, expr) => {
const ctx = await setup()
const message = await mountTouching(ctx, expr)
expect(message).toContain('sandbox ctx does not expose')
expect(message).toContain('withheld by design')
})
it('the classic ctx.root.tools.register bypass registers nothing and fails loud', async () => {
const ctx = await setup()
const result = await call(ctx, 'cordis_mount', {
code: `
return {
name: 'root-bypass',
inject: ['tools'],
apply(ctx) {
ctx.root.tools.register({
name: 'smuggled',
description: 'raw, unguarded',
parameters: { type: 'object', properties: {} },
async execute() { return [] },
})
},
}
`,
})
expect(result.isError).toBe(true)
expect(text(result)).toContain('sandbox ctx does not expose "root"')
// The whole point: the bypass never reaches the registry.
expect(ctx.tools.get('smuggled')).toBeUndefined()
})
it('rejects assignment to the façade rather than silently dropping it', async () => {
const ctx = await setup()
const result = await call(ctx, 'cordis_mount', {
code: 'return { name: \'writer\', apply(ctx) { ctx.stash = 1 } }',
})
expect(result.isError).toBe(true)
expect(text(result)).toContain('sandbox ctx is read-only')
})
it('denies a service whose method returns a Context (the .ctx escape), registering nothing', async () => {
// A cordis Service instance carries `.ctx` (a real Context), so
// `ctx.systemPrompt.ctx.root.tools.register(…)` would be a fresh unguarded
// handle. The service wrapper's return-value guard rejects any Context on
// the way back to sandbox code, so the escape never lands. (`systemPrompt`
// is in the setup harness, so the plugin activates and its apply runs.)
const ctx = await setup()
const result = await call(ctx, 'cordis_mount', {
code: `
return {
name: 'svc-ctx-escape',
inject: ['systemPrompt', 'tools'],
apply(ctx) {
ctx.systemPrompt.ctx.root.tools.register({
name: 'smuggled_via_service',
description: 'raw, unguarded',
parameters: { type: 'object', properties: {} },
async execute() { return [] },
})
},
}
`,
})
expect(result.isError).toBe(true)
expect(text(result)).toContain('returned a cordis Context, which the sandbox does not expose')
expect(ctx.tools.get('smuggled_via_service')).toBeUndefined()
})
it('guards an async injected-service method: a host-realm Promise resolves through the guard', async () => {
// The return guard's Promise arm only fires for a HOST-realm Promise
// (a vm-realm one is not `instanceof` the host `Promise`). Provide a
// host-realm service from the test, then inject + await it from a mount:
// the resolved value is non-Context data and passes through.
const ctx = await setup()
ctx.plugin({
name: 'host-async-svc',
apply(c) { c.provide('hostAsync', { grab: async () => 'host-fetched' }) },
})
await call(ctx, 'cordis_mount', {
code: `
return {
name: 'async-consumer',
inject: ['hostAsync', 'tools'],
apply(ctx) {
harness.registerTool(ctx, harness.defineTool({
name: 'do_fetch',
description: 'awaits the host async service',
parameters: {},
async execute() {
const value = await ctx.hostAsync.grab()
return [{ type: 'text', text: value }]
},
}))
},
}
`,
})
const result = await call(ctx, 'do_fetch', {})
expect(result.isError).toBe(false)
expect(text(result)).toBe('host-fetched')
})
it('reads a symbol property as undefined and answers the `in` operator without throwing', async () => {
const ctx = await setup()
const result = await call(ctx, 'cordis_mount', {
code: `
return {
name: 'introspector',
inject: ['tools'],
apply(ctx) {
const sym = ctx[Symbol.iterator]
console.log('probe', sym === undefined, 'tools' in ctx, 'on' in ctx, 'root' in ctx)
},
}
`,
})
expect(result.isError).toBe(false)
})
})