fix(webui): arm the recovery gates and make the playbooks reach the process (#644)

Reviewer REQUEST_CHANGES on PR #903 at head 1c88b87 raised five blockers, all
reproduced by executing that head. The shared shape: a write path that declared
itself gated, audited, and verified, but never armed the gate, mutated a copy of
the state it claimed to fix, and then verified against that same copy.

B1 - the apply path never asked the execution gate.
execute_recovery_playbook called console_authz.authorize with the default
for_execution=False, and the phase branch only fires when it is True. ACTIVE_PHASE
is 1 and every new action is phase 2, so an operator executed a phase-2 write
through POST /api/v1/system/recovery/apply while build_recovery_preview reported
execution_enabled false. The call now passes for_execution=True and surfaces the
phase_not_active refusal. Preview reports the same decision under
execution_authorization / execution_blocked_reason instead of a hardcoded False it
could not explain.

B2 - both env playbooks mutated a discarded copy and verified against it.
source_env = dict(os.environ) meant clear_stale_binding and rebind_session_worktree
never touched the running process, and verify_post_recovery(env=source_env)
re-diagnosed the same copy, confirming a change that had not happened. Mutations
now target the live mapping (apply_recovery's sanctioned env=None -> os.environ
path, #702 AC2) and verification re-reads state rather than the mutated input.
binding_before / binding_after / binding_changed are returned, and a playbook that
changed nothing reports performed: false. verify_post_recovery no longer reads an
unverified_inherited binding as clean, because unproven is not clean.

B3 - the reconcile playbook called a function that does not exist.
merged_cleanup_reconcile.reconcile_merged_cleanups is absent from that module and a
bare except turned the AttributeError into a generic failure, so the playbook could
never succeed. It now calls gitea_mcp_server.gitea_reconcile_merged_cleanups, the
real orchestrator, imported lazily; failures carry error_type. task_capability_map
declared gitea.pr.close for reconcile_cleanups while the entry point gates on
gitea.read; the two authority statements are reconciled to the one that is enforced.

B4 - the #630 contamination integration could not block.
assess_contamination_gate was fed marker=None, which short-circuits to block: False
on its first statement; the task passed was a console action id outside
CONTAMINATION_GATED_TASKS; and the result was read through a "contaminated" key the
gate never returns, making STATUS_BLOCKED_CONTAMINATION unreachable. The live marker
now comes from the #641 session inventory reader, the gated task key
console_recovery_apply is added to CONTAMINATION_GATED_TASKS, every read uses the
"block" key the gate actually returns, and the marker is forwarded to
sanctioned_restart.execute_restart so a restart cannot launder a contaminated
runtime. The reconciler cleanup playbook stays exempt as the designated remedy.

B5 - the parity baseline was captured from the head it was compared against.
capture_startup_parity(root, head=checkout_head) stores the head verbatim, so
in_parity was structurally incapable of being false, and live_remote_head was never
passed. The baseline is now the daemon start head that assess_stale_runtime already
returns, and the #610 live-remote dimension is restored.

Also: _recovery_card was the one renderer in system_health_views.py interpolating
without _esc(), and it is where a marker's operator-supplied command_summary lands
once B4 is wired; it now escapes, including the except branch. Docs no longer claim
apply enforces master parity or that verify asserts clean: true, and the absolute
file:///Users/... links are relative.

Tests: the two that asserted the defects as intended are inverted -
test_api_recovery_apply_with_dev_auth asserted the phase-gate bypass, and the rebind
test asserted the input echoed back. Added coverage per blocker, including a no-op
detection test that fails when a playbook reports success without changing anything,
the previously untested reconcile playbook, contamination block and remedy-exemption
tests, and parity baseline/live-remote tests. Both new guards were mutation-verified:
disarming for_execution fails 2 tests, restoring the env copy fails 2 tests.

Validation: WEBUI_TEST_OFFLINE=1 ../../venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/ -q from
branches/feat-issue-644 gives 27 failed / 5291 passed / 6 skipped / 953 subtests;
the same command from branches/baseline-master-76f293e at 76f293eb28 gives
28 failed / 5262 passed / 6 skipped / 926 subtests. Suites run one at a time.
comm of the sorted FAILED lines shows no new signature at the head. The single
absent signature, test_workspace_guard_alignment.py::
TestRuntimeContextGuardAlignment::test_declared_branches_worktree_passes_when_mcp_root_differs,
is suite-order dependent: that file passes 9/9 in isolation at both revisions.

Closes #644

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
2026-07-25 17:42:49 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.8
parent 1c88b87ec5
commit 4a2fae8495
6 changed files with 567 additions and 78 deletions
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@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any
import master_parity_gate
import merged_cleanup_reconcile
import runtime_recovery_guard
import stale_binding_recovery
from webui import console_audit, console_authz, sanctioned_restart, system_health, worktree_scanner
@@ -53,6 +52,57 @@ PLAYBOOK_ACTIONS: dict[str, str] = {
PLAYBOOK_SANCTIONED_RESTART: sanctioned_restart.ACTION_RESTART_NAMESPACE,
}
#: Task key handed to :func:`runtime_recovery_guard.assess_contamination_gate`.
#: A console *action id* is not a task name and is not a member of
#: ``CONTAMINATION_GATED_TASKS``, so passing one left the #630 gate inert. Every
#: writing recovery playbook shares this one gated task key; the reconciler
#: cleanup playbook is exempted separately because it is the designated remedy.
CONTAMINATION_GATED_TASK = "console_recovery_apply"
#: Remote whose contamination markers govern this console. Markers are written
#: per remote, so reading the wrong one reports a contaminated runtime clean.
REMOTE_ENV = "WEBUI_GITEA_REMOTE"
DEFAULT_REMOTE = "prgs"
def _console_remote(env: dict[str, str] | None = None) -> str:
env_map = env if env is not None else os.environ
return (env_map.get(REMOTE_ENV) or "").strip() or DEFAULT_REMOTE
def load_active_contamination_marker(
remote: str | None = None, env: dict[str, str] | None = None
) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
"""Return the live #630 contamination marker payload, or ``None``.
The gate is only meaningful when it is fed a real marker: with
``marker=None`` :func:`assess_contamination_gate` returns ``block: False``
on its first statement. The #641 session inventory already reads the durable
markers, so reuse that reader rather than adding a second source of truth.
Never raises into a diagnosis or execution path.
"""
try:
from webui import session_loader
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001 — never break recovery on an import problem
return None
try:
markers = session_loader._load_contamination_markers(
remote=remote or _console_remote(env)
)
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001 — fail soft; the caller degrades to no marker
return None
for marker in markers:
payload = marker.to_dict()
if payload.get("active"):
return payload
return None
def _active_binding(env_map: Any) -> str | None:
"""Read the live worktree binding so a no-op recovery cannot report success."""
value = env_map.get(stale_binding_recovery.ACTIVE_WORKTREE_ENV)
return value if value else None
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class RecoveryLedgerEntry:
@@ -210,9 +260,19 @@ def diagnose_recovery(
reasons.append("Runtime HEAD disagrees with checkout/remote HEAD.")
# 2. Master parity assessment
#
# The baseline is the commit the *running process* started at, which is what
# the parity gate is about. Capturing it from ``checkout_head`` and then
# comparing it against that same value made ``in_parity`` structurally
# incapable of being false. ``live_remote_head`` restores the #610
# live-remote dimension, which was previously dropped.
checkout_head = stale_runtime_obj.checkout_head
startup_dict = master_parity_gate.capture_startup_parity(str(root), head=checkout_head)
parity_dict = master_parity_gate.assess_master_parity(startup_dict, checkout_head)
startup_dict = master_parity_gate.capture_startup_parity(
str(root), head=stale_runtime_obj.daemon_head
)
parity_dict = master_parity_gate.assess_master_parity(
startup_dict, checkout_head, stale_runtime_obj.remote_head
)
if not parity_dict.get("in_parity", True):
reasons.append("Repository is not in master parity.")
@@ -245,10 +305,18 @@ def diagnose_recovery(
reasons.append("Inherited worktree binding is unverified.")
# 4. Contamination assessment (#630)
#
# A real marker and a task key the gate actually gates on: with marker=None
# the gate short-circuits to ``block: False``, and with a console action id
# the task is outside CONTAMINATION_GATED_TASKS, so it could never block.
contamination_marker = load_active_contamination_marker(env=source_env)
contamination_dict = runtime_recovery_guard.assess_contamination_gate(
marker=None, task=None, actual_role=role_kind
contamination_marker,
task=CONTAMINATION_GATED_TASK,
actual_role=role_kind,
)
if contamination_dict.get("block"):
contaminated = bool(contamination_dict.get("block"))
if contaminated:
reasons.append("Runtime is contaminated by manual process kill (#630).")
# 5. Worktree scanner hygiene & anomalies
@@ -317,7 +385,7 @@ def diagnose_recovery(
)
# Playbook 4: Sanctioned Restart
restart_eligible = bool(stale_runtime_obj.stale or contamination_dict.get("contaminated"))
restart_eligible = bool(stale_runtime_obj.stale or contaminated)
playbooks.append(
PlaybookDescriptor(
playbook_id=PLAYBOOK_SANCTIONED_RESTART,
@@ -335,8 +403,8 @@ def diagnose_recovery(
)
)
clean = not reasons and not contamination_dict.get("contaminated")
if contamination_dict.get("contaminated"):
clean = not reasons and not contaminated
if contaminated:
status = STATUS_BLOCKED_CONTAMINATION
elif reasons:
status = STATUS_ACTION_REQUIRED
@@ -374,6 +442,13 @@ def build_recovery_preview(
action_id = PLAYBOOK_ACTIONS[playbook_id]
action = console_authz.get_action(action_id)
decision = console_authz.authorize(action_id, principal)
# Preview and apply must answer the same question. ``execution_enabled`` was
# a hardcoded False beside an authorization decision taken without
# ``for_execution``, so the preview could not tell an operator *why*
# execution was disabled — and the apply path did not ask at all.
execution_decision = console_authz.authorize(
action_id, principal, for_execution=True
)
phrase = confirmation_phrase(playbook_id, target)
ledger = _build_ledger(playbook_id, target)
@@ -387,8 +462,12 @@ def build_recovery_preview(
"confirmation_phrase": phrase,
"mutation_ledger": [asdict(entry) for entry in ledger],
"authorization": decision.to_dict(),
"execution_authorization": execution_decision.to_dict(),
"params": dict(params or {}),
"execution_enabled": False,
"execution_enabled": bool(execution_decision.allowed),
"execution_blocked_reason": (
None if execution_decision.allowed else execution_decision.reason_code
),
}
@@ -412,10 +491,15 @@ def execute_recovery_playbook(
}
action_id = PLAYBOOK_ACTIONS[playbook_id]
source_env = dict(env) if env is not None else dict(os.environ)
# The mapping the playbooks actually mutate. ``dict(os.environ)`` produced a
# throwaway copy: every env playbook wrote to it, verified against it, and
# left the running daemon bound to the value it claimed to have fixed.
mutation_env: Any = env if env is not None else os.environ
# 1. Authorization check
decision = console_authz.authorize(action_id, principal)
# 1. Authorization check — ``for_execution=True`` is what arms the phase
# gate (console_authz.authorize only applies it in that branch). Without it
# a phase-2 write executed while the console was in phase 1.
decision = console_authz.authorize(action_id, principal, for_execution=True)
if not decision.allowed:
console_audit.record_event(
action_id=action_id,
@@ -458,7 +542,12 @@ def execute_recovery_playbook(
# 3. Contamination rule (#630) check
role_str = principal.role if principal else None
contam = runtime_recovery_guard.assess_contamination_gate(marker=None, task=action_id, actual_role=role_str)
contamination_marker = load_active_contamination_marker(env=env)
contam = runtime_recovery_guard.assess_contamination_gate(
contamination_marker,
task=CONTAMINATION_GATED_TASK,
actual_role=role_str,
)
if contam.get("block"):
if playbook_id != PLAYBOOK_RECONCILE_CLEANUPS:
detail = "Runtime is contaminated by a manual process kill (#630). Run reconciler cleanup playbook first."
@@ -482,37 +571,76 @@ def execute_recovery_playbook(
# 4. Execute playbook action
applied_result: dict[str, Any] = {"performed": False}
if playbook_id == PLAYBOOK_CLEAR_STALE_BINDING:
diagnosis = diagnose_recovery(env=source_env)
binding_before = _active_binding(mutation_env)
diagnosis = diagnose_recovery(env=env)
plan = stale_binding_recovery.plan_recovery(diagnosis.stale_binding)
applied_result = stale_binding_recovery.apply_recovery(plan, env=source_env)
applied_result = stale_binding_recovery.apply_recovery(plan, env=mutation_env)
binding_after = _active_binding(mutation_env)
applied_result = {
**applied_result,
"binding_before": binding_before,
"binding_after": binding_after,
"binding_changed": binding_before != binding_after,
}
# A clear that did not clear is not a success, whatever the plan said.
if not applied_result["binding_changed"]:
applied_result["performed"] = False
applied_result.setdefault("reasons", []).append(
"clear_stale_binding did not change the live worktree binding"
)
elif playbook_id == PLAYBOOK_REBIND_SESSION:
target_wt = target or (params or {}).get("target_worktree")
if target_wt:
source_env[stale_binding_recovery.ACTIVE_WORKTREE_ENV] = target_wt
binding_before = _active_binding(mutation_env)
mutation_env[stale_binding_recovery.ACTIVE_WORKTREE_ENV] = target_wt
binding_after = _active_binding(mutation_env)
applied_result = {
"performed": True,
"performed": binding_after == target_wt,
"rebound_worktree": target_wt,
"cleared_stale": True,
"binding_before": binding_before,
"binding_after": binding_after,
"binding_changed": binding_before != binding_after,
"cleared_stale": binding_before != binding_after,
}
if binding_after != target_wt:
applied_result["reasons"] = [
"rebind_session_worktree did not take effect on the live "
"environment"
]
else:
applied_result = {
"performed": False,
"reason": "No target_worktree specified for rebind.",
}
elif playbook_id == PLAYBOOK_RECONCILE_CLEANUPS:
# ``merged_cleanup_reconcile`` exposes the building blocks only; the
# orchestrator is the MCP tool. The previous call named a function that
# does not exist, and a bare ``except`` turned the AttributeError into a
# generic failure, so this playbook could never succeed. Imported lazily
# because the MCP server module is large and binds FastMCP at import.
try:
snapshot = merged_cleanup_reconcile.reconcile_merged_cleanups(
apply=True, project_root=str(_repo_root())
import gitea_mcp_server
snapshot = gitea_mcp_server.gitea_reconcile_merged_cleanups(
dry_run=False,
execute_confirmed=True,
remote=(params or {}).get("remote") or _console_remote(env),
org=(params or {}).get("org"),
repo=(params or {}).get("repo"),
)
performed_reconcile = bool(snapshot.get("success"))
applied_result = {
"performed": True,
"reconciled_count": len(snapshot.get("reconciled") or []),
"performed": performed_reconcile,
"reconciled_count": len(snapshot.get("entries") or []),
"snapshot": snapshot,
}
except Exception as exc:
if not performed_reconcile:
applied_result["reasons"] = list(snapshot.get("reasons") or [])
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001 — surfaced with its type
applied_result = {
"performed": False,
"error": str(exc),
"error_type": type(exc).__name__,
}
elif playbook_id == PLAYBOOK_SANCTIONED_RESTART:
ns = target or (params or {}).get("namespace", "gitea-author")
@@ -522,13 +650,18 @@ def execute_recovery_playbook(
mode=md,
principal=principal,
confirmation=f"{md} {ns}",
env=source_env,
# Without the marker the stricter guard at sanctioned_restart.py:375
# never fires and a restart can launder a contaminated runtime.
contamination_marker=contamination_marker,
env=mutation_env,
request_id=request_id,
session_id=session_id,
)
applied_result = restart_res
performed = bool(applied_result.get("performed") or applied_result.get("allowed"))
# ``allowed`` is not ``performed``: execute_restart documents that success is
# False in both directions because the host supervisor still has to act.
performed = bool(applied_result.get("performed"))
# 5. Record Audit Log
audit_record = console_audit.record_event(
@@ -543,8 +676,13 @@ def execute_recovery_playbook(
metadata={"applied_result": applied_result},
)
# 6. Post-recovery verification recheck
post_verification = verify_post_recovery(env=source_env)
# 6. Post-recovery verification recheck.
#
# Re-read state rather than re-reading the mapping the mutation just wrote:
# verifying the mutated copy confirmed changes that never reached the
# process. Passing ``env`` through means a caller-supplied mapping is the
# live one for that caller, and ``None`` re-reads ``os.environ`` fresh.
post_verification = verify_post_recovery(env=env)
return {
"success": performed,
@@ -562,12 +700,22 @@ def verify_post_recovery(
) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Revalidate control-plane state post-recovery before clean status."""
diag = diagnose_recovery(repo_path, env)
classification = diag.stale_binding.get("classification")
# ``not clear_eligible`` also reads clean for every binding recovery is not
# allowed to touch — an unverified inherited binding is unproven, not clean.
binding_clean = (
not diag.stale_binding.get("clear_eligible")
and classification != stale_binding_recovery.CLASSIFICATION_UNVERIFIED_INHERITED
)
return {
"clean": diag.clean,
"status": diag.status,
"stale_runtime_clean": not diag.stale_runtime.get("stale"),
"binding_clean": not diag.stale_binding.get("clear_eligible"),
"contamination_clean": not diag.contamination.get("contaminated"),
"binding_clean": binding_clean,
"binding_classification": classification,
# The gate returns ``block``; it has never returned ``contaminated``, so
# reading that key reported every runtime clean unconditionally.
"contamination_clean": not diag.contamination.get("block"),
"anomalies_count": len(diag.worktree_anomalies),
"reasons": list(diag.reasons),
}