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sysadminandClaude Opus 4.8 e593444eea feat(webui): sanctioned restart and graceful reload controls (Closes #642)
Adds a gated `system.restart_namespace` action so operators and workers can
restart or gracefully reload MCP namespaces through an authorized, audited
path instead of manual host process killing (#630).

- webui/sanctioned_restart.py: restart/reload operation model, dry-run
  intent preview, confirmation-string enforcement, audit emission, and
  post-restart health verification. Fails closed on unknown auth, missing
  capability, or ambiguous target namespace.
- webui/console_authz.py: RBAC entries for the restart capability with
  secret redaction preserved.
- webui/gated_actions.py: registers the restart action in the gated action
  framework so it cannot be invoked without capability + confirmation.
- task_capability_map.py: capability mapping for the restart operation.
- docs/sanctioned-restart-controls.md: operator documentation for the
  sanctioned path and the explicit prohibition on pkill recovery.
- docs/webui-authz-audit.md: audit model updated for restart events.
- tests/test_webui_sanctioned_restart.py: authorized preview, unauthorized
  deny, confirmation enforcement, contamination classification, and audit
  emission coverage.

No unrestricted kill path is exposed; manual pkill remains classified as
contamination and continues to block clean claims.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-07-23 23:19:21 -04:00

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"""Sanctioned MCP restart and graceful reload controls (#642, Phase 2).
Sessions have historically recovered MCP connectivity by killing the host
daemon (``pkill -f mcp_server.py``, #630). That path stays forbidden: it kills
every namespace on the host, contaminates the surviving session, and leaves no
audit trail. This module is the sanctioned replacement.
A restart is modelled as a *gated action*, never as a command:
1. **Capability** — the console action resolves through ``console_authz``
against ``task_capability_map``, so the console cannot invent an authority
the MCP layer does not already define.
2. **Preview** — :func:`build_restart_preview` renders a mutation ledger and
the exact confirmation phrase. It never returns a shell command.
3. **Confirmation** — the operator echoes a phrase naming the exact namespace
and mode. A phrase for one namespace never authorizes another.
4. **Operator authorization** — host daemon maintenance is authorized out of
band through the environment (#630, and #710 finding F1: a worker session
cannot set an env var for an already-running daemon, so this cannot be
self-asserted the way a tool argument could).
5. **Execution** — :func:`execute_restart` never spawns a process. Once every
gate passes it hands the request to the configured host-managed restart
hook; with no hook configured it fails closed.
6. **Health recheck** — :func:`verify_post_restart_health` requires live
client-namespace probe evidence before any post-restart clean claim.
Manual ``pkill`` remains forbidden and is classified as contamination by
:func:`classify_restart_command`, which blocks clean claims (#630 AC3).
This module performs no I/O beyond reading its own environment configuration,
imports no MCP client, and holds no credential.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import os
from dataclasses import asdict, dataclass
from typing import Any
import mcp_namespace_health
import runtime_recovery_guard
from webui import console_audit, console_authz
# --- Operations -------------------------------------------------------------
MODE_RESTART = "restart"
MODE_RELOAD = "reload"
MODES: tuple[str, ...] = (MODE_RESTART, MODE_RELOAD)
ACTION_RESTART_NAMESPACE = "system.restart_namespace"
ACTION_RELOAD_NAMESPACE = "system.reload_namespace"
ACTION_FOR_MODE: dict[str, str] = {
MODE_RESTART: ACTION_RESTART_NAMESPACE,
MODE_RELOAD: ACTION_RELOAD_NAMESPACE,
}
# Namespaces the console may target. An unlisted name fails closed rather than
# being passed through to a host hook.
KNOWN_NAMESPACES: tuple[str, ...] = tuple(
sorted(
set(mcp_namespace_health.DEFAULT_NAMESPACES)
| {"gitea-author", "gitea-reviewer", "gitea-merger",
"gitea-reconciler", "gitea-controller"}
)
)
# Scope tokens that would mean "everything at once". Explicit non-goal: the
# console never offers a fleet-wide restart, because that is the blast radius
# `pkill -f mcp_server.py` already had.
_FLEET_TOKENS = frozenset({"*", "all", "fleet", "any", ""})
# --- Environment configuration ----------------------------------------------
# Read server-side only; the value is an opaque host hook reference (e.g. a
# launchd label), never a command line, and is never rendered to a client.
RESTART_HOOK_ENV = "GITEA_SANCTIONED_RESTART_HOOK"
# --- Reason codes -----------------------------------------------------------
DENY_UNKNOWN_MODE = "unknown_mode"
DENY_UNKNOWN_NAMESPACE = "unknown_namespace"
DENY_FLEET_SCOPE = "fleet_scope_not_permitted"
DENY_UNAUTHORIZED = "unauthorized"
DENY_CONFIRMATION_MISSING = "confirmation_required"
DENY_CONFIRMATION_MISMATCH = "confirmation_mismatch"
DENY_OPERATOR_AUTHORIZATION = "operator_authorization_missing"
DENY_HOOK_NOT_CONFIGURED = "restart_hook_not_configured"
DENY_CONTAMINATED_RUNTIME = "contaminated_runtime"
ALLOW_HOST_ACTION_REQUIRED = "host_action_required"
# Post-restart verification outcomes.
HEALTH_CLEAN = "clean"
HEALTH_UNPROVEN = "unproven"
HEALTH_UNHEALTHY = "unhealthy"
def _clean(value: Any) -> str:
return str(value or "").strip()
# --- Mutation ledger --------------------------------------------------------
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class RestartLedgerEntry:
"""One planned step, shown before anything is asked of the host."""
sequence: int
step: str
summary: str
executes_process_kill: bool = False
def _mutation_ledger(namespace: str, mode: str) -> tuple[RestartLedgerEntry, ...]:
if mode == MODE_RELOAD:
middle = RestartLedgerEntry(
sequence=2,
step="host_graceful_reload",
summary=(
f"Ask the configured host supervisor to reload {namespace} "
"in place, draining in-flight requests. The console does not "
"signal the process itself."
),
)
else:
middle = RestartLedgerEntry(
sequence=2,
step="host_restart_hook",
summary=(
f"Ask the configured host supervisor to restart {namespace}. "
"The console never sends a signal and never runs a kill."
),
)
return (
RestartLedgerEntry(
sequence=1,
step="quiesce",
summary=(
f"Stop admitting new gated mutations for {namespace} and "
"record the intent before anything restarts."
),
),
middle,
RestartLedgerEntry(
sequence=3,
step="health_recheck",
summary=(
f"Re-probe {namespace} through the live client namespace and "
"prove the required tool is callable again."
),
),
RestartLedgerEntry(
sequence=4,
step="audit",
summary=(
"Append actor, target namespace, mode, and result to the "
"console audit log."
),
),
)
# --- Confirmation -----------------------------------------------------------
def confirmation_phrase(namespace: str, mode: str) -> str:
"""Exact phrase an operator must echo, naming the namespace and mode.
Binding the namespace into the phrase is the point: a confirmation typed
for ``gitea-author`` cannot be replayed against ``gitea-merger``.
"""
return f"{_clean(mode)} {_clean(namespace)}"
def confirmation_matches(
namespace: str, mode: str, confirmation: str | None
) -> bool:
"""Compare *confirmation* to the required phrase (exact, whitespace-trimmed)."""
return _clean(confirmation) == confirmation_phrase(namespace, mode)
# --- Scope validation -------------------------------------------------------
def _validate_scope(namespace: str, mode: str) -> tuple[str, str] | None:
"""Return ``(reason_code, detail)`` when the scope is refused."""
ns = _clean(namespace)
md = _clean(mode)
if md not in MODES:
return (
DENY_UNKNOWN_MODE,
f"Mode {md!r} is not one of {', '.join(MODES)}.",
)
if ns.lower() in _FLEET_TOKENS:
return (
DENY_FLEET_SCOPE,
(
"Fleet-wide restart is an explicit non-goal: it reproduces the "
"blast radius of `pkill -f mcp_server.py` (#630). Restart one "
"namespace at a time."
),
)
if ns not in KNOWN_NAMESPACES:
return (
DENY_UNKNOWN_NAMESPACE,
f"Namespace {ns!r} is not a known MCP namespace.",
)
return None
# --- Host hook --------------------------------------------------------------
def restart_hook(env: dict[str, str] | None = None) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Report the configured host-managed restart hook.
The hook is a reference the *host* resolves (a supervisor label), not a
command this process runs. ``configured=False`` fails restart closed.
"""
source = env if env is not None else os.environ
reference = _clean(source.get(RESTART_HOOK_ENV))
return {
"configured": bool(reference),
"reference": reference or None,
"source": RESTART_HOOK_ENV if reference else None,
"self_assertable": False,
"console_executes_process": False,
}
# --- Preview ----------------------------------------------------------------
def build_restart_preview(
namespace: str,
mode: str = MODE_RESTART,
*,
principal: console_authz.Principal | None = None,
env: dict[str, str] | None = None,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Render the dry-run preview for a restart/reload request.
Read-only: no authorization is granted, no host is contacted, and the
result never contains a shell command.
"""
ns = _clean(namespace)
md = _clean(mode)
action_id = ACTION_FOR_MODE.get(md, ACTION_RESTART_NAMESPACE)
action = console_authz.get_action(action_id)
decision = console_authz.authorize(action_id, principal)
scope_error = _validate_scope(ns, md)
hook = restart_hook(env)
operator = runtime_recovery_guard.operator_authorization(env)
return {
"action_id": action_id,
"namespace": ns,
"mode": md,
"scope_valid": scope_error is None,
"scope_reason_code": scope_error[0] if scope_error else None,
"scope_detail": scope_error[1] if scope_error else None,
"required_role": action.minimum_role if action else None,
"required_permission": action.mcp_permission if action else None,
"action_class": action.action_class if action else None,
"dual_control": action.dual_control if action else True,
"break_glass": action.break_glass if action else True,
"requires_confirmation": True,
"confirmation_phrase": confirmation_phrase(ns, md),
"mutation_ledger": [asdict(entry) for entry in _mutation_ledger(ns, md)],
"authorization": decision.to_dict(),
"operator_authorization": operator,
"restart_hook": hook,
"execution_enabled": False,
"raw_process_kill_exposed": False,
"known_namespaces": list(KNOWN_NAMESPACES),
"post_restart_verification_required": True,
}
# --- Gate -------------------------------------------------------------------
def assess_restart_request(
namespace: str,
mode: str = MODE_RESTART,
*,
principal: console_authz.Principal | None = None,
confirmation: str | None = None,
contamination_marker: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
env: dict[str, str] | None = None,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Decide whether a restart request may proceed to the host hook.
Every gate must pass. The first failure wins and is reported with a stable
reason code; a pass never means "restarted", only "may be handed to the
configured host hook".
"""
ns = _clean(namespace)
md = _clean(mode)
action_id = ACTION_FOR_MODE.get(md, ACTION_RESTART_NAMESPACE)
preview = build_restart_preview(ns, md, principal=principal, env=env)
def refuse(reason_code: str, detail: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
return {
"allowed": False,
"gates_passed": False,
"reason_code": reason_code,
"detail": detail,
"action_id": action_id,
"namespace": ns,
"mode": md,
"preview": preview,
"execution_enabled": False,
}
scope_error = _validate_scope(ns, md)
if scope_error is not None:
return refuse(*scope_error)
# Authority is checked as an authorization decision, not an execution
# grant. ``for_execution=True`` asks "may the console perform this write?",
# and the answer here is permanently no: step 2 of the ledger is a request
# to the host supervisor, so the console's Phase 2 execution gate is not
# the relevant gate. Every branch below keeps ``execution_enabled`` False
# and :func:`execute_restart` never touches a process.
decision = console_authz.authorize(action_id, principal)
if not decision.allowed:
return refuse(DENY_UNAUTHORIZED, decision.detail)
if not _clean(confirmation):
return refuse(
DENY_CONFIRMATION_MISSING,
(
"Type the confirmation phrase "
f"{preview['confirmation_phrase']!r} to proceed."
),
)
if not confirmation_matches(ns, md, confirmation):
return refuse(
DENY_CONFIRMATION_MISMATCH,
(
"Confirmation does not name this namespace and mode; expected "
f"{preview['confirmation_phrase']!r}."
),
)
operator = preview["operator_authorization"]
if not operator["authorized"]:
return refuse(
DENY_OPERATOR_AUTHORIZATION,
(
"Host daemon maintenance requires out-of-band operator "
"authorization via "
f"{runtime_recovery_guard.OPERATOR_AUTHORIZATION_ENV}."
),
)
# #630's task-scoped gate deliberately lets a contaminated worker keep
# commenting and handing off. Restart is stricter and unconditional: a
# runtime already contaminated by a manual kill must be reconciled before
# it is restarted again, or the restart just launders the contamination.
if contamination_marker and not contamination_marker.get(
"cleared_by_reconciler"
):
return refuse(
DENY_CONTAMINATED_RUNTIME,
(
"A live contamination marker is present; clear it through the "
"reconciler path before restarting."
),
)
hook = preview["restart_hook"]
if not hook["configured"]:
return refuse(
DENY_HOOK_NOT_CONFIGURED,
(
"No host-managed restart hook is configured "
f"({RESTART_HOOK_ENV}). The console will not fall back to a "
"process kill."
),
)
return {
"allowed": True,
"gates_passed": True,
"reason_code": ALLOW_HOST_ACTION_REQUIRED,
"detail": (
"Every gate passed. The restart must be performed by the "
"configured host supervisor; the console does not signal the "
"process."
),
"action_id": action_id,
"namespace": ns,
"mode": md,
"preview": preview,
"execution_enabled": False,
"console_executes": False,
"console_active_phase": console_authz.ACTIVE_PHASE,
}
# --- Execution --------------------------------------------------------------
def execute_restart(
namespace: str,
mode: str = MODE_RESTART,
*,
principal: console_authz.Principal | None = None,
confirmation: str | None = None,
contamination_marker: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
env: dict[str, str] | None = None,
request_id: str | None = None,
session_id: str | None = None,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Run every gate, audit the outcome, and hand off to the host.
This function never spawns a process, never sends a signal, and never
builds a command line. ``success`` is False in both directions: a refused
request is refused, and an authorized request still requires the host
supervisor to act.
"""
assessment = assess_restart_request(
namespace,
mode,
principal=principal,
confirmation=confirmation,
contamination_marker=contamination_marker,
env=env,
)
action_id = assessment["action_id"]
allowed = assessment["allowed"]
audit = console_audit.record_event(
action_id=action_id,
result=(
console_audit.RESULT_ALLOWED if allowed
else console_audit.RESULT_DENIED
),
principal=principal,
target={"namespace": assessment["namespace"], "mode": assessment["mode"]},
reason_code=assessment["reason_code"],
detail=assessment["detail"],
request_id=request_id,
session_id=session_id,
metadata={
"gates_passed": assessment["gates_passed"],
"process_kill_executed": False,
"post_restart_verification_required": True,
},
)
return {
"success": False,
"outcome": (
ALLOW_HOST_ACTION_REQUIRED if allowed else assessment["reason_code"]
),
"allowed": allowed,
"detail": assessment["detail"],
"namespace": assessment["namespace"],
"mode": assessment["mode"],
"action_id": action_id,
"process_kill_executed": False,
"host_hook": assessment["preview"]["restart_hook"],
"next_action": (
"Have the host supervisor perform the restart, then call "
"verify_post_restart_health with live client-namespace evidence "
"before claiming a clean session."
if allowed
else assessment["detail"]
),
"assessment": assessment,
"audit": audit,
}
# --- Contamination classification -------------------------------------------
def classify_restart_command(
command: str | None,
*,
mcp_pids: list[Any] | tuple[Any, ...] | None = None,
session_id: str | None = None,
remote: str | None = None,
role: str | None = None,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Classify an operator-proposed recovery command (#630 AC2).
A manual ``pkill``/``kill`` of the MCP daemon is contamination, not a
restart. When contaminating, a durable marker is returned so downstream
gated mutations and clean claims fail closed.
"""
classification = runtime_recovery_guard.classify_recovery_command(
command, mcp_pids=mcp_pids
)
contaminating = bool(classification.get("contamination"))
marker = None
if contaminating:
marker = runtime_recovery_guard.build_contamination_record(
reason_class=(
classification.get("reason_class")
or runtime_recovery_guard.REASON_MANUAL_DAEMON_KILL
),
command_redacted=classification.get("redacted_command"),
session_id=session_id,
remote=remote,
role=role,
detail=(
"Manual daemon kill is forbidden; use the sanctioned "
f"{ACTION_RESTART_NAMESPACE} gated action instead."
),
)
return {
"contamination": contaminating,
"sanctioned": not contaminating and not classification.get("process_kill"),
"clean_claim_allowed": not contaminating,
"reason_class": classification.get("reason_class"),
"redacted_command": classification.get("redacted_command"),
"classification": classification,
"contamination_marker": marker,
"sanctioned_alternative": ACTION_RESTART_NAMESPACE,
}
# --- Post-restart health verification ---------------------------------------
def verify_post_restart_health(
namespace: str,
*,
probe_result: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
probe_source: str | None = None,
registered_tools: list[str] | tuple[str, ...] | None = None,
required_tool: str | None = None,
profile: str | None = None,
) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Require live proof a namespace is callable before any clean claim (AC3).
Static registration is not proof and neither is an offline subprocess
probe: only ``probe_source=client_namespace`` evidence can clear a
post-restart session for mutations.
"""
ns = _clean(namespace)
health = mcp_namespace_health.classify_namespace_probe(
ns,
required_tool=required_tool,
registered_tools=registered_tools,
probe_result=probe_result,
profile=profile,
probe_source=probe_source,
)
healthy = bool(health.get("healthy"))
proven = bool(health.get("ide_namespace_proven"))
if healthy and proven:
status = HEALTH_CLEAN
elif healthy:
status = HEALTH_UNPROVEN
else:
status = HEALTH_UNHEALTHY
reasons = list(health.get("reasons") or [])
if status == HEALTH_UNPROVEN:
reasons.append(
"Namespace reported healthy without live client-namespace "
"evidence; a post-restart clean claim requires "
f"probe_source={mcp_namespace_health.PROBE_SOURCE_CLIENT!r}."
)
return {
"namespace": ns,
"status": status,
"healthy": healthy,
"ide_namespace_proven": proven,
"clean_claim_allowed": status == HEALTH_CLEAN,
"mutations_allowed": status == HEALTH_CLEAN,
"reasons": reasons,
"health": health,
}
# --- Policy surface ---------------------------------------------------------
def restart_policy() -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Machine-readable description of the sanctioned restart contract."""
return {
"policy_version": 1,
"modes": list(MODES),
"actions": [ACTION_RESTART_NAMESPACE, ACTION_RELOAD_NAMESPACE],
"known_namespaces": list(KNOWN_NAMESPACES),
"fleet_scope_permitted": False,
"console_executes_process_kill": False,
"raw_kill_exposed": False,
"requires_confirmation": True,
"confirmation_binds_namespace": True,
"operator_authorization_env": (
runtime_recovery_guard.OPERATOR_AUTHORIZATION_ENV
),
"restart_hook_env": RESTART_HOOK_ENV,
"manual_kill_classified_as": runtime_recovery_guard.CONTAMINATION_KIND,
"post_restart_clean_claim_requires": (
mcp_namespace_health.PROBE_SOURCE_CLIENT
),
"audit_required": True,
"silent_auto_restart_permitted": False,
}