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…-10) A unit was one Python process holding the harness, the teacher's modules and checkers, and the student's module. It is now two processes joined by a pair of pipes: the teacher side holds the teacher's code, drives the plan, sets a deadline on every request and writes the records; the student side holds only the student's module and answers one request at a time. ScriptMark starts both, connects them, and reads only the teacher side's records. - Records and answers are length-prefixed JSON frames, each checked against the largest frame legal at that point before its body is read. The record stream's bounds come from the plan, so a long scenario of large legal values is never taken for a flood; a frame past its bound ends the stream there. - Values cross by value. Plain data is JSON as before; a transfer encoding keeps tuples, sets, exact numbers, shared references and cycles, rebuilds instances of shared classes from the receiving side's copy, and turns any other object into a snapshot of its attributes and public properties, read under the owner's timer. - A request that runs past its timeout and grace is given up on: the call is reported as timed out and the rest as not run, on the student's account. A student side that exits, floods or garbles its pipe is reported the same way. - ScriptMark watches the student side's memory and ends it past its limit, reported as the student's resource overrun (Cause::Memory). - Records are no longer reachable from student code, so a broken record stream is the harness's, never the student's.
… side (OSS-10) The student side's answers are the student's own evidence, but they must not claim more than the request could produce: an `unresolved` outcome (the teacher side resolves every name before asking), a function-matching decision for anything but a fuzzy function lookup, or one that settled on a function. Any such answer, and any fetched value that does not parse, now stops the student side as garbled, on the student's account, instead of escaping as a harness error.
…andbox (OSS-10) Sandboxed is now the default, and fails closed: a unit whose sandbox cannot be applied is not graded, and `grade`/`run` refuse up front with a hint when this machine cannot sandbox at all. `--no-sandbox` opts out; the grading record then carries `isolation: unisolated`, and summaries, the HTML report, the export's about sheet and `grades-push` say so. Sandboxed records keep their bytes and digest. - macOS: Seatbelt through `sandbox-exec` with a generated profile. Each side reads only its interpreter (prefix, packages and the Homebrew kegs it links against — not `etc` or `var`), its own directories and, for the teacher side, the bundle and a read-only copy of the subject's source. Native calls are refused: Seatbelt does not mediate KERN_PROCARGS2, through which a same-user process reads another's environment. - Linux: Landlock (files, TCP, and from ABI 6 signals and abstract sockets) and seccomp (other socket families, connect/bind, sending to an address, new processes, tracing, mounts, io_uring, and the kill family below ABI 6), applied between fork and exec. Only the interpreter and its loader may be executed. - Each side checks a canary file outside everything it may read, and refuses to run if it can open it. - The harness no longer needs a thread: RLIMIT_NPROC counts a user's threads on Linux, so a busy machine refused them. Confined sides, which cannot start processes anyway, leave that limit alone. - Without a sandbox, student code can reach the teacher side, so a broken teacher side after student code ran is the student's again. - CI runs the suite, sandbox probes included, on macOS as well as Linux.
…teacher's sandbox (OSS-10) - `[meta] shared = ["common.py"]` names teacher modules whose classes cross by value. Each is staged beside the student's file, where it imports without an `allowed_imports` entry, and the teacher side imports its own copy from the bundle: an instance is rebuilt from the receiving side's copy of its class, without `__init__`, a student subclass as the shared base, cycles and shared nodes intact. Spec validation keeps them importable Python files of their own, apart from data files, teacher modules and the student's file. - Function checkers may take `source`, the student's source text, reserved beside `stdout`. - Python checker scripts run with a cleared environment and a private working directory, and, sandboxed, in the teacher's sandbox: they read their interpreter and the bundle only. - Lint runs on a read-only copy of each graded file, in the teacher's sandbox (the system's programs, the tool's own installation, the bundle), with a cleared environment and a deadline. Its command is split as a shell would, quotes included, and every graded file of a spec with `[lint]` is linted: the style score is their mean. - `prepare` refuses a path into the bundle handed to student code — a [vars] entry, an argument, or a teacher module's constant — since student code can never open it; `data_files` stages such a file instead. - Sandbox hardening from review: a confined unit keeps a high per-user process cap against a thread bomb; the interpreter's read set is its prefixes and sysconfig's library paths, not every `sys.path` entry; native code is never mapped from a directory a side can write, and hard links are refused; x32 syscall numbers are refused on x86-64.
…der a safe name (OSS-10)
A tool's read grant widened from its `bin` to the directory above whenever
that directory held no `etc` or `var`, which `~/bin/tool` turns into the whole
home directory. It now widens only for a self-contained installation — a
virtual environment or a Homebrew keg — and otherwise grants the program file
alone.
The read-only copy kept the student's file name, which reaches the tool's
arguments and, through a command such as `sh -c '… {file}'`, a shell. It is
staged under that name with everything but letters, digits, `.`, `_` and `-`
replaced, so a linter judging module names still judges the same one.
… ended (OSS-10) The watch ticks every 50 ms and was among the tasks a unit waited for after both sides ended, so every unit waited for its next tick: about 40 ms a unit when sandboxed. It is aborted as soon as the student side's exit is settled.
From a fourteen-agent review, each finding checked by an adversarial verifier:
- seccomp also refuses changing another process's limits or scheduling, any
file's mode, owner or extended attributes, and, below Landlock ABI 3,
truncating by path.
- A student answer is checked against what its record may hold before it is
written: a padded answer stops the student side, on the student's account,
instead of breaking the record stream.
- Checker scripts and lint tools run in their own process group under CPU and
file-size limits, and are ended as a group.
- The transfer encoding writes a way back into a tuple or frozenset as a
cycle, and bounds integers by the frame alone.
- Judging: a student value a teacher setup call could not read is the
student's dependency; a stop during setup keeps its cause; a student side
that dies while a checker reads its values is judged by how it died.
- A relative --python is made absolute; Python older than 3.10 is refused
with its version, sandboxed or not; Ctrl-C during prepare stops its units.
- Lint: a {bundle} placeholder, a real PATH, PATHEXT and whitespace splitting
on Windows, and an injectable deadline.
- Records always carry their isolation; one made before this change has
none, keeps its digest, and reads as unisolated. An empty `shared` stays
out of the spec digest. Teacher exports holding bundle paths in lists or
dicts are refused too, and a spec with only shared modules imports them at
prepare.
…newer than the filter (OSS-10) `setpriority` with PRIO_USER or PRIO_PGRP and who 0 reaches every process of the user: it is refused unless it names the calling process, as is `ioprio_set`; `migrate_pages` and `move_pages` on another process are refused. A denylist lets through whatever the kernel adds after it was written, so every syscall numbered from `setxattrat` (463) on — and x32's numbering with them — is refused as unknown, which the C library treats as an older kernel.
README and CLAUDE.md describe the two processes per unit, the sandboxes and --no-sandbox, Python 3.10 as the minimum, and the files that hold them; the notes gitlink brings the teacher contract and design record.
…-10) A case, a scenario (its steps share one process) or `[meta]` may declare `memory_mb`, 64 to 65536; the narrowest applies, and an unset one stays out of the spec's digest. The student side is held to it by the grader's watch of its resident memory, and the message of a unit ended for it names the limit. The default drops from 512 to 256 MiB: Python with the harness takes about 24 MiB, a list of a million integers about 62. On Linux RLIMIT_AS becomes a backstop at four times the limit and never under 2 GiB, for both sides: address space is not memory, and a library such as OpenBLAS reserves far more than it touches.
The student side takes about 25 MiB idle (Python alone: 15 MiB on macOS, 7 MiB on Linux). The watch also counts the harness's copies of a returned value, a few times its size: at 64 MiB a list of a million integers is ended even unchecked, at 96 MiB when handed to a checker; at 128 MiB only 100,000 dictionaries handed to a checker are. Test plans use the default; the 1.5-million-integer checker test declares 512. The two tests whose student defeats its timer by catching the timer's exception escaped it when the alarm landed in the handler, now and then under load. Their student now loops in C, where the timer never fires.
A teacher sizes memory_mb from the algorithm; what Python and the harness take idle is ScriptMark's to add. It is measured once per interpreter and isolation by the same watch that enforces the limit, on a unit whose student is ScriptMark's own and sleeps while it is sampled: 24 MiB on macOS, 16 MiB on Linux. The student process cannot report it itself: student code could forge whatever it says. A failed measurement is not kept; the unit does not start, and the next measures again. Platforms without a watch add nothing. The default drops to 64 MiB and the floor to 16. Exit::Memory carries both numbers, and the message names them: "the 64 MiB memory limit (`memory_mb`, beyond the interpreter's 24 MiB)".
A library the teacher allows is environment, not the algorithm's: import pandas alone takes more than the 64 MiB default. The idle unit now imports each module in the spec's allowed_imports, skipping one that does not load, and the measurement is kept per interpreter, isolation and set of allowed imports: 120 MiB on macOS with pandas and matplotlib.pyplot, against 24 with nothing allowed. An entry may be dotted: matplotlib.pyplot allows the matplotlib package, as matplotlib did, and names the module to load (matplotlib alone is 46 MiB, with pyplot 77). Entries must be module names; the idle student takes them as data. Exit::Memory's idle_mb and its message say what the idle share covers.
What a unit takes idle is now measured per submission: harness/idle.py reads the submission's source with ast, never running it, imports every module an import names anywhere in the file (skipping what the guard refuses or what does not load), with the teacher's vars, shared modules and data files, and sleeps 50 ms while the watch samples it every 2 ms. memory_mb counts beyond that, so imports - stdlib or allowed library - are never the student's. Keyed by a digest of the submission and what the teacher gives it. Sampled, not reported: on Linux ru_maxrss carries the grader's own memory from between fork and exec, where the sandbox is applied. 24 students x 3 cases: 2.2-3.0 s, against 1.9-2.0 s measured once per interpreter.
idle.py parsed the submission with ast in the very process whose peak became the idle share. Parsing takes several hundred times the source - 500 KB of constants, about 290 MiB - so a student could raise their own limit by that much with a padded file. harness/imports.py now reads the imports in a process of its own, confined and not watched, and skips a source over 256 KiB, whose imports then count; the idle unit only receives the module names, as an argument to idle(). Imports are read once per source and the idle unit runs once per set of imports and what the teacher gives, so students importing the same modules share it: 24 students x 3 cases, 2.1-2.8 s against 2.0-2.6 s.
…SS-10) Where a spec declares no memory_mb, a unit's limit is estimated from the space the teacher allows the algorithm - `space = "O(n)"` and the like, O(n^2) where nothing is declared - over the size of its test data: the elements of arguments and expected values, the characters of strings, stdin and expected output, the bytes of data files, and an integer argument as its value (fib(30), primes(10**6)). 512 bytes per step of the growth, kept between 16 MiB and 1 GiB; a unit whose arguments hold a setup's result cannot be sized before grading and gets 1 GiB. The narrowest declaration of either applies; both on one item, or either on a scenario step, is refused. Reference implementations are held the same way, over their arguments. DEFAULT_MEMORY_MB goes. UnitPlan.memory_basis and Exit::Memory's basis carry what an estimate came from, and the message names it. The example bundles grade identically.
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40-45: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winDeclare the new dependencies in the root workspace.
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- harness/imports.py reads a submission's imports from its tokens, keeping only those of import statements: 4 MB of source takes 31 MiB, where ast took about 2 GB. No size cap; a reader that cannot finish finds no imports, and they count, rather than failing the unit. - An import that exits or breaks the idle unit (import unittest.__main__) no longer turns the submission's units into the environment's failure: idle.py skips SystemExit too, and the unit is otherwise measured without its imports. - A var's own `$...` strings are text when sizing data, as the teacher side treats them: a var naming itself no longer recurses without end. - On Windows the teacher side moves its stderr off the record stream, which there is fd 2: a teacher's warning no longer floods the records. - The Landlock and seccomp pre_exec fails with a constant errno instead of allocating an error after fork; spawn errors say when the sandbox could not be applied. - shlex, landlock and seccompiler are workspace dependencies. - The idle test imports a teacher data module holding a fixed 32 MiB, not asyncio; the record-flood test, which macOS CI ended for memory, declares 512 MiB and reports why if steps go missing.
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Summary
Student code no longer shares a process with teacher code. Each unit (a case or a scenario) runs as two Python processes: a teacher side that holds the teacher's modules and checkers, drives the plan and writes the records, and a student side that holds only the submission. Both run in the operating system's sandbox, and the student side is held to a memory limit.
Two processes
runner/harness/teacher.pydrives the plan with per-request deadlines and writes length-prefixed JSON records on their own descriptor.student.pyanswers one request at a time under its timer and import guard. Code they share is incommon.py.[meta] sharedare rebuilt from the receiver's own copy of the class; other objects arrive as snapshots. References and cycles survive.Sandboxes
sandbox-execwith a generated profile. Linux: Landlock and seccomp, applied between fork and exec. Each side reads its interpreter and its own directory; the teacher side also reads the bundle and a read-only copy of the source.--no-sandboxis the opt-out; it is recorded asisolation: unisolatedand shown in summaries, HTML reports, exports and grade pushes.Memory
ast; nothing in the submission runs. A short unit then imports them and is measured, once per set of imports.memory_mbsets an exact limit. Otherwise the limit is estimated fromspace = "O(...)"(O(n²) when undeclared) and the size of the case's test data. The estimate is kept between 16 MiB and 1 GiB, and the error message says what it was estimated from.Changes teachers will see
vars, arguments or teacher exports) is refused at prepare time. Stage the file throughdata_filesinstead.os.chmod,shutil.copy) getsPermissionError.allowed_importsentries must be module names.Cost
Per unit: macOS about 40 ms before, about 62–65 ms sandboxed; Linux about 22 ms either way. The idle measurement adds 0.1–0.2 s across 24 students × 3 cases.
Not in this PR
Testing
cargo test --workspacerepeatedly on macOS (outside any other Seatbelt sandbox) and on Linux in Docker (Landlock ABI 6), including sandbox probes: the student side cannot read the bundle, the grader's environment or other processes.cargo checkforx86_64-pc-windows-msvc.examples/bundlesgrades identically before and after the memory changes.Linear: OSS-10
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--no-sandboxallows an unisolated run, which is clearly marked in results.