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fix(guard): read Bash calls with tree-sitter-bash - #221
Both release guards read a Bash call with tree-sitter-bash instead of regular expressions, so a release or tag command inside bash -c, eval, a heredoc or here-string a shell reads, or text piped into a shell is judged, and so is one whose command name is escaped, quoted or path-qualified, or that carries git -C <dir> / gh -R <repo> before the subcommand. $'...' strings are resolved before the guards split words, so they no longer shift the quoting around a real -X DELETE. Fixes#157, fixes#158, fixes#159.
Parser decision
The owner's rule for regex splitting of shell syntax applies here: #157, #158 and #159 were found by the fourth and sixth review rounds of #155, each round finding new defects in the same splitter. Two parsers were measured.
tree-sitter-bash 0.25.1 (with tree-sitter 0.26.0, the versions retro-skill already pins) parses all of them and never raises; what it cannot read becomes an ERROR node. Chosen.
The guards were stdlib-only and now declare these two pinned packages in their inline script metadata; uv run installs them on first use. Renovate's pep723 manager is opt-in, so renovate.json now points it at the two guards (a local extract run finds both packages in both files); dependency review does not read inline metadata, which docs/SECURITY-ASSURANCE.md now says. Measured: 0.46 s for the first run with an empty uv cache, 0.03 to 0.05 s afterwards. With no network and an empty cache, uv exits 1 and the call is blocked (onFailure: block); docs/SECURITY-ASSURANCE.md says so.
Heredocs: tree-sitter-bash 0.25.1 ends a heredoc at a line that only starts with the delimiter or at an indented one, then parses the rest of the body as commands. Where tree-sitter's terminator line is not equal to the delimiter (<<- strips tabs only) and an equal line exists further down, that line is taken as the terminator and the text after it is parsed again. Where no equal line exists, the tree is kept as read: inside $( ) or backticks bash ends the heredoc with the substitution (EOF)), which tree-sitter reads correctly. A second heredoc on one line (cat <<A <<B) with an apostrophe in its body ends in a MISSING node; from there the text is cut coarsely. Without the apostrophe the second body still comes out as commands, which can only add a block. Found by the first three review rounds. Rounds two to four each found a defect that the previous round's fix had introduced in this heredoc handling, so it stays at the state measured in round three (a round-four attempt was reverted in 6eeea61). Remaining gaps, documented in _misread_heredoc: EOF) followed later in the same call by a separate heredoc with the same delimiter hides the commands in between, and so does the quoted form NOTES="$(cat <<'EOF' … )" when tree-sitter ends the heredoc on a line such as EOF2 or EOF. main misses both forms too.
ERROR nodes: tree-sitter-bash reads echo ==; with == as an operator, which turns the next command into arguments of echo, and it does not know bash 5.3's ${ cmd; }. The text after the token it stumbled on is parsed again, up to depth 8 and a 2-second budget, then cut coarsely at every character that can end a command (backtick included, per CodeRabbit), which can only add a block. Error recovery is superlinear (3,000 errors in 27 KB: 0.9 s per parse), so the budget keeps the release guard at 2.7 s on that input.
Behaviour changes beyond the three issues
git -C <dir> tag|push, git -c k=v, --git-dir=… and gh -R <repo> release … were listed as known limits in docs/SECURITY-ASSURANCE.md; they are judged now.
git push --delete counts as a tag deletion only for vX…, tags/vX… or refs/tags/vX…. release/v1.5.0 is a branch; deleting it was blocked before, and with -C read it would have blocked the routine branch cleanup. git push -d … vX and git push origin :vX were not judged before and are now. A version ref is v1.2… (pre-releases such as v1.2.3-rc.1 included) or a bare major (v4); a branch such as v2-migration is not one, and neither is v1-rc1, which main blocked on --delete.
A redirection in front of the command name (2>/dev/null gh release delete …) no longer hides the command.
A comment after a call is not part of it any more, so git tag nightly # v1.2.3 and a release read with # don't … after it are allowed.
A $( ) inside a heredoc with an unquoted delimiter is judged, because bash runs it. A quoted delimiter stays data.
gh api … -X POST # repos/o/r/releases (release path only in a comment) is allowed: the parser separates the comment. The test that pinned the block is changed and says why.
Testing
82 new cases in the two invocation suites. Run against the guards on main, 52 of them fail there (the rest pin behaviour that main already had right, among them the heredoc cases below); all pass on this branch, as does every other suite under scripts/tests/.
Differential run over 41,733 Bash commands from recorded agent sessions, guards on main against this branch at 6eeea61: two verdicts changed, both from allow to block, both real version-tag operations through git -C (git -C $B tag -d v0.3.7 … and a lightweight git -C $T tag v0.40.0). No verdict changed from block to allow. In that corpus the -c/eval branch ran 37 times, the ERROR re-parse 77 times, and the stdin branch (heredoc, here-string or pipe into a shell) not at all; the suites cover it.
Still not seen: the two heredoc forms above, a script file (bash release.sh), a wrapper with options of its own (sudo -u x gh …) or an unknown one (timeout 10 gh …), a command name assembled from parts (g"h").
Both release guards split a Bash call into invocations with regular
expressions. Every review of that splitter found new shapes it did not
foresee, and three issues remained open: a command inside bash -c or a
heredoc read by a shell (#157), an escaped, quoted or path-qualified
command name (#158), and $'...' quoting shifting the quotes shlex sees
(#159).
_invocations.py now parses the call with tree-sitter-bash and yields one
invocation per simple command. On top of the grammar it follows the
script a shell is handed: the operand of -c and of eval, a heredoc or
here-string a shell reads on stdin, and echo/printf or a heredoc piped
into a shell. A $'...' string is rewritten into plain single quotes
holding its value before the guards split words with shlex. A part the
parser cannot read is parsed again from the token after the error; past
a depth of 8 or a 2-second budget it is cut coarsely, which can only add
a block.
The command name is matched escaped, quoted or with a directory, and
git's and gh's options before the subcommand are skipped, so
"git -C <dir> tag" and "gh -R <repo> release" are judged. A push
deletion now counts as a tag deletion only for vX or refs/tags/vX, so
deleting the branch release/vX.Y.Z is no longer blocked.
bashlex was measured and rejected: it raises on [[ ]], $(( )), case and
a quoted heredoc delimiter. The guards now depend on tree-sitter 0.26.0
and tree-sitter-bash 0.25.1, installed by uv run on first use.
Fixes#157Fixes#158Fixes#159
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mendel <info@sebastianmendel.de>
tree-sitter-bash 0.25.1 ends a heredoc at a line that only starts with
the delimiter ("EOF2", "EOF # x") or at an indented one (" EOF"), and
parses the rest of the body as commands. An apostrophe there opened a
string that swallowed the command after the real terminator, so
"gh release delete" after such a heredoc was allowed. Each heredoc's
terminator is now checked against bash's rule; on a mismatch the real
terminator is found by line, the body is read as data (or as the script
of a shell that reads it), and the text after it is parsed again.
Also from the review of #221:
- "bash -euo pipefail -c" and "-eO extglob -c": a short option group
ending in o or O takes the next word as its value.
- A redirection in front of the command name ("2>/dev/null gh ...") no
longer hides the command.
- "git push --delete tags/vX" counts as a tag deletion again, and
"git push -d" and "git push origin :vX" are judged as well.
- A lone surrogate in the payload no longer crashes the guard.
- Docstrings that still described comments as part of the invocation.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mendel <info@sebastianmendel.de>
The shared invocation parser now uses Tree-sitter Bash to inspect nested shell commands and selected shell-fed input. The GitHub release and tag guards use shared command matching and cover additional command spellings, options, and tag deletion forms. Tests add nested-shell and parser-recovery cases. Security and recovery documentation and Renovate configuration also change.
The release guards gain much broader shell parsing. A narrow fallback path can still miss a guarded command wrapped in backticks; adding the backtick as a separator closes the gap. The change is otherwise mergeable.
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Directly linked issues: #157, #158, #159. No contextual or parent issues apply.
[#157] Shell-wrapped and shell-fed commands. _invocations.py_shell_script reads the operand of -c for bash, sh, zs…
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Most changes trace to #157, #158 or #159: - _invocations.py: the parser, shell recursion, stdin scripts, command-word normalization, ANSI-C rendering. - guard-gh-release.py: uses the shared helper…
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Directly linked issues: #157, #158, #159. No contextual or parent issues apply.
[#157] Shell-wrapped and shell-fed commands. _invocations.py_shell_script reads the operand of -c for bash, sh, zsh, dash and ksh, through sudo, env and other wrappers, and through shell options such as -eu -o pipefail and -euo pipefail. It also reads eval arguments. _stdin_scripts, _redirect_feeds_shell and _feeds_shell treat a heredoc, here-string or pipe into a shell as a script. The head test suite guard-gh-release-invocations.test.sh covers bash -c, nested bash -c, eval, bash <<'EOF', sh -s, cat <<'EOF' | bash, here-strings, and echo ... | sh. It also covers the negative cases: a heredoc written to a file, and a heredoc read by a script file. The unquoted-delimiter $( ) case is also covered. The tag suite guard-tag-invocations.test.sh (+68 lines) reportedly covers shell and eval forms. The diff summary supports that; I did not read that test file directly.
[#158] Escaped, quoted and path-qualified command names. command_word accepts \, single or double quotes, and a directory prefix. GH_RELEASE_RE, GH_API_RE and the tag guard use it. The head suite covers \gh, "gh", 'gh', /usr/bin/gh, "/usr/bin/gh", and sudo /usr/bin/gh, and it has negative control xgh. Tag-side coverage again rests on the summary of guard-tag-invocations.test.sh.
[#159] ANSI-C quoting. _render rewrites each ansi_c_string into a shlex.quoted value through _decode_ansi_c before shlex sees it. The issue's exact command gh api repos/o/r/releases/1 -H $'a\'' -X DELETE -H \' is in the head suite as a blocking case, along with -X $'DELETE' and a benign read with an ANSI-C header.
The remaining heredoc gaps are documented in _misread_heredoc. The issues do not require them to be closed.
guard-gh-release.py: uses the shared helpers and the pinned tree-sitter inline metadata. The comment handling follows from the parser.
guard-gh-release-invocations.test.sh and guard-tag-invocations.test.sh: tests the issues require.
recovery-procedures.md: #157 names this file. It now says that the guard's silence on script contents does not imply permission.
SECURITY-ASSURANCE.md, renovate.json: document and track the new pinned parser dependencies that the parser needs.
Some behavior changes do not come from a linked issue. They are documented in the PR description: git push --delete, -d and :vX refspec classification in guard-lightweight-tag.py, the new deletes_version_tag_ref helper, the git -C, git -c and --git-dir judgments, comment separation, and a redirection before the command name. These changes sit in the tag guard and the shared parser that the issues already change, so they are not demonstrated unrelated. The narrowing of branch deletions (for example release/v1.5.0) loosens one check. A reviewer should confirm that narrowing is wanted.
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The heredoc check from the previous commit cut the parse tree at a
heredoc whose terminator line did not equal the delimiter, and when no
such line existed it dropped everything after the body. Inside "$( )"
or backticks bash ends a heredoc where the substitution ends ("EOF)"),
which tree-sitter-bash reads correctly, so the cut hid the command
after it. With no exact terminator line the tree is now kept as read.
Also from the second review of #221:
- "cat <<A <<B": tree-sitter-bash 0.25.1 reports a MISSING word for the
second heredoc and parses its body as commands. From a MISSING node
on, the text is cut coarsely, which can only add a block.
- A pushed deletion counts as a version tag only for v1.2..., a
pre-release or a bare major; "v2-migration" is a branch.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mendel <info@sebastianmendel.de>
Inside "$( )" or backticks a heredoc ends with the substitution at the
latest. The search for an exact terminator line ran on to the end of
the call, so where tree-sitter-bash ended a heredoc on "EOF)" and a
second <<'EOF' followed later, the commands in between were taken for
heredoc body and not judged. The search now stops at the end of the
enclosing substitution. Found by the third review of #221.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mendel <info@sebastianmendel.de>
This reverts commit a87596d. The bound came from the substitution node
of the misread tree, and a body line ending in ")" closed that node
early, so a command after the real terminator was hidden again, also in
forms main blocks (fourth review of #221). Rounds two to four each found
a defect introduced by the previous round's fix in this heredoc
handling, so it stays at the state measured in round three, and the
remaining gap is documented in _misread_heredoc: "EOF)" followed later
by a separate heredoc with the same delimiter. main misses that form as
well.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mendel <info@sebastianmendel.de>
The guard hooks pin tree-sitter and tree-sitter-bash in PEP 723 inline
metadata. Renovate's pep723 manager is opt-in (empty default file
patterns), so the pins were invisible to it; a local extract run with
this config finds both packages in both guards. Dependency review does
not read inline metadata; SECURITY-ASSURANCE.md now says so.
Also corrects the MISSING-node comment the revert restored and names
the quoted 'NOTES="$(cat <<EOF ...)"' form as a further documented
heredoc gap (main allows it as well).
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mendel <info@sebastianmendel.de>
Self-review at 1d873ce. The Copilot review was unavailable (monthly quota exhausted), so the diff was reviewed by four independent agent rounds plus my own pass.
Round 1 (91412ef): heredoc terminators tree-sitter-bash ends too early ( EOF, EOF2), bash -euo pipefail -c, push --delete tags/vX, a redirection before the command name, a lone-surrogate crash, stale docstrings. Fixed in c64bcf6.
Round 2 (c64bcf6): EOF) inside a substitution and cat <<A <<B hid later commands; -d/: blocked v2-… branches. Fixed in c087b27.
Round 3 (c087b27): EOF) followed by a later heredoc with the same delimiter still hid commands (also missed by main). The fix in a87596d was found by round 4 to hide commands in another shape that main and c087b27 block, so it was reverted in 6eeea61 and the gap is documented in _misread_heredoc.
Rounds 2 to 4 each found a defect introduced by the previous round's fix in the heredoc handling, so that mechanism stays at the state measured in round 3. The two remaining heredoc gaps are listed in the PR body; main misses both.
SonarCloud (gate passed, 4 new issues):
python:S3776 on _shell_script, _misread_heredoc and _collect (cognitive complexity 24/32/36): not refactored in this PR. These are the functions four review rounds measured; restructuring them now would void that evidence.
python:S6353 ([A-Za-z0-9_] → \w): not equivalent. In Python 3 \w matches Unicode letters, and a shell variable name is ASCII only.
Verification: all suites under skills/github-release/scripts/tests/ pass; 80 new cases, 50 of which fail against main's guards; differential run over 41,733 recorded agent commands at 6eeea61 changed two verdicts, both allow → block on real git -C … tag version-tag operations, none block → allow.
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Both release guards read a Bash call with tree-sitter-bash instead of regular expressions, so a release or tag command inside
bash -c,eval, a heredoc or here-string a shell reads, or text piped into a shell is judged, and so is one whose command name is escaped, quoted or path-qualified, or that carriesgit -C <dir>/gh -R <repo>before the subcommand.$'...'strings are resolved before the guards split words, so they no longer shift the quoting around a real-X DELETE. Fixes #157, fixes #158, fixes #159.Parser decision
The owner's rule for regex splitting of shell syntax applies here: #157, #158 and #159 were found by the fourth and sixth review rounds of #155, each round finding new defects in the same splitter. Two parsers were measured.
[[ ... ]],$(( ... )),caseand a quoted heredoc delimiter (the case of Release guards do not check commands wrapped in bash -c or a heredoc to a shell #157), so a regex fallback would have stayed. Rejected.The guards were stdlib-only and now declare these two pinned packages in their inline script metadata;
uv runinstalls them on first use. Renovate'spep723manager is opt-in, sorenovate.jsonnow points it at the two guards (a local extract run finds both packages in both files); dependency review does not read inline metadata, whichdocs/SECURITY-ASSURANCE.mdnow says. Measured: 0.46 s for the first run with an empty uv cache, 0.03 to 0.05 s afterwards. With no network and an empty cache,uvexits 1 and the call is blocked (onFailure: block);docs/SECURITY-ASSURANCE.mdsays so.Heredocs: tree-sitter-bash 0.25.1 ends a heredoc at a line that only starts with the delimiter or at an indented one, then parses the rest of the body as commands. Where tree-sitter's terminator line is not equal to the delimiter (
<<-strips tabs only) and an equal line exists further down, that line is taken as the terminator and the text after it is parsed again. Where no equal line exists, the tree is kept as read: inside$( )or backticks bash ends the heredoc with the substitution (EOF)), which tree-sitter reads correctly. A second heredoc on one line (cat <<A <<B) with an apostrophe in its body ends in a MISSING node; from there the text is cut coarsely. Without the apostrophe the second body still comes out as commands, which can only add a block. Found by the first three review rounds. Rounds two to four each found a defect that the previous round's fix had introduced in this heredoc handling, so it stays at the state measured in round three (a round-four attempt was reverted in 6eeea61). Remaining gaps, documented in_misread_heredoc:EOF)followed later in the same call by a separate heredoc with the same delimiter hides the commands in between, and so does the quoted formNOTES="$(cat <<'EOF' … )"when tree-sitter ends the heredoc on a line such asEOF2orEOF.mainmisses both forms too.ERROR nodes: tree-sitter-bash reads
echo ==;with==as an operator, which turns the next command into arguments of echo, and it does not know bash 5.3's${ cmd; }. The text after the token it stumbled on is parsed again, up to depth 8 and a 2-second budget, then cut coarsely at every character that can end a command (backtick included, per CodeRabbit), which can only add a block. Error recovery is superlinear (3,000 errors in 27 KB: 0.9 s per parse), so the budget keeps the release guard at 2.7 s on that input.Behaviour changes beyond the three issues
git -C <dir> tag|push,git -c k=v,--git-dir=…andgh -R <repo> release …were listed as known limits indocs/SECURITY-ASSURANCE.md; they are judged now.git push --deletecounts as a tag deletion only forvX…,tags/vX…orrefs/tags/vX….release/v1.5.0is a branch; deleting it was blocked before, and with-Cread it would have blocked the routine branch cleanup.git push -d … vXandgit push origin :vXwere not judged before and are now. A version ref isv1.2…(pre-releases such asv1.2.3-rc.1included) or a bare major (v4); a branch such asv2-migrationis not one, and neither isv1-rc1, whichmainblocked on--delete.2>/dev/null gh release delete …) no longer hides the command.git tag nightly # v1.2.3and a release read with# don't …after it are allowed.$( )inside a heredoc with an unquoted delimiter is judged, because bash runs it. A quoted delimiter stays data.gh api … -X POST # repos/o/r/releases(release path only in a comment) is allowed: the parser separates the comment. The test that pinned the block is changed and says why.Testing
82 new cases in the two invocation suites. Run against the guards on
main, 52 of them fail there (the rest pin behaviour thatmainalready had right, among them the heredoc cases below); all pass on this branch, as does every other suite underscripts/tests/.Differential run over 41,733 Bash commands from recorded agent sessions, guards on
mainagainst this branch at 6eeea61: two verdicts changed, both from allow to block, both real version-tag operations throughgit -C(git -C $B tag -d v0.3.7 …and a lightweightgit -C $T tag v0.40.0). No verdict changed from block to allow. In that corpus the-c/evalbranch ran 37 times, the ERROR re-parse 77 times, and the stdin branch (heredoc, here-string or pipe into a shell) not at all; the suites cover it.Still not seen: the two heredoc forms above, a script file (
bash release.sh), a wrapper with options of its own (sudo -u x gh …) or an unknown one (timeout 10 gh …), a command name assembled from parts (g"h").