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ducoterra 144e322391 Add --publish: the one ingress control
Everything else in the file gates egress, which left an everyday request unanswered: the
agent starts a dev server inside the sandbox and a human wants to look at it. This puts a
listener on the host that forwards into the container, so a browser, curl or an API
tester reaches the server the sandboxed process runs.

`--publish [ADDR:]HOST:CONTAINER`, config `publish` and AISB_PUBLISH, repeatable, with the
cost named in the flag: it is ingress, so whatever that server serves is reachable from
the address it binds. The default address is 127.0.0.1 because a bare podman -p binds
every interface (measured) -- a port committed in a repo config must not quietly be a port
on the LAN. publish_addr changes the default machine-wide; a spec with a non-loopback
address warns on every run. The grammar is smaller than podman's on purpose: one port per
entry, no ranges, no /udp, no `*` -- this list is reviewed line by line, and typing
0.0.0.0 is the whole warning. An address means three parts, so `127.0.0.1:8000` is refused
rather than guessed. No -p alias: that flag belongs to the harness (claude -p prints).

Fail closed, as elsewhere: --net none cannot forward a port and podman discards the
mapping while starting the container anyway, so "it ran" would mean "nothing is
listening"; a host port already in use is named before the container starts, not after a
build; pick_port() will not hand the gate a port this run publishes. The container is
labelled with the ports it was given, and doctor reports them.

Inside, publish_rules() accepts tcp on the published ports in the input chain and never
the output one. Measured (docs/networking.md): pasta delivers the connection over
loopback, so that rule counts 0 packets on the reference host; it is there for a host or a
bridge network that delivers on the interface, and so that `nft list table inet aisb`
answers "what can reach this container". The ports are validated again inside the
entrypoint, because a ruleset is not somewhere to splice an unvalidated string. And the
measurement that makes a configured preview look broken: a server bound to 127.0.0.1
inside answers inside and refuses the published port outside, so dev servers must bind
0.0.0.0 -- both skills say so in the change that writes the port.

Tests. Unit: the grammar and every port list that looks right and is not, config/env/flag
precedence and dedup, the canonical spec in --print-policy, the `# ingress:` header, the
flags reaching the invocation before the image, egress enforcement byte-identical with a
port open, which chain the rule lands in and that a non-numeric port never reaches nft as
code. e2e (tests/e2e/13_publish.sh): one real container with enforce=nft where the host
gets its 200 and the same run still refuses a domain outside the allowlist at 403, the
server runs as uid 1000 with no capabilities so it cannot widen its own port, and the host
listener is gone when the container exits.

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2026-10-30 22:53:57 -04:00
ducoterra a91744f390 stop the driver hanging on a terminal and on a launcher
ai-sandbox-autophase could sit forever, printing nothing, in two places
that are both before the first unit -- which is why both looked like a
script that "does nothing".

The rc probe ran `timeout 15 bash -ic` in front of the user's terminal.
An interactive bash calls tcsetpgrp() to take that terminal, is in its
background, and is stopped for trying; a stopped process does not take
SIGTERM, so the timeout waited in front of it and the driver waited on
the command substitution behind it. It now runs in its own session
(setsid), with stdin closed, under `timeout -k`, and reads the
definition from a temp file rather than a pipe, because a grandchild an
rc file leaves behind holds a pipe's EOF open long after the shell it
came from has been reaped.

A launcher is called *with* the run, and a function ending at
`--env NAME` -- the shape everyone writes for typing by hand, including
every example this repo printed -- discards the flags and the
in-container command. The container then starts the image's default
harness with no prompt and, with --no-interactive gone, the terminal
attached: an agent waiting for keystrokes behind a pipe nobody reads.
`ap_forwards_args` checks the captured definition, --status and the
preflight name it with the one-line fix, and every child now starts with
stdin on /dev/null so a launcher cannot put the sandbox back on the
keyboard. Aliases and whole command lines need no forwarding: the shell
appends the words to those.

Tests: a launcher fixture that drops its arguments, one that leaves a
process behind, and shape assertions on ap_probe_rc.

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2026-10-29 21:07:39 -04:00
ducoterra 209f167e43 add doc-sandbox: answer from the installed program, not memory
The explainer for questions about a flag, a config key, a refusal, a
mechanism or a security boundary. ai-sandbox generates its own
Containerfile, entrypoint, squid config and netfilter rules from one
script, so the text of the program is the documentation of the version
the user will run: the skill sets a strict ground-truth order -- the
installed script and --help, then the repo docs, then the tests as the
executable spec -- and its own fact sheet last, overridden by all of
them.

scripts/locate.sh resolves that order on an arbitrary machine: the
installed script and its version, the source tree behind it (via
$AISB_REPO, the script's own parent, $PWD, the git root), the docs with
their line counts, and the config/state/cache locations.

references/source-map.md maps a question topic to the function, doc and
test that hold the answer, plus the vocabulary (split_target,
classify_allows, gate vs --no-gate vs --proxy, POL[]/P_*/OPT_*) and the
FAQ. The skill names which safe surface answers what: the --dry-run,
--print-entrypoint, --print-containerfile and --print-policy previews
build nothing and reach no registry, while inspect, doctor --deep,
build, update and gate up do change the machine and are not for an
explanation. It records the two honest exceptions rather than
overclaiming -- --print-policy ensures the home volume, and --no-gate
hits DNS.

Read-only by construction: no build, no container, no network call, and
it reads pi_config_bridge() rather than a models.json holding a live
key. Its worst failure mode is an invented flag, so the answer format
requires the real spelling, the source it came from, what the thing does
not do, and a plain "no" plus the closest real thing when the answer is
no.

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2026-10-29 08:37:51 -04:00
ducoterra 34f94e38be add right-sandbox: write a project's own ai-sandbox policy
Turns a project directory into that project's policy, so a plain
`ai-sandbox` in the directory is the correct, reviewable invocation. It
writes the two files load_config() actually reads -- .ai-sandbox/allow
and .ai-sandbox/config -- and nothing else: no sandbox.yaml, no local
override, no invented schema, because a file nobody reads is a policy
nobody has.

scripts/survey.sh gathers the evidence read-only and prints no values:
variable NAMES, remote and registry HOSTS, service PORTS, with URL
credentials stripped before anything is printed -- the same rule
--dry-run, --print-policy and the session log hold themselves to. The
agent decides from that evidence, then verifies with --dry-run and
--print-policy rather than assuming an allowlist entry means a working
toolchain.

references/settings-map.md maps every accepted key and flag to its
default, plus per-ecosystem allowlists and the survey-to-policy cheat
sheet. references/port-and-loopback.md is the honest answer on ports:
outbound to a service on the machine via the mapped loopback address
100.64.0.1 (needs an allow entry and a client that does not hand the
request to the egress proxy), and why a port the sandbox listens on is
not reachable from the host in --net allow -- with probes, because that
half is a reading of gen_rules(), not a measurement.

Policy files only. Never builds, never starts a container, and never
writes a real credential: it writes .ai-sandbox/env.example and tells
the user what to put in the gitignored 0600 file.

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