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Martin Vogel 3904e59372 ci: select release binaries before smoke testing
Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-08-13 19:16:19 +02:00
Martin Vogel d602eb6edb test(composition): gate that read-only data stays out of the executable mapping
The arm64 W^X hole regressed silently once and section flags cannot catch it:
.rodata is correctly marked A (not AX), but the kernel applies SEGMENT
permissions, so a merged R E PT_LOAD maps it executable anyway. A Makefile flag
alone would regress the same way the next time a linker default differs.

A1b sums the executable PT_LOAD segments and fails when they cover most of the
file. Measured on aarch64 with a 1.2 MB const table:

  without -z separate-code   FAIL  executable segments cover 96% of the file
  with    -z separate-code   PASS  executable segments cover 0%

Nearly shipped this vacuous: the first version summed with awk's strtonum(),
which is a gawk extension. CI's awk is mawk, where it is undefined -- the total
would have been 0 and the gate would have passed on exactly the artifacts it
exists to catch. It now emits the hex MemSiz fields and converts in the shell,
and the numbers above were produced with the container's mawk, not gawk.

Mach-O and PE report n/a; the real macOS artifact still passes all 13 assertions.

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-08-09 17:34:16 +02:00
Martin Vogel d58afe562d revert(release): re-embed runtime assets into the single shipped binary
Externalizing the integration templates (#1492/#1493) and the UI bundle
(#1501/#1503) was done to reduce the Microsoft `Wacatac.B!ml` surface. It did
not work: across dry runs the flagged artifact count stayed at ~3 and the
detections merely moved between artifacts.

Dissection of run 31286803592 shows there is no structural cause to fix. The
verdicts split across every axis at once — linux-amd64 (dynamic) flagged while
linux-amd64-portable (static) is clean, but linux-arm64 (dynamic) clean while
linux-arm64-portable (static) is flagged. The two macOS binaries have identical
segment structure and split clean/flagged. Siblings from one build landed in
different variant buckets (.B vs .C). Entropy is low everywhere
(code_vectors.bin 4.166, grammar tables 3.464 bits/byte, against 7.5-8.0 for
packed payloads), so the packed-payload hypothesis is excluded too.

So the complexity bought nothing, and installation goes back to being
self-contained: one binary that carries its own UI and agent integration
templates, with no adjacent data file that has to resolve before `install`
works. Only the UI-capable composition ships from now on, under the historical
unsuffixed archive name.

Removed: src/ui/asset_pack.{c,h}, asset_pack_stub.c, asset_manifest_stub.c,
scripts/pack-ui-assets.mjs, src/cli/integration_assets.{c,h},
assets/cbm-integrations.json, scripts/gen-integrations-hash.sh, the
--verify-runtime-assets probe (nothing adjacent left to verify), and the
composition gates A6/A7 whose property is now deliberately inverted.

Restored: scripts/embed-frontend.sh, src/ui/embedded_{assets.h,stub.c}, the
compiled-in hook/adapter template bodies, and the embed/EMBED_OBJS build path.

Kept from the reverted commits, re-applied by hand where a wholesale file
restore would have dropped them:
  - cbm_module_path_utf8() in both self-path sites. GetModuleFileNameA renders
    through the ANSI code page and mangles non-ASCII install paths.
  - the /__cbm/ui-readiness HMAC proof, secure_random and cbm_hmac_sha256, so
    `daemon start --open` still waits for a genuine CBM listener.
  - X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff on served assets.
  - the MinGW noexecstack gate, -lbcrypt, and the cppcheck/zip CI fixes.

Archives are now codebase-memory-mcp-<os>-<arch>[-portable] with exactly four
members (binary, LICENSE, installer, THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md). That restores the
names every static package manifest already points at — aur, chocolatey,
homebrew, scoop, winget and glama were all broken by the -ui- rename.

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-08-09 13:06:42 +02:00
Martin Vogel 8018561cfe fix(release): externalize runtime assets and harden VT verification
Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-08-08 17:35:05 +02:00
Martin Vogel a6f132bc85 harden: ship integration templates as a verified JSON asset, not embedded bytes
The product binary embedded nine complete shebang'd shell scripts, their
PowerShell/.cmd twins, and two node:child_process client-adapter modules as C
string literals, and wrote them into agent config dirs at 0755 on install. A
block of script-shaped bytes inside a large unsigned executable is exactly the
surface Microsoft Defender's ML scored Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml — the
detection that has recurred across the last several release attempts, on the
Linux ELF and darwin-arm64 standard binaries while every UI and Windows variant
stayed clean.

This moves every integration template out of the binary into a single shipped
data file, assets/cbm-integrations.json (compact: one asset, because each
shipped file is itself scanned). The binary now carries only the templates'
identity — one embedded SHA-256, generated at build time from the JSON so it
can never drift — plus the code to load, verify, and render them.

Why a hash and not just a loose file: content compiled into the binary was
tamper-evident with the binary. Moving it to disk must not turn it into
unauthenticated code the installer blindly executes. install verifies the asset
against the embedded SHA-256 and fails closed on mismatch ("integration assets
missing or modified - reinstall from the release archive") before writing
anything. Verified end to end: a one-byte edit to the asset makes install
refuse.

Ownership, for safe upgrade/removal: the verified copy is published to
~/.cbm/assets/<version>/ — a sibling of the DB cache, never inside it, so
clearing the cache cannot strip a user's hooks. A deployed integration file is
ours to remove only if it matches a template rendered from that stored copy;
foreign files and user-edited files at the reserved paths are preserved. The
historical template bodies travel in the JSON's released[] arrays so files
written by older versions are still recognised and cleaned up on uninstall.

Removed from src/: cmm_gate/session/subagent script-prefix and suffix
constants, cbm_build_released_gate_script, the shell/PowerShell/.cmd bodies in
cli.c, and the JS/TS generators in client_adapter.c. Confirmed on the built
standard binary: 0 occurrences of '#!/usr/bin/env bash', '#!/bin/sh',
'node:child_process', and 'ExecutionPolicy' (was non-zero for each).

test_no_embedded_scripts_contract.sh makes the removal a build property, not a
reachability assumption: no production C source may contain a shebang or
node:child_process literal, and the built binary is scanned directly. It strips
comments first (a contract a comment can satisfy is a false guard), and is
revert-checked — reintroducing one shebang literal makes it fail naming the
file:line. check-binary-composition.sh (A6) enforces the same needles on every
release artifact post-strip.

This does not, by itself, prove the detection is cured: the clean UI binary is a
strict superset of the flagged standard one, so no single passage is a
deterministic trigger. It removes the most coherent malware-shaped composite
from every shipped binary, aligns with how gh/starship/zoxide externalise
integration material, and makes the templates maintainable as data rather than
escaped C literals. Causal confirmation still needs a VirusTotal ablation.

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-08-08 02:58:20 +02:00
Martin Vogel 359485b6c2 fix(release): make the new CI scripts executable, and pin that they stay so
Every unix build leg of release run 30499236230 died during packaging:

  scripts/package-release.sh: line 190: scripts/ci/check-binary-composition.sh: Permission denied

The composition gate was committed 100644 while being invoked as a command. It
passed every local check because my WORKING COPY had the exec bit -- only the
committed mode was wrong, and nothing you can run locally reveals that.

scripts/ci/append-vt-notes.sh had the identical defect waiting in the verify
step, the last step of the release, so this would have failed a second time after
two hours of tests, build, smoke and soak.

Fixed on BOTH sides, because either alone suffices and the pair is mode-proof:
the two scripts are now 100755, and their call sites invoke them through `bash`,
which is what most of this repo already does and which cannot break if a mode bit
is ever lost to a patch application or a non-POSIX checkout.

tests/test_script_exec_bit_contract.sh pins the class: any tracked .sh whose
COMMITTED mode is non-executable must not appear as the first word of a command
in workflows, scripts, test-infrastructure or the Makefiles. Verified in both
directions -- it passes on this tree, and fails on the exact defect when the mode
and the call site are reverted. It also joins backslash continuations before
analysing, because its own first draft reported a false positive on

    ... && bash \
        test-infrastructure/vm/vm-run-tests.sh --soak

and a contract that cries wolf teaches people to ignore contracts.

Product code is untouched: the test phase of the failed run was 27/27 green on
this exact tree, and a file mode cannot change a test outcome.

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-07-30 03:04:15 +02:00
Martin Vogel 1f674c805e harden: remove capability that should never have shipped
Microsoft's ML flagged the rc.1 release binaries. The decisive evidence is that
the SAME sha256 went from 0/62 clean to Microsoft-detected in about an hour with
no byte change, so the verdict lives partly in scanner-side state and no code
change can promise a clean result. What code CAN do is stop shipping things that
have no business in a release artifact, which is worth doing on its own merits
and incidentally widens the classifier margin. Every claim below is verified
against a built binary by the new gate, not by reading source.

Executable stack (the worst of the findings). vendored/nomic/code_vectors_blob.S
is the only assembly in the build and carried no .note.GNU-stack. An unannotated
object makes ld assume the worst for the whole link, so EVERY Linux release we
have ever shipped had GNU_STACK RWE. Adds the note (cause) plus ELF-only
-Wl,-z,noexecstack (outcome); the gate fails the release if it returns.

Test seams are now opt-in, never opt-out. TEST_SEAMS=1 defines
CBM_ENABLE_TEST_SEAMS; without it the crash-orphan probe -- which forks a child
that ignores SIGTERM and loops forever, then writes its pid to a caller-supplied
path -- and the lease-ownership marker compile to trivial stubs, so call sites are
untouched and the binary holds no fork, no signal handler and no env-var string.
Opt-IN is the point: forgetting the flag yields a clean binary rather than a leaky
one. scripts/test.sh requests it in the leg that consumes it, and
tests/test_worker_watchdog.sh now asserts the capability up front instead of
dying later with an opaque "Killed: 9".

The daemon's background version check is gone. It spawned curl against
api.github.com/repos/.../releases/latest on the first eligible session of every
run to say "a newer version exists" -- a release URL and an outbound request in
every shipped binary, for something the install scripts already report. The
INJECTABLE SEAM survives: update_ops is still honoured, the fakes in
tests/test_daemon_application.c still cover notice/ownership/cancellation/replay,
and with no provider application_update_subscribe_locked returns early so no
generation ever starts. "No network request by default" is now structural.

Dead capability out of release builds. The tar.gz/zip extraction block
(gzip_decompress through cbm_extract_binary_from_zip, plus its cli.h
declarations) moves under CBM_CLI_ENABLE_TEST_API -- verified self-contained, zero
uses of any helper outside it, only callers the excluded updater and
tests/test_cli.c. Downloading an archive, decompressing it, picking an executable
out of it and marking it executable is the canonical dropper composite; it is now
absent rather than merely unreachable. SQLite is built with
-DSQLITE_OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION (no caller of load_extension anywhere in src/ or
internal/), removing that API surface and part of the dlopen/dlsym surface.

Temp files and environment scanning (S2/S3). Predictable paths in mcp.c,
artifact.c and diagnostics.c are created privately and exclusively and written
through the returned descriptor; pass_envscan.c no longer descends symlinked
directories out of the project root, and its fixed 512-byte path buffers no
longer truncate into pointer arithmetic that could land outside the buffer.

Build-time entropy. mimalloc's version banner baked __DATE__/__TIME__ into every
binary, so two builds of identical source seconds apart could never share a hash
and no release could inherit a false-positive determination made about its
predecessor. Local patch removes it (marked to survive refreshes), -Wdate-time
makes any future use a build error, and -Wl,--no-insert-timestamp stops the PE
header carrying the link clock.

scripts/ci/check-binary-composition.sh is the proof that each removal stays
removed, wired into package-release.sh after strip so the local artifact-flow
smoke enforces exactly what CI does. It asserts absences plus a CANARY string, so
handing it a compressed, stubbed or empty file fails instead of passing
vacuously, and a missing tool is a hard error -- a skipped assertion must never
look like a satisfied one.

Two build-system traps found by that gate, both of which had silently defeated a
fix: the product binary is compiled in one shot from sources, so a flag flip did
not rebuild it (now tracked by a .build-config stamp that also removes the
binary, making it independent of mtime granularity); and prod_sqlite3.o /
prod_mimalloc.o depended on a single named source, so SQLITE_OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION
and the mimalloc patch BOTH compiled to nothing on the first incremental build.
Source review would have called them done.

Deliberately NOT changed. Three seams stay in release artifacts because
scripts/smoke-test.sh runs against the real artifact and needs them:
CBM_TEST_CRASH_ON and CBM_TEST_HANG_ON inject the faults that prove supervisor
recovery, and CBM_TEST_WINDOWS_USER_PATH_RUN_ID is what keeps the PATH smoke from
writing the tester's actual PATH. The gate treats those as an allowlist, so a
NOVEL seam still fails. The true no-UI standard build is deferred rather than
rushed: src/ui/* is in PROD_SRCS and four files outside src/ui reference UI
symbols, including the daemon that serves the UI, so that assertion reports
instead of failing until the split lands -- a gate everyone knows is red teaches
people to ignore gates.

No grammar is removed. ObjectScript accounts for essentially all binary growth
since the last provably-clean release (+21.4MB rodata, +1.1MB text from two
four-line shims), which made it the obvious ablation candidate, but a dry run
performed twelve real Defender endpoint scans across standard/UI and amd64/arm64
with ObjectScript, the daemon and the expanded hooks all present and every scan
was clean. Nothing there is a deterministic trigger, so cutting a
community-contributed language would spend a real feature on unproven margin.
Lean is not a candidate either: at 99.6MB of source it is by far the largest
grammar, but it shipped in v0.9.0 which scanned 20/20 clean, so removing it would
produce a novel unscanned profile instead of restoring a known-good one.

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-07-29 23:50:53 +02:00