test(security): close tar remediation evidence gaps

[rsliter]

Summary

The tar remediation tests could pass without recognizing npm --prefix ... ci, which left the Pi image's ordering assertion empty. Archive-integrity coverage also did not prove that mismatched reviewed bytes stop before extraction or npm tree mutation. This change closes both evidence gaps without changing production behavior.

Related Issue

Fixes #9933

Changes

• Recognize executable npm consumers across supported global flags, shell separators, conditionals, groups, case branches, negation, and assignment prefixes while excluding quoted or commented text, and bind the Pi base image to the final tar-repair ordering contract.
• Add the Pi base image to the Node base digest lifecycle matrix.
• Add a negative reviewed-archive test that rejects mismatched tar@7.5.21 bytes before extraction or npm tree mutation.

Type of Change

• Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
• Code change with doc updates
• Doc only (prose changes, no code sample modifications)
• Doc only (includes code sample changes)

Quality Gates

• Tests added or updated for changed behavior
• Existing tests cover changed behavior, justification:
• Tests not applicable, justification:
• Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight, onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
• Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver recorded, reviewer/approval link/justification: Independent review confirmed this is test-only security evidence. It adds no production input, credential, network, extraction, filesystem, dependency, or runtime path and verifies rejection before mutation.
• Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer, check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

DGX Station Hardware Evidence

• Tested on DGX Station
• Tested commit:
• Station profile/scenario:
• Result:
• Supporting evidence:

Verification

• PR description includes a Signed-off-by: line and every commit appears as Verified in GitHub
• Normal pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks passed, or npm run validate:pr passed after refreshing origin/main when hooks were skipped or unavailable
• Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above, command/result: npx vitest run --project integration test/dockerfile-run-commands.test.ts test/node-tar-dockerfile-contract.test.ts test/patch-bundled-npm-tar.test.ts test/growth-guardrails.test.ts passed 4 files and 118 tests after adding quote-, escape-, comment-, grouping-, conditional-, case-, assignment-, and global-option-aware RUN-command parsing. The final parser and contract review independently passed 2 files and 75 tests after excluding assignment data while preserving real assignment-prefixed npm; repository checks and CLI typecheck passed.
• Applicable broad gate passed, justification: Not applicable to a focused test-only correction with both changed suites passing.
• Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or waivers
• No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
• npm run docs builds without warnings (doc changes only)
• Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
• New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

Documentation Writer Review

• Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
• Result: no-docs-needed
• Evidence: Independently reviewed exact head 27abd1229f1cf9f22f3e464670cf0bcf12c6f5ef against exact base e38db201413b457614904187377ed9fd002d281d, all four complete changed files, the complete effective diff, accepted issue test(security): close tar remediation evidence gaps #9933, current writing and documentation rules, and all nine security categories. The append-only Verified merge has parents ec6721279662747d178ee37063df89195fe5a020 and e38db201413b457614904187377ed9fd002d281d; the 101-file base delta has zero overlap with the four PR files; no merge resolution diff exists; the effective 4-file +408/-18 patch remains byte-stable at patch ID 9e779ac7344d2bc5aeb73b4c3b97523677410d42; and git diff --check passes. The exact-head DCO check passes, the PR body contains Rebecca Sliter signoff, and the current AGENTS blob is unchanged. The change remains deterministic test and test-helper evidence only, with no user-visible command, configuration, default, runtime, error, workflow, or documentation change. The parser and archive-integrity evidence strengthen fail-closed tar remediation coverage without changing production trust boundaries. No documentation or security blocker remains.
• Agent: Codex Desktop

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Signed-off-by: Rebecca Sliter 571084+rsliter@users.noreply.github.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved protection for downloaded package archives by detecting integrity mismatches before extraction, preventing partial or corrupted updates.
  • Improved Dockerfile command detection across conditionals, loops, grouped commands, case branches, negation, assignments, comments, continuations, and shell separators.
  • Improved recognition of npm commands, including quoted, escaped, and option-heavy command lines.

• Tests

  • Added regression coverage confirming failed integrity checks leave existing package contents unchanged.
  • Expanded validation of Dockerfile command parsing and npm installation scenarios.

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Code Coverage Overview

Languages: TypeScript

TypeScript / code-coverage/plugin

The overall line coverage in commit 27abd12 in the codex/test-9933-tar-... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit e38db20 in the main branch.

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_{Updated August 22, 2026 01:48 UTC}

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The tests add shell-aware npm consumer detection, enforce Pi base image remediation ordering, and verify that mismatched tar@7.5.21 archive bytes fail integrity checks before extraction or npm-tree mutation.

Changes

Tar remediation evidence

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Dockerfile command parser test/helpers/dockerfile-run-commands.ts, test/dockerfile-run-commands.test.ts	The parser detects executable commands in RUN instructions. It handles continuations, comments, quotes, escapes, separators, assignments, control-flow constructs, redirections, and command positions.
Dockerfile npm consumer contract test/node-tar-dockerfile-contract.test.ts	The contract tokenizes shell input, handles npm global options and malformed invocations, includes the Pi base Dockerfile, and uses shared command positions for remediation checks.
Bundled tar integrity regression test/patch-bundled-npm-tar.test.ts	The test verifies that mismatched registry archive bytes fail integrity checks before extraction or npm-tree mutation.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6480d

The PR strengthens tar-remediation security tests, but quoted or escaped npm subcommands may still be missed, allowing ordering checks to pass without validating all executable npm consumers. Merge should wait for the parser fix and regression tests to ensure the security evidence is reliable.

Suggested reviewers: aasthajh

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	The changes address [#9933], but multiple supported npm global options before ci or install remain unsupported.	Extend npmSubcommand to parse multiple supported options and add regressions such as npm --silent --prefix /work ci.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 11 functions across 4 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain aligned with [#9933] and cover Dockerfile contracts, Pi ordering evidence, and registry archive integrity tests.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: adding security tests to close evidence gaps in the tar remediation.

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Validation passed:

• All 80 focused Dockerfile contract, tar remediation, and growth-guardrail tests passed
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• The current parser limits npm matches to executable Dockerfile RUN command positions and excludes quoted and commented text

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In `@test/helpers/dockerfile-run-commands.ts`:
- Around line 138-145: Update followsShellCommandSeparator to recognize all
supported shell command prefixes, including if, elif, while, until, opening
parentheses, and opening braces, while preserving existing handling for then,
else, and do. In test/node-tar-dockerfile-contract.test.ts, update
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CLI shard 2 timed out after five seconds in the unchanged host-local vLLM selection test. This PR does not change that source or test, and the current revision retains the same file content that I validated locally. Five isolated runs passed all eight tests each, for 40 passing tests.

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test/node-tar-dockerfile-contract.test.ts (1)

117-120: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Recognize npm global options before the subcommand.

npmSubcommand classifies npm --silent ci and npm --prefix /work --silent install as non-consumers. A pre-patch npm consumer can therefore bypass the ordering contract. Parse supported no-value and value-taking options, stop at -- and shell boundaries, and add ordering regressions for both forms.

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In `@test/node-tar-dockerfile-contract.test.ts` around lines 117 - 120, Update the
npm consumer detection around npmSubcommand so supported global options
appearing between npm and the subcommand are parsed correctly, including
no-value options and options consuming the following argument. Stop parsing at
-- and shell boundaries, then recognize ci and install after those options; add
ordering regressions covering npm --silent ci and npm --prefix /work --silent
install.

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Qualification — commit 7a91078f4f2f84a20e4c414c8a7cf3b52c125617

Verdict: FAIL — one security-evidence blocker remains.

The new assignment-value handling is deterministic for both quoted whitespace and backslash-escaped whitespace, and the focused ordering negatives cover those forms. Merged #9929 also remains preserved: OpenClaw stays at 2026.7.1, and the runtime/plugin locks, npm-private repair, cache identity, tar@7.5.21, and exact SHA-512 integrity are unchanged.

The remaining blocker is npmSubcommand in test/node-tar-dockerfile-contract.test.ts. It recognizes direct ci/install commands or one leading --prefix PATH / --prefix=PATH, but it classifies supported forms such as these as non-consumers:

• npm --silent ci
• npm --silent --prefix /work ci
• npm --prefix /work --silent install

A pre-repair npm consumer using one of those forms can therefore escape the all-consumers-after-repair assertion. The current Pi command is detected and correctly ordered, so this is an incomplete future-regression guard rather than an established production regression.

Smallest correction:

1. Parse repeated supported npm options with an explicit distinction between no-value and value-taking forms.
2. Support --name=value, stop at -- and shell boundaries, and fail closed on unknown or incomplete options.
3. Add ordering regressions for the three forms above.

Independent security review is FAIL in Security Testing, with warnings in Input Validation and System Security; the other six categories pass. Independent documentation review is also FAIL with DOCS_NOT_NEEDED: the description overstates supported-global-flag coverage, reports 80 tests in one place and 90 elsewhere, refers to both changed suites despite the four-file focused run, and uses product-protection wording for a test-only change.

Safe sequence remains: correct and land #9938 first, then refresh and requalify #9936 from current main. #9922 is composition-neutral to this tar-ordering contract.

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Current Revision Validation

The latest contributor update rejects npm text used as assignment data and adds targeted negative cases for assignments, redirection operands, and here-document delimiters.

Validation passed:

• All 118 focused Dockerfile command-discovery, tar-remediation, patching, and growth-guardrail tests passed
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The earlier qualification failure evaluated an older revision. Independent maintainer security approval is still required before merge.

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Approved at exact commit ec67212. The test-only change matches accepted issue #9933 and its Pi matrix extension. DCO, GitHub verification, security, focused validation, automated findings, and all review threads pass. The skipped path-selection context is an external gate state, not a code finding.