Operator approval card: inlineCredential escalation flag - #149
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…here a vault reference belongs Completes the three-layer response to the fabricated-key incident (prompt rule in 6bc077d, backend redaction+serve-time hardening in EDDI): the approval card now warns when a gated request embeds a credential-shaped literal instead of a ${vault:...} reference. Two signals, in confidence order: - The backend's own redaction marker: a bare <REDACTED> OUTSIDE the distinct ${vault:<REDACTED>} wrapper means the backend itself concluded a secret literal was embedded. Evidence, not heuristics. - Raw credential shapes (sk- keys, Bearer tokens) for older backends whose filter missed the literal - surfaced without ever echoing the credential into the warning (first 10 chars only). The scan is string-level and runs on non-JSON bodies too; it composes with the existing setting checks (an ungated create with an embedded key raises both flags). Warning, not a block - consistent with the module's attention-aid contract; the gate/self guards remain the blocking layer. i18n across all 11 locales; 7 new tests.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds inline-credential detection and localized operator warnings, updates operator prompts with model catalogue and same-turn approval guidance, and changes the resting chat activity container to use content-fit width. ChangesInline credential escalation
Operator prompt guidance
Chat activity layout
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change adds credential warnings to approval cards, but the current head can expose the first characters of a detected credential and can mark truncated scans complete after an early match; together with an unavailable required TypeScript check, these leave concrete security and validation issues to resolve before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Request as Approval request
participant Flags as detectEscalationFlags
participant Preview as RequestPreview
participant Locale as Locale catalogue
Request->>Flags: submit raw request body
Flags->>Flags: scan credential markers before JSON parsing
Flags-->>Preview: return inlineCredential flag
Preview->>Locale: resolve localized warning
Locale-->>Preview: return inline-credential message
Preview-->>Request: display escalation warning
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…gue, narrower resting card
Four dev-testing findings:
- The operator asked 'Please confirm you approve this exact request' in
chat and only made the call after a typed yes - putting a second, weaker
approval in front of the real one. The write rule now says to announce
the change and MAKE THE CALL in the same turn; the pause it triggers,
with its Approve/Reject buttons on the exact request, IS the
confirmation. The announcement requirement itself is unchanged.
- The resting tool-call card was w-full max-w-[85%], so a one-line summary
('3 tool calls - 23.5s') rendered wider than the answer above it. w-fit
now, still growing to max-w when expanded content needs the room.
- The operator claimed claude-sonnet-5 'is not released' - its training
predates it. The Manager owns MODEL_SUGGESTIONS and builds the prompt,
so the catalogue is now injected into the body for every scope, with an
explicit rule never to argue a model out of existence or substitute a
familiar one, and to read existing LLM configs rather than recall.
The inlineCredential detector's primary signal is documented against the
backend's actual behaviour: a vault reference stays legible (a pointer is
not a secret), so any <REDACTED> marker means an embedded literal. The
${vault:<REDACTED>} exclusion stays for older backends.
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In `@src/i18n/locales/de.json`:
- Line 4015: Update the German inlineCredential translation to replace
“Zugangsdatum” with “Zugangsdaten” or “Authentifizierungsdaten” and change
“eingeschriebenes Secret” to “eingebettetes Secret,” preserving the warning’s
existing meaning and structure.
In `@src/i18n/locales/es.json`:
- Line 4045: Use the established localized Vault terminology in each warning: in
src/i18n/locales/es.json#L4045-L4045 replace “vault” with “almacén”; in
src/i18n/locales/fr.json#L4045-L4045 replace it with “coffre”; in
src/i18n/locales/ja.json#L4015-L4015 replace “ボールト” with “Vault”; and in
src/i18n/locales/pt.json#L4045-L4045 replace “vault” with “cofre”.
In `@src/lib/operator/escalation-flags.ts`:
- Around line 244-247: Update the raw credential handling in the body-shape
detection logic to return a fixed non-secret label such as “sk-…” or “Bearer …”
instead of slicing characters from rawShape[0]. Update the associated test to
assert the exact safe label and ensure RequestPreview never receives credential
characters.
- Around line 263-267: Update RequestPreview so the incomplete-scan warning is
shown whenever preview.bodyTruncated is true, regardless of whether
escalations.length is nonzero; preserve the existing escalation flag behavior
for early findInlineCredential matches.
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| "agentCreatedWithExternalTools": "Este agente se está creando con todas las herramientas que ofrece un servidor MCP externo. Ese servidor decide cuáles son y puede cambiarlas más adelante.", | ||
| "unchecked": "El cuerpo era demasiado largo para analizarlo en busca de concesiones de capacidad — léalo completo antes de aprobar." | ||
| "unchecked": "El cuerpo era demasiado largo para analizarlo en busca de concesiones de capacidad — léalo completo antes de aprobar.", | ||
| "inlineCredential": "Esta solicitud incrusta lo que parece una credencial literal en lugar de una referencia ${vault:…}. Un secreto escrito directamente se almacena en texto plano y no puede rotarse desde el vault — rechaza y pide la referencia del vault." |
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Reuse the established localized Vault term.
The new warnings introduce inconsistent terms for the same product concept. Use the existing locale term at each site.
src/i18n/locales/es.json#L4045-L4045: replacevaultwithalmacén.src/i18n/locales/fr.json#L4045-L4045: replacevaultwithcoffre.src/i18n/locales/ja.json#L4015-L4015: replaceボールトwithVault.src/i18n/locales/pt.json#L4045-L4045: replacevaultwithcofre.
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src/i18n/locales/es.json#L4045-L4045(this comment)src/i18n/locales/fr.json#L4045-L4045src/i18n/locales/ja.json#L4015-L4015src/i18n/locales/pt.json#L4045-L4045
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In `@src/i18n/locales/es.json` at line 4045, Use the established localized Vault
terminology in each warning: in src/i18n/locales/es.json#L4045-L4045 replace
“vault” with “almacén”; in src/i18n/locales/fr.json#L4045-L4045 replace it with
“coffre”; in src/i18n/locales/ja.json#L4015-L4015 replace “ボールト” with “Vault”;
and in src/i18n/locales/pt.json#L4045-L4045 replace “vault” with “cofre”.
…ctually apply Group discussion cards rendered an agent's opening '# Heading' at ~2.14x body size - a billboard filling a third of the card. The typography plugin sizes headings for a document; a chat message is not a page, so h1..h4 are scaled to 1.35/1.2/1.08/1.0 with tighter leading margins. The hierarchy stays visible without the shouting. Both this and the existing table styling had to move OUT of @layer components: the plugin ships its sizes and cell padding as utilities, and in Tailwind v4's cascade every utility beats every component rule regardless of specificity. The table rules had been losing silently since they were added - verified in a live browser, cells were rendering with 0px horizontal padding. Unlayered is the one placement that wins without !important. Verified in-browser: h1 18.9px vs 14px body (was 30px), cells 6px/12px (was 6px/0px), list markers and in-table horizontal scrolling intact.
Two Major findings, both correct:
- findInlineCredential copied up to ten characters of a RAW credential into
the flag's path, which RequestPreview renders - the branch that fires is
precisely the one where the backend did NOT redact, so those characters
are real secret material. Fixed labels now ('<REDACTED>', 'sk-...',
'Bearer ...'); nothing from the match is ever copied.
- An early credential flag suppressed the incomplete-scan notice, because
escalationCheckIncomplete required an EMPTY flag list. That held only
while every check needed the whole document; a credential in the first
line now raises a flag immediately and silently withdrew 'the rest was
never scanned' - exactly when a capability grant past the cut is most
likely to be missed. Truncation alone decides it now; both notices can
show, because both statements are true.
Two Minor findings: German security terms corrected (Zugangsdaten, not
Zugangsdatum - an access DATE; eingebettetes Secret), and the vault term
now reuses each locale's established wording (bóveda, coffre-fort, 保管庫,
密钥库, 시크릿 저장소, cofre) instead of inventing a new one per language.
workforce-main is deliberately overflow-hidden - every Workforce page brings its own scroller (see workforce-analytics, workforce-history) - and the wizard never had one. Once its step content grew past the viewport the remainder was simply unreachable: no scrollbar, no wheel response, and the wizard's own Back/Next controls sat below the cut. Verified in a live browser at 1280x620: content is 1080px in a 564px viewport, the scroller moves 0 -> 516px, and Next is reachable. Both steps scroll.
…hrough WorkforceLayout renders its main as overflow-hidden on purpose, so every page must supply its own scroll container. That contract lived only in the other pages' habits - nothing enforced it - and the taskforce wizard shipped without one, losing its own Back/Next controls below the fold. The guard renders each Workforce route and asserts a vertical scroll container exists. Deliberately the WEAK form (some element, anywhere): pages legitimately differ - the wizard scrolls at its root, chat scrolls a transcript several levels down - and a stricter assertion would fail on honest refactors. Class-based, because jsdom loads no stylesheet and computed overflowY is always 'visible' here; the class strings ARE the styling contract in this codebase. Rendered without fixtures, a data-driven page reaches its empty state, which legitimately owns no scroller (Analytics). Seeding each page's data would bind this test to three unrelated response shapes and break it whenever those changed - exactly the brittleness a layout guard must not have. So the contract is 'scrolls OR provably cannot overflow', with the cost stated in the file: a page that regressed AND rendered empty here would pass. The wizard - the page this exists for, whose content always fills the column - therefore also pins its scroller at the root. Mutation-tested: reverting the wizard fix fails both wizard cases with the intended diagnostic; restoring it passes. A negative case pins that a tree with no scroller is actually detected.
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Completes the three-layer response to the fabricated-key incident — layer 1 was the anti-fabrication prompt rule (#148), layer 2 is backend redaction + serve-time hardening (EDDI#679), and this is layer 3: the approval card warns when a gated request embeds a credential-shaped literal where a
${vault:…}reference belongs.Detection — two signals, in confidence order
SecretRedactionFilter, which masks a secret literal as<REDACTED>and a vault reference as the distinct${vault:<REDACTED>}. A bare<REDACTED>outside that wrapper means the backend itself concluded a secret literal was embedded — evidence, not heuristics.sk-…keys,Bearertokens) for older backends whose filter missed the literal. Surfaced without ever echoing the credential into the warning (first 10 characters only).The scan is string-level and runs on non-JSON bodies too (a credential in a form post is still a credential), and composes with the existing setting checks — an ungated create with an embedded key raises both flags.
Warning, not a block
Consistent with the module's attention-aid contract; the gate/self guards remain the blocking layer. The flag renders in the existing red escalation box with a message telling the approver to reject and ask for the vault reference.
Tests / i18n
7 new tests (marker detection, vault-wrapper exclusion, no-echo guarantee, Bearer, non-JSON bodies, quiet on ordinary bodies, composition with agentCreatedWithoutGate); message translated across all 11 locales; parity gate green.
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