Auto mode, and an approval box you can't scroll past - #75
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Two halves of the same problem: a bot that stops for permission on every step is tiring, and when it does stop the ask was easy to miss. Auto mode (per bot, in its settings) - The bot approves its own tool permissions and keeps working. The decision is made once, above the drivers, so it works the same on every engine instead of living in each driver's config. - Every auto-approval still leaves a chip in the transcript, so nothing happens invisibly. - A question the bot asks YOU is never auto-answered — the point of asking is that a person decides. - A small, literal guard stops even an auto bot for the obvious catastrophes (rm -rf, mkfs, dd to a device, force push, hard reset, DROP/TRUNCATE, fork bomb, shutdown, chmod -R 777 /). It is not a security boundary and does not pretend to be one; it is there so "leave it running" never means "leave it running with a shell". - "Always allow" remembers one tool for one bot, so you can loosen a single sharp edge without turning the whole thing on. The approval box, ported from the upstream pattern - A pending approval takes over the composer instead of sitting in the transcript: the prompt is disabled, a strip above it names the tool and prints the exact command in monospace (never truncated — it wraps and scrolls), and the send row is replaced by the decisions. - One at a time with an "n of N" counter when several queue up. - Cancel turn · Deny · Always allow · Allow once, ordered with the primary action last. - The transcript keeps a compact record of what was asked and how it was answered, so history stays readable. Two bugs found while mapping the flow, both fixed - Approvals raised inside a ROOM were invisible and unanswerable: the card was folded onto the room thread, which rendered only text and activity rows, and the answer route was keyed by bot. Rooms now render approvals, and answers go by thread. - Typing a free-text reply to an approval always failed: it mapped to behavior "answer", which the broker rejects for a permission, so the request silently sat until it timed out. The box is now only offered for questions. 26 new tests pin the guard and the decision rules; 133 pass overall. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds guarded automatic approval for bot tool requests. The server resolves eligible requests and exposes thread responses. The client adds approval cards, pending actions, bot auto mode settings, and state synchronization for approval decisions. ChangesPermission approval workflow
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟠 High · up to This PR adds automatic permission approval and persistent per-tool grants, but compound commands can be matched to a narrower grant and then approved in full, allowing unintended commands to run. Unresolved approval-state and setting-validation paths add further risk, so the current head is not merge-ready until permission matching and response handling are corrected. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant Composer
participant ThreadResponseEndpoint
participant Provider
participant Transcript
User->>Composer: choose approval action
Composer->>ThreadResponseEndpoint: POST decision for thread request
ThreadResponseEndpoint->>Provider: forward response
Provider-->>Transcript: resolve pending request
Transcript-->>Composer: server-confirmed approval update
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Review of the first pass caught a hole I put there: alwaysAllow held bare tool names, so pressing "Always allow" on `git status` granted the bot permanent unattended Bash — the exact opposite of what someone approving one harmless command intends, and worse on codex/ACP where every command arrives as the single tool name "shell". - Grants are now keyed by program: `Bash:git`, `Bash:npm`. The key is computed once on the server, stamped on the card, and echoed back by the client, so the two sides can never derive it differently. Env assignments and sudo are stepped over to find the real program. - Auto mode also stops at secrets — .env, .ssh keys, aws/npm/docker credentials, keychain reads. Reading a secret isn't destructive, but it is quiet, permanent and exactly what you don't hand over unattended. - A failed auto-approval no longer leaves a chip claiming success over a request nobody answered: the chip flips to an error and the approval is put back in front of the user. - Rooms told questions apart from permissions by requestId alone, so a question rendered as an approval box whose Allow the broker rejects. 40 safety tests now, 147 overall. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@server/index.ts`:
- Around line 194-212: The auto-approval path around autoDecision must only
record approval after the provider accepts the allow response. Require a
provider instance, await respondToRequest, and on missing instances or response
failure leave the request available for human approval without emitting the
activity or breaking; emit the approved activity and continue only after
success.
- Around line 987-989: Validate autoApprove as a boolean and alwaysAllow as an
array containing only strings before adding either field to patch and before
calling store.patchBot; reject invalid values using the route’s existing
validation/error response pattern, while preserving valid updates for the other
fields.
In `@src/components/Composer.tsx`:
- Around line 37-44: Update the pending-approval calculation in Composer to use
the currently visible branch messages via visibleMessages(bot) rather than all
bot.messages, while preserving the existing group-message behavior and
approvalBot selection.
In `@src/components/GroupView.tsx`:
- Around line 60-66: Update the options-card condition in GroupView so
ApprovalCard is rendered only when m.card.requestId and m.card.tool are present,
matching ChatView behavior; leave server questions without a tool on the
OptionCard path.
In `@src/state/store.tsx`:
- Around line 672-688: Update the decideRequest handler so the alwaysAllow PATCH
completes successfully before posting the thread response; if it fails, show the
error and do not send the response, leaving the request pending for an “Allow
once” choice. Preserve the existing response flow when no alwaysAllow selection
is present, using the current api calls and showError handling.
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| // Auto mode / always-allow: answer routine tool permissions for the | ||
| // bot so it keeps working. A QUESTION always reaches the human — the | ||
| // whole point of asking is that a person decides — and anything that | ||
| // looks destructive stops even in auto mode. | ||
| const asker = bot ?? (speaker ? store.bot(speaker.botId) : undefined); | ||
| const settled = permission && asker && event.requestId | ||
| ? autoDecision(asker, event.tool, event.summary) | ||
| : null; | ||
| if (settled && asker) { | ||
| const instance = registry.get(asker.modelSelection.instanceId); | ||
| void instance?.adapter | ||
| .respondToRequest(event.threadId, event.requestId!, { behavior: "allow" }) | ||
| .catch(() => {}); | ||
| pushMessage({ | ||
| role: "bot", | ||
| kind: "activity", | ||
| tool: { name: `${settled}: ${event.summary.slice(0, 120)}`, ok: true }, | ||
| }); | ||
| break; |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Do not record an approval before the provider accepts it.
Line 204 can have no provider instance. Line 206 discards provider response failures. Lines 207-212 then record an approved activity and skip the approval card.
If respondToRequest does not complete, keep the request available for human approval. Record the auto-approved activity only after the provider accepts the allow response.
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In `@server/index.ts` around lines 194 - 212, The auto-approval path around
autoDecision must only record approval after the provider accepts the allow
response. Require a provider instance, await respondToRequest, and on missing
instances or response failure leave the request available for human approval
without emitting the activity or breaking; emit the approved activity and
continue only after success.
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| for (const key of ["name", "title", "description", "notifications", "modelSelection", "unread", "computer", "color", "mascotExpression", "pinned", "hidden", "autoApprove", "alwaysAllow"] as const) { | ||
| if (body[key] !== undefined) patch[key] = body[key]; | ||
| } |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Validate approval settings before persisting them.
This route accepts arbitrary JSON for autoApprove and alwaysAllow. A value such as { "autoApprove": "false" } is truthy and enables automatic approval. A string value such as { "alwaysAllow": "Bash" } also has includes() and can authorize the Bash tool. Other values can make autoDecision throw when it calls includes().
Require autoApprove to be a boolean. Require alwaysAllow to be an array of strings before calling store.patchBot.
Proposed validation
- for (const key of ["name", "title", "description", "notifications", "modelSelection", "unread", "computer", "color", "mascotExpression", "pinned", "hidden", "autoApprove", "alwaysAllow"] as const) {
+ for (const key of ["name", "title", "description", "notifications", "modelSelection", "unread", "computer", "color", "mascotExpression", "pinned", "hidden"] as const) {
if (body[key] !== undefined) patch[key] = body[key];
}
+ if (body.autoApprove !== undefined) {
+ if (typeof body.autoApprove !== "boolean") {
+ return json(res, 400, { error: "autoApprove must be a boolean" });
+ }
+ patch.autoApprove = body.autoApprove;
+ }
+ if (body.alwaysAllow !== undefined) {
+ if (!Array.isArray(body.alwaysAllow) || body.alwaysAllow.some((tool) => typeof tool !== "string")) {
+ return json(res, 400, { error: "alwaysAllow must be an array of strings" });
+ }
+ patch.alwaysAllow = body.alwaysAllow;
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| for (const key of ["name", "title", "description", "notifications", "modelSelection", "unread", "computer", "color", "mascotExpression", "pinned", "hidden", "autoApprove", "alwaysAllow"] as const) { | |
| if (body[key] !== undefined) patch[key] = body[key]; | |
| } | |
| for (const key of ["name", "title", "description", "notifications", "modelSelection", "unread", "computer", "color", "mascotExpression", "pinned", "hidden"] as const) { | |
| if (body[key] !== undefined) patch[key] = body[key]; | |
| } | |
| if (body.autoApprove !== undefined) { | |
| if (typeof body.autoApprove !== "boolean") { | |
| return json(res, 400, { error: "autoApprove must be a boolean" }); | |
| } | |
| patch.autoApprove = body.autoApprove; | |
| } | |
| if (body.alwaysAllow !== undefined) { | |
| if (!Array.isArray(body.alwaysAllow) || body.alwaysAllow.some((tool) => typeof tool !== "string")) { | |
| return json(res, 400, { error: "alwaysAllow must be an array of strings" }); | |
| } | |
| patch.alwaysAllow = body.alwaysAllow; | |
| } |
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In `@server/index.ts` around lines 987 - 989, Validate autoApprove as a boolean
and alwaysAllow as an array containing only strings before adding either field
to patch and before calling store.patchBot; reject invalid values using the
route’s existing validation/error response pattern, while preserving valid
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| // a pending approval blocks the prompt until it is answered | ||
| const threadId = group?.threadId ?? bot?.threadId ?? ""; | ||
| const approvals = pendingApprovals(group ? group.messages : (bot?.messages ?? [])); | ||
| const approval = approvals[0]; | ||
| const approvalBot = group | ||
| ? members?.find((b) => b.id === approval?.message.from?.botId) ?? | ||
| members?.find((b) => b.id === group.busyBotId) | ||
| : bot; |
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composer = Path("src/components/Composer.tsx").read_text()
helper = Path("src/components/PendingApproval.tsx").read_text()
store = Path("src/state/store.tsx").read_text()
assert "pendingApprovals(group ? group.messages : (bot?.messages ?? []))" in composer
assert ".filter((m) => m.kind === \"options\"" in helper
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assert "activeLeafId: cur" in store
# Minimal branch model matching visibleMessages: root -> active leaf.
root = {"id": "root", "parentId": None}
old_leaf = {
"id": "old-card",
"parentId": "root",
"kind": "options",
"card": {"requestId": "req-old", "tool": "shell"},
}
new_leaf = {"id": "new-branch", "parentId": "root", "kind": "text"}
messages = [root, old_leaf, new_leaf]
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cur = by_id.get(leaf_id)
while cur:
path.append(cur)
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return list(reversed(path))
def pending(messages):
return [
m for m in messages
if m.get("kind") == "options"
and m.get("card", {}).get("requestId")
and m.get("card", {}).get("tool")
and not m.get("card", {}).get("answered")
and not m.get("card", {}).get("dismissed")
]
active = visible(messages, "new-branch")
assert not any(m["id"] == "old-card" for m in active)
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store = Path("src/state/store.tsx").read_text()
assert "pendingApprovals(group ? group.messages : (bot?.messages ?? []))" in composer
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"kind": "options",
"card": {"requestId": "req-old", "tool": "shell"},
}
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m for m in messages
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and m.get("card", {}).get("requestId")
and m.get("card", {}).get("tool")
and not m.get("card", {}).get("answered")
and not m.get("card", {}).get("dismissed")
]
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Use the active branch when finding pending approvals.
Composer passes all bot.messages to pendingApprovals, while branch changes only update activeLeafId. An unanswered card on an abandoned branch can therefore block the composer and submit a response for a stale request. Pass visibleMessages(bot) to pendingApprovals or settle off-branch cards when switching branches.
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In `@src/components/Composer.tsx` around lines 37 - 44, Update the
pending-approval calculation in Composer to use the currently visible branch
messages via visibleMessages(bot) rather than all bot.messages, while preserving
the existing group-message behavior and approvalBot selection.
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| case "decideRequest": { | ||
| if (action.alwaysAllow) { | ||
| const bot = stateRef.current.bots.find((b) => b.id === action.alwaysAllow!.botId); | ||
| const next = [...new Set([...(bot?.alwaysAllow ?? []), action.alwaysAllow.tool])]; | ||
| api(`/api/bots/${action.alwaysAllow.botId}`, { | ||
| method: "PATCH", | ||
| body: JSON.stringify({ alwaysAllow: next }), | ||
| }).catch(showError); | ||
| } | ||
| api(`/api/threads/${action.threadId}/respond`, { | ||
| method: "POST", | ||
| body: JSON.stringify({ | ||
| requestId: action.requestId, | ||
| behavior: action.behavior, | ||
| message: action.message, | ||
| }), | ||
| }).catch(showError); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Persist “Always allow” before resolving the request.
Line 681 sends the provider response without waiting for the setting PATCH. The bot can open its next permission request before the server stores alwaysAllow. That request prompts again instead of applying the selected permission.
Wait for the PATCH to succeed before sending the response. If the PATCH fails, keep the request pending and show the error so the user can select “Allow once.”
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case "decideRequest": {
+ const respond = () =>
+ api(`/api/threads/${action.threadId}/respond`, {
+ method: "POST",
+ body: JSON.stringify({
+ requestId: action.requestId,
+ behavior: action.behavior,
+ message: action.message,
+ }),
+ });
+
if (action.alwaysAllow) {
const bot = stateRef.current.bots.find((b) => b.id === action.alwaysAllow!.botId);
const next = [...new Set([...(bot?.alwaysAllow ?? []), action.alwaysAllow.tool])];
api(`/api/bots/${action.alwaysAllow.botId}`, {
method: "PATCH",
body: JSON.stringify({ alwaysAllow: next }),
- }).catch(showError);
+ }).then(respond).catch(showError);
+ } else {
+ respond().catch(showError);
}
- api(`/api/threads/${action.threadId}/respond`, { /* ... */ }).catch(showError);
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| case "decideRequest": { | |
| if (action.alwaysAllow) { | |
| const bot = stateRef.current.bots.find((b) => b.id === action.alwaysAllow!.botId); | |
| const next = [...new Set([...(bot?.alwaysAllow ?? []), action.alwaysAllow.tool])]; | |
| api(`/api/bots/${action.alwaysAllow.botId}`, { | |
| method: "PATCH", | |
| body: JSON.stringify({ alwaysAllow: next }), | |
| }).catch(showError); | |
| } | |
| api(`/api/threads/${action.threadId}/respond`, { | |
| method: "POST", | |
| body: JSON.stringify({ | |
| requestId: action.requestId, | |
| behavior: action.behavior, | |
| message: action.message, | |
| }), | |
| }).catch(showError); | |
| case "decideRequest": { | |
| const respond = () => | |
| api(`/api/threads/${action.threadId}/respond`, { | |
| method: "POST", | |
| body: JSON.stringify({ | |
| requestId: action.requestId, | |
| behavior: action.behavior, | |
| message: action.message, | |
| }), | |
| }); | |
| if (action.alwaysAllow) { | |
| const bot = stateRef.current.bots.find((b) => b.id === action.alwaysAllow!.botId); | |
| const next = [...new Set([...(bot?.alwaysAllow ?? []), action.alwaysAllow.tool])]; | |
| api(`/api/bots/${action.alwaysAllow.botId}`, { | |
| method: "PATCH", | |
| body: JSON.stringify({ alwaysAllow: next }), | |
| }).then(respond).catch(showError); | |
| } else { | |
| respond().catch(showError); | |
| } |
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In `@src/state/store.tsx` around lines 672 - 688, Update the decideRequest handler
so the alwaysAllow PATCH completes successfully before posting the thread
response; if it fails, show the error and do not send the response, leaving the
request pending for an “Allow once” choice. Preserve the existing response flow
when no alwaysAllow selection is present, using the current api calls and
showError handling.
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In `@server/auto-approve.ts`:
- Around line 52-60: Update approvalKey to return no always-allow key for
compound or shell-interpreted summaries, including control operators, pipes,
command substitution, and related syntax; only derive the program-specific key
for a validated single-command invocation. Preserve the existing
environment-assignment and sudo handling, and add regressions covering &&,
semicolons, pipes, and command substitution.
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| export function approvalKey(tool: string, summary: string): string { | ||
| const bare = tool.replace(/^mcp__[^_]+__/, "").toLowerCase(); | ||
| if (!COMMAND_TOOLS.has(bare)) return tool; | ||
| // first bare word of the command, skipping env assignments and sudo | ||
| const words = summary.trim().split(/\s+/); | ||
| let i = 0; | ||
| while (i < words.length && (/^[A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*=/.test(words[i]) || words[i] === "sudo")) i += 1; | ||
| const program = (words[i] ?? "").split("/").pop()?.replace(/[^\w.-]/g, "") ?? ""; | ||
| return program ? `${tool}:${program}` : tool; |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Do not derive an always-allow key from compound shell input.
Line 56 maps git status && npm publish to Bash:git. Lines 75-76 then apply a Bash:git grant to the complete compound request. server/index.ts sends an allow response for that full request. This bypasses the stated program-specific scope when auto mode is off.
Only create an always-allow key for a validated single-command invocation. If the summary contains shell control operators, command substitution, or other compound syntax, do not match an always-allow grant. Add regressions for &&, ;, pipes, and command substitution.
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In `@server/auto-approve.ts` around lines 52 - 60, Update approvalKey to return no
always-allow key for compound or shell-interpreted summaries, including control
operators, pipes, command substitution, and related syntax; only derive the
program-specific key for a validated single-command invocation. Preserve the
existing environment-assignment and sudo handling, and add regressions covering
&&, semicolons, pipes, and command substitution.
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Two halves of one problem: a bot that stops for permission on every step is tiring to babysit, and when it does stop, the ask was easy to miss.
Auto mode
A per-bot toggle in the bot's settings. When it's on, the bot approves its own tool permissions and keeps working.
--permission-modefor claude,fullAutofor ACP), so it behaved differently per engine and wasn't reachable from the UI. Auto mode is evaluated in the harness whererequest.openedis folded, so it works identically on every engine and needs no session restart.rm -rf,mkfs,dd of=/dev/…, force push,reset --hard,DROP/TRUNCATE, fork bomb, shutdown,chmod -R 777 /. This is explicitly not a security boundary — an agent set on damage has a thousand spellings forrm— it's there so "leave it running" never quietly means "leave it running with a shell". When it fires, the card says why.The approval box (ported from the upstream pattern)
The upstream app doesn't put approvals in the timeline — a pending approval takes over the composer, and that's what this ports:
max-h-40).Two bugs found while mapping the flow
Both pre-existing, both fixed here:
POST /api/threads/:threadId/respond).answer, which the broker rejects for a permission request, so the ask sat there until it timed out. The free-text box is now only offered for questions.Verification
pnpm typecheckclean, production build clean, 133 tests pass (26 new). The newserver/auto-approve.test.tspins the guard in both directions — every catastrophe stops, and ordinary work (rm build/output.js,git push origin feature/x,SELECT …) is not falsely caught — plus the rule that always-allow can never override the guard.Not yet exercised end-to-end against a live permission prompt; the decision path is unit-tested and the ACP/claude respond mapping was read to confirm
allowresolves to the right option on both.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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