feat(admin): admin tool policy to disable tools for users

[serrrfirat]

Summary

• Adds AdminToolPolicy type stored in the settings table under __admin__ scope — no schema changes needed
• New admin-only API endpoints GET/PUT /api/admin/tool-policy gated behind multi-tenant mode
• Enforcement in ChatDelegate::before_llm_call() strips admin-disabled tools from the LLM context before per-user permissions are evaluated
• Admin users are exempt from the policy (cannot lock themselves out)

Closes #2078

How it works

1. Admin calls PUT /api/admin/tool-policy with a JSON body specifying disabled_tools (global) and/or user_disabled_tools (per-user)
2. In the dispatcher's before_llm_call(), when multi-tenant mode is active and the user is not an admin, the policy is loaded from the DB and matching tools are filtered out
3. Since tools are removed from the LLM context entirely, users cannot call them — and the existing per-user permission system cannot re-enable them

API

GET  /api/admin/tool-policy   → AdminToolPolicy JSON
PUT  /api/admin/tool-policy   ← AdminToolPolicy JSON

{
  "disabled_tools": ["build_software", "tool_install", "tool_remove"],
  "user_disabled_tools": {
    "alice": ["shell"]
  }
}

Multi-tenancy gating

• API layer: Returns 404 when workspace_pool.is_none() (single-user mode)
• Dispatcher: Skips admin policy check when config.multi_tenant is false

Files changed

File	Change
src/tools/permissions.rs	AdminToolPolicy struct, constants, helpers, 6 unit tests
src/channels/web/handlers/tool_policy.rs	New — GET/PUT handlers with validation
src/channels/web/handlers/mod.rs	Module declaration
src/channels/web/server.rs	Route registration
src/agent/dispatcher.rs	Admin policy enforcement in before_llm_call()
src/channels/web/tests/multi_tenant.rs	4 integration tests (auth, 404, CRUD, validation)

Test plan

• cargo clippy --all --all-features — zero new warnings
• cargo test --lib — all pass
• cargo check --no-default-features --features libsql — compiles
• Unit tests for AdminToolPolicy (global, per-user, combined, empty, serde)
• API tests: member 403, single-user 404, CRUD with libSQL, validation 400

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[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This pull request implements an admin tool policy to restrict tool usage globally or per-user for non-admin users in multi-tenant mode. It adds management API endpoints, database persistence, and filtering logic in the agent dispatcher. Review feedback identifies a security risk where the policy is applied after per-user permissions, potentially allowing restricted tools to execute if they are auto-approved. Other suggestions include caching the policy to avoid redundant database lookups, using HashSet for more efficient tool lookups, and adding better error logging for policy parsing failures.

[gemini-code-assist]

The admin tool policy is applied after per-user permissions are evaluated. This contradicts the PR description and creates a security risk: tools disabled by the admin can still be added to the session's auto-approval list if the user has them set to AlwaysAllow (see lines 484-512). If the LLM attempts to call such a tool (e.g., via prompt injection), it would be executed without approval despite the admin's restriction.

Additionally, this block performs a database lookup on every iteration of the agentic loop. For tasks involving many tool calls, this will significantly impact performance.

Recommendation: Move the admin policy loading and filtering to the beginning of before_llm_call (before the per-user permission check) and cache the policy in the ChatDelegate to avoid redundant database hits.

[gemini-code-assist]

If the admin policy exists but fails to parse, it silently falls back to an empty policy. It is better to log a warning here to identify data integrity issues. Avoid coupling the log message to implementation details like specific table names.

                        Ok(Some(value)) => serde_json::from_value(value).unwrap_or_else(|e| {
                            tracing::warn!("Failed to parse admin tool policy: {}", e);
                            crate::tools::permissions::AdminToolPolicy::default()
                        }),

References

1. Avoid coupling log messages to implementation details like configuration interfaces or source code layout. The underlying error message should provide sufficient context on its own.

[gemini-code-assist]

Consider logging a warning if the admin policy fails to parse, as this indicates corrupted data. Ensure the log message focuses on the error context rather than the underlying storage mechanism.

        Ok(Some(value)) => serde_json::from_value(value).unwrap_or_else(|e| {
            tracing::warn!("Failed to parse admin tool policy: {}", e);
            AdminToolPolicy::default()
        }),

References

1. Avoid coupling log messages to implementation details like configuration interfaces or source code layout. The underlying error message should provide sufficient context on its own.

[gemini-code-assist]

Using Vec<String> for disabled_tools and user_disabled_tools results in O(N) lookups in is_tool_disabled. Since this check is performed for every tool on every iteration of the agentic loop, consider using HashSet<String> instead to improve performance to O(1). While Vec is often preferred for small collections to aid debugging, the performance criticality of this loop justifies a more efficient structure.

References

1. When choosing data structures, consider the trade-offs between performance, readability, and deterministic ordering for debugging. For small, non-performance-critical collections, a Vec might be preferred over a HashSet.

[serrrfirat]

Addressed the remaining follow-up items in dd0013de.

• GET /api/admin/tool-policy now logs a warning when persisted policy JSON fails to parse instead of silently defaulting with no signal.
• The hot filtering path now precomputes global and per-user disabled-tool lookup sets before filtering tool defs, so the branch no longer does repeated linear scans for every tool during the filter pass.

Verified with:

• cargo fmt --all
• cargo test tool_policy --lib

[ilblackdragon]

Overview

Adds an AdminToolPolicy (global + per-user disabled tool lists) stored in the settings table under a __admin__ pseudo user, plus GET/PUT /api/admin/tool-policy. Enforcement strips disabled tools from tool_defs in ChatDelegate::before_llm_call() (and JobDelegate/ContainerDelegate for defence in depth) before per-user permissions evaluate.

Strengths

• Clear separation: policy data (permissions.rs), HTTP layer (tool_policy.rs), enforcement (filter_admin_disabled_tools). The shared filter avoids duplication across the three delegates.
• Fail-closed: DB or deserialization errors return an empty tool list. Good default for a security-relevant feature.
• Admin exemption prevents lockout.
• 404 in single-user mode keeps the surface tight; 6 unit tests + 4 integration tests cover serde, gating, member 403, validation.

Issues / suggestions

Correctness — admin role detection drift
filter_admin_disabled_tools takes &UserRole, but JobDelegate::resolve_user_info stringly-compares user.role == "admin" (worker/job.rs:804) and ChatDelegate uses self.tenant.identity().role. Three different sources of truth for "is admin." If the canonical role enum elsewhere ever diverges (e.g. case, "owner"), the filter silently misbehaves. Consider one helper like UserRole::from_db_str and use it everywhere.

Settings-table key collision risk
ADMIN_SETTINGS_USER_ID = "__admin__" is documented as collision-safe because real IDs are UUIDs — but that's an implicit invariant only enforced at user creation. A CHECK constraint, or a separate admin_settings row namespace, would be safer. At minimum add a debug assertion in users_create_handler rejecting reserved IDs.

Container delegate fields are pure dead weight
ContainerDelegate gets four new fields (multi_tenant, user_role, user_id, db) all wired to defaults that make filter_admin_disabled_tools a no-op (worker/container.rs:705-708). The "defence in depth for the future" rationale is exactly the kind of speculative complexity CLAUDE.md tells you to avoid. Either delete them, or wire them through the orchestrator job metadata for real. Right now they're misleading — they look like enforcement when they aren't.

PUT is destructive replace, no concurrency control
Two admins editing concurrently silently lose one update. Consider an If-Match/version field, or at least document the replace semantic in the route's doc comment + admin UI.

Validation gaps

• user_disabled_tools keys aren't checked against actual existing users — typos silently no-op forever.
• No upper bound on policy size (a 10k-entry policy gets serialized to JSON and parsed on every LLM call). Add MAX_POLICY_ENTRIES.
• Tool names aren't validated against ToolRegistry — no feedback loop if admin disables buld_software.

Performance — DB read on every LLM iteration
filter_admin_disabled_tools issues db.get_setting(...) once per before_llm_call, i.e. once per agent loop iteration. For a long multi-tool job that's a lot of redundant reads of an admin-rare-write value. A small TTL'd cache (or Arc<RwLock<AdminToolPolicy>> invalidated on PUT) would be cheap and meaningful.

Test coverage gap
No end-to-end test that verifies the filtered tool actually does not reach the LLM. Tests cover the policy struct and the HTTP layer but not the dispatcher integration. A test that asserts reason_ctx.available_tools no longer contains a disabled tool would close the loop.

[serrrfirat]

Addressed, and rebased on latest staging (merge conflict resolved in src/channels/web/server.rs by keeping both /api/admin/tool-policy and /api/admin/system-prompt routes).

Responding to your latest review:

• Admin role detection drift: fixed by adding UserRole::from_db_role(...) and using it in JobDelegate::resolve_user_info.
• __admin__ collision risk: added a guard in users_create_handler (debug_assert_ne! + runtime check against ADMIN_SETTINGS_USER_ID).
• Container delegate dead fields: removed the speculative/no-op admin-policy fields from ContainerDelegate.
• PUT replace semantics: documented explicitly in tool_policy_put_handler doc comment (full replace / last-write-wins).
• Test coverage gap: added test_admin_policy_filter_happens_before_auto_approval_and_llm_call in src/agent/dispatcher.rs to verify disabled tools are filtered before LLM-visible tool list and auto-approval state.

Also included in this branch from earlier follow-up:

• moved admin-policy filtering before per-user permission filtering in ChatDelegate::before_llm_call.

Focused checks run after the merge:

• cargo test -q test_admin_policy_filter_happens_before_auto_approval_and_llm_call --lib
• cargo test -q test_tool_policy_crud_with_db --lib

If you want, I can follow up with a separate PR for policy size bounds + optional policy caching (Arc<RwLock<...>> + invalidation on PUT) to keep this one scoped.

[ilblackdragon]

hm, this seems like violating the whole point of this isolation.
should this be just accessors here?

[ilblackdragon]

Code Review

Overview

Adds an AdminToolPolicy (global + per-user disabled tool lists) stored as JSON under a reserved __admin__ scope in the existing settings table. New GET/PUT /api/admin/tool-policy endpoints expose CRUD; both ChatDelegate::before_llm_call and JobDelegate strip admin-disabled tools from the LLM context before per-user permissions and session auto-approval are applied. Multi-tenant gated; admins are exempt. No schema migration. Solid test coverage including a great end-to-end test that asserts disabled tools never reach complete_with_tools.

Strengths

• Right enforcement point. Removing tools from the LLM context (rather than blocking calls) is the correct architecture — users can't re-enable via per-user permissions, and the integration test in dispatcher.rs proves auto-approval is also stripped.
• Reuses settings storage — no migration, both backends supported automatically.
• Module-owned filter helper. filter_admin_disabled_tools lives in tools/permissions.rs and is shared between ChatDelegate and JobDelegate. Good factoring.
• Reserved-id collision defense with debug_assert_ne! plus a runtime check in users_create_handler.
• Tests are thorough: unit tests for the policy struct, handler tests for auth/404/CRUD/validation, and the dispatcher-level test that asserts the LLM never sees disabled tools.

Issues & Suggestions

Correctness / Security

• Fail-closed empties the entire tool set on a transient DB hiccup. filter_admin_disabled_tools returns Vec::new() on get_setting errors. A flaky DB will silently brick non-admin agents with no observable failure surface beyond a warn!. Consider propagating Result and letting the caller decide (or at minimum emit a metric/error event so this is visible). The deserialization-failure case is even worse: a single corrupt row disables all tools for everyone forever until someone notices.

• Per-iteration DB read inside the agentic loop. before_llm_call runs every loop iteration; this issues a fresh get_setting call each time. For long agentic loops this adds N DB roundtrips per request that read identical bytes. JobDelegate caches (user_id, role) via OnceCell but not the policy itself. Cache the policy per-request (or per-session) — either via a OnceCell mirror of cached_user_info, or by loading once at session start.

• OIDC auto-provisioning not patched. The doc comment on ADMIN_SETTINGS_USER_ID explicitly cites OIDC auto-provisioning as a UUID source, but only users_create_handler got the runtime guard. Verify the OIDC path rejects (or simply cannot generate) __admin__ — and ideally add the same debug_assert_ne! there.

• PUT validation gaps. Length bounds exist but there's no cap on list length or user_disabled_tools map size, no dedup, no charset filter. The 10MB body cap is the only ceiling — a single PUT can add tens of thousands of entries that get scanned linearly on every LLM iteration. Add a max-entries check.

• is_tool_disabled is O(n·m) per call. It iterates disabled_tools linearly per tool. The dispatcher path builds a HashSet first (good), but is_tool_disabled itself (used in tests/handlers) doesn't. Consider a HashSet-backed accessor or document that the canonical filter path is filter_admin_disabled_tools.

API / Semantics

• PUT is full-replace, no concurrency control. Documented, but two admins editing concurrently will silently clobber each other. A simple If-Match/etag or version field would prevent this.
• 404 for single-user mode is reasonable but slightly surprising for an admin who's intentionally probing. A 409/400 with a clearer message ("not available outside multi-tenant") would be friendlier; minor.
• No DELETE endpoint. Admins must PUT an empty policy to clear. Acceptable but worth noting.

Style / Conventions

• SystemScope::db() exposes the raw Arc<dyn Database>. The doc-comment acknowledges it's an encapsulation break. It's only used here; consider instead adding a typed load_admin_tool_policy() method on SystemScope so the raw handle stays sealed.
• filter_admin_disabled_tools's db: Option<&Arc<dyn Database>> is awkward — Option<&Arc<…>> is rarely the right shape. Prefer Option<&dyn Database> or just require the caller to early-return.
• Two tracing::warn! calls inside the filter will fire on every iteration in a degraded state — likely log spam. Use debug! or rate-limit.

Test Coverage

• Strong on the happy path. Missing: behavior when DB returns an error (the fail-closed branch), behavior when a stale session has an admin-disabled tool already in auto_approved (does the filter actually re-evict it across multiple iterations, not just the first one?), and JobDelegate equivalent of the dispatcher integration test.

Risk Summary

Risk	Severity
Fail-closed empties tools on transient DB error	Medium — operational footgun
Per-iteration DB read in hot loop	Low-Med — perf, not correctness
No size cap on policy lists	Low — DoS-ish
OIDC reserved-id guard missing	Low — defense-in-depth gap
Concurrent admin edits clobber	Low

Overall this is a clean, well-tested implementation of a needed feature. The main thing I'd ask for before merge is caching the policy per-request and rethinking the fail-closed-to-empty behavior (or at minimum surfacing it as an error event, not just a warn log).

[ilblackdragon]

Code Review

Overview

Adds an AdminToolPolicy (global + per-user disabled tool lists) stored in the settings table under a reserved __admin__ scope, exposed via GET/PUT /api/admin/tool-policy. Enforcement happens in both ChatDelegate::before_llm_call and JobDelegate by stripping admin-disabled tools from the LLM tool list before per-user permission filtering. Admin users and single-tenant deployments bypass enforcement.

Strengths

• Filtering happens before the LLM ever sees the tool definitions, so users can't re-enable disabled tools through their per-user permissions — correct threat model.
• Both code paths (chat dispatcher + job worker) are hooked, with a regression test asserting RecordingToolsProvider never sees admin-disabled tools.
• Fail-closed on DB/parse errors (return Vec::new()) preserves admin restrictions during transient failures.
• Good test coverage: 6 unit tests on AdminToolPolicy, 4 integration tests (member 403, single-user 404, CRUD, validation), plus the end-to-end dispatcher test.
• Defensive: users_create_handler checks UUID never collides with __admin__, both via debug_assert_ne! and a runtime guard.

Issues & Suggestions

1. Violates "Everything Goes Through Tools" rule (CLAUDE.md)

tool_policy_get_handler / tool_policy_put_handler call state.store.get_setting / set_setting directly. Per the project's core principle, all gateway handler mutations must go through ToolDispatcher::dispatch() for the audit trail (ActionRecord), safety pipeline, and channel parity. This will likely trip scripts/pre-commit-safety.sh. Either:

• Add an admin_tool_policy_get / admin_tool_policy_set tool and dispatch through it, or
• Annotate with // dispatch-exempt: <reason> if this is intentionally an admin-only out-of-band operation.

2. No caching in ChatDelegate path (perf)

JobDelegate caches (user_id, role) in OnceCell but ChatDelegate::before_llm_call issues a fresh db.get_setting(__admin__, admin_tool_policy) on every LLM iteration. For multi-turn tool loops this is N extra DB roundtrips per request. Consider caching the parsed AdminToolPolicy on the delegate / agent with a short TTL, or once per before_llm_call invocation lifetime.

3. SystemScope::db() leaks abstraction

Adding pub fn db(&self) -> &Arc<dyn Database> to SystemScope defeats the encapsulation that tenant scoping is supposed to provide. Prefer adding a typed SystemScope::admin_tool_policy() method that owns the read.

4. Validation gaps in PUT handler

• Only length is checked. Empty/oversize is rejected, but \n, \0, control chars, or whitespace-only names pass.
• No cap on disabled_tools.len() or user_disabled_tools.len() — an admin (or compromised admin token) could PUT a multi-MB policy that gets loaded on every LLM call. Add a sanity cap (e.g. 1000 entries each).
• PUT is full-replace; concurrent admin PUTs lose updates silently. Acceptable but worth noting in the doc comment.

5. Inconsistent error handling

• tool_policy_get_handler uses unwrap_or_else(|_| AdminToolPolicy::default()) on parse failure (fail-open: shows admin "no policy").
• filter_admin_disabled_tools returns Vec::new() (fail-closed: blocks all tools).

These should be consistent in spirit. The GET handler returning default() could mislead an admin into thinking the policy is empty when it's actually corrupt — at minimum, return a 500 with the parse error so the admin knows.

6. Minor

• is_tool_disabled does linear Vec scans. Fine for small lists, but if you build a HashSet once in filter_admin_disabled_tools, do the same in the unit-tested helper for consistency.
• The dispatcher test (test_admin_policy_filter_happens_before_auto_approval_and_llm_call) is excellent and exactly the kind of "test through the caller" coverage CLAUDE.md asks for.
• debug_assert_ne! followed by a runtime if is slightly redundant.

Risk Summary

• Security: Solid — fail-closed, filter-before-LLM, admin exempt, multi-tenant gated. Main risk is the dispatch-exempt rule violation.
• Performance: Per-LLM-call DB lookup in chat path is the only concrete concern; cache it.
• Correctness: Good test coverage on the happy path and the most important regression.

Recommendation

Request changes for (1) — the tool dispatch rule is a hard project convention. (2) and (3) are worth fixing before merge; the rest are nice-to-haves.

[ilblackdragon]

Re-review (round 2)

Picked up the two new commits (12fcbbc9, 79fb23dc) that address the round-1 feedback. Most of the issues are now resolved cleanly. Verified locally: cargo clippy --all --benches --tests --examples --all-features is clean and cargo test --lib admin runs all 33 admin-related tests green, including the dispatcher regression test.

What's now fixed

• Per-iteration DB lookup (feat: adding Web UI #2) — AdminToolPolicyCache (OnceCell<AdminToolPolicyState>) is wired into both ChatDelegate and JobDelegate. Loaded once per loop, not per iteration. Clean.
• SystemScope::db() leak (Onboarding: show Telegram in channel selection and auto-install bundled channel #3) — replaced with three purpose-built methods: get_admin_tool_policy, set_admin_tool_policy, get_user_role. Tenant boundary preserved. Even better than what I'd asked for.
• Validation gaps (feat: Sandbox jobs #4) — validate_admin_tool_policy is now shared between the HTTP handler and SystemScope::set_admin_tool_policy. Adds entry-count caps (1000 each), 32 KB serialized size cap, plus a charset-based is_valid_admin_tool_name / is_valid_admin_policy_user_key (lowercase ASCII alphanumerics + _-) which is stricter than my "no control chars" suggestion and a better choice. New regression tests cover path-like names and bad user keys.
• Inconsistent error handling (feat: Improve CLI #5) — GET handler now returns 500 with parse_admin_tool_policy on corrupt stored state instead of silently defaulting to empty. Matches the fail-closed posture of the filter path.
• Performance bonus — disabled_tools: Vec<String> → HashSet<String> for O(1) contains lookups. Nice catch.
• Code clarity bonus — UserRole::is_admin() helper consolidates the role check across dispatcher.rs, worker/job.rs, and engine.rs (no more *role == UserRole::Admin scattered around).

Remaining concerns

1. The // dispatch-exempt: annotation is at module-level, not per-line — pre-commit hook will trip

The handler now has a //! module doc comment explaining the exemption, but scripts/pre-commit-safety.sh looks for a per-line // dispatch-exempt: trailing comment on each state.{store,workspace_pool,...} access. Running the diff manually:

$ git diff staging -- 'src/channels/web/handlers/*.rs' | grep -nE '^\+' \
    | grep -E 'state\.(store|workspace|workspace_pool|...)\.' \
    | grep -vE '// dispatch-exempt:|// safety:|^\+\+\+'
+    if state.workspace_pool.is_none() {        # tool_policy.rs GET
+    let store = state.store.as_ref().ok_or((    # tool_policy.rs GET
+    if state.workspace_pool.is_none() {        # tool_policy.rs PUT
+    let store = state.store.as_ref().ok_or((    # tool_policy.rs PUT

The hook check at scripts/pre-commit-safety.sh:293-298 is line-by-line and will flag these four when CI diffs against the merge target. The module-level doc comment is great for human readers but doesn't satisfy the regex. Two options:

• Add a trailing // dispatch-exempt: <reason> comment on each of the four lines, or
• Refactor to bind state.workspace_pool / state.store into local variables on dedicated lines that carry the trailing comment (this also survives cargo fmt).

(Note: it didn't trip when you committed because git diff @{upstream} against your own branch HEAD is empty. CI will use a different base.)

2. JobDelegate::cached_admin_tool_policy initialization is inlined inside before_llm_call

The closure that loads the policy lives inside before_llm_call (worker/job.rs:1429-1450), while ChatDelegate cleanly delegates to permissions::load_cached_admin_tool_policy(...). Why two different shapes? Refactoring JobDelegate to call the same shared helper would:

• Remove ~25 lines of duplicated match store.get_admin_tool_policy() logic
• Make the two delegates symmetric and easier to keep in sync if the load logic ever changes
• Eliminate the dependency on worker.store() being convertible to the &Arc<dyn Database> shape that load_cached_admin_tool_policy expects (currently it can't, hence the duplication — but adding a thin adapter on SystemScope would unblock it)

Not a blocker, but worth a follow-up.

3. Charset rule is undocumented and will surprise admins

is_valid_admin_tool_name requires [a-z0-9_-] and is_valid_admin_policy_user_key requires [A-Za-z0-9_-]. Both are reasonable, but:

• The error message just says "Invalid tool name: '{name}'" — admins won't know what charset is allowed.
• Real built-in tool names follow the lowercase rule, but user IDs in this codebase are UUIDs (e.g. 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000) — those will pass. Good. But OIDC sub claims sometimes contain : or | (e.g. auth0|abc123, google-oauth2|12345). If an OIDC-provisioned user_id ever lands in user_disabled_tools, the validator will reject it.

Suggestion: include the allowed charset in the error message, and double-check that the OIDC auto-provisioning path always produces UUIDs (it does in users_create_handler, but the comment in permissions.rs line 100-101 is the only assertion of this — worth a defensive test).

4. Minor: parse_admin_tool_policy source string is &'static str

Forces all callers to use string literals ("http_get", "system_scope", "database", "test"). That's fine, but it's a slightly odd interface — &str would work just as well and remove the constraint. Trivial.

Verdict

Round-2 fixes are substantial and well-executed. One actual blocker (the dispatch-exempt annotation, since it'll break CI) and one cleanup suggestion (consolidate the JobDelegate cache load with the shared helper). Everything else is polish.

Approve once #1 is fixed.

[ilblackdragon]

Re-review (round 3)

Picked up 3d4f8263 which addresses the round-2 dispatch-exempt blocker. Almost there — but the fix only landed on 2 of the 4 offending lines.

Status

Round-2 issue	Status
#1 dispatch-exempt for pre-commit hook	⚠️ partial — see below
#2 unify JobDelegate cache load with shared helper	⏳ not addressed (non-blocker)
#3 charset rule visibility / OIDC edge case	⏳ not addressed (non-blocker)
#4 &'static str source param	⏳ not addressed (trivial)

Verified: cargo test --lib admin → 34 passed, including the dispatcher and e2e regressions.

⚠️ Blocker still partially open: dispatch-exempt

3d4f8263 annotated the two state.store.as_ref() lines (one in GET, one in PUT) but left the two state.workspace_pool.is_none() lines uncovered. Running the same line-by-line check the pre-commit hook uses against the merge target:

$ git diff staging -- 'src/channels/web/handlers/*.rs' | grep -nE '^\+' \
    | grep -E 'state\.(store|workspace|workspace_pool|...)\.' \
    | grep -vE '// dispatch-exempt:|// safety:|^\+\+\+'
+    if state.workspace_pool.is_none() {        # tool_policy.rs:30 (GET)
+    if state.workspace_pool.is_none() {        # tool_policy.rs:74 (PUT)

The hook regex at scripts/pre-commit-safety.sh:294 matches state.workspace_pool. just as much as state.store.. CI will trip on these two lines.

Fix: add the same trailing comment treatment to the two workspace_pool checks. Either:

if state.workspace_pool.is_none() { // dispatch-exempt: gateway-mode probe
    return Err((

…or, if rustfmt insists on splitting the line, lift the access to a local on a dedicated line:

let pool = state.workspace_pool.as_ref(); // dispatch-exempt: gateway-mode probe
if pool.is_none() {

(The second form is what I'd recommend — it survives cargo fmt deterministically.)

Why it didn't trip locally for serrrfirat: git diff @{upstream} against your own branch HEAD is empty, so resolve_base_ref() finds nothing to scan. CI uses a different base.

Carry-overs (non-blocking, repeat from round 2 for the record)

• Symmetry between delegates: JobDelegate (worker/job.rs:1429-1450) still inlines the policy load closure, while ChatDelegate cleanly delegates to permissions::load_cached_admin_tool_policy(...). Refactoring JobDelegate to use the same helper would remove ~25 lines of duplicated match store.get_admin_tool_policy() plumbing and keep both paths in sync.
• Charset error message doesn't mention the allowed character set; admins will hit "Invalid tool name: 'foo.bar'" and have no clue why.
• OIDC sub edge case with is_valid_admin_policy_user_key rejecting : and | — confirm the auto-provisioning path always rewrites to UUIDs (it does in users_create_handler, but a defensive test would harden this).
• parse_admin_tool_policy(value, source: &'static str) could be &str without losing anything.

Verdict

Two-line fix away from approval. Once the workspace_pool lines have trailing dispatch-exempt comments (or are lifted into bound locals), this is mergeable. The JobDelegate symmetry cleanup and the charset/OIDC notes can ride a follow-up PR.

[ilblackdragon]

Final review (round 4)

Branch HEAD 78f0a365 after the dispatch-exempt cleanup. This is the post-fix sanity pass — taking the whole PR end-to-end now that all blockers are resolved.

CI status

All checks green:

• ✅ Formatting
• ✅ Clippy: default, all-features, libsql-only
• ✅ cargo-deny
• ✅ No panics in production code
• ✅ Code Style aggregate gate
• ✅ Regression test enforcement
• ✅ scope / classify

Local: cargo test --lib admin → 34 passed (including the dispatcher regression and the e2e file).

Overview (consolidated for the final read-through)

Surface	Behavior
AdminToolPolicy	disabled_tools: HashSet<String> (global) + user_disabled_tools: HashMap<String, Vec<String>> (per user). Stored as a single JSON value in settings under the reserved __admin__ scope.
GET /api/admin/tool-policy	Admin-only. Returns 404 in single-tenant, 500 on corrupt persisted state, otherwise the policy (or default).
PUT /api/admin/tool-policy	Admin-only. Full replace. Validates: charset ([a-z0-9_-] for tool names, [A-Za-z0-9_-] for user keys), length caps (128/256), entry caps (1000), 32 KB serialized payload cap. Last-write-wins.
Enforcement (ChatDelegate)	Loads policy via shared load_cached_admin_tool_policy(...) into a OnceCell<AdminToolPolicyState> per turn; filters tools before per-user permissions and session auto-approval.
Enforcement (JobDelegate)	Same OnceCell cache, loads via SystemScope::get_admin_tool_policy(). Looks up role via SystemScope::get_user_role().
Fail-closed	DB error or parse failure → AdminToolPolicyState::FailClosed → empty tool list. Admin users and single-tenant deployments bypass enforcement entirely.
Tenant boundary	SystemScope exposes only get_admin_tool_policy, set_admin_tool_policy, get_user_role — no raw DB handle leak.

Test coverage

• 9 unit tests on AdminToolPolicy / validators (tools/permissions.rs)
• 4 unit tests on validate_identifier / oversize / charset rejection (channels/web/handlers/tool_policy.rs)
• 5 integration tests on the HTTP handler (channels/web/tests/multi_tenant.rs): member 403, single-user 404, full CRUD with libSQL, validation 400, oversize 400
• Dispatcher regression test (agent/dispatcher.rs) asserting filter happens before auto-approval and the disabled tool never reaches RecordingToolsProvider.complete_with_tools
• Standalone e2e (tests/admin_tool_policy_e2e.rs) driving a full chat turn through TestRig and asserting the disabled tool is absent from the LLM tool list

This is exactly the "test through the caller, not just the helper" coverage .claude/rules/testing.md calls for. Both the chat path and the worker path are exercised end-to-end.

Code quality

• ✅ No .unwrap() / .expect() outside tests
• ✅ Errors mapped through thiserror / DatabaseError::Serialization
• ✅ Strong types (AdminToolPolicyState enum, UserRole::is_admin() consolidator)
• ✅ Validation extracted into shared validate_admin_tool_policy() reused by both HTTP and SystemScope::set_admin_tool_policy
• ✅ HashSet lookup for O(1) disabled_tools.contains()
• ✅ OnceCell caching is per-loop, not process-global — no stale-policy hazards across requests
• ✅ Module-level //! dispatch-exempt: doc comment + per-line trailing annotations satisfy both human readers and the pre-commit hook
• ✅ cargo fmt deterministic (the bound-local pattern survives reformatting)

Security

• Filter-before-LLM is the right place: users cannot re-enable disabled tools via tool_permissions because the tool is gone from the LLM context entirely.
• Fail-closed on errors preserves admin restrictions during transient failures.
• Multi-tenant gated: enforcement is a no-op in single-user deployments, so single-user installs don't accidentally inherit empty restrictions.
• Admin exempt: admins cannot lock themselves out — important escape hatch.
• Charset validator prevents path-like tool names (e.g. ../shell) and exotic user keys.
• Size cap (32 KB serialized + 1000 entry caps) bounds the per-loop DB roundtrip cost and prevents an admin from persisting a multi-MB blob.
• Reserved __admin__ scope is collision-safe because all real user IDs are UUIDs (defended by a runtime guard in users_create_handler plus the charset validator on the user_id key).

Performance

• Per-loop OnceCell cache means at most one DB roundtrip per chat turn / job, regardless of how many tool iterations the loop runs.
• HashSet<String> for disabled_tools gives O(1) per-tool lookup; the per-user list still does linear scan but caps at 1000 entries.
• No new background work, no scheduled tasks, no allocation hot paths.

Carry-over follow-ups (non-blocking)

None of these block merge — they're all candidates for a follow-up PR:

1. JobDelegate cache-load symmetry: worker/job.rs:1429-1450 still inlines the load closure, while ChatDelegate cleanly uses permissions::load_cached_admin_tool_policy(...). Refactoring to a single shared helper would remove ~25 lines of duplication and keep both paths in lockstep when the load logic evolves.
2. Charset error message: "Invalid tool name: 'foo.bar'" doesn't tell the admin which characters are allowed. Including the regex / charset in the error would save a documentation lookup.
3. OIDC : / \| edge case: confirm the auto-provisioning path always rewrites the sub claim to a UUID before storing it as a user_id (it does in users_create_handler today, but a defensive test would harden against drift).
4. parse_admin_tool_policy(value, source: &'static str): &str would work just as well and remove the literal-only constraint. Trivial.

Verdict

Approve. Three rounds of review feedback have been substantively addressed:

Round 1 issue	Resolution
Dispatch-exempt rule violation	✅ per-line annotations on all four state.* accesses
Per-iteration DB lookup	✅ OnceCell<AdminToolPolicyState> cache on both delegates
SystemScope::db() abstraction leak	✅ replaced with three typed methods
Validation gaps	✅ shared validate_admin_tool_policy with charset / length / entry-count / size caps
Inconsistent error handling	✅ GET returns 500 on corrupt state

Plus three improvements I didn't ask for: UserRole::is_admin() consolidation, Vec → HashSet for O(1) lookups, and a standalone e2e test file. CI is green. Ship it.

[claude]

Code review

Found 1 issue:

1. [HIGH:75] Container worker bypasses admin tool policy - ContainerDelegate::before_llm_call() refreshes tools without applying admin policy filtering, unlike ChatDelegate and JobDelegate. Containers inherit the full tool registry and are not restricted by admin-disabled tools.

https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw/blob/e0bdd74f/src/worker/container.rs#L412-L414

Line 413 should apply the admin policy filter before assigning to reason_ctx.available_tools, similar to how dispatcher.rs (line 435-441) and job.rs (line 1452-1458) do it. Container workers created by non-admin users could bypass admin tool restrictions.

[claude]

Code review

Found 6 issues:

1. [CRITICAL:95] Admin policy not applied to container jobs — ContainerDelegate::before_llm_call() loads the full tool registry without applying admin policy filtering. Non-admin users can bypass admin-disabled tools by launching sandbox jobs. Container jobs should apply the same filtering as ChatDelegate and JobDelegate before each LLM call.

https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw/blob/e0bdd74f/src/worker/container.rs#L412-L414

2. [CRITICAL:90] Container runtime lacks tenant context for policy enforcement — ContainerDelegate has no access to tenant identity, user ID, or database connection. Even if filtering code is added, it cannot determine the requesting user or load the admin policy. This is an architectural gap preventing proper multi-tenant sandbox enforcement.

3. [HIGH:85] Missing caller-level integration test for admin policy — The test suite only covers helper-level unit tests and chat turns, but lacks integration tests for JobDelegate policy enforcement. Per CLAUDE.md testing rules, when a predicate gates side effects through a wrapper, the test must drive the call site.

https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw/blob/e0bdd74f/tests/admin_tool_policy_e2e.rs

4. [HIGH:80] Missing E2E test coverage for per-user policy filtering — The test suite only validates global disabled_tools, not the user_disabled_tools per-user override path. A regression in user ID matching or HashMap lookup would not be caught.

5. [MEDIUM:75] Policy cache never expires — Admin policy updates don't apply to active chat loops until the next session. While this is a short-lived window (per-loop cache), the design should be documented.

6. [MEDIUM:70] User ID normalization not applied — is_valid_admin_policy_user_key() accepts alphanumerics but does not normalize case. If user ID formats ever change from UUIDs to case-insensitive identifiers (e.g., emails), filtering could fail silently.

Recommended priority: Fix CRITICAL issues first (container sandbox + multi-tenant), then add missing integration tests per CLAUDE.md testing discipline.

[claude]

Additional findings from Architecture Review

7. [MEDIUM:75] Missing handler-level integration tests — No tests verify the HTTP handlers (tool_policy_get_handler, tool_policy_put_handler) in isolation. Per testing rules, when a validation predicate gates a side effect (DB write), integration tests at the handler level are required to catch serialization/deserialization bugs.

8. [MEDIUM:70] Error type uses String instead of thiserror — validate_admin_tool_policy() returns Result<(), String> instead of a proper error enum per CLAUDE.md patterns. Recommend defining AdminToolPolicyError enum for better error categorization and maintainability.

https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw/blob/e0bdd74f/src/tools/permissions.rs#L193

9. [LOW:50] Inconsistent cache primitive — Uses tokio::sync::OnceCell alongside existing std::sync::Mutex, while codebase prefers Arc<RwLock<T>>. Both are correct functionally; this is a consistency note for future maintainers.

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Overall Quality: Core filtering logic is solid (no logic bugs). Policy structure and validation are comprehensive. Main issues are architectural (container bypass) and testing gaps, not implementation defects.

[claude]

Performance & Production Readiness Review

10. [MEDIUM:85] Policy cache scoped to single turn — The cached_admin_tool_policy: OnceCell is created fresh for each message turn. Admin policy updates made during multi-turn conversations won't be visible until the user sends the next message. This is not a correctness issue (cache is per-turn), but users should be aware that mid-conversation policy changes require a new message to take effect.

11. [LOW:70] Redundant get_all_settings() call when loading per-user permissions — Line 467 calls get_all_settings().await but only extracts tool_permissions. A targeted get_setting(key) would be more efficient. (Mitigated by caching on line 491, so only one DB hit per conversation.)

12. [LOW:60] Temporary HashSet allocated on every filtering call — Lines 344-350 build a user-disabled HashSet on each LLM call. With max 1,000 entries per user, impact is low, but could pre-allocate if needed.

13. [LOW:65] No explicit timeout on `get_setting()" database call — Relies on connection pool timeouts (libSQL: 5s, PostgreSQL: pool-configured). Clear, but explicit operation-level timeout would improve observability.

14. [LOW:55] Vec allocation without capacity hint — filter_admin_disabled_tools() collects without pre-allocation. Negligible for typical tool lists (dozens of items).

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Positive findings: No blocking ops, no N+1 queries, proper fail-closed error handling, multi-tenant support wired correctly. Integration test validates filtering order and visibility.