Review follow-up on #469: the data plane held the same control-plane secret
that authorizes every route, so a compromised egress/git-gate could queue a
supervise proposal AND approve it (or rewrite policy, read injected tokens) —
the (source_ip, identity_token) checks attribute the *bottle*, not the caller.
Replace the single shared bearer secret with role-scoped, HMAC-signed tokens
(compact HS256 JWTs, stdlib-only — no new dependency):
* new `control_auth` mints/verifies `{role}` tokens; roles are `gateway`
(data plane) and `cli` (host operator/launcher).
* the orchestrator holds only the signing *key* and verifies; `dispatch`
gates each route by role — `gateway` reaches /resolve + /supervise/
{propose,poll}, everything else is `cli`-only (401 unauthenticated,
403 wrong role).
* the gateway is handed a pre-minted `gateway` token it cannot rewrite into
`cli`; the host CLI mints its own `cli` token from the host key.
* `gateway_init` scopes the signing key to the orchestrator process and the
gateway token to the data-plane daemons, so even in the combined infra
container a compromised data-plane daemon never sees the key.
Launchers (docker gateway + infra, macOS infra) inject the minted token(s);
Firecracker stays open behind its nft boundary. Open mode (no key) still grants
full `cli` access — the fail-visible fallback for tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A registry row only ever left the registry two ways: an explicit
teardown_bottle (the launcher's cleanup callback) or the same-IP supersede
sweep in register(). Neither runs when the launching CLI dies hard, so the
row outlives its container.
That orphan is not inert. Source IPs are recycled by the backend's DHCP and
by_source_ip fail-closes on ambiguity, so a leftover row at a reused address
resolves no policy at all for the next bottle that lands there — and a
bottle with no policy denies every host, which surfaces to the agent as
"host X is not in the allowlist" for hosts that were never the problem.
Add reap_absent/reconcile and call it from the macOS launch path before
registering, so each launch self-heals the registry. Restores the invariant
the data plane needs: at most one active row per live address, and none for
a dead one. The second half matters as much as the first — when several rows
claim a *live* address the newest wins and the rest are swept, otherwise a
recycled address stays ambiguous, which is exactly the bricked state.
The host supplies the live set because the orchestrator runs inside the
infra container and cannot see the backend. A grace window exempts rows
younger than it, so reconciliation cannot race a bottle still coming up, and
a reconcile failure is logged rather than blocking an otherwise-fine launch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The launch path's counterpart to the gateway-side PolicyResolver: a trusted
host-side HTTP client for the orchestrator control plane, so the CLI can
register/teardown/re-policy bottles. Stdlib-only.
- OrchestratorClient.register_bottle(source_ip, *, image_ref, metadata,
policy) -> RegisteredBottle(bottle_id, identity_token) (POST /bottles)
- teardown_bottle(id) -> bool (DELETE; 404 -> False, idempotent for cleanup)
- set_policy(id, policy) -> bool (PUT; live reload)
- list_bottles() / health()
- Unlike the fail-closed data-plane resolver, this is the trusted caller: a
non-2xx (other than the meaningful 404s) raises OrchestratorClientError so
the launch path surfaces failures rather than swallowing them.
pyright 0 errors; pylint 9.82/10; unit suite green (1742 tests; the 13
test_sidecar_init /bin/sleep errors are pre-existing NixOS-local noise).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WBMWTEtQdJ4W5UrWuLHCck
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