The control plane had no caller authentication — dispatch() routed every
request straight through, and the only guards anywhere were the
(source_ip, identity_token) checks inside /resolve and /attribute, which
authenticate the *bottle* a request is about, not the *caller*. On the
consolidated backends the agent shares a network with the control-plane port
(macOS: the infra container runs 8099 on the agent's --internal network;
docker: the orchestrator container sits on the shared gateway network), so a
prompt-injected agent could GET /bottles (enumerate siblings + policies),
PUT /bottles/<id>/policy (rewrite its own egress allowlist to allow-all),
POST /resolve (read the injected upstream credentials it's never meant to
see), and POST /supervise/respond (self-approve its own proposals). Every
README guarantee collapsed to the agent's discretion.
Fix: a per-host control-plane secret required on every route but GET /health,
compared with hmac.compare_digest. It is held only by the trusted callers and
never handed to an agent:
- minted + persisted 0600 at <root>/control-plane-token (paths.host_control_plane_token);
- injected as $BOT_BOTTLE_CONTROL_PLANE_TOKEN into the orchestrator + gateway
containers via bare `--env NAME` (value inherited from the launch process,
so it never lands on argv or in `container/docker inspect`);
- presented by the gateway's PolicyResolver (reads the env) on /resolve, and by
the host CLI's OrchestratorClient (reads the host file) on every call.
The agent container is never given the env var or the host file, so from a
bottle every /bottles*, /resolve, /attribute, and /supervise/* call now
returns 401 — closing the enumeration, allowlist-rewrite, credential-lift, and
self-approval. The existing (source_ip, identity_token) checks stay as
defense-in-depth.
Enforced when configured: macOS + docker inject the secret (→ enforced). With
no secret set the server runs open and warns loudly at startup — a
fail-visible fallback for the unit suite and for Firecracker, whose
port-scoped nft already blocks agents from 8099 (wiring the secret into its
infra-VM init is a clean fast-follow, left out here to avoid churning the
prebuilt-artifact hash).
Verified end-to-end on real Apple Container: infra comes up healthy, the host
CLI (with the secret) lists bottles while an unauthenticated GET /bottles gets
401, all five issue-#400 attacks from inside the agent get 401, and egress
policy still works (200 allowed / 403 denied) — proving the gateway
authenticates to /resolve with the secret. 1829 unit tests pass, pyright
clean, pylint 9.91.
Refs #400.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addresses findings from a high-effort review of the PRD 0070 macOS backend.
Correctness:
- Stamp identity_token onto MacosContainerBottlePlan after registration. git's
gitconfig extraHeader and the supervise MCP --header read
getattr(plan,"identity_token","") at provision time, and both reach the
gateway on NO_PROXY (bypassing the egress proxy that carries the token). The
plan never carried it, so /resolve fail-closed and every git fetch/push and
supervise call from a macOS bottle would have been denied. Registration
precedes provision(), so — unlike the run-time env — the plan can carry it.
- Self-heal the orchestrator: recreate when it is not (source-current AND
answering /health), not on the source-hash label alone. A container running
current code but with a wedged HTTP server was left alone and polled to
death, failing every launch until manual deletion.
- image_digest and container_image_digest now read the same descriptor.digest
field; dropped image_digest's id/tag fallback that could yield a value the
container side can't produce — a permanent mismatch would have recreated the
shared gateway on every launch (severing every live bottle's egress, since
the replacement gets a new DHCP address).
- Poll for the agent's and gateway's DHCP address instead of a fatal read
right after `container run` (there is no --ip; the address can lag start).
Cleanup:
- One _inspect_first + _descriptor_digest behind the four inspect readers.
- Shared bind_mount_spec (util) and host_db_dir (paths) replace per-module
copies; _GIT_HTTP_PORT now imports git_http_backend.DEFAULT_PORT.
- Drop the dead _url cache / url property and the write-only agent_proxy_url.
Deferred (noted on the PR, not fixed here): the gateway image rebuilding on
every launch (needs source-hash-labeled build), SQLite shared across VM
guests, and the sh -lc profile-override edge — each is design-level or
behavior-risk beyond a review fix.
Verified: real Apple Container bring-up is green and idempotent; 1826 unit
tests pass with `container` absent (CI parity), pyright clean, pylint 9.86.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Re-enables the macos-container backend on the shared per-host orchestrator +
gateway, replacing the per-bottle companion container removed in #385. This is
the last backend in PRD 0070's roadmap.
Apple Container 1.0.0 forced three departures from the docker shape, each
verified against the live CLI (findings recorded in the networking spike):
- No `--ip`. The address is DHCP-assigned and knowable only once the container
runs, so the order inverts: gateway up -> run agent -> read its address ->
register. The identity token is minted by registration and therefore cannot
be in the agent's run-time env; it rides the proxy URL applied at
`container exec` time (bare `--env` names keep it off argv).
- No container DNS. The gateway can only be handed the control plane's IP, so
the orchestrator starts first and the gateway is pointed at its address.
- No `network connect`. Networks are fixed at run time, so the shared host-only
network is created up front; per-bottle networks would restart the gateway
on every launch and defeat the consolidation.
The agent runs with `--cap-drop CAP_NET_RAW`: Apple grants NET_RAW by default,
which would let an agent forge a neighbour's source address on the shared
segment. NET_ADMIN is already absent, so this closes the source-address half of
PRD 0070's attribution invariant.
Verified end-to-end on real Apple Container 1.0.0: both images build, the
control plane comes up healthy, the gateway reaches it by IP, and a registered
agent gets 200 for a host in its routes and 403 for one outside them. Bring-up
is idempotent — a second launch does not churn the singletons.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
npm treats optionalDependencies failures as non-fatal, so a transient
network blip fetching claude-code's platform-native binary during
`npm install -g` left a stub CLI in an image that still "built"
successfully — then got baked into the Docker/Container layer cache
until forced to rebuild. Post-build smoke test (provider-declared
argv, run in a throwaway container of the freshly built image) fails
the launch loudly instead of shipping a broken image; --no-cache
gives an escape hatch to force a from-scratch rebuild.
Closes#353.
`container build` resolves -f relative to the current working directory,
not the build context, so builds failed from any cwd other than the repo
root. Anchor a relative Dockerfile to the context before passing it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Apple Container removes containers when they stop, making the
stop-then-export flow impossible regardless of the --rm flag.
Replace `container export` (requires stopped container) with
`container exec --user root <name> tar --create ... --file=- --directory=/ .`
streamed to a temp file, then build the committed image from that archive
as before. The bottle stays running after commit, which is better UX.
Drop the stop-confirm prompt from MacosContainerFreezer since we no longer
need to stop the container at all.
`container export` requires the container to be stopped first. When a
running bottle is detected, prompt the user to confirm, stop the
container, then commit. Adds `container_is_running` and
`stop_container` helpers to the macos-container util.
Addresses #240 (comment)
`container system info` is not a valid subcommand and always returned
non-zero, causing a false-positive on the service check. Switch to
`container system status` which is the correct command.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fail early with a clear message when the Apple Container system service
isn't running, instead of surfacing an opaque XPC connection error mid-build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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