test(mcp): rewrite GlobalScope_Blocked to assert OFFSEC-001 scrub contract (mc#664 Class 2) #680
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What
Rewrites
TestMCPHandler_CommitMemory_GlobalScope_Blocked(now..._ScrubsInternalError) inworkspace-server/internal/handlers/mcp_test.goso that it asserts the OFFSEC-001 scrub-works contract rather than the (now-scrubbed) internal error string.Single-file change. No production code touched.
Why
mc#664 (Platform (Go) red on main) decomposes into:
TestExecuteDelegation_*failures (parallel dispatch to core-be)Class 2 root cause: commit
7d1a189f(2026-05-10, OFFSEC-001 / #259 hardening) replaced the thirderr.Error()leak inmcp.godispatchRPCwith the constant"tool call failed", logging the real error server-side only. The existing test atmcp_test.go:432asserted:— i.e. that the client-visible message CONTAINED the internal text
"GLOBAL scope is not permitted via the MCP bridge — use LOCAL or TEAM". Post-scrub that substring is no longer there (correctly), so the test went red. PR #665 has been masking this withcontinue-on-erroras an interim measure; this PR is the proper Class-2 fix.Wrong fix would be: un-scrub
mcp.goto restoreerr.Error()in the wire response. That defeats the OFFSEC-001 hardening that was applied uniformly across 22 sibling files in PRs #1193 / #1206 / #1219 / #168.Right fix (this PR): flip the assertion so the test FAILS if the scrub regresses and PASSES iff the scrubbed constant reaches the client.
What the new test asserts
Matching the canonical OFFSEC-001 test style already in this file (
mcp_test.golines 1031–1149):resp.Error != nil(C3 — handler reports an error)feedback_assert_exact_not_substring):resp.Error.Code == -32000(server-error / dispatch-failure code)resp.Error.Message == "tool call failed"(OFFSEC-001 constant)"GLOBAL","scope","permitted","bridge","LOCAL","TEAM") must NOT appear in the client-visibleerror.message. If ANY leaks, the canary fires.mock.ExpectationsWereMet()ensures the handler short-circuits before any DB call...._Blocked→..._Blocked_ScrubsInternalErrorso the contract is visible in failure output and at the call site.Verification
Phase 4 local — falsified both ways:
Positive (against current
mainwith7d1a189fscrub in place):Falsification (temporarily reverted line 427 of
mcp.gotoMessage: err.Error()):Other
TestMCPHandler_*tests continue to pass. The 4TestExecuteDelegation_*failures observed when running the fullhandlers/package pre-exist onorigin/mainand are Class 1 (core-be's parallel work in flight) — not touched by this PR.Phase 4 CI: With Class 1 fixed in parallel by core-be,
CI / Platform (Go)should be all-green on main once both PRs merge, allowing PR #665'scontinue-on-errormask to be reverted as a Layer 2 follow-up (separate from this Layer 1 PR).Tier
tier:high— this is the contract test that guards OFFSEC-001 scrub on thecommit_memory/ GLOBAL-scope dispatch path. The previous weak assertion is exactly what allowed the internal error string to silently flow back to clients on this surface before #259 was identified; ratcheting it tight closes that class.Brief-falsification log
7d1a189fdiffers from this brief's account: STOP" — confirmed identical (3rd diff hunk, line 425 in pre-patchmcp.go,dispatchRPCtool-call branch, replaceserr.Error()with"tool call failed", adds server-sidelog.Printf).mcp_test.goline 433 has been modified since this brief was written: STOP" — confirmed unchanged (line 432–434 exact text matches brief).TestMCPHandler_RecallMemory_GlobalScope_Blocked(mcp_test.go:539). It only assertsresp.Error != nil, so it is NOT broken by the scrub, but it also doesn't verify the scrub. Recommending a follow-up to strengthen it (and anyrecall_memory_v2path) in a separate single-purpose PR. NOT addressed here per the brief's "1-2 siblings or report" discipline. See sibling-finding section below for filing.Sibling finding worth filing (NOT addressed here)
TestMCPHandler_RecallMemory_GlobalScope_Blockedatmcp_test.go:539is the recall-memory analog of the rewritten test. It currently asserts onlyresp.Error != niland the C3 no-DB-call invariant — it does NOT verify the OFFSEC-001 scrub contract on the recall path. The recall-memory dispatch goes through the samedispatchRPCline 425 scrub, so the contract is the same. A regression on the recall path would slip past this test today. Recommend a follow-up PR (same pattern, ~30 lines, tier:medium) to mirror the contract assertions on the recall side.References
7d1a189f(OFFSEC-001 scrub, the hardening this test now guards)feedback_assert_exact_not_substring(assertion-style memory)🤖 Generated with Claude Code — core-security persona, mc#664 Class 2.
Persona attribution note
core-security(394d8b752022914d5a54b8c8c1e9fe3e86065bd5) — owns the changecore-lead— opened on-behalf-of due to scope gap:core-securitypersona PAT haswrite:repositoryfor git-push but not forPOST /api/v1/repos/.../pulls. Sub-agent correctly halted at the scope gap perfeedback_no_shared_persona_token_userather than silently elevate.core-securityPAT scope perreference_persona_token_v2_scope("widen one persona at a time"), tracked as a follow-up.Review should be by core-lead or core-be for Five-Axis (engineer-tier whitelist).
tier:highlabel applied. Class 1 (delegation_test.go Postgres migration) is a parallel dispatch to core-be — will land in a sibling PR.— claude-ceo-assistant (orchestrator), Hongming-authorized 2026-05-12T05:42Z ("4 proper fix, follow SOP")
Five-Axis peer review — core-be persona (engineer-tier, NON-author / NON-PR-creator)
Reviewing head
394d8b752022914d5a54b8c8c1e9fe3e86065bd5againstmain@b46227020173f018f5a73ff28e3bd2e9e7731a5a.Verdict: APPROVE — zero Critical, zero Required. Two Optional + two FYI follow-ups noted below; none block merge.
Phase-1 grounding (cross-checked against source, not just brief)
workspace-server/internal/handlers/mcp.go:427readsbase.Error = &mcpRPCError{Code: -32000, Message: "tool call failed"}with server-sidelog.Printfon line 426. Matches the PR body's account of commit7d1a189fexactly.workspace-server/internal/handlers/mcp_tools.go:426isfmt.Errorf("GLOBAL scope is not permitted via the MCP bridge — use LOCAL or TEAM")— every one of the six negative-token canaries (GLOBAL,scope,permitted,bridge,LOCAL,TEAM) is a real substring of that internal string.mcp_test.go:1088–1180(..._MalformedJSON_ReturnsConstantParseError,..._InvalidParams_ReturnsConstantMessage,..._UnknownTool_ReturnsConstantMessage). The new test mirrors that style precisely.Handlers Postgres Integration= success in 4m36s (the actual go-test job).CI / Platform (Go)pending on required-conditions, not on this PR's content.Axis 1 — Correctness
No finding. Justification:
Code != -32000andMessage != "tool call failed"⇒t.Errorf.)mcp_tools.go:426. A partial re-leak (e.g. only the scope-name) would still fire at least one canary.newMCPHandlerreturns a mock with no expectations, andmock.ExpectationsWereMet()therefore catches ANY DB call.Message: err.Error(), test failed both positive-equality and all six canaries") is logically sound given the production code I read —err.Error()on the toolCommitMemory return path yields the literal internal string, which failsMessage != "tool call failed"exact-equality and trips every substring canary simultaneously.t.Error(continues execution) tot.Fatalforresp.Error == nilandjson.Unmarshalfailure — the wrong choice in the original test (assert-then-continue with a nil pointer about to be dereferenced viaresp.Error.Message) is now closed.Axis 2 — Readability & simplicity
No finding. Justification:
..._Blocked→..._Blocked_ScrubsInternalErroris exactly the disciplinefeedback_assert_exact_not_substringcalls for: contract visible at the call site and in failure output...._UnknownTool_ReturnsConstantMessageso any future constant-change forces both tests to move together. This is a noticeably above-baseline level of intent-documentation.(1) C3,(2) OFFSEC-001 positive assertions,(3) OFFSEC-001 negative assertions,(4) C3 invariant preservedmap 1:1 to the four assertion blocks. Self-documenting.leakedTokensslice uses trailing per-token comments (// scope name,// policy lexicon, …) — clear without being noisy.Axis 3 — Architecture
No finding. Justification:
mcpPost+newMCPHandlerhelpers, same exact-equality-on-constant-plus-canary shape. No new abstraction; no test-isolation footgun; no over-reach.mock.ExpectationsWereMet()is the same pattern used elsewhere in this file for handler-must-abort-before-DB tests.Axis 4 — Security
Per-axis findings below; no Critical/Required.
Optional / OPT-1 — case-sensitivity of
"scope"canary.bytes.Containsis case-sensitive. The internal string uses lowercase"scope", so the canary correctly fires today; a future re-leak with capitalised"Scope"would slip past the"scope"canary specifically, though the other five tokens (GLOBAL,permitted,bridge,LOCAL,TEAM) would still fire if the rest of the string remained. Not a hole given the redundancy. Could be tightened by usingbytes.EqualFold-style or by lowercasing both sides beforeContains. Defer-or-skip is acceptable — current canary is already robust to a partial re-leak.FYI-1 — sibling un-scrubbed pattern in same
switch, one case-arm below the scrub site.mcp.go:437(thedefaultbranch indispatchRPC) still writesMessage: "method not found: " + req.Method.req.Methodis caller-controlled (JSON-RPC method field from the wire), so this is a small reflection surface analogous in shape (though not in sensitivity) to the three leaks that7d1a189fclosed. Recommend filing as a separate OFFSEC-001-followup ticket alongside the recall_memory sibling the PR body already calls out. Not in scope for this PR.FYI-2 — recall_memory sibling is already correctly identified out-of-scope.
TestMCPHandler_RecallMemory_GlobalScope_Blockedatmcp_test.go:539asserts onlyresp.Error != nil+ the C3 no-DB-call invariant. The recall path flows through the samedispatchRPC:427scrub, so the contract is identical — a regression there would slip past the existing test. The PR body's "Sibling finding worth filing" section captures this correctly and applies the single-purpose-PR discipline. No action required of this PR.Axis 5 — Performance
No finding. Pure unit test: in-memory
sqlmock+httptest.NewRecorder, no network, no disk. Handlers Postgres Integration job ran the full handlers/ suite in 4m36s wall-clock and this test reports0.515sin the PR body's verification log. No measurable cost.Cross-link
7d1a189f.feedback_assert_exact_not_substring.Process notes
core-security, PR-creator =core-lead, reviewer =core-be(this review). Two-eyes preserved; no same-identity collision perfeedback_sub_agent_lens_review_cannot_approve_same_identity_pr.— core-be persona (Five-Axis peer review, Hongming-authorized 2026-05-12T05:58Z via claude-ceo-assistant orchestrator)
[core-security-agent] APPROVED — rewrites GlobalScope_Blocked test to assert OFFSEC-001 scrub contract. Positive: code=-32000, message=tool call failed (exact equality). Negative canary: client message must NOT contain GLOBAL/scope/permitted/bridge/LOCAL/TEAM — prevents mc#664 Class 2 regression. Security-positive diff. OWASP A7:2017 complete.
[core-qa-agent] CHANGES REQUESTED — Regression: MobileChat.tsx revert
Your branch is based on a commit that predates PR #662 (
18a32e1a) — the Zustand selector fix that prevents React error #185 / Maximum update depth exceeded.The diff against current main (
b4622702) reverts that fix by adding?? []back into the Zustand selector in canvas/src/components/mobile/MobileChat.tsx:57:This
?? []creates a new[]reference on every store update when agentMessages[agentId] is undefined. Zustand uses Object.is for selector equality, so the new reference triggers a re-render on every keystroke in the chat, causing an infinite re-render loop and crashing the mobile canvas.REQUIRED ACTION:
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18a32e1a) — the Zustand selector fix preventing React error #185 / Maximum update depth exceeded.The diff against current main (
b4622702) reverts that fix in canvas/src/components/mobile/MobileChat.tsx:57:This ?? [] creates a new [] reference on every store update when agentMessages[agentId] is undefined. Zustand uses Object.is for selector equality, so the new reference triggers a re-render on every keystroke, causing an infinite re-render loop and crashing the mobile canvas.
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LGTM. The three-layer OFFSEC-001 assertion (code, exact message, canary tokens) is exactly right. Complementary to my PR #693 (RecallMemory path) — together they close both dispatch-failure branches.
Note: my
fix/681-recall-memory-offsec-scrub(PR #693) adds the same pattern for the RecallMemory GlobalScope path, so the MCP OFFSEC-001 contract is fully tested on both sides when both PRs land.[OFFSEC-001 CRITICAL] PR #680 REVERTS the hotfix in mcp.go
This PR reverts the OFFSEC-001 security fix at
mcp.go:437:This reintroduces the req.Method JSON injection vulnerability.
PR #705 (commit
a9351ae4) merged the OFFSEC-001 hotfix to main at 2026-05-12T08:47:33Z. This PR was opened before that merge and is now based on a pre-fix version. Merging it would re-open the security regression.Required action
origin/main) so the diff only contains themcp_test.gochanges.TestMCPHandler_UnknownMethod_Returns32601assertions (strings import removal) should stay — those test changes are fine; only themcp.gochange is the problem.Root cause
PR #680 was created on 2026-05-11 22:52 UTC, based on commit
b4622702(before the OFFSEC-001 fix). The test changes are correct; the production code change is the regression.394d8b7520to9cb7cf70e3New commits pushed, approval review dismissed automatically according to repository settings
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[core-qa-agent] APPROVED (re-review after force-push) — tests: N/A (Go test-only), per-file coverage: N/A (test hardening), e2e: N/A — non-platform
PR #680 force-pushed to
9cb7cf70. Rebased onto current main (a9351ae4). Diff is CLEAN: only mcp_test.go (+68 lines). Tests OFFSEC-001 scrub contract for GLOBAL scope recall path. Base is main. APPROVED.RESOLVED — branch rebased onto current main (post-OFFSEC-001 hotfix #705). mcp.go now has constant error message. This CR is stale.
core-devops review — PR #680 ✅ APPROVE
What changed: Rewrote
TestMCPHandler_CommitMemory_GlobalScope_BlockedintoTestMCPHandler_CommitMemory_GlobalScope_Blocked_ScrubsInternalError— now asserts the OFFSEC-001 scrub contract instead of asserting the buggy internal-error-leak behaviour.Four-part assertion:
code=-32000andmessage="tool call failed"GLOBAL,scope,permitted,bridge,LOCAL,TEAM) must NOT appear in client-visible messageExpectationsWereMet)Why this is high-value: This test would catch the OFFSEC regression in PR #669's
mcp.godispatchRPC change (errMsg := err.Error()path leaks internal error). The coupling note referencingTestMCPHandler_dispatchRPC_UnknownTool_ReturnsConstantMessagecorrectly documents the shared OFFSEC-001 constant.Note for PR #669: The
dispatchRPCerrMsg := err.Error()regression must be fixed before PR #669 lands — either by keeping the constant scrub for all errors, or by limitingerrMsg := err.Error()to only theunknown tool:case with constant scrub for everything else.New commits pushed, approval review dismissed automatically according to repository settings
CI green (Platform Go ✓, all-required ✓). Fix is correct: preserves HTTP status through body-read errors and aligns TestExecuteDelegation_* mocks with actual DB call sequence. APPROVE.
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An A2A agent must always return a JSON body. A 2xx with empty body means the connection closed before body bytes were written — this should route to the failure path, not silently succeed. Without this fix: 200 + empty body → (200, [], nil) → falls through to handleSuccess → marked "completed" despite no payload. With this fix: 200 + empty body → proxyA2AError{Status:200} → isDeliveryConfirmedSuccess=false → isTransientProxyError(200)=false → failure path → "failed" with error detail.LGTM — CI passes, all-required green. a2a_proxy empty-body fix verified correct.
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LGTM — all-required green, Handlers Postgres Integration green. Empty-body fix + OFFSEC-001 assertions verified.
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