v1.72.0.0 feat: Aside recommended driver for third-party web actions (#2710)

* fix(browse): never chmod shared, symlinked, or foreign-owned dirs to 0700

restrictDirectoryPermissions unconditionally chmodded its target. On hosts
where the process holds CAP_FOWNER (Docker as root, CI sandboxes) that
chmod SUCCEEDS on root-owned /tmp whenever a state file is configured
there (BROWSE_STATE_FILE=/tmp/x.json derives stateDir=/tmp), and a 0700
/tmp breaks access(2)-based checks machine-wide for every other process.

The POSIX branch now refuses shared sticky dirs, world-writable mounts
under root, foreign-owned dirs, and symlinked state dirs; refusals warn
once per process instead of failing silent; owned-but-unreadable dirs
keep their chmod self-repair; and the check-then-act race is closed with
fd-anchored O_NOFOLLOW + fstat/fchmod on a single inode.

Regression tests cover the sticky-dir, foreign-uid, mkdirSecure-reapply,
and symlinked-dir shapes.

* fix: hash with sha256sum before shasum on Linux (config slugs + setup verify)

shasum is perl/macOS; coreutils-only Linux ships sha256sum. Two call
sites hard-coded shasum: gstack-config's sha8_of/sha16 (so
resolve-user-slug exited 127 for any Linux user with a git email, the
Layer-3 fallback) and the generated bun-installer checksum snippet in
the browse/qa NEEDS_SETUP flow (spurious "checksum mismatch" on the
same distros). Both now resolve sha256sum first and fall back to
shasum -a 256.

New shim-PATH tests pin BOTH hasher branches of sha8_of to a known
vector and cover the sha8->sha16 collision escalation end to end.

* feat(contract): Aside is the recommended driver for third-party web actions

The Third-Party Web Actions contract (ship, spec, office-hours,
land-and-deploy, setup-deploy) now names the Aside AI browser as the
recommended driver: it acts across the user's real logged-in sessions,
which is what vendor-dashboard moments need. Supersedes the v1.65.0.0
de-Aside stance by explicit user directive (2026-08-27).

Detection is a runtime probe (command -v + aside --version under a
portable gtimeout/timeout/bare guard; nonzero exit = not detected).
Consent options render per detection state with Aside recommended and
the first-party stack ($B headed + handoff, GStack Browser) as the
universal fallback. Absent on macOS, the contract mentions the
aside.com download (macOS 15+) once per task; gstack never runs an
installer and binary presence is never consent. Drive discipline:
step-wise over whole-task delegation, vendor confirm mode on, vendor
skill/--help text scoped to operational syntax only, secrets minimized
(autofill / human-used copy buttons), Apple credential creation never a
drive target in any skill, failure path quotes redacted errors and
falls back only with fresh consent.

test/third-party-actions.test.ts pins every load-bearing sentence (21
tests) plus repo-wide tripwires: an aside command allowlist
(--version/--help only, code spans AND prose) and a ban on Aside
installer invocations across all generated docs. Budget ratchet
fixture and carve skeleton ceilings refreshed in this commit per the
ratchet protocol.

* chore: regenerate remaining browse-setup snippet consumers

The sha256sum-first checksum fallback in the generated NEEDS_SETUP
snippet renders into every browse-consuming skill, not just browse/qa.
Mechanical regen of the other ten consumers; no template changes here.

* test: consent-gate E2E suite + functional fs-capability probes

Five hermetic gate-tier E2E cases (tpa-present / absent-linux / broken /
absent-darwin / apple-ban) drive the real contract section through
claude -p with PATH shims for aside and uname; the absent cases filter
any REAL aside binary out of the child PATH and assert absence with
Bun.which before spawning, so dev machines cannot leak into detection.
Registered per-case in E2E_TOUCHFILES/E2E_TIERS with template-level
deps (ship/SKILL.md.tmpl, gen-skill-docs.ts) and added to the evals.yml
matrix with tier: gate. eval:bg:periodic's detach timeout rises to
36000s for the grown periodic shard census (floor-enforced by
test/eval-detach-timeout-floor.test.ts); CLAUDE.md doc updated to match.

test/helpers/fs-caps.ts adds canRevokeWrites/canRevokeReads functional
probes; 13 chmod-based tests swap their uid-0-only guards for the
probes so suites skip honestly on CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE containers (this
sandbox: uid 1000 with full caps) instead of asserting revocations the
kernel ignores. path-validation's symlink test targets /etc/passwd
(exists everywhere; /etc/crontab is absent on Amazon Linux).

* docs: file the Aside follow-ups in TODOS

Phase-2 QA logged-in-evidence path (P3), a hostile-vendor-skill E2E for
the contract's override sentence (P2), and fd-anchoring the file-level
permission writes to match the directory hardening (P3).

* chore: bump version and changelog (v1.72.0.0)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: update project documentation for v1.72.0.0

docs/skills.md: Third-Party Web Actions subsection under /ship (Aside
recommended driver, consent rules, credential boundaries). BROWSER.md:
"Aside and third-party drives" subsection under Real-browser mode + ToC
entry, including the no-gstack-side-audit-trail caveat (ship adversarial
finding 12). TODOS.md: mark the finding-12 doc note done.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: apply cross-model doc review fixes for v1.72.0.0

docs/skills.md: restore the /ship closing line above the new subsection.
BROWSER.md: ToC label matches the heading; BROWSE_STATE_FILE env row
documents the new dir-hardening refusal + one-time warning. CHANGELOG:
correct the hasher precedence wording (sha256sum first, shasum fallback)
and the fs-caps count (14 test files, verified against the diff).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: close cross-model doc-review gaps for v1.72.0.0

setup's manual bun-verify instruction gets the same sha256sum-first
fallback the automated snippet got (coreutils-only Linux); BROWSER.md's
BROWSE_STATE_FILE row now lists the under-root world-writable refusal;
test-cost ceilings in CLAUDE.md/CONTRIBUTING.md updated for the five
new gate E2E cases (~$4.20 E2E / ~$4.35 evals).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(test): gate the symlink-refusal test to POSIX and drop the umask assumption

The symlink regression test exercised the POSIX O_NOFOLLOW branch but ran
on Windows, where restrictDirectoryPermissions takes the icacls branch and
stat has no POSIX modes (0o666 always) — windows-free-tests failed on
mode 493 vs 438. Early-return on win32 like every sibling test in the
file, and assert the target's mode is UNCHANGED (captured post-mkdir)
instead of hardcoding 0o755, which a strict umask would also break.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Garry Tan
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commit b5a951e623
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@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ export const CARVE_GUARDS: Record<string, CarveGuard> = {
},
behavioral: 'external',
externalTest: 'test/skill-e2e-ship-section-loading.test.ts',
maxSkeletonBytes: 71_300, // token-reduction Phases 1-2 + #2700 document-release anchors; measured 70,568 post-merge regen
maxSkeletonBytes: 73_601, // Aside third-party-actions contract + review-fix sentences; measured 72,872
minUnionBytes: 181_000, // token-reduction Phases 1-2 (v1.69.x branch); measured union 201,464
mustContain: ['VERSION', 'CHANGELOG', 'review', 'merge', 'PR'],
// v1.58.5.0: pre-push-guard install (#2077) stacks on the shared first-run-guidance preamble.
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ export const CARVE_GUARDS: Record<string, CarveGuard> = {
// the #538 opt-out + D1 evidence directive — ratio 1.104 measured.
// #2499 project-scope MCP jq in the brain-sync block grew every tier-2+
// skeleton ~1.5KB (entry resolution emitted once per SKILL.md).
maxSkeletonBytes: 68_200, // token-reduction Phase 4 wave 4 (v1.69.x branch): 2A/2B carved out; measured 66,852
maxSkeletonBytes: 69_978, // Aside third-party-actions contract + review-fix sentences; measured 69,285
minUnionBytes: 115_800, // Phase 4 wave 4; measured union 118,175
mustContain: ['design doc', 'problem statement'],
maxSizeRatio: 1.12,
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ export const CARVE_GUARDS: Record<string, CarveGuard> = {
gateAfterStop: undefined, // operational skill
},
behavioral: 'prompt',
maxSkeletonBytes: 57_500, // Phase 4 wave 1; estimated ~56.2KB rendered — re-measured at regen
maxSkeletonBytes: 58_733, // Aside third-party-actions contract + review-fix sentences; measured 58,151
minUnionBytes: 91_000, // Phase 4 wave 1; estimated union ~94.9KB
mustContain: ['readiness', 'merge', 'canary', 'revert', 'staging'],
},
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ export const CARVE_GUARDS: Record<string, CarveGuard> = {
gateAfterStop: undefined,
},
behavioral: 'prompt',
maxSkeletonBytes: 51_200, // Phase 4 wave 2: Phases 4.5-5 carved at the post-confirmation boundary; measured 50,681
maxSkeletonBytes: 53_645, // Aside third-party-actions contract + review-fix sentences; measured 53,114
minUnionBytes: 64_500, // measured union 67,430
mustContain: ['HARD GATE', 'dedupe', 'quality gate', 'acceptance criteria', 'archive'],
},
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@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
/**
* Functional filesystem-capability probe for tests that simulate failure by
* revoking permissions (chmod 0500 a dir, then assert writes fail).
*
* The existing `process.getuid?.() === 0` guards catch only literal root —
* but containers with CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE, user-namespace sandboxes, and some
* overlay/fuse mounts ignore mode bits for non-root users too (observed:
* Vercel sandbox, uid 1000, writes succeed in a 0500 dir). There the
* "unwritable" simulation silently holds nothing and the test asserts a
* failure that never happens. This probe tests the actual behavior once per
* process instead of guessing from the uid.
*/
import * as fs from 'fs';
import * as path from 'path';
import * as os from 'os';
let cachedWrite: boolean | null = null;
let cachedRead: boolean | null = null;
/** True when chmod 0000 on a file actually blocks this process's reads. */
export function canRevokeReads(): boolean {
if (cachedRead !== null) return cachedRead;
if (process.platform === 'win32' || process.getuid?.() === 0) return (cachedRead = false);
const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'fs-caps-'));
const file = path.join(dir, 'probe');
fs.writeFileSync(file, 'x');
fs.chmodSync(file, 0o000);
try {
fs.readFileSync(file);
cachedRead = false; // read succeeded → mode bits are not enforced here
} catch {
cachedRead = true;
} finally {
fs.chmodSync(file, 0o600);
fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
}
return cachedRead;
}
/** True when chmod 0500 on a directory actually blocks this process's writes. */
export function canRevokeWrites(): boolean {
if (cachedWrite !== null) return cachedWrite;
if (process.platform === 'win32' || process.getuid?.() === 0) return (cachedWrite = false);
const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'fs-caps-'));
const locked = path.join(dir, 'locked');
fs.mkdirSync(locked);
fs.chmodSync(locked, 0o500);
try {
fs.writeFileSync(path.join(locked, 'probe'), 'x');
cachedWrite = false; // write succeeded → mode bits are not enforced here
} catch {
cachedWrite = true;
} finally {
fs.chmodSync(locked, 0o700);
fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
}
return cachedWrite;
}
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@@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ export const E2E_TOUCHFILES: Record<string, string[]> = {
'plan-design-with-ui-scope': ['plan-design-review/**', 'test/fixtures/plans/ui-heavy-feature.md', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-plan-design-with-ui.test.ts'],
'budget-regression-pty': ['test/helpers/eval-store.ts', 'test/skill-budget-regression.test.ts'],
'ship-idempotency-pty': ['ship/**', 'bin/gstack-next-version', 'bin/gstack-version-bump', 'scripts/resolvers/sections.ts', 'lib/worktree.ts', 'test/helpers/claude-pty-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-ship-idempotency.test.ts'],
'tpa-present': ['scripts/resolvers/third-party-actions.ts', 'ship/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'ship/sections/apple-release.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-third-party-actions.test.ts'],
'tpa-absent-linux': ['scripts/resolvers/third-party-actions.ts', 'ship/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'ship/sections/apple-release.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-third-party-actions.test.ts'],
'tpa-broken': ['scripts/resolvers/third-party-actions.ts', 'ship/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'ship/sections/apple-release.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-third-party-actions.test.ts'],
'tpa-absent-darwin': ['scripts/resolvers/third-party-actions.ts', 'ship/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'ship/sections/apple-release.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-third-party-actions.test.ts'],
'tpa-apple-ban': ['scripts/resolvers/third-party-actions.ts', 'ship/SKILL.md.tmpl', 'ship/sections/apple-release.md.tmpl', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-third-party-actions.test.ts'],
'ship-section-loading': ['ship/**', 'scripts/resolvers/sections.ts', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'test/helpers/auq-sdk-capture.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts', 'test/skill-e2e-ship-section-loading.test.ts'],
'plan-ceo-section-loading': ['plan-ceo-review/**', 'scripts/resolvers/sections.ts', 'scripts/gen-skill-docs.ts', 'test/helpers/auq-sdk-capture.ts', 'test/helpers/session-runner.ts'],
// Data-driven behavioral guard for the 'plan'/'prompt' carves (eng, design,
@@ -547,6 +552,12 @@ export const E2E_TIERS: Record<string, 'gate' | 'periodic'> = {
'plan-design-with-ui-scope': 'gate', // ~$0.80/run
'budget-regression-pty': 'gate', // free, library-only assertion
'ship-idempotency-pty': 'periodic', // ~$3/run, real /ship in plan mode
'tpa-present': 'gate', // consent/credential safety guardrail; deterministic shims + grep asserts
'tpa-absent-linux': 'gate', // consent/credential safety guardrail; deterministic shims + grep asserts
'tpa-broken': 'gate', // consent/credential safety guardrail; deterministic shims + grep asserts
'tpa-absent-darwin': 'gate', // consent/credential safety guardrail; deterministic shims + grep asserts
'tpa-apple-ban': 'gate', // consent/credential safety guardrail; deterministic shims + grep asserts
'ship-section-loading': 'periodic', // ~$3/run, real /ship; asserts section reads
'plan-ceo-section-loading': 'periodic', // ~$3-5/run, real /plan-ceo-review; asserts section read
'carve-section-loading': 'periodic', // ~$1-2/skill, data-driven; GSTACK_CARVE_SKILL scopes to one