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fix(sdk,awi): stop the envelope choosing the verdict; key the AWI charge to its idempotency record - #302
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The offline verifier's core property is that everything deciding an outcome
comes from the SIGNED bytes. Three fields broke it, and one edited byte was
enough to exploit any of them.
`alg` and `canonicalization` were read from the envelope and short-circuited
to UNSUPPORTED *before* the signature was ever checked. So flipping
`"alg": "Ed25519"` to `"RS256"` on a genuine, fully verifiable receipt
produced:
genuine, untouched -> verified tampered=False
envelope alg -> RS256 -> unsupported tampered=False
envelope canonicalization -> v2 -> unsupported tampered=False
UNSUPPORTED is a statement about the verifier's own capability. The attacker
was choosing it. That is the integrity/capability inversion the six-state
taxonomy exists to prevent, and it reached the public MCP tool, where the
model is told verbatim that the result is "not evidence of tampering."
`kid` had the same shape, already documented: key SELECTION came from the
envelope, so a relabelled bundle resolved to INVALID (or, worse, to
UNKNOWN_KEY -- a genuine receipt made to look like a key-distribution
problem).
Fix: parse the signed payload first, select the key by its `kid`, and gate
capability on its `alg`/`canonicalization`. If the signature then verifies,
that kid is authenticated retroactively. Envelope values are still checked,
but afterwards, and disagreement is MISMATCH -- a finding about the bundle --
never UNSUPPORTED.
Payload-first selection lost one detection, so it is restored explicitly:
when the payload names a kid we do not hold, we now check whether the
envelope names one we do that actually signs those bytes. If so the bundle is
provably self-contradicting and that is a verdict (MISMATCH), not a gap.
Without this a forger could name a nonexistent kid to downgrade a detectable
inconsistency into "refresh your key set and try again".
Caller-visible signal, which had to change with it. Moving attacks out of
INVALID and into MISMATCH would have made them *quieter*, since MISMATCH set
no tampering flag and the CLI mapped it to exit 2, "could not determine" --
a caught forgery reported as an outage. But widening `is_tampered` to cover
MISMATCH was wrong too: MISMATCH also carries caller-expectation failures
like `expected_issuer`, and calling those forgery is the same category error
in the opposite direction. It also made the MCP endpoint render "its
signature does not hold" for a check that runs before verification.
So `is_tampered` stays narrow (INVALID only, a claim that cryptography
failed), a new `is_rejected` covers INVALID+MISMATCH for the accept/reject
decision most callers actually want, the CLI branches on `is_rejected`, and
the endpoint checks MISMATCH before is_tampered so it keeps its accurate
wording.
## Tests that encoded the defect
Five failed. None was fixed by weakening it.
- Two SDK cases asserted envelope-only alg/canonicalization -> UNSUPPORTED
with the comment "None of these are evidence of tampering", on bundles
with a deliberately bogus signature. Replaced with the same values
declared in the SIGNED payload (still resolving before any signature
check, so the file's no-cryptography constraint holds), plus a new test
asserting the envelope specifically cannot downgrade the status.
- `test_unknown_key_is_not_reported_as_tampering` relabelled only the
envelope, so the plane did hold the key and the receipt was genuine. Now
names an unpublished kid inside the signed bytes -- the real unknown-key
case -- and a new test pins the relabelled-envelope case to MISMATCH.
- `test_preflight_failures_do_not_touch_the_key_store` used envelope alg to
stand in for a cheap rejection. An envelope-declared value is no longer
cheaply rejectable, by design; the fixtures now declare it in the payload.
- `test_signature_under_a_key_the_payload_does_not_name_is_rejected` caught
the real regression described above, and is passing on its original
assertions.
## Validation
- pytest 1732 passed, 19 skipped (app + b2a_sdk)
- ruff clean; mypy clean across 172 source files
- taxonomy re-checked end to end with a live Ed25519 signer:
genuine -> verified; envelope alg/canonicalization/kid/receipt_id edits ->
mismatch (is_rejected); payload tampering -> invalid; absent key ->
unknown_key (not rejected)
Found by an audit sweep of envelope-vs-signed-payload trust boundaries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NVvJpNRU9wp3WXowfeqtPU
The governed AWI HTTP path called money.charge() with no operation_key, so
it had neither the uq_ledger_wallet_operation_key constraint nor the
adopt-the-existing-debit recovery on IntegrityError that the governed MCP
path relies on. Unlike the read-modify-write races elsewhere in this
codebase, this one does not depend on a row lock being a no-op -- it is
exposed on PostgreSQL too.
The failure branch is what makes it bite. If the charge commits but its
acknowledgement is lost -- a cancelled coroutine, a connection drop -- the
`except Exception` handler releases the permit budget and calls
abort_awi_http_governed, which *completes* the idempotency record with
{"error": "charge_failed"} and a 500. The caller's key now replays a
permanent error, so it retries under a fresh key and is debited a second
time for one logical action. Because response_json is non-NULL, both
reconciler branches skip the record, so nothing ever flags the orphan.
Six governed endpoints route through this path.
The fix threads the idempotency record id onto AwiHttpGovernedContext
(begin -> begin_with_record) and passes it as operation_key, so a retry
adopts the first durable debit instead of creating one -- the same
database-evaluated guarantee the MCP path already had.
## The regression test fails without the fix
test_awi_route_keys_its_debit_to_the_idempotency_record drives the real
route and asserts the debit carries the request's record id, and that no
governed AWI charge lands with a NULL operation_key.
Asserted on the route rather than on money.charge directly, and that
distinction matters: an earlier draft of this test exercised the charge
mechanism in isolation and would have passed even with the wiring missing,
because the mechanism was never the broken part -- this caller simply did
not use it. Against the unfixed service the route test fails with
`assert 0 == 1`.
## Validation
- pytest 1733 passed, 19 skipped (app + b2a_sdk)
- test confirmed to fail against the pre-fix service (output above)
- ruff clean; mypy clean across 172 source files
Found by an audit sweep of the money and metering paths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NVvJpNRU9wp3WXowfeqtPU
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WalkthroughThe PR keys governed AWI ledger debits to durable idempotency records. It also updates receipt verification to use signed metadata, classify envelope conflicts as ChangesGoverned AWI charge idempotency
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…rify The three cases I added to b2a_sdk/tests/test_receipt_verifier.py asserted `status is INVALID`, which requires actually verifying a signature. That file is explicitly for cases that resolve *before* any signature check, so it runs against a bare SDK install without the `verify` extra -- its docstring says so. The python_sdk CI matrix installs the bare wheel, so all four legs failed with "Ed25519 verification requires the 'cryptography' package". They passed locally only because cryptography is installed here. Moved to tests/test_receipt_portability.py, which has a real signing helper and always has cryptography. That also makes the tests stronger than what they replaced: instead of asserting "not UNSUPPORTED" on a bundle with a deliberately bogus signature, they now build a genuinely VERIFIED bundle, assert the baseline verifies untouched, and then show one edited envelope byte turns it into MISMATCH rather than an attacker-chosen UNSUPPORTED. Two fixture bugs found and fixed while writing them: - `_signed_bundle` takes `kid` as a keyword-only parameter, so passing it again through **overrides raises TypeError. The bundle is now built and then mutated. - `_local_signer()` hardcodes its kid, so calling it twice yields one kid with the second key silently overwriting the first in a merged key set. The relabelling test was therefore failing because the wrong key was selected, not because of relabelling -- proving nothing. It now mints a second key under a genuinely distinct kid. The assertions use `is_rejected`, not `is_tampered`. MISMATCH deliberately does not set `is_tampered`, because it also covers caller-expectation failures such as `expected_issuer`, and calling those forgery would be the same category error as reporting a missing key as tampering. Validation: pytest 1751 passed, 19 skipped; ruff clean; the SDK test file re-checked with cryptography blocked, and none of the remaining failures are in it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NVvJpNRU9wp3WXowfeqtPU
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Two corrections to my own description above, and a CI fix. 1. The description of
So the corrected version of point 3 is: 2. Fixed in Two fixture bugs surfaced while writing them, both of which would have made a test that passes while proving nothing:
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The verifier work changes behaviour the SDK changelog already documents: the Unreleased section promised `b2a-verify-receipt` exit codes "0 verified, 1 forged, 2 undetermined", which no longer describes what the CLI does now that MISMATCH is a rejection. Amend that entry, record the signed-payload authority rule and the new `is_rejected` property, and note that MISMATCH is a third outcome family alongside the integrity and capability ones. The app-side changes were undocumented entirely. Add the governed AWI `operation_key` fix and the public MCP `verify_receipt` wording change to the root changelog's Unreleased security section. No behaviour change; documentation only.
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In `@app/services/awi_http_governance.py`:
- Around line 60-63: Ensure the governed charging flow rejects a missing
record_id before invoking money.charge, preventing unkeyed debits from direct
context construction. Make record_id required where appropriate or add explicit
validation in the relevant governance method, and add a negative-path test
covering record_id=None.
In `@b2a_sdk/src/b2a_sdk/receipt_verifier.py`:
- Around line 376-395: Update the receipt verifier around signing_input and
key_id so a trusted Ed25519 key verifies the exact bytes before alg or
canonicalization can produce UNSUPPORTED; preserve capability rejection only
after successful verification. In
b2a_sdk/src/b2a_sdk/receipt_verifier.py:376-395, make this ordering change;
update b2a_sdk/tests/test_receipt_verifier.py:122-140 and
tests/test_public_mcp_endpoint.py:624-652 to remove unsigned preflight
expectations and assert post-verification rejection; add tampered alg and
canonicalization negative cases in tests/test_receipt_portability.py:700-751;
document the corrected security claim in b2a_sdk/CHANGELOG.md:15-21.
In `@b2a_sdk/src/b2a_sdk/verify_cli.py`:
- Around line 17-19: Update the verify CLI documentation around the MISMATCH
status to describe exit code 1 as “rejected,” not tampered. Reserve tampering or
forgery descriptions for INVALID, while preserving the distinction that MISMATCH
may result from expected_issuer disagreement despite a valid signature.
Apply the same fix in `@b2a_sdk/src/b2a_sdk/verify_cli.py` around lines 183 - 188:
Add coverage for the envelope-metadata mismatch path at the CLI boundary.
In `@tests/test_awi_http_governance.py`:
- Around line 150-221: Add a route-level regression test alongside
test_awi_route_keys_its_debit_to_the_idempotency_record that injects a
post-commit money.charge acknowledgement failure. Verify recovery adopts the
existing debit by asserting exactly one ledger charge, preserving the original
ledger_entry_id, and completing the idempotency record with the recovered
success state; also cover the relevant failure/negative path without permitting
a second debit.
In `@tests/test_public_mcp_endpoint.py`:
- Around line 746-752: Update the unknown-key fixture built in _signed_bundle so
its modified signing_input is re-signed with a generated Ed25519 private key
whose kid is absent from the published key set; keep the matching unknown kid in
both the signed payload and fixture metadata, and preserve the existing
unknown_key assertion.
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app/services/awi_http_governance.py (1)
97-109: LGTM!Also applies to: 187-199, 216-229, 261-270
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app/routers/mcp_public.py (1)
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765-789: LGTM!
| #: Identity of this request's idempotency record. Used as the ledger | ||
| #: ``operation_key`` so a retried charge is deduplicated by the database | ||
| #: rather than by hoping the first attempt's outcome was observed. | ||
| record_id: str | None = None |
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Reject a missing record_id before charging.
All current route callers obtain gov from begin_awi_http_governed, but direct context construction can still pass operation_key=None and create an unkeyed debit. Make record_id required or reject it before money.charge. Add a negative-path test.
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In `@app/services/awi_http_governance.py` around lines 60 - 63, Ensure the
governed charging flow rejects a missing record_id before invoking money.charge,
preventing unkeyed debits from direct context construction. Make record_id
required where appropriate or add explicit validation in the relevant governance
method, and add a negative-path test covering record_id=None.
| algorithm = payload.get("alg", "Ed25519") | ||
| if algorithm != "Ed25519": | ||
| # Signer-declared, and therefore a genuine statement about what this | ||
| # verifier can do. | ||
| return _fail( | ||
| VerificationStatus.UNSUPPORTED, | ||
| f"unsupported signature algorithm: {algorithm!r}", | ||
| key_id=key_id, | ||
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| signed_canonicalization = payload.get("canonicalization") | ||
| if isinstance(signed_canonicalization, str) and signed_canonicalization != CANONICALIZATION: | ||
| # Verifying under rules the payload was not signed with would produce a | ||
| # confident answer to the wrong question. Only trusted because it is | ||
| # signed; receipts predating this field carry no counterpart and are | ||
| # handled by the envelope cross-check after verification. | ||
| return _fail( | ||
| VerificationStatus.UNSUPPORTED, | ||
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Verify known-key bundles before returning UNSUPPORTED.
signing_input is still attacker-controlled until its signature verifies. An attacker can edit alg or canonicalization in a genuine bundle while retaining its original signature. Lines 376-395 then return UNSUPPORTED before the available Ed25519 key verifies the exact bytes. This converts a detectable INVALID receipt into an undetermined capability result.
b2a_sdk/src/b2a_sdk/receipt_verifier.py#L376-L395: whenkey_idresolves to a trusted Ed25519 key, verify the exactsigning_inputbytes before returning a capability status based on payload metadata.b2a_sdk/tests/test_receipt_verifier.py#L122-L140: remove fixtures that treat unsupported values in an unsigned payload as signer-declared; move signature-dependent cases to the cryptography-enabled suite.tests/test_public_mcp_endpoint.py#L624-L652: do not assert that an unsigned payload declaration is a preflightunsupportedresult; assert the post-verification rejection path instead.tests/test_receipt_portability.py#L700-L751: add cases that alteralgandcanonicalizationinside a verified bundle’ssigning_inputwithout re-signing, then assert rejection rather thanUNSUPPORTED.b2a_sdk/CHANGELOG.md#L15-L21: update the security claim after the verifier only treats these fields as trusted following signature verification.
As per coding guidelines, include relevant negative-path tests.
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In `@b2a_sdk/src/b2a_sdk/receipt_verifier.py` around lines 376 - 395, Update the
receipt verifier around signing_input and key_id so a trusted Ed25519 key
verifies the exact bytes before alg or canonicalization can produce UNSUPPORTED;
preserve capability rejection only after successful verification. In
b2a_sdk/src/b2a_sdk/receipt_verifier.py:376-395, make this ordering change;
update b2a_sdk/tests/test_receipt_verifier.py:122-140 and
tests/test_public_mcp_endpoint.py:624-652 to remove unsigned preflight
expectations and assert post-verification rejection; add tampered alg and
canonicalization negative cases in tests/test_receipt_portability.py:700-751;
document the corrected security claim in b2a_sdk/CHANGELOG.md:15-21.
Source: Coding guidelines
| 1 well-formed bundle that does not hold together — treat as | ||
| tampered (failed signature, or a signature that verified over | ||
| bytes contradicting the envelope around them) |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Keep MISMATCH messaging and CLI coverage aligned with rejection semantics.
A MISMATCH can result from expected_issuer disagreement while the signature remains valid, so CLI output should describe exit code 1 as rejection rather than tampering or forgery. Add a CLI regression test that changes envelope metadata on a genuinely signed bundle and asserts the rejected result and exit code.
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b2a_sdk/src/b2a_sdk/verify_cli.py#L17-L19(this comment)b2a_sdk/src/b2a_sdk/verify_cli.py#L183-L188
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In `@b2a_sdk/src/b2a_sdk/verify_cli.py` around lines 17 - 19, Update the verify
CLI documentation around the MISMATCH status to describe exit code 1 as
“rejected,” not tampered. Reserve tampering or forgery descriptions for INVALID,
while preserving the distinction that MISMATCH may result from expected_issuer
disagreement despite a valid signature.
Apply the same fix in `@b2a_sdk/src/b2a_sdk/verify_cli.py` around lines 183 - 188:
Add coverage for the envelope-metadata mismatch path at the CLI boundary.
| async def test_awi_route_keys_its_debit_to_the_idempotency_record( | ||
| client, clean_database | ||
| ): | ||
| """The governed AWI route must key its debit to the request's identity. | ||
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| This path used to call ``money.charge()`` with no ``operation_key``, so it | ||
| had neither the ``uq_ledger_wallet_operation_key`` constraint nor the | ||
| adopt-the-existing-debit recovery the governed MCP path relies on. A charge | ||
| that committed but whose acknowledgement was lost took the failure branch, | ||
| which releases the permit budget and *completes* the idempotency record as | ||
| ``charge_failed`` -- so the caller retried under a fresh key and paid twice | ||
| for one logical action. | ||
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| Asserted on the real route rather than on ``money.charge`` directly, | ||
| because the defect was the wiring: the mechanism already existed and this | ||
| caller simply did not use it. | ||
| """ | ||
| provisioned = await provision_agent_wallet(client) | ||
| permit = await create_tool_permit( | ||
| client, | ||
| wallet_id=provisioned["agent_wallet_id"], | ||
| key_id=provisioned["key_id"], | ||
| tool_name="awi_rag_query", | ||
| max_credits=50, | ||
| idem_key="permit-awi-opkey", | ||
| ) | ||
| resp = await client.post( | ||
| "/v1/awi/rag/query", | ||
| json={"query": "laptops", "top_k": 3}, | ||
| headers={ | ||
| **provisioned["agent_headers"], | ||
| "X-Wallet-Id": provisioned["agent_wallet_id"], | ||
| "X-Permit-Id": permit["permit_id"], | ||
| "Idempotency-Key": "awi-opkey-1", | ||
| }, | ||
| ) | ||
| assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text | ||
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| factory = get_session_factory() | ||
| async with factory() as session: | ||
| record_id = ( | ||
| await session.execute( | ||
| select(IdempotencyRecordModel.record_id).where( | ||
| IdempotencyRecordModel.wallet_id == provisioned["agent_wallet_id"], | ||
| IdempotencyRecordModel.idempotency_key == "awi-opkey-1", | ||
| ) | ||
| ) | ||
| ).scalar_one() | ||
| keyed = ( | ||
| await session.execute( | ||
| select(func.count()) | ||
| .select_from(LedgerEntryModel) | ||
| .where(LedgerEntryModel.operation_key == record_id) | ||
| ) | ||
| ).scalar_one() | ||
| unkeyed = ( | ||
| await session.execute( | ||
| select(func.count()) | ||
| .select_from(LedgerEntryModel) | ||
| .where( | ||
| LedgerEntryModel.wallet_id == provisioned["agent_wallet_id"], | ||
| LedgerEntryModel.action == "charge", | ||
| LedgerEntryModel.operation_key.is_(None), | ||
| ) | ||
| ) | ||
| ).scalar_one() | ||
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| assert keyed == 1, ( | ||
| "the AWI debit is not keyed to its idempotency record, so a retry " | ||
| "after a lost acknowledgement would debit again" | ||
| ) | ||
| assert unkeyed == 0, "a governed AWI charge landed with no operation_key" |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Add a regression test for the post-commit charge recovery path.
This test verifies only a normal successful debit. It does not force the path where the ledger debit commits but money.charge() loses its acknowledgement. The change must adopt that existing debit instead of aborting the request and allowing a later charge to create another debit.
Add a route-level test that injects this failure mode. Assert one ledger debit, the original ledger_entry_id, and correct idempotency completion after recovery.
As per coding guidelines, include “relevant negative paths.”
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In `@tests/test_awi_http_governance.py` around lines 150 - 221, Add a route-level
regression test alongside
test_awi_route_keys_its_debit_to_the_idempotency_record that injects a
post-commit money.charge acknowledgement failure. Verify recovery adopts the
existing debit by asserting exactly one ledger charge, preserving the original
ledger_entry_id, and completing the idempotency record with the recovered
success state; also cover the relevant failure/negative path without permitting
a second debit.
Source: Coding guidelines
| # A key this plane genuinely does not publish, named inside the SIGNED | ||
| # bytes, is the real "unknown key" case. | ||
| unknown = await _signed_bundle() | ||
| payload = json.loads(unknown["signing_input"]) | ||
| payload["kid"] = "kid-that-does-not-exist" | ||
| unknown["signing_input"] = json.dumps(payload) | ||
| unknown["kid"] = "kid-that-does-not-exist" |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Sign the unknown-key fixture with an unpublished key.
This fixture changes signing_input after _signed_bundle() signs it. The signature is therefore invalid, not a genuine receipt from an unpublished key. Generate an Ed25519 key that is absent from the published key set, sign the modified signing_input, and retain the unknown_key assertion.
As per coding guidelines, separate real flows from stubs or demos.
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In `@tests/test_public_mcp_endpoint.py` around lines 746 - 752, Update the
unknown-key fixture built in _signed_bundle so its modified signing_input is
re-signed with a generated Ed25519 private key whose kid is absent from the
published key set; keep the matching unknown kid in both the signed payload and
fixture metadata, and preserve the existing unknown_key assertion.
Source: Coding guidelines
…ath; make dispatch-budget release once-only without a row lock; refuse SQLite in production (#304) Three fixes from the audit findings #302 listed as not addressed. Each was verified against current main and each ships a regression test confirmed to fail against the unfixed source. 1. reserve_budget spent against expired permits. #298 added the expiry predicate to authorize_and_reserve's guarded update, but reserve_budget is a second reservation path and did not get it. An expired permit keeps status="active" in storage (expiry is a dynamic check, not a stored state), so the WHERE clause matched and budget moved. Adds the same expires_at > now term, plus precise denial reasons (permit_expired / permit_not_active) instead of reporting every miss as budget_exceeded. Engine-independent: this was wrong on PostgreSQL too. Test: an active permit whose expires_at is moved into the past is refused with permit_expired and spent_credits stays 0. Against the unfixed source the reservation succeeds (DID NOT RAISE). 2. release_dispatch_budget_once was not once-only. It read budget_released_at under with_for_update=True and then decremented the permit. SQLAlchemy silently drops FOR UPDATE on engines that do not support it, so two concurrent callers both observed NULL and both released — the permit was credited back twice for one dispatch. The claim is now a guarded UPDATE (NULL -> now, rowcount == 1 wins); only the winner decrements. The decrement itself was already atomic; it was the claim that was not. Test: two concurrent releases must yield exactly one True and exactly one decrement. Against the unfixed source both return True. 3. SQLite was a permitted production durable-state backend. STATE_BACKEND=memory was refused in production-like environments but sqlite was not, and auto-resolution would select it from a SQLite DATABASE_URL — the ordinary local-development setting. That is the deployment-level enabler for every remaining FOR UPDATE-is-a-no-op finding in the money path. Both the explicit and the auto path now fail closed. Tests: production-like + STATE_BACKEND=sqlite with SQLITE_URL set, and auto-resolution from a sqlite DATABASE_URL, both raise DurableStateConfigError. test_sqlite_without_url_refuses_production_like previously asserted the refusal reason was the missing SQLITE_URL, which implied a configured URL would be accepted. Its assertion is updated to the stricter reason; the behaviour it guards (production refuses this config) is unchanged. Also: the docs sweep in test_onboarding_contract.py walked .claude/worktrees/, a gitignored path holding full checkouts, so a copy of an already-excluded file failed the sweep for anyone using a git worktree there. Excluded .claude/. Tests: 1711 passed, 32 skipped; production_trust 6 passed; ruff clean; mypy clean across 172 source files; demo and red-team trust-plane gates --assert clean. Not addressed here: the remaining read-modify-write findings (wallet balance, reclaim_child_wallet double credit, refund reconciliation clobbering reservations, velocity counters) and the local-governed reconciler crash window. Fix 3 removes their production reachability; converting them to guarded updates is separate work. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FsXYfTHDLiFNQ24R5JPN7H Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
…he debit and its link (#306) * fix(idempotency): reconcile the local governed crash window between the debit and its link The engine-independent finding from #302's 'Not addressed here' list. A local governed call charges with operation_key=<record_id> and only afterwards attaches that ledger entry to its idempotency record. A crash in that gap left response_json IS NULL and ledger_entry_id IS NULL, which matched neither reconciler pass: - the unstarted pass is scoped to operation_kind == 'upstream_mcp' - the stuck pass requires ledger_entry_id IS NOT NULL So the record stuck forever, replays kept raising in-progress, and needs_review stayed 0 — real money had moved and nothing surfaced it. Adds a pass that runs before the stuck pass and adopts the orphan by the key the charge already carries: if a ledger entry exists with operation_key == record_id, link it, and the existing stuck logic then repairs the record from its receipt or counts it for manual review. No new repair semantics. Deliberately NOT deleting the no-debit case. Local tools run their side effect before the debit exists, so expiring the identity would let a retry execute it a second time — the invariant asserted by test_stale_local_identity_is_not_deleted_without_compensation_proof, which caught exactly that mistake in an earlier revision of this change. Without a committed debit as compensation proof the record is left untouched. The session is created with autoflush=False, so the newly written links are flushed explicitly before the stuck pass selects them. Tests (both confirmed to fail against the unfixed source): - debit + receipt orphaned -> (repaired, needs_review) == (1, 0) - debit, receipt missing -> (repaired, needs_review) == (0, 1) Unfixed, both report (0, 0) — the record is invisible to reconciliation. Tests: 1709 passed, 32 skipped; production_trust 6 passed; ruff clean; mypy clean across 172 source files; demo and red-team trust-plane gates --assert clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FsXYfTHDLiFNQ24R5JPN7H * fix(idempotency): accept only a debit as compensation proof when linking The linking pass adopted any ledger entry carrying the record's operation_key. The wallet/operation-key uniqueness constraint already makes a same-key credit impossible alongside the debit, so this was not reachable today -- but the pass's whole premise is "money left this wallet", and that direction should be stated in the query rather than inferred from a constraint elsewhere. Adds a negative test that plants a same-key credit and asserts reconciliation reports (0, 0) and leaves ledger_entry_id and response_json untouched. Confirmed to fail against the unguarded query (reports (1, 0): the credit is adopted as proof of a charge). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FsXYfTHDLiFNQ24R5JPN7H --------- Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two security fixes from an audit sweep of this repository's concurrency, money, and verification paths. Both were verified against the code and both ship with regression tests confirmed to fail against the unfixed source.
1. The unauthenticated envelope could choose the verification verdict
verify_bundle()readalgandcanonicalizationfrom the envelope and short-circuited toUNSUPPORTEDbefore the signature was ever checked. One edited byte therefore converted a genuine, fully-verifiable receipt into "your verifier is too old":This is the exact integrity/capability inversion the six-state taxonomy exists to prevent — the verifier's own docstring says the non-
INVALIDstatuses "must not be reported as evidence of tampering." It also reaches the unauthenticated MCP tool, where an LLM is handed "CANNOT VERIFY (unsupported) — a statement about the verifier's situation, not evidence of tampering." It was evidence of tampering. And it hands anyone in the transport path a deniability primitive: silently turn aVERIFIEDreceipt into something an operator resolves by upgrading rather than escalating.Fix — four changes that had to land together:
kidis authenticated retroactively, so a relabelled envelope cannot steer key selection at all. This also closes the previously-documentedkidgap, whichdocs/ip/carried as[not implemented].MISMATCH— a finding about the bundle — neverUNSUPPORTED.is_rejectedproperty coversMISMATCHas well asINVALID.is_tampereddeliberately stays narrow —INVALIDonly — becauseMISMATCHalso covers a caller-suppliedexpected_issuerdisagreement, which is not a claim about tampering. Callers that need "do not trust this bundle" should readis_rejected.is_rejectedto exit 1, not exit 2 ("could not determine").3 and 4 are not extras. The fix moves the envelope-
kidattack out ofINVALIDand intoMISMATCH; sinceMISMATCHdid not previously feed any rejection signal and the CLI routed it to "couldn't tell," shipping 1–2 alone would have made that attack's caller-visible signal worse — a caught forgery reported as an outage.Two existing tests failed, and they were wrong. Both asserted that an envelope-only
alg/canonicalizationoverride yieldsUNSUPPORTED, on bundles with a deliberately bogus signature, under the comment "None of these are evidence of tampering." That encoded the defect. They are replaced with cases where the signed payload declares the unsupported value — genuineUNSUPPORTED, still resolving before any signature check so the file's no-cryptographyconstraint holds.The new tests asserting the envelope specifically cannot downgrade the status need a real Ed25519 signer, so they live in
tests/test_receipt_portability.py, not in the SDK's bare-install test file whose whole premise is that it runs without theverifyextra. That premise is now verified directly: the SDK suite passes in a venv with nocryptographyinstalled (56 passed, 3 skipped).Exposure: this verifier has never been released
An earlier revision of this description claimed the published
b2a_sdk0.4.0 sdist carried this defect. That was wrong, and the correction matters because it lowers the real-world exposure. The publishedpython-sdk-v0.4.0tag (released 2026-08-07) contains noreceipt_verifier.pyat all —git ls-tree -r python-sdk-v0.4.0 -- b2a_sdk/src/b2a_sdk/lists eight modules and the verifier is not among them. The whole verifier, CLI, andverifyextra sit under## Unreleasedinb2a_sdk/CHANGELOG.md. No user has ever been able topip installthe defective verifier; it is fixed before its first release.2. The governed AWI HTTP charge had no
operation_keyawi_http_governance.pycalledmoney.charge()with nooperation_key, so it had neither theuq_ledger_wallet_operation_keyconstraint nor the adopt-the-existing-debit recovery the governed MCP path relies on. Unlike the read-modify-write races elsewhere in this codebase, this one does not depend on a row lock being a no-op — it is exposed on PostgreSQL too.The failure branch is what makes it bite. If the charge commits but its acknowledgement is lost, the
excepthandler releases the permit budget and completes the idempotency record ascharge_failedwith a 500. The caller's key now replays a permanent error, so it retries under a fresh key and is debited a second time for one logical action. Becauseresponse_jsonis non-NULL, both reconciler branches skip the record, so nothing ever flags the orphan. Six governed endpoints route through this path.Fix: thread the idempotency record id onto
AwiHttpGovernedContext(begin→begin_with_record) and pass it asoperation_key, so a retry adopts the first durable debit instead of creating one.The regression test drives the real route and asserts the debit carries the request's record id, and that no governed AWI charge lands with a NULL
operation_key. An earlier draft testedmoney.charge()in isolation and would have passed even with the wiring missing — the mechanism was never the broken part, this caller simply did not use it. Against the unfixed service the route test fails withassert 0 == 1.Type of Change
Validation
Every CI job was reproduced locally, including the ones that need PostgreSQL or a booted server.
pytest -q tests b2a_sdk/tests— 1771 passed, 32 skippedruff check .clean;mypy app/clean across 172 source files (mypy 2.3.1, the pinned floor)python scripts/check_doc_references.py— 266 refs across 242 files resolvealembic upgrade headclean;test_permit_postgres_concurrency11 passed;test_mcp_postgres_multiprocess13 passed (two-process kill-at-checkpoint crash recovery)python_sdkjob: wheel built and installed into a clean venv; SDK suite green against the wheel with nocryptographypresent; SDK ruff + mypy cleaninvariant_attack_proof: verdictHELD, killed mid-storm at 12 committed debits, zero failing checkstrust_release_gate,trust_coverage_gate(82.6% trust scope),production_trust(6 passed),quickstart-check(6 passed)demo_trust_plane,dogfood_trust_plane,red_team_trust_plane,agent_ops_war_roomall--assertcleangitleaksworking-tree scan clean, and the known-bad canary is still caughtpython scripts/export_openapi.py --check— matchesapp.openapi()SECURITY_LIMITATIONS.mdRisk
Two behavioural changes callers can observe. A bundle whose envelope disagrees with its signed content now returns
MISMATCHwithis_rejected=Trueand CLI exit 1, where it previously returnedUNSUPPORTED/INVALIDwith exit 2 — scripts branching on exit codes will see caught forgeries move from "undetermined" to "rejected", which is the intended correction. Because the verifier is unreleased, no published consumer is affected. And a retried AWI charge now adopts the existing debit rather than creating one. No migration, no API surface change.Not addressed here
The sweep produced fourteen verified findings; these are two of them. Still open, and not fixed by this PR:
operation_kind='local', debit committed,ledger_entry_id IS NULL) matching neither reconciler branch — the record sticks forever andneeds_reviewstays 0.FOR UPDATEis a no-op, and nothing forbids SQLite in production: the wallet balance debited by read-modify-write (nosa_updatetouchesWalletModelanywhere);reclaim_child_walletable to credit a parent twice;release_dispatch_budget_oncenot once-only;reserve_budgetmissing the expiry predicate; refund reconciliation clobbering concurrent reservations; velocity counters under-counting, which silently disables the spend cap and anomaly freeze.Generated by Claude Code
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Changes authentication-adjacent verification semantics and ledger charge deduplication on six AWI routes; CLI exit-code branching and caller-visible MISMATCH vs UNSUPPORTED behavior shift, though the SDK verifier is unreleased.
Overview
Two security fixes: offline receipt verification and governed AWI HTTP billing.
Receipt verifier (
b2a_sdk.receipt_verifier) no longer trusts the unauthenticated envelope forkid,alg, orcanonicalization. Those gates and key selection now read the signedsigning_input; envelope fields are cross-checked only after a successful signature, with disagreement reported asMISMATCH(notUNSUPPORTEDorINVALID). Addsis_rejected(INVALID+MISMATCH) for “do not trust”;is_tamperedstaysINVALID-only. Theb2a-verify-receiptCLI mapsis_rejectedto exit 1 instead of 2. Publicverify_receiptMCP tool narratesMISMATCHbeforeis_tamperedso envelope inconsistency is not described as a bad signature.Governed AWI HTTP (
awi_http_governance) switches idempotency tobegin_with_record, storesrecord_idon context, and passesoperation_key=ctx.record_idintomoney.charge()—matching governed MCP deduplication so a committed debit with a lost ack can be adopted on retry instead of double-charging under a new idempotency key.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit cfea3c3. Configure here.