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Martin Vogel 5a479facf7 fix(release): invoke the new CI scripts via bash, and pin the exec-bit class
Completes the previous commit, which carried only the two mode changes because
the call-site edits were not staged when it landed (--amend is denied in this
repo, so this is additive rather than a rewrite).

Call sites now go through `bash`, which is what most of this repo already does and
which cannot break if a mode bit is lost to a patch application or a non-POSIX
checkout:

  scripts/package-release.sh   -> bash scripts/ci/check-binary-composition.sh
  .github/workflows/release.yml -> bash scripts/ci/append-vt-notes.sh

With the 100755 modes from the previous commit, both sides are now correct, and
either alone would have been sufficient.

tests/test_script_exec_bit_contract.sh pins the class so it cannot recur: any
tracked .sh whose COMMITTED mode is non-executable must not appear as the first
word of a command in workflows, scripts, test-infrastructure or the Makefiles.
The committed mode is the thing that matters and the thing no local run can
check -- the working copy having the bit is exactly why this shipped.

Verified in both directions: passes on this tree, and fails on the exact defect
when the mode and the call site are reverted together. It joins backslash
continuations before analysing, because its own first draft reported a false
positive on

    ... && bash \
        test-infrastructure/vm/vm-run-tests.sh --soak

where the interpreter sits on the preceding line. A contract that cries wolf
teaches people to ignore contracts, so that had to be right before it could be
useful.

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-07-30 03:05:12 +02:00
Martin Vogel 1f674c805e harden: remove capability that should never have shipped
Microsoft's ML flagged the rc.1 release binaries. The decisive evidence is that
the SAME sha256 went from 0/62 clean to Microsoft-detected in about an hour with
no byte change, so the verdict lives partly in scanner-side state and no code
change can promise a clean result. What code CAN do is stop shipping things that
have no business in a release artifact, which is worth doing on its own merits
and incidentally widens the classifier margin. Every claim below is verified
against a built binary by the new gate, not by reading source.

Executable stack (the worst of the findings). vendored/nomic/code_vectors_blob.S
is the only assembly in the build and carried no .note.GNU-stack. An unannotated
object makes ld assume the worst for the whole link, so EVERY Linux release we
have ever shipped had GNU_STACK RWE. Adds the note (cause) plus ELF-only
-Wl,-z,noexecstack (outcome); the gate fails the release if it returns.

Test seams are now opt-in, never opt-out. TEST_SEAMS=1 defines
CBM_ENABLE_TEST_SEAMS; without it the crash-orphan probe -- which forks a child
that ignores SIGTERM and loops forever, then writes its pid to a caller-supplied
path -- and the lease-ownership marker compile to trivial stubs, so call sites are
untouched and the binary holds no fork, no signal handler and no env-var string.
Opt-IN is the point: forgetting the flag yields a clean binary rather than a leaky
one. scripts/test.sh requests it in the leg that consumes it, and
tests/test_worker_watchdog.sh now asserts the capability up front instead of
dying later with an opaque "Killed: 9".

The daemon's background version check is gone. It spawned curl against
api.github.com/repos/.../releases/latest on the first eligible session of every
run to say "a newer version exists" -- a release URL and an outbound request in
every shipped binary, for something the install scripts already report. The
INJECTABLE SEAM survives: update_ops is still honoured, the fakes in
tests/test_daemon_application.c still cover notice/ownership/cancellation/replay,
and with no provider application_update_subscribe_locked returns early so no
generation ever starts. "No network request by default" is now structural.

Dead capability out of release builds. The tar.gz/zip extraction block
(gzip_decompress through cbm_extract_binary_from_zip, plus its cli.h
declarations) moves under CBM_CLI_ENABLE_TEST_API -- verified self-contained, zero
uses of any helper outside it, only callers the excluded updater and
tests/test_cli.c. Downloading an archive, decompressing it, picking an executable
out of it and marking it executable is the canonical dropper composite; it is now
absent rather than merely unreachable. SQLite is built with
-DSQLITE_OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION (no caller of load_extension anywhere in src/ or
internal/), removing that API surface and part of the dlopen/dlsym surface.

Temp files and environment scanning (S2/S3). Predictable paths in mcp.c,
artifact.c and diagnostics.c are created privately and exclusively and written
through the returned descriptor; pass_envscan.c no longer descends symlinked
directories out of the project root, and its fixed 512-byte path buffers no
longer truncate into pointer arithmetic that could land outside the buffer.

Build-time entropy. mimalloc's version banner baked __DATE__/__TIME__ into every
binary, so two builds of identical source seconds apart could never share a hash
and no release could inherit a false-positive determination made about its
predecessor. Local patch removes it (marked to survive refreshes), -Wdate-time
makes any future use a build error, and -Wl,--no-insert-timestamp stops the PE
header carrying the link clock.

scripts/ci/check-binary-composition.sh is the proof that each removal stays
removed, wired into package-release.sh after strip so the local artifact-flow
smoke enforces exactly what CI does. It asserts absences plus a CANARY string, so
handing it a compressed, stubbed or empty file fails instead of passing
vacuously, and a missing tool is a hard error -- a skipped assertion must never
look like a satisfied one.

Two build-system traps found by that gate, both of which had silently defeated a
fix: the product binary is compiled in one shot from sources, so a flag flip did
not rebuild it (now tracked by a .build-config stamp that also removes the
binary, making it independent of mtime granularity); and prod_sqlite3.o /
prod_mimalloc.o depended on a single named source, so SQLITE_OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION
and the mimalloc patch BOTH compiled to nothing on the first incremental build.
Source review would have called them done.

Deliberately NOT changed. Three seams stay in release artifacts because
scripts/smoke-test.sh runs against the real artifact and needs them:
CBM_TEST_CRASH_ON and CBM_TEST_HANG_ON inject the faults that prove supervisor
recovery, and CBM_TEST_WINDOWS_USER_PATH_RUN_ID is what keeps the PATH smoke from
writing the tester's actual PATH. The gate treats those as an allowlist, so a
NOVEL seam still fails. The true no-UI standard build is deferred rather than
rushed: src/ui/* is in PROD_SRCS and four files outside src/ui reference UI
symbols, including the daemon that serves the UI, so that assertion reports
instead of failing until the split lands -- a gate everyone knows is red teaches
people to ignore gates.

No grammar is removed. ObjectScript accounts for essentially all binary growth
since the last provably-clean release (+21.4MB rodata, +1.1MB text from two
four-line shims), which made it the obvious ablation candidate, but a dry run
performed twelve real Defender endpoint scans across standard/UI and amd64/arm64
with ObjectScript, the daemon and the expanded hooks all present and every scan
was clean. Nothing there is a deterministic trigger, so cutting a
community-contributed language would spend a real feature on unproven margin.
Lean is not a candidate either: at 99.6MB of source it is by far the largest
grammar, but it shipped in v0.9.0 which scanned 20/20 clean, so removing it would
produce a novel unscanned profile instead of restoring a known-good one.

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-07-29 23:50:53 +02:00
Martin Vogel a28749fc4e fix(release): strip Mach-O with the tool that can actually do it
The previous change generalised `--strip-all` to every platform. Apple's strip
does not accept that flag, so the macOS build failed outright -- loudly, which
was the lucky outcome.

The unlucky version was already in the tree before that: `strip -x`. It succeeds
and leaves 4058 symbols, which is precisely the state VirusTotal flagged on
darwin-arm64 while the fully stripped ELF legs came back clean. Measured on that
artifact:

  llvm-strip --strip-all   373 symbols   CLEAN
  strip        (no flags)  378 symbols   equivalent
  strip -x -S             4058 symbols   the FLAGGED state
  strip -X / -u -r        4058 symbols   likewise

So the flags are chosen per format, and a candidate that cannot do the job is a
hard error rather than a silent fallback to a weaker strip. Verified on a PATH
without llvm-strip, exactly as the runner has it: 373 symbols, codesign --verify
--strict passes, the binary runs.

Packaged and scanned before merge: darwin-arm64 0/60 and ui-darwin-arm64 0/61,
both CLEAN -- the platform that was flagged on the previous release run.

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-07-29 17:04:30 +02:00
Martin Vogel c725d9fad0 fix(release): strip Mach-O fully, not just local symbols
The first strip landed as `strip -x` on Mach-O, out of caution that a full strip
could leave an image dyld will not load. That caution was wrong for this binary,
and it cost a release cycle.

`-x` retains external symbols -- 4058 of them on darwin-arm64 -- so the macOS
artifacts kept the very symbol table the ELF legs had just shed. Run
30414312364 then flagged exactly those two artifacts (darwin-arm64,
ui-darwin-amd64) while every Linux and Windows binary came back clean, which
read as the detection "moving to macOS" when it had simply stayed on the
unstripped set.

Measured on the flagged darwin-arm64 artifact:

  strip -x        4058 symbols   VirusTotal 1 malicious / 61
  --strip-all      373 symbols   VirusTotal 0 malicious / 61  CLEAN

The packaged binary still verifies (`codesign --verify --strict` passes, having
been re-signed after stripping) and still runs. Symbol-table removal has now
cleared the detection on three independent artifacts across two platforms:
linux-amd64 twice, and darwin-arm64 here.

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-07-29 10:22:19 +02:00
Martin Vogel af250e7d65 fix(release): strip shipped binaries
Release binaries carried their full symbol table. Production compiles without
-g, but the linker keeps .symtab regardless, so every archive shipped ~536 KB of
internal function names that nothing needs: a bigger download and a free map of
the internals, by accident rather than by decision. Nothing symbolizes at
runtime -- mem_profile.c is not in the production build and never calls
backtrace_symbols -- so no diagnostics are lost.

It also had a concrete cost. Microsoft's ML scored the unstripped linux-amd64
binary Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml (1 engine of 62) and blocked release run
30398064336 at the VirusTotal gate.

That verdict is a decision-boundary artifact, not a property of the code, and
the evidence is unambiguous:

  * the dry-run build two days earlier (d587dea) is the same program 10 KB
    larger and scans CLEAN -- a 0.003% delta flips the verdict
  * the delta in that window is almost entirely DELETION of Windows-only files
    that Linux never compiled
  * the ui build of the same commit was never flagged
  * two independently flagged builds drew different sub-variants (Wacatac.B and
    Wacatac.C), which a real signature does not do
  * v0.9.0, re-analysed against the same engine build, is still clean -- so this
    is not model drift either

Stripping removes the symbol-name feature surface those models score. It cleared
BOTH flagged builds, and every other platform stays clean, so this fixes Linux
without trading the problem sideways. Verified before merge:

  linux-amd64 (f440743) stripped      0 malicious / 62 engines
  linux-amd64 (0802689) stripped      0 malicious / 62 engines
  linux-arm64 stripped                0 malicious / 61 engines
  linux-amd64-portable stripped       0 malicious / 62 engines
  windows-amd64 stripped              0 malicious / 68 engines
  darwin-arm64 stripped + re-signed   0 malicious / 60 engines

macOS needs care and gets it. The build workflow ad-hoc signs BEFORE this script
runs, so stripping invalidates that signature and the kernel then refuses to
exec the image; Mach-O is re-signed here. It also uses `strip -x` rather than
--strip-all, because a full strip can leave an image dyld will not load. The
packaged macOS binary verifies (`valid on disk`, `satisfies its Designated
Requirement`) and runs, and the full macOS smoke passes against a stripped,
re-signed binary.

Build fingerprints are derived from the file itself during execution, with
nothing embedded during compilation, so staged and target agree and activation
is unaffected.

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-07-29 03:30:43 +02:00
Martin Vogel a54ea95719 fix(windows): ship one binary — remove the launcher stub flagged as a dropper
Windows shipped a PAIR: a small permanent launcher (codebase-memory-mcp.exe)
plus the real product binary (codebase-memory-mcp.payload.exe). The launcher
existed for exactly one reason — a running .exe cannot replace its own image
on Windows, so an in-process self-update needs a second resident binary to do
the swap.

That stub is statically indistinguishable from a dropper: a small, unsigned,
zero-prevalence PE whose whole job is verify-and-execute another binary.
Defender's ML scored it Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml and blocked the v0.9.1-rc.1
release at the VirusTotal gate. It is not fixable in our code on x64 —
bcrypt-free, stripped, VERSIONINFO'd, minimal-resource and even
resource-FREE builds on CI's own MSYS2 CLANG64 toolchain were all flagged,
while the product binary scans clean on every platform.

So remove the stub and move self-update OUT of the process into install.ps1,
which runs while cbm is NOT running: Windows' image lock only blocks a
process from replacing ITSELF.  now prints the exact PowerShell
command (with the Unblock-File hint for Mark-of-the-Web); install.ps1 is
idempotent, so re-running it IS the update — it stops the daemon, renames the
running binary aside (the one mutation Windows permits on a running image),
publishes the new one, and sweeps retired copies.

Windows now matches Linux and macOS: ONE binary per platform.

  * packaging, install.ps1, npm and PyPI wrappers all carry a single binary
  * the launcher/payload ABI contract and ~2500 lines of stub state machinery
    are deleted
  * every daemon start, CLI call and hook fire loses a process spawn, a named
    pipe handshake and an stdio relay
  * test_windows_bundle_contract.sh is rewritten as an INVERTED contract: it
    now asserts no shipped surface can reintroduce a launcher/payload pair,
    and that install.ps1 retires the running binary before publishing

Verified: VirusTotal 0/67 on the packaged binary and 0/58 on install.ps1 (no
certificate involved); macOS and Linux full suites green; Windows guards all
green including the new update-handoff contract; npm 10/10; PyPI 3/3.

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-07-28 17:03:01 +02:00
Martin Vogel a20a50df77 fix(ci): executable bits on canonical entry scripts
git-apply of the staged unification recorded the new canonical entries
as 100644; workflows execute them directly (run: scripts/ci/...), so a
fresh CI checkout would fail at ci-ok/shard-union/soak/package steps
with permission denied — the same class the parity worktree's own
preflight just tripped over locally.

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-07-27 01:01:49 +02:00
Martin Vogel 0a40fe8bea feat(ci): local-remote parity lanes — artifact-flow smoke, glibc floor, Defender-ON everywhere
Closes the closable local-vs-remote venue gaps so that, outside arch
legs / YAML glue / release plumbing, every local red is a remote red
and vice versa on shared legs:

- scripts/package-release.sh: THE canonical archive step (names +
  five-file Windows bundle layout defined once); _build.yml's eight
  inline archive blocks become calls to it.
- scripts/ci/smoke-artifact.sh: the artifact-flow smoke lane — build,
  package, extract, then the canonical wrapper in artifact mode; wired
  as run.sh smoke-artifact (compose service), win.sh smoke-artifact,
  and directly runnable on macOS. Archive-layout bugs now surface
  locally instead of in a release dry run.
- glibc-floor leg (Dockerfile.glibc22 + compose + run.sh): portable
  binary smokes on ubuntu-22.04/glibc 2.35; the dynamic binary must
  refuse there (2.38+ floor by design).
- Defender-ON parity (user directive): scripts/ci/ensure-defender.ps1
  enables + VERIFIES real-time protection, fail-closed; runs in every
  Windows CI job (_test x2, _soak x3, _smoke, pr.yml) AND in the VM
  preflight; _smoke.yml's scan engine-failure soft-skip becomes a red
  gate. Expected cost: slower Windows jobs (AV scanning during
  install/build/test I/O); the next dry run proves the runner side.
- Contracts: launcher-bundle five-file check retargeted onto
  package-release.sh + per-archive canonical-call association;
  venue-parity contract requires the new lanes, counts one
  ensure-defender step per Windows job, adds --help probes for the new
  entries. Extended contract fails on the pre-change tree (verified:
  20 violations on HEAD).
- VM README: ephemerality/Defender posture documented — utmctl has no
  snapshot verb, so per-run revert stays a manual qcow2 option; the
  sweep preflight remains the standing mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-07-26 22:37:48 +02:00