Files
FabledScribe/tests/test_retrieval_query_scrubbing.py
T
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 0e658bf275 docs(6209): task document, query scrubbing, note pipeline, lesson door, live body, ledger clear, rule usage
Seven more test files: docstrings and comments state the property and its
reason, the SQL-twin note states why `\m` and not `\b` without the install
it broke, and fixture provenance says "real near-miss queries" rather than
naming the spike that collected them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-21 21:29:49 -04:00

172 lines
7.7 KiB
Python

"""A logged query never carries a credential.
WHY THIS EXISTS
`pre_tool_rule` retrieves against the RAW COMMAND TEXT and `write_path_rule`
against the code being written, so whatever was on the command line or in the
buffer is what `record_retrieval` stores in `retrieval_logs.query`. A command
that exported a token therefore stored the token.
And storing it was not the worst of it. `near_miss_samples` is the readout the
threshold documentation tells you to open before moving a bar, so the value
would come back OUT into an agent's context on the next tuning pass.
WHAT THIS PINS, IN BOTH DIRECTIONS, AND WHY THE SECOND HALF IS THE HARD ONE
A scrubber has two ways to fail and only one of them is obvious.
1. It misses a secret. Caught by the redaction cases below.
2. It eats the EVIDENCE. This is the failure that would do more damage,
because it is silent: the whole worth of a near-miss sample is reading the
query that was actually refused, and a scrubber that chewed up ordinary
commands would turn the one instrument for tuning a bar into unreadable
stubs while still looking like it worked — a surface that reads fine and
has quietly stopped saying anything.
So the second block is not padding. Its cases are REAL near-miss queries, and
they must survive byte for byte. If a future pattern is added and one of them changes, the pattern is too
greedy — tighten it rather than editing the expectation.
The secret cases use FABRICATED values in the real formats. Nothing here is or
was a live credential.
"""
import pytest
from scribe.services.retrieval_telemetry import scrub_secrets
# Fabricated, in the shapes that actually occur. The first is the shape that
# was found stored: a shell assignment of a vendor-prefixed token.
_SECRETS = [
("vendor-prefixed token in a shell assignment",
"TOK=flt_AAAABBBBCCCCDDDDEEEEFFFF\npython3 - <<'PY'",
"flt_AAAABBBBCCCCDDDDEEEEFFFF"),
("a Scribe fmcp_ key in an auth header",
"curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer fmcp_ZZZZYYYYXXXXWWWWVVVV' https://x",
"fmcp_ZZZZYYYYXXXXWWWWVVVV"),
("a forge token in an export",
"export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_1234567890abcdefghijABCDEF",
"ghp_1234567890abcdefghijABCDEF"),
("a value assigned to a secret-named variable",
'REGISTRY_PASSWORD="hunter2-correct-horse"',
"hunter2-correct-horse"),
("an api_key in a query string",
"curl 'https://api.example/v1/things?api_key=abcdef1234567890'",
"abcdef1234567890"),
("a private key block",
"-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\nMIIEowIBAAKC\n-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----",
"MIIEowIBAAKC"),
]
# Real queries, from near-miss samples.
_EVIDENCE = [
"git push origin dev",
'git pull --rebase origin dev 2>&1 | tail -3; echo "=== HEAD ==="; git log --oneline -2',
"python3 - <<'PY'\nimport pathlib\np = pathlib.Path(\"web/src/routes/admin/tuning/tuning.test.ts\")",
"docker compose up -d",
'package library\n\nimport (\n\t"context"\n\t"fmt"\n)',
"import {\n fetchTransfers,\n retryTransfer,\n} from './api'",
'grep -rn "useState" src/components/ | head -20',
# The word "token" in ordinary prose is not a token.
"explain how the token bucket rate limiter works",
"wc -l src/*.py && date",
# `--author=` contains "auth". A bare `auth` keyword in the assigned
# pattern redacted the address here, which is the evidence-eating failure
# this block exists to catch — and it shipped for one commit because the
# set did not contain a case with it. `AUTH_TOKEN=` is still caught, via
# `token`.
"git commit --author=bvandeusen@example.com -m 'x'",
"git log --author=\"Bryan Van Deusen\" --oneline",
]
@pytest.mark.parametrize(("label", "text", "secret"), _SECRETS,
ids=[c[0] for c in _SECRETS])
def test_a_credential_never_survives_into_the_query_column(label, text, secret):
"""The value goes; something visible stays in its place."""
out = scrub_secrets(text)
assert secret not in out, (
f"{label}: the credential is still in the text that would be stored"
)
assert "[redacted" in out, (
f"{label}: the span was removed without saying so. A silent deletion "
"leaves a reader unable to tell a scrubbed query from a short one, "
"which is the readout lying about itself rather than protecting you."
)
@pytest.mark.parametrize("query", _EVIDENCE)
def test_an_ordinary_query_is_stored_exactly_as_it_was(query):
"""Evidence survives byte for byte.
These came out of real `near_miss_samples`. A threshold is tuned by reading
them, so a pattern greedy enough to touch one has destroyed the instrument
it was meant to make safe — tighten the pattern, never this expectation.
"""
assert scrub_secrets(query) == query
def test_empty_and_missing_queries_pass_through():
"""Some sources log no query at all; scrubbing must not invent one."""
assert scrub_secrets(None) is None
assert scrub_secrets("") == ""
def test_the_write_path_scrubs_rather_than_the_read_path():
"""The payload built for storage carries the redacted text.
Pinned on `_build_payload` because that is the single seam every source
reaches the column through. A per-caller scrub would be three places for
one of them to be forgotten by whoever adds the fourth arm — and the one
forgotten would be the one that stored a secret.
"""
from scribe.services.retrieval_telemetry import _build_payload
payload = _build_payload(
user_id=1, source="pre_tool_rule",
query="export API_TOKEN=ghp_1234567890abcdefghijABCDEF && git push",
threshold=0.68, limit=5, project_id=0, is_task=None,
results=[], duration_ms=1.0,
)
assert "ghp_1234567890abcdefghijABCDEF" not in payload["query"]
assert "[redacted" in payload["query"]
# The rest of the command survives, or the row stops being evidence.
assert "git push" in payload["query"]
# ── the SQL twin has its own word-boundary spelling ─────────────────────
#
# Migration 0099 carries an inlined copy of these patterns, deliberately: a
# migration is a frozen record of what already ran, and importing the live
# ones would mean it quietly did something different next year.
#
# Frozen is not the same as correct. Without the boundary, `sk-` matches
# inside any word containing it — `<task-notification>` becomes
# `<ta[redacted:token]>`. And writing `\b` does not help: in Postgres ARE `\b`
# is a BACKSPACE, not a word boundary.
# `\m` (start of word) is the spelling that means what Python's `\b` means.
#
# So this pins the property no reader can eyeball, and it is a PRESENCE check
# on a token that must appear rather than an absence check on prose.
def test_the_migrations_patterns_anchor_to_a_word_start_the_postgres_way():
"""`\\m`, never `\\b` — the two are unrelated in Postgres."""
import pathlib
src = (pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
/ "alembic" / "versions"
/ "0099_scrub_secrets_from_retrieval_logs.py").read_text()
for name in ("_TOKEN", "_ASSIGNED"):
line = src.split(f"{name} = (")[1].split(")")[0]
assert r"\m" in line, (
f"migration 0099's {name} no longer anchors to a word start. "
f"Without it a vendor prefix matches INSIDE a word — `sk-` in "
f"`task-notification` is the case that actually happened — and "
f"the UPDATE overwrites the only copy of the text it mangles."
)
assert r"\b" not in line, (
f"migration 0099's {name} uses `\\b`, which is a BACKSPACE in "
f"Postgres ARE rather than a word boundary. Python's `\\b` and "
f"Postgres's `\\m` look interchangeable and are not."
)