A webhook turn does not inherit auto mode - #137
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Included review availability: Your plan includes up to 3 reviews per rolling hour; 2 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughWebhook-originated and delegated bot turns now carry unattended context. ChangesUnattended approval safeguards
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to Webhook turns no longer inherit auto mode, keeping unattended actions behind explicit approval while preserving auto mode for attended turns; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Webhook
participant Server
participant SourceBot
participant TargetBot
participant autoDecision
participant PermissionCard
Webhook->>Server: start unattended turn
Server->>SourceBot: mark unattended status
SourceBot->>TargetBot: delegate with originating bot ID
TargetBot->>autoDecision: evaluate tool request with unattended context
autoDecision->>PermissionCard: leave permission request unanswered
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In `@server/index.ts`:
- Around line 612-614: Ensure the webhook marker added to webhookTurns is
removed whenever turn startup or detached dispatch fails, including
task/instance validation errors, so cleanup does not depend solely on the
completion event. Preserve the marker for successful webhook turns and add a
regression test covering a failed webhook dispatch followed by an attended turn
on the same thread, using the existing startup flow and webhookTurns symbols.
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136-139: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winPin the instance for the first bot, like the other two tests do.
This test relies on
defaultSelection()choosing thegrokinstance so thatFAKE_ACP_MODE=permissionraises the approval request. The tests at Lines 184 and 234 pinmodelSelectionexplicitly. If the default selection rule changes, this test stops exercising the permission path and fails with "a webhook turn auto-approved instead of asking", which points at the wrong cause.Proposed fix
- expect((await api("PATCH", `/api/bots/${bot.id}`, { autoApprove: true })).status).toBe(200); + expect( + ( + await api("PATCH", `/api/bots/${bot.id}`, { + autoApprove: true, + modelSelection: { instanceId: "grok", model: "fake-model" }, + }) + ).status, + ).toBe(200);🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@server/index.ts`:
- Around line 289-307: Update isUnattended to refresh the stored timestamp
whenever a valid, non-expired unattended mark is read, so UNATTENDED_TTL_MS
measures inactivity rather than total turn duration; preserve expiration cleanup
and the existing false results for missing or expired bot IDs.
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In `@server/unattended.test.ts`:
- Around line 136-139: Update the first bot setup in the relevant unattended
test to explicitly set the same grok modelSelection used by the other
permission-path tests, before enabling autoApprove. Do not rely on
defaultSelection(), so the test consistently exercises the
FAKE_ACP_MODE=permission approval flow.
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Auto mode is something a person switches on for turns they are present for. A webhook turn starts with nobody at the keyboard, on a payload somebody else wrote — so inheriting that switch silently converts "I trust this bot while I'm watching" into "I trust this bot at 3am on whatever GitHub posts". Everything else about webhook triggers defends against a FORGED request, and that part is solid: hashed secret, constant-time compare, untrusted data framing, loopback by default, rate limit. This is about an authentic one. The guard standing behind auto mode is a regex list its own comment calls not a security boundary, and it must not stand in for a human. So the rule lives with the other policy in auto-approve.ts rather than as a condition at the call site: autoDecision refuses when the turn is unattended, before any allow-list is consulted, so an "always allow" grant can't widen into it either. The approval still appears in the chat and can be answered if someone is around. The mark goes on the DETACHED task's thread, since a webhook runs in its own task — marking the bot's active thread would gate the wrong conversation — and is cleared when the turn settles. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review caught that the gate held on the bot that read the webhook payload and released on the bot that acted on it. A webhook turn starts at depth 0, so the agents tools ARE mounted and the bot can hand work to a teammate — whose turn then ran with full auto mode and every always-allow grant, nobody at the keyboard. One hop was all it took, and the depth cap does not help. The mark is now keyed by BOT rather than thread. A bot runs one turn at a time so the identity is exact, and the comms paths know who is asking but not always from which thread — ask_bot had no source thread at all. Both ask_bot and delegate_bot now pass the caller's state to the turn they start. It expires by time instead of being cleared on turn.completed. Bus subscribers fire in registration order and the delegation drain runs AFTER the main fold, so clearing there blanked the flag before the hop that needed to read it — the obvious fix, and wrong. A stale mark only ever means "ask a human", so the failure direction is safe, and the TTL stops the map growing without bound. Two wiring tests, because the existing ones exercise the rule and would all still pass if the mark were never set or never read. Both were confirmed to FAIL with the wiring removed: one deletes the gate in the fold, the other breaks only the hop. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review mutated the other comms path — index.ts:124, the ask_bot one — and both existing tests stayed green. The propagation was written correctly, but nothing held it there, so a refactor could have silently reopened the hole this branch exists to close, with the suite passing. It is also the likelier path in practice: a webhook-triggered bot pulling a teammate in for an answer mid-turn is more ordinary than handing the work off asynchronously. Third test drives FAKE_ACP_MODE=ask-peer. The fake asks whichever peer list_bots returns first, so the other bots are hidden to make the target deterministic. Verified to fail with that one line mutated: "the asked teammate auto-approved — ask_bot did not carry the gate". Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Auto mode is something a person switches on for turns they are present for. A webhook turn starts with nobody at the keyboard, on a payload somebody else wrote. Inheriting that switch silently converts "I trust this bot while I'm watching" into "I trust this bot at 3am on whatever GitHub posts."
Worth being precise about what this is and isn't: everything else in #133 defends against a forged request, and that part is genuinely well built — hashed secret, length-guarded
timingSafeEqual,[UNTRUSTED WEBHOOK EVENT DATA]framing, loopback by default, 60/min rate limit. This is about an authentic one. The guard standing behind auto mode is a regex list whose own comment calls it not a security boundary; it must not be what stands in for a human.The change
The rule lives with the other policy in
auto-approve.tsrather than as a condition at the call site:It refuses before any allow-list is consulted, so an "always allow" grant can't widen into it either. The approval still appears in the chat and can be answered if someone happens to be around; if not, it times out and denies, and the bot reports what it couldn't do.
One detail that was easy to get wrong: a webhook runs in its own detached task, so the mark goes on that thread. Marking the bot's active thread would have gated whichever conversation the user happened to have open instead. Cleared when the turn settles.
Scope
Webhooks only. Scheduled routines still inherit auto mode — a routine's prompt is written by the user, where a webhook payload is not — but that's a defensible line to revisit, not a certainty.
Tests
Three new cases pin it in both directions: unattended refuses auto mode, unattended refuses an always-allow grant, and the same action still auto-approves when a person started the turn. 413 pass overall.
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