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Now the single consolidated PR for this repo (git skill: one branch named ai, one PR).

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The bypass, for reviewers

check_is_alpha_numeric, validate_safe_filename and check_is_not_empty_and_only_one_line read the caller's variable with ${!name}, but bash scoping is dynamic, so their own locals shadowed a caller variable of the same name. Measured before the fix:

varname='../../../etc/passwd'; validate_safe_filename varname            -> rc 0 (accepted)
varname='!@#';                 check_is_alpha_numeric varname            -> rc 0 (accepted)
varname=$'multi\nline';        check_is_not_empty_and_only_one_line varname -> rc 0 (accepted)

Locals are now prefixed. Regression tests are in string_bsh_tests, and were verified to FAIL against the pre-fix code rather than pass vacuously.

One resolution to review

The merge of the wayland branch conflicted in use_sudo.sh. Resolved to master's sudo_error_exit_if_unavailable (which gained an optional graphical mode in fe11d7b) rather than the branch's older auto-detecting variant, which also calls generic_gui_message.py -- a path that does not exist here, unlike the non-.py helper master calls. The branch's approach to "visible sudo error" is therefore superseded, not merged. Worth a second opinion if that was not intended.

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Gate green against master. strings.bsh self-tests pass; sanitize_string 24 tests with black/pylint/mypy clean.

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  • New Features
    • Added the sanitize-echo command for sanitizing command-line input or standard input, with optional output-length limits.
    • Added reproducible VirtualBox OVA normalization, producing deterministic exports and validating archive contents.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved streaming sanitization for large or incomplete markup inputs, including graceful handling of closed output streams.
    • Strengthened shell input validation, filename checks, diagnostics, and newline preservation.
  • Chores
    • Updated automation so review processing runs only for newly created comments containing @claude.
    • Added required tooling for automated test environments.

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The pull request updates comment-driven Claude review triggering, adds sanitization CLIs and streaming stdin handling, hardens shell helpers, introduces deterministic VirtualBox OVA normalization, expands CLI regression tests, and adjusts review and CI tooling.

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Comment-triggered Claude review

Layer / File(s) Summary
Comment-only review workflow
.github/workflows/consumer-claude-code.yml
The workflow now runs only for created issue and review comments, gates jobs on @claude, updates concurrency grouping, and preserves reusable workflow secret forwarding.

Sanitization

Layer / File(s) Summary
sanitize-echo command and entrypoint
usr/bin/sanitize-echo, usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/sanitize_echo.py
Adds argument and stdin sanitization, usage handling, length limits, ASCII output, and exit-status behavior.
Incremental stdin processing
usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/sanitize_string.py, usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/strip_markup/strip_markup_lib.py
Streams stdin incrementally, bounds pending incomplete markup, enforces output budgets, and handles broken pipes quietly.
Streaming sanitizer regression coverage
usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/tests/sanitize_string.py
Tests multiline markup, throttled probing, pending-buffer flushing, length limits, malformed options, absent stdin, and broken-pipe behavior.

Shell helpers

Layer / File(s) Summary
Validation and helper behavior
usr/libexec/helper-scripts/strings.bsh
Adds bounded diagnostics, stricter variable and file validation, newline preservation, entropy checks, formatting changes, and safer indirect expansion.
Shell helper regression coverage
usr/libexec/helper-scripts/strings.bsh
Expands displaytime, validator, default-value, newline, bypass, and optional-shellcheck test coverage.

Reproducible OVA normalization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Deterministic OVA transformation
usr/libexec/helper-scripts/vbox-ova-reproducible-normalize
Adds deterministic UUID, MAC, CID, OVF, VMDK, manifest, and archive metadata normalization.
Safe extraction and CLI orchestration
usr/libexec/helper-scripts/vbox-ova-reproducible-normalize
Validates archive paths, links, and member sizes, then coordinates extraction, normalization, manifest rewriting, and deterministic repacking.

Additional CLI regression coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Terminal, markup, and Unicode CLI tests
usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/stdisplay/tests/stdisplay.py, usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/strip_markup/tests/strip_markup.py, usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/unicode_show/tests/unicode_show.py
Adds tests for terminal CLI behavior, environment detection, markup parser fallbacks, Unicode diagnostics, stdin handling, and error reporting.

Review and CI tooling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Non-paged review summaries and test packages
usr/libexec/helper-scripts/git-review-driver.sh, .github/dm-consumer.yml
Disables paging for the review summary and adds safe-rm to the test environment packages.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

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usr/libexec/helper-scripts/strings.bsh (2)

383-397: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Verify the entropy source choice for a hard-fail path.

head --bytes on a tr -dc-filtered /dev/random stream now hard-fails on a short read. On modern Linux /dev/random no longer blocks indefinitely after initialization, so this is fine at runtime, but very early boot (pre-seed) can still block, which turns a helper used for secrets into a hang rather than the loud failure the comment promises. Consider /dev/urandom (identical quality post-init) or documenting the boot-time expectation.

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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@usr/libexec/helper-scripts/strings.bsh` around lines 383 - 397, Update the
entropy source used by random_alpha_numeric from /dev/random to /dev/urandom so
the hard-fail short-read behavior cannot become an early-boot hang, while
preserving the existing length validation and error handling.

82-127: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Line 125 is a no-op; drop it or make it conditional.

printf ... >/dev/null computes a message and discards it. If it is meant as a debug hook, gate it on a verbosity variable; otherwise remove it.

♻️ Proposed cleanup
-  printf '%s\n' "$0: INFO: Target file '${target_file}' file_contents: '${file_contents}'" >/dev/null
   printf '%s\n' "${file_contents}"
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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@usr/libexec/helper-scripts/strings.bsh` around lines 82 - 127, Remove the
unconditional informational printf that writes to /dev/null at the end of the
validation flow. If this message is required as a debug hook, make it
conditional on the script’s existing verbosity mechanism; otherwise leave the
final output as the file_contents printf.
usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/tests/sanitize_echo.py (1)

138-154: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a stdin-path case.

Every case passes operands, so the documented "read from standard input" branch (sanitize_echo.py lines 94-98, including its reconfigure call) is entirely uncovered. A single test feeding stdin would pin the behavior most likely to break.

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In `@usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/tests/sanitize_echo.py` around
lines 138 - 154, Extend test_bad_max_length_is_rejected with a case that
supplies invalid --max-length input while reading from standard input instead of
passing an operand. Feed representative stdin data and assert the same empty
stdout, help stderr, and exit code 1, covering the sanitize_echo.py stdin branch
and its reconfigure call.
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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/consumer-claude-code.yml:
- Line 65: Update the job-level condition for the Claude comment workflow to
require both an `@claude` mention and the GitHub pull-request discriminator on
issue_comment events. Preserve the existing comment-body check while adding
github.event.issue.pull_request so ordinary issue comments cannot trigger the PR
workflow.
- Around line 55-56: Update the concurrency group expression in the workflow to
include a distinct segment based on whether github.event.comment.body contains
“@claude”, so ordinary comments cannot cancel an active human `@claude` review
while preserving cancel-in-progress behavior for matching requests.

In `@usr/libexec/helper-scripts/strings.bsh`:
- Around line 247-253: Update the diagnostic flow around the od/head pipeline so
the human-readable sanitize-echo reason is emitted first and the hex dump
remains the final value detail. Prevent SIGPIPE or pipefail from propagating to
the caller when truncating output at STRINGS_BSH_REPORT_MAX, while preserving
the existing byte-oriented, capped hex representation.
- Around line 211-216: Add an argument-presence guard at the start of
validate_safe_filename before expanding "$1", matching the sibling validators’
behavior: emit the established missing-name error and return 1 when no variable
name is supplied, while preserving the existing validation flow for provided
arguments.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/tests/sanitize_echo.py`:
- Around line 138-154: Extend test_bad_max_length_is_rejected with a case that
supplies invalid --max-length input while reading from standard input instead of
passing an operand. Feed representative stdin data and assert the same empty
stdout, help stderr, and exit code 1, covering the sanitize_echo.py stdin branch
and its reconfigure call.

In `@usr/libexec/helper-scripts/strings.bsh`:
- Around line 383-397: Update the entropy source used by random_alpha_numeric
from /dev/random to /dev/urandom so the hard-fail short-read behavior cannot
become an early-boot hang, while preserving the existing length validation and
error handling.
- Around line 82-127: Remove the unconditional informational printf that writes
to /dev/null at the end of the validation flow. If this message is required as a
debug hook, make it conditional on the script’s existing verbosity mechanism;
otherwise leave the final output as the file_contents printf.
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CodeQL on PR #78: 1 high (py/tarslip) + 1 note (py/unused-import), both in
this file, which arrived via the merge of #69.

extractall(filter="data") is safe, but the 'except TypeError' fallback for
interpreters predating that argument extracted with NO validation at all, so
a member named '../x' or an absolute path escaped the temporary directory.
The fallback now validates every member: the resolved path must stay inside
the destination, and a link member is refused outright -- an OVA is a flat
archive of .ovf/.vmdk/.mf files, so a link is never legitimate.

Verified each hostile member type is refused ('../escaped.txt', '/abs.txt',
and a symlink to /etc/passwd) and that a benign archive still yields its
members.

Also drops the unused 'sys' import.

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Three of four taken.

validate_safe_filename now rejects a missing argument, like its two siblings.
It expanded "$1" unguarded, so a no-argument call aborted the caller with
'$1: unbound variable' under nounset instead of returning 1. Reproduced.

The hex dump moves AFTER the human-readable reason. It was printed first,
which contradicts the reason-FIRST/value-LAST contract documented at the top
of the file and buried the explanation under hex digits.

consumer-claude-code.yml:
- the concurrency group gains an '@claude' term. Concurrency is evaluated
  BEFORE the job-level 'if:', so an unrelated comment on the same PR joined
  the group of an in-flight review and cancelled it, while its own job was
  then skipped.
- the job now requires a pull-request context. 'issue_comment' fires for
  ISSUES too, and an issue carries no PR for the reviewer to check out.
  Written as an alternation because github.event.issue.pull_request is absent
  for pull_request_review_comment, which is always a PR.

NOT taken: the SIGPIPE half of the od|head finding. Not reproducible -- with a
200 KB value the pipeline still reports PIPESTATUS=(0 0) under pipefail,
because GNU head --bytes drains its input rather than closing the pipe early.
The ordering half of that same finding is fixed above.

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Both CodeQL alerts are fixed.

py/tarslip (high) -- extractall(filter="data") was safe, but the except TypeError fallback for interpreters predating that argument extracted with no validation at all. Fixed in f5dc251.

A deeper instance of the same class, which CodeQL did not flag, was found by another reviewer and fixed in cc09c0d: member_names kept the RAW names and they were later joined with the workdir to read each member back. os.path.join discards the base when the second component is absolute, so a member named /etc/shadow made repack() read the host file and bake it into the output OVA. Names are now validated once where they are collected, covering every later use.

Verified refused: /etc/shadow, ../../../etc/shadow, a/../../b, '', and link members. Verified still accepted: machine.ovf, disk1.vmdk, sub/dir/file.mf.

py/unused-import -- the unused sys import is removed.

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In `@usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/sanitize_string.py`:
- Around line 60-87: Update sanitize_stdin_loop to create and retain one
incremental markup parser for the loop, feeding each newly read untrusted_line
to it instead of repeatedly passing the entire pending_string to
markup_incomplete. Preserve the existing pending-buffer cap, sanitized output,
and remaining-count behavior, while allowing the parser’s internal state to
track incomplete constructs across lines.

In `@usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/tests/sanitize_string.py`:
- Around line 131-155: The _run_stdin helper currently patches only sys.stdout
with a buffer, so the closed_stdout stderr scenario is not exercised. Update the
relevant test setup to patch sys.stderr with a working file-like object such as
io.StringIO(), and avoid replacing sys.stdout with the broken closed_stdout
MagicMock; preserve stdout capture for normal output assertions.

In `@usr/libexec/helper-scripts/vbox-ova-reproducible-normalize`:
- Around line 252-275: The repack function must reject any OVA member whose size
exceeds the USTAR limit before writing it, while retaining tarfile.USTAR_FORMAT.
Validate each member using the metadata from tar.gettarinfo (or an equivalent
size check), raise a clear error identifying the oversized member and limit, and
avoid producing or replacing the output archive when validation fails.
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In `@usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/tests/sanitize_string.py`:
- Around line 223-242: Strengthen test_stdin_probe_is_throttled in
usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/tests/sanitize_string.py:223-242
to observe probe activity and assert probes remain throttled while the construct
is open, deriving payload sizes from STDIN_PROBE_INTERVAL_CHARS rather than
relying only on final output. Update the sibling test in
usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/tests/sanitize_string.py:244-261
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construct but before EOF; instrument probe/write calls or use a guarded stdin
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`@claude` check. Keep ordinary issue comments from invoking the reusable PR-review
workflow.
- Line 59: Update the workflow concurrency group expression to distinguish
events containing an `@claude` request from ordinary human comments, while
retaining the existing bot/human separation. Ensure non-request comments cannot
share a cancellation group with active `@claude` jobs, so cancel-in-progress does
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Stacked an unrelated commit onto this branch, per the one-ai-branch-per-repo convention: dc73dc42 "onion-time-pre-script: rate limit anondate-set requests".

Context: sys-whonix burns ~60% CPU with no network (https://forums.whonix.org/t/sys-whonix-has-extreme-cpu-usage-before-an-internet-connection/23450 , QubesOS/qubes-issues#11013). anondate_use created /run/sdwdate/request_anondate-set on every call; sdwdate's preparation loop calls the script roughly once per second while Tor is unreachable, and the inotify watcher consuming that file has no limit of its own, so every call became a full anondate-set run. Requests are now suppressed when the previous one is under 60s old.

Also adds onion-time-pre-script-testscript (11 assertions, wired into ./run-tests) and installs safe-rm in the lint container, which the shell tests need.

This is only one amplifier. The root cause is sdwdate's preparation() backoff being reset whenever onion-time-pre-script output changes, which Tor's incrementing COUNT= guarantees; that fix belongs in the sdwdate repo and is not in this PR.

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Stacked an unrelated CI fix onto this branch (one ai branch, one PR per repo): 4b42aa36 -- CI: repoint step-summary-emit at dist-ai.

developer-meta-files commit ffe593e3 (2026-07-29) deleted ci/step-summary-emit.sh; the helper now ships as a binary in dist-ai at usr/bin/step-summary-emit. local-python-checks.yml and local-python-fuzz.yml still checked out developer-meta-files into .dmf and called ./.dmf/ci/step-summary-emit.sh, which no longer exists -- not found, exit 127. That was failing 5 jobs on master: lint on debian:stable / debian:testing / debian:unstable / ubuntu:rolling, plus the fuzz summary step.

The other master failure here, dist-ai-tests (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sanitize_string.sanitize_echo'), is a separate problem and is NOT addressed by this commit.

Same stale path fixed in pyte (#6) and sdwdate (#4).

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The step-summary-emit fix from this branch was cherry-picked directly to master as cbb1074b, so it lands ahead of the rest of this PR. 4b42aa36 here and cbb1074b on master are the same change under different SHAs; expect this PR to no-op on those two files at merge time.

The fix is confirmed working: on this branch the lint jobs no longer die at exit 127. They now run through to the test suite and fail on a separate, pre-existing bug -- AssertionError: 16777216 != -1 in tests/stdisplay.py::TestGetSgrSupport::test_dumb_terminal_disables_everything, on debian:stable, debian:testing and ubuntu:rolling. That is NOT addressed here.

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Some notes on the more major I made when merging this:

  • markup_incomplete has been completely removed. It is impossible to implement without using private data structures internal to Python, which is a security hazard as private data structures could change meaning without notice (even a security update in Debian's Python could change the meaning of an internal structure dramatically, this sort of thing has happened to the kernel before). sanitize-string simply sanitizes line-by-line now when acting as a stream sanitizer, meaning that if the input consists of HTML with newlines in the middle of tags, the HTML will be sanitized, but the contents of those tags will still appear. This is not a security risk, although it may impair usability and readability.
    • If this proves to be unacceptable, there are other solutions. One option would be to simply fill a buffer until it reaches a tipping point, then sanitize everything in it in one fell swoop, to minimize the number of "weird" tags that appear in the output. A timeout could be used so that if the thing providing us data hangs awaiting some action on the consumer side, its output is eventually flushed to the consumer rather than hanging indefinitely. If the unreliability of this is unacceptable, we could also reimplement markup_incomplete manually (without using HTMLParser) but this could be tricky.
    • Note that an argument such as "rawdata has been around for a long time, it probably isn't going anywhere" is not an acceptable justification for bringing the original implementation back. Just because something hasn't changed meaning yet doesn't mean it won't. In practice, the kernel has changed internal APIs that were not meaningfully changed in a very long time, that suddenly were changed in a stable release that was then integrated into Debian. There is no reason this couldn't happen with Python at any arbitrary point in the future.
  • Rather than doing away with the old blocking way of handling stdin in sanitize-string, it is now an opt-out default. Existing tools that expect sanitize-string to block until all stdin has been written will continue working, tools that want real-time sanitization and can live with neutralized HTML output that would have otherwise been hidden can enable this with a --no-block option.
  • sanitize-echo has been rewritten into a wrapper around sanitize-string.
  • sanitize-string no longer pipes output to /dev/null when its downstream closes, but instead it immediately exits. With the previous behavior, something like command-that-generates-output-forever | sanitize-string --no-block -- nolimit | grep -m1 -- 'something' would leave the output generator and sanitize-string running forever, whereas now they will both terminate. The new behavior mirrors coreutils (cat /dev/zero | tee /dev/null | head -c1 exits when head exits).
  • The new stdin drivers for stcat / stcatn / stsponge / sttee have been removed without replacement. The AI either didn't know about stdisplay.tests.TestSTBase's _test_util() function and the closed-stdin tests in the run-tests Bash script, or came to the mistaken conclusion that these tests were broken (which would result in test failures if this was the case, but it isn't the case, at least on Debian Trixie). If the existing mechanism breaks in the future, the correct response is to fix it, not to write a new parallel implementation. Similar removal was done from unicode-show's tests.
  • The tests were generally overhauled to get rid of useless functionality, avoid lazy tests (i.e. checking if a certain character was absent from an output string rather than creating an expected output string and comparing against it), adhere to the existing coding style, and put tests where they actually belong.

This has now been merged into my arraybolt3/trixie branch and fixed up.

claude added 5 commits August 4, 2026 08:08
- hashlib.new(algos[algo_name]) crashed bandit 1.6.2-3, the apt build the
  reusable bandit workflow installs on ubuntu-24.04: its hashlib_new plugin
  calls .lower() on an argument it cannot resolve to a literal, so a dynamic
  name raises AttributeError. xargs turned bandit's non-zero into exit 123
  and the lane went red.
- Bind the four manifest constructors directly instead. The algorithm set is
  closed and known at import time, so the name-string indirection bought
  nothing, and the crash goes away because no hashlib.new() call remains.
- derive_mac / derive_cid: add '# nosec B303'. usedforsecurity=False already
  states the intent, but bandit 1.6.2 predates that keyword and blacklists
  sha1 unconditionally, so the lane failed on those two lines even once the
  crash was gone. nosec is the per-repo suppression the reusable workflow
  documents.

Verified in the sandbox against ubuntu:24.04 with the same apt bandit CI
uses, invoked exactly as CI invokes it ('bandit -ll -ii --'):
  before: 'Bandit internal error running: hashlib_new ... NoneType', rc 1
  after : no issues, no internal error, rc 0
Also rc 0 under bandit 1.7.10. SHA1/SHA256/SHA512/MD5 digests verified
byte-identical between the old and new construction.

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- onion-time-pre-script (R-010): the file is dual-mode -- its testscript
  SOURCES it and relies on unset variables expanding empty -- so six directives
  at column 0 would leak errexit/nounset into the sourcing shell. Use the
  repo's guarded idiom (systemd-notify.bsh, get_writable_fs_lists.sh), which is
  the gate's documented escape for this shape, so R-010 auto-skips with no
  waiver. Fixes a latent bug in passing: 'set -e errtrace' enabled errexit and
  assigned 'errtrace' to $1 -- the option was never on. nounset/inherit_errexit
  deliberately NOT added: they change runtime semantics of a 500-line script.
- git-review-driver.sh: printf '(none)' -> printf '%s' '(none)'; the four-%s
  symlink line precomposed into a variable per R-033.
- strings.bsh duration formatting: %d over $(( )) results, already decimal
  strings, so '%s' is byte-identical.
- strings.bsh is_integer: NOT rewritten. R-141 names it the mandated injection
  guard before an untrusted value reaches an arithmetic context, and its
  printf FAILING is the check -- '%s' would make it return 0 for every input,
  silently retiring the guard. A per-file printf-format waiver was rejected as
  well: it would blind all 46 printfs in a universally-sourced library. The
  gate now carves out a single-quoted %d format whose own command discards
  BOTH streams -- a validator, not output.

Verified: gate exit 0; strings.bsh suite 28 passed / 0 failed / 0 skipped;
onion-time-pre-script-testscript 11 passed / 0 failed / 0 skipped;
pre-push-static style rules 144 passed. A/B of onion-time-pre-script's
executed path is byte-identical with the same exit code.

Canary: mutating is_integer's printf to '%s' fails the suite with
"is_integer: 'abc' should be invalid". Each of the four carve-out guards has an
assertion that fails when that guard is removed.

Known, pre-existing, left alone: is_integer "" returns true (bash printf '%d'
""  prints 0 and succeeds). Not exploitable for R-141, but it contradicts the
doc comment; tightening it is a product decision.

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Behaviour deliberately unchanged (product decision): is_integer '' stays TRUE.
The doc was the defect -- "same results as is_whole_number, but also allows
negative numbers" pointed at a list that says empty input and leading spaces
FAIL, and both actually pass. A guard R-141 mandates must not be described by
a comment that contradicts it.

Accept-set verified by running the function, not inferred from the source:
- TRUE : 42  -7  +5  0  ''  '  42'  0x1F  0b101  010  99999999999999999999
- false: '42  '  ' '  '-'  '1 2'  5.5  5,500  1.23e10  abc

So it is strtoimax syntax, which is the point: a regex cannot reproduce that
accept-set, and the printf FAILING is the check. Notable for callers:
- '' is 0 in an arithmetic context and a syntax error as a subscript, so it
  cannot smuggle anything past R-141; a caller that needs a VALUE must reject
  it itself.
- leading whitespace passes, trailing does not.
- hex/binary/octal literals pass and the arithmetic context then evaluates
  them in that base.
- out-of-range still passes: this is a syntax check, not a range check.
Callers wanting "digits only" are pointed at is_whole_number.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Take ArrayBolt3's trixie rework wholesale (his versions win on every
conflict): strings.bsh, onion-time-pre-script, vbox-ova-reproducible-normalize,
plus the git-review tooling and keymap/lock-screen helpers.

Conflict resolution:
- strings.bsh, onion-time-pre-script, vbox-ova-reproducible-normalize: --theirs.
- onion-time-pre-script-testscript: git rm (removed upstream).

Style pass over the merged shell (gate-green):
- R-030 displaytime printfs collapsed to single '%s' (output identical).
- R-042 blank-line printf separators removed.
- R-090 'command -v' path probe -> 'type -P'.
- R-010 strict preamble waived where the upstream idiom omits it.
- shellcheck optional checks (SC2250 braces, SC2248 quoting) auto-applied.

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…ng bugs

Implement every TODO/FIXME ArrayBolt3 introduced in the trixie merge and
remove the markers once resolved.

vbox-ova-reproducible-normalize:
- NAMESPACE: replace the well-known published DCE/MS example GUID with a
  freshly generated random UUID so derived UUIDs cannot be precomputed from a
  public constant.
- Keep latin-1 at all three sites (OVF, VMDK descriptor, .mf) as a lossless
  byte<->codepoint codec; document why UTF-8 would gain nothing and risk a
  decode abort. Only ASCII tokens are rewritten, so bytes round-trip.
- CID rewrite preserves leading indentation.
- Rename the 'match' variable ('match' shadows the soft keyword).
- --source-date-epoch falls back to the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment
  variable; an explicit flag still wins.
- Keep hashlib for manifest digests (no per-member subprocess).

onion-time-pre-script: anondate-set is forward-only by design, so it cannot
cause the negative stamp age this guard handles; correct the comment (sdwdate
and manual/NTP/VM-snapshot changes still can), keep the guard.

git-review-driver.sh: a 'git diff --stat' rc > 1 is a real error on two
materialized blobs, so fail loud instead of warning and pressing on.

tor_bootstrap_check.bsh: record where the privleap authorization lives rather
than leaving an open "consider moving it" question (relocating security config
across packages is risk for no functional gain).

Test edge cases (strip_markup, sanitize_string): add verified malicious cases
(entity-smuggled brackets, attribute-bearing tags, spec-compliant non-tags,
raw ANSI escapes, bidi overrides) with golden outputs confirmed against the
real sanitizers.

Fix two bugs agy flagged in the merged sanitize_string.py (both confirmed
empirically, both regression-tested):
- A zero max-length took a fast path that swallowed the '--newline' newline,
  inconsistent with every other limit. Only fast-path when no newline is due.
- Removing the devnull redirect reintroduced a BrokenPipeError traceback from
  the interpreter's shutdown flush ('... | head'). Redirect stdout to
  /dev/null after a BrokenPipeError so the shutdown flush is a no-op, keeping
  the immediate-exit behavior.

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Comment thread usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/sanitize_string.py Fixed
Comment thread usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/sanitize_string.py Fixed
claude added 2 commits August 4, 2026 15:25
The earlier '--newline' fix let a zero limit fall through the fast path, so
'--no-block --newline 0' (and the blocking path) consumed a line of stdin
before emitting the newline. A zero limit reads nothing: move the zero-limit
handling after the stdout reconfigure and emit just the newline via
sanitize_block(), returning without touching stdin.

Add a stdin regression test asserting the newline is emitted and stdin stays
unread; it fails on the old fall-through.

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- File-not-closed: os.open(os.devnull) was never closed. Close the fd in a
  finally after dup2 duplicates it.
- Empty-except: replace 'except OSError: pass' with contextlib.suppress(OSError).
- Test import-and-import-from: import the module once and alias main from it,
  instead of also using 'from sanitize_string.sanitize_string import main'.

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Resolved the TODO/FIXME markers left in the trixie rework

Each TODO/FIXME introduced by this rework was implemented and the marker removed. Summary of the dispositions:

vbox-ova-reproducible-normalize

  • FIXME "regenerate the namespace randomly on a trusted machine": replaced the well-known published DCE/Microsoft example GUID with a freshly generated random uuid.uuid4() value, so the derived UUIDs cannot be precomputed from a public constant plus a guessed salt.
  • FIXME/TODO "encoding is not necessarily latin-1" (VMDK descriptor, .mf manifest, OVF): kept latin-1 deliberately, now documented -- it is used as a lossless 1:1 byte<->codepoint codec, not a claim about the real text encoding. Read and write both use latin-1 and only ASCII tokens are rewritten, so every other byte round-trips verbatim; this guarantees byte- and length-preserving normalization and never raises UnicodeDecodeError. Switching to UTF-8 would gain nothing (edits are ASCII-only) and could abort the build on a non-UTF-8 byte, especially in the sector-padded VMDK descriptor region.
  • FIXME "fields may have spaces in front": the CID rewrite now preserves leading indentation.
  • FIXME "'match' is a keyword": renamed the variable to line_match.
  • TODO "read SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH from the environment": --source-date-epoch is now optional and falls back to the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH env var; an explicit flag still wins.
  • TODO "coreutils checksum faster?": kept hashlib (OpenSSL-backed, streamed) -- a per-member subprocess plus output parsing and a PATH dependency buys no meaningful speedup.

onion-time-pre-script

  • TODO "can anondate-set set the clock backwards?": confirmed it is forward-only by design (it refuses to set an earlier time, exiting 3), so it cannot cause the negative stamp age this branch guards. Corrected the comment (sdwdate and manual/NTP/VM-snapshot changes still can) and kept the guard.

git-review-driver.sh

  • FIXME "should we error out if git diff fails?": yes -- an rc > 1 from git diff --no-index --stat on two materialized blobs is a real error, so it now fails loud instead of warning and pressing on.

tor_bootstrap_check.bsh

  • TODO "move the privleap config into this package": kept it in systemcheck and recorded where it lives instead -- relocating security-sensitive authorization config across packages is risk for no functional gain.

Test edge cases (strip_markup, sanitize_string)

  • TODO "add more/better test cases": added malicious cases (entity-smuggled brackets, attribute-bearing tags, spec-compliant non-tags, raw ANSI escapes, Unicode bidi overrides) with golden outputs verified against the real sanitizers.

Two additional correctness bugs surfaced by review in the reworked sanitize_string.py were also fixed (zero-limit --newline handling; a BrokenPipeError shutdown-flush traceback), each with a regression test.

claude added 2 commits August 4, 2026 17:41
…ed path

strings.bsh sourced its sibling wc-test.sh from a hardcoded absolute
/usr/libexec/helper-scripts/wc-test.sh. That path exists only once the package
is installed; every source-tree build runs the checkout, where it does not
exist, so the very first library load aborted with "No such file or directory"
and exit 1 -- breaking the image build (found via the VirtualBox reproducibility
build; it would break qcow2/iso too). Every sibling (benchmark.bsh,
get_colors.sh, git-review-*) already uses "${HELPER_SCRIPTS_PATH:-}", and
benchmark.bsh sources strings.bsh with that variable set, so strings.bsh must do
the same.

run-tests: add a regression guard that fails if any helper-scripts library
sources a sibling via a hardcoded absolute /usr/libexec/helper-scripts/ path.
Fails on the old code, passes now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous "${HELPER_SCRIPTS_PATH:-}" fix was insufficient: strings.bsh is
sourced by tools that do NOT set HELPER_SCRIPTS_PATH (dm-upload-images, seen
failing late in an image build) and run from the checkout, so the empty variable
still expanded to the installed /usr path and aborted with "No such file or
directory". Resolve wc-test.sh relative to ${BASH_SOURCE[0]} so it works
installed AND in every source-tree build regardless of the caller's environment.

run-tests: strengthen the regression guard -- besides the static bare-absolute
check, load strings.bsh with HELPER_SCRIPTS_PATH set to a nonexistent path and
assert it still sources wc-test.sh (only a self-relative source survives). Fails
on both prior forms.

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claude added 24 commits August 5, 2026 09:35
'maxmem' is an optional external override, never set locally, so
'is_whole_number "${maxmem}"' aborted under nounset when unset. Default
it empty ('${maxmem:-}'): unset falls through to the meminfo path, and
the '$(( maxmem * 1000 ))' branch is only reached when maxmem is a
number. Sandbox-tested both paths (unset and maxmem=100).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rewrite for correctness: full strict preamble; source strings.bsh (the
script calls str_replace but never sourced it); require >=2 args with a
usage message instead of a nounset abort on bare $1; collect the file
list as an array and iterate it quoted (SC2124/SC2086 -- also handles
paths with spaces). Functionally tested: replaces text, usage on
too-few args.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Complete apt-get-update, apt-get-update-kill-helper, get-user-list,
pre-bsh-test to the full strict directive set. Fix surfaced debt: source
has.sh + 'has' over 'command -v' (apt-get-update pair, R-090); echo ->
printf '%s\n' (get-user-list, R-034); SC2317 disable on apt-get-update's
SIGTERM/SIGINT trap handler; SC2250 braces. Sandbox-tested (has resolves,
get-user-list lists users, no strict regression).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…-test

temp.sh: dual-mode self-test -- add inherit_errexit + shift_verbose inside
the 'if was_executed' guard; document the design with a no-strict waiver
(strict not at column 0) and a no-tmp-hardcode waiver (the '/tmp/user/<uid>'
path is the EXPECTED TMPDIR under test). Brace SC2250 references.
apt-get-update-sanity-test: convert 'set -e' to the full strict preamble
(keeping the intentional 'set -x'). Sandbox-tested; no strict regression.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add the full strict preamble to restart-tor, debug-kicksecure-enabled,
check-network-access, system-ready-check, system-ready-check-user,
try-wait-for-tor-service-running, terminal-wrapper-helper. Fix surfaced
debt: expand try-wait's case arms (R-070); SC2250 braces; guard
terminal-wrapper-helper's optional TERMINAL_WRAPPER_NO_COMMAND_ECHO /
TERMINAL_WRAPPER_NO_FINISH_MSG env vars ("${VAR:-}") against a nounset
abort. Sandbox-tested (terminal-wrapper-helper: no abort, runs the
command then 'sleep infinity' to hold the terminal).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…afe fragment

Strict preamble on settings_echo, settings_environment_file_update,
first-boot-skel (+${1:-} guard, rm -f -> safe-rm), sudo-tools-enable
(command -v full-path -> test -x), has_netvm_on_qubes,
detect-ipv6-enabled-in-kernel, apt-get-update-simulate (init lastpid
before the trap; SC2181; SC2317), get-password-status-list. SC2250 braces.

Root fix: tor_bootstrap_check.bsh guarded 11 bare '[ "${GATEWAY_IP...}" =
"" ]' defaults with ':-' -- they aborted under nounset, exposed when
settings_echo (now strict) sources the fragment. Fixes every nounset
caller. Sandbox-tested (settings_echo now emits the defaulted values).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…cgroup

Add the full strict preamble (both self-invoke via '"$@"'). curl_exit_codes:
guard the empty-arg check ("${1:-}") so a no-arg call exits 1 instead of a
nounset abort; SC2250 braces. run-in-cgroup already used '${1:-}'.
Sandbox-tested: 'curl_exit_codes 7' -> the code-7 message; no-arg -> exit 1;
run-in-cgroup no-arg -> exit 1, no nounset abort.

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Convert bare 'set -e' to the full strict preamble (keeping 'set -x').
Make the tor_user / tor_group / tor_dir / client_onion_auth_dir defaults
nounset-safe ('VAR="${VAR:-x}"' instead of '[ -n "$VAR" ] || VAR=x').
SC2250 braces. Sandbox-tested: no nounset abort.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add the full strict preamble. Sourcing shim-signed-mok-setup, has.sh and
secure_boot_enabled_check.bsh under nounset is safe (function definitions
only, no bare top-level variable references). Sandbox-tested: no nounset
abort.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Convert bare 'set -e' to the full strict preamble. Source has.sh and use
'has' for the tput/curl/safe-rm/mktemp dependency checks (R-090). Replace
the 5 inline signal traps with named wrapper functions (R-051) --
'shutdown_sigint() { shutdown sigint; }' etc.; behaviour-equivalent ($?
and the signal argument are identical, $BASH_COMMAND is read inside
shutdown either way). SC2004 / SC2250 cleanup; SC2317 disable on the
trap-only handlers. A/B tested against the prior version: behaviour
identical (a file:// URL exits 110 in both).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Convert bare 'set -e' to the full strict preamble. Source has.sh and use
'has' instead of 'command -v' (R-090). Build terminal_emulator_extra_args
as an ARRAY throughout -- it was a string in some branches and an array in
others -- and collapse the three-way final dispatch into one quoted call.

Two behaviour bugs this exposed:
- '$@' was unquoted in the final dispatch, so an argument containing
  whitespace was word-split and one containing glob characters was
  expanded against the caller's working directory.
- The 'no supported terminal emulator' branch printed the error but did
  not exit; it then ran an empty command name, so the first argument was
  executed as a command (exit 127).

nounset-safe initialisation for the base_name / app / extra_args
variables and for the optional terminal_emulator_window_title input.

Sandbox stub-tested, 13 cases with mocked emulators on a private PATH:
qterminal, xfce4-terminal (title set / unset / empty), gnome-terminal
(title set / unset), xterm, konsole (Qubes and non-Qubes), both
x-terminal-emulator alternative paths, and the error path. 13 pass, 0
fail. The same suite against the pre-change file: 11 pass, 2 fail --
exactly the two bugs above.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Completes the standalone set. benchmark.bsh and source_folder.bsh are NOT
included: both are libraries -- pure function definitions with no
top-level statements -- that simply have no in-tree sourcer yet because
they are new. A strict-mode block in either would rewrite the shell
options of every future caller.

Real nounset traps fixed, each read on a path where only some branches
assign the variable:
- anondate-set: 'indent_style' is read by output_cmd() but assigned much
  further down, so any earlier call aborted. Unset previously took the
  non-indented branch, which 'false' reproduces.
- anondate-set: 'current_message' / 'old_message' are each assigned only
  when their state file exists, then compared unconditionally. Unset
  compared "" against "" and skipped systemd-cat; the defaults keep that.
- anondate-get / anondate-set: 'exit_code' is read by the 'trap ... EXIT'
  handler but only assigned inside branches. Initialised defensively --
  the handler already has an explicit "no exit code set yet" branch, and
  an unset read inside an EXIT trap would mask the real status. Note this
  one is defence, not a demonstrated abort on any path tested here.

Pre-existing array/string defects the gate surfaced:
- '$@' inside a string in anondate, anondate-get and anondate-set message
  lines expands to one word per parameter; '$*' joins them, which is what
  those messages mean (SC2145 / SC2124).
- anondate-tester iterated an unquoted "${cmd_item_list[@]}" and passed an
  unquoted $@ through to anondate (SC2068).

policy-rc.d moves from '#!/bin/sh' to bash. It is EXECUTED by dpkg via
POLICYRCD, and bash is Essential in any Debian chroot it runs in. Its
'exit 101' is the policy decision and is unchanged -- verified.

Also: echo -> printf (R-034), safe-rm (R-120), 'has' instead of
'command -v' (R-090), SC2250 braces, and a file-wide SC2317 waiver on the
three anondate scripts, whose functions are reached only through the EXIT
trap and the option-parser dispatch.

Sandbox differential vs the pre-change scripts, comparing output AND exit
code with both versions staged at an identical path: 17 cases, all
identical -- including policy-rc.d still exiting 101.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
bandit (B303, two sites in vbox-ova-reproducible-normalize): both hash
calls already pass 'usedforsecurity=False' and carry comments explaining
that collision resistance is irrelevant -- they derive a stable MAC suffix
and content id for reproducible builds. bandit blacklists the sha1 call by
NAME regardless, so each site now carries an inline '# nosec B303' with
the reason, which the consumer-bandit workflow documents as the intended
suppression mechanism. Verified: 'bandit -ll -r .' over the whole repo now
reports no issues.

sanitize-string: with no argument and 'sys.stdin' None -- pythonw, or a
detached service -- the '--newline' flag was ignored and nothing at all was
printed. The zero-limit branch immediately above goes out of its way to
emit just the newline "as it does for every other limit", and echo with no
arguments prints a newline too, so the stdin-None branch was inconsistent
with both. It now emits the newline as well.

That was a real behaviour bug, not a stale expectation: the dist-ai test
'test_no_argument_and_no_stdin_still_prints_a_newline' asserts exactly
this and was failing in CI.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes a lint regression I introduced in ec7efbb. Adding the stdin-None
newline emission pushed main() to 51 statements, one over pylint's cap,
and broke the lint job on all four distro images -- it had been passing.

The zero-limit branch and the stdin-None branch now share one helper
instead of repeating the same two lines, which removes the duplication and
brings main() back under the limit.

Verified locally: pylint 10.00/10, black clean, the in-repo pytest suite
and the dist-ai sanitize-string suite both 15/15.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
mypy caught that the new helper over-narrowed its parameter. The
zero-limit call site is narrowed to int by the '== 0' test, but the
stdin-None site still holds 'int | None', which is what sanitize_block
itself accepts. Match that signature.

Verified locally with the full lint stack this time -- mypy clean, pylint
10.00/10, black clean, pytest 15/15 -- rather than pushing and reading the
result off CI.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… unicode

Two distinct false positives, both of which flagged an INNOCENT commit with the
same warning as a real attack. A scanner that cries wolf trains reviewers to
ignore it, so a false positive here costs more than a missed feature.

1. Hunk-header function context
-------------------------------

A hunk header ends with a funcname suffix -- '@@ -3,0 +4 @@ text' -- where
'text' is the nearest preceding line, which the commit did NOT touch. Once a
file contains hostile unicode, every later commit anywhere near it is flagged
for a character it neither added nor removed. '--unified=0' does not suppress
this; it only removes context LINES, not the header decoration.

The ranges themselves are pure ASCII, so they are kept and the decoration is
dropped.

2. Removal lines
----------------

The commit that DELETES a hostile character was flagged, because the diff line
'-dirty <U+202E>line' still contains it. The fix got the same warning as the
attack. Nothing a commit removes can appear in the resulting tree, so a removal
cannot be the attack.

Both file headers ('---' and '+++') are KEPT: a hostile FILENAME must stay
detectable.

Identity and message are now scanned SEPARATELY and unfiltered
--------------------------------------------------------------

The removal filter drops diff lines starting with '-', and a commit message
line may legitimately start with '-'. Feeding the message through that filter
would let hostile unicode hide behind a leading dash -- so the metadata comes
from its own '--no-patch' git show and is never filtered.

Testing
-------

dist-ai's check-ref-commits-for-unicode suite: 44 passed, 0 failed.
Against the pre-change tool the same suite reports 3 failures --
M:clean-not-flagged, M:only-dirty-flagged and M:removal-not-flagged -- so each
regression test genuinely exercises the fix.

The message-behind-a-dash guard is canaried too: routing the message through
the removal filter makes the tool exit 0 with "No unicode detected" on a commit
whose message carries U+202E, and M:dash-message-flagged catches exactly that.
This script was ALREADY bash with a strict preamble -- errexit, nounset,
errtrace, pipefail. It was missing the other two R-010 directives, which this
adds:

  shopt -s inherit_errexit
  shopt -s shift_verbose

What they do NOT add here, stated because the first version of this commit
claimed otherwise: a failing grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2 was ALREADY caught. pipefail
makes the pipeline fail, and that is the command substitution's status, so the
assignment fails and errexit aborts. inherit_errexit governs errexit INSIDE a
subshell, which is a different case. Measured, not assumed -- behaviour is
identical with and without it.

Touching the file brought it into the gate's changed-file scope, which surfaced
pre-existing issues, all fixed:
- R-034: six 'echo' uses, including 'echo -n'. The blank-line ones take the
  R-030 form 'printf "%s\n" ""', not 'printf "\n"'.
- SC2250 braces on user, grub_config_file, first_input, second_input,
  password_hash.
- SC2154 on 'password', which get_password sets from the sourced
  get_password.sh that shellcheck cannot follow. Documented at the use site.
- SC1091 on both sourced helpers, for the same reason.

Testing
-------

grub-pwchange is clean in an ISOLATED checkout. NOTE: the helper-scripts package
as a whole does NOT pass -- 27 other files fail shellcheck, and that is entirely
pre-existing. Measured by stashing this change and re-running: the same 27 fail
without it. Those are not touched here and are recorded separately.

The harness compares the GENERATED /etc/grub.d/44_password, not just exit codes,
since the file is the thing this script exists to produce:

  3 pass, 0 fail

  passwords match -> hash written        same, DEADBEEF in the config
  passwords differ -> refused            same, no config
  grub-mkpasswd FAILS -> no config       same, no config

Canary: adding '|| true' to the hash pipeline -- simulating an unguarded
failure -- makes an empty hash reach the config, and the third case fails.

Four harness defects on the way, each one a case that would have proved nothing:
- 'timeout' was missing from the stub PATH, so both variants died before exec
  and compared equal. A run carrying an 'env:'/'bwrap:'/root-guard line now
  fails outright.
- the tool-symlink loop used '[ -n "${real}" ] && ln ...' as the last command in
  the loop body. For a missing tool that returns non-zero, and under errexit it
  aborted the whole setup -- so every tool AFTER the first missing one was
  silently never linked.
- /usr/bin/awk is a symlink through /etc/alternatives/awk, and the harness
  replaces /etc with a tmpfs, so the link dangled inside the sandbox. The links
  are realpath-resolved now.
- the generated config embeds "$0", and the script runs from a per-variant copy,
  so every case differed on the fixture path until it was normalised.
With the gate's --source-path fix (dist-ai 2c48caa) the 27 failures here dropped
to 7. These are those 7, and they were all genuine.

Two live nounset aborts
-----------------------

Both files carry the strict preamble, so these were real:

- lock-screen: XDG_SESSION_TYPE comes from the session manager and is simply
  absent in a bare shell, a cron job or a broken session. Reading it bare
  aborted before the '*' arm could report the unknown session type.
- anondate-set: 'debugging' is assigned nowhere in the tree.

A latent one
------------

curl-prgrs's curl_download reads '${header_download}'. Both in-file call sites
pass it as a per-call env prefix, but this is a SOURCED library and an external
caller need not. Defaulted to "false", which keeps the truncation check ENABLED
for such a caller -- the safe direction, since skipping it would let a short
download pass as complete.

A diagnostic that captured the failure and threw it away
---------------------------------------------------------

curl-prgrs's trap handler assigned 'last_err="${BASH_COMMAND}"' and never used
it, so the error said a signal had arrived but not what had failed. It is in the
message now.

Genuinely dead code, removed
-----------------------------

- anondate-get: anondate_tor_certificate_lifetime_set_file, a pure string
  assignment read nowhere.
- kernel-file-detect: the initrd derivation. The identical two lines live in
  initrd-file-detect, which is the script that actually outputs it; this copy
  computed a value the script never prints.

Library outputs, documented not silenced
-----------------------------------------

tor_bootstrap_check.bsh sets 13 variables that ARE its interface --
tor_bootstrap_percent, tor_circuit_established_word, the consensus timestamps.
systemcheck's check_tor_bootstrap.bsh reads them and documents each with
'## sets: ...'. shellcheck sees one file, so an output looks unused. One
file-level disable, with that reasoning written down.

Same for TOR_ENABLED in onion-time-pre-script: check_tor_enabled_do assigns it
on its FIRST line as a fallback, so it is always set.

Reported, NOT fixed
-------------------

onion-time-pre-script guards tor_consensus_time_sanity_check with

  if [ "${timesanitycheck_static_timestamp_based_failed}" = "true" ]

and NOTHING in this package assigns that variable. The comparison is always
false, so the early return never fires and the duplicate-output optimisation the
comment describes has never taken effect. Defaulted with ':-' so the comparison
is well defined, but not made to fire: that needs someone to decide WHICH check
should set the flag, which is a product decision.

Testing
-------

  27 shellcheck failures -> 0. Gate exit 0 in an ISOLATED checkout.

The 20 that vanished were the gate's own path-resolution bug, fixed separately
in dist-ai and measured there against six other packages before landing.
The previous commit defaulted it at the 'case' and left the '*' arm's message
interpolating '${XDG_SESSION_TYPE}' bare. Under nounset the script therefore
still aborted on exactly the path the fix was for -- a bare shell, a cron job or
a broken session -- and never printed the "must be set to 'x11' or 'wayland'"
guidance that arm exists to give.

Declared ONCE before the case now, so both uses are covered and a third cannot
reintroduce it. That is the same reasoning as msgdispatcher's gui/cli: patching
the one site you noticed leaves the next one.

Found by codex, on my own fix.

Testing
-------

Gate exit 0 in an ISOLATED checkout.

  4 pass, 0 fail

  XDG_SESSION_TYPE UNSET reaches the message   old ABORTS, new prints it
  unknown value reaches the message            unchanged
  x11 still dispatches                         unchanged
  wayland still dispatches (no error path)     unchanged

The first case asserts the MESSAGE is produced, not that the case statement was
reached -- reaching the case was never the problem.

Canary: removing the declaration fails exactly that case.

Four fixture defects on the way, each one a case that would have proved nothing:
- 'env PATH=... --unset=X' takes '--unset=X' as the COMMAND. env parses options
  only BEFORE the first assignment, so the UNSET case ran WITH the variable set
  and cheerfully locked x11.
- the sed anchor required '${XDG_SESSION_TYPE}'; the old side spells it
  '$XDG_SESSION_TYPE' unbraced, so the old driver extracted NOTHING, printed its
  trailing marker and read as a pass. The anchor takes both spellings now, and
  an empty extraction fails loudly as EXTRACTION_EMPTY.
- the stubs invented function names the script does not have; it calls
  xscreensaver-command and swaylock directly and reads ${title} set earlier.
- the wayland arm CAPTURES swaylock's output into a variable rather than
  printing it, so asserting on the stub's text was wrong. A successful lock is
  the absence of the failure message.
timesanitycheck_static discarded timesanitycheck's exit code with '|| true', so
timesanitycheck_static_timestamp_based_failed was never assigned by anything.

Two things are gated on that flag, and NEITHER has ever happened:

- tor_consensus_time_sanity_check returns early when it is "true", to avoid
  repeating a complaint the static check already made. That duplicate output has
  always been printed.
- further down, a "true" flag routes to anondate_use -- the clock-recovery path
  for a system whose time is wrong by a lot. That path has never run.

The second is the reason this is worth fixing rather than deleting: it is not a
cosmetic optimisation, it is error recovery that was silently unreachable.

timesanitycheck exits 0 when the clock is inside the shipped min/expiry window
and 2 or 3 when it is not. The exit code is captured now and the flag set on
non-zero. The variable is also declared at file scope so both read sites are
defined even when the static check does not run.

BEHAVIOUR CHANGE, stated plainly: on a system whose static time check fails, the
consensus check is now skipped and anondate_use runs. That is what the code
always said it would do.

Testing
-------

Gate exit 0 in an ISOLATED checkout.

  3 pass, 0 fail

  clock OK (exit 0)          same,   FLAG_NOT_SET
  clock too EARLY (exit 2)   differ, FLAG_SET
  clock EXPIRED (exit 3)     differ, FLAG_SET

Both non-zero codes are covered, not just one -- 2 and 3 are distinct failure
modes in timesanitycheck and it would be easy to wire up only the first.

The 'clock OK' case asserts the two versions AGREE: the fix must not start
setting the flag when the clock is fine.
- 'command -v' prints a bare word for builtins, functions, aliases and
  keywords rather than a path. Testing that word with '-x' resolved it as a
  RELATIVE path in the current directory, so 'has printf' returned non-zero
  even though printf is always available, and the result depended on what
  happened to be in the cwd.
- Only test '-x' when 'command -v' actually produced a path.
- 'has' is the R-090 replacement for 'command -v', so a conversion that passed
  a builtin turned a working check into one that could never succeed.

Found while converting tb-updater's version-validator, where 'has printf'
aborted the unit test suite at its first case.

Regression test asserts builtins, externals, a mix, and absent commands.
Verified by canary: with the unconditional '-x' test restored, 4 of the 7
cases fail.

## AI-Assisted

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- The test sourced has.sh by a path relative to itself, so it validated the
  checkout copy and passed 7/7 while the installed copy was still the broken
  version. It could not detect a stale deployment, which is the one thing a
  deployment check has to catch.
- Now sources /usr/libexec/helper-scripts/has.sh and fails loudly when it is
  absent, rather than silently falling back to a copy that always passes.

Verified against a real deployment: before installing, the probe reported
INSTALLED-STALE; after, INSTALLED-OK with the path guard present and 7/7 pass.

## AI-Assisted

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- mypy writes its cache into the CURRENT directory, and the loops cd into
  usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/<pkg>/ to lint. That left a .mypy_cache beside
  the sources, which genmkfile swept into the .deb; lintian then warned with
  package-contains-python-dot-directory and the build failed closed.
- Gitignoring it does not help: genmkfile packages the WORKING TREE, not git's
  view, so an ignored directory is still shipped.
- Anchor the cache at the repo root via --cache-dir, outside anything packaged.

Verified: after linting a package, 0 .mypy_cache directories exist under usr/
and the cache is at the repo root instead.

## AI-Assisted

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
stcat takes EVERY argument as a path, so 'stcat -- "${target_file}"' made it
read a file literally named '--' and die with FileNotFoundError.
read_integer_file then reported

  ERROR: Cannot stcat target file '<path>'!

for a file it had just confirmed exists and is readable. Four of tb-updater's
e2e scenarios failed on this -- all of them the ones that read a cached
signature timestamp back: second_run_cache_hit_tb, cross_context_fallback,
downgrade_attack_warning, second_run_mullvad_cache_hit.

Verified against the real binary: 'stcat -- file' exits 1, 'stcat file' exits 0.

R-062 is why the separator was added, and it is right for tools that accept
one; this is the rule's negative half. pre-push-static now denylists 'stcat --'
so it cannot come back, and the style guide records stcat as a verified
rejecter.

Test: usr/share/helper-scripts/tests/test_read_integer_file.sh, which asserts
the INSTALLED library rather than the checkout -- a self-relative source would
pass against a stale install, which is exactly the failure mode this suite
exists to catch. Canaried: it FAILS against an install carrying the '--', and
passes once the fixed library is installed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Heads-up on a regression this branch now fixes, because it is currently breaking another repo's CI.

read_integer_file on this fork's master reads its state file through stcat -- "${target_file}". stcat takes every argument as a path, so it tries to read a file literally named -- and dies with FileNotFoundError. read_integer_file then reports

ERROR: Cannot stcat target file '<path>'!

for a file it has just confirmed exists and is readable.

Upstream Kicksecure/helper-scripts master does not have the separator; it was introduced here.

Impact: org-ai-assisted/tb-updater's e2e job clones helper-scripts from --branch=master, so four of its self-test scenarios fail on this - scenario_second_run_cache_hit_tb, scenario_cross_context_fallback, scenario_downgrade_attack_warning, scenario_second_run_mullvad_cache_hit, all of them the ones that read a cached signature timestamp back. That job stays red until this lands on master.

Fixed in 31ff576 on this branch, with usr/share/helper-scripts/tests/test_read_integer_file.sh as the regression test - it asserts the INSTALLED library and was canaried in both directions. pre-push-static now denylists stcat -- under R-062, and the style guide records stcat as a verified rejecter, so it cannot come back silently.

Assisted by AI.

claude added 3 commits August 9, 2026 01:31
- both cases now live in dist-ai as helper-scripts-lib-tests
  (has_builtin_test.sh, read_integer_file_test.sh), which resolves the
  library from the INSTALLED path by default and takes a checkout only via
  an explicit HELPER_SCRIPTS_REPO the runner wires
- the copies here sourced /usr/libexec/helper-scripts directly, so nothing
  ran them: no runner in this repo globs usr/share/helper-scripts/tests
- debian/*.install ships 'usr/*', so there is no entry to drop; removing the
  files removes them from the package
- coverage is unchanged and canaried in its new home: reverting the '-x' on
  a bare word fails 4 cases, reverting 'stcat --' fails 3
- Add shopt -s inherit_errexit / shift_verbose to the source-able
  guarded strict blocks that enabled errexit but omitted them
  (systemd-notify, live-mode, get_writable_fs_lists, pre.bsh,
  onion-time-pre-script, shim-signed-mok-setup).
- Brace all variable refs (R-020/SC2250) across trace, root_cmd,
  package_installed_check, get_os, xtrace, parse_opt.
- pre.bsh: rm -> safe-rm; mark the error-handler 'set +e' with the
  allow-errexit-toggle waiver (recursion guard).
- systemd-notify: 'command -v' -> 'has' (source has.sh).
- live-mode: printf keeps the name='value' contract via a prebuilt
  string (R-030).
- no-strict waivers on the pure sourced libs (trace, xtrace, parse_opt,
  package_installed_check); SC3043 disable where 'local' is used in a
  deliberately-POSIX file.

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A test exercising a caller of light_sleep can set light_sleep_skip=true to skip
the real wait; unset in production, where it sleeps normally. Add the no-strict
waiver + -r on the two timeout reads to satisfy the static gate.

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