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Same pattern as PR #20 (Telegram) and PR #28 (Matrix). Completes the channel trinity for !secure. Stacks on PR #20.

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Adds `!secure` as a post-auth chat command dispatched before any agent
sees the message. Subcommands:

- `!secure set NAME=value` — stores the secret in fnox and replies
  with "Stored `NAME`" + a retention-warning. Never echoes the value.
- `!secure list` — lists stored secret names (not values). Parses
  fnox's output defensively; extra columns that look like values are
  stripped before replying.
- `!secure help` / `!secure` — usage string.

Dispatch model (matches existing `!switch`/`!sessions`/`!default`):

- `CommandHandler::is_secure_command(&str)` — static, case-insensitive.
- `CommandHandler::handle_secure(text, identity_id) -> String` —
  async (shells out to fnox), takes identity for future per-identity
  audit/ACL though not used yet. Wired into telegram.rs in both
  `handle_message_nonblocking` and `handle_message` paths, and added
  to the unknown-command exclusion list so `!secure` doesn't get
  intercepted as unknown before hitting the post-auth handler.

Subprocess approach today — `Command::new("fnox").args(["set", …])`.
Acknowledged-cost: three places now shell out to fnox (vault.rs,
secure_set, secure_list), which means three places that need an
availability check. **Follow-up PR (in flight) will migrate all three
to the fnox library crate via `fnox = { git = "https://github.com/jdx/fnox" }`**
— fnox already exposes public modules (secret_resolver, commands,
etc.) at `src/lib.rs`, so no upstream PR is needed.

Redaction discipline:
- The success reply names the stored secret but never echoes the
  value; tested.
- The failure reply surfaces fnox's stderr (user needs to know why
  it failed) but doesn't carry the value; tested.
- The telegram channel's `debug!` logs only that a !secure command
  was handled, without the message text. A `!secure set FOO=bar`
  would otherwise leak the value into ops logs.
- Name validation: `[A-Za-z0-9_-]+` only (matches the substitution
  engine's accepted ref-name syntax — so a stored secret can be
  immediately referenced as `{{secret:NAME}}` without a rename).
  Tested with three invalid-char cases.

5 given/when/then behavioral tests:
- `secure_set_reply_includes_name_but_not_value`
- `secure_set_surfaces_fnox_error_without_echoing_value`
- `secure_unknown_subcommand_returns_help`
- `secure_set_rejects_invalid_name_chars`
- `secure_list_returns_names_only`

All use a fake-fnox shell script installed on PATH via TempDir, so
the tests are hermetic regardless of whether the real fnox is
installed on the dev/CI machine.

Explicit non-goals for this PR (follow-ups):
- `!secure remove NAME` — pending a decision on whether fnox's
  own remove command or a config-file edit is the right approach.
- `!secure request NAME` — the out-of-band localhost-paste flow
  that avoids chat-transport retention entirely (see
  docs/rfcs/agent-secret-gateway.md §5).
- Matrix/WhatsApp channel wiring — same pattern as telegram, but
  adds separate verification surface. Doing in a follow-up to keep
  this PR reviewable.
- Library-based fnox integration (swap subprocess → lib calls) —
  committed as next PR per user direction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mirror of the Telegram (PR #20) and Matrix (PR #28) wiring —
WhatsApp users can now run !secure set/list/help. Same redaction
discipline: never log the message body, never echo value in reply.

3-line change in \`channels/whatsapp.rs\`:
1. Add \`!is_secure_command(&text)\` to the unknown-command exclusion
2. New post-auth dispatch block calling \`handle_secure\` with reply
   spawned as a tokio task (matches the existing pattern for
   long-running commands)
3. \`debug!\` log says command handled, no body

Stacks on PR #20.

This completes the !secure command for the three channels we run
today (Telegram + Matrix + WhatsApp). Any future channel adapter
(Signal, etc.) follows the same 3-step recipe.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview

Adds support for the post-auth !secure command flow to the WhatsApp channel, following the same interception/redaction pattern used for other chat transports, and includes the core !secure command handling plus tests.

Changes:

  • Add CommandHandler::is_secure_command and async handle_secure with set/list/help subcommands backed by fnox.
  • Wire !secure into WhatsApp’s post-auth command handling and exclude it from unknown-command replies.
  • Update Telegram’s unknown-command exclusion list and add !secure tests using a fake fnox on PATH.

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crates/zeroclawed/src/commands.rs Implements !secure parsing/dispatch, fnox subprocess integration, and a hermetic test suite.
crates/zeroclawed/src/channels/whatsapp.rs Intercepts !secure post-auth and prevents unknown-command handling from catching it.
crates/zeroclawed/src/channels/telegram.rs Ensures !secure is treated as a post-auth command (not “unknown”), and dispatches to handle_secure.

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// `!secure ...` — split off the subcommand word.
let mut parts = trimmed.splitn(3, ' ');
let _lead = parts.next(); // `!secure`
let sub = parts.next().map(|s| s.to_lowercase()).unwrap_or_default();
let rest = parts.next().unwrap_or("").trim();
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handle_secure parses the subcommand via trimmed.splitn(3, ' '), which treats consecutive spaces as empty tokens. For example, !secure set NAME=value can yield an empty sub and fall back to help instead of running set. Consider parsing the command words with split_whitespace() (similar to handle_switch/handle_model) while still preserving the remainder for the set payload.

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// `!secure ...` — split off the subcommand word.
let mut parts = trimmed.splitn(3, ' ');
let _lead = parts.next(); // `!secure`
let sub = parts.next().map(|s| s.to_lowercase()).unwrap_or_default();
let rest = parts.next().unwrap_or("").trim();
// `!secure ...` — parse command words robustly across repeated whitespace,
// while preserving the original remainder for `set`.
let mut parts = trimmed.split_whitespace();
let lead = parts.next().unwrap_or(""); // `!secure`
let sub_raw = parts.next().unwrap_or("");
let sub = sub_raw.to_lowercase();
let rest = if sub_raw.is_empty() {
""
} else if let Some(after_lead) = trimmed.strip_prefix(lead) {
let after_lead = after_lead.trim_start();
if let Some(after_sub) = after_lead.strip_prefix(sub_raw) {
after_sub.trim()
} else {
""
}
} else {
""
};

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Codex integration sweep: addressed in #38 without editing this PR branch. The integrated !secure parser uses whitespace-delimited leading_word_and_rest parsing, documents NAME=value and NAME value, and keeps whitespace input covered by tests.

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// Only allow the same name-shape substitution accepts, so callers
// can immediately use the stored name in a `{{secret:NAME}}` ref.
// See crates/security-proxy/src/substitution.rs.
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This comment references crates/security-proxy/src/substitution.rs, but that module/file doesn't exist in the repo. Please update the reference to the actual location of the secret/substitution name validation logic (or drop the reference) so future readers aren’t sent to a dead path.

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// See crates/security-proxy/src/substitution.rs.

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Codex integration sweep: addressed for the !secure command comments in #38 without editing this PR branch. The stale substitution.rs reference was replaced with the local secret-name validation authority in the integrated code; MCP/doc references on other branches remain branch-owner follow-up.

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use tokio::process::Command;
let output = match Command::new("fnox")
.args(["set", &name, &value])
.output()
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secure_set passes the secret value as a command-line argument (fnox set <name> <value>). On many systems, process arguments can be observed by other local users (e.g., via ps/proc), which undermines the goal of keeping secrets from being exposed. Prefer passing the value via stdin or an env var if fnox supports it, or switch to the fnox library API to avoid putting secrets in argv.

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Codex integration sweep: addressed in #38 without editing this PR branch. The integration branch uses FnoxClient::set with the secret on stdin, adds timeout coverage, and keeps argv/name-only behavior under test.

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// fnox list stdout varies slightly by version — extract anything
// that looks like a secret name (non-whitespace leading token)
// and present a name-only summary. Don't attempt structured
// parsing; bail to a raw echo if the output isn't lines-of-tokens.
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The comment says to “bail to a raw echo if the output isn't lines-of-tokens”, but the implementation always tokenizes and never falls back to a raw echo. Either implement the described fallback behavior or adjust the comment to match what the code actually does.

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// fnox list stdout varies slightly by version — extract anything
// that looks like a secret name (non-whitespace leading token)
// and present a name-only summary. Don't attempt structured
// parsing; bail to a raw echo if the output isn't lines-of-tokens.
// fnox list stdout varies slightly by version, so use a simple
// heuristic: for each non-empty, non-comment line, treat the
// leading non-whitespace token as the secret name and present a
// name-only summary instead of attempting structured parsing.

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Codex integration sweep: addressed in #38 without editing this PR branch. The integrated !secure parser uses whitespace-delimited leading_word_and_rest parsing, documents NAME=value and NAME value, and keeps whitespace input covered by tests.

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// Safety: tests holding SECURE_ENV_MUTEX serialize env
// mutation. `std::env::set_var` is marked unsafe in
// Rust 2024 for this exact reason.
unsafe {
std::env::set_var("PATH", new_path);
}
Self { original }
}
}
impl Drop for PathGuard {
fn drop(&mut self) {
unsafe {
match &self.original {
Some(p) => std::env::set_var("PATH", p),
None => std::env::remove_var("PATH"),
}
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The tests wrap std::env::set_var / remove_var in unsafe {} blocks. If these functions are still safe on the toolchain used in CI, this will trigger an unused_unsafe warning, and CI fails due to cargo clippy ... -D warnings. Consider removing the unsafe blocks (keeping the mutex for serialization), or explicitly allowing unused_unsafe if the project intentionally keeps the blocks for compatibility with a newer std API.

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// Safety: tests holding SECURE_ENV_MUTEX serialize env
// mutation. `std::env::set_var` is marked unsafe in
// Rust 2024 for this exact reason.
unsafe {
std::env::set_var("PATH", new_path);
}
Self { original }
}
}
impl Drop for PathGuard {
fn drop(&mut self) {
unsafe {
match &self.original {
Some(p) => std::env::set_var("PATH", p),
None => std::env::remove_var("PATH"),
}
// Tests holding SECURE_ENV_MUTEX serialize env mutation.
std::env::set_var("PATH", new_path);
Self { original }
}
}
impl Drop for PathGuard {
fn drop(&mut self) {
match &self.original {
Some(p) => std::env::set_var("PATH", p),
None => std::env::remove_var("PATH"),

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Codex integration sweep: addressed in #38 without editing this PR branch. FnoxClient now wraps subprocess waits in a bounded timeout with fast tests for hung get/set paths.

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// agent. Runs post-auth so we can audit who set what; doesn't yet
// gate by role (open for any authenticated identity). The handler
// is async because it shells out to `fnox`.
//
// We deliberately do NOT log `text` here or in the handler — the
// `!secure set NAME=value` form contains a secret value that must
// not appear in ops logs. debug! logs only that a !secure command
// was handled; the handler never logs `text` either.
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This block says !secure runs post-auth “so we can audit who set what”, but the current handle_secure implementation ignores identity_id (it’s _identity_id) and doesn’t emit any audit record. Either remove/update this claim or implement an audit trail that records the identity and secret name without logging the value.

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// agent. Runs post-auth so we can audit who set what; doesn't yet
// gate by role (open for any authenticated identity). The handler
// is async because it shells out to `fnox`.
//
// We deliberately do NOT log `text` here or in the handler — the
// `!secure set NAME=value` form contains a secret value that must
// not appear in ops logs. debug! logs only that a !secure command
// was handled; the handler never logs `text` either.
// agent. Runs post-auth so only authenticated identities can invoke
// it; it doesn't yet gate by role (open for any authenticated
// identity). The handler is async because it shells out to `fnox`.
//
// We deliberately do NOT log `text` here or in the handler — the
// `!secure set NAME=value` form contains a secret value that must
// not appear in ops logs. debug! logs only that a !secure command
// was handled; this path does not log the command text.

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Codex integration sweep: addressed in #38 without editing this PR branch. The integrated !secure set/list paths log the authenticated identity and secret name/operation while still never logging or echoing secret values.

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Cross-cutting triage finding (PRs #20, #21, #23, #26, #28, #31): the
!secure parser used `splitn(' ')` which mis-shapes multi-space
input — `"!secure  set NAME=v"` parsed as sub="" rest="set NAME=v",
silently routing through the unknown-subcommand path with the secret
in the help-error message. Switch to `split_whitespace()`.

Also wires the previously-unused `identity_id` into an audit log so
the `_` prefix can drop. The log records identity + subcommand, never
the value (`rest`). Closes the "audit-claim docstring with no audit
implementation" finding from triage.
bglusman added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 25, 2026
…ning (#44)

Squash-merge of integration/super-combined — 4 weeks of feature work + cross-PR security
fixes + codex agent's hardening, all green CI (14/14 checks).

## Features landing
- **fnox secret-resolver integration** (#15) + FnoxClient subprocess wrapper (#21)
- **Adversarial commit-reviewer + mechanical pre-commit gate** (#18)
- **{{secret:NAME}} substitution engine** in security-proxy URL/headers/body (#19)
- **Per-secret destination allowlist** (#22) — RFC §11.1 attack defense
- **!secure chat commands** (set/list) on Telegram (#20), Matrix (#28), WhatsApp (#31)
- **zeroclawed-mcp** scaffold — agent-facing secret discovery server (#23)
- **install.sh wires MCP** into Claude Code agent configs (#26)
- **zeroclawed-secret-paste** — localhost web UI for one-shot secret input (#34)
- **Bulk paste UI** — .env-style multi-secret onboarding with per-line results
- **LAN-friendly defaults** — bind 0.0.0.0 + RFC 1918 Origin acceptance
- **WhatsApp HMAC verification** (was always-true placeholder before — codex hardening)

## Security fixes folded in
- /vault/:secret bearer auth + 127.0.0.1 default bind (#39)
- URL-embedded secrets honor destination allowlist (#41)
- Paste-flow: bearer URL only at debug, fnox set via stdin not argv (#40)
- Paste-flow: graceful shutdown, exit-on-submit, reject Origin: null (#43)
- Subprocess timeouts + kill_on_drop on FnoxClient
- BrokenPipe-tolerant stdin write (Linux CI surface)
- Header-value log redaction
- OneCLI bound to 127.0.0.1 by default
- Sanitized real API token + Telegram IDs from sample configs (#36)

## Architecture / refactors
- Consolidated onecli binary into security-proxy (#17)
- Hardcoded vault URL removed from onecli-client
- security-proxy resolver wired into hot path
- Extracted build_app router; migrated /vault/:secret route
- !secure parser uses split_whitespace (was splitn), audit-logs invocations

## Test coverage added
- security-proxy substitution engine + body/headers tests
- onecli-client retry + Http(_) variant + adversarial fallthrough suite
- onecli-client client.rs rewritten from tautologies to wiremock-backed
- config/validator coverage (was zero, now 290-line module covered)
- 16 zeroclawed-secret-paste tests including bulk-mode cases

## Docs / RFCs
- agent-secret-gateway holistic architecture
- consolidation-findings (what #28 must address)
- secret-input-web-ui RFC (input-only, new-by-default)
- browser-harness integration spike
- test-quality-audit Round 1+2+3 (host-agent + zeroclawed priority files)

## Codex agent's hardening cherry-picks
- Subprocess timeouts on fnox calls
- map_spawn_error helper
- Validator hardening + atomic-counter digest race fix
- WhatsApp HMAC implementation + tests
- proxy header-value log redaction

CI: all 14 checks green at squash time.

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Subsumed by #44 (squashed to 9ed51fbc on main). All commits from this branch are present in the squash. Closing as redundant rather than merging again.

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bglusman added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 25, 2026
…ning (#44)

Squash-merge of integration/super-combined — 4 weeks of feature work + cross-PR security
fixes + codex agent's hardening, all green CI (14/14 checks).

## Features landing
- **fnox secret-resolver integration** (#15) + FnoxClient subprocess wrapper (#21)
- **Adversarial commit-reviewer + mechanical pre-commit gate** (#18)
- **{{secret:NAME}} substitution engine** in security-proxy URL/headers/body (#19)
- **Per-secret destination allowlist** (#22) — RFC §11.1 attack defense
- **!secure chat commands** (set/list) on Telegram (#20), Matrix (#28), WhatsApp (#31)
- **zeroclawed-mcp** scaffold — agent-facing secret discovery server (#23)
- **install.sh wires MCP** into Claude Code agent configs (#26)
- **zeroclawed-secret-paste** — localhost web UI for one-shot secret input (#34)
- **Bulk paste UI** — .env-style multi-secret onboarding with per-line results
- **LAN-friendly defaults** — bind 0.0.0.0 + RFC 1918 Origin acceptance
- **WhatsApp HMAC verification** (was always-true placeholder before — codex hardening)

## Security fixes folded in
- /vault/:secret bearer auth + 127.0.0.1 default bind (#39)
- URL-embedded secrets honor destination allowlist (#41)
- Paste-flow: bearer URL only at debug, fnox set via stdin not argv (#40)
- Paste-flow: graceful shutdown, exit-on-submit, reject Origin: null (#43)
- Subprocess timeouts + kill_on_drop on FnoxClient
- BrokenPipe-tolerant stdin write (Linux CI surface)
- Header-value log redaction
- OneCLI bound to 127.0.0.1 by default
- Sanitized real API token + Telegram IDs from sample configs (#36)

## Architecture / refactors
- Consolidated onecli binary into security-proxy (#17)
- Hardcoded vault URL removed from onecli-client
- security-proxy resolver wired into hot path
- Extracted build_app router; migrated /vault/:secret route
- !secure parser uses split_whitespace (was splitn), audit-logs invocations

## Test coverage added
- security-proxy substitution engine + body/headers tests
- onecli-client retry + Http(_) variant + adversarial fallthrough suite
- onecli-client client.rs rewritten from tautologies to wiremock-backed
- config/validator coverage (was zero, now 290-line module covered)
- 16 zeroclawed-secret-paste tests including bulk-mode cases

## Docs / RFCs
- agent-secret-gateway holistic architecture
- consolidation-findings (what #28 must address)
- secret-input-web-ui RFC (input-only, new-by-default)
- browser-harness integration spike
- test-quality-audit Round 1+2+3 (host-agent + zeroclawed priority files)

## Codex agent's hardening cherry-picks
- Subprocess timeouts on fnox calls
- map_spawn_error helper
- Validator hardening + atomic-counter digest race fix
- WhatsApp HMAC implementation + tests
- proxy header-value log redaction

CI: all 14 checks green at squash time.

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