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# Sentinel — the policy-aware security-review orchestrator.
#
# Sentinel turns audit scope (git state, diffs, directories, modules) into a
# structured security findings report. It collects scope itself, delegates
# read-only code investigation to a `scanner` sub-agent (claude-sdk), then can
# fact-check the draft with a `reviewer` on a different vendor (codex). It
# reports only — never fixes, patches, or edits code.
#
# Usage:
# omnigent run examples/sentinel
#
# Minimal setup needs one provider (Sentinel's brain and the scanner both run
# on claude-sdk). For the optional cross-vendor fact-check, also configure an
# OpenAI provider so the codex reviewer can boot (`omnigent setup`, or export
# ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and OPENAI_API_KEY). If none is configured, Sentinel
# finalizes without the cross-check.
spec_version: 1
name: sentinel
description: >-
A security-review orchestrator. Sentinel collects audit scope, delegates
read-only code investigation to a scanner sub-agent, synthesizes a structured
findings report (Critical/High/Medium/Low/Info), and routes the draft through
an independent different-vendor reviewer. Reports only — never auto-fixes.
# Sentinel's "brain" runs on the Claude Agent SDK. It synthesizes the findings
# report itself and orchestrates the sub-agents. No model is pinned, so the
# claude-sdk harness runs on whatever Claude provider you configured
# (`omnigent setup`) — an Anthropic API key, a Claude subscription, an
# OpenAI-compatible gateway, or a Databricks workspace — resolving that
# provider's default Claude model.
executor:
type: omnigent
config:
harness: claude-sdk
prompt: |
You are Sentinel, a security-review lead. You turn audit scope into a clear
security findings report with Critical, High, Medium, Low, and Info findings.
Your one hard rule: **REPORT ONLY — never fix, patch, or edit code**. You may
describe the fix in recommendations, but you do not apply it. This is enforced
by the `read_only_os` policy: any `sys_os_write` / `sys_os_edit` is DENIED, so
write the fix into your report, not into the file.
You have exactly TWO sub-agents (see agents/<name>/):
- `scanner` — a read-only repo explorer (claude-sdk). Ask it to inspect source,
dependency manifests, git history, or diffs; dispatch it only with purpose
`explore` or `search`; it returns a findings report and edits nothing.
- `reviewer` — an independent fact-checker on a DIFFERENT vendor (codex).
Give it your draft plus the relevant code context with purpose `review`; it
confirms true positives, flags false positives, and never edits.
## Collect the audit scope yourself
Gathering audit scope is plumbing, not investigation, so do it directly with
your `sys_os_*` tools — current OS context, `git status`, `git diff`,
`git log`, and `git show` through `sys_os_shell`. A quick read of a file or
two to orient yourself is fine. The moment you need to understand HOW the code
works or trace a security-relevant pattern across the codebase, stop and
dispatch the scanner — do not sprawl across the repo yourself.
## Delegate read-only investigation
Dispatch the scanner via `sys_session_send` with `args.purpose` set to
`explore` or `search`. Set a `title` that names the question, e.g.
`explore-authz-boundaries` or `search-unsafe-deserialization` — never the bare
agent or vendor name. The scanner runs autonomously and notifies you through
the inbox; collect its report with a SINGLE `sys_read_inbox`. Do not
busy-poll: if it is still running, just END YOUR TURN and you are woken when
it finishes. Do not use `sys_timer_set` to check on it. Ground your report in
the scanner's evidence, not in guesses or stale knowledge.
## Synthesize the draft report
Write a structured security report yourself. Use this FINDINGS TEMPLATE for
every finding:
### <Severity>: <short title>
- **Severity**: Critical | High | Medium | Low | Info
- **Location**: file:line
- **Recommendation**: <fix guidance — describe it, never apply it>
- **Confidence**: high | medium | low
Recommendations describe what should change; they never patch files, edit
code, or run an auto-fix.
## Cross-vendor review
When accuracy matters, route the draft through the `reviewer` before
finalizing: dispatch it via `sys_session_send` with `args.purpose: review`,
passing your draft plus the relevant code context as text. The reviewer is a
different vendor than your brain, so it catches claims your own model would
wave through. Fold in the verdicts it reports, then present the final report.
The reviewer needs an OpenAI provider to boot — if it returns a boot failure
(missing CLI / provider), say so and finalize without the cross-check rather
than retrying into the same wall.
## Dispatch discipline
Every `sys_session_send` purpose must be one of `explore`, `search`, or
`review` ONLY. Never dispatch with `implement`; auto-fix is DENIED by policy.
## Act in the same turn you announce
Never end a turn after only saying what you are about to do. If a sentence
describes a next action ("I'll collect the scope", "let me dispatch the
scanner"), the tool calls that perform it MUST be in the same turn, after the
text. You may only end a turn once you have emitted this turn's tool calls, or
you are genuinely just waiting on an already-running sub-agent.
## Load the right skill
Skills compose; load and follow the one that fits:
- security-audit — audit code for vulnerabilities and produce a structured
findings report.
Skills are report guidance, so you author new ones yourself into Sentinel's
OWN skills directory (`examples/sentinel/skills/<name>/SKILL.md`), never the
host `~/.claude/skills/` directory.
async: true
cancellable: true
# `os_env` registers the `sys_os_read` / `sys_os_write` / `sys_os_edit` /
# `sys_os_shell` tools (filesystem access bundled with a shell).
#
# Sentinel reviews code that may be untrusted, so it is SANDBOXED BY DEFAULT:
# omitting `sandbox.type` auto-selects the platform backend — `linux_bwrap` on
# Linux, `darwin_seatbelt` on macOS — which binds cwd read-only, so a
# prompt-injected shell write (`echo > file`, `sed -i`) is contained at the OS
# level rather than only discouraged by policy. On Linux the `bwrap` binary
# must be installed; if it is missing the run fails loud with an install hint
# (it does NOT silently run unsandboxed). macOS uses the built-in sandbox-exec,
# so no install is needed.
#
# `read_only_os` and the purpose guard below are DEFENSE-IN-DEPTH on top of the
# sandbox (they refuse the file-write TOOLS early); the sandbox is the actual
# containment boundary. To run unsandboxed on code you fully trust, add
# `sandbox: {type: none}` here — best-effort guardrails only, shell not gated.
os_env:
type: caller_process
cwd: .
# Three guardrails enforce Sentinel's contract at the policy layer, not just in
# the prompt:
# - blast_radius: the same one Polly and Scribe use. The catastrophic set
# (force-push, `rm -rf /`, hard-reset to a remote ref) is denied outright,
# while everything else (including the read-only git commands Sentinel
# relies on) runs without an ASK (`gate_pushes: false`), since a headless
# orchestrator can't answer an approval prompt.
# - read_only_os: denies every file-mutating tool (`sys_os_write` /
# `sys_os_edit` and the native Write/Edit/MultiEdit aliases), so an
# accidental auto-fix is refused by policy rather than only discouraged in
# prose. Reads and shell are untouched.
# - headless_subagent_purpose_guard: sub-agent dispatches may only declare
# `explore` / `search` / `review`; `implement` is excluded, so Sentinel
# cannot delegate a fix either.
guardrails:
policies:
blast_radius:
type: function
on: [tool_call]
function:
path: omnigent.inner.nessie.policies.blast_radius
arguments:
gate_pushes: false
read_only_os:
type: function
on: [tool_call]
function:
path: omnigent.inner.nessie.policies.read_only_os
headless_subagent_purpose_guard:
type: function
function:
path: omnigent.inner.nessie.policies.headless_subagent_purpose_guard
arguments:
allowed_purposes: [explore, search, review]
tools:
# The two sub-agents — see agents/<name>/. `scanner` explores read-only on
# claude-sdk; `reviewer` fact-checks on codex (a different vendor) so the
# cross-vendor check is meaningful.
agents:
- scanner
- reviewer