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