"""Shared file safety rules used by both tools and ACP shims. Every guard here is defense-in-depth, NOT a security boundary: the terminal tool runs as the same OS user and can read/write anything. The value is a clear denial for models that respect tool errors plus a visible audit trail. """ from __future__ import annotations import os from pathlib import Path from contextlib import suppress from typing import Optional def _constants_path(getter_name: str) -> Path: """Call ``hermes_constants.()`` (local import avoids cycles); ``~/.hermes`` on any failure.""" try: import hermes_constants return getattr(hermes_constants, getter_name)() except Exception: return Path(os.path.expanduser("~/.hermes")) def _hermes_home_path() -> Path: """Active HERMES_HOME (profile-aware). Tests monkeypatch this name.""" return _constants_path("get_hermes_home") def _hermes_root_path() -> Path: """Hermes root dir (parent of any profile, never per-profile).""" return _constants_path("get_default_hermes_root") def _hermes_dirs() -> list[Path]: """Resolved active HERMES_HOME and global root, deduplicated. Both are checked so credential stores at /... stay guarded when running under a profile (HERMES_HOME = /profiles/). """ return list(dict.fromkeys(_resolve_each((_hermes_home_path(), _hermes_root_path())))) def _resolve_each(paths) -> list[Path]: """``p.resolve()`` for each path, skipping ones that fail to resolve.""" out: list[Path] = [] for p in paths: with suppress(Exception): out.append(p.resolve()) return out def _is_under(resolved: str | Path, base: str | Path) -> bool: """True when ``resolved`` equals ``base`` or lies below it (both already resolved); ``Path`` inputs use ``relative_to`` (platform semantics), ``str`` a realpath prefix test.""" if isinstance(resolved, Path): try: return resolved.relative_to(base) is not None except ValueError: return False return resolved == base or resolved.startswith(str(base) + os.sep) def _resolve_target(path: str) -> Optional[Path]: """``Path(expanduser(path)).resolve()``, or None when resolution fails.""" with suppress(OSError, RuntimeError): return Path(os.path.expanduser(str(path))).resolve() return None def _home_and_resolved(path: str) -> tuple[str, str]: """``(realpath(~), realpath(expanduser(path)))`` — the write-guard coordinate pair.""" return tuple(os.path.realpath(os.path.expanduser(p)) for p in ("~", str(path))) def build_write_denied_paths(home: str) -> set[str]: """Return exact sensitive paths that must never be written.""" # ``~/.ssh/config`` is deliberately NOT hard-denied: no key bytes, and editing # it is routine. It can carry ProxyCommand / Match exec, so it goes through the # approval gate instead (build_write_approval_paths). home_files = ( (".ssh", "authorized_keys"), (".ssh", "id_rsa"), (".ssh", "id_ed25519"), (".netrc",), (".pgpass",), (".npmrc",), (".pypirc",), (".git-credentials",), ) # Both the active-profile and top-level copies: overwriting the root .env leaks # credentials across every profile that inherits from it; the root Anthropic # PKCE store is still read by default/non-profile sessions when a profile is # active; bws_cache.enc.json is the Bitwarden Secrets Manager encrypted cache. hermes_files = (".env", ".anthropic_oauth.json", os.path.join("cache", "bws_cache.enc.json")) paths = [ *(os.path.join(home, *f) for f in home_files), *(str(base / f) for f in hermes_files for base in (_hermes_home_path(), _hermes_root_path())), "/etc/sudoers", "/etc/passwd", "/etc/shadow", ] return {os.path.realpath(p) for p in paths} def build_write_denied_prefixes(home: str) -> list[str]: """Return sensitive directory prefixes that must never be written.""" paths = [ *(os.path.join(home, d) for d in (".ssh", ".aws", ".gnupg", ".kube")), "/etc/sudoers.d", "/etc/systemd", *(os.path.join(home, *d) for d in ((".docker",), (".azure",), (".config", "gh"), (".config", "gcloud"))), ] return [os.path.realpath(p) + os.sep for p in paths] def get_safe_write_roots() -> set[str]: """Resolved HERMES_WRITE_SAFE_ROOT paths (``os.pathsep``-separated list).""" roots: set[str] = set() for path in filter(None, os.getenv("HERMES_WRITE_SAFE_ROOT", "").split(os.pathsep)): with suppress(OSError, ValueError): roots.add(os.path.realpath(os.path.expanduser(path))) return roots def build_write_approval_paths(home: str) -> set[str]: """Paths that need human APPROVAL to write but are not hard-denied credentials. ``~/.ssh/config`` is routine to edit and holds no key bytes, but can carry ``ProxyCommand`` / ``Match exec``. Interactive file tools prompt (approve-once/session/always, like the terminal tool's ``~/.ssh`` gate); non-interactive callers (ACP shims, background jobs) fail closed. """ return {os.path.realpath(os.path.join(home, ".ssh", "config"))} # HERMES_HOME / root subpaths that the agent's generic file tools must not # rewrite. Session transcripts (state.db, sessions/) are application-owned # state whose rewrite can falsify history and break resume/compression; # mcp-tokens/ and pairing/ hold credential material. _HERMES_PROTECTED_SUBPATHS = ("state.db", "sessions", "mcp-tokens", "pairing") def _classify_write_denial(path: str) -> Optional[str]: """Return ``'credential'``, ``'safe_root'``, or ``None`` if writes are allowed.""" home, resolved = _home_and_resolved(path) # Approval-gated paths are allowed at this layer so interactive tools can # prompt; checked first so the ``.ssh/`` prefix deny doesn't swallow them. if resolved in build_write_approval_paths(home): return None if resolved in build_write_denied_paths(home) or any( resolved.startswith(prefix) for prefix in build_write_denied_prefixes(home) ): return "credential" for base in _hermes_dirs(): for sub in _HERMES_PROTECTED_SUBPATHS: with suppress(Exception): if _is_under(resolved, os.path.realpath(os.path.join(str(base), sub))): return "credential" safe_roots = get_safe_write_roots() if safe_roots and not any(_is_under(resolved, root) for root in safe_roots): return "safe_root" return None def is_write_denied(path: str) -> bool: """Return True if path is blocked by the write denylist or safe root.""" return _classify_write_denial(path) is not None def get_write_denied_error(path: str, *, verb: str = "Write") -> Optional[str]: """Return a user/model-facing error when writes to ``path`` are blocked.""" denial = _classify_write_denial(path) if denial == "safe_root": roots_display = os.pathsep.join(sorted(get_safe_write_roots())) return ( f"{verb} denied: '{path}' is outside HERMES_WRITE_SAFE_ROOT " f"({roots_display}). Unset the variable or add this path's directory prefix." ) return f"{verb} denied: '{path}' is a protected system/credential file." if denial else None def is_write_approval_required(path: str) -> bool: """True if ``path`` is approval-gated (``~/.ssh/config``): interactive callers prompt, callers without a channel treat it as a block (fail closed).""" home, resolved = _home_and_resolved(path) return resolved in build_write_approval_paths(home) # Secret-bearing project-local env file basenames, blocked anywhere on disk. _BLOCKED_PROJECT_ENV_BASENAMES: set[str] = { ".env", ".env.local", ".env.development", ".env.production", ".env.test", ".env.staging", ".envrc", } _DID_SUFFIX = ( " (Defense-in-depth — not a security boundary; the terminal tool can still bypass.)" ) # Exact-file credential stores under HERMES_HOME / . The agent never # needs these directly — provider tools consume them through internal channels. # bws_cache.json is the Bitwarden Secrets Manager disk cache: plaintext secret values. _CREDENTIAL_FILE_NAMES = ( "auth.json", "auth.lock", ".anthropic_oauth.json", ".env", "webhook_subscriptions.json", os.path.join("auth", "google_oauth.json"), os.path.join("cache", "bws_cache.json"), ) # Directory-prefix read denies under HERMES_HOME / : (subdir, message for # the directory itself, message for a file inside). browser-profile/ is a copy # of the user's Cookies / Login Data — the same credential class as auth.json. _READ_DENIED_DIRS = ( ("mcp-tokens", "is the Hermes MCP token directory and cannot be read directly.", "is a Hermes MCP token file and cannot be read directly."), ("browser-profile", "is the Hermes real-profile browser snapshot directory (copied cookies/logins) and cannot be read directly.", "is inside the Hermes real-profile browser snapshot (copied cookies/logins) and cannot be read directly."), # vault.key + vault.json.enc sit side by side; key + ciphertext = plaintext, so the whole dir is one credential. ("vault", "is the Hermes credential vault directory and cannot be read directly (secrets are filled server-side by browser_vault_fill).", "is inside the Hermes credential vault (encrypted secrets + local key) and cannot be read directly (browser_vault_fill resolves them server-side)."), ) def get_read_block_error(path: str) -> Optional[str]: """Return an error message when a read targets a denied Hermes path. Blocked: internal skill-hub caches (prompt-injection carriers), credential stores under HERMES_HOME and the global root (exact files, plus anything under ``mcp-tokens/`` and ``browser-profile/``), and project-local ``.env`` files anywhere on disk (``.env.example`` is the documented-shape substitute). Callers that resolve relative paths against a non-process cwd (e.g. ``TERMINAL_CWD``) MUST pass an absolute path: ``resolve()`` here anchors at the process cwd, so a relative ``"auth.json"`` would miss the denylist. """ resolved = Path(path).expanduser().resolve() hermes_dirs = _hermes_dirs() reason = None if any(_is_under(resolved, hd / "skills" / ".hub") for hd in hermes_dirs): reason = ( "is an internal Hermes cache file and cannot be read directly to prevent " "prompt injection. Use the skills_list or skill_view tools instead." ) elif any(resolved in _resolve_each(hd / name for hd in hermes_dirs) for name in _CREDENTIAL_FILE_NAMES): reason = ( "is a Hermes credential store and cannot be read directly. Provider tools " "consume these credentials through internal channels." + _DID_SUFFIX ) else: for subdir, dir_msg, file_msg in _READ_DENIED_DIRS: for blocked_dir in _resolve_each(hd / subdir for hd in hermes_dirs): if _is_under(resolved, blocked_dir): reason = (dir_msg if resolved == blocked_dir else file_msg) + _DID_SUFFIX break if reason: break if reason is None and resolved.name.lower() in _BLOCKED_PROJECT_ENV_BASENAMES: reason = ( "is a secret-bearing environment file and cannot be read to prevent credential " "leakage. If you need to check the file structure, read .env.example instead." + _DID_SUFFIX ) return f"Access denied: {path} {reason}" if reason else None def raise_if_read_blocked(path: str) -> None: """Raise ``ValueError`` if ``path`` is a denied Hermes read (see ``get_read_block_error``). Shared chokepoint for provider input-loading sites (e.g. image-gen local paths). Best-effort: unexpected internal errors no-op rather than break local-file loading; a real block still propagates. """ try: blocked = get_read_block_error(path) except Exception: # noqa: BLE001 - guard must never break local-file loading return if blocked: raise ValueError(blocked) def _resolve_active_profile_name() -> str: """Active profile name from HERMES_HOME: ``~/.hermes`` -> ``"default"``, ``~/.hermes/profiles/X`` -> ``"X"``; ``"default"`` on any resolution failure.""" try: parts = _hermes_home_path().resolve().relative_to(_hermes_root_path().resolve() / "profiles").parts except (OSError, RuntimeError, ValueError): return "default" return parts[0] if parts else "default" # --- Sandbox-mirror write guard --- # Non-local terminal backends bind a sandbox-local dir to the container's $HOME: # /profiles//sandboxes///home/.hermes/... # A host-side write there lands on a mirror the host never reads: silent success, # divergent copies. Path-shape-only detection, independent of the active profile; # the inner-container case (bind mount strips the prefix) is classify_container_mirror_target. _SANDBOX_MIRROR_WARNING = ( "Sandbox-mirror write blocked by soft guard: {target_path} " "sits under {mirror_root!r}, which is {body} " "Use the host-side tool for authoritative state (e.g. ``memory`` for memories), " "or address the host path directly. To bypass {bypass} with ``cross_profile=True``. " "(Defense-in-depth — not a security boundary; the terminal tool can still bypass.)" ) def _mirror_info(target: Path, mirror_root: Path, inner_path: str) -> dict: """Common ``classify_*_mirror_target`` result shape.""" return {"target_path": str(target), "mirror_root": str(mirror_root), "inner_path": inner_path} def classify_sandbox_mirror_target(path: str) -> Optional[dict]: """Classify a write target as a sandbox-mirror of authoritative Hermes state: ``None`` for non-mirror paths, else ``target_path`` (resolved), ``mirror_root`` (the ``…/home/.hermes`` prefix) and ``inner_path`` (what the agent meant on the host).""" target = _resolve_target(path) parts = target.parts if target is not None else () # Need at least: sandboxes / / / home / .hermes / ; inner_idx = the .hermes part. inner_idx = next( (i + 4 for i, part in enumerate(parts) if part == "sandboxes" and i + 5 < len(parts) and parts[i + 3] == "home" and parts[i + 4] == ".hermes"), None, ) if inner_idx is None: return None inner = str(Path(*parts[inner_idx + 1:])) if inner_idx + 1 < len(parts) else "" return _mirror_info(target, Path(*parts[: inner_idx + 1]), inner) def _mirror_warning(info: Optional[dict], body: str, bypass: str) -> Optional[str]: """Render ``_SANDBOX_MIRROR_WARNING`` for a classify_* result (``body`` may use ``{inner_path}``).""" if info is None: return None return _SANDBOX_MIRROR_WARNING.format(**info, body=body.format(inner_path=info["inner_path"]), bypass=bypass) def get_sandbox_mirror_warning(path: str) -> Optional[str]: """Model-facing soft-guard warning when ``path`` lands in a sandbox mirror, else ``None``; the caller surfaces it as a tool-result error and ``cross_profile=True`` bypasses.""" return _mirror_warning( classify_sandbox_mirror_target(path), "a per-task mirror created by a non-local terminal backend (docker/daytona/etc.). " "Writes here land on a copy that the host Hermes process never reads — the " "authoritative file is likely {inner_path!r} under the real HERMES_HOME.", "this guard after explicit user direction, retry the call", ) def classify_container_mirror_target(path: str, mirror_prefix: str | None = None) -> Optional[dict]: """Classify a write target as a container-side sandbox mirror. Inside the container the bind mount strips the ``sandboxes/`` prefix (the agent sees plain ``/root/.hermes/…``), so the caller supplies ``mirror_prefix`` once it knows file tools run in a docker sandbox. ``None`` without a prefix or outside it, else ``target_path``/``mirror_root``/``inner_path``.""" target, mirror = _resolve_target(path), _resolve_target(mirror_prefix) if mirror_prefix else None if target is None or mirror is None or not _is_under(target, mirror): return None return _mirror_info(target, mirror, target.relative_to(mirror).as_posix()) def get_container_mirror_warning(path: str, mirror_prefix: str | None = None) -> Optional[str]: """Model-facing soft-guard warning when ``path`` lands in the container's mirror, else ``None``.""" return _mirror_warning( classify_container_mirror_target(path, mirror_prefix), "the container's bind-mounted home — a per-task mirror that the host Hermes " "process never reads. The authoritative file is {inner_path!r} under " "the real HERMES_HOME.", "after explicit user direction, retry", ) # ---- BEGIN PLUGIN-COMPAT (revert-scheduled; see COMPAT_MANIFEST.md) ---- # Names external plugins imported from this module before the Sep 2026 decomposition. # Internal code MUST NOT use these (scripts/check_compat_pointers.py fails CI if it does). # The whole block is removed by reverting the commit that added it. PROFILE_SCOPED_AREAS = ("skills", "plugins", "cron", "memories") def classify_cross_profile_target(path: str) -> Optional[dict]: """Classify a write target as cross-profile if it lands in another profile's scoped area (skills/plugins/cron/memories). Returns ``None`` when the target is outside Hermes scope, or is inside the ACTIVE profile, or doesn't hit a profile-scoped area. Otherwise returns a dict with: * ``active_profile``: name of the profile the agent is running as * ``target_profile``: name of the profile the path belongs to * ``area``: which scoped area (``"skills"``, ``"plugins"``, etc.) * ``target_path``: the resolved path string The caller decides what to do with the result — surface a warning to the model, prompt the user, or (with explicit consent / ``cross_profile=True``) proceed anyway. """ try: target = Path(os.path.expanduser(str(path))).resolve() root_real = _hermes_root_path().resolve() except (OSError, RuntimeError): return None target_profile: Optional[str] = None area: Optional[str] = None try: rel = target.relative_to(root_real) except ValueError: return None parts = rel.parts if not parts: return None if parts[0] in PROFILE_SCOPED_AREAS: # ``//...`` → default profile. target_profile = "default" area = parts[0] elif ( parts[0] == "profiles" and len(parts) >= 3 and parts[2] in PROFILE_SCOPED_AREAS ): # ``/profiles///...`` → named profile. target_profile = parts[1] area = parts[2] else: return None active_profile = _resolve_active_profile_name() if target_profile == active_profile: # In-profile write — not a cross-profile event. return None return { "active_profile": active_profile, "target_profile": target_profile, "area": area, "target_path": str(target), } def get_cross_profile_warning(path: str) -> Optional[str]: """RETIRED (maintainer decision): always returns ``None``. The cross-profile write guard was removed — profiles were never isolated (same OS user; the terminal tool writes anywhere), so the block was ceremony that cost every schema real tokens and taught a bypass arg. The system prompt's active-profile hint remains the only steering; the classifier below survives for that hint and for diagnostics. Kept as a stub so external callers/plugins fail soft. """ return None # ---- END PLUGIN-COMPAT ----