The scanners cap by truncating: they return findings, so reading a prefix costs
detection in the tail and nothing else. The three transform surfaces return
*content*, where the same move is not available — a shortened document is silent
data loss, and a transformed prefix followed by an untransformed tail is a
bypass, since the attacker chooses where in the document the payload sits.
So they fail secure instead. Above MAX_INPUT_CHARS (1 000 000) sanitize, fence
and neutralize raise OversizeInputError. sanitize is step 1 of prepare_input and
only ever removes, so that one refusal bounds the whole input path.
OversizeInputError subclasses ContractViolation: a pipeline already bracketing
its quarantined stage keeps failing closed rather than meeting a type it has
never heard of. It inherits the alert-routable property too — sizes in the
message, refusing surface in details, no input in either.
Invariant now pinned across all three: returned text is always fully
transformed, or not returned at all.
Still uncapped and recorded in LIMITATIONS: scan_active_content called directly
(through scan_output it inherits that cap) and the okf link graph. Both are
detection-shaped, so truncate-and-flag transfers unchanged — mechanical, not
policy.
699 tests (+23), coverage 128/128 + 6/6, ReDoS sweep 0 candidates / 150.
0.3.3 swept 83 lexicon patterns arm by arm and left the other ten regex-bearing
modules on 0.3.2's hand-written rows. Generalising the sweep found three more,
and the two on the input path matter more than the count suggests: `sanitize` is
step 1 of `prepare_input`, and `MAX_SCAN_CHARS` is applied in `scan_lexicon` and
`scan_output` only, so there was no cap to extrapolate to. That missing input
cap is now a documented residual of its own -- extending it changes the contract
for existing callers and is not something to smuggle into a ReDoS patch.
Version synced in all four places + CHANGELOG. LIMITATIONS 30 -> 31 items;
the 0.3.3 entry claiming the lexicon sweep's scope is corrected in place, since
"the output path" was never the whole surface either.
676 tests, coverage 128/128 + 6/6 gaps, sweep clean across 150 patterns.
Version synced across the four locked points (pyproject, __version__, README
badge, README install pin) + CHANGELOG.
Corrections this release carries, both measured rather than reasoned:
- docs/LIMITATIONS.md said the script-tag change removed "the last"
quadratic-backtracking site on the output path. It did not. Corrected, with
the 334.7s gate measurement that falsifies it.
- README's coverage line claimed 126/126 classes; the matrix reports 128/128.
Stale since before v0.3.2. Test badge was 642, actual 666.
New residual recorded (LIMITATIONS, now 30 items, README synced): the sweep
flags on timing above a 1.5ms noise floor at N=8000, so an arm hiding under it
could still cost ~23s at the cap. What this supports is "no arm worse than ~23s",
not "no quadratic arm remains" -- and the blind spot is demonstrated, since a
generic-payload pass found only one of the two patterns.
666 tests green, coverage matrix 128/128 with 6/6 gaps holding, exit 0.
Version sync in all four places (pyproject, __version__, README badge, README
install pin) plus the changelog entry for cff0437.
Two claims that were about to ship in the release note did not survive being
measured against a v0.3.1 worktree, and are corrected in LIMITATIONS first:
- "Report-only, so the cost is a review, not a block" was wrong twice. HIGH under
a low-trust preset is fail_secure, not a review -- report-only means the text is
never mutated, not that a finding cannot block. And the new script-tag false
positive costs no consumer a disposition at all: any text containing a literal
`<script>` already produced active:raw-html at HIGH on 0.3.1, so the same prose
disposed fail_secure under PRESET_USER_UPLOAD before this change and after it.
The fail-open that was closed is narrower for the same reason -- it existed only
in scan_lexicon called on its own; through either composed gate, raw-html
already caught the unclosed tag. What changed is the label, not the outcome.
- "The realistic long value is still caught by egress:jwt-token" was true and
hid the part that matters. Measured at the 257-char boundary: a generic long
password still trips entropy:base64-blob at CRITICAL, disposition unchanged.
A JWT used as a DB password is the case that moves -- its remaining detections
top out below CRITICAL, so the any-tier block is lost and PRESET_TRUSTED_SOURCE
drops from fail_secure to quarantine_review. PRESET_USER_UPLOAD still
fail_secures. Recorded as a behaviour change in the changelog, not buried.
The first probe for that boundary used a 300-char run of "A" and found nothing on
either version: all-same-char values are suppressed as placeholders. The probe was
wrong, not the pattern.
662 passed, coverage matrix exit 0, LIMITATIONS still 29 items = README's 29.
The output gate claimed LLM10 self-safety on the grounds that its patterns have
no nested quantifiers. True, and irrelevant: nesting is not what makes these
blow up. A run in front of a REQUIRED literal, reachable from a short anchor, is
enough -- crafted input repeats the anchor and never supplies the literal, so
every start position rescans the tail. Quadratic, not exponential, and the
max_scan_chars cap does not help: it bounds the input, and quadratic work on a
bounded input is still hours.
Measured, not argued. `<a:` x 100_000 took 23.4s in AUTOLINK_RE alone; the
composed gate on that payload took 458.7s, extrapolating to ~5.7 hours at the
1_000_000-char input the gate itself accepts. Size-matched ordinary prose runs
0.31s, so the separation is 18x-660x -- unlike the blob in the neighbouring
test, which is the *faster* side of prose and never exercised backtracking.
Two fixes, chosen per pattern rather than uniformly:
- active_content + lexicon JSON (15 runs): exclude the character that opens the
pattern's own anchor (`[` for markdown, `<` for tags), so a run cannot reach
past the next start position and the per-start costs telescope. Verified to
cost no recall: long URLs, long alt text, and `<` inside a quoted attribute
all still match. Bounding instead would have been linear too but wrong here --
the content is attacker-controlled, so padding past a bound would be a
one-line bypass of the EchoLeak class this table exists to catch.
- connstr egress (4 runs): bound the password at MAX_CONNSTR_VALUE. The
exclusion fix is unavailable -- the anchor character is `/` and passwords
containing `/` are the common case (measured: they match today). The residual
miss is a credential over 256 chars; a token that long is still caught by
egress:jwt-token.
hybrid-xss:script-tag had neither option: its run is the script BODY, which may
legitimately contain `<`. It now matches the opening tag and drops the
`</script>` requirement. That also closes a fail-open -- `<script>alert(1)`
unclosed was silently missed -- at the cost of flagging prose that merely
mentions `<script>`, now documented.
Found by the composed-gate test staying red after every individual scanner was
already linear: the lexicon's six html-obfuscation patterns were the remaining
813x. A per-scanner test alone would have shipped that.
662 passed (was 642), and faster than before the fix.
The test badge still said 577 after two commits that added 65 tests, and the
coverage-matrix claim said 126 where CORE_CASES now holds 134 payloads. Both
verified by running rather than by reading: pytest reports 642, and
len(coverage.CORE_CASES) is 134.
A consumer measured our frontmatter gate against 0.2.0 and asked us to confirm
against a newer guard, correctly noting that a divergence would be a version
difference rather than a contradiction. Measured at 0.3.1: no divergence. Both
their results reproduce exactly.
Two things are sharper than what we documented yesterday:
ALL THREE ROUTES TO A MAPPING FAIL, each on a different rule -- flow {k: v} on the
disallowed value-start indicator, block on the nested-mapping check, dotted keys on
the key pattern. So the mapping CLASS has no expressible form; it is not a choice
between two shapes where one is better. That matters because OKF v0.2's `generated`
IS a mapping (`by` is required when it is present), so it cannot be expressed at
all. Pinned by a test asserting the three failures stay distinct.
T2 RUNS ON DOOR C ONLY. parse_frontmatter is referenced nowhere in the door A/B
persist path, so the same frontmatter that FAIL_SECUREs through import_bundle
passes screen_output unremarked. The grammar bounds what a consumer can RECEIVE,
never what a producer can EMIT -- which is the question a consumer's emitter design
was blocked on.
Also corrects one of our own rows: we reported "sources block list" as a single
FAIL_SECURE case. The parser distinguishes three shapes -- flat scalars parse
correctly, one key per item misparses silently to a string, two keys per item hard-
rejects. A one-element `verified:` block list passes today.
631 -> 642 passed. README item count synced.
Three consumers reconstructed is_ordinary_url from prose we sent in coordination
messages and each produced a different wrong number on a real corpus: one omitted
the base64 20-char floor and fired on path words like /blog/; one omitted the
opaque-token condition entirely and undercounted; one computed Shannon entropy
over whole filenames instead of tokens and concluded the 4.4 floor over-blocks
ordinary documents. Same cause each time -- our prose described the rules without
their tokenizer.
docs/URL-SHAPE.md states the algorithm in order, spells out the separator class
and all three length floors, and lists the three reconstruction errors as worked
counter-examples. Its example table is parsed and asserted against the real
predicate by tests/test_url_shape_doc.py, so the reference cannot drift from the
code -- all 18 rows verified load-bearing.
LIMITATIONS.md brought current with the field measurements:
- Percent-escape is no longer zero. Two English corpora measured 0; a 389-file
Norwegian/Microsoft corpus found 10, all Norwegian (%C3%B8, %C3%A5 are just
o-slash and a-ring). It is a non-ASCII-language tax, and both zero-measuring
corpora being English was a sampling bias invisible from inside.
- The query over-block now has THREE disjoint benign populations: utm_* tracking,
content identity (?v=, ?channel_id=), and Microsoft Learn's ?view= version
selector. No parameter-level remedy covers any two, which moves this from a
conclusion to a settled constraint on 0.4.0.
- Legitimate CDN asset ids trip the hex branch permanently; the branch is otherwise
precise (no other FP in 2401 distinct URLs) and stays.
- Raw HTML with a relative URL attribute is HIGH though it reaches no external
host, and end tags are counted.
- OKF frontmatter: a one-key block-sequence item is silently misparsed to a string
where two keys hard-reject, so a pointer can ride past the resource allowlist.
Consequence: a conformant OKF v0.2 concept cannot traverse door C at all, since
both backward-breaking migration targets are nested. Fail-secure, but a
compatibility wall that needs a deliberate parse-safety decision.
- A persist gate cannot cover execution risk, and that boundary is unowned.
New behaviour claims are pinned by tests so a closed concession fails and forces
this doc to be updated. 593 -> 631 passed.
v0.3.0 made the untrusted upload path unusable: measured on both doors, an
ordinary remote image fail_secure'd and an ordinary link/autolink/refdef
quarantined, so only documents without external references persisted.
Two independent defects compounded; neither fix works alone:
1. `markdown-image: HIGH` fired on any external image. The exfil primitive is a
URL that moves bytes outward, not an image. `is_ordinary_url` now grades on
shape - http(s)/protocol-relative, no query, no userinfo, no percent-escape,
no opaque host label or path segment -> LOW; anything data-carrying keeps the
carrier's severity. raw-html and data: URIs stay HIGH unconditionally.
Opacity reuses entropy's primitives; floors calibrated against real doc URLs
(worst legit token H=4.08, exfil segments 4.36-4.54) and frozen in
calibration.
2. The quarantine_default floor fired on ANY finding, a premise that broke when
every ordinary link became a finding. It now fires at MEDIUM+ - a no-op for
every detector that shipped before 0.3.0 (no LOW/INFO exists), which is what
makes this a patch rather than a minor.
The corpus blind spot that let this pass 522 green tests is closed: the FP
corpus carries realistic markdown and is asserted on the OUTPUT gate under
PRESET_USER_UPLOAD, with a counter-corpus of exfil-shaped URLs that must still
block. Beaconing and short opaque segments are conceded in LIMITATIONS and
asserted by the coverage matrix rather than papered over.
No new public API; no new preset (0.4.0 work); allow_reserved default unchanged.
Version-sync across pyproject, __init__, README badge/status/install pin and
CHANGELOG, and cut [Unreleased] to [0.3.0].
Why minor: 0772daf made allow_reserved default to True on okf.import_bundle,
so a consumer who upgrades without touching their code gets a LOOSENED gate --
a reserved index.md/log.md in a received bundle is now scanned and may become
mergeable, where v0.2.0 rejected it unconditionally. Under 0.x a >=0.2,<0.3
pin absorbs a 0.2.1 silently but stops at 0.3.0, which is the signal such a
change should send. Found by llm-ingestion-okf, our first real downstream
consumer, against main.
Development Status stays 3 - Alpha and the README keeps "the public API may
still change": this ships the hardened surface (Sessions A/A2/B) to consumers
who are still pinned at v0.2.0 and therefore have none of it. It is not the
v1.0 freeze -- that stays gated on the first real integration coming back
green, which is exactly what 0.3.0 makes possible.
Verified: 522 passed; coverage matrix exit 0; version string present in all
four files; no dangling 0.2.0 outside CHANGELOG history.
The Install section promised `pip install llm-ingestion-guard`, but the
distribution is not on PyPI — a downstream consumer following the README
would fail. Replace it with the channel that actually works, verified in a
throwaway venv against the public mirror:
pip install "llm-ingestion-guard @ git+https://.../@v0.2.0"
Anonymous HTTPS read on the open/ mirror is confirmed, so consumer CI needs
no deploy key. Also states the two things a consumer must know up front:
a git URL is a PEP 508 direct reference (exact tag, not a >=0.2,<0.3 range;
range pinning arrives with a Forgejo PyPI registry at the first patch release
or second consumer), and vendoring is unsupported because it severs the
security patch channel.
Answers the install-channel question raised by llm-ingestion-okf via coord.
Answers the gap that the README said what it does NOT stop (a long limitations
section) but never plainly listed what it DOES. Add a 'What it protects against'
section high up: attack classes grouped by OWASP anchor (LLM01 injection + 83
lexicon classes + carriers, LLM02 egress, LLM05 EchoLeak, LLM06 agency, LLM10
fail-secure, OKF T1-T6, container front-end), each driven by a live coverage-matrix
payload. Move the full honest-limitations list to docs/LIMITATIONS.md; README keeps
a high-impact summary + link. Net: protection and limits read in balance, 261 -> 216
lines. Coverage 126/126 and 522 tests unchanged; every class listed is real.
Rewrite the README value proposition to make the necessity land on mechanism,
not adjectives: write-time ingestion is the trust boundary query-time guardrails
structurally cannot see; an OKF/LLM-wiki has no format-level authenticity, so the
ingestion pipeline IS the trust boundary. Add a first-class 'OKF / LLM-wiki
support (shipped)' section for import_bundle mode-b (per-concept gates). Fix stale
test badge (357 -> 522) and drop the brittle module count. Tighten prose; retain
all honest-limitations items (a shipped control). Every symbol/preset/command
verified against v0.2 code.
Add a single declarative manifest proving, in one place, every vulnerability
class the guard stops — and the documented gaps it does not. This is the
real-case validation gate ahead of any v1.0 freeze (v1.0 stays parked until
verified on real cases).
- src/llm_ingestion_guard/coverage.py: stdlib-only manifest (CORE_CASES) +
narrated runner. `python -m llm_ingestion_guard.coverage` prints
class -> OWASP -> expected -> observed -> verdict; exit 0 iff every caught
class is caught and every documented gap holds. 126 caught classes + 4 gaps.
Lexicon cases are generated from load_lexicon() via a payload dict, so a
pattern with no payload fails loudly at import (self-verifying).
- tests/test_coverage_matrix.py: asserts total recall, that every documented
gap still holds, and completeness (every lexicon id + every OWASP anchor has
a case). Adds the full 25-pattern LLM02 secret-egress set (fixtures assembled
from split tokens so no secret shape sits in source) and the container-layer
front-end classes (CSV formula-injection, zip-slip, zip-bomb, symlink).
- README + CHANGELOG: point to the runnable matrix.
+165 tests (357 -> 522). No core dependency added.
Reframe .pdf from a 'known gap'/TODO to a deliberate concession across the
honest-limits and OKF-upload docs. A top-level .pdf drop is already refused as
an unsupported format (inbox_frontend.py raises on the else branch), not
half-scanned; adding a PDF parser + reportlab (solely to author white-on-white
test fixtures) is disproportionate for a dev-scoped showcase, and the OCR /
font-render stego carriers a PDF would smuggle are out of scope regardless.
- README honest-limits: .pdf = concession, not TODO; only the numeric CSV FP
remains a known gap.
- docs/PLAN.md: upload table .pdf row marked 'conceded'; honest-scope paragraph
names .pdf; assertions tightened to 'every accepted format'.
Closes the last format gap before v1.0 freeze (Session G). No code touched;
357 tests green.
- README: tests badge 275->357; status v0.1->v0.2 (repo is 0.2.0; the v1.0
bump belongs to the Session G freeze, not this docs pass); add three
honest-limits — lone-HIGH-in-trusted-prose->WARN, vacuous quarantine-floor,
Cyrillic/Latin homoglyph-mix false positive.
- docs/BRIEF.md: drop "No code yet" pre-implementation framing -> implemented v0.2.
- docs/OKF-INGESTION-BRIEF.md 4: correct cross-link control language —
absolute https / references/ targets are spec-permitted, not rejected.
- Add SECURITY.md (private Forgejo disclosure) + CONTRIBUTING.md (stdlib-only
core, Iron-Law TDD, no trailers, Forgejo-only invariants).
Replace the unverified/absolute novelty statement with the defensible
four-part-contract form, verified against a focused adversarial PyPI+GitHub
survey (2026-07-15):
- BRIEF §11: 'assumed, not verified' -> verified survey with sources. Names
aig-guardian (real, query-time; blurs only the minimal-dep-library
differentiator), GuardLLM (nearest neighbour, runtime hardening, no
scan-before-persist / capability isolation / fail-secure), and ipi-scanner
(orphaned placeholder repo, recorded for honesty not as prior art).
- README: differentiator moved from 'library vs hosted/model' to the full
four-part write-time contract.
- PLAN §27-31: drop the unverifiable 'the first' superlative.
Also promotes the v1.0 session plan (PLAN-v1.md) and the cross-model review
(review-2026-07.md) into docs/ on the open/ mirror, referenced by PLAN.md's
re-sequencing addendum.
Output gate step 3 now runs scan_secret_egress over every decoded base64
blob's plaintext, not only scan_lexicon. A base64-wrapped credential that
formerly vanished (decode fed the lexicon, which has no secret patterns)
now surfaces as decoded:egress:* carrying the blob offset. Evidence stays
length-only, so the decoded finding never leaks the secret value.
Hex-wrapped secrets remain a documented honest-limit (entropy exposes
decoded plaintext for base64 only). README honest-limits + CLAUDE.md
Kontekst updated; 3 tests added (347 passed, was 344).
A received OKF bundle MAY legitimately carry index.md (directory listing, read
first under progressive disclosure) and log.md (update history) at any level
(spec §3.1/§6/§7). import_bundle previously hard-rejected those basenames in the
T4 path gate, so a conformant third-party bundle was over-blocked in full
(FAIL_SECURE) — and because the reject fired before scan_concept, index.md's
body (the highest-priority injection surface) was never scanned.
import_bundle now defaults allow_reserved=True: reserved basenames are scanned
as structural files (path-safety checks — traversal / absolute / backslash / .md
— still apply). The shadow-reject (an *upload* masquerading as index.md) is
preserved: the front-end passes allow_reserved=False so a materialized upload
landing on a reserved basename is still refused. That front-end opt-in was
required to keep the shadow-reject once the default flipped (not in the plan's
Filer set; traced from the code).
- okf.py: validate_concept_path/_validate_concept/import_bundle gain the
keyword; validate_concept_path default stays False (strict standalone).
- tests: +3 (legit index/log admit; injection in index.md body caught;
okf_version frontmatter admits). Per-concept-iteration test switched to a
traversal vector; mode-b showcase's index.md surface reframed from
reserved-name-reject to index.md-body-scan.
- README honest-limits + CLAUDE.md context note the mode-b/upload distinction.
Suite: 341 -> 344 passed. Core invariant intact (dependencies=[]).
Close the EchoLeak wiring hole (CVE-2025-32711 class): markdown images/
links, reference definitions, autolinks, raw active HTML and data: URIs
now surface as report-only findings (active:*, OWASP LLM05) in
scan_output step 6, so screen_output and okf.import_bundle dispose of
them instead of admitting them with findings=[].
- new active_content.py: canonical home of the shared pattern table +
scan_active_content; neutralize refactored to import it (mutating API
and behavior unchanged, all neutralize tests pass as-is)
- images/links flagged only for absolute/protocol-relative URLs:
relative in-bundle links are legitimate wiki/OKF mechanism (principle 5)
- evidence carries defanged URLs only (hxxps://evil[.]example)
- EchoLeak vectors planted in both showcases; detach proofs cover them
- README export list + checklist step 6, CLAUDE.md context line updated
Suite: 321 -> 341 passed. Core invariant intact (dependencies=[]).
Concede the binary layer that survives text extraction as out-of-scope (a
shipped control): VBA/macros, OLE/embedded objects, OCR-needed image text,
font/render stego, encrypted files. Point to the two-stage OKF inbox showcase as
the worked example, and list the known gaps (.xlsx/.pdf deferred, .docx tables,
grouped .pptx shapes, numeric CSV -/+ FP).
Pre-release hardening from an independent adversarial review; each fixed
test-first (failing test -> fix -> green). 214 tests pass.
- entropy (M1): decode-and-rescan now runs BEFORE false-positive suppression,
so an SRI/media-prefixed injection blob is still decoded and lexicon-rescanned.
Suppression gates only the entropy finding, never the decode.
- output/disposition (M3): the invisible-carrier invariant now holds on the
persist gate. scan_output flags zero-width/BIDI presence and disposition
treats those + lexicon:unicode-tags-present as any-tier carriers, so a carrier
in model output fails secure even under a trusted policy.
- contract (M2): assert_credential_allowlist catches a bare <PROVIDER>_KEY
(e.g. STRIPE_KEY) that the old regex silently missed (fail-open). Deliberately
broad: also flags PARTITION_KEY/SORT_KEY as loud, allowlistable FPs -- fail-loud
beats fail-silent for an isolation control.
- disposition (m6): guard runs decide inside its guarded block -> total
fail-closed even on a malformed report.
- output (m4): egress placeholder suppression anchors word markers (example,
todo, ...) to a word boundary, closing a fail-open where a real secret merely
containing such a word was suppressed.
Docs: CHANGELOG Security subsection; README honest-limit for lexicon dedup (m5,
documented tradeoff, not fixed).
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Mirror the badge convention from the ms-ai-architect plugin README — shields.io
STATIC badges (img.shields.io/badge/), which work on Forgejo where dynamic
build-status endpoints do not. Type-adapted for a library rather than a plugin:
the Platform slot becomes python-3.10+, the content-count slot becomes
tests-201-passing, plus an honest status-alpha badge.
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Module 11 (final) — the top-level wiring. The library never makes the model call
(no SDK imported by the core), so the public surface is the toolkit plus two
library-side bookends around the caller's tool-less transform (Form 1, chosen
with the operator over an export-only toolkit and a full orchestrator — the
bookends fit existing pipelines with least friction, encode the two halves the
library can stand for, and impose no control flow):
- prepare_input(text, source=INPUT) -> PreparedInput(fenced, nonce, report):
§6 steps 1-2, sanitize THEN fence (carrier can never smuggle a forged
delimiter). Merged report carries both steps' findings; renders no disposition.
- screen_output(text, policy, *, provenance, transform_failed) -> DispositionResult:
§6 steps 6-7, scan_output under guard() so a scanner error fails CLOSED
(FAIL_SECURE, never a silent persist). transform_failed routes the compound
forced-fallback rule.
- __all__ exports the full framework-agnostic surface: detectors, result types,
disposition machinery + presets, contract asserters, the grounding seam.
Docs: README refreshed from the stale "brief / pre-implementation" line to a v0.1
alpha status with a Form-1 quickstart, the §6 adopt-this checklist, and an honest
-limitations section (structural unsolvability at the text layer; semantic
poisoning invisible to lexicon+entropy; text-only, no multimodal). CHANGELOG
seeded; CLAUDE.md remote/status lines corrected (remote IS set, no longer
brief-stage).
10 wiring tests (public surface, prepare_input compose, screen_output fail-closed
+ compound). 189 green (showcase + corpora follow).
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