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Purpose

Stacked validation PR for the CURRENT P1 review finding on protected PR #33:

PRRT_kwDOTzqfcs6alECl

Finding:

Do not continue with an unprotected non-extensible promise

This PR is intentionally narrow and quarantined.

It targets protected parent PR #33:

repair/pr029-terminate-thenable-settlement

It does NOT target main.

It does NOT directly target PR #29.

It does NOT directly target PR #25 or PR #10.

Finding

Classification:

CURRENT P1

Exact affected parent HEAD:

5aa85827c41931f67053190c79bfa628a034f680

The prior PR #33 repair relied on adding an own constructor property to internally awaited Promise instances.

A fresh independent review proved that Node async_hooks can observe a newly allocated Promise during allocation and make it non-extensible before the following AgentBridge statement runs.

Under the combined condition:

  • internal Promise becomes non-extensible before instance protection lands;
  • Promise.prototype.constructor is persistently replaced;
  • Promise.prototype.then is persistently replaced;

the protection definition fails and the internal lifecycle can fall back into hostile Promise assimilation.

The defect was independently reproduced on exact PR #33 HEAD.

Observed consequences included:

  • ordinary timeout settlement remaining pending;
  • mandatory hardening/release settlement remaining pending;
  • zero public settlement on the defective path;
  • hostile then being reached by AgentBridge's own internal lifecycle.

This is not merely external caller consumption of an already-settled public Promise.

Repair

The bounded repair:

  • introduces a module-owned InternalPromise<T> class;
  • fixes InternalPromise.prototype.constructor to the captured native Promise constructor at module load;
  • freezes the relevant module-owned prototype/constructor objects;
  • allocates settlement-critical internally awaited Promises from InternalPromise;
  • introduces an internal-step capability path so settlement-critical async-function return Promises are not themselves awaited;
  • retains protectPromiseResolution(...) as a secondary layer;
  • makes failure of instance-level constructor protection survivable rather than settlement-fatal;
  • preserves fulfillment values;
  • preserves rejection reason identity;
  • preserves exactly-once settlement;
  • preserves mandatory child release;
  • preserves honest termination scope;
  • preserves prior Error, Symbol.hasInstance, and captured-then hardening;
  • adds no timer;
  • adds no settlement backstop;
  • adds no new scheduler;
  • adds no process authority;
  • adds no repository write authority;
  • preserves shell:false;
  • preserves AgentBridge V1 managed-repository READ-ONLY authority.

Changed files exactly:

  • src/adapters/process-transport.ts
  • tests/adapters/process-transport.test.ts
  • tests/adapters/transport-invariants.test.ts

The transport-invariants.test.ts change updates only structural function-name anchors required because the platform termination functions are no longer declared async; the guarded ordering invariants themselves remain unchanged.

Exact quarantine identity

Protected parent PR #33 HEAD:

5aa85827c41931f67053190c79bfa628a034f680

Repair commit:

2e5889057a4174d5389b21dca0d345a669d127bb

Validated patch SHA-256:

0670E1F8C3743EAC60CCB20C12B178C087ABCFFC2512E3E80EAC8926B143AF6B

Patch bytes:

40761

Changed files exactly:

  • src/adapters/process-transport.ts
  • tests/adapters/process-transport.test.ts
  • tests/adapters/transport-invariants.test.ts

The committed patch was mechanically verified byte-for-byte identical to the candidate that passed fresh independent validation.

Independent validation

Fresh independent validation:

PASS

The validator independently:

  • reproduced the exact CURRENT P1 on pristine parent HEAD;
  • reproduced the ordinary-timeout pending failure;
  • reproduced the mandatory hardening/release pending failure;
  • verified the instance-level protection failure actually occurred;
  • verified the candidate settles despite that failure;
  • verified the InternalPromise mechanism is load-bearing;
  • verified settlement-critical internal Promise allocation is load-bearing;
  • verified the async-step conversion is load-bearing;
  • verified internal constructor resolution no longer reaches hostile Promise.prototype.constructor;
  • verified AgentBridge's internal lifecycle performs zero hostile then lookups under the repaired combined condition;
  • verified species behavior does not reopen the repaired path;
  • verified fulfillment propagation;
  • verified rejection identity;
  • verified exactly-once settlement;
  • verified mandatory release;
  • verified termination-scope honesty;
  • verified zero newly introduced unhandled rejections;
  • verified zero newly introduced child abandonment;
  • verified prior stacked repairs remain intact;
  • verified the transport-invariants test change does not weaken the tested ordering invariants;
  • found zero new CURRENT P0/P1/P2/P3 candidate defects;
  • reproduced the exact patch fingerprint after validation.

Validation evidence

Focused repaired regressions:

PASS

Complete process transport:

156 passed, 9 skipped

Transport invariants:

309 passed

Full suite:

1191 passed, 9 skipped

Typecheck:

PASS

Lint:

PASS

Build:

PASS

git diff --check:

PASS

Validation host:

Windows.

No POSIX runtime proof is claimed from the Windows validation.

Out-of-scope CURRENT finding

This PR does NOT repair:

AUDIT-PR029-DISCARDED-RUNTERMINATION-REJECTION

Classification:

CURRENT P2

The validator independently reverified that finding remains reproducible and unchanged.

It must receive its own separate bounded repair track.

Protected invariants

This repair preserves:

  • eventual settlement on the authorized path;
  • exactly-once caller settlement;
  • mandatory child release;
  • terminal-cause behavior;
  • Error identity;
  • rejection reason identity;
  • no SPAWN_FAILED laundering;
  • no AgentExchange laundering on rejection;
  • honest termination scope;
  • no new discarded rejection;
  • no new scheduler/timer/backstop;
  • raw output behavior;
  • output bounds;
  • cwd/stdin/environment isolation;
  • shell:false;
  • no PID/PGID authority expansion;
  • dormant/unwired process transport;
  • frozen AgentBridge architecture;
  • AgentBridge V1 managed-repository READ-ONLY authority.

Quarantine rule

This DRAFT PR is evidence/proposal only.

Do not merge it because implementation, validation, CI, CodeRabbit, Codex, or any single reviewer reports success.

Required before upward integration into PR #33:

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved process termination reliability when Promise behavior is modified or hardened.
    • Ensured termination operations settle correctly, preserve failure details, and avoid unhandled rejections.
    • Improved handling of sealed environments and failures while protecting promise behavior.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for adversarial Promise modifications, sealed promises, cleanup, timeouts, and child-process termination.

A promise is not private between the allocation that makes it and the
next statement: an ordinary `async_hooks` init hook receives each newly
allocated promise as its own resource and can seal it there, so the own
`constructor` this module installs to keep an `await` on its fast path
may throw before it can land. Combined with a persistently replaced
`Promise.prototype.constructor` and `Promise.prototype.then`, every
internal `await` in the termination chain is then pushed into thenable
assimilation and left with no continuation, so an ordinary timeout — and
the mandatory hardening rejection — never settle.

Internal promises are now allocated from an `InternalPromise` whose
prototype is created and frozen at module load with `constructor` fixed
to the captured intrinsic, so the recognition test is answered one link
before `Promise.prototype` and needs no own property on the instance.
The platform termination steps report through that capability instead of
through the promise the runtime makes for an `async` function, which
cannot be protected at all. `protectPromiseResolution` stays as a
secondary layer whose failure is now survivable rather than silent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

The process transport now uses hardened internal promises and explicit callbacks for termination, taskkill, child-exit, and close-wait operations. Adversarial tests cover sealed promises, hostile intrinsic mutations, cleanup, restoration, and process settlement.

Changes

Process termination hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Internal promise primitives
src/adapters/process-transport.ts
Added frozen InternalPromise, callback-based internalStep, and internallyResolved. Promise constructor protection now tolerates sealing failures.
Explicit termination settlement
src/adapters/process-transport.ts, tests/adapters/transport-invariants.test.ts
Converted POSIX, Windows, dispatch, and bounded close-wait paths to explicit internal settlement while preserving termination behavior and failure reasons.
Hostile promise validation
tests/adapters/process-transport.test.ts
Added probes and assertions for sealed promises, intrinsic mutations, constructor protection, cleanup, restoration, child termination, and unhandled rejection absence.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2e588

This change hardens settlement-critical internal promises and preserves the existing transport contract. Merge readiness remains low risk but requires follow-up because regression tests may report success without proving the transport exercised the failure path, one invariant check can miss absent boundaries, and POSIX-specific sealed-mode behavior is not directly validated.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ProcessTransport
  participant internalStep
  participant ChildProcess
  ProcessTransport->>internalStep: start termination operation
  internalStep->>ChildProcess: send termination or taskkill request
  ChildProcess-->>internalStep: report exit or failure
  internalStep-->>ProcessTransport: settle result or rejection
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While taskkill ran its careful race.
Sealed or changed, each path stayed true,
Cleanup finished as planned to do.
Thump, thump—the processes rest.

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* gave it that own property, and redefining a configurable own property does
* not require extensibility.
*/
class InternalPromise<T> extends Promise<T> {}

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P1 Badge Prevent async hooks from replacing the owned prototype

An async_hooks init callback receives each InternalPromise after its prototype is installed but before construction returns, so it can call Object.setPrototypeOf(resource, Promise.prototype) and then make the resource non-extensible. In that scenario protectPromiseResolution cannot add the own constructor, and later mutations of Promise.prototype.constructor and .then again send the internal awaits through the hostile thenable path, leaving timeout and hardening-release exchanges pending. Freezing InternalPromise.prototype does not prevent changing an individual promise's prototype; the mechanism needs to survive an observed instance being reparented as well as sealed.

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In `@tests/adapters/process-transport.test.ts`:
- Around line 1284-1302: Capture protectionAttempts and protectionFailures
immediately when the exchange settles, before post-settlement probe controls
such as protectLikeRepair execute. Update expectSealedProtectionFailed to assert
the captured settlement-time counters, ensuring failures are attributed to
transport activity rather than probe setup; keep the existing baseline
comparison intact.

In `@tests/adapters/transport-invariants.test.ts`:
- Around line 240-241: In the test section extracting terminatePosix through
terminateWindows from IMPLEMENTATION_SOURCE, assert that both start and end
indices are non-negative before calling slice. Ensure missing boundary markers
fail the invariant test explicitly rather than allowing extraction to proceed
with invalid indices.
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Comment on lines +1284 to +1302
let protectionAttempts = 0;
let protectionFailures = 0;
function countedDefineProperty(target, key, descriptor) {
if (
key === 'constructor' &&
descriptor !== null &&
typeof descriptor === 'object' &&
descriptor.value === REAL_PROMISE
) {
protectionAttempts += 1;
let extensible = true;
try { extensible = REAL_IS_EXTENSIBLE(target); } catch { extensible = true; }
if (!extensible) protectionFailures += 1;
}
return REAL_DEFINE(target, key, descriptor);
}
REAL_DEFINE(Object, 'defineProperty', {
value: countedDefineProperty, writable: true, enumerable: false, configurable: true,
});

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Counters can be satisfied by the probe's own controls, not only by the transport.

countedDefineProperty matches any definition of constructor whose value is REAL_PROMISE. Two of those definitions belong to the probe itself: protectLikeRepair (Line 1475) and the OwnedPromise prototype setup (Line 1487).

OwnedPromise runs before the baseline capture, so PROTECTION_FAILURES_BEFORE_CALL=0 still holds. But protectLikeRepair runs after settlement while the seal hook is still enabled. Its failed definition increments protectionFailures. So PROTECTION_FAILURES=[1-9] in expectSealedProtectionFailed can pass even if the transport never reached a failed protection.

Record the counters at settlement time to attribute them to the exchange only.

🧪 Proposed attribution fix
 let armedAtSettlement = false;
 let hookCallsAtSettlement = -1;
+let protectionAttemptsAtSettlement = -1;
+let protectionFailuresAtSettlement = -1;
 let settlement = null;
   settlement = result;
   armedAtSettlement = armed();
   hookCallsAtSettlement = hookCalls;
+  protectionAttemptsAtSettlement = protectionAttempts;
+  protectionFailuresAtSettlement = protectionFailures;
+  console.log('PROTECTION_ATTEMPTS_AT_SETTLEMENT=' + protectionAttemptsAtSettlement);
+  console.log('PROTECTION_FAILURES_AT_SETTLEMENT=' + protectionFailuresAtSettlement);
   console.log('PROTECTION_ATTEMPTS=' + protectionAttempts);

Then assert the settlement-time counters in expectSealedProtectionFailed.

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[warning] Importing child_process exposes a command-execution surface; ensure any command/argument built from input is validated, and prefer execFile/spawn with an argument array over exec.
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In `@tests/adapters/process-transport.test.ts` around lines 1284 - 1302, Capture
protectionAttempts and protectionFailures immediately when the exchange settles,
before post-settlement probe controls such as protectLikeRepair execute. Update
expectSealedProtectionFailed to assert the captured settlement-time counters,
ensuring failures are attributed to transport activity rather than probe setup;
keep the existing baseline comparison intact.

Comment on lines +240 to +241
const start = IMPLEMENTATION_SOURCE.indexOf('function terminatePosix');
const end = IMPLEMENTATION_SOURCE.indexOf('function terminateWindows');

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Assert the boundary markers

Add non-negative assertions for each start and end index before calling slice. A missing end marker can leave the inner markers present, so the invariant test can pass silently.

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In `@tests/adapters/transport-invariants.test.ts` around lines 240 - 241, In the
test section extracting terminatePosix through terminateWindows from
IMPLEMENTATION_SOURCE, assert that both start and end indices are non-negative
before calling slice. Ensure missing boundary markers fail the invariant test
explicitly rather than allowing extraction to proceed with invalid indices.

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