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fix(gateway): carry the failure lab target safety fuse into the monorepo - #207
This started as a port of the upstream-accepted fuse across the repository migration, not a new implementation. The fused versions of scripts/failure_lab.py and tests/test_failure_lab.py were taken from the archived agent-middleware-api repository at commit 9289867d50c6cbc184db3efc5ef630378fb5f973 (read-only clone; nothing was pushed there). Review has since added test improvements on top, listed under Adaptations below.
The hazard
The native.key_conflict arm of gateway/scripts/failure_lab.py (method Lab.native_key_conflict) reuses a spent idempotency key with CONFLICT_AMOUNT_USD ($9500.00) in place of the AMOUNT_USD ($250.00) the key was issued for, a 38x increase, and sends it through DirectCaller with no gateway in the path to refuse it. It is safe only because the in-process simulated PaymentRail.execute refuses a key reused with different parameters. Pointed at a real tool without conflict detection, that arm would execute an action nobody authorized.
The fuse fails the arm closed unless the caller's transport chain terminates in this lab's own in-process ASGI app. It decides from the object graph the request will travel through, comparing the leaf app by identity, so editing a URL constant, an environment variable, or a settings field cannot talk it into dispatching. It also refuses a chain wrapped more than four times, even over the real rail, rather than guessing about an unexpected shape.
Preserved asymmetry
gateway.key_conflict sends the same oversized payload but routes through the gateway's pre-dispatch refusal, so it never reaches the downstream. That arm stays deliberately unfused: the protection there is our own code and the thing under test, and verifying that refusal in front of a real tool is both safe and valuable.
Adaptations from the upstream text
1. The SDK import path, which differs genuinely by repository layout:
The package lives at sdk/python/src/b2a_sdk, so the from b2a_sdk.receipt_verifier import ... line is untouched.
2. Em dashes removed from the documentation section (a596d9b, corrected in 9ce6d9a). AGENTS.md line 52 forbids em dashes and en dashes in user facing copy; the upstream repository has no such rule, so inserting its prose verbatim carried four offending lines into operator facing documentation. The two em dashes already on main elsewhere in that file predate this change and are untouched.
3. The transport-wrapper limit is now documented (27f06e3, threshold corrected in 9ce6d9a). The fuse allows up to four LossyTransport layers and refuses anything deeper even over the real rail; the section described the object-graph walk without that cap.
4. Three test improvements from review (95e7408), each raised independently by Cursor Bugbot and CodeRabbit:
The foreign-target driver used a real httpx.AsyncHTTPTransport, so fl.main() had five unfused arms posting MCP initialize and payout.send to http://localhost:9000/mcp before the fused arm could refuse, on the assumption that nothing listens there. Now an httpx.MockTransport whose handler raises ConnectError. The fuse still refuses it, because the leaf is not the rail's ASGITransport, so the test proves the same property without reaching the network. Bugbot rated this Medium.
The self-check did not exercise the over-depth refusal branch or admission through two wrappers. Both are added.
The refusal test asserted only on lab.rail.effects, which cannot prove no call was attempted because a foreign transport bypasses the rail. It now also asserts zero agent_attempt events, which DirectCaller.call emits before the transport call.
5. The four-wrapper limit itself is pinned (620d189), raised by CodeRabbit. The self-check admitted two wrappers and refused five but never tested exactly four, so changing hops > _MAX_TRANSPORT_WRAPPERS to >= passed every case while refusing the documented maximum. Confirmed by mutation before fixing. A four-wrapper case is added, expected admitted; with it the >= mutant now fails (1 of 9 fuse cases broke, exit 1). The self-check now covers nine chains with four admitted.
On provenance.gateway/tests/test_failure_lab.py is therefore no longer byte identical to upstream; an earlier revision of this description claimed it was, which stopped being true at 95e7408. The fuse implementation in gateway/scripts/failure_lab.py still is, apart from the SDK path and the three added self-check cases. agent-middleware-api is archived and read only, so the trees cannot be kept in step from here regardless: the identity was worth preserving as provenance during review, not as a permanent property.
For gateway/docs/failure-lab.md the two copies had drifted in both directions, so rather than overwriting, only the ## The target safety fuse section was inserted after the existing paragraph on CI pinning the report numbers.
Before copying, both files were re-diffed against upstream on then-current main (ba55fd7). The monorepo side showed exactly the three expected pre-fuse differences and nothing else (9 lines: the SDK path, the inlined LossyTransport in DirectCaller.__init__, and the unwrapped asyncio.run in main), and the test file was a strict subset with zero monorepo-only lines. Because the signature matched, the wholesale copy was safe; had anything else appeared, the fuse hunks would have been applied surgically instead.
Related issues
See also #267 (merged), which fixed a mypy error in the same script that CI cannot see; this branch now includes it. Follow-ups raised during this review are tracked in #268 (exit code) and #269 (the gateway/failure_lab/ package).
Area and license
I identified the repository area changed by this PR.
I understand that spec/, verifier/, sdk/python/, sdk/typescript/, integrations/, and examples/ are Apache-2.0.
I understand that gateway/ contributions are under FSL-1.1-ALv2 (Fair Source).
This PR does not include proprietary hosted-service code or secrets.
All three changed files are under gateway/.
Spec changes
This PR does not change normative spec behavior.
If it changes normative spec behavior, I opened or linked an RFC issue.
No material in spec/ is touched.
Validation
Current head ed9cc65, run against a venv built from gateway/requirements.txt plus the local SDK.
mypy --config-file=mypy.ini scripts/failure_lab.py app/ is clean across 213 files.
ruff check and ruff format --check (ruff 0.17.2) clean on both changed Python files.
python scripts/check_doc_references.py passes.
python scripts/failure_lab.py --self-check-guards reports all 9 fuse cases hold, running no scenarios and making no calls. The four-wrapper case reports True (expected True) and the five-wrapper case False (expected False), so both sides of the depth limit are pinned.
A normal run (--json --output-dir <temp>) reports ok: true, 13 scenarios, 87 of 87 checks, with verdicts unchanged: existing_integration_duplicates_the_action true, native_baseline_already_handles_this_fault true, gateway_reduces_effects_vs_existing true, gateway_reduces_effects_vs_native_baselinefalse, gateway_never_redispatched_after_ambiguity true, gateway_retained_the_charge_after_ambiguity true, agent_restart_with_a_new_key_defeats_every_configuration true.
The native.key_conflict scenario in the JSON summary carries a note naming the target safety fuse.
gateway_reduces_effects_vs_native_baseline reading false is correct and intended: it is the guard that fails the lab if the gateway is ever measured beating a correct native baseline.
main has been merged into this branch three times, each time re-verified with the checks above rather than relying on a clean merge: at 494b7f1 (bringing #232 permit allowlist ordering and #233 deterministic retry keys, both behavior the lab asserts on), at 3326275 (bringing #273 rate-limit rekeying, #275 audit chain verification, and the ruff 0.17.2 bump), and at ed9cc65 (bringing #267, which edits the same script; git combined the two without conflict).
Risk and compatibility
No migrations and no API changes. The fuse only ever refuses; it cannot cause a call that would not otherwise happen. A refusal exits 2, deliberately distinct from the 1 used when an expectation merely broke, so a safety refusal is not mistaken for a failed measurement.
One review point is deliberately not acted on here: exit code 2 collides with the code argparse uses for a usage error, so a wrapper mapping 2 to "safety refusal" could misread a bad flag. The collision is real, but the exit code is upstream's documented behavior and changing it alters the contract operators may already rely on. Tracked for a maintainer decision in #268.
Not covered by this change: the larger gateway/failure_lab/ package carries the same hazard class in t02_same_key_different_arguments, which submits 10,000 minor units under a spent key against an authorized 100. It is latent rather than live on main today, because that package's downstream is always in process. Tracked in #269, with the single guard point at gateway/failure_lab/configurations.py::configured_target.
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I added or updated tests for behavior changes, or explained why tests are not applicable.
I updated relevant documentation and examples.
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Medium Risk
Adds fail-closed guards around a harness arm that deliberately sends an unauthorized oversized payout if mis-targeted; production gateway paths are unchanged, but mishandling would affect operator safety expectations for the lab script.
Overview
Ports the target safety fuse into the monorepo failure lab so the native.key_conflict arm cannot run unless DirectCaller’s HTTP transport chain terminates in the lab’s in-process PaymentRail ASGI app (by object identity, not URL config).
Behavior: Before the scenario that reuses a spent idempotency key with a 38× larger amount and no gateway, require_in_process_rail walks LossyTransport wrappers (via a new inner property, max depth 4) and raises UnsafeTargetError otherwise. main unwraps that from BaseExceptionGroup and exits 2 (distinct from assertion failure 1). gateway.key_conflict stays unfused. Successful runs record fuse context in scenario notes.
Operator tooling:--self-check-guards runs nine synthetic transport chains with no scenarios or tool calls; docs add a The target safety fuse section.
Tests: Self-check output, foreign-target refusal (mock transport, zero agent_attempt events), exit 2 without traceback, and fuse notes in saved JSON.
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The `native.key_conflict` arm of `gateway/scripts/failure_lab.py` reuses a
spent idempotency key with `CONFLICT_AMOUNT_USD` ($9500.00) in place of the
`AMOUNT_USD` ($250.00) the key was issued for, and sends it through
`DirectCaller` with no gateway in the path to refuse it. It is safe only
because the in-process simulated `PaymentRail.execute` refuses a key reused
with different parameters. Pointed at a real tool without conflict
detection, that arm would execute an action nobody authorized.
This ports the upstream-accepted fuse, which fails the arm closed unless the
caller's transport chain terminates in this lab's own in-process ASGI app.
The fuse decides from the object graph rather than from configuration, so
editing a URL constant or a settings field cannot talk it into dispatching.
`gateway.key_conflict` sends the same oversized payload but routes through
the gateway's pre-dispatch refusal, so it never reaches the downstream. That
arm stays deliberately unfused: verifying that refusal in front of a real
tool is both safe and valuable.
Also adds `--self-check-guards`, which exercises the fuse against six
transport chains and exits without running scenarios or making calls.
Verified: ruff check and format clean, mypy clean, 17 tests pass, all 6 fuse
cases hold, and a full run reports 13 scenarios at 87 of 87 checks with
unchanged verdicts.
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Walkthrough
The failure lab now checks that the native key-conflict scenario targets the identical in-process ASGI app before making calls. It accepts up to four LossyTransport wrappers. A no-call self-check evaluates eight transport chains. Safety refusals exit with code 2. Tests cover refusal behavior, output, and saved notes. Documentation describes the fuse and its scope.
The guard works as intended in the inspected paths. Adding the boundary test would improve confidence without blocking merge.
Security architecture risk: Minimal · up to 95e74
The change adds a fail-closed safety check before either hazardous scenario call. No new remote entrypoint, broader authority, or weakened control was identified. The protection is deliberately limited to this scenario, not the entire failure lab.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The changed control narrows the hazardous native-conflict arm to the supplied in-process simulator. It does not confer new credentials or external-tool authority. Arbitrary replacement of Python implementations is outside this accidental-target safety boundary, not an isolation guarantee provided by the fuse.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — The pre-existing unsafe-target path was direct dispatch of the conflicting payload to a tool that might not enforce idempotency conflicts. The new guard interrupts that path before either scenario call. The inspected foreign-target test checks attempt emission as well as simulator effects, avoiding the false assurance of checking only a simulator that foreign traffic would bypass.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Admission unwraps only LossyTransport layers, rejects chains deeper than four wrappers, and requires an ASGITransport whose app is the supplied rail app by identity. A URL or settings value is not accepted as proof of target identity. The same caller is then used for dispatch, with no supported mutation or alternate retry path identified in the scoped execution.
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Brings the branch up to date with main so CI validates the ported target
safety fuse against current gateway code. No conflicts: main did not touch
gateway/scripts/failure_lab.py, gateway/tests/test_failure_lab.py or
gateway/docs/failure-lab.md since this branch was cut.
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Exit code 2 collides with the argparse usage-error code.
The docs say the exit code is "deliberately distinct" so operators do not have to tell outcomes apart by eye. parse_args() runs at import time, and argparse also exits with 2 on a bad flag or a missing value. A wrapper or CI step that maps 2 to "safety refusal" will misread usage errors as refusals.
Use a code that no other path in this script produces, such as 3. Update the docs and test_fuse_refusal_exits_two_without_a_traceback to match.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @gateway/scripts/failure_lab.py:
- Around line 2363-2386: Extend the self-check cases for
`_terminates_in_asgi_app` to cover a rail app admitted through two
`LossyTransport` wrappers and a rail app rejected after five wrappers; update
`FUSE_CASES` and the documented case and admission counts to match the eight
cases and three admitted chains.
Review comments at @gateway/tests/test_failure_lab.py:
- Around line 325-339: Update FOREIGN_DIRECT_CALLER to use an
httpx.MockTransport whose handler raises httpx.ConnectError instead of creating
an httpx.AsyncHTTPTransport, ensuring the test cannot make real network requests
while the fuse still rejects the non-ASGI transport; update the nearby comment
to reflect the mocked transport.
- Around line 443-447: Update the foreign-target test’s result collection and
assertions to count emitted agent_attempt events from the event log and assert
the count is zero. Keep the effects assertion as a separate check, since
lab.rail.effects does not capture calls that bypass the rail.
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AGENTS.md forbids em dashes and en dashes in user facing copy. The fuse
section was inserted verbatim from the archived repository, which carried four
lines of them into operator facing documentation. Recast those as commas and
parentheses with the meaning unchanged.
Scoped to the lines this branch added. The two em dashes already on main
elsewhere in this file predate the change and are left alone, and the file now
carries exactly those two. The remaining em dashes in this branch's additions
sit in a Python docstring and two test comments rather than user facing copy,
and leaving them keeps gateway/tests/test_failure_lab.py byte identical to the
upstream fused version, which is the point of the port.
Raised by Cursor Bugbot on PR #207 under the repository's own Bugbot review
focus rule.
Verified: doc references resolve, 17 lab tests pass, all 6 fuse cases hold.
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On CodeRabbit's four findings: all correct, none applied here, and why
I verified each against the current code rather than taking the labels at face value. All four are technically right:
Finding
Label
Verified
Test driver uses a real network transport to localhost:9000
Minor
Yes.UPSTREAM_URL = "http://localhost:9000/mcp". test_fuse_refusal_exits_two_without_a_traceback calls fl.main(), and five DirectCaller arms (existing.control, existing.lost_response, native.control, native.lost_response, native.agent_restart_new_key) run before the fused one, each attempting real TCP
Self-check misses wrapper depth and a wrapped rail app
Trivial
Yes._MAX_TRANSPORT_WRAPPERS = 4 with the rejection branch at line 570; the six cases max out at two wrappers, so that branch is never exercised
Count agent_attempt rather than rail effects
Trivial
Yes.agent_attempt is emitted at line 709, before the transport call at 716, so it is a strictly stronger assertion than effects == 0 and would catch a guard that runs after a first call
Exit code 2 collides with argparse's usage-error code
Trivial (self-marked unverified)
Yes.argparse exits 2 on a bad flag, so a wrapper mapping 2 to "safety refusal" would misread usage errors
The network one deserves singling out. A test for a fuse whose whole purpose is stopping unauthorized payloads from reaching real tools does itself send initialize and payout.send to an unverified local port. The test's own comment acknowledges the dead-socket assumption, but CodeRabbit is right that it is environment dependent.
None of them is applied in this PR, for a reason specific to what this PR is. Three of the four would modify gateway/tests/test_failure_lab.py, which is currently byte identical to the upstream fused version, and the fourth changes documented exit-code behavior. This PR's value to a reviewer is that it is verifiably upstream's accepted text, so the fuse can be reviewed as provenance rather than as new design. Folding improvements in here destroys that property and makes the diff a mix of port and redesign.
Worth being clear about one thing that reframes these: agent-middleware-api is archived and read only, so the trees cannot be kept in sync going forward regardless. Once this lands, this repository is the only living copy and improving these files is ordinary maintenance. The byte identity is therefore worth keeping only through this PR, as an audit trail, not forever.
Proposed sequencing: land this as the faithful port, then a follow-up PR applies the network fix first, then the agent_attempt assertion and the two extra self-check cases, with the exit-code change considered separately since it alters documented behavior. That keeps "what upstream accepted" and "what we improved" as separate, reviewable diffs.
Flagging rather than deciding: if you would rather see them in this PR, say so and I will apply them here and drop the byte-identity claim from the description.
No change was pushed for these four. The one Bugbot finding that was a defect this branch introduced, em dashes in operator facing documentation against AGENTS.md line 52, is fixed in a596d9b.
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- Around line 115-116: Update the transport-chain description for
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`_terminates_in_asgi_app` stops after four `LossyTransport` layers and refuses
anything deeper, even when the leaf under those layers is the lab's own rail.
The fuse section described the object-graph walk without that cap, so an
operator could read it as admitting any chain that ultimately reaches the rail.
Documentation only. The cap itself is upstream behavior and is unchanged; this
records it where operators read about the fuse, and says why failing closed on
an unexpected chain shape is the intended outcome.
Raised by CodeRabbit on PR #207. Unlike its other findings on this PR, this one
touches no file whose upstream byte identity the port preserves: the
documentation section is already adapted here for the em dash house rule.
Verified: doc references resolve, 17 lab tests pass, all 6 fuse cases hold.
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- Around line 122-124: Clarify the wrapper-count wording near the fuse
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The paragraph added in 27f06e3 said the walk "stops after four" layers and
that no legitimate chain wraps the leaf "that many times", which reads as four
layers being refused. Four are accepted: `_terminates_in_asgi_app` increments
`hops` then returns False only when `hops > _MAX_TRANSPORT_WRAPPERS`, so a
chain of exactly four passes and five or more is refused.
Now says the walk allows up to four layers and that no legitimate chain wraps
the leaf more than four times. A wrong threshold in operator facing copy about
a safety control is worth getting exactly right.
Raised by CodeRabbit on PR #207, against a sentence this branch introduced.
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Three review findings, raised independently by Cursor Bugbot and CodeRabbit on
this PR and deferred earlier to keep the test file byte identical to upstream.
Bugbot's re-review rates the first Medium, which puts it above the threshold
where a finding is a style preference, so all three are applied here.
1. The foreign-target driver replaced DirectCaller's transport with a real
`httpx.AsyncHTTPTransport`. `fl.main()` then ran five unfused arms before
the fused one, each posting MCP `initialize` and `payout.send` to
`UPSTREAM_URL`, which is `http://localhost:9000/mcp`. The test assumed
nothing listens there. A test for a fuse whose purpose is keeping
unauthorized payloads away from real tools should not itself depend on that
assumption, so the transport is now an `httpx.MockTransport` whose handler
raises `ConnectError`. The fuse still refuses it, because the leaf is not
the rail's `ASGITransport`, so the test proves the same property without
reaching the network.
2. `_terminates_in_asgi_app` refuses chains deeper than
`_MAX_TRANSPORT_WRAPPERS`, but no case exercised that branch, and none
covered admission through two wrappers either. Adds both: two wrappers over
the rail is admitted, five is refused. The self-check now reports eight
cases with three admitted, and the documentation says so.
3. The refusal test asserted only on `lab.rail.effects`, which cannot prove
that no call was attempted, because a foreign transport bypasses the rail.
It now also counts `agent_attempt` events, which `DirectCaller.call` emits
and flushes before the transport call, and asserts there are none. That
would catch a guard which ran after a first call.
`gateway/tests/test_failure_lab.py` is therefore no longer byte identical to
the archived upstream version. The fuse implementation in
`gateway/scripts/failure_lab.py` still is, apart from the SDK path and these
two added self-check cases. The upstream repository is archived and read only,
so the two trees cannot be kept in step from here regardless; the identity was
worth keeping as provenance for review, not as a permanent property.
Verified: 17 lab tests pass, all 8 fuse cases hold, a full run reports ok with
13 scenarios at 87 of 87 checks and unchanged verdicts, the `native.key_conflict`
note still names the fuse, ruff check and format clean, doc references resolve.
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Merged main into the branch (clean, no conflicts) at 494b7f1; a later commit (95e7408) is on top. CI is green on the current head: 22 pass, 4 skipped. Locally: gateway/tests/test_failure_lab*.py 229 passed, and ruff check and format are clean on gateway/. Heads up: #267 also edits gateway/scripts/failure_lab.py, so whichever of the two merges second may need a conflict fix. Not merged.
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- Around line 2383-2398: Add a self-check case for exactly four nested `lossy`
wrappers around `ASGITransport(app=rail_app)` and expect it to be accepted;
include its label in any corresponding expected-results list. Keep the existing
two-wrapper acceptance and five-wrapper rejection cases unchanged.
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The self-check admitted two LossyTransport wrappers and refused five, but
never tested exactly four, the documented maximum. Changing
`hops > _MAX_TRANSPORT_WRAPPERS` to `>=` therefore passed all eight cases
while refusing four wrappers, and the full lab run could not catch it
either because its real path uses a single wrapper.
Add a case for four wrappers over the rail's own app, expected admitted,
its label in FUSE_CASES, and the doc count (nine chains, four admitted).
With this case the `>=` mutant now fails the self-check: "1 of 9 fuse
cases broke", exit 1.
Raised by CodeRabbit on 95e7408 and confirmed by mutation.
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Failure-lab ASGI target safety fuse: only the process-bound rail_app identity may be exercised; foreign/Mock/HTTP transports and deep LossyTransport stacks are refused closed.
Findings (non-blocking)
Fuse uses ASGI app object identity (is rail_app), not env/config flags — cannot be opened by ENABLE_* / settings.
Exact allowlist: ASGITransport(app=rail_app) and LossyTransport wrapping it with depth ≤4; depth 5 and foreign apps fail closed (UnsafeTargetError, exit 2).
Gateway arm intentionally unfused (documented); self-check covers 9 cases including nested lossy + foreign MockTransport.
Merged main into this branch now that #267 has landed (main at 84ee2be). New head ed9cc65, a signed-off merge commit. Git auto-merged both gateway/scripts/failure_lab.py and gateway/docs/failure-lab.md with no conflicts; the merged script carries #267's MCP_UPSTREAM_MULTI_TOOL_ENABLED=False pin alongside this PR's fuse and the four-wrapper case. This PR's own diff is unchanged.
First-parent only commit in 620d1890..ed9cc65a: ed9cc65a4fa7adaaf224f28791826d0f086b7a63 — merge of origin/main by PetrefiedThunder (author+committer). Parents: 620d1890 + 84ee2be4 (fix(gateway): narrow the failure lab's registered upstream service #267). No force-push on the PR timeline.
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Summary
This started as a port of the upstream-accepted fuse across the repository migration, not a new implementation. The fused versions of
scripts/failure_lab.pyandtests/test_failure_lab.pywere taken from the archivedagent-middleware-apirepository at commit9289867d50c6cbc184db3efc5ef630378fb5f973(read-only clone; nothing was pushed there). Review has since added test improvements on top, listed under Adaptations below.The hazard
The
native.key_conflictarm ofgateway/scripts/failure_lab.py(methodLab.native_key_conflict) reuses a spent idempotency key withCONFLICT_AMOUNT_USD($9500.00) in place of theAMOUNT_USD($250.00) the key was issued for, a 38x increase, and sends it throughDirectCallerwith no gateway in the path to refuse it. It is safe only because the in-process simulatedPaymentRail.executerefuses a key reused with different parameters. Pointed at a real tool without conflict detection, that arm would execute an action nobody authorized.The fuse fails the arm closed unless the caller's transport chain terminates in this lab's own in-process ASGI app. It decides from the object graph the request will travel through, comparing the leaf app by identity, so editing a URL constant, an environment variable, or a settings field cannot talk it into dispatching. It also refuses a chain wrapped more than four times, even over the real rail, rather than guessing about an unexpected shape.
Preserved asymmetry
gateway.key_conflictsends the same oversized payload but routes through the gateway's pre-dispatch refusal, so it never reaches the downstream. That arm stays deliberately unfused: the protection there is our own code and the thing under test, and verifying that refusal in front of a real tool is both safe and valuable.Adaptations from the upstream text
1. The SDK import path, which differs genuinely by repository layout:
The package lives at
sdk/python/src/b2a_sdk, so thefrom b2a_sdk.receipt_verifier import ...line is untouched.2. Em dashes removed from the documentation section (
a596d9b, corrected in9ce6d9a).AGENTS.mdline 52 forbids em dashes and en dashes in user facing copy; the upstream repository has no such rule, so inserting its prose verbatim carried four offending lines into operator facing documentation. The two em dashes already onmainelsewhere in that file predate this change and are untouched.3. The transport-wrapper limit is now documented (
27f06e3, threshold corrected in9ce6d9a). The fuse allows up to fourLossyTransportlayers and refuses anything deeper even over the real rail; the section described the object-graph walk without that cap.4. Three test improvements from review (
95e7408), each raised independently by Cursor Bugbot and CodeRabbit:httpx.AsyncHTTPTransport, sofl.main()had five unfused arms posting MCPinitializeandpayout.sendtohttp://localhost:9000/mcpbefore the fused arm could refuse, on the assumption that nothing listens there. Now anhttpx.MockTransportwhose handler raisesConnectError. The fuse still refuses it, because the leaf is not the rail'sASGITransport, so the test proves the same property without reaching the network. Bugbot rated this Medium.lab.rail.effects, which cannot prove no call was attempted because a foreign transport bypasses the rail. It now also asserts zeroagent_attemptevents, whichDirectCaller.callemits before the transport call.5. The four-wrapper limit itself is pinned (
620d189), raised by CodeRabbit. The self-check admitted two wrappers and refused five but never tested exactly four, so changinghops > _MAX_TRANSPORT_WRAPPERSto>=passed every case while refusing the documented maximum. Confirmed by mutation before fixing. A four-wrapper case is added, expected admitted; with it the>=mutant now fails (1 of 9 fuse cases broke, exit 1). The self-check now covers nine chains with four admitted.On provenance.
gateway/tests/test_failure_lab.pyis therefore no longer byte identical to upstream; an earlier revision of this description claimed it was, which stopped being true at95e7408. The fuse implementation ingateway/scripts/failure_lab.pystill is, apart from the SDK path and the three added self-check cases.agent-middleware-apiis archived and read only, so the trees cannot be kept in step from here regardless: the identity was worth preserving as provenance during review, not as a permanent property.For
gateway/docs/failure-lab.mdthe two copies had drifted in both directions, so rather than overwriting, only the## The target safety fusesection was inserted after the existing paragraph on CI pinning the report numbers.Before copying, both files were re-diffed against upstream on then-current
main(ba55fd7). The monorepo side showed exactly the three expected pre-fuse differences and nothing else (9 lines: the SDK path, the inlinedLossyTransportinDirectCaller.__init__, and the unwrappedasyncio.runinmain), and the test file was a strict subset with zero monorepo-only lines. Because the signature matched, the wholesale copy was safe; had anything else appeared, the fuse hunks would have been applied surgically instead.Related issues
See also #267 (merged), which fixed a mypy error in the same script that CI cannot see; this branch now includes it. Follow-ups raised during this review are tracked in #268 (exit code) and #269 (the
gateway/failure_lab/package).Area and license
spec/,verifier/,sdk/python/,sdk/typescript/,integrations/, andexamples/are Apache-2.0.gateway/contributions are under FSL-1.1-ALv2 (Fair Source).All three changed files are under
gateway/.Spec changes
No material in
spec/is touched.Validation
Current head
ed9cc65, run against a venv built fromgateway/requirements.txtplus the local SDK.pytest tests/test_failure_lab.py -qgives 17 passed.mypy --config-file=mypy.ini scripts/failure_lab.py app/is clean across 213 files.ruff checkandruff format --check(ruff 0.17.2) clean on both changed Python files.python scripts/check_doc_references.pypasses.python scripts/failure_lab.py --self-check-guardsreports all 9 fuse cases hold, running no scenarios and making no calls. The four-wrapper case reportsTrue (expected True)and the five-wrapper caseFalse (expected False), so both sides of the depth limit are pinned.--json --output-dir <temp>) reportsok: true, 13 scenarios, 87 of 87 checks, with verdicts unchanged:existing_integration_duplicates_the_actiontrue,native_baseline_already_handles_this_faulttrue,gateway_reduces_effects_vs_existingtrue,gateway_reduces_effects_vs_native_baselinefalse,gateway_never_redispatched_after_ambiguitytrue,gateway_retained_the_charge_after_ambiguitytrue,agent_restart_with_a_new_key_defeats_every_configurationtrue.native.key_conflictscenario in the JSON summary carries a note naming the target safety fuse.gateway_reduces_effects_vs_native_baselinereading false is correct and intended: it is the guard that fails the lab if the gateway is ever measured beating a correct native baseline.mainhas been merged into this branch three times, each time re-verified with the checks above rather than relying on a clean merge: at494b7f1(bringing#232permit allowlist ordering and#233deterministic retry keys, both behavior the lab asserts on), at3326275(bringing#273rate-limit rekeying,#275audit chain verification, and the ruff 0.17.2 bump), and ated9cc65(bringing #267, which edits the same script; git combined the two without conflict).Risk and compatibility
No migrations and no API changes. The fuse only ever refuses; it cannot cause a call that would not otherwise happen. A refusal exits 2, deliberately distinct from the 1 used when an expectation merely broke, so a safety refusal is not mistaken for a failed measurement.
One review point is deliberately not acted on here: exit code 2 collides with the code
argparseuses for a usage error, so a wrapper mapping 2 to "safety refusal" could misread a bad flag. The collision is real, but the exit code is upstream's documented behavior and changing it alters the contract operators may already rely on. Tracked for a maintainer decision in #268.Not covered by this change: the larger
gateway/failure_lab/package carries the same hazard class int02_same_key_different_arguments, which submits 10,000 minor units under a spent key against an authorized 100. It is latent rather than live onmaintoday, because that package's downstream is always in process. Tracked in #269, with the single guard point atgateway/failure_lab/configurations.py::configured_target.Contributor checklist
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Medium Risk
Adds fail-closed guards around a harness arm that deliberately sends an unauthorized oversized payout if mis-targeted; production gateway paths are unchanged, but mishandling would affect operator safety expectations for the lab script.
Overview
Ports the target safety fuse into the monorepo failure lab so the
native.key_conflictarm cannot run unlessDirectCaller’s HTTP transport chain terminates in the lab’s in-processPaymentRailASGI app (by object identity, not URL config).Behavior: Before the scenario that reuses a spent idempotency key with a 38× larger amount and no gateway,
require_in_process_railwalksLossyTransportwrappers (via a newinnerproperty, max depth 4) and raisesUnsafeTargetErrorotherwise.mainunwraps that fromBaseExceptionGroupand exits 2 (distinct from assertion failure 1).gateway.key_conflictstays unfused. Successful runs record fuse context in scenario notes.Operator tooling:
--self-check-guardsruns nine synthetic transport chains with no scenarios or tool calls; docs add a The target safety fuse section.Tests: Self-check output, foreign-target refusal (mock transport, zero
agent_attemptevents), exit 2 without traceback, and fuse notes in saved JSON.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 919948e. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.