fix(vuln-scanner): bound trufflehog git-history scan, no more phantom-success runs

.github/workflows/ci-tests.yml

@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ jobs:
         run: bash scripts/tests/test_telegram_route.sh
       - name: capability mode tests
         run: bash scripts/tests/test_skill_mode.sh
+      - name: vuln-scanner status contract tests
+        run: python3 scripts/tests/test_vuln_scanner_status.py
       - name: per-skill requires parse tests
         run: bash scripts/tests/test_skill_requires.sh
       - name: run actions summary tests

eyebrowlock.json

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
       "files": [
         {
           "path": "SKILL.md",
-          "hash": "b17491de609e1fa3b241a55012e60f21d63eaaac6ad9251c43509f40ec635872"
+          "hash": "df58bcc453fbd2d185b3fc1f616c36babe1a0f598a3ec22980e69958dcf475e2"
         }
       ],
       "findings": [
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
           "severity": "medium",
           "owasp": "ASK-03",
           "file": "SKILL.md",
-          "line": 304,
+          "line": 324,
           "snippet": "- `exec` / `spawn` / `system` / `eval` sinks + subprocess with string interpolation (RCE)",
           "explanation": "uses a process-execution primitive"
         },
@@ -153,12 +153,12 @@
           "severity": "critical",
           "owasp": "ASK-01",
           "file": "SKILL.md",
-          "line": 1013,
+          "line": 1053,
           "snippet": "1. **Install** — the binaries (`semgrep`, `trufflehog`, `osv-scanner`, `slither`) are **not pre-installed**. Stage the…",
           "explanation": "downloads and executes remote code via a pipe to a shell"
         }
       ],
-      "contentHash": "sha256-a81f0757d7b3bafe3baaa0c3d2c0e735eb284a7ebc9768264bdfe4e747b4aa9a",
+      "contentHash": "sha256-c990e0d6823aac253f655cf6c4640606d6f351efa088ccc9f508f3d02723575c",
       "discoveredFrom": "skills/vuln-scanner/SKILL.md"
     },
     {

scripts/skill_mode.sh

@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ WRITE_TOOLS="Write,Edit,Bash(gh:*),Bash(git:*),Bash(python3:*),Bash(python:*)"
 # a live-test showed the run logging that denial as "Blocked by sandbox". These are
 # read-only static-analysis tools (no repo/network mutation of their own).
 WRITE_TOOLS="$WRITE_TOOLS,Bash(semgrep:*),Bash(osv-scanner:*),Bash(trufflehog:*),Bash(slither:*)"
+# Bounded scanner calls start with the wrapper, not the scanner's bare name.
+# These can execute arbitrary commands, so grant them only in the write tier.
+WRITE_TOOLS="$WRITE_TOOLS,Bash(timeout:*),Bash(gtimeout:*)"
 # cargo (vuln-scanner Arm A, step A3.5 — dynamic testing). Staged by
 # scripts/stage-vuln-scanner.sh (nightly toolchain + cargo-fuzz, workflow step,
 # same reason as Foundry below — the sandbox denies toolchain installs in-run).

scripts/tests/test_skill_mode.sh

@@ -34,6 +34,17 @@ echo "$WT" | grep -q "Write" && echo "$WT" | grep -q "Edit" \
 
 # allowed-tools: read-only tier drops mutation tools but keeps read+notify+curl
 RT=$(bash "$M" allowed-tools read-only)
+# Timeout wrappers are command heads, not covered by Bash(trufflehog:*).
+# Keep these general command runners out of the read-only tier.
+for timer in timeout gtimeout; do
+  echo "$WT" | tr ',' '\n' | grep -qxF "Bash($timer:*)" \
+    && pass "write tier includes $timer wrapper" || bad "write tier missing $timer wrapper"
+  if echo "$RT" | tr ',' '\n' | grep -qxF "Bash($timer:*)"; then
+    bad "read-only tier exposes $timer wrapper"
+  else
+    pass "read-only tier excludes $timer wrapper"
+  fi
+done
 if echo "$RT" | grep -q "Write" || echo "$RT" | grep -q "Edit" \
    || echo "$RT" | grep -q "Bash(git:\*)" || echo "$RT" | grep -q "Bash(gh:\*)"; then
   bad "read-only tier drops Write/Edit/git/gh"

scripts/tests/test_vuln_scanner_status.py

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+"""Contract checks, not a claim that a model followed the reporting instructions."""
+from pathlib import Path
+import unittest
+
+SKILL = (Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2] / "skills/vuln-scanner/SKILL.md").read_text()
+
+
+class ScannerStatusContract(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_report_preserves_history_status(self):
+        report = SKILL.split("### A7. Write local report", 1)[1].split("### A8.", 1)[0]
+        self.assertIn("trufflehog-git", report)
+        self.assertIn("sources.txt", report)
+
+    def test_both_notification_templates_preserve_history_status(self):
+        notify = SKILL.split("### A8. Notify", 1)[1].split("## Arm D", 1)[0]
+        rows = [line for line in notify.splitlines() if "Scanners:" in line]
+        self.assertEqual(len(rows), 2)
+        for row in rows:
+            self.assertIn("trufflehog-git=<ok|fail|timeout>", row)
+
+    def test_log_preserves_history_status(self):
+        log = SKILL.split("## Log", 1)[1].split("## Network note", 1)[0]
+        self.assertIn("trufflehog-git=ok|fail|timeout", log)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()

skills/vuln-scanner/SKILL.md

@@ -142,9 +142,20 @@ fi
 if command -v trufflehog >/dev/null 2>&1; then
   trufflehog filesystem . --only-verified --json \
     > /tmp/vuln-scan/trufflehog.json 2>/dev/null || true
-  # Also scan full git history for secrets
-  trufflehog git file://. --only-verified --json \
-    > /tmp/vuln-scan/trufflehog-git.json 2>/dev/null || true
+  # Also scan full git history for secrets — BOUNDED. An unbounded `trufflehog git`
+  # walks every commit's every tree, and a large packed history (measured: 200
+  # commits / ~369MB on one real run) can eat the whole turn budget by itself,
+  # with nothing to show it happened until the run reports "success" anyway
+  # having produced no report at all. `timeout` turns that silent budget-burn
+  # into an ordinary, honestly-recorded `fail` — same as an install failure,
+  # never a reason to write a "still running, will resume" placeholder as the
+  # final output. There is no resume: a workflow_dispatch run is one shot, and
+  # a note promising to pick back up later is not truthful about what a single
+  # run can actually do.
+  timeout 300 trufflehog git file://. --only-verified --json \
+    > /tmp/vuln-scan/trufflehog-git.json 2>/dev/null
+  TRUFFLEHOG_GIT_RC=$?
+  [ "$TRUFFLEHOG_GIT_RC" = 124 ] && echo "VULN_SCANNER_TIMEOUT: trufflehog git history scan exceeded 300s on a large packed history — recorded as fail, not retried, not left unfinished"
 else
   echo "VULN_SCANNER_SKIPPED: trufflehog not available"
 fi
@@ -181,6 +192,15 @@ fi
 # Record what succeeded (empty output ≠ clean, could be tool failure)
 echo "semgrep=$([ -s /tmp/vuln-scan/semgrep.json ] && echo ok || echo fail)" >  /tmp/vuln-scan/sources.txt
 echo "trufflehog=$([ -s /tmp/vuln-scan/trufflehog.json ] && echo ok || echo fail)" >> /tmp/vuln-scan/sources.txt
+# Recorded separately from the filesystem pass above: they can genuinely diverge
+# (filesystem scan clean and fast, git-history scan timed out on a large packed
+# repo, or vice versa) and collapsing both into one trufflehog= line hides
+# whichever one actually failed.
+if [ "${TRUFFLEHOG_GIT_RC:-1}" = 124 ]; then
+  echo "trufflehog-git=timeout"                                                  >> /tmp/vuln-scan/sources.txt
+else
+  echo "trufflehog-git=$([ -s /tmp/vuln-scan/trufflehog-git.json ] && echo ok || echo fail)" >> /tmp/vuln-scan/sources.txt
+fi
 echo "osv=${OSV_STATUS:-fail}"                                                    >> /tmp/vuln-scan/sources.txt
 ```
 
@@ -605,7 +625,25 @@ Append to `memory/vuln-scanned.json` (create if missing) so future runs skip thi
 
 ### A7. Write local report
 
-Save to `output/articles/vuln-scan-${today}.md` with sections for: repo metadata, scanner sources (ok/fail per tool), candidate count, confirmed findings with severity and channel, PoC gate status (`verified` with verifier/chain/block, `not-required` with reason, or `needs-verification`), and dedup note. Do **not** include exploit details for findings disclosed via PVR — redact file/line and link to the advisory ID instead.
+**There is no resume.** The git-history pass has a timeout; this does not bound
+every other scanner or installation step. If you are running low on turns, finish
+the report with whatever scanners actually completed, record the rest `fail` in
+`sources.txt` (§A3's rule: unfinished is `fail`, not a pending state), and write
+A7/A8 now. A single `workflow_dispatch` run is one shot with no continuation —
+writing "still running, will pick this up automatically" as the final output is
+not true of this run path (it was live-observed: a run reported workflow
+`success` having written that sentence instead of a report, with no ledger entry
+at all — the operator had to notice and re-dispatch by hand). A shorter, honest
+report with some scanners marked `fail` is a completed task; a promise to
+resume is not.
+
+Save to `output/articles/vuln-scan-${today}.md` with sections for: repo metadata, scanner sources (ok/fail per tool — `trufflehog` and `trufflehog-git` are two separate rows, not one; folding a timed-out history scan into a clean filesystem-scan's `ok` is exactly the silent-masking this split exists to prevent), candidate count, confirmed findings with severity and channel, PoC gate status (`verified` with verifier/chain/block, `not-required` with reason, or `needs-verification`), and dedup note. Do **not** include exploit details for findings disclosed via PVR — redact file/line and link to the advisory ID instead.
+
+Copy each scanner status from `sources.txt` into the report, notification and log.
+Keep `trufflehog` (filesystem) and `trufflehog-git` (history) separate, preserving
+`timeout` exactly. Missing status is `fail`, never inferred `ok`. If any pass failed
+or timed out, say "limited audit" and name the incomplete coverage, even when zero
+findings were confirmed. Do not describe incomplete coverage as a clean audit.
 
 ### A8. Notify
 
@@ -615,13 +653,15 @@ Use `./notify`. One paragraph. Lead with the verdict.
 *Vuln Scanner — <repo>*
 <N> confirmed findings (<severity-summary>).
 Disclosed via: <PVR: advisory #123 | public PR #45 | skipped (no channel)>
-Scanners: semgrep=<ok|fail>, trufflehog=<ok|fail>, osv=<ok|fail>, fuzz=<ok|fail|skip>. PoC gate: <verified|not-required|needs-verification>.
+Scanners: semgrep=<ok|fail>, trufflehog=<ok|fail>, trufflehog-git=<ok|fail|timeout>, osv=<ok|fail>, fuzz=<ok|fail|skip>. PoC gate: <verified|not-required|needs-verification>.
 ```
 
-If the audit was clean:
+`trufflehog-git=timeout` must always be spelled out here, never folded into a plain `trufflehog=ok` — a clean filesystem pass and a timed-out history pass are different facts, and this is the durable line an operator actually reads. Silently dropping the git-history state here reproduces the exact masking this field exists to prevent.
+
+If no findings were confirmed (choose clean or limited according to actual coverage):
 ```
 *Vuln Scanner — <repo>*
-Clean audit. <M> candidates reviewed, 0 confirmed. Scanners: semgrep=ok, trufflehog=ok, osv=ok, fuzz=skip, agentic=ok.
+<Clean audit | Limited audit — name incomplete passes>. <M> candidates reviewed, 0 confirmed. Scanners: semgrep=<ok|fail>, trufflehog=<ok|fail>, trufflehog-git=<ok|fail|timeout>, osv=<ok|fail|none|skipped>, fuzz=<ok|fail|skip>, agentic=<ok|skipped>.
 ```
 
 Then log per the **Log** section below with `Mode: scan`.
@@ -983,7 +1023,7 @@ specific bullets.
 - Candidates: N | Confirmed: M
 - Channels used: PVR (x), public PR (y), skipped (z)
 - Prior-art check: N candidates checked, 0 matches | matched #123 → skipped/commented
-- Scanner status: semgrep=ok trufflehog=ok osv=ok fuzz=ok|fail|skip agentic=ok|skip poc=verified|not-required|needs-verification
+- Scanner status: semgrep=ok|fail trufflehog=ok|fail trufflehog-git=ok|fail|timeout osv=ok|fail|none|skipped fuzz=ok|fail|skip agentic=ok|skip poc=verified|not-required|needs-verification
 - Advisory/PR links: [...]
 ```