hermes-agent/tools/skill_manager_guards.py

"""Write/delete guards for ``skill_manage``. Every guard returns ``None`` when the
operation may proceed, else a refusal (error dict or message). Origin-owned state
(``_find_skill``, ``_skills_dir``) is reached lazily via ``tools.skill_manager_tool``
so test patches keep working."""

import contextvars as _ctxvars
import logging
import threading
from contextlib import suppress
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any, Dict, Optional

logger = logging.getLogger("tools.skill_manager_tool")


def _refusal(message: str, **extra: Any) -> dict[str, Any]:
    return {"success": False, "error": message, **extra}


def _is_background_review() -> bool:
    """True inside the autonomous curator review fork; False on any lookup failure."""
    try:
        from tools.skill_provenance import is_background_review
        return bool(is_background_review())
    except Exception:
        return False


def _resolved_str(path: Path) -> str:
    with suppress(Exception):
        return str(path.resolve())
    return str(path)


class _BackgroundReviewReadMarks:
    """Read marks shared by copied tool contexts within one review run."""

    def __init__(self) -> None:
        self._lock = threading.Lock()
        self._paths: set[str] = set()

    def add(self, path: str) -> None:
        with self._lock:
            self._paths.add(path)

    def contains(self, path: str) -> bool:
        with self._lock:
            return path in self._paths


_background_review_read_paths: _ctxvars.ContextVar[Optional[_BackgroundReviewReadMarks]] = (
    _ctxvars.ContextVar("background_review_read_paths", default=None))


def mark_background_review_skill_read(path: Path) -> None:
    """Record that the active background-review fork has read a skill file. The fork must not
    patch content it only inferred from the transcript: skill_view/read_file call this, and
    the write guards require the mark."""
    if not _is_background_review():
        return
    if (marks := _background_review_read_paths.get()) is None:
        _background_review_read_paths.set(marks := _BackgroundReviewReadMarks())
    marks.add(_resolved_str(path))


def _background_review_has_read(path: Path) -> bool:
    marks = _background_review_read_paths.get()
    return marks is not None and marks.contains(_resolved_str(path))


def _reset_background_review_read_marks() -> None:
    """Start a fresh, isolated read set for the current review context."""
    _background_review_read_paths.set(_BackgroundReviewReadMarks())


def _resolved_roots(skill_path: Path):
    """``(resolved skill_path, [(root, resolved_root), ...])`` over every resolvable skills root."""
    from agent.skill_utils import get_all_skills_dirs
    try:
        resolved = skill_path.resolve()
    except OSError:
        resolved = skill_path
    roots = []
    for root in get_all_skills_dirs():
        with suppress(OSError):
            roots.append((root, root.resolve()))
    return resolved, roots


def _containing_skills_root(skill_path: Path) -> Path:
    """Skills root (local or external_dirs) containing ``skill_path``; local dir if none match."""
    from tools import skill_manager_tool as _smt
    resolved, roots = _resolved_roots(skill_path)
    return next((root for root, r in roots if resolved.is_relative_to(r)), _smt._skills_dir())


def _is_path_redirect(path: Path) -> bool:
    """Symlink or (Windows 3.12+) junction — either lets a poisoned tree redirect rmtree outside."""
    try:
        return path.is_symlink() or (hasattr(path, "is_junction") and path.is_junction())
    except OSError:
        return False


def _validate_delete_target(skill_dir: Path) -> Optional[str]:
    """Last-line guard before rmtree: even a poisoned tree must never delete (1) a path outside
    every known skills root, (2) a skills root itself, (3) a symlink/junction (rmtree follows it).

    ``_find_skill`` already restricts ``skill_dir`` to a real ``SKILL.md`` parent discovered by walking the
    skills roots, so the agent cannot inject an arbitrary path the way Kilo Code's HTTP endpoint could
    (their issue 11227: a built-in-skill sentinel resolved to the server cwd and a recursive delete wiped
    the user's entire working directory). This is the matching defense-in-depth for our agent-facing
    ``skill_manage`` delete path: even if discovery or a poisoned tree hands us a bad directory, never
    recursively delete See #11227.
    """
    if _is_path_redirect(skill_dir):
        return (f"Refusing to delete '{skill_dir}': the skill directory is a "
                f"symlink/junction. Remove the link target manually if intended.")
    try:
        skill_dir.resolve()
    except OSError as exc:
        return f"Refusing to delete '{skill_dir}': could not resolve path ({exc})."
    resolved, roots = _resolved_roots(skill_dir)
    for _root, root in roots:
        if resolved == root:
            return (f"Refusing to delete '{skill_dir}': resolves to the skills root "
                    f"itself, which would remove every installed skill.")
        if resolved.is_relative_to(root):
            return None
    return f"Refusing to delete '{skill_dir}': path does not resolve inside any known skills root."


def _is_pinned(name: str, what: str) -> Optional[bool]:
    """skill_usage pinned flag; None (logged at debug) when the record is unreadable."""
    try:
        from tools import skill_usage
        return bool(skill_usage.get_record(name).get("pinned"))
    except Exception:
        logger.debug("%s lookup failed for %s", what, name, exc_info=True)
        return None


def _pinned_guard(name: str) -> Optional[str]:
    """Refusal message if *name* is pinned or essential, else None. Pin only guards DELETION;
    patches/edits stay allowed. ESSENTIAL_SKILLS are permanently pinned (the system prompt
    references them). Best-effort: an unreadable sidecar lets the delete through."""
    try:
        from agent.skill_utils import ESSENTIAL_SKILLS
        if name in ESSENTIAL_SKILLS:
            return (
                f"Skill '{name}' is essential to Hermes (the agent's own "
                f"operating manual referenced by the system prompt) and "
                f"cannot be deleted. Patches and edits are still allowed.")
    except Exception:
        logger.debug("essential-guard lookup failed for %s", name, exc_info=True)
    if _is_pinned(name, "pinned-guard"):
        return (
            f"Skill '{name}' is pinned and cannot be deleted by skill_manage. Ask the user to "
            f"run `hermes curator unpin {name}` if they want to delete it. Patches and edits "
            f"are allowed on pinned skills; only deletion is blocked.")
    return None


def _background_review_delete_guard(name: str, skill_dir: Path) -> Optional[dict[str, Any]]:
    """Refuse autonomous deletes of anything but curator-owned sediment. Content writes are not
    gated by ownership: the review fork exists to improve every skill it learns from, and every
    write is ledgered and reversible, while an archive removes a skill the user relies on."""
    if not _is_background_review():
        return None
    refuse = "Refusing background curator delete for"
    if _is_pinned(name, "pinned skill guard"):
        return _refusal(
            f"{refuse} pinned skill '{name}': pinned skills "
            f"are off-limits to autonomous maintenance. Ask the user to run `hermes curator "
            f"unpin {name}` if they want it changed.")
    try:
        from agent.skill_utils import is_external_skill_path
        if is_external_skill_path(skill_dir):
            return _refusal(
                f"{refuse} skill '{name}': the skill lives in skills.external_dirs, which are "
                f"externally owned and read-only to autonomous curation.")
    except Exception:
        logger.debug("external skill guard lookup failed for %s", name, exc_info=True)
    try:
        from tools import skill_usage
        for predicate, label in (
            (skill_usage.is_protected_builtin, "protected built-in"),
            (skill_usage.is_hub_installed, "hub-installed"),
            (skill_usage.is_bundled, "bundled")):
            if predicate(name):
                return _refusal(f"{refuse} {label} skill '{name}'.")
        # Not curator-managed (no `created_by: "agent"`) => user-owned, never archived
        # autonomously. A MISSING record and `created_by: null` must resolve identically:
        # keying on presence let the guard's own bookkeeping flip the verdict (#67140).
        usage_rec = skill_usage.load_usage().get(name)
        if not skill_usage._is_curator_managed_record(usage_rec):
            _detail = (f"created_by={usage_rec.get('created_by')!r}" if isinstance(usage_rec, dict)
                       else "no usage record")
            return _refusal(
                f"{refuse} skill '{name}': the skill is not "
                f"curator-managed ({_detail}). Only curator-managed skills may be archived "
                f"autonomously. Run `hermes curator adopt {name}` to opt it in.")
    except Exception:
        logger.warning("owned skill guard lookup failed for %s", name, exc_info=True)
        return _refusal(
            f"{refuse} skill '{name}': agent ownership could not "
            f"be verified because the provenance record is unavailable or unreadable.")
    return None


def _background_review_read_before_write_guard(
    name: str, target: Path, action: str, file_label: str) -> Optional[dict[str, Any]]:
    """Require review forks to load the exact target before mutating it."""
    if not _is_background_review() or _background_review_has_read(target):
        return None
    return _refusal(
        f"Refusing background curator {action} for skill '{name}': the current {file_label} "
        f"content has not been loaded in this review turn. Call skill_view(name) for SKILL.md, or "
        f"skill_view(name, file_path=...) for a supporting file, then retry the write using the "
        f"content just returned.",
        _read_before_write_required=True)


def _locked_guard(name: str, action: str) -> Optional[dict[str, Any]]:
    """Refuse every mutating ``skill_manage`` action on a skill the user locked (``hermes curator
    lock`` / the Desktop lock switch), whoever asks: foreground turns, the background review and the
    curator pass alike. ``create`` is exempt (the collision check already refuses a name that resolves
    anywhere). An unreadable sidecar fails CLOSED for the autonomous passes (silently relaxing a
    lock is the failure this exists to prevent) and open for normal turns, so one corrupt file does
    not freeze every skill edit. Keyed by directory name, so the bare, ``cat/name`` and
    frontmatter-name forms all resolve to the same record."""
    if action == "create" or not name:
        return None
    try:
        from tools import skill_manager_tool as _smt
        from tools import skill_usage
        candidates = {name, Path(name).name}
        if existing := _smt._find_skill(name):
            candidates.add(existing["path"].name)
        locked = next((c for c in candidates if skill_usage.is_locked(c)), None)
    except Exception:
        logger.warning("locked skill guard lookup failed for %s", name, exc_info=True)
        if not _is_background_review():
            return None  # a corrupt sidecar must not freeze every skill edit in normal turns
        return _refusal(
            f"Refusing {action} for skill '{name}': its lock state could not be verified because the "
            f"skills/.usage.json sidecar is unreadable. Leave the skill alone and tell the user; they "
            f"can repair the sidecar or run `hermes curator unlock {name}`.", _locked=True)
    if locked:
        from tools.skill_lock import skill_refusal
        return _refusal(f"Refusing {action}: {skill_refusal(locked)}", _locked=True)
    return None

def _background_review_preflight(action: str, name: str) -> Optional[dict[str, Any]]:
    """Guards that run on the bare action/name before any handler, for the single-op AND the
    batch path: the content lock (every mutating action) and the ownership delete guard."""
    if (locked := _locked_guard(name, action)) is not None:
        return locked
    if action != "delete":
        return None
    from tools import skill_manager_tool as _smt
    existing = _smt._find_skill(name)
    return _background_review_delete_guard(name, existing["path"]) if existing else None


def _curator_consolidation_delete_guard(
    name: str, absorbed_into: Optional[str]) -> Optional[dict[str, Any]]:
    """Fail closed on unverified deletes during the curator consolidation pass. The fork's only
    legitimate delete is a consolidation declared via ``absorbed_into=<umbrella>`` (existence
    validated in ``_delete_skill``); the deterministic inactivity prune never calls skill_manage,
    so a bare delete here can only be the LLM pass pruning without evidence.

    A delete with no forwarding target — ``absorbed_into`` omitted (``None``) or empty (``""``) — is the
    fail-open behavior reported in #29912: the consolidation pass archived whole clusters of active skills
    with zero verified consolidations (``consolidated_this_run == 0``), leaving active automations pointing
    at names that no longer resolve. Refuse it; keep the skill active.
    """
    if not _is_background_review() or (isinstance(absorbed_into, str) and absorbed_into.strip()):
        return None
    return _refusal(
        f"Refusing background curator delete of skill '{name}': the consolidation pass may only "
        f"archive a skill it has absorbed into an umbrella. Pass absorbed_into=<umbrella> (the "
        f"umbrella must already exist) to record a verified consolidation. Pruning a skill with no "
        f"forwarding target is not permitted here — the deterministic inactivity prune handles "
        f"staleness archival separately. Keeping '{name}' active.",
        _fail_closed=True)