Verify Cc Safety Net

Verify cc-safety-net

cc-safety-net is a CLI (cc-safety-net / ccsn) that coding-agent CLIs invoke as a pre-tool-use hook: JSON describing a tool call arrives on stdin, an allow/deny decision leaves on stdout, and every decision is appended to an audit log under the active home. Users also run diagnostic commands (status, doctor, explain, logs) and a local web GUI (gui).

Safety invariants for every run:

• Command strings under test (git reset --hard, rm -rf /, …) are analyzer INPUT. They go into a JSON payload or an explain argument. Never execute one in a shell.
• Never run the CLI against the real home. Every invocation goes through ./ccsn-isolated (see Helpers), which redirects HOME, CC_SAFETY_NET_HOME, and CC_SAFETY_NET_AUDIT_HOME into a disposable directory. A bare bun run src/entries/bin.ts writes to the developer's real ~/.cc-safety-net/logs.
• Never drive install, update, or uninstall (CLI or GUI Integrations tab) in a verification run: install detection and npx-cache clearing reach real machine state beyond $HOME.

Launch

No build step: the CLI runs from source with bun. Set up one isolated run:

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REPO=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
RUN_ID=verify-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)
export CCSN_VERIFY_HOME=$REPO/artifacts/verify-homes/$RUN_ID   # disposable fake $HOME
EVIDENCE=$REPO/artifacts/verify/$RUN_ID                        # proof artifacts (gitignored)
WS=$CCSN_VERIFY_HOME/workspace                                 # cwd the "agent" works in
mkdir -p "$CCSN_VERIFY_HOME" "$EVIDENCE" "$WS"

One-shot commands (hook, explain, status, logs, doctor) need no server — each drive is one ./ccsn-isolated … invocation from $REPO/.agents/skills/verify-cc-safety-net/.

The only long-lived instance is the GUI:

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cd "$WS" && "$REPO/.agents/skills/verify-cc-safety-net/ccsn-isolated" gui --no-open > "$EVIDENCE/gui.log" 2>&1 &
GUI_PID=$!

Ready when gui.log contains CC Safety Net policy GUI: http://127.0.0.1:<port>/?token=<token> (poll for it; it appears in under ~2s). The server picks a free port itself, so instances never collide. Teardown: kill $GUI_PID — kill the PID you started, never by process name.

Isolation: two runs side by side are fine as long as each has its own CCSN_VERIFY_HOME.

Doctor

Before driving, prove the instance is worth driving — from the skill directory:

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./ccsn-isolated --version        # must print "dev" — source checkout, not an installed copy
./ccsn-isolated status | head -6 # must print "CC Safety Net — ready" with Level standard
./ccsn-isolated doctor --json --skip-update-check > "$EVIDENCE/doctor.json"

If --version prints a semver, you are running a packaged copy, not this checkout — stop. Healthy in doctor.json means engineSelfTest.failed is 0 and configState.state is "ready". Do not gate on doctor's exit code: under a fresh isolated home it exits 1 solely because no integration is configured (integration.none-configured in findings), which is inherent to the isolation, not a defect. Any other error-severity finding means the checkout is broken — stop and report rather than driving features. After the first hook drive, additionally confirm isolation held: entries exist under $CCSN_VERIFY_HOME/.cc-safety-net/logs/ and ls ~/.cc-safety-net/logs/*/*/*ccsn-verify* 2>/dev/null finds nothing (every probe session id starts with ccsn-verify-, so a leak is identifiable by filename in the real log tree).

Drive

Three drive styles; the per-feature recipes live in features/.

Hook (the production path). Write the payload the coding CLI would send, pipe it in, capture stdout and the exit code:

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printf '%s' '{"hook_event_name":"PreToolUse","tool_name":"Bash","session_id":"ccsn-verify-'"$RUN_ID"'-reset","cwd":"'"$WS"'","tool_input":{"command":"git reset --hard"}}' \
  | ./ccsn-isolated hook --claude-code

Deny prints {"hookSpecificOutput":{…,"permissionDecision":"deny","permissionDecisionReason":"…Rule: git.reset-hard…"}}; allow prints nothing. Both exit 0 — the decision is the stdout JSON, never the exit code. hook also takes --cursor, --gemini-cli, --copilot-cli, --kimi-code, --grok-build, --hermes-agent, --antigravity-cli (payload shapes differ; see the integration under src/hosts/<id>/hook.ts).

Plain CLI. ./ccsn-isolated explain --json "<command>", status, doctor --json --skip-update-check, logs --json [--all]. logs is scoped to the current working directory — run it from the same $WS the hook payload's cwd named (ccsn-isolated runs relative commands from your cwd, so cd "$WS" first).

GUI. Drive the API with curl (GET /api/policy?token=$TOKEN; POSTs need the x-cc-safety-net-token: $TOKEN header too), or the page with a browser (playwright-cli or claude-in-chrome) at the printed URL. Views are hash-routed: #overview, #activity, #policy, #rules, #integrations, #settings; stable handles are element ids (#tester-input, #tester-run, #tester-result, #save, #activity-feed) and a[data-nav="<view>"].

Evidence

Everything lands in $EVIDENCE (artifacts/verify/<run-id>/ — gitignored, survives cleanup).

• Exercise the real user path: payloads through hook --<integration> exactly as the host CLI sends them, not checkCommand library calls or internal functions.
• Capture the action and the resulting state: for a hook decision, save the payload, the stdout decision, and the exit code, then pair it with the side effect — the audit entry in $CCSN_VERIFY_HOME/.cc-safety-net/logs/<cwd-slug>/<YYYY-MM>/<date>-<session_id>.jsonl (or its absence: plain allows under default policy are also recorded, so assert content, not existence).
• The hook answers; the host enforces. A hook proof covers the decision and the audit trail — it cannot prove a file survived, and staging a sentinel proves nothing (this harness never executes the command). Survival proofs live in tests/e2e, which stage a real host runner.
• An allow proof is a negative: empty stdout AND exit 0 AND an allow audit entry for the session id. Capture all three — empty stdout alone also looks like a crash swallowed by a pipe.
• GUI proofs: screenshot with the view name visible, plus the API response or on-disk policy file ($CCSN_VERIFY_HOME/.cc-safety-net/policy.json) showing the mutation stuck.
• Record with every artifact: feature ID, the exact command, and the entry point used.

Cleanup

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kill $GUI_PID 2>/dev/null          # only if this run started a GUI
/bin/rm -rf "$CCSN_VERIFY_HOME"    # /bin/rm — plain rm may be aliased to trash on this machine

Cleanup removes the isolated home and any GUI process this run started — nothing else. Never delete $EVIDENCE, never touch the real ~/.cc-safety-net, and never kill by process name (other bun processes are not yours). Run this after failed attempts too.

Helpers

ccsn-isolated (executable, in this directory) runs the CLI from source under the isolated home:

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CCSN_VERIFY_HOME=/abs/disposable/dir ./ccsn-isolated <command> [args...]

It requires CCSN_VERIFY_HOME to be absolute, redirects HOME/USERPROFILE/ CC_SAFETY_NET_HOME/CC_SAFETY_NET_AUDIT_HOME into it, blanks the CC_SAFETY_NET_LEVEL/ STRICT/PARANOID*/WORKTREE overrides a developer shell might export, and execs bun run <repo>/src/entries/bin.ts "$@" with stdin/stdout/exit code passing through, so hook payloads pipe straight in. It runs the CLI from your current cwd — cd into $WS for cwd-scoped commands like logs.