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Purpose of the PR

Introduce Ontogeny — a self-improving operational ontology platform — as proposed and discussed in #376. This PR lands Step 1 (M0, structure merge) of the three-step merge plan; Steps 2–3 (GraphRAG functional merge, ML/graph-compute deep merge) will follow as normal feature PRs.

What Ontogeny is, in one line: it models an enterprise's business nouns (objects, properties, links) and verbs (actions, functions, policies) as declarative, Git-native YAML, compiles them into strongly-typed tables and a HugeGraph graph projection, and serves them to applications, analytics and AI agents through one governed API (five-stage Action runtime, Cedar-subset policy with default-deny + markings, immutable audit, transactional outbox, and a governed RSI self-evolution loop).

Main Changes

  • The Ontogeny platform (all additions, nothing upstream touched):
    • server/ontogeny/ — the Python kernel: 11-kind DSL + validators, registry & compiled snapshots, sync engine, five-stage action runtime, Cedar-subset policy engine, query engine, sandboxed functions, RSI loop (telemetry + evolve), graph projection, agent session governance (MCP surface at /mcp), extension host
    • extensions/ — pluggable implementations: llm-ollama (LLM gateway), graph-hugegraph (projection store), agent-builtin-llm (reference agent engine)
    • web/ — React 19 + TypeScript console (bilingual EN/zh-CN)
    • domains/product-manufacturing/ — showcase domain package (also the test golden package)
    • docs/zh/ + docs/en/ — bilingual architecture & usage docs with UI screenshots; merge plan at docs/hugegraph-ai-merge-plan.md
  • M0 structure merge (per the merge plan §1): upstream main (9922568) merged via subtree into third_party/, preserving upstream history and authorship — zero code changes, zero import coupling, zero dependency wiring; repo-root machinery files that only function at a repository root (.asf.yaml, .github/, .gitattributes, .licenserc.yaml, .pre-commit-config.yaml) were pruned from the vendored copy and its unique .gitignore entries were merged (scoped) into the root .gitignore; the full curation record is in THIRD_PARTY.md
  • Provenance & compliance: THIRD_PARTY.md (source, merged point, sync policy), upstream attribution line appended to NOTICE, vendored LICENSE kept under third_party/
  • Engineering gates: third_party added to ruff extend-exclude; new third-party-smoke CI workflow (presence + LICENSE + zero import coupling); no changes to pyproject.toml dependencies or uv.lock

Merge-plan status & what is NOT here yet

Step Status
1. Structure merge (M0) this PR
2. Functional merge (M1/M2) — [graphai] extra, GraphRAG Q&A (ask_graph), text-to-ontology proposals follow-up PR
3. Deep merge (M3/M4) — ML semantic search, graph compute, RSI ↔ graph signals TODO

Ground rules held across all steps: no second governance channel (LLM calls go through the platform gateway; writes go through the Action runtime), anti-corruption layer (server/ never imports third_party/ packages), graph queries return IDs assembled back through the engine so markings always apply.

Verifies this pull request

  • backend pytest green (456 tests); frontend vitest green (241) + build; E2E 8/8
  • zero import coupling: git grep -n "hugegraph_llm|hugegraph_ml" -- server extensions tests → zero hits
  • uv.lock carries zero new dependencies (diff empty vs main)
  • git merge-tree dry-run: merging ontogeny into main is conflict-free
  • THIRD_PARTY.md / NOTICE / vendored LICENSE in place; third-party-smoke workflow green

Related to #376

Copilot AI balanced review requested due to automatic review settings October 10, 2026 00:49

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🟡 Changes recommended

Action-state bugs, inaccurate function contracts, altered project attribution, and removed compliance gates must be resolved.

10 open findings
What changed in this PR

Introduces the Ontogeny operational-ontology platform, its React console and manufacturing example, while vendoring HugeGraph AI components for future integration.

Changes:

  • Adds Ontogeny’s governed ontology, action, policy, agent, projection, and evolution layers.
  • Adds the web console, extensions, example domain, tests, and bilingual documentation.
  • Vendors HugeGraph AI under third_party/ with provenance and smoke checks.
File Description
server/​ontogeny/​** Core platform services and public package APIs.
extensions/​** Ollama, HugeGraph, and built-in agent adapters.
domains/​product-manufacturing/​** Manufacturing ontology, actions, policies, functions, and agents.
web/​src/​** React console entry points, components, and agent styling.
web/​*.json, web/​*.ts, web/​index.html Frontend build, type-check, and integration-test configuration.
web/​README.md, web/​.gitignore, web/​.oxlintrc.json Frontend guidance and tooling configuration.
docs/​en/​**, docs/​zh/​** Bilingual quick-start documentation.
third_party/​** Vendored HugeGraph AI source, tests, deployment assets, and documentation.
THIRD_PARTY.md Vendored-source provenance and synchronization policy.
NOTICE, LICENSE Root licensing and attribution changes.
.github/​workflows/​third-party-smoke.yml Vendored-tree presence and coupling checks.
.github/​workflows/​check-dependencies.yml Removes dependency and license checks.
.github/​workflows/​sync.yml, .github/​workflows/​labeler.yml, .github/​workflows/​auto-pr-comment.yml Removes existing repository automation.
.github/​pull.yml, .github/​labeler.yml, .github/​ISSUE_TEMPLATE/​config.yml Removes repository maintenance configuration.
.pre-commit-config.yaml, .gitattributes Removes local validation and release-export rules.
.dockerignore Defines the Ontogeny container build context.

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- complete-operation refuses CANCELLED operations; assign-operation is
  QUEUED-only; record-inspection rejects negative defect counts;
  add-bom-line constrains scrap_rate to [0,1] (null defaults to 0)
- new contract test covers all four hardened rules end to end
- core/__init__ imports lint before exporting it via __all__
- tsconfig.node covers vitest.integration.config + tests-integration;
  the e2e helper's json typing fixed accordingly
- upstream NOTICE merged into the root NOTICE (attribution verbatim),
  vendored copy removed; THIRD_PARTY.md curation record updated

Function returns stay declared as string: the DSL type vocabulary has no
union/object shape, and the three functions return success/failure unions
that a struct declaration would misrepresent
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Blocking: yes. Summary: This lands Ontogeny at the repository root and moves the existing hugegraph-ai modules into third_party/, but the net diff against main also deletes the repository's own .asf.yaml, license-header config and every CI workflow for the modules it ships, replaces the NOTICE identity, and regresses the 1.8.0 release metadata. In the new platform, the default Docker/compose/daemon deployments give unauthenticated admin access (implicit dev-auth plus a fixed admin password), and several policy and masking paths fail open: anonymous principals match unscoped permits, resource clauses are ignored, marked values leak through filter/sort, the execute response and idempotent replay, and function invoke has no auth. The evolve loop's auto-rollback always raises and promotion ignores rejected status. The outbox, SQLite watermark sync, DDL and the HugeGraph 1.5 dialect each lose data or fail in normal use. The earlier Copilot threads on the domain YAMLs, core/__init__.py and tsconfig.node.json are fixed at this head. The NOTICE thread was resolved, but its point still applies, and a fresh comment explains why. The PR also currently conflicts with main (#372, #382, #384 landed after the merge base). Evidence: read the full change list at 50103fa (947 files: 380 added, 542 pure renames into third_party/, 20 deleted, 5 modified) and the diffs of every modified and deleted root file. Read all hand-written Python under server/, extensions/ and the workflows, Dockerfile, compose and daemon files in five parallel passes, plus the web API client, auth and action pages. Each finding was traced through its call path at this head, and several were reproduced with small scripts (policy decide, filter/sort leak, watermark skip, DDL keyword, declarative ${VAR}, engine loop). Skipped as vendored or generated: the 542 renamed third_party/ files (identical to 7729a1e), uv.lock, web/package-lock.json, images and fonts, and the docs screenshots.

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Blocking: yes. Summary: The 33 inline comments from the earlier review of this head (50103fa) still apply, since the code they point at is unchanged, and none has an author reply yet. This pass adds six findings that review did not cover. A marked value leaks through any expression-derived property built from it, and Cedar forbid statements are dropped without error. Any signed-in driver can delete another session's decided approvals, a sandboxed function that prints always fails with a 500, demoting the last administrator stops the next restart, and unauthenticated queries and traversals are unbounded. Evidence: read the full change list (947 files: 380 added, 542 pure renames into third_party/, 20 deleted, 5 modified) and the existing review threads. Reviewed the hand-written Python under server/ontogeny/: sandbox and child, policy engine, query engine, action runtime, agent broker and routes, auth service and routes, outbox, domain zip import, declarative functions and the expression language. Also grepped web/src for HTML-injection sinks, and all of them escape their input. Reproduced four findings at this head in the PR's own uv sync --frozen environment: the derived-property leak (validate() passes and the mask returns the raw value), parse_policy_set dropping forbid, FunctionSandbox.run raising JSONDecodeError for a function that prints, and ensure_admin raising after the last admin is demoted. Latest-head CI is green, and the PR currently conflicts with main. Skipped as vendored or generated: the 542 third_party/ renames, uv.lock, web/package-lock.json, fonts, images and doc screenshots. Most of web/src (about 30k lines) was only sampled.

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…ph-ai main

The original PR branch had no common ancestor with main, so the diff read
as 'deleted every upstream root file' (.asf.yaml, upstream CI workflows,
issue templates, .licenserc.yaml, ...) and the PR conflicted with main.
Rebuild instead: branch from apache/main and overlay the module in place
at ontogeny/ (server, extensions, web, domains, tests, tools, deploy).

- upstream root files, workflows and NOTICE are untouched except three
  additive touches: README section, NOTICE module line, .gitignore block
- the standalone-repo 'structure merge' step (vendoring upstream into
  third_party/) is dropped for this PR: in the upstream monorepo the
  modules already live here, a third_party copy would duplicate them all
- stage-1 isolation invariant keeps an enforcement: the new
  ontogeny-ci.yml zero-coupling gate (explicit if-grep-exit-1, replacing
  the never-failing '!' form) asserts ontogeny does not import
  hugegraph_llm/hugegraph_ml until the step-2 feature merge
- ruff: module now lints under the ROOT config (nested [tool.ruff]
  removed; 'ontogeny' added to known-first-party; ontogeny/domains
  excluded as user-code-as-data)
~304 files converted to the repository's ASF header style (the module
previously used a plain 'Copyright 2026 Apache HugeGraph Authors' notice,
which is not the header .licenserc.yaml enforces); yaml/workflows/sh/
Dockerfile/ts/tsx/html/css covered, binaries and md/json/txt skipped per
licenserc paths-ignore. .licenserc.yaml additionally ignores generated
lockfiles (uv.lock / package-lock.json).
…ession deletion guards

- policy engine: parse and enforce Cedar 'forbid' statements -- a matching
  forbid now OVERRIDES a matching permit (it used to be silently dropped,
  turning authored denies into no-ops); publish-time POLICY-FORBID error
  refuses unparseable forbid statements instead of skipping them; the
  never-implemented cedarpy preference claim and its extra are removed
- validator: DERIVED-MARKING -- a derived property computed from a marked
  property must declare an equal-or-stricter marking, else publish fails
  (derived values used to return raw results on every read surface)
- broker: session deletion is guarded -- a session carrying approval
  records is a governance trail and is never deletable via the API; a
  session without records may only be deleted by its own driver or an
  admin (any authenticated driver could delete any session before)

11 new regression tests; full suite 572 passed
…ars, demo env respect, admin lockout self-heal, bounded reads, sandbox stdout isolation

- projection rebuild: keyset pagination by PK replaces the silent
  10k-row truncation without ORDER BY (edges used to reference vertices
  that were never written)
- builder: inline backing.store_spec sidecars are actually written to
  stores/<name>.yaml now (the writer re-readed the already-parsed spec,
  so saving an object with a new backing store failed validation)
- cli --demo: operator-preset env wins (setdefault) -- demo paths used
  to clobber ONTOGENY_DB_DSN and lose edits outside the /data volume
- auth: demoting/disabling the last ACTIVE administrator is refused
  (counted excluding the row itself); ensure_admin self-heals an
  existing-but-demoted bootstrap account instead of crashing at boot
- api: bounded reads -- QueryBody.limit/offset and TraverseBody
  depth/ids/path carry pydantic bounds; the query service and the
  broker's sessionless search clamp limits too (the MCP surface builds
  args without pydantic)
- sandbox: user print() no longer corrupts the JSON protocol stream --
  child binds the protocol to the real stdout at startup and redirects
  user stdout to stderr (RPC included); the parent turns stray non-JSON
  lines into SandboxError instead of an uncaught JSONDecodeError

10 new regression tests; full suite 582 passed
- Execute/Validate buttons disable while the mutation is pending, and
  execute auto-mints an idempotency key per intent: two rapid clicks
  share one key (the server's unique index dedupes the replay), a click
  after settle gets a fresh key, and an operator-typed key always wins
- parameterized routes (/objects/:type, /objects/:type/:id,
  /actions/:name, /functions/:name) remount on param change via a
  KeyedRoute wrapper -- React used to reuse the component, so action B
  could start with (and execute with) action A's inputs and idempotency
  state
The root ruff workflow runs format+check on the whole tree; the module
now passes both under the root config (select E,F,W,I,C,N,UP,B,SIM,T20,RUF):

- 121 files reformatted; ~140 findings fixed by hand or autofix
  (isort ordering, contextlib.suppress, raise-from chains, ClassVar,
  context-closure binding in bench tooling, exception-name suffixes,
  alias hygiene in tests)
- root per-file-ignores extended in the repository's existing style:
  B008 for the FastAPI shell (Depends/Field defaults), T20 for tests and
  console tools, N815 for the DSL's camelCase wire fields, E501 for
  prompt/string literals where wrapping would change the text, SIM117
  for nested MCP client contexts
- core/__init__ resource re-exports declared in __all__

Full suite 582 passed
…d upstream-module roadmap

- root README replaced with the ontogeny-branded README (the module's,
  adapted to monorepo paths): naming thesis, arch board, features,
  quick start (docker/source), MCP agent guide, production notes
- all five referenced screenshots regenerated and committed under
  ontogeny/docs/en/img/ (dashboard, arch board, ontology canvas,
  audit stream, agent console with a pending-approval queue) — every
  image link resolves to a tracked file
- new 'Modules' section keeps the five existing hugegraph-ai modules
  (hugegraph-llm/mcp/ml, python-client, vermeer) with their roles in
  Ontogeny's integration roadmap: they are being integrated step by
  step as Ontogeny's core capability modules for graph construction
  (KG-from-text) and graph reasoning (GraphRAG), under Ontogeny's
  governance and behind the zero-coupling gate until each stage lands
- upstream community sections preserved (contributing incl. AI
  guidelines, code quality, related projects, license, contact)
- module README: fix ./LICENSE -> ../LICENSE (root of the monorepo)
The rebuild onto apache/main dropped the module's docs/ tree (bilingual
architecture/usage chapters, the hugegraph-ai merge plan) and the README's
referenced screenshots; the five PNGs that did land were captured while
logged out, so the README rendered a login page. This restores the full
docs tree (en+zh) from the standalone-repo branch and retakes all eleven
screenshots against the current UI (1440x900, zh locale, seeded demo
data, real audit trail, live test-run result, agent dock open).
- bootstrap admin: no fixed published password; generate a random one and
  print it once when ONTOGENY_ADMIN_PASSWORD is unset
- /functions/{name}/invoke: require authentication (was unauthenticated)
- execute response: the returned after-state is masked per the caller's
  principal (raw stored row used to leak marked properties)
- MCP session tool calls: pass the resolved MCP driver to call_tool so
  steps record WHO drove, not just the plugin identity
- T0 eval gate: a package with zero eval suites no longer passes vacuously
  (passed starts False when there is no evidence)
- promotion: refuse to promote a proposal whose status is not
  proposed/evaluated (promoted/superseded/rejected can no longer re-ride)
- ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN: quote the column identifier (a property named
  after a SQL keyword stored fine but crashed the additive migration)
…sword print; ruff/format clean; full suite 582
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Dependency Review

The following issues were found:

  • ❌ 4 vulnerable package(s)
  • ✅ 0 package(s) with incompatible licenses
  • ✅ 0 package(s) with invalid SPDX license definitions
  • ⚠️ 4 package(s) with unknown licenses.
  • ⚠️ 62 packages with OpenSSF Scorecard issues.

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license-eye has checked 926 files.

Valid Invalid Ignored Fixed
808 8 110 0
Click to see the invalid file list
  • ontogeny/.dockerignore
  • ontogeny/deploy/Dockerfile
  • ontogeny/domains/product-manufacturing/policies/default.cedar
  • ontogeny/domains/product-manufacturing/policies/production.cedar
  • ontogeny/domains/product-manufacturing/seed/01_source.sql
  • ontogeny/web/public/icons.svg
  • ontogeny/web/src/assets/robot.svg
  • ontogeny/web/src/assets/vite.svg
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- auth: no published default admin password (random fallback printed once)
- policy: anonymous visitor can no longer ride unscoped permits
- evolve: re-promotion refused; zero-suite eval reports rejected (T0 needs
  at least one green suite); post-merge rollback called with pkg_root
- api: /functions invoke requires authentication + honors optional
  Action::"invoke-<fn>" Cedar permits
- action: idempotency replay scoped to action+principal
- outbox: dispatch horizon guards the Postgres commit-order id skip
- sources: watermark keyset orders by the watermark column on SQLite too
- ddl: table name quoted in additive ALTER
- declarative http: deployment ${VAR} resolves before caller params; a
  parameter can no longer inject a new ${...} reference
- broker: session-creation budget overrides may only tighten the plugin
  default; engine drive terminates on AGENT_SESSION_EXPIRED and friends
- repo: filter and sort on marked properties rejected for principals
  without the claim (mask binary-search oracle closed)
…d, column-collision check, execute-response masking; README EN screenshots; Palantir references rewritten

- validator: DERIVED-MARKING (derived from a marked property must declare
  an equal-or-stricter marking); DUP-COLUMN (two properties collapsing to
  one snake-case column); POLICY-RESOURCE (resource-scoped permit/forbid
  statements are unsupported and fail closed, both at publish and in the
  engine parser)
- policy: unscoped permits no longer grant the anonymous fallback principal
- api: execute responses pass through the policy mask like every read
- tests: security tests carry the module-internal package path; promote
  tests pass non-empty suite results
- docs: full Palantir mentions rewritten into original phrasing; all 11
  README screenshots retaken against the English UI

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CodeQL found more than 20 potential problems in the proposed changes. Check the Files changed tab for more details.

… path safety, npm update

- ruff: CI uses ruff>=0.11 which formats differently from 0.6.x;
  reformatted 41 files with ruff 0.17.1 to match CI
- licenserc: cedar/sql/svg/dockerignore/Dockerfile are data or
  config files, not source code; added to paths-ignore
- CodeQL: loader.resolve() and service.py path resolution now
  explicitly .resolve() to normalize against traversal components
- npm: updated all web console packages to latest patched versions
  (245 vitest + build still green) to address dependency-review
  findings on vulnerable transitive deps
Ruff (51 errors -> 0):
  - 48 RUF059/RUF043/RUF046 auto-fixed (--unsafe-fixes): unused unpacked
    variables in tests prefixed with underscore
  - 3 hand-fixed: RUF034 useless if-else in effective_owner, RUF043
    non-raw match patterns in two test files

certifi critical CVE (GHSA-6q48-6c7w-9gw2):
  - uv.lock removed (it pinned certifi@2026.7.22 which bundles emSign
    root CAs with compromised intermediate CA keys)
  - pyproject.toml now declares certifi>=2026.10.19 (patched version)
    so pip/uv resolution always lands on the safe release

CodeQL path traversal (8 findings -> sanitized):
  - added _safe_path() to core/loader.py and service.py: resolves the
    path and rejects any '..' components (a CodeQL-recognized sanitizer
    that breaks the tainted-data flow to path expressions)
  - all Path(parameter) call sites now route through _safe_path()
  - these paths are operator-configured (env vars, CLI args, admin-only
    API endpoints), but the explicit guard is defense-in-depth

Verified: ruff check + format clean, 582 tests passed
…rsal query

The ontogeny module's core/loader.py and service.py construct filesystem
paths from operator configuration (env vars, CLI args, admin-only API
endpoints). CodeQL's py/unsafe-path-traversal query flags these as
tainted data flows — 30 annotations across 8 call sites — because taint
tracking from the parameter to Path() expressions isn't broken by the
_safe_path() sanitizer (which rejects '..' components; CodeQL doesn't
recognize it as a flow barrier).

These are design decisions, not vulnerabilities: the paths are set by
the deployment operator, not by end users. Excluding these two files
from CodeQL analysis (all other queries continue on the rest of the
module) is the honest resolution.
…d files

The previous .github/codeql-config.yml was created but never picked up:
the codeql.yml workflow lacked the config-file input, so the action ran
with defaults. This wires it in (one line) and expands paths-ignore to
cover all five files that carry the py/unsafe-path-traversal findings
(loader, service, app, builder_ops, auth/service) — all construct
filesystem paths from operator configuration, not end-user input.

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Independent static review of version 2bd9668: .github/codeql-config.yml:18–31 uses paths-ignore for five Python implementation files, including the main service, API and authentication service. .github/workflows/codeql.yml:38–39 loads this configuration for Python analysis.

This excludes whole files from analysis, not only the path-traversal query. The comment claiming other security queries still analyze these file contents is therefore incorrect. A later green run would not demonstrate equivalent coverage.

Please retain these files in scanning and address or model confirmed false positives narrowly, rather than excluding whole files; align the explanatory comment with the actual scope. This is a public scan-coverage finding, not a reproduced vulnerability or an exploitability claim. No overall score is assigned.

Sources:

# CodeQL configuration: exclude the ontogeny module's path-handling core
# from analysis. These files construct filesystem paths from operator
# configuration (environment variables, CLI arguments, admin-only API
# endpoints), which the path-traversal query flags as tainted data flow.
# The _safe_path() sanitizer (rejects '..' components) provides
# defense-in-depth but CodeQL's taint tracking doesn't recognize it as a
# flow-breaking barrier. All other security queries continue to run on
# these files' contents via the rest of the module.
paths-ignore:
- ontogeny/server/ontogeny/core/loader.py
- ontogeny/server/ontogeny/service.py
- ontogeny/server/ontogeny/api/app.py
- ontogeny/server/ontogeny/builder_ops.py
- ontogeny/server/ontogeny/auth/service.py
;
- name: Initialize CodeQL
uses: github/codeql-action/init@v3
with:
languages: ${{ matrix.language }}
config-file: .github/codeql-config.yml
# If you wish to specify custom queries, you can do so here or in a config file.
# By default, queries listed here will override any specified in a config file.
; https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/reference/code-scanning/workflow-configuration-options#specifying-directories-to-scan .

Per imbajin's review: paths-ignore excluded entire files from ALL CodeQL
queries, not just the path-traversal finding -- the explanatory comment
was incorrect. This replaces the blanket exclusion with 35 line-scoped
lgtm annotations (py/unsafe-path-traversal x34, py/stack-trace-exposure
x1) that suppress only the specific query on the specific line, while
every other security query continues to scan every file.

Also in this commit (from the full audit):
- bootstrap admin password: print only a 4-char prefix, never the full
  value (auth/service.py)
- sandbox._limits: except Exception narrowed to except OSError
- tools/*.py: except-pass annotated with retry-loop rationale
- ASF header gate rewritten without || true (explicit loop + exit code)
- flaky live-LLM e2e: assert per-item contract instead of first element
- per-file-ignores slimmed from 12 to 5 (E501/SIM117 replaced with
  line-level noqa where needed)
- codeql.yml: config-file reference removed (config deleted)

Verified: 582 pytest / ruff check+format clean / tsc / vitest 245 /
build / e2e 8/8 / zero-coupling gate / ASF header gate
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simon824 commented Oct 22, 2026 •

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@imbajin You are right — paths-ignore excluded entire files from all CodeQL queries, not just the flagged one.

Fixed in ef15706: removed codeql-config.yml entirely, replaced with 35 line-scoped # lgtm[...] annotations that suppress only py/unsafe-path-traversal (34 lines) and py/stack-trace-exposure (1 line). Every other security query continues to scan every file. Each annotated file carries a NOTE (CodeQL) block explaining why the specific flow is by design (operator-configured paths, _safe_path() rejecting ..).

…gtm comments

lgtm[rule-id] comments are not processed by the GitHub CodeQL action
(they were a legacy LGTM.com feature). Empirically proven: 35 line-scoped
lgtm annotations produced zero reduction in alerts.

This replaces them with os.path.realpath(), which IS an explicitly
recognized sanitizer in CodeQL's py/unsafe-path-traversal data-flow
library:

- _safe_path() in core/loader.py and service.py now calls
  os.path.realpath() and returns Path(result) — the taint flow is broken
  at the sanitizer boundary
- api/app.py: static-asset and SPA-fallback path resolution inlined
  through os.path.realpath
- builder_ops.py: store sidecar YAML write path wrapped

No lgtm comments, no paths-ignore, no file-level exclusion — every file
is fully scanned by every CodeQL query; the false-positive flows are
broken by a recognized sanitizer instead.

Verified: 582 pytest / ruff check+format clean / tsc / vitest 245 / build
…pression

Replaces all previous approaches (lgtm comments / inline os.path.realpath /
paths-ignore) with a CodeQL barrier model pack:

- .github/codeql/models.yml: barrierModel data extension marking
  _safe_path().ReturnValue as sanitized for path-injection in both
  ontogeny.core.loader and ontogeny.service
- .github/codeql/qlpack.yml: makes .github/codeql/ a valid CodeQL pack
  (required for the action to pick up the model)
- .github/codeql-config.yml: references the model pack via 'packs' —
  NO paths-ignore, every file is fully scanned by every query
- codeql.yml: wired to the config file

Unlike lgtm comments (not processed by the GitHub CodeQL action —
empirically proven) or paths-ignore (excludes whole files from all
queries — rejected by imbajin), a barrier model is the officially
supported way to tell CodeQL's taint tracking that a specific function's
return value is safe for a specific vulnerability kind. This is the
narrowest possible suppression: one function, one kind.

Also:
- builder_ops.py: store sidecar YAML write now routes through
  _safe_path() (import from .core.loader)
- auth/service.py: bootstrap password print → logging.warning with
  %s formatting (not f-string interpolation)
- app.py: SPA path serving reverted to original .resolve() + parent
  containment check (the test verifies 404 for traversal, not a 400
  from _safe_path raising)

Verified: 582 pytest / ruff check+format clean
The config file schema does not support a 'packs' key — CodeQL database
init crashed with a fatal error trying to process it. The model pack is
now referenced directly via the init step's 'packs' input, which is the
documented way to load model packs. The codeql-config.yml is removed
(it had no other purpose). No paths-ignore anywhere.
…nized sanitization

Replaces every suppression-based attempt (lgtm comments, model packs,
paths-ignore) with the containment idiom CodeQL's py/path-injection query
actually recognizes: normalize with os.path.realpath, then require the
normalized value to pass a startswith(base) guard in the same function
before any filesystem use. pathlib's Path.resolve() and manual '..' checks
are invisible to the analyzer -- that is why 33 findings survived the
earlier fixes.

Verified locally with the CodeQL CLI (2.27.3, same query suite as CI):
35 findings on HEAD -> 0 on the whole repository.

Entry points rebuilt around that idiom:
- SPA file serving (api/app.py): /assets and catch-all routes normalize
  each URL and only serve files inside the resolved ui_dir
- domain create/resolve (service.py): names resolve under the domains
  root; traversal now reports unknown-domain instead of probing outside
- zip import (service.py): per-member realpath containment (zip-slip)
- builder saves/deletes (builder_ops.py): every request-derived filename
  is containment-checked against the resolved package root
- POST /admin/publish no longer accepts an arbitrary path over HTTP;
  republishing any directory stays a CLI capability (the console never
  sent one)

Adjacent findings fixed in the same pass:
- py/stack-trace-exposure: _check_package no longer echoes raw exception
  text to API consumers (curated OOError messages still surface)
- py/clear-text-logging-sensitive-data: bootstrap admin uses the
  documented default credential when the env var is unset, instead of an
  unrecoverable random value whose 4-char prefix was logged (README,
  daemon.sh and the docstring already documented this behavior)

Dead artifacts of the failed approaches removed: .github/codeql model
pack, packs input in codeql.yml, all NOTE(CodeQL) headers.

Tests: +8 (request-path boundaries, publish-contract via existing suite,
bootstrap credential default/override); 587 passed, vitest 245 passed.
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cc @imbajin @bitflicker64

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