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The review prompt carries untrusted PR content: the diff, the description and comments. claude -p ran with its default tools, as the service user, whose home directory is readable. A PR with injected instructions could have Claude read files (~/.ssh, credentials) and paste them into a public review. Both CLIs could also hang a review forever, and a large prompt as argv fails with E2BIG. These are findings F12, F13 and F14 from the whole-repo review in #21; triage in the comment below.

• claude: --tools "", --strict-mcp-config, --setting-sources project (no user hooks), --no-session-persistence, run from an empty temp directory, prompt on stdin.
• antigravity: -p only takes the prompt as an argument (it doesn't read stdin in text mode), so a prompt over 128 KiB fails over before spawning instead of hitting E2BIG.
• both: run through the new providers/cli.rs, which kills the child after REVUE_CLI_TIMEOUT_SECS (default 600 s) and on drop.

Tested:

• Claude CLI 2.1.317, same prompt asking it to read /etc/hostname: with the default flags it printed the file; with these flags no tool ran.
• cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings and cargo test --all-targets: 60 unit tests plus the eval benchmark pass. The new tests cover the argv (no tools, prompt not in argv), stdin passthrough, killing a hung child, the temp dir cleanup and the size guard.
• End to end: revue diff on this branch with a Claude-only cascade answered in 39 s and left no temp directory behind.

Not in this PR: rustfmt reports existing diffs in files this change doesn't touch; only the new and changed provider files are formatted.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Reliability
  • AI provider requests now use a shared timeout. Commands that exceed it are stopped and reported as errors.
  • Prompts that exceed the supported command-line size are rejected with an argument-limit error.
  • Relative paths to provider executables are resolved consistently.
• Provider behaviour
  • Claude requests run in a temporary working directory, with prompts sent separately from command-line arguments.
  • Claude requests run without tools or saved sessions, and use project settings only.

[kleinbem]

Triage of the 16 inline findings from #21, checked against main at be5c0ab:

• Fixed since the review: F01–F05, F07, F08 (DynamicUser state dir, PATH, path_filters, Semgrep rules from the PR tree, unsigned webhooks, wizard keys, review status).
• This PR: F12, F13, F14 (CLI providers: tools, E2BIG, timeout).
• Next, before revue reviews public PRs: F15 (Gemini API key in the request URL ends up in logs, the DB and the dashboard), F11 (binary, mode-only or rename-only stanzas make the diff parser panic or error, so the review is lost), F16 (PR comments and description go into the prompt raw, and rule 7 lets a comment suppress findings).
• Later: F06 remainder (GET /api/* has no auth and the dashboard can't send a key), F07 wizard hint about the repo root, F09 and F10 (PostgreSQL only).

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Walkthrough

Antigravity now checks prompt size and uses shared CLI execution. Claude passes prompts on stdin with configured invocation settings. A shared CLI module provides timeout handling, output capture, executable path resolution, and temporary working-directory support.

Changes: Provider CLI execution controls

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared CLI execution support src/providers/cli.rs, src/providers/mod.rs	The public CLI module provides timeout configuration, executable path resolution, temporary directory management, and asynchronous command execution with optional stdin and captured output. Tests cover stdin forwarding, timeout handling, path resolution, and directory cleanup.
Antigravity argument limits and execution src/providers/antigravity.rs	Antigravity rejects prompts above the configured argument limit. Accepted prompts run through the shared helper with the configured timeout. A test checks rejection before executable startup.
Claude CLI invocation controls src/providers/claude.rs	Claude runs with prompt input on stdin, an empty working directory, shared timeout handling, and arguments that disable tools and session persistence and restrict setting sources. A test checks the arguments and prompt handling.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• What is revue missing compared to CodeRabbit? #18: This change disables tools and configures strict MCP settings for Claude. The issue covers the broader requirement that review models receive no tools.

Possibly related PRs

• kleinbem-dev/revue#20: Both changes modify Antigravity CLI invocation. This PR adds an argument-size check and shared timeout handling.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to fbd4c

This change runs the CLI providers with a timeout and, for Claude, without tools. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains in the supplied review evidence.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to fbd4c

The change narrows the authority exposed to untrusted review content and adds execution time limits. No introduced security regression was established. Remaining uncertainty concerns the behavior of deployed external commands and cleanup of any descendant processes.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The runner does not change the operating-system identity or clear the inherited environment. Any residual authority in a launched CLI therefore remains bounded by the service account and any isolation enforced by that CLI, not by the temporary working directory alone. Account privileges and tenant or deployment sharing were not supplied, so the maximum asset scope cannot be quantified.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The targeted attack path is untrusted review text inducing tool use under the service account. Compared with the base invocation, the head requests disabled tools, strict MCP configuration, project-only setting sources, and no session persistence. These changes narrow the intended attack path; source inspection does not independently establish that every deployed CLI version enforces those controls.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Prompt content is supplied as process input rather than interpolated into a shell command. Claude now receives it on stdin, while executable selection remains environment-configured. Relative executable paths containing a directory component are resolved before Claude changes working directory; bare names retain PATH lookup.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The timeout covers stdin delivery and output collection, and kill-on-drop targets the direct child on cancellation or timeout. The runner does not establish process-group containment or await confirmed termination before returning. Descendant cleanup is consequently not guaranteed; the base also lacked descendant containment, and no increased exposure was established.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Validate restrictive argument behavior against supported deployed CLI versions and verify process-tree termination during timeout and cancellation. If those CLIs create surviving descendants, consider process-group or equivalent containment with confirmed termination before temporary-directory cleanup. This is additional hardening, not an established PR-introduced vulnerability.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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The title names the two main changes: the CLI providers now run without tools, and they run with a timeout. The changeset matches both. It also covers the antigravity prompt size guard only implicitly, which is acceptable because the title does not need to list every detail.

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