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The launcher is a ~300-line C program (plain C11 over the raw Landlock UAPI — no libraries beyond a statically linked musl, so the audit surface is that one file plus the kernel's stable syscall contract): `--ro <path>` / `--rw <path>` grants, `--`, the wrapped argv; it installs the ruleset on itself and `exec`s (rulesets are inherited across `execve`, and it sets `no_new_privs` before restricting); `--probe` enforces a maximal ruleset in a short-lived child and exits 0 only when the kernel actually enforces; every launcher failure exits 125 without running the child and prints a fatal `landlock-run:` line. A successfully exec'd child may also return 125, so status alone is not launcher evidence. An older ABI prints the exact `landlock-run: partial enforcement (older Landlock ABI)` notice before it executes the child, so that line is not fatal evidence.
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-The Landlock launcher source and package workspace live at `native/landlock-run`, next to the harness consumers. The standalone [`node-addon-landlock-run`](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/node-addon-landlock-run) repository is the release mirror used to pack and publish the npm package family; `native/README.md` owns the export procedure. Platform binaries are selected by npm, and the entry package owns path resolution, probing, CLI flags, the fatal prefix, and the partial-enforcement notice while the harness maps sandbox modes to grants. Versioning the entry point with its binaries keeps probe parsing and launch syntax aligned.
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+The Landlock launcher source and package family live at `native/landlock-run`, next to the harness consumers and inside the root pnpm workspace. The [in-repository Landlock release decision](../process/2026-08-06-in-repository-landlock-release.md) owns the shared lockfile, native build, pack rehearsal, and npm publication boundary. Platform binaries are selected by npm, and the entry package owns path resolution, probing, CLI flags, the fatal prefix, and the partial-enforcement notice while the harness maps sandbox modes to grants. Versioning the entry point with its binaries keeps probe parsing and launch syntax aligned.
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Backend profiles share the mode contract but differ in necessary host grants. Landlock and Seatbelt allow only `/dev/null` in read-only mode; workspace-write also permits their required host temp roots. Each wrap carries backend-specific denial signatures. Landlock reports partial enforcement on older ABIs that cannot govern every operation, while successful bwrap and Seatbelt profiles report full enforcement.
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### Testing
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- **Unit:** pin platform selection and profiles, direct provider-argv handoff, spawn-level failures with invalid-workdir controls, missing/non-executable/missing-interpreter evidence, malformed-runner negative controls, confined `BASH_ENV` ordering, structured runner classification (including partial-Landlock notice-only child outcomes, gated fatal evidence, child exits 126/127, and foreground/background parity), per-call mode/root resolution, per-process facts, escalation validation and outcomes, permission preset folding and write-through, and runtime-context ordering and materialization.
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-- **Keyless real-runner:** exercise bwrap, Landlock, and Seatbelt against real filesystem effects at provider and bash-consumer layers; one real Cordis context concurrently drives two project sessions through shipped bash and fs tools, proving own-root success and sibling-root denial. Packed-install coverage proves the registry launcher remains executable. CI rejects a silent all-skip.
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+- **Keyless real-runner:** exercise bwrap, Landlock, and Seatbelt against real filesystem effects at provider and bash-consumer layers; one real Cordis context concurrently drives two project sessions through shipped bash and fs tools, proving own-root success and sibling-root denial. Packed-install coverage installs the current checkout's native tarballs and proves the launcher remains executable and byte-identical. CI rejects a silent all-skip.
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- **With-key:** start the real ACP composition in read-only mode, let a model-driven bash write hit the runner's denial marker, then drive the bridge answerer and disk effect through granted and rejected workspace-write retries; unavailable credentials or runners self-skip.
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- **Snapshot:** pin the atomic current-policy context and both scripted approval branches. A real ACP example scenario places its session under the user home while the deployment fallback points at `/tmp`, then pins both the workspace-write runtime-context message and a successful deployment-selected mutation; this distinguishes session-root resolution from the process fallback without depending on runner-specific denial text. A POSIX fake partial-Landlock provider pins direct bash `false` as an ordinary child result and a missing provider executable as foreground/background infrastructure failure through the assembled app. Other snapshots start unconfined so unrelated fixtures remain platform-independent.
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- **Second consumer** — `subagent-acp` optionally confines child agents (per-call policy; unconfined default — a child agent must write its own persistence).
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- **More environments** — an environment-coherent capability group example (e.g. bash+fs against one container).
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-- **Windows chain** — `PLATFORM_CHAINS.win32` is reserved and empty (fail-closed); filling it means a confinement runner from the AppContainer/restricted-token family, shipped from its own repository on the `node-addon-landlock-run` template, plus its profile dialect, denial signatures, and runner-failure rules. Wrapping the third-party landstrip runner instead was [considered and rejected](../../rejected/feature/2026-07-26-evaluate-landstrip-for-windows-sandbox-rung.md) — not battle-tested enough for a security invariant.
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+- **Windows chain** — `PLATFORM_CHAINS.win32` is reserved and empty (fail-closed); filling it means a confinement runner from the AppContainer/restricted-token family, shipped from the main repository under `native/` following the `@deepseek-ai/node-addon-landlock-run` template, plus its profile dialect, denial signatures, and runner-failure rules. Wrapping the third-party landstrip runner instead was [considered and rejected](../../rejected/feature/2026-07-26-evaluate-landstrip-for-windows-sandbox-rung.md) — not battle-tested enough for a security invariant.
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## Alternatives considered
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- **Command-string heuristic preflight** — rejected: cannot understand expansion/subprocesses/symlinks; the strict attempt (run it, let the kernel decide) is the only trustworthy denial signal.
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- **Functionally probe even a platform's sole backend** — rejected: probing arbitrates between candidates; with one there is nothing to decide, and probe cost taxes the first confined command of every session (prohibitive for heavy future backends). The runner's own exec-time fail-closed refusal plus structured `runnerFailureRules` classification carries the safety property instead.
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-- **Commit the built launcher binaries** — rejected: a binary in a diff is unreviewable and churns history; reviewed source + native CI builds + the launcher repo's byte-pinned publish rehearsal keep bytes out of every tree.
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+- **Commit the built launcher binaries** — rejected: a binary in a diff is unreviewable and churns history; reviewed source + native CI builds + the main repository's byte-pinned publish rehearsal keep bytes out of every tree.
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- **Compile the launcher on install** — rejected: pushes a C toolchain onto every consumer; a fallback that exists only where a compiler happens to be is not a fallback.
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-- **Cross-compile both architectures from one builder** — rejected: requires carrying a pinned cross toolchain (rustup targets, zig, or a container image) solely to rebuild two ~70 KB binaries; per-architecture native runners already exist and each builds its own platform package (the `node-addon-require-builtin` model, the launcher repo's own pipeline).
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+- **Cross-compile both architectures from one builder** — rejected: requires carrying a pinned cross toolchain (rustup targets, zig, or a container image) solely to rebuild two ~70 KB binaries; per-architecture native runners already exist and each builds its own platform package (the `node-addon-require-builtin` model, retained by the main repository's native pipeline).
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- **No fallback (bwrap or fail closed)** — rejected: concentrates failure on the hosts a sandbox matters most, degrading to `danger-full-access` by resignation.
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- **Keep the mechanism inside `dsh-bash-sandbox`** — rejected: blocks the existing second consumer, makes future phases read mode out of a bash plugin's config, and cannot express escalation.
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- **Config-fixed mode on the provider** — rejected: one mode per process; cannot serve concurrent consumers with different policies nor the one-shot widened retry.
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- **The Seatbelt rung leans on Apple's deprecated-but-shipped `sandbox-exec` CLI.** As darwin's sole candidate it is selected without probing, so a future removal under a usable workdir surfaces as a runner-attributable spawn failure and an executable refusal through its fatal signature — both become `SANDBOX_UNAVAILABLE`, and the command never runs; fail closed, never open.
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- **Landlock confinement is only as complete as the running kernel's ABI.** Reported as `enforcement: 'partial'` rather than refused — the deliberate trade that keeps the fallback available on older-kernel hosts.
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- **Runner attribution uses an in-band protocol.** Exit status plus stderr cannot cryptographically identify the writer, so a confined child can mimic a fatal runner line and status to cause an availability/diagnostic false attribution. The conjunction and exact notice exclusion reduce accidental matches; this is not a sandbox bypass because the child is already confined.
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-- **The launcher arrives as a registry dependency.** Trusted through its own repository's release pipeline (reviewed C source, native CI builders, byte-pinned publish rehearsal) plus this repo's version pin — the real-kernel e2e legs are what vouch for behavior through the installed bytes.
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+- **The launcher is a workspace dependency in source and an npm dependency after publication.** The main repository tests reviewed C source, native CI builds, and byte-pinned local tarballs together before publishing the same package family; the real-kernel e2e legs vouch for behavior through those installed bytes.
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- **The model may over-ask.** Escalating without denial grounding, or picking `danger-full-access` where `workspace-write` suffices: the description steers and the enum forces the ladder, but the human prompt is the actual gate; the `approval/asked` reasons make over-asking auditable, and a `prepend` policy answerer can auto-reject patterns a deployment never wants.
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- **The advertised target set is static while the effective mode is per-session** (schemas are registry-global) — a session already at the widest mode is still offered the fields. Harmless by construction: the strict-wider check at execution, not the enum, is the safety boundary — a non-widening request fails with its own text and never prompts anyone.
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- **A granted escalation is not a working sandbox.** An unavailable backend still fails closed even for a granted escalation to a confining mode — at `confine()` when the platform has no chain or every probe fails, through the spawn channel when the selected executable cannot start, or through a structured rule when a started runner refuses — while a granted `danger-full-access` run never touches the provider at all: there the grant, not the probe, is the authority.
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- **A command came back with `[sandbox: file access denied under read-only mode]` — did it fail?** It RAN, and the kernel refused a file effect: the denial is a result fact orthogonal to exit code. The teaching forbids retrying around it; the one sanctioned move is the same command retried once with an escalation request.
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- **How is a BROKEN sandbox told apart from a failing command?** Any provider-argv spawn rejection proves the confined launch never started, but it identifies a broken runner only when the caller-owned workdir is usable and Node reports attributable `ENOENT` or `EACCES` for that argv[0]. A bare `syscall: 'spawn'` without an exact error path and all other rejections remain ordinary command-start errors. After a process starts, runner failure outranks denial only when one `runnerFailureRules` entry matches both its optional exit-code gate and a fatal stderr line after exact informational exclusions. Foreground failures throw structured `SANDBOX_UNAVAILABLE` with spawn or matched-line detail; an asynchronously rejected or settled background task stamps `sandbox.runnerFailed` and renders its own marker. A `SubprocessService` that synchronously throws the same provenanced `ENOENT`/`EACCES` shape makes background start throw the structured error; other synchronous errors propagate unchanged. A Landlock partial-enforcement notice plus an ordinary child failure remains a command result.
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- **What happens on a platform with no backend — Windows today?** `confine()` throws the fail-closed `SANDBOX_UNAVAILABLE` and the command never spawns; `win32` is a reserved EMPTY chain, pinned by test to fail closed identically until a Windows runner fills it (§ Deferred phases).
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-- **`bwrap` is installed on my host but unusable (disabled unprivileged userns, an LSM denying `mount`) — what happens?** The chain probe is functional — it builds and enforces a real profile rather than checking `--version` — so a present-but-unusable `bwrap` fails its probe, selection falls to the registry-installed Landlock launcher, and the verdict is cached for the provider's lifetime.
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+- **`bwrap` is installed on my host but unusable (disabled unprivileged userns, an LSM denying `mount`) — what happens?** The chain probe is functional — it builds and enforces a real profile rather than checking `--version` — so a present-but-unusable `bwrap` fails its probe, selection falls to the packaged Landlock launcher, and the verdict is cached for the provider's lifetime.
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- **Does the sandbox restrict network or process visibility?** No — `SandboxMode` claims FILE effects only; the bwrap profile deliberately does not unshare pid, and no backend claims network. Whether network restriction becomes its own knob is left open in § The seam.
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- **Which tools actually run confined?** OS subprocesses through `ctx.bash` — the bash tools, and hook commands transitively — plus the filesystem tools (`read`/`write`/`edit`) through the sandboxed `ctx.fs` provider (the [cross-family fs sandbox RFC](2026-07-14-cross-family-fs-sandbox.md)): bash confines via the OS runner, fs via an in-process path fence, both keying off the same `ctx.sandboxPolicy` mode. web/todo stay in-process and unfenced (web's only effect is network, outside the file-effect mode vocabulary).
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- **Does a granted escalation persist?** No. The grant is consumed by the exact foreground or background call that asked; every neighboring call keeps its own effective mode. A later background denial surfaces through `task_output` and may ground a new exact-command retry.
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