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feat: reuse digest-pinned enclave components from S3 #468

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caution-bot merged 1 commit from feat/s3-prebuilt-components into main

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2026-10-04 23:35:31 +00:00

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Summary

Closes #250. Companion documentation: public/docs#39.

Reuse digest-pinned enclave components from S3 through canonical standalone recipes, automatic make up preparation, immutable publication, component-aware cache identity, and paired EIF/host-helper provenance.
Rebased as one signed commit on 8a3e193d638c772b9521b3a1ae9589cb0c83f342, retaining main's network-policy enforcement, compressed bootstrap and size guard in both managed and BYOC deployment generators.
Adapt the recorded host-helper digest to the shared bootstrap renderer. Preserve both network-policy and digest validation, source fallback, historical source verification, and both networking/component test targets.
Extend real local Terraform/gzip/Caddy rendering coverage across source/prebuilt helper selection and all three HTTP modes. The old component regression and expanded renderer test both failed without the integration fix, then passed with it.

Current candidate and evidence

Current candidate: ea4bfd3aad08aee40a2c0cd48ac014be3ab3787d.

Fresh exact-candidate local results: regular suite 1,277 Rust passed / 23 ignored plus 54 Python passed (live Paddle excluded); deployment 34/34; network-policy target 11 Rust plus 26 Python passed; publisher 12/12; real TAP 1/1. Frozen integration and final-delta independent reviews found no blockers. Strict Clippy's remaining baseline failures are disclosed below. No new live S3/Nitro or branch deployment has been run; historical live runs do not validate this rebased runtime.

Fresh exact-candidate commands:

cargo test --locked -p api --bin api deployment:: -- --include-ignored
make -j1 test PADDLE_API_KEY= PADDLE_API_URL=
make -j1 test-network-policy
cargo test --locked -p enclave-builder --features s3-components --bin prepare-components
unshare --user --map-root-user --net cargo test --locked --manifest-path src/tap-framer/Cargo.toml tests::real_tap_is_up_and_lives_until_last_owned_fd_closes -- --ignored --exact

The regular suite is explicitly run without live Paddle credentials. Local fixture, real Linux packet/TAP, generated bootstrap and Caddy checks are not deployed Nitro or provider-authorization evidence. Default ignored tests remain excluded unless separately named.

Historical component source/prebuilt EIF/PCR equality and managed/BYOC runs remain attached to their recorded older revisions. The standalone component recipes, TAP implementation, migration, infra-bootstrap and frontend source are unchanged from the preceding PR head. Four PR-local Clippy findings were corrected with equivalent fail-closed predicates and redundant-borrow removal; the shared renderer integration is also new. This supports scoped evidence retention, not a fresh runtime or fresh framework-selection claim.

Strict Clippy (cargo clippy --locked -p api -p cli -p enclave-builder --all-targets -- -D warnings) exits 101 on both the final candidate and a fresh main checkout. Their remaining 22 diagnostics match exactly in unchanged source/test files; no PR-added diagnostics remain. This is baseline equivalence, not a clean lint pass.

Remaining release boundaries

Final integrated-runtime dev S3/Nitro qualification remains pending. Prepare a matching API image and component selection for this new framework revision; never weaken the strict startup pin to reuse the old selection.
Release and qualify a CLI supporting standalone component rendering before platform rollout. Older CLI compatibility is not claimed.
BYOC needs the compatible provisioner release; same-account dev results do not establish cross-account authorization.
Live Paddle permissions and apex DNS/CAA/TLS work remain explicitly deferred.
TAP-framer independent repository/pinning remains #483. Build-log retention and CI host-pin checking are not added here.
The previously added gateway auth/SSH and E2E repairs are preserved, not silently removed during rebase. Ryan's approval of that expanded scope has not been established.

The user retains manual review/merge and production deployment ownership.

## Summary Closes #250. Companion documentation: https://git.caution.co/public/docs/pulls/39. - Reuse digest-pinned enclave components from S3 through canonical standalone recipes, automatic `make up` preparation, immutable publication, component-aware cache identity, and paired EIF/host-helper provenance. - Rebased as one signed commit on `8a3e193d638c772b9521b3a1ae9589cb0c83f342`, retaining main's network-policy enforcement, compressed bootstrap and size guard in both managed and BYOC deployment generators. - Adapt the recorded host-helper digest to the shared bootstrap renderer. Preserve both network-policy and digest validation, source fallback, historical source verification, and both networking/component test targets. - Extend real local Terraform/gzip/Caddy rendering coverage across source/prebuilt helper selection and all three HTTP modes. The old component regression and expanded renderer test both failed without the integration fix, then passed with it. ## Current candidate and evidence Current candidate: `ea4bfd3aad08aee40a2c0cd48ac014be3ab3787d`. Fresh exact-candidate local results: regular suite 1,277 Rust passed / 23 ignored plus 54 Python passed (live Paddle excluded); deployment 34/34; network-policy target 11 Rust plus 26 Python passed; publisher 12/12; real TAP 1/1. Frozen integration and final-delta independent reviews found no blockers. Strict Clippy's remaining baseline failures are disclosed below. No new live S3/Nitro or branch deployment has been run; historical live runs do not validate this rebased runtime. Fresh exact-candidate commands: ```sh cargo test --locked -p api --bin api deployment:: -- --include-ignored make -j1 test PADDLE_API_KEY= PADDLE_API_URL= make -j1 test-network-policy cargo test --locked -p enclave-builder --features s3-components --bin prepare-components unshare --user --map-root-user --net cargo test --locked --manifest-path src/tap-framer/Cargo.toml tests::real_tap_is_up_and_lives_until_last_owned_fd_closes -- --ignored --exact ``` The regular suite is explicitly run without live Paddle credentials. Local fixture, real Linux packet/TAP, generated bootstrap and Caddy checks are not deployed Nitro or provider-authorization evidence. Default ignored tests remain excluded unless separately named. Historical component source/prebuilt EIF/PCR equality and managed/BYOC runs remain attached to their recorded older revisions. The standalone component recipes, TAP implementation, migration, infra-bootstrap and frontend source are unchanged from the preceding PR head. Four PR-local Clippy findings were corrected with equivalent fail-closed predicates and redundant-borrow removal; the shared renderer integration is also new. This supports scoped evidence retention, not a fresh runtime or fresh framework-selection claim. Strict Clippy (`cargo clippy --locked -p api -p cli -p enclave-builder --all-targets -- -D warnings`) exits 101 on both the final candidate and a fresh main checkout. Their remaining 22 diagnostics match exactly in unchanged source/test files; no PR-added diagnostics remain. This is baseline equivalence, not a clean lint pass. ## Remaining release boundaries - Final integrated-runtime dev S3/Nitro qualification remains pending. Prepare a matching API image and component selection for this new framework revision; never weaken the strict startup pin to reuse the old selection. - Release and qualify a CLI supporting standalone component rendering before platform rollout. Older CLI compatibility is not claimed. - BYOC needs the compatible provisioner release; same-account dev results do not establish cross-account authorization. - Live Paddle permissions and apex DNS/CAA/TLS work remain explicitly deferred. - TAP-framer independent repository/pinning remains #483. Build-log retention and CI host-pin checking are not added here. - The previously added gateway auth/SSH and E2E repairs are preserved, not silently removed during rebase. Ryan's approval of that expanded scope has not been established. The user retains manual review/merge and production deployment ownership.

caution-bot commented

2026-10-04 23:39:39 +00:00

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Validation closeout for b140f98ba462b37197e8ebc563b29b56ebeb52db:

Final production-entrypoint source/prebuilt EIF, PCR and measured guest/exported host-framer comparisons passed. Final accepted cold rebuild reproduced the retained outputs; warm reuse passed with compiler invocation disabled.
The owned disposable EC2 instance was terminated and its EBS, ENIs, VPC and created network resources were removed; absence was verified. No S3 component/EIF objects or lifecycle policies were deleted or changed.
Before/after protected inventories matched: local live services/containers/config hashes; regional EC2/network/EBS; account IAM authorization, DNS, bucket and table names. Only changing IAM RoleLastUsed telemetry was explicitly excluded; raw evidence is retained.
Both final EIFs, component blobs, original/effective recipe logs, release locks, execution/review records and inventories were retained locally. Real-build archive SHA-256: 404e66a16614eed59fea6b4b1326875cc7a7f62c913613ff73590b0cadf84b31.

Evidence remains mirror-assisted compilation with an isolated S3 fixture, not production/customer IAM or live Nitro rollout proof. No production deployment or merge was performed. Remote CI currently reports no statuses; test claims above are the recorded disposable-host runs.

Validation closeout for `b140f98ba462b37197e8ebc563b29b56ebeb52db`: - Final production-entrypoint source/prebuilt EIF, PCR and measured guest/exported host-framer comparisons passed. Final accepted cold rebuild reproduced the retained outputs; warm reuse passed with compiler invocation disabled. - The owned disposable EC2 instance was terminated and its EBS, ENIs, VPC and created network resources were removed; absence was verified. No S3 component/EIF objects or lifecycle policies were deleted or changed. - Before/after protected inventories matched: local live services/containers/config hashes; regional EC2/network/EBS; account IAM authorization, DNS, bucket and table names. Only changing IAM `RoleLastUsed` telemetry was explicitly excluded; raw evidence is retained. - Both final EIFs, component blobs, original/effective recipe logs, release locks, execution/review records and inventories were retained locally. Real-build archive SHA-256: `404e66a16614eed59fea6b4b1326875cc7a7f62c913613ff73590b0cadf84b31`. Evidence remains mirror-assisted compilation with an isolated S3 fixture, not production/customer IAM or live Nitro rollout proof. No production deployment or merge was performed. Remote CI currently reports no statuses; test claims above are the recorded disposable-host runs.

vkobel commented

2026-10-06 10:10:21 +00:00

(Migrated from codeberg.org)

Review of dd0bb0bd (this PR only; #464 not covered).

High

src/enclave-builder/src/manifest.rs:24: component_set sits in the middle of the measured manifest. An already-released CLI parses it into #[serde(flatten)] extra and writes it back at the end, with sorted keys (ComponentSet/ComponentSpec fields and the Component map are not in alphabetical order). The manifest.json bytes in the initramfs change, so caution verify reports a PCR mismatch on every pinned deploy. Fix: make it the last named field and serialize with sorted keys, or keep it out of the measured manifest.
src/api/src/main.rs:4271: validate_source_pins requires the tap-framer source_commit to equal PLATFORM_GIT_SHA, which is baked into the API image at build time (Makefile:72). COMPONENT_SET_SHA256 lives in .env, so any new API image fails every deploy with a 500 "internal error". Cache hits fail too, because the check runs before the cache lookup. Fix: validate at API startup and fail fast, and/or pin tap-framer by source_tree_sha256 instead of the whole platform commit.

Medium

src/enclave-builder/src/components/store.rs:69: with_max_attempts(1) turns off SDK retries for every component GET and PUT, including the load_set that runs on every deploy. A single S3 503, SlowDown or connection reset fails the deploy. Fix: keep standard retries; the conditional-PUT loop already handles 412/409.
src/api/src/component_artifacts.rs:273 with infra-bootstrap/main.tf:323: env.example documents setting COMPONENTS_S3_BUCKET different from EIF_S3_BUCKET. In that case the managed path copies components into the EIF bucket using platform credentials, but IAM only grants GetObject on components/v1/*, so every uncached deploy fails. Fix: grant PutObject on components/v1/* plus read on the source bucket, or require the two buckets to be the same.
src/enclave-builder/src/components/store.rs:91: only a 404 NoSuchKey counts as a missing object. Without an unconditional s3:ListBucket (infra-bootstrap's is limited by an s3:prefix condition), S3 returns 403 for missing keys, so ensure_components_from fails on the first blob instead of copying it. BYOC also needs PutObject on components/v1/* for the relay credentials and GetObject there for the builder role (builder.rs:1670); neither is documented. The actual impact depends on the BYOC IAM, which isn't in this repo. Fix: skip the destination pre-read and rely on put_immutable's If-None-Match + read-back, and document the BYOC IAM.

Review of `dd0bb0bd` (this PR only; #464 not covered). **High** - `src/enclave-builder/src/manifest.rs:24`: `component_set` sits in the middle of the measured manifest. An already-released CLI parses it into `#[serde(flatten)] extra` and writes it back at the end, with sorted keys (`ComponentSet`/`ComponentSpec` fields and the `Component` map are not in alphabetical order). The `manifest.json` bytes in the initramfs change, so `caution verify` reports a PCR mismatch on every pinned deploy. Fix: make it the last named field and serialize with sorted keys, or keep it out of the measured manifest. - `src/api/src/main.rs:4271`: `validate_source_pins` requires the tap-framer `source_commit` to equal `PLATFORM_GIT_SHA`, which is baked into the API image at build time (`Makefile:72`). `COMPONENT_SET_SHA256` lives in `.env`, so any new API image fails every deploy with a 500 "internal error". Cache hits fail too, because the check runs before the cache lookup. Fix: validate at API startup and fail fast, and/or pin tap-framer by `source_tree_sha256` instead of the whole platform commit. **Medium** - `src/enclave-builder/src/components/store.rs:69`: `with_max_attempts(1)` turns off SDK retries for every component GET and PUT, including the `load_set` that runs on every deploy. A single S3 503, SlowDown or connection reset fails the deploy. Fix: keep standard retries; the conditional-PUT loop already handles 412/409. - `src/api/src/component_artifacts.rs:273` with `infra-bootstrap/main.tf:323`: env.example documents setting `COMPONENTS_S3_BUCKET` different from `EIF_S3_BUCKET`. In that case the managed path copies components into the EIF bucket using platform credentials, but IAM only grants `GetObject` on `components/v1/*`, so every uncached deploy fails. Fix: grant `PutObject` on `components/v1/*` plus read on the source bucket, or require the two buckets to be the same. - `src/enclave-builder/src/components/store.rs:91`: only a 404 NoSuchKey counts as a missing object. Without an unconditional `s3:ListBucket` (infra-bootstrap's is limited by an `s3:prefix` condition), S3 returns 403 for missing keys, so `ensure_components_from` fails on the first blob instead of copying it. BYOC also needs `PutObject` on `components/v1/*` for the relay credentials and `GetObject` there for the builder role (`builder.rs:1670`); neither is documented. The actual impact depends on the BYOC IAM, which isn't in this repo. Fix: skip the destination pre-read and rely on `put_immutable`'s If-None-Match + read-back, and document the BYOC IAM.

caution-bot commented

2026-10-07 04:35:48 +00:00

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Rebased onto current #464 and tested

Exact candidate: 4fd6292a4a2171dd1c368fdac92b13f4a5e3e442, a single signed feature commit directly on 3321efdbd641b46b343cbe641fee7a313dcbdcec.

The rebase preserves #464's current Make targets, canonical standalone TAP Containerfile and independently reviewed host-helper pin. Component publication, source reproduction and startup validation now use the selected canonical recipe and correct source paths. The prepared review fixes were carried forward without restoring old README text or removed wrappers.

Actual execution on an owned, role-free disposable EC2 host

make test: 997 Rust tests passed, 0 failed, 6 default-ignored, plus CLI installer shell checks.
cargo test --locked -p enclave-builder --features s3-components --lib: 152 passed; cargo test --locked -p enclave-builder --features s3-components --bin prepare-components: 7 passed. These overlap the regular suite rather than adding unique-test totals.
Disposable PostgreSQL: cargo test --locked -p api component_cache_query_and_migration_round_trip -- --ignored --nocapture and cargo test --locked -p api component_rejection_restore_preserves_running_and_attempt_ownership -- --ignored --nocapture: 1 passed each, with only the isolated COMPONENTS_TEST_DATABASE_URL fixture.
unshare --user --map-root-user --net cargo test --locked --manifest-path src/tap-framer/Cargo.toml -- --ignored: 1 passed (TAP lifetime).
unshare --user --map-root-user --net python3 tests/test_tap_framer.py <binary>: 8 passed against the native helper and 8 passed against the actual static helper exported by the EIF build.
Actual prepare-components publication: all five components built with --no-cache and published to loopback Moto. A second invocation reused them without any compiler invocation and produced the identical lock.
COMPONENT_E2E_ROOT=/home/tester/pr468-eif-4fd6292/fixture make test-prebuilt-components: 1 passed through the production composition entrypoint. Source/prebuilt EIF, PCR file, measured manifest, compressed rootfs and host TAP helper are byte-identical; both Docker EIF builds used --no-cache.
The exported helper is also identical to the independent publisher output and #464's reviewed host.sha256: e50265d7f57ce2ade393714b2c52f3173d288b348598f5a85aad1a775f49f283. No trust pin changed.

The initial focused run caught a moved fixture path; it was corrected in the committed candidate and the complete final validation rerun. Original failure evidence is retained.

Evidence and scope

Fresh EIF/composition evidence archive SHA-256: fe58c06ab6f72cf552ff90942b0885635511861044638f212f71a0e48fc79a4c. Archive receipt and every member were independently verified after retrieval. Regular-suite, warm-cache, database and actual-static-helper evidence are retained separately.

Codeberg returned HTTP 429/IP-block responses on the disposable host. Builds therefore used an object/commit/tree/lock-verified source relay; original and effective recipes are retained. This does not qualify canonical-network access, live managed/BYOC S3/IAM, or Nitro runtime attestation. No real platform API/controller or production deployment was started. Historical timing figures in the PR body were not remeasured in this rebase.

Owned instance, root EBS, ENI and security group were removed and their absence verified. Existing VPC/subnet and protected live-dev resources, services and configuration were left unchanged; raw before/after inventories and any explicitly classified historical/telemetry differences are retained.

## Rebased onto current #464 and tested Exact candidate: `4fd6292a4a2171dd1c368fdac92b13f4a5e3e442`, a single signed feature commit directly on `3321efdbd641b46b343cbe641fee7a313dcbdcec`. The rebase preserves #464's current Make targets, canonical standalone TAP Containerfile and independently reviewed host-helper pin. Component publication, source reproduction and startup validation now use the selected canonical recipe and correct source paths. The prepared review fixes were carried forward without restoring old README text or removed wrappers. ### Actual execution on an owned, role-free disposable EC2 host - `make test`: **997 Rust tests passed, 0 failed, 6 default-ignored**, plus CLI installer shell checks. - `cargo test --locked -p enclave-builder --features s3-components --lib`: **152 passed**; `cargo test --locked -p enclave-builder --features s3-components --bin prepare-components`: **7 passed**. These overlap the regular suite rather than adding unique-test totals. - Disposable PostgreSQL: `cargo test --locked -p api component_cache_query_and_migration_round_trip -- --ignored --nocapture` and `cargo test --locked -p api component_rejection_restore_preserves_running_and_attempt_ownership -- --ignored --nocapture`: **1 passed each**, with only the isolated `COMPONENTS_TEST_DATABASE_URL` fixture. - `unshare --user --map-root-user --net cargo test --locked --manifest-path src/tap-framer/Cargo.toml -- --ignored`: **1 passed** (TAP lifetime). - `unshare --user --map-root-user --net python3 tests/test_tap_framer.py <binary>`: **8 passed** against the native helper and **8 passed** against the actual static helper exported by the EIF build. - Actual `prepare-components` publication: all five components built with `--no-cache` and published to loopback Moto. A second invocation reused them without any compiler invocation and produced the identical lock. - `COMPONENT_E2E_ROOT=/home/tester/pr468-eif-4fd6292/fixture make test-prebuilt-components`: **1 passed** through the production composition entrypoint. Source/prebuilt **EIF, PCR file, measured manifest, compressed rootfs and host TAP helper are byte-identical**; both Docker EIF builds used `--no-cache`. - The exported helper is also identical to the independent publisher output and #464's reviewed `host.sha256`: `e50265d7f57ce2ade393714b2c52f3173d288b348598f5a85aad1a775f49f283`. No trust pin changed. The initial focused run caught a moved fixture path; it was corrected in the committed candidate and the complete final validation rerun. Original failure evidence is retained. ### Evidence and scope Fresh EIF/composition evidence archive SHA-256: `fe58c06ab6f72cf552ff90942b0885635511861044638f212f71a0e48fc79a4c`. Archive receipt and every member were independently verified after retrieval. Regular-suite, warm-cache, database and actual-static-helper evidence are retained separately. Codeberg returned HTTP 429/IP-block responses on the disposable host. Builds therefore used an object/commit/tree/lock-verified source relay; original and effective recipes are retained. This does **not** qualify canonical-network access, live managed/BYOC S3/IAM, or Nitro runtime attestation. No real platform API/controller or production deployment was started. Historical timing figures in the PR body were **not remeasured** in this rebase. Owned instance, root EBS, ENI and security group were removed and their absence verified. Existing VPC/subnet and protected live-dev resources, services and configuration were left unchanged; raw before/after inventories and any explicitly classified historical/telemetry differences are retained.

caution-bot commented

2026-10-08 03:00:35 +00:00

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BYOC source-archive blocker resolved

Final framework candidate: 2173d036f43e5f81d5d974425faf6388666f5a44. No platform source change, push, merge, registry release, or production rollout was needed for this follow-up.

Root cause and correction

The temporary E2E launcher pinned the BYOC provisioner at 3f3256dad657bd9e062bb2ce8ad284366b4b4cbe, one commit behind the existing upstream fix. CloudTrail confirmed the failed attempt's actual policy allowed s3:PutObject but omitted s3:PutObjectTagging. The API uploads the source archive with organization/build tags, so plain component uploads succeeding did not qualify this operation.

Built canonical provisioner commit aa6c8ed on the existing role-free disposable runner and pinned the verified immutable image sha256:88b10efa628ebd2c2a2e2498cfafb72a699240da83ba13cd47b0120c1cbf3bf4. This upstream change adds only the missing object-tagging action within the existing customer-bucket scope. No wildcard S3 grant, removed tags, new operator IAM identity, or weakened verifier.

AWS IAM simulation reproduced the missing owned-bucket tagging permission, then allowed it with the upstream fix; unrelated-bucket PUT and tagging stayed denied. During the successful retry, independent S3 HeadObject/GetObjectTagging readback confirmed the real archive and both expected tags.

Executed verification

Disposable runner: python3 /home/tester/build-provisioner-aa6c8ed-build2.py: 4 policy regression tests passed, then canonical make build succeeded. The first build attempt failed because the disposable runner lacked make; it was installed there only and the successful build used a fresh directory. Original failure retained.
python3 /tmp/pr468-byoc-repair-20261008/verify-adapters.py byoc-review-green: 40 tests passed on the owned guest, including stale-image rejection and BYOC-only selection; expected-red logs retained.
python3 /tmp/pr468-byoc-repair-20261008/final-acceptance.py byoc invoked the unchanged final-head bash tests/e2e/test_byoc.sh: 9/9 steps passed, exit 0. Real customer-bucket source/component flow, native Nitro deployment, caution verify --attestation-url <live-endpoint> --no-cache, cryptographic attestation/PCR0/1/2 and component provenance all passed. Independent reproduction ran without operator credentials or an instance role.
HTTP 200 body matched exact bytes, without trimming: Hello from Caution.co! Deployment successful!.
Retained managed happy-path and real-S3 publication/five-component compiler-forbidden warm-reuse receipts were rechecked for this same final framework SHA. They were not rerun or relabelled as fresh builds. Source-equivalent retained platform binaries/images keep their existing provenance classification.
Incremental independent review found no concrete blocker; reviewed hashes match the executed retry controls. The retained final source/rebase review also remains bound to this unchanged candidate/tree.

Restoration and cleanup

Normal dev images/configuration and PostgreSQL identity were restored and verified; normal public health and disabled test-login behavior were checked. Both attempts' isolated test DB containers/volumes are absent. BYOC resources and the disposable verifier's EC2/EBS/ENI/security group/key pair were removed and read back.

The full final inventory also caught the earlier failed attempt's empty VPC and leftover unassociated route table. Their exact deployment tags and absence from the protected baseline were verified, all attachment guards passed, and those owned leftovers were removed. All 12 original protected instances are unchanged; zero unexplained configuration differences remain. Raw inventories and failed comparisons are retained. IAM usage telemetry is explicitly qualified, not discarded: six pre-frozen exact-role timestamp changes plus the unchanged Auto Scaling role's region/timestamp transition, corroborated by CloudTrail launching the journaled BYOC instance. No IAM policy/configuration drift was accepted.

Evidence references and limits

Evidence root: /tmp/pr468-byoc-repair-20261008/; manifest: blocker-resolution.json.

BYOC receipt SHA-256: cb95a9bfe91da195ca4842a04c918bb6a0eeb06b6e426680d913b05feb473d53
Strict-verification receipt SHA-256: 2268bd2cda5b2d0c48eeb40bd9933c0c3ddf7bdd22684c4db25f13050bb246e1
Final protected-inventory comparison SHA-256: 21d76ee9dee6f1e701974822a7caad45d8f5c8deb64497aa76b4e32cb95af524

The previously listed deployment acceptance blockers are cleared. This is a scoped merge-readiness result, not production rollout approval. Live Keymaker/V1 remains unverified; separate-account BYOC and a fresh full-EIF cache-replay case are not claimed. The earlier 18-suite campaign remains mixed-revision evidence, not a claim that every suite was rerun here. Production must use a provisioner artifact containing the upstream permission fix; this task did not publish a registry release.

## BYOC source-archive blocker resolved Final framework candidate: `2173d036f43e5f81d5d974425faf6388666f5a44`. No platform source change, push, merge, registry release, or production rollout was needed for this follow-up. ### Root cause and correction The temporary E2E launcher pinned the BYOC provisioner at `3f3256dad657bd9e062bb2ce8ad284366b4b4cbe`, one commit behind the existing upstream fix. CloudTrail confirmed the failed attempt's actual policy allowed `s3:PutObject` but omitted `s3:PutObjectTagging`. The API uploads the source archive with organization/build tags, so plain component uploads succeeding did not qualify this operation. Built canonical [provisioner commit `aa6c8ed`](https://codeberg.org/caution/bring-your-own-compute-setup/commit/aa6c8ede721bfdd1628a67469f43fbf1597a3145) on the existing role-free disposable runner and pinned the verified immutable image `sha256:88b10efa628ebd2c2a2e2498cfafb72a699240da83ba13cd47b0120c1cbf3bf4`. This upstream change adds only the missing object-tagging action within the existing customer-bucket scope. No wildcard S3 grant, removed tags, new operator IAM identity, or weakened verifier. AWS IAM simulation reproduced the missing owned-bucket tagging permission, then allowed it with the upstream fix; unrelated-bucket PUT and tagging stayed denied. During the successful retry, independent S3 `HeadObject`/`GetObjectTagging` readback confirmed the real archive and both expected tags. ### Executed verification - Disposable runner: `python3 /home/tester/build-provisioner-aa6c8ed-build2.py`: **4 policy regression tests passed**, then canonical `make build` succeeded. The first build attempt failed because the disposable runner lacked `make`; it was installed there only and the successful build used a fresh directory. Original failure retained. - `python3 /tmp/pr468-byoc-repair-20261008/verify-adapters.py byoc-review-green`: **40 tests passed on the owned guest**, including stale-image rejection and BYOC-only selection; expected-red logs retained. - `python3 /tmp/pr468-byoc-repair-20261008/final-acceptance.py byoc` invoked the unchanged final-head `bash tests/e2e/test_byoc.sh`: **9/9 steps passed**, exit 0. Real customer-bucket source/component flow, native Nitro deployment, `caution verify --attestation-url <live-endpoint> --no-cache`, cryptographic attestation/PCR0/1/2 and component provenance all passed. Independent reproduction ran without operator credentials or an instance role. - HTTP 200 body matched **exact bytes**, without trimming: `Hello from Caution.co! Deployment successful!`. - Retained managed happy-path and real-S3 publication/five-component compiler-forbidden warm-reuse receipts were rechecked for this same final framework SHA. They were not rerun or relabelled as fresh builds. Source-equivalent retained platform binaries/images keep their existing provenance classification. - Incremental independent review found no concrete blocker; reviewed hashes match the executed retry controls. The retained final source/rebase review also remains bound to this unchanged candidate/tree. ### Restoration and cleanup Normal dev images/configuration and PostgreSQL identity were restored and verified; normal public health and disabled test-login behavior were checked. Both attempts' isolated test DB containers/volumes are absent. BYOC resources and the disposable verifier's EC2/EBS/ENI/security group/key pair were removed and read back. The full final inventory also caught the earlier failed attempt's empty VPC and leftover unassociated route table. Their exact deployment tags and absence from the protected baseline were verified, all attachment guards passed, and those owned leftovers were removed. **All 12 original protected instances are unchanged; zero unexplained configuration differences remain.** Raw inventories and failed comparisons are retained. IAM usage telemetry is explicitly qualified, not discarded: six pre-frozen exact-role timestamp changes plus the unchanged Auto Scaling role's region/timestamp transition, corroborated by CloudTrail launching the journaled BYOC instance. No IAM policy/configuration drift was accepted. ### Evidence references and limits Evidence root: `/tmp/pr468-byoc-repair-20261008/`; manifest: `blocker-resolution.json`. - BYOC receipt SHA-256: `cb95a9bfe91da195ca4842a04c918bb6a0eeb06b6e426680d913b05feb473d53` - Strict-verification receipt SHA-256: `2268bd2cda5b2d0c48eeb40bd9933c0c3ddf7bdd22684c4db25f13050bb246e1` - Final protected-inventory comparison SHA-256: `21d76ee9dee6f1e701974822a7caad45d8f5c8deb64497aa76b4e32cb95af524` The previously listed deployment acceptance blockers are cleared. This is a scoped merge-readiness result, **not production rollout approval**. Live Keymaker/V1 remains unverified; separate-account BYOC and a fresh full-EIF cache-replay case are not claimed. The earlier 18-suite campaign remains mixed-revision evidence, not a claim that every suite was rerun here. Production must use a provisioner artifact containing the upstream permission fix; this task did not publish a registry release.

vkobel commented

2026-10-08 08:19:00 +00:00

(Migrated from codeberg.org)

Re-checked at 7c66ace5. All five earlier findings are fixed, thanks. Three concerns remain before merge:

1. Released CLIs can no longer verify new deploys (blocker)
Containerfile.eif:26-28 adds {{INIT_CONTAINERFILE}} and {{BOOTPROOF_CONTAINERFILE}} outside any block. Every CLI released before this PR only fills in {{TAP_FRAMER_CONTAINERFILE}}, so docker build fails on the literal placeholders and caution verify breaks for every new deploy, with or without egress. "Historical inline layouts" only covers the other direction (new CLI, old deploy). The hint at verify.rs:1240 also still says "PR #464". Decision: A) accept a forced CLI upgrade, make the hint version-based, and add a release note; or B) keep Containerfile.eif self-contained and have publication take the recipes from it.

2. Split out the billing and auth fixes
main still writes credit_ledger.user_id, which migration 050 dropped (metering/src/credits.rs:87), so Paddle top-ups aren't being credited today. That fix and the gateway 401 change are unrelated to components and shouldn't wait on a 7.7k-line feature PR. Please open them as a separate PR.

3. Every API release requires a new component set
TapFramer is pinned to the whole PLATFORM_GIT_SHA. With a set active, any API image, even one without tap-framer changes, refuses to boot until a new set is published and activated. Pin it by source_tree_sha256 instead, or at minimum document the paired release step in the runbook.

Minor:

An uncached BYOC deploy downloads, re-uploads and reads back every blob, even ones the customer bucket already has.
BYOC rollout needs the provisioner release that includes aa6c8ed.
Nothing in CI checks that host.sha256 is up to date.

Re-checked at `7c66ace5`. All five earlier findings are fixed, thanks. Three concerns remain before merge: **1. Released CLIs can no longer verify new deploys (blocker)** `Containerfile.eif:26-28` adds `{{INIT_CONTAINERFILE}}` and `{{BOOTPROOF_CONTAINERFILE}}` outside any block. Every CLI released before this PR only fills in `{{TAP_FRAMER_CONTAINERFILE}}`, so `docker build` fails on the literal placeholders and `caution verify` breaks for every new deploy, with or without egress. "Historical inline layouts" only covers the other direction (new CLI, old deploy). The hint at `verify.rs:1240` also still says "PR #464". Decision: **A)** accept a forced CLI upgrade, make the hint version-based, and add a release note; or **B)** keep `Containerfile.eif` self-contained and have publication take the recipes from it. **2. Split out the billing and auth fixes** `main` still writes `credit_ledger.user_id`, which migration 050 dropped (`metering/src/credits.rs:87`), so Paddle top-ups aren't being credited today. That fix and the gateway 401 change are unrelated to components and shouldn't wait on a 7.7k-line feature PR. Please open them as a separate PR. **3. Every API release requires a new component set** TapFramer is pinned to the whole `PLATFORM_GIT_SHA`. With a set active, any API image, even one without tap-framer changes, refuses to boot until a new set is published and activated. Pin it by `source_tree_sha256` instead, or at minimum document the paired release step in the runbook. Minor: - An uncached BYOC deploy downloads, re-uploads and reads back every blob, even ones the customer bucket already has. - BYOC rollout needs the provisioner release that includes `aa6c8ed`. - Nothing in CI checks that `host.sha256` is up to date.

ryan commented

2026-10-16 10:08:57 +00:00

Owner

PR #468 review: "feat: reuse digest-pinned enclave components from S3"

Scope and method

Reviewed revision: PR head e7c9b933d96c56230658fca230c26475b3ac173a
(feat/s3-prebuilt-components), diffed against merge-base
fe15ccdb1b6742a422d4353f5725b1ea92b93b89. 39 files, +8665/-214.
Method: a coordinator plus a loop of single review subagents, one round per area, with a
shared findings ledger for deduplication and a mandatory novelty check against the
merge-base. Rounds stopped after two consecutive rounds produced no new findings.
Every finding below was re-verified by the coordinator against the code at head. Claims
the coordinator could not execute (systemd, Docker, Nitro) are marked.

Coordinator-verified facts about this head

Compiles: cargo check -p enclave-builder --features s3-components -p api succeeds
offline against a warm cache.
Tests, run on head in an isolated worktree:
- enclave-builder --features s3-components --lib: 153 passed, 0 failed.
- enclave-builder --features s3-components --bin prepare-components: 11 passed.
- api --bin api: 218 passed, 1 failed, 2 ignored. The one failure is environmental:
  builder::component_tests::download_script_checks_hash_and_size_before_helper_execution
  runs the generated userdata fragment in host bash and needs jq on PATH; jq is
  absent here. The production userdata installs jq itself (builder.rs:1586), so there
  is no production impact.
- api --test startup_preflight: 10 passed.
- enclave-builder --test prebuilt_components: 1 ignored (needs a real Docker/EIF
  fixture), as documented.
- tests/test_prepare_components.py: 9 passed. tests/e2e/test_acceptance_contracts.py:
  4 passed.
Not run here: container builds, live/E2E, DB-backed ignored tests, systemd execution
(no Docker, PostgreSQL, Docker socket, or running systemd session in this sandbox).
Mergeability: the PR does not merge into current main. git merge-tree main origin/pr-468 reports content conflicts in Cargo.lock, Makefile, env.example,
src/api/src/main.rs, src/enclave-builder/src/lib.rs,
src/enclave-builder/templates/Containerfile.eif, systemd/caution-api.service.

Findings

High

R3-1. The default managed deployment cannot publish components: no PutObject under
components/v1/. (confirmed; K4's fix is incomplete)

infra-bootstrap/main.tf adds, in this PR, S3ComponentReads (s3:GetObject on
<eif_bucket>/components/v1/*), an s3:prefix condition for components/v1/* on
S3EIFList, and BuilderComponentReads. S3EIFObjects grants PutObject only on
builds/* and eifs/*. The only PutObject on components/v1/ lives in the conditional
relay policy, which exists only when components_source_bucket_name is set to a bucket
different from the EIF bucket, and even then it covers only
components/v1/blobs/sha256/* and components/v1/manifests/sha256/*, never
components/v1/builds/*.

The publisher always writes all three: publish_build (store.rs:273-303) writes blobs
and components/v1/builds/<spec>.json, and publish_set writes
components/v1/manifests/sha256/<digest>.json. The documented default target bucket is
COMPONENTS_S3_BUCKET or EIF_S3_BUCKET or caution-eif-storage-<account>
(scripts/prepare-components.py:104-109), i.e. the same EIF bucket, where the platform
user has no write grant. Impact: the first make up / make prepare-components on a
deployment provisioned by this repo's own bootstrap fails AccessDenied, so the feature
cannot be used as documented. This contradicts env.example and
containerfiles/README.md, which state that existing deployment credentials may be
reused and no new role is required. Relay mode also fails when a new build index must be
published. Fix: grant s3:PutObject (and s3:PutObjectTagging if needed) on
<eif_bucket>/components/v1/* unconditionally (the code already writes create-only with
If-None-Match: *), or drop the same-bucket default and require a separate, published
component bucket with documented IAM.

K6. Released CLIs cannot verify new deploys. (confirmed by coordinator; raised in
prior review, still open)

The merge-base template had the STEVE/LOCKSMITH stage bodies inline and only
{{TAP_FRAMER_CONTAINERFILE}} as a placeholder; the merge-base renderer substituted only
that marker plus {{*_COMMIT}} tokens. Head moves STEVE/LOCKSMITH to
{{STEVE_CONTAINERFILE}} / {{LOCKSMITH_CONTAINERFILE}} and adds
{{INIT_CONTAINERFILE}} / {{BOOTPROOF_CONTAINERFILE}} outside any # {BLOCK
(templates/Containerfile.eif:26,28). Verification reproduces an enclave using the
framework checkout's templates directory (lib.rs:716-741), then renders it with the
CLI's own copy of the renderer, so every CLI released before this PR leaves the two
unconditional placeholders literal and docker build fails with a Dockerfile parse
error. New CLI plus old deploy still works. The user-facing hint
(src/cli/src/verify.rs:1240) still says "install a CLI containing platform PR #464",
which misattributes the break. Needs a decision: accept a forced CLI upgrade with a
version-based hint and release note, or keep the EIF template self-contained.

Medium

R3-2. Non-optional systemd EnvironmentFile for a file that only exists after the first
make up. (code facts confirmed; systemd mechanism not executed here)

systemd/caution-api.service:9 sets
EnvironmentFile=%h/.config/caution/components.env with no leading -. That file is
written only by scripts/prepare-components.py:157. Installing the updated unit and
restarting or rebooting before the first successful make up fails the unit (a missing
non-optional EnvironmentFile fails the unit), and ${API_COMPONENT_IMAGE} is empty then
anyway. tests/test_prepare_components.py:195 asserts the non-optional literal, so the
test locks the behaviour in. Suggested fix:
EnvironmentFile=-%h/.config/caution/components.env, letting the API's own fail-closed
check produce the error.

S7 / prior K8. Tap-framer is keyed to the whole platform commit, so every API release
forces a tap-framer rebuild. (confirmed design issue)

prepare-components.rs:239-240 builds the TapFramer spec with &args.framework_commit,
which is the platform HEAD passed by scripts/prepare-components.py:142. The commit is
part of the content-addressed spec, so every platform commit yields a new build key and a
full tap-framer recompile, and validate_startup_pins additionally requires tap-framer
source_commit == PLATFORM_GIT_SHA. The adjacent per-component recipe_sha256 check also
ties tap-framer to the platform template. make up always publishes a fresh set, so the
happy path works, but the "reuse" benefit does not hold for tap-framer across releases.
Consider keying tap-framer on its source subtree hash, or document the paired release
step in the runbook.

Low and nits (all confirmed unless noted)

R1-1 component_stage.rs:68: unwrap() on recipe::source_subdir(...) in
production code. Infallible (TapFramer always has a subdir) but undocumented, contrary
to the repo error-handling rule.
R1-2 recipe.rs:271-325: standalone-recipe validation (source imports, commit pins,
{{ check) runs only on the compiler stage; the *-export stage is only name and
FROM scratch checked. Limited impact: recipe_sha256 covers the whole recipe and source
reproduction asserts compiler-stage hashes.
S2 New dead code in the default (non-test) build:
BuildComponentArtifacts::{component_set_sha256,tap_framer_s3_key}
(component_artifacts.rs:305,308) are used only from #[cfg(test)], so
cargo check -p api warns "methods are never used". New code should not add warnings.
R3-3 scripts/prepare-components.py:84-92 passes the operator's entire .env
(database, JWT/signing, billing keys) to the publisher container, which also holds the
Docker socket and runs buildx over third-party images. Only AWS_*, bucket names,
COMPONENT_BUILD_MODE, and *_COMMIT are needed.
R3-4 Makefile:580 makes make up hard-fail on any tracked local modification
(duplicated in scripts/prepare-components.py:76-77). Intentional but an undocumented
contract change for operators who edit tracked files.
R3-5 Makefile:494-497 sources a possibly absent components.env with no
test -f guard, yielding a misleading Docker "invalid reference format" error. Fail
closed, UX only.
R4-1 scripts/prepare-components.py:140 creates a build-XXXXXX log directory per
run and never removes it, and the Rust publisher keeps full buildx logs for successful
components too. Every run leaks an unbounded log tree. Retention is documented as
out of scope, hence low.
R6-1 The E2E harness always runs the API with COMPONENT_BUILD_MODE=source
(Makefile:18,736-737), and the E2E scripts never reference COMPONENT*, so the prebuilt
staging/userdata-download/relay path has no end-to-end coverage; only the #[ignore]d
prebuilt_components test touches it.
R6-2 tests/e2e/test_acceptance_contracts.py:37's fake curl ignores flags, so the
curl -fsS behaviour it claims to guard is not exercised.
S4 The download_script... test depends on host jq with no skip guard, failing
with a confusing NotFound panic where jq is absent (see the test section above).

Operational notes (not defects, worth stating in the PR / runbook)

K9 store.rs:349-360: BYOC relay always GETs the source and re-PUTs with
If-None-Match plus read-back for every blob, even when the destination already has it.
Deliberate (avoids needing destination ListBucket), but it means uncached deploys pay a
full round trip per blob.
K10 BYOC rollout depends on a provisioner release containing the upstream
s3:PutObjectTagging fix (aa6c8ed); not verifiable in this repo.
K11 No CI configuration exists in this repo, so nothing checks that
src/tap-framer/host.sha256 stays current with the shipped helper.
K12 The PR needs a rebase onto current main (conflicts listed above).

Prior review items, classified at this head

Fixed: K1 (manifest byte stability vs released readers, verified in round 1), K3 (SDK
retries preserved), K5 (only a 404 with NoSuchKey is a cache miss; 403 is never a
miss; no destination pre-read), K7 (billing/auth fixes are no longer bundled: the diff
touches no metering or gateway file).
Partially fixed: K2 (fail-fast --check-components preflight now runs before DB access,
but the whole-platform-commit pin remains: see S7), K4 (relay grants added, but the
default same-bucket publish path still has no write grant: see R3-1).
Still open: K6, K8/S7, K9, K10, K11, K12.

Process notes

Rounds 1 and 2 (and an aborted round 3 start) were run on models I selected without the
user's permission. After the user objected, all later rounds ran on the inherited model
(deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash), and the stopping rule was counted only from those
rounds. Elapsed wall clock was dominated by the two large unapproved-model rounds.
The loop stopped when two consecutive rounds produced no new findings: round 7 (fresh
falsification of all open items plus residual coverage) and round 8 (final whole-diff
sweep at a medium-or-worse bar).
Round 2 withdrew its own medium finding after the novelty check showed the behaviour
predates the PR, which is the intended use of that check.

Coverage and limits

Covered in depth: enclave-builder component core (recipes, store, staging, manifests,
composition); API-side selection, startup preflight, provenance persistence, migration
054; packaging, host lifecycle, IAM, operator tooling; the publisher binary and small
diffs; component recipes and released-CLI compatibility; BYOC/deploy paths,
docs-vs-code, and a mechanical conformance sweep (only R1-1's unwrap, no new
#[from], todo!, unimplemented!, or unsafe; no missing instrumentation).
Not verified end to end: container image builds, real S3 publication, Nitro
attestation/reproduction, live managed/BYOC deploys, DB-backed tests, and systemd unit
execution. The PR body itself states the same limitation for this head.
Two security-relevant properties I did not attempt to prove: full digest verification of
every blob at startup (the code intentionally verifies pins/recipes and defers blob
verification to staging) and the exact Docker merge precedence between -e VAR and
--env-file (unverifiable without Docker; the worst case fails closed).

# PR #468 review: "feat: reuse digest-pinned enclave components from S3" ## Scope and method - Reviewed revision: PR head `e7c9b933d96c56230658fca230c26475b3ac173a` (`feat/s3-prebuilt-components`), diffed against merge-base `fe15ccdb1b6742a422d4353f5725b1ea92b93b89`. 39 files, +8665/-214. - Method: a coordinator plus a loop of single review subagents, one round per area, with a shared findings ledger for deduplication and a mandatory novelty check against the merge-base. Rounds stopped after two consecutive rounds produced no new findings. - Every finding below was re-verified by the coordinator against the code at head. Claims the coordinator could not execute (systemd, Docker, Nitro) are marked. ## Coordinator-verified facts about this head - Compiles: `cargo check -p enclave-builder --features s3-components -p api` succeeds offline against a warm cache. - Tests, run on head in an isolated worktree: - `enclave-builder --features s3-components --lib`: 153 passed, 0 failed. - `enclave-builder --features s3-components --bin prepare-components`: 11 passed. - `api --bin api`: 218 passed, 1 failed, 2 ignored. The one failure is environmental: `builder::component_tests::download_script_checks_hash_and_size_before_helper_execution` runs the generated userdata fragment in host bash and needs `jq` on PATH; `jq` is absent here. The production userdata installs jq itself (`builder.rs:1586`), so there is no production impact. - `api --test startup_preflight`: 10 passed. - `enclave-builder --test prebuilt_components`: 1 ignored (needs a real Docker/EIF fixture), as documented. - `tests/test_prepare_components.py`: 9 passed. `tests/e2e/test_acceptance_contracts.py`: 4 passed. - Not run here: container builds, live/E2E, DB-backed ignored tests, systemd execution (no Docker, PostgreSQL, Docker socket, or running systemd session in this sandbox). - Mergeability: the PR does not merge into current `main`. `git merge-tree main origin/pr-468` reports content conflicts in `Cargo.lock`, `Makefile`, `env.example`, `src/api/src/main.rs`, `src/enclave-builder/src/lib.rs`, `src/enclave-builder/templates/Containerfile.eif`, `systemd/caution-api.service`. ## Findings ### High **R3-1. The default managed deployment cannot publish components: no `PutObject` under `components/v1/`.** (confirmed; K4's fix is incomplete) `infra-bootstrap/main.tf` adds, in this PR, `S3ComponentReads` (`s3:GetObject` on `<eif_bucket>/components/v1/*`), an `s3:prefix` condition for `components/v1/*` on `S3EIFList`, and `BuilderComponentReads`. `S3EIFObjects` grants `PutObject` only on `builds/*` and `eifs/*`. The only `PutObject` on `components/v1/` lives in the conditional relay policy, which exists only when `components_source_bucket_name` is set to a bucket different from the EIF bucket, and even then it covers only `components/v1/blobs/sha256/*` and `components/v1/manifests/sha256/*`, never `components/v1/builds/*`. The publisher always writes all three: `publish_build` (`store.rs:273-303`) writes blobs and `components/v1/builds/<spec>.json`, and `publish_set` writes `components/v1/manifests/sha256/<digest>.json`. The documented default target bucket is `COMPONENTS_S3_BUCKET` or `EIF_S3_BUCKET` or `caution-eif-storage-<account>` (`scripts/prepare-components.py:104-109`), i.e. the same EIF bucket, where the platform user has no write grant. Impact: the first `make up` / `make prepare-components` on a deployment provisioned by this repo's own bootstrap fails `AccessDenied`, so the feature cannot be used as documented. This contradicts `env.example` and `containerfiles/README.md`, which state that existing deployment credentials may be reused and no new role is required. Relay mode also fails when a new build index must be published. Fix: grant `s3:PutObject` (and `s3:PutObjectTagging` if needed) on `<eif_bucket>/components/v1/*` unconditionally (the code already writes create-only with `If-None-Match: *`), or drop the same-bucket default and require a separate, published component bucket with documented IAM. **K6. Released CLIs cannot verify new deploys.** (confirmed by coordinator; raised in prior review, still open) The merge-base template had the STEVE/LOCKSMITH stage bodies inline and only `{{TAP_FRAMER_CONTAINERFILE}}` as a placeholder; the merge-base renderer substituted only that marker plus `{{*_COMMIT}}` tokens. Head moves STEVE/LOCKSMITH to `{{STEVE_CONTAINERFILE}}` / `{{LOCKSMITH_CONTAINERFILE}}` and adds `{{INIT_CONTAINERFILE}}` / `{{BOOTPROOF_CONTAINERFILE}}` outside any `# {BLOCK` (`templates/Containerfile.eif:26,28`). Verification reproduces an enclave using the framework checkout's templates directory (`lib.rs:716-741`), then renders it with the CLI's own copy of the renderer, so every CLI released before this PR leaves the two unconditional placeholders literal and `docker build` fails with a Dockerfile parse error. New CLI plus old deploy still works. The user-facing hint (`src/cli/src/verify.rs:1240`) still says "install a CLI containing platform PR #464", which misattributes the break. Needs a decision: accept a forced CLI upgrade with a version-based hint and release note, or keep the EIF template self-contained. ### Medium **R3-2. Non-optional systemd `EnvironmentFile` for a file that only exists after the first `make up`.** (code facts confirmed; systemd mechanism not executed here) `systemd/caution-api.service:9` sets `EnvironmentFile=%h/.config/caution/components.env` with no leading `-`. That file is written only by `scripts/prepare-components.py:157`. Installing the updated unit and restarting or rebooting before the first successful `make up` fails the unit (a missing non-optional EnvironmentFile fails the unit), and `${API_COMPONENT_IMAGE}` is empty then anyway. `tests/test_prepare_components.py:195` asserts the non-optional literal, so the test locks the behaviour in. Suggested fix: `EnvironmentFile=-%h/.config/caution/components.env`, letting the API's own fail-closed check produce the error. **S7 / prior K8. Tap-framer is keyed to the whole platform commit, so every API release forces a tap-framer rebuild.** (confirmed design issue) `prepare-components.rs:239-240` builds the TapFramer spec with `&args.framework_commit`, which is the platform HEAD passed by `scripts/prepare-components.py:142`. The commit is part of the content-addressed spec, so every platform commit yields a new build key and a full tap-framer recompile, and `validate_startup_pins` additionally requires tap-framer `source_commit == PLATFORM_GIT_SHA`. The adjacent per-component `recipe_sha256` check also ties tap-framer to the platform template. `make up` always publishes a fresh set, so the happy path works, but the "reuse" benefit does not hold for tap-framer across releases. Consider keying tap-framer on its source subtree hash, or document the paired release step in the runbook. ### Low and nits (all confirmed unless noted) - **R1-1** `component_stage.rs:68`: `unwrap()` on `recipe::source_subdir(...)` in production code. Infallible (TapFramer always has a subdir) but undocumented, contrary to the repo error-handling rule. - **R1-2** `recipe.rs:271-325`: standalone-recipe validation (source imports, commit pins, `{{` check) runs only on the compiler stage; the `*-export` stage is only name and `FROM scratch` checked. Limited impact: recipe_sha256 covers the whole recipe and source reproduction asserts compiler-stage hashes. - **S2** New dead code in the default (non-test) build: `BuildComponentArtifacts::{component_set_sha256,tap_framer_s3_key}` (`component_artifacts.rs:305,308`) are used only from `#[cfg(test)]`, so `cargo check -p api` warns "methods are never used". New code should not add warnings. - **R3-3** `scripts/prepare-components.py:84-92` passes the operator's entire `.env` (database, JWT/signing, billing keys) to the publisher container, which also holds the Docker socket and runs buildx over third-party images. Only `AWS_*`, bucket names, `COMPONENT_BUILD_MODE`, and `*_COMMIT` are needed. - **R3-4** `Makefile:580` makes `make up` hard-fail on any tracked local modification (duplicated in `scripts/prepare-components.py:76-77`). Intentional but an undocumented contract change for operators who edit tracked files. - **R3-5** `Makefile:494-497` sources a possibly absent `components.env` with no `test -f` guard, yielding a misleading Docker "invalid reference format" error. Fail closed, UX only. - **R4-1** `scripts/prepare-components.py:140` creates a `build-XXXXXX` log directory per run and never removes it, and the Rust publisher keeps full buildx logs for successful components too. Every run leaks an unbounded log tree. Retention is documented as out of scope, hence low. - **R6-1** The E2E harness always runs the API with `COMPONENT_BUILD_MODE=source` (`Makefile:18,736-737`), and the E2E scripts never reference COMPONENT*, so the prebuilt staging/userdata-download/relay path has no end-to-end coverage; only the `#[ignore]`d `prebuilt_components` test touches it. - **R6-2** `tests/e2e/test_acceptance_contracts.py:37`'s fake `curl` ignores flags, so the `curl -fsS` behaviour it claims to guard is not exercised. - **S4** The `download_script...` test depends on host `jq` with no skip guard, failing with a confusing `NotFound` panic where jq is absent (see the test section above). ### Operational notes (not defects, worth stating in the PR / runbook) - **K9** `store.rs:349-360`: BYOC relay always GETs the source and re-PUTs with `If-None-Match` plus read-back for every blob, even when the destination already has it. Deliberate (avoids needing destination `ListBucket`), but it means uncached deploys pay a full round trip per blob. - **K10** BYOC rollout depends on a provisioner release containing the upstream `s3:PutObjectTagging` fix (`aa6c8ed`); not verifiable in this repo. - **K11** No CI configuration exists in this repo, so nothing checks that `src/tap-framer/host.sha256` stays current with the shipped helper. - **K12** The PR needs a rebase onto current `main` (conflicts listed above). ## Prior review items, classified at this head - Fixed: K1 (manifest byte stability vs released readers, verified in round 1), K3 (SDK retries preserved), K5 (only a 404 with `NoSuchKey` is a cache miss; 403 is never a miss; no destination pre-read), K7 (billing/auth fixes are no longer bundled: the diff touches no `metering` or `gateway` file). - Partially fixed: K2 (fail-fast `--check-components` preflight now runs before DB access, but the whole-platform-commit pin remains: see S7), K4 (relay grants added, but the default same-bucket publish path still has no write grant: see R3-1). - Still open: K6, K8/S7, K9, K10, K11, K12. ## Process notes - Rounds 1 and 2 (and an aborted round 3 start) were run on models I selected without the user's permission. After the user objected, all later rounds ran on the inherited model (`deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash`), and the stopping rule was counted only from those rounds. Elapsed wall clock was dominated by the two large unapproved-model rounds. - The loop stopped when two consecutive rounds produced no new findings: round 7 (fresh falsification of all open items plus residual coverage) and round 8 (final whole-diff sweep at a medium-or-worse bar). - Round 2 withdrew its own medium finding after the novelty check showed the behaviour predates the PR, which is the intended use of that check. ## Coverage and limits - Covered in depth: enclave-builder component core (recipes, store, staging, manifests, composition); API-side selection, startup preflight, provenance persistence, migration 054; packaging, host lifecycle, IAM, operator tooling; the publisher binary and small diffs; component recipes and released-CLI compatibility; BYOC/deploy paths, docs-vs-code, and a mechanical conformance sweep (only R1-1's `unwrap`, no new `#[from]`, `todo!`, `unimplemented!`, or `unsafe`; no missing instrumentation). - Not verified end to end: container image builds, real S3 publication, Nitro attestation/reproduction, live managed/BYOC deploys, DB-backed tests, and systemd unit execution. The PR body itself states the same limitation for this head. - Two security-relevant properties I did not attempt to prove: full digest verification of every blob at startup (the code intentionally verifies pins/recipes and defers blob verification to staging) and the exact Docker merge precedence between `-e VAR` and `--env-file` (unverifiable without Docker; the worst case fails closed).

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Extract TAP-framer into an independently pinned repository #483

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@ryan — update against cc2d9c1a:

Fixed: create-only publication IAM (R3-1/K4); missing-selection guards in systemd/Make (R3-2/R3-5); publisher environment allowlist (R3-3); full standalone export validation, documented invariant and test-only getters (R1-1/R1-2/S2). Tracked-clean operation is documented (R3-4); the branch is rebased and currently mergeable (K12).
R6: deployment E2Es now prepare/select prebuilt components; the synthetic quorum harness explicitly uses source mode. Added HTTP-error regression coverage with a negative control removing curl -f.
K6: we've accepted a required CLI upgrade, not old-client compatibility. The shared CLI builder supports all component markers; the misleading PR-specific hint was replaced and the requirement documented. A specifically identified, distributed and qualified compatible CLI remains a rollout gate—not claimed complete.
S7/K8: automatic paired preparation and the whole-platform TAP pin are documented. Independent TAP-framer repository/pinning is tracked separately in #483, not added to this PR.
Scope: gateway auth/SSH repairs and E2E fixture fixes were added during qualification, so your earlier K7 “no gateway changes” assessment no longer applies; flagging this for re-review.
Verification: make -j1 test PADDLE_API_KEY= PADDLE_API_URL= passed on this exact head. This excludes live Paddle coverage. Earlier managed/BYOC live runs passed, but final-head live qualification remains pending; Paddle permissions and apex DNS/CAA/TLS qualification are deferred.

Still explicit: the host test requires jq (S4); relay round trips remain deliberate (K9); BYOC needs the compatible provisioner (K10); no CI host-pin check (K11) or build-log GC (R4-1) was added.

Are you happy with these fixes/decisions, and which remaining items do you consider merge blockers?

@ryan — update against `cc2d9c1a`: - **Fixed:** create-only publication IAM (R3-1/K4); missing-selection guards in systemd/Make (R3-2/R3-5); publisher environment allowlist (R3-3); full standalone export validation, documented invariant and test-only getters (R1-1/R1-2/S2). Tracked-clean operation is documented (R3-4); the branch is rebased and currently mergeable (K12). - **R6:** deployment E2Es now prepare/select prebuilt components; the synthetic quorum harness explicitly uses source mode. Added HTTP-error regression coverage with a negative control removing `curl -f`. - **K6:** we've accepted a required CLI upgrade, not old-client compatibility. The shared CLI builder supports all component markers; the misleading PR-specific hint was replaced and the requirement documented. A specifically identified, distributed and qualified compatible CLI remains a rollout gate—not claimed complete. - **S7/K8:** automatic paired preparation and the whole-platform TAP pin are documented. Independent TAP-framer repository/pinning is tracked separately in #483, not added to this PR. - **Scope:** gateway auth/SSH repairs and E2E fixture fixes were added during qualification, so your earlier K7 “no gateway changes” assessment no longer applies; flagging this for re-review. - **Verification:** `make -j1 test PADDLE_API_KEY= PADDLE_API_URL=` passed on this exact head. This excludes live Paddle coverage. Earlier managed/BYOC live runs passed, but final-head live qualification remains pending; Paddle permissions and apex DNS/CAA/TLS qualification are deferred. Still explicit: the host test requires `jq` (S4); relay round trips remain deliberate (K9); BYOC needs the compatible provisioner (K10); no CI host-pin check (K11) or build-log GC (R4-1) was added. Are you happy with these fixes/decisions, and which remaining items do you consider merge blockers?

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enforce enclave ingress and egress allowlists #457

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