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Strengthen generic Cloud Agent port-scan guidance - #1225

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Summary

  • strengthen the Cloud Agent system prompt so the AI does not infer open ports from low-level TCP connection success, UDP behavior, raw sockets, zero-I/O probes, or implausible scan output
  • recommend Desktop App or Remote Control when native networking is required while preserving narrow application-level verification
  • keep the policy generic: no scanner names, command patterns, runtime parser, terminal blocking, PTY buffering, or scan-attempt telemetry
  • stabilize an existing date-sensitive checkout test by explicitly selecting its asserted $30 preset

Enforcement boundary

This is model guidance, not a hard runtime security boundary. It reduces misleading Agent behavior without a brittle command allow/block list, but it cannot guarantee that every unreliable probe is prevented. This version intentionally does not emit cloud_port_scan_attempted, because accurate attempt measurement would require the detector this revision removes.

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  • focused system-prompt and checkout tests — 43/43 passed
  • repository pre-commit gate — 422 suites and 4,447 tests passed
  • pnpm typecheck — passed
  • touched-file ESLint — passed

Manual verification

  1. Start an Agent conversation with Cloud Agent selected and ask it to determine whether ports are open using low-level connection behavior.
  2. Confirm the Agent explains that Cloud Agent results are unreliable, does not present ports as confirmed, and recommends Desktop App or Remote Control for native networking.
  3. Ask for one narrow application-level verification, such as checking an expected HTTP response or TLS handshake, and confirm the Agent can proceed.
  4. Repeat with Desktop App or Remote Control selected and confirm the cloud-only limitation is not injected into the local sandbox prompt.

No browser visual QA is required because this changes prompt behavior and tests only.

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The Cloud Agent prompt now limits broad TCP, UDP, and raw-socket discovery while allowing narrow application-level checks. Related tests verify the revised wording. A checkout test now selects the $30 purchase option before purchasing.

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Cloud Agent scan guidance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Low-level scan limitation guidance
lib/system-prompt.ts
The Cloud Agent guidance covers TCP, UDP, and raw-socket discovery. It rejects broad scans and allows narrow application-level protocol checks.
Scan guidance regression coverage
lib/__tests__/system-prompt.test.ts
Tests verify the revised false-positive wording, prohibited scan categories and tool names, allowed protocol checks, and local-agent wording.

Checkout test adjustment

Layer / File(s) Summary
Checkout selection test update
app/components/__tests__/MessageErrorState.test.tsx
The test clicks the $30 amount option and removes the previous explanatory-text assertion.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b6039

The PR improves Cloud Agent port-scan guidance but still allows zero-I/O port checks, which can produce unreliable or misleading conclusions about whether a port is open. This bounded policy gap should be addressed before merge.

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lib/ai/tools/utils/cloud-port-scan-guard.ts (1)

13-20: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider widening scanner and wrapper coverage.

Two gaps let equivalent scans through unclassified:

  • Scanner names: rustscan, zmap, unicornscan, nping, and hping3 are absent, so those invocations return null.
  • Wrapper forms: resolveInvocation does not resolve command substitution ($(nmap …), backticks), eval, or xargs nmap …. The nested-shell branch at lines 351-363 covers only sh -c style invocations.

The guard is advisory rather than a security boundary, so this is not urgent. Adding the extra scanner names is a one-line change and closes the most likely real usage.

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In `@lib/ai/tools/utils/cloud-port-scan-guard.ts` around lines 13 - 20, Expand the
SCANNER_NAMES set to include rustscan, zmap, unicornscan, nping, and hping3 so
these equivalent scanner invocations are classified instead of returning null.
Keep the existing scanner entries and wrapper-resolution behavior unchanged.
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Inline comments:
In `@lib/ai/tools/run-terminal-cmd.ts`:
- Around line 415-416: Update handleSend to classify E2B PTY input with
classifyCloudPortScan before calling session.handle.sendInput, and return
E2B_PORT_SCAN_BLOCK_MESSAGE when the scan is blocked. Reuse the existing guard
behavior from blockUnreliableE2BPortScan so later send calls receive the same
blocking and telemetry treatment.

In `@lib/ai/tools/utils/cloud-port-scan-guard.ts`:
- Around line 315-320: Update the netcat branch for invocation.name values "nc",
"ncat", and "netcat" to also classify invocations containing a positional port
range as scanner "netcat" with scanKind "zero_io_connect", even when -z or
--zero is absent; preserve the existing null result for non-scan netcat commands
and reuse the existing argument/range-detection helper if available.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@lib/ai/tools/utils/cloud-port-scan-guard.ts`:
- Around line 13-20: Expand the SCANNER_NAMES set to include rustscan, zmap,
unicornscan, nping, and hping3 so these equivalent scanner invocations are
classified instead of returning null. Keep the existing scanner entries and
wrapper-resolution behavior unchanged.
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Review note on the optional scanner-coverage nit: this PR intentionally classifies the requested nmap, naabu, masscan, and netcat families. I am not adding nping or hping3 as unconditional blocks because they are also used for narrow packet-level diagnostics, and the remaining scanner families need tool-specific mode classification to avoid false positives. Command-substitution, eval, and xargs evasion are also outside this correctness guard; it is not an adversarial security boundary. The confirmed PTY-send and netcat-range gaps are fixed in 1bf5fab5.

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In `@lib/ai/tools/interact-terminal-session.ts`:
- Line 359: Update the PTY session input handling around classifyCloudPortScan
to retain unsubmitted shell text separately for each session, append each send
payload, and classify the accumulated line before forwarding input containing
the command terminator. Clear or retain buffered text according to line
boundaries, and add a regression test covering a scan split across two send
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@ross0x01 ross0x01 changed the title Block unreliable broad E2B port scans Strengthen generic Cloud Agent port-scan guidance Aug 31, 2026

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In `@lib/system-prompt.ts`:
- Line 223: Update the port-discovery prohibition in the system prompt to
explicitly include zero-I/O probes alongside broad TCP, UDP, and raw-socket
scans, and add a corresponding assertion in the system-prompt test suite to
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