HoundShield Local Scanner — one engine, both surfaces, proof it never phones home

[thecelestialmismatch]

Summary

The after-login dashboard sent the customer's pasted text off their machine. components/dashboard/live-scanner.tsx:81 POSTed it to /api/scan, which forwards to two third-party AI vendors. On a product sold to organisations handling CUI and PHI, the one place a logged-in customer was invited to paste a real prompt was the one place it left their device — and even with both vendor keys unset the text still reached the hosted plane, which CLAUDE.md records as not the CUI data path and not FedRAMP-authorized.

/command-center/scanner now runs the same in-browser engine as the public demo. The route and its nav entry already existed, so this needed no new route and no nav change. The cloud scanner component is deleted.

Closes #

Change type

• Bug fix
• New capability
• Security hardening
• Documentation or developer-experience improvement
• Refactor or maintenance
• Breaking change

Impact and operating considerations

• Authentication, sessions, identity, or authorization
• Sensitive-data handling, logging, telemetry, or outbound requests
• Database schema, migrations, retention, or access controls
• Deployment, environment variables, integrations, or scheduled work
• Evidence, reporting, or audit-chain behavior
• Proxy detection, policy evaluation, block/quarantine behavior, or performance

Operational impact, threat-model note, and rollback plan:

This removes an egress path rather than adding one: pasted text in the dashboard no longer leaves the browser. No new environment variable, no migration, no schema change. Detection patterns are untouched — CLAUDE.md requires compliance-specialist before any engine change, and the fix here is a defensive bound in the caller.

/api/scan is left in place but now has zero runtime callers. It remains public and unauthenticated and still performs outbound vendor calls. Flagged, not removed — that was a separate decision.

Rollback: revert the commit. Nothing outside the app changes.

Validation

• Web plane: npx tsc --noEmit
• Web plane: npm run lint
• Web plane: npm run test:coverage
• Web plane: npm run build
• Proxy: npm run test:coverage
• Proxy: npm run bench — not run; no proxy source changed
• Manual verification (below)

Results:

Gate	Result
npx tsc --noEmit	0 (both packages)
npm run test	3073 passed / 217 files (was 3064/216)
npm run lint	0 errors; 0 warnings in any touched file (warning list intersected with changed list)
npm run build	exit 0
Proxy	92 tests, tsc 0
scripts/smoke-local-scan.mjs	53/53

Browser proof. scripts/smoke-local-scan.mjs drives the on-disk Chromium over CDP against the production build with the Network domain enabled and asserts zero data-bearing requests during scan and PDF generation, across nine adversarial inputs: base64-smuggled CUI, hex-smuggled, zero-width joiners, homoglyphs, CRLF, whitespace-only, 60k realistic, and an 80k unbroken run. Two independent measurements agree — CDP's log and the page's own witness both read zero. No planted secret reached the DOM or the redacted preview. The auth-gated dashboard route is reported SKIPPED, never passed.

Mode B verified (no Docker available in CI container): booted the proxy directly, sent the demo prompt → HTTP 403 CAGE code (AC.L2-3.1.3), one audit event recorded, and the audit store confirmed to contain no raw CUI value.

Two ruggedness defects, both found by measuring

1. The browser scan never decoded base64 or hex. The server-side decoder is built on Node's Buffer, so it could not run in a browser — the demo under-reported its own engine and encoded CUI passed it. There is now an atob/TextDecoder equivalent, and findings state which encoding hid them.

2. The input ceiling was guessed at 200,000 chars, and the suite caught it — the scan blew a 5-second timeout. Benchmarking showed cost is not driven by size but by the length of a single unbroken non-whitespace run, because several shipped patterns backtrack across a uniform character class:

input	before	after
realistic, with whitespace · 100,000 chars	38 ms	51 ms
one unbroken run · 50,000 chars	10,030 ms	21 ms

Bounding the shape rather than the input fixes it while leaving realistic pastes untouched, and the decode path still sees the original so base64 CUI is still caught (asserted). A perf guard locks the numbers in.

The proof panel

"Your prompt never leaves your device" was prose, and prose cannot fail. It is now an instrument: the page wraps fetch, XMLHttpRequest, navigator.sendBeacon and WebSocket for the duration of the scan and renders the count, listing anything observed rather than summarising it away. Scoped to the scan window on purpose — a counter running for the page lifetime would eventually catch route prefetching and cry wolf. Plus a counts-only proof receipt hashed in-browser with crypto.subtle, so it can be re-hashed independently.

Guards — each probe-tested red, then green

• lib/scan/__tests__/no-network.test.ts walks the engine's transitive import graph and fails if it reaches an I/O module or contains an outbound call. Comments are stripped first, since the engine's own docblock explains the boundary in those words.
• components/scan/__tests__/theme-parity.test.tsx pins both the token map and the rendering. Probing found the first version only compared the DOM against the map, so corrupting the map moved the goalposts.

Also

docs/LAUNCH-CHECKLIST-2026-06.md directed an outreach wave at assessor organisations that are legally prohibited from recommending tools to clients they assess (32 CFR Part 170 / ISO 17020) — on the NEVER-DO list — and sold $159/mo with eight price-IDs for tiers that do not exist. Rewritten against Stage 1 as LAUNCH-CHECKLIST.md; the old path now serves the correction rather than 404ing.

Two guards reading git ls-files now filter by existence, so a tracked-but-unstaged deletion no longer fails them for an unrelated reason.

Review checklist

• The change is focused and does not include unrelated refactoring.
• Tests cover changed behavior, or the omission is explained above.
• No credentials, customer data, sensitive prompts, or production exports were added.
• Public claims are scoped, evidence-based, and consistent with the selected deployment boundary.
• Documentation and configuration guidance were updated where needed.
• Database migrations, configuration changes, and rollout dependencies are documented where applicable.
• I performed a self-review and addressed obvious failure paths.

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Updates to Preview Branch (claude/houndshield-local-scanner) ↗︎

Deployments	Status	Updated
Database	✅	Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:03:24 UTC
Services	✅	Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:03:24 UTC
APIs	✅	Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:03:24 UTC

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Close and reopen this PR if you want to apply changes from existing seed or migration files.

Tasks	Status	Updated
Configurations	✅	Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:03:26 UTC
Migrations	❌	Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:03:28 UTC
Seeding	⏸️	Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:03:16 UTC
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ERROR: functions in index expression must be marked IMMUTABLE (SQLSTATE 42P17)
At statement: 9
-- Proxy uses service role (bypasses RLS) so no INSERT policy needed for anon

-- Indexes
create index if not exists ue_org_month_idx
  on public.usage_events (org_id, date_trunc('month', recorded_at))

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[thecelestialmismatch]

Supabase Preview ❌ — pre-existing, not this PR

Not fixing it here, and here is the evidence it isn't mine. This branch changes 0 files under the repo-root supabase/ directory (git diff origin/main...HEAD --name-only | grep '^supabase/' → empty), and the failing statement is already on main.

Root cause

ERROR: functions in index expression must be marked IMMUTABLE (SQLSTATE 42P17)
create index if not exists ue_org_month_idx
  on public.usage_events (org_id, date_trunc('month', recorded_at));

recorded_at is timestamptz. The date_trunc(text, timestamptz) overload is STABLE, not IMMUTABLE, because it reads the session TimeZone — so Postgres refuses it inside an index expression. The timestamp-without-tz overload is immutable, which is why this shape looks fine at a glance.

It is four indexes, not one — lines 93, 96, 99 and 102 of supabase/migrations/001_initial.sql. The check reports the first and stops.

The bigger finding

The integration watches the repo-root supabase/ directory. That directory holds one migration file — the broken one. The real schema lives elsewhere:

Directory	.sql migrations on main
supabase/migrations/ (repo root, watched)	1
compliance-firewall-agent/supabase/migrations/ (real)	36

So this check has never validated a real migration, and the single file it can see has never applied anywhere. tasks/todo.md recorded the directory mismatch; this run is the confirmation.

Proposed fix — a topology decision, deliberately not made in this PR

The tempting one-liner is wrong. Making the four indexes immutable (date_trunc('month', recorded_at AT TIME ZONE 'UTC')) would turn the check green by successfully applying a schema that is not the product's schema, producing a divergent preview database and a green tick that means less than the red one does.

The real fix is to point the integration at the schema that ships:

1. Set the integration's migrations directory to compliance-firewall-agent/supabase/, and
2. Delete the stale repo-root supabase/ directory, or reconcile it if anything still depends on it.

Both are settings rather than code in this diff, and choosing one silently would set the deploy topology as a side effect — the same class of mismatch that previously disabled three subsystems at once via a root-directory setting.

Consequence for this PR

Migration 037_snapshot_leads.sql is unvalidated by CI and must be applied manually. /api/health reports snapshot_lead_store: missing_migration and names the file until it is, so the gap is loud rather than silent. The migration is plain DDL — no functions, no index expressions, no dependencies on other migrations.

Vercel Preview is green on this branch.

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