KeiSeiKit-1.0/docs/SECURITY.md

Security model

What the kit touches, what it never touches, and the mitigations baked in.

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Threat surface overview

Risk	Where it lives	Mitigation
Memory-repo leaks session content	Sleep-sync pushes trace JSONL off-machine	Private repo enforced by wizard; [PATENT-IP] sessions skip push entirely
Hardcoded tokens in source	Edits by agents / humans	secrets-guard Rust hook (PreToolUse Edit|Write) blocks known token shapes
GitHub push of patent-sensitive content	git push command	no-github-push.sh hook + genesis-leak-guard.sh pre-commit symlink
Malicious GitHub Action tag re-point	.github/workflows/*.yml	SHA-pinning + validate-workflow-shas.sh + actionlint in CI
S3 SSRF / IMDS credential exfil	kei-store with custom endpoint	validate_endpoint rejects loopback / link-local / metadata hosts
Escape-sequence injection via brain name	keisei status / attach output	Control-byte sanitiser on every manifest-sourced string
Brain → $HOME pivot via symlink	keisei attach <USB>	Brain root rejected if symlink; mcp_server path must be relative + inside brain
SQLite WAL corruption on USB mount	keisei mount <exFAT drive>	Runtime advisory; exFAT/FAT32 warning in USB guide

Key mitigations in detail

Memory-repo must be private

Sleep-sync pushes your session traces (prompts, tool calls, file paths, code snippets) to a git repo you control. /sleep-setup Phase 1 warns loudly on PUBLIC visibility. A public memory-repo leaks everything your agents have seen.

If the session is marked [PATENT-IP] in the prompt or runs in a banned-project CWD, session-end-dump.sh skips the push entirely — local trace is kept, never leaves the machine.

No GitHub push for kit-internal state

RULE 0.1 forbids git push to github.com for any repo containing unfiled-patent IP. Kit ships genesis-leak-guard.sh as a pre-commit hook symlink template to keep patent-sensitive terms off any remote.

Override for legitimate public push: set env GENESIS_LEAK_BYPASS=1 for the single commit + document the bypass reason in the commit body. The hook logs every bypass to ~/.claude/memory/genesis-bypass-log.md.

Secrets by reference only

secrets-guard Rust hook blocks hardcoded tokens at PreToolUse(Edit|Write). Every SSH key, API key, deploy token lives in ~/.claude/secrets/.env (chmod 600, gitignored) or per-project secrets/*.env.

Hook detects these token shapes:

Pattern	Source
sk-[A-Za-z0-9]{20+}	OpenAI/Anthropic legacy
sk-ant-[A-Za-z0-9_-]{40+}	Anthropic current
ghp_[A-Za-z0-9]{36}	GitHub classic PAT
github_pat_[A-Za-z0-9_]{82}	GitHub fine-grained
xoxb-[0-9]+-[0-9]+-[A-Za-z0-9]+	Slack bot
[0-9]{8,10}:[A-Za-z0-9_-]{35}	Telegram bot
AKIA[A-Z0-9]{16}	AWS access key
-----BEGIN (RSA |EC |OPENSSH )?PRIVATE KEY-----	PEM private keys
Bearer [A-Za-z0-9._-]{20+}	generic bearer

Allowlist (no false-positives): env references ($VAR, os.environ[...], std::env::var(...)), placeholders (YOUR_TOKEN_HERE, <redacted>), safe paths (*/secrets/**, *.env.example).

Bypass for emergency: set env SECRETS_GUARD_BYPASS=1 on the single call.

Supply-chain defences

All GitHub Actions in .github/workflows/ are pinned by full commit SHA (defends against CVE-2025-30066-class mutable-tag attacks).

• scripts/validate-workflow-shas.sh verifies every pin exists upstream via git ls-remote
• scripts/install-actionlint.sh checks SHA-256 of the downloaded tarball before extraction
• scripts/lint-workflows.sh runs actionlint over every workflow file
• CI job workflow-lint runs all three on every push + PR (< 30 s)
• dependabot.yml raises weekly PRs for SHA updates across github-actions, npm, and cargo ecosystems

S3 / R2 / MinIO hardening

kei-store::s3_cloud::validate_endpoint rejects loopback, link-local, and cloud-metadata hosts by default to close the SSRF / IMDS-credential-leak surface:

• 127.0.0.0/8, ::1 (loopback)
• 169.254.0.0/16, fe80::/10 (link-local)
• metadata.google.internal, metadata.aws.internal (cloud metadata)

Plain HTTP requires opt-in via KEI_STORE_S3_ALLOW_INSECURE=1. When a custom (non-AWS) endpoint is set, explicit access_key_env + secret_key_env are REQUIRED — the AWS default credential chain is not consulted for non-AWS endpoints (closes the "IMDS credentials leaked to unrelated endpoint" path).

Brain attach-marker is owner-only

~/.keisei/attached.toml is chmod 0o600 on unix (Windows unchanged — no equivalent bit). Every manifest-sourced string printed by keisei status / attach / mount / detach is scrubbed through display::sanitize_display, which replaces every ASCII control byte (< 0x20 or == 0x7F) with ?. Closes the escape-sequence-injection surface from a malicious brain.name like "evil\x1b[2Jpayload" that would otherwise clear the user's terminal or rewrite already-printed lines.

manifest.toml is capped at 64 KiB — fs::metadata check runs before read_to_string so an attacker-supplied 1 GB file can't exhaust memory inside the TOML parser.

Brain path & name validation

• Brain mcp_server path MUST be relative + inside the brain root (rejects /usr/bin/curl, ../../etc/shadow, Windows-style ..\..\)
• Brain name matches ^[a-z][a-z0-9_-]{0,63}$
• Brain root rejected if it's a symlink (blocks USB → $HOME pivot)
• Adapters refuse to clobber existing mcpServers.<name> entries — explicit NameConflict error, no silent overwrite
• All config writes go through fsx::write_atomic_json (Windows-safe via tempfile::NamedTempFile::persist)

exFAT / FAT32 warning

SQLite WAL shared-memory mmap is unreliable on those filesystems; keisei mount (multi-client) WILL corrupt kei-memory / kei-artifact / kei-social-store DBs. Brain load prints an advisory when exFAT/FAT32 is detected via statfs(2). Single-client keisei attach on exFAT stays supported.

See USB-BRAIN-GUIDE-macos.md / -linux.md / -windows.md for APFS / ext4 / NTFS-native walkthroughs.

Battle-test matrix

Install-test battle matrix runs every profile against three base images before each release (tests/battle/):

Image	Libc	Known quirks
ubuntu:24.04	glibc	baseline; most widely deployed
alpine:3.19	musl	exposes musl-static-link issues in rusqlite, git2, aws-sdk-s3
debian:12 bookworm	glibc	different apt structure from Ubuntu

Assertions per run: blocks ≥ 82, skills ≥ 43, top hooks ≥ 12, _lib hooks ≥ 2; hooks/_lib/test-gate.sh runs; settings.json validates. "Does it work on a fresh machine?" signal before every version ships.

See tests/battle/README.md for running locally.

Rule references

For the underlying discipline: these mitigations are driven by rules in the user's Claude Code CLAUDE.md. The relevant ones:

• RULE 0.1 — NO GITHUB PUSH (unless patent-IP review clears)
• RULE 0.4 — NO HALLUCINATION / CITATION VERIFY
• RULE 0.8 — SECRETS SINGLE SOURCE
• RULE 0.10 — RECURRENCE ESCALATE (same mistake ≥2× → codify via /escalate-recurrence)
• RULE 0.13 — ORCHESTRATOR BRANCH FIRST (agents write files; orchestrator owns git)
• RULE 0.14 — SESSION SELF-AUDIT
• RULE 0.15 — SLEEP LAYER (three-phase nightly consolidation)

Secret hygiene

This repository is public. The .gitignore actively blocks commits of:

• .env / .env.* (except .env.example, .env.template)
• secrets/, **/secrets/
• Key files: *.pem, *.key, id_rsa*, id_ed25519*

If you accidentally stage a secret:

1. Do not push. Drop it from the working tree immediately.
2. Revoke the leaked credential at its provider dashboard.
3. Rotate any adjacent credentials that may share the leak context.
4. If already pushed to remote: rewrite history (git filter-repo) and force-push is NOT safe on a widely-cloned repo; prefer revoke + rotate + new-commit-atop.

The canonical secret store for Claude Code is ~/.claude/secrets/.env (chmod 600, RULE 0.8 in your personal umbrella). Project-specific tokens live at <repo>/secrets/<name>.env — both are .gitignore'd.