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Expose authenticated Pi session provenance to workflow actions - #8

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Expose the server-bound Pi session coordinator ID carried by an interactive workflow's server queue claim as an optional, read-only node context field. Foundry's integration health probe runs in pi-workflows' supervised separate process, not in Pi's extension process. It must match a live integration status receipt to the actual Pi session instead of accepting a model's or workflow input's claimed session ID. This does not add a policy scheduler, project lock, human approval, or model/provider identity.

  • run.start in interactive mode now requires the caller's live session coordinator connection and current epoch (with a reported branch), then derives the queued ID from that coordinator, ignoring any originSessionId claimed in its payload. A different socket claiming the same ID or a forged epoch is refused. This is a connection-bound claim within pi-workflows, not cryptographic authentication of the OS process or a blanket sandbox guarantee; untrusted worker socket access remains an independent G0 boundary.
  • Server attaches the queued ID to a runner's launch envelope only in interactive mode; headless runs carry null. Existing older envelopes without the optional field remain loadable and supply no identity.
  • Runner passes the value to WorkflowEngine; node callbacks receive optional context.originSessionId. The field is not serialized as run output or inherited from workflow input. A missing value must be treated as unavailable by consumers.
  • Unit and real server/child tests distinguish input and payload forgeries, a different socket's forged coordinator epoch, the live coordinator ID, and a headless run with no ID. The Pi extension passes its existing coordinator epoch for interactive starts; other workflow engine behavior remains unchanged.

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After responding to review findings and adjusting the affected client/test fixtures, npm run format:check, npm run lint, npm run typecheck, npm run build, and full npm test pass in an isolated fork worktree (116 files / 1,438 tests). Required current-head CI and independent review remain to be observed; no merge or full G1 acceptance is claimed by this PR.

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[warning] 2871-2871: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.writeFile(workflowPath, ${originalSource}\n// changed before worker load\n)
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  • New Features
    • Workflow actions now receive the originating session ID for interactive runs. Headless runs receive no session ID.
    • Interactive runs use session identity from the trusted server context rather than workflow input.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Interactive run requests without valid session authorization are rejected.
    • Blank session IDs are rejected.

Walkthrough

Interactive workflow runs now use the origin session authorized for the requesting connection. The server passes that ID through the runner to workflow node contexts. Headless runs use null in the launch envelope, and the engine omits the context property when no ID is present.

Changes

Session provenance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve session authority for run starts
src/extension/index.ts, src/server/server.ts, src/server/state.ts, test/server.test.ts, test/server-restart.test.ts, test/server-scheduler.test.ts, test/extension.test.ts
The extension sends session coordinator data with run starts. The server resolves interactive session authority from the requesting connection and records the authorized session ID in the launch envelope. Headless runs record null. Tests cover forged authority, restart and scheduler runs, headless output, and subscription loss.
Validate and expose the session ID
src/workflows/types.ts, src/workflows/engine.ts, src/server/workflow-runner-entry.ts, test/action-session-provenance.test.ts
Workflow options and node contexts define the optional origin session ID. The engine rejects invalid supplied IDs and includes valid IDs in node contexts. Tests check bound IDs, absent IDs, and invalid IDs.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Extension
  participant Server
  participant LaunchEnvelope
  participant runWorkflowRunner
  participant WorkflowEngine
  Extension->>Server: Send run.start with coordinator payload
  Server->>Server: Resolve authorized session for connection
  Server->>LaunchEnvelope: Record originSessionId
  LaunchEnvelope->>runWorkflowRunner: Provide launch data
  runWorkflowRunner->>WorkflowEngine: Pass originSessionId when defined
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 5271d

Interactive workflow actions receive the authorized session identity, while headless actions receive no session identity. No merge-blocking issue is established beyond normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5271d

Interactive workflow actions gain a session identity derived from the authorized connection rather than from workflow input. The reviewed path rejects a forged interactive identity and withholds the identity from headless actions. Deployment and independent validation evidence remains incomplete.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new identity exposure reaches callbacks executing an interactive workflow, not headless callbacks through the supervised launch path. It does not itself grant access to another session or tenant.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — A second client’s attempt to name the interactive session and forge its coordinator epoch is rejected in the changed server test. A fabricated ID in workflow input remains distinct from the ID delivered to the action.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Interactive identity crosses from a live, coordinator-bound connection into durable run state and then the runner. A headless caller-supplied ID remains in existing server binding and recovery metadata, but the headless runner receives null.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Claim-bound execution and identity-compatible adoption preserve the recorded interactive origin across repeated starts. The investigated cancellation, pause, and resume branches do not perform the same session-owner check, but their behavior predates this change; this PR does not establish a new authorization guarantee for those operations.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Consumers using this field for a security decision should require the supervised server-runner provenance path and treat an absent ID as unavailable; the public engine option alone proves only that a caller supplied a string.

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Inline comments:
In @src/server/server.ts:
- Line 4020: Update the originSessionId assignment in startRun to derive the
value from the authenticated Pi session rather than client-provided
payload.originSessionId, before inserting the run into the queue. Preserve the
existing execution-mode behavior while ensuring the queued record carries the
authenticated identity into the runner context.

In @test/server.test.ts:
- Line 3503: Update the interactive integration test’s startRun call to pass
input with originSessionId set to "fabricated", then assert the output retains
that input value while the launch envelope’s originSessionId remains
"server-test-session".

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[warning] 63-74: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.writeFile(
workflowPath,
import { compute, defineWorkflow } from ${JSON.stringify( path.resolve("src/workflows/index.ts"), )}; export default defineWorkflow({ name: "server-compute", startAt: "work", nodes: { work: compute({ run: ({ input, originSessionId }) => ({ input, pid: process.pid, originSessionId: originSessionId ?? null }) }) }, edges: [], });\n,
)
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').

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src/workflows/types.ts (1)

10-12: LGTM!

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411-411: LGTM!

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All actionable findings were addressed in the current head 5271d5e and review threads resolved after verifying the tests. Required CI is green. Please issue a current-head independent review decision; do not merge based on the older CHANGES_REQUESTED review.

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