fix: trust generated HTTPS certificates for Git agents - #107
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 1 included review per hour; 0 remain after this review. WalkthroughHTTPS Git-agent enrollment now exchanges generated certificate trust data, persists it with agent credentials, validates sidecar certificate reuse, and passes CA paths and public-key pins into dispatch transport configuration. ChangesGit-agent HTTPS trust
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GitAgent
participant joinSupervisor
participant EnsureTLSCredential
participant Supervisor
participant DispatchTransport
GitAgent->>joinSupervisor: start HTTPS enrollment
joinSupervisor->>EnsureTLSCredential: generate or load sidecar credential
EnsureTLSCredential-->>joinSupervisor: certificate and public-key pin
joinSupervisor->>Supervisor: send EnrollRequest with trust data
Supervisor-->>GitAgent: record enrollment trust
DispatchTransport->>GitAgent: dispatch using CA path and pinned public key
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Git-agent task dispatch normally uses SSH, while upcoming sidecar control requests require HTTPS. A sidecar using Captain's generated certificate could enroll successfully, but the supervisor never received that certificate and could not verify later HTTPS requests. Send generated sidecar trust during enrollment, persist a supervisor-local copy, and carry it through the shared transport target. Keep operator-supplied certificates on normal system trust and require re-enrollment when generated trust changes.
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In `@pkg/cli/gitagent_directory.go`:
- Around line 218-220: Update RecordAgent and the surrounding certificate/roster
commit flow so writing the dispatch certificate via writeDispatchCertificateFile
and updating the roster via captainconfig.Update are atomic and serialized.
Ensure the committed caPath, PinnedPublicKey, and URL always refer to the same
enrollment, using synchronization or versioned certificate paths without
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Make certificate persistence and roster updates atomic.
RecordAgent atomically replaces dispatch-certificates/<agent>.crt before captainconfig.Update commits the roster. Concurrent enrollments can complete these operations in different orders. The final caPath can then contain one enrollment's certificate while PinnedPublicKey and URL belong to another, causing HTTPS validation to fail. Serialize both operations or use versioned certificate paths and commit the selected path with the roster entry.
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In `@pkg/cli/gitagent_directory.go` around lines 218 - 220, Update RecordAgent and
the surrounding certificate/roster commit flow so writing the dispatch
certificate via writeDispatchCertificateFile and updating the roster via
captainconfig.Update are atomic and serialized. Ensure the committed caPath,
PinnedPublicKey, and URL always refer to the same enrollment, using
synchronization or versioned certificate paths without changing unrelated
behavior.
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Captain cannot send HTTPS requests to a Git-agent sidecar when the sidecar uses its automatically generated certificate. Enrollment succeeds and the supervisor records the sidecar’s address and access token, but it never receives the certificate needed to verify that address. The secure connection is rejected before the request reaches the sidecar. This blocks PR #102, which needs to send setup and cleanup requests to the sidecar over HTTPS.
Remote task dispatch works today because it normally uses SSH, not this HTTPS path.
This change sends the generated certificate during enrollment so the supervisor can verify later HTTPS requests. Publicly trusted certificates are unchanged.
Fixes #104 and unblocks #102.
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