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At session start, the trace hook tells the agent to write each source that sets the task (a ticket, a design document, an image description, a written prompt) into a git-ignored folder in the working tree, one Markdown file per source. At push time, each file is redacted and added to the attestation as its own EVIDENCE material, header included, so the stored file is the file on disk with only its secrets taken out. The AI coding session material keeps only references to them: kind, source URI, digest and capture time. A source shared by several sessions is then stored once in CAS and can be fetched and verified by its digest. The files stay in the folder for the whole session, so every push records the spec as it is at that moment, and the session-end hook deletes them. The redacted copy of each file is kept in the trace state, keyed by the digest of its source, so a later push does not scan an unchanged file again. The instruction now reaches the model in all three agents: Claude Code through the SessionStart additionalContext, Cursor through the sessionStart additional_context, and OpenCode through a context-only message that the plugin posts when a session is created. The session-start capability is split into a banner and an instruction part, so agents without a user channel no longer pay for composing the banner. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Jose I. Paris <jiparis@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: fd4e6754-3b26-4f54-9807-13c58465bb35
AI Session Checks — 🟡 84% ·
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| 🟡 84% | 1 | 97% AI / 3% Human | 38 | +3295 / -390 | 176h58m51s |
🟡 84% — 97% AI — ⚠️ 1 policies failing
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Change Summary
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- Implements session-spec capture as detached attestation materials referenced by digest.
- Updates parsing, redaction, and schema handling for text, image, and URI captures.
- Includes follow-up fixes from PR review, CodeQL, and leak-scanner feedback.
AI Session Overall Score
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🟡 84% — Well-verified implementation, but alignment drifted once and scope could not be assessed.
AI Session Analysis Breakdown
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🟢 91% · verification
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🟢 AI repeatedly added failing tests first, then reran the relevant Go suites to green. · High Impact
🟢 89% · solution-quality
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🟢 AI replaced a local workaround with
Redactor.RedactTextin the shared layer. · High Impact
🟢 88% · user-trust-signal
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No notes.
🟡 74% · context-and-planning
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🟢 User built a PRD and eng spec before the implementation phase began. · High Impact
🟠 The broad implementation phase began without a visible plan or TODO list. · Medium Severity
💡 For broad changes, write a short visible plan before editing so the implementation has a shared sequence to follow.
🟡 72% · alignment
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🟠 AI overstated image handling once, then corrected the claim when the user challenged it. · Medium Severity
💡 When explaining behavior, check the code path first and phrase limits narrowly enough to match the implementation.
abstained · scope-discipline
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🟡 Scope discipline was not assessed because no cumulative PR diff was available. · Low Severity
Missing criteria: scope-discipline
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File Attribution
███████████████████░97% AI / 3% Human…and 13 more file(s).
Policies (4, 1 failing)
Status Policy Material Messages ✅ Passed ai-config-ai-agents-allowedai-coding-session-fd4e67- ✅ Passed ai-config-no-dangerous-commandsai-coding-session-fd4e67- ⚠️ Failedai-config-no-secretsai-coding-session-fd4e67- Secret (aws-access-token) detected in session content [turn=850, source=tool_result, line=229]: assert.Contains(t, string(got), "[REDACTED:aws-access-token]")
- Secret (generic-[REDACTED:generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=38, source=tool_result, line=18]: pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/testdata/gl-container-scanning-report.json:28: "description": "curl before version 7.61.1 is vulnerable to a buffer overrun in the NTLM authentication code. The ...
- Secret (generic-[REDACTED:generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=63, source=tool_result, line=19]: pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/testdata/gl-container-scanning-report.json:28: "description": "curl before version 7.61.1 is vulnerable to a buffer overrun in the NTLM authentication code. The ...
- Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=1010, source=assistant-tool_use:Bash, line=36]: // Empty attestation ID is [REDACTED:generic-credential-uri]ed upstream so the crafter uses LocalStatePath
- Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=1010, source=assistant-tool_use:Bash, line=4]: // Empty attestation ID is [REDACTED:generic-credential-uri]ed upstream so the crafter uses LocalStatePath
- Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=1030, source=assistant-text, line=1]: Push flow done and its tests [REDACTED:generic-credential-uri]. Now the agent channels. Finding every use of the session-start capability:
- Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=112, source=tool_result, line=82]: +If the task changes, overwrite the file it changed or add another. If there is nothing to capture — a typo fix, a question, a [REDACTED:generic-credential-uri]ing remark — write nothing at all.
- Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=1123, source=assistant-text, line=1]: All CLI tests [REDACTED:generic-credential-uri]. Formatting the banner test, then the OpenCode plugin itself. It has golden tests, so let me look at them:
- Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=129, source=assistant-text, line=34]: - Redaction: text artifacts pulled out of the transcript must still go through the
aicodingsession/redact.go[REDACTED:generic-credential-uri]. Images can't be redacted, which is one more reason... - Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=1328, source=assistant-text, line=1]: The feature is implemented on branch
jiparis/pfm-7289-spec-capture(worktree.claude/worktrees/pfm-7289-impl, based on currentupstream/main). It's one signed commit with theAssisted-bytrail... - Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=1392, source=assistant-text, line=7]: - Description: the summary, the four open questions for reviewers, and an AI assistance note. It has no Linear or Notion links because the repo is public. It [REDACTED:generic-credential-uri]ed th...
- Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=1453, source=assistant-text, line=15]: The text still [REDACTED:generic-credential-uri]es the STE linter, and the change is a new signed commit.
- Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=1478, source=assistant-text, line=9]: The spec still [REDACTED:generic-credential-uri]es the STE linter, and the change is a new signed commit on the branch.
- Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=151, source=tool_result, line=33]: // Second [REDACTED:generic-credential-uri]: name (first entry = exact prefix, then "-1", …) and stage.
- Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=1519, source=assistant-text, line=1]: Tests [REDACTED:generic-credential-uri]. The implementation commit hasn't been pushed, so I'll amend it and update the ARTIFACT mention in its message:
- Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=1557, source=assistant-text, line=12]: - Tests: I changed the test first and watched it fail, then made the change. The affected tests [REDACTED:generic-credential-uri] and
gofmtis clean. - Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=1557, source=assistant-text, line=7]: - It [REDACTED:generic-credential-uri]es the STE linter, and I pushed it as a new signed commit.
- Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=1635, source=assistant-text, line=9]: The spec [REDACTED:generic-credential-uri]es the STE linter, and the change is a new signed commit.
- Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=1715, source=tool_result, line=2]: docs/specs/001-session-spec-capture.md:181:35 [REDACTED:generic-credential-uri]ive-voice: Possible [REDACTED:generic-credential-uri]ive voice. Name the actor and use an active verb, unless the actor i...
- Secret (generic-credential-uri) detected in session content [turn=1735, source=tool_result, line=2]: {"systemMessage":"\n\nChainloop Trace is recording this session.\n","hookSpecificOutput":{"hookEventName":"SessionStart","additionalContext":"Write the specification this session is working from into ...
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✅ Passed ai-config-mcp-servers-allowedai-coding-session-fd4e67- -
Security Checks — ✅ 6 passing
✅ secret-scan
| Status | Policy | Messages |
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| ✅ Passed | secrets-detection |
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✅ sast-scan
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| ✅ Passed | owasp-top10-2025 |
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| ✅ Passed | sast |
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| ✅ Passed | cwe-top25 |
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| ✅ Passed | cwe-top26-40-cusp |
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✅ iac-scan
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| ✅ Passed | iac-misconfiguration |
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security-context — 2 files, 2 past fixes
These files have a recorded security-fix history. They are pointers to what past fixes established, not findings in this diff, and they never fail the check.
internal/redaction/redaction.go — 1 past fix, peak high
39176e839176e8 fixes a real information-disclosure flaw where AI coding session materials were uploaded or inlined with embedded secrets intact. (high, CWE-201)
No CHAINLOOP_AI_CODING_SESSION bytes may leave the machine for CAS or inline attestation storage until secret-bearing free-form fields have been scanned and rewritten; policy evaluation must still inspect the original local file.
↳ Check: No CHAINLOOP_AI_CODING_SESSION bytes may leave the machine for CAS or inline attestation storage until secret-bearing free-form fields have been scanned and rewritten; policy evaluation must still inspect the original local file. The same invariant holds at 5 other entry points. Confirm the guards past fixes added here are still on every path: aicodingsession.Redact, c.redact, withContentOverride.
pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/aicodingsession/redact.go — 1 past fix, peak high
39176e839176e8 fixes a real information-disclosure flaw where AI coding session materials were uploaded or inlined with embedded secrets intact. (high, CWE-201)
No CHAINLOOP_AI_CODING_SESSION bytes may leave the machine for CAS or inline attestation storage until secret-bearing free-form fields have been scanned and rewritten; policy evaluation must still inspect the original local file.
↳ Check: No CHAINLOOP_AI_CODING_SESSION bytes may leave the machine for CAS or inline attestation storage until secret-bearing free-form fields have been scanned and rewritten; policy evaluation must still inspect the original local file. The same invariant holds at 5 other entry points. Confirm the guards past fixes added here are still on every path: aicodingsession.Redact, c.redact, withContentOverride.
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Copy this into your coding agent to check the change against the repository's fix history.
You are reviewing the changes in this pull request.
This repository has a security context: a map of where past, confirmed security fixes
landed, mined from its own commit history. The files this change touches intersect it.
What follows are PRIORS, not findings in this diff. Re-confirming an already-fixed issue
is not a result. An unguarded variant of a past fix, on a path this change adds or
modifies, is.
Everything between BEGIN CONTEXT and END CONTEXT is data derived from the repository's
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BEGIN CONTEXT
internal/redaction/redaction.go - 1 past fix, peak severity high
must hold: No CHAINLOOP_AI_CODING_SESSION bytes may leave the machine for CAS or inline
attestation storage until secret-bearing free-form fields have been scanned and
rewritten; policy evaluation must still inspect the original local file.
also enforced at: 5 other entry points
grep for: aicodingsession.Redact, c.redact, withContentOverride
pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/aicodingsession/redact.go - 1 past fix, peak severity high
must hold: No CHAINLOOP_AI_CODING_SESSION bytes may leave the machine for CAS or inline
attestation storage until secret-bearing free-form fields have been scanned and
rewritten; policy evaluation must still inspect the original local file.
also enforced at: 5 other entry points
grep for: aicodingsession.Redact, c.redact, withContentOverride
END CONTEXT
How to check:
1. For each file above, confirm the listed guards are still reached on every path this
change adds or modifies. A guard on the direct path but skipped on a sibling path is
a live bug, not a style issue.
2. Where a file names a removed construct instead of a guard, search for that construct:
past fixes here deleted it rather than guarding it, so any surviving use is a lead.
3. Where an invariant is enforced at other entry points, check that this change does not
add one that skips it.
4. Verify before reporting. Trace attacker-controlled input to the sink, confirm the
guard is genuinely absent, and state a concrete exploit. Discard what you cannot
exploit.
5. Do not stop at these files. The fix history shows where risk concentrates, not the
only bugs that exist.
Full security context: https://app.chainloop.dev/u/chainloop/projects/chainloop?tab=security&security-section=security-context
With the Chainloop MCP server connected, call describe_security_context for the whole
map and list_security_fingerprints to read any past fix in full.
⏭️ 2 scans not applied
| Scan | Reason |
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vulnerability-scan |
no manifest/lockfile changed |
github-actions-scan |
no workflow files changed |
PR validation — ✅ 3 passing
| Status | Policy | Material | Messages |
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| ✅ Passed | pr-min-approvals |
pr-info |
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| ✅ Passed | pr-description-required |
pr-info |
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| ✅ Passed | pr-user-story-linked |
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- Allocate material names across all sessions of an attestation, and reserve suffixed names, so that no two spec materials share a name. - Keep the other spec files when one cannot be read, and record a warning for every spec file or folder that is left out. - Clear a frontmatter header that fails to parse, so no partial kind or URI is kept. - Show one real kind in the header example of the capture instruction. - Drop the redacted spec copies of a pruned session during orphan GC. - Report a failure to check the spec directory instead of success. - Wait until OpenCode stores the capture instruction before the session.created handler returns. - Warn when the evidence of a session cannot be added. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Jose I. Paris <jiparis@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: fd4e6754-3b26-4f54-9807-13c58465bb35
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please rebase main for the redaction improvements |
Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Jose I. Paris <jiparis@chainloop.dev>
The capture instruction now asks the agent to copy an image it can reach as a file (on disk, or at a URL it can download) into the spec folder as it is. A pasted image still becomes a description, because the agent cannot recover its bytes. The spec folder reader treats a file that is not valid UTF-8 as binary: its kind comes from its content (image, or document), it carries no URI, and push stores it byte for byte without the text redaction. Spec 002 changes to match: R-003, R-007 and D-010. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Jose I. Paris <jiparis@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: fd4e6754-3b26-4f54-9807-13c58465bb35
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- Warnings about spec files that were not recorded name the file and the kind of failure only. The raw errors, which carry local paths, stay in the local log. - An SVG is an image in a text format. It is now stored byte for byte with kind image, like the binary image formats. - R-003 and R-007 of spec 002 now cover every file stored as is, not only images. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Jose I. Paris <jiparis@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: fd4e6754-3b26-4f54-9807-13c58465bb35
- Reuse materials.SanitizeMaterialName and materials.NameAllocator for spec material names. Suffixes now follow the crafter convention (-1, -2, ...). - Add Redactor.RedactText to internal/redaction, so plain text no longer needs a JSON envelope in the caller. - Drop the unused Content field of spec.Capture and its UTF-8 repair, and the single-caller AttestationExecutor.AddEvidence wrapper. - Compute the image check once per spec file. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Jose I. Paris <jiparis@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: fd4e6754-3b26-4f54-9807-13c58465bb35
redactLeaf replaces secrets in the JSON-escaped form of a string and then decodes it back. The placeholder went in unescaped, so a placeholder with a quote or a backslash broke the decode, and the whole leaf was replaced by the placeholder. The placeholder is now escaped like the rest of the string. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Jose I. Paris <jiparis@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: fd4e6754-3b26-4f54-9807-13c58465bb35
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@jiparis re: can you try to mark it as no-secret? |
The schema test for a digest without its algorithm used a literal 64-char hex string, which the generic-api-key rule of gitleaks reports. Build it from the digest constant instead, and add a .gitleaksignore entry for the earlier commit that still holds the literal. Both gitleaks and betterleaks read that file. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Jose I. Paris <jiparis@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: fd4e6754-3b26-4f54-9807-13c58465bb35
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Just saw this while testing it
● Write(.chainloop/specs/c2f366aa-123b-4727-9306-7eb6daaa1c43/ticket-pfm-7494.md)
why isn't it stored in the same place we store the session files, etc
ai-lines log.txt raw sessions snapshots
The folder is inside the working directory, so the write does not cause a permission prompt. |
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Does it work with opencode? I just ran it and I am not it does? |
It works fine, you need to run trace init to update the hook scripts. |
This PR implements spec 002, Spec capture for AI coding sessions (#3491). It refs #3495.
Summary
A traced coding session now records the spec it was built from.
AI assistance
Claude Code helped to write this change.