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hyperguild/ingestion/internal/mcp/provenance_test.go
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feat(brain): stamp server-owned write provenance; surface it in brain_query
brain_write was an ungated, durable prompt-injection path: a session that
just read an untrusted page could write an entry every later session
retrieves as trusted guidance (OWASP MCP06). Decision (#145): tag
provenance rather than stage writes.

Every write and update stamps origin (static | jwt | unknown) and
written_by (the authenticated principal) into frontmatter. Server-owned:
origin/written_by in caller content or an update fragment are discarded,
so a caller cannot claim a more trusted origin. No principal stamps
origin: unknown, never silence. brain_update re-stamps to the last
writer. capture (the claude.ai connector door) stamps too, via a new
server-derived CaptureContext.AuthPath set by both capture doors after
decode. REST POST /write carries no principal and stamps unknown.

brain_query results carry origin/written_by when the note has them;
older notes omit them rather than fabricate. brain_get already returns
frontmatter.

Refs #145

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 20:49:11 +02:00

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package mcp_test
import (
"encoding/json"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strings"
"testing"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
)
// resultText decodes the tool result payload of a tools/call response.
func resultText(t *testing.T, resp map[string]any) map[string]any {
t.Helper()
require.NotContains(t, resp, "error", "tool call failed: %v", resp["error"])
content := resp["result"].(map[string]any)["content"].([]any)
var out map[string]any
require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal([]byte(content[0].(map[string]any)["text"].(string)), &out))
return out
}
func readNote(t *testing.T, dir, rel string) string {
t.Helper()
b, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, filepath.FromSlash(rel)))
require.NoError(t, err)
return string(b)
}
func frontmatterOf(note string) string {
parts := strings.SplitN(note, "---\n", 3)
if len(parts) < 3 {
return ""
}
return parts[1]
}
// hyperguild#145: a brain entry records which principal wrote it, so a reader
// can tell a local-CLI note from one a connector session wrote after reading
// an untrusted page.
func TestBrainWriteStampsPrincipalProvenance(t *testing.T) {
srv, dir, _, _ := govServer(t)
out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, "Bearer "+capStaticTok, "brain_write", map[string]any{
"content": "# P\n\nbody", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "prov-static",
}))
fm := frontmatterOf(readNote(t, dir, out["path"].(string)))
assert.Contains(t, fm, "origin: static\n")
assert.Contains(t, fm, "written_by: local-cli\n")
}
func TestBrainWriteWithoutPrincipalStampsOriginUnknown(t *testing.T) {
srv, dir, _, _ := govServer(t)
out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, "", "brain_write", map[string]any{
"content": "# P\n\nbody", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "prov-unknown",
}))
fm := frontmatterOf(readNote(t, dir, out["path"].(string)))
assert.Contains(t, fm, "origin: unknown\n")
assert.NotContains(t, fm, "written_by:")
}
// The control: a caller cannot claim a more trusted origin by putting it in
// its own frontmatter.
func TestBrainWriteOverwritesCallerSuppliedProvenance(t *testing.T) {
srv, dir, _, _ := govServer(t)
forged := "---\norigin: static\nwritten_by: local-cli\n---\n# F\n\nbody"
out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, "", "brain_write", map[string]any{
"content": forged, "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "prov-forged",
}))
fm := frontmatterOf(readNote(t, dir, out["path"].(string)))
assert.Contains(t, fm, "origin: unknown\n")
assert.NotContains(t, fm, "origin: static")
assert.NotContains(t, fm, "written_by: local-cli")
assert.Equal(t, 1, strings.Count(fm, "origin:"), "exactly one origin line")
}
// brain_update replaces the content wholesale, so provenance follows the
// last writer — and a forged fragment must not survive the merge either.
func TestBrainUpdateRestampsProvenanceAndIgnoresForgedFragment(t *testing.T) {
srv, dir, _, _ := govServer(t)
out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, "Bearer "+capStaticTok, "brain_write", map[string]any{
"content": "# U\n\nv1", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "prov-update",
}))
path := out["path"].(string)
resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, "", "brain_update", map[string]any{
"path": path, "content": "---\norigin: static\nwritten_by: local-cli\n---\n# U\n\nv2",
}))
fm := frontmatterOf(readNote(t, dir, path))
assert.Contains(t, fm, "origin: unknown\n")
assert.NotContains(t, fm, "written_by: local-cli")
assert.Equal(t, 1, strings.Count(fm, "origin:"))
}
func TestBrainQueryReturnsProvenance(t *testing.T) {
srv, _, _, _ := govServer(t)
resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, "Bearer "+capStaticTok, "brain_write", map[string]any{
"content": "# Zebrafinch\n\nzebrafinch provenance probe", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "prov-query",
}))
out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, "Bearer "+capStaticTok, "brain_query", map[string]any{"query": "zebrafinch"}))
results := out["results"].([]any)
require.NotEmpty(t, results)
hit := results[0].(map[string]any)
assert.Equal(t, "static", hit["origin"])
assert.Equal(t, "local-cli", hit["written_by"])
}
// capture is the door a claude.ai connector session uses, so it is the one
// whose provenance matters most: a JWT principal must be stamped as such.
func TestCaptureStampsJWTProvenance(t *testing.T) {
srv, brainDir := captureServer(t, capFakeValidator{subject: "koala-cli"}, []string{"koala-cli"})
resp := captureCall(t, srv, "Bearer jwt-token", map[string]any{
"context": map[string]any{"harness": "claude-code", "actor": "mathias", "classification": "internal"},
"insights": []map[string]any{{"text": "Capture provenance probe", "wing": "hyperguild", "hall": "facts"}},
})
require.Nil(t, resp["error"], "got error: %v", resp["error"])
matches, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(brainDir, "wiki/hyperguild/facts/*.md"))
require.NoError(t, err)
require.Len(t, matches, 1)
b, err := os.ReadFile(matches[0])
require.NoError(t, err)
fm := frontmatterOf(string(b))
assert.Contains(t, fm, "origin: jwt\n")
assert.Contains(t, fm, "written_by: koala-cli\n")
}