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Two guarded-mode false-positives surfaced in real scan traces. The reviewer blocked a boolean SQL injection probe (`curl "…/login?username='+OR+'1'='1"`) for being an injection attempt at all, though it is a read-only GET that changes nothing. The prompt said "allow only non-destructive" but never established that in-scope offensive testing is the tool's authorized purpose, so the model blocked on the technique. Rewrite the guarded-mode guidance to judge by effect: in-scope injection probes, recon, enumeration, and fuzzing pass, while destructive or persistent effects block — with SQL spelled out (boolean/UNION/time-based read probes pass; DROP, DELETE, INSERT, INTO OUTFILE, stacked statements, and command execution block). Ambiguous evidence still fails closed, and every deterministic block, the completeness gate, observe's passive-only rule, and scope enforcement are kept. Separately the reviewer blocked a plain `curl` as "use of bash shell within a curl command". The shell wrapper stamps `shell: bash` onto every exec_command for execution, and the evidence packet passed that transport default straight to the reviewer, which read it as the agent invoking a shell. Strip the harness-injected transport keys (`shell`, `max_output_tokens`) from the packet's original_arguments; the command itself is still parsed from `cmd`, so an agent-authored `bash -c` payload is unaffected. Note: the effect-based prompt also lets in-scope recon tools (nmap, subfinder, ffuf, katana) through, which the old prompt blocked as "scanning" or "high volume". That follows directly from judging by effect rather than technique. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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---
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title: "Safety Modes"
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description: "Control state-changing actions during a scan"
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---
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Safety mode is independent of scan depth. `quick`, `standard`, and `deep`
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control coverage; safety mode controls which effects may be executed.
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```bash
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strix --target https://example.test --safety-mode guarded
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```
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## Modes
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| Mode | Behavior |
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| --- | --- |
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| `off` | Current autonomous behavior. Local directories are mounted live and writable. |
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| `guarded` | Allows non-destructive interaction after contextual review, including in-scope offensive testing — injection probes, recon, enumeration, fuzzing. Actions judged destructive or persistent (data or state change, account changes, file writes, stored payloads) are blocked. |
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| `observe` | Passive target interaction only. Form submission, authentication, uploads, mutating requests, and state-changing controls are blocked. |
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`off` is the default for backward compatibility. Configure a default with
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`STRIX_SAFETY_MODE` or select a mode for one run with `--safety-mode`.
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## Contextual Review
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Before an ambiguous shell or browser action executes, Strix compiles a frozen
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evidence packet containing the effective command, target scope, relevant script
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source and imports, prior tool-call evidence, browser snapshot context, and
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workspace persistence details.
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The safety model may decide immediately or make exactly one `run_inspection`
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tool call. That call runs a Python standard-library analysis script in a
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separate networkless, read-only container over the frozen evidence. If the tool
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is used, the model's next response must be the final decision.
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The review is bounded to at most two model turns and one optional inspection
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call. Timeouts, malformed decisions, a second tool call, incomplete evidence,
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or low-confidence approval fail closed.
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In guarded mode the reviewer judges an action by its effect on the target, not
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by the technique it uses. Offensive testing against an in-scope target is the
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authorized purpose of the tool, so a read-only injection probe (a boolean,
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`UNION SELECT`, or time-based payload), a reflected-input test, or recon passes;
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a payload that writes or destroys (`DROP`, `DELETE`, `INSERT`, `INTO OUTFILE`,
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stacked statements, command execution), a mutating request, or any persistent
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change is blocked. When complete evidence does not settle whether the effect is
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destructive, persistent, or in scope, the action is blocked.
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## Deterministic Rules
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Some outcomes never reach the model. Destructive commands, environment
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overrides that change which code an interpreter loads (`PYTHONPATH`,
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`LD_PRELOAD`, `AGENT_BROWSER_SESSION`, and similar), blocked browser actions,
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and mutating requests in `observe` mode are refused outright. A small set of
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read-only commands is allowed outright, but only when its options are also
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read-only: `rg --pre` and anything else that hands the command another program
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to run goes to review instead.
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Browser observation commands are allowed outright only in the form that just
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reads: `tab` lists tabs, but `tab new <url>` navigates and `tab close` discards
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page state, so a grouped verb with a subcommand goes to review and is blocked
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in `observe`.
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Commands that wrap another program (`sudo`, `timeout`, `xargs`, `nohup`, and
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similar) and interactive `write_stdin` payloads cannot be resolved to a single
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effective action before dispatch, so they are blocked. Issue the command as its
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own `exec_command` call.
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## Scripts
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When a command executes a script, Strix reads the current entrypoint and local
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Python imports without importing or running them. Inline `python -c` source is
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analyzed the same way. Absolute imports resolve against the entrypoint's
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directory and relative imports against the importing module's package, and an
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imported name is followed as a submodule as well as an attribute, so the whole
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local closure is inspected. Decisions bind to content hashes. Dynamic code
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execution, import-path mutation, unresolved generated commands, oversized
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dependency closures, entrypoints outside `/workspace`, and unsupported evidence
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block the action.
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A command that runs code Strix cannot resolve to an inspectable script — an
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unrecognized interpreter, or an interpreter given no script — is blocked rather
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than reviewed against an empty evidence packet.
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Browser automation inside scripts is blocked in safety modes. Issue browser
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operations as individual raw `agent-browser` commands so each action can be
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reviewed against the current snapshot and element references.
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Commands that create and execute code in one shell expression should be split
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into separate creation and execution calls.
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## Browser Commands
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Strix continues to use the raw `agent-browser` CLI. In safety modes it assigns
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an isolated browser session per agent and rejects model-supplied session,
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profile, or CDP overrides.
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Interactions with element references require a prior recorded snapshot. A
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snapshot taken before a navigation or any other page-changing action is stale:
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the action is blocked and the agent must snapshot again.
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Composite operations such as `auth login`, arbitrary `eval`, browser state
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persistence, and uploads are blocked. Guarded login should use explicit fill
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and submit steps with credentials supplied in the initial user instruction.
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## Workspace Isolation
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For `guarded` and `observe`, user-owned local directories are copied into:
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```text
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strix_runs/<run>/.state/workspaces/<name>
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```
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The copy is mounted writable, while the original source remains unchanged.
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`.git`, `.agents`, and `.codex` inside the copy stay read-only: they carry
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repository and agent-instruction state that survives `--resume`. Copies are
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retained for resume. Repository targets are already cloned into a disposable
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location and do not need another copy.
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In-tree symlinks are materialized. Dangling, cyclic, device, and out-of-tree
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symlinks are omitted. Files are copied rather than hard-linked.
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## Limitations
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Contextual review reduces accidental harmful actions; it is not a complete
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network containment boundary. Arbitrary dynamic programs, raw sockets, or
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processes that ignore proxy settings cannot always be predicted statically.
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Unresolvable behavior blocks in safety modes.
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Deterministic rules cover the cases listed above. Every other command is judged
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by the safety model against compiled evidence, so a tool whose effects are not
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statically recognizable — a scanner or exploit framework that mutates the
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target through its own protocol, for example — rests on that judgment rather
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than on a rule. Strong containment additionally requires externally enforced
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egress policy and reduced sandbox privileges.
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