"""Risk classes for tools — the intrinsic side-effect category that drives permission gating (and, later in Phase 2, unattended Inbox routing). This replaces the hardcoded ``WRITE_TOOLS`` / ``SHELL_TOOL`` name sets the permission engine used to carry inline: risk is now a declared property a single ``classify`` reads. A tool's *effective* risk = an optional user-local override (Phase 2) ?? the base classification here. Built-in vetted tools are classified by name; anything else falls back to its aisuite metadata (``requires_approval`` → external) or is treated as read. """ from __future__ import annotations from enum import Enum from typing import Any, Callable, Optional class RiskClass(str, Enum): READ = "read" # no side effects — always allowed EGRESS = "egress" # reaches the network — the request itself can carry data off-machine WRITE_LOCAL = "write_local" # mutates the workspace — path-scoped + mode-gated EXEC = "exec" # runs commands — mode-gated EXTERNAL = "external" # side effects off the machine — the unattended Inbox hook # Built-in tools whose risk is fixed by name (the old WRITE_TOOLS / SHELL_TOOL, as data). WRITE_TOOLS = {"write_file", "replace_in_file", "apply_patch", "apply_unified_diff"} SHELL_TOOL = "run_shell" # Model-chosen network egress. `web_fetch` takes a URL straight from the model and the # URL's path/query can carry data outbound, so it is NOT a pure read — it must reach the # gate. `web_search` reaches a FIXED destination (the configured provider), but its query # is model-chosen free text — the same outbound channel — so it gates too (spec §2.2). EGRESS_TOOLS = {"web_fetch", "web_search"} _BASE: dict[str, RiskClass] = { **{name: RiskClass.WRITE_LOCAL for name in WRITE_TOOLS}, SHELL_TOOL: RiskClass.EXEC, **{name: RiskClass.EGRESS for name in EGRESS_TOOLS}, } # How much attention each class demands, for the override-tightening rule below. Higher = # stricter. EXEC and WRITE_LOCAL are the crown jewels (path scoping / command gating). _STRICTNESS: dict[RiskClass, int] = { RiskClass.READ: 0, RiskClass.EGRESS: 1, RiskClass.EXTERNAL: 2, RiskClass.WRITE_LOCAL: 3, RiskClass.EXEC: 3, } # A user-local override resolver: tool name -> RiskClass (or None to defer to the base). RiskOverrides = Callable[[str], Optional["RiskClass"]] def classify( tool_name: str, metadata: Any = None, overrides: Optional[RiskOverrides] = None ) -> RiskClass: """Effective risk of a tool call. A user override may *relax* a metadata/MCP tool (the intended use — quieting an over-cautious plug-in), but may only ever **tighten** a built-in write/exec/egress tool, never loosen it. Downgrading a built-in write to a read would switch off path scoping AND the read-only gate at once, so it is refused here. Precedence otherwise: the by-name base table, then aisuite metadata (`requires_approval` → external), else read.""" base = _BASE.get(tool_name) if overrides is not None: ov = overrides(tool_name) if ov is not None: if base is None or _STRICTNESS[ov] >= _STRICTNESS[base]: return ov # A loosening override on a built-in is ignored: fall through to the base class. if base is not None: return base if bool(getattr(metadata, "requires_approval", False)): return RiskClass.EXTERNAL return RiskClass.READ def is_consequential(risk: RiskClass) -> bool: """Anything but a pure read needs the permission engine's attention.""" return risk is not RiskClass.READ