[migmartri]

The AI session attached to platform PR #6986 failed ai-config-no-secrets because Betterleaks treated two password-field CSS selectors as credentials: [id="1-password"] and input[name="password"]. Session redaction replaced the selectors, and the policy then reported the resulting generic-password placeholders.

Allowlist only those complete values for generic-password, including their JSON-escaped forms in tool output. Keep the exemption scoped to the matched value so other credentials in the same tool result remain detectable. Bump the redaction ruleset version from 3 to 4.

Regression tests reproduce both detections with the upstream ruleset and verify the selectors survive plain and JSON-encoded output. They also verify that a nearby password and passwords with selector prefixes or suffixes still get redacted. This affects future redaction; it does not rewrite the stored session or its existing policy result.

Validation:

• go test ./internal/redaction ./pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/aicodingsession ./pkg/attestation/crafter/materials — passed.
• golangci-lint run --new-from-rev=228dc47b ./internal/redaction/... ./pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/... — no new issues. The unrestricted lint run reports existing warnings in these packages.
• git diff --check — passed.

AI assistance: Codex.

[chainloop-platform]

PR validation — ✅ 3 passing

Status	Policy	Material	Messages
✅ Passed	pr-min-approvals	pr-info	-
✅ Passed	pr-description-required	pr-info	-
✅ Passed	pr-user-story-linked	pr-info	-

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AI Session Checks — 🟢 87% · ⚠️ 1 failing

Avg score	Sessions	Failing policies	Attribution	Files	Lines	Total Duration
🟢 87%	1	⚠️ 1	96% AI / 4% Human	2	+28 / -3	2m48s

🟢 87% — 96% AI — ⚠️ 1 policies failing

Oct 21, 2026 17:29 UTC · 2m48s · $0.29 · 813.6k in / 5.9k out · codex 0.163.0 (gpt-6.1-sol)

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Change Summary

• Narrows the generic-password allowlist to exact plain, one-backslash, and three-backslash selector forms.
• Bumps the redaction ruleset version from 3 to 4.
• Adds regression tests for plain and JSON selector output plus nearby-password, prefix, and suffix cases.

AI Session Overall Score

🟢 87% — Focused fix with strong coverage, though explicit user confirmation is missing.

AI Session Analysis Breakdown

🟢 95% · scope-discipline

No notes.

🟢 93% · solution-quality

🟢 The allowlist stays exact-value scoped instead of widening the whole password rule. · High Impact

🟢 92% · alignment

No notes.

🟢 90% · user-trust-signal

No notes.

🟢 88% · context-and-planning

🟢 The captured PR description front-loaded scope, constraints, and validation targets. · High Impact

🟡 76% · verification

🟢 The regression suite covers plain, JSON, nearby-password, prefix, and suffix selector cases. · High Impact

🟠 The user never explicitly confirmed the fixed redaction behavior after the new tests landed. · Medium Severity

💡 When the user stays engaged, ask for a brief post-fix confirmation before treating verification as complete.

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File Attribution

███████████████████░ 96% AI / 4% Human

Status	Attribution	File	Lines
modified	ai	internal/redaction/precision_test.go	+19 / -0
modified	ai	internal/redaction/betterleaks.toml	+9 / -3

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Policies (4, 1 failing)

Status	Policy	Material	Messages
✅ Passed	ai-config-mcp-servers-allowed	ai-coding-session-01a15f	-
✅ Passed	ai-config-ai-agents-allowed	ai-coding-session-01a15f	-
✅ Passed	ai-config-no-dangerous-commands	ai-coding-session-01a15f	-
⚠️ Failed	ai-config-no-secrets	ai-coding-session-01a15f	Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=111, source=tool_result, line=1]: {"chunk_id":"18b734","wall_time_seconds":2.319531101,"exit_code":0,"original_token_count":1290,"output":" internal/redaction/betterleaks.toml | 12 +++++++++---\n internal/redaction/precision_test.go ... Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=33, source=tool_result, line=1]: {"chunk_id":"d2f14e","wall_time_seconds":0.782208958,"exit_code":0,"original_token_count":3901,"output":"{\"author\":{\"id\":\"MDQ6VXNlcjI0NTIz\",\"is_bot\":false,\"login\":\"migmartri\",\"name\":\"Mi... Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=46, source=tool_result, line=1]: {"chunk_id":"074dc7","wall_time_seconds":2.807841412,"exit_code":0,"original_token_count":2229,"output":"{\"conclusion\":\"action_required\",\"id\":119374846140,\"output\":{\"annotations_count\":0,\"a... Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=61, source=tool_result, line=1]: {"chunk_id":"876f9d","wall_time_seconds":0.000041152,"exit_code":2,"original_token_count":4186,"output":"Previous HEAD position was 1d9ae37 feat(trace): add Codex provider (feat(trace): add Codex provider #3684)\nSwitched to a new ... Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=78, source=tool_result, line=1]: {"chunk_id":"032b47","wall_time_seconds":1.000686568,"session_id":24837,"original_token_count":1900,"output":"--- FAIL: TestRedactPasswordFieldSelectors (0.19s)\n --- FAIL: TestRedactPasswordFieldS... Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=93, source=tool_result, line=1]: {"chunk_id":"a53e25","wall_time_seconds":0.000018087,"exit_code":1,"original_token_count":1945,"output":"Warning: truncated output (original token count: 1945)\nTotal output lines: 98\n\n--- FAIL: Tes...

Security Checks — ✅ 5 passing

✅ secret-scan

Status	Policy	Messages
✅ Passed	secrets-detection	-

✅ sast-scan

Status	Policy	Messages
✅ Passed	owasp-top10-2025	-
✅ Passed	sast	-
✅ Passed	cwe-top25	-
✅ Passed	cwe-top26-40-cusp	-

Scans not applied (3)

Scan	Reason
vulnerability-scan	no manifest/lockfile changed
github-actions-scan	no workflow files changed
iac-scan	no IaC files changed

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Security context

[1 file with past security fixes] Keep these rules in place. They come from 2 past fixes in this repository.

 internal/redaction/betterleaks.go ▶

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.

Past fixes (2)

 39176e8 · CWE-201

39176e8 fixes a real information-disclosure flaw where AI coding session materials were uploaded or inlined with embedded secrets intact.
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 9d5b368 · CWE-20

The commit fixes over-broad AI-session secret redaction that could erase non-secret context or whole leaves before policy evaluation, enabling policy bypass via crafted JWT/escape-adjacent content.
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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
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BEGIN CONTEXT
internal/redaction/betterleaks.go - 2 past fixes, 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

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   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
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[matiasinsaurralde]

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