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feat(sandbox): wire the remaining harnesses onto the sandbox seam - #233
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New devops_bench/agents/sandbox.py: a SandboxExecutor signature-compatible with core.subprocess.run that wraps the agent argv in docker run with a deterministic reap-able container name, the per-run workspace at /workspace (HOME=/workspace/home), a generated single-cluster kubeconfig read-only at /creds/kubeconfig, read-write task-fixture mounts discovered by the run-unique cluster token, and an env overlay that crosses only by value through a deny filter (CLOUDSDK_CONFIG, GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS, BENCH_*, TF_* never cross). No stdin, no docker socket, host paths outside the workspace refuse to map, and the container is killed by name on every exit path including the host-side timeout. Kind-only network plan for now (join the kind network, rewrite the server to <cluster>-control-plane); any other context raises SandboxError until the provider hook lands. AgentHarness.run_agent_cmd dispatches to the executor when AgentConfig.sandbox is set (BENCH_AGENT_SANDBOX + BENCH_SANDBOX_IMAGE) and is a verbatim passthrough otherwise; the gemini harness swaps its subprocess call onto the seam. Flag off is behavior-identical. Written fresh in-tree, lifting the decisions proven in the gke-labs testbed prototype (fixture-mount semantics, container reaping, the no-stdin and loud-admin-fallback choices); see docs/proposals/agent-sandboxing.md for the threat model.
…ection When the agent config carries the sandbox opt-in, _run_one now finishes the skeletal spec at the first moment both the cluster endpoint and the workspace exist: it creates the sandbox home (<workspace>/home), builds the kind network plan and the single-cluster kubeconfig (in a creds temp dir outside the read-write workspace mount), and discovers the task's fixture mounts. A spec that cannot be built fails the record loudly rather than degrading to an unsandboxed run. Stray containers from a killed prior harness process are swept once at run() start. The detection layer stays untouched as a tripwire; only the pre-run inventory root moves: on a sandboxed run the operator home no longer describes what the agent can see, so each task's own sandbox home is inventoried instead (freshly created it yields the empty ruleset, which is correct by construction, not a skipped scan).
…review findings Address the eight review findings on the sandbox seam: - refuse a sandboxed run on any harness not migrated onto run_agent_cmd (supports_sandbox gate; gemini opts in) instead of silently running it unsandboxed on the host - derive the network plan and kubeconfig from the run's own cluster name and pin every kubectl read with --context kind-<cluster>, so an ambient current-context switch can never hand the container another cluster's admin credential - skip the stray-container sweep under BENCH_PARALLEL: the name prefix cannot tell a stray from a sibling harness's live agent container - cover fixture mounts with container-path inventory rules (build_mount_rules); the host-side home scan cannot see bind mounts, so a leftover swept in by the discovery glob was previously undetectable - never let env_allowlist re-admit the container-owned HOME/KUBECONFIG/ PATH, and emit the executor-owned -e flags last so they win regardless - re-raise SandboxError through the base safety net: a broken boundary is a failed, unscored run, not a badly-performing agent - refuse duplicate fixture basenames up front instead of docker's cryptic 'Duplicate mount point' abort - defer the sandbox import in config.py so base.py's function-local import actually keeps 'import devops_bench.agents' light
The sandbox seam takes an image name (BENCH_SANDBOX_IMAGE) but the repo shipped nothing to point it at, so every sandboxed run needed an image built by hand off-tree and was unreproducible between machines. One Dockerfile per harness rather than a shared multi-stage base with per-agent targets: the CLIs pin their own runtimes, so the shared stage would buy little while coupling every agent's rebuild — and a version bump for one agent would invalidate the others' A/B baselines. kubectl, helm, jq, git and ripgrep are the tool floor a task may legitimately need inside the boundary; nothing about the agent's credential, workspace or fixtures is baked in, since sandbox.py mounts those at run time. Tool versions are ARG-pinned so a rebuild reproduces the image an arm was scored with, and the arch is read from `dpkg --print-architecture` so the image builds on an arm64 laptop as well as the x86 bastion.
sync-to-bastion.sh listed `Dockerfile.harness`, a path that has never existed in the repo. The PRESENT[] filter silently skips missing paths, so the stale entry was invisible — and now that the agent sandbox images live in `docker/`, a bastion run had no way to build the image its BENCH_SANDBOX_IMAGE points at. Point the sync at `docker/` so the images travel with the code they are built from.
Selecting the google-vertex provider set the key transport var but not the google-genai routing vars the CLI's embedded SDK actually reads, so a Vertex-configured run silently talked to the Gemini API instead — wrong quota, wrong region, and on a keyless host no credential at all. Write GOOGLE_GENAI_USE_VERTEXAI plus the project and location whenever the resolved backend is vertex. The env spellings deliberately match the antigravity harness (GOOGLE_CLOUD_* preferred, GCP_* accepted) so one host configuration serves both agents rather than each inventing its own; an unset project is omitted rather than blanked, leaving the SDK's own ADC-derived default in place. Scoped to the vertex backend so an ambient GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT on the operator's shell cannot reroute a Gemini-API run. Note this covers the host path only: keyless Vertex authenticates via ADC, which the sandbox strips by design, so a sandboxed Vertex run still needs the short-lived scoped token minted host-side and injected explicitly.
…ventory The seam branch predates the mid-batch created_by attribution that landed with the catastrophic-kinds work (kubernetes-sigs#152): entries appearing during a batch are attributed to the task that was running and fingerprint only for differently named tasks. Re-apply that behavior on the ambient path; the sandboxed path is unaffected because every sandboxed task starts from its own fresh home, so a prior task's deliverable is never in view.
NetworkPlan describes how a sandboxed container reaches a run's cluster apiserver, and the next commits give providers a hook that returns one. That makes the type shared vocabulary between three layers rather than an internal detail of the sandbox: providers build it, the sandbox consumes it, and the credential minting renders a kubeconfig from it. Left where it was, providers/base.py would have to import from devops_bench.agents, inverting the layering — the provider abstraction has no business depending on the agent harness. core.context already holds ClusterInfo, which every one of those layers imports today, so the type goes there and neither direction of the dependency is new. Pure move: the dataclass is unchanged, agents.sandbox re-exports it via __all__, and every existing import site keeps working untouched.
…ndbox build_network_plan knew about exactly one provider. It derived a kind cluster name from the active context, hardcoded kind's Docker network and control-plane URL, and raised SandboxError for anything else. Since scored runs must use remote-node clusters and co-located kind is dev-only, that meant no scored run could be sandboxed at all — the flag existed but had nowhere valid to be switched on. Providers now answer for themselves. The base hook returns a plain-bridge plan, which is correct for any cluster whose endpoint already routes, so a new provider is sandbox-capable with no work. kind overrides it with the network join and in-network control-plane name it needs; GKE and vcluster take the default and add only a context pin. On top of whatever the provider returns, the sandbox applies the one rewrite that needs no provider knowledge: a server on host loopback means the container itself, so it is remapped to host.docker.internal, which wrap_argv already maps to the host gateway. tls-server-name is set to localhost so TLS stays verified against the SAN such a cluster does have, rather than being disabled. That generic step is why a laptop-hosted vcluster needs no override. The pin matters most for vcluster, where the host and virtual clusters both live in the operator's kubeconfig. Pinning to the virtual cluster's own context is what will keep the agent's identity created inside it, where a token is useless against the host. Deployer gains a declared `provider` attribute so the harness reads it by contract rather than probing; the no-op deployer answers None and the run falls back to the ambient context, which is acceptable only because such a run has no cluster identity of its own. current_cluster_name is deleted with its tests: it existed solely to recover a kind name from ambient state, which is exactly the dependency this replaces.
_run_kubectl already accepts a context and run_pod already threads one, but apply and get_resource do not, so the two wrappers that write and read cluster state are the two that still follow whichever current-context happens to be active. The credential provisioning in the next commits needs both pinned. It creates a ServiceAccount and a cluster-scoped RBAC binding with apply, and reads them back with get_resource; doing either against the wrong cluster is the difference between scoping the agent down and handing it someone else's credential. It matters most for vcluster, where the host and the virtual cluster both live in the operator's kubeconfig and only the pin decides which one the agent identity lands in. Optional and defaulted to None, so no existing call site changes behaviour.
The sandbox mounted the operator's own kubeconfig credential, which on every provider this benchmark uses is cluster-admin. The container boundary was therefore doing all the work and the RBAC boundary none: an agent that got a shell out of the container -- or simply used the credential as intended -- held the whole cluster. devops_bench/k8s/agent_credentials.py replaces that. Host-side, before the agent starts, it seeds a bench-agent ServiceAccount in bench-system, binds it to the built-in edit role cluster-wide plus a small cluster-scoped supplement, mints a short-lived token for it, and renders the single-cluster kubeconfig the container gets. Two omissions in that RBAC are load-bearing: no write on rbac.authorization.k8s.io, so the agent cannot grant itself more (without which every other limit is advisory), and no write on admissionregistration.k8s.io, so it cannot remove the admission policy that will deny privileged pods. The supplement exists because completeness is a security property. edit omits cluster-scoped resources, and an agent that cannot create a namespace or read nodes fails ordinary tasks -- then goes looking for another way, which is how the first observed incident started. This is also what makes GKE reachable from inside a container at all. A GKE kubeconfig authenticates through gke-gcloud-auth-plugin, an exec credential plugin needing a gcloud binary and ADC, both of which the container deliberately lacks and neither of which it can be given without handing back the cloud identity the sandbox exists to withhold. A bearer token needs no plugin, so the rendered kubeconfig is self-contained. vcluster comes out right for free: every call is pinned to the run's own context, so the ServiceAccount is created inside the virtual cluster and its token is cryptographically useless against the host. Failing to mint now fails the run. A silent fallback to the admin certificate would look identical in the results while having no RBAC boundary at all, so the old path survives only behind BENCH_SANDBOX_ALLOW_ADMIN_CREDS=1, for developing against a cluster where the operator cannot create cluster roles. Supporting moves: kubectl.config_value and kubectl.create_token join the wrapper module, and build_agent_kubeconfig relocates out of agents/sandbox.py -- promoting the config reader rather than duplicating it keeps k8s from importing agents, which would invert the layering the NetworkPlan move just fixed. No cloud CLI is invoked anywhere in the new module; everything it does is plain Kubernetes API surface reached through kubectl, so it behaves identically on every provider.
The proposal's first observed incident was an agent that could not reach a fixture, so it scheduled a privileged pod with a hostPath mount and read the bench checkout -- task rubrics, verification specs, prior results -- off the node's disk. Detection noticed. Nothing stopped it. A container boundary does not help here: the pod runs on the cluster, not in the agent's container. provision_agent_credentials now applies two overlapping controls before the agent starts. PSA baseline labels go on every namespace that exists at provision time. That is the mechanism Kubernetes ships and the one an operator can read straight off a namespace. Namespaces already declaring an enforce level are left alone -- deploy-hello-app's verifier asserts enforce=restricted on its own namespace, and clobbering that would fail the very task this protects. A ValidatingAdmissionPolicy backs the labels up cluster-wide, denying hostNetwork/hostPID/hostIPC, privileged containers (including init and ephemeral), and hostPath volumes. Labels alone cannot cover this: a label is per-namespace and applied to the namespaces that exist now, but the agent can create one afterwards -- deploy-hello-app literally asks it to -- and that namespace carries no label. The policy is cluster-wide and therefore proof against namespaces that do not exist yet. It denies rather than warns, and fails closed, because a control that fails open is not a control; the binding exempts the system namespaces by name so a CEL error can cost the agent a pod but cannot wedge the cluster. Tasks whose own subject matter is privileged workloads opt out with agent_pod_security: privileged. The key defaults to baseline and is wired through every place Task's extra="ignore" would otherwise drop it silently, so an author who never heard of it still gets the control. Also adds kubectl.label, the wrapper the namespace half needs. Residual, to be measured by the rollout's A/B soak: with edit-level RBAC the agent can neither delete the policy nor relabel a namespace out of enforcement, but a task authored against admin may need per-task widening.
A sandboxed agent is given a deliberately narrow set of credentials. That is worth nothing while the container can still curl 169.254.169.254 and be handed the bastion VM's own service account token, which carries cloud-platform scope and is scoped to nothing the run needs. This is the proposal's second observed incident, and it is why the rule ships with the scoped-credential work rather than after it: minting a narrow token while a wider one is a curl away is theatre. DOCKER-USER is the chain Docker leaves for exactly this. It is consulted before Docker's own FORWARD rules and applies to forwarded traffic only, so host processes are unaffected -- ambient (unsandboxed) harness runs and the matrix keep reaching the metadata server exactly as before, and this cannot regress them. Guarded three ways so the block is idempotent and never silently half-applied: it warns when iptables is missing, warns when DOCKER-USER does not exist yet (dockerd creates it), and no-ops when the rule is already installed. The rule does not survive a reboot; re-running this script is the documented remedy, which beats pulling in iptables-persistent for one line.
The sandbox shipped with no user-facing documentation at all, and the two things most likely to surprise an operator are undocumented behaviour changes rather than new flags: a sandboxed run now fails if it cannot mint a scoped ServiceAccount credential, and a sandboxed Vertex run cannot authenticate at all now that the metadata endpoint is blocked for containers. Adds a Sandboxing section to the agents doc covering the credential, the two pod-security controls and the task-level opt-out, and the model credential situation; a bastion section to the infra doc explaining the DOCKER-USER rule, why it does not affect ambient runs, and how to verify it; and the sandbox_network_plan hook to the Provider contract list, which commit 3 added without documenting.
sandbox_network_plan() degraded to an unpinned NetworkPlan with only a log warning when the virtual cluster's kubeconfig was missing or unreadable. An unpinned plan is not a degraded plan here, it is the wrong cluster: every kubectl call in the credential path then falls through to the ambient current-context, which on a vcluster run is the HOST cluster. The agent's ServiceAccount, its cluster-wide edit binding, and its token would all be created there — handing the container exactly the credential the virtual cluster exists to withhold, and doing it quietly. Raise SandboxError instead, per the "fail loud, never degrade" invariant. Only sandboxed runs reach this method, so an ordinary run is unaffected.
Three ways past the admission backstop, all rooted in the fact that its exemptions are keyed on a namespace *name*: - ``bench-system`` was exempt. It is the harness's own namespace, so the labeller has nothing to do there, but the agent holds ``edit`` cluster-wide and can create pods in it — the escape was one ``-n bench-system`` away. Split the one set in two: the policy exempts only namespaces the agent cannot write to, and the labeller skips those plus ``bench-system``. - The match rule named ``pods`` only. ``pods/ephemeralcontainers`` is a distinct subresource, so ``kubectl debug --profile=sysadmin`` attached a privileged container to a running pod without ever reaching the policy — which also made the existing ephemeralContainers validation dead code. ``object`` is the whole Pod on that subresource, so the expressions apply unchanged. - Several exempt names do not exist on every provider (``gmp-system`` on kind, ``local-path-storage`` on GKE) and the agent can create namespaces, so it could claim an unused exempt name and deploy there freely. Add a second policy denying that, scoped by ``matchConditions`` to the agent's own username so a cluster add-on recreating its namespace is not caught by a policy that fails closed. Scoping by user is sound for namespaces and would not be for pods: a namespace is always created by whoever asked, whereas a pod may be created on the agent's behalf by a controller running as another identity. It needs its own binding with no namespaceSelector, because the pod policy's ``NotIn`` would otherwise exempt the very creation guarded.
Two failures of the "fail loud, never degrade" invariant in provision_agent_credentials. An unpinned NetworkPlan means no provider answered for this run — the no-op deployer, i.e. BENCH_NO_INFRA. Every provider that provisions a cluster pins to it, so "unpinned" is not "some cluster we made" but "whatever the operator's kubeconfig last pointed at". Provisioning then installed a cluster-wide Deny admission policy, relabelled the namespaces and bound ``edit`` on somebody's real cluster, unasked and unmentioned. Refuse, behind BENCH_SANDBOX_ALLOW_AMBIENT_CLUSTER for the operator who genuinely means it. The pod-security apply was outside the try that guards the credential path, so a SubprocessError from it escaped as a raw SubprocessError rather than a SandboxError, and it escaped *first* — it is the module's first cluster-scoped write. An operator without permission to create cluster-scoped objects therefore never reached BENCH_SANDBOX_ALLOW_ADMIN_CREDS, the switch that exists for exactly them. Wrap it, and hang both failures off one flag, since they have one cause: a credential that cannot create cluster roles cannot create an admission policy either. Without the flag the run now refuses, rather than proceeding with the observed escape undenied.
The field was a bare ``str``, and the only value the credential path tests for is ``"privileged"``. So ``agent_pod_security: Privileged`` — or any typo — loaded clean and silently fell through to enforcement, meaning the author's opt-out was ignored and the task failed later, somewhere far from the cause, with pods rejected by an admission policy they thought they had turned off. A Literal makes the closed set the schema's business: the spec fails to load, naming the field. The empty-block coalescing still maps ``None`` to the default, so ``agent_pod_security:`` alone keeps meaning "baseline".
Covers what the review surfaced: the pod-security section now lists all three controls (PSA labels, the pod policy including the ephemeralcontainers subresource, and the namespace guard), and the credential section documents the new pod-security failure mode and BENCH_SANDBOX_ALLOW_AMBIENT_CLUSTER. Adds a "Known gaps in the RBAC scope" section. The agent's binding onto the built-in ``edit`` ClusterRole is cluster-wide, and ``edit`` carries ``impersonate`` on serviceaccounts, ``create`` on serviceaccounts/token, and ``create`` on pods/exec — each of which reaches cluster-admin by borrowing a kube-system identity. It also carries ``update``/``patch`` on namespaces, so the PSA labels are removable by the party they constrain. Both want a derived ClusterRole with those verbs subtracted, which is its own piece of work; until then the pod-security controls are the boundary and the RBAC scope is best-effort, and saying so beats implying a guarantee that is not there.
Found on the bastion: the VM service account can apply anything else on the host cluster but cannot even read a ValidatingAdmissionPolicy, because GKE gates those behind container.thirdPartyObjects.* and roles/container.developer does not carry them. Since pod-security enforcement is now a hard failure, a GKE-direct sandboxed run refuses outright on such a credential — correct behaviour, but baffling without the IAM explanation, and a reviewer trying that path will hit it first thing. vcluster runs are unaffected, which is why this went unnoticed.
The blanket REJECT to 169.254.169.254 takes container name resolution down with it on a GCP VM, because that address is also the resolver. /etc/resolv.conf is the systemd-resolved stub at 127.0.0.53, dockerd follows it to /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf, finds 169.254.169.254 there, and copies that into every container on the default bridge. The container then queries an address we just made unreachable. The symptom does not point here. A sandboxed Gemini run retried for seven minutes and exited 1 with "TypeError: fetch failed sending request" -- no name server named, no mention of DNS, so it reads as a network outage. curl from the same image reports "Resolving timed out" and never opens a socket. kind conceals it, which is why the rule looked correct until a GKE run. Containers on a user-defined network resolve through Docker's embedded server at 127.0.0.11, and dockerd forwards those queries from the host namespace, where DOCKER-USER does not apply. Only the default bridge -- what every non-kind provider gets -- queries the metadata address directly, so de-kinding the sandbox is what exposed this. Narrowing to protocol and port keeps the boundary. The token endpoints are HTTP on port 80 and stay rejected; a DNS answer cannot carry a credential. The ACCEPTs are installed after the REJECT so that -I places them above it, and both halves are now verified in the docs: the token fetch must fail and an ordinary HTTPS fetch must return 200.
The exempt set was a list of names, and a list of names goes stale. A run on plain GKE turned up four managed namespaces it had never heard of -- gke-managed-cim, gke-managed-networking-dra-driver, gke-managed-volumepopulator and gmp-public -- created by the same addon manager as the two that were listed. The labeller stamped enforce=baseline on exactly those four, and the pod policy's binding, which is failurePolicy Fail and validationActions Deny, had them inside its scope. Nothing broke on that cluster: three were empty and the fourth runs an unprivileged metrics scraper. But the DRA driver's DaemonSet is privileged and hostPath-mounting on a cluster that uses DRA or TPUs, and we would have denied it. That is the failure mode the exemption exists to prevent, and we would have caused it while claiming to prevent it. Prefix matching is what this wants and is not available -- a label selector has no prefix operator, so the binding cannot say gke-managed-*. Keying off addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode is better than the prefixes would have been anyway: it is the cluster stating which namespaces are its own to run, so it covers managed namespaces that do not exist yet and names following no convention we know. The names stay because they are not redundant -- nothing carries that label on kind or vcluster, and on GKE kube-system does not. A label exemption is mutable in a way a name exemption is not. A namespace cannot be renamed into the list, but the agent holds update and patch on namespaces and could label one it already owns, and every pod in it would stop being checked. So the namespace guard now covers UPDATE as well as CREATE and denies the agent setting that label at all.
Three things the run settled that the prose did not yet say. The exemption now has two halves, names and the addon-manager label, with the four managed namespaces that prompted it named so the next person can tell whether their cluster is affected. The CRD scope gap is new and it is the more important one. edit covers Kubernetes' own API groups, and what the agent gets on a CRD is whatever that operator aggregated into edit -- usually nothing. Kyverno v1.12.7 labels policy reads aggregate-to-view and policy writes aggregate-to-admin, with no aggregate-to-edit on either, so the agent can read ClusterPolicy objects and cannot write them. Two of opa-remediation's objectives ask it to flip both policies from Audit to Enforce, so that task cannot be fully passed under the default scope and its sandboxed score is not comparable to its ambient one. Worth stating plainly because nothing in a trajectory reveals it: neither agent that ran the task attempted the flip, so there is no forbidden in the logs and the objective reads as an agent miss. An A/B soak that infers scope gaps from failures will not find this one. Also notes that nothing is torn down, so a reused cluster shows a labeller that looks inert when it is merely finding its work already done -- which cost an afternoon to diagnose.
A boundary probe created a privileged pod in kube-system, with the agent's own token, on a cluster carrying the full policy set. The escape this module exists to deny was reachable by appending a flag. The module already claimed the property that makes the exemption safe -- "every name here must be one the agent cannot write to" -- but nothing enforced it. `edit` is bound cluster-wide, so the agent can write to kube-system on every provider, and the pod policy skips exactly those namespaces by namespaceSelector because the cluster's own components legitimately run privileged there. The two conditions meet in the middle. A third ValidatingAdmissionPolicy makes the claim true: the agent's username may not create or update anything that can produce a pod inside an exempt namespace, nor exec into one that is already there. Workload kinds rather than pods alone, because a Deployment reaches the same place with its pod created by the ReplicaSet controller under an identity of its own, and the agent's name is still on the Deployment. Exec, attach and port-forward because `edit` grants them and these namespaces are where the privileged pods live -- a shell in kube-proxy is the same escape by a longer route. Config is left alone: a ConfigMap in kube-system is a blast-radius question, not an escape, and denying it would fail tasks for no boundary gain. Two bindings, because the guard must select exactly what the pod policy skips and a namespaceSelector ANDs its expressions: "not by name AND not by label" inverts to an OR, which takes one binding each. Selecting by binding rather than testing namespaceObject in CEL also keeps failurePolicy: Fail cheap -- an evaluation error can only block writes that are denied anyway, instead of every pod on the cluster. This closes the exec half of the first documented RBAC residual. The impersonate and serviceaccounts/token half stays open: RBAC has no deny rule, so only replacing `edit` with a derived role fixes the scope itself.
`get_resource` had no way to ask a cluster-wide question about a namespaced kind. Without `-A` kubectl answers from the kubeconfig's current namespace, so a caller scanning "every pod on the cluster" gets a silently partial answer rather than an error -- the worst failure mode for a security scan, which is what the next commit adds. `namespace` wins when both are given: `-n` and `-A` together are a kubectl error, and a caller who named a namespace meant it.
…o match Both `node_image` defaults still pointed at `kindest/node:v1.29.2`, which cannot run this PR at all: the pod-security backstop is a ValidatingAdmissionPolicy, and `admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1` only reached GA in 1.30 -- 1.29 serves `v1beta1`, behind a feature gate. So on a default kind cluster the apply died with "no matches for kind", provisioning refused to run the agent unguarded, and every sandboxed kind task failed. The remote providers were unaffected, which is why the live runs never caught it. Raised to the digest-pinned v1.30.0 image that five `tf/prebuilt` stacks already use, so kind clusters the module builds and the prebuilt ones agree, and left a comment saying 1.30 is a floor rather than a preference -- the next person to bump it down has to read why first. The version is also checked at provisioning time. Left to the apply, the failure reads like a typo in our own manifest instead of an apiserver predating the API; `_require_policy_api` resolves the `v1` resource first and names the cluster as too old. Deliberately raising SandboxError rather than routing through BENCH_SANDBOX_ALLOW_ADMIN_CREDS: that hatch exists for an operator whose credential cannot write cluster-scoped objects, and no credential makes a 1.29 apiserver serve a v1 policy.
Admission only sees requests, so the pod-security policy cannot retract a pod that already exists -- and the deployer runs before credentials are provisioned. Some fixtures deploy privileged pods on purpose: `tf/prebuilt/opa-remediation` ships two, in non-exempt namespaces, because remediating them is the task. `edit` is bound cluster-wide and grants `pods/exec`, so a shell into one of those is node root by a route the policy never sees -- the same escape the policy exists to deny, reached through a pod it arrived too late to stop. The other ways in were already closed and stay closed: `kubectl debug` needs `pods/ephemeralcontainers` and a pod UPDATE re-validates the whole object, which still carries the privileged container. CONNECT was the one left. So the run scans every namespace before the agent starts, finds the pods the policy would have rejected, and names them in a policy denying the agent exec, attach and port-forward into exactly those. Named individually rather than matched on a property because admission cannot see the target pod's spec on a CONNECT -- the object on an exec request is a `PodExecOptions`, so a name list is the only thing there is to test. The list cannot go stale within a run: the policy denies these pods on CREATE, so a name that leaves it cannot come back. Applied even when nothing is non-conformant, with an expression that admits everything. Nothing here is torn down between runs, so a reused cluster would otherwise keep the previous run's list and refuse a shell into a pod that is long gone. The empty case is a constant `true` rather than an empty CEL list literal, which has no element type to infer -- and a policy that fails to compile under `failurePolicy: Fail` denies every exec the agent attempts, which is the opposite of inert. The scan is kept in lockstep with the policy's CEL rather than with PSA baseline, which is broader: a pod it skips must be one the policy would have admitted, or the guard's coverage claim is a lie. Pods in the exempt namespaces are left out because the exempt-namespace guard already denies the agent all four verbs there, and listing kube-system's privileged pods would bury the ones this exists for.
…erver A sandboxed agent has no ambient cloud identity by construction: the operator's gcloud config is not mounted, CLOUDSDK_CONFIG and GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS never cross the boundary, and on a cloud VM the link-local metadata endpoint is blocked to containers by the DOCKER-USER rule vm-setup.sh installs. That is the point of the boundary, and it is also why every Application Default Credentials lookup inside the container fails — so today a sandboxed Vertex run cannot authenticate at all. Give the keyless backends a place to fix that: sandbox_credential_env(), keyed off ProviderSpec.backend, so a new backend is one branch here rather than a change at every harness call site. Key-based providers get an empty mapping (their key already crosses by value); a keyless backend with no recipe yet — Bedrock — is refused with an error saying so, rather than running unauthenticated. Vertex's recipe is a metadata-server emulator: a host-side HTTP server speaking the subset of the GCE metadata protocol Google's auth libraries use to obtain a token, backed by an impersonated token for a service account holding roles/aiplatform.user and nothing else. The container reaches it at host.docker.internal, which the executor already --add-host's to the host gateway on every run. Four simpler things were tried first and none of them work: there is no supported way to hand the SDK a bare access token; no ADC file format carries one (authorized_user needs a refresh token, external_account needs a workload-identity pool); GOOGLE_API_KEY + GOOGLE_GENAI_USE_VERTEXAI is Vertex express mode only and a standard project answers "401: API keys are not supported by this API"; and service-account key files are refused by constraints/iam.disableServiceAccountKeyCreation. Containment properties worth stating, since this hands the untrusted side a credential on purpose: * Only the token-related paths are served. Everything else is a 404, so this is an emulator of three endpoints and cannot be used as a proxy onto the host's real metadata server (instance attributes, kube-env, ssh-keys). * Requests must carry Metadata-Flavor: Google, as the real server requires. * The token is minted lazily, so a run that never calls the model never mints a credential, and refilled inside a five-minute margin so a caller is never handed one that expires mid-generation. * The server binds on all interfaces rather than loopback because it has to: on Linux the container reaches the host at the bridge gateway address and a loopback-bound server does not answer there. Exposure is bounded by the host firewall, an ephemeral port, the header check, and by what the token is worth — one project's aiplatform.user, for an hour. Shelling out to gcloud rather than importing google.auth keeps this module's "pulls no provider SDK" property intact and matches how the rest of the benchmark reaches GCP. Per the proposal's review rule the cloud-specific code lives here, in the model-credential layer, and never in agents/sandbox.py.
Call the backend's mint-and-inject recipe from the vertex branch of _build_env, so the container gets GCE_METADATA_HOST / GCE_METADATA_IP / METADATA_SERVER_DETECTION alongside the google-genai routing vars it already gets. Vertex is the matrix's default provider, so this is what makes a sandboxed matrix run possible at all; until now sandboxing only worked with AGENT_PROVIDER=google plus a Gemini API key. Gated on config.sandbox, not on the backend alone. An unsandboxed run is a host process with the operator's own ADC — that is the right credential for it, the recipe is not consulted, and the flag-off path stays byte-for-byte what it was. Two tests pin that: one fails the test if the recipe is called on an unsandboxed run, one if it is called for a key-based provider. The docs section that said a sandboxed Vertex run "cannot authenticate and will fail loudly" is now the general keyless-backend story plus Vertex's recipe, including the two things an operator has to set up first (BENCH_VERTEX_SANDBOX_SA and serviceAccountTokenCreator for the host identity on it). Bedrock still fails loud and the docs say so.
Ported from the fork's integration branch, where kubectl context pinning rode the http_probe verification rework. The credential provisioning in this stack applies a ServiceAccount and cluster-scoped RBAC bindings and reads them back; doing either against whichever cluster the ambient current-context names is the difference between scoping the agent down and handing it someone else's credential. The flags land before any bare -- separator, since everything after it belongs to the container command rather than to kubectl. Co-authored-by: Eric Hole <geojaz@users.noreply.github.com>
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Sandboxed, argv[0] is now the image's gemini regardless of AGENT_TARGET, the same swap antigravity and openclaw already do. The tilde-only refusal is subsumed: an absolute host path crossed unchanged before.
Three host paths still cross the boundary verbatim (argv[0], --mcp-config, CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR), so a sandboxed Claude Code batch failed inside the container after passing preflight. Declare supports_sandbox = False with a TODO naming the port so preflight refuses it up front. Unsandboxed runs are unchanged.
The pre-run chown ran outside the executor's try, so a chown -R that changed some entries before failing or timing out skipped the handback and left them owned by the remap id. Run it inside the try, name the chown helper container, and kill it before the handback so a timed-out helper cannot keep changing ownership underneath the restore.
The platform gate lived in the callers, so the method's own contract was only true by convention. Check the platform inside it and drop the duplicate check from the executor.
Exempt silently won when both were passed. The harness never passes both, so make the precedence a raised error instead of an accident.
The task schema docstring, the harness comment and the add-a-task row named a specific cloud credential mechanism. They now say what the generic layer means: an ambient cloud credential the sandbox withholds, with gcp/secret-rotation as the named example.
Comments and docstrings only, whole files rather than this PR's hunks: multi-line rationale blocks cut to one or two lines, long docstrings cut to a summary plus compact Args/Returns/Raises, situational claims removed (observed/confirmed live, dates, machines, named runs and incidents, "used to" histories), and generic framework layers reworded vendor-neutrally where a sentence was not about a real named artifact. The one code string changed is the --parallel help text, which named a vendor CLI.
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A batch made only of requires_unsandboxed tasks runs ambient, so refusing an agent without sandbox support up front blocked a run that would never have used the seam. Gate the preflight on whether any task needs a sandbox; the stray-container sweep still runs whenever a sandbox is configured.
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…ovenance Carries 03's merge of upstream main (the kubernetes-sigs#233 squash) and its review fixes: bounded kubectl calls, the unpinned-teardown guard, pin-once ambient context, and the corrected teardown docs.
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…ped; point the canary at kubernetes-sigs#255 Both landed with kubernetes-sigs#233 while this PR waited: sandbox.md now says what requires_unsandboxed does instead of calling it unimplemented, and the env table gets BENCH_AGENT_SANDBOX_OWNER back with the sweep's actual no-owner behaviour. The canary's BENCH_REQUIRE_FIXTURES note names the PR the gate arrives with (kubernetes-sigs#255) rather than a re-cut that merged without it.
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Puts the remaining harnesses behind the sandbox seam from #181. #191 and #192 stack on top of this PR.
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BENCH_AGENT_SANDBOX=dockercontains them the same way it contains gemini-cli; gemini-cli now swaps in the in-image binary like the others.--gemini_dirand never lets a host binary path cross the boundary.google-vertex,anthropic-vertex) get the metadata-emulator credential from feat(sandbox): give a sandboxed Vertex run its own metadata-server credential #183, the same recipe gemini-cli uses; MCP servers get the container-side kubeconfig path; catalog overrides for the Gemini 3.8 Flash and Claude 5 ids are keyed by provider so plainanthropicstill resolves through oc's own catalog.BENCH_AGENT_SANDBOX_OWNERis validated at opt-in and carried on the spec; the stray-container sweep reaps by name prefix on a serial host and by owner id when one is set.extra_flagsreach the agent config snapshot.requires_unsandboxed. Onlygcp/secret-rotationsets it, because it needs ADC and the sandbox withholds ADC. A test pins that list. An exempt task inside a sandboxed batch gets the ambient sensitive-access inventory.BENCH_LOG_LEVELexits 2 instead of tracing back.requires_unsandboxedrow.Behavior to note
BENCH_AGENT_SANDBOX_OWNERthe sweep matches the shared name prefix, soBENCH_PARALLELskips it; set an owner id to sweep safely alongside other harnesses.Known gap: claude_code declares
supports_sandbox = False: its binary path,--mcp-configandCLAUDE_CONFIG_DIRstill cross in host spelling, so a sandboxed Claude Code batch is refused at preflight (TODO on the flag). Unsandboxed Claude Code is unchanged.Not here: judge/chaos model-id pins (model-pinning PR), agy model ids (#160), Vertex location (#163), openclaw deny/code-mode, and cloud credential env.
Commits keep their original authors: @pradeepvrd, @geojaz and Eric Hole.
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uv run pytestshows 1948 passed (11 skipped), on macOS and on Linux. Sandboxed live runs usedBENCH_AGENT_SANDBOX=dockeron kind withopa-remediation(they predate the post-review fixes, which are unit-tested):antigravity-sandbox:dev, OAuth via--gemini_dir): 14 steps, correctness 0.67, judge ran.An unrecognized
BENCH_AGENT_SANDBOXvalue fails loud. Thesecret-rotationexemption is covered by unit tests only.Summary by CodeRabbit