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What changed

  • Replaced shell command construction with execFile argument execution.
  • Validated request-derived identifiers before they are used in endpoint filenames.
  • Added configuration validation, a timeout, async file I/O, and error propagation.
  • Prevented captured provisioning-script output from being logged.

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  • AgentProvisioningService regression tests: 3 passing.
  • agent-provisioning build passes.

Fixes #1707

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved agent provisioning reliability through configuration and identifier validation.
    • Added clearer handling for missing, malformed, or invalid endpoint data.
    • Improved timeout handling and error reporting for provisioning script failures.
    • Enhanced protection against unsafe command execution during provisioning.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for successful provisioning, invalid identifiers, missing configuration, endpoint validation, timeouts, and script failures.

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The agent provisioning flow validates identifiers and configuration, executes scripts with separated arguments and a timeout, reads endpoint files asynchronously, and validates endpoint data. Unit tests cover success and failure paths.

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Agent provisioning hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provisioning validation and execution
apps/agent-provisioning/src/agent-provisioning.service.ts
The service validates identifiers and required configuration, uses argument-array script execution with a timeout, reads endpoint files asynchronously, and validates parsed endpoint data.
Provisioning behavior tests
apps/agent-provisioning/src/agent-provisioning.service.spec.ts
Tests cover mocked dependencies, successful endpoint generation, unsafe identifier rejection, endpoint configuration validation, script failure propagation, and sensitive output redaction.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 06018

The change hardens agent provisioning, but endpoint files containing JSON null can still produce an uncontrolled configuration error instead of a clear validation failure. This is a bounded, mergeable issue requiring owner follow-up.

Suggested reviewers: ankita-p17, shitrerohit, rinkalbhojani

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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the security hardening changes to agent provisioning execution.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address all coding objectives in #1707, including safe execution, validation, timeouts, failure propagation, and secret-safe logging.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The service changes and regression tests remain within the scope of the linked security hardening issue.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 2 files.
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/agent-provisioning/src/agent-provisioning.service.ts`:
- Around line 115-119: Update the CONTROLLER_ENDPOINT validation in the
endpoint-parsing method to require a string with non-zero length, rejecting
objects, numbers, arrays, empty strings, and other invalid values before
returning. Preserve the existing missing-endpoint error path and return
parsedEndpoint.CONTROLLER_ENDPOINT only after validation succeeds.
- Around line 76-98: Wrap the execFileAsync invocation in the provisioning flow
with a local rejection handler that discards captured stdout and stderr, then
throws a fixed sanitized error for the outer catch and logger.error path.
Preserve the existing command arguments and timeout options, and add a
regression test covering a failed script whose stdout and stderr contain secret
values, verifying those values are not logged.
- Around line 138-141: Update assertSafeFileIdentifier to first reject values
whose runtime type is not string, then apply SAFE_FILE_IDENTIFIER.test only to
valid strings; preserve the existing field-specific error behavior for all
unsafe or invalid identifier values.
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Nice cleanup of a genuinely nasty one — the argv-array switch kills the shell injection from #1707 outright, identifier validation closes the path-traversal angle on the endpoint filename, and the old promise-that-never-rejects hang on script failure is fixed too. Verified the positional args still line up with start_agent.sh ($1–$27), tests pass locally (9/9), typecheck and lint clean.

One regression worth sorting before merge (first comment) — legit org names will now be rejected. Two smaller notes below.

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@ajile-in ajile-in added this to the Q3 - 2026 milestone Aug 21, 2026
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In `@apps/agent-provisioning/src/agent-provisioning.service.ts`:
- Around line 116-125: Update the agent endpoint parsing flow around
parsedEndpoint to parse into unknown, validate that the JSON root is a non-null
object before accessing CONTROLLER_ENDPOINT, and route invalid roots through the
existing Missing CONTROLLER_ENDPOINT error. Add a regression test covering
mockReadFile.mockResolvedValue('null').
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