fix(sandbox): announce degraded native enforcement at TUI session start and on exec stderr

[FabioLeitao]

Summary

Adds the visibility notice approved on the issue: when the sandbox's enforcement_level is degraded, a TUI session and a zero exec run now say so, naming the downgrade reason. Before this, only zero doctor and zero sandbox policy reported it and a session proceeded with reduced isolation in silence.

• sandbox.Engine.EnforcementStatus returns the level and reason from the same SandboxManager decision that command execution uses (so it covers the Windows setup tiers and the nested-sandbox pass-through guard).
• sandbox.EnforcementWarning returns one sentence naming the reason, or "" when enforcement is native/unelevated or the sandbox is explicitly disabled by policy, so those states stay quiet.
• TUI: shown as a system row at session start. zero exec: written as a warning on stderr.
• The exec hook is nil in injected test deps, so hermetic CLI protocol tests do not depend on the host's sandbox availability; defaultAppDeps wires it.

Example (from the tests): Sandbox enforcement is degraded (Linux sandbox helper is not available): shell commands run with reduced isolation. Run zero doctor for setup guidance.

Out of scope on purpose: making a plain go build binary find its sandbox helper, which the maintainer said is tracked in #946.

Linked issue

Fixes #1041

Checklist

• The linked issue already has the issue-approved label.
• go build ./... and go vet (sandbox, cli, tui) pass locally.
• go test ./... passes locally. Not fully green in my environment (Linux 7.0 kernel, no native sandbox): several packages fail the same way on an unmodified upstream/main archive (internal/cli, imageinput, peermsg, privatedir, sessions, specialist, tools, tui). For internal/sandbox, internal/cli and internal/tui I compared this branch against that baseline: no failing test appears only on this branch, and the new tests pass under -race.
• gofmt clean.
• Tests added/updated for the change (engine status/warning for degraded, native and disabled; exec stderr; TUI startup row).
• UI change: one system row in the transcript at session start, no new chrome. No screenshot; the rendered text is asserted in TestDegradedSandboxWarningAppearsOnStartup.

Notes

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • The CLI and terminal interface now display a warning when sandbox enforcement is degraded, including the available reason and guidance to run zero doctor.
  • The warning is omitted when enforcement is active or sandboxing is disabled.

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Walkthrough

The sandbox engine now reports enforcement status and produces a warning when enforcement is degraded. The CLI emits that warning during exec startup, and the TUI adds it to the initial transcript and renders it as an amber warning card. Tests cover degraded, native, and disabled enforcement.

Changes

Sandbox Enforcement Warnings

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Determine enforcement status and warning internal/sandbox/engine.go, internal/sandbox/enforcement_warning_test.go	Engine.EnforcementStatus reports the enforcement level and downgrade reason. EnforcementWarning returns guidance for degraded enforcement. Tests cover degraded, native, and disabled cases.
Emit warnings from exec internal/cli/app.go, internal/cli/exec.go, internal/cli/exec_test.go	Production CLI dependencies provide the warning callback. runExec emits non-empty warnings after starting the output stream. Tests cover degraded enforcement and the callback-disabled path.
Show warnings in the TUI internal/tui/model.go, internal/tui/rendering.go, internal/tui/startup_test.go	newModel adds a warning row when needed. The renderer displays it as an amber warning card. A startup test checks the degraded-backend message.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant CLI
  participant TUI
  participant Engine
  participant SandboxManager
  User->>CLI: Start exec
  CLI->>Engine: Request enforcement warning
  Engine->>SandboxManager: Evaluate enforcement
  SandboxManager-->>Engine: Return status and reason
  Engine-->>CLI: Return warning or empty text
  CLI-->>User: Emit warning when degraded
  User->>TUI: Start session
  TUI->>Engine: Request enforcement warning
  Engine-->>TUI: Return warning or empty text
  TUI-->>User: Render warning row when degraded

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Suggested reviewers: anandh8x, vasanthdev2004, gnanam1990

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7f406

The warning changes have a bounded test-isolation issue: the new CLI and TUI tests fail when run inside a Zero sandbox. Clear their inherited sandbox markers; otherwise, the supplied evidence indicates low merge risk.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 7f406

The change makes reduced sandbox enforcement more visible without granting additional privileges or weakening command checks. The startup notice is an indication of enforcement status, not a guarantee about every subsequent command.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The inspected change affects enforcement information visible to local CLI and TUI users. Its new status path does not add a command-launch capability or expand execution permissions.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Status and execution both honor the existing nested-sandbox marker guard and disabled policy. These states suppress this degraded-only notice, but the PR does not introduce their pass-through execution behavior. An empty warning must not be interpreted as proof of native isolation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The new status calculation constructs a local request without acquiring runtime resources or modifying grant state. Runtime creation and cleanup remain in command planning, including cleanup when planning fails; reporting does not introduce a new shared-state lifecycle.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 13.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 8 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: announcing degraded native sandbox enforcement at TUI session start and on exec stderr.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #1041 accepts either helper-build support or an active CLI/TUI notice. This PR implements the notice path. Engine.EnforcementStatus uses SandboxManager results. EnforcementWarning reports …
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changed production files implement warning calculation, CLI wiring, TUI startup display, and rendering. The added tests verify these behaviors. The PR does not change the helper build path, which …

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Review comments at @internal/cli/exec_test.go:
- Line 655: Clear sandbox markers in both degraded-warning tests so inherited
environment variables do not select the nested-sandbox pass-through path: in
internal/cli/exec_test.go at line 655, set sandbox.EnvSandboxed and
sandbox.EnvSandboxBackend to empty before constructing the engine; do the same
in internal/tui/startup_test.go at line 55.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear sandbox markers in both degraded-warning tests.

When these tests run inside a Zero sandbox, inherited EnvSandboxed and EnvSandboxBackend select the nested-sandbox pass-through path. The degraded warning stays empty, so the assertions fail despite the injected unavailable backend.

• internal/cli/exec_test.go#L655-L655: Add t.Setenv(sandbox.EnvSandboxed, "") and t.Setenv(sandbox.EnvSandboxBackend, "") before constructing the engine.
• internal/tui/startup_test.go#L55-L55: Clear the same two markers before constructing the engine.

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• internal/cli/exec_test.go#L655-L655 (this comment)
• internal/tui/startup_test.go#L55-L55

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Review comment at @internal/cli/exec_test.go at line 655:
Clear sandbox markers in both degraded-warning tests so inherited environment
variables do not select the nested-sandbox pass-through path: in
internal/cli/exec_test.go at line 655, set sandbox.EnvSandboxed and
sandbox.EnvSandboxBackend to empty before constructing the engine; do the same
in internal/tui/startup_test.go at line 55.

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