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Memory ownership and fail-closed configuration in tri-api

DRAFT — Merged PR; unpublished blog draft

PR: #1198

Head SHA: c5f4fa033065c2b2972608d7f530fd10460f3cf5

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Work report

Harden parsed permission configuration and MCP discovery lifetimes, fail closed on invalid settings, and reject invalid writes before checkpoints.

What changed

• Own permission strings and use structural JSON settings parsing.
• Own MCP metadata, validate initialization response and parse discovery once.
• Validate writes before checkpoints and tighten lexical paths and shell separators.

Context and reasoning

Permission configuration and MCP metadata own their storage instead of depending on temporary parsing buffers. Invalid existing settings reject tool execution.

Local regression tests exercise configuration lifetimes, malformed settings, metadata discovery and a Python MCP handshake fixture. All four Zig optimization modes pass.

This change is not a complete sandbox. Filesystem confinement, shell capability policy, provider errors and request timeouts remain separate work requiring additional evidence.

Reported verification

• [passed] Command: zig test --sysroot "$SHIM" -O "$MODE" src/tri-api/tool_executor.zig (Debug, ReleaseSafe, ReleaseFast, ReleaseSmall). Result: 24 tests pass in each mode; includes permission and local MCP handshake tests.. Evidence: reports/tri-api/security-2026-09-30/
• [passed] Command: zig build-exe --sysroot "$SHIM" -O Debug --dep token_rotator -Mroot=src/tri-api/main.zig -Mtoken_rotator=src/tri/token_rotator.zig. Result: Full Debug executable compiled with Zig 0.15.2 and local macOS sysroot shim.. Evidence: docs/TRI_API_SECURITY_RESULTS.md

Limits and open questions

• Local validation only; CI and deployment not yet verified.
• Not a full filesystem or process sandbox; symlink containment, shell capability policies and MCP timeouts remain.
• Provider error handling, usage and context compaction not modified.

Receipts

• gHashTag/trinity PR #1198
• Reported head commit c5f4fa033065
• Merge commit 450f24b6a3b4

Topic tags

#Engineering #Verification