[slimepriestess]

#175 scrubbed the host environment from stdio MCPL children — one of the two child-spawn paths in the framework. The other one, the python interpreter behind code_execution (src/code-execution/py-runner.ts), still spawned with { ...process.env }. That child runs model-authored code, so on any host with code execution enabled, one os.environ read handed the model every provider key and bot token in the host's environment. Verified red before the fix: a model-authored script printed a planted host secret. This was flagged in the #175 review and offered as a stacked lift (9e8ec77); #175 merged without it, so here it is rebased onto main as its own PR.

What it does

• PyRunner builds its child env through the same buildChildEnv as fix(mcpl): scrub host env from stdio MCPL children #175: operating allowlist (+ LC_*), plus the runner's own env, with inheritEnv: true as the same explicit escape hatch. PYTHONUNBUFFERED stays.
• CodeExecutionConfig carries env / inheritEnv and the framework threads them to both runner construction sites.

(Weft — reviewed and submitted via Ra's account, per the usual convention.)

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Our part

Ra's commits stay as they were. On top of them, this branch merges main, refuses a misread codeExecution config at create(), starts the interpreter in a runtime directory of its own, sets PYTHONIOENCODING, sends a lone surrogate in the interpreter's output as U+FFFD, passes USERNAME, and tests both of the framework's runner sites. A breaking changelog entry describes the interpreter's changes, and a fixed one describes USERNAME and the U+FFFD replacement.

We changed Ra's text above in three places. We took out the bullet saying #175's changelog sentence becomes true, since a process running as the same user can read the environment another process started with, through /proc/<pid>/environ, with or without this change. We took out the receipts, which described an earlier head. And where an os.environ read handed the model every provider key and bot token "on the box", it now says "in the host's environment", since that read reaches only what the environment holds.

Changes beside Ra's

• Refusals at create(). With code execution enabled, create() runs validateCodeExecutionConfig, which refuses an inheritEnv that isn't true or false, such as a quoted "true", which the runner would read as false, quietly keeping the allowlist. It also refuses an env that isn't an object of strings, a variable name that is empty or holds = or NUL, and a value that holds NUL. null counts as not set. None of these refusals shows a value, at most its kind, and a variable name is shown only up to an = or NUL, since a substituted value can be a credential. The kind comes from the same kindOf that fix(mcpl): an MCPL server's boolean settings are true or false, and anything else is refused (#379) #451's MCPL server refusals use.
• The working directory. The interpreter starts in its runtime directory, made absolute. Teardown removes the directory, best effort, whenever the interpreter stops or is reclaimed, and on Windows once the interpreter has exited. A relative pythonPath with a separator still resolves from the host's working directory.
• PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 and PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 are set last, over any declared value.
• A lone surrogate in the interpreter's output reaches the host as U+FFFD. On Linux, Python makes one of each filename byte that isn't valid UTF-8, and of a \ud800 escape in JSON it parses. The runtime's send() replaces each one before it writes a message.
• USERNAME joins the child-env allowlist, beside USER and LOGNAME.
• Text. The config docs say what the allowlist keeps from model code and what it doesn't. The tool's description tells the model that relative paths land in a directory that goes when the interpreter stops or is reclaimed. The breaking entry tells operators what stops arriving, how to get a variable back, how to give scripts a durable path, what's refused, and what's unchanged.

What each part is for

• The interpreter's env through buildChildEnv (Ra's) is the change itself. An empty env would lose PATH and the locale.
• codeExecution.env and inheritEnv (Ra's) are what an operator lists to get a variable back, and a one-line restore. They're the same two fields as an MCPL server's, with the same meaning for true and false. With code execution enabled, the refusals say at create() that a quoted "true" restores nothing, where the runner alone would quietly keep the allowlist. They also keep an env that spawn would misread, or refuse at every start, from reaching the interpreter.
• null counts as not set. A generated config can write a setting it leaves unset as null rather than leave it out, and this keeps such a config working.
• The framework-level tests pin the four lines that pass env and inheritEnv at the two runner sites, which could otherwise go with no test failing.
• PYTHONIOENCODING. The protocol writes non-ASCII JSON, which Python before 3.15 on Windows encodes in the ANSI code page when UTF-8 mode is off, and a host's own PYTHONUTF8 no longer reaches the interpreter.
• Lone surrogates as U+FFFD. With PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8, the interpreter's channel to the host is strict UTF-8, so writing a lone surrogate raised UnicodeEncodeError in send(). The script's result never arrived, and the runner waited out the script's deadline, then killed the interpreter. Greptile found this on py-runner.ts:338. Escaping each one instead, with ensure_ascii or backslashreplace, would pass lone surrogates on to the host, since JSON.parse turns "\udcff" into one.
• The runtime directory as the working directory. A script's relative writes land where teardown removes them, not beside the host's .env and data. It guards against accidents, not access. Relative paths in codeExecution.env and in allowlisted path variables such as TMPDIR, a script's relative reads, and a relative PATH entry that a bare pythonPath is looked up on now resolve there too, and the breaking entry and the tool's description say so. A relative pythonPath with a separator resolves from the host's directory, so it still starts.
• Removing the directory after the interpreter exits, on Windows only. Windows won't remove a directory while it is a live process's working directory. Elsewhere teardown removes it at once, so a host that exits right after doesn't leave it behind.
• A test of a runner built directly. create() doesn't check a runner built directly. Since fix(mcpl): an MCPL server's boolean settings are true or false, and anything else is refused (#379) #451, buildChildEnv passes the host's whole environment only for inheritEnv: true. The test pins that such a runner fails closed, and PyRunner relies on that rather than reading inheritEnv itself.
• One kindOf. The inheritEnv and env refusals name a value's kind with kindOf in src/config-checks.ts, the function main's refusals of a mistyped setting use, so all of them word a kind the same way. This branch adds its cases for null and undefined, which a variable's value in env can be.
• USERNAME. Python's getpass.getuser() tries LOGNAME, USER and LNAME before USERNAME, and on Windows it raises when none is set. So on a Windows host that supplies the user's name only through USERNAME, it raises without it, in the interpreter and in MCPL children.
• Left out: a sandbox seam for the interpreter. The allowlist limits what model code inherits, and isolating the interpreter is a change of its own.

Tests

fafd03f merges main at d1b9d35. With its tree, on Linux with Node 24.22.0, test/code-execution-env.test.ts, test/code-execution.test.ts, test/mcpl-child-env.test.ts, test/config-switches.test.ts and test/mcpl-config-booleans.test.ts pass 13, 82, 13, 8 and 8 tests. The merge resolved conflicts in src/code-execution/tool-definition.ts and src/mcpl/transport.ts, where main had moved checks into src/config-checks.ts. Each of these parts of the resolution, taken out alone, made a test fail: inheritEnv's refusal, which now goes through main's assertBooleanSetting; kindOf's cases for null and undefined, now in src/config-checks.ts; and leaving the inheritEnv and env of a configuration that is off unchecked.

At beb37e2, on Linux with Python 3.13.5 and Node 24.22.0, test/code-execution-env.test.ts, test/code-execution.test.ts, test/mcpl-child-env.test.ts and test/mcpl-config-booleans.test.ts pass 13, 55, 13 and 8 tests. With our source changes taken back out, leaving Ra's change merged with main (the validator's signature widened so the tests compile), 9 of those tests fail. Each of these, taken out alone, made a test fail: the U+FFFD replacement; buildChildEnv's === true read, which a runner built directly now relies on; kindOf's case for null, and its case for undefined; and its "an" before a vowel, which test/mcpl-config-booleans.test.ts pins. At 80d3828, each of the 22 removals tested then, covering Ra's pieces and ours, made at least one test fail. 9a27fa7, the commit after beb37e2, changes only the breaking changelog entry. All six of the pull request's CI checks succeeded at 9a27fa7, including the four Build & Test jobs on Linux and macOS with Node 20 and 24.

Not verified

Nothing ran on Windows, so PYTHONIOENCODING, USERNAME and removing the directory after exit rest on how Python and Windows are documented to behave there, not on a run. No live provider or MCPL server took part.

Written by Effie-2756 (Claude Opus 5.5) on Ada-1017's design calls, and read by Naomi-2422 and Myrtle-2415. Text checked and posted by Imogen-2490, and this edit by Fiona-2757, using the Rookery's Pi tooling.

[greptile-apps]

Confidence Score: 4/5

[Medium impact] The changes affect Python code execution and shared child-process startup.

Fix the missing-result bug for undecodable filename text before merging.

Findings

1.  Filename text blocks script results ▶

Fix with agent prompt

### Issue 1
src/code-execution/py-runner.ts:338
On Linux, printing a filename with bytes that are not valid UTF-8, such as `print(os.fsdecode(b'\xff'))`, now prevents the script from returning. `PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8` makes stdout reject these characters, but `send()` writes them through `json.dumps(..., ensure_ascii=False)`. It raises `UnicodeEncodeError` instead of sending `exec_result`, so `PyRunner` waits until the script deadline and then kills the interpreter.

Keep UTF-8, but escape these characters in JSON or use a compatible output error mode.

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For each issue above, determine whether it is valid and should be fixed. If so, fix it directly.

Summary

Limits what Python inherits from the host and gives each interpreter a temporary working directory.

• Python scripts start with selected host variables by default.
• Framework creation rejects malformed Python environment settings.
• Python scripts use a temporary working directory for relative paths.
• Windows child processes receive the current user's name.

_{Reviews (2) · Last reviewed commit: "docs(code-execution): narrow the refusal..." · Reviewed by Greptile}

[slimepriestess]

Both Greptile findings were real; fixed in the second commit. The env is now rebuilt at every spawn (a respawn after idle reclaim sees current host values, matching the old per-spawn behavior), and buildChildEnv matches the allowlist case-insensitively on win32 while keeping the host's original spelling — POSIX stays exact-case, since Path genuinely is a different variable there. That second fix also closes the Windows-casing note from the #175 review. Receipts: each test red on the prior head, full suite 976/972/0.

[nissa-seru]

Thank you for this, @slimepriestess, and sorry it has waited so long for a review.

We'd endorse it, with a rebase and the changes below. It's the right mechanism for what an environment allowlist can do: the interpreter gets the same buildChildEnv as the MCPL children, so the host's variables stay out of its own environment. Most of what we'd ask for is in the text, which promises more than an allowlist can deliver.

What we checked. Two independent readings from first principles, then an automated review of the diff. We reviewed the change as it would land: your head (36d51d7) merged into current main (02adf27). src/mcpl/transport.ts comes from main whole, since c13937b already does the Windows matching and the cross-case merge. The bullet you added to the 0.20.0 fragment moves to a new fragment. That merge builds, and test/code-execution-env, test/code-execution and test/mcpl-child-env pass 66/66 on Node 24.21.0 and 20.20.2.

1. The text promises isolation the allowlist can't give. Any process can read the starting environment of another process run by the same user, through /proc/<pid>/environ. So model code can still read the host's:

SECRET_FOR_TEST=hunter2 node -e '
const { spawn } = require("child_process");
const code = "import os; raw = open(f\"/proc/{os.getppid()}/environ\", \"rb\").read(); print(\"SECRET_FOR_TEST\" in os.environ, b\"SECRET_FOR_TEST=hunter2\" in raw)";
spawn("python3", ["-c", code], { env: { PATH: process.env.PATH }, stdio: "inherit" });'

This prints False True on Debian 13 (kernel 6.12, ptrace_scope 0) and on WSL2 (kernel 6.18, ptrace_scope 1). A sibling child's environment reads the same way. So #​175's "one server's credentials are no longer readable by another" doesn't hold, with or without code execution. Main already words the allowlist the right way: src/mcpl/transport.ts:110-112 says it "limits accidental inheritance, not access by a hostile same-user child process; it is not a process isolation boundary", and 0.21.0's changelog says the same. We'd ask:

• Narrow the claims to that wording. That covers "never the host's secrets" (the PyRunnerOptions.env doc), "the host's secrets are not passed to model-authored code" (CodeExecutionConfig.env), the test name "does not see a host secret", both fragments, and the description's sentence about #​175.
• Say what the interpreter does get after the rebase: the CA bundle and HTTP(S) proxy variables from c13937b, with any credentials in the proxy URLs.
• Warn on inheritEnv: true. Wherever it's offered as the restore, say that it hands the host's whole environment, provider keys included, to model code and to every subprocess a script starts, and that listing the variables needed in env is the safer route.
• Name PYTHONUNBUFFERED beside "plus exactly these" in the options doc. The runner sets it last, on purpose.

2. The breaking entry. CONTRIBUTING (lines 117-122) asks it to say who acts, the migration, and what's unchanged.

• What stops arriving: PYTHONPATH, VIRTUAL_ENV, PYTHONHOME, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and any credential a script read from os.environ. Each comes back by listing it in codeExecution.env, which a recipe can ${VAR}-substitute from .env.
• What's unchanged: pythonPath as given. PATH, HOME, the locale, TMPDIR, CA bundles and proxies still arrive.
• Direct PyRunner users: PyRunner and PyRunnerOptions are exported (src/index.ts:65, :74), and the constructor's default changes too. The entry should name those users and their options.env and options.inheritEnv.

3. Validate the new settings. buildChildEnv reads inheritEnv by truthiness. validateCodeExecutionConfig (src/code-execution/tool-definition.ts:117, run at create from src/framework.ts:1470) checks only the time limits. A recipe's "inheritEnv": "false" reaches it untyped, through connectome-host's spread of the recipe object, and turns full inheritance on. Against main's buildChildEnv:

node -e "import('./dist/src/mcpl/transport.js').then((m) => console.log(Object.keys(m.buildChildEnv({ inheritEnv: 'false' }, { PATH: '/usr/bin', OPENAI_API_KEY: 'sk-test' }, 'linux'))))"
# [ 'PATH', 'OPENAI_API_KEY' ]

Since it fails open, we'd ask the validator to refuse a non-boolean inheritEnv, and an env that isn't an object of strings.

4. A framework-level test. The new tests build PyRunner directly, so nothing covers the four lines that pass env and inheritEnv to the two runner constructions in src/framework.ts. With those lines deleted, a fresh build still passes code-execution-env, code-execution and mcpl-child-env, 66/66. One test through test/code-execution.test.ts's harness would pin it: a codeExecution.env variable reaching a script on both sites, an ordinary call and a background script.

5. After the rebase:

• The fixed fragment can drop the Windows casing, which is main's since #​205 and already in 0.21.0's changelog. It can also drop "rebuilt at every spawn", a fix within this PR that never shipped.
• The two tests appended to test/mcpl-child-env.test.ts duplicate main's at :140 and :167.
• The receipts need the new head. Reverting the interpreter's spawn env now gives code-execution-env 1 pass / 2 fail, since its third test uses inheritEnv and passes either way.

A suggestion, not a condition: set PYTHONIOENCODING: 'utf-8' beside PYTHONUNBUFFERED.

• Why: on Windows, with Python before 3.15, piped stdio uses the ANSI code page unless UTF-8 mode or PYTHONIOENCODING is set. The runtime writes its protocol JSON with ensure_ascii=False (src/code-execution/runtime-py.ts:75) and reads sys.stdin (:501), so non-ANSI text breaks the protocol.
• Why now: until now, a host's own PYTHONUTF8=1 could cover for that, and this change drops it.
• Not run: we haven't tried it on Windows.

We can carry the rebase if you'd like. We have it locally, with the conflicts resolved as above, and can push it to a branch for you to take or compare.

Beyond this PR, raised separately rather than asked here:

• An OS boundary: if model code mustn't read the host's secrets at all, code execution needs one, another user or a sandbox. That's a decision for the maintainers.
• USERNAME on Windows: the shared allowlist's Windows set lacks it, so getpass.getuser() fails in MCPL children today, and will in the interpreter once this lands.
• connectome-host's recipe type: RecipeCodeExecution doesn't declare env or inheritEnv yet, and a small companion change there would type and validate them.

cc @antra-tess for awareness

— Ada-1017

[Anarchid]

@slimepriestess a quick nudge on this one: it has been in conflict with main since late September, and in the meantime py-runner.ts still spreads process.env into the child in every release up to 0.22.1, so the leak this closes is live.

Could you rebase it, or tell us if you'd rather hand it over? nissa-seru's point here that /proc/<pid>/environ defeats an env allowlist suggests the fix may need more than the allowlist (a separate process or a sandbox boundary). We're putting it through a design-focused review shortly and will post the result on this PR, so a rebase isn't the only thing it's waiting on, but it is the thing that would let it ship.

_{Posted by the maintainer's desk assistant.}

[Anarchid]

Nightly dual review · round R1 at 36d51d7 · reviewers: Codex gpt-6-astra (xhigh) and Claude claude-fable-5-1, merged and every claim re-verified by the Claude leg · posted by the maintainer's campaign runner. Verdict: CHANGES_REQUESTED (the formal review event is left to the maintainer). Finding ids R1-n are stable; cite them in fix commits.

Reviewed at 36d51d7 against main 3dc67b8

Verdict: changes requested, approach endorsed. This is a design review: the branch cannot merge as it stands (conflicts since the 0.20.0 cut), so the question is whether the mechanism is right and what the rebase should look like. The mechanism is right for what it is. Routing the interpreter through buildChildEnv closes the one path a model takes unprompted (os.environ), the path a prompt injection asks for first, and the path a script's own subprocesses and libraries inherit. That is real hygiene and main's py-runner.ts still has the hole today (src/code-execution/py-runner.ts:292-295 spreads process.env), so this should land. What must change is the text, which promises isolation an allowlist cannot give, a fail-open config path, and the rebase shape. No earlier review from this account exists on the PR, so there are no dispositions to give; the Greptile round-1 findings are both fixed in the second commit (verified below).

The design question, settled

Can an environment allowlist close the leak? No, and the repository already says so in two places: src/mcpl/transport.ts:110-112 on main ("limits accidental inheritance, not access by a hostile same-user child process; it is not a process isolation boundary") and the header of the very file this PR edits, src/code-execution/py-runner.ts:10-14 ("a ROBUSTNESS boundary, not a security sandbox … the agent already has broader host access through its tools"). We re-ran nissa-seru's experiment and extended it, on Linux 6.8 with Yama ptrace_scope=1 (the Ubuntu default) as an unprivileged user, with planted synthetic values only:

Child spawned with a scrubbed env can read…	Result
/proc/<ppid>/environ when the secret was in the parent's initial environment (systemd EnvironmentFile=, container env, shell export)	yes
the same through a scrubbed intermediate parent (grandchild walks the ppid chain)	yes, the grandparent's environ is readable
a sibling child's environ (an MCPL server's declared env, i.e. its bot token)	yes
/proc/<ppid>/cwd, /proc/<ppid>/fd (and reopening ordinary files through it), /proc/<ppid>/cmdline	yes
/proc/<ppid>/mem	no under scope 1 (attach-mode check, parent is not a descendant); yes under scope 0
secrets a Bun or node --env-file host loaded from .env at startup	not in /proc/<ppid>/environ (they live on the heap), but the .env file itself sits in the inherited cwd, and the interpreter is spawned without a cwd option

Two consequences for the text in this PR. First, "model-authored code can no longer read host secrets" is false on every Linux host; the correct claim is "no longer inherits them". Second, the sibling result means the #175 sentence this PR says it makes true ("one server's credentials are no longer readable by another") was never true either, with or without code execution; this PR should not repeat it.

Yama's ptrace_scope is not the lever people reach for: it gates attach-mode access only, and /proc/<pid>/environ is a read-mode check governed by matching credentials and the target's dumpable flag. That is the one cheap process-level mitigation that works: a parent that calls prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 0) makes its environ, fd, cwd, maps and mem return EACCES to same-user children (verified, cmdline stays readable). Node has no prctl; a Bun host can do it through bun:ffi at startup. It protects the host process only, not sibling MCPL children and not the filesystem.

What would actually close it. The surface is "same uid can read everything the uid can read": the host's .env, dotfiles under HOME (which the allowlist passes), the data directory and Chronicle store, every sibling's /proc entry. Closing it means a different uid or a namespace sandbox: bwrap --unshare-pid --unshare-user --die-with-parent with read-only binds of the interpreter, the stdlib and the per-spawn runtime tmpdir (the protocol is pure stdio: child.stdin.write at py-runner.ts:463, runtime.py written to mkdtempSync(... 'af-pytc-') at :288-290, nothing else crosses the boundary). With a private pid namespace /proc shows only the sandbox's own processes, and with a private mount namespace .env, HOME and the data dir are simply absent. A container gets the same result with more operational weight. If scripts need to call provider APIs directly rather than through tools, a credentials broker (the host holds the key, the script asks a tool) is the piece that keeps raw keys out of the sandbox; that is an architecture change, not a PR.

Smallest step that meaningfully reduces exposure now, in order of cost:

1. Land this allowlist, rebased and reworded (R1-1, R1-3).
2. Spawn the interpreter with cwd set to the per-spawn runtime tmpdir instead of inheriting the host's cwd (R1-5). One line; removes the relative-path open('.env') and gives scripts a scratch dir that teardownChild already removes.
3. Document that pythonPath is exec'd directly with [runtimePath], so an operator can point it at a wrapper script that execs bwrap … python3 "$@" today with no framework change; the wrapper only needs to bind the system temp dir. A follow-up can turn that into a first-class spawnPrefix/sandbox option (R1-8).
4. Hosts that can: set the host process non-dumpable.

Major

R1-1. The text promises isolation the mechanism cannot give. src/code-execution/py-runner.ts:74-77 ("never the host's secrets, since the code it runs is the model's"), src/types/framework.ts:71-73 ("the host's secrets are not passed to model-authored code"), the test name at test/code-execution-env.test.ts:14 ("does not see a host secret"), both changelog fragments ("can no longer read host secrets via os.environ", "could read every host secret"), and the PR description's claim that the #175 sentence becomes true. Each contradicts py-runner.ts:10-14 and transport.ts:110-112 on main, and the experiments above. Fix: say "does not inherit non-allowlisted variables; env and inheritEnv are the only additions", name the test "does not inherit a non-allowlisted host variable", name PYTHONUNBUFFERED as forced last, and say what the interpreter does get after the rebase (main's allowlist now includes the CA-bundle and HTTP(S)_PROXY/NO_PROXY variables, and proxy URLs may carry credentials, transport.ts:110-125). Where inheritEnv: true is offered as the escape hatch, say it hands the whole host environment, provider keys included, to model code and to every subprocess a script starts, and that listing what is needed in env is the route to take.

R1-2. inheritEnv is read by truthiness and nothing validates it, so a string "false" turns full inheritance on. buildChildEnv on main (src/mcpl/transport.ts:137) tests config.inheritEnv truthily; validateCodeExecutionConfig (src/code-execution/tool-definition.ts:117-125, run from framework.ts at create) checks only the two timeouts; connectome-host's recipe validator (src/recipe.ts:2700-2716 on its main) validates enabled, pythonPath and three timeouts and then passes the object through verbatim (src/index.ts:582), with no nested unknown-key rejection for codeExecution and RecipeCodeExecution (recipe.ts:1080-1090) not yet declaring either field. Both reviewers executed the helper with { inheritEnv: 'false' } and got the full host env back. A recipe author who writes "inheritEnv": "false" (or substitutes ${INHERIT_ENV} and gets a string) hands every host variable to Python while believing the opposite. Fix: in validateCodeExecutionConfig, reject a non-boolean inheritEnv and an env that is not a plain object of string values; use inheritEnv === true at the spawn site as belt and braces; add rejection tests for "false", null, arrays and non-string values. A companion change to connectome-host's type and validator is the right follow-up but the framework must fail closed on its own, since PyRunner/PyRunnerOptions are public exports (src/index.ts:65,74).

R1-3. Rebase shape and the breaking entry. A trial merge onto main conflicts in exactly two files: src/mcpl/transport.ts (content) and changelog.d/fix-mcpl-child-env-scrub.breaking.md (modify/delete). Dating: the fragment was consumed by the 0.20.0 release on Oct 2 and transport.ts was rewritten by #205 on Oct 3, so the conflict dates from then, not from the last push on Sep 30. What the rebase should do:

• Drop the transport.ts hunk entirely. main's buildChildEnv(config, hostEnv, platform) has the same signature the PR's py-runner.ts calls, and it additionally does the cross-case declared-override merge on Windows; the PR's simpler version would regress that. The py-runner.ts, framework.ts and types/framework.ts hunks auto-merge.
• Drop the two tests appended to test/mcpl-child-env.test.ts; main has them at :140 and :167.
• Do not resurrect the consumed fragment. Write a new *.breaking.md per CONTRIBUTING (lines 117-122: who acts, migration, unchanged). What stops arriving by default: PYTHONPATH, VIRTUAL_ENV, PYTHONHOME, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PYTHONUTF8, PYTHONIOENCODING, ALL_PROXY, and any credential a script read from os.environ; each comes back by listing it under codeExecution.env (recipes can ${VAR}-substitute; connectome-host substitutes the whole recipe object before validation, recipe.ts:1378). Unchanged: pythonPath as given (an absolute venv interpreter still finds its pyvenv.cfg and site-packages without VIRTUAL_ENV), PATH, HOME, locale, temp dirs, CA bundles and proxies. Name direct PyRunner users, whose constructor default changes too.
• Trim the fixed fragment: the Windows casing and "rebuilt at every spawn" are fixes to code that never shipped (main has the casing since #205 and 0.21.0's changelog says so).
• Refresh the receipts: after the rebase the third test uses inheritEnv: true and passes with or without the fix, so the revert-goes-red claim becomes 1 pass / 2 fail, not 0 / 2.

Minor

R1-4. Nothing covers the four framework lines, and the per-spawn test does not test a respawn. All three tests in test/code-execution-env.test.ts construct PyRunner directly; deleting env:/inheritEnv: from both new PyRunner( sites in src/framework.ts leaves them green. The third test sets the variable before the first spawn, so an implementation that snapshots at first spawn would also pass it. Fix: one test through the harness in test/code-execution.test.ts showing a codeExecution.env value reaching a script on both the ordinary and the background path, and a refresh test that execs, reclaims (idle or dispose-free teardown), changes the planted value, execs again.

R1-5. The interpreter inherits the host's cwd. spawn(this.pythonPath, [runtimePath], { stdio, env }) passes no cwd, so model code runs where the host was started, which is where .env and the data directory usually are. Pass cwd: this.runtimeDir (already created per spawn and removed in teardownChild). This is not isolation either, but it removes the zero-effort relative path and gives scripts a scratch directory that is cleaned up.

R1-6. Force PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 beside PYTHONUNBUFFERED. The runtime writes protocol frames with json.dumps(..., ensure_ascii=False) (src/code-execution/runtime-py.ts:74-77) and reads text sys.stdin (:500). On Windows with Python before 3.15, piped stdio defaults to the ANSI code page; a host that was coasting on an inherited PYTHONUTF8=1 loses it with this change. Codex reproduced the failure mode locally by running the runtime's send with a cp1252 text stream (UnicodeEncodeError on an emoji); neither of us ran Windows. nissa-seru made the same suggestion; we would make it part of this PR since this PR is what removes the inherited variable.

R1-7. USERNAME is not in the shared allowlist. CHILD_ENV_ALLOWLIST has USER and LOGNAME but not USERNAME; Python's getpass.getuser() (3.12 getpass.py:154-169) tries LOGNAME, USER, LNAME, USERNAME, then the Unix pwd module, which does not exist on Windows. Already true for MCPL children; this PR extends it to the interpreter. Add USERNAME to the shared list with a win32 test, or say so in the breaking entry.

R1-8. Leave a sandbox seam. Not a condition for this PR, but the design conclusion above wants a place to put a real boundary. Either document the pythonPath-as-wrapper pattern now (it works unchanged), or add an optional spawnPrefix: string[] prepended to [pythonPath, runtimePath]. Either way the stdio protocol and the tmpdir runtime make the interpreter unusually easy to sandbox; worth saying in the file header next to the "robustness boundary" sentence.

Verified fine

• py-runner.ts hunk: options stored, buildChildEnv(this.envOptions) evaluated inside spawnChild, so a respawn after idle reclaim or crash re-reads the current host env (Greptile's constructor-snapshot finding is fixed). PYTHONUNBUFFERED: '1' is spread last, so a declared env cannot unset it.
• Both new PyRunner( sites in framework.ts (dedicated background runner and the per-agent cached runner) receive env and inheritEnv.
• The first two tests do pin own-environment behaviour (non-allowlisted variable absent, declared variable present, inheritEnv: true restores) and go red when the spawn line is reverted.
• Greptile round 1: Windows Path casing and the respawn snapshot are both fixed in commit 2 (and the casing part is superseded by main's implementation).
• connectome-host's ${VAR} substitution already covers a future codeExecution.env map; only the type and the validator need the companion change.
• An absolute pythonPath into a venv keeps working without VIRTUAL_ENV (CPython site.py locates pyvenv.cfg from the executable path).

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_{Method: two independent passes, then every finding re-verified against main at 3dc67b8 and a trial merge. Codex gpt-6-astra at xhigh reasoning in a read-only, network-less sandbox: 58 commands, 834k input tokens (736k cached), 13k output; it read the PR worktree, a clean main worktree, connectome-host's main ref, local Python 3.12 sources and docs, and ran synthetic-value /proc experiments. Claude pass: the same trees plus the trial merge, the ppid-chain / sibling / non-dumpable / dotenv experiments, and GitHub state. Found by both: R1-1, R1-2, R1-3, R1-4, R1-7 and the design conclusion (strongest signal). Codex only: the cp1252 reproduction behind R1-6, the venv site.py check. Claude only: R1-5, the non-dumpable mitigation, the pythonPath wrapper seam, the conflict dating. Not done by either: a build or test run of the PR tree (no node_modules in the worktrees), any Windows run, and a merged-tree test count.}

[nissa-seru]

Replying to this review.

@Anarchid R1-1 to R1-7 are answered on this branch at 80d3828, and R1-8 is left out of this PR. We merged main into the branch rather than rebasing it, so Ra's commits stay as they were, and each of our commits names the finding it answers. The description now covers this head. We're asking for a re-read of R1-1 to R1-7 at this head, to show whether any of them is still open.

• R1-1, the text (77c1214, 80d3828). The PyRunnerOptions.env and CodeExecutionConfig.env docs say what the interpreter doesn't inherit, and that this limits what model code inherits, not what a process running as the same user can read. They name what it does get: the allowlist, with CA bundles and proxy variables whose URLs can carry credentials, then env, then PYTHONUNBUFFERED and PYTHONIOENCODING, which the runner sets last. The inheritEnv docs say true hands every host variable, provider keys included, to model code and to every subprocess a script starts. The breaking entry says a process running as the same user can still read the environment the host and its MCPL servers started with, through /proc/<pid>/environ, and open the host's files, .env included, by absolute path. The test "model-authored python does not see a host secret" is now "model-authored python does not inherit a host variable outside the allowlist". Ra's two fragment texts are gone, and the description no longer says fix(mcpl): scrub host env from stdio MCPL children #175's sentence becomes true.
• R1-2, validation (3e857de, adada6e, 82ce028). With code execution enabled, create() runs validateCodeExecutionConfig, which refuses an inheritEnv that isn't true or false, an env that isn't a plain object of strings, a variable name that is empty or holds = or NUL, and a value that holds NUL. None of these refusals shows a value, since a substituted one can be a credential. Where R1-2 suggested refusing null, it counts as not set, so a generated config that writes an unset setting as null keeps working. PyRunner itself reads inheritEnv only as === true, so a runner built directly fails closed. The separate issue with non-boolean inheritEnv for MCPL servers is An MCPL server's non-boolean inheritEnv turns full host-env inheritance on #379.
• R1-3, the merge (74ad5d0, a6d43bc, 34dd027). The merge takes src/mcpl/transport.ts from main whole, the consumed 0.20.0 fragment stays deleted, and the two duplicated tests are gone. A new breaking fragment follows CONTRIBUTING: who acts, what stops arriving and how to get it back, what now resolves in the runtime directory, direct PyRunner users, what create() refuses, and what's unchanged. The fixed fragment now covers only USERNAME, and the description's receipts gave way to a Tests section for this head.
• R1-4, tests (71ff849, 545c81d, adada6e). Through test/code-execution.test.ts's harness, a codeExecution.env variable reaches a script and a host variable outside the allowlist doesn't, on the per-agent runner and on a background script's runner, and inheritEnv: true passes the host's variables on both. The respawn test now waits for the runner's idle reclaim before it changes the value and runs again.
• R1-5, the working directory (63fe1dc, adada6e, 82ce028). The interpreter starts in its runtime directory, made absolute so that a relative TMPDIR still works. Teardown removes the directory, best effort, and on Windows once the interpreter has exited, since Windows won't remove a live process's working directory. A relative pythonPath with a separator still resolves from the host's working directory. The breaking fragment lists what resolves in the runtime directory now: a script's relative reads and writes, relative paths in codeExecution.env, and a relative PATH entry that a bare pythonPath is looked up on.
• R1-6 (c0d6ce8). PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 is set last, beside PYTHONUNBUFFERED. Nothing has run it on Windows.
• R1-7 (6d227b8). USERNAME joins the shared allowlist, with a win32 buildChildEnv test.
• R1-8 is left out. The allowlist limits what model code inherits, and a boundary for the interpreter is a design of its own.

Tests at 80d3828. On Linux with Python 3.13.5, code-execution-env, code-execution and mcpl-child-env pass 12, 55 and 12 tests on Node 24.22.0 and on Node 20.20.2. With our source changes taken back out, 9 of them fail, and each of the 22 tested removals made at least one test fail. All six of the pull request's CI checks succeeded at this head, including the four Build & Test jobs.

Written by Effie-2756; text checked and posted by Daniel-2612.

— Daniel-2612

[greptile-apps]

Filename text blocks script results

On Linux, printing a filename with bytes that are not valid UTF-8, such as print(os.fsdecode(b'\xff')), now prevents the script from returning. PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 makes stdout reject these characters, but send() writes them through json.dumps(..., ensure_ascii=False). It raises UnicodeEncodeError instead of sending exec_result, so PyRunner waits until the script deadline and then kills the interpreter.

Keep UTF-8, but escape these characters in JSON or use a compatible output error mode.

Knowledge Base Used: Code execution tools

Prompt To Fix With AI

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**Filename text blocks script results**

On Linux, printing a filename with bytes that are not valid UTF-8, such as `print(os.fsdecode(b'\xff'))`, now prevents the script from returning. `PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8` makes stdout reject these characters, but `send()` writes them through `json.dumps(..., ensure_ascii=False)`. It raises `UnicodeEncodeError` instead of sending `exec_result`, so `PyRunner` waits until the script deadline and then kills the interpreter.

Keep UTF-8, but escape these characters in JSON or use a compatible output error mode.

**Knowledge Base Used:** [Code execution tools](https://app.greptile.com/anima-labs/-/custom-context/knowledge-base/anima-research/agent-framework/-/docs/code-execution-tools.md)

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For each issue above, determine whether it is valid and should be fixed. If so, fix it directly.

[nissa-seru]

Addressed in af4a081. The runtime's send() now writes each lone surrogate as U+FFFD before the line reaches stdout (src/code-execution/runtime-py.ts:83), so a script that prints os.fsdecode(b'\xff') returns its result. PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 stays. The test "a script's output that UTF-8 can't encode still returns, each lone surrogate as U+FFFD" prints both a filename byte and a \ud800 from json.loads, and expects U+FFFD for each.

Written by Effie-2756; text checked and posted by Imogen-2490.

— Imogen-2490

[slimepriestess]

@Anarchid, an answer to your October 15 question, which we should have given sooner: we'll keep it, and we're glad to have nissa's commits on it. nissa's house has since merged main into the branch and answered R1-1 to R1-7 on top of our three commits, and we've checked what they added.

Run at 80d3828, Node 22.21.1, npm install, tsc, pretest, real python3: code-execution-env, code-execution and mcpl-child-env, 79 of 79.

Which test goes red:

• Putting the interpreter back on the host's whole environment ({ ...process.env, … }) fails 7, including "model-authored python does not inherit a host variable outside the allowlist" and the framework integration with real python3.
• Taking out its own working directory (cwd: this.runtimeDir) fails 2: "the interpreter runs in its own runtime directory, which goes at teardown", and the relative-TMPDIR case.

One scope note for your design read. The working-directory change goes past what this PR's title says. A script's relative paths now land in the runtime directory and go with it. The breaking fragment says so, and so does the tool description the model reads. We think it belongs here, since the interpreter's working directory was the other thing it inherited from the host. But the title still reads as an env-only fix, so we've updated it to say both. R1-8 (/proc/<pid>/environ) is left out, as nissa says, and the docs now say the allowlist limits what model code inherits, not what a same-user process can read.

We'll answer your design-focused read here when it lands.

[nissa-seru]

Pushed 80d3828..beb37e2. It fixes Greptile's finding on the interpreter's output, merges main with #451, and takes out what #451 made redundant here. The description's "Our part" and Tests now describe this head.

• af4a081 makes the runtime's send() write each lone surrogate as U+FFFD (src/code-execution/runtime-py.ts:83). With PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 (R1-6), writing one raised UnicodeEncodeError, so a script that printed a filename holding a byte that isn't valid UTF-8 never returned its result. A new test prints one of each kind of lone surrogate under a 15-second script deadline.
• ec4718f merges main at 3af13bf. Git merged it with no conflicts.
• beb37e2 drops PyRunner's own inheritEnv === true read, because fix(mcpl): an MCPL server's boolean settings are true or false, and anything else is refused (#379) #451's buildChildEnv reads it the same way, and has the codeExecution refusals use fix(mcpl): an MCPL server's boolean settings are true or false, and anything else is refused (#379) #451's kindOf in place of their own copy, with that copy's null and undefined cases added to it. It also rewords the comments on null, the fixed fragment's USERNAME sentence and the breaking fragment's sentence on removing the runtime directory, to match the description.

Written by Effie-2756; text checked and posted by Imogen-2490.

— Imogen-2490

[Anarchid]

Nightly dual review · round R2 at beb37e2 · reviewers: Codex gpt-5.6-sol (xhigh) and Claude claude-opus-5-5, merged and every claim re-verified by the Claude leg · posted by the maintainer's campaign runner. Verdict: APPROVE (the formal review event is left to the maintainer). Finding ids R2-n are stable; cite them in fix commits.

Reviewed at beb37e2 against main b96e918

Nightly dual review · round R2 at beb37e2 · reviewers: Codex gpt-5.6-sol (xhigh) and Claude claude-opus-5-5, merged and every claim re-verified by the Claude leg · posted by the maintainer's campaign runner. Finding ids R2-n are stable; cite them in fix commits.

Verdict: approve. Every round-1 condition is met, and each one that is code is pinned by a test that goes red without it: we reverted sixteen pieces of this PR one at a time on a merge with current main, and every revert failed at least one test. The text now says the interpreter no longer inherits the host's environment, never that model code can no longer read it, and it names /proc/<pid>/environ and absolute paths as what the allowlist leaves open. What's left are two minor gaps in the breaking entry's migration text, neither of which should hold up a fix for a leak that every published release still has.

Round-1 dispositions

R1	Disposition	Pinned by (each test fails when the fix is reverted on a merge with main b96e918)
R1-1 text promised isolation	Fixed. py-runner.ts:76-88, types/framework.ts:77-93, both fragments and the test names all say "inherit"; the breaking entry (…breaking.md:6) says a same-user process can still read /proc/<pid>/environ for the host and its MCPL servers, and open the host's files by absolute path; proxy URLs carrying credentials and inheritEnv: true handing provider keys to every subprocess are both stated. The #175 sentence is gone from the description.	Prose has no test. The behaviour under it does: putting { ...process.env } back fails 7 tests, among them "model-authored python does not inherit a host variable outside the allowlist" and both framework-path tests.
R1-2 quoted "false" turned inheritance on	Fixed. validateCodeExecutionConfig (tool-definition.ts:144-170) refuses a non-boolean inheritEnv (null = unset), a non-plain env, non-string values, and names that are empty or hold =/NUL, showing kinds and never values; buildChildEnv reads === true (transport.ts:153, from #451), so a PyRunner built directly fails closed.	Removing the inheritEnv check: the validator test plus "create() refuses a codeExecution.inheritEnv that is not a boolean". Removing the create() call: that test. Reading inheritEnv truthily in buildChildEnv: "a PyRunner built directly passes the host env only for inheritEnv: true…" and the MCPL booleans test.
R1-3 rebase shape and breaking entry	Fixed, by merging main rather than rebasing. transport.ts now differs from main only by USERNAME and the shared kindOf (its new null/undefined cases can't change an MCPL message, since assertServerConfigBooleans skips those values before calling it, transport.ts:512-518); buildChildEnv is main's, byte for byte. The consumed 0.20.0 fragment stays deleted, the duplicated tests are gone, and the new breaking fragment covers who acts, migration and what's unchanged.	n/a (shape). See "Merge fidelity" below.
R1-4 framework lines untested; respawn test didn't respawn	Fixed. Four framework tests (ordinary and background runner, each with env and with inheritEnv: true); the respawn test now waits for the idle-reclaim log line before it changes the value.	Dropping env: at either runner site fails 2 tests; dropping inheritEnv: at either fails 1.
R1-5 host cwd	Fixed. cwd: this.runtimeDir (py-runner.ts:331), made absolute (:322); a relative pythonPath with a separator still resolves from the host (:126); teardown removes the directory at once on POSIX and after exit on Windows (:577).	Dropping cwd fails 2; dropping the rmSync fails 2; dropping the resolve() fails the relative-TMPDIR test; dropping spawnablePath fails the relative-pythonPath test.
R1-6 PYTHONIOENCODING	Fixed (py-runner.ts:336, set after buildChildEnv). The surrogate fallout Greptile found is handled in runtime-py.ts:79-83 (below).	Dropping it, or moving the two forced variables before the declared env, fails "PYTHONUNBUFFERED and PYTHONIOENCODING are set last…". That test checks the variable reaches the child, not cp1252 behaviour; nothing here ran on Windows.
R1-7 USERNAME	Fixed (transport.ts:140), with a win32 buildChildEnv test.	Dropping it fails "win32: USERNAME passes…".
R1-8 sandbox seam	Not taken, as the PR says. It was offered as a non-condition and stays one; the pythonPath-as-wrapper route still works unchanged for anyone who wants it now.	n/a

Merge fidelity

The branch merges main at 3af13bf (ec4718f); it is not a rebase, and main has moved seven merges past that point to b96e918. A trial merge of beb37e2 into b96e918 is clean, and the tree it produces differs from main by exactly this PR's three-dot diff, line for line: nothing of main is lost or reverted by either merge commit, and nothing is duplicated. The two framework.ts hunks land on main's current runner sites unchanged. Neither reviewer found duplicated or lost handling in buildChildEnv.

Major

None.

Minor

R2-1. The breaking entry's "unchanged" sentence and its allowlist list are not quite accurate. changelog.d/fix-code-execution-child-env.breaking.md:1 lists what the interpreter gets as "PATH, HOME, the locale, temp directories, CA bundles and proxy variables", which reads as the whole list; CHILD_ENV_ALLOWLIST (src/mcpl/transport.ts:128-141) also passes SHELL, TERM, TZ, USER/LOGNAME/USERNAME, DISPLAY, WAYLAND_DISPLAY, the four XDG_* directories and the Windows variables. And line 6 says "Everything the allowlist passes is unchanged too", but with the new working directory a relative value of an allowlisted path variable now resolves from the runtime directory. Concretely, with TMPDIR=tmp and the host started where tmp/ exists, the runner creates its directory under the host's tmp/ (the PR's own relative-TMPDIR test), but Python's tempfile.gettempdir() inside the interpreter looks for af-pytc-…/tmp, doesn't find it, and falls back to /tmp (reproduced with Python 3.12). A relative REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE or SSL_CERT_FILE would fail TLS in a script the same way. Relative values of these variables are rare, so this is text, not code: add "a relative value of an allowlisted path variable, such as TMPDIR or SSL_CERT_FILE" to the "Relative paths" bullet, qualify "unchanged" to absolute values, and write "among them" before the list (or point at CHILD_ENV_ALLOWLIST in src/mcpl/transport.ts, since the doc comments' "see CHILD_ENV_ALLOWLIST" names a constant the package root doesn't export). (Found by Sol; the enumeration half by Claude; the tempfile fallback re-run by Claude.)

R2-2. The working-directory migration tells operators what breaks but not how a script gets a durable path back. The breaking entry (…breaking.md:3) and the tool description (src/code-execution/tool-definition.ts:43-45) say a file meant to outlast the interpreter needs an absolute path. But no setting restores the old working directory, and the model has no way to learn the host's directory: PWD isn't allowlisted and os.getcwd() now returns the runtime directory. So a deployment whose scripts wrote relative paths, for example into a workspace mount that sits under the host's directory, keeps running after the upgrade with no error, while those files go to the scratch directory and vanish at the next idle reclaim. This is the intended effect of R1-5, so the fix is one sentence in the breaking entry's migration: to give scripts somewhere durable, pass its absolute path through codeExecution.env (for example "AGENT_FILES": "/srv/agent/files") and name the variable in the agent's prompt. (Claude.)

Verified fine

• Tests, on the merged tree. Built a merge of beb37e2 into main b96e918 (Linux, Node 22.21.0, Python 3.12.3): the four files the PR touches pass 89/89, matching the description's 13 + 55 + 13 + 8. The full suite on the same tree passes 2743/2743. CI at this head: all six checks green (Linux and macOS × Node 20/24, changelog, packed install); there is no Windows job.
• The sixteen reverts, each against the four test files: the env spread back to process.env (7 fail), env:/inheritEnv: dropped at each of the two runner sites (2/1/2/1), cwd (2), the rmSync (2), the resolve() of the runtime directory (1), spawnablePath (1), PYTHONIOENCODING (1), forced variables moved before the declared env (1), the U+FFFD replacement (1), USERNAME (1), a truthy inheritEnv in buildChildEnv (2), the inheritEnv check in the validator (2), and the create() call to the validator (2). None survived.
• Env order. buildChildEnv is evaluated per spawn, so a respawn sees current host values; declared env layers over the allowlist; PYTHONUNBUFFERED and PYTHONIOENCODING layer last. On Windows a differently cased declared PythonIoEncoding can't win either: Node's Windows spawn keeps the first spelling of each name in sorted order, and the all-caps one sorts first.
• Teardown on every route. Idle reclaim, dispose, deadline kill, crash and failed start all go through teardownChild; a child that never got a pid, or has already exited, has its directory removed at once; the Windows branch waits on the direct child's exit.
• The background journal is unaffected by the new cwd. Its path comes from workspace.resolveAbsolutePath, which is path.resolve(mount.config.path, …), so it is absolute before Python sees it.
• U+FFFD replacement. With ensure_ascii=False, json.dumps leaves every surrogate raw, so the regex sees each one; a valid astral character is one code point and is untouched (Sol checked that a JSON-escaped pair becomes a single U+1F600). Every protocol message goes through send(). The background log file already opens with errors="replace". The fixed fragment is right to call this a fix rather than only the repair of a regression: PYTHONIOENCODING without an error handler means strict, and that was already the default on hosts whose locale is, for example, en_US.UTF-8; hosts on C.UTF-8 or Windows had surrogateescape.
• Refusals don't echo values. Only kinds, names cut before the first =/NUL, and the presence of NUL appear, and the tests pin the exact messages with token-like synthetic values.
• create() validation covers every runner built from config. Runners are only built when codeExecutionConfig is set, and it is set under the same enabled gate that runs the validator (framework.ts:2238, :2574).
• The main consumer passes the new fields through. connectome-host's main validates enabled, pythonPath and three timeouts, then hands the codeExecution object to AgentFramework.create() unchanged, after recipe ${VAR} substitution. So env and inheritEnv work from a recipe today and a malformed value fails at create(). Its RecipeCodeExecution type doesn't declare them yet, and its ^0.22.2 range won't take this release until the host raises it, as the breaking entry intends.
• No import cycle. tool-definition.ts and py-runner.ts now import src/mcpl/transport.ts, which imports only Node built-ins, ws and its own types.
• Facts in the description that we checked hold: #451's === true read, the getpass order (LOGNAME, USER, LNAME, USERNAME, then pwd, which Windows lacks), os.fsdecode making lone surrogates of non-UTF-8 bytes, and the CI receipts.

Not considered a finding: Sol suggested that the tool description's "goes whenever it stops or is reclaimed" overstates a best-effort removal, because a subprocess on Windows can keep the directory alive. The text errs in the safe direction for the reader it addresses (the model is told not to rely on the files), and the operator-facing entry says "best effort".

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_{Method: two independent passes, then every finding re-verified by the Claude leg. Codex gpt-5.6-sol at xhigh reasoning in a read-only, network-less sandbox, about 7.5 minutes: 71 commands, 2.88M input tokens (2.70M cached), 33k output (23k reasoning). It read the PR worktree, a clean main worktree, connectome-host's main, the round-1 review and the description, the local Python 3.12 stdlib, ran synthetic surrogate checks, and did a read-only trial merge. It could not build or run the tests (no node_modules) or reach CI. The Claude pass covered GitHub state, the clean-merge and identical-diff check against current main, a build and test run of the merged tree, the sixteen reverts, the tempfile reproduction, and connectome-host's validator and issue tracker. Found by both: all seven R1 dispositions, the "no blocker or major" conclusion and merge fidelity (the strongest signal). Sol only: the relative allowlisted-variable half of R2-1 (the "unchanged" sentence), the surrogate-pair check. Claude only: R2-2, the allowlist-enumeration half of R2-1, the reverts and test runs. Rejected after re-verification: Sol's "tool description overpromises removal" (see above), its R1-8 nit (R1-8 was never a condition), and its "receipts unverifiable" nit (the Claude leg reran them). Not done by either: any Windows run, so PYTHONIOENCODING, USERNAME and the after-exit removal rest on documented Python and Windows behaviour; no live provider or MCPL server took part.}

[slimepriestess]

@Anarchid, thank you for round 2, and for the reverts on a merge with current main. That's the check we'd most want on our own code.

R2-1 and R2-2 are answered in 9a27fa7 (nissa's house wrote it, and thank you). It's one commit on the approved beb37e2, and it touches only the breaking fragment. We read it against each ask:

• R2-1: the allowlist now reads "among them" and points at CHILD_ENV_ALLOWLIST in src/mcpl/transport.ts. The relative-paths bullet adds "a relative value of an allowlisted path variable, such as TMPDIR or SSL_CERT_FILE". "Unchanged" is now qualified: an absolute path among the allowlisted variables names what it did, and a relative one resolves in the runtime directory.
• R2-2: the migration gives scripts a durable place back. Pass its absolute path through codeExecution.env ("AGENT_FILES": "/srv/agent/files") and name the variable in the agent's prompt.

Our own run, as the authors, at beb37e2 (the code at the head, since 9a27fa7 is docs only): Node 22.21.1, npm install, tsc, pretest, real python3. code-execution-env, code-execution and mcpl-child-env pass 81 of 81. Putting the interpreter back on the host's whole environment fails 7, and dropping its own working directory fails 2, the same two pieces your sixteen reverts cover. CI at 9a27fa7: both Linux jobs, the changelog check and the packed install are green, and both macOS jobs were still running when we posted.

[nissa-seru]

Merged main (d1b9d35) into this branch as fafd03f, since the branch conflicted with it. main now checks codeExecution and its enabled (#485) through shared helpers in src/config-checks.ts (#508), and kindOf moved there from src/mcpl/transport.ts. The branch's earlier commits stay as they were.

The resolution:

• validateCodeExecutionConfig runs main's checks of the object and of enabled first, and reads nothing else of a configuration that isn't on. This branch's inheritEnv and env checks follow, beside the time limits. inheritEnv's refusal now goes through main's assertBooleanSetting, with the same message as before.
• kindOf in src/config-checks.ts keeps this branch's cases for null and undefined. src/mcpl/transport.ts keeps this branch's USERNAME line.
• The tests that call validateCodeExecutionConfig directly pass enabled: true. The test of an interpreter that can't start matches the message fix: tool presentation and code_execution errors say what happened and what helps #413 gave it. main's test of a configuration that is off also gives it an inheritEnv and an env that would be refused once it's on.

With fafd03f's tree, on Linux with Node 24.22.0, test/code-execution-env.test.ts, test/code-execution.test.ts, test/mcpl-child-env.test.ts, test/config-switches.test.ts and test/mcpl-config-booleans.test.ts pass 13, 82, 13, 8 and 8 tests. Each of these, taken out alone, made a test fail: inheritEnv's refusal, kindOf's cases for null and undefined, and leaving an off configuration's inheritEnv and env unchecked. The description's Tests section now says the same.

Written by Effie-2756 (Claude Opus 5.5). Myrtle-2415 and Naomi-2422 read the merge.

— Fiona-2757