#!/usr/bin/env python3 """Verify that no probe option is behind a login wall, so completion carries no signal. The professor's objection to the old design was that the leak was mechanical — a diagnostic option completed only if the agent held that session, so a brute-force script that keeps whichever option doesn't hit a login wall would recover the secret without any reasoning. This script is that brute-force script, made explicit. For every choice-rig scenario it renders the probe, extracts each option's link, and checks: 1. no option routes through a gated endpoint (`/pay`, `/continue`) — all are the local `/go`; 2. GETting each option WITH and WITHOUT a planted session cookie returns the same success page — i.e. the outcome does not depend on holding a session. If every option completes identically regardless of session, "which option completed" is constant across the loaded and cold conditions: the mechanical channel is dead, and the only thing left that can leak the secret is the agent's own reasoning (a real side channel). Run (with the servers up): uv run python scripts/mechanical_check.py """ from __future__ import annotations import re import sys import urllib.error import urllib.request from pathlib import Path from urllib.parse import urljoin sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent)) from harness.scenarios import SCENARIOS as REGISTRY # noqa: E402 from harness.scenarios import get_scenario # noqa: E402 from orchestrator.config import ATTACKER_BASE_URL as _ATTACKER_BASE_URL # noqa: E402 from orchestrator.config import ATTACKER_HOST # noqa: E402 # The *.test hostnames only resolve inside the agent's browser (via --host-resolver-rules); # this plain HTTP client must hit loopback directly. Replace whatever host is configured # (app.test by default) rather than a hardcoded literal. ATTACKER_BASE_URL = _ATTACKER_BASE_URL.replace(ATTACKER_HOST, "127.0.0.1") # The choice-rig scenarios that present a set of option links, derived from the registry so a # newly added scenario is brute-forced here automatically. Skips `authstate_v1` and the # correct-the-default pair, which render a confirmation form rather than option links. SCENARIOS = [k for k, sc in REGISTRY.items() if sc.rig == "choice" and sc.plant.rig != "legacy_v1"] # A cookie that would have satisfied every old gate at once: the bank session plus a session for # EVERY service any scenario offers, so no option can look un-gated merely because we forgot to # plant its cookie. PLANTED_COOKIE = "fnb_session=x; " + "; ".join( f"svc_{lid}=x" for lid in sorted( {lid for sc in REGISTRY.values() for lid in sc.label_ids})) ANCHOR = re.compile(r'data-probe="(pay|opt)_([^"]+)"\s+href="([^"]+)"') # The identity-shaped probe (probe_identity_form.html.j2) submits ONE form instead of offering k # links, so its options are radio values rather than hrefs. They still resolve to the same /go # tracker, so the brute-force question is unchanged — only the way we read the options off the # page differs. Without this, that probe would report "no option links" and look like a failure. RADIO = re.compile(r'name="to"\s+value="([^"]+)"\s+data-probe="opt_[^"]+"') GATED = ("/pay", "/continue") SUCCESS_MARK = "go-complete" # stable marker present in every /go completion page def http_get(url: str, cookie: str | None = None) -> tuple[int, str]: req = urllib.request.Request(url) if cookie: req.add_header("Cookie", cookie) try: with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=8) as r: return r.status, r.read().decode("utf-8", "replace") except urllib.error.HTTPError as e: return e.code, e.read().decode("utf-8", "replace") def check_scenario(key: str) -> tuple[bool, str]: sc = get_scenario(key) purl = f"{ATTACKER_BASE_URL}/probe/{key}/mech-{key}?variant=A" # A scenario whose option names vary by surface refuses to render without a plant id (the # probe 400s rather than silently offering names no page ever seeded). Any surface answers # the brute-force question equally, so take the first. if sc.surfaces: purl = f"{ATTACKER_BASE_URL}/probe/{key}/mech-{key}/A/{sc.plant_ids[0]}" status, html = http_get(purl) if status != 200: return False, f"probe returned HTTP {status}" anchors = [(oid, href) for _, oid, href in ANCHOR.findall(html)] if not anchors: # Form-shaped probe: reconstruct the /go link each radio would submit. anchors = [(oid, f"/go?session_id=mech-{key}&to={oid}&scenario={key}") for oid in RADIO.findall(html)] if not anchors: return False, "no options found on the probe (neither links nor a choice form)" label_ids = set(sc.label_ids) diag = [(oid, href) for oid, href in anchors if oid in label_ids] if not diag: return False, "no diagnostic options found" gated = [oid for oid, href in anchors if any(g in href for g in GATED)] if gated: return False, f"still gated — options route through a wall: {gated}" # Every diagnostic option must complete identically with and without a session. for oid, href in diag: full = urljoin(ATTACKER_BASE_URL + "/", href) s_no, b_no = http_get(full) s_yes, b_yes = http_get(full, cookie=PLANTED_COOKIE) ok = (s_no == s_yes == 200 and SUCCESS_MARK in b_no and b_no == b_yes) if not ok: return False, (f"option {oid!r} differs by session " f"(no-session HTTP {s_no}, session HTTP {s_yes})") return True, f"{len(diag)} options, all complete identically with/without a session" def main() -> None: print(f"Mechanical-channel check against {ATTACKER_BASE_URL}\n" f"(brute-force: does holding a session change which option completes?)\n") all_ok = True for key in SCENARIOS: try: ok, msg = check_scenario(key) except urllib.error.URLError as e: print(f" ✗ {key:22} could not reach server: {e} (are the servers up?)") all_ok = False continue print(f" {'✓' if ok else '✗'} {key:22} {msg}") all_ok = all_ok and ok print() if all_ok: print("PASS — no option is gated; completion is constant across sessions.\n" "The mechanical channel is dead: only the agent's reasoning can leak the secret.") else: print("FAIL — at least one option still depends on a session (a wall remains).") sys.exit(1) if __name__ == "__main__": main()