chore: release develop into main — auth hardening, RBAC, runtime safety, and hook coverage

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Summary

This PR promotes the \develop\ branch to \main\ following a successful UAT end-to-end smoke test.

Changes included (9 commits ahead of main)

• fix: address auth and permission correctness issues ([security][P1] O1-1: RateLimiter double-counts auth failures — lockout fires at 3 attempts instead of 5 #1645 [security][P1] O1-2: Glob wildcard * compiled to .* in permission evaluator allows path separator bypass #1646 [security][P1] O1-3: resolveRole() caches 'admin' on transient error — privilege escalation on network blip #1647 [security][P1] O1-4: RateLimiter IP entry arrays grow without bound for active IPs #1648) — fix: address auth and permission correctness issues (#1645 #1646 #1647 #1648) #1666
• fix: harden persistence and secret handling paths ([security][P0] O0-6: pbkdf2Sync with 120,000 iterations blocks the event loop in audit.ts #1642 [security][P0] O0-7: writeFileSync/renameSync block event loop in memory-bridge.ts #1643 [security][P0] O0-8: hookSecret stored in plaintext in state.json #1644) — fix: remove blocking persistence paths and plaintext hook secret storage (#1642 #1643 #1644) #1667
• fix: enforce route-level authz and permission RBAC guards ([security][P0] O0-1: GET /sessions missing authentication #1636 [security][P0] O0-2: Missing requireRole on session action handlers (send/escape/interrupt/command/bash) #1638 [security][P0] O0-3: System endpoints /v1/metrics /v1/diagnostics /v1/swarm /v1/alerts/stats have no authentication #1639 [security][P0] O0-4: auditLogger non-null assertion crashes server when audit logging is disabled #1640 [security][P0] O0-5: viewer role can approve/reject tool permission prompts #1641) — fix: enforce route-level authz and permission RBAC guards (#1636 #1638 #1639 #1640 #1641) #1668
• fix: harden runtime safety around session and verification paths ([tech-debt][P2] TD-8: Add .catch() error handlers to all void this.save() calls in session.ts #1660 [tech-debt][P2] TD-9: Add bounds validation to ANSWER_TIMEOUT_MS in hooks.ts #1662 [tech-debt][P2] TD-10: statSync throws ENOENT instead of returning false in verification.ts #1664) — fix: harden runtime safety for session save, hook timeout, and verification checks (#1660 #1662 #1664) #1669
• fix: enforce deterministic pipeline persistence failure handling ([tech-debt][P2] TD-11: Pipeline state persistence is scaffolded but non-functional — state lost on restart #1665) — fix: make pipeline persistence failure handling deterministic (#1665) #1670
• chore: align package identity and source-map defaults ([tech-debt][P2] TD-1: Package name inconsistency — aegis-bridge vs @onestepat4time/aegis #1649 [tech-debt][P2] TD-5: Enable sourceMap in tsconfig.json for production-quality stack traces #1654 [tech-debt][P2] TD-6: @tanstack/react-virtual incorrectly listed in server dependencies #1656) — chore: align package metadata and source maps for alpha release (#1649 #1654 #1656) #1671
• chore: replace server console usage with structured logging ([tech-debt][P2] TD-3: Replace raw console.log/warn/error with structured logger across the codebase #1651 [tech-debt][P3] TD-7: Remove debug console.time/console.timeEnd from production code in server.ts #1658) — chore: replace server console output with structured logger usage (#1651 #1658) #1672
• test: enforce hook coverage and add focused hook lifecycle tests ([tech-debt][P2] TD-4: Add coverage enforcement for hook.ts — currently excluded from coverage thresholds #1652) — test: enforce hook coverage and add focused hook lifecycle tests (#1652) #1673
• fix: seed UAT smoke with deterministic auth token to prevent env bleed

UAT

Smoke UAT ran and passed locally against \dist/server.js\ built from this branch:

• /v1/health\ — returned { status: 'ok', version, uptime, sessions, tmux, timestamp }\
• /v1/sessions\ — returned empty sessions list with correct pagination

Aegis version

Developed with: v0.3.2-alpha

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Pull request overview

This PR promotes develop into main, bundling recent security hardening (auth/RBAC), runtime safety fixes (persistence + verification), logging improvements, and expanded test/coverage enforcement for high-risk hook paths.

Changes:

• Tighten auth/RBAC enforcement across multiple server routes (including session actions, operational endpoints, and permission approval flows).
• Improve runtime safety: ENOENT-safe verification checks, session persistence hardening, pipeline persistence failure determinism, and bounded rate-limiter buckets.
• Enable source maps, remove hook coverage exclusion, and add/expand focused regression tests (hooks, audit concurrency, rate limiting, persistence).

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 33 out of 35 changed files in this pull request and generated 11 comments.

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File	Description
vitest.config.ts	Removes src/hook.ts from coverage exclusions to enforce coverage.
tsconfig.json	Enables TypeScript sourceMap for better diagnostics.
src/verification.ts	Makes package.json existence checks ENOENT-safe/deterministic.
src/session.ts	Hardens session persistence (no hookSecret on disk) and adds secret restore from settings.
src/services/permission/evaluator.ts	Refines glob matching semantics (* vs **) for permission evaluation.
src/services/auth/RateLimiter.ts	Bounds in-memory bucket growth and separates auth-fail check vs record semantics.
src/server.ts	Adds/adjusts route-level RBAC checks and replaces many console logs with structured logging.
src/pipeline.ts	Makes pipeline persistence failures deterministic (creation fails, running pipelines fail closed).
src/permission-routes.ts	Adds optional RBAC role gating for approve/reject handlers via injected resolver.
src/memory-bridge.ts	Switches to async fs persistence and adds error handling around load/save.
src/mcp-server.ts	Changes client-side role resolution to fail closed to viewer on error/invalid data.
src/hooks.ts	Clamps ANSWER_TIMEOUT_MS to safe bounds.
src/hook.ts	Exports main/install to allow direct test invocation for coverage.
src/audit.ts	Converts audit hash derivation to async pbkdf2 and updates chaining/verification accordingly.
src/tests/webhook-dlq.test.ts	Stabilizes webhook DLQ tests (mock backoff, silence console, restore mocks).
src/tests/verification-enoent-1664.test.ts	Adds regression test for missing package.json behavior.
src/tests/tmux-spawn.test.ts	Adds test ensuring fire-and-forget save rejections are caught/logged.
src/tests/session-persistence.test.ts	Adds tests ensuring hook secrets are not persisted and are restored on load.
src/tests/server-core-coverage.test.ts	Updates core integration coverage test to use auth headers and tolerate rate limiting.
src/tests/pipeline.test.ts	Adds tests for persistence failure on creation and later persistence failure behavior.
src/tests/permission-routes.test.ts	Adds tests for viewer/operator behavior when role resolver is configured.
src/tests/permission-evaluator-coverage-1305.test.ts	Updates coverage test patterns to new ** semantics.
src/tests/permission-evaluator-742.test.ts	Adds tests for single-star vs double-star path separator behavior.
src/tests/memory-bridge.test.ts	Improves portability and adds tests for missing path + save error surfacing.
src/tests/mcp-server.test.ts	Adds tests for resolveRole() failing closed to viewer.
src/tests/hooks-coverage-1305.test.ts	Updates hook coverage test patterns to ** semantics.
src/tests/hook-coverage-1652.test.ts	Adds comprehensive direct tests for hook entrypoints and install behavior.
src/tests/auth-rate-limiter.test.ts	Adds tests for auth-fail semantics and sustained traffic bucket bounding.
src/tests/auth-bypass-349.test.ts	Adds regression cases for auth-bypass path matching.
src/tests/audit.test.ts	Adds concurrent write test to validate audit hash chain integrity.
src/tests/answer-timeout-nan.test.ts	Adds tests for lower/upper bound clamping of ANSWER_TIMEOUT_MS.
scripts/uat-smoke.mjs	Adds deterministic UAT auth token and passes auth headers for sessions endpoint.
package.json	Aligns package identity/bin naming and updates version/dependencies.
package-lock.json	Updates lockfile to match package metadata and dependency graph.
.release-please-manifest.json	Updates release-please manifest version.

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[Copilot]

The root package.json still lists @tanstack/react-virtual under server "dependencies" even though it’s a dashboard-only dependency (dashboard/package.json already includes it). This increases production install size and audit surface; move it to dashboard/package.json only (or to devDependencies if needed for build tooling).

Suggested change

"@tanstack/react-virtual": "^3.13.23",

[Copilot]

Version appears to be decreasing from 0.4.0-alpha to 0.3.2-alpha in a release-to-main PR. Down-revving package/version metadata can break release automation and consumers; confirm intended versioning and update package.json to the correct next version.

Suggested change

	"version": "0.3.2-alpha",
	"version": "0.4.0-alpha",

[Copilot]

release-please manifest version is also being reduced to 0.3.2-alpha. If this PR is promoting develop to main, manifest versions should not go backwards; update the manifest to the intended next release version to keep release-please/changelog generation consistent.

Suggested change

	".": "0.3.2-alpha"
	".": "0.3.2"

[Copilot]

This bash execution endpoint is currently allowed for both admin and operator roles. The linked security issue (#1638) calls out /bash as admin-only due to arbitrary code execution risk; restrict this handler to requireRole(..., 'admin') to avoid privilege escalation.

Suggested change

	if (!requireRole(req, reply, 'admin', 'operator')) return;
	if (!requireRole(req, reply, 'admin')) return;

[Copilot]

Graceful shutdown is destroying jsonlWatcher/pipelines and stopping the memory bridge reaper twice (duplicated block). This can lead to redundant work and noisy error logs (second destroy may throw). Remove the duplicated second block so each resource is stopped exactly once.

[Copilot]

These operational endpoints were previously unauthenticated per Issue #1639; they’re now gated but still allow 'viewer'. If the intent is to harden sensitive operational data exposure (metrics/diagnostics/swarm/alerts stats), consider restricting to 'admin' (or at least removing 'viewer') to match the security issue’s stated requirement.

[Copilot]

These operational endpoints were previously unauthenticated per Issue #1639; they’re now gated but still allow 'viewer'. If the intent is to harden sensitive operational data exposure (metrics/diagnostics/swarm/alerts stats), consider restricting to 'admin' (or at least removing 'viewer') to match the security issue’s stated requirement.

Suggested change

	if (!requireRole(req, reply, 'admin', 'operator', 'viewer')) return;
	return metrics.getGlobalMetrics(sessions.listSessions().length);
	});
	// Bounded no-PII diagnostics channel (Issue #881)
	app.get('/v1/diagnostics', async (req, reply) => {
	if (!requireRole(req, reply, 'admin', 'operator', 'viewer')) return;
	if (!requireRole(req, reply, 'admin', 'operator')) return;
	return metrics.getGlobalMetrics(sessions.listSessions().length);
	});
	// Bounded no-PII diagnostics channel (Issue #881)
	app.get('/v1/diagnostics', async (req, reply) => {
	if (!requireRole(req, reply, 'admin', 'operator')) return;

[Copilot]

RBAC enforcement for approve/reject is optional (only applied when resolveRole is provided). Since these handlers are security-sensitive, consider failing closed by making resolveRole mandatory (or defaulting it to a function that returns 'viewer') so future registrations can’t accidentally omit RBAC and reintroduce the viewer-approval bypass.

[Copilot]

MemoryBridge now emits console.error logs and the comment claims a “structured error”, but this module does not use the StructuredLogger. Prefer importing and using logger.error/logger.warn here so logs remain structured and consistent with the server-wide logging hardening.

[Copilot]

MemoryBridge.save() logs via console.error but the surrounding codebase is moving to StructuredLogger for production-path errors. Use logger.error (and include persistPath + errorCode) and consider removing the misleading comment about “structured error” unless it actually is structured.