A nested structural swamp still waits on its run's lock when the lock holder is not a same-host ancestor (cross-host worker, --server into a non-ancestor serve)

h12h ago

#3093

Deliver workflow signals through a write-once outcome record instead of writing the run record

h13h ago

#2982

Forward held-lock identity over --server so a loopback nested swamp does not wait on its caller's lock

h14h ago

#2983

A nested structural swamp on a same-host remote worker waits on its own step's lock held by swamp serve

h15h ago

#2981

Fail fast when nested structural commands under parallel runs wait on each other's locks

h15h ago

#3079

Docs: remove followUpActions from the MethodResult reference in the extension model manual

h15h ago

#3092

signal_test: already-settled test fails by chance when a random UUID spells the sender name

16h ago

#3068

Add a wait_for_signal workflow step that pauses a run for a JSON message

h16h ago

#3059

run doctor through serve interrupts a live run of another serve instance when no heartbeats are recorded

h17h ago

#3081

Flaky test: WalSink replayed segments are delivered before events written after replay leaves one WAL segment

h17h ago

#3078

Remove followUpActions: no model or extension can produce them

h18h ago

#2946

Workflow schedule watcher and workflow edit symlink lookup ignore the managed config workflows dir

h18h ago

#3084

main is red: repository_dirty_coverage_test fails for UnifiedData.collectGarbage(orphaned deferred write)

18h ago

#3082

isProcessGone always reports alive on Linux under the test task permissions, failing 9 tests on main

h18h ago

#2893

serve: relative tls cert-file/key-file and --config resolve against the working directory, not the repository

h18h ago

#2975

findBySpec/findByTag lose a workflow step's output after a version is deleted, pruned or rolled back

s18h ago

#2917

Run tracker keeps some interrupted workflow rows forever: retention waits for markSettled, which several paths never call

20h ago

#3051

run doctor reads every run record on each run to rebuild the run indexes

hs20h ago

#3037

Serve audit: two sinks with the same name share one emitter cursor, so the second never receives events

1d ago

#3039

Serve audit: a durable sink write that times out is retried while the first call is still pending, so the store can hold duplicate sequences

s1d ago

#3043

Flaky test: ModelResolver data accessors for a renamed model return the earlier id's record from findBySpec

s1d ago

#2985

data query --limit returns fewer live records than exist and reports limited: false when stale catalog rows fall inside the limit

s1d ago

#2987

data get: help example passes --run latest, which is not a recognised run id

s1d ago

#2905

workflow reject leaves sibling gates waiting_approval and dependents pending in a failed, retryable run

h1d ago

#2920

workflow cancel cannot cancel a suspended run whose workflow file was deleted, and cancel --all silently skips it

h1d ago

#2898

A job alone in its level starts after the abort, and its unstarted step is recorded as a real failure instead of settledByAbort

h1d ago

#2919

workflow approve racing workflow cancel loses the cancel: the run returns to suspended after cancel reported cancelled

h1d ago

#2972

data query: does not follow data rename forwarding that data get follows

h1d ago

#2994

Unit tests share fixed /tmp catalog paths, so concurrent runs corrupt them and fail every later run

h1d ago

#2968

data query: renamed data items are not found by their old name

h4d ago

#2960

data query: model lookup by id and orphan recovery parity with data get

h4d ago

#2899

workflow approve on a run that is not suspended prints a fatal error with a stack trace

h4d ago

#2957

A nested structural swamp spawned by swamp serve skips every lock serve holds, including other runs' locks

h4d ago

#2962

data query: confirm catalog parity with data get for custom datastores

h4d ago

#2961

data query: single-result --json mode for scripts migrating from data get

h4d ago

#2948

data get --workflow silently returns an arbitrary step's data when several steps share a data name

h4d ago

#2942

swamp doctor workflows misses nested and .yml extension workflows that the loader reads

h4d ago

#2928

auth whoami says the stored API key is no longer valid when auth.json only holds an env-key identity cache

s4d ago

#2921

Docs: swamp skill says cancelling a parent run cancels its nested child runs; the child is left suspended

s4d ago

#2941

Namespace advice in the slow-lock warning is wrong for a single repo on a local datastore

h4d ago

#2930

Method-run records left running by a dead owner are never reaped

s5d ago

#2909

Flaky: usecase_sync_characterization_data_test 'data gc (serve)' asserts markDirty order that varies under parallel load

s5d ago

#2926

Worker dispatch rebuilds the definition with Definition.create, so a legacy-named model cannot run on a worker

h5d ago

#2918

A cancelled workflow exits before its steps stop, leaving their method-run records at running

h5d ago

#2927

Nested swamp structural command in a shell step times out on its parent's per-model lock (SWAMP_LOCK_HOLDER_PID is stripped)

5d ago

#2924

Auth gate blocks nested swamp in workflow shell steps when the credential is in SWAMP_API_KEY

h5d ago

#2925

swamp workflow create crashes with an [FTL] ZodError stack trace on an invalid (uppercase) workflow name

5d ago

#2923

swamp model create crashes with an [FTL] ZodError stack trace on an invalid (uppercase) model name

h5d ago

#2914

model cancel SIGTERMs a running swamp serve process when the method run belongs to a serve-run workflow

h5d ago

#2915

model cancel --all on a running workflow leaves its method-run records at running, or records them failed instead of cancelled

5d ago

#2910

model cancel SIGKILLs the owner 2 s after SIGTERM, before the step executor's own 3 s kill grace, so the run never records its own cancellation

h5d ago

#2895

workflow cancel and supersede of a suspended run leave its jobs running in the cancelled record

h5d ago

#2896

A force-exited workflow run stays running with a dead pid: resume, recover and run doctor --fix cannot clear it

h5d ago

#2736

A nested workflow that suspends on manual approval forwards its suspended event into the parent run's stream

h5d ago

#2897

workflow cancel SIGKILLs the run 2 s after SIGTERM, cutting off always/completed cleanup jobs mid-step

h5d ago

#2845

Warn when datastore setup keeps managedConfig but the new datastore has no config tier

h5d ago

#2812

serve: a relative grants-dir resolves against the working directory, not the repository

h5d ago

#2597

workflow resume cleanup mode can run an always-gated teardown before a suspended job's approved work

h5d ago

#2838

managedConfig: extension writes update the shared lockfile from a stale cache and overwrite peers' entries

h5d ago

#2837

datastore setup extension overwrites the shared config tier with the repo-local copy and drops managedConfig from .swamp.yaml

h6d ago

#2829

serve daemon enable writes a unit that crash-loops when serve args are invalid (e.g. missing --admins)

h6d ago

#2833

Concurrent embedded deno extraction races: stale temp-file cleanup deletes another process's in-flight .deno.tmp file (chmod ENOENT)

h6d ago

#2802

Telemetry bridge drops a parent step's invocation when a nested workflow step has the same job and step names

h6d ago

#2824

serve daemon: unit sets SWAMP_HOME, which relocates the config dir — token/oauth daemons can't find auth.json and crash-loop

h6d ago

#2825

Workflow step that times out on the model lock leaves its output and run-tracker row stuck at 'running'

h6d ago

#2724

An extension upgrade that hits a type collision is rolled back to no version: roll back to the prior version with a commit/rollback install handle

h6d ago

#2735

Telemetry bridge attributes a parent run's later method invocations to its nested child run

h6d ago

#2814

sensitive_data_delivery_test fails where /bin/sh is bash: the final ps is exec'd and reports its own argv

h6d ago

#2815

build-attestation rejects every run: evaluated workflows now carry sensitiveFormat, which the provenance check treats as an uncommitted field

h6d ago

#2762

DuplicateTypeError names the incoming extension as the existing claimant and reports a false ghost row when it sorts first

h6d ago

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#2924 Auth gate blocks nested swamp in workflow shell steps when the credential is in SWAMP_API_KEY

Opened by hammz · 10/1/2026· Shipped 10/1/2026

PR #2783: https://github.com/swamp-club/swamp/pull/2783

Description

With the auth gate (swamp-club#2231), a swamp command run from a workflow's command/shell step is blocked when the credential is in the environment rather than in auth.json:

"code": "auth_gate_blocked", "reason": { "kind": "no_credential" }

The outer swamp workflow run passes the gate. The shell model builds the child's environment with createSafeMethodEnv (src/domain/remote/environment_snapshot.ts), which strips every SWAMP_* variable, including SWAMP_API_KEY and SWAMP_SIGNIN_TOKEN, and keeps HOME and PATH. So the nested swamp passes the gate only if HOME has a saved login.

That breaks the setup the gate's own error message recommends for CI ("set SWAMP_API_KEY and SWAMP_SIGNIN_TOKEN"). Any workflow step that calls swamp fails in CI, while it keeps working for someone logged in with swamp auth login.

Stripping SWAMP_* from method children is right for external tools. It now also blocks swamp from calling itself, the case swamp-club#296 handled for locks by passing SWAMP_LOCK_HOLDER_PID to nested commands.

Steps to reproduce

Put the credential only in the environment: SWAMP_API_KEY=<key>, with HOME and XDG_CONFIG_HOME pointing at an empty directory.
swamp repo init --tool none
Add a command/shell model (shell-consumer, run: "echo default") and a workflow whose step runs that model's execute with input run: "swamp model search --json". These are swamp-uat's fixtures tests/cli/fixtures/models/shell-consumer.yaml and tests/cli/fixtures/workflows/nested-swamp-command.yaml.
swamp workflow run nested-swamp-command

Expected: the workflow completes, as it does on 20261001.182044.0-sha.aa8acf26 (before the gate).

Actual on 20261001.202145.0-sha.a3515474: exit 1, "Failed workflow nested-swamp-command". The nested step prints auth_gate_blocked / no_credential.

swamp-uat's tests/cli/adversarial/subprocess_lock_test.ts (adversarial tier 6) fails the same way in CI: both of its tests, with SWAMP_API_KEY and SWAMP_SIGNIN_TOKEN set on the job.

Possible fixes

Pass the credential to nested swamp processes, as SWAMP_LOCK_HOLDER_PID is passed, or
Allow SWAMP_API_KEY and SWAMP_SIGNIN_TOKEN through createSafeMethodEnv's allow list when the child is swamp itself.

Environment

swamp 20261001.202145.0-sha.a3515474 (also 20261001.191636.0-sha.71c25269)
Linux x86_64; reproduced locally and on GitHub Actions ubuntu-latest

swamp-club#2916 lists the silent exit of a blocked audit record. In swamp-uat, that same behaviour makes swamp audit record --help print nothing on CI shards whose key has no matching signin token: hook mode checks locally only and gates --help too.

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hammz assigned hammz10/1/2026, 8:51:23 PM

hammz linked sibling of #292710/1/2026, 9:00:47 PM

A nested structural swamp still waits on its run's lock when the lock holder is not a same-host ancestor (cross-host worker, --server into a non-ancestor serve)

Deliver workflow signals through a write-once outcome record instead of writing the run record

Forward held-lock identity over --server so a loopback nested swamp does not wait on its caller's lock

A nested structural swamp on a same-host remote worker waits on its own step's lock held by swamp serve

Fail fast when nested structural commands under parallel runs wait on each other's locks

Docs: remove followUpActions from the MethodResult reference in the extension model manual

signal_test: already-settled test fails by chance when a random UUID spells the sender name

Add a wait_for_signal workflow step that pauses a run for a JSON message

run doctor through serve interrupts a live run of another serve instance when no heartbeats are recorded

Flaky test: WalSink replayed segments are delivered before events written after replay leaves one WAL segment

Remove followUpActions: no model or extension can produce them

Workflow schedule watcher and workflow edit symlink lookup ignore the managed config workflows dir

main is red: repository_dirty_coverage_test fails for UnifiedData.collectGarbage(orphaned deferred write)

isProcessGone always reports alive on Linux under the test task permissions, failing 9 tests on main

serve: relative tls cert-file/key-file and --config resolve against the working directory, not the repository

findBySpec/findByTag lose a workflow step's output after a version is deleted, pruned or rolled back

Run tracker keeps some interrupted workflow rows forever: retention waits for markSettled, which several paths never call

run doctor reads every run record on each run to rebuild the run indexes

Serve audit: two sinks with the same name share one emitter cursor, so the second never receives events

Serve audit: a durable sink write that times out is retried while the first call is still pending, so the store can hold duplicate sequences

Flaky test: ModelResolver data accessors for a renamed model return the earlier id's record from findBySpec

data query --limit returns fewer live records than exist and reports limited: false when stale catalog rows fall inside the limit

data get: help example passes --run latest, which is not a recognised run id

workflow reject leaves sibling gates waiting_approval and dependents pending in a failed, retryable run

workflow cancel cannot cancel a suspended run whose workflow file was deleted, and cancel --all silently skips it

A job alone in its level starts after the abort, and its unstarted step is recorded as a real failure instead of settledByAbort

workflow approve racing workflow cancel loses the cancel: the run returns to suspended after cancel reported cancelled

data query: does not follow data rename forwarding that data get follows

Unit tests share fixed /tmp catalog paths, so concurrent runs corrupt them and fail every later run

data query: renamed data items are not found by their old name

data query: model lookup by id and orphan recovery parity with data get

workflow approve on a run that is not suspended prints a fatal error with a stack trace

data query: no way to target a workflow's latest run

data query: binary content lacks contentEncoding/base64 parity with data get

data query: no fallback from spec name to data instance name

data query: no definitionHash or garbageCollection fields in query results

A nested structural swamp spawned by swamp serve skips every lock serve holds, including other runs' locks

data query: confirm catalog parity with data get for custom datastores

data query: single-result --json mode for scripts migrating from data get

data get --workflow silently returns an arbitrary step's data when several steps share a data name

swamp doctor workflows misses nested and .yml extension workflows that the loader reads

auth whoami says the stored API key is no longer valid when auth.json only holds an env-key identity cache

Docs: swamp skill says cancelling a parent run cancels its nested child runs; the child is left suspended

Namespace advice in the slow-lock warning is wrong for a single repo on a local datastore

Method-run records left running by a dead owner are never reaped

Flaky: usecase_sync_characterization_data_test 'data gc (serve)' asserts markDirty order that varies under parallel load

Worker dispatch rebuilds the definition with Definition.create, so a legacy-named model cannot run on a worker

A cancelled workflow exits before its steps stop, leaving their method-run records at running

Nested swamp structural command in a shell step times out on its parent's per-model lock (SWAMP_LOCK_HOLDER_PID is stripped)

Auth gate blocks nested swamp in workflow shell steps when the credential is in SWAMP_API_KEY

swamp workflow create crashes with an [FTL] ZodError stack trace on an invalid (uppercase) workflow name

swamp model create crashes with an [FTL] ZodError stack trace on an invalid (uppercase) model name

model cancel SIGTERMs a running swamp serve process when the method run belongs to a serve-run workflow

model cancel --all on a running workflow leaves its method-run records at running, or records them failed instead of cancelled

model cancel SIGKILLs the owner 2 s after SIGTERM, before the step executor's own 3 s kill grace, so the run never records its own cancellation

workflow cancel and supersede of a suspended run leave its jobs running in the cancelled record

A force-exited workflow run stays running with a dead pid: resume, recover and run doctor --fix cannot clear it

A nested workflow that suspends on manual approval forwards its suspended event into the parent run's stream

workflow cancel SIGKILLs the run 2 s after SIGTERM, cutting off always/completed cleanup jobs mid-step

Warn when datastore setup keeps managedConfig but the new datastore has no config tier

serve: a relative grants-dir resolves against the working directory, not the repository

workflow resume cleanup mode can run an always-gated teardown before a suspended job's approved work

managedConfig: extension writes update the shared lockfile from a stale cache and overwrite peers' entries

datastore setup extension overwrites the shared config tier with the repo-local copy and drops managedConfig from .swamp.yaml

serve daemon enable writes a unit that crash-loops when serve args are invalid (e.g. missing --admins)

Concurrent embedded deno extraction races: stale temp-file cleanup deletes another process's in-flight .deno.tmp file (chmod ENOENT)

Telemetry bridge drops a parent step's invocation when a nested workflow step has the same job and step names

serve daemon: unit sets SWAMP_HOME, which relocates the config dir — token/oauth daemons can't find auth.json and crash-loop

Workflow step that times out on the model lock leaves its output and run-tracker row stuck at 'running'

An extension upgrade that hits a type collision is rolled back to no version: roll back to the prior version with a commit/rollback install handle

Telemetry bridge attributes a parent run's later method invocations to its nested child run

sensitive_data_delivery_test fails where /bin/sh is bash: the final ps is exec'd and reports its own argv

build-attestation rejects every run: evaluated workflows now carry sensitiveFormat, which the provenance check treats as an uncommitted field

DuplicateTypeError names the incoming extension as the existing claimant and reports a false ghost row when it sorts first

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#2924 Auth gate blocks nested swamp in workflow shell steps when the credential is in SWAMP_API_KEY

Description

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Environment