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fix(markers): stop [dm-only] editing prose that merely mentions it - #2481
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`[dm-only]` is DETECTED with search()-anywhere, deliberately: that is what makes the privacy guard undefeatable by marker ORDER, so a body carrying private data can never be redirected to a shared channel. Detection is UNCHANGED here, and over-triggering it still fails SAFE. The same regex also STRIPPED every occurrence from the delivered body, so a result that merely discussed the marker was silently rewritten: in - #2170 [dm-only]: closes the leak vector, but only suppresses redirects out - #2170 : closes the leak vector, but only suppresses redirects That is not a routing outcome and does not fail safe — it is silent corruption of owner-facing text with no indication. Detection (search, :194) and stripping (sub, :197) were already separate statements, so narrowing the strip costs the guard nothing. Now only a STANDALONE marker — alone on its line — is stripped. One existing assertion changes, and the evidence says it was incidental. tests/result-markers.test.py:118 asserted `[dm-only]` was absent from the body of "secret [dm-only] stuff". Measured across the whole tests/ tree: THREE dm-only bodies use a standalone marker, exactly ONE is inline — that one — and it sits inside a test whose name and comment are both about ORDER ("dm-only AFTER the channel marker still wins"). Its two routing assertions are untouched and still pass; only the incidental body assertion flips, with a comment explaining why the marker now stays. I filed this as an owner decision one pass ago because I could not break the tie on taste. This is not taste: it is a corpus count, independently reproduced, and it resolves which reading the test intended. new test at this head 11 passed same test vs origin/main FAILED (3) — the mangling cases tests/result-markers.test.py 34 passed result-markers-golden.test.py 13 corpus cases passed discord-bridge-prose-marker.test.py passed bridge-marker-no-leak.test.py passed Found by Sutando-Pro applying a discriminator I had derived on the WIRE routers — "can free text reach the routed line?" — to this module. My first analysis stopped at routing and concluded no fix was warranted; Pro pointed out the second effect, which is the one that actually matters. Stand: Echo Act IV Mini
CI caught what I missed: `AssertionError: DRIFT — package out of sync with src/: result_markers.py`. `packages/ag2-sparrow/ag2_sparrow/` carries vendored copies of five src modules so the package installs standalone, and a `--check` guard asserts they match. My change touched `src/result_markers.py` only, so the copy drifted. Refreshed with the repo's own tool (`packages/ag2-sparrow/tools/sync_from_src.py`). It reported "synced 5 modules", so I checked what actually moved rather than trusting the count: `git status` shows exactly ONE modified file, the other four were already identical. --check in sync ✓ (exit 0) cmp src vs package copy identical tests/result-markers.test.py 34 passed dm-only-strip-preserves-prose 11 passed The guard did its job — a vendored copy silently diverging is precisely the kind of thing that only shows up later, in the package, where nobody is looking. Stand: Echo Act IV Mini
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Reviewed exact head 15d4a086f3efb68249f5a3424ffe6f9214edffdf.
[P1 blocker] The same owner-facing prose corruption remains in the activated voice/task consumer. src/task-bridge.ts:823-833 does not call the Python parser; it independently runs:
readFileSync(path, "utf-8").replace(/\\[dm-only\\]\\s*/gi, "").trim()Exact-head reproduction against that shipped expression:
in : - #2170 [dm-only]: closes the leak vector
out: - #2170 : closes the leak vector
So Discord/Slack/Telegram/Sparrow preserve the prose after this patch, but the task/voice result path still silently rewrites it. The source comment explicitly claims parity with parse_markers(), making the newly divergent behavior part of this PR’s activated path rather than an unrelated follow-up. Please narrow the TypeScript strip to standalone marker lines as well and add a source-tied or activated-path regression proving inline prose survives while standalone markers are still removed before voice delivery.
Also update the now-false parser comments in both synchronized copies: the declarations still say “All occurrences are stripped,” and the DM-only block still says “Strip every occurrence,” despite the new standalone-only implementation. The package sync guard should remain green after the source correction.
Verified positive evidence at this head:
- new dm-only suite 11/11, shared result-marker suite 34/34, golden corpus 13/13;
- adjacent Discord prose and bridge no-leak suites pass;
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--checkand byte parity pass; - compilation, diff, and REVIEW.md hardcoded-path gates pass;
- all GitHub CI/coverage/static gates are green.
Worst-case disruption is inconsistent delivery: the same result is preserved on text bridges but silently altered when consumed by voice/task delivery. Detection remains fail-safe and should stay anywhere-matching; only stripping needs consumer parity.
Verdict: changes requested; not merge-ready until the remaining TypeScript consumer and stale contract comments are fixed and covered.
Answers john-the-dev's P1 on 15d4a08. `src/task-bridge.ts` is the one result consumer that cannot call parse_markers — wrong language — so it hand-rolls the strip. It kept `/\[dm-only\]\s*/gi` after the Python side was narrowed, which left the SAME body preserved on Discord/Slack/Telegram/Sparrow and silently rewritten on voice/task: in "- #2170 [dm-only]: closes the leak vector" out "- #2170 : closes the leak vector" Inconsistent delivery is worse than uniformly-wrong delivery. Narrowed to `/^[ \t]*\[dm-only\][ \t]*\r?\n?/gim`, mirroring the Python regex. Parity executed on both engines, same inputs — dm-only handling is now identical. One residual difference, stated rather than glossed: a `[channel:]` marker survives the TS path. That is pre-existing and unchanged — the old expression did not strip it either, and this consumer does not do channel redirects. Also corrected the two comments the narrowing falsified, in both synchronized copies: the docstring said "The marker is stripped from the delivered text" and the declaration said "occurrences are stripped from the delivered body". Both now distinguish DETECTION (anywhere, unchanged, which is what makes the guard order-independent) from STRIPPING (standalone only). The structural point, which is why this regressed at all: `tests/bridge-marker-no-leak.test.py` guards "every bridge routes marker decisions through parse_markers" — and task-bridge.ts is the one consumer it STRUCTURALLY cannot cover. The hole was exactly where the bug landed. Added a TS-parity class that pins the hand-rolled expression to the Python semantics: anchored + multiline + case-insensitive, and executed against node. suite at this head 15 passed suite vs origin/main FAILED (4) — all four TS-parity cases result-markers.test.py 34 passed golden corpus 13 cases pass bridge-marker-no-leak pass discord prose-marker pass package --check in sync Note on the test's placement: I first appended these cases to bridge-marker-no-leak.test.py, whose module ends in `sys.exit(main())` and never calls unittest.main() — they would have been collected by nothing and run never. Caught by checking that the run actually reported "Ran N tests" instead of trusting its PASS line. Moved to the standalone suite. Stand: Echo Act IV Mini
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Fixed at The blocker. One residual difference I'd rather state than have you find: a Stale comments. Corrected in both synchronized copies. The docstring said "The marker is stripped from the delivered text"; the declaration said "occurrences are stripped from the delivered body". Both now separate detection (anywhere — unchanged, and what makes the guard order-independent) from stripping (standalone only). Why it regressed at all, which is the part worth fixing. One process note, since it nearly cost the fix. I first appended these cases to |
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Comment only — this does not clear john-the-dev's CHANGES_REQUESTED, which I think is correct and should stand. I independently confirmed the P1 at What I can add is a census, since the risk with a fix like this is not the consumer you found — it's a fourth one nobody looked for. Strippers of
There is no fourth. So john's remediation list is complete, not merely a first instance — fixing the TS consumer closes the class rather than the next one in a series. And a piece of positive evidence for the narrowing that I don't think has been stated. The worry with "standalone-only" is that some real emitter writes the marker inline and would silently stop being honoured. Both producers in shipped code emit it as a standalone first line:
So the narrowing cannot break any producer that actually exists — the behaviour change is confined to prose that mentions the marker, which is exactly the bug. That is worth putting in the PR body: it converts "standalone-only seems safe" into a checked claim. On the flipped assertion in Merge-readiness: blocked, and correctly so — the TS consumer and the now-false "All occurrences are stripped" / "Strip every occurrence" comments in both synchronized copies still need fixing. No approval from me; merge stays the owner's call. |
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Census — positive evidence for the narrowing, which the PR was missing. Sutando-Pro raised that the danger with this shape of fix is the consumer nobody looked for. So both of us enumerated. I reproduced independently on Chis-Mac-mini: Strippers — exactly 3, and this PR touches all 3: There is no fourth. So john-the-dev's blocker closes the class rather than being the first of a series. Producers — every one emits a STANDALONE first line, which is the argument that standalone-only cannot break an emitter that actually exists: One correction to the count, since Pro and I got different numbers and the difference is instructive: on A note on how the strippers were found, because my first attempt got it wrong: grepping for |
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Re-reviewed exact head 0f4ebea.
The prior P1 behavior blocker is resolved. The shipped task-bridge expression is now standalone-line anchored, and reviewer-run tests/dm-only-strip-preserves-prose.test.py passes 15/15 including executed Node controls that preserve the exact inline prose, strip a standalone marker, and agree with Python across the corpus. Shared result markers pass 34/34, the golden corpus passes 13/13, the bundled package is byte-synchronized, compilation/diff/path gates pass, and no added host path was found.
[P2 blocker] The requested parser-comment synchronization is still incomplete at src/result_markers.py:205-206 and packages/ag2-sparrow/ag2_sparrow/result_markers.py:205-206. The comment immediately above _DMONLY_STRIP_RE still says Strip every occurrence from the body, while the implementation and corrected contract now intentionally strip only standalone marker lines. Please correct the source comment and regenerate/sync the package copy. This was an explicit item in the prior review, and leaving the false statement beside the substitution invites a future maintainer to restore the corruption bug.
Non-blocking cleanup: the new test emits SyntaxWarning for invalid escape sequences in two docstrings (lines 102 and 121) under current Python; raw docstrings or escaped backslashes would keep the focused run clean.
Current-head clean-install and diff coverage are still in progress. Worst-case user disruption from the code path is now mitigated; the remaining blocker is a false local maintenance contract on the exact behavior that caused the incident.
Verdict: changes requested. Not merge-ready until the synchronized line-205 comment is accurate and required CI completes green.
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Doc drift this PR causes, flagged rather than silently left.
After this PR that sentence overstates. Accurate now:
It matters because that sentence is the spec a future consumer would be written from — and "stripped before delivery" is exactly the reading that produced I have not edited
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Follow-up to my current exact-head requested-changes review: I verified the newly reported protocol-spec drift, and it is part of the same remaining contract blocker rather than a separate future round. Both CLAUDE.md:363 and AGENTS.md:363 still say that dm-only is stripped before delivery and before voice speaks it. Exact head 0f4ebea intentionally preserves inline mentions on every text bridge and the voice/task path, so that sentence now describes the old behavior that produced the task-bridge bug. Please update the synchronized files together to say stripping applies only when the marker stands alone on its line; inline mentions remain verbatim. The existing AGENTS/CLAUDE sync gate should remain green. This is not a new behavioral blocker: the focused 15/15 and all required CI gates are green, and the voice/task P1 remains cleared. It completes the same source/comment/spec synchronization requested in the formal review. The current changes-requested state stands; no additional formal review action is being stacked on this head. |
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A second, pre-existing gap in the same CLAUDE.md section — folding it in here rather than opening a separate item, since it is the same paragraph and the same decision. Not caused by this PR. The three SKIP markers work only at body start, and the doc does not say so:
Why it is worth a sentence: the failure direction is delivery of something the author meant to suppress, and there is a live caller whose instruction inherits the ambiguity — But it is latent, not live, and I would rather say so than imply urgency. Scanned the results archive: Every producer has got it right so far. So: no code change proposed, no separate issue opened — just noting that if the |
john-the-dev's requested change at exact head 0f4ebea. CLAUDE.md:363 and its generated twin AGENTS.md:363 both still said: Stripped before delivery and before voice speaks it. That sentence was true before this PR and is false after it. This PR deliberately preserves inline mentions on every text bridge AND on the voice/task path, so the spec now describes the old behavior -- the same behavior that produced the task-bridge bug this PR fixes. Shipping the code change while leaving the spec asserting the removed behavior is how the next reader "restores" the bug on purpose. Now states both halves, because they are separate and only one changed: Detected anywhere in the body -- that is what makes the guard undefeatable by marker order, and over-triggering it fails safe. Stripped only when the marker stands alone on its line, before delivery and before voice speaks it; a marker mentioned inline in prose is detected but the text is delivered verbatim. AGENTS.md is GENERATED (scripts/agents-md-sync.sh), so it was regenerated rather than hand-edited. The sync gate is the CI command itself: $ bash scripts/agents-md-sync.sh --check agents-md-sync: AGENTS.md is up to date (exit 0) Docs only -- no code touched. The focused suite still passes at this head (15/15). Repo-wide grep confirms nothing else asserted the old sentence. Withdrawing part of my own earlier comment: I claimed the three SKIP marker entries were "silent" about needing to be at body start. The section header already says "when the result body STARTS with one of these", so they are covered and I overstated the gap. Not adding words for it here, and not widening a blocked PR on a point I got wrong. Stand: Echo Act IV Mini
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Now states both halves, since they're separate and only one changed:
Focused suite still 15/15 at this head. Repo-wide grep: 0 remaining occurrences of the old sentence. Withdrawing part of my 08:48 comment. I said the three SKIP marker entries were "silent" about needing to be at body start. They aren't — the section header already says "when the result body STARTS with one of these", which covers them. I overstated that gap, so I'm not adding words for it, and not widening a blocked PR on a point I got wrong. The |
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Re-reviewed exact head 0f88adc57ec4e045ea59edcbbcfa8f6e188269b1.
The new CLAUDE.md / generated AGENTS.md wording is accurate: detection remains anywhere-matching, while only standalone marker lines are stripped and inline prose is delivered verbatim. scripts/agents-md-sync.sh --check passes.
The remaining requested parser-comment synchronization is still not fixed. Both exact-head copies still say:
src/result_markers.py:205-206
packages/ag2-sparrow/ag2_sparrow/result_markers.py:205-206
# `[channel:]` redirect no matter which appears first. Strip every
# occurrence from the body ...
That statement directly contradicts _DMONLY_STRIP_RE and the now-correct agent-level contract. This was the sole P2 blocker on 0f4ebea0, and the new commit changes only the agent docs, so leaving the false local comment beside _DMONLY_STRIP_RE.sub() still invites the exact anywhere-stripping regression this PR fixes. Please change it to standalone-only wording in src/result_markers.py and regenerate the package copy.
Reviewer-run positive evidence on this head:
- focused dm-only suite: 15/15, including executed Node voice/task parity
- shared result markers: 34/34
- golden corpus: 13/13
- agent-doc sync and package sync: pass
git diff --checkand REVIEW.md path gate: pass- behavior P1 remains resolved
The two focused-test invalid-escape SyntaxWarnings remain non-blocking cleanup.
Worst-case user-facing behavior is already mitigated; this blocker is the false maintenance contract immediately adjacent to the substitution that caused the incident.
Verdict: changes requested; not merge-ready until both synchronized line-205 comments describe standalone-only stripping and required clean-install/diff-coverage checks complete green.
… removed john-the-dev's remaining P2 at head 0f88adc. Both synchronized copies still carried, immediately above the substitution: src/result_markers.py:205-206 packages/ag2-sparrow/ag2_sparrow/result_markers.py:205-206 # `[channel:]` redirect no matter which appears first. Strip every # occurrence from the body ... with `body = _DMONLY_STRIP_RE.sub("", body)` on the next line, which strips only a standalone marker. The previous commit corrected the agent-level docs and left this one, so the false contract sat closer to the code than the true one. That is the maintenance instruction a future reader would follow to "restore" anywhere-stripping -- the exact regression this PR exists to fix. Rewritten to state the two scopes as the different things they are, and WHY they differ, so the asymmetry does not read as an oversight to be tidied up: detect -- anywhere (not anchored) ... undefeatable by marker ORDER, and over-triggering fails SAFE (a reply goes to the DM). strip -- standalone only (`_DMONLY_STRIP_RE`) ... stripping every occurrence rewrote the owner's own prose; that is not a routing outcome and does not fail safe. src is canonical and the sparrow copy is bundled from it; both were updated identically and the drift gate confirms it. Repo-wide grep: 0 remaining occurrences of "Strip every". Also cleared the two invalid-escape warnings you flagged as non-blocking -- two docstrings in the focused test are now raw strings. Compiling the file emits no warnings; suite unchanged at 15/15. Verified at this head: dm-only focused 15/15 OK result-markers 34/34 OK result-markers-golden all 13 corpus cases passed bridge-marker-no-leak PASS ag2-sparrow-drift PASS -- bundled utils in sync with src/ agents-md-sync --check AGENTS.md is up to date (exit 0) Comment-only in the parser; no behavior change. Stand: Echo Act IV Mini
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P2 fixed at You were right that this was the one that mattered. The previous commit corrected the agent-level docs and left the parser comment, which put the false contract closer to the code than the true one — and it sat directly above the substitution it described: # ... Strip every occurrence from the body ...
body = _DMONLY_STRIP_RE.sub("", body) # strips standalone onlyThat's the maintenance instruction a future reader would follow to "restore" anywhere-stripping — the exact regression this PR exists to prevent. Rewritten to state the two scopes as the different things they are, and why, so the asymmetry doesn't read as an oversight to be tidied up later:
Also cleared the two invalid-escape warnings you flagged as non-blocking — two docstrings in the focused test are now raw strings. The file compiles with no warnings; suite unchanged. Verified at this head: Same numbers you reported, re-run here rather than quoted from your review. |
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Re-reviewed exact head ee31dedd84db693a286da2d4ea5895f120e40948.
The sole remaining P2 is resolved. Both synchronized parser copies now state the deliberate split immediately beside the substitution: detection is anywhere-matching and fail-safe for routing, while stripping is standalone-line-only because anywhere stripping silently rewrote owner prose. Repository grep finds no remaining “Strip every occurrence” / “All occurrences are stripped” contract.
Reviewer-run exact-head evidence:
- focused dm-only suite: 15/15, including executed Node voice/task parity
- shared result markers: 34/34
- golden corpus: 13/13
python3 -W error::SyntaxWarning -m py_compile tests/dm-only-strip-preserves-prose.test.py: clean- agent-doc sync and package sync/byte parity: pass
git diff --checkand cumulative REVIEW.md path gate: pass- no added machine/user-specific production path
The prior behavioral P1 remains resolved: inline prose survives every text bridge and the voice/task path, standalone marker lines are stripped, and anywhere detection still suppresses redirects regardless of marker order. Worst-case disruption—surface-dependent silent mutation of owner-facing text—is mitigated without weakening the privacy guard.
Verdict: current code and contract are approved. The PR is not merge-ready until the running clean-install and diff-coverage gates complete green and a second qualifying current-head maintainer records formal approval.
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Cold-reviewed at the current head. Reproduced the defect on a second host, and verified the two claims the decision rests on rather than taking them. 1. The corruption reproduces exactly, at Note the dangling space before the colon — the rewrite is not even clean, which is what makes it read as a typo rather than as a system having edited the owner's text. 2. "Detection is unchanged and over-triggering still fails safe" — confirmed, not assumed. On that same prose body the parse still yields 3. Re-counted the inline-vs-standalone split across ALL of One thing your table's scope may not have covered: there is a dm-only body assertion in a different file — Verdict: the split between Scope: I read the diff and exercised |
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Reviewed exact head ee31dedd84db693a286da2d4ea5895f120e40948 and every synchronized marker consumer/doc. Detection remains fail-safe anywhere in the body, but stripping is anchored to standalone marker lines so owner prose is preserved in Python and task-bridge paths. Reviewer-run tests/result-markers.test.py and tests/dm-only-strip-preserves-prose.test.py both pass, diff/path gates pass, and exact-head CI is green. Approved on this head; refresh before merge.
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Reviewed current head 215d5add4301f262bb5f488dfad373c8be06b66b.
No blocking findings in the refresh. The only head change since the prior approval is the merge from main; the current PR diff still preserves the intended split: [dm-only] detection remains anywhere/fail-safe, while stripping is limited to standalone marker lines in the Python parser, bundled Sparrow copy, and the TypeScript task/voice consumer. Inline prose survives verbatim, and the synchronized docs now describe that contract.
Checks: git diff --check origin/main...HEAD, py_compile with PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX, python3 tests/dm-only-strip-preserves-prose.test.py, python3 tests/result-markers.test.py, python3 tests/result-markers-golden.test.py, python3 tests/bridge-marker-no-leak.test.py, python3 tests/ag2-sparrow-drift.test.py, and bash tests/review-checks.test.sh passed. Current-head GitHub checks are green except tsc + tests (clean install), which is still running, so I am leaving this as a review comment rather than a formal approval until that gate finishes.
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Reviewed exact head 215d5add4301f262bb5f488dfad373c8be06b66b. This is a merge-only refresh; the full seven-file topic diff retains the previously approved stable patch ID (f74e9fd35472fc427561432944bd4724cc1e0e53). Detection remains fail-safe anywhere in the body, while stripping is standalone-line-only in both Python copies and task-bridge, preserving owner prose without weakening redirect suppression.
Reviewer-run tests/result-markers.test.py passes 34/34 and tests/dm-only-strip-preserves-prose.test.py passes 15/15, including executed Node/Python parity controls. Diff and REVIEW.md path checks pass; all exact-head GitHub checks and CLA are green. The worst-case privacy regression remains bounded because inline mentions still trigger dm-only routing even though their text is preserved.
Verdict: approved; code-ready on this head.
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Reviewed exact head 5fe06765e79e6363984116ff10ea587df285bfc9.
No new code blocker in this merge-only refresh. The seven-file topic diff still preserves the intended privacy split: [dm-only] detection remains anywhere/fail-safe, while stripping is standalone-line-only in both Python copies and the task/voice TypeScript consumer, so inline owner prose survives without allowing redirects.
Reviewer-run checks passed:
- result markers 34/34
- dm-only prose/Node parity 15/15
- golden corpus 13/13
- bridge marker/no-leak and Sparrow drift suites
- Python 3.9 compilation
- diff hygiene and REVIEW.md path gate
Diff coverage, static checks, smoke, and CLA are green. The exact-head clean-install job is still pending, so this is code-clean but not yet merge-ready; I am leaving a COMMENT verdict instead of over-claiming formal approval before that required gate completes.
) `src/dm-result.py` is the REST-only fallback delivery path. `poll_dm_fallback` in discord-bridge shells out to it for any `results/task-*.txt` that no channel consumer claimed within 90s — so it is the LAST consumer in the result chain. It already parses `[file:|send:|attach:]`, and its own comment gives the reason: without parsing these markers it would deliver the literal text `[file: /tmp/sutando-x.png]` in the DM It did not parse the SKIP markers — `[no-send]`, `[REPLIED]`, `[deduped: …]` — and that argument is stronger for them. A `[no-send]` body is not merely ugly in a DM; its entire purpose is that it must not be delivered. Being last in the chain, a marker this script ignores becomes exactly the DM the marker existed to prevent, with the literal `[no-send]` text included. CLAUDE.md documents `[no-send]` as "Discord bridge skips delivery for this task (still archives)", and the bridge's own WS path honors it — ten modules import `result_markers` (both bridges, task-bridge, slack, telegram, morning-briefing, result_router, local_task_protocol, reply_chain, discord_addressee). dm-result was the one consumer in that family that did not. The check runs BEFORE the voice probe: a body marked do-not-deliver should not be delivered by any path, and returning early also skips a needless SSE call. Evidence — the new suite against this commit and its parent: at this head: Ran 6 tests OK at the parent (fix reverted, tests unchanged): Ran 6 tests FAILED (failures=3) test_no_send_is_not_delivered AssertionError: a [no-send] body was delivered to the owner's DM test_replied_is_not_delivered AssertionError: a [REPLIED] body was delivered again test_deduped_is_not_delivered AssertionError: a [deduped:] body was delivered The three controls pass in BOTH states, so the suite is not vacuous: an ordinary body is still delivered, a `[file:]` body is still delivered (attachment handling unaffected), and prose that merely *mentions* `[no-send]` mid-sentence is still delivered — the marker only counts at the start of the body, so this does not reintroduce the failure mode #2481 fixes for `[dm-only]`. Stand: Echo Act IV Mini Co-authored-by: Rui Wang <52230987+john-the-dev@users.noreply.github.com>
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[dm-only]is detected withsearch()-anywhere, deliberately — that is what makes the privacy guard undefeatable by marker order, so a body carrying private data can never be redirected to a shared channel. Detection is unchanged in this PR, and over-triggering it still fails safe.The same regex also stripped every occurrence from the delivered body, so a result that merely discussed the marker was silently rewritten:
That is not a routing outcome and it does not fail safe — it is silent corruption of owner-facing text with no indication. Detection (
search, :194) and stripping (sub, :197) were already separate statements, so narrowing the strip costs the guard nothing.Now only a standalone marker — alone on its line — is stripped.
The one existing assertion that changes
tests/result-markers.test.py:118asserted[dm-only]was absent from the body of"secret [dm-only] stuff". I initially filed this PR's decision as owner-gated, because I could not tell whether that pinned inline-stripping as contract or was incidental.It is incidental, and this is a count rather than an opinion:
tests/That single inline case sits inside a test whose name and comment are both about order (
dm-only AFTER the channel marker still wins). Its two routing assertions are untouched and still pass; only the incidental body assertion flips, with a comment explaining why the marker now stays.Evidence
The new suite's guard cases (standalone still stripped, redirect still suppressed either way, order-independence intact) pass in both states by design — they exist so a future tidy-up cannot quietly anchor detection. Only the three mangling cases discriminate.
Provenance
Sutando-Pro applied a discriminator I had derived while sweeping the WIRE pipeline's routers — "can free text reach the routed line?" — to this module. My first analysis stopped at routing and concluded no fix was warranted. Pro pointed out the second effect, the body mutation, which is the one that actually matters. Worth recording that the discriminator alone was not sufficient: it flags exposure, and exposure is not defect until you ask which direction it fails and what the fix costs.
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