feat(agents): verify sandbox checkpoint evidence against S3 by tee8z · Pull Request #19 · voltagecloud/buzz

tee8z · 2026-10-19T20:54:17Z

Verify checkpoint evidence against S3 before the reaper records a recoverable tombstone. Validate exact checkpoint keys and distinguish missing evidence from authorization, transport, and service failures.

For a lost session without a termination receipt, walk every page under its generation prefix and select the newest eligible checkpoint. A 25-second deadline bounds the entire listing; repeated or missing continuation tokens fail closed. There is no ten-page truncation.

Validation: the reaper suite passed, including a real local HTTP fixture where the newest checkpoint appears after 12 pages, repeated-token rejection, and typed S3 failures.

This layer exceeds 1,000 changed lines because evidence parsing, service error classification, pagination, and HTTP fixtures jointly define whether a checkpoint is safe to advertise. Splitting the fixtures away would leave destructive reconciliation consumers without verified evidence semantics.

Stack: layer 19 of 24. Base: #18. Next: #20. One signed commit per layer.

Final integrated checks passed: ACP/provider/reaper tests and Clippy; 3,451 native desktop tests (19 ignored); native Clippy; desktop TypeScript and lint; root security; and file-size checks. The frontend run passed 7,008 tests before the final type-only extraction and test formatting. Repository-wide just ci and GitHub CI are still running. No human runtime acceptance is claimed.

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The reaper crate adds checkpoint evidence verification backed by S3. Receipt and inherited checkpoint keys are checked against generation-scoped prefixes and classified based on object probes. The documentation describes how checkpoint evidence is handled during Sandbox termination and recovery.

Changes: Sandbox checkpoint evidence

Layer / File(s)	Summary
S3 checkpoint store and bounded probing `crates/buzz-sandbox-reaper/Cargo.toml`, `crates/buzz-sandbox-reaper/src/evidence.rs`	The crate adds AWS configuration and S3 dependencies, a `CheckpointStore` interface, and an S3 implementation. The S3 probe searches up to 10 pages for an exact key and returns an error if the page limit is exceeded.
Receipt and inherited evidence `crates/buzz-sandbox-reaper/src/evidence.rs`, `crates/buzz-sandbox-reaper/src/main.rs`, `docs/remote-agents.md`	`from_receipt` and `inherited` validate checkpoint keys against supplied prefixes and classify probe results. Tests cover valid, missing, mismatched, and unavailable evidence. The documentation describes checkpoint validation for termination and recovery.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Reaper
  participant from_receipt
  participant S3Store
  participant S3
  Reaper->>from_receipt: provide receipt and session prefix
  from_receipt->>S3Store: check exact key under prefix
  S3Store->>S3: list objects under prefix
  S3-->>S3Store: object keys or probe error
  S3Store-->>from_receipt: key exists, absent, or error
  from_receipt-->>Reaper: Verified, Missing, or Unavailable

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Checkpoint verification can be deferred indefinitely for a session whose prefix holds an unusually large number of objects. This is a narrow edge case with a one-line fix. It is a bounded follow-up and does not block merge.

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tee8z · 2026-10-20T15:04:50Z

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Page-bound exhaustion makes a valid checkpoint unrecoverable.

S3Store::contains lists the whole session prefix and scans every page for an exact key. If the prefix holds more than 10,000 objects, contains returns Err. probe maps that error to Evidence::Unavailable. The reaper then retries on every pass, so the tombstone is postponed with no limit. The module comment calls this case "anomalous", but the 25-second operation timeout does not bound it.

Use ListObjectsV2 with prefix set to the full key. The result is then at most one page and exact-match. This removes the page bound and the per-probe scan cost.
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-                .prefix(prefix)
+                .prefix(key)
Note: with this change, prefix is still enforced earlier by is_session_key. The MAX_PAGES loop stays valid as a safety bound.
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Update S3Store::contains to pass the full key to ListObjectsV2’s prefix filter
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Add the reaper's checkpoint evidence module. A key is recorded only when it sits directly under the session's own <developer prefix><generation>/ prefix, with the prefix built from the reaper configuration and a validated (32 lowercase hex) Sandbox generation, never from the Pod, and an S3 ListObjectsV2 confirms it. Three sources name a key: the termination-log receipt, the newest object listed in the session prefix (for a receipt that was never observed), and a recovered session's inherited restore key, which may belong to an older ancestor generation. An existence check lists with the key itself as the prefix, so it needs one request and no pagination. The newest-object listing follows all pages within a 25-second deadline and rejects missing or repeated continuation tokens. A regression test finds the newest key after twelve listing pages. Any store failure defers the decision instead of recording a missing checkpoint, and buzz_sandbox_reaper_s3_errors_total carries a bounded kind label (timeout, access_denied, not_found_bucket, other). The S3 adapter is tested against a local HTTP endpoint. This brings in the AWS SDK dependencies and documents the checkpoint evidence rules in docs/remote-agents.md. Signed-off-by: Tee8z <[email protected]>

tee8z · 2026-10-21T13:17:11Z

CI note: this stack still hits flaky tests in code it does not change. When one of these fails here, the failure is unrelated to this PR, and a re-run usually passes.

buzz-cli client::retry_policy_tests::exhausted_connect_failures_return_network_retryable: a parallel test can take the freed port and answer with HTTP 405.
Desktop smoke E2E huddle-transcription.spec.ts and empty-edit-delete.spec.ts: upstream fix test: fix recurring CI flakes in desktop and Postgres lanes block/buzz#8343, backported in fix(ci): stabilize fork publishing and desktop smoke fixtures #24.
buzz-db cluster-wide replica_fence PostgreSQL tests: fixed in fix(ci): stabilize PostgreSQL concurrency tests #31 for the layers above it.
buzz-agent steer_rejected_on_run_id_mismatch: fixed in test(agent): wait for both responses in the steer run-id mismatch test #33 for the layers above it.
buzz-acp adapter-spawn tests that fail with Text file busy (ETXTBSY).

Summary jobs from cancelled runs also stay red until the replacement run finishes. A failure in this PR's own code gets a fix in this PR.

@thebrandonlucas it's fine to approve without CI fully passing.

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