atlas-iac/scripts/ops/hermes_handoff_evaluators.py
Hermes Agent 8f00545828 hermes: add a fail-closed full-handoff acceptance harness
Decides whether the Hermes platform handoff is fit to release, and refuses
to round an absence of evidence up to a pass.

The harness is read-only by default and classifies 71 checks PASS / FAIL /
NOT_RUN / NOT_APPLICABLE. Any mandatory FAIL or NOT_RUN is NO_GO, and so is a
harness-level problem: an unreachable vantage, a catalog entry whose evidence
no longer exists, an expired deadline, or an evaluator that raised.

Evidence comes from two vantages that cannot cover for each other: an external
read-only operator kubeconfig, and the Hermes agent probing itself from inside
its own pod. Before any check runs, the harness asks each vantage who it is and
stops if they are the same principal, because dual-vantage evidence from one
identity is a restatement rather than a corroboration. `--as` is rejected for
every operator-side command and reachable only as the inner command of a
`kubectl exec`, so impersonation can never stand in for a real self-probe. A
deny check needs a live refused request, not only an authorization review.

Two safety properties are structural rather than conventional, enforced where
an argv becomes a subprocess: the default mode mutates nothing (mutating verbs
require a server dry run; there is deliberately no live TokenRequest probe,
because a successful one would mint a real credential), and no probe can pull a
credential value into a report (no vault/sops/curl, secrets readable only with
-o name, environment probes list names, shell only through frozen reviewed
templates). Captures are bounded before they are screened, and the rendered
report is re-screened before it is written.

Mutation lives behind a separate arming flag with an exact confirmation phrase,
a caller-supplied unique ref, a preflight that refuses a protected push target
before any network call, and a cleanup whose verification is itself mandatory.
A default run reports those four checks NOT_RUN.

The catalog is declarative so a reviewer reads what is asserted rather than how
it is plumbed, and so structural properties can be proven over every entry
before a run. Catalog drift surfaces as NOT_RUN, which stops the release.

docs/hermes_full_handoff_acceptance.md carries the merge order for PRs #14-#18
on top of the merged #13 baseline, the image build and Flux rollout, the
rollback point for each step, the go/no-go checklist, and the limits that are
asserted rather than exercised.

Validation: 295 handoff tests pass with 100% line coverage on all 15 new
modules; the full unit suite is 647 passed with two failures that reproduce
unchanged on origin/main; Ruff, py_compile, kustomize render, and a diff
credential screen are clean; a live read-only run against Atlas returns NO_GO
for the pre-merge cluster with no unscreened fields in the report.
2026-08-17 10:14:17 +00:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Text-shaped evaluators for the handoff acceptance harness.
These rules cover evidence that arrives as a refusal, an exit status, or a list
of names. The ``denied`` rule is the load-bearing one: it refuses to classify on
an authorization review alone — ``kubectl auth can-i`` reports what RBAC says,
not what the API server does — so a real request must have been made and
refused before it will pass.
Importing this module also registers the JSON-shaped rules, so a caller only has
to import one place to have the full catalog vocabulary available.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import re
from typing import Any
from hermes_handoff_exec import Outcome
from hermes_handoff_json_rules import evaluate_flux_health # noqa: F401 (registers rules)
from hermes_handoff_model import ATTEMPT, FAIL, NOT_RUN, PASS, REVIEW, CheckSpec
from hermes_handoff_rules import (
EVALUATORS,
Evaluation,
evaluate,
evaluator,
lines,
looks_denied,
missing_steps,
step_keys,
)
__all__ = ["EVALUATORS", "Evaluation", "evaluate", "evaluator"]
@evaluator("denied")
def evaluate_denied(spec: CheckSpec, outcomes: dict[str, Outcome]) -> Evaluation:
"""Pass only when the review says no and a real request was refused."""
blocked = missing_steps(spec, outcomes)
if blocked:
return blocked
attempts = step_keys(spec, ATTEMPT)
if not attempts:
return Evaluation(NOT_RUN, "deny checks require a real attempt, not only a review")
evidence: dict[str, Any] = {}
for key in step_keys(spec, REVIEW):
verdict = outcomes[key].stdout.strip().lower()
evidence[key] = verdict
if verdict != "no":
return Evaluation(
FAIL, f"authorization review {key} reported {verdict or 'nothing'}", evidence
)
for key in attempts:
outcome = outcomes[key]
if outcome.ok:
return Evaluation(FAIL, f"attempt {key} succeeded but must be refused", evidence)
if not looks_denied(outcome):
return Evaluation(
NOT_RUN,
f"attempt {key} failed without a recognisable refusal (rc={outcome.returncode})",
evidence,
)
evidence[key] = "refused"
return Evaluation(PASS, "review and live attempt were both refused", evidence)
@evaluator("allowed")
def evaluate_allowed(spec: CheckSpec, outcomes: dict[str, Outcome]) -> Evaluation:
"""Pass when every required step succeeded and every review said yes."""
blocked = missing_steps(spec, outcomes)
if blocked:
return blocked
evidence: dict[str, Any] = {}
for step in spec.steps:
outcome = outcomes[step.key]
if step.kind == REVIEW:
verdict = outcome.stdout.strip().lower()
evidence[step.key] = verdict
if verdict != "yes":
return Evaluation(
FAIL,
f"authorization review {step.key} reported {verdict or 'nothing'}",
evidence,
)
continue
if not outcome.ok:
return Evaluation(FAIL, f"step {step.key} failed (rc={outcome.returncode})", evidence)
evidence[step.key] = "succeeded"
return Evaluation(PASS, "required access is present", evidence)
def _matched(observed: set[str], patterns: tuple[str, ...]) -> set[str]:
return {name for pattern in patterns for name in observed if pattern in name}
def _line_step(spec: CheckSpec, outcomes: dict[str, Outcome]) -> tuple[set[str], str] | Evaluation:
key = spec.expect["step"]
outcome = outcomes[key]
if not outcome.ok:
return Evaluation(NOT_RUN, f"step {key} failed (rc={outcome.returncode})")
return (set(lines(outcome)), key)
@evaluator("names_absent")
def evaluate_names_absent(spec: CheckSpec, outcomes: dict[str, Outcome]) -> Evaluation:
"""Pass when no forbidden name or substring appears in a step's lines."""
blocked = missing_steps(spec, outcomes)
if blocked:
return blocked
resolved = _line_step(spec, outcomes)
if isinstance(resolved, Evaluation):
return resolved
observed, _ = resolved
offenders = sorted(
(observed & set(spec.expect.get("names", ())))
| _matched(observed, tuple(spec.expect.get("contains", ())))
)
evidence = {"observed_count": len(observed), "offenders": offenders}
if offenders:
return Evaluation(FAIL, f"forbidden names present: {', '.join(offenders)}", evidence)
return Evaluation(PASS, "no forbidden names are present", evidence)
@evaluator("names_present")
def evaluate_names_present(spec: CheckSpec, outcomes: dict[str, Outcome]) -> Evaluation:
"""Pass when every required name, and every required substring, appears."""
blocked = missing_steps(spec, outcomes)
if blocked:
return blocked
resolved = _line_step(spec, outcomes)
if isinstance(resolved, Evaluation):
return resolved
observed, _ = resolved
missing = sorted(set(spec.expect.get("names", ())) - observed)
missing += sorted(
pattern
for pattern in spec.expect.get("contains", ())
if not any(pattern in name for name in observed)
)
evidence = {"observed_count": len(observed), "missing": missing}
if missing:
return Evaluation(FAIL, f"required names absent: {', '.join(missing)}", evidence)
if not observed:
return Evaluation(NOT_RUN, "step produced no lines to examine", evidence)
return Evaluation(PASS, "every required name is present", evidence)
@evaluator("stdout_matches")
def evaluate_stdout_matches(spec: CheckSpec, outcomes: dict[str, Outcome]) -> Evaluation:
"""Compare a step's trimmed stdout against an expected value or set."""
blocked = missing_steps(spec, outcomes)
if blocked:
return blocked
key = spec.expect["step"]
outcome = outcomes[key]
if not outcome.ok:
return Evaluation(NOT_RUN, f"step {key} failed (rc={outcome.returncode})")
actual = outcome.stdout.strip()
expected = spec.expect["equals"]
allowed = expected if isinstance(expected, list) else [expected]
evidence = {"observed": actual}
if actual not in allowed:
return Evaluation(FAIL, f"observed {actual!r}, expected one of {allowed!r}", evidence)
return Evaluation(PASS, "output matches the expected value", evidence)
@evaluator("distinct_count")
def evaluate_distinct_count(spec: CheckSpec, outcomes: dict[str, Outcome]) -> Evaluation:
"""Pass when a step yields enough distinct rows — and, optionally, exactly N.
Distinctness is the point for placement checks: three worker pods pinned to
one node satisfy a replica count and defeat the isolation the replica count
was standing in for.
"""
blocked = missing_steps(spec, outcomes)
if blocked:
return blocked
key = spec.expect["step"]
outcome = outcomes[key]
if not outcome.ok:
return Evaluation(NOT_RUN, f"step {key} failed (rc={outcome.returncode})")
values = lines(outcome)
distinct = sorted(set(values))
minimum = spec.expect["minimum"]
evidence = {"total": len(values), "distinct": len(distinct), "values": distinct[:16]}
if not values:
return Evaluation(NOT_RUN, f"step {key} produced no rows to count", evidence)
if len(distinct) < minimum:
return Evaluation(
FAIL, f"{len(distinct)} distinct values, expected at least {minimum}", evidence
)
total_equals = spec.expect.get("total_equals")
if total_equals is not None and len(values) != total_equals:
return Evaluation(FAIL, f"{len(values)} rows, expected exactly {total_equals}", evidence)
return Evaluation(PASS, f"{len(distinct)} distinct values observed", evidence)
@evaluator("lines_match")
def evaluate_lines_match(spec: CheckSpec, outcomes: dict[str, Outcome]) -> Evaluation:
"""Pass when every data row of a tabular listing matches a shape.
Some surfaces only speak tables. A blank leading column is exactly what the
session-render regression looked like, so asserting the shape of each row is
a real check rather than a proxy for one.
"""
blocked = missing_steps(spec, outcomes)
if blocked:
return blocked
key = spec.expect["step"]
outcome = outcomes[key]
if not outcome.ok:
return Evaluation(NOT_RUN, f"step {key} failed (rc={outcome.returncode})")
pattern = re.compile(spec.expect["pattern"])
rows = outcome.stdout.splitlines()[spec.expect.get("skip", 0) :]
rows = [row for row in rows if row.strip()]
offenders = [row[:60] for row in rows if not pattern.search(row)]
evidence = {"rows": len(rows), "offenders": offenders[:8]}
if len(rows) < spec.expect.get("minimum", 1):
return Evaluation(
NOT_RUN, f"step {key} produced {len(rows)} data rows, expected at least "
f"{spec.expect.get('minimum', 1)}", evidence
)
if offenders:
return Evaluation(FAIL, f"{len(offenders)} row(s) do not match the expected shape", evidence)
return Evaluation(PASS, f"all {len(rows)} rows match the expected shape", evidence)
@evaluator("vantages_agree")
def evaluate_vantages_agree(spec: CheckSpec, outcomes: dict[str, Outcome]) -> Evaluation:
"""Pass only when two independent observations report the same fact.
A disagreement is a finding in its own right: it usually means the manifest
on record and the workload actually running have drifted apart, and either
one alone would have looked clean.
"""
blocked = missing_steps(spec, outcomes)
if blocked:
return blocked
left_key, right_key = spec.expect["steps"]
observations: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
for key in (left_key, right_key):
outcome = outcomes[key]
if not outcome.ok:
return Evaluation(NOT_RUN, f"step {key} failed (rc={outcome.returncode})")
observations[key] = sorted(lines(outcome))
evidence = {key: value[:16] for key, value in observations.items()}
if observations[left_key] != observations[right_key]:
return Evaluation(FAIL, f"vantages disagree: {left_key} and {right_key} differ", evidence)
if not observations[left_key]:
return Evaluation(NOT_RUN, "both vantages returned nothing to compare", evidence)
return Evaluation(PASS, "both vantages report the same state", evidence)
@evaluator("not_armed")
def evaluate_not_armed(spec: CheckSpec, _outcomes: dict[str, Outcome]) -> Evaluation:
"""Report the fixed NOT_RUN a default, read-only run must produce."""
return Evaluation(
NOT_RUN,
spec.expect.get("reason", "ephemeral mutation mode is not armed"),
{"armed": False},
)
# Two observations of the same fact agree whether or not they came from
# different vantages; the dual-vantage case is just the important one.
EVALUATORS["steps_agree"] = evaluate_vantages_agree