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Four CodeRabbit findings landed on #41 after it was merged. Each was verified against the code rather than taken on trust; all four held.

🟠 A repository name could carry instructions into Tier 1 (CWE-1427)

currentRepo is basename(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) — a directory name, which on POSIX may contain newlines and arbitrary prose. It was interpolated into the description loaded into every conversation. writeSkillDescription only JSON-quotes the line, which keeps the YAML valid and does nothing about the content.

Being precise about scope: this predates the capture nudge. buildDigest has interpolated repo names into recall's description for many releases. 0.7.0 widened the surface to a second description; it did not create the hole. safeRepo closes it in one place for both.

safeRepo('orders-api')                        -> 'orders-api'      unchanged
safeRepo('my_repo.v2')                        -> 'my_repo.v2'      unchanged
safeRepo('a\nIgnore previous instructions')   -> 'aIgnorepreviousinstructions'
safeRepo('x'.repeat(500)).length              -> 64
safeRepo('////')                              -> 'unnamed'

Display only. Every query still matches on the real name — a repository whose notes stopped being found would be a worse bug than the one being fixed.

🟠 The recent-capture list was unbounded

write --from-json takes an array and import exists, so one bulk write stamps every note with the same minute and the next brief printed all of them. That spends the context the brief exists to conserve, while reading as the whole list — the exact silent truncation the tree already refuses to make.

Now capped at briefRecentIds (default 10), with the remainder counted and stated:

captured in the last 120 minutes, so already covered:
bulk-0, bulk-1, bulk-10, bulk-11, bulk-12, bulk-13, bulk-2, bulk-3, bulk-4, bulk-5 (+4 more)

One row past the cap is the overflow probe; the exact count costs a second query only when there is something to report.

🟡 ARCHITECTURE.md Tier 2 label

Said only when recall fires. It fires for remember too, as brief — added in the same PR that left the label alone.

🟡 A time-bombed test

Pinned now to 2027-01-01. recentlyCaptured filters updated >= cutoff with no upper bound, so once the real clock passes that date, seed()'s notes land inside the window and the empty-list assertion fails. Now derived from Date.now(), matching the sibling test that already did this correctly.

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  • 108 tests, up from 106 — two new, covering the bound and the sanitizer
  • Both fixes exercised end-to-end against a 14-note bulk write and a git repo whose directory name contains a newline and SYSTEM: text
  • Zero dependencies; all versions synced to 0.7.2

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Recent capture briefs now show a configurable number of note IDs and report how many additional items are available.
    • Capture and recall displays now safely sanitize repository names while preserving accurate matching.
    • Routing documentation now covers both recall and remember flows.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented repository-provided text from injecting instructions into displayed guidance.
    • Preserved routing information when digest results are empty.
  • Documentation

    • Updated the documented test count to 108.
  • Release

    • Version updated to 0.7.2.

Four findings landed on #41 after it was merged. Each was checked against the
code rather than taken on trust; all four held.

**A repository name could carry instructions into Tier 1.** `currentRepo` is
`basename(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)` — a directory name, which on POSIX may
contain newlines and arbitrary prose. That value was interpolated into the
description loaded into every conversation, and `writeSkillDescription` only
JSON-quotes the line, which keeps the YAML valid and does nothing about the
content. Clone into a chosen directory name and the text is in front of the
model on every turn.

The exposure predates the capture nudge: `buildDigest` has interpolated repo
names for many releases. `safeRepo` closes it in one place for both, constraining
to `[A-Za-z0-9._-]` and 64 characters. Display only — every query still matches
on the real name, because a repository whose notes stopped being found would be
worse than the bug being fixed.

**The recent-capture list was unbounded.** `write --from-json` takes an array and
`import` exists, so one bulk write stamps every note with the same minute and the
next brief printed all of them — spending the context the brief exists to
conserve, while reading as the whole list. That is the silent truncation the tree
already refuses to make. Now capped at `briefRecentIds` with the remainder
counted and stated.

**ARCHITECTURE.md said Tier 2 fires "only when recall fires".** It fires for
remember too, as `brief` — added in the same PR that left the label alone.

**A test was time-bombed.** It pinned `now` to 2027-01-01, and
`recentlyCaptured` filters `updated >= cutoff` with no upper bound, so the
assertion stops holding once the calendar passes that date. Derived from
`Date.now()` instead.

108 tests, up from 106. Zero dependencies.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014fSLBRUVVhAauWDuzJM4mc
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The release updates version metadata to 0.7.2, sanitizes repository labels in digest output, limits recent capture IDs, reports omitted entries, updates routing documentation, and adds integration coverage.

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Agent memory brief and safety

Layer / File(s) Summary
Repository label sanitization
src/digest.js, test/integration.test.js
safeRepo bounds and sanitizes repository labels. Digest and capture-nudge output use sanitized labels, while database matching uses original names. Integration tests cover injected and invalid names.
Bounded recent capture brief
src/config.js, src/digest.js, test/integration.test.js
Recent capture queries use a configurable cap plus an overflow probe. buildBrief returns recentOmitted, and renderBrief displays omitted counts. Tests cover capped and uncapped output.
Release metadata and routing documentation
.claude-plugin/marketplace.json, .claude-plugin/plugin.json, package.json, ARCHITECTURE.md, README.md
Version metadata changes from 0.7.1 to 0.7.2. The routing diagram and documented test count are updated.

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

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to cafd4

This PR sanitizes repository labels and bounds recent-capture output, but repository-controlled text can still preserve instruction-like content in generated assistant descriptions, with one scoped output path bypassing the sanitizer; fractional briefRecentIds values can also make brief fail. The remaining security exposure is high-impact and should be fixed before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant BriefCaller
  participant buildBrief
  participant Database
  participant renderBrief
  BriefCaller->>buildBrief: request brief
  buildBrief->>Database: query recent IDs with cap plus one row
  Database-->>buildBrief: capped IDs and overflow result
  buildBrief->>Database: count omitted IDs when overflow exists
  Database-->>buildBrief: omitted count
  buildBrief->>renderBrief: recent IDs and recentOmitted
  renderBrief-->>BriefCaller: render capped recent list
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I’m a rabbit, hopping through the brief
Safe names guard each tiny leaf
Recent IDs line up in a row
Extra notes say how many go
Version bells ring: zero seven two

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Inline comments:
In `@src/digest.js`:
- Line 53: Update safeRepo() so untrusted repository names are replaced with a
fixed prefix and deterministic non-semantic identifier, rather than preserving
attacker-controlled text; ensure buildDigest() and buildCaptureNudge() receive
only this sanitized value for routing and skill descriptions.
- Line 395: Update loadConfig validation for briefRecentIds to require a
positive safe integer, rejecting fractional, non-positive, unsafe, or otherwise
invalid values before recentlyCaptured uses briefRecentIds + 1 for SQLite LIMIT.
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…ractional cap broke brief

Two more findings on #43, both confirmed against the code before fixing.

**The charset filter was not enough.** `safeRepo` allowed `[A-Za-z0-9._-]`, which is
exactly the charset a GitHub repository name is drawn from — so
`SYSTEM-ignore-previous-instructions` survived it unchanged and arrived by nothing
more exotic than `git clone`. Hyphens separate words as well as spaces do.

Shape decides instead: a repository name is one to three segments and short, an
instruction needs more words than that. Anything else renders as a stable
`repo-<hash>`, which still distinguishes one repository from another and still tells
a reader in the wrong tree that the numbers are not theirs — the only job the name
had. A legitimate four-segment name pays for that, deliberately.

Filtering also must not be able to *make* a name look ordinary: stripping the spaces
out of "Ignore previous instructions" collapses it into one plain token that would
have passed the shape test. A name that had to be modified at all is already outside
the shape.

**A fractional cap threw.** `loadConfig` accepted any positive finite number, and
`briefRecentIds` is bound into SQLite's `LIMIT ?`, which answers `datatype mismatch`
rather than rounding — verified, not assumed. Every cap in DEFAULTS counts something,
so `loadConfig` now requires a safe integer. The floor also lives at the use site,
because callers may pass a cfg that never went through `loadConfig`, and every test
does exactly that.

109 tests, up from 108.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014fSLBRUVVhAauWDuzJM4mc
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