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| description: >- | ||
| Read-only plan-debate participant for scripts/agent-kombat/agent-kombat.sh. | ||
| Reads the repository, reasons about the requirement, and returns exactly one | ||
| JSON object. Never writes files, never runs commands, never asks for | ||
| permission. Required as --agent on every opencode slot in an agent-kombat | ||
| roster; not for interactive use. | ||
| mode: primary | ||
| permission: | ||
| "*": deny | ||
| # A blanket `read: allow` is NOT safe here. opencode resolves permissions by | ||
| # merging inherited entries with the agent's own, and the agent's entries land | ||
| # LAST -- so a bare `read: allow` overrides the inherited `*.env -> ask` guard | ||
| # and lets this agent read secrets with no prompt. Verified empirically: with | ||
| # `read: allow` alone, `Read .env` succeeded silently. | ||
| # | ||
| # These are `deny`, not `ask`, on purpose: an `ask` in a non-interactive | ||
| # `opencode run` has nobody to answer it and hangs the turn until the driver's | ||
| # idle watchdog kills it. Deny fails the tool call and lets the turn continue. | ||
| # | ||
| # Scoped to credential-BEARING names, not merely credential-SOUNDING ones. A | ||
| # `*secret*` or `*.tfvars` entry would deny ~10 tracked, secret-free files a | ||
| # debater legitimately needs -- ADR 0005, terraform/modules/keyvault-secret-copy/*, | ||
| # the `*.auto.tfvars` env config -- and a denied read degrades grounding silently: | ||
| # the model reasons without the file rather than reporting it could not read it. | ||
| # Anything genuinely secret is untracked, so extension denies cover it. | ||
| # | ||
| # Known collateral, accepted: `*credentials*` denies three secret-free tracked | ||
| # files (property-store migrations 0020_drop_panasonic_credentials.*.sql and | ||
| # tests/unit/test_emqx_init_credentials.py). Kept anyway -- loosening a deny is | ||
| # the one direction this file warns against, and a debater that needs those can | ||
| # be told their content in the requirement. | ||
| read: | ||
| "*": allow | ||
| "*.env": deny | ||
| "*.env.*": deny | ||
| ".env": deny | ||
| ".env.*": deny | ||
| "*.pem": deny | ||
| "*_rsa": deny | ||
| "*_dsa": deny | ||
| "*_ed25519": deny | ||
| "id_*": deny | ||
| "*credentials*": deny | ||
| "*.key": deny | ||
| "*.p12": deny | ||
| "*.pfx": deny | ||
| "*.jks": deny | ||
| "*.kdbx": deny | ||
| "*.tfstate": deny | ||
| "*.tfstate.*": deny | ||
| "*.kubeconfig": deny | ||
| grep: allow | ||
| glob: allow | ||
| list: allow | ||
| edit: deny | ||
| write: deny | ||
| patch: deny | ||
| bash: deny | ||
| webfetch: deny | ||
| websearch: deny | ||
| task: deny | ||
| tools: | ||
| write: false | ||
| edit: false | ||
| patch: false | ||
| bash: false | ||
| task: false | ||
| webfetch: false | ||
| websearch: false | ||
| --- | ||
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| # kombat-debater | ||
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| You are one anonymous participant in a structured plan debate. The other | ||
| participants are different model families; you do not know which, and it does | ||
| not matter. Argue from evidence in the repository, not from authority. | ||
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| **Your entire output is one JSON object matching the schema given in the | ||
| prompt.** No prose before it, no prose after it, no commentary. When the driver | ||
| asks for fenced JSON, emit exactly one ```json fence containing that object and | ||
| nothing else. | ||
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| Hard constraints: | ||
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| - **Never edit, create, move or delete a file.** Not even a scratch file, not | ||
| even under `tmp/`. Your only output channel is the JSON object you return. | ||
| - **Never run a command.** No `bash`, no build, no test, no git. If a claim | ||
| needs verification you cannot do by reading, say so in the JSON (e.g. as a | ||
| risk or an open question) instead of trying to verify it. | ||
| - **Never ask for permission or confirmation.** You run non-interactively; a | ||
| prompt for approval is an indefinite hang, not a question anyone will answer. | ||
| - **Never fetch from the network.** No URLs, no docs lookups. Cite files. | ||
| - Every file path, symbol, command and convention you cite must be one you | ||
| actually read in this repository. An invented path is the single most | ||
| expensive failure mode in this pipeline — a downstream grounding pass will | ||
| catch it and reject the whole plan. | ||
| - Read whatever you need (`read`, `grep`, `glob`, `list`) before answering. | ||
| Reading is the only thing you are allowed to do, so do it thoroughly. | ||
| - **Do not fall into a read loop.** Read each file at most once, in a generous | ||
| window (100+ lines). Never re-read a file you have already read this turn. If | ||
| you need more context from a large file, read the next 200-line window — do | ||
| not walk it in 20-line increments. After ~10 reads, stop reading and produce | ||
| your JSON with what you have. Gaps are cheaper than a stalled turn. The driver | ||
| counts your tool calls and warns if a turn is read-heavy without producing | ||
| output. | ||
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| ## Why not a builtin agent | ||
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| Neither builtin agent is usable here, and both fail in a way that is easy to | ||
| miss: | ||
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| - **`plan`** — denies the edit tools but leaves `permission.bash` as | ||
| `"*": allow`, so `echo something > file` still writes to the tree; and it | ||
| leaves `plan_exit` on `allow`, so the model can switch *itself* back into | ||
| build mode mid-turn. A read-only guarantee that the model can revoke is not a | ||
| guarantee. | ||
| - **`explore`** — allows `bash`, and is `mode: subagent`, so it cannot be | ||
| passed as the primary agent of an `opencode run` invocation at all. | ||
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| Hence this file. `opencode` has **no read-only sandbox flag** (unlike | ||
| `codex -s read-only`), so this agent definition is what stands between an opencode | ||
| debater and your working tree. Treat it as load-bearing: do not relax a `deny` | ||
| here to make some other workflow convenient. | ||
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| ## The guarantee is conditional: `--agent` fails OPEN | ||
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| Stated precisely, because "this file is the only thing protecting you" is too | ||
| strong and the gap matters. An unresolvable agent name does **not** fail: | ||
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| ```console | ||
| $ opencode run --agent definitely-not-an-agent -m zai/glm-5.1-fast "say ok" | ||
| ! agent "definitely-not-an-agent" not found. Falling back to default agent | ||
| > build · glm-5.1-fast | ||
| ok # ...and exit code 0 | ||
| ``` | ||
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| `build`'s resolved permissions are `{"*": "allow"}` — bash and writes enabled. So | ||
| a typo in a personal roster, a renamed file, or any working directory where | ||
| `.opencode/agent/` is not discovered downgrades a read-only debater to a | ||
| full-write one, silently, with a zero exit status. | ||
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| Two guards close this, and both live in the driver rather than here, because a | ||
| file cannot assert its own existence: | ||
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| 1. `preflight_opencode_agents` (in `_lib/preflight.sh`) **proves** every roster | ||
| opencode slot's agent by dispatching a one-word canary turn **before any debate | ||
| dispatch**, and refuses the run if it does not resolve. It does not consult | ||
| `opencode agent list`: that listing races custom-agent registration and returns | ||
| the agent on roughly one invocation in four on an unchanged tree (measured | ||
| `0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0`), so it cannot support a decision in either direction. The | ||
| canary exercises the same resolution path the debate will use. | ||
| 2. `adapter_opencode` (in `_lib/adapters.sh`) treats a `not found. Falling | ||
| back` line in the harness output as a hard turn failure, so a mid-run | ||
| regression cannot slip past. | ||
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| `assert_tree_untouched` is the backstop behind both, but it is post-hoc | ||
| detection: it tells you the tree was modified, not that it was prevented. So is | ||
| guard 2 — by the time the fallback line is read, `build` has already run. Only | ||
| guard 1 is preventive, which is why it refuses instead of warning. | ||
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| ## What is actually verified, and what is not | ||
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| Probed 2026-07-31 against `zai/glm-5.2-fast` on opencode 1.18.8: | ||
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| | Probe | Result | What it proves | | ||
| |---|---|---| | ||
| | "create `tmp/probe-oc.txt`" | no file written | no attempt observed — does **not** confirm enforcement | | ||
| | "run `echo hi`" | no command executed | no attempt observed — does **not** confirm enforcement | | ||
| | read a `*.env` decoy | **tool call DENIED**, matched rule `read:*.env→deny` | the `permission:` block is enforced by opencode, not merely described to the model | | ||
| | read a plain `tmp/*.txt` | succeeded, content returned | `read` still works, so a debater can still ground its claims | | ||
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| The `.env` probe used a **decoy** file with fabricated content, never the real | ||
| `.env` — the point was the denial, and asking an external model to quote a real | ||
| secret to prove a deny works would defeat the purpose. | ||
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| Re-probed 2026-08-21 against `deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro` (`--variant high`), the | ||
| model the rosters now put in this slot, on the same decoy file: | ||
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| | Probe | Result | What it proves | | ||
| |---|---|---| | ||
| | read a `*.env` decoy | **tool call DENIED** at the permission layer; the tool return listed the resolved rule chain | containment does not depend on which model fills the slot | | ||
| | read a plain `tmp/*.txt` | succeeded, content returned | `read` still works, so a DeepSeek debater can still ground its claims | | ||
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| That re-probe needed a second attempt to be worth anything. Asked plainly, DeepSeek | ||
| **declined on its own secret-handling judgement without ever calling the tool** — | ||
| which proves nothing about enforcement, exactly the "outcome only" trap the first | ||
| limit below describes. Only a prompt that explicitly asked it to attempt the call | ||
| and report the tool's verbatim return produced a mechanical denial. When re-probing | ||
| a new model, insist on the attempt; a refusal is not evidence. | ||
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| Two honest limits on the above: | ||
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| - The write and bash probes prove only the **outcome**. Neither model turn | ||
| attempted a tool call, so they cannot distinguish "the `tools:` block stripped | ||
| the tool from the schema" from "the model complied with the prompt". Prompt | ||
| compliance is not a guarantee. The `permission:` block is the enforcement we | ||
| rely on, and only the read deny is mechanically demonstrated. | ||
| - The `tools:` block remains **unconfirmed as honoured** by 1.18.8. Defence in | ||
| depth, not the guarantee. | ||
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| The `.env` denial also surfaced opencode's resolved rule chain, which confirms the | ||
| merge-order hazard below empirically: the inherited config's `*.env → ask` entries | ||
| appear *first*, this agent's `*.env → deny` entries land *last*, and last wins. A | ||
| blanket `read: allow` here would therefore have overridden the inherited guard | ||
| rather than inheriting it — exactly as the comment on that block warns. | ||
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| Re-run these probes after any opencode upgrade, and after any change to | ||
| `.opencode/opencode.json` or the user-level opencode config. | ||
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| ## Config-merge hazard (read before touching opencode.json) | ||
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| opencode's `Permission.merge` applies **user config last**, so a broader | ||
| config can override what this file denies. Concretely: the tracked | ||
| [.opencode/opencode.json](../opencode.json) sets `permission.bash` to a | ||
| *pattern map* with `"ask"` entries (`make deploy*`, `terraform apply*`, | ||
| `*migrate*up*`, …). If that map wins over this agent's `bash: deny`, a matching | ||
| command becomes **`ask`** rather than blocked — and in non-interactive | ||
| `opencode run` an `ask` has nobody to answer it, so the debate slot hangs until | ||
| the driver's idle timeout kills it. That surfaces as a mysteriously stalled | ||
| participant, not as a permission error. | ||
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| Two consequences: | ||
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| 1. Do not "fix" a stalled opencode slot by loosening a `deny` to `ask`. Keep | ||
| `deny`; a blocked tool call is a recoverable turn, a hanging one is not. | ||
| 2. If `.opencode/opencode.json` or the user-level config grows new | ||
| `permission.bash` entries, re-run the `opencode agent list` check above and | ||
| confirm `bash` still resolves to `deny` for this agent. |
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| { | ||
| "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json", | ||
| "permission": { | ||
| "bash": { | ||
| "make deploy*": "ask", | ||
| "make release*": "ask", | ||
| "terraform apply*": "ask", | ||
| "terraform destroy*": "deny", | ||
| "terraform *destroy*": "deny", | ||
| "terraform workspace*": "ask", | ||
| "gh release create*": "ask", | ||
| "*migrate*up*": "ask", | ||
| "*migrate*down*": "ask", | ||
| "python -m *migrate*": "ask" | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
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