Unify console prompt to [user@VM]; fix real personality-block truncation; correct §XXV's wrong lockdown conclusion (FABRIC-3.md §XXVI)
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Investigating the std79 lockdown finding from FABRIC-3.md §XXV led
to a real discovery: WIREBIND births TWO VMs per identity, a console
proxy under the plain username and the actual restricted identity
under <username>~user (capsule_wirebind.c). Every test in §XXV
targeted the console proxy, which was never locked down at all.
Retested against the correct target (rajames~user): the lockdown
works exactly as designed. §XXV's "lockdown never engages" conclusion
was wrong -- corrected here, not deleted, since the mistake and how
it was caught are worth keeping (see the new feedback memory:
confirm which specific VM a name resolves to before concluding
anything, when a subsystem is known to birth more than one VM per
identity).

Two real, separate things found along the way are kept regardless
of that correction:

- capsule_runcap.c: the reserved personality devblock was read in
  full (mostly zero-padding after a short ~200-byte string) with no
  terminator, producing "WARN: block 4998 exceeds 1KB, truncating"
  on every std79-locked identity's birth, universal, since at least
  2026-09-10. Fixed by trimming to the first NUL byte actually found
  -- real, but harmless to execution (real content sat in the
  truncated block's surviving head); it mattered for capsule_id/
  content_hash being computed over padding instead of real content.

- console.h/console.c/repl.c: unified the prompt from a separately-
  computed "[VMName] (user)" into a single "[user@VMName]" line
  prefix -- exactly the ambiguity that caused the original
  misdiagnosis (the prompt showed only the WIREBIND username,
  identical whether USE had targeted the console proxy or the real
  ~user identity). Implemented as a registered callback
  (console_set_user_prefix_provider()) rather than console.c calling
  into WIREBIND/session logic directly, since console.c is a clean
  HAL module with no prior dependency on capsule-level subsystems.

Verified: clean build on all 3 architectures, zero new warnings,
identical dict_hash/capsule_hash to every prior boot this session
(console/prompt-only change). Full 9-identity messaging campaign
re-run end to end: 202s, zero faults, all 8 identities at 99/99
tokens, zero regression.

Also surfaced, not yet acted on: the full campaign's own console
tags now visibly show which VM each identity's tests actually
reached ([zuse@rajames], not [zuse@rajames~user]) -- messaging.4th's
VM-NAMES-INIT registers identities by plain username, so std79-doe.
fth's turn-attractor has been dispatching to each identity's console
proxy, not the actual locked-down identity, since the messaging
rewrite. Flagged for a deliberate decision, not investigated further.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EXieurDfDSsDFdnSyusuWo
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Robert Allan James
2026-09-13 06:44:58 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
parent cb32e6632b
commit a8b16d41da
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@@ -208,6 +208,28 @@ const char *console_get_vm_name(void);
*/
void console_save_vm_name(char *out, size_t cap);
/**
* FABRIC-3.md SXXV follow-up (2026-09-13): the line prefix used to be a
* bare "[VMName] ", ambiguous between a console-proxy VM and the actual
* identity VM behind it (e.g. "rajames" the console vs. "rajames~user"
* the real WIREBIND-restricted identity) -- confirmed live to cause real
* confusion during testing. Unified to "[user@VMName] " when a user
* context is available, still "[VMName] " when not (unauthenticated/
* pre-login, unchanged from today).
*
* console.c is a clean HAL module with no dependency on capsule/WIREBIND
* logic (zuse_session, capsule_wirebind_attached_username()) -- pulling
* either in directly here would be a real layering violation, not just a
* style preference. This callback lets repl.c (which already computes
* exactly this for sk_print_prompt()) supply the "user" half without
* console.c knowing anything about VMs, sessions, or WIREBIND. Returns
* NULL/empty for "no user context" (falls back to the bare "[VMName] "
* form); the returned pointer must remain valid until the next call
* (matches console_get_vm_name()'s own single-buffer convention).
*/
typedef const char *(*console_user_prefix_fn)(void);
void console_set_user_prefix_provider(console_user_prefix_fn fn);
/* Last FORTH word name set by the dispatcher before entry->func(vm).
* Printed by the #GP fault handler to identify the faulting word. */
extern volatile const char *g_sk_fault_word;