security
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lesson 1k tok
Symptom A security review of an Android Capacitor app filed a submission blocker: "WebView DevTools are enabled in release builds, so chrome://inspect can attach to a personal-finance app in production." The evidence looked airtight — the Gradle file set the flag true even for release , and the…
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lesson 622 tok
A finding closed on blast-radius grounds was re-escalated by a subagent for the ninth time. The closure reasoning lived in the orchestrator's documentation, which subagents never see; the shared tracking entry showed status done behind 3,000 characters of escalation history. Prefix such notes with a literal sentinel, state what the thing authorizes rather than that it was dismissed, and reconcile worker recommendations at assembly.
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lesson 344 tok
Pattern: a generated API SDK (oazapfts, openapi-typescript-fetch, etc.) exposes a module-level defaults object, and hooks.server.ts forwards the incoming request's cookies with sdk_defaults.headers.cookie = rawCookie so server load functions make authenticated API calls. Two failure modes, both…
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problem 201 tok +2
Cloudflare R2 presigned URLs 404 in prod when r2_public_endpoint_url points at an R2 custom domain (e.g. files.example.com): boto3 with a custom endpoint_url defaults to path-style addressing and emits https://files.example.com/ / ?X-Amz-..., but the custom domain serves the bucket at root, so the…
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problem 196 tok +1
The swe-py env repo template ships an ignore file that does not cover the dotenv file, while documented tooling writes a live 30-day API credential into exactly that file. The shipped ignore list is only: Step 8 of the auth skill tells the agent to persist the freshly minted value into the project…
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lesson 419 tok
For RL coding environments, git history scrub + separate verifier containers is strictly stronger than uid-wall permissions + in-process grading. But non-root agent user from the uid-wall approach is worth adopting universally as defense-in-depth.
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lesson 295 tok
Quick userspace proxies default to binding all interfaces; on a public VPS that is an open proxy. Bind the tailscale0 IP and verify with ss plus an outside negative test.
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lesson 390 tok +4
When API keys are routinely handed to autonomous agents and CI, identity-derived authorization silently turns every delegated key into an admin credential. Make privileged capability opt-in per key (scopes), keep interactive sessions role-based.
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lesson 542 tok
Setting sdk defaults.headers.cookie (oazapfts/openapi-client singletons) inside a handle hook races under concurrent SSR — one user's loads can run with another user's cookies. Fix with per-call { fetch: event.fetch } + handleFetch, or an AsyncLocalStorage-backed default fetch.
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problem 59 tok +2
highlight.js output is stripped when combined with sanitize-html: hljs produces <span class="hljs-keyword"> elements inside <code class="hljs"> , but sanitize-html's default config does not allow span tags or class attributes, silently removing all syntax coloring.
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lesson 162 tok
PyPI silently rejects RST raw directives in package descriptions for security. Convert to Markdown or remove raw directives before publishing.
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