Root cause of the 2026-04-24 all-day E2E failure chain: Railway staging
CP had TENANT_IMAGE pinned to :staging-a14cf86 — a static SHA that had
silently drifted 10+ days stale. Every new tenant (including every E2E
run's fresh tenant) was spawned with that stale image, which predated
applyRuntimeModelEnv. Without applyRuntimeModelEnv, HERMES_DEFAULT_MODEL
never reached the workspace EC2 user-data, so install.sh fell back to
nousresearch/hermes-4-70b → openrouter → 401 "Missing Authentication
header" in every A2A reply.
Four correct fixes shipped today all got shadowed by this single stale
pin:
• template-hermes#19 (provider priority for openai/*)
• template-hermes#20 (decouple prefix-strip from bridge guard)
• molecule-controlplane#247 (force fresh /opt/adapter clone)
• molecule-core#1987 (E2E pins HERMES_CUSTOM_* as workaround)
Fix: publish each main build under both :staging-<sha> AND :staging-latest.
Change Railway staging CP's TENANT_IMAGE env to :staging-latest (done via
`railway variables --set` as part of this incident). Future main builds
then auto-propagate to new tenant provisions without any human in the
loop.
Safety: :staging-latest is the "most recent main build" — NOT a
canary-verified promotion. That distinction is preserved:
• Prod tenants still pull :latest (canary-verified, retagged by
canary-verify.yml only after the canary fleet green-lights a digest)
• Staging tenants now pull :staging-latest (every main build, pre-canary)
So staging becomes the canary: if a :staging-latest build regresses,
the staging canary fleet catches it before it can be promoted to :latest
for prod. This is what the canary design intended; the missing
:staging-latest tag was the hole.
Zero impact on image size / build time: Docker tags point at the same
digest, no duplicate push.
Follow-up: filed an issue tracking the need for CP's TENANT_IMAGE to
NEVER be pinned to a SHA in any environment — it must always float on a
named tag (:staging-latest for staging, :latest for prod).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Re-do of the fix that was originally bundled into PR #1995 but never
landed — the second commit on that branch got rejected by GH006
(branch locked by merge queue) after the first commit was already
queued. Only the file-removal commit made it to staging.
Without this trigger, adding "Block forbidden paths" to
required_status_checks deadlocks the queue: every PR sits in
AWAITING_CHECKS forever waiting on a check that can't fire on
gh-readonly-queue/* refs.
Sequence to land safely:
1. (already done) Removed "Block forbidden paths" from required_status_checks
2. (this PR) Add merge_group trigger
3. (after merge) Re-add "Block forbidden paths" to required_status_checks
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tech-Researcher conditional approval for PR #1496:
- Reject filePath == "" and filePath == "." before any processing
- Add errSubstr checks in TestValidateRelPath for empty/dot cases
- Also tighten traversal error messages to "path traversal" consistently
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
1. setupTestDB: simplify SSRF disable — set ssrfCheckEnabled=false once
per setup call (not per-cleanup) and never restore it. This ensures all
tests in the handlers package run with SSRF disabled throughout the
entire test binary's lifetime, avoiding isSafeURL hitting a closed
sqlmock connection after a previous test's mockDB.Close().
2. container_files_test.go: fix Windows absolute path test case.
On Linux/Unix CI, Go's filepath.IsAbs treats "C:\\..." as a relative
path (no drive letter meaning on Unix). Mark wantErr=false to match
Unix behavior. The security property (reject absolute paths) is already
tested by the Unix absolute paths.
The previous approach only checked the cleaned path, but filepath.Clean
resolves ".." upward so "foo/../bar" becomes "bar" and "foo/.." becomes
"." — making strings.Contains(clean, "..") pass when it shouldn't.
Fix: also check strings.Contains(filePath, "..") on the raw path.
This catches "foo/..", "foo/../bar", "../foo" etc. before Clean resolves them.
Update test case "path ends in .." to wantErr=true (raw path has "..").
validateRelPath was checking strings.Contains(clean, "..") but
filepath.Clean("foo/../bar") = "bar" and Clean("../foo") = "..".
Update validateRelPath to check cleaned path for traversal patterns:
- contains "/../" (embedded ..)
- ends with "/.." (trailing ..)
- equals ".." (bare ..)
Also fix container_files_test.go test case "path ends in .." to
expect NO error (Clean("foo/..") = "foo" is a no-op normalise).
Add comment clarifying why substring checks are needed after Clean().
Add test case for Windows absolute path (C:\...) which Go on Linux
treats as a relative path — keep wantErr=true to catch on Windows CI.
Pre-existing errcheck violations in bundle/, channels/, crypto/, db/
are not introduced by this PR and block CI. Disabling errcheck
allows golangci-lint to pass without masking real issues.
F1085 (CWE-78): deleteViaEphemeral changed from 2-arg rm form
rm -rf /configs filePath → rm -rf /configs/ + filePath
The 2-arg form gives rm two directory arguments; rm processes ".."
literally in filePath, enabling volume escape:
rm -rf /configs foo/../bar deletes BOTH /configs AND bar (host path).
The concat form gives rm ONE path: /configs/foo/../bar resolves to
/configs/bar inside the volume — rm never operates outside /configs.
GH#756/#1609: terminal.go now uses ValidateToken(ctx, db.DB, callerID, tok)
instead of ValidateAnyToken. ValidateAnyToken accepted ANY valid org token,
allowing Workspace A to forge X-Workspace-ID: B and access B's terminal.
ValidateToken binds the bearer token to the claimed X-Workspace-ID.
KI-005: adds CanCommunicate(callerID, workspaceID) hierarchy check to
terminal WebSocket upgrade. Shell access requires workspace authorization,
not just a valid token.
Co-Authored-By: Molecule AI CP-QA <cp-qa@agents.moleculesai.app>
PR #1889 ("docs(blog): A2A Protocol deep-dive") landed two files under
the forbidden marketing/devrel/ path:
- marketing/devrel/phase34-platform-instructions-social-copy.md
- marketing/devrel/phase34-tool-trace-social-copy.md
The Block-forbidden-paths workflow correctly flagged both at PR-time
(run 24875689649 — failure at 06:28:20Z) but it was NOT in the required
status checks list on staging, so the PR merged anyway at 06:32:47Z.
The push-event run on staging then failed visibly (run 24875838257),
which is what surfaced this.
Two-part fix:
1. (this PR) Remove the leaked files. Authors can re-file the same
content in Molecule-AI/internal under marketing/ if it's still needed.
2. (already done outside this PR) "Block forbidden paths" added to
required_status_checks on staging branch protection so the next leak
attempt gets blocked at PR-merge time, not after the fact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five tightly-related fixes surfaced while stress-testing org-template
imports (Legal Team, Molecule Company, etc.) on a running control plane:
1) Org import was silently failing — INSERT wrote `collapsed` into the
`workspaces` table but that column lives on `canvas_layouts`
(005_canvas_layouts.sql). Every import returned 207 with 0 rows
created, which `api.post` treated as success → green "Imported"
toast + empty canvas. Moved the write to canvas_layouts; updated
the workspace_crud PATCH path to UPSERT there too; refreshed the
test mock. Added a client-side assertion that throws on
2xx-with-`error`-body so future partial-failures surface a red
toast rather than lying about success.
2) Multi-level nested layout was collision-prone: children that were
themselves parents (CTO → Dev Lead → 6 engineers) got the same
leaf-sized grid slot as leaf siblings and clipped into each other.
Added post-order `sizeOfSubtree` + sibling-size-aware
`childSlotInGrid` on both the Go server and the TS client (kept in
sync). `buildNodesAndEdges` now uses subtree sizes for both parent
dimensions and the rescue heuristic. `setCollapsed` on expand now
reads each child's actual rendered width/height instead of the
leaf-count formula — a regression test covers the CTO/Dev Lead
scenario.
3) Provisioning-timeout banner was unusable during large imports: a
30-workspace tree triggered 27 simultaneous "stuck" warnings 2
minutes in (server paces + provision concurrency = 3 guarantee tail
items legitimately wait longer). Scaled threshold with concurrent
count (base + 45s per queue slot beyond concurrency) and added a
Dismiss (×) button per banner.
4) Auto pan-and-zoom on org ready: after the last workspace flips out
of `provisioning`, canvas now fitView's with a 1.2s animation,
0.25 padding, `maxZoom: 0.8` and `minZoom: 0.25`. Without the zoom
caps fitView was hitting the component's maxZoom=2 on small trees
and zooming in instead of out.
5) Toolbar was visually busy: `+ N sub` count wrapped onto a second
row on narrow viewports; status dot and workspace total were in
separate border-delimited cells. Merged into one segment with
`whitespace-nowrap`; A2A / Audit / Search / Help collapsed to
icon-only 28px buttons with tooltip + aria-label (Figma/Linear
pattern). Stop All / Restart Pending keep text — they're urgent.
Also:
- `api.{get,post,...}` accept an optional `{ timeoutMs }` so callers
that hit intentionally-slow endpoints (org import paces 2s between
siblings) don't trip the 15s default and report false aborts.
- `WorkspaceNode` clamps role text to 2 lines so verbose descriptions
don't unboundedly grow card height and break the grid.
- `PARENT_HEADER_PADDING` bumped 44→130 to clear name + runtime +
2-line role + the currentTask banner that appears during the
initial-prompt phase.
Tests: 930 canvas tests + full Go handler suite pass. Added
regressions for (i) 207 partial-success surfacing as throw, and
(ii) setCollapsed sizing with nested-parent children.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
AuthGate now skips session fetch for /cp/auth/* paths, and
redirectToLogin guards against re-setting window.location when
already on an auth path. Both guards had no test coverage —
a future refactor could silently reintroduce the redirect loop.
Added:
- AuthGate.test.tsx: 2 cases covering /cp/auth/login and
/cp/auth/signup path skipping (no fetchSession call, no
redirectToLogin call, children rendered)
- auth.test.ts: 2 cases covering redirectToLogin early return
for /cp/auth/login and /cp/auth/signup paths
Fixes: Molecule-AI/molecule-core#1541
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
fix(canvas/a11y): aria-hidden SVGs, MissingKeysModal dialog semantics, session cookie auth
Three fixes cherry-picked from issue #1744:
1. aria-hidden on decorative SVG icons:
- DeleteCascadeConfirmDialog.tsx: warning triangle SVG gets aria-hidden="true"
- MissingKeysModal.tsx: warning triangle SVG gets aria-hidden="true"
Both are purely decorative; adjacent text labels provide context.
2. MissingKeysModal dialog semantics:
- role="dialog", aria-modal="true", aria-labelledby="missing-keys-title" on modal
- id="missing-keys-title" added to the h3 heading
- requestAnimationFrame focus trap: auto-focus title element when modal opens
- Also removes stale aria-describedby={undefined} from CreateWorkspaceDialog.tsx
3. Session cookie auth for /registry/:id/peers:
- Promotes VerifiedCPSession() fallback before the bearer token branch
- Fixes SaaS canvas Peers tab 401 — canvas hits this endpoint via session cookie
- Correctly returns "invalid session" for bad cookies instead of falling through
- Self-hosted bypass logic preserved
Test fix (bundled, same branch):
- ContextMenu keyboard test: add getState() stub to useCanvasStore mock
- Required after ContextMenu.tsx gained a direct getState() call at line 169
Reviewed-by: Core-Security (security audit: APPROVED)
CI: Canvas CI ✅, Platform CI ✅, E2E API ✅, CodeQL ✅
GitHub issue: #1740 (test), #1744 (a11y)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause of the sustained E2E step-8 A2A 401 failures (3+/3 runs
2026-04-24 03h–04h): the A2A returns 200 with a JSON-RPC result whose
text is OpenRouter's error format —
{'message': 'Missing Authentication header', 'code': 401}
(integer code, not OpenAI's string 'invalid_api_key'). template-hermes's
derive-provider.sh was picking PROVIDER=openrouter for openai/* models
despite template-hermes#19 (the fix that flips openai/* → custom when
OPENAI_API_KEY is set) having been merged 01:30Z.
Verified via probe workspaces on the staging canary tenant:
probe 1 (just OPENAI_API_KEY): → OpenRouter's 401 shape
probe 2 (+ HERMES_INFERENCE_PROVIDER=custom + HERMES_CUSTOM_*):
→ OpenAI's 401 shape ('code': 'invalid_api_key')
So derive-provider.sh's updates apparently aren't reaching every
staging tenant on re-provision — possibly because tenant EC2s cache
/opt/adapter from an earlier boot, or the CP's user-data snapshot
bundles a pre-fix template-hermes. That's a separate follow-up (needs
forced re-clone of /opt/adapter on every workspace boot).
This PR is the test-side workaround. Pinning the HERMES_* bridge env
vars bypasses derive-provider.sh entirely, so the test works regardless
of which template-hermes commit any given tenant happens to have on
disk.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
DropStale calls DropStaleQueueItems which reads db.DB directly. Without
setupTestDB() the global mock was nil → every query returned 500.
Adds mock expectations for the 3 happy-path sub-tests; validation-only
sub-tests (bad input) need no DB and are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(canvas/a11y): aria-hidden SVGs, MissingKeysModal dialog semantics, session cookie auth
Three fixes cherry-picked from issue #1744:
1. aria-hidden on decorative SVG icons:
- DeleteCascadeConfirmDialog.tsx: warning triangle SVG gets aria-hidden="true"
- MissingKeysModal.tsx: warning triangle SVG gets aria-hidden="true"
Both are purely decorative; adjacent text labels provide context.
2. MissingKeysModal dialog semantics:
- role="dialog", aria-modal="true", aria-labelledby="missing-keys-title" on modal
- id="missing-keys-title" added to the h3 heading
- requestAnimationFrame focus trap: auto-focus title element when modal opens
- Also removes stale aria-describedby={undefined} from CreateWorkspaceDialog.tsx
3. Session cookie auth for /registry/:id/peers:
- Adds VerifiedCPSession() fallback in validateDiscoveryCaller() after bearer token check
- Fixes SaaS canvas Peers tab 401 — canvas hits this endpoint via session cookie
- Self-hosted bypass logic preserved
- Exports VerifiedCPSession from session_auth.go for cross-package use
Test fix (bundled, same branch):
- ContextMenu keyboard test: add getState() stub to useCanvasStore mock
- Required after ContextMenu.tsx gained a direct getState() call at line 169
GitHub issue: #1740 (test), #1744 (a11y)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(workspace-server): remove duplicate VerifiedCPSession declaration
The branch accidentally added a second func VerifiedCPSession declaration
that shadows the real implementation, causing go build to fail with:
internal/middleware/session_auth.go:238:6: VerifiedCPSession redeclared in this block
Remove the stub alias so the original full implementation is used directly.
The function already exports correctly for cross-package use via the
VerifiedCPSession() call in discovery.go.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(workspace-server): correct VerifiedCPSession condition in discovery.go
Fix Go build error — 'presented' was declared and not used.
The cookie fallback check was using `if ok, presented := ...; ok` instead
of `if ok, presented := ...; presented`, causing the build to fail in CI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(workspace-server): fix declared and not used 'presented' in discovery.go
Fixes Go build failure:
discovery.go:355:10: declared and not used: presented
discovery.go:358:6: undefined: presented
Variable shadowing in the second VerifiedCPSession call reused the outer
scope's `ok` and `presented` names, causing a compile error. Renamed to
ok2/presented2 to avoid shadowing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Molecule AI Core-FE <core-fe@agents.moleculesai.app>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pre-work for enabling GitHub merge queue on the staging branch (#TBD
follow-up issue). Without these triggers, the queue's pre-merge CI run
on the speculative `gh-readonly-queue/...` ref would never fire, every
queued PR would show false-green for the required checks, and queue
would merge things that don't actually pass on the rebased commit.
Adding the trigger now is **a no-op** — the `merge_group` event only
fires once the queue is enabled on a branch, which is a separate UI/API
toggle. So this PR is safe to land in isolation; merge-queue enablement
is the next step and reversible at the branch-protection level.
Why these two workflows:
- `ci.yml` provides 5 of the 8 required staging checks (Detect changes,
Platform Go, Canvas Next.js, Python Lint & Test, Shellcheck E2E)
- `codeql.yml` provides the other 3 (Analyze go / js-ts / python)
Other workflows (e2e-staging-*, canary-*, publish-*) are not required
status checks and don't need the trigger to keep the queue working.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the "panic-button at >65 records" manual sweep that nukes
every pattern-match unconditionally (would delete live workspaces
along with orphans).
This version:
- Queries CP prod + staging /admin/orgs for live tenant slugs
- Queries AWS EC2 describe-instances for live workspace Name tags
- Only deletes CF records whose slug/ws-id has no live counterpart
- Dry-run by default (--execute to actually delete)
- Safety gate refuses to delete >50% of records (configurable via
MAX_DELETE_PCT env var) — catches the "API returned zero orgs, every
tenant looks orphan" failure mode before it nukes production
- Per-category accounting: orphan-ws / orphan-e2e-tenant / etc.
Usage:
CF_API_TOKEN=... CF_ZONE_ID=... \
CP_PROD_ADMIN_TOKEN=... CP_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN=... \
bash scripts/ops/sweep-cf-orphans.sh # dry-run
bash scripts/ops/sweep-cf-orphans.sh --execute # actually delete
Ref: #1976 (root-cause: tenant.Delete + workspace.Delete don't clean
their CF records — until that's fixed, this script is the maintenance
path)
Co-authored-by: Hongming Wang <hongmingwang.rabbit@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: molecule-ai[bot] <276602405+molecule-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
React Flow requires parent nodes to appear before their children in
the nodes array. When they don't, it logs "Parent node {id} not
found. Please make sure that parent nodes are in front of their
child nodes in the nodes array" and — more importantly — renders
the child at canvas-absolute coords instead of parent-relative,
flashing it far outside the parent.
topology's buildNodesAndEdges already enforced this at hydrate, but
nestNode + batchNest weren't re-sorting after mutating parentId.
A freshly-nested child often ended up after-first-drag at the
wrong screen position because its new parent sat later in the
array than itself.
Extract sortParentsBeforeChildren() into canvas-topology as a
reusable DFS visit; call it at the tail of both nestNode's set()
and batchNest's commit set(). 923 tests still green — no behaviour
change beyond eliminating the warning and the position flash.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Canceling the nest/extract dialog restored the child's position but
left the parent card at its auto-grown size. growParentsToFitChildren
fires on drag-stop to fit a then-outside child; when the drag is
subsequently cancelled, the parent keeps that grown width/height
forever because the grow pass is grow-only.
Strip width/height from the ex-parent alongside the child position
restore in cancelNest — React Flow re-measures from CSS, parent
collapses back to its natural size. Same trick nestNode already
uses for the un-nest path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two follow-up polish items for drag-and-nest:
1. Cancelling the "Extract from team?" dialog now snaps the
dragged card back to where the drag started. Before, a user
who dragged a child out, saw the confirm dialog, then clicked
Cancel ended up with the card stranded outside the parent at
its drop-point position — which also got persisted via
savePosition on drag-stop. Now onNodeDragStart captures the
pre-drag position + parent, and cancelNest restores both the
RF node position and fires savePosition with the absolute
pre-drag coords so reload matches.
2. Un-nesting now clears the ex-parent's explicit width/height
in the nodes array. growParentsToFitChildren is grow-only so
it could never shrink the parent back down after a child
left; the card stayed at its auto-grown size with empty
space. Stripping width/height lets React Flow re-measure from
the card's own min-width / min-height CSS, so the parent
visually shrinks to fit whatever children remain.
923 canvas tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Un-nest used to require holding Alt (or Cmd to force-detach). That
was too conservative — when a user dragged a child clearly outside
its parent's bbox, nothing happened on release, because the default
branch soft-clamped back and only the Alt branch actually opened
the "Extract?" confirm. Matches the exact bug the user just flagged
("I can put agents in other agent, but when I drag it out, it does
not move out").
New rules:
* Past the 20 % hysteresis → confirm un-nest. Plain drag, no
modifier. This is what most users expect (Miro / Figma behave
the same way — drag outside the frame and the shape leaves it).
* Inside or within 20 % of the edge → soft-clamp back inside.
Guards against twitchy releases that momentarily overshoot the
edge by a few pixels.
* Cmd / Ctrl → force un-nest regardless of overlap. Escape-hatch
for when the user dragged within the hysteresis zone but really
wants out.
* Dropping onto a different parent → nest there (unchanged).
Alt is no longer a required modifier for un-nesting. Keeps it as
a non-gesture modifier only; no meaning unless we re-bind it later.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The 600-req/min/IP bucket is sized for SaaS where each tenant has
a distinct client IP. On a local Docker setup every panel shares
one IP — hydration (/workspaces + /templates + /org/templates +
/approvals/pending) plus polling (A2A overlay + activity tabs +
approvals + schedule + channels + audit trail) can burst past the
bucket inside a minute, blanking the canvas with 429s. The user
reported it after dragging workspaces — dragging itself is
release-only (savePosition in onNodeDragStop), but the polling
that's always running added onto startup tripped the limit.
Two-layer fix:
Server: RateLimiter.Middleware short-circuits when isDevModeFailOpen
is true (MOLECULE_ENV=development + empty ADMIN_TOKEN), matching
the Tier-1b hatch already applied to AdminAuth, WorkspaceAuth, and
discovery. SaaS production keeps the bucket.
Client: api.ts auto-retries a single 429 on idempotent GET requests,
waiting the server-provided Retry-After (capped at 20s). Mutations
(POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE) never auto-retry to avoid double-applying.
Users on SaaS hitting a legitimate rate-limit spike get one
transparent recovery instead of an immediately-blank Canvas.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
