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The nosec check required # nosec Bxxx -- why for Python, and that form silences more Bandit rules than it names. This change moves Python to # nosec Bxxx # why and refuses the old form.

  • Python. Bandit 1.9.4 reads rule ids from everything after nosec up to the next #. A probe with only B404 named and B307 mentioned in a -- reason left an eval call unreported; with the reason after a second #, Bandit reported it. The check now accepts only the second-hash form and refuses the -- form with its own diagnostic.
  • Go. gosec v2.30.0 splits at -- before reading ids, so // #nosec Gxxx -- why stays. A second // right after the ids does widen there (probe: G401 named only after the second // was silenced), so the check refuses that form with its own diagnostic.
  • Repository. All 26 Python suppressions move to the new form, including the five that chore: re-adopt at engine 4e6c6d9cbf9c #1070 added in tools/ci/engine_pin_check.py and tools/ci/test_levels_check.py. The check reports 183 annotated lines and no finding.
  • Self-test. tools/ci/nosec_check_test.sh gains cases for both refusals, a reason after -- that names another id, a second hash with no reason, and the accepted Go form, and it now checks the diagnostic text. With the Python refusal removed, five cases fail; with the Go refusal removed, the second-slash case fails.

Closes #1082

Pre-Merge Verification Checklist

  • Local verification passed: make verify-all (CI tooling only: make workflows-verify py-lint on the branch tip, plus Bandit 1.9.4 over tools/ci and tools/e2e/pushtitle)
  • No new HISS / NASA Power-of-10 infractions (all new/modified functions $\le 60$ LOC)
  • 3D Tests included (Positive, Negative, Boundary) for public APIs (not applicable: no public API; the self-test covers accepted, refused and empty-reason forms)
  • Agent contexts in sync: standardsctl compile-context --verify
  • Commit messages adhere to Conventional Commits format

Summary by Sourcery

Require syntax that keeps nosec justifications from broadening security-rule suppressions across Python and Go.

Bug Fixes:

  • Prevent Python Bandit suppressions from accidentally including rule IDs mentioned in -- reasons by requiring reasons after a second hash.
  • Prevent Go suppressions from widening when a second // follows the rule IDs.

Enhancements:

  • Make nosec validation parse actual Python and Go comments, reject duplicate or block-comment directives, and fail closed on tokenization errors.
  • Improve nosec diagnostics and validate executable comment syntax while ignoring strings and unrelated prose.

Tests:

  • Expand the nosec self-test with coverage for unsafe separators, duplicate directives, comment and string edge cases, diagnostics, and command timeouts.

Chores:

  • Migrate repository Python suppressions to the safe second-hash format.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Chores
    • Standardized the formatting of security-suppression explanations in automated checks.
    • Updated validation to recognize supported explanation formats and flag inconsistent ones with clearer diagnostics.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for valid and invalid suppression formats, including cases with missing explanations or additional suppression identifiers.

Bandit 1.9.4 reads rule ids from everything after nosec up to the
next hash, so a reason after -- that names another rule id silences
that rule too: a probe with only B404 named left eval (B307)
unreported. The nosec check now requires the reason after a second
hash for Python and refuses the -- form with its own diagnostic.
Every Python suppression in the repository moves to the new form.

Go keeps the -- reason, which gosec v2.30.0 cuts off. A second //
after the ids does widen there, so the check refuses it with its own
diagnostic. The self-test gains cases for both refusals, the accepted
forms and a hash with no reason, and checks each diagnostic text.

Closes #1082

Signed-off-by: lusoris <lusoris@proton.me>
@lusoris lusoris added this to the 0.9 milestone Nov 10, 2026
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Walkthrough

The nosec checker now validates Python and Go directives using language-specific comment parsing. Tests cover accepted and rejected forms. Repository suppression comments were updated; executable commands and request behavior are unchanged.

Changes: Nosec format enforcement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Checker rules and test coverage
tools/ci/nosec_check.py, tools/ci/nosec_check_test.sh
Python validation requires a hash-separated reason and reports dash-separated reasons as widening Bandit suppression. Go validation rejects a second // after rule IDs and retains the dash-separated reason form. Tests cover accepted forms, rejection diagnostics, comment parsing, and timeout handling.
Repository suppression updates
tools/ci/codacy_config.py, tools/ci/download_retry_check.py, tools/ci/engine_pin_check.py, tools/ci/func_headers_check.py, tools/ci/release_closes_check.py, tools/ci/release_publish_order_check.py, tools/ci/roadmap_render.py, tools/ci/secret_scan.py, tools/ci/test_levels_check.py, tools/e2e/pushtitle/check.py
Python suppression comments use a second # before reasons. The urlopen suppression uses whitespace before its explanation. The underlying commands and request behavior are unchanged.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

  • lusoris/SnatchArr#975: Adds a Bandit suppression in tools/ci/codacy_config.py, which this change updates to the new reason format.
  • lusoris/SnatchArr#1070: Adds Python security suppressions in files that this change updates and validates.

Suggested labels: security

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 7be79

This change tightens the nosec suppression format for Python and Go and updates the repository's suppression comments to match. The earlier bypass concerns appear to be handled by first-directive validation and rejection of repeated directives. No merge-blocking risk remains from the supplied evidence.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 7be79

The change tightens security-suppression rules without introducing a new service or permission boundary. The existing verification gate remains intact. Remaining uncertainty concerns compatibility with the underlying scanners and incomplete security coverage, rather than an identified new attack path.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A contributor able to modify tracked Python or Go files can influence suppression-validation results throughout this repository. The demonstrated security-sensitive outcome is acceptance or rejection by the existing CI control; the reviewed checker introduces no source-driven credential, network, or deployment operation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The self-test newly permits a caller-selected Python checker through NOSEC_CHECK. The repository Makefile does not set that override and separately invokes the canonical checker afterward. Consequently, the override changes the test harness execution choice but does not replace the repository verification gate; its use requires control of the calling environment.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Each self-test invocation allocates its own temporary root, creates fixture repositories beneath it, and registers EXIT cleanup. Setup failures are recorded before validation; Git and checker execution have deadlines, and accumulated failures produce a nonzero final status. These paths contain ordinary fixture failures without introducing shared repository state. Cleanup after an uncatchable process termination is not guaranteed.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 5

Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the CI fix: Python nosec reasons must follow a second hash.
Description check Passed The description includes the required Description and Pre-Merge Verification Checklist sections. It explains the Python and Go syntax changes, repository updates, tests, and verification results.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue [#1082] requires safe Python # reasons, a diagnostic for the unsafe -- form, retained Go -- reasons, and rejection of Go’s second-// form. The prior review established those changes, the…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The incremental parser changes and their tests support [#1082] by checking actual comments and preventing directives from being hidden or widened. The test timeouts bound fixture and checker runs. The…
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
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Explanation

Issue [#1082] requires safe Python # reasons, a diagnostic for the unsafe -- form, retained Go -- reasons, and rejection of Go’s second-// form. The prior review established those changes, the Python suppression migration, and the required tests. This update adds Python comment-token scanning and Go comment scanning, with tests for strings, duplicate directives, block comments, diagnostics, and timeouts. The PR description reports that the checker and Bandit pass.

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The incremental parser changes and their tests support [#1082] by checking actual comments and preventing directives from being hidden or widened. The test timeouts bound fixture and checker runs. The available change summary shows no unrelated behavior changes.

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Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 24 functions across 12 files.

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Pull Request Overview

✅ No blocking issues noticed

No blocking findings were identified. The focused syntax and diagnostic scenarios are covered; however, the repository-wide zero-findings check remains unverified by an automated test.

Test suggestions

  • Accept Python suppressions with one or multiple rule IDs followed by a second-hash reason.
  • Reject Python double-dash reasons, including reasons that mention another rule ID.
  • Reject Python second-hash syntax with no actual reason.
  • Accept Go suppressions using the double-dash reason separator.
  • Reject Go suppressions using a second slash as the reason separator.
  • Verify diagnostic text for the newly rejected Python and Go forms.
  • Scan the repository and confirm migrated suppressions produce no findings.
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1. Scan the repository and confirm migrated suppressions produce no findings.
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🟡 Changes recommended

The nosec checker can accept an unsafe directive when a same-line string matches valid syntax, requiring comment-token validation and a regression test.

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What changed in this PR

This PR addresses #1082 by tightening SnatchArr’s suppression checker so justification text cannot silently widen security-rule suppressions.

Changes:

  • Require a second # before Python suppression reasons, while retaining Go’s -- separator and rejecting a second //.
  • Migrate 26 Python suppression comments to the new format without changing application logic.
  • Expand regression fixtures to check accepted forms, rejected separators, empty reasons, and diagnostic text.
File Description
tools/​e2e/​pushtitle/​check.py Updates the URL-opening suppression comment.
tools/​ci/​test_levels_check.py Migrates subprocess suppression comments.
tools/​ci/​secret_scan.py Migrates subprocess suppression comments.
tools/​ci/​roadmap_render.py Migrates subprocess suppression comments.
tools/​ci/​release_publish_order_check.py Updates the command-name suppression comment.
tools/​ci/​release_closes_check.py Migrates subprocess suppression comments.
tools/​ci/​nosec_check.py Enforces language-specific separators and adds diagnostics.
tools/​ci/​nosec_check_test.sh Adds separator fixtures and diagnostic assertions.
tools/​ci/​func_headers_check.py Migrates subprocess suppression comments.
tools/​ci/​engine_pin_check.py Migrates subprocess suppression comments.
tools/​ci/​download_retry_check.py Migrates subprocess suppression comments.
tools/​ci/​codacy_config.py Migrates subprocess suppression comments.

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Review comments at @tools/ci/nosec_check.py:
- Line 77: Update the directive validation around PY_VALID_RE and PY_DASH_RE to
inspect the first nosec directive Bandit consumes, stopping at the next #,
before accepting any later valid directive. Reject the line when that consumed
directive is unsafe, and add the supplied multiple-directive case to the
self-test.
- Line 98: Update the Go directive validation around GO_SECOND_SLASH_RE so the
first `// #nosec` directive must include a valid rule scope; a later scoped
directive must not make an earlier unscoped directive pass. Add a self-test for
the unscoped-first, scoped-second case and verify it is rejected.

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Implementation

Update the checker to validate the first scanner-visible Python or Go directive, reject unsafe reason separators and hidden extra directives, and migrate Python suppressions to the required second-hash form.

  • tools/ci/codacy_config.py L16, L93
  • tools/ci/download_retry_check.py L15, L35
  • tools/ci/engine_pin_check.py L23, L42
  • tools/ci/func_headers_check.py L19, L46
  • tools/ci/nosec_check.py L20-26, L34-44, L78-185 (+4 small edits)
  • tools/ci/release_closes_check.py L18-423 (4 small edits)
  • tools/ci/release_publish_order_check.py L392
  • tools/ci/roadmap_render.py L11, L59, L79
  • tools/ci/secret_scan.py L17-178 (4 small edits)
  • tools/ci/test_levels_check.py L35, L93, L185
  • tools/e2e/pushtitle/check.py L41

Tests

Extend the nosec self-test to assert accepted and rejected scanner behaviors, diagnostics, and bounded fixture/checker execution.

  • tools/ci/nosec_check_test.sh L17-46, L155-259, L267-290 (+4 small edits)

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#1082 Python nosec reasons after -- silence more Bandit rules than they name · 4 of 5 met · 1 to check by hand

# Requirement Status Notes
1 Require Python # nosec Bxxx # why and refuse -- with its own diagnostic. ✅ Met The checker validates the second-hash form and emits a specific diagnostic for the -- form; the self-test checks that diagnostic.
2 Keep Go // #nosec Gxxx -- why and refuse a second // after the ids. ✅ Met The checker accepts the Go -- form and has a dedicated second-// diagnostic covered by the self-test.
3 Move every Python suppression to the new form. ✅ Met The Python suppressions found in the repository use the second-hash form; no old # nosec ... -- suppressions remain in Python files.
4 Bandit and the checker pass on the updated suppressions. 👀 Check by hand (runtime) Run Bandit 1.9.4 and the checker against the branch; the description reports successful verification, but execution cannot be confirmed from the diff.
5 Cover both refusals and accepted forms in the self-test, and fail if either refusal is removed. ✅ Met The tests check both unsafe separators and their diagnostics, and include accepted Python and Go forms.

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Hey - I've found 2 issues

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Please address the comments from this code review:

## Individual Comments

### Comment 1
<location path="tools/ci/nosec_check.py" line_range="31" />
<code_context>

 PY_DIRECTIVE_RE = re.compile(rf"#\s*{NO_SEC}\b")
-PY_VALID_RE = re.compile(rf"#\s*{NO_SEC}(?:[ \t,]+B\d{{3}})+[ \t]+--[ \t]+\S")
+PY_VALID_RE = re.compile(rf"#\s*{NO_SEC}(?:[ \t,]+B\d{{3}})+[ \t]+#[ \t]+\S")
+PY_DASH_RE = re.compile(rf"#\s*{NO_SEC}(?:[ \t,]+B\d{{3}})+[ \t]+--")

</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Widened suppressions pass CI**

When a Python comment contains an unsafe `--` directive before a later `#` with a reason or valid-looking annotation, `PY_VALID_RE.search(line)` accepts the later annotation before `PY_DASH_RE` runs, so the checker skips the unsafe directive while Bandit still honors its earlier rule IDs. The widened suppression passes CI, leaving unintended rules suppressed.

Check for an unsafe `--` directive before accepting a valid annotation, or parse the directives in order so a later annotation cannot mask it.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 2
<location path="tools/ci/nosec_check_test.sh" line_range="88-89" />
<code_context>
 setup_py_comma_ids() {
-    printf '%s\n' 'res = run()  # nosec B404,B603 -- why' > main.py
+    printf '%s\n' 'res = run()  # nosec B404,B603  # why' > main.py
     git add main.py
     git commit -q -m "initial"
 }

</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**CI fixtures can hang indefinitely**

When a Git fixture command stalls, the fixture `git add` and `git commit` commands run without deadlines, so a stalled Git process blocks the nosec self-test and CI indefinitely.

Run the added Git fixture commands under an explicit timeout and fail the test if it expires.

Also at `tools/ci/nosec_check_test.sh:96-97`, `tools/ci/nosec_check_test.sh:102-103`, `tools/ci/nosec_check_test.sh:109-110`, `tools/ci/nosec_check_test.sh:116-117`.
</issue_to_address>

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Comment thread tools/ci/nosec_check_test.sh Resolved
Review on PR 1083 showed three ways past the checker: a valid form
inside a string literal, a second directive after an invalid first
one in Python, and the same in Go. A probe also found that a Go
block comment holding #nosec silences every rule while the checker
never read block comments.

The checker now reads what Bandit and gosec read. Python comments
come from tokenize COMMENT tokens, so strings no longer count, and a
file that fails to tokenize is refused. Go comments come from a small
lexer that skips quoted, rune and raw strings. In both languages the
first directive in a comment must be valid and a comment may hold
only one. A #nosec in a Go block comment is refused.

nosec_check_test.sh takes NOSEC_CHECK so the cases can run against
another checker; thirteen new cases cover the bypasses, and eleven of
them fail against the previous checker.

Signed-off-by: lusoris <lusoris@proton.me>
The nosec self-test built each fixture repository with plain git
add and git commit. A stalled git would hang the gate with no
deadline, which HISS-02 forbids.

- A git() wrapper runs every fixture git call under timeout
  (NOSEC_FIXTURE_TIMEOUT, default 60 s); the checker runs under
  NOSEC_CHECK_TIMEOUT (default 120 s).
- A failing fixture setup now reports FAIL with its status instead
  of passing silently.
- Planted case fixture-deadline: a stub git that sleeps 30 s, with
  a 1 s deadline, must fail with status 124 in under 10 s. Without
  the wrapper the case goes red after the 15 s outer timeout.

Signed-off-by: lusoris <lusoris@proton.me>
Brings in #1081 (accept ADR-0025 module switches) so the branch is
no longer behind main.

Signed-off-by: lusoris <lusoris@proton.me>
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🟢 Approval recommended

No active review issues block approval of the CI suppression-checker hardening.

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1 resolved since last review

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