feat(plugins): installer skips credentials when the machine env file holds a key (FIRE-2119)

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Change

install.sh prompted for credentials and wrote ~/.rogue-env even on a Mac where /etc/rogue/env already held the org key, leaving behind a user file the bridges never read under the first-found rule.

When the machine env file exists and holds a key, the installer skips the credential prompt, writes no user env file, and prints which file is in use. With no machine file, or one without a key, behavior is unchanged. install.ps1 mirrors this for C:\ProgramData\rogue\env.

Issue

FIRE-2119 (parent FIRE-2014). Stacked on FIRE-2117; FIRE-2135 (#56) builds on this branch.
Stack #55: #52 (FIRE-2116) ← #53 (FIRE-2117) ← #54 (this, base feature/actor-fallback-all-bridges-FIRE-2117) ← #56 (FIRE-2135).

Verification

• Tests cover the skip and both unchanged paths on sh and PowerShell; the validate.yml matrix reproduced locally passes.
• Not run on the VM: the guest has no coding-agent CLI installed, so the installer's plugin step has nothing to install there.

Device campaign, 2026-09-15

Five scenarios on a real managed Mac (UTM rogue-e2e-fire2014, macOS 26.6,
hardware UUID 897C1DC2-1BDC-5B78-8C15-29B99F52D057) with real Claude Code
2.1.272 and Cursor 3.20.21 sessions, against a local MDM lab and local-env env 2
(org "Rogue Security"). Each scenario started from a restore of the same
Rogue-free golden snapshot. Endpoint agent 1.0.73 (fd9e3e561); plugins from the
stack tip 0c53872, installed from a local checkout, never from the marketplace.

Scenario	Result
S1 endpoint first, then plugins (7 steps)	PASS
S2 plugins with a user env file, then the agent (6 steps)	PASS, after one lab fix
S3 plugins with no credentials, then the agent (3 steps)	PASS
S4 unmanaged regression (4 steps)	3 PASS, 1 PARTIAL
S5 rotation and re-enrollment (2 steps)	PASS
S6 upgrade path, endpoint agent first (6 steps)	PASS
S7 upgrade path, the plugins first (6 steps)	5 PASS, 1 known limitation
S8 legacy machine file, env-file tiers and trust (10 checks)	PASS

S6 and S7 start from a real current-customer Mac: endpoint agent 1.0.69 built
from origin/main (f7b76640f), coding-agent plugins from plugin-repo main
(fcf3760), credentials in ~/.rogue-env only. They cover both rollout orders.

The auto-update is genuinely automatic: publishing the release was the only
action, nothing touched the Mac, and the 15-minute check downloaded, verified,
waited for the tray to drain and installed in about 70 seconds. Enrollment, keys
and the extension approval all survived, and the coding agents did not notice —
the session after the update was indistinguishable from the one before it.

The /etc/rogue protection arrives with the update; the machine env file does
not. As root, before and after:

	agent 1.0.69	agent 1.0.73
mkdir -p /etc/rogue	ALLOWED	DENIED
echo x > /etc/rogue/probe	ALLOWED	DENIED
/etc/rogue/env exists	no	still no

So the machine credential still needs step 6 of README-mdm-deployment.md, one
policy in daemon mode. Both orders converge on the same end state after it.

S1 step 4 ran install.sh --claude --non-interactive on a Mac where the daemon
had already written /etc/rogue/env. It printed:

✓ Credentials come from the machine env file /etc/rogue/env — no API key prompt, /Users/user/.rogue-env not written
✓ Key validated

~/.rogue-env did not exist before the run and did not exist after it. There was
no credential prompt. The key validated against the backend named by the machine
file.

One thing to know for anyone repeating this: the installer re-announces the
GitHub marketplace ("Adding marketplace qualifire-dev/rogue-plugins"), but
known_marketplaces.json kept rogue-marketplace pointing at the local checkout
of the stack tip, so the installed plugin code was not replaced and no re-add was
needed.

S7 step 4 is a known ordering limitation, accepted. The coding-agents policy
in daemon mode requires an agent that has the write-plugin-env subcommand.
Against an older agent it does not fail cleanly: it hangs and leaves a process
root cannot kill until the Mac reboots. Running it after the agent update works,
confirmed three times. Details in the FIRE-2121 and FIRE-2118 bodies; evidence in
S7/RESULT.md.

S8 closes the cascade evidence. A Kandji customer who used the legacy
rogue-security-env-installer-kandji.sh already has /etc/rogue/env, written
with bash at mode 644. With that file and ~/.rogue-env both present, main's
merge let the user file override the MDM credential (e2e-user@rogue.test); the
stack tip makes the machine file win alone (host fallback). The same pass proved
the rest of the rule on the device for the first time: a machine file owned by
the user, one writable by others, and one with no key are each skipped in favour
of the next tier, <plugin-root>/env beats ~/.rogue-env, and /etc/rogue/env
beats <plugin-root>/env.

After the agent update the legacy file survives and keeps winning, but the script
that maintains it can no longer rewrite or delete it. That fails cleanly, with a
non-zero exit and no stray process. One run of the new policy migrates the Mac
from the shared org key to its own tray key.
Two qualifications, neither in the code under test. S2's first attempt posted six
hook events to production api.rogue.security, because setup.sh writes no
ROGUE_BASE_URL and hook.sh:166 defaults to it; all six were rejected 401, and
the step passed once the user env file named the lab URL. S4 step 3 is PARTIAL
only because its wording ("expect NOTIFY-only, no denials") assumes an extension
is present. On that Mac none was installed: README-mdm-deployment.md documents
that an agent on a Mac with no approved Rogue extension and no managed-config
profile deliberately submits no activation request, so a clean unmanaged install
is never asked to approve one. "No denials" therefore held for a stronger reason
than NOTIFY-only. No PR in either stack touches enrollment or the extension
request.

Full evidence, per-step PASS/FAIL and six recorded observations:
~/.rogue-e2e-tools/evidence/ (CAMPAIGN-2026-09-15.md and S1..S5/RESULT.md).

• Followed rogue-dev-loop and reviewed the final diff.
• Verified affected behavior and restored fixtures, or documented remaining blockers.
• Current-head CI/review follow-through is tracked; merging remains a human action.

Model: Claude Fable 5.1 via Claude Code (workflow subagents).

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Walkthrough

The installers now support trusted machine-level credential files, validate their keys, and fall back to user credentials when necessary. Shell and PowerShell tests cover credential selection, validation, persistence, warnings, installation, and CI execution.

Changes

Credential source selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shell credential flow install.sh, tests/test_install_env_sh.sh	The shell installer reads /etc/rogue/env, checks ownership and permissions, validates trusted keys, normalizes URLs, and falls back to ~/.rogue-env. Tests cover trusted, missing, keyless, writable, and user-owned files.
PowerShell credential flow install.ps1, tests/test_install_env_ps1.ps1, tests/test_setup_env.ps1	The PowerShell installer adds machine-file handling, API validation, fallback behavior, source reporting, and credential setup before plugin installation. Tests cover Windows and Unix trust checks, fallback behavior, metadata preservation, and plugin installation.
Validation wiring and installation documentation README.md, .github/workflows/validate.yml	The README documents machine and user credential behavior. CI runs the shell and PowerShell tests on Ubuntu and Windows.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Installer
  participant MachineCredentialFile
  participant UserCredentialFile
  participant StatusEndpoint
  participant PluginInstallation
  Installer->>MachineCredentialFile: Read and inspect credential source
  alt Trusted machine key
    Installer->>StatusEndpoint: Validate machine key
    StatusEndpoint-->>Installer: Return validation result
  else Missing or untrusted machine key
    Installer->>UserCredentialFile: Read, prompt, or write user credentials
  end
  Installer->>PluginInstallation: Continue installation with selected credentials

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In `@install.ps1`:
- Around line 394-399: Update Test-MachineEnvTrusted so its trusted SID set
contains only SYSTEM and Administrators, not the current user; preserve
rejection of any write-capable Allow ACE from identities outside that set.
Update the Windows fixture in test_install_env_ps1.ps1 to remove inherited write
access and add coverage confirming a current-user write grant is rejected.

In `@install.sh`:
- Line 724: Normalize ROGUE_BASE_URL by removing trailing slashes immediately
after its assignment and before validation or status_check requests, preserving
the existing default-selection behavior and matching runtime consumers’ URL
format.
- Line 753: Apply the existing machine-file ownership and mode trust check to
every shell reader that sources /etc/rogue/env, including the generated
statusline and plugins/antigravity/scripts/heartbeat.sh. Reuse one shared
trust-check implementation before sourcing the keyed machine file, while
preserving the fallback to ENV_FILE only for trusted or unavailable machine
files.
- Line 764: Update the environment-file loading condition near env_file_has_key
so a readable user $ENV_FILE is sourced unconditionally, including when it has
no API key. Preserve the existing flag_key precedence so values from an
explicitly supplied key are not overridden, while retaining user-provided
ROGUE_BASE_URL and ROGUE_ACTOR_* metadata.

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134-138: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the Claude-specific actor fallback.

The “every hook” description lists Git configuration and login/hostname fallbacks, but tests/test_actor_sh.sh:2-10 identifies a Claude-specific CLAUDE_CODE_USER_EMAIL fallback that is ranked above Git identity. Document this exception so the README does not predict the wrong actor label for Claude sessions.

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