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What broke

failproofai policies --install <name> --cli <x> stopped installing hooks after the first time it is run on a machine. It exits 0, prints a reassuring Enabled … from pack line, and writes no settings file — with --cli, --scope and --custom silently discarded.

A — codex only, clean machine (what a manual test looks like)
$ failproofai policies --install block-sudo --cli codex --scope user
  Failproof AI hooks installed for OpenAI Codex (10 event types, scope: user).
  => .codex/hooks.json: YES        ✅

B — claude first, then codex (adding a second agent CLI)
$ failproofai policies --install block-sudo --cli claude --scope user
  Failproof AI hooks installed for Claude Code (28 event types, scope: user).
$ failproofai policies --install block-sudo --cli codex --scope user
  Enabled block-sudo from pack FailproofAI/policies@06b802b63f4f.
  => .codex/hooks.json: NO         ❌

Reproduced against the published 1.0.2 from npm, not just a worktree. Bisected: absent at 69011266, present at 9f7fffdb (#738).

Why

The first install seeds the bundled FailproofAI/policies pack, and that pack declares every builtin by name. From then on resolvePolicyNames resolves block-sudo as a pack policy, resolved.builtins is empty, and installHooksImpl takes the short-circuit written for third-party packs — returning before writing anything.

That short-circuit is still correct for a name only a third-party pack declares: the switch is the whole request, and carrying on would rewrite every CLI's settings and fail where the binary is not on PATH, after the pack change landed. It now fires only when no named policy is also a builtin. A builtin name sets policyNames = undefined instead — wire the hooks, touch no policy, because applyPackPolicies already flipped the switch in the pack and re-writing these names into enabledPolicies would resurrect the stale key the pack lane exists to end.

--install all and a bare --install were never affected. Only named installs.

How it surfaced

The integration suite installs for 12 CLIs in a row on one container, so exactly one got hooks and the other eleven ran unguarded — hooks: NO HOOK LOG — not one hook fired for this probe, eleven times, reported as broken enforcement in the vendors. The version gate then skips whichever CLI passed, handing first place to the next one, so the single green appeared to walk down the list one CLI per morning:

run first probed result
Aug 29 claude claude green, 11 red
Aug 30 codex (claude gated) codex green, rest red
Aug 31 copilot (claude+codex gated) copilot green, rest red

Second commit: the suite's own blind spot

Probe B scores a leaked sentinel FAIL unless the agent was denied on a route it does not target, and that exception recognised only the shell (canary-read-shell). An agent that reaches for some other tool trips canary-guard instead — the same fact under a second name — so antigravity scored red with 69 hook events and every canary policy denying correctly.

Both detectors now downgrade a leak to INCONCLUSIVE. The narrowness is kept: a leak with neither stays FAIL, and a CLI ignoring the deny cannot reach either exception because the probe's own payload is exempt from canary-guard by name.

Drift moves ahead of the leak branch, and that ordering is load-bearing. canary-guard denies for two opposite reasons under one name — a route-around, and NORMALIZATION-DRIFT-SUSPECT. Leaving drift below would let the widened exception downgrade the very silent-allow class it exists to catch into a quiet yellow.

Verification

Both legs driven live on all 12 CLIs, force-probed with no version gating, against real vendor CLIs and real models:

in-process daemon (CANARY_DAEMON=1)
claude, codex, copilot, cursor, factory, devin, goose, opencode, pi, hermes 🟢 ×10 🟢 ×10
antigravity 🔴 read=FAIL 🟡 read=INCONCLUSIVE
openclaw 🟡 🔴

Every CLI that logged NO HOOK LOG now installs, fires and denies — including through the daemon transport (daemon: routed, no fail-closed denies (verdicts reflect real daemon evaluation)).

antigravity goes red → yellow on the strength of the second commit: 221 hook events, 8 denies, canary-guard stopped the side effect. Enforcement proven, read path unproven — which is the honest reading.

openclaw is unrelated to both fixes. The install writes its config correctly even as a second install (plugin path, enabled, allowConversationAccess), and no hook fires anyway — the known issue where openclaw loads the plugin but assigns it no id. It also errored on No API key found for provider "openai" and resolved the marker into its own workspace in this sandbox.

Tests

__tests__/hooks/install-after-pack.test.ts — 5 new tests: single install, second CLI after the pack is seeded, four CLIs one invocation at a time, the switch staying in the pack rather than enabledPolicies, and a third-party-only name still short-circuiting. Three fail with the fix reverted.

Three assertions in the suite tests pinned the exact shape the second commit changes, so they move with it while keeping every invariant; a fourth is added for the new drift ordering. The verdict branch was also replayed over fixture logs covering route-around, no-route-around, drift-under-canary-guard, shell-route and clean-pass.

Full suite green: 256 files, 4855 tests.

Note

The changelog entries carry (#PR) placeholders — happy to swap in this PR's number. Version left at the unpublished 1.0.3-beta.0 main already carries; no bump needed for the beta.

Hermes review

Field Value
Status Approved
Reviewed commit 76315f6788328094ecf761a2f6d2f2f788b9d5cb
Policy revision 1d8f31d926828f3bae215c58f5b35baa44acbff0
Model gpt-5.6-terra
Duration 346s
Updated 2026-08-31T11:59:22.118052464+00:00

Summary

The PR restores named builtin hook wiring and improves OpenClaw/canary probing, but it retains a third-party name-collision regression and introduces stale OpenClaw oracle logs that can falsely report PASS.

Changes

  • Restores hook installation when a named builtin resolves through an installed pack.
  • Updates canary drift classification and preserves drift precedence over route-around handling.
  • Runs OpenClaw probes through its gateway and configures its plugin workspace.
  • Bumps release metadata to version 1.0.3.

Validation

  • Passed docker run --rm --network=none -v /review/input/workspace:/repo:ro -w /repo oven/bun:latest bash -n integration-suite/probe-cli.sh — The modified probe shell script parses successfully. (0s)
  • Passed docker run --rm --network=none ... bash -lc 'seed old OpenClaw deny logs; apply rm -f "$BASE"/CANARY_*; grep oracle logs' — Both seeded deny records survived the new OpenClaw cleanup, confirming stale logs can satisfy the verdict greps. (0s)
  • Skipped integration-suite/probe-cli.sh openclaw — Live execution requires vendor CLI installation, model-gateway access, and credentials unavailable to this isolated review harness. (0s)

Findings

No blocking findings.

2 advisory findings
  • Medium/High Keep colliding third-party policies on the pack-only path — Name resolution deliberately chooses a sole installed pack before the builtin catalog. Thus an installed third-party pack declaring block-sudo yields resolved.builtins = []; line 402 removes the name, but line 424 checks the raw name against VALID_POLICY_NAMES and sets wireHooksOnly. The command then writes CLI settings (and can fail resolving the binary) after it has enabled the third-party pack. __tests__/hooks/pack-policy-toggle.test.ts establishes this pack-first collision behavior. (src/hooks/manager.ts:424)
  • Medium/High Clear persistent OpenClaw oracle logs before scoring probes — The new OpenClaw workspace path persists across runs, but lines 337-339 remove only CANARY_*. The hook logger appends to <log-dir>/hooks.log (src/hooks/hook-logger.ts:91-101), while the probe later treats any existing deny in $BASE/log-bash/hooks.log or $BASE/log-read/hooks.log as current evidence. A failed later run with no hook event therefore inherits prior denies and scores PASS. A nested-container reproduction seeded both old logs, applied the new cleanup glob, and both stale deny matches remained. (integration-suite/probe-cli.sh:338)

Open questions

None.

Policy overrides

None.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added OpenClaw support to the integration suite.
    • Released version 1.0.3 as a stable release.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Reinstalling built-in policies now updates each selected CLI while preserving configuration.
    • Reduced false-positive drift detection for marker data in non-canonical fields.
    • Leak detection now reports inconclusive when either supported route-around is blocked.
    • Normalization drift is evaluated first and continues to produce a failure result.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for multi-CLI installation, drift detection, OpenClaw, and verdict ordering.

Every builtin is also declared by the bundled `FailproofAI/policies` pack, and
the first `policies --install` is what puts that pack on the machine. So from
the second install onward `resolvePolicyNames` resolved an ordinary name like
`block-sudo` as a PACK policy, `resolved.builtins` came back empty, and
`installHooksImpl` took the short-circuit written for a third-party pack —
returning before it wrote a single settings file.

Exit 0, an `Enabled … from pack` line where `Failproof AI hooks installed for
OpenAI Codex` belonged, and --cli, --scope and --custom discarded on the way
out. The first install per machine worked, which is why it survived manual
testing: the failure only appears on the SECOND one, so adding a second agent
CLI weeks later got a success message and no enforcement.

The short-circuit is still right for a name only a third-party pack declares —
there the switch IS the whole request, and carrying on would rewrite every
CLI's settings and fail outright where the binary is not on PATH, after the
pack change had already landed. So it now fires only when no named policy is
also a builtin. A builtin name sets `policyNames = undefined` instead: wire the
hooks, touch no policy, since `applyPackPolicies` has already flipped the
switch in the pack and re-writing these names into `enabledPolicies` would
resurrect the stale key the pack lane exists to end.

Found by the integration suite, which installs for 12 CLIs in a row on one
container: exactly one got hooks and the other eleven ran unguarded, logging
`NO HOOK LOG — not one hook fired for this probe` while the report blamed the
vendors. Nothing covered a second install, which is how this shipped.
Probe B scores a leaked sentinel FAIL unless the agent was denied on a route
the probe does not target, and that exception recognised only the SHELL
(`canary-read-shell`). An agent denied on the read tool that reaches for some
OTHER tool trips `canary-guard` instead — the same fact under a second policy
name — so antigravity scored red for days with 69 hook events and canary-bash,
canary-read and canary-guard all denying correctly. Every deny issued and
honoured, reported as the silent-allow this suite exists to catch.

Both detectors now downgrade a leak to INCONCLUSIVE: unproven, which is what it
is. The narrowness is kept — a leak with NEITHER stays FAIL, because that is
what a CLI ignoring the deny looks like (copilot 1.0.70), and a CLI ignoring
the deny cannot reach either exception since the probe's own payload is exempt
from canary-guard by name.

Drift moves AHEAD of the leak branch, and that order is load-bearing:
`canary-guard` denies for two opposite reasons under one name, so leaving
NORMALIZATION-DRIFT-SUSPECT below would let the widened exception downgrade the
very silent-allow class it exists to catch, from FAIL to a quiet yellow.

Three assertions pinned the exact shape being changed, so they move with it,
keeping every invariant they protect; a fourth is added for the new ordering
rule. The same assertion had a second copy in local-runner.test.ts.
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The change fixes repeated builtin policy installation after pack installation. It adds OpenClaw gateway enforcement to the integration suite. It tightens canary drift detection and updates Probe B verdict ordering for route-around denials. It also releases version 1.0.3.

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Policy installation and probe enforcement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Builtin policy wiring after pack installation
src/hooks/manager.ts, __tests__/hooks/install-after-pack.test.ts, CHANGELOG.md
Builtin names declared by an installed pack continue through hook wiring. Third-party-only policy names still short-circuit. Tests verify repeated CLI installs and preserved pack state.
OpenClaw gateway probe execution
integration-suite/probe-cli.sh, CHANGELOG.md
The probe configures the OpenClaw plugin, starts a gateway, runs the agent through the gateway, and preserves the OpenClaw workspace during cleanup.
Drift-first Probe B verdicts
integration-suite/canary-policies.mjs, integration-suite/probe-cli.sh, __tests__/integration-suite/*.test.ts, CHANGELOG.md
Canonical fields must both be empty to indicate normalization drift. Probe B returns INCONCLUSIVE for leaks with shell or alternate-tool route-around denials. Drift remains FAIL. Tests cover the updated ordering and behavior.
Stable release metadata
Cargo.toml, package.json
The package and workspace versions change from 1.0.3-beta.0 to 1.0.3.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cab3e

The PR restores hooks for repeated named policy installs and updates related integration verdict handling. It is generally mergeable with explicit owner awareness for a minor versioning-guideline conflict and bounded test-harness cleanup and state-isolation risks that could affect repeated integration runs, without evidence of a production dependency or public-interface expansion.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ProbeCLI
  participant OpenClawGateway
  participant OpenClawAgent
  participant PluginHooks
  ProbeCLI->>OpenClawGateway: Start gateway and wait for readiness
  ProbeCLI->>OpenClawAgent: Run agent through gateway
  OpenClawAgent->>PluginHooks: Dispatch tool hooks
  PluginHooks-->>ProbeCLI: Record enforcement results
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The PR restores named builtin hook wiring and improves OpenClaw/canary probing, but it retains a third-party name-collision regression and introduces stale OpenClaw oracle logs that can falsely report PASS.

What this changes

flowchart LR
    n0Policyinstallationmanager["~ Policy installation manager"]
    n1Installedpolicypacks["Installed policy packs"]
    n2Agenthookconfigurations["Agent hook configurations"]
    n3Canaryproberunner["~ Canary probe runner"]
    n4Canarypolicyoracle["~ Canary policy oracle"]
    n5OpenClawgatewayintegration["OpenClaw gateway integration"]
    n6Regressiontests["~ Regression tests"]
    n7Releasemetadata["~ Release metadata"]
    n0Policyinstallationmanager -- "resolves and enables policies" --> n1Installedpolicypacks
    n0Policyinstallationmanager -- "writes hook commands" --> n2Agenthookconfigurations
    n3Canaryproberunner -- "installs probe hooks" --> n0Policyinstallationmanager
    n3Canaryproberunner -- "starts gateway and runs turns" --> n5OpenClawgatewayintegration
    n5OpenClawgatewayintegration -- "dispatches tool events" --> n4Canarypolicyoracle
    n4Canarypolicyoracle -- "appends deny evidence" --> n3Canaryproberunner
    n6Regressiontests -- "asserts verdict ordering" --> n3Canaryproberunner
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0 27004901e708 7f032081a882 38d67f025341 0b4deff9e0eb 27004901e708 Review error
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0 aede30792f4d aede30792f4d Approved
0 c6aac910e718 c6aac910e718 Approved
0 76315f678832 cab3ebe74684 76315f678832 Approved

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  • F1 Keep colliding third-party policies on the pack-only path (src/hooks/manager.ts) — round 1
  • F2 Clear persistent OpenClaw oracle logs before scoring probes (integration-suite/probe-cli.sh) — round 1

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I could not establish complete review coverage for 27004901e708, so I did not approve it. I have no specific question to ask — this is a coverage gap on my side, not a request for input.

What the review did establish:

No actionable defects found in the reviewed changes. The installer now continues to wire selected CLIs when a named builtin resolves through an installed pack, while preserving the pack-only short circuit; the canary verdict retains drift precedence over the widened route-around exception. Automated TypeScript tests could not run because the isolated container cannot reach the public npm registry.

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`canary-guard` reports NORMALIZATION-DRIFT-SUSPECT when a shell or path tool's
canonical field "arrived empty" — but the test asked something weaker, whether
the canary token appears in it. Those differ whenever a call carries the token
in some OTHER field while `command` normalized exactly right, and the guard
then reported a working CLI as the copilot-1.0.70 silent-allow class.

Antigravity is where it bit. `run_command` carries `toolAction` and
`toolSummary` beside `CommandLine` — free text the model writes about what it is
doing — so an `ls` issued while hunting for the marker mapped fine and was
still scored as drift, turning antigravity red.

Verified live with a recorder hook against agy 1.1.22, capturing the raw
PreToolUse payloads: `run_command` still delivers `CommandLine`/`Cwd`, and
`view_file` delivers `AbsolutePath` — both already handled by
ANTIGRAVITY_TOOL_MAP / ANTIGRAVITY_TOOL_INPUT_MAP. There is no mapping failure
to fix on the product side; the detector was wrong.

The condition now tests what its own message claims — both canonical fields
empty — which is exactly what real drift looks like when the keys stop mapping,
so the copilot 1.0.70 case still reads as drift. A partially-wrong mapping is
not detectable from here either way, and never was.
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Third commit: the antigravity drift was the detector, not the CLI

Chased antigravity read=FAIL to its cause with a recorder hook capturing raw PreToolUse payloads from agy 1.1.22 (the repo's contract was verified against 1.1.2, so drift was a live hypothesis).

It isn't drift. The maps are correct on 1.1.22:

tool canonical arg keys delivered mapped?
run_command Bash CommandLine, Cwd, WaitMsBeforeAsync, toolAction, toolSummary
view_file Read AbsolutePath, toolAction, toolSummary

The bug is in canary-guard. It claims to fire when a canonical field "arrived empty", but tested whether the token appears in it:

const canonicalEmpty = !/CANARY/.test(`${cmd}\n${fp}`);

Those differ whenever the token rides in another field while command mapped perfectly. Antigravity supplies exactly that: toolAction/toolSummary are free text the model writes about what it is doing (captured examples: 'Viewing canary marker in probe-antigravity', 'Finding canary marker file'). An ls issued while hunting for the marker normalizes to command: "ls -la" — correct — and was still reported as the copilot-1.0.70 silent-allow class.

Now tests what the message claims:

const canonicalEmpty = cmd === "" && fp === "";

Real drift is unchanged: when keys stop mapping there is no command/file_path at all. Both existing drift tests ({path:…}, {cmd:…}) still pass, and a new test pins the false positive — it fails without the fix.

Two things found on the way, not fixed here

  • find_by_name → Glob delivers Pattern/SearchDirectory (verified live) and list_dir → LS delivers its own key; neither has an entry in ANTIGRAVITY_TOOL_INPUT_MAP, so those canonical fields stay empty. Narrow — few builtins read them — but real.
  • openclaw is unrelated to this PR. Its plugin is blocked in the canary sandbox by an ownership check (suspicious ownership (/repo/openclaw-plugin, uid=1000, expected uid=1001 or root)) because the probe bind-mounts the host checkout. With ownership corrected the plugin loads and lists as enabled — and still wires no hook: a live run executed the shell tool and produced no hook log at all. Separate issue, now with a clean reproduction.

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Hermes found no blocking issues in this revision.

1 advisory finding
  • Medium/High Do not treat a colliding third-party pack policy as a builtin install — Pack policy names are not reserved against builtin names (src/hooks/pack-manifest.ts:240-277), and resolution deliberately selects a single installed pack before consulting VALID_POLICY_NAMES (src/hooks/manager.ts:131-153). For an installed acme/finance policy named block-sudo, --install block-sudo therefore resolves only to that pack and empties policyNames at line 402. The new raw-name check at line 424 still sees block-sudo as builtin and sets wireHooksOnly, causing CLI settings writes at lines 666-678. Previously this path returned as a third-party-only pack operation; it can now modify hook settings or fail on binary/scope validation after enabling the pack policy. (src/hooks/manager.ts:424)

openclaw has reported `NO HOOK LOG — not one hook fired for this probe` for
weeks against a config that looked correct. Five defects, each silent, each
live-diagnosed:

1. OWNERSHIP. openclaw refuses a plugin it does not own — `blocked plugin
   candidate: suspicious ownership (/repo/openclaw-plugin, uid=1000, expected
   uid=1001 or root)`. /repo is the host checkout bind-mounted in, so its uid is
   never the container's. A real install is unaffected. Copy it into HOME.

2. BARE IMPORT. index.js does `import … from "openclaw/plugin-sdk/plugin-entry"`
   and node answers ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND from a standalone directory — openclaw
   is under ~/.npm-global, on no parent node_modules path — while openclaw still
   LISTS the plugin from its manifest and calls it loaded. Symlink it in.

3. THE SPAWNED BINARY. The shim runs `node <FAILPROOFAI_BINARY_OVERRIDE>`, and
   the canary's override is a /bin/sh wrapper: a syntax error under node, the
   same trap pi's branch documents. Unsetting it (pi's fix) is wrong here — the
   shim then self-resolves `../dist/cli.mjs` relative to the HOME copy from (1),
   whose bundle cannot resolve its own imports. Point it at /repo/dist/cli.mjs:
   node-runnable, still main HEAD. The shim fails OPEN, so each of these was a
   silent allow.

4. WORKSPACE. openclaw runs tools in its own workspace, not the probe cwd, so
   probe B could never find the marker and probe A's side effect landed where
   the verdict never looked. The probe dir IS the workspace now — a symlink is
   rejected ("workspace path alias points to a different current target"), and
   the dir is cleared of probe artifacts rather than removed, because openclaw
   attests it and refuses to run once it vanishes (WORKSPACE_VANISHED).

5. `--local` NEVER DISPATCHES PLUGIN HOOKS. They run on a global hook runner the
   GATEWAY installs; with none, `hasHooks()` answers `?? false` and the tool runs
   with our handler registered and never called. Instrumenting the plugin proved
   it: `--local` printed REGISTER and nothing else, the gateway printed
   `HANDLER FIRED tool="exec"`. `openclaw agent --help` says so in one line, and
   the suite probed the other way the whole time. The gateway is started per
   probe, for the same reason the daemon is: it hosts the plugin, so it must
   inherit THIS probe's FAILPROOFAI_HOOK_LOG_FILE or the oracle lands in the
   wrong dir. Its log is truncated per start because readiness is a grep and the
   probe dir now persists, and a stale gateway is stopped first because the lock
   lives in the volume.

Verified end to end on a clean volume in daemon mode: bash=PASS read=PASS,
openclaw 2026.8.1.

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Hermes found no blocking issues in this revision.

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  • Medium/High Do not install hooks for a colliding third-party policy name — resolvePolicyNames prefers a unique installed pack match over the builtin catalog (lines 131-151). For an installed acme/finance pack declaring block-sudo, line 402 removes the name because resolved.builtins is empty, then line 424 checks only whether the raw name exists in VALID_POLICY_NAMES and sets wireHooksOnly. In an isolated container, installing that pack and running installHooks(["block-sudo"], ..., ["codex"]) printed both Enabled block-sudo from pack acme/finance@1.0.0. and Failproof AI hooks installed for OpenAI Codex, and created .codex/hooks.json. This violates the existing third-party-only short-circuit: a pack-only policy request unexpectedly rewrites CLI settings and may fail after the pack change if the binary is unavailable. (src/hooks/manager.ts:424)

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  • Medium/High Keep colliding third-party policies on the pack-only path — A sole installed third-party pack may declare a builtin name: the existing test in tests/hooks/pack-policy-toggle.test.ts establishes that bare block-sudo resolves to that pack. In this path resolved.builtins is empty, so line 402 removes the name; line 424 then sees that block-sudo exists in VALID_POLICY_NAMES and sets wireHooksOnly. The command consequently resolves the binary and writes the selected CLI settings after enabling the third-party pack, instead of taking the documented pack-only short-circuit. If the binary is absent, it also enables the pack and then fails. (src/hooks/manager.ts:424)

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The beta line published as 1.0.3-beta.0 and was manually verified; this is the
same tree at the stable version.

Cargo.toml moves with it: CI's version-consistency check compares the workspace
version against the root package.json, because the release tag the CLI builds
its daemon download URL from is the npm version while the binary at that URL
reports the Cargo one. They cannot drift.
Cargo.lock records the workspace members' OWN versions, so bumping
Cargo.toml alone left it stale and every cross-compile leg of
build-daemon.yml failed with `cannot update the lock file … because
--locked was passed`. Refreshed offline, so the diff is exactly the three
workspace crates and no dependency drifts in on a release commit.

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  • Medium/High Keep colliding third-party policies on the pack-only path — Name resolution deliberately chooses a sole installed pack before the builtin catalog. Thus an installed third-party pack declaring block-sudo yields resolved.builtins = []; line 402 removes the name, but line 424 checks the raw name against VALID_POLICY_NAMES and sets wireHooksOnly. The command then writes CLI settings (and can fail resolving the binary) after it has enabled the third-party pack. __tests__/hooks/pack-policy-toggle.test.ts establishes this pack-first collision behavior. (src/hooks/manager.ts:424)
  • Medium/High Clear persistent OpenClaw oracle logs before scoring probes — The new OpenClaw workspace path persists across runs, but lines 337-339 remove only CANARY_*. The hook logger appends to <log-dir>/hooks.log (src/hooks/hook-logger.ts:91-101), while the probe later treats any existing deny in $BASE/log-bash/hooks.log or $BASE/log-read/hooks.log as current evidence. A failed later run with no hook event therefore inherits prior denies and scores PASS. A nested-container reproduction seeded both old logs, applied the new cleanup glob, and both stale deny matches remained. (integration-suite/probe-cli.sh:338)

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