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Refs tinyhumansai/openhuman#6732

Problem

text_dialect_markup_only_in_fenced_code (run_loop.rs) skipped text-call recovery entirely whenever every line containing <tool_call sat inside a ``` fence. It ran only on the unary/batch path (recover_text_dialect_calls). The stream scrubber already applies tinytools-agent's protected ranges, which:

  • protect a language-tagged fence (```xml, ```text), so a quoted example is never parsed;
  • deliberately leave a bare fence parseable, because small models wrap real calls in one far more often than they quote one;
  • treat a fence whose info string is a call tag as a call (tinytools [codex] Add orchestration tool coverage tests #30).

So the same bare-fenced call was dispatched when streamed and dropped when unary. The guard also added nothing for tagged fences, because tinytools already protects those on both paths.

Change

  • Delete the guard. Which fenced code is a call and which is a quoted example is now tinytools-agent's single decision, on both paths.
  • The I-2 unit test text_dialect_markup_inside_a_fenced_code_block_is_never_recovered now quotes its example under ```xml. Its doc notes that a bare fence is unprotected.
  • TextDialectRecovery docs: they no longer claim "fenced code is always skipped". They state the tinytools policy and note that Auto is consulted on the unary path only; the stream scrubber does not consult it (openhuman#6733, filed separately as a product decision).

Tests (e2e_tool_dialects.rs, each asserting unary and streamed, max_model_calls: 1)

Test unary streamed
a_bare_fenced_call_is_dispatched_unary_and_streamed 1 1
a_language_tagged_fenced_call_is_not_dispatched_unary_or_streamed 0 0
  • Revert-check: restoring the old run_loop.rs fails exactly the bare-fence unary assertion (left 0, right 1).
  • The tagged-fence test is green with or without the guard. That shows tinytools alone provides that protection.
  • The native-model I-2 test (agent_loop/test.rs, native_tool_calling_model_does_not_execute_quoted_text_dialect_markup) is unchanged and green. Auto still skips unary recovery for a native model.

Lanes run locally:

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check
  • cargo clippy -p tinyagents-harness -p tinyagents-integration-tests --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • tinyagents-integration-tests, in full
  • tinyagents-harness --lib (1366 passed)

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Behavior Changes

    • XML tool-call markup inside language-tagged code fences is not dispatched as a tool call. Markup inside bare code fences may be dispatched in both standard and streaming responses.
    • Standard and streaming responses follow the same fence-handling policy: language-tagged fences remain protected, while bare fences may be parsed.
  • Tests

    • Added end-to-end coverage for fenced XML tool-call markup in standard and streaming responses, including whether calls are dispatched.

CI note: tinysweeper/review on bc91f44 failed with "did not finish within 900s" (bot-side timeout, no findings); advisory, not a required check.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Text-dialect recovery now delegates fenced-markup handling to tinytools-agent. Documentation and tests distinguish bare fences from language-tagged fences. Integration tests check tool-call dispatch in unary and streaming runs.

Changes

Fenced XML tool-call recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Recovery policy and unit coverage
crates/tinyagents-harness/src/runtime/types.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/run_loop.rs
Recovery delegates fence handling to tinytools-agent. Documentation and a unit test specify that language-tagged fences are protected, while bare fences are not.
Unary and streaming integration coverage
crates/tinyagents-integration-tests/tests/e2e_tool_dialects.rs
Integration tests check whether XML tool-call markup inside bare and language-tagged fences is dispatched in unary and streaming runs.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: senamakel

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6d3f1

A user-influenced reply containing a tool-call example in a bare fence may trigger an offered tool, although host approval controls can block it. Resolve or explicitly accept this execution risk before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6d3f1

Bare-fenced tool-call text in non-streamed responses can now trigger tools where it previously did not. Existing tool permissions still apply, but a quoted example could be mistaken for an intended call.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: An untrusted tool-call example echoed inside a bare fence can now be recovered and dispatched on the unary path if its tool is offered and admitted. This is intended parity with streaming, not an authorization bypass, but it expands the cases in which quoted content can cause a side-effecting call.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The newly reachable behavior is confined to eligible unary turns with offered tools. Its effects depend on the host-registered tools and their authority; streaming already dispatched bare-fenced calls. Tenant, asset and environment scope cannot be established from the reviewed evidence.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — If an attacker can cause a generated unary response to quote a valid call in a bare fence, the parser may treat it as a call rather than an example. The tests establish dispatchability, not a demonstrated production exploit; XML-tagged fences remain protected in the tested paths.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Parsing does not itself grant tool authority: recovered calls enter common admission, where middleware can refuse or defer a call and the host allowlist is checked at dispatch. These controls constrain execution but do not distinguish a bare-fenced quotation from an intended call.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The existing execution paths account for tool-call budgets, refusal and deferral, and record execution outcomes. Run finalization preserves the partial transcript on failure and distinguishes completion from pause or deferral.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Where untrusted material may be quoted in responses, use language-tagged fences for examples and require host approval or narrowly scoped permissions for consequential tools. This addresses the remaining intent ambiguity without asserting an observed authorization bypass.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: the unary path now follows tinytools' fence policy for fenced tool calls.

A rabbit checks the fenced-call trail
Bare marks hop through without a fail
Tagged XML stays inside its pen
Unary and streams are checked again
The rabbit thumps: the tests are green

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This pull request removes the fenced-code safety guard that prevented text-dialect tool recovery from parsing markup inside fenced code blocks. The fence policy is now delegated to `tinytools-agent`, which protects only language-tagged fences. Bare fences are treated as potential tool calls and are recovered. The review found that this change introduces a safety hazard by allowing quoted tool examples inside bare fences to be executed, and recommended against merging.

State: Changes requested
Priority: high
Reviewed head: 6d3f1d68cffe
Updated: 1790604505 (Unix time)

Review snapshot

Change surface Files Review signal Count
Production 2 Active findings 1
Tests 1 Noted findings 0
Documentation 0 Resolved findings 12
Configuration 0 Pending checks/questions 0

Completeness: Complete
Test assessment: Test coverage is assessed from changed tests and lane evidence; execution is not claimed without trusted check data.

What changed

The changes remove the `text_dialect_markup_only_in_fenced_code` function and its call in `recover_text_dialect_calls`. The documentation for `TextDialectRecovery` is updated to describe the new fence policy. Unit and integration tests are added and updated to verify the new behavior on both unary and streamed paths.

Features

  • Removed — text_dialect_markup_only_in_fenced_code function: Eliminates the guard that prevented text-dialect recovery from parsing tool call markup inside fenced code blocks. After this change, only language-tagged fences are protected; bare fences are considered potential tool calls and are recovered. (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/run_loop.rs#fn text_dialect_markup_only_in_fenced_code(text: &str) -> bool {, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/run_loop.rs#fn recover_text_dialect_calls<Ctx>()
  • Modified — Delegate fence protection to tinytools-agent: The recover_text_dialect_calls function no longer checks for fenced code blocks locally; it now relies on tinytools-agent's protected ranges to decide which fences to skip. This aligns the unary path with the stream scrubber. (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/run_loop.rs#fn recover_text_dialect_calls<Ctx>()
  • Modified — Update TextDialectRecovery documentation: Updates the doc comment for TextDialectRecovery to describe that language-tagged fences are protected and bare fences are not, and that the stream scrubber does not consult the policy. (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/runtime/types.rs)
  • Added — Integration tests for fence policy on unary and streamed paths: Adds tests verifying that a bare fenced call is dispatched and a language-tagged fenced call is not dispatched, on both unary and streamed paths. (crates/tinyagents-integration-tests/tests/e2e_tool_dialects.rs)

Tests

  • modification — Updates the existing unit test to use a language-tagged fence (```xml) instead of a bare fence, confirming that tagged fences are not recovered. The test now expects no recovery for tagged fences.: The test correctly verifies the new fence policy for language-tagged fences, but the review notes that allowing bare fences to be recovered introduces a safety hazard. (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/agent_loop/run_loop.rs)

Findings

  • high · critique · Keep bare fenced markup from triggering tool execution — A response such as `Here is an example:\n```\n<tool_call>{"name":"shell","arguments":{}}</tool_call>\n````, with recovery enabled and `shell` offered, is now allowed to reach `reco (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/agent\_loop/run\_loop\.rs:2564)

Resolved this pass

  • Keep bare fenced markup from triggering tool execution
  • Keep bare fenced examples out of tool recovery
  • Keep bare fenced markup from triggering tool execution
  • Keep bare fenced examples out of tool recovery
  • Keep bare fenced markup from triggering tool execution
  • Keep bare fenced examples out of tool recovery
  • Keep bare fenced markup from triggering tool execution
  • Keep bare fenced examples out of tool recovery
  • Keep bare fenced markup from triggering tool execution
  • Keep bare fenced markup from triggering tool execution
  • Keep bare fenced examples out of tool recovery
  • Keep bare fenced markup from triggering tool execution

Before merge

  • Address Keep bare fenced markup from triggering tool execution (crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/agent\_loop/run\_loop\.rs).

How this fits together

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critique

  • Conclusion: Failure
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Reviewed 2 files; 1 finding. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `26bcc4f8862d`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._
  • Evidence: crates/tinyagents\-harness/src/agent\_loop/run\_loop\.rs — Keep bare fenced markup from triggering tool execution

security

  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Reviewed 2 files; 0 findings. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `26bcc4f8862d`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._

tests

  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Updates the fenced-code block policy: bare fences are no longer protected and their markup is recovered as tool calls, while language-tagged fences remain protected. The logic is delegated to `tinytools-agent`. Both unary and streamed paths are tested, and the documentation is clarified. Safe to merge. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `26bcc4f8862d`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._

commits

  • Conclusion: Neutral
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Nothing sensitive found in what this pull request commits.

description

  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Removes the fenced-code guard that unconditionally skipped text-dialect recovery inside any fence, delegating fence handling to `tinytools-agent` so that language-tagged fences are protected while bare fences are parsed as calls. The change is consistent across unary and streaming paths, and the added integration tests confirm the new behavior. Safe to merge. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `26bcc4f8862d`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._

e2e

  • Conclusion: Neutral
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: No end-to-end harness in this repository: no e2e test files and no e2e workflow.
Evidence and run details
  • Models: ladder/vectors, gpt-5.6-luna, deepseek-v4-flash
  • Spend: $0.021765
  • Tokens: 189412 input · 15011 output · 9686 cached · 711 embedding
Head State Pass summary
bc91f448fd49 incomplete 2 active finding(s), 0 resolved finding(s) (at 1790599028)
26bcc4f8862d incomplete 4 active finding(s), 0 resolved finding(s) (at 1790601391)
6d3f1d68cffe changes requested 1 active finding(s), 12 resolved finding(s) (at 1790604505)

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Requesting changes: 2 lane(s) blocking, worst finding is high.

Fix or reply to the findings below and push. The next review clears this automatically once they are gone — you should not need to dismiss anything by hand.

          $0.0076 · 95,713 in / 6,907 out · 3,828 cached (4%) · ladder/vectors, gpt-5.6-luna, deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash · 711 embedded
critique: $0.0035 · 49,288 in / 1,506 out · 2,036 cached (4%) · gpt-5.6-luna, deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
security: $0.0029 · 41,466 in / 1,632 out · 1,792 cached (4%) · gpt-5.6-luna

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@tinysweeper tinysweeper Bot added the priority: p1 Next. Wrong behaviour a user will hit, or a security weakness behind a condition. label Sep 28, 2026
…he unary path

text_dialect_markup_only_in_fenced_code skipped text-call recovery entirely
when every <tool_call line sat inside a ``` fence. It ran only on the
unary/batch path; the stream scrubber already applies tinytools-agent's
protected ranges, which protect language-tagged fences (quoted examples)
and deliberately leave bare fences parseable (small models wrap real calls
in them). The same bare-fenced call was therefore dispatched when streamed
and dropped when not.

Remove the guard so both paths use tinytools' one policy. The I-2 unit test
now quotes its example under a ```xml fence, which tinytools protects.

Refs tinyhumansai/openhuman#6732
…partial stop

The one-call cap used the default Error behaviour and the run's result was
discarded, so a failed run could still pass on the dispatch count. Stop
with partial output and require Ok.

Refs tinyhumansai/openhuman#6732
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Requesting changes: 1 lane(s) blocking, worst finding is high.

Fix or reply to the findings below and push. The next review clears this automatically once they are gone — you should not need to dismiss anything by hand.

             $0.0218 · 189,412 in / 15,011 out · 9,686 cached (5%) · ladder/vectors, gpt-5.6-luna, deepseek-v4-flash · 711 embedded
critique:    $0.0125 · 93,888 in  / 4,613 out  · 6,105 cached (7%) · gpt-5.6-luna, deepseek-v4-flash
security:    $0.0084 · 62,331 in  / 1,850 out  · 3,581 cached (6%) · gpt-5.6-luna
tests:       $0.0004 · 15,362 in  / 3,019 out  · 0 cached (0%)     · deepseek-v4-flash
description: $0.0002 · 7,037 in   / 3,033 out  · 0 cached (0%)     · deepseek-v4-flash

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