Review fixes (ds-review-bot on #623): - overrideOf (both knobs) rejects a seedLength past the log end before slicing: a malformed durable boundary would otherwise empty the own-switch slice until the log outgrew it, letting a wide baseline shadow a REAL later tightening. Malformed durable metadata fails loud, never open. - The session-query derived index carries the two baseline fields end to end: schema columns on both session tables (SESSION_QUERY_SQLITE_SCHEMA _VERSION 6 — derived, rebuilds in place), inserts, header selects, the candidates CTE, rowHeader, sameHeader, and the cross-source assertSessionHeadersCompatible — so a search hit's header keeps the child's inherited confinement and conflicting live/persisted baselines reject. Red-first: out-of-range seedLength tests in both policy suites; baseline round-trip and live/persisted baseline-conflict tests in the session-query sqlite suite.
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Channel-neutral one-shot approval seam. ctx.approval.request(req) returns allowed-once, rejected, cancelled, or unavailable; missing or failing answerers fail closed, and a grant applies only to the requested action. Exact event signatures live in the generated Cordis catalog.
Each request must belong to an open agent turn. The service appends a paired approval/asked and approval/decided audit record, while the model sees only the resulting logged tool outcome. An aborted request resolves cancelled; an audit append that fails before commit rejects rather than returning an unlogged decision.
Answerers are approval/request waterfall listeners. Return an outcome to answer for an owned agent or call next() to delegate. Agent-scoped listeners receive only that agent's requests; compose one terminal answerer per deployment because sibling listener order is not a policy priority mechanism. The ACP automation bridge supplies one-shot machine decisions for sessions it owns.
ApprovalPolicy is 'ask' or 'never'. The effective value is the last approval/policy event, falling back to config; setApprovalPolicy() is the write path. 'never' rejects before interactive dispatch and is the only policy stated in the prompt. Switches produce at most one coalesced notice, attributed to the user when the override follows the last request/header and to operator/config otherwise. ctx.approval.overrideOf(session) (the pure approvalOverrideOf export, also consumed by the permission presets) resolves the session's override chain, never the configured default: with an inherited approvalPolicy header baseline (a delegation child), the fold of the session's OWN switches past SessionHeader.seedLength, else the baseline, validated against the closed vocabulary on read; without one (a top-level session or a generic SessionStore.fork child), the whole-log fold, so a seed-carried 'never' survives; the in-process subagent driver captures this at delegation and writes it into each child's creation-time header, so a 'never' parent cannot mint prompting children, with no first-turn timing window (rationale).
The tools pipeline routes ask decisions through this seam and fails closed when it is absent; the sandboxed bash tool also uses it for escalated retries. The ACP automation bridge answers calls for its own agents through the client's machine policy. Audit events remain log-only, so the model sees only the asking consumer's result. See the approval-seam Agent Note and sandbox Agent Note.
Model Experience
System prompt and policy notice
What the model sees
Under ask, every agent request carries the ask-policy prompt section below. Under never, it carries the never-policy prompt section below. A policy switch injects exactly The approval policy changed from "<old>" to "<new>" (changed by the user). or The approval policy changed from "<old>" to "<new>" (changed by the operator/config). before the next step.
Ask-policy prompt section
<!-- dsh-user-approval-policy:ask -->
Never-policy prompt section
Approval prompts are disabled in this session: actions that require approval are rejected automatically — do not request sandbox escalation (do not set `sandbox_permissions`).
<!-- dsh-user-approval-policy:never -->
Token effect
Small fixed per-request cost, larger under never; a change notice is conditional and retained in history.
KV Cache effect
Prefix-stable while the approval policy is unchanged. An ask/never switch changes the system-prompt section and invalidates reuse from its first changed token; the accompanying notice is append-only.
Tool outcome
What the model sees
approval/asked and approval/decided are log-only. The model sees only the asking consumer's eventual allowed, rejected, cancelled, or unavailable tool outcome; the human permission UI is not context.
Token effect
Zero duplicate audit tokens. A rejection may replace a normal tool result with a small retained error, while an allowance leaves the consumer's ordinary result.
KV Cache effect
Append-only; newly visible content follows the reusable request prefix and does not invalidate existing KV-cache entries.
Known Limitations and Deferred Work
- Requests are valid only inside an open turn — an idle or between-turn caller throws before auditing; a durable out-of-turn approval workflow is deferred.
- Only one-shot grants exist — the outcome vocabulary has
allowed-oncebut noallow-always, remembered rule, revocation, or grant store; session policy is onlyask/never. - The request carries no tool arguments — an answerer sees the tool name, reason, and optional call id; the ACP machine channel requires a call id and delegates requests without one.
- No built-in answerer — headless or incompletely composed deployments resolve
unavailableand fail closed; the service itself never prompts a human.