vm: add run/gatekeeper-check.sh, a clean-room Gatekeeper assessment - #358
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Proves one claim for any signed, notarized, stapled app: a first-ever launch on a machine that has never seen it shows no Gatekeeper warning. walkthrough.sh cannot answer this for a non-mattstack app, and spctl alone does not answer it at all. Stapling is asserted on the host because the golden has no CLT, so an unstapled build would otherwise pass inside the VM whenever the guest can reach Apple. The quarantine xattr is asserted twice, at stamp time and again on the destination copy, since the second is what the launch assessment reads. A warning is identified as a CoreServicesUIAgent window rather than by reading pixels, behind a positive control: an absent dialog and an unreachable System Events both read as no windows, so the phase would otherwise pass whenever Accessibility is missing. The copy is Finder's, not ditto's, so the quarantine is marked user-approved and the launch does not translocate; a privilege error fails loudly rather than falling back. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@rt-tray/vm/run/gatekeeper-check.sh`:
- Around line 23-26: Update the option parsing in gatekeeper-check.sh to
validate that --dmg, --app, --ver, and --dest each have a non-empty value before
shifting arguments. Add and use a shared need_val helper that calls vm_die with
the option-specific diagnostic when validation fails, then preserve the existing
assignments and shift behavior for valid inputs.
- Around line 66-70: Update the cleanup function and DMG mount flow to track
HOST_MNT from creation through EXIT cleanup: initialize it before cleanup is
registered, detach the mounted image and remove the temporary directory there,
then clear HOST_MNT. Remove the later reset that would prevent cleanup from
seeing the mount, while preserving the existing host checks and failure
behavior.
- Around line 73-208: Use the installed bundle path to detect a successful
launch rather than assuming the app name equals the executable name. Read
CFBundleExecutable from the source bundle after APP_NAME is set, retain a
fallback name, and update the launch loop’s guest-side process check to match
"$DEST_APP/Contents/MacOS/" with pgrep -f; replace the PROC-based check while
preserving the existing RUNNING behavior.
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…errors Three review findings, two of them rules this repo already learned once. The host dmg mount was only detached on the happy path, so any vm_die between attach and the preflight gates leaked it and the next run's mount would land at "<name> 1". It is now tracked from attach time and torn down in the EXIT trap, verified against a throwaway dmg driven into the leak path. The launch check used pgrep -x on the bundle name, which misses whenever CFBundleExecutable differs and reports "never started" for a launch that worked. It now reads CFBundleExecutable and matches with pgrep -f anchored to the installed bundle's own MacOS directory, so a bare bundle-path substring cannot catch unrelated processes either. A value-less --dmg/--app/--ver/--dest made shift 2 fail and set -e exit with no message at all; each now names the option. Also guards vm_render_report on the ledger existing: a vm_die before the first phase ends left no phases.jsonl, and rendering then buried the real error under a missing-file complaint. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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All three findings applied in 70dd7a6, none disputed. Two of them are rules this repo already learned once, in the update-machine review: detach in every post-attach path, and anchor pgrep rather than guessing a process name. Host mount leak. Real. The detach only sat on the happy path, so any Guessed process name. Real, and the worst of the three because it fails wrong rather than loudly. Value-less flags. Real. One more found while testing the above, not in the review: a Re-verified after the fixes: Unchanged from the original body: nothing that boots a VM has been run. That is still the gap, and the Finder duplicate to |
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rt-tray/vm/run/gatekeeper-check.sh: a clean-room Gatekeeper assessment for any signed, notarized, stapled app.Why
walkthrough.shis mattstack-shaped end to end (five setup screens, team repo,rt verify), so it cannot answer "does this other app open with no warning on a machine that has never seen it".spctl --assesson its own answers a weaker question: it does not tell you what a human sees on a double-click.What it proves, and what it does not
One claim only: a first-ever launch on a guest that has never seen the app, or the developer, shows no Gatekeeper warning. It proves nothing about the app working. The golden has no brew, no CLT and nothing preinstalled, so anything the app shells out to will be missing, and the run's own final line says so.
Three things worth reviewing
Stapling is asserted on the host, not in the guest. The golden has no CLT to run
stapler. An unstapled build still passes inside the VM whenever the guest can reach Apple, which is a weaker claim than this run makes, so the host gate (codesign --verify,spctl --assess,xcrun stapler validate) runs before any VM boots.The quarantine xattr is asserted twice and both are hard fails, at stamp time and again on the destination copy after the Finder copy. The second is the one the launch assessment actually reads. The existing clean-room layer's documented behaviour of passing while printing "Gatekeeper path NOT exercised" is the shape being avoided here.
A warning is identified by owning process, behind a positive control. A Gatekeeper warning is a
CoreServicesUIAgentwindow; an admin prompt isSecurityAgent. Screenshots are evidence, not the assertion. The control matters: an absent dialog and an unreachable System Events both read as "no windows", so without it the phase would pass whenever Accessibility is not granted in the guest. The phase hard-fails if a known-good query comes back empty.Also: the copy is Finder's rather than
ditto's, so the quarantine is marked user-approved and the launch does not translocate. A privilege error fails loudly and names--destas the remedy rather than falling back toditto, which would translocate and quietly answer a different question.The golden-image guard uses
awk, notgrep -q. Underset -euo pipefail,grep -qexits on its first match, SIGPIPEs the producer, and the pipeline returns 141, inverting the guard exactly when the match is found. Four existing sites in this repo have the same shape (scripts/release/marketplace.sh:116,run/walkthrough.sh:88,run/xcuitest.sh:16,golden/build-golden.sh:23); all four were verified still returning 0 on their real inputs, so they are latent and deliberately not touched here. They are scheduled to ride the next release.Verification
bash rt-tray/vm/check-vm-scripts.sh: all vm checks ok (therun/*.shglob covers the new file'sbash -n)bash scripts/repo-purity.sh: ok--dry-runand--helpexercised against the in-repo copyNot verified: any path that boots a VM. This has never been run against a real guest. Preflight and the dry-run orchestrator are the only paths with evidence behind them; the Finder duplicate to
/Applicationsas a standard user is the most likely place a first live run finds a wrinkle.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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