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Wes
f716eef437 fix(desktop): enforce shared agent access across devices (#6086)
## Summary

- discover shared managed agents from authenticated relay directory
records instead of treating channel membership as sufficient proof
- publish and refresh access-policy changes immediately so running
clients converge across machines without a restart or five-minute poll
- route profile edits through the exact managed instance and
stop/restart runtimes around access changes so unrelated edits cannot
silently widen access
- keep mention send-time revalidation and Block owner-only build
enforcement fail closed
- explain invalid custom provider/model configuration instead of leaving
Save silently disabled

### Related issue

Fixes #3204

### Known residuals

- a brand-new remote agent's first policy record can wait for the
bounded directory poll when no authenticated directory coordinate exists
yet; send-time mention revalidation remains fail closed
- a failed remote-provider policy redeploy is recorded but cannot
undeploy the older provider instance until the provider protocol gains
the destructor tracked by #5570

### Testing

- full Desktop unit suite: 4,961 tests passed
- focused profile editor Playwright workflow passed, including Customize
access edits and prompt-only edits after tightening an instance
- Desktop TypeScript, Biome formatting, file-size ratchet, Tauri checks,
and pre-push suites passed
- independently reviewed for authenticated directory trust, live
subscription teardown, runtime revocation ordering, fail-open edit
paths, and per-agent provider deployment serialization

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Signed-off-by: Wes <wesbillman@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Brain <21994759fc7a6fa6b965551d35cfd7897d262f2495467f2d78694ddcfa6a5c7e@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: diegorumo <diegorumo@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Carl <c7ebe626f000404285d3686e1dc74cc07cc60a9754a150041ba132e14bd3e2ec@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Brain <21994759fc7a6fa6b965551d35cfd7897d262f2495467f2d78694ddcfa6a5c7e@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
2026-08-17 09:51:00 -07:00
David Hamilton
7fb008f934 fix(desktop): explain open agent access (#2561)
## Why

Hack-day feedback exposed a dangerous mismatch between the UI and the
underlying access model. The `Anyone` respond-to mode appeared as a
neutral dropdown choice, while a Buzz agent may act with the files,
accounts, and tools available on the machine where it runs.

People reasonably read this as sharing a bot in a channel. The current
UI did not explain that it can also share the agent's available access.

## What

- Reframes `respond-to` as **agent access** in user-facing UI.
- Uses plain audience labels: **Only me**, **Anyone**, and **Selected
people**.
- Warns for **both** sharing modes, not just `Anyone` — `Selected
people` also hands host access to someone other than the owner, so only
the audience phrase differs:
> Anyone can use this agent to access your computer, including files,
accounts, and connected tools.

> Selected people can use this agent to access your computer, including
files, accounts, and connected tools.
- Names the machine the agent actually runs on. A provider-backed
(remote) agent reads:
> Anyone can use this agent to access the server it runs on, including
any accounts and tools available there.

The remote wording deliberately omits the owner's files — those aren't
theirs to describe on a host they don't own.
- Places the warning below the selector for `Anyone`, but **after** the
people picker for `Selected people`, so it never sits between the user
and the selection they came to make.
- Removes Nostr, harness, pubkey, and `!shutdown` jargon from the
primary decision copy. Direct pubkey entry remains available as an
advanced path.
- Replaces the green open-access avatar dot with an amber warning marker
and accessible text. Selected access uses a separate blue status.
- Aligns the sidebar action and profile field with the same language.
- Records the shared-field disclosure contract in
`desktop/src/features/agents/AGENTS.md` so future surfaces do not
silently omit it.

## Design decisions

**Persistent inline warning, not a confirmation modal.** The setting
does not autosave; the consequence remains visible beside the selection
until the person chooses **Save access**. This gives the information
before commitment without adding a dismiss-and-confirm ritual that would
repeat in every create/edit surface.

**An unknown run location falls back to the local wording.** It does not
hedge with "computer or server". A remote host requires an installed
`buzz-backend-*` provider, and without one `WhereToRunSection` never
renders — so "server" would name a concept the owner has never been
shown. When it *is* remote, they picked that host from the selector
themselves. Surfaces never synthesize a run location they don't have.

**One resolution site, published through context.** `AgentDialog`
resolves the run location (`runLocationForBackend` from
`ManagedAgent.backend`, `runLocationForRunOn` from the create flow's
`WhereToRunDraft`) and publishes it via `AgentRunLocationContext`. It is
not threaded as a prop through `AgentDefinitionDialog` (1047 lines) or
`AgentInstanceEditDialog` (1228 lines) — neither uses the value, and
both are already over the file-size ceiling. Surfaces outside that tree
(`EditRespondToDialog`) pass the prop directly.

The copy follows the writing system's guidance for high-sensitivity
decisions: lead with the material consequence, use plain actor/action
language, keep helper text adjacent and persistent, and never rely on
color alone.

## Scope

Desktop only. The web and mobile clients do not currently expose this
setting. No protocol, gate, runtime, persistence, or backend behavior
changes.

This does not add team-scoped remote agents. It makes the current
local-or-remote access model honest while that product work remains
separate.

## Validation

- `pnpm exec biome check` and `pnpm exec tsc --noEmit` — clean
- `lib/agentAccessWarning.test.mjs` (8/8) — every mode × run-location
copy variant, both resolvers, unknown-reads-as-local, blank `runOn` is
not a provider
- `ui/respondToFieldContract.test.mjs` (8/8) — plain labels, both
warning positions, source-order guard that the `allowlist` warning
follows the picker, helper-not-inline-copy guard
- `agent-access-warning.spec.ts` (3/3) — native local, provider-backed
remote (asserts the server sentence and *not* "your computer"),
persona-backed edit; includes a bounding-box check that the `Selected
people` warning renders below the picker

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Signed-off-by: David Hamilton <daveh@squareup.com>
Signed-off-by: Clay Delk <clay.delk@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Clay Delk <clay.delk@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 13:32:40 +00:00