Expanded the cross-implementation suite from 19 to 30 checks so every
feature is exercised against the other implementation, not just the ones
that were convenient:
G edits (modify / archive / links) made by either side are seen by the other
H deterministic conflict merge produces byte-identical output on both sides
I an Argon2id-protected Python profile unlocks in TS
J the encrypted config file interoperates both directions
Entry coverage in phases A/B now spans every creatable kind, including a
policy-constrained password and an imported (non-deterministic) TOTP.
Two real bugs this surfaced, both fixed:
- Password entries carrying a `policy` block derived the WRONG password in
TS. Python's _generate_password_for_entry merges the entry's overrides
onto the base policy before deriving; TS ignored the block entirely, so
any entry created with policy flags produced a different password.
core now exposes passwordPolicyFromRecord and the CLI applies it.
- TS could not read a Python-written config file: Python wraps it in the
kdf/ct JSON envelope (same class as the snapshot bug fixed last commit).
loadConfig now parses the envelope; regression test included.
One behavioral divergence found and deliberately NOT papered over:
Python generates TOTP codes with pyotp defaults (6 digits / 30s) even when
the entry records different values, so an imported 8-digit/45s secret
yields different codes in each implementation -- and Python's would be
rejected by the issuing service. The suite now reports it as a [DIVERGE]
line rather than a pass or a failure, and the matrix records it as awaiting
a product decision. TS behavior is believed correct.
173 core + 47 CLI tests green; 30/30 cross-implementation checks green
with 2 documented divergences.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Phase F starts the in-process NIP-01 relay, has the real Python NostrClient
publish a chunked snapshot to it, then restores that snapshot with the TS
CLI on a clean profile and checks the secrets survive.
It immediately caught a genuine restore bug: Python's index files wrap the
ciphertext in a kdf/ct JSON envelope, and a published snapshot carries
whatever the local file held. TS decrypted the fetched bytes directly, so
it failed on anything Python published -- invisible to the TS-only tests
because TS writes bare ciphertext. Restore (and delta replay) now parse the
wrapper first, exactly as decrypt_and_save_index_from_nostr does.
Regression test in relay.test.ts publishes a wrapper-format payload through
a live relay and restores it.
Cutover plan updated: gate 4 (sync protocol) now cites this end-to-end
evidence, and gate 5's remaining list drops SSH and migrations.
171 core + 46 CLI tests green; 19/19 cross-implementation checks green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
- core/derive/ssh.ts: BIP-85 app 32 entropy used directly as the Ed25519
private key, serialized as PKCS#8 and SubjectPublicKeyInfo PEM. Both DER
shapes are fixed for Ed25519, so they are emitted from literal prefixes
rather than adding an ASN.1 dependency to the crypto path.
- Output matches Python's `cryptography` byte-for-byte across two seeds and
three indices, including PEM line wrapping.
- CLI: `entry add ssh`, reveal (private key PEM), and `entry ssh-public`
which prints the public key without touching secret material. The
OpenSSH authorized_keys line is a TS-only convenience -- Python emits
only PEM, which ssh(1) cannot consume directly -- and is marked as such
in the compatibility matrix.
- Cross-impl phases A and B now include an ssh entry in both directions.
One harness fix: PEM values carry a trailing newline that the CLI capture
strips, so the cross-impl comparison normalizes trailing whitespace. The
unit tests still compare exactly.
170 core + 46 CLI tests green; 16/16 cross-implementation checks green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Fixtures show both implementations compute the same values. This adds the
missing half: proof they can read each other's on-disk profiles and
backups, using each side's real code paths.
scripts/cross_impl_check.py (12 checks, wired into CI):
A. Python creates a profile -> TS opens the index, derives every secret
identically, and unlocks it with the master password alone
B. TS creates a profile -> Python decrypts parent_seed.enc and the index,
recovers the same seed, derives the same secrets
C. Portable backups round-trip both directions (Python verifies the
checksum of a TS-written export)
D. Both implementations reject a bad-checksum mnemonic
Two real compatibility bugs it caught, both fixed:
- TS-created profiles were unopenable by Python. Python only honors the
recorded parent-seed KDF parameters when kdf.name is exactly "pbkdf2";
TS wrote "pbkdf2-sha256" with an empty salt and 100k iterations, so
Python fell back to its config defaults (200k, fingerprint salt) and
derived a different key. TS now writes exactly what
PasswordManager._build_seed_kdf_config does, and its own unlock path
honors the recorded salt and iteration count.
- TS accepted invalid BIP-39 mnemonics. Seed derivation takes any string,
so a typo'd phrase silently produced a *different* vault -- unopenable
by Python and unrecoverable by the user. Mnemonics are now validated
wherever they enter (profile creation and SEEDPASS_MNEMONIC), with an
error that says why it matters.
Also: docs/typescript_cutover_plan.md records the gate list for promoting
TS to main and retiring Python to legacy/reference -- P0 gates 1-4 are
green, 5-7 (feature parity tail, packaging, migration/rollback) are not.
The Python tree stays in CI after cutover as the compatibility oracle.
Regression tests for both bugs. 151 core + 46 CLI tests green,
12/12 cross-implementation checks green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Ran the full CLI surface against a freshly generated throwaway seed
(profile -> agent unlock -> all 8 entry kinds -> reveal/sinks -> tokens ->
audit -> backup -> relay sync -> seed-only recovery). Four defects that no
unit test had caught:
- clipboard sink hung the CLI forever. xclip/wl-copy fork a resident
process to own the X/Wayland selection; it inherited our stdio, so any
reader of the CLI's stdout blocked indefinitely, and waiting for process
exit never returned. Now detached with ignored stdio, success declared
once stdin is flushed.
- 'vault import' read the mnemonic straight from the env, so it failed
whenever the vault was unlocked through the agent -- the normal path.
- 'vault import' never wrote anything; it only printed a summary. It now
restores into the active vault, refuses to overwrite a non-empty vault
without --yes, and keeps the old behavior behind --inspect.
- A corrupt/foreign vault file surfaced the raw codec error "invalid token
encoding". It now names the actual likely causes.
Also documented the variadic-option limitation that a trailing flag is
lost (commander stops collecting at the next dash-prefixed token): a
quoted command spec now splits on whitespace, no shell involved.
Regression tests for all four. 151 core + 44 CLI tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
The section-9.3 permission model is now working code, enforced where the
keys live:
- Token model (aligned with the Python agent surface): bearer tokens with
read/use/reveal scopes, entry-kind and label-regex constraints, TTL and
use counts. Issued and held by the session agent — hash-stored, plaintext
shown exactly once at issuance; list/revoke commands.
- Token mode: with SEEDPASS_TOKEN set (and no mnemonic), the CLI reads the
decrypted index and materializes secrets AGENT-SIDE. The constrained
process never receives the mnemonic, and resolveMnemonic refuses owner
fallback in token mode — a token can never silently escalate (the test
suite caught exactly this hole and it is now closed).
- Denials are precise and audited: wrong scope, wrong kind, unmatched
label, expired, exhausted, revoked. Reads don't consume uses; secret
deliveries do.
- Audit chain in Python AuditLogger's scheme: sig = HMAC-SHA256(key_index,
prev_sig + canonical_payload), genesis 64 zeros, per-profile audit.log;
agent records unlocks, token lifecycle, index reads, deliveries and
denials (never secret values). audit-verify/audit-tail commands; a forged
record breaks the chain in tests.
- 151 core + 41 CLI tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
- core entryMod: modify_entry port with the per-kind allowed-field matrix,
policy merging, blacklisted-field cleanup and timestamp touching;
archive/restore; typed links (add/remove/get with Python's normalization,
dedupe on target/relation/note, self-link and missing-target refusal).
- Parity fixture entry_mods.json: the real Python EntryManager applies a
10-op modification sequence at a later pinned clock; TS replays the same
ops from the creation state and matches byte-for-byte.
- CLI: entry modify/archive/unarchive/links/link-add/link-remove,
entry totp-codes (explicit egress, honors --at and archived state),
util generate-password (Python parity: index 0 + gen v1 defaults, full
policy flags — v1/v2 outputs verified against password fixtures).
- capabilities: egress command list updated.
- 148 core parity tests (Node + jsdom) + 22 CLI tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
- core entryOps: add* functions for all creatable kinds rebuild the Python
EntryManager fixture index byte-for-byte under a pinned clock — field
shapes, id allocation, independent TOTP derivation-index allocation, and
Python's ISO timestamp format all verified.
- CLI 'entry add password/totp/key-value/document/seed/managed-account/
nostr': provision-blind — returns the reference and metadata, never the
secret the entry represents; tests assert the derived password / imported
secret / child mnemonic appear nowhere in provisioning output.
- Parity bug found and fixed by the new entry_secrets fixtures: nostr ENTRY
keys derive via the default BIP-85 app 39 path (EntryManager), not app
1237 (sync client identity); the CLI had used 1237. Reveal values for
password/TOTP/nostr/seed/managed-account now match Python retrieval.
- 129 core parity tests (Node + jsdom) + 16 CLI tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
- Portable backup (format_version 1): TS imports Python exports, re-exports
byte-identically under pinned nonce/timestamp, verifies the canonical
checksum, rejects tampering and unknown versions.
- .github/workflows/ts-parity.yml: typecheck + Node/jsdom parity suite on
js/ changes, plus a fixture-drift job that regenerates fixtures from
Python and fails if the committed ones don't match (manifest commit field
excluded by construction).
- packages/cli — seedpass-js MVP implementing plan section 9.3:
* reference-first output: entry list/get/search emit sp://entry/<id> refs
and metadata; secret-bearing fields become has_* flags
* 'entry reveal' is the only plaintext egress command
* 'use --clipboard|--exec|--stdin-to' delivers secrets to sinks; --exec
injects SEEDPASS_SECRET into the child env, never argv or stdout
* vault export/import over portable backups; capabilities --format json
* mnemonic comes from SEEDPASS_MNEMONIC env, never the command line
- CLI tests prove the blindness properties: derived password matches the v2
fixture, TOTP at pinned time, secrets absent from all default output and
from sink-delivery confirmations.
- 125 core parity tests (Node + jsdom) + 11 CLI tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
