fix(crafter): mark AI coding sessions redacted whenever the secret scan runs

[migmartri]

The crafter set chainloop.material.redacted=true on an AI coding session only when the secret scan replaced at least one secret. A session the scan found clean carried no redaction annotation, so it looked the same as a session that was never scanned (older CLIs). Policies could not trust the scan verdict and fell back to their own, cruder detection.

chainloop.material.redacted=true now means "this content went through redaction":

• Whenever the scan runs, the material is annotated chainloop.material.redacted=true and chainloop.material.redaction.count=<n>, including 0 for a clean scan. redaction.rules is only set when something was replaced.
• The scanned bytes are handed to policy evaluation in the clean case too, so the fail-closed check in GetEvaluableContent (which rejects a redacted material with no content) does not trip.
• The stored content is only substituted when something was replaced, so a clean session's digest still matches its source file.
• --skip-secret-redaction keeps its current meaning (redaction.skipped=true, no redacted annotation).
• policy devel eval follows the same behavior, since it uses the same crafter output.

Testing: the crafter redaction test table covers secrets redacted, a clean scan and --skip-secret-redaction; a new end-to-end crafter test checks that a clean session is annotated, keeps its digest and is evaluated without violations; a new policy devel eval test checks the clean-scan annotations reach the policy input.

Closes #3578

This change was made with AI assistance (Claude Code).

🤖 Posted by Maximus bot (Claude Code) on behalf of @migmartri using the eng-autopilot skill

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PR validation — ✅ 3 passing

Status	Policy	Material	Messages
✅ Passed	pr-min-approvals	pr-info	-
✅ Passed	pr-description-required	pr-info	-
✅ Passed	pr-user-story-linked	pr-info	-

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AI Session Checks — 🟢 89% · ⚠️ 1 failing

Avg score	Sessions	Failing policies	Attribution	Files	Lines	Total Duration
🟢 89%	1	⚠️ 1	100% AI / 0% Human	8	+154 / -80	21m25s

🟢 89% — 100% AI — ⚠️ 1 policies failing

Oct 8, 2026 22:08 UTC · 21m25s · $9.76 · 330 in / 100.5k out · claude-code 2.1.295 (claude-opus-5-5)

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Change Summary

• Changes AI session redaction so clean scans still mark materials as redacted with count 0 while keeping clean-session digests unchanged.
• Updates policy-evaluation handling so clean scanned bytes are available without tripping fail-closed behavior.
• Adds and adjusts crafter, policy-eval, and redaction tests, then applies a small CI-driven constant cleanup in the redaction test.

AI Session Overall Score

🟢 89% — Well-scoped, well-verified implementation; main gap was missing visible planning for a multi-file change.

AI Session Analysis Breakdown

🟢 94% · user-trust-signal

No notes.

🟢 92% · alignment

🟡 The AI switched pushes from origin to upstream after discovering origin was a stale fork. · Low Severity

🟢 90% · solution-quality

No notes.

🟢 89% · verification

🟢 Targeted tests failed first, then passed after the implementation landed. · High Impact

🟡 No explicit human confirmation of end-to-end behavior appears after the automated test runs. · Low Severity

🟢 88% · scope-discipline

🟢 Observed edits stayed centered on the named crafter, policy, and test files. · High Impact

🟡 72% · context-and-planning

🟢 The opening request supplied detailed constraints, workflow, and acceptance criteria. · High Impact

🟠 The multi-file change started without a visible plan, TODO list, or clarifying checkpoint. · Medium Severity

💡 When behavior, tests, and workflow all move together, land a short plan before editing so follow-ups inherit the same structure.

Missing criteria: code.diff.stat was unavailable, so diff-grounded judges relied on session and tool-call evidence.

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File Attribution

████████████████████ 100% AI / 0% Human

Status	Attribution	File	Lines
modified	ai	pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/chainloop_ai_coding_session_redaction_test.go	+44 / -44
modified	ai	app/cli/internal/policydevel/eval_test.go	+34 / -4
modified	ai	pkg/attestation/crafter/crafter_test.go	+38 / -0
modified	ai	pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/chainloop_ai_coding_session.go	+14 / -11
modified	ai	pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/materials.go	+10 / -10
modified	ai	pkg/attestation/crafter/api/attestation/v1/crafting_state.go	+9 / -7
modified	ai	pkg/attestation/crafter/crafter.go	+3 / -3
modified	ai	app/cli/internal/policydevel/eval.go	+2 / -1

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Policies (4, 1 failing)

Status	Policy	Material	Messages
✅ Passed	ai-config-ai-agents-allowed	ai-coding-session-73d088	-
✅ Passed	ai-config-no-dangerous-commands	ai-coding-session-73d088	-
⚠️ Failed	ai-config-no-secrets	ai-coding-session-73d088	Secret (aws-access-token) detected in session content [turn=13, source=tool_result, line=313]: 313 assert.Contains(t, string(stored), "[CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:aws-access-token]") Secret (aws-access-token) detected in session content [turn=13, source=tool_result, line=313]: assert.Contains(t, string(stored), "[CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:aws-access-token]") Secret (aws-access-token) detected in session content [turn=13, source=tool_result, line=314]: assert.Contains(t, string(stored), "[CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:aws-access-token]") Secret (aws-access-token) detected in session content [turn=140, source=tool_result, line=297]: assert.Contains(t, string(content), "[CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:aws-access-token]") Secret (aws-access-token) detected in session content [turn=140, source=tool_result, line=302]: assert.Contains(t, string(stored), "[CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:aws-access-token]") Secret (aws-access-token) detected in session content [turn=193, source=assistant-tool_use:Bash, line=42]: assert.Contains(t, string(content), "[CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:aws-access-token]") Secret (aws-access-token) detected in session content [turn=193, source=assistant-tool_use:Bash, line=47]: assert.Contains(t, string(stored), "[CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:aws-access-token]") Secret (aws-access-token) detected in session content [turn=36, source=tool_result, line=134]: assert.Contains(t, string(content), "[CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:aws-access-token]") Secret (aws-access-token) detected in session content [turn=36, source=tool_result, line=139]: assert.Contains(t, string(stored), "[CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:aws-access-token]") Secret (aws-access-token) detected in session content [turn=469, source=tool_result, line=118]: 313 assert.Contains(t, string(content), "[CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:aws-access-token]") Secret (aws-access-token) detected in session content [turn=469, source=tool_result, line=123]: 318 assert.Contains(t, string(stored), "[CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED:aws-access-token]") Secret (aws-access-token) detected in session content [turn=473, source=assistant-tool_use:Edit, line=1]: {"file_path":"/home/migmartri/work/chainloop/chainloop/.claude/worktrees/impl-pfm-7669-mark-redacted-clean-scan/pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/chainloop_ai_coding_session_redaction_test.go","new_st... Secret (generic-password) detected in session content [turn=53, source=tool_result, line=1]: {"id":"PFM-7669","uuid":"55393581-00b1-40bf-b277-13772ed1b3e3","title":"redaction: mark AI coding sessions as redacted whenever the scan runs, not only when secrets were replaced","description":"## Pr... Secret (unknown rule) detected in session content [turn=140, source=tool_result, line=45]: redacted = {"original":"[CHAINLOOP_TRACE_REDACTED]"} Secret (…) detected in session content [turn=53, source=tool_result, line=1]: {"id":"PFM-7669","uuid":"55393581-00b1-40bf-b277-13772ed1b3e3","title":"redaction: mark AI coding sessions as redacted whenever the scan runs, not only when secrets were replaced","description":"## Pr...
✅ Passed	ai-config-mcp-servers-allowed	ai-coding-session-73d088	-

Security Checks — ✅ 5 passing

✅ secret-scan

Status	Policy	Messages
✅ Passed	secrets-detection	-

✅ sast-scan

Status	Policy	Messages
✅ Passed	owasp-top10-2025	-
✅ Passed	sast	-
✅ Passed	cwe-top25	-
✅ Passed	cwe-top26-40-cusp	-

Scans not applied (3)

Scan	Reason
vulnerability-scan	no manifest/lockfile changed
github-actions-scan	no workflow files changed
iac-scan	no IaC files changed

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Security context

[3 files with past security fixes] Keep these rules in place. They come from 1 past fix in this repository.

 pkg/attestation/crafter/api/attestation/v1/crafting_state.go ▶

Policies must evaluate exactly the bytes Chainloop stored for a material; for redacted materials they must never fall back to the unredacted file on disk, and absence of the sanitized bytes must be an error.

 pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/chainloop_ai_coding_session.go ▶

Policies must evaluate exactly the bytes Chainloop stored for a material; for redacted materials they must never fall back to the unredacted file on disk, and absence of the sanitized bytes must be an error.

 pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/materials.go ▶

Policies must evaluate exactly the bytes Chainloop stored for a material; for redacted materials they must never fall back to the unredacted file on disk, and absence of the sanitized bytes must be an error.

Past fixes (1)

 39176e8 · CWE-201

39176e8 fixes a real information-disclosure flaw where AI coding session materials were uploaded or inlined with embedded secrets intact.
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BEGIN CONTEXT
pkg/attestation/crafter/api/attestation/v1/crafting_state.go - 1 past fix, peak severity high
  must hold: Policies must evaluate exactly the bytes Chainloop stored for a material; for
    redacted materials they must never fall back to the unredacted file on disk, and absence
    of the sanitized bytes must be an error.
  also enforced at: 6 other entry points
  grep for: AnnotationMaterialRedacted, ErrRedactedContentRequired

pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/chainloop_ai_coding_session.go - 1 past fix, peak severity high
  must hold: Policies must evaluate exactly the bytes Chainloop stored for a material; for
    redacted materials they must never fall back to the unredacted file on disk, and absence
    of the sanitized bytes must be an error.
  also enforced at: 6 other entry points
  grep for: AnnotationMaterialRedacted, ErrRedactedContentRequired

pkg/attestation/crafter/materials/materials.go - 1 past fix, peak severity high
  must hold: Policies must evaluate exactly the bytes Chainloop stored for a material; for
    redacted materials they must never fall back to the unredacted file on disk, and absence
    of the sanitized bytes must be an error.
  also enforced at: 6 other entry points
  grep for: AnnotationMaterialRedacted, ErrRedactedContentRequired
END CONTEXT

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