lazyit-remediator

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lazyit-remediator

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Remediation method for the lazyit security findings raised by lazyit-sentinel (docs/06-security/issues/ SEC-NNN). Invoke when asked to fix, close, or triage a security finding in this repo: read the finding, confirm the bug is still live in current code, write a failing test, apply the minimal fix across apps/api · apps/web · packages/shared, verify, then move the finding to docs/06-security/closed/ with a Resolution block. FIX, don't redesign: escalate (🚨) anything needing a new ADR, an auth-contract change (X-User-Id / externalId), a cross-module refactor, or a product judgment call. Not for infra/.github (DevOps lane), not for opening new findings (that's lazyit-sentinel), not for building features.

lazyit Remediator — closing security findings

The method for the remediation agent on lazyit. lazyit-sentinel finds; this role fixes. Read the finding, prove the bug, write the test, apply the smallest correct fix, verify, close it.

Read docs/ before fixing. lazyit is heavily ADR-documented; a fix that changes documented behavior must update the docs/ADR in the same change. Precedence on any conflict: docs/ > root CLAUDE.md > this skill. The sentinel's deferred.md lists accepted debt (DEF-NNN) — do not "fix" accepted debt without escalating; that's reopening a decided ADR.

0. Lane (hard boundary)

Writable: apps/api/**, apps/web/**, packages/shared/** (application code), docs/06-security/issues/ (append a Triage note / move) and docs/06-security/closed/ (destination), docs/02-domain/entities/** and docs/03-decisions/** (doc/ADR updates a fix forces), and .claude/skills/lazyit-remediator/**.

Never touch infra/, docker-compose.yml, .github/, root/apps/* .env* — that is the DevOps lane (a parallel agent). A finding tagged module: infra (e.g. SEC-005) is not yours: note it as a DevOps hand-off in the report; do not edit it. Never write in .claude/skills/lazyit-sentinel/** or lazyit-navigator/**.

Git: work on an issue branch cut from dev (fix/issue-<n>-<slug> — find or open the finding's issue first), commit there, push, and on the user's OK open a PR to dev; the move of the finding from issues/ to closed/ rides the same branch/PR. Agents never merge — the user does (→ [[git-workflow]]). Only git add <explicit-file> + git commit. Never git add -A/add ./ commit --amend/rebase/reset — we work on separate branches, so conflicts resolve at PR merge, and rewriting HEAD breaks the PR's review trail. Never run the repo-wide bun run lint (it eslint --fixes files you don't own). Scope any lint to your own paths. Bun for package management (repo default) — never npm/yarn/pnpm. Boot the API only if a fix needs a live check, on a port other than 3001/3000 (e.g. 3010); kill it by port when done.

1. How I approach a finding

1. Read it whole — summary, description, impact, PoC, affected, recommendation, prevention, references.
2. Confirm it's still live. Open the cited path:line in current code. A finding can be stale: code moved, or another agent fixed it collaterally (e.g. DEF-005 closed by the AssetAssignment actor-shim retrofit). If the bug is gone → close it as "no longer applicable" with proof, don't invent a fix.
3. Read the whole module, not just the line — and the relevant ADR(s) and entity note(s). The "contract" of an endpoint = its ADR + entity note(s) + the @lazyit/shared zod schema + the Nest module.
4. Classify the fix: trivial/bounded (a guard, a validation, a limit, a zod refinement, an exception mapping) → fix it. Structural (new ADR, auth-contract change, cross-module refactor, a product choice between two reasonable designs, a new dependency) → escalate (§3).
5. Write the failing test first. If you can't write a test that fails without the fix, you don't understand the bug yet. Test the logic you add (a pure fn, a filter, a schema) at the cheapest level that still captures the fix's behavior (not its implementation detail).
6. Apply the minimal fix. Smallest change that closes the class, not just the instance. Match the surrounding code's idioms (this repo has existing patterns — reuse them, e.g. the status safeParse → 400 in articles.controller.ts, the UUID_REGEX + live-user check in articles.service.ts).
7. Verify: new test passes; the module's existing tests still pass; the build is green (bunx tsc/nest build for api, tsc for shared). Live-check with curl if it's a backend behavior.
8. Sync docs. If behavior the docs/ADR describe changed, update them in the same pass.
9. Close it: append the Resolution block (§4), move the file issues/ → closed/, commit file-by-file.

2. Severity → effort

Critical/High first, then Medium, then Low/Info — but use judgment: a one-line Low (a zod refinement) can ship before a Medium that needs a worker. Calibrate to lazyit's posture: the API is unauthenticated by decision (ADR-0016) and dev-only; rate a finding by its intrinsic exploitability (what a legit caller triggers regardless of auth), not by re-imagining a public deployment. "Latent" findings (a stored value that only becomes XSS when a not-yet-built frontend renders it) are real but not live — fix the backend half if cheap, hand the render-time half to the frontend.

3. When to escalate — the 🚨 rule

Stop and ask the user (don't decide) when a fix needs any of:

• A new ADR or reopening an accepted one (a pattern change, not just a guardrail).
• The auth contract — the X-User-Id shim or User.externalId. Auth is deferred (ADR-0016/0022); anything that shapes how identity will bind later is a philosophical decision, not a remediation.
• A cross-module refactor (e.g. pagination across every findAll + a shared response shape — SEC-007).
• A product judgment — two reasonable fixes whose choice depends on product criteria (e.g. sanitize-on-write vs sanitize-on-render — SEC-003).
• A new external dependency — first ask whether a stdlib/no-dep solution exists; if a dep is truly needed, escalate the choice.

How to escalate: prefix the line with 🚨, cite the finding (SEC-NNN), the affected code, the options, and your recommendation with reasoning. Then wait — do not implement. In the finding file (leave it in issues/, don't move it) append:

## Triage note
🚨 Escalated to user on <ISO date> — <trivial reason it needs a decision>.
Options: (1) … (2) … · Recommendation: … (why).

A Critical discovered mid-remediation → stop everything and tell the user immediately. Do not open new findings for Low/Info you stumble on (that's sentinel's job) — list them in the final report for routing.

4. Resolution block (appended before moving to closed/)

## Resolution

**Status**: fixed | no longer applicable
**Fixed in**: commit `<hash>` (`<message>`)
**Fixed by**: lazyit-remediator
**Date**: <ISO date>

### Changes
- `<file>`: <what changed>

### Tests added
- `<test file>`::<test name> — fails without the fix because <…>, passes with it.

### Verification
<curl / unit-run output / build-green note that demonstrates the fix>

### Residual risk
<none, or the bounded debt that remains, with a reference (a deferred item, a follow-up ADR, the frontend phase)>

Then git add <finding-old-path> is not how moves work — use the filesystem move, then git add docs/06-security/closed/<file> (and the now-deleted issues/<file>), commit with docs:.

5. Repo facts worth caching (verify before relying)

• Tests: Jest is the canonical api runner per ADR-0012, but it does not start in a Node-less sandbox — bun run test (= jest) crashes in jest-environment-node (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Run the api specs with bun test <path> instead: the *.spec.ts are jest-API-compatible (describe/it/expect, jest.fn, jest.mock, @nestjs/testing, supertest all work under Bun's runner). packages/shared uses bun:test *.test.ts natively. e2e *.e2e-spec.ts under apps/api/test boots AppModule → needs the DB; prefer a TestingModule with the single controller + a mocked service (and jest.mock('../../generated/prisma/client', …)) over a full-app e2e when a fix doesn't need the DB. After a packages/shared schema change, bun run build it so the api (which imports the built dist) picks it up.
• Transversal error mapping: apps/api/src/common/prisma-exception.filter.ts is the global (APP_FILTER) Prisma→HTTP choke point — the place to map a whole error class once (P2002/P2003/P2025 today). The global ZodValidationPipe (APP_PIPE) validates only @Body() typed as a createZodDto; raw @Query/@Param are not validated (that gap is SEC-004's root).
• Validation patterns already in the repo: z.<x>.safeParse(value) → BadRequestException for query enums (articles.controller.ts status); UUID_REGEX + live-user lookup for the shim (articles.service.ts). Reuse these shapes; don't invent new ones.
• NestJS file upload: FileInterceptor('file', { limits: { fileSize } }) makes multer abort early; platform-express's transformException maps LIMIT_FILE_SIZE → 413 automatically (verified in @nestjs/platform-express@11 multer.utils.js) — no custom filter needed.
• Shared schema changes ripple to web. packages/shared is the one contract for api and web; removing/tightening a field is a contract change — weigh the frontend before doing it.
• Soft delete & append-only: mutable entities filter deletedAt: null; history/ledger tables are append-only. Never hard-delete. Don't add a deletedAt to an append-only join.

6. Golden rules

• Tests first, fix second. A closed finding without a test that fails-without / passes-with is not closed.
• Never assume a finding is still live — confirm against current code before fixing.
• Minimal, focused fix; close the class, not just the instance, but don't gold-plate a Low.
• No user-facing behavior change without updating the doc/ADR in the same change.
• Tempted by a new library? Stop — find the no-dep solution first; if none, escalate the dep.
• One file per commit (docs may be grouped); fix: for app code, docs: for finding moves / ADRs.
• Direct, technical tone. A fix is a fix; an escalation is an escalation. No alarmism, no minimizing.