A chat never uses a connection that the host picked for it. For an add-on
whose tools run with the token of a connection (such as GitHub):
- With one connection, it is selected. With several, the Tools menu row
of the add-on has a Connection selector, and until the person picks one
the tools are not offered and the row says so. With none, the row says
so and links to the Connectors page. The choice is stored with the chat
and its draft, like the other switches, and follows a fork, a
sub-agent and the runs of a trigger the chat proposed.
- A saved agent can name its connection per add-on (agent form field, API
field connections). Its chats use it, show it read only and cannot
change it. An agent with no choice follows the same rule as a chat. A
chat that a connector binding started keeps using that binding.
- CredentialFor takes the selected binding and uses only it, so the
resource list of that binding is the only one that applies. A call with
no selected binding is refused with the code select_connection and a
note the model can relay. The first-match code (connectors.Pick) is
removed.
- Tool results and proposal cards say which connection acted, for example
"as Work, repository acme/widgets". A proposal is applied with the
connection it was previewed with. The credential use is logged with the
binding ID.
Contract: the credential slot takes an optional resourceLabel (the word
for the resource in that line). The agent export file does not carry the
connections, since a binding ID belongs to one server.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 go gofmt ginkgo node playwright protoc swag
No release ever shipped add-ons, so there is no installed base on api 1.
The manifest must now declare api {"min": 2, "max": 2}; a manifest with
api 1, no api or a wider range is refused with a message that names the
range.
Every field that was gated on api 2 is now part of the contract, so the
Min*API constants and their gates are gone, and so are HostAPIMin and
the apiMin host field. Three older-manifest shims go with them: the
resource listing the host implied for one add-on, the legacyArgs hint
for arguments an older version of a tool took, and the tests that
checked the gates. All shipped manifests and the test fixtures declare
api 2.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 go test
A connection now has a write mode, chosen on the add-on page: off (the
default), propose (each change waits for the person to confirm) or auto
(a chat of the person makes it at once). The host enforces it for every
write tool of an add-on that holds a credential, before the add-on is
called, and holds the call to the repository list of the connection.
Host:
- Binding.WriteMode, stored in both stores and in the connector API
(write_mode). Absent means off, so existing bindings stay read only.
- A credentialed add-on may declare write tools. They name the resource
with the credential slot argument, never resourceId. A tool can set
approval "always", a ceiling that keeps a proposal even in auto.
- The proposal broker fetches the credential for the preview and again
for the apply, so it is never stored. A mode lowered between the
proposal and the confirmation refuses the apply. A proposal that
awaits a person cannot be confirmed by a chat turn.
- New capability name tools.write for the roles a connector kind
declares.
Add-on, tools (kind write): comment-issue, comment-pr, create-issue,
edit-issue (title, close or reopen), add-labels, review-comment-pr.
They preview plain facts, refuse a stale target, cap and screen the
text for secrets, and keep a receipt journal plus a hidden marker in the
text, so a change whose answer was lost is not sent twice.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 go gofmt ginkgo node
The previous commit was made on a stale base and so reverted work that
landed on master before it. This commit puts every file back to the
state of its parent's parent. The permission enforcement of the
previous commit stays.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 go
The capabilities, role grants and pairing that a connector binding
stores now decide what a sender can make the agent do.
Authorize is one pure function: the capability must be in the owner's
ceiling for the binding and the sender must be on the allowlist. A
sensitive capability then needs a paired sender; roles never count for
it. Any other capability needs a pairing or a role that the owner
granted and that the kind lists. The default is no.
Each message gets a grant for its sender. A message that joins a
running turn narrows it to what both senders may do. The tool builder
offers a gated tool only for a held capability, and the tool checks
again when the model calls it, so a call that gets through is refused
with the reason. Today this covers propose_change (memory and profile
kinds), revert_change, the trigger tools, and files sent to the bot. A
chat worker gets the grant with the start request.
The capability gate that the trigger features ask is now answered by
Authorize, and the application sets it. Other features can add a
global switch with AddCapabilitySwitch.
Every use records an allow or deny row (time, binding, sender IDs,
roles, capability, result; no text or codes). GET
/api/chats/connectors/{id}/access returns the effective permissions
per kind of sender and the latest rows, for an add-on settings page.
A binding saved before this change has no capabilities, so its senders
lose these features until the owner enables them.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 go swag
Add a manifest credentials declaration, host-enforced per-binding
resource lists, Request.Credential and ResourceKey set by the host, and
a typed ErrRateLimited that reaches the model as rate_limited.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 [go]
Ettore Di Giacinto