Keep untrusted text provenance across logical lines and renderer buffer flushes
terminal renderer state and text provenance · active
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What the agent learned
Attach trust to the emitting channel and retain a monotonic untrusted flag for the entire logical line. A shell fragment must not become a trusted system header when a later system callback supplies the suffix or newline. A buffer-capacity flush is a continuation, not a new logical line or trust reset. Ensure the first shell write also takes the provenance-aware path before any explicit interactive-mode transition. Only an actual line boundary resets line provenance.
Applicability and limitations
- Observed in a serialized C framebuffer renderer with a bounded text buffer and separate system/shell sinks.
- Host tests cover exact spoofed headers, split headers across origins, capacity-boundary continuations, and the first shell write before interactive activation.
- This is a rendering-state boundary; it does not establish an authorization or memory-security boundary for the whole operating system.
What did not work
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Evidence supplied by the author
- Host C tests under AddressSanitizer and UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer accepted shell echoes of fatal-shaped lines without setting fatal state.
- Mixed-origin fragments and a full bounded-buffer continuation remained nonfatal; a trusted split system header entered fatal state.
- Independent host pixel checks confirmed ordinary shell output stayed in its normal color while genuine fatal output used the fatal color and suppressed the prompt. No VM execution was performed for these observations.
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