marfrit bd59ce7243 safety: is_destructive static pattern matcher (Phase 3 commit #1)
Phase 3 commit #1 per docs/PHASE3.md §12. Static-pattern destructive-op
heuristic; no LLM second-opinion yet (lands in commit #2).

Implementation:
  - 34 patterns in DESTRUCTIVE_PATTERNS table, grouped:
      9 shell-wrapper patterns (R-B1 — bash -c / sh -c / zsh -c / eval /
        python -c / perl -e / pipe-to-sh both forms / pipe-to-bash both
        forms / xargs ... rm). HALT on the wrapper itself; user reads
        the inner before proceeding.
     10 filesystem destructive (rm -rf, find -delete, dd to device, mkfs,
        shred, wipefs, truncate -s 0, ...).
      5 version-control destructive (git push --force/-f, git reset
        --hard, git clean -fd, git branch -D).
      5 database/process (DROP TABLE/DATABASE, TRUNCATE TABLE,
        kill/pkill -9).
      2 permission (chmod 777, chown on root path).
  - ci=true flag for case-insensitive SQL patterns; rule patterns must
    be lowercase when ci is set (matcher lowercases input).
  - pkill -9 ordered BEFORE kill -9; kill rule uses %f[%w] frontier so
    "pkill -9 nginx" reports "pkill -9" not "kill -9" substring match.
  - M._patterns exposes the rule table for :safety patterns meta (Phase
    3 commit #5) and for the test corpus.
  - M.norris_step stub stays — lands in commit #4.

Test corpus (test_safety.lua, 87 cases):
  - 49 destructive cases across all categories (incl. all 11 wrapper
    forms, the canonical curl|sh end-of-string bypass, sudo-prefixed
    rm -rf, etc.).
  - 38 safe cases (read-only commands, non-destructive variants
    of risky verbs like "git push" without --force, "find" without
    -delete, "chmod 644", "kill 1234" without -9, etc.).
  - Documented one accepted false positive: echo "rm -rf /" matches
    the rm pattern by substring — Norris user can proceed after
    reading; tradeoff between false positives and false negatives,
    biased toward false positives per §5.
  - Run from repo root: `luajit test_safety.lua`. Exit 0 on pass.
  - Verified all 87 pass at commit time.

R-C4 / readline rebind, broker opts.max_tokens, LLM second-opinion,
norris_step planner, repl driver, and the wider Norris UX land in
subsequent commits per §12.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-12 22:47:10 +00:00

aish

aish — AI-augmented conversational shell.

A single REPL that interleaves shell command execution and language-model conversation, backed by a llama.cpp HTTP broker. Implementation is LuaJIT 2.x with FFI bindings to libcurl, GNU readline, and libc — no C extensions, no build step, one source tree.

Why

Three flows that currently live in three windows fold into one:

  1. "Run this command and show me the output" — fast feedback loop, no copy-paste between terminal and chat.
  2. "Explain or write code based on the output we just looked at" — exec output is automatically injected into the model's context.
  3. "Plan and execute a multi-step task with confirmation gates" — landing in Phase 3 as Chuck Norris autonomous mode.

aish is not a wrapper around bash. It's a first-class interactive environment where the shell is one of several execution channels.

Status

Component State
Repository skeleton in this commit
Phase 0 manifest docs/PHASE0.md — locked
Phase 0 implementation 🔜 next session
Phase 1+ 📋 enumerated in PHASE0.md §11

Every module file currently raises not implemented (Phase 0 pending) when called. luajit main.lua fails loudly at the first un-implemented function, never silently.

Quick orientation

Read this If you want to know
docs/PHASE0.md §12 What aish is and what Phase 0 ships
docs/PHASE0.md §3 Technology decisions (LuaJIT, FFI, readline, libcurl, llama.cpp)
docs/PHASE0.md §4 Directory layout — these file names are stable across all phases
docs/PHASE0.md §5 How input is dispatched (meta / shell / AI)
docs/PHASE0.md §6 Broker contract: /v1/chat/completions, CMD: extraction
docs/PHASE0.md §10 Config schema and resolution order
docs/PHASE0.md §11 Phase sequence (what lands when)
docs/PHASE0.md §13 Open questions, tracked per phase
CLAUDE.md Project conventions for AI-assisted contributors

Directory layout

aish/
├── main.lua              # entry point
├── repl.lua              # readline loop, dispatch, prompt
├── broker.lua            # llama.cpp HTTP client
├── router.lua            # input classifier (meta/shell/AI)
├── executor.lua          # command exec + CMD: extraction
├── context.lua           # in-memory turn history
├── history.lua           # disk persistence (Phase 1+)
├── safety.lua            # destructive-op gate (Phase 3+)
├── renderer.lua          # output formatting
├── config.lua            # default model registry + preferences
├── ffi/
│   ├── curl.lua          # libcurl easy interface
│   ├── readline.lua      # GNU readline
│   ├── pty.lua           # forkpty (Phase 1+)
│   └── libc.lua          # chdir, errno, strerror
└── docs/
    └── PHASE0.md         # locked substrate

Build / runtime dependencies

System packages (Debian / ALARM / Arch names):

  • luajit (>= 2.0)
  • libcurl4 / libcurl-openssl-3 runtime
  • libreadline8 runtime
  • libc6 runtime (always present)

No compilation, no luarocks, no make. Just luajit main.lua.

Running

Once Phase 0 ships:

luajit main.lua                          # uses ~/.config/aish/config.lua
luajit main.lua --config ./config.lua    # explicit config path
AISH_CONFIG=/path/to/config.lua luajit main.lua

Config resolution order is documented in docs/PHASE0.md §10.

Configuration

config.lua is a Lua file returning a single table. The committed config.lua in this repo is both the canonical example and the development-fallback config (lowest precedence). Copy it to ~/.config/aish/config.lua and edit endpoints to your local llama.cpp servers, or point AISH_CONFIG at your own.

The default endpoints assume mfritsche's home network:

  • fastdirac.fritz.box:8081 (Qwen2.5-Coder-7B q4 8k ctx)
  • deepdirac.fritz.box:8080 (Qwen2.5-Coder-7B q4 32k ctx)
  • cloudhossenfelder.fritz.box:8082 (forwards to OpenRouter)

Replace these with your own llama.cpp endpoints if you're not on that LAN.

License

Not yet selected. Default-private until decided.

Project conventions

See CLAUDE.md for contribution conventions, commit style, and the phase-loop discipline this project follows.

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AI-augmented conversational shell — LuaJIT REPL with llama.cpp broker, shell executor, and routed AI inference.
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