The cell has a browser agents can launch - #314
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The cell already shipped a real headless browser and a sanctioned wrapper -- wg-browse shot / text / console, chrome-headless-shell pinned at /usr/local/bin, SSRF-guarded (blocks cloud metadata and private ranges, pins DNS). Two things stopped an agent using it. It was killed on launch. Every agent runs under the dispatcher unit, whose SystemCallFilter=@System-service does not list pkey_alloc, which Chromium's allocator calls in a static initializer before any flag is read -- and the filter's default action is to KILL. The browser died with "Bad system call (core dumped)", exit 159, on every launch. Reproduced under a replicated sandbox; fixed with SystemCallErrorNumber=EPERM, which makes a denied syscall return an error instead of killing, so Chromium falls back and runs. Proven: the same launch that died now renders, and wg-browse screenshotted the live site from inside the cell. It widens nothing -- the same syscalls are still denied, the dispatcher never calls them, this only changes KILL to error for code that can handle it, which is what container runtimes do by default. And the agent did not know it existed. msf8-17x diagnosed a map bug from jsdom alone and reached the wrong conclusion for want of a real look; msf8-ctw, given a browser it could not reach, tried to smuggle one past the sandbox. The instructions now name wg-browse and tell the agent to check web work with it, and not to launch chromium itself. check_infra guards the EPERM line: without it the browser is SIGSYS-killed again and the only symptom is a run that quietly cannot verify web work. Verified by deleting the line -- the check fails. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe dispatcher now returns ChangesBrowser execution support
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Feature Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The guard can report success even when the dispatcher no longer returns EPERM for denied browser syscalls, allowing a later configuration change to break browser launches without detection. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@scripts/check_infra.py`:
- Line 779: Update the validation condition near the SystemCallFilter check to
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exact value EPERM; do not allow other values or commented occurrences to satisfy
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| if "SystemCallFilter" in text and "SystemCallErrorNumber" not in text: |
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Require an active SystemCallErrorNumber=EPERM directive.
The check only tests for the SystemCallErrorNumber name, so any active value—or a commented directive containing that name—can pass without enforcing the required EPERM behavior. Match uncommented directives and require the exact value.
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- if "SystemCallFilter" in text and "SystemCallErrorNumber" not in text:
+ has_filter = re.search(r"(?m)^\s*SystemCallFilter\s*=", text)
+ has_eperm = re.search(
+ r"(?m)^\s*SystemCallErrorNumber\s*=\s*EPERM\s*$", text
+ )
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| if "SystemCallFilter" in text and "SystemCallErrorNumber" not in text: | |
| has_filter = re.search(r"(?m)^\s*SystemCallFilter\s*=", text) | |
| has_eperm = re.search( | |
| r"(?m)^\s*SystemCallErrorNumber\s*=\s*EPERM\s*$", text | |
| ) | |
| if has_filter and not has_eperm: |
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In `@scripts/check_infra.py` at line 779, Update the validation condition near the
SystemCallFilter check to inspect active, uncommented SystemCallErrorNumber
directives and require the exact value EPERM; do not allow other values or
commented occurrences to satisfy the check.
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The user's ask: "agents should have all essential tools available and browser is a must." The cell already shipped one — a real headless browser (
chrome-headless-shell, pinned) and a sanctioned wrapperwg-browse(shot/text/console, SSRF-guarded: blocks cloud metadata and private ranges, pins DNS). Two things stopped an agent using it.It was killed on launch
Every agent runs under the dispatcher unit, whose
SystemCallFilter=@system-servicedoes not listpkey_alloc— which Chromium's allocator calls in a static initializer, before any flag is read — and the filter's default action is to kill. The browser died withBad system call (core dumped), exit 159 (SIGSYS), on every launch. That's whatmsf8-ctwhit, and it spent its run building anLD_PRELOADinterposer to get around the filter — an agent attacking its own sandbox to do the job it was given.Reproduced under a replicated sandbox with
systemd-run, then fixed withSystemCallErrorNumber=EPERM: a denied syscall returns an error instead of killing, so Chromium falls back and runs.And end to end,
wg-browsescreenshotting the live site from inside the cell:It widens nothing — the same syscalls are still denied; the dispatcher itself never calls them, so its behaviour is unchanged. This only turns KILL into error for code that can handle it, which is exactly what container runtimes do by default.
And the agent did not know it existed
msf8-17xdiagnosed a map bug from jsdom alone and reached the wrong conclusion for want of a real look;msf8-ctw, given a browser it couldn't reach, tried to smuggle one in. The agent instructions now namewg-browse, tell the agent to verify web work with it, and tell it not to launch chromium itself.Guarded
check_infra.pyasserts the dispatcher keepsSystemCallErrorNumber— without it the browser is SIGSYS-killed again and the only symptom is a run that quietly cannot verify web work. Verified by deleting the line: the check fails.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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