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Base: 01-ipc-sandbox. Engine-internal refactors that process isolation needs
but that stand on their own; no process is spawned by this PR.

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  1. Cookies on the I/O side via a per-tab identity registry — the I/O
    runtime attaches request cookies and stores Set-Cookie from a
    TabIdentityRegistry (jar + top-level document per tab), so tab code never
    handles a cookie value. Engine test: a Set-Cookie from one navigation is
    replayed on the next with no cookie code on the tab path.
  2. All resource loads through a ResourceLoader — stylesheets, web fonts
    and images are fetched through net::brokered_loader::BrokeredLoader, a
    blocking fetch that goes through the I/O runtime (with cancellation tied to
    the navigation), instead of anything opening a socket where it runs. This is
    what later lets a confined process ask the broker for bytes without holding
    a capability.
  3. child_process: the dispatch contract and the process-isolation
    feature
    — dispatch() / dispatch_with::<C>() are the first statement
    of an embedder's main(); a process started as a child role runs that role
    and exits there; was_dispatched() lets the engine refuse to spawn when the
    embedder never dispatched (a child would otherwise re-exec into the
    embedder's own main()). At this layer every role is refused: nothing to
    run yet. gosub_ipc/gosub_sandbox become optional deps behind the
    feature (on by default; off is what wasm needs).
  4. Embedders dispatch child roles first in main — every example and
    gosub-screenshot.

Testing

cargo test -p gosub_engine --lib net::   # identity registry, brokered loader
cargo test -p gosub_engine --lib cookies

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  • New Features
    • Cookies are managed separately for each tab, sent according to the tab’s top-level site context, and saved for later requests.
    • CSS color handling now supports converting HWB colors to sRGB.
    • Process-isolation support is enabled by default, with an option to build for single-process operation on platforms that require it.
  • Security
    • Browser examples and tools check for child-process roles before normal startup. Child-process handling denies debugger attachment.

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The change adds child-process dispatch to engine entry points and adds tab identity to network fetches. The I/O runtime uses each tab’s cookie jar and top-level URL to attach request cookies and store response cookies.

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Child-process dispatch

Layer / File(s) Summary
Process-isolation feature and dispatch API
crates/gosub_engine/Cargo.toml, crates/gosub_engine/src/child_process.rs, crates/gosub_engine/src/lib.rs
The engine adds the process-isolation feature and a public, feature-gated dispatch API. The current role handler reports each role as unknown and returns status 2.
Dispatch before application startup
.github/workflows/ci.yaml, bin/*/main.rs, examples/*
Binary and example entry points call dispatch before normal startup. Async examples create their Tokio runtime after dispatch. CI checks matching Rust files for dispatch calls.

Tab-aware cookie handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tab identity registry and engine context
crates/gosub_engine/src/net/tab_identity.rs, crates/gosub_engine/src/net.rs, crates/gosub_engine/src/engine/engine.rs, crates/gosub_engine/src/engine/zone/zone.rs
The engine and zone contexts share a registry of tab cookie jars and top-level URLs. Registry tests cover registration, URL updates, lookup, and removal.
Tab identity on fetch requests
crates/gosub_engine/src/engine/events.rs, crates/gosub_engine/src/engine/media_source.rs, crates/gosub_engine/src/engine/resource_pipeline.rs, crates/gosub_engine/src/engine/resource_pipeline/html.rs, crates/gosub_engine/src/engine/tab/worker.rs, crates/gosub_engine/src/engine/cookies.rs, crates/gosub_engine/src/engine/cookies/cookie_jar.rs
Navigation and associated media, favicon, download, and resource requests carry a tab ID. The worker registers and removes tab identities and publishes the navigation URL. The same_site helper is now crate-visible.
I/O cookie handling and validation
crates/gosub_engine/src/net/io_runtime.rs, crates/gosub_engine/src/engine/engine.rs
The I/O runtime removes supplied Cookie headers, selects cookies using tab identity and SameSite context, and stores response cookies before forwarding results. Tests cover cookie handling and repeated navigation.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant TabWorker
  participant TabIdentityRegistry
  participant IoRuntime
  participant CookieJar
  TabWorker->>TabIdentityRegistry: Publish top-level URL
  TabWorker->>IoRuntime: Submit fetch with TabId
  IoRuntime->>TabIdentityRegistry: Resolve tab identity
  IoRuntime->>CookieJar: Select cookies for request
  CookieJar-->>IoRuntime: Return applicable cookies
  IoRuntime->>CookieJar: Store response cookies
  IoRuntime-->>TabWorker: Forward fetch result
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No concrete failure is established in the reviewed dispatch or cookie changes, so no additional fix is indicated before merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3b63e

Resource loads now receive authentication cookies, making correct document identity security-critical. The inspected navigation flow can leave cookie decisions tied to a different site than the requesting document. Child roles currently reject execution, so the change does not itself enable privileged child processes. Cancellation guarantees remain partly unconfirmed.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Newly authenticated resource loads use the tab's announced navigation destination rather than immutable requesting-document context. Parsing follows the response's final URL, but the changed completion flow does not publish that URL to the identity registry; the inspected failure branch also does not restore the previous context. A document reached through a cross-site redirect, or retained after failed replacement, could consequently load resources classified as same-site with another destination and receive cookies otherwise withheld by SameSite or third-party policy. This attack path is inferred; ordered command delivery protects earlier queued requests but does not repair the context of later loads.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The cookie-context concern affects origins represented in the requesting tab's effective jar. That jar may be ephemeral, custom, zone-shared, or supplied by a zone cookie store, so effects need not end with one tab. Arbitrary access to unrelated jars, other services, or infrastructure credentials was not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A cross-site redirect could leave the announced destination as cookie authority while attacker-controlled final HTML requests resources from that destination. Those requests now receive cookies, unlike the inspected base subresource paths. The potential outcome is an unintended authenticated request; exploitability requires suitable navigation or redirect reachability and cookies in the effective jar.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The inspected request paths delegate transport and cookie selection to the network runtime. Supplied Cookie headers are removed even when identity is absent; workers submit their own tab ID, and missing identities send no jar-derived cookies. These are in-process controls, not authenticated cross-process identity binding or a delivered sandbox boundary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Registry cleanup covers normal worker exit and watchdog-detected failure. Already-dispatched response tasks retain jar authority independently, so cleanup guarantees must distinguish preventing new authenticated requests from cancelling in-flight work or preventing subsequent cookie mutations.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bind resource-cookie decisions to broker-owned document or navigation-generation context. Define explicit redirect, commit, cancellation, failure, and closure transitions so a pending destination cannot become authority for another document's resources. Separately specify whether already-received response cookies may persist after cancellation or closure.
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Through each request, my crumbs prevail.
A role flag sends me on my way,
While jars remember what to say.
The browser starts when dispatch is through,
And every tab keeps its own view.

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jaytaph force-pushed the stack/02-contract branch 3 times, most recently from c16a300 to 716489f Compare October 2, 2026 11:16
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A bare --gosub-child-role no longer panics on the argument slice: both
dispatch paths split through split_role, and a missing role is an empty
one, refused with status 2 like any unknown role.
The worker watchdog removes the crashed tab from the identity registry
before sending TabCrashed, so its cookie jar stops resolving; only a
clean exit did that before.
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