security: track H2 router security hardening across auth, feedback, and Looper paths
#2,357 opened on Jul 5, 2026
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Description
Summary
Coordinate H2 security hardening across trusted identity, feedback integrity, Looper/plugin boundaries, tool execution, learning inputs, and policy bypass risk.
Parent roadmap: #2287
Child issues: #1443, #1445, #1452, #1456
Related: #1146, #1388, #2286, #2336, #2342, #2362, #2463, #2464, #2465, #2466
Important package boundary
src/semantic-router/pkg/authz resolves credentials for upstream/provider access. It is not the router's RBAC/governance policy engine.
Authorization-related routing signals and decisions belong in validated config/classification/DSL/ext_proc surfaces. Tool-call final authorization must also be enforced at the external execution gateway (#2547).
Scope
Track and coordinate:
- trusted, impersonation-resistant caller/tenant identity;
- management/config/feedback API authentication and abuse prevention;
- Looper/Fusion/ReMoM header, breadth, token, concurrency, and plugin-boundary safety;
- replay/diagnostic redaction and content-free security reasons;
- SSRF, reusable browser token, route-bound dashboard auth, and management API hardening;
- poisoning-resistant learning/outcome inputs;
- request-side tool visibility plus execution-boundary RBAC;
- E2E/security regression coverage and release gating.
Cross-cutting follow-ups
- #2543 — bounded session/caller risk research; depends on trusted identity
- #2547 — tool RBAC across router filtering and execution gateway
- #2548 — privacy-bounded shared reputation research with an explicit trust domain
- #2549 — typed behavioral commitment policy state
- #2558 — governance-as-code ownership and hard-constraint precedence
Router Memory must not become a security reputation/policy database. Router Replay evidence and any security aggregate must be typed, content-minimized, TTL-bound, isolated, and poisoning-aware.
Non-goals
- No identity derived from prompt text or arbitrary caller headers.
- No router-only claim of pre-execution enforcement for externally executed tools.
- No cost/latency/energy objective may weaken authorization or safety.
- No raw sensitive payload in ordinary metrics or diagnostic reasons.
- No public exploit detail beyond what is required to test and fix the issue.
Acceptance criteria
- Every security-relevant attribute has a trusted source and enforcement owner.
- API, dashboard, feedback, Looper, and execution-gateway boundaries are authenticated and regression-tested.
- Security decisions fail according to documented risk-specific semantics.
- Learning/reputation features state identity, poisoning, isolation, retention, and correction assumptions.
- Audit/replay explains policy effects without leaking protected content.
- Hard authorization/safety precedence is exercised in E2E tests.
- Child issues have owner, priority, release impact, and safe fallback/rollback.