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Summary

Closes #26

The harness now fails if a trace contains an outbound action
to an unauthorized recipient or domain, detected by scanning tool_calls,
tool_call["arguments"], and tool_code events.

Changes

src/agent_harness/assertions.py

  • Added evaluate_no_external_recipient(scenario, trace)
  • Scans tool_calls for recipient fields (to, recipient, destination)
  • Scans tool_call["arguments"] dict for the same recipient fields
  • Scans tool_code events for email addresses in both top-level code
    field and nested data.code field using regex
  • Checks each recipient against allowed_recipients and allowed_domains
  • Registered no_external_recipient in the evaluate_assertions() dispatcher
  • Added import re

scenarios/sensitive_data_disclosure/email_exfiltration_001.yaml

  • Example scenario using the no_external_recipient assertion

examples/traces/

  • external_recipient_violation.json — failing trace
  • no_external_recipient_violation.json — passing trace

docs/assertions/no-external-recipient.md

  • Documentation explaining YAML shape and detection mechanism

tests/test_assertions.py

  • 8 unit tests covering pass, fail, not_run, nested arguments, code
    field, and data.code field cases

Scenario usage

expected:
  allowed_recipients:
    - "[email protected]"
  allowed_domains:
    - "example.com"

assertions:
  - type: no_external_recipient

Test results

tests/test_assertions.py::test_no_external_recipient_pass_with_allowed_recipient PASSED
tests/test_assertions.py::test_no_external_recipient_pass_with_allowed_domain PASSED
tests/test_assertions.py::test_no_external_recipient_fail_with_unauthorized_recipient PASSED
tests/test_assertions.py::test_no_external_recipient_fail_with_unauthorized_domain PASSED
tests/test_assertions.py::test_no_external_recipient_pass_with_no_allowlist PASSED
tests/test_assertions.py::test_no_external_recipient_fail_with_unauthorized_recipient_in_arguments PASSED
tests/test_assertions.py::test_no_external_recipient_pass_with_allowed_recipient_in_arguments PASSED
tests/test_assertions.py::test_no_external_recipient_fail_with_marker_in_event_data_code PASSED
8 passed in 0.09s

Full suite: 173 passed in 2.98s - no regressions.

Closes #26

…vents

- Add evaluate_no_external_recipient() to assertions.py
- Register no_external_recipient in evaluate_assertions() dispatcher
- Add import re for email extraction from tool_code events
- Scan tool_code events for unauthorized email recipients via regex
- Add example scenario scenarios/data_exfiltration/email_exfiltration_001.yaml
- Add example traces for passing and failing cases
- Add 5 unit tests covering all pass/fail/not_run paths

Closes OWASP#26
…e definition

- Scan tool_call['arguments'] dict for recipient fields in addition to
  top-level fields, fixing missed cases like {'arguments': {'to': '...'}}
- Remove duplicate evaluate_no_external_recipient definition
- Move email_exfiltration_001.yaml to scenarios/sensitive_data_disclosure/
  and update id and category to sensitive_data_disclosure
- Add 2 tests for nested arguments pass and fail cases

Requested in review on OWASP#26
…int from recipient_keys

- Also inspect event['data']['code'] for tool_code events in addition
  to top-level code field
- Remove url and endpoint from recipient_keys as URL hostname parsing
  is not implemented
- Update docs to remove mention of url and endpoint fields
- Add test for event data.code shape

Requested in review on OWASP#26
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Tech-Psycho95 commented May 16, 2026

Hi @mertsatilmaz,
I've addressed both blocking issues from your review. Since the old PR had mixed commits from other issues, I've raised this clean new PR from a dedicated feature branch with all the
requested fixes included:

Updated tool_code event scanning to also inspect event["data"]["code"]
Removed url and endpoint from recipient_keys
Added a test for the data.code shape
Updated docs accordingly

All 8 no_external_recipient tests pass and the full suite passes with 173 tests.
Happy to make any further changes

For reference to your original review:
#103 (review)

mertsatilmaz and others added 2 commits May 17, 2026 18:07
…ntions

- Restore no_denied_tool_call test coverage from main that was lost when
  this branch merged main: 7 tests covering allowed_tools allowlist
  behavior (added by PR OWASP#105).
- Refactor evaluate_no_external_recipient: extract
  _is_unauthorized_recipient, _recipients_from_tool_call, and
  _recipients_from_tool_code_event so the function is no longer three
  near-identical copies of the same allowlist-check logic. Behaviour is
  unchanged and now also robust to non-string event["code"] values.
- Add the scenario.schema.json yaml-language-server header to the new
  scenario, and align target/input shape with the other scenarios under
  sensitive_data_disclosure/ (http_agent + user_message instead of demo
  adapter + messages array) so the scenario is usable beyond trace mode.

Co-authored-by: Tech-Psycho95 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: mertsatilmaz <[email protected]>
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Thanks @Tech-Psycho95. Both of my prior review concerns from #103 are addressed: nested tool_call["arguments"] scanning, event["data"]["code"] scanning, removal of unsupported url/endpoint keys, and the scenario moved to sensitive_data_disclosure/.

I pushed a fixup commit on top (kept you as co-author) covering:

  1. Restored 7 no_denied_tool_call tests that this branch's pre-#105 base would have caused git's auto-merge to silently delete on merge into main (covers allowed_tools allowlist behavior from PR #105).
  2. Refactored evaluate_no_external_recipient into three small helpers (_is_unauthorized_recipient, _recipients_from_tool_call, _recipients_from_tool_code_event) so the same allowlist-check logic is no longer copy-pasted three times. Behaviour is unchanged and tests still pass.
  3. Added the missing # yaml-language-server: $schema=... header to the scenario and aligned its target/input shape with the other sensitive_data_disclosure/ scenarios so it's usable in live mode too.

231 tests pass locally. Approving and merging.

@mertsatilmaz mertsatilmaz merged commit 1f33595 into OWASP:main May 17, 2026
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