fix(devin): apply Cognition blocklist rewrites to system prompt and message text

[lonefisher]

Summary

• Cognition's request blocklist (permission_denied) also fires on phrases outside tool descriptions. A new trigger was isolated by binary search against a live account: the clause asking the user if they want to allow the action in \justification` parameterfrom Codex's` escalation boilerplate, which Codex injects into the system prompt. Every turn of any Codex conversation was refused before first output.
• Adds the phrase to COGNITION_BLOCKLIST_REWRITES with a live-verified meaning-preserving replacement (asking the user whether to allow the action in the \justification` parameter`), matching the existing Codex entries' flexible-whitespace, case-insensitive style.
• Extends the sanitizer's scope: previously it ran only inside encodeToolDef (tool descriptions). It now also rewrites request field [codex] Add Neuralwatt effort routing #2, the leading system prompt, where Codex injects the triggering boilerplate. Conversation text, replayed thinking and tool-call arguments stay byte-exact (see the follow-up commit fix(devin): keep data fields byte-exact under blocklist sanitization); a maintainer commit added an independent assertion on decoded field [codex] Add Neuralwatt effort routing #2.
• sanitizeToolDescriptionForCognition renamed to sanitizeTextForCognition (the ...ForTests export is preserved); regression coverage added in tests/providers/devin-adapter.test.ts; structure/providers-and-adapters.md updated for the widened scope.

Verification

• bun test tests/providers/devin-adapter.test.ts — 42 pass / 0 fail (includes a wire-level case asserting the encoded GetChatMessage request contains no trigger bytes in any field, covering tool description, system prompt, message text, thinking, and tool-call arguments)
• bun x tsc --noEmit — clean
• bun run structure:check — passed
• Live: replayed the exact previously-denied request (full Codex instructions, streamed) through a proxy running this patch — returns 200 with a normal completion instead of permission_denied
• bun run test:changed was attempted; the import-graph selection pulled 1375 files and exceeded the 900s suite budget on Windows. The failures observed were unrelated temp-file EBUSY / timing flakes in claude-529-mapping, kiro-pool-load-settings, and account-import; focused regression coverage for this change passes. Broader validation left to CI.

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• Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
• Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
• Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Requests sent through the Devin adapter now rewrite the restricted permissions-instruction phrase in tool descriptions and the system prompt. Matching ignores capitalization and flexible spacing.
  • Message text, replayed thinking, tool-call arguments, and tool results remain unchanged; matching phrases in those fields may still result in a permission-denied response.
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  • Clarified which request content is rewritten and which remains unchanged.

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The Devin adapter adds a case-insensitive rewrite for a Cognition permissions-instruction phrase. It sanitizes tool descriptions and the system prompt before encoding. Message text, replayed thinking, and tool-call arguments remain unchanged. Tests cover these request fields.

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Devin request text sanitization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared Cognition text sanitizer src/adapters/devin/cloud-direct/chat.ts	The text-wide sanitizer rewrites the permissions-instruction phrase using case-insensitive matching and flexible whitespace. Tool descriptions use the shared sanitizer and retain their existing length limit.
Instruction-surface sanitization and coverage src/adapters/devin/cloud-direct/chat.ts, tests/providers/devin-adapter.test.ts, structure/providers-and-adapters.md	The adapter sanitizes the system prompt before encoding it in request field #2. Tests check rewriting in system and tool-description content, and unchanged message text, replayed thinking, tool-call arguments, and tool results. The documentation describes the same scope and notes that matching data fields can surface Cognition’s permission_denied.

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The change rewrites the targeted instruction surfaces while preserving user and tool data. No actionable merge-blocking issue is established; normal checks remain appropriate.

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• observed — src (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
• observed — structure (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
• observed — tests (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in structure/providers-and-adapters.md: The Devin entry narrows the sanitizer from all request strings—including message text, replayed thinking, and tool-call arguments—to instruction surfaces: tool descriptions and the #2 system prompt. It states that matches in data fields remain unchanged and surface as upstream permission_denied.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/adapters/devin/cloud-direct/chat.ts: Documentation adds the fourth blocklist trigger in Codex’s system-prompt permissions instructions and clarifies that sanitization applies to tool descriptions and the system prompt, not message text, replayed thinking, or tool-call arguments.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/adapters/devin/cloud-direct/chat.ts: Adds a case-insensitive, flexible-whitespace rewrite for the justification clause, changing “if they want to allow” to “whether to allow.” Renames the sanitizer from tool-description-specific to text-wide.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/adapters/devin/cloud-direct/chat.ts: The existing test helper and tool-description preparation switch to the shared text sanitizer; a test-only text sanitizer export is added. Description truncation remains unchanged.

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Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 60.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Title check	⚠️ Warning	The title correctly identifies system-prompt sanitization, but it incorrectly states that Cognition blocklist rewrites apply to message text. The implementation preserves user messages, replayed think…	Rename the pull request to describe sanitization of the system prompt and tool descriptions, for example: "fix(devin): apply Cognition blocklist rewrites to system prompt and tool descriptions".

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The title correctly identifies system-prompt sanitization, but it incorrectly states that Cognition blocklist rewrites apply to message text. The implementation preserves user messages, replayed thinking, and tool-call arguments byte-exact, so the title is misleading about the final scope.

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Review comments at @tests/providers/devin-adapter.test.ts:
- Around line 307-343: Add a tool definition with its description set to trigger
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리뷰 · 우선순위 58 / 80

이 PR은 Devin(Cognition)으로 보낼 때 막히는 문장을 고치는 버그 수정입니다. Cognition은 어떤 문장이 요청에 있으면 permission_denied로 거절합니다. 그중 하나가 Codex가 시스템 프롬프트에 넣는 권한 안내 문장(asking the user if they want to allow the action in \justification` parameter)입니다. 예전에는 도구 설명만 바꿔 썼는데, 이번엔 시스템 프롬프트(#2)와 대화 메시지 글에도 같은 치환을 적용합니다. 그래서 Codex 대화가 첫 응답 전에 전부 거절되던 상황을 풀려는 PR입니다. 치환 규칙은 라이브로 확인했고, 테스트와 구조 문서도 같이 갱신했습니다. base는 dev`라서 방향도 맞습니다.

라인 - tests/providers/devin-adapter.test.ts의 “every wire field” 테스트: system/user 글자만 넣고 tools는 없습니다. 도구 설명 경로(encodeToolDef / prepareToolDescriptionForCognition)에 트리거가 남아도 이 테스트는 통과할 수 있습니다. 테스트 이름·주석이 말하는 “모든 와이어 필드”와 실제 검사가 어긋납니다.
라인 - src/adapters/devin/cloud-direct/chat.ts encodeChatMessagePrompt: 본문(#3)은 sanitizeTextForCognition을 타지만 thinking(#11)은 그대로 나갑니다. 주석/문서는 “와이어에 올리는 모든 텍스트”라고 넓게 쓰여 있는데, thinking(그리고 tool call arguments)은 범위 밖입니다. 이번 트리거의 본고장인 시스템 프롬프트와는 다르지만, 문서 주장과 코드가 다릅니다.
라인 - sanitizeToolDescriptionForCognitionForTests와 sanitizeTextForCognitionForTests가 둘 다 같은 함수를 감쌉니다. 하위 호환용으로 보이지만, 새 테스트는 옛 이름을 쓰고 있어서 이름 정리 방향이 애매합니다. 큰 결함은 아닙니다.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

유저/툴 결과가 그 문장을 인용해도 바꿔 보내는 확장을 계속 허용할지, 그리고 thinking까지 같은 치환에 넣을지(문서 주장과 맞추기) 아니면 문서 범위를 실제 적용 지점으로 좁힐지입니다. 또한 draft readiness 체크리스트가 아직 0/4라서, 코드 방향과 별개로 merge 준비 상태는 작성자/게이트 쪽 확인이 필요합니다.

너의 추천

방향은 맞고, 라이브로 막히던 Codex→Devin 거절을 푸는 데 핵심이라 합류해도 됩니다. 다만 merge 전에 wire 테스트에 tools: [{ description: trigger }]를 넣어 도구 설명 경로도 같이 잠그고, thinking을 소독할지/문서 표현을 좁힐지 한 줄로 정해 주세요. types/config 중복 이슈는 이번 diff에 없습니다.

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Review addressed in d45fa9b:

• Wire-level test now includes a tool carrying the trigger phrase, so the encodeToolDef path is pinned by the same byte assertions (also covers the earlier CodeRabbit point).
• Sanitizer now also covers ChatMessagePrompt Bug: 注入 opencodex 后 Codex App 左侧 Project 线程列表消失 #11 (replayed thinking) and ChatToolCall [codex] Refresh Codex cache after provider changes #3 (arguments), so the documented 'every text on the wire' scope is literal. Trigger phrases replayed in reasoning or inside patch arguments can no longer produce permission_denied.
• New test uses sanitizeTextForCognitionForTests; the legacy sanitizeToolDescriptionForCognitionForTests wrapper is kept only for back-compat with existing tests.

Readiness checklist ticked 4/4 in the description.

[luvs01]

Reviewed d45fa9b. The added wire-field coverage addresses the earlier review, but broadening the substitutions to opaque conversation/tool data introduces a separate data-integrity regression. An offline audit executed the unchanged pure sanitizer extracted from this head and checked both new call sites: tool-argument JSON remained valid, while the command string and an exact-literal user instruction changed. This was an isolated data-integrity check, not a full Bun suite or a live provider-denial test. Please preserve exact user/tool data and add preservation regressions before applying this automatically to existing conversations.

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@luvs01 P2 addressed in 24b94d2 — the sanitizer is now restricted to instruction surfaces (tool descriptions + the #2 system prompt). Message text, replayed thinking (#11), and tool-call arguments pass through byte-exact; if a blocklisted phrase ever reaches the cloud inside a data field, the request surfaces the upstream permission_denied rather than rewriting literal content. Tests now pin both halves: instruction surfaces are rewritten (including a tool-description-only carrier case) and user text/thinking/arguments are preserved verbatim.

Original data-integrity P2 addressed at 24b94d2. Re-review: 137 focused tests and 16 wire-field preservation audits passed; typecheck passed. Withdrawing only this outdated change request. This is not whole-PR approval: current-head CI remains action_required and live Devin recovery was not tested.

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Maintainer integration into dev (MAINTAINERS.md, dev-only exception) by @lidge-jun.

• Independent review found one test gap: the original regression accepted a rewritten tool description as proof of system-prompt sanitization, so it still passed with the system rewrite disabled. Maintainer commit b01f166cd7 asserts decoded field [codex] Add Neuralwatt effort routing #2 independently (the same mutation now fails) and corrects two source comments. The PR description now describes the instruction-only scope.
• Correctness: src/adapters/devin/cloud-direct/chat.ts rewrites the leading system prompt while keeping conversation text, thinking and tool arguments byte-exact. No credential, auth, config-write or logging change.
• Reviewer's rebased run: nine focused Devin suites 202 pass / 0 fail; typecheck, structure and privacy checks pass.
• Local integration: merged together with fix(redaction): bound XML identifying-attribute scans #6325, fix(codex): require live credential evidence for pool quota policy #6326, fix(devin): apply Cognition blocklist rewrites to system prompt and message text #6281 and fix(anthropic): give each Claude model its real 128K output maximum #6316 onto dev 8326838; bun x tsc --noEmit passes and the four PRs' test files pass (124 pass / 0 fail), plus test-layout and file-size ratchet guards.
• scripts/ci/assert-mergeable-review.sh --maintainer-integration OK at this head. Cross-platform CI runs once on the final dev tip after this landing batch, per the maintainer's instruction; the fork run on this head awaited approval and was not used.

Thanks @lonefisher!

[lidge-jun]

Landed on through maintainer carry #6328 (with a Co-authored-by trailer for you), after the contributor readiness gate returned this PR to draft following a maintainer review commit. Thank you!