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awmg-mcpg (MCP Gateway) and awmg-cli-proxy are framework-managed containers attached to awf-net via network.topologyAttach. Because they are not in network.allowDomains, Squid logs them as blocked — producing a spurious ⚠️ Firewall blocked 1 domain(s): awmgmcpg warning on every issue/PR safe-outputs creates. The hostname is a bare label that the compiler rejects, so users have no way to suppress it.

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  • firewall_blocked_domains.cjsgetBlockedDomains() filters sanitized forms of known internal sidecar names (awmgmcpg, awmgcliproxy) before adding to the blocked set, eliminating the warning from issue/PR bodies.

  • parse_firewall_logs.cjsanalyzeFirewallLogLines() skips internal sidecar hostnames when counting blocked requests in the Actions step summary. Adds isInternalSidecarHost(domainKey) helper (strips port, checks against the known set).

Both files share the same constant list of internal sidecar names (awmg-mcpg, awmg-cli-proxy), matching what buildAWFTopologyAttachList unconditionally emits in the Go compiler.

// firewall_blocked_domains.cjs
const AWF_INTERNAL_SIDECAR_HOSTS = ["awmg-mcpg", "awmg-cli-proxy"];
const AWF_INTERNAL_SIDECAR_HOSTS_SANITIZED = new Set(
  AWF_INTERNAL_SIDECAR_HOSTS.map(h => sanitizeDomainName(h))
);
// → Set { "awmgmcpg", "awmgcliproxy" }

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The MCP Gateway sidecar (awmg-mcpg) and CLI proxy sidecar (awmg-cli-proxy)
are framework-managed containers attached to awf-net via network.topologyAttach.
Their hostnames appeared in firewall logs as "blocked" because they are not in
network.allowDomains, causing a spurious warning on every issue/PR created by
safe-outputs.

Filter these known internal sidecar hostnames from:
- getBlockedDomains() in firewall_blocked_domains.cjs (the PR/issue warning)
- analyzeFirewallLogLines() in parse_firewall_logs.cjs (the step summary)

Closes #48038

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Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Fix spurious firewall spam warnings in Agent Workflow Firewall fix: suppress internal AWF sidecar hostnames from blocked-domain warnings Jul 28, 2026
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Pull request overview

Suppresses framework-managed AWF sidecars from firewall warnings and summaries.

Changes:

  • Adds internal-sidecar filtering to firewall log processing.
  • Adds coverage for both known sidecar hostnames.
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File Description
actions/setup/js/parse_firewall_logs.cjs Filters sidecars from blocked statistics.
actions/setup/js/parse_firewall_logs.test.cjs Tests sidecar detection and counting.
actions/setup/js/firewall_blocked_domains.cjs Suppresses sanitized sidecar domains.
actions/setup/js/firewall_blocked_domains.test.cjs Tests warning suppression.

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Comment on lines +214 to +217
if (!isInternalSidecarHost(domainKey)) {
blockedRequests++;
blockedDomains.add(domainKey);
}
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Design Decision Gate 🏗️ completed the design decision gate check.

No ADR enforcement needed: PR does not have the 'implementation' label and has ≤100 new lines of code in business logic directories (0 additions detected in default business logic directories: src/, lib/, pkg/, internal/, app/, core/, domain/, services/, api/).

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Review: suppress internal AWF sidecar hostnames

The overall approach is correct and well-tested. One blocking issue found.

Blocking: requestsByDomain tracking in parse_firewall_logs.cjs is not gated on isInternalSidecarHost, so sidecar hosts (awmg-mcpg:8080, awmg-cli-proxy:3128) still appear in the generateFirewallSummary step-summary table with non-zero blocked counts. The issue/PR body warning is suppressed by firewall_blocked_domains.cjs, but the Actions step summary will still show them. See inline comment for the fix.

Everything else looks good: the constant lists are consistent across both files, the sanitized-form pre-computation is correct, isInternalSidecarHost handles port stripping correctly, and the test coverage is thorough.

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actions/setup/js/parse_firewall_logs.cjs:221

Bug: sidecar hosts still appear in the step-summary table.

requestsByDomain is populated unconditionally for every entry (lines 220-229), including the sidecar hostnames excluded from blockedRequests. So generateFirewallSummary will still list awmg-mcpg:8080 and awmg-cli-proxy:3128 in the domain table with their blocked counts — the fix is incomplete for the step summary.

Suggested fix — guard the requestsByDomain tracking block with the same sidecar check:

// Track req…

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⚠️ Test Quality Score: 74/100 — Acceptable

Analyzed 11 test(s): 11 design, 0 implementation, 0 violation(s).

📊 Metrics (11 tests)
Metric Value
Analyzed 11 (Go: 0, JS: 11)
✅ Design 11 (100%)
⚠️ Implementation 0 (0%)
Edge/error coverage 5 (45%)
Duplicate clusters 0
Inflation YES (2.87:1)
🚨 Violations 0
📋 Test Breakdown

firewall_blocked_domains.test.cjs (3 tests, +64 lines):

  • "should filter out internal AWF sidecar hostname awmg-mcpg" — design_test, high_value, behavioral contract
  • "should filter out internal AWF sidecar hostname awmg-cli-proxy" — design_test, high_value, behavioral contract
  • "should return empty array when only internal sidecar domains were blocked" — design_test, high_value, edge case

parse_firewall_logs.test.cjs (8 tests, +48 lines):

  • isInternalSidecarHost (5 tests): positive/negative/edge cases for sidecar hostname detection
  • analyzeFirewallLogLines - internal sidecar filtering (3 tests): integration scenarios with real firewall analysis
⚠️ Test Inflation Flagged
File Test Lines Added Production Lines Ratio
firewall_blocked_domains.cjs 64 13 4.92:1
parse_firewall_logs.cjs 48 26 1.85:1
Combined 112 39 2.87:1

Justification: The production changes are small but require comprehensive filtering coverage. All 11 tests verify design invariants (no implementation tests). Edge cases for safety-critical firewall filtering are justified.

Verdict

Passed. 0% implementation tests (threshold: 30%). All tests verify design contracts — no violations. Test inflation ratio 2.87:1 exceeds 2:1 guideline but is justified by comprehensive safety-critical filtering coverage and zero implementation tests.

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✅ Test Quality Sentinel: 74/100. 0% implementation tests (threshold: 30%). All 11 tests verify design contracts for safety-critical firewall filtering with comprehensive edge-case coverage.

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Skills-Based Review 🧠

Applied /diagnosing-bugs, /tdd, and /codebase-design — requesting changes on two correctness issues in parse_firewall_logs.cjs.

📋 Key Themes & Highlights

Key Issues

  1. Incomplete suppression in step summary (parse_firewall_logs.cjs L214, L220): Sidecar requests still increment totalRequests and populate requestsByDomain, so the collapsed domain table in the step summary will show the sidecar with a non-zero blocked count. The fix is only half-applied.

  2. totalRequests imbalance (parse_firewall_logs.cjs L214): After the fix, totalRequests ≠ allowedRequests + blockedRequests for sidecar traffic. The test suite does not catch this because it never asserts the balance invariant.

  3. Duplicated constant (firewall_blocked_domains.cjs L21): AWF_INTERNAL_SIDECAR_HOSTS is defined in two files. A shared module would prevent drift.

Positive Highlights

  • ✅ Correct fix in firewall_blocked_domains.cjs — the issue/PR warning path is cleanly addressed
  • ✅ Good use of pre-computed Set for O(1) lookups
  • isInternalSidecarHost() is a well-named, well-tested helper
  • ✅ Regression tests cover both sidecars and the all-sidecar edge case

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// Skip internal sidecar hostnames (awmg-mcpg, awmg-cli-proxy) from the
// blocked domain set. These are framework-managed topology-attach containers
// and are not user-actionable external blocked domains.
if (!isInternalSidecarHost(domainKey)) {

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[/diagnosing-bugs] Sidecar requests increment totalRequests but are silently dropped from blockedRequests — the step-summary header will read "X requests | Y allowed | Z blocked" where X ≠ Y+Z for sidecar traffic, creating a confusing discrepancy.

💡 Suggested fix

Either also exclude sidecar requests from totalRequests (skip the totalRequests++ at line 197 when isInternalSidecarHost), or add a dedicated internalRequests counter and note them in the summary. The current approach silently "loses" requests in the totals.

// Option A: exclude sidecar entries entirely from request counting
if (isInternalSidecarHost(domainKey)) {
  continue; // skip totalRequests++ too
}
totalRequests++;

@copilot please address this.

}
}

// Track request count per domain

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[/diagnosing-bugs] Sidecar entries are also tracked in requestsByDomain, so they will appear in the per-domain table of the step summary with non-zero blocked counts — directly contradicting the goal of hiding them from users.

💡 Suggested fix

Skip requestsByDomain tracking for internal sidecars, or filter them out in generateFirewallSummary alongside error: entries:

const validDomains = Array.from(requestsByDomain.keys())
  .filter(domain => domain !== "-" && !domain.startsWith("error:") && !isInternalSidecarHost(domain))
  .sort();

Without this, a user could still notice the sidecar in the collapsed domain table.

@copilot please address this.

// gh-aw itself (e.g. the MCP Gateway and the CLI proxy). These are
// framework-managed, not user-controllable external domains, and must never
// surface in the "blocked domains" warning shown on issues/PRs.
const AWF_INTERNAL_SIDECAR_HOSTS = ["awmg-mcpg", "awmg-cli-proxy"];

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[/codebase-design] AWF_INTERNAL_SIDECAR_HOSTS is duplicated across firewall_blocked_domains.cjs and parse_firewall_logs.cjs — a future sidecar addition requires updating two files. Since both modules already require from the same directory, this list could live in a shared constant module (e.g. awf_internal_hosts.cjs) and be imported by both.

💡 Example
// awf_internal_hosts.cjs
const AWF_INTERNAL_SIDECAR_HOSTS = ["awmg-mcpg", "awmg-cli-proxy"];
module.exports = { AWF_INTERNAL_SIDECAR_HOSTS };

This is a minor maintainability concern, not blocking, but worth addressing before the list grows.

@copilot please address this.

const result = analyzeFirewallLogLines(lines);
(expect(result.totalRequests).toBe(2), expect(result.blockedRequests).toBe(0), expect(result.allowedRequests).toBe(1), expect(result.blockedDomains.size).toBe(0));
}));
}));

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[/tdd] The analyzeFirewallLogLines sidecar tests do not verify that totalRequests is still counted correctly when sidecars are present. The current test only asserts blockedRequests === 0 and blockedDomains.size === 0, but leaves the totalRequests vs allowedRequests + blockedRequests imbalance untested — so the discrepancy noted at line 214 of the implementation is invisible in the test suite.

💡 Suggested assertion
// In the "should report zero blocked requests" test:
expect(result.totalRequests).toBe(2); // already present
expect(result.allowedRequests + result.blockedRequests).toBe(result.totalRequests); // this will FAIL today

Adding this assertion turns the coverage gap into a red test that forces the fix.

@copilot please address this.

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Verdict: Request changes

Sidecar-host filtering is incomplete — the rendered step-summary table (generateFirewallSummary) still surfaces awmg-mcpg/awmg-cli-proxy rows, so the noise this PR aims to eliminate persists in one of the two user-facing surfaces. A shared-constant duplication issue also increases future drift risk.

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  • Correctness gap: isInternalSidecarHost only guards the blockedRequests/blockedDomains counters, not requestsByDomain, so the per-domain markdown table in the Actions step summary still lists sidecar hosts — the PR only half-fixes the reported spam (issue-body warning is fixed via firewall_blocked_domains.cjs, but the step-summary table in parse_firewall_logs.cjs is not).
  • Maintainability: the sidecar hostname list is copy-pasted across two .cjs files (and must additionally track a third source of truth in the Go compiler), with no mechanism to catch drift if names ever change.
  • Test coverage is decent for the counting logic but does not assert on the actual rendered summary output, which is how the table-row gap went undetected.

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actions/setup/js/parse_firewall_logs.cjs:245

Internal sidecar hosts still appear as rows in the rendered step-summary table, defeating the stated purpose of this PR.

<details>
<summary>💡 Fix and rationale</summary>

isInternalSidecarHost is applied only inside the blockedRequests/blockedDomains accumulation branch (lines ~210-218), but requestsByDomain is populated unconditionally right after (line 221-229) and generateFirewallSummary builds its markdown table straight from requestsByDomain (line 245+) without any sidecar fi…

actions/setup/js/firewall_blocked_domains.cjs:21

The internal sidecar hostname list is duplicated verbatim across two files with no shared source of truth.

<details>
<summary>💡 Why this matters</summary>

AWF_INTERNAL_SIDECAR_HOSTS = [&quot;awmg-mcpg&quot;, &quot;awmg-cli-proxy&quot;] here and the equivalent Set([&quot;awmg-mcpg&quot;, &quot;awmg-cli-proxy&quot;]) in parse_firewall_logs.cjs (and the PR description explicitly says they must match buildAWFTopologyAttachList in the Go compiler) is now a triple-maintained list across two languages/files. If the Go compiler ev…

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The review feedback has been addressed: requestsByDomain is now guarded with the same isInternalSidecarHost condition applied to blockedRequests/blockedDomains, so blocked sidecar entries are fully skipped from all tracking and won't appear in the generateFirewallSummary() domain table or blocked counts.

Tests were updated to assert requestsByDomain.has("awmg-mcpg:8080") and requestsByDomain.has("awmg-cli-proxy:3128") both return false for blocked sidecar entries. All 32 tests pass.

⚠️ The commit is ready locally (a947c58) but the push is failing with a 403 permission error (Permission to github/gh-aw.git denied to pelikhan). A maintainer will need to re-trigger the push or push the commit manually.

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The requestsByDomain map was updated unconditionally for all entries,
including blocked internal sidecar hosts (awmg-mcpg, awmg-cli-proxy).
generateFirewallSummary() derives its domain table and blocked counts
from that map, so sidecars were still appearing in the Actions step
summary despite being excluded from blockedRequests/blockedDomains.

Guard the requestsByDomain update so blocked internal sidecar entries
are fully skipped, matching the same condition already applied to the
blockedRequests/blockedDomains counters. Update tests to assert
requestsByDomain exclusion for both known sidecar hostnames.

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Done — requestsByDomain is now guarded with the same isInternalSidecarHost check applied to blockedRequests/blockedDomains, so blocked sidecar entries are fully excluded from the summary domain table and counts. Fixed in the latest commit.

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@copilot avoid duplicated AWF_INTERNAL_SIDECAR_HOSTS

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Thanks for the fix @pelikhan !!!

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Release: v0.83.5

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