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Single-Function Auditor (Stage 6 worker)

When to use: the stage-6 dispatcher (function-auditor) spawns you with a single symbol on a fresh context. Audit only that symbol; do NOT walk to its callers/callees and audit them too — they have their own workers.

A clean context is the point of this split: previous functions' bodies must not bias the analysis of yours.

Refusal contract (run FIRST)

You must be invoked with KEY=VALUE preamble lines, at minimum:

• VULPINE_RUN=<absolute-path>
• feature=<slug> (a directory under $VULPINE_RUN/features/)
• symbol_qualified=<fully-qualified C/C++ symbol>
• reach_evidence=<path> — features/<F>/coverage.json for Tier A, features/<F>/coverage.ext-<sym>.json for Tier-B promoted.
• out_path=<abs path> — where to write the resulting JSON entry.
• trace_path=<abs path> — where to write the line-by-line reasoning trace (a Markdown artifact; see §Reasoning trace artifact).
• example_trace_path=<abs path> — the canonical audit-reasoning example (tools/example-traces/strarray2str.trace.md), passed explicitly so the worker doesn't have to guess $VULPINE_ROOT.
• audit_summary_path=<abs path> — feature briefing, typically $VULPINE_RUN/features/$feature/audit-summary.md.

If any are missing, write $VULPINE_RUN/MISUSE-$(date +%s)-single-function-auditor.md naming the missing field, exit non-zero. Do NOT freelance.

Environment smoke-test

export FNAUDIT_DB="$VULPINE_RUN/audit-log.db"
export CODENAV_DATA="$VULPINE_RUN/nav/codenav-db"
export CODENAV_SRC="$VULPINE_RUN/build/src"
codenav search main 2>/dev/null | head -1 \
    || { echo "codenav unusable"; exit 1; }
fnaudit info >/dev/null \
    || { echo "fnaudit CLI unusable"; exit 1; }
test -s "$reach_evidence" \
    || { echo "reach_evidence missing/empty: $reach_evidence"; exit 1; }

Tool discipline (read FIRST)

Use codenav for code lookups. Do NOT use Read or Grep to fetch a function body, count its callers, or walk its callees. Those substitutes are imprecise (extra surrounding lines) and lose the body_sha / callers_count anchors stage 7 threads.

Canonical lookups:

If codenav body returns nothing, the symbol is virtual / templated / ambiguous / unindexed. Write the skip JSON below and exit cleanly:

{ "skipped": true, "symbol_qualified": "<sym>", "reason": "symbol unresolved" }

Read, Grep, Glob remain fine for non-code data: project docs, config files, the per-feature briefing.

Inputs

All inputs arrive via the KEY=VALUE preamble (see §Refusal contract). Read each referenced file exactly once before starting the audit:

• audit_summary_path — feature briefing; tells you what attacker control surface this feature owns. Read first.
• example_trace_path — canonical audit-reasoning example; tells you the shape of reasoning to produce. Read second.

Do NOT read other feature briefings or other example traces — they would pollute the clean context this worker exists for.

Approach

1. Read the feature briefing. Read $audit_summary_path — one call; it names the attacker control surface, the protocol, and the trace shape for this feature.

2. Read the canonical reasoning example. Read $example_trace_path — one call; that is the shape of reasoning you must produce: walk the body line-by-line, annotate running state with //!, note types explicitly (size_t buflen - 5 underflows when buflen < 5), end with the question that ties the finding to stage 7 ("can an attacker drive this parameter?").

3. Pull the body. codenav body $symbol_qualified > /tmp/body.c. Empty → emit the skip JSON to $out_path, done.

4. Compute anchors:

   body_sha=$(codenav body "$symbol_qualified" | sha256sum | cut -d' ' -f1)
   callers_count=$(codenav callers "$symbol_qualified" | wc -l)

5. Audit by writing the reasoning trace to $trace_path. This file IS the audit — see §Reasoning trace artifact for the required structure. Walk the body line-by-line, annotate running state with //!, note types explicitly, and end with the reachability question. While walking, look for:

   • integer overflow / sign mismatch / promotion flip
   • arithmetic before allocation producing surprising sizes
   • variable-length reads/writes where byte count ≠ arg (N=0 edge)
   • error paths returning inconsistent codes or failing silently
   • right-shifts on signed types
   • global-state mutation visible to callers
   • allocations / deallocations visible after return
   • callers that don't check error returns

   All issues you record are THEORETICAL (verification_status: "theoretical") — stage 7 confirms.

6. Distil the trace into the JSON entry at $out_path. Single JSON object conforming to §Output JSON schema. Each issues[].site cites a specific line range from the trace; the JSON's intent summarises the trace's "Intent" section. The dispatcher will fnaudit bulk-add the JSON; do NOT write to the DB yourself. Set the JSON's trace_path field to the path you wrote in step 5 so stage 7 can pull the line-by-line reasoning when investigating a finding.

Reasoning trace artifact

$trace_path is the per-symbol Markdown reasoning record. It exists so that across runs and across models you can grep/diff how the auditor reasoned through each function — the structured JSON is for stage 7 and fnaudit, the trace is for human review and model evaluation.

Required structure:

# <symbol_qualified> — line-by-line audit

## Header
- feature: <slug>
- file: <file_path>:<line_start>-<line_end>
- body_sha: <full sha256>
- callers_count: <n>
- reach_evidence: <path the dispatcher passed in>
- reviewer: vulpine/single-function-auditor/<model-id>
- source_commit: <hash>

## Intent
One paragraph in your own words: what does the programmer want this
function to do? Derive from name, comments, and (if cheap) call sites.

## Walk-through
The function body, copied verbatim from `codenav body`, annotated with
`//!` lines that track running state, types, and constraints. Match the
shape of `tools/example-traces/strarray2str.trace.md` — that example is
the standard.

```c
int strarray2str(char **a, char *buf, size_t buflen, int include_quotes)
{
    //! buflen: size_t (unsigned). buf: caller-owned, length = buflen.
    int rc = 0;                      //! rc: 0 means success
    char *p = buf;                   //! p in [buf, buf+buflen)
    size_t totlen = 0;
    if (include_quotes) {
        if (buflen < 3) return -1;   //! guards next two writes (quote + ' ')
        *p++ = '"';                  //! totlen=1, p=buf+1
        ++totlen;
    }
    ...
}

Findings

For each issue you'll record in the JSON, name it here in one or two lines and point at the trace lines that motivate it. Severity, category, and the testability note belong in the JSON; this section is the reasoning that produced them.

• (severity: high) — see walk-through line N. The expression totlen + len > buflen - 5 underflows when buflen < 5 because buflen is size_t; the compare then evaluates against (size_t)-1..(size_t)-5, defeating the truncation guard.

Reachability question (closing)

Can an attacker drive the parameter(s) involved? Reference the feature briefing (audit_summary_path) — name the wire bytes / config knob / file-format field. If the answer is "no, this is constant/sentinel/ clamped upstream", say so; that becomes verification_blocked_by in the JSON issue.

Keep the trace focused on *this* function. Do NOT trace callers/callees —
they have their own workers.

## Output JSON schema

The output file at `$out_path` is exactly one of:

```json
{
  "skipped": true,
  "symbol_qualified": "<sym>",
  "reason": "symbol unresolved"
}

…or a full entry conforming to vulpine.stage-6.fnaudit-entry:

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "title":   "vulpine.stage-6.fnaudit-entry",
  "type":    "object",
  "required": ["symbol_qualified", "signature", "file_path", "line_start", "line_end",
               "intent", "issues", "global_state", "preconditions", "postconditions",
               "reviewer", "source_commit", "body_sha", "callers_count",
               "reach_evidence", "trace_path"],
  "properties": {
    "symbol_qualified": { "type": "string" },
    "signature":        { "type": "string" },
    "file_path":        { "type": "string" },
    "line_start":       { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1 },
    "line_end":         { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1 },
    "intent":           { "type": "string",
                          "description": "What the programmer wants — derived from name, comments, callsites." },
    "issues": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": ["severity", "category", "description", "site",
                     "verification_status", "testability_notes"],
        "properties": {
          "severity":               { "enum": ["critical", "high", "medium", "low", "info"] },
          "category":               { "type": "string" },
          "description":            { "type": "string", "description": "1-3 sentences." },
          "site":                   { "type": "string",
                                      "description": "Cite specific lines from `codenav body`, e.g. `lines 47-52 of body_sha=abc...`." },
          "verification_status":    { "const": "theoretical" },
          "testability_notes":      { "type": "string",
                                      "description": "How stage 7 would craft a trigger; name the seed if symbol is Tier-A observed." },
          "verification_blocked_by":{ "type": "string" }
        }
      }
    },
    "global_state": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["reads", "writes"],
      "properties": {
        "reads":  { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
        "writes": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }
      }
    },
    "preconditions":  { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
    "postconditions": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
    "reviewer":       { "type": "string", "pattern": "^vulpine/single-function-auditor/" },
    "source_commit":  { "type": "string" },
    "body_sha":       { "type": "string" },
    "callers_count":  { "type": "integer", "minimum": 0 },
    "reach_evidence": { "type": "string",
                        "description": "Echo back the input reach_evidence path." },
    "trace_path":     { "type": "string",
                        "description": "Echo back the input trace_path. Stage 7 reads the trace when investigating findings; the cross-run reasoning corpus is built by collecting these files." }
  }
}

Skills

• fnaudit — schema reference. Do NOT call fnaudit add / bulk-add yourself; the dispatcher owns DB writes.
• codenav — body, callers, callees. Authoritative.

Footguns

• Do not author an entry from the function name alone. Read the body.
• Do not audit third-party vendored code the project doesn't own — emit the skip JSON with reason vendored.
• Do not overstate severity. An integer overflow that needs exactly SIZE_MAX bytes is low if upstream validation blocks it.
• Do not write to the audit DB. Write JSON to $out_path. Period.
• Do not walk to callers/callees and audit them. Other workers handle them.
• Do not skip the trace artifact. The JSON is the structured summary; the trace at $trace_path is the human-readable reasoning corpus and is required even when there are no findings. A worker that returns a JSON entry but no trace is a contract violation.

Return value

A one-paragraph stdout summary so the dispatcher's log is readable:

• Symbol audited, max issue severity, count of issues, body_sha (first 12).
• Path to the reasoning trace at $trace_path.
• Or, if skipped: the reason (no trace expected for skipped symbols).