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deepnote lint --governance — the first slice of a governance layer for a Deepnote workspace. Four deterministic, project-scoped checks that reuse the existing lint framework verbatim: same LintIssue shape, same -o json mode, same exit codes. These are new codes, not a new command.

Code Finding Severity
sql-null-comparison = NULL / != NULL, which never matches a row error
sql-tautology A column compared to itself, so the join or filter is a no-op error
sql-string-boolean A column compared to the string 'true'/'false' instead of the keyword warning
credential-hardcoded A credential written into a block error / warning
$ deepnote lint churn.deepnote --governance

Churn analysis

  ✖ sql-null-comparison: Comparison "u.deleted_at = NULL" is never true — NULL does not compare
    equal to anything. Use IS NULL.
      in SELECT u.id, u.email
  ✖ sql-tautology: Comparison "u.id = u.id" compares a column to itself, so it filters nothing.
    Did one side mean a different table?
      in SELECT u.id, u.email
  ⚠ sql-string-boolean: Comparison "u.is_active = 'false'" tests a column against the string
    literal 'false'. Dialects disagree about this coercion — use the FALSE keyword.
      in SELECT u.id, u.email
  ✖ credential-hardcoded: AWS access key ID is hardcoded in this block (fingerprint
    1a5d44a2dca19669). Move it to an environment variable or an integration. The same credential
    appears in 2 blocks in this project.
      in import boto3

Summary: 3 errors, 1 warning

Governance: scanned 2 SQL and 4 content blocks in this project.
Project scope: divergence, subject scatter, egress and staleness compare projects against each
other and need the whole synced workspace.

Three decisions worth reviewing

A lexer, not a parser. The SQL checks run on sql-scanner.ts: it tokenizes, tracking line and column, and knows comments, every quoting style ('…', "…", `…`, […], $tag$…$tag$), and Deepnote's {{ param }} holes — but it has no grammar. These checks are local comparisons around an operator, so a grammar buys nothing, and staying at the lexer level is what keeps the package dependency-free, dialect-agnostic, and able to read a templated fragment that is not valid SQL on its own. A real parser would skip exactly the queries most likely to be wrong.

Credentials are fingerprinted, never stored. Every credential-hardcoded finding carries a truncated SHA-256 and no value, so the output can go into a ticket without becoming a second place the key is written down. The fingerprint still identifies the same key reused across blocks — details.blockCount — which is the number that decides whether rotating it is a one-line fix. Detection is split by precision: vendor-shaped patterns (AWS, GitHub, Slack, Stripe, private keys, connection-string passwords) are errors; the heuristic rule, a long literal assigned to a secret-named variable, is a warning with a hard placeholder filter in front of it.

The scope split is load-bearing. --governance runs only what one project can answer on its own. Divergence, subject scatter, egress and staleness compare projects against each other, and consensus over one project is not evidence — so instead of returning a confidently empty result, lint prints the scope it covered and names what it could not reach. Those checks arrive on the workspace-scoped surface in follow-ups.

Scope

  • Follow-ups: deepnote audit over a synced workspace (flow map: integrations → projects → external hosts), a fingerprinted subject index for DSAR lookup, liveness-weighted staleness scoring, and last, SQL divergence.
  • sql-divergence is deliberately not here. It has the highest build cost, needs a shared schema, and its precision is unvalidated — someone has to click through a ranked sample before it earns a place in the product.

Testing

  • 74 new unit tests across the scanner, the SQL checks, the credential rules, and the orchestrator; 8 new command-level tests in lint.test.ts.
  • Negative cases are the bulk of them: IS NULL, 1 = 1, a.x = a.x + 1, max(x) = max(x), NULL inside comments and string literals, env lookups, {{ templates }}, and placeholder values.
  • One assertion checks the fixture's credential never reaches stdout.
  • pnpm typecheck, pnpm biome:check, and pnpm prettier:check are clean. pnpm test passes except for a pre-existing run.test.ts interpreter-resolution failure on main, unrelated to this change.

Docs

packages/cli/README.md and skills/deepnote/references/cli-analysis.md, including the instruction that a matched credential must never be echoed back into a notebook or a ticket.

What the fingerprint does not protect

The credential check never retains a secret: SecretFinding carries a truncated SHA-256 and nothing
else. That did not stop the credential being published.

runProjectGovernanceChecks set blockLabel: info.label on every finding, and info.label is the
block's first non-empty line. For the one-line TOKEN = "…" assignment this check most often fires
on, the label is the secret — reported in the same issue as the fingerprint that exists so the
secret need not be written down again, and in CI logs under lint -o json.

The leak arrived through blockLabel: a field that predates governance and was never a secrecy
boundary. Blocks found to hold a credential are now labelled by identity (code (b1c2d3e4)), which
derives from nothing the author typed. The decision is made once per block and applies to every
finding on it, not only to credential-hardcoded — a SQL block can hold both a broken predicate and
a connection string, and the SQL finding carries the same label field. Anything added to
index.ts later that reaches for info.label has the same problem.

The regression test asserts against the whole serialized LintIssue rather than named fields, so the
next field added here cannot reintroduce it.

details.snippet from sql-checks leaked the same way, for a reason I initially got wrong. The
span covers only the flagged comparison — but a literal that is itself an operand of that
comparison is inside it, so WHERE 'AKIA…' = NULL and WHERE dsn = 'postgres://u:…@h/db' = NULL
both put a credential in the evidence field. The narrow span makes this rare; it does not make it
safe.

The finding's message quotes the snippet verbatim, so masking only details.snippet would have
moved the leak one field over. Both are handled together: here the snippet is withheld and the
message keeps its shape (Comparison "<redacted>" is never true …), because findSecrets can say a
credential is present but not where it sits. #556 supersedes this by masking in place once the span
scanner exists.

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  • New Features
    • Added opt-in governance checks to deepnote lint for SQL comparisons with NULL, identical-column comparisons, string-valued boolean comparisons, and hardcoded credentials.
    • Credential findings display truncated fingerprints instead of secret values. Results include scan coverage and are available in JSON output.
    • SQL checks run without a warehouse connection, schema, or Python interpreter. Governance checks cover project content; workspace-scoped checks are reported as unavailable. Direct integrations-file linting warns that governance checks are ignored.
  • Documentation
    • Updated CLI help and documentation with the governance option, findings, scope, and usage examples.

Update: the credential check was not the only rule printing the block

runProjectGovernanceChecks labelled its own findings safely. But it is one rule among many writing into the same issues[], and the pre-existing unused-variable rule reported the same block with its raw first line — which for the one-line TOKEN = "…" assignment this check most often fires on is the credential. The fingerprint and the plaintext appeared side by side, in the same output.

✖ credential-hardcoded: AWS access key ID is hardcoded in this block (fingerprint 1a5d…)
    in code (9f1a2b3c)
⚠ unused-variable: Variable "SEGMENT_WRITE_KEY" is defined but never used
    in SEGMENT_WRITE_KEY = "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE"      ← here

This is pre-existing on main: plain deepnote lint without --governance leaks it too, so it is not a regression from this stack. It is fixed here because this is where both the reason and the means live — --governance is the advertised pre-publish CI gate, so the secret reaches build logs through a workflow this stack creates, and findSecrets is already on this branch.

The decision now belongs to the lint layer rather than to each rule: both block-map builders resolve labels through safeBlockLabel, ungated on --governance, because the leak is a property of the block and not of which checks were asked for. getBlockLabel is untouched — other commands depend on it.

The leak arrived through blockLabel, a field that predates governance and was never a secrecy boundary. That is why SecretFinding deliberately retaining no secret did not prevent it, and anything added here later that reaches for info.label has the same problem. The regression test asserts across the whole serialized LintIssue[], every field, with and without --governance, so the next field added here cannot reintroduce it quietly.

details.snippet from sql-checks is also raw block text. The span covers only the flagged comparison, so the exposure is narrow — but a literal that is itself an operand is inside it, and #556 withholds the snippet entirely once it is known to hold a credential.

sql-string-boolean is now dialect-aware

Comparing a boolean column to a double-quoted literal is a real defect where double quotes delimit a string, and an ordinary column reference where they delimit an identifier. The rule treated them as identifiers unconditionally and missed the former.

The block's sql_integration_id is already read on this branch, so the dialect resolves at the point of the check. MySQL, MariaDB and BigQuery are flagged; the identifier-quoting dialects are not, nor is a block that declares no integration, nor one whose integration the project never declared. Databricks is deliberately absent — there the answer depends on a session setting, and a rule that fires only sometimes is worse than one that does not fire.

Fixture cases cover both dialect families including the negative case, plus backtick and bracket quoting, which are identifier quotes everywhere.

One claim withdrawn

The sql-tautology doc comment said the shape "usually marks a copy-paste where one side's alias was never updated". There is no measurement behind that. Written as it appears in a query the shape is rare; it turns up far more readily in processed SQL, where an alias-resolving normalizer collapses a table self-joined under two aliases into an apparent tautology. The rule is correct and worth keeping, aliased forms included — but it does not get to claim field evidence, and the comment now says so.

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The lint command adds an optional --governance mode for project-level SQL and credential checks. SQL checks report NULL comparisons, identical-column comparisons, and string-valued boolean comparisons. Credential findings use truncated SHA-256 fingerprints instead of secret values. Text and JSON output report findings and scan scope when requested. Direct integrations-YAML linting warns that the option is ignored. Workspace-scoped checks are not included.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI as lint command
  participant Analysis as checkForIssues
  participant Governance as runProjectGovernanceChecks
  participant SQL as checkSqlQuery
  participant Secrets as findSecrets
  CLI->>Analysis: notebook blocks and governance option
  Analysis->>Governance: collected blocks and block map
  Governance->>SQL: SQL block content
  SQL-->>Governance: SQL findings
  Governance->>Secrets: eligible block content
  Secrets-->>Governance: credential findings with fingerprints
  Governance-->>Analysis: findings and project summary
  Analysis-->>CLI: lint result
  CLI-->>CLI: print findings and scan scope
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Audit - Production / Audit - All: pre-existing on main, out of scope here

Checked before touching anything, per the usual rule that a red security job is guilty until proven innocent.

This stack changes no dependency files:

$ git diff --name-only main..feat/governance-dependency-sbom -- '**/package.json' 'package.json' 'pnpm-lock.yaml'
(empty)

main fails identically today:

$ git checkout main && pnpm audit --audit-level high --prod
critical  proxy-addr  <2.0.8           via packages__mcp>@modelcontextprotocol/sdk>express>proxy-addr   GHSA-jqcg-44mw-7w3h
high      @modelcontextprotocol/sdk  >=1.12.0 <1.31.0                                                   GHSA-6qxp-vccf-f47h
2 vulnerabilities found

Both reach the tree through @modelcontextprotocol/sdk in packages/mcp — nothing this stack imports or touches.

main's last CI run was 2026-10-05 and was green; these two advisories were published after it. So "main is green" and "the audit fails on main" are both true — the job is green on main only because nothing has re-run there since the advisories landed. Any PR opened now goes red on it, regardless of content.

Fixing it means bumping @modelcontextprotocol/sdk to >=1.31.0 and overriding proxy-addr to >=2.0.8, which is a dependency change in packages/mcp with its own test surface. That belongs in its own PR — same shape as #551 — not smuggled into a CLI governance stack where it would be invisible to review. Leaving it.

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Six stacked drafts, one author, no human review yet. That is not landable as a unit — the diff is ~8k lines across a lint gate, a workspace command, a DSAR index, a scoring model, a consensus check and an SBOM, and reviewing it in one pass means reviewing none of it properly.

Recommended order:

  1. Take feat(cli): governance checks for lint — SQL correctness and hardcoded credentials #555 and feat(cli): deepnote audit — workspace integration inventory, data flow map, and governance findings #556 to ready-for-review now, and get a human on them. They are the foundation everything else imports — the scanner, the secret/subject redaction, the workspace loader — and they are also where the bugs found so far have clustered: the unreadable-workspace silent pass, the redaction span corruption, the null-safe operator inversion. Those two are self-contained and each is useful alone (lint --governance is a CI gate; audit is the inventory).
  2. Leave feat(cli): deepnote subjects — fingerprinted subject index and DSAR lookup #557–feat(cli): dependency inventory — an SBOM, and what will not install the same twice #560 in draft until feat(cli): governance checks for lint — SQL correctness and hardcoded credentials #555/feat(cli): deepnote audit — workspace integration inventory, data flow map, and governance findings #556 land. They rebase cleanly on top and have no value to a reviewer until the base is settled — every review comment on them risks being invalidated by a change underneath.
  3. feat(cli): SQL divergence — integration-scoped, measurable, with optional local-model triage #559 and feat(cli): dependency inventory — an SBOM, and what will not install the same twice #560 should stay draft longer than feat(cli): deepnote subjects — fingerprinted subject index and DSAR lookup #557/feat(cli): rank governance findings by liveness-weighted severity #558. feat(cli): SQL divergence — integration-scoped, measurable, with optional local-model triage #559 now carries a model-triage layer and a precision-measurement workflow that did not exist when it was opened; it wants its own review pass rather than being waved through behind the others. feat(cli): dependency inventory — an SBOM, and what will not install the same twice #560 depends on feat(cli): SQL divergence — integration-scoped, measurable, with optional local-model triage #559's rebase.

One thing a reviewer of #555/#556 should know: the per-kind weights in the divergence ranking (#559) are unmeasured starting points, and --export-review / --import-review exists so they can be replaced with a measurement. Nothing in #555 or #556 depends on them.

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jamesbhobbs and others added 3 commits October 7, 2026 22:08
Adds `deepnote lint --governance`, a set of deterministic, project-scoped
governance checks that reuse the existing lint framework verbatim — same
`LintIssue` shape, same JSON mode, same exit codes. They are new codes, not a
new command.

  sql-null-comparison   `= NULL` never matches a row; use IS NULL
  sql-tautology         a column compared to itself, so the join is a no-op
  sql-string-boolean    a column compared to the string 'true'/'false'
  credential-hardcoded  a credential written into a block

The SQL checks run on a small scanner added here: a lexer, not a parser, that
knows comments, every quoting style, and Deepnote's `{{ param }}` holes, and
keeps each token's line and column. Staying at the lexer level is what keeps
the checks dependency-free, dialect-agnostic, and able to read a templated
fragment that no parser would accept.

Credentials are reported as a truncated SHA-256 fingerprint and never by
value, so a report can be pasted into a ticket without becoming a second place
the key is written down. The fingerprint still identifies the same key reused
across blocks, which is the number that decides whether rotating it is a
one-line fix.

The scope split is deliberate. `--governance` runs only what one project can
answer on its own; divergence, subject scatter, egress and staleness compare
projects against each other, and consensus over one project is not evidence.
Rather than return a confidently empty result, lint reports the scope it
covered and says what it could not reach.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…-clean

Three things the CI and the coverage report between them turned up.

The spell checker was failing on 32 words. Most were British spellings in a
repository that is uniformly American (organization 38 / organisation 0 on main),
so those are corrected rather than dictionary entries. The genuine technical terms
— the vendors' own documented example credentials the scanner tests match against,
`boto`, `getenv`, and the SQL keywords `localtime`/`localtimestamp` — are added to
cspell.json. The three remaining "words" are regex character classes (`gh[pousr]_`,
`xox[baprse]-`) and get a scoped ignore in the one file that spells tokens that
way, with a comment saying why.

Covering the scanner's unreached branches found a real bug behind one of them. The
numeric literal class has to admit a-f and x so hex scans in one piece, which also
means it swallows the `e` of an exponent — so the exponent branch below it was
unreachable and `1.5e-3` tokenized as `1.5e`, `-`, `3`. A signed exponent is now
recognized inside the loop, with hex excluded so `0xE-1` still stops at the `-`.

Patch coverage goes from 96.5% to 100% of lines and statements. The paths that were
uncovered were the ones that decide whether a query is scanned or silently skipped:
a doubled quote inside a quoted identifier, an unterminated identifier, a character
the lexer has no rule for, a block type that is neither source nor prose, and a
block whose content is not a string.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two review findings, both on `<=>`, and both producing a wrong answer rather than
a noisy one.

`a <=> NULL` is MySQL's null-safe equality: it returns 0 or 1, never NULL, and it
means exactly `a IS NULL`. The null-comparison check reported it as "never true"
and suggested `IS NOT NULL` — the opposite predicate — at error severity, which
exits non-zero and would block a valid MySQL workflow in CI. It is no longer
flagged at all.

Range comparisons keep their finding but lose the suggestion. `a > NULL` really
does match nothing, so the report stands, but neither `IS NULL` nor `IS NOT NULL`
is what the author meant; the comparison is broken in a way this check cannot guess
the fix for, and offering one anyway is worse than saying so.

`x <=> x` is true for every row, NULLs included — more of a no-op than `x = x`, not
less. The tautology check treated every non-`=` operator as "never true", which
stated the opposite. Only `!=` and `<>` are contradictions now.

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Audit jobs: resolved upstream, stack rebased

#561 landed the @modelcontextprotocol/sdk / proxy-addr bumps on main — the separate dependency PR I pointed at above. The whole stack is now rebased onto main so every branch picks it up, not just this one (the others are based on each other's branches, so they would not have inherited it otherwise).

$ pnpm audit --audit-level high --prod
No known vulnerabilities found

Nothing else in the rebase: main's change is confined to package.json and the lockfile, which this stack does not touch, and all six rebased without a conflict.

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Stack integrity note, since it affects what every reviewer here is looking at.

Until this push, origin/feat/governance-subject-index did not contain origin/feat/governance-audit-workspace's tip commit. The last force-push updated #556 and #557 without re-cascading, so #557–#560 were all missing #556's final commit, and each PR's diff against its base showed a revert of it. Every base→head link is now a real ancestor, verified branch by branch.

That is also why the CHANGES_REQUESTED labels on #556–#560 are stale: the reviews predate this push. I re-checked every round-1 item against the current tree and they are all still fixed. Reviews re-requested on all six.

Merge strategy — unchanged recommendation, one update. Six stacked drafts with one author is not landable as a unit. Take #555 and #556 to ready-for-review first and get a human on them; hold #557–#560 in draft until the base lands.

#559 should stay draft longest. The triage layer has now had two bugs found in it after it was written — ids that did not line up with the cache, and an export path that corrupted -o json — and both were in the plumbing around the measurement rather than in the model-facing part. The precision-measurement loop it exists to enable has still never been run end to end by a person. That is the thing that should gate it, not CI.

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One finding against this PR that I need to correct from my own earlier summary.

I previously reported that the block-label credential leak was fixed on #555. It is not — the redaction lands on #556. On this branch alone:

runProjectGovernanceChecks([{ id: 'b1', type: 'code', content: 'AWS_KEY = "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE"' }], map)
// credential-hardcoded | blockLabel: "AWS_KEY = \"AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE\""

details carries the fingerprint, deliberately, and blockLabel prints the key next to it. deepnote lint --governance -o json is the CI surface, so that lands in build logs.

I have not fixed it here, because the fix is a PR-boundary decision that is yours. SecretFinding deliberately never retains the matched secret — only a fingerprint — so there is no way to redact a label on this branch without #556's span-returning scanner (scanSecrets → redactSecrets). The options:

  1. Move scanSecrets/redactSecrets down to feat(cli): governance checks for lint — SQL correctness and hardcoded credentials #555. Correct — it belongs with the secrets module and this is the first branch that needs it — but it relocates a chunk of feat(cli): deepnote audit — workspace integration inventory, data flow map, and governance findings #556's commit and means re-cascading four branches.
  2. Leave it, and do not take feat(cli): governance checks for lint — SQL correctness and hardcoded credentials #555 to ready-for-review alone. The leak exists only in the window where feat(cli): governance checks for lint — SQL correctness and hardcoded credentials #555 is merged without feat(cli): deepnote audit — workspace integration inventory, data flow map, and governance findings #556.

Given the merge plan is "#555 and #556 first", option 2 is survivable if they go together, and option 1 is right if #555 might land on its own. I would do option 1 on your say-so; it is maybe thirty minutes including the re-cascade.

Related, and also worth knowing before you choose: the same label path has a truncation-order bug, which I did fix on #557 where that code lives. getBlockLabel truncates to 50 characters before anything is redacted, so an identifier straddling the cut survives as a prefix matching no pattern — jane.doe.reporting@acme-corp.io became jane.doe.report…, a person's name. Whichever option you pick for #555, its label needs the same treatment: redact the content, then label it.

`runProjectGovernanceChecks` set `blockLabel: info.label` on every finding it
emitted. That label comes from `getBlockLabel`, which returns the block's first
non-empty line — so for the one-line `TOKEN = "…"` assignment this check most
often fires on, the label *is* the secret. The finding therefore reported a
fingerprint and the plaintext side by side, which is the opposite of what the
check exists to do, and `lint -o json` puts it in CI logs.

`SecretFinding` deliberately retains no secret, and that is why the leak was easy
to miss: the credential did not arrive through the credential code at all. It
arrived through `blockLabel`, a field that predates governance and was never a
secrecy boundary.

Blocks found to hold a credential are now labelled by identity — `code (b1c2d3e4)`,
the same shape `getBlockLabel` already uses as its fallback — which is derived from
nothing the author typed and so needs no masking. The decision is made once per
block and applies to every finding on it, not only to `credential-hardcoded`: a SQL
block can hold both a broken predicate and a connection string, and the SQL finding
carries the same label field.

`getBlockLabel` itself is untouched; other commands depend on it.

The regression test asserts against the whole serialized `LintIssue` rather than
against named fields, so the next field added here cannot reintroduce this.

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The credential check was printing the credential. Fixed here, where it belongs.

runProjectGovernanceChecks set blockLabel: info.label on every finding. That label comes from getBlockLabel → getCodeBlockLabel, which returns the block's first non-empty line truncated to 50 characters — so for the one-line TOKEN = "…" assignment this check most often fires on, the label is the secret. The finding reported a fingerprint and the plaintext side by side, and lint -o json puts that in CI logs.

Reproduced before fixing:

$ deepnote lint leak.deepnote --governance -o json | jq -r '.issues[] | select(.code=="credential-hardcoded") | .blockLabel'
SEGMENT_WRITE_KEY = "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE"

Why SecretFinding retaining no secret did not prevent this. The credential did not arrive through the credential code. It arrived through blockLabel — a field that predates governance and was never a secrecy boundary. Anything added to index.ts later that reaches for info.label has the same problem, which is why the decision is made once per block rather than per check: a SQL block can hold both a broken predicate and a connection string, and the SQL finding carries the same label field.

Blocks found to hold a credential are labelled by identity — code (b1c2d3e4), the same shape getBlockLabel already uses as its own fallback. It derives from nothing the author typed, so it needs no masking, and it needs no span scanner. getBlockLabel itself is untouched; other commands depend on it.

redactSecrets and the span-tracking refactor stay on #556. There, masking in place supersedes this stopgap: the label becomes TOKEN = "<redacted>" and the finding stays locatable, which this cannot do.

The regression test asserts against the whole serialized LintIssue — every contiguous run of the secret 8 characters or longer must be absent from every field — rather than against named fields, so the next field added here cannot reintroduce it.

One thing deliberately left alone. details.snippet from sql-checks is raw block text. Today those snippets span only a comparison and a column name (u.deleted_at = NULL), so an arbitrary literal cannot be inside one, and #557 redacts them anyway. Flagging it rather than leaving it unremarked.

Also still true, and outside governance: the pre-existing unused-variable check prints the same content-derived label, so SEGMENT_WRITE_KEY = "AKIA…" still appears in its finding. Fixing that means changing getBlockLabel for every command that uses it — a separate decision, not one to make inside a governance PR.

Coverage on this branch is 100% lines/statements for the governance modules.

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Merge posture.

#555 and #556 are out of draft and need a human reviewer. #557–#560 stay in draft until #555 lands — nothing in the stack merges until it does, and six stacked branches from one author with only bot review is not landable as a unit.

Suggested order:

  1. feat(cli): governance checks for lint — SQL correctness and hardcoded credentials #555 — the CI gate. Self-contained: a SQL scanner, four checks, no new dependencies, no network. Reviewing it needs no context from the rest of the stack.
  2. feat(cli): deepnote audit — workspace integration inventory, data flow map, and governance findings #556 — the demo, and the first branch that reads a whole workspace. It also carries the span scanner that supersedes feat(cli): governance checks for lint — SQL correctness and hardcoded credentials #555's label stopgap, so reviewing the two together is cheaper than reviewing either twice.
  3. Rebase feat(cli): deepnote subjects — fingerprinted subject index and DSAR lookup #557–feat(cli): dependency inventory — an SBOM, and what will not install the same twice #560 onto main as feat(cli): governance checks for lint — SQL correctness and hardcoded credentials #555 and feat(cli): deepnote audit — workspace integration inventory, data flow map, and governance findings #556 land, and take them out of draft one at a time.

#559 should stay in draft longest. Its triage layer wants its own pass: it is the only part of the stack that can send workspace content anywhere, and the guarantees that make that acceptable — no default endpoint, redaction before the payload is built, caching, fail-soft — are each a test rather than an argument, but they have had no human read them. Its approval, when it comes, is a different kind of approval from the others'.

Note that #555's APPROVED/CHANGES_REQUESTED state has been stale all round: the labels predate several force-pushes. Worth re-reading rather than trusting the badge.

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The snippet of a SQL finding spans the flagged comparison, and I argued one commit
ago that this bounds it tightly enough that an arbitrary literal cannot be inside
one. That is wrong for the case that matters: a literal which is itself an *operand*
of the comparison is inside the span.

    SELECT * FROM t WHERE 'AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE' = NULL
    SELECT * FROM t WHERE dsn = 'postgres://u:…@h/db' = NULL

Both are shapes people write — a placeholder key compared the wrong way, a DSN
tested for presence — and both put the credential in `details.snippet`.

Masking only `details.snippet` would have moved the leak one field over rather than
closed it: the message quotes the snippet verbatim, so the same credential sits in
the sentence beside it. Message and evidence are therefore handled together.

`findSecrets` can say whether the snippet holds a credential but not where it sits;
locating a span needs the scanner that arrives with `redactSecrets`, which
supersedes this and masks in place. Until then the snippet is withheld and the
message keeps its shape (`Comparison "<redacted>" is never true …`). `line` and
`column` still locate the finding. A snippet with no credential in it is published
exactly as before — withholding is for the rare case, not the common one.

The regression test asserts across every SQL finding on the block, not just
`details`. The narrow-span argument is why the first version of this test would
have passed: it only looked at `credential-hardcoded`.

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Correction to my previous comment, and a second leak closed.

I wrote above that details.snippet was safe to leave alone, because "those snippets span only a comparison and a column name, so an arbitrary literal cannot be inside one". That is wrong, and the review caught it. A literal which is itself an operand of the flagged comparison is inside the span:

$ deepnote lint q.deepnote --governance -o json | jq -r '.issues[0].details.snippet'
'AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE' = NULL

Both shapes are things people write — a placeholder key compared the wrong way, a DSN tested for presence with dsn = 'postgres://u:…@h/db' = NULL. The narrow span is what makes this rare. It is not what makes it safe, and I had been treating the two as the same claim.

Fixing details.snippet alone would have moved the leak one field over rather than closed it: the finding's message quotes the snippet verbatim, so the credential sat in the sentence beside the redacted field. Message and evidence are now handled together.

On #555 the snippet is withheld and the message keeps its shape — Comparison "<redacted>" is never true … — because findSecrets can say a credential is present but not where it sits. On #556, where the span scanner exists, this is superseded by masking in place: '<redacted>' = NULL, so the comparison's shape survives. On #557 redactSubjects joins it, covering WHERE 'jane@acme.io' = NULL.

Why the first test did not catch it. My regression test asserted against the whole serialized issue, as asked — but only for credential-hardcoded findings. The SQL findings on the same block went unchecked. The new tests assert across every finding on the block.

And a stale comment on #557. It claimed the snippet redaction there was "defense in depth rather than a fix for a live leak", with a test apparently confirming it. The test put the address in a different comparison from the flagged one, so it was pinning the narrow span rather than testing the claim. Both the comment and the test note now say what the span does and does not buy.

The PR body's note on details.snippet is corrected accordingly.

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Note for whoever picks this up: force-pushing this branch puts the PR back into draft (something in the repo automation does it). I have re-marked #555 and #556 ready — if you see them drafted again after a push, that is why, not a deliberate change.

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`details.column` is the column name as written, so a quoted identifier puts
arbitrary block text in the JSON report. `safeSqlFinding` cleared the snippet and
then the call site spread `...finding.details` back over it, so `-o json` still
carried the credential while the text renderer, which prints only the message,
looked clean.

That is the third field to leak here — block label, snippet, now `details.column` —
and all three were found separately because all three were reasoned about
separately. The common cause is that every one of them is derived from block text,
and block text is where credentials are. So this stops naming the fields it
protects: it walks the finished details object, and a key added to a check tomorrow
is covered without anyone remembering to come back here.

The message keeps its guard as well as its substitution. Substituting the snippet
covers the usual shape; the guard covers a template that interpolates some other
operand, which is exactly the kind of thing the previous two fixes missed.

Also separates two fields that had silently collided. `details.column` was the lint
position for `sql-null-comparison` and the column *name* for the other two checks,
because the check's own `column` overwrote the position when the objects were
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182-188: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

finding.details can still put a credential into JSON output.

safeSqlFinding checks only the snippet. Line 187 then spreads the raw finding.details back into the issue. Take WHERE AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE = 'true', with the key written as a bare word. checkStringBoolean sets details.column to the key, and checkTautology does the same for x = x. The text output prints only the message. -o json prints details.column as written.

Pass every string value in details through the same credential check before you spread it.

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             ...safe.details,
             ...(integrationId ? { integrationId } : {}),
-            ...finding.details,
+            ...Object.fromEntries(
+              Object.entries(finding.details ?? {}).map(([key, value]) => [
+                key,
+                typeof value === 'string' && findSecrets(value).length > 0 ? WITHHELD_SNIPPET : value,
+              ])
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Valid, and broader than reported — fixed.

Confirmed: details.columnName (then details.column) carries the column name as written, so a quoted identifier puts arbitrary block text in the JSON report. safeSqlFinding cleared the snippet and the call site then spread ...finding.details back over it. Text output looked clean because the renderer prints only the message, so this was specifically a JSON exposure — as you said.

This is the third field to leak here: block label, snippet, now the details. Each was found separately because each was reasoned about separately, and they have one cause — every one of them is derived from block text, and block text is where credentials are.

So the fix stops naming the fields it protects. It walks the finished details object, so a key added to a check tomorrow is covered without anyone remembering to come back here. The message keeps a guard as well as its snippet substitution, for a template that interpolates some other operand.

While verifying this I found a second defect in the same object: details.column was two different things. The lint position (a number) for sql-null-comparison, and the column name (a string) for the other two, because the check's own column key overwrote the position when the objects were merged. A consumer reading details.column got a number or a string depending on which check fired. The name is now details.columnName.

Both have regression tests checked against the unfixed code.

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Re-scanning each field on its own asks a different question from the one the block
scan already answered. Half the provider patterns need surrounding context: a URI
password is recognizable in `postgres://admin:…@host/db` and unrecognizable on its
own. So a password reused as a column name matched nothing when `details.columnName`
was scanned by itself, and was published beside the fingerprint of the same secret:

    -- dsn: postgres://admin:hunter2…@warehouse/db
    SELECT * FROM t WHERE hunter2… = 'true'

The block already knows. The decision now uses what it knows: in a block holding a
credential, the finding keeps its code, line and column and withholds the text it
would otherwise quote. That is the same trade the block label already makes.

Withholding *everything* in such a block would be safe and useless, so the checks
now declare which of their detail keys hold verbatim block text and which they
chose from a closed vocabulary. `operator` (`=`), `suggestion` (`IS NULL`) and the
integration id survive; `columnName`, `literal` and the snippet do not. A key no
check declares is treated as verbatim, so forgetting to list one fails towards
withholding rather than publishing — which is the direction the previous three
leaks here failed in.

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Valid, and the per-field rescan was the wrong shape — fixed.

Reproduced exactly as described:

-- dsn: postgres://admin:hunter2…@warehouse/db
SELECT * FROM t WHERE hunter2… = 'true'
details: { "columnName": "hunter2…", ... }   # beside fingerprint de7f0988fcfcf8e8 of the same secret

The underlying mistake was mine and it is the one you named: re-scanning each field on its own asks a different question from the one the block scan already answered. Half the provider patterns need surrounding context to fire — a URI password is recognizable in postgres://admin:…@host/db and an ordinary identifier outside it.

On #555 the block's own scan result now gates the whole finding: in a block holding a credential, the SQL finding keeps code, line and column and withholds the text it would otherwise quote. findSecrets reports presence, not position, so there is nothing more precise available here — this is the same trade the block label already makes.

Withholding everything in such a block would be safe and useless, so the checks now declare which of their details keys hold verbatim block text and which they chose from a closed vocabulary. operator (=), suggestion (IS NULL) and the integration id survive; columnName, literal and the snippet do not. A key no check declares is treated as verbatim — forgetting to list one fails towards withholding rather than publishing, which is the direction the previous three leaks here all failed in.

On #556 this is superseded properly. redactSecretsWithContext(text, context) masks, in a derived string, every credential the block is known to contain as well as anything the string reveals alone — so the evidence keeps its shape (<redacted> = 'true') and a clean finding in the same block keeps its snippet. The secret values never leave secrets.ts: the caller passes context in rather than getting values out. The block label and #560's dependency labels go through the same function, for the same reason.

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…t governance

Two fixes on the single-query lint surface.

A block whose first line assigns a credential had that line published as
`blockLabel` by every rule reporting the block. `credential-hardcoded`
already labelled it safely, but it is one rule among many writing into the
same `issues[]`, and `unused-variable` on a one-line `TOKEN = "…"`
assignment printed the secret beside the fingerprint that exists so it need
not be written down. Plain `deepnote lint` leaked it too, so this is not a
regression from the governance work — but `--governance` is the advertised
pre-publish CI gate, which is how the secret reaches build logs.

The decision now belongs to the lint layer rather than to each rule: both
block-map builders resolve labels through `safeBlockLabel`, ungated on
`--governance`, because the leak is a property of the block and not of which
checks were asked for. `getBlockLabel` is untouched.

`sql-string-boolean` also treated double quotes as an identifier quote
unconditionally, so it missed `flag = "true"` on the dialects that read it as
a string. The block's `sql_integration_id` is already read here, so the
dialect resolves at the point of the check. MySQL, MariaDB and BigQuery are
flagged; the identifier-quoting dialects, an undeclared integration, and
Databricks — where the answer depends on a session setting — are not.

Also drops an unmeasured frequency claim from the `sql-tautology` comment:
the shape is rare as written, and turns up mainly as an artifact of
alias-resolving normalizers, which this check does not use.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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