Merge nucleic/rustic-meadow-koala-wtwq into dev

nash-observe/src/lib.rs

@@ -105,6 +105,20 @@ enum Event {
     },
     #[serde(rename = "dropped", rename_all = "camelCase")]
     Dropped { seq: u64, ts: u64, count: u64 },
+    /// An operator lever nash was asked to act on (docs/NASH.md §4.3). `action` is
+    /// `ignored` for a lever that arrived through the environment — the channel the
+    /// observed process controls, which nash refuses — and `honored` for one the
+    /// trusted policy file set. Either way it becomes a feed row, so a shell going
+    /// dark is a visible event rather than an absence of events.
+    #[serde(rename = "policy", rename_all = "camelCase")]
+    Policy {
+        seq: u64,
+        ts: u64,
+        lever: String,
+        value: String,
+        action: String,
+        note: String,
+    },
 }
 
 /// The pipeline stage an exec event belongs to (docs/NASH.md §5.1). `id` is the same
@@ -181,17 +195,31 @@ fn parse_hook_url(url: &str) -> Option<HookUrl> {
 }
 
 impl Config {
-    fn from_env() -> Option<Self> {
-        if std::env::var("NUCLEIC_SHELL_CAPTURE").as_deref() == Ok("off") {
+    /// Read transport config from the environment.
+    ///
+    /// `require_observation` comes from the trusted policy file (docs/NASH.md §4.3) and
+    /// closes the quietest bypass there was: `NUCLEIC_SHELL_CAPTURE=off`, or simply
+    /// `env -u NUCLEIC_SHELL_HOOK_URL …`, used to leave nash running as an ordinary
+    /// shell that reported nothing — no fallback event, no trace, from a process that
+    /// merely rewrote its own environment. Under the policy, `off` from the environment
+    /// is refused and a missing transport falls back to `fallback_spool`, which the
+    /// host's spool drain already collects. An operator who genuinely wants a surface
+    /// silent turns the policy's `require_observation` off (or omits the file) rather
+    /// than setting a variable the agent could have set for them.
+    fn from_env(require_observation: bool, fallback_spool: &Path) -> Option<Self> {
+        if std::env::var("NUCLEIC_SHELL_CAPTURE").as_deref() == Ok("off") && !require_observation {
             return None;
         }
         let socket = std::env::var_os("NUCLEIC_SHELL_SOCKET").map(PathBuf::from);
         let hook_url = std::env::var("NUCLEIC_SHELL_HOOK_URL")
             .ok()
             .and_then(|u| parse_hook_url(&u));
-        let spool = std::env::var_os("NUCLEIC_SHELL_SPOOL").map(PathBuf::from);
+        let mut spool = std::env::var_os("NUCLEIC_SHELL_SPOOL").map(PathBuf::from);
         if socket.is_none() && hook_url.is_none() && spool.is_none() {
-            return None;
+            if !require_observation {
+                return None;
+            }
+            spool = Some(fallback_spool.to_path_buf());
         }
         Some(Self {
             socket,
@@ -716,10 +744,14 @@ fn flusher(cfg: Config, shell_id: String, parent_shell: Option<String>, rx: mpsc
 /// configured, installs the recording gate into brush-core and starts the
 /// flusher thread. Returns whether observation is active.
 ///
+/// `require_observation` / `fallback_spool` come from the trusted policy file
+/// (docs/NASH.md §4.3): with it set, an environment that says "don't observe"
+/// no longer wins, because that environment belongs to the observed process.
+///
 /// Also threads shell lineage: reads `NUCLEIC_SHELL_PARENT` as this shell's
 /// parent and re-exports it as this shell's own id for child shells.
-pub fn install_from_env() -> bool {
-    let Some(cfg) = Config::from_env() else {
+pub fn install_from_env(require_observation: bool, fallback_spool: &Path) -> bool {
+    let Some(cfg) = Config::from_env(require_observation, fallback_spool) else {
         return false;
     };
 
@@ -759,6 +791,24 @@ pub fn flush_sync() {
     }
 }
 
+/// Records an operator-lever event (docs/NASH.md §4.3): a lever nash refused to take
+/// from the environment (`action: "ignored"`) or one the trusted policy set
+/// (`action: "honored"`). Not flushed here — callers that are about to `exec` away
+/// call [`flush_sync`] themselves, and the ordinary path flushes at exit.
+pub fn report_policy(lever: &str, value: &str, action: &str, note: &str) {
+    let Some(obs) = OBSERVER.get() else { return };
+    obs.send(Event::Policy {
+        seq: obs.seq(),
+        ts: now_millis(),
+        lever: lever.to_string(),
+        // Bounded like any other agent-authored string on this path: the value is
+        // whatever the command line put there.
+        value: value.chars().take(512).collect(),
+        action: action.to_string(),
+        note: note.to_string(),
+    });
+}
+
 /// Records a compat-fallback event (docs/NASH.md §4.1): nash is about to
 /// re-exec the real bash because it could not handle `input`.
 pub fn report_fallback(reason: &str, input: &str) {

nash/src/main.rs

@@ -1,26 +1,53 @@
 //! nash — the Nucleic agent shell (see docs/NASH.md).
 //!
-//! A thin binary around the vendored brush fork: installs the `nash-observe`
-//! recording gate (when `NUCLEIC_SHELL_*` config is present), registers the
-//! exit-time event flush, applies the compat fallback for `-c` input brush
-//! cannot parse, and otherwise defers entirely to brush's bash-compatible CLI.
+//! A thin binary around the vendored brush fork: loads the trusted operator policy
+//! (`policy`), installs the `nash-observe` recording gate (when `NUCLEIC_SHELL_*`
+//! config is present, or unconditionally under a `require_observation` policy),
+//! registers the exit-time event flush, applies the compat fallback for `-c` input
+//! brush cannot parse, and otherwise defers entirely to brush's bash-compatible CLI.
 
 use std::os::unix::process::CommandExt;
 
+mod policy;
+
 fn main() {
     // docs/NASH.md §2: let scripts/tests detect they are running under nash.
     // SAFETY: called before any other threads exist.
     unsafe { std::env::set_var("NUCLEIC_NASH", "1") };
 
-    // Kill switch (docs/NASH.md §4.1): behave as the real bash, verbatim argv.
-    if std::env::var("NUCLEIC_NASH_DISABLE").as_deref() == Ok("1") {
-        exec_real_bash();
-        // exec failed; fall through and run as nash rather than break the command.
-    }
+    // Operator levers come from the trusted policy file, never from the environment
+    // the observed process controls (docs/NASH.md §4.3).
+    let policy = policy::Policy::load();
 
-    let observing = nash_observe::install_from_env();
+    // Observation is installed *before* the levers are acted on, so that a bypass
+    // attempt and an operator break-glass both leave a row in the feed rather than a
+    // silence. Under `require_observation` this cannot be turned off from the env.
+    let observing =
+        nash_observe::install_from_env(policy.require_observation, &policy.fallback_spool());
     if observing {
         brush_shell::entry::set_exit_hook(Box::new(nash_observe::flush_sync));
+        for rejected in &policy.rejected {
+            nash_observe::report_policy(
+                &rejected.lever, &rejected.value, "ignored", &rejected.note);
+        }
+        if let Some(reason) = &policy.untrusted {
+            nash_observe::report_policy(
+                "policy-file", policy::POLICY_PATH, "ignored",
+                &format!("policy file not trusted ({reason}); operator levers unavailable"));
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Kill switch (docs/NASH.md §4.1): behave as the real bash, verbatim argv. Only
+    // the trusted policy can set this.
+    if policy.disable {
+        if observing {
+            nash_observe::report_policy(
+                "disable", "1", "honored",
+                "operator break-glass: re-execing the real bash, unobserved from here");
+            nash_observe::flush_sync();
+        }
+        exec_real_bash(&policy);
+        // exec failed; fall through and run as nash rather than break the command.
     }
 
     // Compat fallback (docs/NASH.md §4.1): if brush can't parse `-c` input
@@ -31,7 +58,7 @@ fn main() {
             if observing {
                 nash_observe::report_fallback(&format!("parse-error: {parse_err}"), &command);
             }
-            exec_real_bash();
+            exec_real_bash(&policy);
             // exec failed (no real bash available): let brush surface its own
             // parse error so the user sees a real diagnostic.
         }
@@ -85,13 +112,12 @@ fn try_parse(command: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
 
 /// Replaces this process with the preserved real bash, keeping argv intact.
 /// Returns only if every candidate exec fails.
-fn exec_real_bash() {
-    let mut candidates: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
-    if let Ok(explicit) = std::env::var("NUCLEIC_REAL_BASH") {
-        candidates.push(explicit);
-    }
-    candidates.push("/usr/bin/bash.real".into());
-    candidates.push("/bin/bash".into());
+///
+/// The target comes from the trusted policy (or the compiled-in defaults) — never
+/// from `NUCLEIC_REAL_BASH`, which would let the observed process choose what nash
+/// re-execs into (docs/NASH.md §4.3).
+fn exec_real_bash(policy: &policy::Policy) {
+    let candidates = policy.real_bash_candidates();
 
     let self_path = std::env::current_exe().ok();
     let args: Vec<String> = std::env::args().skip(1).collect();

nash/src/policy.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,295 @@
+//! Trusted operator policy (docs/NASH.md §4.3).
+//!
+//! nash's levers — the kill switch, the real-bash target, whether observation is
+//! mandatory — are **operator** levers, and the process nash observes must not be
+//! able to reach them. The agent owns its own environment (it writes the command
+//! line, `export`s at will, and has passwordless `sudo` in the sandbox), so an env
+//! var is not a channel an observation layer can trust: `NUCLEIC_NASH_DISABLE=1
+//! <anything>` used to be a complete, silent opt-out of the thing whose entire job
+//! is to watch that command.
+//!
+//! So the levers move here: a **root-owned, non-group/other-writable file** that
+//! Nucleic writes (image-baked for narOS, seeded per container otherwise). nash
+//! honors levers only from this file, never from the environment. Env levers that
+//! *look* like an attempt to steer nash are reported as `policy` events with
+//! `action: "ignored"` — a bypass attempt becomes a feed row instead of a silence.
+//!
+//! This is a bar, not a wall, and the doc is explicit about that: an agent with
+//! `sudo` can still edit this file, exec `/usr/bin/bash.real` directly, or run its
+//! command under `python3 -c`. What it can no longer do is go dark by accident, or
+//! by typing one variable, without leaving a record.
+
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+
+/// Where the trusted policy lives. Linux (containers, the Linux VM, the runner) is
+/// the surface Nucleic controls the image for, so the path is FHS-conventional; the
+/// macOS twin covers the macOS VM guest, where an operator writes it with `sudo`.
+#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+pub const POLICY_PATH: &str = "/Library/Application Support/Nucleic/nash.conf";
+#[cfg(not(target_os = "macos"))]
+pub const POLICY_PATH: &str = "/etc/nucleic/nash.conf";
+
+/// Fallback exec targets when the policy names no `real_bash`, in order. Compiled
+/// in rather than read from `NUCLEIC_REAL_BASH` — see the module docs.
+pub const DEFAULT_REAL_BASH: &[&str] = &["/usr/bin/bash.real", "/bin/bash"];
+
+/// The spool observation falls back to when a `require_observation` policy finds no
+/// transport configured (docs/NASH.md §6.2). Matches `ShellSpool.defaultDir`'s Linux
+/// twin; the drain op already knows this path.
+pub const DEFAULT_SPOOL: &str = "/var/spool/nucleic-nash";
+
+/// Env vars nash deliberately no longer honors, with the note each rejection carries.
+/// `NUCLEIC_FALLBACK_SHELL` never shipped as a read (docs/NASH.md §4.1 described it);
+/// it is listed so that setting it is reported rather than silently inert.
+const REJECTED_LEVERS: &[(&str, &str)] = &[
+    (
+        "NUCLEIC_NASH_DISABLE",
+        "the kill switch is an operator lever and is read only from the trusted policy file",
+    ),
+    (
+        "NUCLEIC_REAL_BASH",
+        "the real-bash target is an operator lever and is read only from the trusted policy file",
+    ),
+    (
+        "NUCLEIC_FALLBACK_SHELL",
+        "not a lever nash reads; the fallback target comes from the trusted policy file",
+    ),
+];
+
+/// One lever nash saw and did not honor — reported as a `policy` event so the feed
+/// shows the attempt.
+pub struct Rejected {
+    pub lever: String,
+    pub value: String,
+    pub note: String,
+}
+
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct Policy {
+    /// Operator break-glass (docs/NASH.md §4.1): behave as the real bash, verbatim argv.
+    pub disable: bool,
+    /// Exec target for the break-glass and the parse-failure fallback.
+    pub real_bash: Option<String>,
+    /// Observation may not be turned off by the observed process: `capture=off` is
+    /// floored to `meta` and a missing transport falls back to the spool.
+    pub require_observation: bool,
+    /// Spool dir for the `require_observation` fallback.
+    pub spool: Option<PathBuf>,
+    /// Env levers seen and ignored.
+    pub rejected: Vec<Rejected>,
+    /// Why an existing policy file was not trusted, if it wasn't.
+    pub untrusted: Option<String>,
+}
+
+impl Policy {
+    /// Load the trusted policy and scan the environment for rejected levers. Never
+    /// fails: an absent, unreadable, or untrusted file yields defaults (observe, don't
+    /// disable), because failing open on *observation* is the §5.5 doctrine — nash must
+    /// never break a command — while failing open on *levers* is the safe direction here
+    /// (no policy file means no kill switch, not an agent-steerable one).
+    pub fn load() -> Self {
+        Self::load_from(Path::new(POLICY_PATH))
+    }
+
+    pub fn load_from(path: &Path) -> Self {
+        let mut policy = Policy {
+            rejected: rejected_env_levers(),
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        match read_trusted(path) {
+            Ok(None) => {}
+            Ok(Some(text)) => policy.apply(&text),
+            Err(reason) => policy.untrusted = Some(reason),
+        }
+        policy
+    }
+
+    /// The exec targets for the break-glass / parse-failure fallback, in order.
+    pub fn real_bash_candidates(&self) -> Vec<String> {
+        let mut candidates: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
+        if let Some(explicit) = &self.real_bash {
+            candidates.push(explicit.clone());
+        }
+        candidates.extend(DEFAULT_REAL_BASH.iter().map(|s| s.to_string()));
+        candidates
+    }
+
+    /// The spool the `require_observation` fallback writes to.
+    pub fn fallback_spool(&self) -> PathBuf {
+        self.spool
+            .clone()
+            .unwrap_or_else(|| PathBuf::from(DEFAULT_SPOOL))
+    }
+
+    fn apply(&mut self, text: &str) {
+        for line in text.lines() {
+            let line = line.trim();
+            if line.is_empty() || line.starts_with('#') {
+                continue;
+            }
+            let Some((key, value)) = line.split_once('=') else {
+                continue;
+            };
+            let value = value.trim();
+            match key.trim() {
+                "disable" => self.disable = is_true(value),
+                "require_observation" => self.require_observation = is_true(value),
+                "real_bash" if !value.is_empty() => self.real_bash = Some(value.to_string()),
+                "spool" if !value.is_empty() => self.spool = Some(PathBuf::from(value)),
+                _ => {}
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+fn is_true(value: &str) -> bool {
+    matches!(value, "1" | "true" | "yes" | "on")
+}
+
+/// Read `path` if it is trusted. `Ok(None)` means "no policy" (the common case —
+/// there is no file); `Err` means a file exists but is not one an operator wrote,
+/// which is itself worth reporting.
+///
+/// Trusted means: a regular file (not a symlink — a symlink could point the read at
+/// something the agent controls), owned by uid 0, and not writable by group or other.
+/// The check is on the file rather than the directory because a file the agent
+/// created in an agent-writable directory carries the agent's uid and fails here.
+fn read_trusted(path: &Path) -> Result<Option<String>, String> {
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    {
+        use std::os::unix::fs::MetadataExt;
+        use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
+
+        let meta = match std::fs::symlink_metadata(path) {
+            Ok(meta) => meta,
+            Err(err) if err.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => return Ok(None),
+            Err(err) => return Err(format!("unreadable: {err}")),
+        };
+        if meta.file_type().is_symlink() {
+            return Err("is a symlink; a trusted policy must be a regular file".into());
+        }
+        if !meta.is_file() {
+            return Err("is not a regular file".into());
+        }
+        if meta.uid() != 0 {
+            return Err(format!("owned by uid {}, not root", meta.uid()));
+        }
+        let mode = meta.permissions().mode();
+        if mode & 0o022 != 0 {
+            return Err(format!("mode {:04o} is group/other-writable", mode & 0o7777));
+        }
+        std::fs::read_to_string(path)
+            .map(Some)
+            .map_err(|err| format!("unreadable: {err}"))
+    }
+    #[cfg(not(unix))]
+    {
+        let _ = path;
+        Ok(None)
+    }
+}
+
+/// The env levers present in this process's environment, all of which are ignored.
+fn rejected_env_levers() -> Vec<Rejected> {
+    REJECTED_LEVERS
+        .iter()
+        .filter_map(|(lever, note)| {
+            let value = std::env::var(lever).ok()?;
+            Some(Rejected {
+                lever: (*lever).to_string(),
+                value,
+                note: (*note).to_string(),
+            })
+        })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use std::io::Write;
+    use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU32, Ordering};
+
+    fn scratch(name: &str) -> PathBuf {
+        static COUNTER: AtomicU32 = AtomicU32::new(0);
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!(
+            "nash-policy-{}-{}",
+            std::process::id(),
+            COUNTER.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed)
+        ));
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
+        dir.join(name)
+    }
+
+    fn write(path: &Path, contents: &str) {
+        let mut file = std::fs::File::create(path).unwrap();
+        file.write_all(contents.as_bytes()).unwrap();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parses_keys_comments_and_whitespace() {
+        let mut policy = Policy::default();
+        policy.apply(
+            "# a comment\n\n  disable = 1 \nrequire_observation=true\n\
+             real_bash=/usr/bin/bash.real\nspool=/var/spool/nucleic-nash\n\
+             unknown_key=whatever\nnot a pair\n",
+        );
+        assert!(policy.disable);
+        assert!(policy.require_observation);
+        assert_eq!(policy.real_bash.as_deref(), Some("/usr/bin/bash.real"));
+        assert_eq!(policy.spool, Some(PathBuf::from("/var/spool/nucleic-nash")));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn defaults_are_observe_and_do_not_disable() {
+        let policy = Policy::default();
+        assert!(!policy.disable);
+        assert!(!policy.require_observation);
+        assert_eq!(policy.fallback_spool(), PathBuf::from(DEFAULT_SPOOL));
+        assert_eq!(policy.real_bash_candidates(), DEFAULT_REAL_BASH.to_vec());
+    }
+
+    /// The point of the whole mechanism: a policy file the *agent* could have written is not a
+    /// policy file. The test process runs as the agent uid, so anything it creates is exactly
+    /// that case — and the kill switch inside must not take.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_file_the_agent_could_have_written_is_not_trusted() {
+        let path = scratch("nash.conf");
+        write(&path, "disable=1\nrequire_observation=1\n");
+        let policy = Policy::load_from(&path);
+        assert!(!policy.disable, "an agent-owned file must not arm the kill switch");
+        assert!(!policy.require_observation);
+        assert!(policy.untrusted.is_some());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_symlink_is_not_trusted() {
+        let target = scratch("real.conf");
+        write(&target, "disable=1\n");
+        let link = target.with_file_name("nash.conf");
+        std::os::unix::fs::symlink(&target, &link).unwrap();
+        let policy = Policy::load_from(&link);
+        assert!(!policy.disable);
+        assert!(policy.untrusted.unwrap().contains("symlink"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_missing_file_is_not_an_error() {
+        let policy = Policy::load_from(&scratch("absent.conf"));
+        assert!(policy.untrusted.is_none());
+        assert!(!policy.disable);
+    }
+
+    /// An explicit `real_bash` leads, but the compiled defaults always remain as fallbacks —
+    /// a policy naming a path that no longer exists must not strand the break-glass.
+    #[test]
+    fn real_bash_candidates_keep_the_defaults() {
+        let policy = Policy {
+            real_bash: Some("/opt/bash".into()),
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        assert_eq!(policy.real_bash_candidates()[0], "/opt/bash");
+        assert_eq!(&policy.real_bash_candidates()[1..], DEFAULT_REAL_BASH);
+    }
+}

nash/tests/observe.rs

@@ -304,7 +304,9 @@ fn parse_failure_falls_back_to_bash() {
         .env("NUCLEIC_SHELL_SOCKET", sink.socket())
         .env("NUCLEIC_HOOK_TOKEN", "test-token")
         .env("NUCLEIC_SESSION_ID", "sess-1")
-        .env("NUCLEIC_REAL_BASH", "/bin/bash")
+        // No `NUCLEIC_REAL_BASH` here — nash no longer honors it (docs/NASH.md §4.3) and picks
+        // the target from the trusted policy or its compiled-in defaults, of which `/bin/bash`
+        // is one.
         .env_remove("NUCLEIC_SHELL_PARENT")
         .status()
         .unwrap();
@@ -750,3 +752,62 @@ fn spool_fallback_when_socket_absent() {
     assert!(found, "exec event spooled to disk");
     let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
 }
+
+/// The bypass this mechanism exists to close (docs/NASH.md §4.3): the agent sets the kill
+/// switch in its own environment. nash must run the command *as nash* anyway — the exec event
+/// proves it did, since a re-exec'd bash posts nothing — and must report the attempt.
+#[test]
+fn env_kill_switch_is_ignored_and_reported() {
+    let sink = Sink::start();
+    let status = Command::new(env!("CARGO_BIN_EXE_nash"))
+        .args(["-c", "echo still-observed"])
+        .env("NUCLEIC_SHELL_SOCKET", sink.socket())
+        .env("NUCLEIC_HOOK_TOKEN", "test-token")
+        .env("NUCLEIC_SESSION_ID", "sess-1")
+        .env("NUCLEIC_NASH_DISABLE", "1")
+        .env("NUCLEIC_REAL_BASH", "/bin/sh")
+        .env_remove("NUCLEIC_SHELL_PARENT")
+        .status()
+        .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(status.code(), Some(0));
+
+    let events = sink.events_until(|evs| {
+        find(evs, "exec", |e| e["argv"][0] == "echo").is_some()
+            && find(evs, "policy", |e| e["lever"] == "NUCLEIC_REAL_BASH").is_some()
+    });
+
+    // Observation survived the attempt.
+    assert!(find(&events, "exec", |e| e["argv"][0] == "echo").is_some());
+
+    let disable = find(&events, "policy", |e| e["lever"] == "NUCLEIC_NASH_DISABLE")
+        .expect("policy event for the kill switch");
+    assert_eq!(disable["action"], "ignored");
+    assert_eq!(disable["value"], "1");
+
+    let real_bash = find(&events, "policy", |e| e["lever"] == "NUCLEIC_REAL_BASH")
+        .expect("policy event for the fallback target");
+    assert_eq!(real_bash["action"], "ignored");
+}
+
+/// The quieter half of the same hole: rather than leaving, the agent blinds nash by telling it
+/// not to capture. With no trusted policy nash has no way to know better and stays silent —
+/// asserted here so `require_observation`'s baseline is documented rather than assumed. The
+/// policy-on side needs a root-owned file, so it is the image smoke test that covers it.
+#[test]
+fn capture_off_silences_nash_without_a_policy() {
+    let sink = Sink::start();
+    let status = Command::new(env!("CARGO_BIN_EXE_nash"))
+        .args(["-c", "echo unobserved"])
+        .env("NUCLEIC_SHELL_SOCKET", sink.socket())
+        .env("NUCLEIC_HOOK_TOKEN", "test-token")
+        .env("NUCLEIC_SESSION_ID", "sess-1")
+        .env("NUCLEIC_SHELL_CAPTURE", "off")
+        .env_remove("NUCLEIC_SHELL_PARENT")
+        .status()
+        .unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(status.code(), Some(0));
+    assert!(
+        sink.rx.recv_timeout(Duration::from_millis(750)).is_err(),
+        "capture=off with no policy posts nothing"
+    );
+}