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Summary

shareContent.ts opens with its own bar:

PRIVACY (issue #5006 acceptance criterion): nothing private must leak into a shared card.

The last-resort secret pattern requires an upper-case character so it does not fire on prose:

(?=[A-Za-z0-9+/_-]*[A-Z])(?=[A-Za-z0-9+/_-]*[a-z])(?=[A-Za-z0-9+/_-]*[0-9])

That makes it blind to any credential whose body is lower-case and digits only. Those reached the card text intact — the text that gets posted publicly.

Measured on main

Each value below passed through buildFallbackHeadline verbatim (shape-accurate dummies, not real keys):

shape on main
Slack bot token xoxb-… verbatim
Slack user token xoxp-… verbatim
GitLab PAT glpat-… verbatim
HuggingFace hf_… verbatim
Discord webhook URL verbatim (the token is in the path)

For contrast, these were already handled and still are: sk-…, AKIA…, npm_… (mixed case), long hex, and a JWT's payload/signature segments.

The fix, and what I deliberately did not do

Added explicit patterns for those shapes, in the same style as the existing specific rules that precede the last-resort one.

I did not relax the last-resort rule to drop its upper-case requirement. That would catch this whole class in one line, but it trades it for over-redacting ordinary lower-case identifiers, and the file already states it is "intentionally last-resort and biased toward over-redaction". Where that line sits is your call, not mine to assume — say the word and I'll switch the approach.

One detail worth keeping in view: the _ is optional in the HuggingFace pattern because stripMarkdown removes emphasis characters before redaction runs, so hf_abc… arrives here as hfabc…. A pattern insisting on the underscore would silently never match. There is a test pinning that.

I also checked whether swapping the order (stripMarkdown(redactSensitive(x))) would be the better fix — it makes no difference to any of these cases, so I left the order alone rather than churn it.

Verification

Eight tests added to shareContent.test.ts. Reverting only shareContent.ts:

Tests  6 failed | 25 passed (31)

The six failures are the bug proofs. The other two pass either way, and I would rather name them than let them pad the count:

  • the Slack webhook URL case — that particular URL's path contains T00000000/B00000000, so the upper-case requirement happened to be satisfied already;
  • the prose guard — there to show the new patterns do not start eating ordinary lower-case sentences.

With the fix: 31 passed, and 62 passed across all of src/features/share.

prettier --check ., eslint src and tsc --noEmit each exit 0.

One note on the test fixtures

The two Slack tokens are assembled from parts rather than written as literals. As single literals they match GitHub's Slack-token detector closely enough that push protection rejects the commit — I hit exactly that pushing this branch. Assembling them keeps the regex under test identical while letting the file be pushed. I did not use the "allow this secret" bypass; that seemed like the wrong habit to bake into a repo.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved protection of sensitive information when sharing content.
    • Redacts additional credentials, including Slack, GitLab, and Hugging Face tokens.
    • Removes Slack and Discord webhook URLs from shared content.
    • Preserves ordinary lowercase text while maintaining redaction after Markdown formatting is removed.

The last-resort secret pattern requires an upper-case letter so it does
not fire on prose:

  (?=[A-Za-z0-9+/_-]*[A-Z])(?=...[a-z])(?=...[0-9])

That makes it blind to credentials whose body is lower-case and digits
only, and those reached the share card intact. Measured against
buildFallbackHeadline on main:

  xoxb-123456789012-987654321098-abcdefghijklmnop   verbatim
  xoxp-987654321098-123456789012-zyxwvutsrqponmlk   verbatim
  glpat-abcdefghij1234567890                        verbatim
  hf_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234                 verbatim
  https://discord.com/api/webhooks/<id>/<token>     verbatim

The module states its own bar -- "nothing private must leak into a
shared card" -- and this is the card text that gets posted publicly.

Adds explicit patterns for those shapes rather than relaxing the
last-resort rule, which would trade this for over-redacting prose; that
trade is yours to make, not mine to assume.

One detail worth keeping: `_` is optional in the huggingface pattern
because stripMarkdown strips emphasis characters before redaction runs,
so `hf_abc…` arrives as `hfabc…`. A pattern insisting on the underscore
would never match. Pinned by a test.

Eight tests. Six are red without the src change. The Slack webhook case
and the prose guard pass either way -- the first because that URL's path
happens to contain upper-case, the second by design.

62 tests green across src/features/share. prettier, eslint and tsc all
exit 0.
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The share feature now redacts additional vendor credentials, Hugging Face tokens, and Slack or Discord webhook URLs. Tests cover direct redaction, fallback headlines after Markdown stripping, and lowercase prose preservation.

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Credential redaction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Redaction rules and validation
app/src/features/share/shareContent.ts, app/src/features/share/shareContent.test.ts
REDACTIONS now handles additional vendor credentials, Hugging Face tokens, and Slack or Discord webhook URLs. Tests cover direct output and buildFallbackHeadline output. Ordinary lowercase prose remains unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

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This localized change broadens credential scrubbing for public share cards while preserving ordinary prose and existing behavior. Tests and static checks pass, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: yellowsnnowmann

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I’m a rabbit with tokens to hide,
Redaction rules now guard each side.
Slack and Discord fade from view,
Hugging Face secrets vanish too.
Clean headlines hop along—
Safe little words in every song.

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In `@app/src/features/share/shareContent.test.ts`:
- Line 63: Update the GitLab personal access token fixture in the share-content
tests to assemble the value from separate string parts, matching the existing
Slack fixture approach, so scanners do not recognize it as a PAT literal. Revoke
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Review point from CodeRabbit on the glpat fixture, and it holds for the
huggingface one too: a shape-exact literal is what a secret scanner keys
on, so writing one into a test file risks blocking the push for whoever
touches it next. GitHub push protection already rejected the Slack form
on the first attempt at this branch, which is why those two were assembled
and the other two were not -- an inconsistency, not a judgement.

Generalises the existing helper to take the separator, so `hf_` is covered
by the same mechanism as the dashed prefixes rather than a second one:

  const assembled = (separator: string, ...parts: string[]) => parts.join(separator);

All four values are unchanged, so the evidence table in the PR description
still describes exactly what these tests feed in. Every fixture here is a
synthetic dummy; none is or ever was a live credential.

The webhook URLs are left as literals on purpose. Their secret components
are `T00000000` / `B00000000` / a straight alphabet run -- visibly
placeholder, and no scanner has flagged them.

62 tests green across src/features/share. prettier, eslint and tsc exit 0.
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@coderabbitai the finding is correct and is now fixed in 7850e5c.

The inconsistency you spotted was real and had a boring cause: GitHub push protection rejected my first push because of the xox… literal, so I assembled those two from parts and left glpat- and hf_ whole — I fixed the blocker rather than the class. Your point is that the class is the thing.

Generalised the existing helper to take the separator, so the underscore prefix goes through the same mechanism instead of a second one:

const assembled = (separator: string, ...parts: string[]) => parts.join(separator);

All four fixture values are byte-for-byte unchanged, so the evidence table in the PR description still describes exactly what the tests feed in.

On revocation: nothing to revoke. Every value here is synthetic — abcdefghij1234567890 is a straight alphabet-then-digits run, and the Slack ones are 123456789012 / 987654321098. None was ever issued by a vendor.

I did not de-literalise the two webhook URLs, and want to be explicit about that rather than leave it looking like an oversight. Their secret-bearing components are T00000000 / B00000000 / an unbroken alphabet run — visibly placeholder rather than shape-accurate, and no scanner has flagged them. If you'd rather they went through assembled too for uniformity, say so and I'll push it; I left them as-is because a readable URL in a test that is about URL matching has some value.

Verified after the change, exit codes checked rather than output skimmed: 62 tests green across src/features/share (vitest run --config test/vitest.config.ts), and prettier --check, eslint, tsc --noEmit all exit 0.

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@ntdatt812 Thanks for the detailed clarification.

The generalized assembled helper resolves the inconsistency for the hyphen- and underscore-prefixed token fixtures. The unchanged fixture values preserve the PR evidence.

Keeping the synthetic webhook URLs as readable literals is appropriate. These tests verify full URL matching, and the placeholder components do not represent credentials.

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Timestamp: 2026-08-19T10:27:03.677Z
Learning: In `app/src/features/share/shareContent.test.ts`, Slack, GitLab, and Hugging Face credential fixtures use synthetic values. Assemble vendor-prefixed token fixtures from parts with `assembled(separator, ...parts)` when push-protection-sensitive prefixes could be detected. Keep synthetic Discord and Slack webhook URL fixtures as readable literals when the test verifies full URL matching; their placeholder components must not be shape-accurate credentials.

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