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Replace shell command interpolation with execFile arguments when provisioning agents. Preserve ledger JSON and local/Docker configuration compatibility; retain identifier validation and safe failure reporting.

Regression tests cover argument handling, ledger configuration and deployment settings, and are included in the CI test selection. The CI-configured tests and both service builds pass locally.

Deploy agent-service and agent-provisioning together. Live Docker/ECS provisioning still needs retesting. Process-tree cleanup is outside this PR.

Fixes #1707

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The change hardens AFJ agent provisioning with validated configuration, separated script arguments, timeout controls, endpoint validation, and failure handling. It also preserves ledger JSON through wallet provisioning and adds regression tests for both flows.

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Agent provisioning hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provisioning validation and execution
apps/agent-provisioning/src/agent-provisioning.service.ts
The service dispatches AFJ provisioning, validates configuration and identifiers, executes scripts with separated arguments and timeout controls, and validates endpoint files.
Provisioning behavior tests
apps/agent-provisioning/src/agent-provisioning.service.spec.ts
Tests cover successful provisioning, ledger argument handling, input and endpoint validation, timeout overrides, script failures, and secret-safe logging.

Ledger payload serialization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Wallet ledger JSON
apps/agent-service/src/agent-service.service.ts, apps/agent-service/src/agent-service.service.spec.ts, apps/agent-provisioning/src/agent-config-generation.spec.ts
Wallet provisioning now passes indyLedger as unescaped JSON. Tests cover empty, quoted, multiline, and multiple-ledger inputs, including generated configuration output.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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The provisioning changes preserve ledger JSON and reject unsupported agent types instead of returning an empty result. No actionable current-head merge risk remains.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #1707 requirements are implemented. AgentProvisioningService uses execFileAsync with an argument array and no shell command string. orgId must match SAFE_FILE_IDENTIFIER, and the normali…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The reviewed changes stay within Issue #1707. Endpoint-document validation and unsupported-agent failure handling support fail-closed provisioning behavior. The indyLedger serialization change and i…
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In `@apps/agent-provisioning/src/agent-provisioning.service.ts`:
- Around line 115-119: Update the CONTROLLER_ENDPOINT validation in the
endpoint-parsing method to require a string with non-zero length, rejecting
objects, numbers, arrays, empty strings, and other invalid values before
returning. Preserve the existing missing-endpoint error path and return
parsedEndpoint.CONTROLLER_ENDPOINT only after validation succeeds.
- Around line 76-98: Wrap the execFileAsync invocation in the provisioning flow
with a local rejection handler that discards captured stdout and stderr, then
throws a fixed sanitized error for the outer catch and logger.error path.
Preserve the existing command arguments and timeout options, and add a
regression test covering a failed script whose stdout and stderr contain secret
values, verifying those values are not logged.
- Around line 138-141: Update assertSafeFileIdentifier to first reject values
whose runtime type is not string, then apply SAFE_FILE_IDENTIFIER.test only to
valid strings; preserve the existing field-specific error behavior for all
unsafe or invalid identifier values.
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@RinkalBhojani Thanks for your reply, I just signed all the commits, and fixed what coderabbitai reported, please take a look again.

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Nice cleanup of a genuinely nasty one — the argv-array switch kills the shell injection from #1707 outright, identifier validation closes the path-traversal angle on the endpoint filename, and the old promise-that-never-rejects hang on script failure is fixed too. Verified the positional args still line up with start_agent.sh ($1–$27), tests pass locally (9/9), typecheck and lint clean.

One regression worth sorting before merge (first comment) — legit org names will now be rejected. Two smaller notes below.

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In `@apps/agent-provisioning/src/agent-provisioning.service.ts`:
- Around line 116-125: Update the agent endpoint parsing flow around
parsedEndpoint to parse into unknown, validate that the JSON root is a non-null
object before accessing CONTROLLER_ENDPOINT, and route invalid roots through the
existing Missing CONTROLLER_ENDPOINT error. Add a regression test covering
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@ajile-in @RinkalBhojani The latest signed commit 1def944 handles the remaining endpoint-document case by validating the parsed JSON root before reading CONTROLLER_ENDPOINT; it also includes a regression test for a literal null document. All checks are green. Could you please take a final look?

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- Around line 29-30: Update walletProvision so every supported AgentType,
including AgentType.ACAPY, is explicitly dispatched to its provisioning method;
for any unsupported value, throw an appropriate unsupported-agent-type error
instead of resolving undefined, while preserving the Promise<object> contract.
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- Prefer node:util and node:child_process imports over bare specifiers
- Reduce walletProvision cognitive complexity by extracting helper methods
- Replace nested ternary with if/else in formatScriptFailure
- Use TypeError for type-check failures in normalizeContainerName
- Simplify regex using Unicode property escape (\p{M}) instead of
  backtracking-prone range [\u0300-\u036f]

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LGTM.

@sign-mark - I have added some commits to fix the pending SonarQube & CodeRabbit issues.

@RinkalBhojani , @ankita-p17 - pls run one manual test and share your comments.

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LGTM.

@sign-mark - I have added some commits to fix the pending SonarQube & CodeRabbit issues.

@RinkalBhojani , @ankita-p17 - pls run one manual test and share your comments.

We are testing this PR and will update once completed.

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@sign-mark While testing this PR I found an issue during agent provisioning.
For provisioning the agent with indyLedgers, getting an error while Credo agent configuration file is being generated. The issue appears to be specifically related to the indyLedgers block in the configuration file. Could you please check.

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@KambleSahil3 Fixed the ledger JSON escaping. Please retest with agent-service and agent-provisioning from this PR together.

I’ve narrowed the changes to the shell-execution fix and its compatibility requirements. Tests and both service builds pass locally; I haven’t tested your Docker/ECS environment.

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@KambleSahil3 Fixed the ledger JSON escaping. Please retest with agent-service and agent-provisioning from this PR together.

I’ve narrowed the changes to the shell-execution fix and its compatibility requirements. Tests and both service builds pass locally; I haven’t tested your Docker/ECS environment.

Thanks @sign-mark, will test and update

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