diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 2110002..7d91c96 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -998,7 +998,7 @@ dependencies = [
[[package]]
name = "clawmates-node"
-version = "0.4.0"
+version = "0.5.0"
dependencies = [
"base64 0.22.1",
"bytes",
diff --git a/crates/bins/clawmates-node/Cargo.toml b/crates/bins/clawmates-node/Cargo.toml
index ad6189e..e629668 100644
--- a/crates/bins/clawmates-node/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/bins/clawmates-node/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
[package]
name = "clawmates-node"
-version = "0.4.0"
+version = "0.5.0"
edition.workspace = true
rust-version.workspace = true
license.workspace = true
diff --git a/crates/bins/clawmates-node/src/local_model.rs b/crates/bins/clawmates-node/src/local_model.rs
index 95ab9a7..50c5d11 100644
--- a/crates/bins/clawmates-node/src/local_model.rs
+++ b/crates/bins/clawmates-node/src/local_model.rs
@@ -56,14 +56,42 @@ pub fn uses_local_model(backend: Option<&str>) -> bool {
/// case. An error means it should have had one and could not — reported by the
/// caller, never silently swallowed, because the symptom otherwise is an agent
/// that hangs on its first turn.
+/// Where a VM's model pipe leads: the node's own model, or the server's LLM
+/// proxy for a backend whose credential the guest must not hold.
+///
+/// The relay is how a microVM reaches a hosted model WITHOUT a provider key in
+/// the guest. The guest's CLI points at its loopback (`127.0.0.1:11434`, which
+/// fcagent already pipes here for every backend), holds a per-mission token,
+/// and the server's proxy adds the real credential. This node copies bytes and
+/// never sees a key. Only a tailnet address is accepted, so no message from the
+/// server can point a node's pipe at the internet.
+pub fn target_for(backend: Option<&str>, relay: Option<&str>) -> Result, String> {
+ if uses_local_model(backend) {
+ return Ok(Some(OLLAMA_ADDR.to_string()));
+ }
+ let Some(r) = relay.map(str::trim).filter(|r| !r.is_empty()) else {
+ return Ok(None);
+ };
+ let addr: std::net::SocketAddr = r
+ .parse()
+ .map_err(|e| format!("model relay {r:?} is not an ip:port ({e})"))?;
+ match addr.ip() {
+ std::net::IpAddr::V4(ip) if ip.octets()[0] == 100 && (64..128).contains(&ip.octets()[1]) => {
+ Ok(Some(addr.to_string()))
+ }
+ _ => Err(format!("model relay {r} is not a tailnet (100.64.0.0/10) address — refused")),
+ }
+}
+
pub fn start(
uds: &Path,
vm_id: &str,
backend: Option<&str>,
+ relay: Option<&str>,
) -> Result )>, String> {
- if !uses_local_model(backend) {
+ let Some(target) = target_for(backend, relay)? else {
return Ok(None);
- }
+ };
let path = PathBuf::from(format!("{}_{}", uds.display(), MODEL_PORT));
// Firecracker leaves these behind exactly as it does its own socket, and a
// stale file makes bind fail with EADDRINUSE.
@@ -72,7 +100,7 @@ pub fn start(
UnixListener::bind(&path).map_err(|e| format!("bind {}: {e}", path.display()))?;
eprintln!(
- "microvm {vm_id}: local model socket on {} -> {OLLAMA_ADDR}",
+ "microvm {vm_id}: model socket on {} -> {target}",
path.display()
);
let vm = vm_id.to_string();
@@ -81,8 +109,9 @@ pub fn start(
match listener.accept().await {
Ok((s, _)) => {
let vm = vm.clone();
+ let target = target.clone();
tokio::spawn(async move {
- if let Err(e) = pipe(s).await {
+ if let Err(e) = pipe(s, &target).await {
// Loud, because the failure a mission sees is a turn
// that never answers. A refused connection here means
// the node's model server is down, and that is worth
@@ -102,10 +131,10 @@ pub fn start(
}
/// Splice one guest connection onto a fresh connection to the node's model.
-async fn pipe(mut guest: tokio::net::UnixStream) -> Result<(), String> {
- let mut model = TcpStream::connect(OLLAMA_ADDR)
+async fn pipe(mut guest: tokio::net::UnixStream, target: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+ let mut model = TcpStream::connect(target)
.await
- .map_err(|e| format!("connect {OLLAMA_ADDR}: {e}"))?;
+ .map_err(|e| format!("connect {target}: {e}"))?;
tokio::io::copy_bidirectional(&mut guest, &mut model)
.await
.map(|_| ())
@@ -116,6 +145,25 @@ async fn pipe(mut guest: tokio::net::UnixStream) -> Result<(), String> {
mod tests {
use super::*;
+ /// The local backend still pipes to Ollama, whatever relay is offered.
+ #[test]
+ fn the_local_backend_always_gets_the_nodes_own_model() {
+ assert_eq!(target_for(Some("local-ornith"), Some("100.102.112.85:8089")).unwrap().as_deref(), Some(OLLAMA_ADDR));
+ }
+
+ /// A hosted backend relays only when told to, and only to the tailnet.
+ #[test]
+ fn a_hosted_backend_relays_only_to_a_tailnet_address() {
+ assert_eq!(target_for(Some("claude"), None).unwrap(), None, "no relay offered: no pipe, as before");
+ assert_eq!(
+ target_for(Some("glm"), Some("100.102.112.85:8089")).unwrap().as_deref(),
+ Some("100.102.112.85:8089")
+ );
+ for bad in ["8.8.8.8:443", "127.0.0.1:8089", "10.0.0.5:8089", "100.128.0.1:8089", "api.z.ai:443", "100.102.112.85"] {
+ assert!(target_for(Some("claude"), Some(bad)).is_err(), "{bad} must be refused");
+ }
+ }
+
/// Only the backends that are meant to have a local model get one.
///
/// The negative half is the point: an unrecognised backend acquiring a route
@@ -144,24 +192,31 @@ mod tests {
}
}
- /// The guest cannot name a destination, so there is nothing to validate.
+ /// The guest still cannot name a destination.
///
- /// This asserts the property that makes this module safe enough to skip the
- /// allow-list entirely: the upstream address is a constant. If it ever
- /// becomes a parameter, this file needs everything `egress` has.
+ /// This module used to dial one constant, and that was what let it skip the
+ /// allow-list. It now has two destinations — the node's own model, and the
+ /// server's LLM proxy as a relay — but the property the constant protected
+ /// holds: the pipe protocol carries no address, the destination is chosen
+ /// by `target_for` from the SERVER's `vm_create` message, and a relay is
+ /// accepted only on the tailnet (see `a_hosted_backend_relays_only_to_a_tailnet_address`).
+ /// If the guest ever gets to supply a target, this file needs everything
+ /// `egress` has.
#[test]
- fn the_upstream_address_is_a_constant_not_an_input() {
+ fn the_guest_never_chooses_where_the_pipe_goes() {
let src = include_str!("local_model.rs");
// Needles are split so they do not match themselves in this file.
assert_eq!(
src.matches(concat!("TcpStream", "::connect(")).count(),
1,
- "exactly one dial site, and it must use the constant"
+ "exactly one dial site"
);
- assert!(src.contains(concat!("TcpStream", "::connect(OLLAMA_ADDR)")));
+ assert!(src.contains(concat!("TcpStream", "::connect(target)")));
+ // `target` reaches `pipe` only from `start`, which gets it only from `target_for`.
+ assert_eq!(src.matches(concat!("target_for", "(backend, relay)")).count(), 1);
assert!(
OLLAMA_ADDR.starts_with("127.0.0.1:"),
- "the model server must be reached on loopback only"
+ "the node's model server must be reached on loopback only"
);
}
}
diff --git a/crates/bins/clawmates-node/src/main.rs b/crates/bins/clawmates-node/src/main.rs
index 857fd9a..dbcc7a7 100644
--- a/crates/bins/clawmates-node/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/bins/clawmates-node/src/main.rs
@@ -328,6 +328,10 @@ fn capabilities_from(kvm: bool, firecracker: Option<&str>, backends: &[String])
// binary but no KVM is gw-04. Computed here rather than in the
// scheduler so the rule sits next to the probe that feeds it.
"microvm": kvm && firecracker.is_some(),
+ // The VM model pipe can relay to the server's LLM proxy, so a guest on a
+ // hosted backend needs no provider key (local_model::target_for). The
+ // server relays only to nodes that say so; older nodes keep the key.
+ "model_relay": true,
})
}
diff --git a/crates/bins/clawmates-node/src/microvm.rs b/crates/bins/clawmates-node/src/microvm.rs
index 94304d6..c4ed148 100644
--- a/crates/bins/clawmates-node/src/microvm.rs
+++ b/crates/bins/clawmates-node/src/microvm.rs
@@ -328,6 +328,7 @@ pub async fn create(
vcpus: u32,
mem_mib: u32,
backend: Option<&str>,
+ model_relay: Option<&str>,
) -> Result {
check_id(vm_id)?;
let golden = rootfs_for(backend)?;
@@ -399,7 +400,7 @@ pub async fn create(
// The node's own model, for a backend that has one. Bound before firecracker
// starts for the same reason egress is: a guest that dials before the host
// listens gets a refusal it will not retry.
- let (model_uds, model_task) = match crate::local_model::start(&uds, vm_id, backend) {
+ let (model_uds, model_task) = match crate::local_model::start(&uds, vm_id, backend, model_relay) {
Ok(Some((p, t))) => (Some(p), Some(t)),
Ok(None) => (None, None),
// This backend was supposed to have a local model and does not. Not
@@ -678,6 +679,7 @@ pub async fn handle_op(op: &str, v: &Value, vms: &Vms) -> (bool, String) {
u("vcpus", 2) as u32,
u("mem_mib", 2048) as u32,
v.get("backend").and_then(Value::as_str),
+ v.get("model_relay").and_then(Value::as_str),
)
.await
}
@@ -747,7 +749,7 @@ pub async fn selftest() -> bool {
// default — booting the wrong rootfs would report success for whatever came
// out of it. Checked here so the guarantee is exercised on real hardware and
// not only in a unit test with a temp dir.
- match create(&vms, "selftest-absent", 2, 512, Some("definitely-not-built")).await {
+ match create(&vms, "selftest-absent", 2, 512, Some("definitely-not-built"), None).await {
Err(e) if e.contains("rootfs-definitely-not-built.ext4") => {
check(true, "an absent backend image fails by name", String::new())
}
@@ -763,7 +765,7 @@ pub async fn selftest() -> bool {
}
let started = std::time::Instant::now();
- let created = match create(&vms, id, 2, 1024, backend.as_deref()).await {
+ let created = match create(&vms, id, 2, 1024, backend.as_deref(), None).await {
Ok(v) => {
check(
true,
diff --git a/crates/cm-api/src/llm_proxy.rs b/crates/cm-api/src/llm_proxy.rs
index dbffef7..0712d68 100644
--- a/crates/cm-api/src/llm_proxy.rs
+++ b/crates/cm-api/src/llm_proxy.rs
@@ -98,6 +98,54 @@ pub fn base_url() -> Option {
(!host.is_empty()).then(|| format!("http://{host}:{PORT}"))
}
+/// Where fleet nodes reach the proxy: the server's TAILNET address and the
+/// proxy port, e.g. `100.102.112.85:8089` (published on that address only,
+/// never on a public interface). Set = microVM missions may be relayed.
+pub fn node_relay_addr() -> Option {
+ std::env::var("CLAWMATES_LLM_PROXY_NODE_ADDR")
+ .ok()
+ .map(|v| v.trim().to_string())
+ .filter(|v| !v.is_empty())
+}
+
+/// The proxy route a microVM backend's CLI speaks to, or `None` for a backend
+/// that reaches no hosted provider (`local-ornith`) or that nobody taught this
+/// function about — the same fail-closed rule as the node's `provider_hosts`.
+pub fn microvm_route(backend: Option<&str>) -> Option<&'static str> {
+ match backend {
+ None | Some("") | Some("default") | Some("claude") | Some("canary-claude") => Some("anthropic"),
+ Some("glm") => Some("glm"),
+ Some("kimi") => Some("kimi"),
+ _ => None,
+ }
+}
+
+/// Should this microVM phase reach its model through the proxy? Only when the
+/// proxy is on, a node address is configured, the backend has a route, and the
+/// NODE says it can relay (daemon 0.5.0+ reports `model_relay`). An older node
+/// keeps the old path — the key in the guest — rather than a guest whose model
+/// calls go nowhere.
+pub async fn microvm_relay(pool: &PgPool, node: Uuid, backend: Option<&str>) -> Option {
+ if !enabled() || microvm_route(backend).is_none() {
+ return None;
+ }
+ let addr = node_relay_addr()?;
+ let relays: bool = sqlx::query_scalar(
+ "SELECT coalesce((capabilities->>'model_relay')::boolean, false) FROM nodes WHERE id = $1",
+ )
+ .bind(node)
+ .fetch_optional(pool)
+ .await
+ .ok()
+ .flatten()
+ .unwrap_or(false);
+ if !relays {
+ eprintln!("llm_proxy: node {node} cannot relay model calls (daemon < 0.5.0) — its guest gets the provider key");
+ return None;
+ }
+ Some(addr)
+}
+
/// One upstream: where it lives and the real credential it takes.
#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct Upstream {
@@ -338,6 +386,33 @@ mod tests {
assert!(DROP_REQUEST.contains(&"authorization") && DROP_REQUEST.contains(&"x-api-key"));
}
+ /// A relayed guest holds the token under the name its CLI reads and points
+ /// at its own loopback model port — never a provider host, never a key.
+ #[test]
+ fn a_relayed_guest_gets_the_token_and_a_loopback_base_url() {
+ for (backend, cred, route) in [
+ (Some("claude"), "CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN", "anthropic"),
+ (None, "CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN", "anthropic"),
+ (Some("glm"), "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN", "glm"),
+ (Some("kimi"), "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN", "kimi"),
+ ] {
+ let env = crate::mission_runtime::microvm_proxied_env(backend, "cmlp.m.s").unwrap();
+ let get = |k: &str| env.iter().find(|(n, _)| n == k).map(|(_, v)| v.as_str());
+ assert_eq!(get(cred), Some("cmlp.m.s"), "{backend:?}");
+ assert_eq!(get("ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL"), Some(format!("http://127.0.0.1:11434/{route}").as_str()));
+ assert_eq!(env.len(), 2, "nothing else — in particular no other key: {env:?}");
+ }
+ }
+
+ /// A local model and an unknown backend have no route, so they are never
+ /// relayed (the local one keeps its own pipe to the node's model).
+ #[test]
+ fn local_and_unknown_backends_are_not_relayed() {
+ assert_eq!(microvm_route(Some("local-ornith")), None);
+ assert_eq!(microvm_route(Some("something-new")), None);
+ assert!(crate::mission_runtime::microvm_proxied_env(Some("local-ornith"), "t").is_err());
+ }
+
#[test]
fn only_known_providers_route() {
assert!(upstream("evil.example").is_none());
diff --git a/crates/cm-api/src/microvm_client.rs b/crates/cm-api/src/microvm_client.rs
index a61e87f..57036b7 100644
--- a/crates/cm-api/src/microvm_client.rs
+++ b/crates/cm-api/src/microvm_client.rs
@@ -98,14 +98,18 @@ impl<'a> MicroVm<'a> {
vcpus: u32,
mem_mib: u32,
backend: Option<&str>,
+ model_relay: Option<&str>,
) -> Result {
// 60s, not the hub default: a create that has to copy a rootfs and boot
// is measured near 1s, but a node under load has no reason to be fast.
- self.call(
- "vm_create",
- json!({ "vcpus": vcpus, "mem_mib": mem_mib, "backend": backend }),
- 60,
- )
+ //
+ // `model_relay` is omitted, not sent as null, when absent: an older node
+ // ignores unknown fields either way, but the absence is the old path.
+ let mut req = json!({ "vcpus": vcpus, "mem_mib": mem_mib, "backend": backend });
+ if let Some(r) = model_relay {
+ req["model_relay"] = json!(r);
+ }
+ self.call("vm_create", req, 60)
.await
}
diff --git a/crates/cm-api/src/microvm_executor.rs b/crates/cm-api/src/microvm_executor.rs
index f86d73f..7a3d978 100644
--- a/crates/cm-api/src/microvm_executor.rs
+++ b/crates/cm-api/src/microvm_executor.rs
@@ -493,10 +493,18 @@ pub struct ToolGateOutcome {
pub async fn run_phase_in_vm(hub: &NodeHub, p: VmPhase<'_>) -> Result {
// Resolved BEFORE the VM boots: a missing subscription token must fail the
// phase, not boot a VM whose agent will sit there unauthenticated.
- let env = crate::mission_runtime::microvm_provider_env(p.backend)?;
+ //
+ // With a relay, the guest holds the mission's proxy token instead of the
+ // provider key, and its model calls go loopback → vsock → node → server
+ // proxy, which adds the credential. See `llm_proxy`.
+ let env = match (&p.model_relay, crate::llm_proxy::token_for(p.mission_id)) {
+ (Some(_), Some(token)) => crate::mission_runtime::microvm_proxied_env(p.backend, &token)?,
+ _ => crate::mission_runtime::microvm_provider_env(p.backend)?,
+ };
+ let relay = p.model_relay.as_deref().filter(|_| crate::llm_proxy::token_for(p.mission_id).is_some());
let vm = MicroVm::new(hub, p.node_id, vm_id_for(p.phase_id, p.iteration, p.step));
- let created = vm.create(VCPUS, MEM_MIB, p.backend).await?;
+ let created = vm.create(VCPUS, MEM_MIB, p.backend, relay).await?;
// From here on every early return must still destroy the VM, so the work is
// one call whose result is held while teardown runs unconditionally.
@@ -542,6 +550,10 @@ pub struct VmPhase<'a> {
pub task: &'a str,
/// `missions.backend` — which rootfs image. `None` boots the node's default.
pub backend: Option<&'a str>,
+ /// The server's LLM proxy as the node should reach it, when this phase's
+ /// model calls are relayed (`llm_proxy::microvm_relay`). `None` keeps the
+ /// provider key in the guest.
+ pub model_relay: Option,
/// The host checkout, injected as a tar and collected back over the same
/// path so `mission_delivery` needs no change.
pub repo: &'a std::path::Path,
diff --git a/crates/cm-api/src/microvm_turn_executor.rs b/crates/cm-api/src/microvm_turn_executor.rs
index 155dae5..1aa3f30 100644
--- a/crates/cm-api/src/microvm_turn_executor.rs
+++ b/crates/cm-api/src/microvm_turn_executor.rs
@@ -191,6 +191,12 @@ impl TurnExecutor for MicroVmTurnExecutor {
let outcome = self
.vms
.run(VmPhase {
+ model_relay: crate::llm_proxy::microvm_relay(
+ &self.pool,
+ fleet_node.as_uuid(),
+ backend.as_deref(),
+ )
+ .await,
task_policy: None,
// Every node of a composed graph streams to the same outer run,
// which is the one the operator is watching.
diff --git a/crates/cm-api/src/mission_runtime.rs b/crates/cm-api/src/mission_runtime.rs
index 0312a41..044f6a6 100644
--- a/crates/cm-api/src/mission_runtime.rs
+++ b/crates/cm-api/src/mission_runtime.rs
@@ -282,6 +282,24 @@ fn microvm_provider_env_from(
Ok(env)
}
+/// The guest env for a microVM whose model calls are RELAYED to the server's
+/// LLM proxy: the credential variable the backend's CLI reads carries the
+/// mission's proxy token, and `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` points at the guest's own
+/// loopback model port, which fcagent pipes to the node and the node relays.
+/// The per-turn env overrides the base URL the image bakes in.
+pub fn microvm_proxied_env(
+ backend: Option<&str>,
+ token: &str,
+) -> Result, String> {
+ let want = microvm_credential_for(backend)?;
+ let route = crate::llm_proxy::microvm_route(backend)
+ .ok_or_else(|| format!("backend {backend:?} has no LLM proxy route"))?;
+ Ok(vec![
+ (want.target.to_string(), token.to_string()),
+ ("ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL".to_string(), format!("http://127.0.0.1:11434/{route}")),
+ ])
+}
+
/// The testable half of [`forwarded_provider_env`]. The lookup is a parameter
/// because a test cannot set process environment variables here — the workspace
/// denies `unsafe`, and `set_var` is racy across test threads regardless.
diff --git a/crates/cm-api/src/phase_runner.rs b/crates/cm-api/src/phase_runner.rs
index d3426bd..cd41b48 100644
--- a/crates/cm-api/src/phase_runner.rs
+++ b/crates/cm-api/src/phase_runner.rs
@@ -1817,9 +1817,12 @@ async fn launch_microvm_phase(
std::fs::create_dir_all(&repo)
.map_err(|e| format!("create empty workspace {}: {e}", repo.display()))?;
}
+ let model_relay =
+ crate::llm_proxy::microvm_relay(&pool2, node, backend.as_deref()).await;
crate::microvm_executor::run_phase_in_vm(
&hub,
crate::microvm_executor::VmPhase {
+ model_relay,
task_policy: Some(&task_policy),
// Attribution for live output: this is the run a browser
// subscribes to for this phase.