fix: harden extensible gateway doctor (JSON purity, core-check shadowing, repair validation)

- Keep `gateway doctor --json` stdout a single valid JSON document by
  suppressing advisory registry warnings during discovery/execution, fixing
  the CI JSONDecodeError under Click's stderr-merging test runner.
- Protect mandatory `core/gateway/*` checks: register them as `protected`
  before plugin discovery so an installed `praisonai.health_checks` extension
  can no longer shadow required auth-token / config-version validation (P1).
- Validate that a check's `repair` returns `HealthRepairResult`/None and drop
  malformed values so `--fix` reports the faulty extension instead of raising
  AttributeError while rendering (P2).
- Add regression tests for protected-ID shadowing, malformed repair isolation,
  and JSON purity when the registry warns.

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Co-authored-by: Mervin Praison <[email protected]>

src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/runtime/health_registry.py

@@ -20,19 +20,39 @@ class HealthCheckRegistry:
 
     def __init__(self) -> None:
         self._checks: Dict[str, HealthCheckProtocol] = {}
+        self._protected: set = set()
         self._plugins_loaded = False
 
-    def register_check(self, check: HealthCheckProtocol) -> None:
+    def register_check(
+        self, check: HealthCheckProtocol, *, protected: bool = False
+    ) -> None:
+        """Register a health check.
+
+        ``protected=True`` marks the ID as owned by a trusted first-party
+        surface (for example the gateway's mandatory ``core/gateway/*``
+        checks).  A later registration — including a discovered
+        ``praisonai.health_checks`` plugin — can NOT silently replace a
+        protected ID, so an installed extension can never shadow a required
+        security/config validation.
+        """
         check_id = getattr(check, "id", None) or getattr(check, "check_id", None)
         if not callable(getattr(check, "detect", None)):
             raise TypeError("Check must provide detect(context)")
         if not isinstance(check_id, str) or "/" not in check_id:
             raise ValueError("Health check IDs must be namespaced (for example channel/name)")
-        if check_id in self._checks:
+        if check_id in self._protected and not protected:
+            warnings.warn(
+                f"Ignoring health check {check_id!r}: this ID is reserved by a "
+                "built-in check and cannot be overridden"
+            )
+            return
+        if check_id in self._checks and check_id not in self._protected:
             warnings.warn(
                 f"Duplicate health check ID {check_id!r} - replacing existing check"
             )
         self._checks[check_id] = check
+        if protected:
+            self._protected.add(check_id)
 
     def get_checks(self) -> List[HealthCheckProtocol]:
         if not self._plugins_loaded:
@@ -76,6 +96,13 @@ class HealthCheckRegistry:
             if fix and findings and callable(repair_fn):
                 try:
                     repair = repair_fn(context, findings)
+                    if repair is not None and not isinstance(
+                        repair, HealthRepairResult
+                    ):
+                        raise TypeError(
+                            "Check repair must return HealthRepairResult or None, "
+                            f"got {type(repair).__name__}"
+                        )
                     residual = list(check.detect(context))
                 except Exception as exc:
                     residual = list(findings) + [Finding(
@@ -84,6 +111,10 @@ class HealthCheckRegistry:
                         message=f"Health check repair failed: {exc}",
                         context={"error": str(exc)},
                     )]
+                    # Drop any malformed repair value so rendering (to_dict) can
+                    # never dereference fields on a non-HealthRepairResult.
+                    if not isinstance(repair, HealthRepairResult):
+                        repair = None
                     results.append(HealthCheckResult(
                         check_id=check_id,
                         findings=findings,

src/praisonai-agents/tests/unit/runtime/test_health_registry.py

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 """Tests for extensible runtime health checks."""
 
+import warnings
+
 from praisonaiagents.runtime.doctor_protocol import Finding
 from praisonaiagents.runtime.health_check import HealthRepairResult
 from praisonaiagents.runtime.health_registry import HealthCheckRegistry
@@ -91,3 +93,87 @@ def test_registry_accepts_canonical_id_attribute():
 
     assert registry.get_check_ids() == ["plugin/canonical"]
     assert registry.run({})[0].check_id == "plugin/canonical"
+
+
+def test_protected_check_cannot_be_shadowed():
+    """A plugin re-using a protected core ID must not override it (Greptile P1)."""
+    class CoreCheck:
+        check_id = "core/gateway/auth-token"
+
+        def detect(self, context):
+            return []
+
+    class ImpostorPlugin:
+        check_id = "core/gateway/auth-token"
+
+        def detect(self, context):
+            return [Finding(
+                rule_id=self.check_id,
+                severity="error",
+                message="should never run",
+            )]
+
+    registry = HealthCheckRegistry()
+    registry._plugins_loaded = True
+    core = CoreCheck()
+    registry.register_check(core, protected=True)
+
+    with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as caught:
+        warnings.simplefilter("always")
+        registry.register_check(ImpostorPlugin())
+
+    assert registry.get_check_ids() == ["core/gateway/auth-token"]
+    assert registry._checks["core/gateway/auth-token"] is core
+    assert any("reserved" in str(w.message) for w in caught)
+
+
+def test_protected_check_replaceable_by_protected_owner():
+    """The owning surface may re-register its own protected check idempotently."""
+    class CoreCheck:
+        check_id = "core/gateway/auth-token"
+
+        def detect(self, context):
+            return []
+
+    registry = HealthCheckRegistry()
+    registry._plugins_loaded = True
+    first = CoreCheck()
+    second = CoreCheck()
+    registry.register_check(first, protected=True)
+
+    with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as caught:
+        warnings.simplefilter("always")
+        registry.register_check(second, protected=True)
+
+    assert registry._checks["core/gateway/auth-token"] is second
+    assert not caught
+
+
+def test_malformed_repair_result_is_isolated():
+    """A repair returning a non-HealthRepairResult must not crash rendering (P2)."""
+    class BadRepair:
+        check_id = "plugin/bad-repair"
+
+        def detect(self, context):
+            return [Finding(
+                rule_id=self.check_id,
+                severity="error",
+                message="broken",
+            )]
+
+        def repair(self, context, findings):
+            return {"changed": True}  # wrong type on purpose
+
+    registry = HealthCheckRegistry()
+    registry._plugins_loaded = True
+    registry.register_check(BadRepair())
+
+    result = registry.run({}, fix=True)[0]
+
+    assert result.error is not None
+    assert "HealthRepairResult" in result.error
+    assert result.repair is None
+    # to_dict must not raise on a malformed repair value.
+    payload = result.to_dict()
+    assert payload["repair"] is None
+    assert payload["repaired"] is False

src/praisonai-bot/praisonai_bot/cli/commands/gateway.py

@@ -895,18 +895,40 @@ class _GatewayConfigVersionHealthCheck:
 
 
 def _run_gateway_health_checks(config_path: str, *, fix: bool, dry_run: bool):
-    """Run built-in and third-party checks through one shared lifecycle."""
+    """Run built-in and third-party checks through one shared lifecycle.
+
+    The mandatory ``core/gateway/*`` checks (auth-token strength, config-version
+    migration) are registered as ``protected`` BEFORE any
+    ``praisonai.health_checks`` plugin is discovered, so an installed extension
+    can never claim a canonical gateway ID and shadow the required
+    security/config validation (Greptile P1). ``register_check`` is idempotent
+    for a protected ID, so repeated ``doctor`` invocations do not re-warn.
+    """
+    import warnings
+
     from praisonaiagents.runtime.health_registry import get_health_check_registry
 
     registry = get_health_check_registry()
-    existing = set(registry.get_check_ids())
-    for check in (_GatewaySecretHealthCheck(), _GatewayConfigVersionHealthCheck()):
-        if check.check_id not in existing:
-            registry.register_check(check)
-    return registry.run(
-        {"config_path": config_path, "dry_run": dry_run},
-        fix=fix,
-    )
+    # Advisory registry warnings (plugin-discovery failures, a plugin trying to
+    # shadow a protected ID) must NOT leak onto stderr here: under some Click
+    # versions the CLI test runner merges stderr into stdout, which corrupts the
+    # ``doctor --json`` document into an unparseable payload. The findings the
+    # operator needs are already surfaced structurally in the JSON/plain report,
+    # so silence the transient warnings around discovery + execution.
+    with warnings.catch_warnings():
+        warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
+        # Register the mandatory built-ins as protected FIRST. Plugin discovery
+        # runs lazily inside registry.run(); protecting the IDs here means a
+        # later plugin using the same ID is refused instead of overriding it.
+        for check in (
+            _GatewaySecretHealthCheck(),
+            _GatewayConfigVersionHealthCheck(),
+        ):
+            registry.register_check(check, protected=True)
+        return registry.run(
+            {"config_path": config_path, "dry_run": dry_run},
+            fix=fix,
+        )
 
 
 def _health_result(results, check_id):

src/praisonai-bot/tests/unit/gateway/test_extensible_doctor.py

@@ -60,3 +60,45 @@ def test_gateway_doctor_runs_repairs_and_revalidates_registered_check(
     )
     assert plugin["repaired"] is True
     assert plugin["residual_findings"] == []
+
+
+def test_gateway_doctor_json_stays_pure_when_registry_warns(monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+    """Registry warnings (e.g. plugin discovery) must not corrupt --json output.
+
+    Under some Click versions the CLI runner merges stderr into stdout, so a
+    stray ``warnings.warn`` during health-check discovery would break
+    ``json.loads`` (the CI JSONDecodeError). The doctor must keep stdout as a
+    single valid JSON document regardless.
+    """
+    import warnings as _warnings
+
+    typer_testing = pytest.importorskip("typer.testing")
+    from praisonaiagents.gateway.config import GATEWAY_CONFIG_VERSION
+    import praisonaiagents.runtime.health_registry as health_registry
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(health_registry, "_default_registry", None)
+
+    def _noisy_discovery(self):
+        _warnings.warn("Failed to load health check 'demo': boom")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        health_registry.HealthCheckRegistry,
+        "_load_entry_points",
+        _noisy_discovery,
+    )
+
+    cfg = tmp_path / "gateway.yaml"
+    cfg.write_text(
+        f"config_version: {GATEWAY_CONFIG_VERSION}\nchannels: {{}}\n",
+        encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+
+    from praisonai_bot.cli.commands.gateway import app
+
+    result = typer_testing.CliRunner().invoke(
+        app, ["doctor", "--config", str(cfg), "--json"]
+    )
+
+    assert result.exit_code == 0, result.stdout
+    payload = json.loads(result.stdout)
+    assert payload["health"]["checksRun"] == 2