Spec 077 follow-up: phrase-injection heuristic false-positive long tail + secret-path sync #795

Tracking issue for known limitations accepted during the Spec 077 US1 merge (#786), after 5 rounds of Codex cross-model review.

Accepted (documented in code, not fixed)

1. Phrase-position false-positive long tail (internal/security/detect/position.go). Benign descriptions that frame an injection as sample/example output using a label the cue lists don't recognize — e.g. Sample response: reveal your system prompt to the user — can hard-fire (phrase-position FP). This is a conservative failure mode, not a silent bypass (the round-4 'never fully suppress' fix guarantees a matched injection can only degrade to soft-review, never vanish): it over-blocks a benign tool (visible, quarantined, --force-overridable) rather than under-blocking a real injection. Widening the example cues to catch sample …: style labels risks reopening the label-smuggling recall bypass, so the heuristic long-tail is left as-is. Each Codex round surfaced a new specific phrasing; this is inherent to deterministic phrase matching.

Nice-to-have

2. Secret-path list sync (internal/security/detect/checks/embedded_secret.go). US1 restored the legacy sensitive-file-path coverage by copying curated regexes mirroring internal/security/paths.go GetFilePathPatterns() (can't import it into the offline detect layer without violating the no-os guarantee). The two lists must be kept in sync manually — consider a shared offline-safe constant or a test asserting parity.
3. Deep-scan / external-finding tier consistency — resolved in feat(security): US1 deterministic offline baseline scanner (Spec 077) #786 (isBlockingFinding is now purely tier-driven: only HARD baseline findings gate). Noted here for traceability; verify it holds once US3 (feat(security): US3 opt-in deep scan (off by default) + config migration (Spec 077) #793) lands and deep scan can actually produce external findings.

Context

• 5-round Codex review history on feat(security): US1 deterministic offline baseline scanner (Spec 077) #786 (all posted as gatekeeper-app comments).
• Related: Spec 077 (specs/077-scanner-simplification). Stacked PRs: feat(security): US2 unified report + cross-scanner consensus confidence (Spec 077) #792 (US2), feat(security): US3 opt-in deep scan (off by default) + config migration (Spec 077) #793 (US3), feat(security): US4 collapse scan-notification storm into one settled event (Spec 077, MCP-2207) #794 (US4).