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Reviewed GitHub reports

100 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 12.

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A bit of confusion

After migrating the SQLite database from OpenWebUI to Open-Compose-Use, files appear to be displayed inline with a live preview (similar to artifacts). However, this live preview never actually shows up 🤔, even though all other AI functionalities are working properly.

Read the thread · 2026-04-11 · closed · external user · 12 comments

contracts-lint: the asyncapi gate cannot install its tool, and its validation depends on a remote host

What

The asyncapi job in contracts-lint.yml has two independent defects. It is not a required context, so it has been failing without blocking anything — which is how both went unnoticed.

Defect 1 — the gate cannot install its own tool

npm error code ETARGET
npm error notarget No matching version found for @asyncapi/generator-hooks@0.1.1.

The job runs npx --yes @asyncapi/cli@6.0.0 validate. That CLI hard-pins generator-v2: npm:@asyncapi/generator@3.0.1, and every `@asyn

Read the thread · 2026-08-07 · closed · 5 comments

Sidebar with terminal not shown

Hello, How do I get the terminal and live view to open? My setup seems to work in general, but i never see the preview area.

Image

Read the thread · 2026-04-07 · closed · external user · 5 comments

Embed-token replay-binding on the broker north face (jti/nonce single-use, token-channel binding)

The Storage broker north face authenticates the data-plane client with a peer-minted signed embed token (NFR-SEC-82, exp <=120s). The short TTL caps the replay window but NFR-SEC-82 specifies no single-use binding: a token captured inside its TTL still verifies if replayed from another origin/browser.

Gap. No jti/nonce single-use enforcement, no token-channel (DPoP-style) binding. Threat-model row P4-S3 (docs/architecture/06-threat-model.md section 3.2) anchors NFR-SEC-82 + SEC-83 and recor

Read the thread · 2026-05-31 · closed · 4 comments

Layer 8: OpenAPI + Protobuf schema files (operator REST, SOAR revoke, session set-up)

Tracking the not-yet-built executable schemas named in docs/architecture/08-contracts.md §5: contracts/openapi/ (operator REST + SOAR revoke) and contracts/proto/ (session set-up + lease pull). Each lands as its own PR against the §1 surface inventory once its field-level shape is sourced.

Read the thread · 2026-05-31 · closed · 4 comments

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tests/test_filter.py: 7 tests assert a preview button the filter deliberately stopped emitting

tests/test_filter.py has 45 assertions and nothing collected it. Run for the first time, 8 fail: one is a real drift, seven are stale.

The real one is fixed separately: DOWNLOAD_BASE_URL and DOWNLOAD_SCOPE are defined on Filter.Valves and were absent from the module's VALVES: docstring block. test_every_valve_is_documented_in_docstring iterates the actual model_fields and caught it the first time it ever ran.

The other seven are the tests/patches shape again -- the test predates a deliberate c

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · open · 0 comments

tests/patches has rotted while unrun: 16 failures from a fixture predating the current patch anchors

tests/patches has never been executed by CI, and when run it fails: 16 failures and 2 errors across the six files.

The cause is a stale test fixture rather than a defect in the patches.

test_fix_large_tool_results.py builds a synthetic middleware.py and runs the real patch scripts against it. Several tests need fix_tool_loop_errors to apply first (a cascade dependency, line 411-412), and that patch refuses:

ERROR: fix_tool_loop_errors anchor 1/5 (tool_loop) not found in ...
— upstream

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · open · 1 comment

settings-wrapper serves both internal routes unauthenticated when API_KEY is unset, and silently

settings-wrapper serves both internal routes without authentication when API_KEY is unset, and it has no tests at all.

settings-wrapper/app.py:36-38:

def _check_auth(api_key: str = Header(None, alias="X-Internal-Api-Key")):
    if API_KEY and api_key != API_KEY:
        raise HTTPException(401, "Invalid API key")

API_KEY comes from os.getenv("API_KEY", "") at line 30, so an unset variable makes the guard a no-op. Exercised rather than read:

API_KEY=<empty>  supplied=None

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · open · 0 comments

chat_id is substituted into the system prompt unvalidated, so a newline injects instructions

chat_id is substituted into the system prompt three times without validation, so a newline in it injects instructions the model reads as its own.

system_prompt.py:703-706:

base = f"{PUBLIC_BASE_URL}/files/{chat_id}"
result = result.replace("{file_base_url}", base)
result = result.replace("{archive_url}", f"{base}/archive")
result = result.replace("{chat_id}", chat_id)

system_prompt.py never imports sanitize_chat_id -- grep returns zero. The value arrives from mcp_tools.set_con

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · open · 1 comment

a tokens-URL header sends the deployment's internal key out, and brings a credential back in

The same independent-fallback shape as #605, in a second place, and this one has a return path as well as an outbound one.

docker_manager.py:305-306:

mcp_tokens_url     = current_mcp_tokens_url.get()     or MCP_TOKENS_URL
mcp_tokens_api_key = current_mcp_tokens_api_key.get() or MCP_TOKENS_API_KEY

Both ContextVars are set straight from request headers (mcp_tools.py:1358-1367, x-mcp-tokens-url and x-mcp-tokens-api-key) with no validation, and they are resolved independently:

neithe

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · open · 0 comments

a base-URL header redirects upstream calls while the deployment credential is still sent

A request header chooses the upstream host, while the credential sent to it can still come from the deployment. Setting one without the other is what makes this interesting.

docker_manager.py:544-547:

anthropic_key  = current_anthropic_auth_token.get() or ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN
anthropic_base = current_anthropic_base_url.get()   or ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL
if anthropic_key:
    extra_env["ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN"] = anthropic_key
    extra_env["ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL"]   = anthropic_base

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · open · 0 comments

x-user-email is interpolated into an upstream header value with no validation

x-user-email is taken from the request header with no validation and interpolated into a header VALUE that the guest passes to the upstream API.

docker_manager.py:599:

extra_env["ANTHROPIC_CUSTOM_HEADERS"] = f"x-openwebui-user-email: {user_email}"

user_email comes from mcp_tools.set_context_from_headers:1322, which does current_user_email.set(headers["x-user-email"]) -- no allow-list, no length cap, no character check. security.py validates chat_id and paths; it has no email rule at all

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · open · 0 comments

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