affaan-m/ECC · error · ValueError

remote instinct imports require https URLs

Error message

remote instinct imports require https URLs

What it means

Error "remote instinct imports require https URLs" thrown in affaan-m/ECC.

Source

Thrown at skills/continuous-learning-v2/scripts/instinct-cli.py:193

def _validate_instinct_id(instinct_id: str) -> bool:
    """Validate instinct IDs before using them in filenames."""
    if not instinct_id or len(instinct_id) > 128:
        return False
    if "/" in instinct_id or "\\" in instinct_id:
        return False
    if ".." in instinct_id:
        return False
    if instinct_id.startswith("."):
        return False
    return bool(re.match(r"^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]*$", instinct_id))


def _validate_import_url(source: str) -> str:
    """Validate remote instinct imports before opening a network connection."""
    parsed = urllib.parse.urlparse(source)
    if parsed.scheme != "https":
        raise ValueError("remote instinct imports require https URLs")
    if not parsed.hostname:
        raise ValueError("remote import URL is missing a hostname")

    try:
        addr_infos = socket.getaddrinfo(parsed.hostname, parsed.port or 443, type=socket.SOCK_STREAM)
    except socket.gaierror as exc:
        raise ValueError(f"remote import host could not be resolved: {parsed.hostname}") from exc

    for family, _, _, _, sockaddr in addr_infos:
        host = sockaddr[0]
        try:
            ip = ipaddress.ip_address(host)
        except ValueError:
            continue
        if (
            ip.is_private
            or ip.is_loopback
            or ip.is_link_local

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Solutions

1. Use an https:// URL for remote instinct imports; plain http and other schemes are refused to prevent downgrade/credential leaks.
2. Download the file yourself over a trusted channel and import it locally if no https endpoint exists.

Example fix

instinct import https://example.com/instinct.md  # not http://

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at skills/continuous-learning-v2/scripts/instinct-cli.py:193 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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