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Why

HTTP clients follow the standard proxy variables, so a distribution that wants to see every outbound request only has to set HTTP_PROXY. The database, cache, and vector store clients speak their own protocols over raw TCP and read no such variable — they connect wherever their URL points, whatever policy the distribution believes it is enforcing.

This came out of a review of GoModel Pro's air-gapped mode: its egress guard covers HTTP, so a Postgres, MongoDB, or Redis hostname that passes the startup audit can resolve publicly on a later connection, with no runtime check and no refusal evidence.

What

  • New egress package: one process-wide dial hook (Install / DialContext, plus a Dialer{} adapter for the MongoDB driver's interface). With no hook installed the default net.Dialer is used, so core's behaviour is unchanged.
  • Routed through it: internal/storage/postgresql.go (pgx DialFunc), internal/storage/mongodb.go (SetDialer), internal/cache/redis.go (opts.Dialer), and internal/responsecache/vecstore_pgvector.go (now parses the pool config so it can set DialFunc).
  • With a hook installed, pgx gets a pass-through LookupFunc so the hook receives the configured hostname rather than addresses pgx already resolved — otherwise an allowlisted name can never match. The default path keeps pgx's own resolution and multi-address fallback.

Tests

  • egress/egress_test.go: default dialer, hook interception, the Mongo adapter, and Install(nil) restoring the default.
  • internal/storage/egress_hook_test.go and internal/cache/egress_hook_test.go: refuse the dial from a test hook and assert each client asked the hook for the address its URL names. The PostgreSQL one fails without the LookupFunc change.

Full go test ./... passes.

Downstream

GoModel Pro's air-gapped guard installs itself here (Guard.DialContext), which is what turns "audited once at startup" into "refused before it is dialled, and recorded in /admin/pro/egress". The Pro side needs a release containing this package before it can pin it.

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  • New Features
    • Added configurable outbound connection routing for database, cache, and vector store connections.
    • Connections can be intercepted and handled through a custom dialing configuration.
    • PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and pgvector connections now support the configured routing behavior.
    • Hostnames remain available to custom routing for resolution and connection handling.
    • Connections fall back to standard dialing when no custom routing is installed.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for custom routing, connection targets, fallback dialing, and hook cleanup.

…rectly

HTTP clients follow the standard proxy variables, so a distribution that
wants to see every outbound request only has to set HTTP_PROXY. The
database, cache, and vector store clients speak their own protocols over
raw TCP and read no such variable: they connect wherever their URL points,
whatever policy the distribution believes it is enforcing.

Add an egress package holding one process-wide dial hook, and route the
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and pgvector clients through it. Without a hook
installed they dial exactly as before. With one, the hostname reaches it
unresolved - pgx would otherwise resolve first and hand the hook addresses
it had already chosen, leaving an allowlisted name unmatchable - so one
place decides what a name may resolve to and dials the address that passed.

GoModel Pro's air-gapped mode installs its egress guard here, which is what
makes a Postgres or Redis address outside the air gap refused before it is
dialled rather than audited once at startup and then trusted.

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The PR adds a process-wide egress dial hook. Redis, PostgreSQL, pgvector, and MongoDB clients use the hook for outbound connections. Tests verify hook lifecycle, hostname handling, address routing, and default dialing.

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Egress routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dial hook contract
egress/egress.go
Adds hook installation, removal, status checks, default dialing, hostname lookup handling, and the MongoDB Dialer adapter.
Storage client integration
internal/cache/redis.go, internal/storage/postgresql.go, internal/responsecache/vecstore_pgvector.go, internal/storage/mongodb.go
Routes client connections through the egress hook. PostgreSQL and pgvector preserve unresolved hostnames while the hook is installed.
Hook behavior validation
egress/egress_test.go, internal/cache/egress_hook_test.go, internal/storage/egress_hook_test.go, internal/responsecache/egress_hook_test.go
Verifies hook lifecycle, default dialing, call-time hostname handling, connection refusal, and address routing.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4f6b3

This change routes storage connections through a shared egress hook. The remaining risk is limited to test isolation: overlapping tests could clear another test's active hook and cause flaky or misleading test results; production behavior is otherwise covered by focused client-path tests.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant StorageClient
  participant Egress
  participant Target
  Client->>StorageClient: Create connection
  StorageClient->>Egress: DialContext(network, address)
  Egress->>Target: Invoke installed hook or default dialer
  Target-->>Egress: Connection or error
  Egress-->>StorageClient: Return connection or error
  StorageClient-->>Client: Return client or connection error
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A rabbit checks the dial,
The hook guards every path,
Hostnames wait for egress,
Tests watch each connection,
The garden stays in order.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the egress feature and its purpose: allowing a distribution to control direct connections made by core components.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains why and what changed, identifies affected clients, documents hostname lookup behavior, lists tests, and describes downstream usage. It does not use the template's exact "## De…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 80.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 9 files.
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In `@internal/responsecache/vecstore_pgvector.go`:
- Line 44: Add focused coverage for newPGVectorStore’s pgx connection path by
installing a refusing egress.DialContext hook, creating the store, and asserting
the hook receives the configured hostname. Follow the repository’s existing test
guidance and patterns without changing unrelated behavior.

In `@internal/storage/postgresql.go`:
- Around line 45-49: Update NewPostgreSQL so pool construction does not snapshot
egress.Installed(); configure hostname-preserving lookup behavior for every
connection, allowing a hook installed after pool creation to evaluate the
configured PostgreSQL host. Add a regression test covering late hook
installation and a replacement connection.

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Comment thread internal/storage/postgresql.go Outdated
SantiagoDePolonia and others added 2 commits September 7, 2026 18:20
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pgx resolves a host before it dials, so a pool built while no hook was
installed kept pgx's resolver and handed a later-installed hook addresses it
had already chosen - which a hostname policy cannot judge. The lookup now
goes through egress.Lookup on every connection: the name passes through
while a hook is installed, and pgx's own resolver answers when none is,
keeping its multi-address fallback intact.

Install also no longer replaces an existing hook silently. The policy
belongs to whatever composes the process, and there is one: a second Install
is an error, and Uninstall removes the hook. That is what a nil dial used
to mean, which read as "install nothing" rather than "remove".

Adds the pgvector store's own hook coverage - it opens a pool separate from
the storage backend - and a Lookup test for the late-installation case.

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…vel remove

Install returns the handle that removes the hook, and only that handle can:
a package that merely imports egress can no longer take the policy away from
the clients running under it. A stale handle leaves a hook installed later
alone, so removal cannot cross owners either.

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In `@egress/egress_test.go`:
- Line 16: Update the hook tests to retain every successful Install result and
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Comment thread egress/egress_test.go Outdated
The tests cleaned up with installed.Store(nil), the package-internal
shortcut the exported API deliberately does not offer: it clears whatever
hook is installed, this test's or not. They hold the handles Install
returned and uninstall those instead, which is also how a caller does it.

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