🔐 BW-Proxy — Sovereign Bitwarden Appliance

Zero Trust · AI-Blind · ACID Durable
The authoritative appliance for Bitwarden organization vault control. Keep AI agents and LLMs blind to your real secrets while giving them full auditing and refactoring powers.

🏛️ Project Architecture (Sovereign Tree)

BW-PROXY PROJECT
├── 📂 src/bw_proxy/     ◄── Core Engine (ACID Transaction, WAL, Redaction)
├── 📂 scripts/          ◄── Host-side Shims (Dynamic porting, Browser HITL)
├── 📂 docs/             ◄── Deep-dive Hardening & Operator Guides
├── 📄 install.sh        ◄── System-wide Appliance Installer (Root-owned)
├── 📄 Makefile          ◄── Developer & Release Automator
└── 📄 Dockerfile        ◄── Multi-stage Hardened Runtime

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🚀 Installation Modes

A. Appliance Mode (Standard Pro)

Ideal for production use. Installs a root-owned binary and uses the official image.

Via curl (Zero-Clone):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KpihX/bw-proxy/main/install.sh | sudo bash

What it does internally:

1. Image: Pulls ghcr.io/kpihx/bw-proxy:latest.

2. Binary: Creates /usr/local/bin/bw-proxy (owned by root).

3. Config: Creates /etc/bw-proxy/.

4. Data: Creates a persistent Docker volume bw_mcp_bw-data.

B. Developer Mode (Source Clone)

Ideal for contribution or source-level auditing.

git clone https://github.com/KpihX/bw-proxy.git
cd bw-proxy
make docker-install  # Requires SUDO for builds

⚙️ Core Mechanisms (The Magic)

1. The HITL Browser Flux

When an AI agent requests a vault change, the proxy intercepts the execution:

1. Port Allocation: The host shim finds a free random port.

2. Container Launch: The appliance starts, mapping the internal HITL server to that port.

3. URL Interception: The shim detects the Approval URL in stdout and automatically opens your browser.

4. Human Approval: You review the rationale and the diff, then approve with your Master Password.

2. The 3-Phase ACID Commit (WAL)

Every mutation is transactional.

• Simulation: Actions are validated in RAM first.

• WAL: Actions are encrypted and logged to disk before execution.

• Commit: Actions are sent to the Bitwarden CLI.

• Rollback: If a crash occurs, the proxy performs a LIFO rollback on the next start.

3. Scoped Union Fetch

To handle organizational vaults without metadata loss:

• The proxy discovers all accessible Organizations and Collections first.

• It then performs scoped queries (--organizationid) to fetch "rich" items with full metadata.

• It merges results with the global vault list, ensuring organizational assignments are preserved.

🕹️ Interface Modes

1. CLI Mode (Recommended for Humans & AI Agents) 🚀

The CLI is the most efficient and agnostic way to interact with the appliance. It uses RPC 2.0 (JSON), supports exact examples, and provides rich help documentation.

For AI Agents: Using the CLI via run_command is more token-efficient than MCP and offers greater flexibility.

bw-proxy admin status   # Health check
bw-proxy admin unlock   # Create a 5-minute session lease
bw-proxy do list-items  # Quick redacted scan

2. MCP Mode (Standard Stdio)

Start the stdio server for standard MCP clients like Gemini, Claude, or Cursor.

bw-proxy mcp serve

🛠️ Maintenance & Release

• Update: curl ... | sudo bash (re-runs the installer).

• Uninstall: sudo ./uninstall.sh.

• Release (Dev): make release (automatic tagging and GHCR propulsion).

⚖️ License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

Designed with ❤️ by KpihX.