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Thomas Kosiewski 069d3e2beb fix(coderd): require ssh access for workspace chats (#23094)
### Motivation
- The chat creation flow associated a workspace agent for a chat if the requester could read the workspace, enabling privilege escalation where users without SSH/app-connect permissions could cause the daemon to open privileged agent connections and execute commands.
- The intent is to ensure that attaching a workspace agent to a chat only happens when the requester has the workspace SSH permission so the chat daemon cannot be abused to bypass RBAC.

### Description
- Require request-scoped authorization for workspace agent usage by changing `validateCreateChatWorkspaceSelection` to accept the `*http.Request` and calling `api.Authorize(r, policy.ActionSSH, workspace)` before selecting the workspace for a chat.
- Pass the HTTP request into the validator from `postChats` so authorization is evaluated in the request context (`postChats` now calls `validateCreateChatWorkspaceSelection(ctx, r, req)`).
- Add a regression test `WorkspaceAccessibleButNoSSH` in `coderd/chats_test.go` which creates an org-admin-scoped user (read access but no `ActionSSH`) and asserts that creating a chat with `WorkspaceID` is denied.

### Testing
- Ran `gofmt -w coderd/chats.go coderd/chats_test.go` which succeeded.
- Attempted to run repository pre-commit checks (`make pre-commit`) and targeted `go test` invocations; these checks could not be completed in this environment due to missing local tooling and environment constraints (protobuf include resolution, containerized DB access via Docker socket, and long-running golden generation tasks), so full CI/pre-commit verification and end-to-end test runs did not complete here.
- Added a focused regression unit test (`WorkspaceAccessibleButNoSSH`) to prevent reintroduction of the authorization bypass; this test is included in the change and should be executed in CI where the full toolchain and test environment are available.

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[Codex Task](https://chatgpt.com/codex/tasks/task_b_69b432502670832e91d14e937745de46)
2026-03-16 11:42:01 +01:00
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