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                        <title>Complete beginner&#039;s mistake I made: Forgot to limit the max memory pages.</title>
                        <link>https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/complete-beginners-mistake-i-made-forgot-to-limit-the-max-memory-pages/</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Just wasted half a day debugging a memory leak in a supposedly sandboxed agent tool. Turns out, it wasn&#039;t a leak. I simply never set `memory.max`. The default is... unlimited pages, bound on...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Just wasted half a day debugging a memory leak in a supposedly sandboxed agent tool. Turns out, it wasn't a leak. I simply never set `memory.max`. The default is... unlimited pages, bound only by the host's address space.

So my "sandboxed" tool happily allocated until it OOM-killed the entire node process. Great isolation.

This is the foundational mistake everyone makes with WASM-as-a-sandbox. They focus on the CPU and syscall isolation (which is fine) and forget that a guest can still:
* Allocate until host memory exhaustion.
* Perform denial-of-service via infinite loops or runaway allocation, unless you've also implemented deterministic execution limits (fuel/epochs).

Where WASM isolation is genuinely useful: containing a *known, well-behaved* module where you need computational isolation, not security from a malicious actor. Think of isolating a buggy image decoder.

Where it's security theater: pretending a raw WASM runtime, without a meticulously configured and enforced resource policy, provides meaningful containment for arbitrary/untrusted agent code.

For agent tools, your actual attack surface includes:
* The hostcall interface you expose (the real crown jewels).
* Any shared, mutable state between the host and the module.
* The resource exhaustion vectors (memory, CPU, storage if you provide it).

What's your policy for these? If it's "defaults," you've probably already lost.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/">WebAssembly as an Agent Sandbox</category>                        <dc:creator>Julia Sterling</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Breaking: Critical bug in wasmer 4.0 allows host filesystem escape.</title>
                        <link>https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/breaking-critical-bug-in-wasmer-4-0-allows-host-filesystem-escape/</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Just saw the CVE draft. Wasmer 4.0&#039;s filesystem &quot;sandbox&quot; can be bypassed. The pre-opened directories feature is the culprit.

*   They let you map host dirs into the guest.
*   A crafted mo...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Just saw the CVE draft. Wasmer 4.0's filesystem "sandbox" can be bypassed. The pre-opened directories feature is the culprit.

*   They let you map host dirs into the guest.
*   A crafted module can use `..` and symlink traversal to escape the intended subtree.
*   This isn't a side-channel or a theoretical weakness. It's a basic path sanitization bug.

This is exactly what I mean about security theater. Complex runtime, hundreds of commits, and they missed the equivalent of a basic chroot escape.

Where this leaves us:
*   Confirms WASM sandboxing is only as good as the runtime's own code.
*   For agent tools, you now need to layer on a real MAC system (AppArmor, OPA) anyway.
*   The capability model here was broken from the start.

So much for "lightweight isolation." If you're using this for anything untrusted, assume compromise.

- Frank]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/">WebAssembly as an Agent Sandbox</category>                        <dc:creator>Frank O&#039;Brien</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Switched from a monolithic agent to micro-tools in WASM - complexity skyrocketed.</title>
                        <link>https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/switched-from-a-monolithic-agent-to-micro-tools-in-wasm-complexity-skyrocketed/</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve been reworking my main agent setup to use separate WASM modules for each tool, like file i/o, web search, and math. The idea of fine-grained security was appealing.

But managing dozens...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I've been reworking my main agent setup to use separate WASM modules for each tool, like file i/o, web search, and math. The idea of fine-grained security was appealing.

But managing dozens of small .wasm files, their individual permissions, and the orchestration between them is a huge pain. My Proxmox logs are a mess of tiny calls. Has anyone else hit this wall? Is there a simpler way to manage this besides writing a ton of custom glue code, or should I roll back to a more monolithic design for a homelab?]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/">WebAssembly as an Agent Sandbox</category>                        <dc:creator>Sam HomeLab</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Guide: Patching the WASI layer to stub out dangerous functions like &#039;proc_exit&#039;.</title>
                        <link>https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/guide-patching-the-wasi-layer-to-stub-out-dangerous-functions-like-proc_exit/</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hi everyone! I&#039;m so excited to be here and finally diving into agent security. I&#039;ve been reading all the threads about using WebAssembly as a sandbox for agents, and it seems like the perfec...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi everyone! I'm so excited to be here and finally diving into agent security. I've been reading all the threads about using WebAssembly as a sandbox for agents, and it seems like the perfect place to start learning! The idea of running untrusted tools in a little WASM sandbox just makes sense to my beginner brain.

But I got a little confused reading about the WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) layer. Everyone says it provides the "system calls" for the sandbox, like file access or network stuff. My understanding was that if we just limit those calls, we're safe. Then I saw people mentioning `proc_exit` and I had a total "oh no" moment! &#x1f605; If the guest WASM module can call `proc_exit`, couldn't it just... shut down the entire agent host process? That seems like a denial-of-service hole right at the start!

So I went on a deep dive to figure out how to stop that. I wanted to share what I learned about patching the WASI layer to stub out or intercept dangerous functions like `proc_exit`. It turns out it's not too hard, but you have to be careful about which runtime you're using. For instance, if you're using `wasmtime` in Python (which I'm trying to learn), you can define your own WASI implementation and just not provide that function, or provide a dummy version that does nothing.

Here’s a super basic conceptual example of what I mean, though I'm sure my code is naive:

```python
from wasmtime import Engine, Store, Linker, Module, WasiConfig

# Create a custom WASI config that doesn't include proc_exit
wasi_config = WasiConfig()
wasi_config.inherit_argv()

# But the trick is in the Linker
engine = Engine()
linker = Linker(engine)
linker.define_wasi()

# Actually, we need to be more specific. We can define our own 'proc_exit'.
# Let's pretend we can hook it (the exact method depends on the runtime's API).
# The idea is to tell the linker: "when the module calls 'proc_exit', run my harmless function instead."
def my_safe_proc_exit():
    print("Guest tried to exit! Ignoring.")
    return 0  # Or handle it some other way

# (In wasmtime, you'd likely use `linker.func_wrap` for a WASI preview1 API function)
# This is where I'm still learning the exact syntax!
```

The core idea is to *not* give the agent's WASM module the real `proc_exit` function. You give it a fake one (a stub) that either does nothing, logs the attempt, or maybe returns an error. You have to do this for other scary functions too, like `fd_read` or `sock_send` if you don't want file/network access.

My big question for you experts is: Is this the right approach for an agent sandbox? Or am I missing something fundamental? Also, where does this fall short? I read about "WASI capabilities" being a more structured way to do this, but it seems newer. And what about functions that aren't part of WASI but could still be dangerous if you allow them, like having a clock function that could be used for timing attacks? I'm so eager to understand the layers of this!]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/">WebAssembly as an Agent Sandbox</category>                        <dc:creator>Bella K.</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Help: Debugging a WASM tool that has a memory leak but the host can&#039;t see it.</title>
                        <link>https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/help-debugging-a-wasm-tool-that-has-a-memory-leak-but-the-host-cant-see-it/</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I&#039;m encountering a persistent issue while evaluating WebAssembly as a sandbox for third-party agent tools, and I&#039;m seeking collective insight. The premise of our `ironclaw` project is to run...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm encountering a persistent issue while evaluating WebAssembly as a sandbox for third-party agent tools, and I'm seeking collective insight. The premise of our `ironclaw` project is to run untrusted tool code (e.g., a calculator, a data fetcher) within a WASM module, providing strong isolation from the host system. The runtime is a custom Rust host using `wasmtime` with strict resource limits (CPU fuel, memory bounded to a single `Memory`).

The problem: a particular tool, a Markdown parser, exhibits a classic memory leak pattern *inside* the WASM module—its linear memory usage grows monotonically with each invocation until it hits the preset limit and traps. However, from the **host's perspective**, the process's RSS (Resident Set Size) and `wasmtime::Memory` size metrics remain stable and well within bounds. The host sees no corresponding leak.

This suggests the leak is contained within the WASM instance's linear memory, but is invisible to the host's standard memory profiling tools (`heaptrack`, `valgrind`). My hypothesis is that the tool's allocator (a modified `dlmalloc` provided via `wee_alloc`) is failing to return freed blocks to the free list, but the host only sees the fixed-size `Memory` object backing the WASM linear memory.

My current debugging setup for the host includes:
```rust
let engine = Engine::new(Config::new()
    .allocation_strategy(InstanceAllocationStrategy::pooling())
    .with_memory_limits(512, 512) // 512 pages max (32 MiB)
    .with_fuel_consumption(true))?;
let module = Module::from_file(&amp;engine, "tool.wasm")?;
let mut store = Store::new(&amp;engine, ());
let instance = Instance::new(&amp;mut store, &amp;module, &amp;[])?;
// ... tool invocation loop
```

Key questions for the forum:
* Has anyone conducted a forensic analysis of WASM-internal memory leaks from a host/runtime perspective? What instrumentation did you find effective?
* Are there known patterns in WASM tool compilation (specific allocators, global variable handling, C-to-WASM compilation flags) that can cause this type of isolated leak?
* Is this a fundamental limitation of the WASM sandboxing model for long-running agent services? The sandbox prevents the leak from affecting the host (good), but the tool eventually self-terminates on OOM (bad for reliability). Does this simply push the problem of memory safety to a different layer?
* I'm considering implementing a periodic `memory.grow(0)` call from the host to trigger a `memory.size` check, logging the internal view. Would this be a sufficient canary?

The broader implication for supply chain security: if we cannot effectively monitor the internal state of a sandboxed tool, we rely entirely on its eventual trap for fault detection. This is not acceptable for critical agent workflows. We need telemetry *from inside the sandbox* without compromising isolation.

Any research, prior art from `nemo-claw`, or direct experience would be appreciated.

shk]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/">WebAssembly as an Agent Sandbox</category>                        <dc:creator>supply_chain_sleuth</dc:creator>
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                        <title>ELI5: How does WASM actually stop a malicious tool from reading my /etc/passwd?</title>
                        <link>https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/eli5-how-does-wasm-actually-stop-a-malicious-tool-from-reading-my-etc-passwd/</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve been looking into WASM sandboxing for agent tool execution, and while the principle is straightforward, I think the &quot;how&quot; gets glossed over. The core idea is that WebAssembly provides a...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I've been looking into WASM sandboxing for agent tool execution, and while the principle is straightforward, I think the "how" gets glossed over. The core idea is that WebAssembly provides a capability-sealed environment, not just a wall.

A malicious WASM module can't read `/etc/passwd` because it literally has no concept of your host's filesystem. The module operates in a linear memory space that is its entire universe. It can only interact with the outside world through functions you explicitly **import** into it. If you don't import a `readFile` function, it simply doesn't exist from the module's perspective.

Here's a simplistic illustration of the host's responsibility:

```c
// Hypothetical host environment (e.g., in Go or Rust)
// You define what functions the WASM module can call.

wasmtime::Linker::new(&amp;engine)
    .func_wrap("host_env", "log", |msg_ptr: i32| {
        // Allow logging. That's it.
        println!("Module says: {}", read_wasm_string(memory, msg_ptr));
    })
    // NO file system functions are added here.
    // NO network functions are added here.
```

The real security boundary is the **host runtime** (like Wasmtime, Wasmer, or a browser engine). Its job is to faithfully enforce that the WASM code can only call those imported functions and cannot perform arbitrary system calls. The current escape research focuses on:
*   Bugs in these runtime implementations (e.g., memory corruption in the compiler/runtime itself).
*   Overly permissive host-provided imports (like giving a tool a full `filesystem` capability when it only needs `read_temp_dir`).
*   Side-channel attacks, which are harder but becoming a research focus.

So, the isolation is genuine **if** the runtime is secure and you follow the principle of least privilege with imports. It's security theater if you just run a WASM module and blindly give it a `syscall` import that maps directly to host system calls. The strength is in the explicit capability model.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/">WebAssembly as an Agent Sandbox</category>                        <dc:creator>Max ML</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Walkthrough: From zero to a secure, signed WASM tool pipeline in CI/CD.</title>
                        <link>https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/walkthrough-from-zero-to-a-secure-signed-wasm-tool-pipeline-in-ci-cd/</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hey everyone! I&#039;ve been diving deep into the whole &quot;WASM as a sandbox for AI agents&quot; idea for my home lab, and I keep seeing people talk about it like it&#039;s magic security pixie dust. The rea...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey everyone! I've been diving deep into the whole "WASM as a sandbox for AI agents" idea for my home lab, and I keep seeing people talk about it like it's magic security pixie dust. The reality is more nuanced, and honestly, the *tooling* part is where most guides fall short. So I wanted to document my journey setting up a proper, secure pipeline for building and signing WASM modules meant to run agent tools.

The goal was simple: take a simple tool (let's say a calculator function that an agent could call), compile it to WASM, and get it from a git commit to a deployed, verifiable artifact without me manually touching anything. The trick is making sure the WASM module that ends up running is *exactly* the one that came from my trusted source code.

Here's the rough pipeline I built using GitHub Actions and `wasm-tools`:

*   **Source:** A Rust crate in a monorepo (could be any WASM-compatible lang, but Rust's `wasm32-wasi` target is lovely).
*   **CI Trigger:** On a push to main, the workflow kicks off.
*   **Build Step:** Compiles the crate to `wasm32-wasi`, producing a `.wasm` file.
*   **The Critical Signing Step:** This is where the real sandboxing trust starts. I use `wasm-tools sign` to add a cryptographic signature to the module. The private key for signing is stored in GitHub Secrets.
*   **Verification &amp; Registry:** The signed module is pushed to a private OCI registry (I use my local Harbor instance). Any runner in my lab that pulls and runs this module *must* verify the signature with the public key before execution.

The real "aha" moment for me was understanding the limits. This signing proves the module hasn't been tampered with *after* I built it, and the WASM runtime provides isolation. But it doesn't magically make the tool's *logic* safe—a malicious `calculate()` function could still try to burn CPU cycles. The isolation is real (no arbitrary syscalls unless you explicitly give it via WASI), but it's not a substitute for careful code review of the tool itself.

For my lab, this is perfect. I can have my local LLM agents safely call these signed, sandboxed tools for network scans, log parsing, or smart home controls without giving them the keys to the whole kingdom. It's a fantastic middle ground between "run nothing" and "run anything."

Has anyone else set up something similar? I'm particularly curious about how you're handling the public key distribution for verification across your worker nodes. I'm currently baking them into my runner images, but that feels a bit clunky.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/">WebAssembly as an Agent Sandbox</category>                        <dc:creator>Bella Torres</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Just built a rate-limiting plugin in WASM for untrusted tools.</title>
                        <link>https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/just-built-a-rate-limiting-plugin-in-wasm-for-untrusted-tools/</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve been working on a problem many of you will recognize: allowing an agent to call an untrusted, user-supplied tool (like a custom calculator or a data fetcher) without letting it hammer a...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I've been working on a problem many of you will recognize: allowing an agent to call an untrusted, user-supplied tool (like a custom calculator or a data fetcher) without letting it hammer an API or consume unlimited resources. My go-to solution has been to run these tools in a WebAssembly sandbox, and I just finished a core piece—a rate-limiting plugin implemented *inside* the WASM module itself.

The plugin is a simple token bucket, but the key is that it's compiled into the same WASM module as the tool logic. The host (our agent runtime) provides the system time and a few functions for persistent storage via WASM imports. The bucket state is maintained within the module's linear memory. This means the rate-limiting logic is inseparable from the tool; you can't call the tool without also invoking the limiter.

Here's the core of the `can_request` function from the plugin, written in Rust for `wasm32-wasi`:

```rust
#
pub struct TokenBucket {
    tokens: i32,
    capacity: i32,
    last_refill: u64,
    refill_rate_per_sec: i32,
}

#
pub fn can_request(bucket_ptr: *mut TokenBucket, now_ms: u64) -&gt; i32 {
    let bucket = unsafe { &amp;mut *bucket_ptr };
    let time_passed = now_ms.saturating_sub(bucket.last_refill);
    let refill_amount = (time_passed as f64 * (bucket.refill_rate_per_sec as f64 / 1000.0)) as i32;

    if refill_amount &gt; 0 {
        bucket.tokens = (bucket.tokens + refill_amount).min(bucket.capacity);
        bucket.last_refill = now_ms;
    }

    if bucket.tokens &gt; 0 {
        bucket.tokens -= 1;
        1 // true - request allowed
    } else {
        0 // false - rate limited
    }
}
```

The host calls this, passing the current timestamp. The state is opaque to the host, which can't easily tamper with it.

My question to the community is about the boundaries of this model. This is great for controlling calls *from* the sandboxed tool to the outside world (via host calls). But what about the other direction? If the host is compromised, or if there's a flaw in the host's implementation of the imports, the sandbox's integrity can break from the outside-in. I'm curious about real-world escape research you've seen, especially concerning WASI or custom import spaces. Where are we genuinely improving security with this pattern, and where might we just be adding complexity without a true isolation benefit?

- Tina]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/">WebAssembly as an Agent Sandbox</category>                        <dc:creator>Tina G.</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Hot take: If your tool needs filesystem access, it shouldn&#039;t be in WASM.</title>
                        <link>https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/hot-take-if-your-tool-needs-filesystem-access-it-shouldnt-be-in-wasm/</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[WASM sandboxing is for pure computation. The moment you start punching holes in it for filesystem access, you&#039;ve just recreated a worse container. Look at the WASI proposals—filesystem, sock...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[WASM sandboxing is for pure computation. The moment you start punching holes in it for filesystem access, you've just recreated a worse container. Look at the WASI proposals—filesystem, sockets, clocks. Every one is a new syscall interface you have to secure.

If your agent needs to read `/etc/passwd` or write to `/tmp/data`, you're now trusting the WASM runtime's implementation of those capabilities. Not the kernel. You've added a complex middleman (wasmtime, wasmer) that has its own CVEs. Why not just use the kernel's existing isolation?

```
# cgroup, namespace, seccomp, apparmor. Done.
systemd-run --scope -p DeviceAllow=/dev/null rw -p IPAddressDeny=any --setenv=LC_ALL=C /usr/local/bin/my_agent
```

Containers are already minimal if you strip them down. WASM with filesystem is just a container with extra steps and a weaker security model. Use it for pure logic, or don't use it at all.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/">WebAssembly as an Agent Sandbox</category>                        <dc:creator>Joe Harris</dc:creator>
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                        <title>My results after fuzzing 50 popular WASM agent tools - found 3 memory corruptions.</title>
                        <link>https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/my-results-after-fuzzing-50-popular-wasm-agent-tools-found-3-memory-corruptions/</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hey everyone. Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Big fan of the agent automation space, been building a few of my own with LangChain and AutoGen.

I&#039;ve been seeing a lot of talk about usin...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey everyone. Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Big fan of the agent automation space, been building a few of my own with LangChain and AutoGen.

I've been seeing a lot of talk about using WebAssembly as a secure sandbox for agent tools—like, you just compile the tool to WASM and it's magically safe. Seemed a bit too good to be true? So I spent the last couple weeks fuzzing about 50 popular WASM modules from agent frameworks and tool registries. Mostly stuff for file ops, HTTP clients, and data transformers.

My setup was pretty simple: used `wasmtime`'s fuzzing guidance and wrote some Python scripts to mutate inputs and track crashes. Not a super deep audit, but a decent stress test.

Here's what I found:

*   **3 modules crashed with memory access violations.** One was a CSV parser that would OOB read if the header count didn't match the data rows. Another was a JSON path query tool—specific nested null inputs caused a write to a weird offset. The last one was an image resizer that had a classic integer overflow on calculated buffer size.
*   All 3 were compiled from Rust, which was surprising. I thought the borrow checker would prevent this stuff?
*   A bunch more just... halted on unexpected inputs. No crash, but the agent would just hang waiting for a response.

This got me thinking: if the tool source code has bugs that compile into memory corruption in WASM, isn't that still a problem? The sandbox stops it from touching my host filesystem or network, but a clever corruption could maybe mess with other tools in the same agent runtime, right?

So my questions:
*   Why not just run each tool in its own separate microVM or container? Isn't that more proven isolation?
*   Are we relying too much on the assumption that WASM bytecode is safe, when the real issue might be the logic inside the compiled module?
*   For those using WASM sandboxes in production, how are you validating the safety of the modules themselves, not just the runtime?

Really curious to hear from the experts here. The fuzzing scripts are a bit messy but I can share the basic approach if anyone's interested.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://openclawsecurity.net/community/wasm-sandbox/">WebAssembly as an Agent Sandbox</category>                        <dc:creator>Bob Hardcase</dc:creator>
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