fix(oci): identify signature verification requests (#11244)

Signed backend verification performs separate registry requests for manifests and referrers. Reuse LocalAI's version-aware User-Agent there so the full install flow is attributable to LocalAI.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5

Co-authored-by: localai-org-maint-bot <306269227+localai-org-maint-bot@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: localai-org-maint-bot

internal/version.go

@@ -8,3 +8,11 @@ var Commit = ""
 func PrintableVersion() string {
 	return fmt.Sprintf("%s (%s)", Version, Commit)
 }
+
+// UserAgent returns the version-aware client identity used for outbound requests.
+func UserAgent() string {
+	if Version == "" {
+		return "LocalAI"
+	}
+	return fmt.Sprintf("LocalAI/%s", Version)
+}

pkg/oci/cosignverify/useragent_internal_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+package cosignverify
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pkg/name"
+	"github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1/remote"
+	"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/internal"
+	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
+	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
+)
+
+type roundTripFunc func(*http.Request) (*http.Response, error)
+
+func (f roundTripFunc) RoundTrip(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
+	return f(req)
+}
+
+var _ = Describe("registry User-Agent", func() {
+	It("identifies LocalAI during signature verification requests", func() {
+		originalVersion := internal.Version
+		internal.Version = "v-test"
+		DeferCleanup(func() {
+			internal.Version = originalVersion
+		})
+
+		var userAgent string
+		transport := roundTripFunc(func(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
+			userAgent = req.Header.Get("User-Agent")
+			return &http.Response{
+				StatusCode: http.StatusOK,
+				Header: http.Header{
+					"Content-Type":          []string{"application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json"},
+					"Docker-Content-Digest": []string{"sha256:aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"},
+				},
+				Body:    io.NopCloser(strings.NewReader("")),
+				Request: req,
+			}, nil
+		})
+
+		verifier, err := NewVerifier(Policy{
+			Issuer:        "https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com",
+			IdentityRegex: `^https://github\.com/example/.*`,
+		}, nil, transport)
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+
+		ref, err := name.ParseReference("registry.example.com/localai/backend:latest")
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		_, err = remote.Head(ref, verifier.remoteOptions(context.Background())...)
+		Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(userAgent).To(ContainSubstring("LocalAI/v-test"))
+	})
+})

pkg/oci/cosignverify/verify.go

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1/remote"
 	"github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1/remote/transport"
 
+	"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/internal"
 	"github.com/sigstore/sigstore-go/pkg/root"
 	"github.com/sigstore/sigstore-go/pkg/tuf"
 	"github.com/sigstore/sigstore-go/pkg/verify"
@@ -297,6 +298,7 @@ func (v *Verifier) remoteOptions(ctx context.Context) []remote.Option {
 	opts := []remote.Option{
 		remote.WithContext(ctx),
 		remote.WithTransport(t),
+		remote.WithUserAgent(internal.UserAgent()),
 	}
 	if v.auth != nil {
 		opts = append(opts, remote.WithAuth(staticAuth{auth: v.auth}))

pkg/oci/useragent.go

@@ -1,19 +1,12 @@
 package oci
 
-import (
-	"fmt"
-
-	"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/internal"
-)
+import "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/internal"
 
 // UserAgent returns the User-Agent string LocalAI sends on outbound registry
 // requests (OCI registries and Ollama). It identifies the client as LocalAI
 // and, when the binary was built with a version stamp, appends it so registries
 // can attribute client-side usage to LocalAI rather than to the generic
 // User-Agent of the underlying transport library.
 func UserAgent() string {
-	if internal.Version == "" {
-		return "LocalAI"
-	}
-	return fmt.Sprintf("LocalAI/%s", internal.Version)
+	return internal.UserAgent()
 }