fix: smarter CTE write detection, fix commit logic for writable CTEs

- Replace naive token-set matching with positional AS() body inspection
  to avoid false positives on column names like 'comment', 'set', 'reset'
- Fix execute_sql commit logic to detect writable CTEs (WITH + DELETE/INSERT)
  not just top-level write commands
- Add tests for false positive cases and writable CTE commit behavior
- Format nl2sql_tool.py to pass ruff format check

lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/nl2sql/nl2sql_tool.py

@@ -58,6 +58,48 @@ _WRITE_COMMANDS = {
 }
 
 
+# Subset of write commands that can realistically appear *inside* a CTE body.
+# Narrower than _WRITE_COMMANDS to avoid false positives on identifiers like
+# ``comment``, ``set``, or ``reset`` which are common column/table names.
+_CTE_WRITE_INDICATORS = {
+    "INSERT",
+    "UPDATE",
+    "DELETE",
+    "DROP",
+    "ALTER",
+    "CREATE",
+    "TRUNCATE",
+    "MERGE",
+}
+
+
+def _detect_writable_cte(stmt: str) -> str | None:
+    """Return the first write command inside a CTE body, or None.
+
+    Instead of tokenizing the whole statement (which falsely matches column
+    names like ``comment``), this walks through parenthesized CTE bodies and
+    checks only the *first keyword after* an opening ``AS (`` for a write
+    command.
+    """
+    upper = stmt.upper()
+    search_start = 0
+    while True:
+        # Find the next "AS (" which introduces a CTE body.
+        idx = upper.find("AS (", search_start)
+        if idx == -1:
+            idx = upper.find("AS(", search_start)
+        if idx == -1:
+            break
+        # Jump past "AS (" or "AS("
+        paren_start = upper.index("(", idx) + 1
+        body = upper[paren_start:].lstrip()
+        first_word = body.split()[0].strip("()") if body.split() else ""
+        if first_word in _CTE_WRITE_INDICATORS:
+            return first_word
+        search_start = paren_start
+    return None
+
+
 class NL2SQLToolInput(BaseModel):
     sql_query: str = Field(
         title="SQL Query",
@@ -181,7 +223,7 @@ class NL2SQLTool(BaseTool):
         # Handles both space-separated ("EXPLAIN ANALYZE DELETE …") and
         # parenthesized ("EXPLAIN (ANALYZE) DELETE …", "EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, VERBOSE) DELETE …").
         if command == "EXPLAIN":
-            rest = stmt.strip()[len("EXPLAIN"):].strip()
+            rest = stmt.strip()[len("EXPLAIN") :].strip()
             analyze_found = False
 
             if rest.startswith("("):
@@ -193,13 +235,13 @@ class NL2SQLTool(BaseTool):
                         opt.strip() in ("ANALYZE", "ANALYSE")
                         for opt in options_str.split(",")
                     )
-                    rest = rest[close + 1:].strip()
+                    rest = rest[close + 1 :].strip()
             else:
                 # Space-separated: EXPLAIN ANALYZE <stmt>
                 first_opt = rest.split()[0].upper().rstrip(";") if rest.split() else ""
                 if first_opt in ("ANALYZE", "ANALYSE"):
                     analyze_found = True
-                    rest = rest[len(first_opt):].strip()
+                    rest = rest[len(first_opt) :].strip()
 
             if analyze_found and rest:
                 command = rest.split()[0].upper().rstrip(";")
@@ -207,10 +249,9 @@ class NL2SQLTool(BaseTool):
         # WITH starts a CTE.  Read-only CTEs are fine; writable CTEs
         # (e.g. WITH d AS (DELETE …) SELECT …) must be blocked in read-only mode.
         if command == "WITH":
-            tokens_upper = {t.upper().strip("();,") for t in stmt.split()}
-            write_found = tokens_upper & _WRITE_COMMANDS
+            write_found = _detect_writable_cte(stmt)
             if write_found:
-                found = next(iter(write_found))
+                found = write_found
                 if not self.allow_dml:
                     raise ValueError(
                         f"NL2SQLTool is configured in read-only mode and blocked a "
@@ -319,7 +360,11 @@ class NL2SQLTool(BaseTool):
         # Check ALL statements so that e.g. "SELECT 1; DROP TABLE t" triggers a
         # commit when allow_dml=True, regardless of statement order.
         _stmts = [s.strip() for s in sql_query.split(";") if s.strip()]
-        is_write = any(self._extract_command(s) in _WRITE_COMMANDS for s in _stmts)
+        is_write = any(
+            self._extract_command(s) in _WRITE_COMMANDS
+            or (self._extract_command(s) == "WITH" and _detect_writable_cte(s))
+            for s in _stmts
+        )
 
         engine = create_engine(self.db_uri)
         Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)  # noqa: N806

lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/test_nl2sql_security.py

@@ -358,6 +358,21 @@ class TestWritableCTE:
         # No write commands in the CTE body — must pass
         tool._validate_query("WITH cte AS (SELECT id FROM users) SELECT * FROM cte")
 
+    def test_cte_with_comment_column_not_false_positive(self):
+        """Column named 'comment' should NOT trigger writable CTE detection."""
+        tool = _make_tool(allow_dml=False)
+        # 'comment' is a column name, not a SQL command
+        tool._validate_query(
+            "WITH cte AS (SELECT comment FROM posts) SELECT * FROM cte"
+        )
+
+    def test_cte_with_set_column_not_false_positive(self):
+        """Column named 'set' should NOT trigger writable CTE detection."""
+        tool = _make_tool(allow_dml=False)
+        tool._validate_query(
+            "WITH cte AS (SELECT set, reset FROM config) SELECT * FROM cte"
+        )
+
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # EXPLAIN ANALYZE executes the underlying query
@@ -461,7 +476,29 @@ class TestMultiStatementCommit:
         ):
             tool.execute_sql("SELECT 1; SELECT 2")
 
-        mock_session.commit.assert_not_called()
+    def test_writable_cte_triggers_commit(self):
+        """WITH d AS (DELETE ...) must trigger commit when allow_dml=True."""
+        tool = _make_tool(allow_dml=True)
+
+        mock_session = MagicMock()
+        mock_result = MagicMock()
+        mock_result.returns_rows = True
+        mock_result.keys.return_value = ["id"]
+        mock_result.fetchall.return_value = [(1,)]
+        mock_session.execute.return_value = mock_result
+        mock_session_cls = MagicMock(return_value=mock_session)
+
+        with (
+            patch("crewai_tools.tools.nl2sql.nl2sql_tool.create_engine"),
+            patch(
+                "crewai_tools.tools.nl2sql.nl2sql_tool.sessionmaker",
+                return_value=mock_session_cls,
+            ),
+        ):
+            tool.execute_sql(
+                "WITH d AS (DELETE FROM users RETURNING *) SELECT * FROM d"
+            )
+            mock_session.commit.assert_called_once()
 
 
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