feat(tools): guarded write core under the shared lock (U5, #1375) by easonLiangWorldedtech · Pull Request #1914 · Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code

easonLiangWorldedtech · 2026-10-05T12:09:54Z

Split unit U5 of 1833, under the plan on this issue (5993969784 / 5994039786 / 5994053776). Base is U3 (1913) per the merge order.

Scope (one gate scope): the guard core — createIfAbsent, replaceIfVersion, the cancellation re-check before publication, and the model-facing path on a rejection.

Content source of record: kind: commit, base 7c291bb08 → head 6768ccfaf, replayed on the current main tip 9af61f87e so this branch carries nothing that main already has.

Budget (own delta, not the stacked view): 1277 a+d / 418 changed executable lines. 1277 a+d is above the 1000 hard cap — documented deviation: guardedWrite.ts is a new file and its spec tests that file as a unit, so the file and its tests cannot be separated without breaking the fidelity contract.

Verification at this head: 47 passed; ESLint --max-warnings=0 clean on every file in the unit; Prettier clean; src/eslint-suppressions.json never increased.

The GitHub view also carries the unmerged base, so the numbers above are this unit's own delta.

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src/core/task/Task.ts
src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts
src/core/task/__tests__/observationRegistry.spec.ts
src/core/task/observationRegistry.ts
src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts
src/core/tools/__tests__/guardedWrite.spec.ts
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src/integrations/misc/__tests__/indentation-reader.spec.ts
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src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts
src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts
src/utils/__tests__/fileLock.spec.ts
src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.lockKey.spec.ts
src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts
src/utils/fileLock.ts
src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts

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New Features
- File updates now check whether files have changed since they were read and reject conflicting or unsafe writes. Partial reads are distinguished from complete reads, updates to the same file are processed in order, and successful writes refresh the tracked file state.
- File writes are staged before publishing, preserve existing permissions, and follow symbolic links to their targets. Failed publishing can trigger rollback, while writes configured to avoid overwriting an existing file are rejected if the target already exists.
- File-read responses distinguish clipped long lines from omitted lines and report clipping alongside truncation notices.
- File operations use canonical paths for locking to coordinate access through symbolic links.

📝 Summary

Walkthrough

The changes add task-scoped file observations and guarded writes. They also add an atomic text writer, canonicalize file-lock paths, and update JSON writes to use resolved-path locking and publication.

Changes

File observations and safe writes

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record read observations and completeness `src/core/task/observationRegistry.ts`, `src/core/task/__tests__/observationRegistry.spec.ts`, `src/core/task/Task.ts`, `src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts`, `src/core/tools/__tests__/readFileTool.spec.ts`, `src/integrations/misc/indentation-reader.ts`, `src/integrations/misc/__tests__/indentation-reader.spec.ts`	`ObservationRegistry` stores file versions and completeness. Native and legacy reads record observations only when pre-read and post-read versions match. Partial, clipped, truncated, or lossy reads are marked incomplete.
Stage and publish files atomically `src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts`, `src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts`, `src/utils/fileLock.ts`, `src/utils/__tests__/fileLock.spec.ts`	`safeWriteText` stages and syncs content before publication. It supports no-replace commits, backup and rollback, permission preservation, symlink resolution, and platform-specific durability and DACL handling. `fileLock` uses canonical paths as lock keys while passing the caller’s lexical path to the operation.
Enforce guarded write rules `src/core/tools/guardedWrite.ts`, `src/core/tools/__tests__/guardedWrite.spec.ts`, `src/core/task/Task.ts`	`guardedWrite` applies create, edit, and version-check rules from observations. Writes to the same resolved path run in FIFO order, check cancellation and workspace containment, publish under a shared lock, and refresh observations when a version is available.
Use resolved targets for JSON writes `src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts`, `src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts`, `src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.lockKey.spec.ts`, `src/eslint-suppressions.json`	`safeWriteJson` locks and merges against resolved paths, stages JSON beside the publish target, and delegates publication and rollback to `safeWriteText`. Suppression counts decrease for two rules.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Task
  participant guardedWrite
  participant ObservationRegistry
  participant FileSystem
  Task->>guardedWrite: Submit write
  guardedWrite->>ObservationRegistry: Look up path observation
  guardedWrite->>FileSystem: Check current version and publish under resolved-path lock
  guardedWrite->>ObservationRegistry: Refresh observation after successful publish

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 79271

Creating a new file through a symlinked workspace directory can be refused every time. New-file creation can also fail on volumes without hard-link support, or be reported as failed after the file was already written. These create-path problems should be fixed before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bce5c

A filesystem error can occur after saved permissions have changed, while previously allowed actions remain authorized in memory until a refresh. This conditional risk requires existing authorization and a publication failure; no new remote access or privilege escalation was demonstrated.

Retained concerns

Medium · security · inferred: The newly introduced committed-but-rejected JSON outcome is not reconciled by MCP permission updates. A POSIX directory-sync failure can occur after the configuration rename; the rejection skips live tool-permission refresh while programmatic-update suppression can discard watcher events. Removing an existing alwaysAllow grant can therefore leave the prior in-memory grant available to automatic approval until another refresh. This requires an existing grant, enabled MCP automatic approval, and the filesystem failure; actual tool execution under this condition was not demonstrated.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

inferred — The material exposure is local filesystem state and authorization derived from configuration written through the shared JSON utility. MCP updates can affect global or project configuration; task-history persistence also inherits the changed failure contract. The available evidence does not establish cross-tenant exposure or additional operating-system privileges.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

inferred — A model-requested MCP tool could remain eligible for automatic approval after a saved grant removal if directory synchronization fails after commit and the live permission refresh is skipped. The approval decision consults the supplied server-tool flags and additionally requires global MCP automatic approval. No evidence establishes attacker control of the filesystem failure or demonstrates execution through this conditional path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — Read observations follow ignore checks and user approval. Within the new guard, observations authorize mutation scope and detect stale versions; they are not a replacement for path-access authorization or protection against non-cooperating filesystem writers. Existing model-write publication remains outside this new guard boundary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

observed — With backup mode enabled, a post-commit directory-sync failure leaves new content at the destination and old content at a backup path, because backup deletion is success-only and rollback is pre-commit-only. JSON cleanup does not remove that backup. Backup retention after an unlink failure already existed at the base; this PR adds another retention path without establishing broader read permissions.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Handle committed-but-not-durable outcomes explicitly at security-sensitive callers: reconcile live permissions with the published configuration or suspend automatic approval until reconciliation completes. Give retained backups explicit cleanup and recovery ownership without rolling old content over an already committed update.

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❌ Failed checks (2 errors, 3 warnings)

Check name	Explanation	Resolution
Security Boundaries	The new `guardedWrite` workspace boundary is bypassable through a symlink race. `guardedWrite.ts:357-388` authorizes a canonical path, and `safeWriteText.ts:294-300` checks `expectedResolvedPath` only…	Make authorization and publication use the same filesystem object. Reject when the workspace or any parent cannot be resolved, including `ENOENT`, instead of falling back to lexical authorization. Before publication, open and validate the a…
Linked Issues check	The description references plan and commit identifiers but does not contain an explicit approved GitHub issue link in the required format.	Add the approved issue reference to the description, preferably as `Closes: #1375` or the correct issue number.
Regression Evidence	`Task` adds a concrete cancellation-generation behavior without focused coverage. `abortTask()` increments `cancellationGeneration` at `src/core/task/Task.ts:3267-3275`, and disposal increments it at …	Add focused Task-level tests in the existing Task abort/dispose test suites. Assert that `cancellationGeneration` starts at zero, increments when `abortTask()` runs, remains advanced after `resumeAfterDelegation()` clears `abort`, and incre…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup	`guardedWrite` can replay a write after cancel-then-resume. The function awaits `verifyTarget()` at lines 467-468, which performs asynchronous `fs.realpath` calls at lines 364 and 394-412. It captures…	Capture `task.cancellationGeneration` before the first asynchronous operation in `guardedWrite`. Reject immediately when the task is already aborted. After `verifyTarget()` completes, compare the captured generation and current abort state …
Description check	The description explains the implementation scope and reports verification results, but it does not follow the required template. It omits an explicit approved issue link, a Test Procedure section, ch…	Add the required template sections. Include an approved GitHub issue reference such as `Closes: #1375`, reproducible test commands and environment details, completed checklist items, and the documentation-impact decision.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Persistence Integrity		No changed persistence path matches the failure conditions. `safeWriteJson` awaits streaming completion and `safeWriteText` (src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts:118-131), while `guardedWrite` awaits each guard…
Out of Scope Changes check		The observation registry, read tracking, file-lock, and safe-write changes directly support guarded writes, version checks, cancellation, and shared-lock behavior. The test changes cover those impleme…
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: guarded write core functionality under a shared lock. It is specific and consistent with the changeset.

Full details: Regression Evidence

Explanation

Task adds a concrete cancellation-generation behavior without focused coverage. abortTask() increments cancellationGeneration at src/core/task/Task.ts:3267-3275, and disposal increments it at src/core/task/Task.ts:3351-3360; resumeAfterDelegation() then resets only abort at src/core/task/Task.ts:3463-3471. The guarded-write test only increments a field on a mock task (src/core/tools/__tests__/guardedWrite.spec.ts:914-955). It does not verify that the real Task lifecycle increments the generation, including the cancel-then-resume case. Existing Task tests call abort or dispose but do not assert cancellationGeneration (the repository search found no other test reference).

Resolution

Add focused Task-level tests in the existing Task abort/dispose test suites. Assert that cancellationGeneration starts at zero, increments when abortTask() runs, remains advanced after resumeAfterDelegation() clears abort, and increments when dispose() runs. Also assert that repeated cancellation calls advance the generation as intended. Keep the guarded-write mock test for queue behavior, but add at least one test using the real Task lifecycle so the generation wiring is covered.

Full details: Security Boundaries

Explanation

The new guardedWrite workspace boundary is bypassable through a symlink race. guardedWrite.ts:357-388 authorizes a canonical path, and safeWriteText.ts:294-300 checks expectedResolvedPath only once. The later staging and commit use path strings at safeWriteText.ts:302-346 and 462-484. If an attacker replaces an authorized parent directory with a symlink to an external directory after the check, a create such as workspace/sub/file can stage and publish outside the workspace. This bypasses the workspace allowlist. The unresolved-workspace fallback is also unsafe: guardedWrite.ts:364-372 returns undefined for ENOENT, while safeWriteText.ts:304-305 creates the directory, so a task path whose missing workspace component follows an external symlink can write outside the workspace.

Resolution

Make authorization and publication use the same filesystem object. Reject when the workspace or any parent cannot be resolved, including ENOENT, instead of falling back to lexical authorization. Before publication, open and validate the authorized parent directory and commit relative to that directory with an OS primitive that does not re-resolve mutable path components, or otherwise hold and verify directory identities through the commit. Add regression tests for swapping an authorized parent to an outside symlink after the final containment check and for an unresolved workspace with a symlinked ancestor.

Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup

Explanation

guardedWrite can replay a write after cancel-then-resume. The function awaits verifyTarget() at lines 467-468, which performs asynchronous fs.realpath calls at lines 364 and 394-412. It captures task.cancellationGeneration only afterward at line 474. If cancellation occurs during that await, abortTask() or dispose() increments the generation at Task.ts lines 3272-3274 and 3358-3360. If the task then resumes, resumeAfterDelegation() resets abort to false at line 3470 without changing the generation. The write then captures the post-cancel generation, passes the dequeue check at lines 483-487, and can publish work from the cancelled run. The existing cancellation test covers a write that captured its generation before cancellation (lines 935-945), not cancellation during the pre-queue verification.

Resolution

Capture task.cancellationGeneration before the first asynchronous operation in guardedWrite. Reject immediately when the task is already aborted. After verifyTarget() completes, compare the captured generation and current abort state before calling enqueue. Add a regression test that pauses fs.realpath, cancels and resumes the task, releases the preflight, and verifies that safeWriteText is not called.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description explains the implementation scope and reports verification results, but it does not follow the required template. It omits an explicit approved issue link, a Test Procedure section, checklist completion, and Documentation Updates information.

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…ve (U1, issue 1375) Split unit U1 of PR 1833. Three changes, each with a test that fails without it: - a caller-supplied staging path is checked for location and file type before anything is written, so an arbitrary path or a symlink cannot be published onto the target; - a failed parent-directory fsync on POSIX is reported as PostCommitDurabilityError instead of being swallowed, so a successful return never claims durability the filesystem did not grant; - the staged file and this write's own staging directory are released before RollbackFailureError is thrown. Focused coverage for resolveLockKey added: canonical parent directory, a dangling-link chain, and termination at the bounded depth on a two-link cycle.

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❌ Patch coverage is 92.44444% with 34 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

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src/core/tools/guardedWrite.ts	92.25%	5 Missing and 6 partials ⚠️
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