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Superseded by #319. Do not merge this older stacked branch as-is. Current main already stages and remaps absolute Next.js standalone links within the tracing root, with Windows assembly and cloud-deploy verification. This PR still targets #305, which is also superseded. Kept open pending the author's decision on closure.

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Next.js standalone output on Windows can contain absolute package links. Copying them unchanged retains a build-machine path, so Composer correctly rejects the artifact.

This PR is stacked on #305: that PR makes bundle directory links usable without Windows symlink privilege; this PR handles Next.js-specific absolute targets.

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  • Stage only the exact resolved target inside Next's declared outputFileTracingRoot. Nested links get the same boundary check.
  • Preserve links as links, without dereferencing them, and rewrite staged links through the shared platform-aware bundle helper.
  • Skip links already inside the assembled bundle so Windows junctions are not staged twice.
  • Leave dangling and out-of-root links as errors.

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This does not claim a full Windows cloud deployment. After #305 merges, retarget this PR to main and re-run CI. No diagnostic workflow is part of this PR.

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  • New Features

    • Next.js standalone bundles now support absolute symbolic links to files within the traced application.
    • Nested links are repaired and preserved with in-bundle paths, including their linked content.
    • Linked sources are included in bundle watching.
    • Bundle assembly prevents existing paths from shadowing linked targets.
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    • Absolute links targeting files outside the declared tracing root are rejected during assembly.
    • Dangling or unresolved links are rejected during assembly instead of producing incomplete bundles.

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Next.js standalone assembly now stages absolute symlinks whose targets remain inside the tracing root. It copies target payloads, rewrites symlinks to relative in-bundle paths, preserves occupied bundle paths, and adds staged sources to bundle watch paths. Assembly rejects dangling, nested out-of-root, and external absolute symlinks. Integration tests and documentation cover these behaviors. A Windows workflow builds, deploys, verifies, and cleans up a diagnostic Next.js project.

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This PR fixes assembly of Next.js standalone output on Windows, where next build can emit absolute package symlinks/junctions (pointing at build-machine paths). Such targets can't ship, so Composer previously rejected the artifact. Building on #305 (which stages missing relative targets), this change teaches the Next.js extension to relocate absolute in-root link targets into the bundle itself.

Core change — build.ts gains stageAbsoluteStandaloneLinkTargets, running right after the standalone tree is copied and before the existing missing-target staging. For each absolute link whose realpath lands inside the manifest's outputFileTracingRoot (but outside the bundle), it copies the exact target into a collision-free .prisma-composer-absolute-links/N directory inside the bundle and rewrites the link as a relative one through the shared createBundleLink helper. Nested links inside staged targets get the same boundary check and are recursively staged; a memo cache deduplicates shared targets and makes link cycles terminate. Dangling and out-of-root absolute links are deliberately left untouched so assertBundleSymlinksStayInside reports them; links already resolving inside the bundle (re-anchored Windows junctions) are skipped. Staged source paths join the watch list. This fits the repo's ADR-0005/0047 stance: links are never dereferenced or flattened, and every rewrite is re-validated at the end of assemble().

Tests — assemble.test.ts adds five cases: absolute-link rewriting, a relative sibling link inside a staged target, rejection of an external nested link even against a would-be colliding bundle path, non-shadowing of occupied bundle paths, and out-of-root rejection. The existing Windows junction test is extended with an absolute traced-package junction and asserts only junction-type symlinks are created.

Docs — deploying.md and the core-concepts skill document the new staging rule and its boundaries, consistent with the implementation.

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  • 🟡 Minor · consistency .github/workflows/windows-current-cli-diagnostic.yml — PR description says the diagnostic workflow was removed and "no new workflow remains", but it is present and modified at HEAD
    The description states "The Windows diagnostic workflow was temporary and is not part of this PR" and "Removed the temporary diagnostic workflow and script after recording results. No new workflow remains." Yet this PR re-adds the workflow (commit 781e938) and the head commit (c161ac0) modifies it, so merging ships a diagnostic that consumes PRISMA_SERVICE_TOKEN, deploys real services on windows-latest, and self-triggers on every future edit to the file (on: pull_request: paths: [.github/workflows/windows-current-cli-diagnostic.yml]). Either delete the workflow (and the head commit's changes to it) before merge, or update the description to state the workflow intentionally ships.
    Recommended fix: Delete .github/workflows/windows-current-cli-diagnostic.yml before merging (matching the stated intent), or amend the PR description to acknowledge the workflow remains in the PR.

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    The PR description states "Removed the temporary diagnostic workflow and script after recording results. No new workflow remains" and that the diagnostic "is not part of this PR". The file is nonetheless present and modified at head (re-added in 781e938 after the earlier deliberate removal in 01803db, then modified through 4737bc5). Merging as-is ships a temporary diagnostic that provisions and deploys real projects with PRISMA_SERVICE_TOKEN on any PR that touches this file, contradicting the stated intent and re-creating what was already cleaned up once. Delete the file (and its paths-filter trigger) before merge, or amend the description to say it intentionally remains.

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Current head is updated to main. All review threads are addressed, and the temporary diagnostic workflows are absent from the final diff. Please re-review the current implementation; the previous changes-requested reviews still block merging.

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Please review the complete current diff at 6550212. Incremental review left the prior changes-requested review in place. The temporary diagnostic workflows are absent, all previous findings are addressed, and this branch is updated to current main.

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@prisma-gizmo Could you re-review current head 6550212? The changes-requested review is on 00f2057 and refers to the temporary diagnostic workflow, which is now removed. All review threads are resolved; the final diff contains only Next.js assembly, regression tests, and documentation. Please reassess the current code and update the review if appropriate.

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@prisma-gizmo Could you re-review current head c48ba83? This PR is now stacked on #305 at 01facf3. The temporary diagnostic workflows are absent, all inline threads are resolved, and the clean-base Windows suite passed. The older changes-requested reviews refer to earlier code and removed diagnostics.

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Closing because merged PR #319 covers this Windows assembly fix.

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}, 20_000);

test('rejects an absolute package link outside the declared tracing root', async () => {

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🟡 Minor · tests — No test for a dangling absolute link being left for the validator to reject

The PR description promises "Leave dangling and out-of-root links as errors" for absolute links, and the code implements both paths (realpath failure → continue at build.ts:235-238, then the dangling-symlink rejection from assertBundleSymlinksStayInside). Only the out-of-root case is tested (this test). A dangling absolute link exercises a distinct skip-and-fail path with a different error message and is easy to regress (e.g., a future change that treats realpath failure as staging failure or silently drops the link).

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Add a sibling test that creates the absolute link with a nonexistent target (e.g. fs.symlinkSync(path.join(root, 'node_modules', 'gone'), linkPath, 'dir')) and asserts assemble rejects with /dangling symlink/.

const sourceTarget = path.isAbsolute(rawTarget)
? rawTarget
: path.resolve(path.dirname(sourceLink), rawTarget);
if (isWithin(sourceReal, sourceTarget)) continue;

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🟡 Minor · correctness — Nested absolute symlink inside a staged target is left pointing at the build machine on POSIX, failing assembly

On POSIX copyTreeVerbatim copies symlinks verbatim, so a nested symlink whose raw target is absolute and lexically inside its own source tree (isWithin(sourceReal, sourceTarget)) hits the continue and is never rewritten. The staged copy's link still stores the build-machine absolute path, so assertBundleSymlinksStayInside later rejects the whole assembly with "symlink whose target escapes the bundle" — even though the target is inside the declared tracing root and stageable. The same case works on Windows only because copyTreeThroughBundleLinks re-anchors in-source junctions into the staged copy before this check runs. Fails safe (no bad artifact), but turns an assemblable build into an error.

Recommended fix

Skip the rewrite only when the link inside the staged copy already resolves within that copy, instead of when the original's raw target is lexically within sourceReal:

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if (isWithin(sourceReal, sourceTarget)) continue;
const stagedRaw = await fs.promises.readlink(stagedLink);
if (isWithin(target, path.resolve(path.dirname(stagedLink), stagedRaw))) continue;

This keeps the Windows re-anchored-junction skip (the staged junction resolves inside the staged copy) while rewriting POSIX verbatim absolute links through the existing realpath → boundary check → stage path.

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