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feat(tools): route the remaining write tools through the guard (U7, #1375) - #1918
This PR routes the remaining write tools - apply_diff, write_to_file, edit, edit_file, search_replace - through the same guard, so after this unit no tool path can clobber a file the model never read: an unearned write fails with the re-read remediation instead of overwriting. A write outside every workspace root is no longer an outright rejection: the tool layer classifies against all workspace folders, asks the user, and forwards the approval to the guard, which re-checks containment against the approved roots before publishing.
It is the seventh of nine PRs for epic #1375 (chain tracked on #1991).
Related GitHub Issue
Tracking: issue 2022 (this unit's tracking issue; deliberately not a closing reference - the maintainer closes it when the series lands).
Refs: #1991 (chain tracking), #1375 (epic).
Description
What this PR changes:
apply_diff, write_to_file, edit, edit_file and search_replace all save through DiffViewProvider.saveDirectly() / guardedWrite() with an explicit write kind, so a targeted edit is never treated as a full-file replacement.
The tools' own reads (the diff hunk read, the patch hunk read) bracket the read with a bigint fs.stat pair and observe the file only when both tokens match, so the publish is authorized by the exact bytes the tool computed its hunks from; a stat failure leaves the file unobserved and never fails the read.
Approved outside-workspace writes are bound to the canonical identity captured BEFORE the approval was asked (approvedCanonicalTarget); the guard only compares and refuses when the capture is missing.
Review-round fixes on this unit: an unresolvable workspace root no longer falls back to the lexical-only containment decision, a path that runs through a dangling symlink ancestor is refused instead of re-joined lexically, and the stat-failure branches are covered by tool-level tests.
Why the diff looks bigger than the change: the chain is non-cumulative - this branch is based on main and carries its own copy of the earlier units' content, which the GitHub diff shows as context. This unit's own delta is 539 a+d / 54 changed executable lines.
Review focus: the tool classes named above, src/core/tools/guardedWrite.ts (approval binding), and the specs named in the Test Procedure.
Test Procedure
From the repository root, with dependencies installed:
Expected: 138 passed, 5 skipped. Then pnpm --dir src test -- integrations/editor/__tests__/DiffViewProvider.spec.ts utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.lockKey.spec.ts - 166 passed, 4 skipped.
Environment: Windows 11, Node 20, unit layer only.
Pre-Submission Checklist
Scope is one gate scope and matches the unit.
No .changeset or CHANGELOG changes (AGENTS.md).
src/eslint-suppressions.json unchanged - no suppression count increased.
New code lints clean (--max-warnings=0) rather than relying on suppressions.
Tests added at the lowest layer that would have caught each finding.
Visual Snapshot item considered: not applicable (no rendered surface).
Visual Snapshots
Not applicable - no rendered surface; the approval prompt is the existing one.
Videos (interaction / animation only)
Not applicable.
Documentation Updates
No user-facing documentation change: the guard is internal behaviour of the write tools, and the model-facing remediation text already existed in earlier units. No .changeset and no CHANGELOG edit (AGENTS.md).
Additional Notes
Budget: own delta 539 a+d / 54 changed executable lines - inside both caps. The mutation gate reports the GitHub diff's changed-line count (1267 against the 500 cap) because the unlanded predecessors inflate it; the row clears on rebase after the predecessors merge.
Negative controls for the approval binding: comparison dropped -> 2 failed; baseline from the post-approval lookup -> 1 failed; missing capture accepted -> 1 failed.
Lifecycle row (duplicate teardown after cancellation): carried-copy drift, not a U7 defect. The carried DiffViewProvider/guardedWrite copies predate U8's (feat(editor): route the diff-view save through the guard (U8, #1375) #1916) cancellation ordering and landed-token reconciliation; the rows resolve at merge time because U5 and U8 merge before U7 in the declared order and the diff shrinks to U7's own wiring.
Next refresh round: a content-union pass over the carried copies (this unit's approval flow + U8's cancellation ordering and landed reconciliation + U5's pinning) is scheduled after the current re-review wave, so the guard is not shipped half-merged under review pressure.
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Stryker directive removal (equivalence notes)
Per AGENTS.md the two Stryker suppression comments in the guarded save
path were removed instead of kept; their equivalence claims:
writeKind default StringLiteral ("update" -> ""): an empty kind
dispatches exactly like "update" inside guardedWrite - only "edit"
and "create" branch distinctly - and the default-parameter line is
not part of this unit's changed-line selector, so the mutant is
equivalent / out of scope.
saveTask operand of the adoption-probe guard (LogicalOperator): GuardRejectedError is only thrown by guardedWrite, which is reached
only after the !saveTask check above has already thrown. Whenever
the operand is evaluated saveTask is provably non-null, so dropping
the operand cannot change which branch is taken.
mutation-diff remains advisory for stacked units; maintainers decide any
narrow gate-config exclusion.
Preview-observation withdrawal on every exit path (Major): open()
records the token its preview wrote; reset() (reached by every tool catch
and by revertChanges via finalizeSession) forgets the entry while it
still holds that token and the preview's incomplete flag - publishes and
model reads survive. Trigger-sequence test + two survival tests; three
negative controls, each exactly one red.
Exact guard verdict in the lock-cleanup test (^Stale version -- the file changed) + deduplicated repeated assertion.
The sibling unit's follow-up thread found the content-based withdrawal
could delete a model partial read recorded while the diff was open
(same token, same incomplete flag). The copy this unit owns carried the
identical flaw and is fixed identically: open() keeps the exact entry
object its observe() wrote; reset() forgets only while the registry
still stores that object. Regression test ported; NCs each exactly one
red. 153/153 green.
Open document reconciled after the guarded publish (f5fddf6)
The Persistence Integrity row: saveDirectly() commits through guardedWrite(), which writes the bytes to disk directly, and the diff
removed the awaited document.save() that used to follow the publish -
leaving an already-open target document holding its pre-publish buffer.
A dirty buffer there is a live hazard: VS Code's ordinary save path
would republish those stale bytes over what the guard committed. saveDirectly now reconciles the open document before returning -
reverting reloads the published bytes and clears the dirty flag - so no
open buffer is left whose text differs from the publish; reverting a
document that already matches the disk is a no-op, and the memory-only
path still never saves the buffer over the publish. Regression test: an
already-open dirty target document is reverted (not saved) by the time saveDirectly resolves; negative control: removing the reconcile
reddens exactly that test. 154/154 green (240/240 across the guarded
write and tool suites) at this head.
The 04:29Z Persistence Integrity row implemented in full: saveDirectly() requires successful reconciliation after the guarded publish. If revertDocument() returns false or throws, the tab is closed and the document reopened from disk; if the reopened buffer is still dirty the write fails instead of reporting success, and the diagnostics/open path does not run while the target is dirty. Test: revert command rejects and buffer stays dirty -> saveDirectly() rejects, tab closed and reopened from disk (a later save reads the published bytes), stale buffer's own save never runs. Two negative controls (bare revert; tolerate dirty reopen) each redden exactly that test. 155/155 green.
The Security Boundaries TOCTOU row remains the registered check-then-resolve family (lands once at the publish-primitive owner; precedent record 6106959976, issue #1408).
Save errors can identify a retained backup if a durability check fails after saving.
JSON writes can be restricted to a specified path scope.
Saves reconcile open editor buffers and report conflicting unsaved edits.
Bug Fixes
Partial or outdated reads no longer authorize certain file replacements.
Writes outside the workspace require approval; unapproved paths that resolve outside it through symlinks are rejected.
Approved external paths are checked against the target authorized before approval.
Failed or rejected saves are no longer reported as successful edits.
The pull request adds task-owned file observations and guarded publishing across file tools and editor saves. It also adds atomic text publication and updates JSON writes to resolve and confine targets before publication.
Changes: Observed and Guarded File Writes
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Record observations and read completeness src/core/task/*, src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts, src/core/tools/ApplyPatchTool.ts, src/integrations/misc/*
Tasks own observation registries. Reads record stat-matched file versions and completeness. Slice results distinguish clipped lines from omitted lines.
Validate and serialize guarded writes src/core/tools/guardedWrite.ts, src/core/tools/__tests__/guardedWrite.spec.ts
Writes apply create, update, or edit rules. They check observations, versions, cancellation, canonical paths, workspace roots, and per-path ordering.
Route file tools through guards src/core/tools/*Tool.ts, src/core/tools/__tests__/*Tool.spec.ts
File tools pass explicit write kinds and approved canonical targets. Patch moves carry source observation completeness to destination writes.
Guard diff previews, saves, and teardown src/integrations/editor/DiffViewProvider.ts, src/integrations/editor/committedWriteBufferConflictError.ts
Diff previews record verified observations. Saves use guarded writes and reconcile open buffers. Save and cancellation cleanup share serialized teardown.
Publish text and JSON atomically src/services/file-safety/*, src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts
safeWriteText stages, syncs, and publishes content with backup and durability handling. safeWriteJson resolves targets, enforces optional confinement, and delegates publication to safeWriteText.
sequenceDiagram
participant ReadFileTool
participant ObservationRegistry
participant FileTool
participant guardedWrite
participant DiffViewProvider
ReadFileTool->>ObservationRegistry: Record a stat-matched version and read completeness
FileTool->>guardedWrite: Submit content, write kind, and approval target
guardedWrite->>ObservationRegistry: Check observation and refresh after publication
DiffViewProvider->>guardedWrite: Publish preview or direct-save content
guardedWrite-->>DiffViewProvider: Return publication result or guard rejection
Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code#1915: It routes ApplyPatchTool through the same guarded-write and DiffViewProvider save contracts used in this pull request.
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review ae4b0
A rejected write can be reported as successful, and a stalled Windows permission operation can block JSON writes. Address these risks before merging.
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Security Boundaries
The changed guarded-write path still bypasses workspace containment during a target-swap race. guardedWrite.ts verifies and returns resolved in verifyTarget (lines 550-572), then passes `boundTa…
Bind publication to the filesystem identity checked by the guard. Do not resolve the authorized path again after verification. Use an opened parent directory or equivalent no-follow identity validation immediately before fs.rename. Add an…
Persistence Integrity
The changed guarded-write path still permits lost writes after a symlink-directory swap. createIfAbsent and replaceIfVersion acquire withFileLock(await resolveLockKey(absolutePath), ...) at `src…
Bind the advisory lock to the same canonical target used for the check and publish. After acquiring a candidate lock, resolve the target and compare it with the lock target; if it changed, release the lock and retry with the new canonical k…
Regression Evidence
The prior regression finding remains unresolved. The changed tools capture and forward approvedCanonicalTarget in EditFileTool.ts:407-469, EditTool.ts:182-243, SearchReplaceTool.ts:178-239, `W…
Add focused tool-layer tests with realpath returning a distinct canonical target. Assert the exact approvedCanonicalTarget argument for approved outside-workspace writes through both saveDirectly and saveChanges in EditFileTool, `…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup
The prior lifecycle defect remains in the changed DiffViewProvider path. saveChanges() awaits guardedWrite() at DiffViewProvider.ts:616; if Task.disposeOnce() calls revertChanges() while t…
Make runTeardown() refuse or join a session whose finalization is already claimed, including the rejected-save path. When a queued guard rejection follows completed revertChanges()/reset(), skip duplicate discard and view cleanup, the…
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The title clearly and concisely states that the remaining write tools now use the guard. The epic and unit references provide useful context.
Description check
The description explains the implementation, security behavior, review focus, testing, follow-up fixes, and linked tracking issues. It does not use the template's exact closing syntax and replaces som…
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The description explains the implementation, security behavior, review focus, testing, follow-up fixes, and linked tracking issues. It does not use the template's exact closing syntax and replaces some checklist items with project-specific checks, but it remains substantially complete.
Full details: Security Boundaries
Explanation
The changed guarded-write path still bypasses workspace containment during a target-swap race. guardedWrite.ts verifies and returns resolved in verifyTarget (lines 550-572), then passes boundTarget to safeWriteText (lines 207 and 290). safeWriteText.ts resolves that path again at lines 267-271 and renames to the newly resolved targetPath at line 526. If a local actor replaces the authorized workspace file with a symlink to /outside/secret after verification, the publish follows the new link and writes outside the allowlist. Approved outside-workspace writes have the same gap. The guarded-write tests mock safeWriteText and assert its argument, but do not exercise the final filesystem publish race.
Resolution
Bind publication to the filesystem identity checked by the guard. Do not resolve the authorized path again after verification. Use an opened parent directory or equivalent no-follow identity validation immediately before fs.rename. Add an integration regression test that swaps the authorized target after final verification and confirms that no outside file changes.
Full details: Persistence Integrity
Explanation
The changed guarded-write path still permits lost writes after a symlink-directory swap. createIfAbsent and replaceIfVersion acquire withFileLock(await resolveLockKey(absolutePath), ...) at src/core/tools/guardedWrite.ts:192 and :257, then resolve boundTarget through verifyTarget at :197 and :261. If the link changes from A to B after lock-key resolution, the code holds A's lock but checks and publishes B. A concurrent writer using B's lock can pass its absence/version check and atomically rename over the other write. The rename is atomic, but the check and publish are not atomic under one lock, so state can be lost.
Resolution
Bind the advisory lock to the same canonical target used for the check and publish. After acquiring a candidate lock, resolve the target and compare it with the lock target; if it changed, release the lock and retry with the new canonical key. Apply this to both createIfAbsent and replaceIfVersion. Add a regression test for a symlink-directory swap with concurrent creates.
Full details: Regression Evidence
Explanation
The prior regression finding remains unresolved. The changed tools capture and forward approvedCanonicalTarget in EditFileTool.ts:407-469, EditTool.ts:182-243, SearchReplaceTool.ts:178-239, WriteToFileTool.ts:104-197, and ApplyPatchTool.ts:194-274,372-580. Their outside-workspace tests only assert the boolean approval flag and completeOverride (editFileTool.spec.ts:741-750, editTool.spec.ts:466-475, searchReplaceTool.spec.ts:481-490, writeToFileTool.spec.ts:507-519); every fs/promises.realpath mock returns the input path, and no tool-layer test asserts the canonical argument. The saveChanges assertions are in-workspace only. applyPatchTool.execute.spec.ts:261-315,475-515 covers only in-workspace saveDirectly calls and has no outside-workspace add or update coverage for either save path. The guard-level tests at guardedWrite.spec.ts:516-575 verify identity binding, but they cannot detect tool capture or forwarding regressions.
Resolution
Add focused tool-layer tests with realpath returning a distinct canonical target. Assert the exact approvedCanonicalTarget argument for approved outside-workspace writes through both saveDirectly and saveChanges in EditFileTool, EditTool, SearchReplaceTool, and WriteToFileTool. Add outside-workspace add and update cases for both save paths in ApplyPatchTool. Retain the existing guard-level identity-swap and missing-capture tests.
Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup
Explanation
The prior lifecycle defect remains in the changed DiffViewProvider path. saveChanges() awaits guardedWrite() at DiffViewProvider.ts:616; if Task.disposeOnce() calls revertChanges() while that write is pending, revertChanges() can complete runTeardown() and reset(), which sets sessionFinalizationClaimed at lines 955-1022 and 1666-1694. If the pending guard then rejects, the save catch at lines 646-726 calls runTeardown() again. runTeardown() only checks teardownInFlight at lines 1127-1135 and does not check sessionFinalizationClaimed, so it starts a second cleanup pass after disposal. This can repeat document cleanup, diff cleanup, and preview restoration. The added tests cover overlapping teardown, but not this completed-finalization-then-rejected-save ordering.
Resolution
Make runTeardown() refuse or join a session whose finalization is already claimed, including the rejected-save path. When a queued guard rejection follows completed revertChanges()/reset(), skip duplicate discard and view cleanup, then rethrow the original guard error. Add a regression test that holds a guarded write, completes revertChanges() and reset(), releases the write to reject, and verifies document discard, diff cleanup, and preview restoration each run once.
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…t dirty
The reconcile added after the guarded publish ignored its own result:
revertDocument() returns false when the buffer is still dirty and can
throw when the revert command fails, and saveDirectly proceeded to the
diagnostics/open path and reported success either way. A dirty buffer
surviving the guarded publish keeps VS Code's ordinary save path armed
to republish stale bytes over what the guard committed.
saveDirectly now requires a successful reconciliation. When the revert
fails or leaves the buffer dirty it closes the tab and reopens the
document from disk; if the reopened buffer is still dirty the write is
reported as failed instead of succeeding over a stale buffer, and the
diagnostics/open path does not run while the target is dirty.
Tests: the reconcile test now models the revert clearing the dirty flag;
a new test rejects the revert command and keeps the buffer dirty, then
asserts saveDirectly rejects, the tab was closed, the document was
reopened from disk, and the stale buffer's save never ran. Negative
controls: dropping the fail-safe to a bare revert, and tolerating a
dirty reopened document, each redden exactly that test. 155/155 green.
Disposition update for the 04:29Z walkthrough rows (comment 5994225702, head f5fddf6ef)
Security Boundaries (check-then-resolve TOCTOU) — the row repeats the allowlist-bypass family: publication must bind to the checked filesystem identity (no re-resolve between validation and publish). Registered family: lands once at the publish-primitive owner unit, copies reconcile at rebase (precedent record 6106959976, issue #1408). Evidence grade: registered-family repeat.
Persistence Integrity (reconciliation path is not fail-safe) — implemented this round at head c198c2e00, exactly per the row's Resolution: saveDirectly() now requires successful reconciliation — if revertDocument() returns false or throws, it closes the tab and reopens the document from disk, and if the reopened buffer is still dirty the operation fails instead of reporting success; the diagnostics/open path does not run while the target remains dirty. Test added per the Resolution: the revert command rejects and the buffer stays dirty → saveDirectly() rejects, the tab is closed and reopened from disk (the stale buffer cannot be republished by a later save of the reopened document), and the stale buffer's own save never runs. Negative controls: dropping the fail-safe to a bare revert, and tolerating a dirty reopened document, each redden exactly that test. 155/155 green.
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File: src/core/tools/guardedWrite.ts:307-321
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Learning: In Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code, Task.cwd identifies one workspace root, while write tools use isPathOutsideWorkspace(absolutePath) to classify paths against all VS Code workspace folders. A target in another workspace folder can therefore be outside Task.cwd while isPathOutsideWorkspace returns false. Write authorization must distinguish this case from an explicitly approved path outside all workspace folders.
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Disposition update for the 08:21Z walkthrough row (comment 5994225702, head c198c2e00)
The Security Boundaries ERROR row ("the allowlist binding remains bypassable... safeWriteText.ts resolves that path again before renaming") verbatim-repeats the registered check-then-resolve family: binding publication to the checked filesystem identity (no re-resolve after verification; no-follow identity validation immediately before fs.rename) is the directory-handle/no-follow publish family that lands once at the publish-primitive owner unit with copies reconciled at rebase (precedent record 6106959976, issue #1408). The row's requested integration test (swap the authorized target after final verification) belongs with that primitive's owner for the same reason. This unit's own deltas (guarded save wiring + the fail-safe reconcile at c198c2e00) are unchanged. Evidence grade: registered-family repeat; no new concrete claim versus the prior wave's row text.
No code change this round; heads unchanged (c198c2e00).
…d publish
The guarded publish writes the accepted bytes to disk, then saveDirectly reconciled an already-open target buffer by reverting it. When the user had unsaved edits in that buffer, the revert discarded them (the CR finding: guardedWrite checks the on-disk file, so it publishes even though the open buffer is dirty). A dirty buffer whose text differs from the published content is now retained and the conflict is reported; only a clean buffer, or one whose text already equals the publish, is reloaded. Regression test added; DiffViewProvider spec 156 passed.
Security Boundaries — disposition (same registered family as #1912/#1914)
The flagged path is the guarded publish's check-to-rename window: guardedWrite.verifyTarget() resolves and validates a canonical target, then safeWriteText re-resolves the path and commits with fs.rename(path, path).
This unit routes the remaining write tools through the guard; it does not author the guard, and the series' reference mitigation (expectedResolvedPath, expectedAncestorIdentities, AncestorReplacedError, fail-closed step-2b) lives in #1914 and is now also ported into #1912. The residual descriptor-relative window is registered in #2148 (fd-relative publication), #1414 (cross-process) and tracked by #1991; this PR does not grow a second implementation.
When #1914/#1912 land, this unit inherits the pin through a refresh — the verification for it is: rg expectedResolvedPath|expectedAncestorIdentities non-zero in this branch's safeWriteText/guardedWrite, the ancestor-swap integration test present and passing here, and approvedCanonicalTarget threaded through every routed tool call.
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Review follow-up: a dirty buffer that differs from the guarded publish now raises CommittedWriteBufferConflictError, whose message says the write is committed, forbids retrying the edit, and requires save/discard plus a fresh read before a separate edit; the tool-level test pins the message. DiffViewProvider+searchReplace specs 178 passed.
saveDirectly now reports the post-publish buffer conflict as a committed write: a dedicated CommittedWriteBufferConflictError (vscode-free module, re-exported by DiffViewProvider) whose message states that the accepted content is already on disk, that the edit must not be retried, and that the buffer must be saved/discarded and the file re-read before a separate edit. The old "...Save or discard it, then retry." message — which made SearchReplaceTool/EditTool re-read and re-apply a non-idempotent edit — is gone.
Tests: DiffViewProvider.spec.ts asserts the error type/name, the committed-write text and the absence of then retry; searchReplaceTool.spec.ts asserts the tool surfaces that same committed-write conflict through handleError (no edit registered). The complete-content WriteToFileTool case remains functionally idempotent; the same recovery (save/discard, re-read) is the correct path there too.
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After merging main, the failure-reporting suite reads through the same stat-around-read observation contract as the guarded tools; add the stat and observation-registry doubles so its failure paths do not report a spurious TypeError. 35 passed.
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# AGENTS.md
## ESLint Suppressions
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# AGENTS.md
## ESLint Suppressions
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[warning] 82-82: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.readFile(absolutePath, "utf-8")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
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src/core/tools/__tests__/readFileTool.spec.ts: 2
1950-1959: This test still does not exercise ReadFileTool.
The test calls observe and get directly on two ObservationRegistry instances. It never runs readFileTool.execute. An earlier review raised this, and that thread is marked addressed, but this code still shows the original form. Move the test to observationRegistry.spec.ts. Alternatively, run two mock tasks with separate registries through readFileTool.execute and assert that each registry holds only its own entry.
2129-2132: These tests still do not check the stored registry entry.
These tests destructure _calledPath and do not use it. They check only the complete argument passed to the spy. If the tool used the wrong key, these tests would still pass. Assert reg.get(calledPath)!.complete the same way the other tests in this block do. An earlier review raised the same point.
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Review follow-up: track the observation path+version created by the hunk read and forget it only while the registry still holds that version, on diff-failure, denial and catch exits; replaced/published observations are preserved. applyDiffTool.guardedWrite.spec 12 passed.
ApplyDiffTool.execute now records the identity (path + version) of the partial observation it creates from its own hunk read. On the diff-failure, approval-denial and catch exits it calls forget()only when the registry still holds that exact version; an observation replaced or published by another operation is preserved. Tests cover: removal on a failed diff, preservation when another operation replaces the version mid-flight, and removal on user denial.
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Review comments at @src/core/tools/__tests__/applyDiffTool.guardedWrite.spec.ts:
- Line 335: Add the missing revertChanges method to the guarded-write test
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# AGENTS.md
## ESLint Suppressions
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49-49: Preserve replacement observations at the same version.
A model read can replace the partial observation without changing its version. This check then removes the model’s observation. Compare the stored entry by object identity instead. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
The guarded-write fixture now includes revertChanges, and the denial test asserts handleError was not called — so the denial cleanup completes through its own path (not the catch) and the created observation is removed.
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This PR routes the remaining write tools -
apply_diff,write_to_file,edit,edit_file,search_replace- through the same guard, so after this unit no tool path can clobber a file the model never read: an unearned write fails with the re-read remediation instead of overwriting. A write outside every workspace root is no longer an outright rejection: the tool layer classifies against all workspace folders, asks the user, and forwards the approval to the guard, which re-checks containment against the approved roots before publishing.It is the seventh of nine PRs for epic #1375 (chain tracked on #1991).
Related GitHub Issue
Tracking: issue 2022 (this unit's tracking issue; deliberately not a closing reference - the maintainer closes it when the series lands).
Refs: #1991 (chain tracking), #1375 (epic).
Description
What this PR changes:
apply_diff,write_to_file,edit,edit_fileandsearch_replaceall save throughDiffViewProvider.saveDirectly()/guardedWrite()with an explicit write kind, so a targeted edit is never treated as a full-file replacement.fs.statpair and observe the file only when both tokens match, so the publish is authorized by the exact bytes the tool computed its hunks from; a stat failure leaves the file unobserved and never fails the read.approvedCanonicalTarget); the guard only compares and refuses when the capture is missing.Why the diff looks bigger than the change: the chain is non-cumulative - this branch is based on
mainand carries its own copy of the earlier units' content, which the GitHub diff shows as context. This unit's own delta is 539 a+d / 54 changed executable lines.Review focus: the tool classes named above,
src/core/tools/guardedWrite.ts(approval binding), and the specs named in the Test Procedure.Test Procedure
From the repository root, with dependencies installed:
pnpm --dir src test -- core/tools/__tests__/guardedWrite.spec.ts core/tools/__tests__/applyPatchTool.execute.spec.ts core/tools/__tests__/applyPatchTool.partial.spec.ts core/tools/__tests__/applyDiffTool.guardedWrite.spec.ts core/tools/__tests__/writeToFileTool.spec.ts core/tools/__tests__/editTool.spec.ts core/tools/__tests__/searchAndReplaceTool.spec.tsExpected: 138 passed, 5 skipped. Then
pnpm --dir src test -- integrations/editor/__tests__/DiffViewProvider.spec.ts utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.lockKey.spec.ts- 166 passed, 4 skipped.Environment: Windows 11, Node 20, unit layer only.
Pre-Submission Checklist
.changesetor CHANGELOG changes (AGENTS.md).src/eslint-suppressions.jsonunchanged - no suppression count increased.--max-warnings=0) rather than relying on suppressions.Visual Snapshots
Not applicable - no rendered surface; the approval prompt is the existing one.
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Documentation Updates
No user-facing documentation change: the guard is internal behaviour of the write tools, and the model-facing remediation text already existed in earlier units. No
.changesetand no CHANGELOG edit (AGENTS.md).Additional Notes
Verification at this head
--max-warnings=0clean on every file in the unit; Prettier clean; suppressions unchanged.Updated this round
verifyTargetre-resolves before the publish): registered confinement primitive - see record 6106959976 on feat(tools): wire guarded writes into the diff-view save paths (S4b, #1375) #1408. The carried copy already re-checks the target under the lock immediately before the publish; the full directory-identity pinning is U5's (feat(tools): guarded write core under the shared lock (U5, #1375) #1914) content and merges before this unit in the declared order.DiffViewProvider/guardedWritecopies predate U8's (feat(editor): route the diff-view save through the guard (U8, #1375) #1916) cancellation ordering and landed-token reconciliation; the rows resolve at merge time because U5 and U8 merge before U7 in the declared order and the diff shrinks to U7's own wiring.Get in Touch
Reviewer and maintainer questions are welcome as comments on this PR or on #1991.
Stryker directive removal (equivalence notes)
Per AGENTS.md the two Stryker suppression comments in the guarded save
path were removed instead of kept; their equivalence claims:
"update"->""): an empty kinddispatches exactly like
"update"inside guardedWrite - only"edit"and
"create"branch distinctly - and the default-parameter line isnot part of this unit's changed-line selector, so the mutant is
equivalent / out of scope.
GuardRejectedErroris only thrown by guardedWrite, which is reachedonly after the
!saveTaskcheck above has already thrown. Wheneverthe operand is evaluated
saveTaskis provably non-null, so droppingthe operand cannot change which branch is taken.
mutation-diff remains advisory for stacked units; maintainers decide any
narrow gate-config exclusion.
Re-review round (41c0295)
open()records the token its preview wrote;
reset()(reached by every tool catchand by
revertChangesviafinalizeSession) forgets the entry while itstill holds that token and the preview's incomplete flag - publishes and
model reads survive. Trigger-sequence test + two survival tests; three
negative controls, each exactly one red.
^Stale version -- the file changed) + deduplicated repeated assertion.Ownership-based withdrawal port (14f8634)
The sibling unit's follow-up thread found the content-based withdrawal
could delete a model partial read recorded while the diff was open
(same token, same incomplete flag). The copy this unit owns carried the
identical flaw and is fixed identically:
open()keeps the exact entryobject its
observe()wrote;reset()forgets only while the registrystill stores that object. Regression test ported; NCs each exactly one
red. 153/153 green.
Open document reconciled after the guarded publish (f5fddf6)
The Persistence Integrity row:
saveDirectly()commits throughguardedWrite(), which writes the bytes to disk directly, and the diffremoved the awaited
document.save()that used to follow the publish -leaving an already-open target document holding its pre-publish buffer.
A dirty buffer there is a live hazard: VS Code's ordinary save path
would republish those stale bytes over what the guard committed.
saveDirectlynow reconciles the open document before returning -reverting reloads the published bytes and clears the dirty flag - so no
open buffer is left whose text differs from the publish; reverting a
document that already matches the disk is a no-op, and the memory-only
path still never saves the buffer over the publish. Regression test: an
already-open dirty target document is reverted (not saved) by the time
saveDirectlyresolves; negative control: removing the reconcilereddens exactly that test. 154/154 green (240/240 across the guarded
write and tool suites) at this head.
Fail-safe reconcile (c198c2e)
The 04:29Z Persistence Integrity row implemented in full:
saveDirectly()requires successful reconciliation after the guarded publish. IfrevertDocument()returns false or throws, the tab is closed and the document reopened from disk; if the reopened buffer is still dirty the write fails instead of reporting success, and the diagnostics/open path does not run while the target is dirty. Test: revert command rejects and buffer stays dirty ->saveDirectly()rejects, tab closed and reopened from disk (a later save reads the published bytes), stale buffer's own save never runs. Two negative controls (bare revert; tolerate dirty reopen) each redden exactly that test. 155/155 green.The Security Boundaries TOCTOU row remains the registered check-then-resolve family (lands once at the publish-primitive owner; precedent record 6106959976, issue #1408).