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fix(auto-approval): match symlinked workspace roots - #2454
Context only:#1948 tracks the broader multi-file reader work. This PR is an independently mergeable prerequisite for #1999, scoped to workspace-root approval matching and the path boundaries described below. The acceptance criteria of #1948 belong to that separate multi-file reader work. This PR leaves #1948 open.
Supersedes #2041, which was automatically closed for author inactivity.
Description
Read allowlists now recognize both the lexical and verified canonical paths of the task workspace root. This fixes approval matching when the workspace root is a symlink. The change supports the Reliability First roadmap goal.
Each ordered rule checks both root paths before the next rule runs. Absolute wildcard exclusions and later re-inclusions keep their order. Workspace names with brackets, stars, question marks, or POSIX backslashes stay literal. They cannot widen a grant to neighboring directories. Windows root comparisons use literal regular expressions in the same case-insensitive mode as ignore. They require equal UTF-16 lengths and check the separator in the original path, preventing Unicode case transformations from changing the root boundary.
Windows candidates, patterns, and roots use the same path conversion. Explicit UNC paths remain separate from drives and rooted paths without a known volume. A rooted path in a UNC workspace resolves against that network share. The inherited server and share names are escaped as literal names for both grants and exclusions. User-authored globs in explicit UNC patterns keep their meaning.
UNC parsing requires exactly two leading separators and nonempty server and share names. Repeated separators between the server and share remain supported. Three or more leading separators retain Windows rooted-path semantics, so ///server/share/docs/** cannot grant access to //server/share/docs/private.md. Workspace roots resolve .. using Windows path rules before conversion to matcher paths. Parent traversal stops at the drive or share root and cannot create an alias for another share.
When the Windows workspace has no known drive letter, rooted exclusions retain their reach over explicitly granted drive paths. For example, ["C:/**", "!/**/.env"] excludes C:/x/.env with a UNC workspace, a drive-less workspace, or no workspace. The same UNC classification applies to grants and exclusions, including extra leading separators and incomplete UNC names. For example, !///**/.env remains a rooted exclusion. A later explicit rule can re-include the file. Rooted grants remain scoped to the workspace volume, and the internal UNC and unknown-root prefixes remain isolated.
Canonical lookup runs realpath on path.resolve(cwd), using the same lexical workspace root as file reads. A symlink followed by .. in the workspace path cannot make two distinct directories equivalent. Only the workspace root uses realpath. The matcher does not resolve individual file aliases. Unknown or unresolvable roots retain lexical matching. Resolution failures are logged. Read and write allowlists retain separate exclusions. Canonical root equivalence applies only to reads. Protected-file policy remains in effect.
Intentional Windows hardening: The shared matcher rejects drive-relative candidates and patterns, including bare drive designators. These paths depend on per-drive process state that the matcher cannot safely infer. A drive-relative workspace root also rejects relative candidates and rules, even if realpath succeeds. This applies to reads and writes. Explicit absolute grants remain usable, with ordered exclusions. The previous behavior could approve an absolute file outside the actual workspace.
Literal question marks use standard backslash escaping with the current ignore dependency. Regression assertions reject neighboring directory names ending in 1, x, 3, or f.
Test Procedure
Environment: Node 22.23.1, pnpm 10.8.1, macOS. The branch is based on main f2b4d1c0d.
pnpm --dir src exec vitest run core/auto-approval core/tools/__tests__/ReadFileTool.spec.ts
pnpm check-types
pnpm test
pnpm knip
pnpm knip:production
pnpm test:knip-policy
All 613 focused tests passed across 22 suites.
Full monorepo tests passed: 14/14 Turbo tasks. The extension suite passed 13,306 tests, with 39 skipped, across 586 passed suites and 4 skipped suites.
Full type checks passed: 12/12 Turbo tasks.
Scoped ESLint pruning passed. The suppression file remained byte-for-byte unchanged.
Both Knip modes and all 8 Knip policy tests passed.
Regression coverage includes UNC separator handling, workspace-root parent traversal, Unicode root boundaries, literal roots, ordered exclusions, drive boundaries, and real symlink/junction integration. It also covers rooted exclusions, literal inherited UNC names, canonical drive aliases, independent read/write allowlists, later re-inclusions, and protected writes. Strategy contract tests use call-through spies on the production strategy instead of reimplementing path comparison in test doubles.
The Windows-default matcher harness checked Windows path behavior. Native Windows CI must validate the final commit.
Scope: The changes cover workspace-root approval matching and its path-safety constraints.
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This is an independently mergeable prerequisite for the reader-safety work in #1999. Merge this prerequisite first, then rebase the reader-safety branch onto main.
Review history remains available in #2041. GitHub does not let the author reopen that PR after the bot closed it.
Recognize lexical and verified canonical workspace-root spellings without resolving individual file aliases. Preserve ordered grants, exclusions, literal root names, and lexical-parent rules across POSIX, Windows drives, and UNC shares.
Reject ambiguous Windows drive-relative inputs without widening read or write permissions. Centralize platform selection in WorkspaceRootStrategy.forPlatform and cover literal UNC share names with regression tests.
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Summary
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Bug Fixes
Improved automatic-approval matching for POSIX and Windows paths, including drive-relative paths, UNC shares, and workspaces accessed through symlinks.
Workspace-relative permissions now distinguish files inside the workspace from similarly named files outside it. If the workspace root cannot be resolved, relative grants do not approve outside-workspace files.
Exclusion and re-inclusion rules now apply consistently across equivalent path spellings, while preserving rule order and separate read and write permissions.
Improved Windows path matching for volume roots, repeated separators, and case differences.
Auto-approval now uses platform-specific path strategies and matches paths across lexical and canonical workspace roots. Read approval resolves the workspace root asynchronously and checks each named file against configured patterns.
Changes: Workspace root-aware matching
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Platform strategies and root equivalence src/core/auto-approval/strategies/*, src/core/auto-approval/WorkspaceRootCanonicalizer.ts, src/core/auto-approval/__tests__/WorkspaceRootStrategy.spec.ts, src/core/auto-approval/__tests__/WorkspaceRootCanonicalizer.spec.ts
Platform strategies convert paths, normalize roots, and compare paths. The canonicalizer maps paths between lexical and canonical roots.
Read approval resolves the workspace root with realpath and checks named files using lexical and canonical roots. Tests cover resolution failures, missing roots, and approval decisions.
sequenceDiagram
participant AutoApproval
participant realpath
participant isFileMatchedByPatterns
AutoApproval->>realpath: resolve workspace root
realpath-->>AutoApproval: canonical root or resolution failure
AutoApproval->>isFileMatchedByPatterns: match named files using lexical and canonical roots
isFileMatchedByPatterns-->>AutoApproval: pattern result
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The change makes read auto-approval match both the lexical and canonical forms of a symlinked workspace root. No outstanding merge-blocking issues were found. Windows CI should still confirm the final commit.
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Title check
The title "fix(auto-approval): match symlinked workspace roots" names the main change. The changeset makes read allowlists match both the lexical and canonical (realpath-resolved) task workspace root,…
Description check
The description covers the linked issue context (#1948 as context, with a prerequisite relationship to #1999), a detailed Description of the how and trade-offs, a Test Procedure with commands and resu…
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Regression Evidence
The changed behaviors have focused regression coverage, including the negative and unset branches the check names. - Canonical root matching (reads only):workspaceRootEquivalence.spec.ts covers…
Security Boundaries
No changed path in this PR leaks secrets or PII, executes unvalidated input, or bypasses approval/allowlist controls in a way this PR introduces. Evidence: - src/core/auto-approval/index.ts: readFile …
Persistence Integrity
The check fails only for a changed persistence path that can lose or corrupt state through a non-awaited operation, a non-atomic write, missing rollback or partial-failure handling, or an unpropagated…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup
The check fails only for a changed lifecycle path that leaks a listener, watcher, provider, timer, task, or other resource, or that duplicates work after cancellation, disposal, or restart. I reviewed…
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The title "fix(auto-approval): match symlinked workspace roots" names the main change. The changeset makes read allowlists match both the lexical and canonical (realpath-resolved) task workspace root, which the description and objectives both state. The title is short, specific, and in the active voice, and it does not list files.
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The description covers the linked issue context (#1948 as context, with a prerequisite relationship to #1999), a detailed Description of the how and trade-offs, a Test Procedure with commands and results, and a completed Pre-Submission Checklist. Visual Snapshots, Videos, and Documentation Updates are marked not applicable or not required. Sections follow the template. Two points are weaker. The 'Closes:' line from the template is replaced by a context-only reference, and the description is long and dense for a reviewer. The description does not follow the template's brevity guidance, but the required information is present.
Full details: Regression Evidence
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The changed behaviors have focused regression coverage, including the negative and unset branches the check names. - Canonical root matching (reads only):workspaceRootEquivalence.spec.ts covers lexical and canonical grants. It checks that the file-level realpath is not called (line 140). - Root resolution failures: the ENOENT and EACCES cases (lines 165–185) assert ask for lexical-only grants, approve for canonical grants, and the logged error. - Missing task root:undefined and "" cwd cases (lines 187–207) assert no realpath call and no error log. - Read and write allowlist independence: covered in the same file. - Batch targets: every named target must match, and unnamed targets are refused (line 143). - Triple-slash rooted exclusion (!///**/.env): the review-fix case is in windowsPaths.spec.ts (line 27) and windowsRootedApproval.spec.ts (line 19), next to !/**/.env. - Negative and unset cases in the canonicalizer:WorkspaceRootCanonicalizer.spec.ts covers undefined, empty, relative, and drive-relative roots (line 64), prefixed siblings and lexical parents (line 52), and unrelated paths for equivalentPaths (lines 126 and 141). - Windows and POSIX strategies: UNC normalization, drive roots, Unicode case folding, and pathsEqual have dedicated spec files. - Integration:workspaceRootSafety.integration.spec.ts uses real symlinks and junctions. No UI change is in the diff, so the Playwright snapshot requirement does not apply. One gap, which does not change the verdict: equivalentPaths has no direct positive-case unit assertion. Its two-spelling output is exercised through isFileMatchedByPatterns and checkAutoApproval in the equivalence and rooted-approval specs. Those tests reach the same branch. Limitation: the Windows-specific tests run in a POSIX-default harness. This is a PR-stated limitation, not a coverage gap in the check's sense.
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No changed path in this PR leaks secrets or PII, executes unvalidated input, or bypasses approval/allowlist controls in a way this PR introduces. Evidence: - src/core/auto-approval/index.ts: readFile allowlist now returns false when both read and write lists are empty. Canonical root comes only from realpath(path.resolve(cwd)); canonical equivalence is applied to reads only. Protected-file policy and the unknown-root lexical fallback are unchanged. The check is awaited, which is narrowing. - src/core/auto-approval/filePatterns.ts: drive-relative candidates and patterns are rejected, and drive-relative workspaces reject relative paths and rules. Each ordered rule is applied to all candidate spellings before the next rule runs, so an exclusion cannot be bypassed by the alternate spelling. - Triple-slash exclusion thread (!////.env): head uses WINDOWS_UNC_PREFIX.test to skip only the two-slash UNC spelling and collapses the rest to a rooted alternative. The cross-volume gap is addressed. - Share-root traversal thread: normalizeAbsoluteRoot resolves .. with path.win32.normalize before matcher conversion, so parent traversal stops at the share or drive root. Pre-existing gap (not introduced by this PR, so not a FAIL basis): - In toMatcherPath, the absolute-candidate branch does not normalize .. segments. This is true in both base and head. I confirmed with ignore@7.0.14 that ws/docs/../secret.md matches ws/docs/. A read of /ws/docs/../secret.md under a docs/** grant could therefore be auto-approved. The PR does not worsen this; relative candidates are normalized with path.posix.resolve, and only the absolute branch lacks normalization. Verdict rationale: the failure condition requires a concrete changed path that causes the bypass. The only identified bypass predates the PR, and the PR's changes narrow or leave approval reach unchanged.
Resolution
Non-blocking follow-up: in src/core/auto-approval/filePatterns.ts (toMatcherPath, absolute-candidate branch), normalize .. segments (for example with path.posix.resolve after conversion) or reject them before matching. Add a regression asserting that /ws/docs/../secret.md is not approved by a docs/** grant, for both POSIX and Windows UNC forms.
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The check fails only for a changed persistence path that can lose or corrupt state through a non-awaited operation, a non-atomic write, missing rollback or partial-failure handling, or an unpropagated persisted default. The changed-file inventory covers auto-approval path matching only. It adds WorkspaceRootCanonicalizer, the WorkspaceRootStrategy family, and related tests. It edits filePatterns.ts and index.ts. No changed file writes files, updates settings, or touches globalState, workspaceState, or secrets. I searched the added lines in the source files for write, persistence, and settings calls. The only hits were the following: - In index.ts, realpath(path.resolve(cwd)) runs inside resolveCanonicalWorkspaceRoot. It is a read-only lookup. - In index.ts, await resolveCanonicalWorkspaceRoot(cwd) and await isReadAllowedByPatterns(...) were added. These awaits sit in the approval decision path. They do not persist anything. The new awaits are not a persistence integrity defect. They only control an in-memory approval decision. No persisted state is changed, so the check does not apply to a changed persistence path. Review threads about UNC namespace and drive-candidate matching concern path-matching correctness, not persistence. Verdict: PASS.
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The check fails only for a changed lifecycle path that leaks a listener, watcher, provider, timer, task, or other resource, or that duplicates work after cancellation, disposal, or restart. I reviewed the non-test changes under src/core/auto-approval/. The only lifecycle-relevant change is in index.ts. isReadAllowedByPatterns became async and now awaits resolveCanonicalWorkspaceRoot, which calls fs/promises.realpath(path.resolve(cwd)) once per read-approval check. The function holds no file handle, watcher, or timer. It returns a string or undefined and logs on failure. The caller in checkAutoApproval awaits the result once. A keyword search of the changed non-test auto-approval files found no setTimeout, setInterval, addEventListener, watch, subscribe, dispose, close, abort/signal, or new Promise patterns. The new code adds no listener, timer, watcher, or provider. It also adds no cancellation path that could duplicate work. The new realpath call runs once per check, as the previous lexical matching did, so it does not add a retry or re-entry loop. The new strategy, canonicalizer, and filePatterns code is pure string and path computation. It also has no resource lifecycle.
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- Line 9: Update the UNC handling in WindowsWorkspaceRootStrategy to select the
/UNC namespace only for paths with exactly two leading separators and a valid
server/share prefix; normalize or reject other rooted spellings. Add regression
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# AGENTS.md
## Test Placement Guidance
- Use package-local unit tests for pure logic, parsing, state transitions, validation, serialization, request construction, retry decisions, and error handling.
[warning] 18-18: 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.writeFile(inside, "allowed workspace")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
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[warning] 19-19: 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.writeFile(outside, "unrelated workspace")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
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src/core/auto-approval/filePatterns.ts
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[ERROR] 11-11: A nonliteral argument is passed to exec/execSync. Identify the receiver: Node child_process methods execute shell commands, while regular-expression and database methods have different contracts. For shell execution, prefer execFile or spawn with an argument array.
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[ERROR] 21-21: A nonliteral argument is passed to exec/execSync. Identify the receiver: Node child_process methods execute shell commands, while regular-expression and database methods have different contracts. For shell execution, prefer execFile or spawn with an argument array.
Preserve cross-drive exclusions when the workspace has no drive. Escape inherited UNC volumes without changing user-authored globs. Add matcher and approval regressions for reads, writes, aliases, and rule order.
Part of Zoo-Code-Org#1948.
Distinguish UNC prefixes from rooted paths with extra separators. Normalize workspace roots with Windows path rules before conversion so parent segments cannot consume drive or share names. Add matcher and approval regressions for both separator spellings.
Part of Zoo-Code-Org#1948.
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[ERROR] 25-25: A nonliteral argument is passed to exec/execSync. Identify the receiver: Node child_process methods execute shell commands, while regular-expression and database methods have different contracts. For shell execution, prefer execFile or spawn with an argument array.
Use one UNC classification for rooted exclusions. Verify the lexically resolved workspace before realpath. Compare literal Windows roots without Unicode expansions or changed prefix offsets. Add permission regressions and real-filesystem coverage.
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# AGENTS.md
## Test Placement Guidance
- Use `it.each` for repeated cases and share the setup in a helper. Do not copy a test body per input.
[warning] 56-56: 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.writeFile(path.join(lexicalRoot, relativePath), "lexical file")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
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[warning] 57-57: 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.writeFile(path.join(targetRoot, relativePath), "different target file")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
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[warning] 65-65: 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(readPath, "utf8")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
(detect-non-literal-fs-filename-typescript)
[warning] 66-66: 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(path.join(targetRoot, relativePath), "utf8")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
[warning] 39-39: Regular expression constructed from variable input detected. This can lead to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks if the variable contains malicious patterns. Use libraries like 'recheck' to validate regex safety or use static patterns.
Context: new RegExp(^${literalRight}$, "i")
Note: [CWE-1333] Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
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Context only: #1948 tracks the broader multi-file reader work. This PR is an independently mergeable prerequisite for #1999, scoped to workspace-root approval matching and the path boundaries described below. The acceptance criteria of #1948 belong to that separate multi-file reader work. This PR leaves #1948 open.
Supersedes #2041, which was automatically closed for author inactivity.
Description
Read allowlists now recognize both the lexical and verified canonical paths of the task workspace root. This fixes approval matching when the workspace root is a symlink. The change supports the Reliability First roadmap goal.
Each ordered rule checks both root paths before the next rule runs. Absolute wildcard exclusions and later re-inclusions keep their order. Workspace names with brackets, stars, question marks, or POSIX backslashes stay literal. They cannot widen a grant to neighboring directories. Windows root comparisons use literal regular expressions in the same case-insensitive mode as
ignore. They require equal UTF-16 lengths and check the separator in the original path, preventing Unicode case transformations from changing the root boundary.Windows candidates, patterns, and roots use the same path conversion. Explicit UNC paths remain separate from drives and rooted paths without a known volume. A rooted path in a UNC workspace resolves against that network share. The inherited server and share names are escaped as literal names for both grants and exclusions. User-authored globs in explicit UNC patterns keep their meaning.
UNC parsing requires exactly two leading separators and nonempty server and share names. Repeated separators between the server and share remain supported. Three or more leading separators retain Windows rooted-path semantics, so
///server/share/docs/**cannot grant access to//server/share/docs/private.md. Workspace roots resolve..using Windows path rules before conversion to matcher paths. Parent traversal stops at the drive or share root and cannot create an alias for another share.When the Windows workspace has no known drive letter, rooted exclusions retain their reach over explicitly granted drive paths. For example,
["C:/**", "!/**/.env"]excludesC:/x/.envwith a UNC workspace, a drive-less workspace, or no workspace. The same UNC classification applies to grants and exclusions, including extra leading separators and incomplete UNC names. For example,!///**/.envremains a rooted exclusion. A later explicit rule can re-include the file. Rooted grants remain scoped to the workspace volume, and the internal UNC and unknown-root prefixes remain isolated.Canonical lookup runs
realpathonpath.resolve(cwd), using the same lexical workspace root as file reads. A symlink followed by..in the workspace path cannot make two distinct directories equivalent. Only the workspace root uses realpath. The matcher does not resolve individual file aliases. Unknown or unresolvable roots retain lexical matching. Resolution failures are logged. Read and write allowlists retain separate exclusions. Canonical root equivalence applies only to reads. Protected-file policy remains in effect.Intentional Windows hardening: The shared matcher rejects drive-relative candidates and patterns, including bare drive designators. These paths depend on per-drive process state that the matcher cannot safely infer. A drive-relative workspace root also rejects relative candidates and rules, even if realpath succeeds. This applies to reads and writes. Explicit absolute grants remain usable, with ordered exclusions. The previous behavior could approve an absolute file outside the actual workspace.
Literal question marks use standard backslash escaping with the current
ignoredependency. Regression assertions reject neighboring directory names ending in1,x,3, orf.Test Procedure
Environment: Node 22.23.1, pnpm 10.8.1, macOS. The branch is based on main
f2b4d1c0d.Regression coverage includes UNC separator handling, workspace-root parent traversal, Unicode root boundaries, literal roots, ordered exclusions, drive boundaries, and real symlink/junction integration. It also covers rooted exclusions, literal inherited UNC names, canonical drive aliases, independent read/write allowlists, later re-inclusions, and protected writes. Strategy contract tests use call-through spies on the production strategy instead of reimplementing path comparison in test doubles.
The Windows-default matcher harness checked Windows path behavior. Native Windows CI must validate the final commit.
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Additional Notes
This is an independently mergeable prerequisite for the reader-safety work in #1999. Merge this prerequisite first, then rebase the reader-safety branch onto main.
Review history remains available in #2041. GitHub does not let the author reopen that PR after the bot closed it.
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