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What Changed

  • Scope relative exemption globs to CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR or the hook working directory.
  • Anchor matches, normalize glob case, and preserve explicit absolute globs.
  • Cover project boundaries, Windows paths, wildcard boundaries, and mixed MultiEdit batches.

Why This Change

Unanchored matching could exempt the same path suffix outside the active project. This tightens the relative-glob contract without removing explicit absolute patterns.

Fixes #2921

Testing Done

  • Manual testing completed
  • Automated tests pass locally (node tests/run-all.js)
  • Edge cases considered and tested

Additional checks: npm run lint, npm run coverage (4,152/4,152 tests; 89.02% statements, 80.90% branches, 94.40% functions, 89.02% lines), and git diff --check.

Type of Change

  • fix: Bug fix
  • feat: New feature
  • refactor: Code refactoring
  • docs: Documentation
  • test: Tests
  • chore: Maintenance/tooling
  • ci: CI/CD changes

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  • Ran yarn install --mode=update-lockfile and committed the yarn.lock change. Not applicable; dependencies and package.json are unchanged.

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  • If it ships a new script path, added it to the publish surface allowlist (tests/scripts/npm-publish-surface.test.js)
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  • Full gauntlet passes locally (npm test)

No component was added; this section is otherwise not applicable.

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  • Updated relevant documentation
  • Added comments for complex logic
  • README updated (not needed)

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📝 Walkthrough

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved exemption pattern matching across POSIX, Windows, and UNC paths.
    • Prevented relative patterns from matching similarly named files outside the active project.
    • Added support for anchored paths, recursive **/ patterns, and segment-scoped ? wildcards.
    • Ensured multi-file edits are denied when any file falls outside the project.
  • Documentation

    • Updated exemption-pattern guidance and examples to reflect the revised matching behavior.

Walkthrough

The hook now matches exemption globs against normalized, project-scoped paths. It supports POSIX, Windows, and UNC paths, anchors wildcard matching, distinguishes absolute globs, updates documentation, and adds broad path and MultiEdit test coverage.

Changes

Exemption glob matching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Path and glob normalization
scripts/hooks/gateguard-fact-force.js
The hook detects absolute path formats, normalizes separators and case, and compiles anchored globs with segment-scoped wildcards.
Project-scoped exemption evaluation
scripts/hooks/gateguard-fact-force.js
Absolute globs match absolute paths. Relative globs match only paths contained in the active project directory.
Documented semantics and validation
skills/gateguard/SKILL.md, tests/hooks/gateguard-fact-force.test.js
Documentation and tests cover relative and absolute matching, traversal, sibling projects, platform paths, wildcards, and MultiEdit behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bf078

Exemption patterns with an internal globstar may fail to match valid direct-child paths, causing configured exemptions to be skipped. Merge should wait for the matching logic and direct-child coverage to be corrected or explicitly accepted by the owner.

Suggested reviewers: affaan-m, dajiaohuang

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 10.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 2 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: scoping GATEGUARD exemption globs to the active project.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the exemption-glob scoping fix, preserved absolute-path support, affected tooling, and validation performed.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #2921 by scoping relative globs to the active project, anchoring matches, normalizing case, preserving absolute globs, and covering Edit, Write, and MultiEdit gating without …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within issue #2921. Code, documentation, and tests directly support exemption-glob matching and project-boundary behavior, with no unrelated changes identified.
Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

The changes satisfy issue #2921 by scoping relative globs to the active project, anchoring matches, normalizing case, preserving absolute globs, and covering Edit, Write, and MultiEdit gating without changing Bash behavior.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 10.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 2 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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- Line 134: Update the globstar-to-regex compilation near the pattern join so
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services/api.js and deeper paths such as services/foo/api.js; add coverage for
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Match zero-depth internal globstars.

services/**/api.js compiles to ^services/.*/api\.js$. It does not match services/api.js because the generated expression requires the second /. Compile internal /**/ as zero or more complete segments, such as /(?:[^/]+/)*, and add direct-child and nested-child coverage.

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In `@scripts/hooks/gateguard-fact-force.js` at line 134, Update the
globstar-to-regex compilation near the pattern join so internal /**/ matches
zero or more complete path segments, allowing both services/api.js and deeper
paths such as services/foo/api.js; add coverage for direct-child and
nested-child cases.

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Greptile Summary

GateGuard now evaluates relative exemption globs against the active project directory and retains support for explicit absolute globs. Production-hook checks confirmed that intended project-relative and absolute paths are exempted, while sibling-project, prefix-boundary, traversal, and suffix paths remain gated. The focused GateGuard test suite completed with 176 passing tests and no failures.

Confidence Score: 5/5

Safe to merge based on exercised path-exemption behavior and the passing focused hook suite.

No publishable defects remain after production-runner checks disproved the examined project-boundary and path-normalization failure hypotheses.

Files Needing Attention: No files require additional attention; the reviewed hook, focused tests, and documentation are consistent.

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  • I ran the GateGuard exemption end-to-end test script before configuration and observed that with no exemptions, all seven representative Write requests were denied.
  • I configured exemptions and re-ran the end-to-end test; only the intended relative and absolute matches were allowed while boundary-path normalization escape attempts remained denied.
  • I executed the exact A/B end-to-end command sequence for the GateGuard exemption checks and confirmed the same baseline and post-configuration outcomes as the general run.
  • I ran the focused GateGuard hook suite (tests/hooks/gateguard-fact-force.test.js) and it completed successfully with exit code 0 and 176 passing tests.

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