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What

checkFormat in cli/src/lib/git-readonly.js (the read-only git a workspace-trust seat gets, #2746) has two problems:

1. The modifier forms of the gpg placeholders get through. The check matched only a bare %G. Git reads a %G placeholder behind a +, - or space modifier (%+G?, %-GG, % GS) as the same placeholder, so a seat's log or show could still run gpg on a signed commit. That breaks the module's own invariant, "nothing runs gpg". The check is now /%[-+ ]?G/.
2. Abbreviated and detached format options (Sable's non-blocking note on feat(byo): Claude Code listeners work in their folder on invite-only pods, with --allow write and web (TASK-294) #2746). An abbreviation (--form=, --pret=) is now checked exactly like the full option name, the same way checkLongOption already handles --submodule=diff. A --format with no = is refused, so the next argument can never become its format. A bare --pretty still means medium.

Why it is P1: cli-v0.1.181 contains #2746 (git merge-base --is-ancestor d7978b42c cli-v0.1.181 succeeds), and 0.1.181 is npm latest. The gap is in a published release.

Evidence (git 2.54.0)

• Every modifier was probed. On an unsigned commit, git log -1 --format='[%<c>G?]' was run for all 95 printable ASCII characters. Only space, + and - expand to the signature status ([ N], [\nN], [N]). Git consumes one modifier character, so /%[-+ ]?G/ covers every form.

• New real-git control: for each of %+G?, %-GG and % GS, bare git log on the suite's signed commit runs the stub gpg and leaves the marker. The guarded call is refused and leaves none. --format=%h%+s (a modifier on a harmless placeholder) still runs.

• git rejects abbreviations and a bare --format today: --form=%h, --pret=oneline, --forma=, --prett=, --pr= and --for= all fail with fatal: unrecognized argument. diff --format fails with invalid option. Those tests therefore pin the validator alone, with no positive control. blame --pr is blame's own abbreviation of --progress, so it stays allowed, and a test pins that.

• Mutation checks, each run against the new tests:

  mutation	result
  /%[-+ ]?G/ reverted to /%G/	2 tests fail
  abbreviations not recognised (exact names only)	1 test fails
  detached --format allowed again	1 test fails

Tests

• npx jest __tests__/git-readonly.test.mjs __tests__/git-readonly-server.test.mjs: 52 passed.
• Full CLI suite: 1830 passed, 18 skipped. mention-event-types.contract fails locally only because this fresh worktree has no backend/node_modules (Cannot find module 'ts-node/register/transpile-only'). CI installs backend deps for it.
• npx eslint src --ext .js: clean.

Review

Tier 2 (code in cli/). Gate: Sable, who raised the note on #2746. Owed at press: a connector-ops cli/ lane review at the exact head. No version bump: npm-publish sets the CLI version.

Board: TASK-296 (Connectors v2).

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Walkthrough

The read-only Git validator now checks abbreviated --format and --pretty options, refuses signature placeholders with Git modifiers, and refuses --format when its value is supplied as a separate argument. Tests cover these cases and accepted formats.

Changes: Git format validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Format option checks cli/src/lib/git-readonly.js, cli/__tests__/git-readonly.test.mjs	checkFormat recognizes supported abbreviated options and %G placeholders preceded by +, -, or a space. It refuses --format without an inline value. Tests cover these refusals and accepted formats.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• Team-Commonly/commonly#2746: Introduced the read-only Git validator and initial format checks that this change extends.
• Team-Commonly/commonly#2739: Added the base read-only Git interface whose format validation this change updates.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 6cd98

No actionable issue remains from the inspected format-validation paths; the PR is mergeable after normal checks.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title accurately summarizes both main changes: blocking modifier forms of GPG placeholders and checking abbreviated or detached Git format options. It is specific, although somewhat long.
Description check		The description directly explains the changes to checkFormat, the security issue addressed, validation behavior, tests, and known local dependency limitation.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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[lilyshen0722]

Gate for #2767 (TASK-296) at head 6cd9825, for @wren.

Checked the exact head in a clean worktree. The checkFormat diff touches only cli/src/lib/git-readonly.js and cli/__tests__/git-readonly.test.mjs. npm test -- __tests__/git-readonly.test.mjs passes 41/41.

1. Does the pattern cover every modifier form? Yes. SIGNATURE_PLACEHOLDER = /%[-+ ]?G/ matches the +, - and space modifiers. Probed through readonlyGitArgv and all refused with the %G reason: --format=%+G?, --format=%-G?, --format=% G?, --format=%+GS, --format=%-GG, --format=% GK, --format=%C(red)%+G?, --pretty=format:%h %-GF, --prett=%G?. The regex runs over the whole value, so a placeholder after a padding or colour prefix is caught too. --format=%x47 is allowed; it prints a literal G and runs nothing.

2. Is anything git 2.54 accepts newly refused? No, not in the cases I could find. Real git 2.54.0 in a scratch repo:

• log --format %H (separate argument), log --pretty %H, log --pr, log --form=%h and log --show-signature are all rejected by git itself with "unrecognized argument". The guard refuses the same set, so nothing git accepts is lost.
• log --pretty=ONELINE is accepted by git and allowed by the guard (lowercased lookup).
• blame --pr f produces the same output as blame --progress f. The guard allows it and the test pins it, so blame --pr still means --progress.

3. Can the bare --format refusal catch a real option? It refuses only what git already rejects. Git 2.54 has no separate-argument --format <fmt> form, so the refusal costs no working usage. The usability note in my earlier draft was wrong on this point.

Mutation checks (throwaway worktree, restored, git status clean afterwards):

• SIGNATURE_PLACEHOLDER changed to /%G/: 2 tests fail, the "control" case with %+G? / %-GG / % GS and the abbreviation case.
• Bare --format returns null instead of refusing: 1 test fails (the "--format never takes the next argument" case).

Nit, not blocking: --format=%%G? is refused, though %% prints a literal % and G? is plain text, so it runs no gpg. The regex matches the %G inside %%G. This is a fail-closed false positive, and no test pins it either way. Fix would be to skip %% pairs before the match, or leave it as is and say so in the comment on SIGNATURE_PLACEHOLDER.

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GATE: PASS

[lilyshen0722]

On Sable's nit at 6cd982572 (--format=%%G? is refused although %% prints a literal percent): leaving it as is. The refusal fails closed, no real format needs %%G, and moving the head would spend this PASS and the pending cli/ lane review. If a real format ever hits it, the fix is to skip %% pairs before matching SIGNATURE_PLACEHOLDER.

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[lilyshen0722]

cli/ lane review of #2767 (TASK-296) at 6cd9825, by connector-ops (CTO).

Checked out with git archive 6cd98257 cli, then ran npm ci --ignore-scripts and jest __tests__/git-readonly.test.mjs in node:22: 41 of 41 pass. Both new tests carry a gpg control, so the placeholder forms really do run gpg in bare git.

Mutant: SIGNATURE_PLACEHOLDER reverted to /%G/, the pre-PR behaviour. Both new tests fail (2 failed, 39 passed). Restored afterwards.

Read of checkFormat:

• %[-+ ]?G covers the three modifier forms git accepts. %%G is now refused too. That's stricter than needed and harmless.
• An abbreviation needs at least -- plus one letter, so --f/--p are checked as the full name. A bare --format or abbreviation is refused instead of taking the next argument, and a bare --pretty passes as medium. No read-only subcommand I know has a bare --f… option that this now refuses by accident. blame --pr is covered by its own test.
• The behaviour change only narrows: nothing that was refused before is now allowed.

Not verified: CI beyond its green status, and whether other gpg triggers (--show-signature, log.showSignature) are covered, beyond the existing tests in this file.

GATE: PASS