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Reviewed exact head 3f47d7e8048a5e9223d758d815aad0ba884319fa.
Third-party integration gate: clear. This PR changes only the existing internal/tools implementation/tests and adds no module, SDK, service, provider, plugin, vendored code, remote asset, or dependency.
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[Medium] Keep the full-file observation after transparent encoding preservation
modelKnownContent is captured before preserveWriteFileEncoding, but the equality gate at internal/tools/write_file.go:128 compares it with the byte-restored content. Therefore every CRLF- or BOM-preserving overwrite takes the unequal branch even when format-on-write is disabled or is a no-op. FileTracker.Record has already cleared the old observation at line 127, and line 129 does not restore it. The next write_file overwrite (and similarly a subsequent edit into the file) is refused as “not read in this session,” although Zero just received and wrote the complete replacement.
I reproduced this on the PR head with a tracked two-line CRLF file: mark it fully seen, overwrite it with LF-normalized model content, then assert tracker.SeenWhole(path) and perform a second overwrite. The assertion fails immediately; without that assertion, the second overwrite is blocked by the unseen-file guard.
Please distinguish the deterministic encoding restoration from an external formatter rewrite. For example, retain the post-preservation bytes as the model-equivalent write baseline, compare the formatter result against that value, and restore whole-file coverage when only the transparent BOM/EOL transformation occurred. Add a regression covering two successive tracked writes (or write followed by edit) for CRLF and BOM+CRLF.
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- New byte-preservation tests: pass
go test ./internal/tools -count=1: pass without the generated reproducer- Focused
go test -race: pass go vet ./internal/tools: passgofmt -dandgit diff --check: clean- Generated FileTracker lifecycle regression: fail as described above
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In `@internal/tools/write_file.go`:
- Around line 101-104: Update the existing-file handling around os.ReadFile in
the write flow to return the read error instead of proceeding when reading
absolutePath fails. Preserve assigning priorBytes and priorContent only on
successful reads, and ensure the subsequent write cannot bypass
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[P1] Rebase onto current
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internal/tools/write_file.go:101
This branch forked from27b319ca, while livemainis1b5db176and now includes 13 changed files across active MCP/OAuth and TUI work. The current merge is mechanically clean, but the repository treats a stale base as a blocker: it can conceal integration regressions and leaves the review evidence tied to an outdated target.Rebase this branch onto the current
main, preserve the intended encoding-restoration behavior when resolving any future overlap inwrite_file, then rerun the focusedinternal/toolstests plus the required project validation on the rebased head. This keeps the change scoped to the approved encoding fix while establishing a reviewable, current integration point.
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[P2] Fail closed when an existing file cannot be read
internal/tools/write_file.go:101
The overwrite path establishes that the target exists, but treats the subsequentos.ReadFileerror as if there were no prior bytes.priorBytesremains nil, sopreserveWriteFileEncodingis skipped andos.WriteFilestill replaces the file. A write-only existing CRLF/BOM file can therefore be overwritten successfully with the model’s normalized bytes, losing its original EOL convention and BOM—the exact transformation this change is intended to avoid.The root cause is that capturing the existing bytes is both the source for the preview and a prerequisite for safe encoding restoration, yet the code makes that capture optional after it has committed to the existing-file overwrite path. Please make an unsuccessful prior-byte read a fail-closed write error before
os.WriteFile(and add a regression for a writable-but-unreadable existing target). That preserves the new-file pass-through behavior while ensuring an existing file is never silently overwritten through the unpreserved fallback.
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Addressed in f33ec58. Confirmed reachable. The tracked-file guard above only re-reads when Fix. Once the overwrite path has committed to an existing target, capturing its bytes is no longer optional — they are both the diff source and the only evidence of the convention to restore. A failed read is now a write error before if existed {
prev, rerr := os.ReadFile(absolutePath)
if rerr != nil {
return errorResult("Error writing file " + relativePath + ": cannot read the existing file to preserve its line endings and BOM: " + rerr.Error())
}
priorContent = string(prev)
content = preserveWriteFileEncoding(prev, content)
}New-file pass-through is unchanged ( Regression. Since
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- [P1] Get the Windows check green before merge
internal/tools/exec_command_test.go:378
The current head is mergeable but GitHub reports the Windows smoke job failed, leaving the check suite blocked. The retained log shows the failure is the unchanged timing-sensitiveTestExecCommandForegroundServerReturnsSessionAndServesHTTPnot observing its listening address before the deadline, rather than one of this PR's new encoding tests, so this looks unrelated to the diff; please rerun the required job and investigate only if it reproduces. The Ubuntu, macOS, performance, security, and review jobs are green.
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[P2] Add an explicit encoding-intent path instead of inferring solely from bytes
internal/tools/write_file.go:168
The current helper has only the existing bytes and the submittedcontent. That is insufficient to distinguish the two cases this tool must support: normalized line-moderead_fileoutput omits the BOM and changes CRLF to LF, but a caller intentionally removing a BOM or converting CRLF to LF submits the same byte shape. The helper resolves that ambiguity by always restoring the old BOM and CRLF convention. As a result, an empty full-file replacement of a BOM file leaves the three BOM bytes on disk, and an exact LF replacement of a CRLF file reports success while writing CRLF. Both operations worked onmain, and both contradict the approved issue's requirement to preserve these features “unless the caller explicitly changes them.”Please address the ambiguity at the API/intent boundary rather than adding more content heuristics. Provide an unambiguous overwrite intent—whether through a narrowly scoped option or another explicit signal—that lets the caller independently request the BOM and line-ending outcome. Default behavior must continue to preserve an existing BOM and dominant EOL convention for ordinary normalized
read_fileround trips. The implementation should support at least these independent outcomes without guessing:- preserve both BOM and EOL convention by default;
- remove a BOM while preserving the existing EOL convention;
- convert CRLF to LF while preserving the existing BOM choice;
- explicitly add a BOM or convert LF to CRLF, which the current patch already supports;
- write an actually empty file when empty content and explicit BOM removal are requested.
Keep the fix bounded to encoding intent. Do not change new-file byte passthrough, the fail-closed unreadable-target behavior, conflict detection, tracker observation semantics, mixed-ending normalization, or the existing opt-in formatter precedence. Add table-driven byte assertions for the default and explicit cases above, including the combined BOM+CRLF case, and verify two successive tracked writes so an override does not regress the already-fixed observation lifecycle.
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There is one code finding on the current head. The earlier whole-file-observation and unreadable-existing-target requests are addressed. The repeated review rounds came from treating each downstream symptom separately while the producer contract remained ambiguous: read_file intentionally exposes a normalized view, whereas write_file also promises a full-file replacement. Once the exact same LF/no-BOM payload can mean either “round-trip the normalized view” or “change the encoding,” no byte-counting rule can recover intent reliably.
Please define that precedence once at the tool boundary and encode it in a compact behavior table before changing the transformation helper. A useful invariant is: explicit encoding intent wins; otherwise existing-file overwrites preserve the hidden convention; new files retain caller bytes; formatter behavior remains governed by the existing format-on-write contract. Testing that matrix end to end—from arguments through persisted bytes and tracker state—should close the remaining gap without expanding this PR into formatter, atomic-write, or broader file-tool redesign work.
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PierrunoYT addressed the remaining encoding-intent request in 2a9174d. Published head 04c4bd2 includes current upstream main and preserves the previous remote head's ancestry; the push was fast-forward, not forced. The ancestry-preserving merge has exactly the same tree as the validated implementation.
The end-to-end byte matrix covers default BOM+CRLF preservation, BOM removal while keeping CRLF, LF conversion with/without BOM, BOM addition, CRLF conversion, combined overrides, and genuinely empty output with explicit BOM removal. Every matrix case verifies two successive tracked writes and whole-file observation. Invalid options are rejected without changing the target. Regression proof: running the new tests with the pre-fix implementation via Go's Local verification: All seven current-head checks are now green: native Windows, macOS, Ubuntu, performance, security/code health, CodeRabbit, and Zero Review. Fresh CI run: the Windows test/build/smoke job passed, clearing the previous foreground-server timeout blocker. No PR merge performed. The new CodeRabbit nitpick about |
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internal/specialist/resume_model_test.go (1)
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ParentReasoningEffortat therunResumecall path.This test verifies
ParentModelpropagation only. AddParentReasoningEffortand assert the captured child arguments contain--reasoning-effort. The direct builder test cannot detect removal of the new forwarding assignment inrunResume.Proposed test extension
}, TaskRunOptions{ - ParentSessionID: parent.SessionID, - ParentModel: "claude-opus-4.1", + ParentSessionID: parent.SessionID, + ParentModel: "claude-opus-4.1", + ParentReasoningEffort: "high", }); err != nil { t.Fatalf("Run(resume): %v", err) } ... + effort, ok := argValue(captured, "--reasoning-effort") + if !ok || effort != "high" { + t.Fatalf("the resumed child was launched with --reasoning-effort %q (present=%t), want the parent's", effort, ok) + }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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187-190: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPreserve the existing no-BOM state in
bom: auto.If the existing file has no BOM and
contentstarts withutf8BOM, this branch leaves the BOM in the output. The overwrite then changes a no-BOM file without an explicitbom: addoverride. Remove a leading BOM whenbom == "auto"and the existing file has no BOM. Add a regression test for this case.Proposed fix
+ existingHasBOM := bytes.HasPrefix(existing, utf8BOM) - if bom == "remove" { + if bom == "remove" || (bom == "auto" && !existingHasBOM) { updated = bytes.TrimPrefix(updated, utf8BOM) - } else if (bom == "add" || bytes.HasPrefix(existing, utf8BOM)) && !bytes.HasPrefix(updated, utf8BOM) { + } else if (bom == "add" || existingHasBOM) && !bytes.HasPrefix(updated, utf8BOM) {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 187-190: Update the BOM handling around the bom option so bom ==
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The overwrite path proves the target exists, then treated a failed os.ReadFile as if there were no prior bytes: priorBytes stayed nil, preserveWriteFileEncoding was skipped, and os.WriteFile replaced the file anyway. A write-only existing CRLF/BOM file was therefore overwritten successfully with the model's normalized bytes, losing the exact convention this change exists to preserve. Those prior bytes are both the diff source and the only evidence of the encoding to restore, so capturing them can no longer be optional once we are on the existing-file path. An unreadable existing target is now a write error before os.WriteFile; a fresh create still passes the caller's bytes through untouched. The regression covers a writable-but-unreadable target on both shapes of platform: chmod 0o200 elsewhere, and a protected owner-only DACL without FILE_READ_DATA on Windows, which has no chmod to express it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01REzorhNj3F1DGPXyn5Uq7j Co-authored-by: Pierre Bruno <pierrebruno@hotmail.ch>
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In `@internal/tools/write_file.go`:
- Around line 241-244: In the line-ending conversion flow around updated,
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
Merge readiness
- [P3] Align stale fail-closed comment in unreadable-target test helper
internal/tools/write_file_unreadable_other_test.go:10
The helper comment still describes a pre-PR shape where an overwrite could succeed without reading prior bytes. Currentwrite_filefail-closed behavior andTestWriteFileToolFailsClosedWhenExistingTargetIsUnreadableassert the opposite. Update the comment so test infrastructure matches the encoding-preservation contract (no production change required).
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- [P2] Restore whole-file observation when format-on-write follows transparent encoding preservation
Attribution: PR-introduced. Merge-base overwrites wrote the model’s LF payload, somodelKnownContentstill matched post-gofmtbytes andRecordSeenRangeran. This PR correctly setsmodelEquivalentContentafterpreserveWriteFileEncoding, but the post-format equality gate atinternal/tools/write_file.go:171compares that CRLF/BOM-restored string to formatter output; whenZERO_FORMAT_ON_WRITE=1, formatters such asgofmtnormalize line endings back to LF, the comparison fails, andSeenWholeis cleared even though the model already performed a whole-fileread_fileand the on-disk text matches the submitted content.
Stated contract: prior review required restoring whole-file coverage for transparent BOM/EOL restoration and successive tracked overwrites; regressions assert"transparent encoding preservation discarded the whole-file observation"/"encoding intent discarded whole-file observation"with formatter disabled (TestWriteFileToolEncodingPreservationKeepsWholeFileObservation,TestWriteFileToolExplicitEncodingIntent).
Root cause: theRecordSeenRangegate treats formatter line-ending normalization as a non-transparent change relative tomodelEquivalentContent, but the model’s preimage is the pre-preservecontentargument (LF fromread_file). Preservation plus optional formatting is one logical overwrite, not grounds to mark the file unseen.
What fails: withZERO_FORMAT_ON_WRITEenabled, a tracked CRLF or BOM+CRLF file can be read whole, overwritten with normalized model text, succeed, and still block the next overwrite with the unseen-file guard until another exact read — a regression that does not occur on merge-base for the same inputs.
In this PR (must close together):write_file.gopost-formatRecordSeenRangegate (~171–172) — must recognize encoding-preserving overwrites that survive optional format-on-write- regression test covering CRLF (and ideally BOM+CRLF) with
ZERO_FORMAT_ON_WRITE=1, whole-fileread_file, overwrite, and a second overwrite without an intervening read
Unchanged on main (do not edit in this PR): formatter command table, env toggle semantics, andmaybeFormatWrittenFileScopedordering (encoding still runs before formatting).
Required correction: extend the seen-range decision so opt-in formatting cannot dropSeenWholewhen the final formatted bytes match the model-supplied overwrite content (or an equivalent line-normalized comparison), while keeping the existing gate for genuine formatter edits. Add the regression above.
Author fix: close the Root cause on every in-diff row in one pass; do not patch only the equality check without the formatter-enabled regression.
Out of scope: disabling format-on-write, moving formatting before encoding preservation, or changing unrelated tools.
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First review from me, at e0c8647f, driven on Windows through the real tool.
The core of it is right, and it is the version I would keep of the two PRs on this. Counting both endings over the whole file and taking the dominant one is the correct rule, and it holds where a window-based scan does not: a file that is CRLF throughout but whose first CRLF sits past byte 4096 is still recognised here. BOM preservation, the explicit bom and line_endings overrides, and failing closed when the existing file cannot be read all behave as described:
prior asked this head main
CRLF LF CRLF LF
BOM + CRLF LF BOM + CRLF LF
1 CRLF, 3 LF (mixed) LF LF LF
3 CRLF, 1 LF (mixed) LF CRLF LF
CRLF only, first at 5000 LF CRLF LF
CRLF, line_endings=lf LF LF LF
BOM, bom=remove LF no BOM no BOM
What blocks it is @jatmn's open P2, and it is worse than the seen-range half. With ZERO_FORMAT_ON_WRITE=1 the preservation does not survive to disk at all. gofmt normalizes endings, it runs after preserveWriteFileEncoding, and it is the last writer, so a CRLF Go file comes out LF anyway. Then the comparison against modelEquivalentContent fails and the file is marked unseen. A tracked CRLF file, read whole, overwritten, then overwritten again:
first write CRLF kept? second write
main ok n/a ok
this head, format off ok yes ok
this head, format on ok NO refused, not read exactly in this session
So with formatting enabled the user gets the same LF file they got before, plus a session that now refuses the next write. The refusal is a regression against main; the silent loss is the feature not happening. Patching only the equality gate would leave the second half: the bytes on disk are still LF while the tool reports it preserved them.
I think that says the transformation is in the wrong place rather than that the comparison is wrong. Preservation has to be the last thing that touches the bytes, so it needs to re-apply to the formatter's output rather than run before it. That also makes the seen-range question disappear, because the published bytes are then the preserved form of exactly what the model sent.
Two notes, neither blocking.
Lone CRs inside the content are converted for every existing-file overwrite, and line_endings: "lf" does not opt out of it, because the \r to \n replacement runs before the branch that reads the option. col1\rcol2\n lands as col1\ncol2\n on every setting. main writes it through. I could find only one file in this repository with a lone CR and it is a PNG, so I am not treating it as a real loss, but an explicit lf that still rewrites a byte the caller asked to keep is worth one line to fix.
A binary prior file with CRLF-dominant bytes converts the incoming content's endings too; #1064 skips that case on a NUL check. Since the file is being replaced with text anyway I do not think it matters, and I would not add the check just for symmetry. Mentioning it so the difference between the two PRs is on the record rather than assumed to be a gap.
CI is 9 of 9 at head, and the tools package passes natively here. I have not reviewed the test files line by line; the behaviour above is all driven through write_file itself.
On the overlap with #1064: I agree with @gnanam1990 that this is the one to finish. I have said the same on that PR.
With ZERO_FORMAT_ON_WRITE=1 the formatter ran after encoding preservation and was the last writer, so gofmt turned a preserved CRLF file back to LF and dropped its BOM. The result then no longer matched the model-equivalent content, so the whole-file observation was cleared and the next overwrite was refused as unread. Split preservation into a decision made once from the prior bytes and the model's content, and an idempotent apply. The apply now also runs on the formatter's output and publishes any difference through the guarded commit, so preservation is the last transformation. A formatter that only normalizes endings keeps the observation; one that really edits the content still clears it. Also align the unreadable-target test helper comment with the fail-closed overwrite behaviour. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Re-reviewed at 56983740. The encoding is now decided once and put back on the formatter's output through the same guarded commit, which is what I was after. With ZERO_FORMAT_ON_WRITE=1 and gofmt here, a CRLF file read whole and overwritten twice keeps CRLF both times and stays seen, with and without a BOM, and a formatter that really changes the content keeps the encoding and still asks for a read. Taking the re-apply out fails both new tests, with the endings and the BOM back to what gofmt wrote.
The lone CR note from last time still applies (apply turns a lone \r into a line break under every setting), and it's still not blocking.
internal/tools passes here and CI is 9/9 at head. Approving.
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🟢 Thanks for the contribution. I do not see any actionable code issues from my review on head 56983740592b3836188052e7d633a90eef53bf3e.
Needs maintainer decision
- Format-on-write + unverified post-format read — If the formatter mutates the file in place but the scoped re-read fails,
maybeFormatWrittenFileScopedsetsContentKnown: falseand callers historically still return OK while omitting exact diff evidence (TestWriteFileOmitsRichDiffWhenFormatterFinalReadFails). This PR re-applies encoding only when content is verified (existed && finalContentKnown), which matches the tested success path (TestWriteFileToolEncodingPreservationSurvivesFormatOnWrite). Tightening that to always re-apply CRLF/BOM or fail closed on unverified format would change the existing format-on-write contract; that is out of scope for #967 unless maintainers want it explicitly.
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(No verified PR-owned code defects on current head after drift check against issue #967, in-diff tests, and format-on-write semantics on main.)
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Fail-closed where it matters (an unreadable preimage fails the write, tested with a real write-only DACL on Windows), BOM and CRLF preserved byte-exactly, and the formatter output gets the convention re-imposed through the same guarded commit. One pre-existing edge worth an issue: a UTF-16 file would come back UTF-8 since the BOM check is UTF-8-only. Sequencing note: collides with #941 and #685 in the same files.
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Summary
write_fileoverwrites normalized contentBefore the fix, the regression rewrote CRLF as LF and removed the BOM.
Fixes #967
Verification
go test ./internal/tools -count=1make fmt-checkgo build ./...go vet ./...go test ./...go run ./cmd/zero-release buildgo run ./cmd/zero-release smokemake lint-staticmake vulncheckgit diff HEAD --checkSummary by CodeRabbit
New Features
auto,add, orremove) and line-ending options (auto,lf, orcrlf).Bug Fixes
Tests