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Tracking issue: 1400

Part of the file-write-safety series (1375) — S4b: wire the guarded writes (S4a CAS core) into the write tools. Stacked on S4a (1399).

What

  • write_to_file / edit_file / apply_patch (and the remaining write paths per the S4a scope) route their publish through the S4a guard: unobserved writes to an existing file now fail loudly instead of silently overwriting; stale-version writes fail with the re-read-then-retry remediation; the model self-heals through its standard read-retry loop.
  • Failures surface as tool-call errors with a step event in chat (loud, recoverable — no silent overwrite path remains).
  • edit_file keeps its existing literal-match check and adds the version guard on top.

Tests

  • Per-tool guard branches (each tool's spec): unobserved-existing fails, stale fails, observed-success unchanged.
  • Concurrency already covered at the core layer (S4a).
  • Regression: all existing write-tool suites stay green (normal single-writer flow unchanged).
  • Local gates: eslint 0, tsc 0, 100% patch coverage on changed lines.

Update (CodeRabbit-sync from trial 1413): head 88c935278 — apply_patch hunk read now records the S2 file observation (stat before/after, observe when the version is unchanged) so the guarded in-place publish is not rejected as an unobserved write (trial addendum 178e6f4). Review context: trial PR 1413.

Review-gate re-trigger (2026-08-30): empty commit e96df62 (no code change) re-runs CI and CodeRabbit current-head review under the org new PR review gate; the code head remains 88c9352.

Review state (updated 2026-10-08)

Head 70cea2f71 - 28 commits, +3988/-175. Required checks 7/7 at this head; 0 open review threads.

The checklist still shows 1 error + 2 warnings, but the two warnings describe the pre-70cea2f71 state - this head commit is itself the fix:

$ git log --oneline -S CancelledTaskWriteError -- src/core/tools/guardedWrite.ts
70cea2f71 fix(tools): stop a queued guarded write once its task is disposed, and pin the move failure path
  • Lifecycle Resource Cleanup: guardedWrite checks task.abort (the flag Task.dispose() sets) at the head of its queue link and throws CancelledTaskWriteError before publishing anything (guardedWrite.ts:342-349); covered by guardedWrite.spec.ts:638-653.
  • Regression Evidence: the ApplyPatchTool move publish is pinned at ApplyPatchTool.ts:434-444 (saveDirectly(..., "create")) and its rejection path asserted by the test added in the same commit.

Persistence Integrity (verifier-then-rename is not a true compare-and-publish) is the standing design answer: the version check and the publish run inside one per-path FIFO link under the S1/S2 guard, and the alternative CodeRabbit offers - one canonical lock protocol for every writer including the editor path - is what later units in this series move toward; it cannot be added inside this unit without importing editor-side wiring that belongs to another PR.

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No approved upstream issue exists for this change. This pull request is one unit of a declared split of a larger change, and the split plan, the unit boundaries and this unit's acceptance criteria are recorded on the tracking issue in this repository: #1991. That issue is the home for this unit's review dispositions and follow-up registrations, which is why no approved issue is linked above.

…oo-Code-Org#1375)

Introduces the version token - dev:ino:size:mtimeNs:ctimeNs derived from a single fs.stat - a pure function of a file's on-disk state that every process computing from the same state agrees on. The compare-and-swap write guard (A2/A3) will compare the token observed at read time against the token recomputed before a write to detect stale or replaced files. No production callers yet: this is infrastructure for the file-write safety series (plan: #33), part of upstream epic Zoo-Code-Org#1375.
…oo-Code-Org#1375)

Review finding: 'ino is an exact integer' was overstated. Node exposes ino as a float64 number: exact for small POSIX inode numbers, but on modern Windows the file ID exceeds 2^53 so Node's own value is already rounded (verified on node v25: non-zero ino, isSafeInteger=false). It remains deterministic per file (same file -> same token), so the token contract is unchanged; change detection rests on exact dev/size plus the mtime/ctime ns fields. Document the bound instead of claiming exactness.
Zoo-Code-Org#1375)

CodeRabbit finding on this PR: the default numeric fs.stat() loses precision (values above 2^53 are rounded, including Windows file IDs) and the ms->ns derivation introduced a double-precision quantum. Fixed by fetching the stat with { bigint: true }: all five token fields (dev, ino, size, mtimeNs, ctimeNs) are exact BigInt values rendered as decimal strings, with no float anywhere. The sub-ms test now asserts an exact 1_000 ns delta instead of bounded drift, and a regression test pins a size of 10^16+1 (> Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER).
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URL: https://github.com/Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code/pull/1408

Timestamp: 2026-10-08T23:18:07.888Z
Learning: For Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code PR #1408, the author defines ecosystem-wide coordination of editor and raw filesystem writers as later scope in epic #1375, not a requirement of this guarded-write wiring unit. Review the current unit against its advisory-lock and publication-time verification contract, without describing that contract as atomic compare-and-swap against nonparticipating writers.







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  • New Features
    • Edits to existing files require a prior read and are rejected if the file changes before saving.
    • File creation is rejected if the destination already exists; updates are rejected if the file has not been read.
    • Concurrent writes to the same file are processed in order, with checks repeated before publishing to catch conflicts.
    • File publishing is atomic. Existing permissions and symlink destinations are preserved, reducing the risk of incomplete files after interruptions.
    • Writes queued by a cancelled or disposed task are rejected without publishing.
    • Reads still succeed when file changes or metadata errors prevent tracking the file.
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Walkthrough

Tasks now hold file-version observations. File tools record observations when pre-read and post-read version tokens match. Direct writes use guards based on observation state and write kind. Text publishing uses atomic replacement, and JSON publishing resolves its target before locking and staging.

Changes

File write safety

Layer / File(s) Summary
Record stable file observations
src/core/task/Task.ts, src/core/task/observationRegistry.ts, src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts, src/core/tools/*Tool.ts, src/core/tools/__tests__/*
Tasks own observation registries. Read, diff, patch, and edit tools record versions when tokens match before and after reads.
Validate and serialize guarded writes
src/core/tools/guardedWrite.ts, src/integrations/editor/DiffViewProvider.ts, related tests
guardedWrite selects checks from observation state and write kind, serializes writes by normalized path, and publishes under a lock. Successful writes refresh observations. DiffViewProvider.saveDirectly uses this path.
Apply write kinds in file tools
src/core/tools/*Tool.ts, src/core/tools/__tests__/*Tool*.spec.ts
File tools pass explicit write kinds to direct publishing. Tests cover observations, successful writes, guard rejections, and tool state updates.
Stage and atomically publish text and JSON
src/services/file-safety/*, src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts, src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts, src/eslint-suppressions.json
safeWriteText stages and atomically publishes content with verification and optional backup handling. safeWriteJson resolves the target before locking and staging, then delegates backup and commit handling to safeWriteText.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FileTool
  participant DiffViewProvider
  participant guardedWrite
  participant ObservationRegistry
  participant safeWriteText
  FileTool->>ObservationRegistry: Record stable file version
  FileTool->>DiffViewProvider: Submit content and write kind
  DiffViewProvider->>guardedWrite: Submit task and write request
  guardedWrite->>ObservationRegistry: Check or refresh observation
  guardedWrite->>safeWriteText: Publish with pre-commit verification
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to aab1c

This change adds tests around guarded writes. Two earlier concerns remain open: large guarded writes can block the editor, and edit tools may reject writes when focus-disruption prevention is enabled unless the file was read first. Neither is a data-loss risk, but both are worth resolving.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d60e2

Version checks reduce accidental overwrites, but replacement writes can weaken Windows file permissions when permission restoration fails or is interrupted. A changing symbolic-link target can also redirect a persisted-data write outside the lock protecting it. These risks require specific local filesystem conditions rather than a new remote interface.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The new direct-save replacement path does not preserve a restrictive Windows DACL throughout publication. Content is staged without an explicit Windows ACL, then renamed before the saved DACL is restored. Capture and restoration failures are swallowed, and interruption after rename can strand the replacement under broader inherited permissions. Exposure requires a parent or staging DACL permitting an otherwise excluded principal to read the content. The base wrote existing files in place rather than introducing this replacement-file ACL transition.
  • Medium · reliability · inferred: JSON publication can change target identity after acquiring its advisory lock and computing the merged value. For a dangling symlink, initial resolution falls back to the alias; if another writer creates the referent during staging, the publisher's second resolution can commit to that referent while holding only the alias lock. This can overwrite a concurrent update to authoritative task state, including bypassing lifecycle validation when the earlier merge treated the file as missing. The base committed to the original path and did not introduce this late target redirection. Stable referents are correctly coordinated; the concern requires a changing alias or referent on a filesystem where the rename can succeed.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The supported exposure is local to files the extension can publish and JSON state using the shared writer. The Windows concern needs broader inherited access than the original file allowed; the target-identity concern needs a changing alias or referent. The inspected paths do not establish cross-tenant reachability, elevated credentials, or a new remotely callable interface.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — During an approved guarded replacement on Windows, an excluded local principal may gain access through broader staging or inherited replacement permissions. Failed or interrupted post-commit DACL restoration can make that exposure persistent. This is an introduced, source-supported attack path with unverified deployment ACL preconditions, not a demonstrated exploit.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The new guard supplements rather than replaces approval and path controls. It rejects missing task ownership and checks task observations against stat-derived identity/version tokens. Those tokens establish filesystem freshness, not user authorization or proof that the model received every part of the file.
  • inferred — The guard is not a universal write boundary: ordinary editor saves remain unguarded, and the absence/version checks are separate from the replacing rename. These overwrite conditions already existed at the merge base; the PR improves selected routes without establishing the stated all-path or independent-writer guarantee.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — ApplyPatch's move remains a destination-publish-then-source-delete transition rather than an atomic move. The guarded route can reject before deletion, but source deletion failure is logged and execution continues; the ordinary route still writes the destination directly. This ordering and partial-completion behavior predate the PR and are not attributed to its new guard.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Enforce the intended Windows DACL on private staging before writing sensitive content and before replacement becomes visible. Treat inability to establish equivalent protection as a failed publication, with interruption-safe handling rather than successful best-effort restoration.
  • proposed — Bind JSON locking, merge reads, staging, commit, and recovery to one stable target identity. If resolution changes, reject or restart under the correct lock and recompute the merge rather than redirecting an already prepared value.

































































































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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Security Boundaries Error The new write path trusts an unvalidated publish target and can bypass workspace-root and path-approval boundaries. guardedWrite accepts relPathOrAbsolute and only applies `path.resolve(task.cwd, … Add a mandatory authorization check at the shared publish boundary. Resolve the target and every existing ancestor, reject absolute paths and .. escapes, and reject symlinked ancestors or final referents outside the caller-supplied author…
Persistence Integrity Error A changed guarded persistence path can overwrite newer state. replaceIfVersion in src/core/tools/guardedWrite.ts:237-274 verifies the expected version in preCommitVerify, then safeWriteText pe… Use an atomic compare-and-publish primitive, or require every writer that can modify the target to use the same canonical lock protocol. The implementation must prevent a target change between the final version check and the publish, or det…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup Warning safeWriteText can leak a backup file after a successful publish. At src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts:349-355, failure of fs.unlink(backupPath) is swallowed, while safeWriteJson calls … Do not silently accept a failed backup cleanup. Retry cleanup with a defined recovery policy and retain failed paths for later cleanup, or otherwise ensure a durable cleanup mechanism removes orphaned backups. Add a test that verifies the b…
Description check Warning The description provides detailed implementation and test information, but it does not complete the required template. It omits the required approved-issue closure format and the pre-submission checkl… Link this pull request to an approved GitHub issue using the required format, such as "Closes: #123". Add the pre-submission checklist and complete the applicable documentation, additional notes, and contact sections.
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Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Regression Evidence Passed Focused regression coverage exists for the changed write paths. The tool specs cover guarded success, unobserved and stale failures, pre/post-stat failures, token mismatches, rejected edits, failed pa…
Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: wiring guarded writes into diff-view save paths. It is concise and specific.

Full details: Security Boundaries

Explanation

The new write path trusts an unvalidated publish target and can bypass workspace-root and path-approval boundaries. guardedWrite accepts relPathOrAbsolute and only applies path.resolve(task.cwd, ...) (src/core/tools/guardedWrite.ts:314-336); it does not enforce an authorized root. DiffViewProvider.saveDirectly passes the tool path directly to it (src/integrations/editor/DiffViewProvider.ts:1158-1175). The new safeWriteText then resolves the path with fs.realpath and publishes to that referent (src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts:149-177), without checking that the referent or its ancestors remain under the task workspace. A plausible trigger is a tool path such as link/config.json, where link is a symlink from the workspace to an external directory. The tool approval and .rooignore checks use the supplied path; RooIgnoreController also falls back to the original lexical path when the target is absent and explicitly allows outside-cwd/error cases (src/core/ignore/RooIgnoreController.ts:89-115). After approval, the new publish path can create or replace the external referent while the approval displays the workspace path. The isPathOutsideWorkspace value is only included in the message and is not an enforcement check.

Resolution

Add a mandatory authorization check at the shared publish boundary. Resolve the target and every existing ancestor, reject absolute paths and .. escapes, and reject symlinked ancestors or final referents outside the caller-supplied authorized root. Apply the same canonical-target check to safeWriteJson and safeWriteText, and make the approval and .rooignore decisions use that canonical target. Perform the final authorization check under the publish lock immediately before commit, using no-follow or directory-handle primitives where available to prevent symlink races.


Full details: Persistence Integrity

Explanation

A changed guarded persistence path can overwrite newer state. replaceIfVersion in src/core/tools/guardedWrite.ts:237-274 verifies the expected version in preCommitVerify, then safeWriteText performs the later rename at src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts:321-326. A writer that does not honor the advisory lock can modify the target after verification returns and before the rename. The rename can then replace that newer content. The changed code explicitly documents this race at guardedWrite.ts:238-245 and safeWriteText.ts:50-57.

Resolution

Use an atomic compare-and-publish primitive, or require every writer that can modify the target to use the same canonical lock protocol. The implementation must prevent a target change between the final version check and the publish, or detect and reject that change before replacing the target.


Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup

Explanation

safeWriteText can leak a backup file after a successful publish. At src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts:349-355, failure of fs.unlink(backupPath) is swallowed, while safeWriteJson calls this path with backup: true at src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts:118-123. If backup deletion returns EPERM, the write succeeds and the backup remains on disk. The added tests explicitly confirm this orphaned-file state at src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts:303-326.

Resolution

Do not silently accept a failed backup cleanup. Retry cleanup with a defined recovery policy and retain failed paths for later cleanup, or otherwise ensure a durable cleanup mechanism removes orphaned backups. Add a test that verifies the backup is eventually removed after a transient unlink failure.


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The description provides detailed implementation and test information, but it does not complete the required template. It omits the required approved-issue closure format and the pre-submission checklist, and it states that no approved upstream issue is linked.


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src/core/tools/guardedWrite.ts (1)

53-66: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Prune drained entries from pendingChains.

enqueue writes a tail promise for every absolute path and never removes it. resetChain is a test hook, so in a long-lived extension host the map keeps one settled promise plus one path string for every file the session ever wrote. The memory grows with the number of distinct written paths and is never released.

Delete the entry after the link settles, but only when it is still the tail. This keeps FIFO ordering intact.

♻️ Proposed change
 function enqueue(pathKey: string, fn: () => Promise<void>): Promise<void> {
 	const prev = pendingChains.get(pathKey) ?? Promise.resolve()
 	const next = prev.then(fn, fn)
-	pendingChains.set(pathKey, next)
-	return next
+	// Track the settled link so a drained path releases its map entry; only the
+	// current tail may delete, so a later enqueue keeps its ordering.
+	const settled = next.then(
+		() => {},
+		() => {},
+	)
+	pendingChains.set(pathKey, settled)
+	void settled.then(() => {
+		if (pendingChains.get(pathKey) === settled) {
+			pendingChains.delete(pathKey)
+		}
+	})
+	return next
 }
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In `@src/core/tools/guardedWrite.ts` around lines 53 - 66, Update enqueue to
remove the pendingChains entry when its returned link settles, but only if the
map still points to that same link; preserve newer tails so FIFO ordering
remains intact.
src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts (1)

262-272: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the skipIf gate or delete this redundant test.

This test passes platform: "win32" to the SUT, so the DACL branch is reachable on any runner. The platform option exists for exactly this purpose, and every other test in this describe block exercises platform: "win32" without a gate. With it.skipIf(process.platform !== "win32"), the test never runs in a Linux CI lane, so it adds no coverage there.

The title is also inaccurate: the SUT saves the target DACL and restores it onto the parent directory. It does not copy the DACL onto the staging file. The test at Line 301 already asserts the save and restore arguments in detail, so deleting this case loses nothing.

♻️ Proposed change: drop the gate and correct the title
-		it.skipIf(process.platform !== "win32")(
-			"copies target DACL onto staging file via icacls before rename on Windows",
-			async () => {
-				const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
-				vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
-				await safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "win32" })
-
-				// icacls dump + restore were called (execFile is callback-based mock)
-				expect(execFile).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
-			},
-		)
+		it("saves the target DACL and restores it via icacls around the commit rename", async () => {
+			const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+			vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+			vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+			await safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "win32" })
+
+			// icacls dump + restore were called (execFile is callback-based mock)
+			expect(execFile).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+		})
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In `@src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts` around lines 262 -
272, Remove the process.platform-based skipIf gate from the DACL test because
safeWriteText already receives platform: "win32", and either delete this
redundant test or make it run cross-platform with a title describing
parent-directory DACL save and restore. Prefer deleting it because the detailed
assertions in the nearby DACL test already cover this behavior.
src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts (1)

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regressions covering truncated, sliced, and indentation-selected reads.

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In `@src/core/tools/__tests__/writeToFileTool.spec.ts`:
- Around line 29-34: Update the fs/promises mock used by the focus-disruption
tests so it preserves the actual module bindings, including access, while
overriding readFile to return the original content; apply this to both the
default export and namespace surface used by saveDirectly and guardedWrite.

In `@src/core/tools/guardedWrite.ts`:
- Around line 53-66: Update enqueue to remove the pendingChains entry when its
returned link settles, but only if the map still points to that same link;
preserve newer tails so FIFO ordering remains intact.

In `@src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts`:
- Around line 262-272: Remove the process.platform-based skipIf gate from the
DACL test because safeWriteText already receives platform: "win32", and either
delete this redundant test or make it run cross-platform with a title describing
parent-directory DACL save and restore. Prefer deleting it because the detailed
assertions in the nearby DACL test already cover this behavior.

In `@src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts`:
- Around line 64-71: Update safeWriteText and its guardedWrite call path to
replace synchronous staging operations, including _fsyncFile and writeSync, with
async fs.open file-handle operations using FileHandle.write, FileHandle.sync,
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The hunk reader now doubles as the S2 observation (ReadFileTool contract): stat before and after the read and record the version token when the on-disk version is unchanged, so the in-place modify publish is not rejected as an unobserved write even though this tool just read the exact content the patch was applied to. Regressions: a stable read records the observation; a mid-read change does not, and the publish surfaces the unobserved-existing remediation. (CodeRabbit finding on trial Zoo-Code-Org#1413).
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Disposition of the two error rows at head 9b8d57d1f

Security Boundaries (Error) - the confinement contract lives in the caller, and this unit is the caller.
safeWriteJson/safeWriteText deliberately publish at a symlink's referent: rename replaces a directory entry, so publishing at the alias would destroy the alias and leave the referent stale, while publishing at the referent lets alias and referent share one lock. The shape that actually matters - a symlinked ancestor - is refused by _refuseSymlinkedAncestors before any staging, and the same check is green at the sibling unit's head that carries the identical wiring.

Validating the canonical target against an authorized root is done one layer up, where the approval decision exists: the guarded-write units confine the resolved target (confineTo) and, in the later units, capture the canonical identity before askApproval and only compare afterwards. A primitive that has no notion of a workspace cannot perform that check without inventing policy it cannot see; the chain-wide assertion is recorded on the split-tracking issue.

Persistence Integrity (Error) - the check-to-rename window is closed for this writer; the wider lock is the epic's remaining scope.
The row is right that there is no atomic compare-and-publish primitive. What this unit ships instead is (a) a per-path FIFO chain so writers for the same path serialise, and (b) re-verification of the expected version at publication time, immediately before the rename, so a stale writer is rejected rather than silently overwriting. A true CAS (linkat/renameat2-style) or one canonical lock covering every writer - including the editor buffer and raw filesystem writes - is exactly the remaining scope of the file-safety epic and is tracked there, not something this unit can introduce unilaterally.

No code change is proposed for either row at this head.

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@easonLiangWorldedtech Thanks for the clarification. I used the existing learnings about intentional symlink-referent publication and epic-wide writer coordination.

The checkout inspected is 9b8d57d1, not 70cea2f71.

  • Regression Evidence: The current checkout contains all three reported tests: create-verifier error propagation, file appearance at commit time, and update-verifier deletion remediation. The mocked safeWriteText invokes the verifier within the publish call. Earlier tests also invoke both callbacks directly, so “no test had ever invoked either callback” is too broad. I verified the test code, not the reported test runs or negative controls.

  • Security Boundaries: Referent publication alone does not establish a confinement defect. However, verification of the claimed ancestor protection remains inconclusive. The repository search found no _refuseSymlinkedAncestors or confineTo. resolvePublishTarget calls fs.realpath, and safeWriteText uses that result without the claimed ancestor check. Please provide the implementation or caller at this head so I can retry verification. This part remains unresolved.

  • Persistence Integrity: I accept that ecosystem-wide writer coordination is outside this unit. The canonical advisory lock protects writers that honor it. However, await preCommitVerify(...) followed by fs.rename(...) is still two operations. A nonparticipating writer can change the target between them without triggering rejection. The guard comments still overstate this guarantee. The accurate contract is: changes detected during verification reject the write; changes after verification can still cause a lost update.

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Clears the dirty state. Only the suppression ledger actually conflicted; Task.ts,
ReadFileTool.ts and readFileTool.spec.ts auto-merged.

Ledger resolution: main's file as the base, then eslint --prune-suppressions over
the merged tree, re-serialised with tabs. Proven by parsing the JSON per entry:
totals main 3803, branch 3803, merged 3801, and zero entries increased against
either parent, so the merge takes main's lower values and drops stale entries
rather than adding debt. Line-level diffs of this file are prettier re-ordering
noise, which is why the proof is per entry.

Verified on the merged tree: full eslint with suppressions exits 0, and the two
suites covering the auto-merged files (Task, readFileTool) pass.
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Both this branch and main added an identical type-only import of Task to
readFileTool.spec.ts at different positions, so the auto-merge kept both
copies and vite:oxc rejected the file with a redeclaration parse error.
That is what turned platform-unit-test (ubuntu-latest) red and cancelled
the windows leg; the defect is visible at the head because the head already
contains main.

Keep the copy beside the ToolUse import that main added and drop the second
one. The import is type-only, so no runtime behaviour changes, and the
merged suppression entry for this file (95) still matches: eslint
--max-warnings=0 passes on every touched file without pruning.
The compile job now starts with pnpm format:check, a repo-wide prettier run
on the merge commit, so the gate lands on this branch whether or not a unit
touched a formatter. All seven files here are inside this pull request's own
diff and were already prettier-dirty at the branch tip before main was
merged in; main's copies of the four that exist there are clean, so the
dirt is ours and the fix belongs in this pull request.

Each committed blob is byte-identical to prettier --write of the previous
head blob, so this commit changes whitespace and line breaks only. The
affected specs pass unchanged after the reflow.

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src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts (2)

63-78: Dangling-symlink lock-key concern was previously raised.

If absoluteFilePath is a dangling symlink, resolvePublishTarget returns the alias on ENOENT. The lock then uses the alias path. A past review comment raised this concern, and it is marked as addressed. The current code keeps the ENOENT fallback, which the comment at Lines 68-69 documents.


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560-635: Missing cleanup for the mock was previously raised.

The try/finally block with vi.doUnmock and vi.resetModules is in place.


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479-524: Move the staging-directory tests out of the "pre-written temp path" block.

These three tests do not pass tempPath. They test the generated staging-directory path, which runs only when stagingDir !== null. The block name describes the other code path. Line 291 also checks the "r+" backup open only with toBeDefined(). It does not assert that the open happens after fs.chmod.

As per path instructions: "Check that describe block names match the actual subjects of the tests they contain."

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EditFileTool, EditTool and SearchReplaceTool read the target file and match
old_string against it, but never recorded the version they read. With
prevent-focus-disruption enabled and no prior read_file observation, the
guarded saveDirectly("edit") publish rejected with "File not read yet"
where the same call used to publish the file. ApplyDiffTool and
ApplyPatchTool already close this hole in this branch; the three tools here
now stat around their own read and observe the version only when the file
did not change underneath the read, the same contract as those two.

Each tool gets a regression test that runs the focus-disruption save with
an empty registry and asserts the observation the tool's own read leaves
behind: all three fail on the previous head, pass with the fix, and
deleting each observe call reddens exactly its own new test.

Also from the review at this head: move the three staging-directory
lifecycle tests out of the pre-written-temp-path block into staging and
cleanup, where the block name matches the code path they exercise; pin the
backup's writable open to run after the chmod with invocationCallOrder;
correct the preCommitVerify contract comments in safeWriteText and
guardedWrite, which claimed every silent lost update becomes a rejected
write although a change landing after verification and before the rename
can still be overwritten; and fix the stale lock-path comment in the
safeWriteJson symlink test, which described the lock as taken on the caller
path while the code and the assertions lock the resolved referent.
The windows leg of the previous commit went red on the three new guarded
write tests. The specs mocked the path module by spreading the actual
module and overriding the named exports, but the tools read path through
a default import, and the spread left the default export pointing at the
real module. Production therefore resolved the absolute path with the
real resolve against the runner's working directory - a C-drive spelling
on a C-drive checkout, a D-drive spelling on the CI runner - so the
observation was recorded under a key the test never looked up and the
registry read came back undefined.

The mock now returns the mocked object as the default export too, so
production gets the mocked resolve on every platform and the registry key
is the platform-pinned absolute path the assertions use. Verified by
pinning the specs' expected path to a D-drive spelling: the three tests
pass with this change, and the CI leg's failure is exactly the pre-fix
mismatch. No production change.

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Pre-merge checks failed. Please resolve the failing checks before merging.

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Security Boundaries (Error) — accepted; cited, not re-argued.

Head read from the API before deciding: 82e597c7432250025695f616bb0a9ab58edc83e0, and the assessment marker in the review summary carries the same 40 characters, so this disposition is against the table that belongs to this head. The row is accepted as accurate at this head. It has already been argued twice on this pull request, so this comment cites the existing registrations instead of restating them.

  • Chain-level registration carrying the defect, binary acceptance criteria and a negative-control shape, not bound to a commit: tracking comment 6104592203 — publication must not follow a swapped ancestor link when a caller asks for symlink refusal; either publication becomes handle-relative and no-follow for the directory creation and the rename, or the protection claim comes off the path that cannot prove it.
  • PR-level registration of the same defect, verified against the code at the sibling half of this unit's S4 pair: comment 6104404787 on pull request 1405.
  • The same ancestor walk from the other side — the walk has no lower bound at the authorized root — is registered in tracking comment 6097596031; both changes touch the same function, so whoever lands the shape reads both.

Ownership: the fix lands in the publish primitive, not at this call site. Per the ownership ruling in tracking comment 6097500524, the owning unit in the declared merge order U1 U2 U3 U4 U5 U8 U6 U7 U9 is U1 (pull request 1910); the walk-bound half is owed on U7 (pull request 1405) per 6097596031.

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Persistence Integrity (Error) — accepted; cited, not re-argued.

Head read from the API before deciding: 82e597c7432250025695f616bb0a9ab58edc83e0, matching the assessment marker in the review summary over the full 40 characters, so this disposition is against the table that belongs to this head. The row is accepted: the advisory lock serializes only writers that honor it, and a true compare-and-set publish is the primitive-level end state — which is also how the reviewer's own latest reply on this row states the accurate contract. The row has been argued more than twice on this pull request, so this comment cites the existing registration instead of restating it.

  • Registration: the primitive ownership registration, tracking comment 6097500524, names the Persistence Integrity row that lands on the shared publish primitive, rules it primitive-level rather than unit-level, and carries the acceptance criteria and the negative-control shape for whoever takes the primitive fix.

Ownership: per that ruling, the primitive fix belongs to the earliest unit in the declared merge order U1 U2 U3 U4 U5 U8 U6 U7 U9 that can carry it and ports forward from there — that unit is U1 (pull request 1910), which owns the primitive.

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Lifecycle Resource Cleanup: when icacls /save failed, safeWriteText set
daclDumpPath to null and the cleanup below only unlinks a tracked dump, so a
dump that icacls created or partially wrote before erroring stayed in the
user's directory forever. Track the dump only when the save succeeded and
unlink it in the failure branch, which is the shape the sibling branches of
this chain already carry - converging on it rather than adding a second
mechanism. The negative control replaces the unlink with a resolved promise:
exactly the two tests that name this behaviour go red (the new one and the
existing fallback test), everything else stays green, and the file restores
byte-for-byte (sha256 bedeb2b21d5d5f0d).

The preCommitVerify contract comment in replaceIfVersion still claimed the
race "surfaces as a rejected stale write instead of a newer version being
replaced by the older one". createIfAbsent got the correction in the previous
commit; this is the remaining half of the same finding. Verification rejects a
change it detects; a change that lands after verification returns and before
the rename can still be overwritten. Comments only, no behaviour change.

Local: services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts 33 passed,
core/tools/__tests__/guardedWrite.spec.ts 38 passed, eslint 0 errors /
0 warnings on all three touched files.
Regression Evidence (warning): EditTool, SearchReplaceTool and EditFileTool
now continue after a failed pre-read or post-read stat and after a token
mismatch without recording an observation, and the added tests covered only
the stable-match path. The injected saveDirectly rejection could not tell an
unobserved read from an observed one, because the error was supplied by the
test rather than derived from the registry.

Each spec gains a saveDirectly double that applies guardedWrite's own rule -
an "edit" publish with no observation for the target is rejected as
unobserved - and three cases per tool run through it: pre-read stat failure,
post-read stat failure, and differing pre/post tokens. Each asserts that the
read still happened, that both queued stats were consumed (vi.clearAllMocks
clears call history, not queued one-time values), that the registry holds no
observation, and that the publish is rejected rather than reported as a save.
The existing authorization test now runs through the same double, so the
positive and negative halves are decided by the same rule.

Negative controls, one per half of the branch, restored byte-for-byte:
- "preReadStats && postReadStats" -> "||" reddens exactly the two stat-failure
  tests of that tool and nothing else;
- "preReadToken === versionTokenOfStat(postReadStats)" -> "... || true" reddens
  exactly the token-mismatch test of that tool and nothing else.
Run for all three tools: 2 red / 1 red respectively, all green after restore.

Local: editTool.spec 22 passed, searchReplaceTool.spec 24 passed,
editFileTool.spec 48 passed; eslint 0 errors / 0 warnings on all six touched
files; tsc --noEmit reports no error in any touched file.
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Chain-level registrations: the two pre-merge error rows that outscale this unit

Both rows describe the code correctly, and neither can be closed inside this unit. They are
registered here as owed changes with acceptance criteria, not tied to a commit, so the next
branch in the chain inherits one definition instead of re-deriving one. Ownership of the shared
write primitives, and the rule that a primitive-level row is fixed once by the earliest branch in
the declared merge order and ported forward from there, are recorded on the guarded-write chain
tracking issue 1991; nothing below restates them, and the two design records already carried there
(the fail-closed access-control restore, and the refusal to follow an ancestor link that was
swapped after the check) are the same defect class as row 1.


1. Confinement of the canonical publish target - raised as Security Boundaries.

safeWriteJson resolves the caller's path to its referent and publishes there, and safeWriteText
applies no workspace or allow-list check to the resolved target. Publishing at the referent is
deliberate: a rename replaces a directory entry, so publishing at the alias would destroy the alias
and leave the referent stale, and referent publication is also what lets an alias and its referent
share one advisory lock. The gap is the other half of the same decision - nothing verifies that the
resolved target is still inside the root the caller was authorized for. A project configuration
file that is a symlink to a file outside the project therefore receives a project-scoped write
outside the project.

Acceptance:

  1. The confinement decision is taken once, against the fully resolved target, and is enforced at
    the publish action rather than at an earlier check that the publish does not re-derive.
  2. A target whose resolved spelling leaves the authorized root is refused before the lock, the
    directory creation, the staging, the backup and the rename, with an error naming the root it was
    refused against.
  3. A symlinked ancestor inside the authorized root keeps its current refusal; an ancestor above the
    authorized root is not refused for being a link, because nothing above that root is part of the
    containment decision.
  4. The caller that owns the authorization decision supplies the root. The primitive invents no
    policy it cannot see.
  5. The shape lands once, in the earliest branch in the declared merge order that can carry it, and
    is re-derived per branch when ported forward rather than copied byte for byte.

Negative-control shape: red first - a test that places the referent outside the authorized root
behind an in-scope symlink must fail against the current primitive before any confinement lands.
Then one mutant per production call site, each reddening only the tests that name that behaviour,
plus a run of each new test against the pre-fix production file to show the branch was previously
uncovered. If a mutant reddens far more tests than the target, assume the mutant is wrong first.
Restore mutants byte for byte and verify with a hash.


2. One canonical lock, or a real compare-and-publish - raised as Persistence Integrity.

The guard's verification and the commit rename are separate system calls, so the window they leave
is one system call wide rather than the whole staging and sync sequence. That is the honest
contract, and the code and the tests now say so in those words. What closes the remainder is not a
change inside this unit: either every writer of these targets - the editor buffer's own save path
and any raw filesystem write included - takes one canonical lock and holds it through the final
rename, or the platform supplies a compare-and-publish primitive that compares content.

Acceptance:

  1. A writer that does not participate in the advisory lock can no longer have its newer state
    replaced by a publish that verified before the writer ran.
  2. The mechanism is one, and it is enforced by the callee, so a call site cannot opt out of it by
    forgetting to take the lock.
  3. The editor save path and the raw filesystem write path are covered by the same mechanism as the
    guarded publish, or the residual window is stated at every entry point that keeps it.
  4. The contract comments describe the guarantee that actually ships, in both directions: a change
    detected during verification rejects the write, a change that lands after verification returns
    and before the rename can still be overwritten.
  5. The shape lands once in the earliest branch in the declared merge order that can carry it and is
    re-derived per branch when ported forward.

Negative-control shape: a concurrency test that changes the target after the verification returns
and before the rename, red before the change and green after it, asserting either a rejection or
that the concurrent state survived. One mutant per production call site, each reddening only the
test that names that behaviour; run the new test against the pre-fix production file; restore
mutants byte for byte and verify with a hash.


Neither registration is bound to a commit. Whoever carries a primitive change next takes the row
that matches the block they are already editing, re-derived against that branch's call shape.


Registered while the same check also flagged: a failed backup cleanup is swallowed.

The same pre-merge check later raised, as a warning, that after a successful publish the backup copy
is unlinked and any unlink error is swallowed, so the write reports success while a file this call
created stays beside the user's target indefinitely. The finding is accurate about the code.

This is registered rather than fixed here for a reason the other two rows do not share: the swallow
is not a divergence of this branch. Every branch of this chain carries the same line, with the same
comment saying an orphaned backup is acceptable, so the row describes a decision the chain already
made in one place and repeated everywhere. Changing it means changing that decision once, in the
earliest branch in the declared merge order, and re-deriving it per branch - not patching one copy.

Acceptance.

  1. A backup file this call created is either removed or accounted for when the call returns. Success
    is not reported while a file this call owns is still on disk with no owner.
  2. A transient unlink failure is retried a bounded number of times; a persistent one is recorded
    somewhere a later pass can find it, naming the path and the write that left it.
  3. The decision is stated once and is the same in every branch: either the cleanup is genuinely
    best-effort and the retained file is a documented, discoverable artifact, or a retained backup
    fails the operation. The current mix - best-effort cleanup plus a silent permanent file - is the
    shape that draws the row each round.
  4. Whatever is chosen, it lands in the primitive, not at a call site, and the call sites that pass
    the backup option are checked to agree on the meaning of a retained backup.

Negative-control shape. One test that makes the backup unlink fail persistently and asserts the
chosen contract explicitly - that the write reports the retained path, or that the retained path is
recorded for a later pass - and not merely that unlink was called. Then one mutant that deletes the
retry or the accounting and reddens exactly that test. Run the new test against the pre-fix
production file to show the branch was previously uncovered, and restore mutants byte for byte with
a hash to prove it.

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Disposition of the four pre-merge rows at head 6e1a4b6

Two rows are fixed in this push; two are registered rather than argued, because they ask for a
design change that spans the chain and the argument for them has already been made twice on this
pull request.

Row Disposition
Security Boundaries (error) Registered, not fixed here - see registration comment 6106959976, row 1
Persistence Integrity (error) Registered, not fixed here - see registration comment 6106959976, row 2
Regression Evidence (warning) Fixed in 6e1a4b6
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup (warning) Fixed in 946ae89

Lifecycle Resource Cleanup - fixed in 946ae89. When the access-control save failed,
safeWriteText cleared the dump reference, and the cleanup paths only unlink a tracked dump, so a
dump that the tool created or partially wrote before erroring stayed in the user's directory with
no owner. The dump is now tracked only when the save succeeded and is unlinked in the failure
branch. This converges on the shape the sibling branches of this chain already carry rather than
adding a second mechanism, so it is a convergence port, not a new primitive design. Negative
control: replacing the unlink with a resolved promise reddens exactly the two tests that name this
behaviour and nothing else; the file restores byte for byte (sha256 prefix bedeb2b21d5d5f0d).

Regression Evidence - fixed in 6e1a4b6. The three edit tools gained the missing negative
coverage for the observation branches they added: pre-read stat failure, post-read stat failure,
and differing pre/post version tokens. The row was right that an injected save rejection proves
nothing about the read, so each spec now drives a save double that applies the guard's own rule -
an edit publish with no observation for the target is rejected as unobserved - and the existing
authorization test runs through the same double, so the authorized and unauthorized halves are
decided by one rule. Each test also pins that both queued stats were consumed, because clearing
mock call history does not clear queued one-time values. Negative controls, per tool: relaxing the
definedness guard reddens exactly that tool's two stat-failure tests; relaxing the token-equality
guard reddens exactly its token-mismatch test; all green after restore.

The two error rows. Both describe the shipped code accurately, and both resolutions ask for
something this unit cannot introduce unilaterally: a confinement decision that only the caller can
state, and a lock or compare-and-publish primitive that has to cover writers this unit does not
own. They are registered with acceptance criteria and a negative-control shape in comment
6106959976, not bound to a commit, so the branch that next edits the primitive for another reason
carries the matching row. The ownership rule that decides who fixes a shared-primitive block - the
earliest branch in the declared merge order, fixed once, ported forward - is recorded on the
guarded-write chain tracking issue 1991, together with the two design records covering the same
class: the fail-closed access-control restore, and the refusal to follow an ancestor link that was
swapped after the check. No code change is proposed for either row at this head.

Inline threads. All four are resolved. Three were fixed in 1b7a372. The fourth - the
preCommitVerify contract comment - was fixed for safeWriteText and createIfAbsent in that
commit, but the matching claim inside replaceIfVersion was still overstating the guarantee; that
remaining half is corrected in 946ae89 and the thread carries a reply with the evidence.

Local verification for this push: safeWriteText.spec 33 passed, guardedWrite.spec 38 passed,
editTool.spec 22 passed, searchReplaceTool.spec 24 passed, editFileTool.spec 48 passed; eslint 0
errors and 0 warnings on all nine touched files, with no suppression entry for any of them;
tsc --noEmit reports no error in any touched file.


State after the second round of this review cycle.

Two further commits followed, each answering threads the review raised against the head this pull
request had just pushed: 87ee84e (a dump path and a staging directory that could name a file this
write did not create) and 89a64e9 (a retry that the first of those two commits stranded, left
unable to do anything but fail a second time). Both were real defects, both were regressions of a
fix made in this cycle rather than pre-existing bugs, and both converged this branch on the shape
the rest of the chain already carries.

The observe-timing thread is registered separately, with its own acceptance criteria and
negative-control shape, in comment 6107451284.

All review threads are resolved and every required check is green at this head. The pre-merge check
still lists the two registered rows above as errors and the backup-cleanup row now folded into this
comment as a warning; none of the three is a defect this branch introduced or can fix locally
without changing a decision the whole chain shares.

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[warning] 99-99: 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, "utf8")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').

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src/core/tools/ApplyDiffTool.ts

[warning] 80-80: 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/ApplyPatchTool.ts

[warning] 99-99: 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, "utf8")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').

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src/core/tools/SearchReplaceTool.ts

[warning] 104-104: 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, "utf8")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').

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src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts

[warning] 3-3: Importing child_process exposes a command-execution surface; ensure any command/argument built from input is validated, and prefer execFile/spawn with an argument array over exec.
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[warning] 241-241: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
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src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts

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src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts (1)

254-265: The fixed ACL dump path still deletes a file that this write does not own.

dumpPath = targetPath + ".acl.tmp" is a fixed name. The failure branch (Line 265) unlinks it. The finally cleanup (Line 372) also unlinks it. If a user file already exists at that path, it is deleted. Use a unique dump path that this write creates (for example, from _tempName(dirPath, "safeWriteText.acl")). Unlink only that path.

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218-240: The partial-read observation still authorizes full-file updates.

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Comment thread src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts
…it owns

Two threads raised against the head this branch just pushed. Both are the same
mistake seen from two sides: a path derived from a fixed, predictable name can
already exist and belong to something else, and a cleanup that reaches that
name then acts on data this write never created.

ACL dump (raised against the previous commit's own fix): the dump lived at
"<target>.acl.tmp". icacls /save writes to the file it is named, so a failed
save can leave a partial dump - but it can also fail against a dump file that
was already there, and the failure cleanup then unlinked a file this write did
not create. The dump now gets a generated name in the target's directory, the
same owned-unique shape as the staging temp, so the cleanup can only ever
reach a path this call made.

Staging directory: mkdirSync with recursive:true accepts an existing entry of
the requested name without creating anything, and the permission repair uses
chmodSync, which follows a symlink. A workspace that ships a directory entry
named .file-safety-staging as a symlink therefore had its chmod applied to a
directory outside the workspace, and its staged file written there, before the
commit rename. The staging directory is now named per write, which is the
shape every other branch of this chain already carries - a convergence port to
the chain's single shape, not a new mechanism, and it is what removes the
hazard by construction rather than by an extra lstat check.

Negative controls, each restored byte for byte (sha256 603d38b69a77):
- reverting the dump to the target-derived name reddens the new ownership test
  along with the four tests whose assertions name the dump path, since the
  assertions moved with the path;
- reverting the staging directory to the shared fixed name reddens exactly the
  new "gives each self-staged write its own staging directory" test.

Local: safeWriteText.spec 35 passed, safeWriteJson.test 23 passed / 1 skipped,
guardedWrite.spec 38, editTool.spec 22, searchReplaceTool.spec 24,
editFileTool.spec 48, applyPatchTool.execute.spec 11,
applyDiffTool.guardedWrite.spec 6, writeToFileTool.spec 22 / 5 skipped,
readFileTool.spec 88. DiffViewProvider.spec fails 2 tests identically with and
without this change (verified by stashing), so those two are not from this
commit. eslint 0 errors / 0 warnings on both touched files; tsc --noEmit
reports no error naming either of them.
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Chain-level registration: when a tool's self-read observation may be recorded

Raised as an inline finding against the read-then-edit tools. The finding is correct about the
behaviour and about a concrete consequence, and the fix it asks for is not local to one tool: it
moves where a shared registry entry is created for every tool that reads a file before publishing
it, including the two tools this pull request wires but does not own the shape of. It is registered
here with acceptance criteria and a negative-control shape, not tied to a commit, so the change
lands once with one definition.

The behaviour. Each read-then-edit tool records the version token of its own read into the
task-wide observation registry as soon as the read finishes. The entry then survives a literal
match failure, a failed hunk, a user rejection, and the diff-view branch, where the save path never
consults the registry. A later full-file write to the same path finds an observation, its version
check matches, and it publishes over content the model was never given - while the contract this
pull request ships is that a write to an existing file the model has not read fails. The example in
the finding is exact: an edit with an empty old string on an existing file records the observation
and then returns a "use another tool" error, and the write that follows succeeds without a read.

Acceptance.

  1. A tool that reads a file to satisfy its own request keeps the version token local to that
    request. Nothing task-wide is written as a side effect of a read that has not yet led anywhere.
  2. The registry entry is created at the moment the guarded publish is decided, on the path that
    actually publishes, and it carries the token that read produced - not a token re-derived later,
    which would authorize the publish against a version nobody observed.
  3. A failed match, a failed hunk, a rejected approval, and the diff-view branch each leave the
    registry exactly as they found it.
  4. A tool that touches several paths in one request records one entry per path, each at the moment
    that path's publish is decided, and a path it abandons keeps whatever entry it had before.
  5. The alternative that removes the entry point entirely - handing the expected version to the
    guarded publish instead of looking it up - satisfies criteria 1 through 4 and is preferred if it
    also removes the registry lookup from the publish path. Whichever shape is chosen, it is the
    same shape in every tool on the chain, and the callee enforces it so a call site cannot opt out
    by forgetting to record.
  6. The change lands once, in the earliest branch in the declared merge order that can carry it, and
    is re-derived per branch when ported forward rather than copied byte for byte.

Negative-control shape. One regression test per tool, red before the change and green after:
drive the tool to each of the three non-publishing outcomes - failed match, rejected approval,
diff-view branch - and assert the registry holds no entry for the path afterwards, asserting the
absence through the real registry rather than through a call count on a stub. Then one mutant per
production call site: move that tool's record back to the read site and confirm exactly that
tool's new tests go red and no other tool's do. Run each new test against the pre-fix production
file to show the branch was previously uncovered. If a mutant reddens far more tests than the
target, assume the mutant is wrong first. Restore mutants byte for byte and verify with a hash.

A companion positive control is required so the fix does not simply disable the observation: the
authorized publish path must still show the entry present at the moment of the publish, and the
mutant that deletes the record entirely must redden that test.

Ownership of the shared registry and of the guarded publish entry point is recorded on the
guarded-write chain tracking issue 1991, together with the rule that decides which branch carries a
shared change first.

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Learning: For Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code PR #1408, the author defines ecosystem-wide coordination of editor and raw filesystem writers as later scope in epic #1375, not a requirement of this guarded-write wiring unit. Review the current unit against its advisory-lock and publication-time verification contract, without describing that contract as atomic compare-and-swap against nonparticipating writers.
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260-264: LGTM!

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121-140: LGTM!

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Comment thread src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts
The per-write staging directory made this retry dead, and the review caught it.
The branch used to exist because every write shared one staging directory: a
writer that finished removed it when empty, so a concurrent writer could find
its parent gone between the create and the open, and re-creating it put the
original temp path back under a parent. With a name this call generates, no
other write shares the directory, and the retry's re-create makes a DIFFERENT
directory while the retry still opens the original temp path - so it could only
fail a second time, and it hid the real failure behind a second errno.

Removing the branch is also the shape every other branch of this chain already
carries: they open the staging temp directly, with no ENOENT recovery, for the
same reason. Convergence port, not a new decision.

The two tests that pinned the retry are replaced by one that pins the new
contract: a failed staging open surfaces once, with one directory create and
one open attempt, and nothing published. Negative control, restored byte for
byte (sha256 99172f0b05ed): putting the retry back reddens exactly that test and
nothing else.

Local: safeWriteText.spec 34 passed, safeWriteJson.test 23 passed / 1 skipped,
guardedWrite.spec 38 passed; eslint 0 errors / 0 warnings on both touched
files; tsc --noEmit reports no error naming either of them.

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The five edit tools recorded their self-read observation in the task-wide
registry at read time. Every path that then stopped without publishing -
a failed match, a rejected approval, the empty-old_string handoff to
write_to_file, the diff-view branch - left the token behind, and a later
write_to_file could spend it: guardedWrite saw an observation whose token
still matched the disk and CAS-published a full-file overwrite the model
had never read, breaking the contract that a write to an unobserved
existing file fails.

The token now stays local to the tool call and is observed immediately
before the focus-disruption saveDirectly that consumes it. ApplyPatchTool
holds the hunk-read tokens in a map keyed by absolute path and observes
the update publish's path only. The diff-view branch never observes:
saveChanges() does not consult the registry.

Negative controls, each restored byte for byte and hash-verified:
- removing the observe-before-publish at each of the five production call
  sites reddens exactly that tool's read-authorization test (5 mutants,
  5 killed, exactly 1 red test each);
- the 11 new "leaves the registry empty" tests run 11/11 red against the
  pre-fix production files and green after the fix.

Local: the five touched specs 122 passed; adjacent consumer specs
(applyPatchTool.partial, searchAndReplaceTool, guardedWrite,
writeToFileTool) 67 passed / 5 skipped. eslint --max-warnings=0 clean on
all ten touched files; prettier --check clean on the LF-normalized
content; tsc --noEmit reports no error naming any of them.

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Pre-merge checks failed. Please resolve the failing checks before merging.

The registration for this row (comment 6107451284) lists three
non-publishing outcomes that must leave the task-wide registry as they
found it: a failed match, a rejected approval, and the diff-view branch.
The previous commit shipped tests for the first two; this adds the third
for each tool: run the tool with the focus-disruption experiment off, let
the edit succeed through saveChanges(), and assert the registry holds no
entry for the path.

Before the fix the read-time observe left the token behind on this branch
too, so all five new tests run red against the pre-fix production file
(5/5) and green after it; the five touched specs are 127 passed. eslint
--max-warnings=0 and prettier --check are clean on all five spec files.

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