feat(read-file): record read scope and report clipping separately (U4, #1375) by easonLiangWorldedtech · Pull Request #1913 · Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code

easonLiangWorldedtech · 2026-10-05T12:09:08Z

Split unit U4 of #1833, under the plan on this issue (5993969784 / 5994039786 / 5994053776). Base is U2 (#1912) per the merge order.

Scope (one gate scope): the read side — what a read records about its own scope, and reporting truncation and clipping as two separate notices.

Content source of record: kind: commit, base 7c291bb08 → head 6768ccfaf, replayed on the current main tip 9af61f87e so this branch carries nothing that main already has.

Budget (own delta, not the stacked view): 932 a+d / 105 changed executable lines. Inside both caps.

Verification at this head: 94 passed (readFileTool) and 48 passed (indentation-reader); ESLint --max-warnings=0 clean on every file in the unit; Prettier clean; src/eslint-suppressions.json never increased.

The GitHub view also carries the unmerged base, so the numbers above are this unit's own delta.

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src/core/task/Task.ts
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src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts
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src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.integration.spec.ts
src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts
src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts
src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.lockKey.spec.ts
src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts
src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts

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New Features
- File writes now use staged files for atomic publication and preserve existing file permissions. Optional backups protect the original file if a write fails before commit.
- Writes through symbolic links consistently target the linked file. Writes can also be restricted to a specified directory.
Bug Fixes
- File reads now indicate when returned lines are clipped, including when the full file is read but some lines exceed the display limit.
- Reads that start partway through a file or return incomplete content are identified as partial.

Walkthrough

The change adds task-local file observations and read-completeness reporting. It adds staged text publication with backup handling, then updates safeWriteJson to use the new writer and resolved lock targets.

Changes

File read observations

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Observation registry and task ownership `src/core/task/Task.ts`, `src/core/task/observationRegistry.ts`, `src/core/task/__tests__/observationRegistry.spec.ts`	Tasks now own an observation registry. The registry stores file-version tokens, timestamps, and completeness values, and provides lookup, membership, clearing, and size access.
Read completeness and clipping `src/integrations/misc/indentation-reader.ts`, `src/integrations/misc/__tests__/indentation-reader.spec.ts`, `src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts`, `src/core/tools/__tests__/readFileTool.spec.ts`	Read results distinguish clipped lines from omitted lines. Native and legacy paths classify complete and partial views. Tests cover clipping, truncation, offsets, and invalid read positions.
Stable read observations `src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts`, `src/core/tools/__tests__/readFileTool.spec.ts`, `src/eslint-suppressions.json`	Native and legacy text reads record observations only when pre-read and post-read stat tokens match. Stat failures do not fail successful reads. Lossy decoding and partial views produce incomplete observations.

Safe text and JSON writes

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve targets and stage writes `src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts`, `src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts`	Adds target and lock-key resolution, staging-path validation, and staged-file setup. Tests cover symlinks, missing targets, and staging cleanup.
Publish and preserve staged content `src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts`, `src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts`, `src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.integration.spec.ts`	Adds staged publication with optional backups, permission preservation, file and directory syncing, and best-effort Windows DACL handling. Tests cover successful writes and failure cleanup.
Integrate safe JSON writes `src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts`, `src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts`, `src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.lockKey.spec.ts`, `src/eslint-suppressions.json`	`safeWriteJson` resolves and locks the publish target, checks path confinement, and delegates publication to `safeWriteText`. Tests cover locking, symlinks, confinement, and cleanup.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ReadFileTool
  participant FileSystem
  participant ObservationRegistry
  ReadFileTool->>FileSystem: stat before read
  ReadFileTool->>FileSystem: read file
  ReadFileTool->>FileSystem: stat after read
  ReadFileTool->>ObservationRegistry: record matching version token and completeness

sequenceDiagram
  participant safeWriteJson
  participant proper-lockfile
  participant safeWriteText
  participant FileSystem
  safeWriteJson->>FileSystem: resolve lock key and publish target
  safeWriteJson->>proper-lockfile: acquire lock
  safeWriteJson->>safeWriteText: publish staged JSON with backup enabled
  safeWriteText->>FileSystem: write, sync, and rename staged content
  safeWriteJson->>proper-lockfile: release lock

Suggested reviewers: hannesrudolph

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 31ffa

The remaining concerns are a narrow write-failure edge case and a read-notice test gap. They do not establish a broad failure that blocks merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a1b98

Read authorization remains intact, but JSON writes now follow file symlinks. A project configuration update can therefore modify configuration outside that project, including global tool-approval settings, when a workspace-controlled link points there.

Retained concerns

Medium · security · inferred: Project MCP updates inherit newly expanded write scope. If workspace .roo/mcp.json is a symlink to global MCP settings, a project-scoped tool-approval or server-setting action now changes the global referent rather than replacing the project link as the base did. The inspected caller authorizes the logical project source but does not check or obtain approval for the resolved destination. This creates a conditional cross-project configuration-integrity and approval-policy concern.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

inferred — The new write exposure is local to destinations writable by the extension process, but is not limited to the logical project configuration path. A controlled file symlink can redirect a compatible configuration update to global MCP settings, making its effects persist across projects. Workspace-link control and an update action are required; automatic remote exploitation was not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

inferred — A project mcp.json link to an existing global MCP configuration is read as project configuration. A project-scoped always-allow toggle then passes that same logical path to safeWriteJson, which now publishes onto the global referent. Reading through links predates the PR; mutation of the referent through this JSON publication path is the introduced change.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — Read-file access retains RooIgnore filtering and approval before processing approved files. Publication rejects dangling terminal symlinks and non-regular caller staging files. These controls do not authorize an existing resolved destination against a project boundary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

observed — Canonical advisory locks coordinate JSON writers using symlink aliases and referents. The general withFileLock helper still uses lexical path identity; equivalent coordination for every maintenance caller was not established, although the inspected task-history deletion caller uses its normal task-file path.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Keep intentional symlink support in the general writer, but require project configuration callers to authorize the resolved destination: reject destinations outside the project policy boundary or obtain explicit destination-specific consent before publication.

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❌ Failed checks (1 error, 2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Security Boundaries	❌ Error	`safeWriteJson` now resolves symlinks and publishes to the referent (`src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts:162, 204-222`). The project MCP update path selects `<workspace>/.roo/mcp.json` (`src/services/mcp/McpH…	Pass the canonical workspace directory as `confineTo` for every project-scoped MCP configuration write, and reject referents outside it before reading or staging. Keep global settings writes scoped to their intended settings directory, or p…
Regression Evidence	⚠️ Warning	The new confinement check has an uncovered boundary case. `safeWriteJson.ts` rejects a resolved target equal to the confinement root when `path.relative(scopeRoot, resolvedTarget) === ""` (lines 170–1…	Add a focused `safeWriteJson` test where `filePath` resolves to `confineTo`. Assert that it rejects with `ConfinedPathEscapeError` before invoking the merge callback or staging/publishing a file. Keep the existing outside-root and in-scope …
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup	⚠️ Warning	The new backup lifecycle can leave persistent orphan files. `safeWriteText` creates a backup at `src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts:381-420`, then swallows unlink failures after commit at lines…	Do not silently abandon failed backup cleanup. Preserve or report the orphan path and arrange a reliable retry or recovery cleanup, while keeping the committed write successful if that remains the intended contract.

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

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.
Persistence Integrity	✅ Passed	No changed persistence path meets the failure condition. `safeWriteJson` awaits JSON staging and `safeWriteText` (`src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts`); `safeWriteText` fsyncs staged content before an atomic …
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the read-side changes: recording read scope and reporting clipping separately.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the scope and implementation context, references the related issues, and reports test and lint results. It does not provide reproducible test steps or complete the template ch…

Full details: Regression Evidence

Explanation

The new confinement check has an uncovered boundary case. safeWriteJson.ts rejects a resolved target equal to the confinement root when path.relative(scopeRoot, resolvedTarget) === "" (lines 170–179). The added tests cover targets outside the root and symlinks that resolve outside it, but no test passes the root itself as the target (safeWriteJson.test.ts, lines 668–753). An omitted equality check could therefore allow publishing to the declared root without failing the existing outside-path tests.

Resolution

Add a focused safeWriteJson test where filePath resolves to confineTo. Assert that it rejects with ConfinedPathEscapeError before invoking the merge callback or staging/publishing a file. Keep the existing outside-root and in-scope symlink tests.

Full details: Security Boundaries

Explanation

safeWriteJson now resolves symlinks and publishes to the referent (src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts:162, 204-222). The project MCP update path selects <workspace>/.roo/mcp.json (src/services/mcp/McpHub.ts:623-632) and writes through safeWriteJson without confineTo (src/services/mcp/McpHub.ts:2035-2042, 2083-2095). If a repository places .roo/mcp.json as a symlink to an external, valid MCP config, a project setting update writes to that external file. The prior implementation renamed over the supplied path, so this symlink-following write is introduced by the PR. The new confinement option does not protect this caller because it is not supplied.

Resolution

Pass the canonical workspace directory as confineTo for every project-scoped MCP configuration write, and reject referents outside it before reading or staging. Keep global settings writes scoped to their intended settings directory, or preserve the prior non-following behavior where no scope is declared.

Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup

Explanation

The new backup lifecycle can leave persistent orphan files. safeWriteText creates a backup at src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts:381-420, then swallows unlink failures after commit at lines 469-475. Its error cleanup also swallows unlink failures and clears the path at lines 497-503. The changed test explicitly simulates EPERM and confirms the backup remains on disk (src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts:328-348). Repeated writes under this condition can accumulate backup files.

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…ve (U1, issue 1375) Split unit U1 of PR 1833. Three changes, each with a test that fails without it: - a caller-supplied staging path is checked for location and file type before anything is written, so an arbitrary path or a symlink cannot be published onto the target; - a failed parent-directory fsync on POSIX is reported as PostCommitDurabilityError instead of being swallowed, so a successful return never claims durability the filesystem did not grant; - the staged file and this write's own staging directory are released before RollbackFailureError is thrown. Focused coverage for resolveLockKey added: canonical parent directory, a dangling-link chain, and termination at the bounded depth on a two-link cycle.

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…ishTarget (U1, issue 1375) The resolver may fall back to the given path only when lstat also reports the path as absent. An EACCES or EIO failure says nothing about whether the path is a link, so falling back would publish through a link we were not allowed to inspect. Focused tests added for both branches.

… type-sound compile failed at the unit head on three points: - RollbackFailureError needs a string backupPath, but the throw now happens after cleanup, so the `string | null` narrowing was lost. The failure is now held as { error, backupPath }. - The async lstat stand-in is built on the Stats prototype so it satisfies fsSync.Stats. - The realpath/readlink mocks are typed to the real signatures; the readlink mock answers once because only the link path is read. tsc clean, 50 tests pass, ESLint --max-warnings=0 clean, no suppression change.

The any usage this entry covered is gone in the rewritten file, so the count drops 4 -> 3. eslint --prune-suppressions --max-warnings=0 confirms it.

The read tools record the observed on-disk version through task.observationRegistry, but the field was only declared in a later unit, so at this head the call dereferences undefined and the mocked e2e run fails on the read_file smoke tests. The registry is introduced by this unit, so the field belongs here. tsc clean on this unit, 11 observationRegistry tests pass, ESLint --max-warnings=0 clean.

The two any usages this entry covered are gone in the rewritten spec, so the count drops 98 -> 96. eslint --prune-suppressions --max-warnings=0 confirms it.

Pre-merge review flagged that the write path trusts an unvalidated symlink target: safeWriteText resolves an existing link to its referent and safeWriteJson then merges and publishes onto that referent, so a repository that plants its project settings file as a link elsewhere receives the write at the linked path. safeWriteJson now accepts confineTo. The check runs on the resolved publish target, after resolvePublishTarget and before the merge read and before anything is staged, so a rejected write takes no lock and leaves no residue. Both sides are canonicalized the same way: the scope is resolved through symlinks (walking to the nearest existing ancestor when it does not exist yet, and rethrowing anything other than ENOENT), and the target is canonicalized with the same helper because a target that does not exist yet still carries the alias components of the path it was given. Callers that picked a path from a known scope pass that scope; a caller that does not declare one keeps the current behaviour. The MCP settings wiring that uses this is on the async-save series (Zoo-Code-Org#1403). Tests: an out-of-scope path is rejected on every platform with no lock and no staged file; a planted link escaping the project is rejected and the linked file keeps its bytes; a link inside the project still publishes to the referent; and a scope declared through a symlinked directory that does not exist yet is accepted.

easonLiangWorldedtech · 2026-10-07T03:24:24Z

Both Pre-merge-check errors on this PR are addressed in the two new commits:

Persistence Integrity — publication is no longer non-atomic when backup: true (e7a5580a8): the backup is a copy, never a move, so the canonical path is present for the whole commit window. The copy destination is created with openSync(backupPath, "wx", 0o600) before any content exists at it (so no content ever sits at a path whose mode fs.copyFile chose), chmod 0o600 after the copy clears a copied read-only attribute on Windows that would otherwise make the fsync open fail with EACCES, the copy is fsynced, and it is deleted once the commit rename has published — nothing is ever renamed back. safeWriteText also rejects a staging file that is the target itself (same inode/device).

Security Boundaries — unvalidated symlink target (31ffa4b4f): safeWriteJson now accepts confineTo. The check runs on the resolved publish target (after resolvePublishTarget), before the merge read and before anything is staged, so a rejected write takes no lock and leaves no residue. Both sides are canonicalized the same way — the scope through realpath (walking to the nearest existing ancestor when it does not exist yet, rethrowing anything but ENOENT), and the target with the same helper, because a target that does not exist yet still carries the alias components of the path it was given. Callers that picked a path from a known scope pass that scope; the MCP settings wiring that uses it is on #1403.

Tests added/updated: a new safeWriteText.integration.spec.ts that runs against the real filesystem (no fs mocks) — success publishes and leaves no residue, a directory target is rejected with the payload bytes unchanged; the safeWriteJson spec moves from the three-rename/rollback model to the copy model; the lock-key spec accounts for the extra lstat the aliasing guard performs; and four confinement cases (out-of-scope path rejected on every platform, planted link escaping the project rejected with the linked file untouched, in-project link still publishing to its referent, symlinked not-yet-existing scope accepted).

Local: 84 passed / 4 skipped across safeWriteText.spec + integration spec + safeWriteJson + safeWriteJson.lockKey; tsc clean; eslint --max-warnings=0 clean with no suppression drift.

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