@bevel-software/platform-core-backend 0.15.1 → 0.19.0

package/src/modules/workspace/__tests__/git-internals.security.test.ts

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+import type { Server } from 'node:http';
+import type { AddressInfo } from 'node:net';
+import { mkdir, mkdtemp, readdir, readFile, rm, stat, symlink, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
+import { join } from 'node:path';
+import AdmZip from 'adm-zip';
+import express from 'express';
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+import type { IWorkflowService } from '@bevel-software/platform-shared';
+import { GIT_INTERNALS_MESSAGE, GitInternalsError } from '../../../shared/domain-errors.js';
+import { workspaceIdForBranch } from '../../../shared/workspace-id.js';
+import { NodeFs } from '../../kb-fs/node-fs.js';
+import { LockingFilesystem } from '../../kb-fs/locking-filesystem.js';
+import { ReadOnlyFilesystem } from '../../kb-fs/read-only-filesystem.js';
+import { ToolRegistry } from '../../tool-registry/tool-registry.js';
+import { createToolHandlerFactory } from '../../tool-helpers/tool-handler.js';
+import type { ToolContext } from '../../tool-helpers/tool.contract.js';
+import type { ToolAuth } from '../../tool-auth/tool-auth.middleware.js';
+import type { IAccessControl } from '../../access/access-control.interface.js';
+import type { ICreatorAccess } from '../../access-model/creator.js';
+import type { IAdminAccessService } from '../../admin/admin.interface.js';
+import type { WorkflowEventBus } from '../../workflow/event-bus.js';
+import { WorkflowHooks } from '../../workflow/workflow-hooks.js';
+import type { AuthService } from '../../auth/auth.service.js';
+import { registerWorkspaceTools } from '../workspace.tools.js';
+import { RoutineWritePolicyService } from '../routine-write-policy.js';
+import { SpillStore } from '../spill-store.js';
+import { DocExtractService } from '../file-readers/doc-extract.service.js';
+import { createWorkspaceRoutes } from '../workspace.routes.js';
+import { createGitInternalsRouteGuard } from '../git-internals.middleware.js';
+import { hasGitInternalsSegment } from '../../../shared/git-internals.js';
+import { createDiffRoutes } from '../../diff/diff.routes.js';
+import { DiffService } from '../../diff/diff.service.js';
+import { WorkspaceMutex } from '../../kb-fs/mutex.js';
+import { WorkspaceService } from '../workspace.service.js';
+
+/**
+ * Security regression: the repository's internal git folder is unreachable
+ * through every workspace tool and every workspace HTTP route, in every
+ * spelling — plain, dotted, percent-encoded, upper-case — and through a
+ * symbolic link in the repository that points into it. Each refusal is the
+ * same 403 with the same message, whether or not anything is at the path, and
+ * leaves the git folder exactly as it was.
+ *
+ * Real disk, real WorkspaceService, the real lock-aware filesystem; only the
+ * lock service and the access rules are stubbed (allow-all), so nothing but
+ * the git-folder rule can refuse.
+ */
+
+const KB = 'knowledge-base';
+const BRANCH = 'main';
+const WS = workspaceIdForBranch(BRANCH);
+const USER = { id: 'user-1', email: 'alice@example.com', name: 'Alice' };
+
+/** Every spelling of a path INSIDE the git folder. `symlinked` goes through `knowledge-base/gitlink -> .git`. */
+function fileForms(name: string): Record<string, string> {
+  return {
+    plain: `${KB}/.git/${name}`,
+    'leading slash': `/${KB}/.git/${name}`,
+    dotted: `${KB}/Notes/../.git/${name}`,
+    'dot segments': `./${KB}/./.git/${name}`,
+    encoded: `${KB}/%2egit/${name}`,
+    'double-encoded': `${KB}/%252Egit/${name}`,
+    'upper-case': `${KB}/.GIT/${name}`,
+    'mixed-case': `${KB}/.Git/${name}`,
+    backslashed: `${KB}\\.git\\${name}`,
+    symlinked: `${KB}/gitlink/${name}`,
+  };
+}
+
+/** Every spelling of the git folder ITSELF, for the operations that take a directory. */
+const DIR_FORMS: Record<string, string> = {
+  plain: `${KB}/.git`,
+  'trailing slash': `${KB}/.git/`,
+  dotted: `${KB}/Notes/../.git`,
+  encoded: `${KB}/%2Egit`,
+  'upper-case': `${KB}/.GIT`,
+  symlinked: `${KB}/gitlink`,
+  'symlinked, chained': `${KB}/chained`,
+};
+
+const FILE_FORMS = { ...fileForms('config'), 'symlinked file': `${KB}/cfglink` };
+const MISSING_FORMS = fileForms('no-such-file');
+
+/** An archive path for a file form: the link to a file is used as it is, being a file already. */
+const zipForm = (p: string) => (p.endsWith('/cfglink') ? p : `${p}.zip`);
+
+let root = '';
+let workspaceDir = '';
+let gitSnapshot = '';
+
+async function snapshotGit(): Promise<string> {
+  const gitDir = join(workspaceDir, KB, '.git');
+  const names = (await readdir(gitDir, { recursive: true })).sort();
+  return JSON.stringify({ names, config: await readFile(join(gitDir, 'config'), 'utf8') });
+}
+
+beforeEach(async () => {
+  root = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'git-internals-sec-'));
+  workspaceDir = join(root, WS);
+  const kb = join(workspaceDir, KB);
+  await mkdir(join(kb, '.git', 'refs', 'heads'), { recursive: true });
+  await writeFile(join(kb, '.git', 'config'), '[credential]\n\thelper = store --file=/secret\n');
+  await writeFile(join(kb, '.git', 'HEAD'), 'ref: refs/heads/main\n');
+  await mkdir(join(kb, 'Notes'), { recursive: true });
+  await writeFile(join(kb, 'Notes', 'a.md'), '# A\nhelper\n');
+  await symlink('.git', join(kb, 'gitlink'));
+  await symlink('.git/config', join(kb, 'cfglink'));
+  await symlink('gitlink', join(kb, 'chained'));
+  const zip = new AdmZip();
+  zip.addFile('extracted.md', Buffer.from('# extracted\n'));
+  zip.writeZip(join(kb, 'archive.zip'));
+  gitSnapshot = await snapshotGit();
+});
+
+afterEach(async () => {
+  await rm(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+});
+
+function makeWorkflow() {
+  return {
+    getLock: vi.fn(async () => null),
+    acquireLock: vi.fn(async () => ({ acquired: true, lock: { holderUserId: USER.id, holderName: USER.name } })),
+    releaseLock: vi.fn(async () => null),
+    releaseLockNoCommit: vi.fn(async () => undefined),
+    releaseLockUntouched: vi.fn(async () => undefined),
+    commitChanges: vi.fn(async () => null),
+  };
+}
+
+const allowAll = {
+  canRead: async () => true,
+  canReadBatch: async (_w: string, _u: string, paths: string[]) => new Map(paths.map((p) => [p, true])),
+  canWrite: async () => true,
+  canWriteBatch: async (_w: string, _u: string, paths: string[]) => new Map(paths.map((p) => [p, true])),
+  canWriteBatchAtRef: async (_w: string, _r: string, _u: string, paths: string[]) => new Map(paths.map((p) => [p, true])),
+  canDownload: async () => true,
+  canOwner: async () => true,
+  eligibleWritersAtRef: async () => [],
+} as unknown as IAccessControl;
+
+const stubCreatorAccess = {
+  planForCreate: async () => null,
+  grantInExtractedFile: async () => null,
+  noteAccessFileWritten: () => {},
+} as unknown as ICreatorAccess;
+
+async function listen(app: express.Express): Promise<{ server: Server; baseUrl: string }> {
+  const server = await new Promise<Server>((resolve) => {
+    const s = app.listen(0, () => resolve(s));
+  });
+  return { server, baseUrl: `http://127.0.0.1:${(server.address() as AddressInfo).port}` };
+}
+
+/**
+ * The spellings the PATH rule refuses before the git rule is ever consulted:
+ * a `..` segment, a `.` segment below a leading `./`, a backslash. One
+ * normaliser reads every accepted workspace path now, and it refuses these as
+ * paths rather than as git paths — earlier, and with the 400 that says the path
+ * could not be placed inside the repository. The git folder is unreachable
+ * either way, which is what this file is about; only the sentence differs.
+ */
+const UNSPELLABLE = new Set(['dotted', 'dot segments', 'backslashed']);
+
+/**
+ * The refusal, whichever rule got there first. Pass the form's name and a
+ * spelling the normaliser refuses is checked against ITS answer; leave it out
+ * and only the git refusal will do.
+ */
+async function expectRefused(res: Response, form?: string): Promise<unknown> {
+  const body = (await res.json()) as Record<string, unknown>;
+  if (form !== undefined && UNSPELLABLE.has(form)) {
+    expect({ status: res.status, outside: /is outside the knowledge base repository/.test(String(body.error)) }, form)
+      .toEqual({ status: 400, outside: true });
+    return body;
+  }
+  expect({ status: res.status, error: body.error }).toEqual({ status: 403, error: GIT_INTERNALS_MESSAGE });
+  return body;
+}
+
+// ── agent tools ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+describe('workspace tools refuse the git folder', () => {
+  let server: Server | undefined;
+  let baseUrl = '';
+  let workflow: ReturnType<typeof makeWorkflow>;
+  let unzipSpy: ReturnType<typeof vi.spyOn>;
+  let bootstrappedSpy: ReturnType<typeof vi.spyOn>;
+  let getFilesystem: ReturnType<typeof vi.fn>;
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    workflow = makeWorkflow();
+    const service = new WorkspaceService(root, 'https://example.invalid/kb.git', KB, new NodeFs());
+    unzipSpy = vi.spyOn(service, 'unzipFile');
+    bootstrappedSpy = vi.spyOn(service, 'hasBootstrappedWorkspace');
+    const lockingFs = new LockingFilesystem(
+      { basePath: workspaceDir, contained: true },
+      { workflow: workflow as unknown as IWorkflowService, workspaceId: WS, branch: BRANCH, user: USER, kbDirName: KB },
+    );
+    getFilesystem = vi.fn(async () => lockingFs);
+    const resolve = async (auth: ToolAuth, signal: AbortSignal, sessionId?: string): Promise<ToolContext> => ({
+      user: USER,
+      scope: auth.scope,
+      source: auth.source,
+      sessionId,
+      abortSignal: signal,
+      workspaceService: service,
+      workflowService: workflow as never,
+      events: {} as never,
+      getFilesystem,
+    });
+    const app = express();
+    app.use(express.json());
+    const router = express.Router();
+    const fakeAuth: express.RequestHandler = (req, _res, next) => {
+      req.toolAuth = { source: 'internal', userId: USER.id, scope: 'write' };
+      next();
+    };
+    registerWorkspaceTools(
+      new ToolRegistry(),
+      router,
+      fakeAuth,
+      createToolHandlerFactory(resolve),
+      new SpillStore(join(root, 'spills')),
+      new DocExtractService(join(root, 'doc-cache')),
+      allowAll,
+      KB,
+      { service: {} as never, enabled: false, kbDirName: KB, recoveryBotEmail: 'recovery-bot@bevel.local', hooks: new WorkflowHooks() },
+      new RoutineWritePolicyService(),
+      {} as never,
+    );
+    app.use('/api', router);
+    ({ server, baseUrl } = await listen(app));
+  });
+
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    if (server) await new Promise<void>((r) => server!.close(() => r()));
+    server = undefined;
+    // Nothing reached the lock service, and the git folder is untouched.
+    expect(workflow.acquireLock).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(workflow.commitChanges).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(await snapshotGit()).toBe(gitSnapshot);
+  });
+
+  const call = (tool: string, args: Record<string, unknown>) =>
+    fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/agent/tools/${tool}`, {
+      method: 'POST',
+      headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
+      body: JSON.stringify({ branch: BRANCH, ...args }),
+    });
+
+  const fileOps: Array<[string, (p: string) => Record<string, unknown>]> = [
+    ['file_stat', (p) => ({ path: p })],
+    ['read_file', (p) => ({ path: p })],
+    ['grep', (p) => ({ pattern: 'helper', path: p })],
+    ['write_file', (p) => ({ path: p, content: 'x' })],
+    ['write_files', (p) => ({ files: [{ path: `${KB}/Notes/ok.md`, content: 'ok' }, { path: p, content: 'x' }] })],
+    ['edit_file', (p) => ({ path: p, old_string: 'store', new_string: 'cache' })],
+    ['delete_file', (p) => ({ path: p })],
+    ['move_file (source)', (p) => ({ src: p, dest: `${KB}/Notes/moved` })],
+    ['move_file (destination)', (p) => ({ src: `${KB}/Notes/a.md`, dest: p })],
+    ['copy_file (source)', (p) => ({ src: p, dest: `${KB}/Notes/copied` })],
+    ['copy_file (destination)', (p) => ({ src: `${KB}/Notes/a.md`, dest: p })],
+    ['unzip (archive)', (p) => ({ path: zipForm(p) })],
+  ];
+  const dirOps: Array<[string, (p: string) => Record<string, unknown>]> = [
+    ['list_files', (p) => ({ path: p })],
+    ['grep', (p) => ({ pattern: 'helper', path: p })],
+    ['mkdir', (p) => ({ path: `${p}/hooks-new` })],
+    ['delete_file', (p) => ({ path: p })],
+    ['delete_folder', (p) => ({ path: p, confirm: true })],
+    ['delete_folder (dry run)', (p) => ({ path: p, dryRun: true })],
+    ['unzip (destination)', (p) => ({ path: `${KB}/archive.zip`, destination: p })],
+  ];
+
+  for (const [op, args] of fileOps) {
+    const tool = op.split(' ')[0];
+    describe(op, () => {
+      it.each(Object.entries(FILE_FORMS))('%s form', async (form, p) => {
+        await expectRefused(await call(tool, args(p)), form);
+      });
+
+      it('answers a missing path exactly as an existing one', async () => {
+        for (const form of Object.keys(MISSING_FORMS)) {
+          const existing = await call(tool, args(fileForms('config')[form]));
+          const missing = await call(tool, args(MISSING_FORMS[form]));
+          expect(missing.status, form).toBe(existing.status);
+          // Compared with the file name put back. A spelling the PATH rule
+          // refuses is answered on the spelling alone, and that answer QUOTES
+          // the caller's own path — so the two bodies differ by the name the
+          // caller sent and by nothing else, which is the oracle guarantee
+          // stated exactly. (For the git refusals the substitution is a no-op:
+          // that message names no path at all.) Anything disk-derived leaking
+          // into either answer still fails this.
+          const sameName = (text: string) => JSON.parse(text.split('no-such-file').join('config'));
+          expect(sameName(await missing.text()), form).toEqual(await existing.json());
+        }
+      });
+    });
+  }
+
+  for (const [op, args] of dirOps) {
+    const tool = op.split(' ')[0];
+    it.each(Object.entries(DIR_FORMS))(`${op} — %s form`, async (form, p) => {
+      await expectRefused(await call(tool, args(p)), form);
+    });
+  }
+
+  it('write_files lands nothing when one path in the batch is refused', async () => {
+    await expectRefused(await call('write_files', { files: [{ path: `${KB}/Notes/ok.md`, content: 'ok' }, { path: `${KB}/.git/HEAD`, content: 'x' }] }));
+    await expect(readFile(join(workspaceDir, KB, 'Notes', 'ok.md'))).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'ENOENT' });
+  });
+
+  it('unzip never reaches the service for a refused archive or destination', async () => {
+    await expectRefused(await call('unzip', { path: `${KB}/gitlink/x.zip` }));
+    await expectRefused(await call('unzip', { path: `${KB}/archive.zip`, destination: `${KB}/.GIT` }));
+    expect(unzipSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('list_files never shows the git folder, nor a link into it', async () => {
+    const res = await call('list_files', { path: KB });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    const names = ((await res.json()) as { entries: { name: string }[] }).entries.map((e) => e.name);
+    expect(names).toContain('Notes');
+    expect(names).not.toContain('.git');
+    expect(names).not.toContain('gitlink');
+    expect(names).not.toContain('cfglink');
+    expect(names).not.toContain('chained');
+  });
+
+  it('a whole-tree grep never matches inside the git folder', async () => {
+    const res = await call('grep', { pattern: 'helper' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    const paths = ((await res.json()) as { matches: { path: string }[] }).matches.map((m) => m.path);
+    expect(paths).toEqual([`${KB}/Notes/a.md`]);
+  });
+
+  it('the link check never clones a branch that is not cloned yet', async () => {
+    bootstrappedSpy.mockResolvedValue(false);
+    const res = await call('file_stat', { path: `${KB}/Notes/a.md` });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    // Only the handler asked for the filesystem, after its own gates; the up-front check did not.
+    expect(getFilesystem).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    // A plainly spelled git path is still refused without it.
+    await expectRefused(await call('read_file', { path: `${KB}/.git/config` }));
+    expect(getFilesystem).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it('ordinary paths that merely look alike still work', async () => {
+    const res = await call('write_file', { path: `${KB}/.github/workflows/ci.yml`, content: 'on: push\n' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    workflow.acquireLock.mockClear();
+  });
+});
+
+// ── HTTP routes ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+describe('workspace routes refuse the git folder', () => {
+  let server: Server | undefined;
+  let baseUrl = '';
+  let workflow: ReturnType<typeof makeWorkflow>;
+  let service: WorkspaceService;
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    workflow = makeWorkflow();
+    service = new WorkspaceService(root, 'https://example.invalid/kb.git', KB, new NodeFs());
+    const app = express();
+    app.use(express.json());
+    app.use('/api', (req, _res, next) => {
+      (req as unknown as { userId: string }).userId = USER.id;
+      next();
+    });
+    const diffService = new DiffService(service, new WorkspaceMutex(), root, join(root, 'backups'), KB, new NodeFs());
+    // Exactly the production mounting: ONE guard for the whole prefix, ahead
+    // of every router under it — so the review routes are covered by the fact
+    // of their path, not by their own guard.
+    app.use('/api/workspace/:id', createGitInternalsRouteGuard(service));
+    app.use(
+      '/api',
+      createWorkspaceRoutes(
+        service,
+        { getUserById: vi.fn(async () => USER) } as unknown as AuthService,
+        workflow as unknown as IWorkflowService,
+        { emit: vi.fn() } as unknown as WorkflowEventBus,
+        allowAll,
+        KB,
+        stubCreatorAccess,
+        { isAdmin: async () => true } as unknown as IAdminAccessService,
+        new NodeFs(),
+      ),
+    );
+    app.use(
+      '/api',
+      createDiffRoutes(
+        diffService,
+        { getUserById: vi.fn(async () => USER) } as unknown as AuthService,
+        workflow as unknown as IWorkflowService,
+        allowAll,
+        KB,
+      ),
+    );
+    ({ server, baseUrl } = await listen(app));
+  });
+
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    if (server) await new Promise<void>((r) => server!.close(() => r()));
+    server = undefined;
+    expect(workflow.acquireLock).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(await snapshotGit()).toBe(gitSnapshot);
+  });
+
+  const q = (p: string) => encodeURIComponent(p);
+  const json = (method: string, url: string, body: unknown) =>
+    fetch(url, { method, headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' }, body: JSON.stringify(body) });
+
+  const fileRoutes: Array<[string, (p: string) => Promise<Response>]> = [
+    ['read (GET /file)', (p) => fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/file?path=${q(p)}`)],
+    ['stat/raw read (GET /file/raw)', (p) => fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/file/raw?path=${q(p)}`)],
+    ['download (GET /file/raw?download=1)', (p) => fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/file/raw?download=1&path=${q(p)}`)],
+    ['write (PUT /file)', (p) => json('PUT', `${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/file?path=${q(p)}`, { content: 'x' })],
+    ['delete (DELETE /file)', (p) => fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/file?path=${q(p)}`, { method: 'DELETE' })],
+    ['move source (PATCH /file)', (p) => json('PATCH', `${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/file`, { oldPath: p, newPath: `${KB}/Notes/moved` })],
+    ['move destination (PATCH /file)', (p) => json('PATCH', `${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/file`, { oldPath: `${KB}/Notes/a.md`, newPath: p })],
+    ['upload (POST /upload)', (p) =>
+      fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/upload?path=${q(p)}`, {
+        method: 'POST',
+        headers: { 'content-type': 'application/octet-stream' },
+        body: Buffer.from('payload'),
+      })],
+    ['unzip archive (POST /unzip)', (p) => json('POST', `${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/unzip`, { path: zipForm(p) })],
+    ['review diff (GET /review/file)', (p) => fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/review/file?path=${q(p)}`)],
+    ['review accept (POST /review/accept)', (p) => json('POST', `${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/review/accept`, { path: p })],
+    ['review reject (POST /review/reject)', (p) => json('POST', `${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/review/reject`, { path: p })],
+  ];
+  const dirRoutes: Array<[string, (p: string) => Promise<Response>]> = [
+    ['mkdir (POST /directory)', (p) => json('POST', `${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/directory`, { path: `${p}/new-dir` })],
+    ['download folder (GET /folder/zip)', (p) => fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/folder/zip?download=1&path=${q(p)}`)],
+    ['delete folder (DELETE /file)', (p) => fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/file?path=${q(p)}`, { method: 'DELETE' })],
+    ['unzip destination (POST /unzip)', (p) => json('POST', `${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/unzip`, { path: `${KB}/archive.zip`, destination: p })],
+  ];
+
+  for (const [name, send] of fileRoutes) {
+    describe(name, () => {
+      // No form passed: on this surface the git guard is mounted ahead of every
+      // handler on the `/workspace/:id` prefix, so it answers before the
+      // normaliser is ever asked — the one 403, in every spelling, as before.
+      it.each(Object.entries(FILE_FORMS))('%s form', async (_form, p) => {
+        await expectRefused(await send(p));
+      });
+
+      it('answers a missing path exactly as an existing one', async () => {
+        for (const form of Object.keys(MISSING_FORMS)) {
+          const existing = await send(fileForms('config')[form]);
+          const missing = await send(MISSING_FORMS[form]);
+          expect(missing.status).toBe(existing.status);
+          expect(await missing.json()).toEqual(await existing.json());
+        }
+      });
+    });
+  }
+
+  for (const [name, send] of dirRoutes) {
+    it.each(Object.entries(DIR_FORMS))(`${name} — %s form`, async (_form, p) => {
+      await expectRefused(await send(p));
+    });
+  }
+
+  it('a query-string path encoded twice over the wire is still refused', async () => {
+    await expectRefused(await fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/file?path=${KB}%2F%252egit%2Fconfig`));
+  });
+
+  it('the refusal body carries nothing beyond the message and its kind', async () => {
+    const body = await expectRefused(await fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/file?path=${q(`${KB}/.git/config`)}`));
+    expect(body).toEqual({ kind: 'git-internals', error: GIT_INTERNALS_MESSAGE });
+  });
+
+  it('listing a folder never shows the git folder', async () => {
+    const res = await fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/files`);
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(JSON.stringify(await res.json())).not.toMatch(/"\.git"|gitlink|cfglink|chained/);
+  });
+
+  it('a folder delete leaves a git folder in any spelling alone, and deletes the rest', async () => {
+    const upper = join(workspaceDir, KB, 'Notes', '.GIT');
+    await mkdir(upper, { recursive: true });
+    await writeFile(join(upper, 'config'), '[credential]\n');
+
+    const res = await fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/file?path=${q(`${KB}/Notes`)}`, { method: 'DELETE' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(await res.json()).toEqual({ status: 'deleted', count: 1 });
+    await expect(readFile(join(workspaceDir, KB, 'Notes', 'a.md'))).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'ENOENT' });
+    expect(await readFile(join(upper, 'config'), 'utf8')).toBe('[credential]\n');
+    workflow.acquireLock.mockClear();
+  });
+
+  it('an ordinary read and a .github path still work', async () => {
+    const read = await fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/file?path=${q(`${KB}/Notes/a.md`)}`);
+    expect(read.status).toBe(200);
+    const write = await json('PUT', `${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/file?path=${q(`${KB}/.github/ci.yml`)}`, { content: 'on: push\n' });
+    expect(write.status).toBe(200);
+    workflow.acquireLock.mockClear();
+  });
+});
+
+// ── the layers underneath, reached directly ─────────────────────────────────
+
+describe('WorkspaceService refuses the git folder on its own', () => {
+  let service: WorkspaceService;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    service = new WorkspaceService(root, 'https://example.invalid/kb.git', KB, new NodeFs());
+  });
+
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    expect(await snapshotGit()).toBe(gitSnapshot);
+  });
+
+  const ops: Array<[string, (p: string) => Promise<unknown>]> = [
+    ['readFile', (p) => service.readFile(WS, p)],
+    ['readFileBinary', (p) => service.readFileBinary(WS, p)],
+    ['readFileAtRef', (p) => service.readFileAtRef(WS, 'main', p.replace(`${KB}/`, ''))],
+    ['writeFile', (p) => service.writeFile(WS, p, 'x')],
+    ['writeFileBinary', (p) => service.writeFileBinary(WS, p, Buffer.from('x'))],
+    ['assertContentMatches', (p) => service.assertContentMatches(WS, p, '')],
+    ['withPathTurn', (p) => service.withPathTurn(WS, p, async () => undefined)],
+    ['deleteFile', (p) => service.deleteFile(WS, p)],
+    ['moveEntry (source)', (p) => service.moveEntry(WS, p, `${KB}/Notes/moved`)],
+    ['moveEntry (destination)', (p) => service.moveEntry(WS, `${KB}/Notes/a.md`, p)],
+    ['createDirectory', (p) => service.createDirectory(WS, `${p}/new`)],
+    ['createFolderZip', (p) => service.createFolderZip(WS, p.replace(/\/config$/, ''))],
+    ['unzipFile (archive)', (p) => service.unzipFile(WS, `${p}.zip`)],
+    ['unzipFile (destination)', (p) => service.unzipFile(WS, `${KB}/archive.zip`, p)],
+  ];
+
+  for (const [name, run] of ops) {
+    it.each(Object.entries(fileForms('config')).filter(([form]) => !(name === 'readFileAtRef' && form === 'symlinked')))(
+      `${name} — %s form`,
+      async (form, p) => {
+        const err = await run(p).catch((e: unknown) => e);
+        // `readFileAtRef` takes a REPO-relative path (it strips the prefix
+        // above), so it is not a workspace path and does not meet the
+        // normaliser; every other op does, and for the spellings the path rule
+        // refuses that refusal is the one that answers.
+        if (UNSPELLABLE.has(form) && name !== 'readFileAtRef') {
+          expect((err as Error).message, form).toMatch(/is outside the knowledge base repository/);
+          return;
+        }
+        expect(err).toBeInstanceOf(GitInternalsError);
+      },
+    );
+  }
+
+  it('a folder download leaves out a git folder spelled in another case', async () => {
+    const upper = join(workspaceDir, KB, 'Notes', '.GIT');
+    await mkdir(upper, { recursive: true });
+    await writeFile(join(upper, 'config'), '[credential]\n');
+    await mkdir(join(workspaceDir, KB, 'Notes', '.git.'), { recursive: true });
+    await writeFile(join(workspaceDir, KB, 'Notes', '.git.', 'HEAD'), 'ref\n');
+
+    const names = new AdmZip(await service.createFolderZip(WS, `${KB}/Notes`)).getEntries().map((e) => e.entryName);
+    expect(names).toEqual(['Notes/a.md']);
+  });
+
+  it('unzip skips an archive entry aimed at the git folder, and extracts the rest', async () => {
+    const zip = new AdmZip();
+    zip.addFile('.git/config', Buffer.from('[core]\n\tfsmonitor = evil\n'));
+    zip.addFile('.GIT/hooks/post-checkout', Buffer.from('#!/bin/sh\n'));
+    zip.addFile('gitlink/HEAD', Buffer.from('evil\n'));
+    zip.addFile('fine.md', Buffer.from('# fine\n'));
+    zip.writeZip(join(workspaceDir, KB, 'evil.zip'));
+
+    const result = await service.unzipFile(WS, `${KB}/evil.zip`);
+    expect(result.extracted).toEqual([`${KB}/fine.md`]);
+    expect(result.skipped.map((s) => s.reason)).toEqual([GIT_INTERNALS_MESSAGE, GIT_INTERNALS_MESSAGE, GIT_INTERNALS_MESSAGE]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('the route guard on its own', () => {
+  let server: Server | undefined;
+  let baseUrl = '';
+  let reached: number;
+  let userId: string | undefined;
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    reached = 0;
+    userId = USER.id;
+    const service = new WorkspaceService(root, 'https://example.invalid/kb.git', KB, new NodeFs());
+    const app = express();
+    // The server's own order: the guard ahead of the body parser, then again
+    // on the parsed body, then again once the caller is known.
+    app.use('/api/workspace/:id', createGitInternalsRouteGuard(service));
+    app.use(express.json());
+    app.use('/api/workspace/:id', createGitInternalsRouteGuard(service));
+    app.use('/api', (req, _res, next) => {
+      if (userId !== undefined) (req as unknown as { userId: string }).userId = userId;
+      next();
+    });
+    app.use('/api/workspace/:id', createGitInternalsRouteGuard(service));
+    // Stands in for every router mounted under the prefix — an extension's
+    // overlay surface included. Reaching it at all is the bypass.
+    app.use('/api/workspace/:id', (_req, res) => {
+      reached += 1;
+      res.json({ ok: true });
+    });
+    ({ server, baseUrl } = await listen(app));
+  });
+
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    if (server) await new Promise<void>((r) => server!.close(() => r()));
+    server = undefined;
+  });
+
+  const post = (url: string, body: unknown) =>
+    fetch(url, { method: 'POST', headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' }, body: JSON.stringify(body) });
+
+  it.each([
+    ['path', (p: string) => ({ path: p })],
+    ['oldPath', (p: string) => ({ oldPath: p, newPath: `${KB}/Notes/b.md` })],
+    ['newPath', (p: string) => ({ oldPath: `${KB}/Notes/a.md`, newPath: p })],
+    ['destination', (p: string) => ({ path: `${KB}/archive.zip`, destination: p })],
+    ['paths (access batch)', (p: string) => ({ paths: [`${KB}/Notes/a.md`, p], verb: 'write' })],
+    ['ancestor (remove-from-parent)', (p: string) => ({ mode: 'remove-from-parent', ancestor: p })],
+  ])('refuses the git folder named in the %s field', async (_field, body) => {
+    await expectRefused(await post(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/anything`, body(`${KB}/.git/config`)));
+    expect(reached).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('refuses the git folder in the prospective-access query fields, and only there for `from`', async () => {
+    const git = encodeURIComponent(`${KB}/.git/config`);
+    const note = encodeURIComponent(`${KB}/Notes/a.md`);
+    await expectRefused(await fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/access/prospective?from=${git}&toDir=${note}`));
+    await expectRefused(await fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/access/prospective?from=${note}&toDir=${git}`));
+    // `toDir` is a path wherever it appears; `from` is a BRANCH on the
+    // workflow comparison and is left to the branch-name rule there.
+    await expectRefused(await fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/anything?toDir=${git}`));
+    expect(reached).toBe(0);
+    const compare = await fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/workflow/compare?from=${git}`);
+    expect(compare.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(reached).toBe(1);
+  });
+
+  it('refuses every spelling before the route runs, even unauthenticated', async () => {
+    userId = undefined;
+    const spellings = Object.values(FILE_FORMS);
+    for (const p of spellings) {
+      const res = await fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/anything?path=${encodeURIComponent(p)}`);
+      // Every spelling that NAMES the folder is refused with no disk touched.
+      // The symlinked ones need the resolved check, which an unauthenticated
+      // request does not get — their route answers them, with its own 401.
+      if (hasGitInternalsSegment(p)) await expectRefused(res);
+      else expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    }
+    expect(reached).toBe(spellings.filter((p) => !hasGitInternalsSegment(p)).length);
+  });
+
+  it('refuses a git path even when the body does not parse, where the parser would answer 400', async () => {
+    const res = await fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/anything?path=${encodeURIComponent(`${KB}/.git/config`)}`, {
+      method: 'POST',
+      headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
+      body: '{ this is not json',
+    });
+    await expectRefused(res);
+    expect(reached).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('still answers a malformed body on an ordinary path the parser way', async () => {
+    const res = await fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/anything?path=${encodeURIComponent(`${KB}/Notes/a.md`)}`, {
+      method: 'POST',
+      headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
+      body: '{ this is not json',
+    });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(reached).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('lets an ordinary path through', async () => {
+    const res = await fetch(`${baseUrl}/api/workspace/${WS}/anything?path=${encodeURIComponent(`${KB}/Notes/a.md`)}`);
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(reached).toBe(1);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('DiffService refuses the git folder on its own', () => {
+  let diffService: DiffService;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    const service = new WorkspaceService(root, 'https://example.invalid/kb.git', KB, new NodeFs());
+    diffService = new DiffService(service, new WorkspaceMutex(), root, join(root, 'backups'), KB, new NodeFs());
+  });
+
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    expect(await snapshotGit()).toBe(gitSnapshot);
+  });
+
+  const ops: Array<[string, (p: string) => Promise<unknown>]> = [
+    ['fileDiff', (p) => diffService.fileDiff(WS, p)],
+    ['acceptOne', (p) => diffService.acceptOne(WS, p)],
+    ['rejectOne', (p) => diffService.rejectOne(WS, p)],
+    ['syncFromDisk', (p) => diffService.syncFromDisk(WS, p)],
+    ['markUserDeleted', (p) => diffService.markUserDeleted(WS, p)],
+    ['revertPlan', (p) => diffService.revertPlan(WS, [p])],
+  ];
+
+  for (const [name, run] of ops) {
+    it.each(Object.entries(FILE_FORMS))(`${name} — %s form`, async (_form, p) => {
+      await expect(run(p)).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(GitInternalsError);
+    });
+  }
+
+  it('a refused fileDiff on a fresh workspace seeds nothing — the refusal comes before the ledger', async () => {
+    await expect(diffService.fileDiff(WS, `${KB}/.git/config`)).rejects.toMatchObject({ status: 403 });
+    // Through a link as well: the resolved form is judged before the seed too.
+    await symlink('.git', join(workspaceDir, KB, 'gitlink-diff'));
+    await expect(diffService.fileDiff(WS, `${KB}/gitlink-diff/config`)).rejects.toMatchObject({ status: 403 });
+    await expect(stat(join(root, 'backups'))).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'ENOENT' });
+  });
+
+  it('a legacy git entry in the backup ledger is not listed, and its content never comes back', async () => {
+    // A ledger seeded before the rule existed: the backup side holds the git
+    // folder. Listing must not pair it with the workspace path and read it out.
+    const backupKb = join(root, 'backups', WS, KB);
+    await mkdir(join(backupKb, '.GIT'), { recursive: true });
+    await writeFile(join(backupKb, '.GIT', 'config'), '[credential]\n\thelper = store\n');
+    await mkdir(join(backupKb, 'Notes'), { recursive: true });
+    await writeFile(join(backupKb, 'Notes', 'a.md'), '# A\nhelper\n');
+
+    const session = await diffService.currentSession(WS);
+    expect(JSON.stringify(session ?? {})).not.toMatch(/\.GIT|credential/);
+  });
+
+  it('an ordinary file still diffs', async () => {
+    await expect(diffService.fileDiff(WS, `${KB}/Notes/a.md`)).resolves.toMatchObject({ path: `${KB}/Notes/a.md` });
+  });
+});
+
+describe('agent filesystems refuse the git folder on their own', () => {
+  it('LockingFilesystem refuses before taking a lock', async () => {
+    const workflow = makeWorkflow();
+    const lockingFs = new LockingFilesystem(
+      { basePath: workspaceDir, contained: true },
+      { workflow: workflow as unknown as IWorkflowService, workspaceId: WS, branch: BRANCH, user: USER, kbDirName: KB },
+    );
+    for (const p of Object.values(FILE_FORMS)) {
+      await expect(lockingFs.readFile(p)).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(GitInternalsError);
+      await expect(lockingFs.stat(p)).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(GitInternalsError);
+      await expect(lockingFs.writeFile(p, 'x')).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(GitInternalsError);
+      await expect(lockingFs.appendFile(p, 'x')).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(GitInternalsError);
+      await expect(lockingFs.deleteFile(p)).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(GitInternalsError);
+      await expect(lockingFs.copyFile(`${KB}/Notes/a.md`, p)).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(GitInternalsError);
+      await expect(lockingFs.moveFile(p, `${KB}/Notes/b.md`)).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(GitInternalsError);
+      await expect(lockingFs.writeFiles([{ path: p, content: 'x' }], 'batch')).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(GitInternalsError);
+    }
+    for (const p of Object.values(DIR_FORMS)) {
+      await expect(lockingFs.readdir(p)).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(GitInternalsError);
+      await expect(lockingFs.mkdir(`${p}/new`)).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(GitInternalsError);
+    }
+    expect(workflow.acquireLock).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(await snapshotGit()).toBe(gitSnapshot);
+  });
+
+  it('ReadOnlyFilesystem answers a git path with the git refusal, not the read-only one', async () => {
+    const readOnly = new ReadOnlyFilesystem({ basePath: workspaceDir, contained: true });
+    for (const p of Object.values(FILE_FORMS)) {
+      await expect(readOnly.readFile(p)).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(GitInternalsError);
+      await expect(readOnly.exists(p)).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(GitInternalsError);
+      await expect(readOnly.writeFile(p, 'x')).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(GitInternalsError);
+    }
+    const names = (await readOnly.readdir(KB)).map((e) => e.name);
+    expect(names).not.toContain('.git');
+    expect(names).not.toContain('gitlink');
+    expect(names).toContain('Notes');
+  });
+
+  it('a recursive listing leaves the git folder out instead of failing on it', async () => {
+    const readOnly = new ReadOnlyFilesystem({ basePath: workspaceDir, contained: true });
+    const names = (await readOnly.readdir(KB, { recursive: true })).map((e) => e.name).sort();
+    expect(names).toEqual(['Notes', 'Notes/a.md', 'archive.zip']);
+    expect((await readOnly.readdir('', { recursive: true, maxDepth: 1 })).map((e) => e.name).sort()).toEqual([KB, `${KB}/Notes`, `${KB}/archive.zip`]);
+  });
+
+  it('a write through a dangling link into the git folder is refused and creates nothing', async () => {
+    await symlink('.git/hooks/post-checkout', join(workspaceDir, KB, 'hook.md'));
+    const workflow = makeWorkflow();
+    const lockingFs = new LockingFilesystem(
+      { basePath: workspaceDir, contained: true },
+      { workflow: workflow as unknown as IWorkflowService, workspaceId: WS, branch: BRANCH, user: USER, kbDirName: KB },
+    );
+    await expect(lockingFs.writeFile(`${KB}/hook.md`, '#!/bin/sh\n')).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(GitInternalsError);
+    expect(workflow.acquireLock).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(await snapshotGit()).toBe(gitSnapshot);
+  });
+});