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package/README.md

@@ -136,6 +136,11 @@ verified.
   `wouldWrite`;
 - a destination path that is a symlink leading out of the workspace, with no
   override;
+- a copy that would land in the running harness's own record — its session
+  logs, the tool results the runtime saved to a file, or its proof bundles,
+  as `to: .crewhaus` would — with no override and in every permission mode
+  (0.8.0). The provability gate and `continuity.proof` read that record as
+  evidence, so a migration onto it could rewrite the evidence;
 - a `targetVersion` different from the source's, and any `targetVersion` at all
   against a store with no version stamp. See below.
 

package/dist/index.js

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ import { existsSync, lstatSync, readdirSync, statSync } from "node:fs";
 import * as path from "node:path";
 import { AUDIT_CHAIN_EXCLUSION_REASON, InvalidRetentionDateError, KNOWLEDGE_MARKER_RELPATH, RETENTION_CONFIG_RELPATH, RETIREMENT_LOG_FILENAME, RetentionConfigError, RetireError, SHARED_DIR_DEFAULT, applyPull, applyPush, buildRetirementPlan, formatPlan, fragmentContentHash, harnessOptedIn, openHarnessRecordStore, parseRetentionDate, planPull, planPush, readHarnessGraders, readHarnessMemories, readHarnessPrompts, runRetentionExport, runRetentionPurge, runRetentionSweep, runRetirement, } from "@crewhaus/harness-lifecycle";
 import { buildTool } from "@crewhaus/tool-builder";
+import { protectedRootHolding, protectedRootsOf, protectedWriteRefusal, } from "@crewhaus/tool-safety/fs";
 import { z } from "zod";
 import { NO_PII_PASS_REASON, PULLED_MEMORIES_RELPATH, SHARED_MANIFEST_RELPATH, SHARED_MEMORIES_RELPATH, auditHarnessMemoryFiles, auditSharedFragments, auditSharedMemories, harnessMemoryHashes, landedSharedGraderHashes, makeRedactor, pulledFragmentRelPath, sharedFragmentRelPath, } from "./lib/knowledge";
 import { COVERED_STORE_DIRS, EXPORT_MANIFEST_FILENAME, RECEIPT_FILENAME, RECORD_SHAPE_MIGRATION_UNAVAILABLE, inspectDestination, plannedPaths, readStoreVersion, uncoveredStateEntries, writeReceipt, writtenPaths, } from "./lib/migrate";
@@ -144,7 +145,12 @@ function probeStateDir(abs) {
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 export const harnessRetire = buildTool({
     name: "HarnessRetire",
-    description: "Decommission a harness: fingerprint its durable state, archive it, and remove the live copy, with a retirement log written into the archive recording every step and its outcome. The orchestration, the ordering and the refusal on an active deployment pin are @crewhaus/harness-lifecycle's own. It REFUSES when the spec still has an environment pinned to a registered version, when the registry manifest cannot be read (an unreadable manifest is never treated as 'no pins'), when the archive directory already holds an archived state (the library replaces it, which would destroy the earlier harness's archive), and when the archive directory overlaps the state directory it is archiving. Two steps the CLI performs are NOT performed here and are reported as not performed: verifying the audit chain (run the AuditVerify tool first) and collecting a compliance-evidence bundle. Because of that a real run needs acceptUnverified:true. dryRun defaults to true and touches nothing; the preview fingerprints the state so it can tell you in advance about files it will not be able to read.",
+    operativeArgs: [
+        { field: "dir", kind: "path", default: ".", beneath: "all" },
+        { field: "archiveDir", kind: "path", beneath: "all" },
+        { field: "registryDir", kind: "path" },
+    ],
+    description: "Decommission a harness: fingerprint its durable state, archive it, and remove the live copy, writing a retirement log into the archive that records every step and its outcome. Use it when a harness is finished for good; the orchestration, ordering and active-pin refusal are @crewhaus/harness-lifecycle's own. It REFUSES while the spec still has an environment pinned to a registered version, when the registry manifest cannot be read (never treated as 'no pins'), when the archive directory already holds an archived state (it would be replaced), and when the archive directory overlaps the state directory. It does NOT verify the audit chain (run AuditVerify first) or collect a compliance-evidence bundle, and reports both as not performed, so a real run needs acceptUnverified:true. dryRun defaults to true and touches nothing; the preview fingerprints the state so it can warn in advance about files it will not be able to read.",
     inputSchema: z.object({
         spec: z
             .string()
@@ -406,6 +412,10 @@ export const harnessRetire = buildTool({
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 export const storeMigrate = buildTool({
     name: "StoreMigrate",
+    operativeArgs: [
+        { field: "dir", kind: "path", default: ".", beneath: "all" },
+        { field: "to", kind: "path", beneath: "all" },
+    ],
     description: "Migrate a harness's durable store to another store root: sessions and audit day files copied VERBATIM by @crewhaus/harness-lifecycle's own export path, every copied file then re-hashed at the destination, and a store-migration.json receipt written recording each file with its sha256. The source is not modified (beyond the audit evidence record the export appends), so the rollback is the source itself and re-running is safe: a second run reports what was already there. It REFUSES a destination that overlaps a live store, a destination already holding a receipt from a DIFFERENT source, and an overwrite of existing files unless overwrite is set. It also refuses a version-CHANGING migration outright rather than quietly copying records unchanged: the record transforms live in apps/cli, not here. What the export path does not carry — memories, prompts, graders, the registry, the policy files — is listed under notMigrated instead of being left silent. dryRun defaults to true.",
     inputSchema: z.object({
         to: z.string().min(1).describe("the destination store root, inside the workspace"),
@@ -428,7 +438,7 @@ export const storeMigrate = buildTool({
     }),
     destructive: true,
     requireJustification: true,
-    execute: async (input) => {
+    execute: async (input, ctx) => {
         const tool = "StoreMigrate";
         const dryRun = input.dryRun ?? true;
         const harness = containExistingDir(tool, input.dir ?? ".");
@@ -522,6 +532,17 @@ export const storeMigrate = buildTool({
         const escaping = containWritePaths(tool, dest.value, written);
         if (escaping !== undefined)
             return refusal(tool, escaping.code, escaping.reason);
+        // 0.8.0 — no copy lands in the run's own record (`RuntimeBridge
+        // .protectedRoots`): a destination of `.crewhaus` would write
+        // `.crewhaus/sessions/<id>.jsonl` over the live session log. Refused in
+        // every mode, as StateImport and CopyPath refuse.
+        const protectedRoots = protectedRootsOf(ctx);
+        if (protectedRoots.length > 0) {
+            const into = written.find((rel) => protectedRootHolding(path.join(dest.value.real, rel), protectedRoots) !== undefined);
+            if (into !== undefined) {
+                return protectedWriteRefusal(tool, `migrating onto ${input.to} (${into})`);
+            }
+        }
         const destState = inspectDestination(dest.value.real, written);
         if (!destState.ok)
             return refusal(tool, destState.code, destState.reason);
@@ -624,7 +645,7 @@ export const storeMigrate = buildTool({
         const files = [];
         const mismatched = [];
         for (const rel of appliedPaths) {
-            const abs = path.join(dest.value.real, ...rel.split("/"));
+            const abs = path.join(dest.value.real, rel);
             const digest = hashFile(abs);
             if (!digest.ok) {
                 mismatched.push({ rel, problem: "missing", detail: digest.reason });
@@ -708,6 +729,7 @@ export const storeMigrate = buildTool({
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 export const retentionEnforce = buildTool({
     name: "RetentionEnforce",
+    operativeArgs: [{ field: "dir", kind: "path", default: ".", beneath: "all" }],
     description: "Run a retention sweep or purge over a harness's stores: delete sessions past the age rule in .crewhaus/retention.json, honouring its pins and audit windows, and append a retention_enforcement record to the audit chain on a real run. The age rule, the pins, the windows and the audit-chain exclusion are all @crewhaus/harness-lifecycle's. dryRun defaults to true and reports the selection by COUNT and by the oldest and newest timestamps in it, so a misconfigured window is visible before it runs rather than after. It REFUSES a selection that covers every session in the store (unless allowDeleteAll says that is the intent), a purge cutoff in the future, a selection over maxDeletions, and — with no override at all — a selection containing a record whose timestamp is at or before 1971, because a timestamp that low is a broken clock rather than data that old and every age rule reads it as infinitely old. Audit data is never deleted. A store that cannot be enumerated is reported as unreadable, never as empty.",
     inputSchema: z.object({
         action: z
@@ -904,6 +926,10 @@ export const retentionEnforce = buildTool({
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 export const knowledgeSync = buildTool({
     name: "KnowledgeSync",
+    operativeArgs: [
+        { field: "dir", kind: "path", default: ".", beneath: "all" },
+        { field: "sharedDir", kind: "path", default: SHARED_DIR_DEFAULT, beneath: "all" },
+    ],
     description: "Push a harness's memories, grader and prompt fragments into a shared knowledge store, or pull the store's into the harness. Deduped by content hash and redacted by @crewhaus/harness-lifecycle, which drops any artifact still carrying a credential-shaped token after masking. A push requires the harness to have opted in (a .crewhaus/knowledge.json marker) and requires allowWithoutPiiRedaction, because @crewhaus/pii-redactor is not a dependency here: credential masking runs, but names, emails and phone numbers are NOT removed. Shared records that failed validation — a forged content hash, an oversized body — are COUNTED and reported rather than silently skipped, because a poisoned shared store is untrusted input, and a sync that moves more than maxArtifacts is refused. The text of artifacts dropped for still looking secret is never echoed back. dryRun defaults to true.",
     inputSchema: z.object({
         direction: z
@@ -1097,7 +1123,7 @@ export const knowledgeSync = buildTool({
             const missing = after.ok
                 ? plan.memories.filter((m) => !landedHashes.has(m.contentHash)).map((m) => m.contentHash)
                 : [];
-            const fragmentsMissing = plan.fragments.filter((f) => !existsSync(path.join(shared.value.real, ...sharedFragmentRelPath(f).split("/"))));
+            const fragmentsMissing = plan.fragments.filter((f) => !existsSync(path.join(shared.value.real, sharedFragmentRelPath(f))));
             return json({
                 ...common,
                 status: "applied",
@@ -1210,7 +1236,7 @@ export const knowledgeSync = buildTool({
         // check reported as a total one.
         const fragmentsMissing = plan.fragments
             .map((f) => pulledFragmentRelPath(f))
-            .filter((rel) => !existsSync(path.join(harnessDir.value.real, ...rel.split("/"))));
+            .filter((rel) => !existsSync(path.join(harnessDir.value.real, rel)));
         return json({
             ...common,
             status: "applied",

package/dist/lib/migrate.js

@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ export function inspectDestination(destAbs, plannedRelPaths) {
                 // DANGLING one as absent — so a link left at a destination path read
                 // as "nothing here", `overwrite` was never asked for, and the copy
                 // went through the link to whatever it pointed at.
-                lstatSync(path.join(destAbs, ...rel.split("/")));
+                lstatSync(path.join(destAbs, rel));
                 conflicts.push(rel);
             }
             catch (err) {

package/dist/lib/result.d.ts

@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ export type Loaded<T> = {
 export declare function fail(code: FailCode, reason: string): Failure;
 /** The JSON a tool returns when it will not proceed. */
 export declare function refusal(tool: string, code: FailCode, reason: string, extra?: {}): string;
+/**
+ * True when `rel` resolves to a path longer than any path can be
+ * ({@link MAX_PATH_CHARS}). It cannot be opened or created, so it leads
+ * nowhere and is no escape; `contain` refuses it, naming the length and the
+ * limit, and anything that touches it meets the filesystem's own refusal.
+ */
+export declare function pastPathLimit(rel: string): boolean;
 /**
  * Resolve a caller-supplied path inside the workspace.
  *

package/dist/lib/result.js

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
  */
 import { statSync } from "node:fs";
 import * as path from "node:path";
-import { ToolPermissionError, resolveSafe } from "../paths";
+import { MAX_PATH_CHARS, ToolPermissionError, resolveSafe } from "../paths";
 /** Compact JSON — the reader is a model, and every byte is context. */
 export const json = (value) => JSON.stringify(value);
 /**
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ export function fail(code, reason) {
 export function refusal(tool, code, reason, extra = {}) {
     return json({ tool, status: "refused", code, reason, ...extra });
 }
+/**
+ * True when `rel` resolves to a path longer than any path can be
+ * ({@link MAX_PATH_CHARS}). It cannot be opened or created, so it leads
+ * nowhere and is no escape; `contain` refuses it, naming the length and the
+ * limit, and anything that touches it meets the filesystem's own refusal.
+ */
+export function pastPathLimit(rel) {
+    return path.resolve(process.cwd(), rel).length > MAX_PATH_CHARS;
+}
 /**
  * Resolve a caller-supplied path inside the workspace.
  *
@@ -59,7 +68,7 @@ export function contain(toolName, rel) {
         if (err instanceof ToolPermissionError) {
             // The error's own message carries the path unrendered; rebuild it so a
             // control character in the caller's input cannot reach the output.
-            return fail("refused", `tool "${toolName}" rejected path "${renderPath(rel)}": resolved location escapes the workspace root`);
+            return fail("refused", `tool "${toolName}" rejected path "${renderPath(rel)}": ${err.reason ?? "resolved location escapes the workspace root"}`);
         }
         throw err;
     }
@@ -90,6 +99,9 @@ export function containWritePaths(toolName, root, rels) {
     const shownRoot = root.rel === "" ? "." : root.rel;
     for (const rel of rels) {
         const under = root.rel === "" ? rel : `${root.rel}/${rel}`;
+        // Too long to open or create: it leads nowhere, so it is no escape.
+        if (pastPathLimit(under))
+            continue;
         if (!contain(toolName, under).ok) {
             return fail("refused", `"${renderPath(rel)}" under "${renderPath(shownRoot)}" resolves outside the workspace root — a symlink on that path leads out, so the write would land on the link's target rather than inside "${renderPath(shownRoot)}". Remove the link and run again; there is no flag for writing through it.`);
         }

package/dist/lib/tree.js

@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ export function verifyAgainst(destRoot, manifest, manifestComplete = true) {
     const mismatched = [];
     let verified = 0;
     for (const entry of manifest) {
-        const abs = path.join(destRoot, ...entry.rel.split("/"));
+        const abs = path.join(destRoot, entry.rel);
         let stat;
         try {
             stat = lstatSync(abs);

package/dist/paths.d.ts

@@ -1,10 +1,29 @@
 import { CrewhausError } from "@crewhaus/errors";
-/** Raised when a caller-supplied path resolves outside the workspace root. */
+/**
+ * The longest path this resolves, in UTF-16 code units; a longer one is
+ * refused before it is walked. Nothing that long can be opened or created:
+ * PATH_MAX is 1,024 bytes on macOS and 4,096 on Linux, Windows stops at
+ * 32,767 UTF-16 units, and a path's UTF-8 form is never shorter than its
+ * UTF-16 one. The limit is twice that because the part of a path that exists
+ * is itself under PATH_MAX, so the part that does not is over PATH_MAX on its
+ * own: no spelling of the place reaches it, not even one through a symlink
+ * that shortens the part that exists.
+ */
+export declare const MAX_PATH_CHARS: number;
+/**
+ * Raised when a caller-supplied path resolves outside the workspace root, or
+ * is longer than any path can be.
+ */
 export declare class ToolPermissionError extends CrewhausError {
     readonly name = "ToolPermissionError";
     readonly toolName: string;
     readonly path: string;
-    constructor(toolName: string, attemptedPath: string);
+    /**
+     * Why, when it is not that the location escapes the workspace root: a path
+     * longer than any path can be. A caller that rewords the refusal says this.
+     */
+    readonly reason: string | undefined;
+    constructor(toolName: string, attemptedPath: string, reason?: string);
 }
 /**
  * A validated path, in both forms the tools need.

package/dist/paths.js

@@ -11,15 +11,45 @@
 import { lstatSync, readlinkSync, realpathSync } from "node:fs";
 import * as path from "node:path";
 import { CrewhausError } from "@crewhaus/errors";
-/** Raised when a caller-supplied path resolves outside the workspace root. */
+/**
+ * The longest path this resolves, in UTF-16 code units; a longer one is
+ * refused before it is walked. Nothing that long can be opened or created:
+ * PATH_MAX is 1,024 bytes on macOS and 4,096 on Linux, Windows stops at
+ * 32,767 UTF-16 units, and a path's UTF-8 form is never shorter than its
+ * UTF-16 one. The limit is twice that because the part of a path that exists
+ * is itself under PATH_MAX, so the part that does not is over PATH_MAX on its
+ * own: no spelling of the place reaches it, not even one through a symlink
+ * that shortens the part that exists.
+ */
+export const MAX_PATH_CHARS = 2 * (process.platform === "darwin" ? 1_024 : process.platform === "win32" ? 32_767 : 4_096);
+/** A path as a refusal quotes it: whole, unless it is past {@link MAX_PATH_CHARS}. */
+function shownPath(given) {
+    return given.length > MAX_PATH_CHARS ? `${given.slice(0, 64)}…` : given;
+}
+/** Why a path past {@link MAX_PATH_CHARS} is refused: its length and the limit. */
+function tooLong(abs) {
+    return `it is ${abs.length} characters once resolved, over the ${MAX_PATH_CHARS}-character limit: no path that long can be opened or created`;
+}
+/**
+ * Raised when a caller-supplied path resolves outside the workspace root, or
+ * is longer than any path can be.
+ */
 export class ToolPermissionError extends CrewhausError {
     name = "ToolPermissionError";
     toolName;
     path;
-    constructor(toolName, attemptedPath) {
-        super("tool", `tool "${toolName}" rejected path "${attemptedPath}": resolved location escapes the workspace root`);
+    /**
+     * Why, when it is not that the location escapes the workspace root: a path
+     * longer than any path can be. A caller that rewords the refusal says this.
+     */
+    reason;
+    constructor(toolName, attemptedPath, reason) {
+        super("tool", reason === undefined
+            ? `tool "${toolName}" rejected path "${attemptedPath}": resolved location escapes the workspace root`
+            : `tool "${toolName}" rejected path "${shownPath(attemptedPath)}": ${reason}`);
         this.toolName = toolName;
         this.path = attemptedPath;
+        this.reason = reason;
     }
 }
 /** The workspace root, resolved. Every path is contained within it. */
@@ -67,15 +97,7 @@ function nameExists(p) {
 function resolveLocation(target, depth = 0) {
     if (depth > 40)
         throw new Error(`symlink chain at "${target}" is too long to resolve`);
-    let probe = target;
-    const tail = [];
-    while (!nameExists(probe)) {
-        tail.unshift(path.basename(probe));
-        const parent = path.dirname(probe);
-        if (parent === probe)
-            break; // reached the filesystem root
-        probe = parent;
-    }
+    const { probe, tail } = deepestName(target);
     let probeReal;
     try {
         probeReal = realpathSync(probe);
@@ -97,7 +119,41 @@ function resolveLocation(target, depth = 0) {
         const base = realpathSync(path.dirname(probe));
         probeReal = resolveLocation(path.resolve(base, link), depth + 1);
     }
-    return tail.length > 0 ? path.join(probeReal, ...tail) : probeReal;
+    // One string, not one argument per name: Bun's `path.join` keeps only
+    // (argument count mod 65,536) of its arguments.
+    return tail.length > 0 ? path.join(probeReal, tail) : probeReal;
+}
+/**
+ * `target`, an absolute path, split where its deepest prefix that exists as
+ * a NAME ends: that prefix, and the names below it, which do not exist, as
+ * one string ("" when `target` itself exists). This is `path.dirname` and
+ * `path.basename` worked by index on `target` itself: handing them each
+ * shorter prefix in turn copied the rest of the path once per missing name,
+ * the square of a count the caller picks.
+ */
+function deepestName(target) {
+    const top = path.parse(target).root.length;
+    const isSep = (i) => target[i] === "/" || target[i] === path.sep;
+    let probe = target;
+    let start = target.length;
+    let stop = -1;
+    while (!nameExists(probe)) {
+        // `path.basename(probe)` is `target.slice(start, end)`, and
+        // `path.dirname(probe)` is `target.slice(0, up)`.
+        let end = probe.length;
+        while (end > top && isSep(end - 1))
+            end--;
+        if (stop < 0)
+            stop = end;
+        start = end;
+        while (start > top && !isSep(start - 1))
+            start--;
+        const up = start > top ? start - 1 : top;
+        if (up === probe.length)
+            break; // reached the filesystem root
+        probe = target.slice(0, up);
+    }
+    return { probe, tail: stop < 0 ? "" : target.slice(start, stop) };
 }
 export function resolveSafe(toolName, rel, root = workspaceRoot()) {
     const rootResolved = path.resolve(root);
@@ -107,6 +163,9 @@ export function resolveSafe(toolName, rel, root = workspaceRoot()) {
     if (abs !== rootResolved && !abs.startsWith(`${rootResolved}${path.sep}`)) {
         throw new ToolPermissionError(toolName, rel);
     }
+    // Longer than any path can be: refused before the walk below reads it.
+    if (abs.length > MAX_PATH_CHARS)
+        throw new ToolPermissionError(toolName, rel, tooLong(abs));
     let real;
     try {
         const rootReal = realpathSync(rootResolved);

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@crewhaus/tool-lifecycle",
-  "version": "0.7.0",
+  "version": "0.8.0",
   "type": "module",
   "description": "Deterministic harness lifecycle: retirement, store migration, retention enforcement and knowledge sync",
   "main": "dist/index.js",
@@ -8,17 +8,19 @@
   "exports": {
     ".": {
       "types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
-      "import": "./dist/index.js"
+      "import": "./dist/index.js",
+      "default": "./dist/index.js"
     }
   },
   "scripts": {
     "test": "bun test src"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@crewhaus/errors": "0.7.0",
-    "@crewhaus/harness-lifecycle": "0.7.0",
-    "@crewhaus/tool-builder": "0.7.0",
-    "@crewhaus/tool-catalog": "0.7.0",
+    "@crewhaus/errors": "0.8.0",
+    "@crewhaus/harness-lifecycle": "0.8.0",
+    "@crewhaus/tool-builder": "0.8.0",
+    "@crewhaus/tool-catalog": "0.8.0",
+    "@crewhaus/tool-safety": "0.8.0",
     "zod": "^3.23.8"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
@@ -42,5 +44,8 @@
   "publishConfig": {
     "access": "public"
   },
-  "files": ["dist", "README.md", "LICENSE", "NOTICE"]
+  "files": ["dist", "README.md", "LICENSE", "NOTICE"],
+  "engines": {
+    "bun": ">=1.3.14"
+  }
 }