seisin 0.5.0 → 0.6.0

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  1. package/README.md +385 -129
  2. package/package.json +13 -5
  3. package/src/browsers.js +52 -0
  4. package/src/canary.js +149 -0
  5. package/src/cli.js +47 -23
  6. package/src/commands/check.js +154 -3
  7. package/src/commands/explain.js +2 -5
  8. package/src/commands/hook.js +7 -3
  9. package/src/commands/init.js +57 -50
  10. package/src/commands/requests.js +31 -56
  11. package/src/commands/review.js +33 -6
  12. package/src/commands/run.js +332 -110
  13. package/src/commands/walls.js +39 -7
  14. package/src/commands/whose.js +2 -1
  15. package/src/config.js +321 -15
  16. package/src/controls.js +5 -5
  17. package/src/diagnose.js +67 -16
  18. package/src/env.js +3 -0
  19. package/src/grants.js +107 -2
  20. package/src/handoff.js +285 -10
  21. package/src/help.js +39 -19
  22. package/src/hook.js +59 -30
  23. package/src/index.d.ts +217 -0
  24. package/src/index.js +20 -12
  25. package/src/inspect/codex.js +64 -0
  26. package/src/inspect/credentials.js +48 -0
  27. package/src/inspect/enforce.js +24 -0
  28. package/src/inspect/files.js +71 -0
  29. package/src/inspect/home.js +43 -0
  30. package/src/inspect/inject.js +68 -0
  31. package/src/inspect/keys.js +74 -0
  32. package/src/inspect/layout.js +258 -0
  33. package/src/inspect/limits.js +98 -0
  34. package/src/inspect/machine.js +107 -0
  35. package/src/inspect/network.js +37 -0
  36. package/src/inspect/providers.js +71 -0
  37. package/src/inspect/read-territory.js +105 -0
  38. package/src/inspect/role-keys.js +136 -0
  39. package/src/inspect/shared.js +37 -0
  40. package/src/inspect/warnings.js +58 -0
  41. package/src/inspect.js +13 -815
  42. package/src/intake.js +131 -21
  43. package/src/keys.js +223 -67
  44. package/src/kinds.js +42 -0
  45. package/src/lines.js +26 -0
  46. package/src/log.js +7 -2
  47. package/src/mcp.js +28 -43
  48. package/src/nested.js +12 -3
  49. package/src/notify.js +53 -12
  50. package/src/owners.js +165 -3
  51. package/src/paths.js +17 -1
  52. package/src/provider-run.js +81 -0
  53. package/src/redact.js +34 -15
  54. package/src/render.js +35 -9
  55. package/src/requests.js +363 -45
  56. package/src/review.js +21 -9
  57. package/src/rundir.js +29 -8
  58. package/src/sandboxes/command.js +93 -0
  59. package/src/sandboxes/index.js +113 -0
  60. package/src/sandboxes/mach-profile.js +31 -0
  61. package/src/sandboxes/srt-mach.mjs +43 -0
  62. package/src/sandboxes/srt.js +163 -0
  63. package/src/sandboxes/tartaros.js +80 -0
  64. package/src/scan.js +7 -3
  65. package/src/serve.js +35 -17
  66. package/src/spool.js +8 -17
  67. package/src/srt.js +263 -33
  68. package/src/surface.js +129 -16
  69. package/src/territory.js +261 -0
  70. package/src/trace.js +33 -0
  71. package/src/uilink.js +15 -6
  72. package/src/views.js +40 -14
  73. package/src/violations.js +143 -7
  74. package/src/walls.js +62 -9
  75. package/ui/index.html +85 -13
  76. package/ui/favicon.svg +0 -1
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+ import { join } from "node:path";
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+ import { readdirSync, readFileSync, statSync } from "node:fs";
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+ import { SHAPES } from "../scan.js";
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+
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+ /**
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+ * Credential-shaped names at the top of the repository, and nothing deeper.
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+ *
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+ * One `readdir`, no recursion, conventional names only. It exists to answer
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+ * "does this repo plausibly have secrets" fast enough to run on every `check`,
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+ * not to find them — `seisin scan` is the one that looks properly.
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+ */
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+ const CREDENTIAL_NAMES = /^(\.env(\..+)?|\.secrets|secrets|\.netrc|.*\.(pem|key|p12|pfx))$/i;
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+
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+ export function credentialish(root) {
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+ let entries;
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+ try {
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+ entries = readdirSync(root, { withFileTypes: true });
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+ } catch {
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+ return [];
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+ }
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+ const found = new Set(entries.filter((e) => CREDENTIAL_NAMES.test(e.name)).map((e) => e.name));
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+
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+ /**
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+ * And the ones whose name gives nothing away.
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+ *
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+ * The name test misses `credentials.txt`, `tokens.conf`, `config.local` —
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+ * which a field review found by writing a test file this did not catch, and
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+ * then blaming the test. The test was fine; the detector was name-only.
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+ *
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+ * So the root's small text files are also read, with the same shapes
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+ * `seisin scan` uses. Root only, small only, and it stops at the first hit
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+ * per file: this runs on every `check` and the full walk is `scan`'s job.
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+ */
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+ const CERTAIN = SHAPES.filter(([c]) => c === "certain").map(([, , re]) => re);
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+ for (const e of entries) {
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+ if (found.size >= 4) break;
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+ if (!e.isFile() || found.has(e.name)) continue;
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+ try {
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+ const p = join(root, e.name);
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+ if (statSync(p).size > 64 * 1024) continue;
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+ const text = readFileSync(p, "utf8");
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+ if (CERTAIN.some((re) => re.test(text))) found.add(e.name);
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+ } catch {
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+ /* unreadable, or not text: not our business here */
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+ }
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+ }
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+ return [...found].sort().slice(0, 4);
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+ }
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+ import { settingsFor } from "../srt.js";
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+
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+ export function enforceWarnings(config, roles) {
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+ const warnings = [];
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+ // A pattern the kernel cannot be given is not a policy, it is a sentence that
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+ // reads like one. `run` refuses it; `check` exists precisely so you find that
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+ // out while reading the map rather than mid-run.
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+ for (const r of roles) {
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+ try {
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+ settingsFor(config, r.name);
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+ } catch (e) {
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+ // Whatever settingsFor refuses, `run` will refuse too. The label used to
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+ // say "unenforceable-glob" for every one of them, which mislabelled the
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+ // key-outside-its-directory error as a glob problem — a warning that
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+ // names the wrong cause sends the reader to the wrong line.
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+ warnings.push({
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+ kind: "cannot-be-enforced",
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+ headline: `${r.name}: ${e.message.split("\n")[0]}`,
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+ detail: e.message.split("\n").slice(1).map((s) => s.trim()).filter(Boolean).join(" "),
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+ });
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+ }
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+ }
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+ return warnings;
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+ }
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+ import { resolve } from "node:path";
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+ import { lstatSync, readdirSync } from "node:fs";
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+
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+ /**
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+ * A role's territory, sorted by what the kernel will do with each line.
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+ *
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+ * Three shapes get through `settingsFor` (see EXPRESSIBLE in srt.js): the whole
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+ * repo, a subtree `x/**`, and a literal path. The literal path is the one the
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+ * text cannot settle on its own — `data/base.sqlite` and `data` are both
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+ * literal, and to the kernel the second is a subtree because it is a directory.
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+ * So the disk is asked, once per line: a regular file is a file, a directory is
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+ * a subtree, and anything else — absent, a symlink, a socket — goes in neither
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+ * count rather than being guessed at. That is one `lstat` per declared path,
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+ * bounded by the length of the policy and not the size of the repo, which is
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+ * the line `check` stays on.
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+ *
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+ * Subtrees come back as the absolute prefix the kernel will be handed, so that
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+ * "is this file's folder inside that grant" is the same comparison the kernel
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+ * makes — a prefix — and not a second reading of the glob.
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+ */
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+ export function territoryOf(config, role) {
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+ const root = resolve(config.root);
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+ const abs = (p) => resolve(root, p);
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+ const files = [];
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+ const subtrees = [];
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+ for (const glob of role.writes) {
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+ if (glob === "**" || glob.endsWith("/**")) {
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+ subtrees.push(abs(glob === "**" ? "." : glob.slice(0, -3)));
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+ continue;
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+ }
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+ if (/[*?[\]]/.test(glob)) continue; // already refused above as cannot-be-enforced
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+ if (implicitSidecar(role, glob)) continue; // part of its database, not a file of its own
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+ const s = lstatOrNull(abs(glob));
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+ if (s?.isFile()) files.push({ glob, abs: abs(glob) });
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+ else if (s?.isDirectory()) subtrees.push(abs(glob));
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+ }
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+ return { files, subtrees };
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+ }
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+
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+ /**
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+ * A `-wal`, `-shm` or `-journal` the role has because it writes the database
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+ * beside it — the expansion in config.js, which `writes` carries. It is the
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+ * same resource as the database, so it is not counted or reported as another
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+ * file. One declared WITHOUT its database is the role's own, and counts.
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+ */
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+ export function implicitSidecar(role, glob) {
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+ const m = /^(.*\.sqlite3?)-(wal|shm|journal)$/.exec(glob);
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+ return !!m && role.writes.includes(m[1]);
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+ }
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+
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+ /** Is `p` the prefix, or somewhere beneath it. The kernel's own test, in one line. */
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+ export function under(p, prefix) {
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+ return p === prefix || p.startsWith(prefix + "/");
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+ }
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+
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+ /** The regular files directly inside `dir`, by name. Not folders, not links, not deeper. */
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+ export function regularFilesIn(dir) {
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+ try {
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+ return readdirSync(dir, { withFileTypes: true }).filter((d) => d.isFile()).map((d) => d.name).sort();
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+ } catch {
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+ return [];
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+ }
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+ }
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+
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+ function lstatOrNull(p) {
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+ try {
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+ return lstatSync(p);
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+ } catch {
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+ return null;
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+ }
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+ }
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+ import { CREDENTIAL_HOMES } from "../srt.js";
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+
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+ /**
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+ * What a role can still read in YOUR home, which is the limit people are most
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+ * surprised by.
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+ *
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+ * `~/.ssh`, `~/.aws/credentials`, `~/.npmrc` and `~/.config/gh/hosts.yml` are
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+ * ordinary readable files to every role unless `[runtime] isolate` says
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+ * otherwise, and nothing on screen said so. Reads outside the key directories
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+ * being open is a deliberate trade - an agent that cannot read the machine
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+ * cannot work - but a trade nobody was shown is not a trade they made.
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+ *
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+ * It reports the level rather than pushing one. `credentials` closes those four
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+ * and leaves the agent logged in; `home` closes the agent's own directories too
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+ * and costs the session. Which of the two you want is the threat model, which
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+ * is why there is no default beyond off.
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+ */
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+ export function homeReachWarning(config) {
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+ if (config.read === "territory") return null;
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+ const level = config.isolate === true ? "home" : config.isolate;
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+ if (level === "home") return null; // nothing left to say
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+
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+ const where = CREDENTIAL_HOMES.slice(0, 4).join(" ");
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+ return level === "credentials"
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+ ? {
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+ kind: "home-partly-open",
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+ headline: "your credentials are closed to every role; the agent's own directories are not",
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+ detail:
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+ `isolate = "credentials" denies ${where} and the rest. What stays open is ` +
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+ "~/.claude to runs of claude and ~/.codex to runs of codex, which is what keeps the " +
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+ "agent signed in, so the runs of one agent share its session and can read each other's. " +
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+ '`isolate = "home"` closes those ' +
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+ "too, and then every CLI in the sandbox will ask you to log in again.",
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+ }
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+ : {
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+ kind: "home-open",
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+ headline: `every role can read ${where} and the rest of your home`,
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+ detail:
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+ "reads outside the [keys] dir are open on purpose - an agent that cannot read the " +
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+ "machine cannot work - but that includes the places credentials live. " +
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+ '`[runtime] isolate = "credentials"` closes them, and the agent stays logged in.',
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+ };
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+ }
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+ /**
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+ * Warnings for `key_mode = "inject"`: the MITM it costs, the traffic it
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+ * widens, the one thing it does not close, and the platform it does not run on.
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+ *
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+ * Masking is the only mode where the agent never sees the value, and it is the
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+ * only one that reads the role's encrypted traffic to do it. A reader of
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+ * `check` should see, per masked credential: which hosts are intercepted (and
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+ * when a wildcard allow drags more than the one host under interception), that
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+ * the value is still recoverable by reflection, and — off Linux — that the role
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+ * will not run here. None of this is a reason not to use inject; it is the
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+ * price printed next to the thing it buys.
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+ */
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+ import { injectKeysOf } from "../keys.js";
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+ import { coversHost as covers } from "../srt.js";
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+
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+ export function injectWarnings(config, roles) {
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+ const out = [];
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+ for (const r of roles) {
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+ let inject;
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+ try {
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+ inject = injectKeysOf(config, r);
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+ } catch (e) {
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+ const [headline, ...rest] = e.message.split("\n");
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+ out.push({ kind: "cannot-be-enforced", role: r.name, headline, detail: rest.join("\n").trim() });
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+ continue;
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+ }
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+ if (inject.length === 0) continue;
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+ const allowed = r.network ?? config.allowedDomains ?? [];
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+
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+ if (process.platform !== "linux")
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+ out.push({
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+ kind: "inject-platform",
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+ role: r.name,
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+ headline: `${r.name}: key_mode = "inject" is not available on ${process.platform} — it is Linux-only for now`,
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+ detail: `On this machine the role will not run. Masked injection on macOS is tracked upstream ` +
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+ `(anthropics/sandbox-runtime#593) and enables once that lands. Run this role on Linux, or ` +
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+ `use "env"/"run-file" here.`,
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+ });
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+
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+ for (const c of inject) {
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+ const terminated = new Set();
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+ const wholesale = [];
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+ for (const h of c.hosts)
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+ for (const p of allowed)
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+ if (covers(p, h)) {
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+ terminated.add(p);
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+ if (p.startsWith("*.")) wholesale.push({ pattern: p, host: h });
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+ }
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+ const under = [...terminated].join(", ") || "(none reachable — check network)";
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+ const wildcardNote = wholesale.length
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+ ? ` The wildcard ${wholesale.map((w) => w.pattern).join(", ")} is terminated whole, not just ` +
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+ `${wholesale.map((w) => w.host).join(", ")}: srt cannot intercept one host out of a wildcard.`
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+ : "";
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+ out.push({
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+ kind: "inject-mitm",
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+ role: r.name,
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+ headline: `${r.name}: ${c.name} is masked (agent sees a fake); TLS terminated for ${under}`,
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+ detail:
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+ `seisin reads this role's HTTPS to ${under} with a CA of its own, to substitute the real token ` +
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+ `on the way out.${wildcardNote} The token is still recoverable by reflection: if ${c.hosts.join("/")} ` +
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+ `stores what the agent sends and returns it later (an issue, a gist, a comment, a note), the agent ` +
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+ `can POST the sentinel, have the host keep the real value, and read it back. inject stops the agent ` +
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+ `from seeing the token directly and from sending it anywhere else — not this. Use a least-scope token.`,
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+ });
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+ }
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+ }
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+ return out;
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+ }
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+ import { entriesOf } from "../keys.js";
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+ import { credentialish } from "./credentials.js";
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+
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+ export function envWarnings(roles) {
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+ const warnings = [];
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+ // `env` is a hole in the [keys] model, on purpose: some tools only take a
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+ // credential through the environment. It should still be loud, because it is
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+ // the one place a secret reaches a role without being a declared key.
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+ const SECRETISH = /(TOKEN|KEY|SECRET|PASSWORD|PASSWD|AUTH|COOKIE|SESSION|PRIVATE|CREDENTIAL)/i;
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+ for (const r of roles) {
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+ const risky = (r.env ?? []).filter((n) => SECRETISH.test(n));
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+ if (risky.length)
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+ warnings.push({
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+ kind: "secret-through-env",
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+ headline: `${r.name} receives ${risky.join(", ")} through the environment`,
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+ detail:
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+ "that bypasses [keys] entirely: it is not scoped, not redacted by name, and not " +
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+ "visible in the key map. Declare it as a key file where the tool allows one.",
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+ });
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+ }
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+ return warnings;
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+ }
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+
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+ export function keyFloorWarnings(config) {
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+ const warnings = [];
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+ /**
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+ * A policy with no credential floor at all, in a repo that has credentials.
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+ *
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+ * `[keys] dir` is what produces `denyRead`. Without it the emitted settings
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+ * carry an empty deny list, so every role reads every secret in the
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+ * repository — and until this warning, nothing said so. The existing
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+ * `keys-unscoped` only fires when a role *lists* keys, which is the case
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+ * where somebody already thought about it.
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+ *
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+ * The dangerous shape is the other one, and it is not hypothetical: a policy
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+ * generated by a script. The deployment this was built against generates its
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+ * `seisin.toml` from a Python program, and declares `[keys] dir` mostly so
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+ * `scan` skips those directories. A generator that dropped that one line
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+ * would hand every role the credential tree and produce a clean `check`.
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+ *
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+ * Credit where it is due: this is `L-01` of a code review of another
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+ * project's contract type, which makes its credential floor impossible to
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+ * construct empty. That is the right shape and it is a bigger change than a
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+ * warning. This is the cheap half — and the review's claim that the file
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+ * path was safe turned out to be generous: it was not.
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+ *
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+ * Deliberately NOT a full `seisin scan`: that walks the tree and `check` has
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+ * to stay instant. A shallow look at the repository root catches the
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+ * conventional places and costs one `readdir`.
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+ */
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+ if ((config.keyDirs ?? []).length === 0) {
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+ const found = credentialish(config.root);
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+ if (found.length)
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+ warnings.push({
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+ kind: "no-key-floor",
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+ headline: `no [keys] dir is declared, and this repo has ${found.join(", ")} — every role can read them`,
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+ detail:
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+ "Without a key directory the emitted policy denies no reads at all. Declare the " +
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+ "directory your secrets live in, and the roles that may read each one.",
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+ });
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+ }
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+
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+ // Only a key that is a PATH needs a key directory. A config whose secrets all
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+ // live in a vault has no `[keys] dir` and nothing wrong with it, and warning
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+ // there would be the tool insisting on the arrangement it was built for.
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+ if (config.keyDirs.length === 0 &&
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+ Object.values(config.roles).some((r) => entriesOf(r).some((k) => k.kind === "file")))
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+ warnings.push({
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+ kind: "keys-unscoped",
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+ headline: "keys are listed but [keys] dir is unset — nothing will be scoped",
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+ detail: null,
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+ });
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+ return warnings;
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+ }
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+ import { resolve, dirname, basename, relative, join } from "node:path";
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+ import { existsSync } from "node:fs";
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+ import { territoryOf, implicitSidecar, under, regularFilesIn } from "./files.js";
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+ import { covers } from "../owners.js";
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+
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+ export function layoutWarnings(config, roles, scoped) {
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+ const warnings = [];
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+ // A territory that leaves the repo is supported — a role can own its handover
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+ // note one level up — but it is a different promise from "this repo, divided",
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+ // and it should be a sentence somebody chose rather than a line that drifted.
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+ const loose = []; // roles granting individual files
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+ const listed = []; // role + folder pairs that enumerate
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+
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+ /**
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+ * A private folder inside another role's territory. Allowed — it is how a
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+ * folder is taken out of a wide `writes = ["**"]` — but that role loses it,
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+ * reading included, and nothing in its own table says so.
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+ */
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+ for (const r of roles)
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+ for (const p of r.private ?? []) {
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+ const dir = p.replace(/\/\*\*$/, "").replace(/\/+$/, "").replace(/^\.\//, "");
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+ for (const o of Object.values(config.roles)) {
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+ if (o.name === r.name) continue;
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+ const g = (o.writesDeclared ?? o.writes).find((w) => covers(w, dir));
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+ if (g)
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+ warnings.push({
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+ kind: "private-inside-territory",
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+ headline: `${r.name}: private "${p}" is inside ${o.name}'s writes ("${g}") — ${o.name} can neither read nor write it`,
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+ detail: `Every role but ${r.name} is denied the folder, and the deny wins over ${o.name}'s territory. ` +
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+ `If ${o.name} needs what is in it, it asks ${r.name}; if it should keep it, the folder is not private.`,
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+ });
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+ }
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+ }
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+
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+ for (const r of roles) {
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+ const out = r.writes.filter((w) => w.startsWith("/") || w.startsWith("../"));
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+ if (out.length)
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+ warnings.push({
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+ kind: "territory-outside-repo",
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+ headline: `${r.name} writes outside this repo: ${out.join(" ")}`,
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+ detail: "the sandbox will grant it. Nothing here checks what lives there.",
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+ });
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+ }
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+
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+ /**
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+ * A territory that is not on disk.
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+ *
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+ * A proposal written for another repo — or one typo — reads as a working
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+ * policy: `check` printed the map and the first sign of anything wrong was a
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+ * denial inside the agent. Said per glob, as a warning and never a failure:
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+ * a role can own a folder it is about to create.
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+ */
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+ for (const r of roles) {
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+ for (const g of r.writes) {
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+ if (g === "**" || g.startsWith("/") || g.startsWith("../")) continue;
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+ // A database's sidecars come with it (config.js) and exist only while it
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+ // is open: absent on disk is their normal state, not a typo to report.
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+ if (implicitSidecar(r, g)) continue;
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+ const fixed = [];
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+ for (const part of g.split("/")) {
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+ if (/[*?[\]]/.test(part)) break;
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+ fixed.push(part);
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+ }
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+ if (!fixed.length || existsSync(join(config.root, ...fixed))) continue;
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+ warnings.push({
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+ kind: "writes-match-nothing",
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+ headline: `${r.name} writes ${g} — matches nothing in this repo`,
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+ detail: "fine if the role is about to create it; otherwise the territory points at a folder that is not there.",
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+ });
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+ }
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+ }
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+
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+ /**
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+ * A territory inside a key directory.
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+ *
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+ * Seen in use: a role's whole territory sat under the folder declared as
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+ * `[keys] dir`, which is closed to every role, so the role could write
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+ * nothing at all — and `check` printed its territory as if it held. A key
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+ * directory is read by the roles that declare a key in it and written by
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+ * none; a folder a role must write belongs somewhere else.
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+ */
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+ const keyRoots = (config.keyDirs ?? []).map((d) => d.replace(/\/+$/, "")).filter(Boolean);
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+ for (const r of roles) {
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+ for (const g of r.writes) {
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+ const fixed = [];
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+ for (const part of g.split("/")) {
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+ if (/[*?[\]]/.test(part)) break;
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+ fixed.push(part);
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+ }
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+ const at = fixed.join("/");
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+ const dir = at && keyRoots.find((d) => at === d || at.startsWith(d + "/"));
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+ if (!dir) continue;
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+ warnings.push({
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+ kind: "territory-in-key-dir",
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+ headline: `${r.name} writes ${g} — inside the key directory ${dir}, which no role can write`,
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+ detail: "a key directory is read by the roles that declare its keys and written by none. Move what this role writes out of it, or drop the territory.",
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+ });
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+ }
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+ }
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+
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+ /**
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+ * A file granted by name does not come with its neighbours.
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+ *
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+ * Measured, in production, and it survived two reviews of the policy by people:
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+ * a role was granted its database file and still could not write the
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+ * database. The database opens a second file beside the first — a journal —
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+ * and the sibling was outside the grant, so the write failed in the
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+ * database's own words ("readonly") rather than as a permission error.
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+ *
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+ * What is deliberately NOT here: a list of which programs write which
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+ * siblings. That would ask seisin to know about databases, and the next
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+ * question is why it does not know about a lock file, the temporary file of
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+ * an atomic write, or an editor's backup. The list has no end and every entry
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+ * is a guess about a repo nobody foresaw. The general form needs no list: the
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+ * kernel grants a path and everything under it, so a grant on a file covers
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+ * the file and nothing else. Whether a tool will want a neighbour is the
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+ * reader's to know; that the neighbour is not granted is arithmetic.
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+ */
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+ for (const r of roles) {
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+ const { files, subtrees } = territoryOf(config, r);
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+ // A file inside one of the role's own subtrees has its siblings covered by
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+ // that subtree, so naming it changes nothing and warns about nothing.
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+ const alone = files.filter((f) => !subtrees.some((s) => under(dirname(f.abs), s)));
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+ if (alone.length)
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+ loose.push({ role: r.name, n: alone.length, of: r.writes.filter((g) => !implicitSidecar(r, g)).length,
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+ globs: alone.map((f) => f.glob) });
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+
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+
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+ /**
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+ * A territory written as a list of files is a photograph of the folder.
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+ *
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+ * A sandbox cannot say "the source files in this folder" — one level down
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+ * is not a prefix, and `src/*` is refused above for exactly that reason,
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+ * correctly. So a territory that means that has to be written as the files
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+ * that exist today, and the day a file is added the policy is one behind:
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+ * the owning role cannot write its own new file, and nothing fails loudly.
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+ *
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+ * Reported as a count, never as a verdict. "Comparable" here means only
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+ * "a regular file in the same folder" — not the same extension, not the
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+ * same shape of name, because either of those is a guess about what the
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+ * territory *meant*, and a guess about intent is the thing this check
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+ * exists to avoid. The unnamed files are listed by name instead, so the
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+ * reader can see in one glance whether the gap is an oversight or a
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+ * decision. seisin cannot tell, and does not pretend to.
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+ *
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+ * Silent when a folder has fewer than two named files (one file is a
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+ * grant, not an enumeration) and when the folder is also granted as a
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+ * subtree (then the list is decorative).
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+ */
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+ const byDir = new Map();
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+ for (const f of alone) {
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+ const dir = dirname(f.abs);
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+ if (!byDir.has(dir)) byDir.set(dir, []);
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+ byDir.get(dir).push(basename(f.abs));
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+ }
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+ for (const [dir, named] of byDir) {
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+ if (named.length < 2) continue;
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+ const onDisk = regularFilesIn(dir);
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+ const unnamed = onDisk.filter((n) => !named.includes(n));
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+ if (!unnamed.length) continue;
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+ const shown = relative(resolve(config.root), dir);
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+ listed.push({ role: r.name, named: named.length, total: onDisk.length,
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+ where: shown ? shown + "/" : "the repo root", unnamed });
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+
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+ }
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+ }
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+
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+ /**
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+ * One warning per finding, not one per role.
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+ *
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+ * These were emitted inside the role loop, which reads fine on the two-role
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+ * fixture they were written against and falls apart on a real policy: 30
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+ * roles produced 39 of these lines and took `seisin check` from 30 lines to
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+ * **297**. That is the defect the detail text below is about — a check nobody
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+ * finishes reading protects nobody — reached from the other side.
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+ *
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+ * So the count leads and a few examples follow. Whoever wants the full list
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+ * has `seisin check <role>`, which is the question they were asking anyway.
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+ */
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+ if (loose.length) {
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+ const shown = loose.slice(0, 3).map((l) => `${l.role} (${l.n} of ${l.of})`).join(", ");
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+ const more = loose.length > 3 ? `, and ${loose.length - 3} more` : "";
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+ warnings.push({
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+ kind: "siblings-uncovered",
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+ headline:
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+ `${loose.length} role(s) grant individual files rather than folders: ${shown}${more}`,
187
+ detail:
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+ "the kernel grants exactly that path. Anything a tool creates beside it — a " +
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+ "database's journal, a lock file, the temporary file of an atomic write — is a " +
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+ "sibling, and a sibling is outside the grant; the failure arrives in the tool's " +
191
+ "own words, not as a permission error. Grant the folder where the tool needs " +
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+ "neighbours. " +
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+ (scoped
194
+ ? `The files: ${loose[0].globs.join(" ")}.`
195
+ : "`seisin check <role>` names the files for one role."),
196
+ });
197
+ }
198
+
199
+ /**
200
+ * The one sibling that is not a guess: Claude Code's own.
201
+ *
202
+ * Claude Code's Edit and Write do not write the file. They write
203
+ * `<file>.tmp.<pid>.<12 hex>` beside it and rename it over, so a role that
204
+ * holds a file by name and not its folder is refused at the temporary file
205
+ * on every edit — EPERM, and the agent goes around it with a shell (measured:
206
+ * 4 EPERM in one real run). No grant can name that file: its name changes on
207
+ * every edit, and a write grant takes no glob (the runtime drops them; seisin
208
+ * refuses one above). So the choice is the folder, or the shell — said per
209
+ * role, which is where the decision is made.
210
+ *
211
+ * Said whatever agent the role runs: check cannot know, and a role that runs
212
+ * something else reads one line it can skip. Three roles by name and the rest
213
+ * as a count, for the reason the warning above gives.
214
+ */
215
+ for (const l of loose.slice(0, 3)) {
216
+ // A file at the root has the whole repo for a folder, which is not a
217
+ // suggestion: then the move is to put it in a folder of its own.
218
+ const dirs = [...new Set(l.globs.map((g) => dirname(g)).filter((d) => d !== "."))].map((d) => `${d}/**`);
219
+ const fix = dirs.length
220
+ ? `Either grant the folder (${dirs.join(", ")})`
221
+ : "Its folder is the repo root, so either move it into a folder the role can own whole and grant that";
222
+ warnings.push({
223
+ kind: "claude-atomic-write",
224
+ headline: `${l.role}: writes ${l.globs.slice(0, 3).join(" ")}${l.globs.length > 3 ? ` +${l.globs.length - 3}` : ""} by name — ` +
225
+ "Claude Code's Edit and Write on it fail (EPERM)",
226
+ detail:
227
+ "Claude Code edits a file by writing <file>.tmp.<pid>.<random> beside it and renaming it over; " +
228
+ "the temporary file is outside a grant on the file, and no grant can name it — its name changes " +
229
+ `on every edit and a write grant takes no glob. ${fix}, ` +
230
+ "or accept that the agent writes it with its shell (a redirect writes the file itself) instead of Edit. " +
231
+ "A role that does not run Claude Code can ignore this.",
232
+ });
233
+ }
234
+ if (loose.length > 3)
235
+ warnings.push({
236
+ kind: "claude-atomic-write",
237
+ headline: `${loose.length - 3} more role(s) write files by name, where Claude Code's Edit and Write fail: seisin check <role>`,
238
+ detail: "",
239
+ });
240
+
241
+ if (listed.length) {
242
+ const shown = listed.slice(0, 3)
243
+ .map((l) => `${l.role} names ${l.named} of ${l.total} in ${l.where}`).join("; ");
244
+ const more = listed.length > 3 ? `; and ${listed.length - 3} more` : "";
245
+ warnings.push({
246
+ kind: "enumerated-territory",
247
+ headline: `${listed.length} territory(ies) list some files of a folder: ${shown}${more}`,
248
+ detail:
249
+ `not named, in the first of them: ${listed[0].unnamed.slice(0, 8).join(" ")}` +
250
+ `${listed[0].unnamed.length > 8 ? ` … and ${listed[0].unnamed.length - 8} more` : ""}` +
251
+ `. A sandbox grants a path, ` +
252
+ `not "the files of this kind here", so a territory that means that is the list of files ` +
253
+ `that existed when it was written — the next one added lands outside it, and nothing ` +
254
+ `fails loudly. Whether these are left out on purpose is not something a count can tell.`,
255
+ });
256
+ }
257
+ return warnings;
258
+ }