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https://entire.io/gh/jdx/mise/trails/420

Requested by Jeff

Stacked on the Windows store PR (and #13951). Adds the explicit selection interface the identity install layout needs (#13678), and stops mise from guessing when several installations answer one request.

Before: with install_layout = "identity", several installations of one version can exist (a forced refresh that could not replace a lockfile's copy, or copies different lockfiles pinned), but there was no way to see them side by side or to say which one requests without a lockfile should use. If the remembered selection was lost, mise silently fell back to the request's first allocation.

After:

$ mise installs ls jq
Installation  Tool  Version  Platform   Status
jq-hm3qa4vb   jq    1.7.1    linux-x64  selected
jq-ezjqmxa4   jq    1.7.1    linux-x64  pinned
$ mise installs select jq-ezjqmxa4
selected ~/.local/share/mise/installs/jq-ezjqmxa4 for jq@1.7.1 (linux-x64); every project that asks for it without a lockfile now uses it

• mise installs ls [TOOL]... [--json] lists every installation with its tool, version, platform, options and status: selected (requests without a lockfile use it), pinned (a lockfile adopted it), shared (in a read-only shared installs directory). --json adds the backend, mode, options and artifact checksum.

• mise installs select <dir|path> records the selection for that installation's request (tool, version, platform, options) for every project on the machine, and points the version link at it. Locked requests are unaffected. Passing a path selects an installation in a shared root; the selection is stored in the user's own catalog and nothing is written to the shared root.

• With no selection (it was lost, or only lockfiles ever installed the request), mise reuses and selects the one installation that answers the request; when several do it stops and lists them instead of guessing:

  mise ERROR jq@1.7.1 matches several installations and none is selected:
    jq-hm3qa4vb
    jq-ezjqmxa4 (a lockfile pins it)
  Choose one with `mise installs select <dir>`, or install a fresh one with `mise install --force jq@1.7.1`
  

• A selected installation whose payload was pruned is restored in its own directory instead of falling back to another one, and a selected shared installation that disappeared is reported rather than silently replaced.

• Both commands are experimental and need the layout on.

Validation: new e2e/cli/test_install_layout_select covers listing, selecting by name and path, the version link following the selection, ambiguity with a lost selection and both ways out (select, install --force), single-candidate adoption (including an installation only a lockfile made), and selections of shared-root installations (no writes to the shared root, an error when it disappears). The existing layout e2e tests pass unchanged.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added experimental mise installs commands to list identity-layout installations and select which installation is used for matching requests without a lockfile. Listings show whether installations are selected, pinned, or shared; filtering and JSON output are available.
  • When multiple installations match an unlocked request, mise reports the ambiguity and lists candidates instead of choosing implicitly. Lockfile-pinned requests continue using their pinned installation.
• Documentation
  • Added command references and guidance on installation selection, shared installs, and how uninstalling or pruning affects selections.

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Changes how identity-layout tools are resolved for install, where, and exec when multiple side-by-side installations exist; mistakes could break tool paths until the user selects, though the feature is experimental and gated on install_layout = "identity".

Overview
Adds experimental mise installs for the identity install layout: mise installs ls lists every installation (with selected, pinned, shared status, optional JSON) and mise installs select records which copy unlocked requests use machine-wide and retargets version links.

Resolver behavior changes for unlocked requests: mise no longer silently falls back when several complete installations match and nothing is selected—it errors with candidates and points to installs select or install --force. A lone match is auto-selected; a stored selection wins even after prune (restore in place) or when it names a read-only shared root (path required when ambiguous). mise uninstall clears selections for that installation so requests can pick again.

Supporting work includes catalog selection locking, receipt-based lookup for shared catalogs, link healing that respects selection, and docs/man/e2e coverage.

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Walkthrough

The change adds experimental mise installs ls and mise installs select commands for the identity install layout. Resolver behavior handles selection and ambiguity across roots, lockfile-pinned requests, and installation links. The change also adds uninstall selection cleanup, end-to-end tests, and command documentation.

Changes

Identity-layout installation commands

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Installation resolution across roots src/install_layout/catalog.rs, src/install_layout/resolver.rs	Unlocked requests use an existing selection or a sole complete matching installation. Multiple matches produce an ambiguity result. Pinned lookup, allocation, refresh generations, reuse, variant filtering, and link handling use updated identity rules.
Installation APIs and CLI commands src/install_layout/resolver.rs, src/cli/installs/*, src/cli/mod.rs, src/cli/command_effects.rs, src/cli/uninstall.rs	The resolver exposes installation listing and selection APIs, retargets eligible links, and removes selections after successful non-dry-run uninstall. The CLI adds installs ls and installs select, with feature and layout checks and read/write effect classifications.
Behavior checks and command references e2e/cli/test_install_layout_select, docs/.vitepress/*, docs/cli/*, docs/dev-tools/install-layout.md, docs/public/llms.txt, man/man1/mise.1, mise.usage.kdl	End-to-end tests cover listing, selection, ambiguous matches, lockfile-pinned requests, shared roots, pruning, and uninstall behavior. Command references and the install-layout guide document the commands and resolution behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant InstallsSelect
  participant resolverSelect as resolver::select
  participant Catalog
  participant VersionLinks
  User->>InstallsSelect: Provide installation name or path
  InstallsSelect->>resolverSelect: Select installation
  resolverSelect->>Catalog: Record request selection
  resolverSelect->>VersionLinks: Retarget eligible links
  resolverSelect-->>InstallsSelect: Return installation details
  InstallsSelect-->>User: Print installation details

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 46268

Users cannot select a listed shared installation if its catalog record is missing. This is a bounded recovery gap worth fixing before merge or accepting explicitly.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 46268

Installation selection affects every project using the same installation catalog and request identity. Ambiguous choices are rejected, and artifact-pinned requests retain separate matching rules. Remaining risk is concentrated in shared-directory permissions and recovery after partial filesystem changes.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The immediate exposure is every unlocked project sharing the user's selection catalog and request identity, with configured shared installation roots supplying executable content. This is not evidence of machine-wide authority over other users: effective access and mutation remain dependent on filesystem permissions, which were not supplied.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The installation argument does not directly authorize an arbitrary external path. An explicit parent must match a configured store, the candidate must have a valid receipt, and shared selection requires a catalog record. Selection and link-retargeting writes are confined to primary-root state.
• observed — Shared-root removal lacks a primary-root-only guard, but that condition and its effective reachability predate this PR. Baseline inventory already enumerated shared installations, and baseline physical lookup and removal guards admitted them. The removal backend and candidate-building callers are unchanged, so this is not retained as an introduced ownership-boundary concern.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Missing shared selections remain authoritative rather than silently falling back, and existing shared selections can recover their record from receipts without rebuilding shared metadata. Explicit selection itself has a stricter shared-catalog requirement. The end-to-end source checks lookup during shared catalog loss, not selection during that loss.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — For deployments that depend on read-only shared installations, enforce that property through filesystem ownership and permissions and consider explicit refusal of shared-root removal. This would strengthen a pre-existing removal boundary, not remediate a newly verified PR vulnerability.

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Confidence Score: 5/5

[Medium risk] Adds new CLI commands for managing tool installations.

The PR appears safe to merge; no new actionable issue remains.

What we checked:

• Shared choices still resolve: The chosen receipt passes the same checks used by later lookup. A shared request can find it by the saved digest while the receipt remains present.

Summary

Adds experimental mise installs ls and mise installs select commands for the identity install layout.

• Lists separate installations and their selected, pinned, or shared status.
• Stops unlocked requests from guessing when several installations match.
• The latest change reads the chosen shared installation’s receipt directly instead of scanning every receipt during selection.
• Previous findings remain addressed. Six previous threads were manually resolved without explanatory replies; their current fixes were checked.

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• docs/cli/installs/select.md
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• src/cli/command_effects.rs
• src/cli/installs/ls.rs
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Nothing was compared, and so nothing was gated. No series appears on both sides: either the base has no measurements recorded, or the two were measured on different runner classes, which are deliberately not comparable — counts shift between machine types by more than a real regression does.

New, nothing to compare against: env on jdx-perf-v1-ubuntu24.04-x64-mise-rust1.97.1-img5263c143, hook-env on jdx-perf-v1-ubuntu24.04-x64-mise-rust1.97.1-img5263c143, ls on jdx-perf-v1-ubuntu24.04-x64-mise-rust1.97.1-img5263c143, registry on jdx-perf-v1-ubuntu24.04-x64-mise-rust1.97.1-img5263c143, startup on jdx-perf-v1-ubuntu24.04-x64-mise-rust1.97.1-img5263c143

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