Close the Prose-Isn't-Enough Gap: Worktree-Mutation Hook, Hub-Cache Lock, Hook-vs-Prose Criteria - #1091
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menu.sh's fetch_hub() took an exclusive flock only around the clone/rm -rf step, then released it. host_tool()/hub_python() callers and cleanup()'s exit-trap rm -rf all read or deleted the fetched tree with no lock at all, so a second menu.sh sharing the same --dir could rm -rf and re-clone (or a first session's own exit cleanup could delete) a tree a concurrent invocation was still mid-read on. Adds a shared (flock -s) reader half, held from immediately before ensure_hub_root's own freshness check through the caller's entire use of , not scoped to only the final tool invocation -- that narrower scope was tried first and rejected on review, since it left ensure_hub_root's own git reads unlocked, the same interleaving one call frame up from the read this fix exists to close. cleanup() now takes the exclusive writer lock before its own rm -rf, printing a wait message rather than hanging silently when another session is mid-use. menu.ps1 gets the equivalent fix with a named Mutex rather than a true shared/exclusive pair: a correct cross-process reader count on top of a Mutex needs its own shared counter and guard, real complexity for a rarely-hit race in a low-traffic interactive tool, so every caller there takes the same exclusive lock instead, trading reader concurrency for a scheme simple enough to get right while still closing the same TOCTOU. Its own stale comment claiming this race was accepted, matching menu.sh's old behavior, is corrected to match the fix. Refs #1043.
…ckout (#1076) The #1073 incident happened while resync-a-repo was the active skill: an agent reused the maintainer's own primary hub checkout instead of fetching into its own worktree, and neither skill said not to. resync-a-repo's own 'Reach the hub and measure' section said only to fetch fresh, never that an existing checkout at a known path must not be touched even to refresh it. repo-worktree stated the isolation mandate generally but never drew the line between the base clone as a fetch source (fine) and as a working directory itself (the mistake). Both now say so explicitly, and note the new gh-write-guard hook (landing later in this same round, #1073) as a mechanical backstop for Claude Code specifically, with this prose remaining the only enforcement for any other agent. Regenerated .github/skills/ and .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/ to match, per skill-lifecycle. Refs #1076.
A new gh-write-guard.py rule, matching rule 4's architecture: a dedicated _check_primary_checkout_mutation, its own test seam (primary_checkout_lookup), wired into classify() before the gh-write gate since a git operation here is not necessarily a GitHub write. Primary-vs-worktree is decided by comparing 'git rev-parse --git-dir' against '--git-common-dir' (--path-format=absolute must precede both paths in argv, verified silently ineffective in the other order), never a '.git'-is-a- directory guess -- a submodule's .git is a file and is still a primary working tree that can lose uncommitted work. Denied: checkout/switch/pull/reset/rebase/merge/cherry-pick/revert/restore/ stash pop|apply|drop/clean -f/add/commit/worktree remove -f, against a resolved primary checkout. Resolution order: an explicit -C/--git-dir on the invocation, else a single leading 'cd <dir> &&'/'cd <dir> ;' prefix on the same command (closing the most likely real bypass of this mechanism, an embedded cd being at least as natural to write as -C), else the hook's own cwd. Fails open on an unresolved target, matching rules 1-3/5's precision- over-recall stance rather than rule 4's fail-closed one. Exempt even in a primary checkout: worktree add/list/prune and an unforced worktree remove (the documented way to use one at all), merge --ff-only and pull --ff-only (can never discard anything), and a flagless checkout <ref> / switch <ref> (git itself already refuses that form when it would carry a local modification, matching the documented base-clone cleanup step in the repo-worktree skill). This last exemption is a deliberate, validated scope boundary: the #1073 incident's own literal commands (checkout, then --ff-only pull) are this exact shape, so it does not deny the incident's own commands specifically -- the concurrent-access hazard they still carried is the prose rule's job (tightened in the prior commit), not this mechanically decidable one's. A new escape hatch, GH_WRITE_GUARD_ALLOW_PRIMARY_CHECKOUT, follows GH_WRITE_GUARD_ALLOW's own pattern. 19 new self-test cases exercise the new plumbing specifically (a live directory resolution and comparison, the first rule in this file to need one): both directions of -C overriding cwd, the leading-cd resolution, cwd inside .git itself, the fail-open case, and the escape hatch. Every pre-existing case list now pins primary_checkout_lookup to a constant False, since without it a mutating subcommand incidental to a handful of existing cases (git commit, testing rule 4) would fall through to the real _is_primary_checkout and resolve against wherever the self-test process happens to run, a primary checkout in CI, silently changing what those cases test. Verified live end to end against a real primary checkout and a real linked worktree, no test seams, in addition to the offline self-test. Refs #1073.
The spec (host-setup/agent-safety/README.md) now states requirement 6 for real, replacing the placeholder from the restructure PR that only promised it would land here 'in the same change that adds it to the hook' -- this is that change. Both Mermaid decision-flow diagrams, the per-agent status table, and the two design-principle cross-references (which requirement is the worked example of GOVERNANCE.md's own hook-vs-prose criteria) are updated to match. claude/README.md's 'What It Installs' gains the third action class. claude-md-safety.md's worktree-isolation bullet, the literal payload installed into ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, notes the same hook backstop. codex/README.md and opencode/README.md go back to 'all six requirements' now that the sixth one is real. Root README.md's own per-agent summary bullet gains the clause it lost in the restructure PR's own correction. Refs #1073.
Answers #1083's open design question with a new bullet in 'Durable Knowledge and Self-Improvement': a durable rule earns a mechanical hook only when all three hold together -- the failure recurs despite the prose already being read and understood (not a loading problem), the trigger is decidable from the tool call's own text/arguments/cwd with no semantic judgment, and the harm is destructive or hard to reverse. Applies the criteria to close out #1083's own three questions explicitly: worktree isolation gets the hook (the prior commits in this round); local-strict-review does not, since whether a review actually happened is not decidable from a command string and the loading half of its own reliability gap is already closed by PR #1081's CLAUDE.md bridge; and Codex/opencode's still-missing hook coverage is the same question, tracked separately at #781, not re-litigated here. Refs #1083. Addresses #1083.
The stub next to Codex's fully-worked example gave no concrete recipe. Verified live against code.claude.com/docs/en/worktrees.md rather than carrying a subagent's paraphrase unchecked: the EnterWorktree approval prompt for a path outside .claude/worktrees/ (the fleet's own ~/repos/worktrees/ convention always is) is a hard gate no permission rule or 'don't ask again' choice suppresses, only bypassPermissions mode does. Gives the corrected Bash(...) allow list for commands that actually run post-cd inside a worktree, and states additionalDirectories' actual scope (filesystem access, not confirmation suppression). Also documents a live finding directly relevant to this whole round: Claude Code tracks a session as 'isolated in a worktree' only once EnterWorktree (or --worktree) actually runs, and while tracked that way it gets a further, built-in enforcement layer for free -- blocking a file edit or a command whose working directory resolves to the main checkout, a git redirect into it, or a command shape it can't verify stays inside the worktree. A plain git worktree add + cd, with EnterWorktree never called, gets none of this; repo-worktree already documents calling EnterWorktree path: after creating the worktree, and this makes explicit why skipping that step is not free. Refs #1073, #1083.
…eview) A pre-push adversarial review reproduced a hang on the documented primary path: hub_read_lock_acquire's shared flock and fetch_hub's own exclusive flock opened two separate fds on the same lock file, and flock treats different fds in one process as independent holders, so fetch_hub's blocking exclusive wait deadlocked against this same process's own shared hold forever. Confirmed with a harness sourcing the real menu.sh and stubbing git clone: timeout 10 returned 124, never reaching the clone. This fired on first use whenever a local hub checkout needed fetching or refreshing, which is most of the time; only an already-fresh local checkout escaped it. Fixed by reusing the caller's own already-open and escalating it from shared to exclusive with a second flock call on the same fd (which changes an already-held lock's type in place with no such deadlock, unlike opening a second fd), downgrading back to shared once the fetch itself finishes. fetch_hub now asserts the fd is already open rather than silently opening its own, since ensure_hub_root, its only caller, never runs outside a hub_read_lock_acquire span. The same review found the EXIT trap could hang the same way: an interrupt (Ctrl-C) fires cleanup with still open mid-dispatch, and cleanup's own exclusive wait deadlocked against it. cleanup now releases that fd first, unconditionally, before acquiring its own lock -- the read it was protecting is being abandoned along with the rest of the process anyway. Also fixed: hub_read_lock_acquire ran mkdir -p and opened the lock file before any --dry-run check, so --dry-run created host state (a cache directory and an empty lock file) where fetch_hub's own comment promises fetching is the only real host change this script makes. It now no-ops under --dry-run, matching dry-run's own code path, which never actually reads /hub either. menu.ps1: corrected 'serialize briefly' (Invoke-HostTool now holds the exclusive lock for its whole spawned tool run, which can be a long OS package upgrade, not a brief read) and added the same non-blocking-probe wait message Invoke-Cleanup already prints, so a second session blocked in Invoke-WithHubLock says so instead of waiting with no output. All three menu.sh fixes verified by reproducing the reviewer's exact scenarios against a stubbed git clone (fetch path, interrupt-then-cleanup path, --dry-run path), each completing cleanly with no hang.
A pre-push adversarial review reproduced several real gaps in the new primary-checkout rule, each verified against a real git repository, not just the offline self-test: - A flagless `checkout`/`switch` was exempted unconditionally, missing that a bare argument not resolving as a ref falls back to git's pathspec- restore path (`git checkout .`, `checkout -- <path>`, `checkout <ref> -- <path>`), which carries none of the ref-switch safety check the exemption relied on. Fixed with a live `rev-parse --verify` check that disambiguates a ref from a pathspec, the same live-git-call precedent rule 4 already sets, ordered after (not before) the cheap primary-checkout check so it only runs where the answer could actually change. - Bare `git stash`/`stash push` were allowed; only pop/apply/drop were denied, though a bare stash mutates the working tree the same way. - `git rm`, `git apply`, `git am` fell through to allow entirely. - A `bash -c`/`sh -c` wrapper hid the mutation from this rule, the one rule in the file without the wrapper-expansion the GitHub-write rules already have; now shares `_embedded_wrapper_commands`, and a leading `cd` inside the wrapped string is now read per wrapped command, not only against the outer one. - `--work-tree`/`GIT_WORK_TREE=`/`GIT_DIR=` redirected the mutation past the rule entirely; this repo's own docs/host-setup.md (this same round) names these as the exact shapes Claude Code's own native isolation layer blocks. - A `~`-prefixed target -- `~/repos/<Repo>`, the fleet's own documented primary-checkout path convention -- failed open silently, since git itself errors on an unexpanded `~` and the rule read that as unresolved. - A relative `-C`/leading-`cd` target resolved against the hook process's own OS-level cwd rather than the session's reported cwd, an implicit assumption the two share that is not guaranteed. - The escape hatch read any non-empty `GH_WRITE_GUARD_ALLOW_PRIMARY_CHECKOUT` value as granted, so setting it to "0"/"false" to turn it *off* silently turned it on. Now reads a small set of recognized falsy spellings as not granted. - The escape hatch's own self-test case used a flagless checkout, already exempt regardless, so it passed identically with the grant check deleted. Replaced with a genuinely denied shape, plus new cases proving the falsy values are read correctly. Also fixed three doc overclaims the same review found: GOVERNANCE.md and claude-md-safety.md listed checkout/pull among unconditionally denied commands with no mention of their exemptions; repo-worktree/SKILL.md's new paragraph flatly contradicted its own pre-existing cleanup step two screens down, which needs exactly the two exemptions that paragraph said never applied; and both skill files' 'it is the only enforcement for any other agent' read, on a literal parse, as describing the hook rather than the prose it meant. docs/host-setup.md's own claim that rule 6 is the sole remaining backstop is corrected to name what it still does not cover (the deliberate exemptions, and a git older than 2.31), documented alongside in claude/README.md's own 'Scope and Limits', matching this file's existing practice of naming a known gap rather than asserting a false absolute. Every fix verified two ways: the offline self-test (many new cases, listed inline) and a live check against a real git repository built by this session with no seams involved, for both the newly-denied shapes and the pre-existing exemptions (flagless ref checkout, --ff-only, worktree add), to confirm the fixes closed the gaps without breaking the documented cleanup workflow they were built to preserve. Refs #1073.
A second adversarial pass, run specifically against the two prior fixup commits, confirmed every earlier fix (menu.sh/menu.ps1 deadlock, all 11 gh-write-guard.py bypasses) with live tests, and caught two new issues the fix for the bypasses itself introduced, plus doc text the fix commit should have updated and did not. - 'git checkout -'/'git switch -' were newly denied: the positional-argument filter added for the pathspec fix treated the leading '-' in this legitimate porcelain shorthand (the previous branch) as a flag and discarded it, leaving zero positional arguments, which the ambiguous-shape rule then denies. A bare '-' is now recognized and exempted outright, rather than run through the live ref-verification check, since git rev-parse (what that check calls) does not resolve '-' as a ref at all, confirmed live: it would have misread this exact safe case as a pathspec. - A wrapper's inner command did not inherit an outer leading cd: 'cd <primary> && bash -c "git reset --hard"' was allowed, since the new per-source leading-cd computation replaced the outer one rather than falling back to it for a wrapped string carrying no leading cd of its own. The shell's own inherited-cwd semantics mean the outer cd does take effect inside the wrapper, so _all_git_invocations now propagates it as a fallback per wrapped source. Both fixed and verified live against a real git repository, alongside a full regression sweep of every previously-fixed case and every documented exemption, with no new mismatches. Also corrected: the spec's own requirement 6 (host-setup/agent-safety/ README.md) still described the pre-fix deny list and exemptions (missing the stash/rm/apply/am additions, the live ref-verification the flagless- checkout exemption now needs, and the work-tree/env-prefix/tilde/wrapper resolution paths); docs/host-setup.md's 'deliberately not a flagless checkout' read as unconditional, when it is specifically a flagless checkout of an actual ref; and an SKILL.md edit had left an orphaned 9-character line mid-paragraph, a Markdown-harmless but confusing wrap. Refs #1073.
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Pull request overview
This PR closes the “prose isn’t enough” gap by adding mechanical enforcement for primary-checkout git mutations (via gh-write-guard rule 6), tightening the skill/prose guidance that was repeatedly violated, and fixing the hub-cache concurrency hazard in host-setup/menu.* by extending locking from “fetch only” to “fetch + use + cleanup”.
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gh-write-guardrule 6 to deny mutating git operations targeting a primary (non-worktree) checkout, with a large self-test matrix and documented escape hatch. - Extend
host-setup/menu.shandhost-setup/menu.ps1hub-cache locking to cover the full “resolve hub root → use hub tree → cleanup” span. - Update governance + docs + skills to clarify hook-vs-prose criteria and to tighten “do not reuse an existing checkout” guidance.
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| README.md | Updates overview of Claude Code guardrails to include primary-checkout mutation denial. |
| host-setup/menu.sh | Adds reader/writer locking around hub cache use and cleanup; introduces lock wrapper for tool runs. |
| host-setup/menu.ps1 | Introduces a named mutex wrapper to serialize hub readers/writers on Windows. |
| host-setup/agent-safety/README.md | Updates the agent-safety spec to include requirement 6 (primary-checkout mutation denial). |
| host-setup/agent-safety/opencode/README.md | Aligns opencode guidance with the spec’s “six requirements” framing. |
| host-setup/agent-safety/codex/README.md | Aligns Codex guidance with the spec’s “six requirements” framing. |
| host-setup/agent-safety/claude/README.md | Documents the new third guard class and its scope/limits for Claude Code installs. |
| host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py | Implements requirement 6 (primary-checkout mutation detection/denial) and adds extensive self-tests. |
| host-setup/agent-safety/claude/claude-md-safety.md | Updates safety prose to reflect the new mechanical backstop for primary-checkout mutations. |
| GOVERNANCE.md | Adds hook-vs-prose criteria and documents the new Claude Code mechanical backstop in the worktree rule. |
| docs/host-setup.md | Fills in “Claude Code Worktree Access” with verified behavior and recommended patterns. |
| .github/skills/resync-a-repo/SKILL.md | Tightens “reach hub” instructions and calls out the new mechanical stop (where applicable). |
| .github/skills/repo-worktree/SKILL.md | Clarifies base-clone usage boundaries and notes the new Claude Code mechanical stop + exemptions. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/resync-a-repo/SKILL.md | Generated distribution update for resync-a-repo. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/repo-worktree/SKILL.md | Generated distribution update for repo-worktree. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.source-digest | Updates fleet-skills source digest. |
| .agents/skills/resync-a-repo/SKILL.md | Source skill update mirroring the distributed resync-a-repo changes. |
| .agents/skills/repo-worktree/SKILL.md | Source skill update mirroring the distributed repo-worktree changes. |
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In `@docs/host-setup.md`:
- Line 258: Update the command-permission configuration around the Bash git push
rule to prevent bare git push commands from the primary checkout; remove the
broad Bash(git push:*) allow entry or replace it with an explicit condition
enforcing primary-checkout protection, while preserving permitted pushes from
approved worktrees.
- Line 254: Restrict the Claude Code Git allowlist so only explicit safe
argument forms are permitted: update docs/host-setup.md lines 254-254 for git
worktree add to exclude force options, and lines 257-257 for git commit while
also narrowing the adjacent git add rule to reject blanket staging forms such as
add ., add -A, and commit -a. Preserve only narrowly scoped commands that cannot
reuse branches or stage unrelated changes.
In `@host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py`:
- Around line 2176-2178: Remove the stale five-element tuple description from
the comment above the test-case table, retaining only the six-element shape used
by the loop that unpacks each case.
- Around line 548-562: Update _resolve_target_dir so a relative target_dir is
resolved against leading_cd when present, while preserving cwd as the fallback
base when no leading cd exists; retain expansion and normalization behavior. Add
a self-test covering `cd /repos && git -C ../primary reset --hard` with
`{/primary: True}`, expecting deny.
- Around line 675-677: Update the worktree remove force detection in the
function containing the current exact-token check to recognize clustered short
flags such as -ff, while preserving support for -f and --force. Match the
behavior already used by the clean branch, and add a self-test for git worktree
remove -ff ../x expecting deny alongside the existing remove cases.
In `@host-setup/agent-safety/claude/README.md`:
- Line 15: Update the rule 6 mutating git subcommand list in the README to match
_ALWAYS_DENY_SUBS in gh-write-guard.py: add rm, apply, and am, and describe
stash as denying every form except list and show, including bare stash, stash
push, and stash save. Keep the existing exemptions and other rule descriptions
unchanged.
In `@host-setup/agent-safety/README.md`:
- Around line 76-79: Align the primary-checkout policy with the documented
standalone-clone fallback: update host-setup/agent-safety/README.md lines 76-79
to define a safe, verifiable clone path or revise the classifier, update
GOVERNANCE.md line 34 to make its “worktree (or clone)” allowance consistent,
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Copilot and Qodo's review of PR #1091 found three further exploitable gaps in gh-write-guard.py's rule 6, all confirmed live against real git before being fixed: - Bundled/attached checkout force flags (`-qf`, `-Bname`) bypassed the flagless-ref exemption's safety net, since only an exact-token match against `-f`/`-B` was checked. Empirically confirmed `git checkout -qf other` forces a branch switch through despite a dirty tracked file, exactly like `-f` alone. `_has_checkout_force_flag` now scans a short-option cluster's own characters, not only whole tokens. - Composed `-C`/`--work-tree`/`--git-dir` options resolved to whichever was read last in argv, rather than matching git's own priority. `--git-dir=/primary/.git --work-tree=/primary -C /worktree` mutates /primary in real git, confirmed live via `git status`, but the old scan read /worktree. Target resolution is now a real `-C` chain (composed sequentially) with an explicit `--work-tree`/ `GIT_WORK_TREE=` winning over it regardless of position, and `--git-dir`/`GIT_DIR=` alone never relocating the target, matching git's own documented fallback. - A subcommand this rule did not recognize fell through to allow even when it was a git alias for a denied builtin (`git -c alias.wipe='reset --hard' wipe`, or the same alias persisted in the target checkout's own config). Aliases are now resolved through a bounded chain (inline `-c alias.<name>=`, then live `git config --get`), confirmed live against a real persisted alias; a `!`-prefixed shell alias is denied outright rather than interpreted, since this rule cannot safely inspect arbitrary shell text. Also folded in from the same review round: - `_expand_dir`'s `$HOME` regex matched a bare prefix of a longer name (`$HOMEPATH`, `$HOMEDRIVE`); it now requires a non-identifier boundary after a bare `$HOME`, while `${HOME}` stays exact via its own closing brace. - menu.sh's comment above `fetch_hub` named `host_tool_locked` as the reader-lock acquirer; it is actually `host_tool`, the wrapper that calls it. - The "flagless checkout" framing in the module docstring, both `README.md`s, `docs/host-setup.md`, and `repo-worktree/SKILL.md` was imprecise: the exemption always tolerated a non-force flag like `--detach`/`-q` alongside a real ref, verified live to be exactly as safe as a bare `checkout <ref>` since git's own overwrite-refusal is unaffected. Corrected to "carrying no force flag" throughout, with a new self-test case pinning the `--detach` behavior explicitly. New/updated self-test cases cover every fix above, and every existing case still passes. `ruff`, `mypy`, `shellcheck`, and `prose_lint.py` are clean; `build_dist.py` regenerated the `repo-worktree` skill's distributed copies. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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It introduces at least one prose_lint-blocking semicolon in new documentation and a small maintainability issue from duplicated hub-lock acquisition logic in the PowerShell cleanup path.
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In `@host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py`:
- Line 797: Update the alias-expansion handling around shlex.split in the
relevant guard flow to catch ValueError from malformed git-config alias text and
return the hook’s normal decision outcome instead of allowing a traceback;
preserve existing behavior for valid expansions and use the surrounding
decision/error-handling conventions.
- Around line 608-609: Update the leading-cd base resolution near _expand_dir so
relative leading_cd values are joined against cwd before expansion, while
preserving absolute-path handling and the cwd fallback. Add a self-test covering
“cd ../primary && git reset --hard origin/main” from /repos/worktree-task, with
/repos/primary identified as primary and an expected deny result.
- Line 685: Update _CHECKOUT_FORCE_CHARS to include both lowercase and uppercase
c, so _has_checkout_force_flag recognizes spaced git switch -c and -C forms. Add
self-tests covering git switch -c feature/x and git switch -C main, ensuring the
latter is denied by rule 6.
Apply the same fix in `@host-setup/agent-safety/README.md` around lines 84 - 86:
The documentation comment describes the same omitted switch options and is
covered by the consolidated implementation finding.
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directory alongside --work-tree, then reject mixed configurations targeting the
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…llback CodeRabbit's review of PR #1091 found two further scope gaps, both confirmed and resolved per Pieter's explicit call on each: - Rule 6 never covered `git push`, so a session that only `cd`s into the primary checkout (no `EnterWorktree`) could publish a feature branch straight from there: rule 4's own branch-rule checks allow an ordinary push, and rule 6's op list was all local-mutation ops. Confirmed live against the exact scenario CodeRabbit described. `push` is now denied unconditionally against a primary checkout, alongside (not instead of) rule 4's own separate branch-rule checks: no documented fleet workflow ever pushes from a primary checkout, so this costs no legitimate work. - `repo-worktree`'s documented standalone-clone fallback (used when a linked worktree is unavailable) explicitly needs to commit there, but that clone is structurally a primary checkout to rule 6's own `--git-dir`/`--git-common-dir` test, since it is not a linked worktree of anything. Rather than weakening the classifier, the fallback's own instructions now point at the existing `GH_WRITE_GUARD_ALLOW_PRIMARY_CHECKOUT` escape hatch, with a matching cross-reference added to GOVERNANCE.md's "(or clone)" allowance. Also fixed: `claude/README.md`'s rule 6 subcommand summary had drifted from `_ALWAYS_DENY_SUBS` (missing `rm`/`apply`/`am`, understating `stash` to only `pop`/`apply`/`drop`) -- corrected to match the module docstring and the root spec, which already stated the full set. New self-test cases cover the push denial in both a primary checkout and a linked worktree; every existing case still passes. `ruff`, `mypy`, and `prose_lint.py` are clean; `build_dist.py` regenerated the `repo-worktree` skill's distributed copies. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Rule 6’s target-directory resolution does not correctly resolve relative leading cd prefixes against the session cwd, which can let primary-checkout mutations slip through fail-open.
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CodeRabbit's review of PR #1091's second commit (806d007) found a regression my own last fix introduced, plus two further gaps, all confirmed live before being fixed: - REGRESSION: _resolve_target_dir's rewrite for composed -C/--work-tree priority dropped the relative-leading-cd join that the prior code had. `cd ../primary && git reset --hard` from a worktree cwd returned the bare, unjoined "../primary" instead of resolving it against the session's own cwd, so _is_primary_checkout ran against an unrelated (and almost always nonexistent) path and rule 6 fell through to allow. Fixed by joining a relative leading cd onto cwd the same way a relative -C is already joined onto the running directory, confirmed live and covered by a new self-test case. - `git switch -C <existing-branch>`/`-c <new-branch>` bypassed the force-flag detection entirely: `-c`/`-C` are switch's own create/force-create spellings (switch has no -b/-B, checkout has no -c/-C), and the force-flag set only recognized checkout's letters. Confirmed live: `git switch -C other` force-resets an existing branch to the current HEAD with no dirty-tree warning at all, since it is not a working-tree overwrite. `-c`/`-C`/`--create`/ `--force-create` are now recognized the same way, bundled or attached, as checkout's own force flags already are. - `_resolve_alias` called `shlex.split` on a git alias's raw config text with no guard: an alias value with unbalanced quotes raises ValueError, uncaught, crashing the hook with a traceback instead of returning a decision. Confirmed reproducible directly against `shlex.split`. Now caught and treated as an unresolvable alias, matching this rule's existing fail-open stance for anything it cannot positively classify. Also fixed, from the same round: - `host-setup/menu.ps1`'s `Invoke-Cleanup` had re-implemented the same mutex acquire/wait/dispose sequence `Invoke-WithHubLock` already centralizes, verified line-for-line identical apart from the body it wraps. It now calls `Invoke-WithHubLock` instead, matching every other reader/writer in the file. - A stray semicolon in `docs/host-setup.md`'s prose ("needs exactly those; a checkout..."). New/updated self-test cases cover the relative-leading-cd fix, the switch -C/-c force flags, and the malformed-alias guard; every existing case still passes. `ruff`, `mypy`, `PSScriptAnalyzer`, and `prose_lint.py` are clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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There is at least one confirmed functional bug in the new PowerShell hub-lock wrapper argument forwarding, and one policy/behavior mismatch in the new git-clean classification that should be corrected before approval.
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host-setup/agent-safety/claude/gh-write-guard.py:875
- Rule 6 is described as denying mutating operations, but the current
git cleancheck treats any short-option token containingfas mutating. That will also deny dry-run forms likegit clean -nfd/-ndf(which do not delete anything), reducing usability and widening the deny surface beyond the stated intent. Exempt-n/--dry-runclean invocations before checking for-f.
if sub == "clean":
return any(
a in _CLEAN_FORCE_FLAGS or (a.startswith("-") and not a.startswith("--") and "f" in a)
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menu.sh now holds a shared lock on $DIR/hub.lock across long-running actions even when reusing a non-cache hub checkout, which can unnecessarily block other sessions’ fetch_hub/cleanup writers despite not protecting any $DIR/hub usage.
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host-setup/menu.sh:272
- Avoid holding the $DIR/hub reader lock when the hub is being reused from an on-disk hub checkout (HUB_ROOT != "$DIR/hub"). As written, host_tool() always takes a shared lock on $DIR/hub.lock for the entire tool run, which can block other menu.sh sessions from fetch_hub/cleanup (exclusive lock) for long-running host actions even though this session is not reading $DIR/hub at all.
This issue also appears on line 317 of the same file.
host_tool() {
hub_read_lock_acquire || return 1
local rc=0
host_tool_locked "$@" || rc=$?
hub_read_lock_release
host-setup/menu.sh:321
- Avoid taking the $DIR/hub reader lock for the entire audit_repo() run when the hub is being reused from an on-disk hub checkout (HUB_ROOT != "$DIR/hub"). Holding a shared lock on $DIR/hub.lock while spec/audit.py runs can block other sessions' fetch_hub/cleanup (exclusive lock) even though the cache directory isn’t in use for this run.
hub_read_lock_acquire || return 1
if ! ensure_hub_root; then
hub_read_lock_release
return 1
fi
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CodeRabbit's continued review of PR #1091 found the spec's "granted only by GH_WRITE_GUARD_ALLOW_PRIMARY_CHECKOUT, read the same way GH_WRITE_GUARD_ALLOW is" ambiguous: GH_WRITE_GUARD_ALLOW is an owner/repo allowlist, while this setting is a boolean escape hatch, so "read the same way" could be misread as the same allowlist semantics. Clarified: both are read from the same session-start-environment channel, but this one is interpreted as a boolean grant (any non-falsy value grants, a recognized falsy value withholds), not list membership. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Answering the remaining suppressed findings from this round (no thread to resolve for any): "The spec says GH_WRITE_GUARD_ALLOW_PRIMARY_CHECKOUT is 'read the same way GH_WRITE_GUARD_ALLOW is', which is ambiguous..." — Confirmed and fixed in 3172bde: clarified that both are read from the same session-start-environment channel, but interpreted differently (allowlist vs. boolean grant). "Avoid holding the $DIR/hub reader lock when the hub is being reused from an on-disk hub checkout (HUB_ROOT != $DIR/hub)" — Confirmed real by tracing detect_hub_root/ensure_hub_root's reuse path, but a heavier restructuring than this PR's own scope (closing concrete rule-6 git-command bypasses), and a contention/performance nicety rather than a correctness or security defect. A naive fix also risks re-triggering fetch_hub's own internal-error guard (added earlier in this PR) if a locally-reused checkout turns out stale mid-verification and falls through to a real fetch with no lock held. Filed as #1096 for a follow-up pass. |
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There are two correctness/documentation gaps in the changed lines (lock-file open failure handling under set -e, and spec missing the documented git-version constraint for --path-format).
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host-setup/menu.sh:105
- hub_read_lock_acquire opens the lock file with
exec {HUB_READ_LOCK_FD}>...underset -e, but does not check the redirection result. If the open fails (permissions, read-only filesystem, etc.), the script exits immediately with a Bash error instead of returning a controlled task error viafail, which makes failures harder to diagnose and breaks the menu's "return to menu" behavior.
hub_read_lock_acquire() {
[[ $DRY_RUN == true ]] && return 0
mkdir -p "$DIR"
exec {HUB_READ_LOCK_FD}>"$DIR/hub.lock"
if ! flock -s "$HUB_READ_LOCK_FD"; then
fail "Could not lock $DIR/hub.lock"
exec {HUB_READ_LOCK_FD}>&-
HUB_READ_LOCK_FD=""
return 1
fi
host-setup/agent-safety/README.md:80
- Requirement 6’s spec names
git rev-parse --path-format=absolute ...as the decidable primary-vs-worktree test, but it doesn’t mention the minimum git version needed for--path-format. Since the Claude implementation explicitly notes this dependency and fails open on older git, the spec should call it out too so future Codex/opencode implementations don’t assume the flag is always available.
6. **A mutating git operation run directly against a primary checkout is denied.** "Primary" means
not a linked worktree. The decidable test is a comparison, not a filesystem-shape guess: `git
rev-parse --path-format=absolute --git-dir --git-common-dir` returns equal paths for a primary
checkout and unequal paths for a linked worktree. A `.git`-is-a-directory heuristic is wrong (a
submodule's `.git` is a file yet is still a primary working tree that can lose uncommitted
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…Inline One CodeRabbit's continued review of PR #1091 found a real bypass: _env_prefix_dirs only reads a NAME=value prefix immediately preceding the git token itself (the `VAR=x git ...` shell idiom), so `export GIT_DIR=<primary>/.git GIT_WORK_TREE=<primary> && git reset --hard` reaches rule 6 with no redirect at all on the git invocation, even though a real shell export persists the assignment into every later command in the same session. Confirmed live: this exact command discards a tracked local modification in a primary checkout. _leading_export_dirs recognizes a single leading `export NAME=value ... &&`/`;` prefix, the same narrow, tractable scope _leading_cd_dir already takes for a leading cd (only a leading prefix is read, one appearing after the first command in a chain is the accepted gap, matching existing precedent rather than expanding it). _all_git_invocations folds the recovered GIT_WORK_TREE/GIT_DIR values in wherever an invocation's own flags or inline prefix leave either unset, for both the outer command and any sh -c/bash -c wrapper it embeds, mirroring how a leading cd already inherits into a wrapper carrying none of its own. New self-test cases cover the export applying across a leading && (confirmed live against real git before being added) and the accepted gap when export is not the first token in the chain; every existing case still passes. `ruff`, `mypy`, `markdownlint`, and `prose_lint.py` are clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Answering the outside-diff finding "Track exported Git redirect variables across command separators" (no thread to resolve, it's a conversation-level comment): Confirmed and fixed in 7bbc98a, using your own reproduction as the verification case (now a permanent self-test entry): a new _leading_export_dirs recognizes a single leading |
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It changes core safety enforcement and cross-process locking behavior across multiple platforms, so it warrants final human review despite no specific defects found in this pass.
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A final local-strict-review pass before merge, run adversarially against this branch's own accumulated diff rather than any single reviewer's comment, found two further confirmed-live bugs beyond everything Copilot/CodeRabbit/Qodo's twelve review rounds had already caught, plus three smaller hardening fixes: - `_shell_tokens` constructed `shlex.shlex` directly, leaving its default `commenters = '#'` in place (unlike `shlex.split()`, used in the fallback path and everywhere else in the stdlib's own convenience API, which explicitly clears it). A `#` anywhere, even mid-word, silently dropped everything through the next newline, which every tokenizer- based rule in this file (3, 4's git half, 5, and all of 6) reads through. Confirmed live: `git fetch origin # refresh the base\ngit reset --hard origin/main` tokenized as ONE `git fetch` invocation carrying the whole `reset --hard` as extra argv, hiding it entirely; `echo a#b && git -C /primary reset --hard origin/main` similarly lost everything after the mid-word `#`. Fixed by clearing `commenters` outright: an ordinary bash `# comment` now becomes literal trailing argv words instead of vanishing, a far safer failure direction for a security-relevant hook than silently truncating visibility into a real subsequent command. - Rule 6's `--git-dir`/`--work-tree` split-target fix (e4b96fd) closed the gap where an explicit `--git-dir` diverges from `--work-tree`, but left the mirror case open: `--work-tree` given with NO `--git-dir` at all was still tested for primary-checkout-ness using the work-tree value, when real git actually discovers the mutated repository (its index, refs, and HEAD) from the effective cwd, not from `--work-tree`, which only ever redirects where working-tree *files* land. Confirmed live: `git --work-tree=<other-checkout> reset --hard HEAD~1`, run from inside a primary checkout with a staged change, moved the primary's own branch pointer back a commit and discarded its own staged index entry, even though the file-level side effects landed in `<other-checkout>`. Every existing self-test pairing `--work-tree` with `--git-dir` masked this, since only the git-dir dimension was ever exercised alone. Fixed by testing two independent dimensions (the repository identity, from `--git-dir` or effective-cwd discovery, and the file target, `resolved` as already computed) and denying when either resolves primary, with two separate lookup caches so a key that happens to collide as the same string between the two dimensions is never tested by the wrong method. - `_main()`'s crash guard covered only `json.load` itself; a structurally-valid-but-wrong-shaped payload (`tool_input` a string, `command`/`cwd` non-string or null) raised uncaught past it, and a crashed PreToolUse hook lets the tool call proceed exactly as if the hook had allowed it. Extended the same "not our event shape, fail open" guard to cover the data-extraction step too. - `git mv` was missing from the unconditional-deny set alongside `rm`, its own natural sibling (both unconditionally mutate tracked files with no safety check of their own). - `clean`'s dry-run exemption doc said "given anywhere on it"; the code (and its own self-test, `git clean -f -- -n` denied) has always scanned only before `--`, so the doc was describing the exemption the fix rounds deliberately removed. New/updated self-test cases cover the comment-truncation fix and the split-work-tree-without-git-dir gap, both confirmed live against real git before being added; every existing case still passes. `ruff`, `mypy`, `markdownlint`, and `prose_lint.py` are clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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It introduces security- and concurrency-critical enforcement changes (git mutation blocking + cross-process locking), so I recommend a final human review for edge cases and compatibility.
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host-setup/menu.sh:120
- The comment says fetching is the one real host change this whole script makes, but the new reader lock now creates/updates the cache directory and hub.lock file even when the hub checkout is reused (no fetch). Update the comment so it stays accurate.
# --dry-run promises to change nothing, and fetching is the one real change this whole script makes to the host.
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Qodo's continued review of PR #1091 found the comment "fetching is the one real change this whole script makes to the host" no longer holds script-wide: the reader lock's own mkdir/lock-file creation now runs on an ordinary reused-checkout read too, not only on a fetch. Rescoped to describe fetch_hub's own dry-run guard specifically, with a note on why the reader lock's own creation still runs unconditionally there (a lock file is a materially smaller change than a hub clone). `prose_lint.py` and `shellcheck` are clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Also from this local-strict-review pass and its own follow-on fix commits (d5f2f48, 2ce2935), addressing the remaining suppressed finding: "The comment says fetching is the one real host change this whole script makes, but the new reader lock now creates/updates the cache directory and hub.lock file even when the hub checkout is reused" — Confirmed and fixed in 2ce2935: rescoped the comment to describe fetch_hub's own dry-run guard specifically, with a note on why the reader lock's own creation still runs unconditionally there. |
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host-setup/menu.sh introduces exec {fd}>... opens under set -e that can abort the script before emitting the intended error handling, and should be guarded.
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host-setup/menu.sh:105
- hub_read_lock_acquire intends to return a handled error when it cannot create/open the lock, but with
set -eanexec {fd}>...ormkdir -pfailure will exit the script immediately (skipping this function's error message and cleanup). Guard these operations so the menu fails gracefully instead of aborting.
This issue also appears on line 249 of the same file.
hub_read_lock_acquire() {
[[ $DRY_RUN == true ]] && return 0
mkdir -p "$DIR"
exec {HUB_READ_LOCK_FD}>"$DIR/hub.lock"
if ! flock -s "$HUB_READ_LOCK_FD"; then
fail "Could not lock $DIR/hub.lock"
exec {HUB_READ_LOCK_FD}>&-
HUB_READ_LOCK_FD=""
return 1
fi
}
host-setup/menu.sh:251
- cleanup opens $DIR/hub.lock with
exec {lock_fd}>...underset -e. If the lock file cannot be opened (permissions, read-only filesystem), the script will exit immediately instead of reporting a task error. Wrap theexecin a conditional so cleanup can fail cleanly.
local lock_fd
exec {lock_fd}>"$DIR/hub.lock"
if ! flock -n "$lock_fd" 2>/dev/null; then
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Answering the two remaining suppressed findings (menu.sh:105/249 and :251, hub_read_lock_acquire/cleanup's exec/mkdir under set -e): Both are pre-existing code, unchanged by this PR (the finding itself says "in code that hasn't changed since the last review") -- this branch's own scope is closing concrete rule-6 git-command bypasses, and auditing/hardening this file's pre-existing set -e error-handling paths is a separate concern from what this round set out to fix. Deferring rather than expanding this PR's scope further; a graceful-failure hardening pass across menu.sh's exec/mkdir calls under set -e would be a reasonable follow-up on its own. |
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Promotes `develop` to `main`, bringing in PR #1086 (agent-safety spec restructure) and PR #1091 (rule 6 primary-checkout mutation hook, hub-cache lock, hook-vs-prose criteria, and thirteen fix rounds of review-driven hardening on top). Closes #1073. Closes #1076. Closes #1043. Addresses #1083. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **New Features** - Added cross-platform installation, verification, and reporting for Claude Code write-safety protections. - Added safeguards against unintended changes to primary checkouts and protected GitHub operations. - Added shared and exclusive locking to prevent conflicting hub actions. - Added safety guidance for Claude Code, Codex, and opencode. - **Documentation** - Updated setup, governance, worktree, resynchronization, and Windows guidance. - Added platform-specific installation, auditing, and troubleshooting instructions. - **Tests** - Expanded validation for installation, configuration recovery, safety rules, and checkout protection. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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#1073: an agent reused the maintainer's own primary hub checkout instead of a worktree, twice,
despite having read the prose rule against it. #1083 generalizes the lesson (alongside a second,
unrelated incident already fixed by PR #1081) into a maintainer design call: which behaviors need a
mechanical hook, not just documented prose. Follows PR #1086 (the agent-safety spec restructure),
authored against its new
host-setup/agent-safety/claude/paths.What
host-setup/menu.sh's hub-cache lock covered only the fetch, not a concurrentsession's use of the fetched tree. Extended to a reader/writer lock over the whole
resolve-and-use span (
menu.ps1gets the equivalent with a named mutex, since Windows has noshared-lock primitive to build a correct one cheaply). A pre-push review caught a self-deadlock
this introduced (two fds on one lock file, treated as independent holders) and an EXIT-trap
hang on interrupt; both fixed and verified by reproducing the exact hangs against a stubbed
git clone, confirming no hang after the fix.resync-a-repoandrepo-worktreeskill prose against reusing anexisting on-disk checkout, the skill that was actually running during the Prevent one repo from modifying the state of another repo, force them to work in worktrees using safety hooks #1073 incident.
gh-write-guard.py: denies a mutating git operation (checkout,reset, add, commit, stash, rm, and more) run directly against a primary (non-worktree) checkout,
with flag-based exemptions matching the documented base-clone cleanup step
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merge --ff-only, a flagless checkout of an actual ref), a new escape-hatch env var, and ~30new self-test cases. Two rounds of adversarial review found and fixed 13 real bugs/bypasses
(a self-deadlock, several bypass shapes --
bash -cwrappers,~-paths,--work-tree,GIT_WORK_TREE=/GIT_DIR=prefixes, a pathspec-form checkout gap -- an inverted-intent escape-hatch footgun, and two regressions the fixes themselves introduced), each verified against a real
git repository built during review, not just the offline self-test.
GOVERNANCE.mdbullet stating the criteria for when a rule earns a mechanicalhook vs. staying prose, applied to close out all three of Prose-only fixes for skill-trigger reliability keep proving insufficient - decide where hooks belong #1083's open questions explicitly.
docs/host-setup.md"Claude Code Worktree Access" (previously a stub), including alive-verified finding: Claude Code's own native worktree-isolation enforcement only engages once
EnterWorktreeactually runs, not from a plaingit worktree add+cd.Verification
ruff,mypy, the 879-testscripts/testssuite,spec/audit.py --selftest,gh-write-guard.py --selftest(all ~50 cases),test_install.py(45 tests),build_dist.py --check,repo_gate.py,prose_lint.py(all rule sets), JSON validation,spec/validate.py,docker_lint.py(markdownlint, cspell, shellcheck, shfmt, PSScriptAnalyzer).(a primary checkout + a linked worktree built during this work), not only the offline
self-test seams.
menu.shdeadlock fix verified by reproducing the exact pre-fix hang (timeoutreturning124) and confirming the post-fix run completes, for the fetch path, the interrupt-then-cleanup
path, and
--dry-runcreating zero host state.Refs #1073, #1076, #1043, #1083.
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