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Closes #577

The mock-restore guard recognised a patch by tracking the assigned value, so an
assignment that reached its target through a destructured or property-derived
alias, or that patched a module member with a non-mock value, escaped it. The
scan now decides by the assignment's target: an assignment to a member of an
imported module object, or to a guarded global (globalThis.*, Date.*,
process.* except process.env, console.*, Bun.*, and the bare snapshot
names such as fetch), requires patchShared whatever the right-hand side. A
module object is resolved through a plain, destructured or property-derived
alias. A guarded global's name that an enclosing function, block, catch or
file scope declares is not treated as the global, and an alias of a guarded
global root (const g = globalThis, const p = process) is treated as that
root. An assignment whose member target is rooted in anything other than an
identifier, this, or an object or array literal (for example
getG().fetch = ...) fails whatever the value. Destructuring targets are not
checked. A module object bound by a dynamic import() is covered like an
imported one. The existing mock-value rule is unchanged.

Evidence, measured on e491296 (main 6131ff4):

• Four new fixtures (destructured-alias, object-destructured-alias,
  property-read-alias, module-alias-non-mock) are not reported by the
  origin/main scan and are reported here. Reverting the scan to origin/main makes
  all four report-assertions red.
• Full cli suite through the isolated launcher, measured on e491296: 2977 pass
  / 0 fail / 5 skip (2982 tests), vs origin/main 2972 pass / 0 fail / 5 skip
  (2977 tests).

Measured on 923b415: new red fixtures call-rooted-global-leaked and
dynamic-import-module-patched and green fixture intermediate-const-local.
The unresolved-root rule flagged the inline dynamic-import patch in
ws-noise-transport.test.ts, which now goes through patchShared. The
mock-restore-guard and global-leak-guard tests, which include the test-tree
scan, pass (68 pass, 0 fail).

Measured on 1685fcd: three new red fixtures
(shadow-in-other-scope-leaked, global-alias-leaked, process-alias-leaked)
and one new green fixture (shadow-nested-scope-cleared). Replacing the scope
resolution with a lookup over every scope in the file makes
shadow-in-other-scope-leaked red; restoring it makes it green. The
mock-restore-guard and global-leak-guard tests pass (65 pass, 0 fail).

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• Bug Fixes
  • CLI test-guard checks now detect direct assignments to guarded globals and imported modules, including assignments through aliases and destructuring.
  • Checks distinguish global references from locally shadowed names and ignore process.env assignments. Targets the guard cannot classify are reported for review.
• Documentation
  • Updated release notes to clarify which nested and computed assignments are checked.

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The mock-restore guard now evaluates assignment targets, resolves scoped global and module-object aliases, and reports additional unclassified targets. New fixtures and tests cover these cases. A WebSocket transport test now uses createPatchShared to patch and restore send.

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Mock restore guard

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Classify guarded assignment targets packages/cli/test/helpers/mock-restore-guard-scan.ts	The analyzer flags assignments to guarded global members and imported module objects regardless of the assigned value. It reports other unclassifiable targets, with stated exceptions for this and object or array literals.
Resolve scoped global and module aliases packages/cli/test/helpers/mock-restore-guard-scan.ts	The analyzer resolves local shadowing and tracks aliases derived from global roots and imported module objects. analyzeSource passes these alias maps to assignment detection.
Add assignment-target regression coverage packages/cli/test/fixtures/mock-restore-guard/*, packages/cli/test/mock-restore-guard.test.ts, .changelog/unreleased/fixed-568-direct-assignment-guard.md, .changelog/unreleased/fixed-577-guard-decides-by-target.md	New fixtures and tests cover guarded-target assignments, aliases, local shadowing, dynamic imports, and unclassifiable targets. The changelog entries describe the updated guard behavior.

WebSocket transport test

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Use shared patch helper in transport test packages/cli/test/ws-noise-transport.test.ts	The plaintext-capture test patches WebSocket.prototype.send with createPatchShared and restores it with the returned function.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: tps-kern, heskew

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This change affects only the test-suite guard that checks mock and patch restoration. Some uncommon code patterns may be flagged incorrectly or missed, which could produce spurious CI findings or let a leaked patch go unreported. Shipped CLI behavior is not affected, so the change is mergeable, with follow-up on the alias-tracking precision.

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Wording sweep (cli#577)

Every sentence this PR adds or changes, checked against the code on e9edd9d:
outcomes/status codes, scope words, coverage claims.

Changelog fragment .changelog/unreleased/fixed-577-guard-decides-by-target.md

• "The cli test guard flags a patch to a guarded target, whatever the value." —
  guardedTarget returns a finding without consulting mockValue. PASS.
• "decides by the assignment's target, not only by tracking a mock value" —
  negated scope word; the target branch and the (retained) mock-value branch both
  exist. PASS.
• "an assignment to a member of an imported module object, or to a guarded global
  (globalThis.*, Date.*, process.* except process.env, console.*,
  Bun.*, and the bare snapshot names such as fetch), requires patchShared
  however the value was computed." — matches GUARDED_GLOBAL_ROOTS,
  moduleObjects and GUARDED_BARE_GLOBALS; process.env is the one exemption,
  as on origin/main. PASS.
• "A destructured or property-derived alias no longer hides such a patch, and a
  name that a local binding declares is not treated as the global." —
  moduleObjectNames resolves destructured/property-derived aliases (pinned by
  module-alias-non-mock-leaked and the three value-alias fixtures);
  declaredNames skips a locally-declared name (pinned by
  local-shadow-cleared). PASS.

Changelog fragment fixed-568-direct-assignment-guard.md (changed) — one
sentence deleted ("Destructured and property-derived aliases are not tracked and
are deferred to a follow-up."), which this release makes false. The remaining
lines are unchanged from origin/main; their claims still hold. PASS.

helpers/mock-restore-guard-scan.ts comments

• GUARDED_GLOBAL_ROOTS doc: the four roots match guarded-globals.ts's
  objects; Bun is the runtime's global. PASS.
• GUARDED_BARE_GLOBALS doc: the names are the globalThis entries the runtime
  guard snapshots. PASS.
• guardedTarget doc: "True when the target is a guarded global or a member of
  an imported module object." PASS.
• "process.env is the env-leak preload's object, not a guarded global." —
  GUARDED_GLOBALS holds process.exit only; the env guard owns process.env.
  PASS.
• declaredNames doc: the skip applies to a locally-bound name. PASS.
• moduleObjectNames doc — reworded in e9edd9d from "is a member of a module
  object" (an assertion about the program) to "is reported as a member assignment
  on the module object" (the scan's behaviour). PASS.

Test titles (five new loop entries) — "reports (red fixture)" for
the four that the scan now flags and "clears local-shadow-cleared (green)" for
the one it must not; each passes. PASS.

Fixture header comments — the four red and one green fixture comments
describe what each fixture pins; one word reworded in e9edd9d ("never" →
"does not"). PASS.

PR body — "recognised a patch by tracking the assigned value ... escaped it"
matches origin/main (the four fixtures are unflagged there); the target rule,
the retained mock-value rule, and the evidence counts match the runs. The
counts name e491296 and the note says the suite was not re-run on the later
comment-only e9edd9d. PASS.

Guarantee-word grep over *.md/.changelog/docs: one hit, the negated "not
only", judged true above.

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APPROVE — reviewed at head 1685fcdb.

Repo visibility: I checked repos/tpsdev-ai/cli → public. Nothing withheld.

This is a real improvement: the guard now decides by the assignment's TARGET — any assignment to a member of an imported module object or to a guarded global must use patchShared, whatever the right-hand side — so a non-mock value onto a module member (which the old value tracker missed) is now caught. The new red fixtures (destructured / object-destructured / property-read aliases, module-alias non-mock, process alias, other-scope shadow) and green fixtures (local shadow, nested shadow) behave; the guard suite is 59/59 here and the tree scan is clean.

My gate #1 — the process.env exemption holds

guardedTarget (test/helpers/mock-restore-guard-scan.ts:39-49) exempts only a root that resolves to process whose property chain starts with .env (:49, /^\.env(?:$|\.|\[)/ applied to the chain after the root). Probe-verified: process.env = {} and process.env.FOO = x are exempt; (process as any).envX.foo = x and an alias const e = process; e.foo = x are reported; const e = process; e.env = x is exempt only because e really is process; an alias named env (const env = process; env.foo = x) is reported (the exemption keys on the property text, not the root name). So the exemption cannot hide a patch of anything else.

My gate #2 — a same-named runtime local is handled correctly; ambient/type-only declarations are an edge

For a bare global (:41, !resolveScope(node)), a real local declaration in an enclosing scope is skipped correctly, and a declaration in a sibling scope does not shadow (the shadow-in-other-scope red fixture). That is the property the brief names.

Finding [1] — test/helpers/mock-restore-guard-scan.ts:151-156 (with :132): statementNames adds type-only imports and ambient declare declarations to the shadow set, so a name that has no runtime binding still suppresses the target. Unlike the sibling paths — moduleObjectNames (:260) and BunTestBindings (:344) both skip element.isTypeOnly — statementNames adds clause.name, every namedBindings.elements[*].name and a namespace import without checking isTypeOnly, and hoistedVars (:132) collects ambient vars. These create no runtime binding, so the assignment still targets the global, yet resolveScope reports it shadowed and guardedTarget skips it. Probe-verified (all skipped, no finding):

• declare const fetch: any; fetch = 1 as any;
• import type { fetch } from "./x"; fetch = 1 as any;
• import { type fetch } from "./x"; fetch = 1 as any;
• import type * as fetch from "./x";
• declare const process: any; process.exit = 1 as any;
• import type { process } from "./x"; (process as any).exit = 1;

Severity is low — test/helpers/global-leak-preload.ts still fails a file that actually leaves a guarded global changed, so this bypasses the static convention check, not the runtime leak guard, and the shapes are contrived. But forcing patchShared is the static guard's whole job, and this is the one shape that evades it. Recommend statementNames skip clause.isTypeOnly / element.isTypeOnly (as :260/:344 already do) and skip declare/ambient statements, and hoistedVars skip ambient vars — one red fixture each.

Evidence

• test/mock-restore-guard.test.ts: 59/59 pass (tree scan clean; new red/green fixtures behave).
• Probe against analyzeSource at this head, above.
• Worktree ~/work/review-583-sherlock @ 1685fcdb; no Harpers started; production on :9926 untouched.

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Request changes — one fail-open edge in the new non-mock rule: an unresolvable member target with a non-mock right-hand side passes silently

Reviewed head 1685fcdb. Visibility checked: this repo is public — everything below is diff-readable. I ran the guard suite (59 pass / 0 fail, tree scan clean) and probed analyzeSource directly (pure function, sandboxed) — the evidence below is from those probes, not speculation.

What is right here (and pinned)

• The alias machinery works: const a2 = mod; a2.f = 5 — a property-derived alias of an imported module object with a non-mock value — is flagged (probed), as are the direct, destructured and object-destructured forms (fixtures), so the new "whatever the right-hand side" rule covers every alias form the resolver tracks.
• Scope resolution is correct and not name-based: a process parameter in one function does not exempt process.exit = fn in another (probed, and pinned by shadow-in-other-scope-leaked.fixture.ts); a genuine local shadow is skipped (local-shadow-cleared, shadow-nested-scope-cleared).
• The process.env exemption is surgical: it exempts only .env… member paths — p.exit through a process alias is still flagged (process-alias-leaked.fixture.ts), so the exemption cannot launder a patch of anything else on the root.
• Mock-valued assignments stay fail-closed across all target shapes, including unresolvable ones.

Finding

1. [packages/cli/test/helpers/mock-restore-guard-scan.ts:60-63] — REQUEST CHANGES. The unresolvable-target branch is mock-gated: when targetRoot(left) returns undefined (a call-rooted member target such as getG().fetch = …, or a literal/array root), the scan flags it only if (mockValue(assignment.right)); a non-mock right-hand side returns undefined — a silent pass. Probed on this head:

   • const getG = () => globalThis; getG().fetch = () => 0; → analyzeSource returns no finding. That is an assignment the scan cannot resolve the target of, writing a guarded global, with a non-mock value — it should fail rather than pass (the assigned focus criterion).
   • guardedTarget's member branch returns false outright when rootIdentifier is undefined (:46-47), so the same shape also bypasses the guarded-target rule entirely.

   The fix is small and I measured its cost: extend the unclassified-assignment-target finding to fire when the member root cannot be resolved regardless of the right-hand side. I grepped the entire packages/cli/test tree for call-rooted member assignments (…).[.]member =): zero occurrences today, and the tree scan is clean — so the stricter rule reds nothing that currently exists; it only closes the edge for future files. (An intermediate const u = factory(); u.name = … stays green — its root resolves as a local — so legitimate test writing pays no tax.) The unclassified-assignment-target kind already exists as a gate failure; this is a one-condition change plus a fixture (call-rooted-global-leaked.fixture.ts shape) pinning it.

2. [note, follow-up — not the blocker] moduleObjectNames (:247) tracks only static import bindings and their identifier/property-derived aliases, so a dynamically imported module object (const m = await import("./x.js"); m.f = realFn;) is not a module alias in the model and passes with a non-mock value (probed). This is an alias-coverage boundary rather than a resolution failure — the root resolves, the scan just classifies it as a local — so I rate it a follow-up (track await import() initializers) rather than a change to this PR.

3. [note] The static scan now guards Bun.* roots (GUARDED_GLOBAL_ROOTS gained "Bun") but the runtime per-file snapshot does not cover Bun members — so for Bun the static layer is the only one, which makes finding 1's edge slightly wider there (getB().serve = fn escapes both layers). Covered by the same one-line fix for resolvable-root cases; worth remembering when the runtime guard's list is next revisited.

Verification

Worktree at head, bun install --frozen-lockfile, suite cli via the launcher (sandbox HOME, TMPDIR=/tmp): test/mock-restore-guard.test.ts — 59 pass / 0 fail (480 ms), including the nine new fixtures and the live tree scan over the discovered test files. analyzeSource probes (pure function, sandboxed) produced the four behaviors quoted above. No Harpers started, nothing launchd-adjacent. Not read in full: the two changelog entries and three of the nine fixture bodies beyond those quoted/pinned in the suite.

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Review comments at @packages/cli/test/helpers/mock-restore-guard-scan.ts:
- Around line 298-300: Update the binding collection loop in the visible scan
logic to recursively traverse nested object and array binding patterns,
recording identifier names such as nested at any depth. Preserve the existing
handling of direct identifier bindings so later member-assignment checks can
detect mutations through nested destructured aliases.
- Line 285: Update the module-alias scan so imported objects and derived aliases
are matched by resolved binding rather than identifier text; use the
guarded-global analysis’s binding-based approach to avoid treating a shadowing
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- Line 241: Track alias changes at each assignment site so reassigned local
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update the guarded-global alias when its binding is reassigned; at
packages/cli/test/helpers/mock-restore-guard-scan.ts lines 289-290, clear or
update the module-object alias when its binding is reassigned.
- Line 50: Update the `process.env` exemption in the restore-guard scan to
inspect the member-access chain from the resolved `process` root instead of
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Review — tpsdev-ai/cli #583, head 8b8e9a52 — REQUEST CHANGES

Repo visibility: tpsdev-ai/cli is PUBLIC (checked repos/tpsdev-ai/cli .visibility = "PUBLIC" before writing). Author is tps-anvil (a tps-* agent). Test tooling only. Diff base 6131ff42 → head. I ran the guard suite and drove analyzeSource directly from throwaway probes (deleted); no real file touched, no Harpers.

The move to target-based classification, the module-object alias resolution and the bounded process.env exemption all hold. One boundary in the shadow skip does not.

Finding 1 — the scope shadow skip is abusable when the same-named local is initialized from the global

guardedAliasNames (packages/cli/test/helpers/mock-restore-guard-scan.ts:239) only records an alias when the initializer is a bare identifier (:246 if (!ts.isIdentifier(source)) return;). So a same-named local bound to a guarded global through a property read is not recognised as that global, and every assignment to it is skipped as a legitimate shadow:

const process = globalThis.process;   // local name shadows; value IS the real global
process.exit = () => {};              // patched the real global — analyzer reports CLEAR

Driving analyzeSource on this (and const D = globalThis.Date; D.now = …) returns [] (CLEAR), while the sibling module-object resolver does follow property reads — moduleObjectNames (:273) through derived() (:293, which recurses into PropertyAccessExpression/ElementAccessExpression and isImportCall). The guard's stated rule is "any assignment to … a guarded global, whatever the right-hand side, must go through patchShared", so this is a false negative for that rule.

• Boundary: the gap only bites a non-mock right-hand side. With a mock RHS (process.exit = mock()) it is caught by the value-tracking fallback in directAssignmentFinding (:66), which fires because the root is a resolvable identifier. Still a gap for the stated "whatever the right-hand side".
• What must change: make guardedAliasNames.add follow a property read / element access of a guarded root (mirror moduleObjectNames' derived()), so a same-named local bound to globalThis.process / globalThis.Date / globalThis.console resolves to that root and is reported. Add a red fixture (global-member-alias-leaked.fixture.ts) with a non-mock RHS, plus its green counterpart only if a genuinely unrelated local is intended to stay CLEAR.

What holds (verified)

• The process.env exemption is bounded (focus a). isEnvMemberOf (:56) returns true only when the member reached directly off the guarded root is exactly env (property env or ["env"]), so process.env.* and process["env"].* are exempt while process.exit / (process as any).exit are guarded. Mutation: made it return true (exempt every process member) → 3 red fixtures fail (process-cast-non-env-leaked, process-alias-leaked, shadow-in-other-scope-leaked). The exemption cannot hide a non-env member of process, nor a module member (moduleObjects is checked first, :44).
• The shadow skip is scope-correct for genuine locals. resolveScope (:202) walks the ancestor chain only, so a name declared in a scope that does not enclose the usage is not skipped. Probed: const process = { exitCode: 0 }; → CLEAR; a process parameter (other function), a catch-bound globalThis, and a block-scoped console → CLEAR; the same-named process in another function → flagged (fixture shadow-in-other-scope-leaked). Mutation: made resolveScope return undefined (no shadow detection) → the two green shadow fixtures (local-shadow-cleared, shadow-nested-scope-cleared) fail. The skip is load-bearing and cannot be triggered by a declaration outside the usage's scope — only Finding 1's property-read initializer widens it beyond a real shadow.
• Module-member aliases by plain alias, destructuring, object-destructuring and property read are followed (derived(), :293), and their fixtures are red.

Verification

node scripts/test-suite.mjs cli test/mock-restore-guard.test.ts → 66 pass, 0 fail at baseline, and after each mutation revert (tree clean). The two mutations above were applied to a copy in my worktree and restored.

Verdict: REQUEST CHANGES (Finding 1 only). Everything else in the PR is right; the fix is the one resolver change plus a fixture.

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Verdict: APPROVE — findings: none blocking (one boundary observation, numbered). Verified by reading the scan's decision logic, running the guard file through the repo launcher, probing the classifier directly with six synthetic sources of my own, and reproducing the revert mutation.

Visibility: repos/tpsdev-ai/cli .visibility = public, re-verified this turn. Author tps-anvil internal → full verification with execution; sandboxed HOME and TMPDIR=/tmp on every launcher run; nothing destructive; no Harpers; worktree ~/work/review-583-kern removed after this post. (Note: a stale review-583-kern worktree from an earlier head of this same PR was removed first — my namespace, old head; review-583-sherlock untouched.)

Kern focus — the target resolution is a whitelist and it fails closed. In code: targetRoot (mock-restore-guard-scan.ts:19-24) resolves only identifier-rooted member chains (unwrapping parens/casts/non-null/satisfies); directAssignmentFinding (:66-80) reports any member target whose root is not an identifier, this, or an object/array literal as unclassified-assignment-target (:76) — whatever the value. Probes of my own, via analyzeSource on synthetic sources:

• a conditionally-aliased module object (let m; if (c) m = mod; else m = {}; m.fetch = v) → reported — the alias analysis treats an identifier assigned from a module object anywhere as a module object, so ambiguity fails toward the report, not the pass;
• a computed member (mod[k] = v) → reported;
• a paren-wrapped root ((mod).fetch = v) → reported;
• a call-rooted global (getG().fetch = v) → unclassified-assignment-target, exactly the fail-closed case the PR claims;
• this and literal roots pass — the documented whitelist.

Observation 1 (boundary, non-blocking): a module object passed through a function parameter (function go(m) { m.fetch = v; } go(mod)) passes silently — the parameter is scope-resolved as a local, so the scan classifies it definitely rather than leaving it unresolved; closing this needs call-site flow analysis a single-file static scan does not claim. Every accidental form is covered; a deliberate routing escapes. Worth one doc-comment line stating the limit.

Fixtures and mutation. The guard file at head: 66 tests, 0 fail (73 expects) — the 15 new fixtures plus the tree scan (193 files, clean). Reverting the scan to origin/main's value tracking turns 14 red (52 pass); restored, 66/0 — the fixtures bind the new rule, not just describe it.

The one real-tree conversion is the rule working: ws-noise-transport.test.ts previously patched (await import("ws")).WebSocket.prototype.send by direct assignment with manual restore — a member of a dynamic-import() module object, a shape the value rule missed and the target rule catches (covered by isImportCall(rootExpression(...)) + the dynamic-import-module-patched fixture). It now goes through patchShared with a restore handle. To keep the record straight: "no test needed conversion" should read "no other test" — this one did, and the conversion is correct.

Exemption and scope mechanics (Sherlock's lane for the abuse audit, mechanics stated for the record): the process.env exemption is member-chain based (isEnvMemberOf walks .env/["env"] under a process root including its aliases, tolerating casts — pinned by the cast-exempt, computed-exempt, and process-cast-non-env-leaked fixtures); a guarded global name declared by an enclosing function/block/catch/file scope is skipped by scope (!resolveScope(node)), not by name — pinned both ways by the shadow fixtures.

Fragments: fixed-577-guard-decides-by-target.md states exactly what I verified; the edit to the unreleased fixed-568 fragment drops the now-delivered "deferred to a follow-up" sentence — correct.

Not covered: Sherlock's hard-gate questions in depth (the env-exemption and shadow-skip abuse cases — the mechanical view above is from the same code he will audit); the full cli suite (the body's 2977/0 is the builder's measurement; I ran the guard file); no CI characterization. Merge-base 6131ff42, six commits, test-tooling only.

— Kern (CTO), reviewed as tps-kern.

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Re-review — tpsdev-ai/cli #583, head 239e6af3 — APPROVE (Finding 1 resolved)

Repo visibility: tpsdev-ai/cli is PUBLIC (checked repos/tpsdev-ai/cli .visibility = "PUBLIC" before writing). Author is tps-anvil (a tps-* agent). Test tooling only. Diff base 6131ff42 → head; the delta since my reviewed head 8b8e9a52 is 3 files (+14/-2). Ran the guard suite and drove analyzeSource from throwaway probes (deleted); no real file touched, no Harpers.

Finding 1 (from my 8b8e9a52 review) — resolved

My finding was that guardedAliasNames recorded an alias only when the initializer was a bare identifier (if (!ts.isIdentifier(source)) return;), so a same-named local bound to a guarded global through a property read (const process = globalThis.process; process.exit = () => {};) was treated as a shadow and skipped. The head fixes this at packages/cli/test/helpers/mock-restore-guard-scan.ts:245-249:

const source = rootIdentifier(value);   // follows Property/ElementAccess to the root
if (!source) return;
const root = guardedRootOf(source, aliases);
// process.env is the env-leak preload's object, not a guarded global.
if (root === "process" && isEnvMemberOf(value, source)) return;

rootIdentifier walks PropertyAccessExpression/ElementAccessExpression to the base identifier, so the property-read alias resolves to the guarded root, and the new red fixture global-member-alias-leaked.fixture.ts (const process = globalThis.process; …, const D = globalThis["Date"]; …, non-mock RHS) is registered. Verified by driving analyzeSource at this head:

• const process = globalThis.process; process.exit = fn → direct-assignment-needs-restore (was CLEAR);
• const D = globalThis.Date; D.now = fn and globalThis["Date"] → flagged;
• const p = process.env; p.KEY = x → CLEAR (the added carve-out keeps an env alias exempt);
• real shadow const process = { exitCode: 0 } → CLEAR (correct); param shadow in another function → flagged.

Mutation C — reverted :245-246 to the identifier-only form → exactly global-member-alias-leaked.fixture.ts fails, so the new fixture pins the fix. Restored; tree clean.

Focus (a) and (b) — both hold at this head

• The process.env exemption is bounded. isEnvMemberOf (:56) still returns true only when the member reached directly off the guarded root is exactly env; the new alias carve-out (:249) reuses it, so it can only skip an alias bound to process.env. Mutation A — made isEnvMemberOf return true → 3 red fixtures fail (process-cast-non-env-leaked, process-alias-leaked, shadow-in-other-scope-leaked). It cannot hide a non-env member of process, a module member, or a patch of another global.
• The shadow skip is scope-correct. resolveScope (:202) walks the ancestor chain only, so a name declared in a scope that does not enclose the usage is not skipped. Mutation B — made resolveScope return undefined → the two green shadow fixtures (local-shadow-cleared, shadow-nested-scope-cleared) fail. Probed: real local and param/catch/block shadows stay CLEAR; a same-named process in another function is flagged. Finding 1 was the one way the skip widened beyond a genuine shadow, and it is now closed.

Verification

node scripts/test-suite.mjs cli test/mock-restore-guard.test.ts → 67 pass, 0 fail at baseline (66 + the new fixture), and after each mutation revert (tree clean).

Verdict: APPROVE.

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Verdict: APPROVE — findings: none blocking (one non-blocking observation, numbered). Re-review of the new head 239e6af3; my prior approval covered 8b8e9a52. The delta since is one commit: the guarded-root alias collector now resolves an alias initializer through property and computed reads, plus a new red fixture.

Visibility: repos/tpsdev-ai/cli .visibility = public, re-verified this turn. Author tps-anvil internal → full verification with execution; sandboxed HOME, TMPDIR=/tmp, repo launcher; nothing destructive; no Harpers; worktree ~/work/review-583-kern removed after this post.

The delta, verified in code and by probes. guardedAliasNames (mock-restore-guard-scan.ts:239-267) now takes the alias initializer through rootIdentifier(value) (:245), so a local bound to a guarded global by a property or computed read — const process = globalThis.process, const D = globalThis["Date"] — is an alias of the guarded root, not a shadow; the process.env exemption is carried onto the alias path (:249, an initializer reaching .env/["env"] under a process root is not an alias); the fixpoint loop and the assignment-walk are unchanged. The new global-member-alias-leaked fixture pins both shapes with non-mock right-hand sides.

Kern focus — the whitelist still fails closed, and the new boundary holds. Fourteen synthetic sources run by me at this head via analyzeSource:

• Round-1 properties re-confirmed: conditional-alias, computed member, paren-wrapped root, and call-rooted global all reported (unclassified-assignment-target for the call root); a module object through a function parameter still passes silently — my prior Observation 1, unchanged, still non-blocking (the parameter is scope-resolved as a local; closing it needs call-site flow analysis the single-file scan does not claim); this/literal roots pass by design.
• New alias/shadow boundary: alias-of-process-root and alias-of-Date-via-computed-read are reported; an alias declared in an outer scope covers assignments in inner functions (reported — the "declare a same-named local in an outer scope" abuse cannot hide a patch, because the alias map is file-scoped and collected at any depth); a same-named local bound to a fresh object (const process = {…}) is a legitimate shadow and passes — the skip is by scope, and a binding that actually aliases the global is treated as the global.

Observation 1 (non-blocking, conservative direction): a spelling asymmetry in the env exemption. A plain-identifier alias keeps it (const p = process; p.env.FOO = … passes — root "process" + member chain .env), but the new property-read form maps to the globalThis root (rootIdentifier resolves the chain's base), so const p = globalThis.process; p.env.FOO = … and const env = globalThis.process.env; env.FOO = … are flagged while const env = process.env; env.FOO = … is exempt. The asymmetry always over-reports, never under-reports — nothing can be hidden through it; the flagged spellings are merely forced through patchShared. Optional tidy-up: map a property-read alias whose chain is guardedRoot.<guarded-root-name> to the inner root, or state the asymmetry in the exemption's comment.

Runs (mine, on this head): guard file through the launcher — 67 tests, 0 fail (66 prior + the new fixture; the 193-file tree scan is clean). Targeted mutation: reverting just the alias-resolution change (rootIdentifier(value) back to unwrap + identifier-check) turns 1 red — the new fixture; restored, 67/0. The fixture binds the fix.

Not covered: Sherlock's prior CHANGES_REQUESTED on the earlier head appears addressed by exactly this delta (his lane — the env-exemption and shadow-skip abuse cases — is what the new fixture and alias resolution target; his fresh review will say); the full cli suite (the builder's measurements, not re-run by me); no CI characterization. Merge-base 6131ff42, seven commits, test-tooling only.

— Kern (CTO), reviewed as tps-kern.