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fix(cli): keep --config through the attested re-exec, run worktree setup outside the sandbox, scan only tps's own arguments (cli#516) - #648
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…tup outside the sandbox, scan only tps's own flags (cli#516) - The attested re-exec carried --id but dropped --config, so `tps agent start --config <file>` ran the default config under nono. Carry it, and grant read of the directory it was read from. - Worktree setup/cleanup ran inside the sandbox, where the base repository's metadata is not granted, so it quietly did nothing. The parent now runs the hooks before entering and after leaving the sandbox; the sandboxed child skips them. A failure is a named WorktreeLifecycleError. - The sandbox-flag scan read every argv token, so `--sandbox <word>` inside a message or a wrapped command was refused as an invalid flag. Scan the parsed argument list, which inserts -- before a wrapped payload.
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title accurately summarizes the main changes: preserving --config through attested re-execution, moving worktree setup outside the sandbox, and limiting argument scanning to tps-owned arguments. I… Linked Issues check Issue #516requires three coding behaviors. The PR preserves--configthrough attested re-exec by using a config snapshot and grants that snapshot for reading. It performs worktree setup outside con…Out of Scope Changes check The lifecycle validation, grant-boundary checks, attestation binding, Codex directory changes, test helpers, workflow updates, and changelog entries support issue #516implementation or its automated …Full details: Title check
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The title accurately summarizes the main changes: preserving --config through attested re-execution, moving worktree setup outside the sandbox, and limiting argument scanning to tps-owned arguments. It is specific and related to the changeset, although it is somewhat long.
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#516requires three coding behaviors. The PR preserves--configthrough attested re-exec by using a config snapshot and grants that snapshot for reading. It performs worktree setup outside confinement, defers checkout to the child, grants required Git metadata, and cleans up only worktrees created by the launch.ownFlagstops flag scanning at--.sandboxed-launch-516.test.tscovers all three behaviors, including real-nono configuration, checkout, and access-denial cases. Theattestedworkflow selects the suite.
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Follow-up: Decide whether a missing base repository is an optional no-op or a launch refusal for a configured managed workspace; the current API does not express that intent. The added assertions are structurally capable of failing for their targeted mutations, but I could not independently execute tests or mutations in this read-only workspace. |
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Adjudication (Gauge) on Direction for round 3: the parent creates the worktree with VERDICT: NOT READY on Blockers
Follow-ups and verification limitThe PR explicitly defines a missing base repository as a no-op; that deferred policy is a follow-up, not a blocker ([PR body]). Concurrent replacement of a newly created worktree also needs an ownership check beyond the current The previous relative-path and existing-worktree blockers have direct code and test coverage ([agent.ts], [test], [test]). The real parser, config file, Git, and pinned-nono boundaries have test paths; the Git tests miss the executable-filter and failed-probe cases ([docker-compose.yml], [test]). I inspected the claimed mutations and their assertions, but could not independently run them: this read-only checkout lacks |
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Round 4 (Codex): a broken .git marker is a lifecycle error, not 'no base' (real-Git setup and cleanup tests); changed-text sweep applied Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…e nono's own grants (cli#516) The three real-nono cases now prove the same things on macOS as on Linux. Before, on macOS they failed for a fixture reason, not a product one: nono applies its built-in groups to every profile, and system_read_macos grants read on /private/var, /tmp and /Volumes, so a fixture HOME under /var/tmp sat inside a nono grant. nono then refused to start (the grant overlaps its state root HOME/.nono), and the launcher refused the profile because nono reported read access to the fixture HOME's credential files: correct refusals for a HOME that is genuinely readable. - realNonoHomeBase() picks a fixture base outside every launcher grant AND outside every path nono's built-in policy grants, checked with `nono why --profile default`, never assumed. On macOS that is /Users/Shared; on Linux /var/tmp, as before. When no candidate qualifies it throws, naming each candidate and the grant that rules it out. - The fixture profile grants the repo checkout and the interpreter directory exactly, not every ancestor: a read grant is recursive, and with bun under ~/.bun the ancestors were /Users and the operator's whole home. - The launcher cases stop waiting when the launcher exits and fail with its output, so a refusal is named instead of surfacing as a 45 s timeout. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…parsing `nono why` (cli#516) The real-nono cli#516 cases again run on every nono build that can run them at all. The base chooser no longer depends on the output of `nono why --profile default`, which the pinned Linux nono answered with exit 0 and no output, failing all three cases in the attested lane. For each candidate base, probeNonoBuiltinRead() makes a scratch dir there with a fixture-like HOME and a file holding a random nonce, and runs real nono under a profile that only extends nono's `default` (the same `run` shape the real-nono cases already use) on `sh -c 'cat <file> || echo <marker>'`: - the marker, exit 0: the read was denied, so the base is accepted; - the nonce, exit 0: the default policy grants read there, so it is rejected; - non-zero with no output: nono refused to start, so it is rejected and nono's stderr is quoted (on macOS, a default group overlapping the state root HOME/.nono); - anything else throws: an unknown answer is never "not granted". Neither the nonce nor the whole marker is in nono's argv. The launcher-grant check and the error naming every rejected candidate are unchanged. The unit tests drive a fake nono that runs the probe's own payload, one case each for granted, denied, refuses-to-start and unknown output, and each fails when its branch is removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…_modules is hoisted The grant was packages/, so inside the Linux lane's sandbox the CLI could not resolve its hoisted dependencies (/app/node_modules). macOS passed only because nono's default macOS policy already grants read on /Volumes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…obe (cli#516) - The parent removes any inherited TPS_WORKTREE_PENDING before launch and sets it only after it created the worktree, so a child never checks out an existing worktree named by a stale value. - onStop treats only ENOENT as absent; any other probe failure (EACCES, ENOTDIR) raises WorktreeLifecycleError instead of changed:false. - The real-nono base-denial case reads a granted control file and reports a distinct denial marker for the base file in one run. - Comments narrowed to what each branch guarantees.
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r14 TEXT ONLY under Flint's ruling on B1: the base-tree check covers launch options and the profile's explicit grants; inherited built-in nono policy is cli#666. Check every changed sentence is true under that ruling and that no code or test logic changed since a749691. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 366-369: Update the workspace directory check in
worktreeLaunchBinding to follow symlinks by using statSync instead of lstatSync,
and add statSync to the node:fs import. Keep the .git marker check using
lstatSync so it remains strict.
- Around line 481-487: Update the registry path resolution in
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r15: two CodeRabbit threads on 3c86324 — symlinked workspace directory check (accept only if every later decision uses the resolved path; tests incl. a symlink to the trusted base) and relative registry gitdir resolution in both registry checks (real-git test + mutation). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
r16 per the 691025e pre-push verdict: the default attested child starts in the parent's resolved absolute workspace (TPS_AGENT_WORKSPACE handoff, as the selected-runtime path), with a symlinked-config + relative-workspace test and a real-nono where-it-starts case; regular .git file text scoped to treated-as-unregistered. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
r17: CI red in Linux Docker (git 2.55) on the relative-gitdir case: onStart deferred-checkout on an existing relative-path worktree returns no gitDir; establish whether code, test or git-version layout is wrong and fix that side for both layouts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
r18: restore the existing-worktree gitDir assertion r17 removed; onStart/onStop membership uses the trusted registry binding (one helper, absolute + relative layouts, named error on unresolvable entries) instead of git worktree list; real-Git tests for both layouts incl. cleanup; PR body cleanup sentences scoped to the base candidate's .git. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
r19: cleanup uses the binding retained from setup (a child-rewritten gitdir is a named failure, never a silent changed:false); onStop wraps realpath failures in WorktreeLifecycleError; the directory-marker test asserts the specific refusal so its mutation is established. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
r20: the Codex runtime's git-metadata --add-dir comes from the trusted registry binding (retained at setup), never from the agent-writable .git file; tests for registered, unregistered-pointing-elsewhere and rewritten-after-setup; body claims then hold for nono and Codex. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
r21: relative registry paths are honoured only when the base declares extensions.relativeworktrees (as git does); fixtures set the extension and format version 1; new case for a relative entry without the extension (named error everywhere). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Round 22 per the 5338b04 pre-push verdict: config read once into a private snapshot used for parse, re-exec and grant (deterministic swap regression + mutation); Codex metadata sentences qualified to binding-derived directories; probe accepts a denial only after an unsandboxed read succeeds and the sandboxed error is a permission denial. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Round 23: CI Docker lane (bookworm git 2.39) refuses bases carrying the relativeworktrees extension; the relative-layout tests now detect the installed git's support once from the real binary and assert the exact named error per capability (no skip, no either-matcher); detector unit-tested against git version. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Round 24: the Docker attested lane's real-nono positive case is released but the agent writes no .tps-agent.pid in its workspace (first run of that case since round 22's config snapshot); cause traced and fixed so the child's workspace and its grant resolve against the original config location; the failing assertions carry the launch output; deterministic relative-workspace test + mutation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Round 25 per the 7bbcc3e verdict (test text and teardown only): fixture comment states only what the fake-nono fixture does; real-nono teardown terminates and waits for the released child pid (parsed from the release line) and the launcher, process group when no release line; 'cannot leak' comment narrowed. Round 24 cause (Codex): the test SIGTERMed the launcher on the release line, whose handler removes the config snapshot before the child reads it; the test now waits for the pid file, child exit or a deadline; the snapshot carries the resolved absolute workspace. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Line 366: Update the grant validation around the `binding.kind === "none"`
branch to reject grants that overlap the base tree in either direction, while
preserving the supported config-file and registered worktree metadata grants.
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Round 26 (CodeRabbit 1518776): agentLaunchOptions refuses any grant overlapping the base working tree in either direction, except the exact binding-derived worktree metadata paths and the private config snapshot; tests for a grant inside the base, a tmpDir under it, an allowlist-adjacent path, and the kept launches; mutation (one-directional check) red. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Round 27 per the c6a3888 verdict: each base-tree exception is bound to its grant type (config snapshot read-file only, gitCommonDir read only, gitDir write only); any other overlapping grant in any list, including TMPDIR-derived and profile writable grants, is a WorktreeGrantError; tests + mutation (path-only exemption) red. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: APPROVE — head f40a38e0. Repo visibility checked via the API before writing: public; every finding below is readable from the diff.
Kern's lane: the config grant's read-only scope, worktree cleanup on every exit path, and the sandbox-flag scan's immunity to -- placement and --sandbox= forms. All three hold.
1. The config grant is read-only and no wider than it needs to be
The re-exec carries --config <snapshot> [packages/cli/src/commands/agent.ts:1288], where the snapshot is a copy the parent writes to a private, launcher-created directory (~/.tps/launch/config-*, parent 0700, file 0600 wx). The sandbox grant is --read-file <snapshot file> [packages/cli/src/utils/nono.ts:328] — read-only by nono semantics and strictly narrower than the config's directory. Verified, with the negatives pinned by tests:
- The ORIGINAL config path is never granted (
not --read-file <customConfig>asserted). - No writable grant may cover the snapshot root:
approveLaunchrefuses cwd/workdir/allow/allowFiles that coversnapshotRoot[packages/cli/src/commands/agent.ts:1300-1306], andsandboxProfileGrantRefusalrefuses any profile write into it [packages/cli/src/utils/nono.ts:602]. Tests pin the inside-the-base variants (refuses a writable config snapshot grant inside the base,refuses a profile … grant for the config snapshot inside the base). - The runtime file-grant allowlist admits the config path as a read-only target only [packages/cli/src/utils/nono.ts:893].
- The snapshot is removed on every parent exit path:
finallyinrunAgent, SIGINT/SIGTERM/SIGHUP once-handlers, and aprocess.once("exit")handler that also covers the refusalprocess.exitcalls deep in the launch path.
2. Worktree cleanup runs on every exit path
- Parent-side, before the sandbox:
onStartrunsgit worktree add --no-checkout --detachwithcore.hooksPath=/dev/nullandcore.fsmonitor=false[packages/cli/src/utils/agent-lifecycle.ts:479-493] — no repository hook or filter runs outside the sandbox during setup (tests pin post-checkout hooks and smudge/fsmonitor never running in the parent). - A failure after creation rolls back inside
onStartitself (pinned twice: "a metadata failure after worktree creation removes the worktree", "post-add metadata failure rolls back the real worktree"). - A failure after
onStart(approval/profile refusal) hits the catch, which removes the worktree only when this launch created it [packages/cli/src/commands/agent.ts:1337-1343]. - Every
launchAttestedexit — normal, refused, or thrown — runs thefinallycleanup [packages/cli/src/commands/agent.ts:1355-1366]. - Removal re-verifies the setup binding first (workspace/gitdir realpath, registry
gitdircontent, marker, commondir) so a rewritten registry is a namedWorktreeLifecycleError, never a force-remove of something else (pinned: "a child registry rewrite makes parent cleanup fail"). - A pre-existing worktree is never removed (cleanup is gated on
worktreeCreated); the child checks out the deferred worktree inside the sandbox [packages/cli/bin/tps.ts:545-552] and never removes it; an inheritedTPS_WORKTREE_PENDINGis deleted and re-set only when this launch actually created the worktree.
3. The flag scan reads tps's own arguments and cannot be fooled
- The gate and the attestation trigger read
ownArgv()— parseCliArgs's output, which inserts--at every wrapped-payload boundary (agent run --message,mail watch --exec,secrets-guard <cmd>,office exec) [packages/cli/bin/cli-args.cjs:184-196].ownFlag[packages/cli/src/utils/nono.ts:1318] exact-matches only before the first--. - Downstream,
sandboxedis the ATTESTED RELEASE, not the flag [packages/cli/bin/tps.ts:125] — a--sandboxed-shaped token that the scan misses is inert; nothing can act on an unreleased claim. - Own
--sandbox/--sandboxedvalue forms are validated (accepts only 'true' or 'false',--sandbox=and space forms both handled) [packages/cli/src/utils/nono.ts:1341-1362]; payload forms are not scanned. - The parent-constructed re-exec argv [packages/cli/src/commands/agent.ts:1272-1288] contains no
--, so every child flag is own. - Pinned by tests: payload
--sandbox <word>/--sandboxedin messages and wrapped commands proceed;-- --sandboxed(payload) proceeds past the gate to the nono-availability refusal instead of tripping it; an own unattested--sandboxedis refused; the attestation socket connect happens only when--sandboxedis an own flag; an own invalid--sandbox 1is still refused by name.
Findings (non-blocking)
- [packages/cli/test/launch-attestation.test.ts:730] The fake-nono fixture shell script calls
/bin/true— a Linux-only path (present since #350, but the new "the launcher release carries its retained worktree binding" test is the first to reach it). On a macOS dev host the file fails 1 case with exit 127. Cosmetic portability fix (command trueor an env-resolved path). - The real-nono cases in the new file cannot pass on a macOS host at all: the fixture sandbox-HOME base (
/var/tmp) resolves under/private/var, which is inside nono'ssystem_read_macosread root, so the launcher's own profile gate refuses the launch (the pre-existinglaunch-attestation-real-nono.test.tsfails the same way here — a control failing identically on the unchanged parts). The authoritative run is the Docker lane, which this PR extends to include the new file (docker-compose.ymlattestedservice) — that lane is green on this head. - The own-argv scan discipline should extend to every flag the launcher reads positionally from
process.argv; a few non-sandbox flags inbin/tps.tsare still read from raw argv. Out of this PR's scope (the sandbox flags are the security boundary and they are fully converted); noting the requirement here.
Verified on head f40a38e
Built worktree (bun install --frozen-lockfile, bun run build); tests through the repo's isolated launcher (scripts/test-suite.mjs cli …, HOME-isolated per cli#430):
sandboxed-launch-516.test.ts: 46 pass / 5 fail — all 5 failures are the real-nono block on this macOS host for the environmental reason in finding 2 (no-release timeouts; fixture base inside a system read root).agent-launch-options+agent-workspace+launcher-grants+launch-attestation+runtime-dir-credential-overlap: 158 pass / 1 fail — the single failure is finding 1's/bin/trueLinux-ism, not the feature under test.- Named checks on this head: "Build (TypeScript strict)" — pass; "Unit & Integration Tests" — pass; "Docker Integration" — pass (the lane that runs the new file's real-nono block). I make no claim about other lanes.
What I did not verify: the five real-nono cases locally (macOS host cannot run them — finding 2); the author's cross-head evidence matrix (I re-derived the key behaviors from the source and the passing fake-nono cases instead). Darwin launchd behavior was not touched by this review; no launchd lanes were run on this host.
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Review — cli#516: keep --config through the attested re-exec, worktree setup outside the sandbox, scan tps's own flags
Head reviewed: f40a38e0. Repo visibility checked before writing: gh-as sherlock repo view tpsdev-ai/cli --json visibility → PUBLIC. Author is tps-anvil (tps-* agent), so I ran the build and suites. Worktree ~/work/review-648-sherlock, every test lane under its own isolated HOME/TMPDIR; no nono/launcher process of mine is left running.
Verdict: APPROVE. Three non-blocking findings. One part of the change I could not exercise on this host, and CI skips it too — see the last section.
The re-exec cannot be talked into a sandbox claim
--sandboxed is honoured only from the launcher's release, and the flag scan reads the normalised argv (bin/tps.ts:23-25, ownArgv() = [argv0, argv1, ...helpArgs.argv]), with meow also parsing that same array (argv: helpArgs.argv). So a --sandboxed inside a wrapped payload is not a tps flag, and ownFlag only looks before the first --:
export function ownFlag(argv: readonly string[], flag: string): boolean {
const end = argv.indexOf("--");
return (end === -1 ? argv : argv.slice(0, end)).includes(flag);
}enforceLaunchControlOrExit attests only when the flag is tps's own and a launcher socket is present, and the value the rest of the launcher uses is the attestation result, never the argv:
const sandboxed = confinement?.released === true;
enforceLaunchControl({ command, rest, argv: ownArgv(), parsedFlags: cli.flags,
confinement: { released: sandboxed, reason: confinement?.reason } });enforceLaunchControlOrExit() runs before the command switch in main(), so --config is not read (or snapshotted) before the gate. The --config value that reaches the sandbox is the parent's snapshot, not the caller's path: runAgent copies the config into ~/.tps/launch/config-XXXX/agent.yaml (parent dir 0o700, file { mode: 0o600, flag: "wx" }), rewrites the resolved workspace into the snapshot, and passes --config <snapshot> to the re-exec.
The config snapshot is read-only and cannot be widened by it
The launch grants carry the snapshot as a read-file, never a directory:
readFiles: [...harnessReadFiles(input.launchId, home), canonicalPath(input.configPath)],and both writable shapes are refused before the launcher runs:
if (writable.some((path) => path && grantCovers(canonicalPath(path), snapshot.snapshotRoot)) ||
(result.options.allowFiles ?? []).some((path) => canonicalPath(path) === configPath)) {
throw new Error("refusing a writable config snapshot directory");
}plus sandboxProfileGrantRefusal(profile, process.env, selectedRuntime, nonoAvailable, snapshot?.snapshotRoot), which refuses a profile write/write_file grant that overlaps the snapshot dir (nono.ts:602). The snapshot is also removed on the normal path, on exit, and on SIGINT/SIGTERM/SIGHUP (agent.ts:1087-1117).
Parent-side setup runs git, not the workload's code
onStart runs in the parent with the base repository as cwd, strips every inherited GIT_* and disables system/global config (gitEnv()), and neutralises the two repository-configured execution points on the write itself:
const args = [
"-c",
"core.hooksPath=/dev/null",
"-c",
"core.fsmonitor=false",
"worktree",
"add",The worktree registry is read from the trusted base (~/.tps/../ops/tps or the sibling tps), not from the workspace's .git marker: a registered entry is matched only when its recorded gitdir resolves to this workspace's marker, and a symlink marker, a non-file marker for a registered worktree, or an unresolvable registry entry is a named WorktreeLifecycleError before any grant is computed. Cleanup re-validates that whole binding (workspace realpath, gitDir realpath, the registry entry's exact contents, the common dir) before worktree remove. I also probed that git worktree remove --force runs neither an fsmonitor command nor hooks, so the cleanup path's lack of the two -c neutralisers is not exploitable as far as I can construct it.
Findings
- [packages/cli/src/utils/nono.ts:602] — the snapshot-dir write guard is not pinned by any test. Deleting those four lines leaves
launcher-grants.test.ts(20 pass, 0 fail) andagent-launch-options.test.ts(63 pass, 0 fail) fully green: the existing "config snapshot inside the base" cases pass throughagentLaunchOptions's own base-overlapcheck(), not through this guard. The only case this guard can catch — a nono profile that grants write to the snapshot's directory but not to the base (e.g.~/.tps/launch) — has no case. It is the one check standing between a profile and a writable config snapshot, so it is worth a case whose profile grantswriteon the snapshot root. - [packages/cli/src/commands/agent.ts:1356-1372] — worktree cleanup is a
finally, so it covers a thrown error and a failed launch, but not a signalled parent: the snapshot handlers registered inrunAgentclean up the snapshot and then re-raise the signal (process.kill(process.pid, signal)after removing the handler), which terminates the process without unwinding. BecauseonStartnow reports an existing worktree aschanged: false, no later launch removes the leftover either. If "cleanup on every exit path" is meant to include SIGTERM, the worktree cleanup needs the same signal handler shape the snapshot has; if leaving the worktree is deliberate, the comment should say so. - [packages/cli/src/commands/agent.ts:1227] —
const sandboxRequired = (args as any).sandboxRequired ?? process.argv.includes("--sandbox-required");is a leftover raw-argv scan, the exact shape item (3) removes elsewhere. It is fail-closed (a payload token can only make the launch assert more isolation) andbin/tps.tsalways passes a boolean, so it is dead on the shipped path — but it contradicts "scans only tps's own flags" for any otherrunAgentcaller.
Runs
bun install --frozen-lockfile; packages/cli build emits dist/bin/tps.js (the root build's first cli pass printed a src/utils/relay.ts:668 type error; that file is untouched by this diff and the final cli build succeeds — I did not build origin/main to confirm it is pre-existing). Suites, all under the repo's HOME-isolated launcher with TMPDIR=/tmp:
agent-launch-options.test.ts+launcher-grants.test.ts+runtime-dir-credential-overlap.test.ts+agent-workspace.test.ts— 118 pass, 0 failsandboxed-launch-516.test.ts— 46 pass, 5 fail (the fivereal nonore-exec cases), 0 skipped
What I could not verify
The five failures are the re-exec cases, and they are skipped in CI because no nono is installed there — the Unit & Integration Tests job log shows (skip) cli#516 — real nono SKIPPED: no nono at an absolute path. On this host nono 0.74.0 is present, but nono ps lists no live session; the launcher therefore never gets its release and times out:
Applying sandbox...
❌ refusing to launch: no released child within 20000ms
I proved that is the host, not the diff: a bare nono run --name probe --allow /tmp -- sleep 20 followed by nono ps --json also returns [] (and nono ps --all shows only sessions from 62 days ago). So the attestation binding check cannot succeed here for any launch, and the sandboxed re-exec path (config snapshot read, deferred checkout, worktree binding over the release line) is verified by reading the code and by the fake-nono cases, not at runtime. The non-nono half of the new file and the three other suites above do pass.
4 participants
Closes #516.
Sandboxed agent launch (
tps agent startunder nono) now provides:--configonce into a private snapshot and writes its resolved workspace into that snapshot; parsing, re-exec and the read-file grant use the snapshot path. The parent removes the snapshot on normal exit and on SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGHUP; a forced termination (for example SIGKILL) leaves it in place under~/.tps/launch/(follow-up: sweep stale snapshots at the next launch).--no-checkout,core.hooksPath=/dev/nullandcore.fsmonitor=false. The sandboxed child checks out the newly created worktree before starting the runtime. The launch grants read of the worktree's git common directory and write of its git directory. Cleanup is attempted only after this launch created a worktree.--; runtime dispatch uses the verified launcher release.Repository inspection and Git operation failures raise
WorktreeLifecycleError. Setup failure stops launch before nono starts; checkout and cleanup failures are reported. Only a confirmed absent candidate or a plain directory without a.gitentry counts as no base (changed:false). Setup and cleanup reject a base candidate’s symlink.gitmarker and base metadata Git cannot resolve. System and global Git config entry points are disabled; local includes remain enabled.Worktree metadata binding. nono metadata grants and additional Codex metadata directories derived from the registry binding come from the trusted base repository (
~/ops/tpsor the workspace's siblingtps), resolved through symlinks. A workspace that the trusted base's own worktree registry lists is tps-managed: its.gitfile andcommondirmust match that base, or the launch is refused with a namedWorktreeLifecycleErrorbefore any grant is computed. Registry ownership is decided from that registry alone: a registered workspace is refused when its.gitmarker is missing, is a directory, or the workspace directory is absent. A workspace with an unregistered regular.gitfile receives no nono metadata grants or additional binding-derived Codex directories; launch remains subject to grant and profile checks. With a trusted base, it uses the workspace as its working directory; explicit launch and profile grants that contain, equal or lie inside the base working tree are refused, except exact canonical matches to the private config snapshot inreadFiles, the registered binding'sgitCommonDirinread, and itsgitDirinallow. Grants inherited from nono's built-in policy are not evaluated, so a trusted base inside a location that policy can read is not covered by this check (cli#662). A symlink.gitmarker is refused, and a.gitfile the agent can write never widens what nono or Codex grants. Sandboxed Codex receives the registry binding retained at setup through the launcher release socket.Tests in
packages/cli/test/sandboxed-launch-516.test.ts(built-CLI release regressions on c41a2ce: 42 pass / 0 fail, real-nono cases included):attestedlane selects this file.The
cli#483fixture checks the carried runtime by position and the presence of--config.Round 4 verification — measured on
377e829b:bun run buildpasses.bun run lint:ciandnode scripts/changelog-fragments.mjs checkpass.Mutation coverage: the fsmonitor pin has no independent mutation coverage recorded here.
nono: the Docker
attestedlane mounts the pinned nono for the real-nono cases.Round 4 (9e8cb35, 377e829, 7e42faf)
.gitthat is a broken pointer, a symlink, unreadable, or anything Git refuses to resolve is aWorktreeLifecycleErrorfor setup and cleanup. Only a confirmed absent path or a plain directory with no.gitentry is "no base" (real-Git tests for both).attestedlane. nono's default policy on macOS grants read on/private/varand/tmp, so a fixture HOME under/var/tmpoverlapped nono's own state root there. The fixture base is now chosen by asking real nono which candidate its policy and the fixed launcher grants leave ungranted (/Users/Sharedon macOS,/var/tmpon Linux), and the fixture grants the checkout and interpreter directories as exact paths on macOS (the fixed system roots it also grants are ancestor grants; on the Linux lane the interpreter's directory sits under the already-shared/usrgrant).Measured on 7e42faf, macOS, nono 0.74.0:
sandboxed-launch-51628/0/0 (the three real-nono cases included),runtime-dir-credential-overlap31/0,launcher-grants15/0; lint clean.Linux lane fix (5fd75dd)
The fixture-base chooser's
nono why --jsonquery answered with empty output on the pinned Linux nono in theattestedDocker lane (exit 0, nothing on stdout), so the three real-nono cases failed there on 7e42faf. The chooser accepts a candidate after an unsandboxed nonce read succeeds and the sandboxed read returns a permission error. A sandboxed nonce read rejects the candidate; other failures are reported as probe failures. Measured on 5fd75dd, macOS, nono 0.74.0:/var/tmpand/Volumesrefused,/Users/Sharedchosen;sandboxed-launch-51628/0/0,launcher-grants17/0 (one case per verdict, each failing when its branch is removed),runtime-dir-credential-overlap31/0; lint clean. The Linux lane is the confirmation for/var/tmp.857037c: the real-nono fixture now grants the checkout root (where node_modules is hoisted) rather than
packages/. In the Linux lane on 5fd75dd the sandboxed CLI could not resolve/app/node_modules/meow; macOS had passed only because nono's default macOS policy grants read on/Volumes. On 857037c, macOS:sandboxed-launch-51628/0/0; lint clean. The Linux lane confirms.Round 5 (22cebd1)
TPS_WORKTREE_PENDINGbefore launch and sets it only after it created the worktree; a launch with the marker pre-set over an existing branch worktree asserts the child's environment carries none.onStoptreats onlyENOENTas absence; any other probe failure (EACCES,ENOTDIR) raisesWorktreeLifecycleError. A test whose workspace parent is a regular file (ENOTDIRon every uid) asserts the error./usrgrant, which candidates are measured, a nonzero probe, and the config directory's effective access.Measured on 22cebd1 (main 222cf44): root
bun run buildclean;cd packages/cli && bun run lint:ciexit 0;node scripts/changelog-fragments.mjs checkpasses;runtime-tier-launch,launcher-grants,sandbox-launch-control,runtime-dir-credential-overlap,profile-grant-credential-policy,runtime-attested-launch442 pass / 0 fail;sandboxed-launch-51627 pass / 3 skip / 0 fail on 22cebd1 and again on b7e3ec2, whose only change is a line in the host-skipped real-nono probe. The three real-nono cases run in the Dockerattestedlane.Round 6 (7a703fc)
commondir) and write of its git directory. An untracked file there is denied in the same real-nono sandbox that reads a file inside the worktree.agentLaunchGrants+buildNonoArgs), not a separate test profile.Measured on 7a703fc (main 766f5f3): root
bun run buildclean;cd packages/cli && bun run lint:ciexit 0;node scripts/changelog-fragments.mjs checkpasses;sandboxed-launch-51630 pass / 0 fail with nono 0.74.0 (real-nono cases included),launcher-grants17/0,sandbox-launch-control139/0,runtime-dir-credential-overlap31/0,profile-grant-credential-policy86/0,runtime-tier-launch3/0,launch-attestation36/0,nono31/0,nono-profiles13/0,nono-profiles-install5/0,office-connect-announce16/0,office-connect-announce-recovery2/0,runtime-attested-launch166/0; 575 pass / 0 fail combined. cbcda23 changes comments only: on cbcda23,bun run build,bun run lint:ci, the changelog check,sandboxed-launch-516(30/0) andlauncher-grants(17/0) were re-run clean; the other counts above were not re-run. The Dockerattestedlane was not run on this host; the real-nono cases above ran locally against nono 0.74.0.Mutation: re-adding the base repository to the read grants makes the real-nono case fail with
base-untrackedwhere the denial marker is expected; restored, 30/0.Summary by CodeRabbit
Round 12 (c41a2ce)
WorktreeLifecycleError.Measured on c41a2ce: root
bun run buildclean;cd packages/cli && bun run lint:ciexit 0;node scripts/changelog-fragments.mjs checkpasses;sandboxed-launch-51642 pass / 0 fail (real-nono cases included, nono 0.74.0),agent-launch-options25 pass / 0 fail,agent-workspace3/0,launcher-grants17/0,sandbox-launch-control139/0;check-nono-profiles.shandcheck-custom-nono-profile.tspass.Mutations: removing the unregistered-workspace cwd grant fails the cwd test; removing the registered missing-marker refusal fails that test; rethrowing the raw registry read error fails the named-error test.
Round 13 (a749691)
WorktreeLifecycleErrorbefore any grant is computed; an absent unregistered path keeps the caller's cwd policy. Both cases go throughagentLaunchOptionswith real Git and the real registry file.Measured on a749691 (main 8bdf648): root
bun run buildclean;cd packages/cli && bun run lint:ciexit 0;node scripts/changelog-fragments.mjs checkpasses;agent-launch-options27 pass / 0 fail; 22 test files importing the lifecycle, nono, or the agent command: 600 pass / 10 skip / 0 fail (the skips are the 7 real-nono cases and 3 real-Flair cases);sandboxed-launch-51635 pass / 7 skip / 0 fail.Mutation: restoring the early
kind: "none"return makes the missing-directory case fail with the grant computation's own error instead of the named ownership error; restored, 27/0.The Docker
attestedlane was not run on this machine: there is no pinned nono binary and no Rust toolchain to build one, and the local nono 0.17.1 is below the 0.70.0 floor, so the real-nono cases skip.Existing-worktree regression
Launch and setup use the trusted base’s registry lookup; cleanup of launch-created worktrees uses the retained setup binding. Real-Git cases explicitly write absolute registry gitdirs, relative registry gitdirs with
extensions.relativeworktrees=trueand repository format >= 1, and workspace.gitpointers, assert existing-worktree metadata, and remove a worktree created byonStart. Registry inspection rejects unreadable, unresolvable or empty entries withWorktreeLifecycleError.Measured on 5fee766:
agent-launch-options38 pass / 0 fail;agent-workspace4 pass / 0 fail; packagebun run build, rootbun run lint:ci, andnode scripts/changelog-fragments.mjs checkexit 0. Reverting eitheronStartoronStoptogit worktree listfails the relative-registry cases.On 6844eab, the real-Git, built-CLI Codex metadata cases pass (4 pass / 0 fail): registered worktree, unregistered
.gitpointer, post-setup rewrite, and no trusted base.On 7bbcc3e, the relative-workspace snapshot regressions pass (2 pass / 0 fail); resolving against the snapshot directory makes both fail.
Real-nono launch teardown checks termination of the released child and launcher in
finally, using the release PID or the launcher process group without a release line. Unconfirmed termination fails the case.On f40a38e, package
bun run buildand rootbun run lint:ciexit 0.