fix(desktop): prefer the bundle's harness binaries over workspace target dirs

[wiggdevin]

fix(desktop): prefer the bundle's harness binaries over workspace target dirs

Summary

When the desktop app's exe path sits inside a .app bundle, harness/agent
discovery now searches the bundle's own binary directory before any
workspace target/ directory. This matches upstream's command_search_dirs
intent for bundled (packaged) builds — a bundled sidecar binary should win
over a stale binary left in a developer's workspace target/release — while
leaving dev-build search order unchanged (no .app ancestor in the exe
path).

The fix adds a bundle_exe_prefers_bundle_over_workspace_target regression
test in managed_agents::discovery::tests, plus a #[cfg(test)]-only seam
so the regression tests can drive the real command_search_dirs() /
resolve_command() entry points against a controlled exe-parent path,
instead of only the pre-existing extraction functions.

Fork deviations

• Added a #[cfg(test)]-only exe-parent override seam
  (exe_parent_for_search, exe_parent_override_cell,
  set_exe_parent_override_for_test, exe_parent_override_test_lock) to
  discovery.rs, beyond what the ticket's own eval commands required, so
  findings 2 and 3 could bind the real command_search_dirs() /
  resolve_command() entry points instead of only the already-tested
  order_search_dirs / resolve_workspace_command_from extraction —
  required by AGENTS.md Review-Proven Rule 3 (regression tests must bind
  the production seam) and matches the existing
  custom_harnesses::registry_test_lock process-global-test-state pattern
  already used in this codebase.
• The existing
  command_search_dirs_is_exercised_directly_and_deduplicated test was also
  given the new exe_parent_override_test_lock guard (it sets no override
  itself, but its assertion depends on the real, non-overridden exe parent,
  so it must not interleave with a test that has the override active).

Gates

Command	Result
cargo test managed_agents::discovery::tests::bundle_exe_prefers_bundle_over_workspace_target -- --list | grep -c ': test'	1 (== 1, gate met)
cargo test managed_agents::discovery::tests::bundle_exe_prefers_bundle_over_workspace_target -- --exact	1 passed
cargo test managed_agents::discovery	137 passed / 0 failed (130 pre-existing + 7 new)
just desktop-tauri-clippy	exit 0
just fmt-check	exit 0
just desktop-tauri-fmt-check	exit 0
just file-size-check	exit 0
cargo test --lib managed_agents:: (3x, flake check)	1259 passed each run, no flake
DCO (git log --format=%B origin/zs/main..HEAD | grep -c Signed-off-by vs commit count)	3 / 3
Working tree	clean

just ci on the rebased branch: exit 0 (full pipeline — check, test-unit,
desktop-test, desktop-build, desktop-tauri-check, desktop-tauri-test,
web-build, mobile-test — ran to completion, ending All tests passed!
with no failures).

Tested base OID: 35d4e2c9aa311837365b1708e3e28f870c483c46 (origin/zs/main
at rebase time).

Gemini 3.8 Flash tester

• Verdict: PASS
• Missing tests: none
• Dirty files after run: none
• Full report: /private/tmp/claude-501/-Users-zero-suminc-/a0fab389-7ac7-4f57-88e6-599d452e8e3a/scratchpad/wave1/harness-discovery-bundle/gemini-report.md

Critic

Winner: ours.

Checklist: parity ✅ · deviations named ✅ · acceptance met ✅ · nothing above
NIT ✅

Biggest gap (NIT, not blocking): the module doc in
desktop/src-tauri/src/managed_agents/discovery/bundle_search_tests.rs
claims "any test whose assertion depends on the real (non-overridden) exe
parent also takes that lock," but
desktop/src-tauri/src/managed_agents/discovery/tests/managed_path_resolution.rs
calls resolve_command/resolve_command_cached in the same test binary
without taking exe_parent_override_test_lock(). The new #[cfg(test)]
process-global exe-parent override can therefore be live during those
assertions. It cannot change their outcome today (the injected bundle dir
contains only uuid-named files) and 3x full managed_agents runs were
clean, so this is a documented-but-unenforced invariant, not a live flake.

Notes:

• Bar fetched from origin/zs/main:discovery.rs (upstream
  command_search_dirs, lines 355-405); order_search_dirs provably
  reduces to that exact sequence when the exe parent has no .app ancestor,
  so dev-build semantics are unchanged.
• All four ticket evals run from the worktree after
  . ./bin/activate-hermit: named-filter --list == 1 exactly; --exact 1
  passed; cargo test managed_agents::discovery 137 passed / 0 failed (130
  pre-existing + 7 new); just desktop-tauri-clippy exit 0. Also green:
  fmt-check, desktop-tauri-fmt-check, file-size-check; 3x
  cargo test --lib managed_agents:: = 1259 passed, no flake. DCO 3/3,
  clean tree.
• Fix targets the right directory — Tauri externalBin sidecars land in
  Contents/MacOS/ (tauri.conf.json:55-61,
  scripts/bundle-sidecars.sh), which is current_exe().parent(), and
  resolve_command_uncached hits resolve_workspace_command first.
• Deviation from "existing discovery tests unchanged" is real and
  justified: discovery/tests.rs import list collapsed to use super::*;
  to free ratchet headroom (base 1778 lines vs 1500 ceiling,
  allowedLineCount in check-file-sizes-core.mjs:31) for a 4-line
  include!, which is itself forced by the ticket naming the exact
  discovery::tests::… path. Visible in the diff, commented, and stated in
  commit bf456a5f6.
• Warning for the landing/gate scripts: rtk filters git log and
  cargo test -- --list; the plan's own DCO and count pipes reported 2/3
  signoffs and 0 tests on a green branch. Use rtk proxy.
• Other NITs: eager command_search_dirs() before the path-form early
  return; is_inside_app_bundle silently false on non-UTF-8 components; 116
  added lines and 3 overlapping preference tests for an S ticket.

GPT-5.6 Sol audit

Sol ran; verdict: "Found 2 BLOCK and 2 WARN findings." After verification
against the code, both BLOCKs were discarded (not regressions — see below)
and both WARNs were downgraded to NIT.

Verified findings (both NIT, not blocking):

1. desktop/src-tauri/src/managed_agents/discovery/tests/bundle_search.rs:3
   — the comment spells the test's module path as
   discovery::tests::bundle_exe_prefers_bundle_over_workspace_target,
   omitting the crate-root segment; the compiled name is
   managed_agents::discovery::tests::bundle_exe_prefers_bundle_over_workspace_target.
   Reproduced: running the comment's path with -- --exact exits 0 with
   0 passed; 3191 filtered out — a green-and-empty run. Downgraded from
   WARN because the plan's own required eval already uses the full name and
   returns count 1; only the comment is wrong, not the gate. Fix: rewrite
   the comment to the full compiled path (one line, no behavior change).
2. desktop/src-tauri/src/managed_agents/discovery.rs:368 —
   is_inside_app_bundle matches any ancestor component ending in .app,
   with no macOS gate and no Contents/MacOS structural requirement.
   Downgraded from WARN: no realistic trigger exists here — the desktop exe
   lives at target/{debug,release}/<exe> for dev runs and
   <name>.app/Contents/MacOS/<exe> when bundled, and Tauri emits
   AppImage/deb/msi off macOS. The ticket bar (dev-build ordering unchanged)
   holds: existing_discovery_tests_are_unaffected_by_ordering_change
   passes and all 137 managed_agents::discovery tests are green. Optional
   hardening noted for a follow-up, not this ticket.

Discarded findings:

• Sol BLOCK fix(desktop): prefer the bundle's harness binaries over workspace target dirs #1 — claimed a corrupted-but-present bundled sidecar falls
  through to an untrusted workspace binary that then receives
  BUZZ_PRIVATE_KEY. Not a regression: origin/zs/main's
  discovery.rs:363-380 shows the pre-branch order already put the
  workspace binary first unconditionally (executable or not); after this
  change the workspace binary wins only in the narrower non-executable-
  bundle case, since is_executable_file (untouched by this diff) already
  skips non-executable candidates. workspace_root_dir() is also a
  compile-time CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR path on the build machine's own
  checkout, not attacker-supplied. Sol's fix would make discovery terminal
  on a corrupt bundle — a behavior change outside the ticket, and it breaks
  the ticket's own bar (upstream command_search_dirs dev-build semantics
  unchanged).
• Sol BLOCK docs: calendar authorization contract (T11) #2 — claimed std::env::current_exe() failure is silently
  swallowed via .ok(), disabling bundle precedence, and that no test
  covers the real call. The .ok() is verbatim pre-existing upstream code
  (origin/zs/main discovery.rs:373-377); this branch only moved it into
  exe_parent_for_search() without changing its error handling, so there
  is no regression to fix. Review-Proven Rule 1 governs a caught failure
  that abandons durable work or converts a terminal failure into an
  authoritative success; best-effort path discovery that falls through to
  workspace dirs and PATH is neither. The coverage point is inherent (a
  cargo test binary is never itself inside a .app) and already
  mitigated: the override is #[cfg(test)]-only, and
  command_search_dirs_is_exercised_directly_and_deduplicated calls the
  real, non-overridden command_search_dirs() and asserts the real exe
  parent is searched last.

Full report:
/private/tmp/claude-501/-Users-zero-suminc-/a0fab389-7ac7-4f57-88e6-599d452e8e3a/scratchpad/wave1/harness-discovery-bundle/audit.md

Test plan

• cargo test managed_agents::discovery::tests::bundle_exe_prefers_bundle_over_workspace_target -- --list | grep -c ': test' == 1
• cargo test managed_agents::discovery::tests::bundle_exe_prefers_bundle_over_workspace_target -- --exact passes
• cargo test managed_agents::discovery — 137 passed / 0 failed
• just desktop-tauri-clippy — exit 0
• just fmt-check, just desktop-tauri-fmt-check, just file-size-check — all green
• cargo test --lib managed_agents:: x3 for flake check — 1259 passed each run
• just ci on the rebased branch — full pipeline green
• Gemini 3.8 Flash tester — PASS, no missing tests, no dirty files
• Critic gauntlet — winner ours, nothing above NIT
• GPT-5.6 Sol audit — 2 BLOCK discarded with written reasons (not regressions), 2 WARN downgraded to NIT and verified

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