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This PR is S3a-v2, a structural replacement of the frozen S3a-v1 attempt in
PR #493. It is reconstructed directly from current main, not branched from
PR #493.

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Scope

This PR owns one outgoing pre-push evidence authority:

  • capture stdin once at the hook boundary;
  • normalize raw strings, string arrays, and structured updates through one
    parser;
  • persist one immutable JSON evidence snapshot in a private OS temp directory;
  • pass only the bounded artifact path to signing and local admission;
  • resolve branch, new-branch, deletion, tag, no-op, and multi-ref semantics;
  • fail closed on malformed/truncated/missing evidence, Git failures, and missing
    objects;
  • preserve NUL-safe changed paths through JSON string elements;
  • clean up the artifact in the hook-owned finally path.

Bulk evidence is not placed in environment variables or CLI arguments.

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Validation

  • tests/unit/signing.test.ts: 15/15 passed;
  • Biome and git diff --check: passed;
  • docs:check: passed with 6959 tests / 575 files;
  • pnpm run ci:prepush: passed;
  • real empty-stream pre-push hook: signing verified 0 objects and mandatory
    local admission completed successfully;
  • signing doctor and local commit verification: passed;
  • final patch: 7 files, 393 additions / 41 deletions.

Summary by Sourcery

Replace the pre-push evidence handoff with a secure, bounded artifact-based validation flow.

New Features:

  • Replace pre-push evidence transfer with a private temporary JSON snapshot shared by signing and local admission checks.
  • Support reliable validation of branch updates, new branches, deletions, tags, no-op pushes, and multi-ref pushes while preserving changed paths losslessly.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fail closed when pre-push evidence is malformed, incomplete, unsupported, unavailable, or associated Git objects cannot be resolved.
  • Avoid size-related failures caused by passing bulk push evidence through environment variables or command-line arguments.

Enhancements:

  • Centralize pre-push input normalization, evidence serialization, and push resolution behind a shared contract.

Documentation:

  • Update documented test metrics to reflect the expanded signing and pre-push coverage.

Tests:

  • Add coverage for evidence normalization, secure artifact handling, push resolution, failure cases, path preservation, and large multi-ref pushes.

CodeAnt-AI Description

Replace pre-push evidence handoff with a secure temporary snapshot

What Changed

  • Pre-push data is captured once and shared through a private temporary file instead of being passed through process input or environment-sized arguments
  • Push checks now handle empty pushes, branch updates, new branches, deletions, tags, and multiple refs
  • Malformed, incomplete, missing, or unsupported push data fails closed before signing or local checks continue
  • Changed paths, including names with spaces, tabs, newlines, and non-ASCII characters, are preserved correctly
  • Added coverage for evidence normalization, secure file handling, push resolution, failure cases, and large multi-ref pushes

Impact

✅ Reliable multi-ref pre-push validation
✅ Fewer failures on large pushes
✅ Clear rejection of invalid push evidence

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  • New Features
    • Added support for capturing and validating pre-push evidence during outgoing change verification.
    • Improved verification for branches, new branches, deletions, tags, and multiple simultaneous updates.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Invalid, incomplete, malformed, or inaccessible evidence now fails safely before checks proceed.
    • Improved cleanup handling prevents successful completion when temporary verification data cannot be removed.
  • Documentation
    • Updated project test-count metrics to reflect 6,959+ tests across 575 files.

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This PR structurally replaces the pre-push evidence handoff with a fail-closed, immutable JSON snapshot: the hook captures and normalizes stdin once, persists it in a private temporary artifact, and passes only the bounded path to signing and local admission. New resolution logic handles all supported ref-update types and safely derives changed paths, with cleanup and comprehensive unit coverage for malformed inputs, missing Git objects, artifact integrity, permissions, and large multi-ref pushes.

Sequence diagram for the pre-push evidence handoff

sequenceDiagram
participant Git
participant Hook as pre-push_hook
participant Core as signing-core
participant Signing as verify-outgoing
participant Admission as ci-prepush-lowend
Git->>Hook: provide stdin ref updates
Hook->>Core: normalizePrePushUpdates(input)
Core-->>Hook: RefUpdate[]
Hook->>Core: writePrePushEvidenceFile(evidenceFile, updates)
Hook->>Signing: runNodeScript(verify-outgoing, evidenceFile)
Signing->>Core: readPrePushEvidenceFile(evidenceFile)
Core-->>Signing: RefUpdate[]
Signing->>Core: verifyOutgoingUpdates(input, remote)
Signing-->>Hook: signing result
Hook->>Admission: runNodeScript(ci-prepush-lowend, evidenceFile)
Admission->>Core: readPrePushEvidenceFile(evidenceFile)
Core->>Core: resolvePushEvidence(input, cwd)
Core-->>Admission: RESOLVED or INVALID
Admission-->>Hook: admission result
Hook->>Hook: rm(evidenceFile)
Hook->>Hook: rm(evidenceDir)
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Flow diagram for fail-closed pre-push evidence resolution

flowchart TD
A[Capture pre-push stdin once] --> B[normalizePrePushUpdates]
B -->|invalid input| X[Reject push]
B --> C[writePrePushEvidenceFile]
C --> D[Signing reads bounded artifact path]
D --> E[verifyOutgoingUpdates]
E -->|failure| X
E -->|success| F[Local admission reads same artifact]
F --> G[resolvePushEvidence]
G -->|missing object, Git failure, or unsupported ref| X
G -->|RESOLVED| H[Run admission checks]
H --> I[Cleanup evidence file and temp directory]
X --> I
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ChangeDetailsFiles
Replaced stdin/environment evidence handoff with a single immutable temporary JSON artifact shared by signing and local admission.
  • Capture pre-push stdin once at the hook boundary.
  • Normalize text, string arrays, and structured updates through one parser.
  • Write a mode-0600 artifact in a private temporary directory and pass only its path to child processes.
  • Clean up the artifact and directory in the hook-owned finally path.
  • Reject malformed, missing, truncated, or unreadable artifacts and fail closed on cleanup errors.
scripts/hooks/pre-push.mjs
scripts/signing/signing-core.mjs
scripts/signing/signing-core.d.mts
scripts/signing/verify-outgoing.mjs
scripts/ci-prepush-lowend.mjs
Added push-evidence resolution for all supported ref-update scenarios while preserving changed-path data safely.
  • Classify updated branches, new branches, deletions, tags, and multi-ref pushes.
  • Validate SHAs and required commit/object existence before resolving evidence.
  • Derive changed paths with NUL-delimited Git output and deduplicate them without losing newline, tab, or Unicode characters.
  • Return explicit resolved or invalid evidence state for downstream admission.
scripts/signing/signing-core.mjs
scripts/signing/signing-core.d.mts
Expanded signing and artifact tests around normalization, resolution, failure handling, and the bounded handoff contract.
  • Cover empty, malformed, raw, array, and structured inputs.
  • Test branch/tag/deletion/multi-ref semantics and Git/object failure cases.
  • Verify JSON round trips, private file permissions, missing/truncated artifacts, NUL-safe paths, and large evidence payloads.
tests/unit/signing.test.ts
Updated documented repository test-count metrics to reflect the newly added coverage.
  • Update badges, testing table, test-tree annotation, and current test metrics from 6954+ to 6959+ tests.
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Summary

This PR implements a structural replacement for pre-push evidence handoff by capturing stdin once at the hook boundary, persisting immutable JSON evidence in a temporary file, and passing only the bounded file path to child processes. This approach addresses ARG_MAX environment limitations.

Critical Issue

Found 1 blocking defect:

  • Logic Error in pre-push.mjs: Top-level await operations (lines 10, 30, 40) will crash at runtime because they're not wrapped in an async function context. The script uses async/await syntax without the required async wrapper, causing execution to fail when attempting cleanup operations.

Testing Note

While the PR description mentions comprehensive testing, the critical async/await issue suggests the real pre-push hook may not have been executed with the cleanup paths, as the async operations would cause runtime errors. Recommend testing the actual hook execution path with evidence cleanup scenarios.


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The pre-push workflow now captures updates as temporary evidence, validates and resolves that evidence through signing-core APIs, and shares it with outgoing verification and low-end checks. Tests cover ref types, failure paths, file handling, and large payloads. README metrics now show 6,959+ tests.

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Pre-push evidence pipeline

Layer / File(s)Summary
Evidence contracts and resolution
scripts/signing/signing-core.d.mts, scripts/signing/signing-core.mjs
Adds evidence types and APIs for normalization, serialization, file I/O, ref resolution, and structured fail-closed verification results.
Hook and verifier integration
scripts/hooks/pre-push.mjs, scripts/signing/verify-outgoing.mjs, scripts/ci-prepush-lowend.mjs
The hook writes temporary evidence and passes it to both checks. Verification runs before the low-end check, and cleanup failures affect the exit status.
Evidence behavior validation
tests/unit/signing.test.ts
Tests cover normalization, branches, new refs, deletions, tags, failure handling, permissions, malformed files, cleanup, and large artifacts.

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README.md
Updates four README references from 6,954+ to 6,959+ tests.

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The pre-push evidence refactor can lose previously collected verification details when a later verification step throws, reducing diagnostic clarity while still failing the check. This is a bounded follow-up risk that warrants owner awareness but does not indicate a merge-blocking correctness or availability issue.

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participant verify-outgoing
participant ci-prepush-lowend
participant signing-core
Git->>pre-push: send ref updates
pre-push->>signing-core: normalize and write evidence
pre-push->>verify-outgoing: provide evidence file
verify-outgoing->>signing-core: read and verify evidence
signing-core-->>verify-outgoing: verification result
verify-outgoing-->>pre-push: success or failure
pre-push->>ci-prepush-lowend: run after verification succeeds
ci-prepush-lowend->>signing-core: read and resolve evidence
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tests/unit/signing.test.ts (2)

226-233: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for the exclusive-create guarantee of writePrePushEvidenceFile.

writePrePushEvidenceFile uses flag: 'wx'. That flag is the guard against writing into a pre-existing file or an attacker-placed symlink. Line 232 uses raw writeFileSync with flag: 'w', so no test exercises the exclusivity. Add one assertion for a second write to the same path.

💚 Proposed test addition
 writePrePushEvidenceFile(file, [line]);
expect(statSync(file).mode & 0o777).toBe(0o600);
+ expect(() => writePrePushEvidenceFile(file, [line])).toThrow();
const serialized = readFileSync(file, 'utf8');
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In `@tests/unit/signing.test.ts` around lines 226 - 233, Extend the existing
writePrePushEvidenceFile test to attempt a second write to the same file path
and assert that it throws, covering the exclusive-create behavior provided by
the function’s wx write flag while leaving the existing parsing assertions
unchanged.

135-137: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add the required QNBS-v3 why-comment for the new test blocks.

The added test cases are a non-trivial change in a .ts file. The repository rule requires one single-line QNBS-v3 comment that explains why the change exists.

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+ // QNBS-v3: lock the pre-push evidence contract so malformed or unresolved input cannot reach a push.
it('normalizes raw, line-array, structured, and empty public inputs', () => {

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470-500: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Hoist reports so failures keep the collected verification reports.

reports lives inside the try block. If getIntroducedCommits or a verification callback throws, the catch block returns reports: [] and the already verified commits disappear from the output. let updates; outside the try is also never read in catch.

♻️ Proposed refactor
- let updates;+ const reports = [];
try {
- updates = normalizePrePushUpdates(input);- const reports = [];+ const updates = normalizePrePushUpdates(input);
for (const update of updates) {
 } catch (error) {
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In `@scripts/signing/signing-core.mjs` around lines 470 - 500, Move the reports
accumulator out of the try block in the pre-push verification flow so the catch
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return to use that shared accumulator, and remove or localize the unused updates
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In `@scripts/signing/signing-core.mjs`:
- Around line 350-353: Confirm and preserve the fail-closed behavior in
resolvePushEvidence: when update.remoteSha is nonzero but commitExists(base) is
false, continue throwing before resolveFiles, so the result remains INVALID and
the pre-push check exits with failure. Do not replace the unavailable base with
EMPTY_TREE; retain EMPTY_TREE only for zero remote SHAs.
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In `@scripts/signing/signing-core.mjs`:
- Around line 470-500: Move the reports accumulator out of the try block in the
pre-push verification flow so the catch handler can return reports collected
before an exception. Update the catch return to use that shared accumulator, and
remove or localize the unused updates declaration as appropriate without
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In `@tests/unit/signing.test.ts`:
- Around line 226-233: Extend the existing writePrePushEvidenceFile test to
attempt a second write to the same file path and assert that it throws, covering
the exclusive-create behavior provided by the function’s wx write flag while
leaving the existing parsing assertions unchanged.
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…t 1) (#501)
* feat(signing): add working-tree-vs-push divergence detection (S3b Part 1)
Neither pathEvidenceState (#498) nor any other current signal proves
that the content ci-prepush-lowend.mjs's local checks actually validate
(everything runs against whatever is on disk, cwd: projectRoot)
corresponds to localSha's exact committed tree, rather than a working
tree that has drifted from it (uncommitted edits, staged-but-uncommitted
changes, wrong ref checked out). Required CI remains the sole
merge-safety authority regardless, so this is a local-gate trust/DX
gap, not a safety hole -- and this commit closes only that gap, as a
diagnostic signal, not as exact-tree validation.
resolvePushEvidence() (signing-core.mjs) gains a new orthogonal
dimension, workingTreeState: 'MATCHES' | 'DIVERGED' | 'NOT_APPLICABLE'
| 'UNKNOWN', computed per-update via a new computeWorkingTreeState()
using `git diff --quiet <localSha> --` (compares working tree directly
against the commit's tree; structurally cannot see untracked files,
which is exactly why MATCHES is not sufficient to prove exact-tree
equivalence -- an untracked file satisfying an import that's absent
from the real commit would make a local check pass when a real
checkout of localSha would fail). DELETED updates get NOT_APPLICABLE
(no commit to compare against); TAG updates are included on the same
terms as branch updates via the same call (git's own revision parsing
transitively peels a tag to its target), not excluded as an earlier
draft had them -- a diverged tag push is now reported instead of
silently unreported. Aggregation precedence: DIVERGED > UNKNOWN >
MATCHES > (NOT_APPLICABLE only when no relevant update exists, e.g. an
all-deletions push).
computeWorkingTreeState() never throws -- it maps any runGit() failure
(spawn error, timeout) to UNKNOWN internally, and critically checks
result.error before trusting result.status, since runGit's own
`status: result.status ?? 1` fallback makes a killed/failed subprocess
indistinguishable from a genuine "differences found" exit code 1
unless the caller inspects error first. This keeps the new diagnostic
fully isolated from resolvePushEvidence's existing canonical try/catch:
a diagnostic failure can only ever produce workingTreeState: 'UNKNOWN'
on the RESOLVED path, never evidenceState: 'INVALID'. This matters
because ci-prepush-range-resolver.mjs's resolveManualEvidence() throws
whenever evidenceState !== 'RESOLVED' -- without this isolation, a
transient git timeout on the new diagnostic would have turned
otherwise-valid, already-verified #494/#498 evidence into a hard
pre-push rejection.
Propagated through resolveManualEvidence()'s evidence-file path
unchanged; the manual/no-evidence-file path (changedFilesFromManualRange,
direct `pnpm run ci:prepush` invocation) reports NOT_APPLICABLE, not
MATCHES -- there is no localSha and no push event in that mode, so no
comparison of any kind happens, and claiming MATCHES would assert an
equivalence that was never checked.
ci-prepush-lowend.mjs reports a non-blocking, informational line only
on DIVERGED or UNKNOWN (MATCHES/NOT_APPLICABLE stay silent) --
deliberately not coupled to the existing `full`-admission escalation
lever, since divergence and incomplete-change-evidence are different
failure modes with no shared remedy.
Deliberately not implemented in this slice (reserved for Part 2, an
isolated-localSha-worktree exact verification mechanism to be designed
fresh against then-current main): MATCHES is never treated as a skip
condition for exact verification anywhere in this codebase, in this
commit or otherwise -- proving tracked-content equivalence sufficient
to safely skip real verification would require also ruling out
untracked/gitignored drift, which is exactly what an isolated worktree
proves and a cheap diff cannot.
Tests: computeWorkingTreeState's runGit-error-vs-status-1 distinction
(the exact ambiguity this commit exists to close) tested directly via
injected runGit results; the UNKNOWN-does-not-mutate-evidenceState
regression proven directly, not just asserted in prose; tag inclusion,
deletion/manual NOT_APPLICABLE, and aggregation precedence (including
a mixed DIVERGED+UNKNOWN and MATCHES+UNKNOWN case) all covered
deterministically with no real git subprocess in the new tests.
Four pre-existing resolvePushEvidence tests updated to inject
worktreeMatchesCommit so they stay git-subprocess-free rather than
incidentally exercising the real default against fake SHAs.
README test-count badges resynced via `pnpm run sync:readme` (578
files / 6997+ tests).
Validated: full `pnpm run ci:prepush`, `pnpm run lint`, `pnpm run
typecheck` (4-checker), and both targeted test files all pass.
* fix(signing): prevent an injected runGit throw from escaping computeWorkingTreeState
The default runGit() never throws (spawnSync failures are captured
into result.error, not thrown), so this was unreachable through the
real production call path. But computeWorkingTreeState() is an
exported function with an optional dependencies.runGit override, and
its whole contract -- documented in its own QNBS-v3 comment and this
slice's commit message -- is that it never throws, so a diagnostic
failure can never corrupt canonical evidence validity via
resolvePushEvidence's outer try/catch. A future caller (or test)
providing a runGit-shaped dependency that throws instead of returning
{error} would have silently broken that guarantee. Wrap the call in
its own try/catch and return UNKNOWN, matching the existing handling
for a returned result.error.
README test-count badges resynced via `pnpm run sync:readme` for the
added regression test (578 files / 6998+ tests).
Validated: full `pnpm run ci:prepush`, `pnpm run lint`, `pnpm run
typecheck` (4-checker), and both targeted test files all pass.
* docs(signing): make computeWorkingTreeState's tracked-content-only scope explicit inline
chatgpt-codex-connector correctly observed that an untracked file can
make git diff --quiet <sha> -- report MATCHES even when that file is
absent from the pushed commit (e.g. an untracked ambient .d.ts
satisfying an import the real commit is missing). This is not a new
gap -- it is the exact, deliberately-scoped limitation this slice's
design already reasons through: MATCHES is documented (commit message,
PR description, the report() wording in ci-prepush-lowend.mjs) as
"no tracked-content divergence detected", never "verified"/"validated",
and is never used anywhere as a skip condition for real verification.
Widening this check to also flag any untracked file (e.g. via
`git ls-files --others --exclude-standard`) was evaluated and rejected:
it would reintroduce exactly the false-positive-on-an-unrelated-scratch-
file problem this design avoids by construction today (a benign WIP
file anywhere in the repo would mark every push DIVERGED, making the
signal noisy enough to lose developer trust), and closing the gap
soundly would additionally require ruling out gitignored/generated-
artifact drift -- at which point the "cheap detector" has grown into
the isolated worktree that is Part 2's job, not Part 1's.
Added a one-line inline comment at the exact call site making this
scope boundary explicit in the code itself, not only in the commit
message and PR description, since a reviewer found it non-obvious
enough to flag independently.
No behavior change. Validated: full `pnpm run ci:prepush`, `pnpm run
lint`, `pnpm run typecheck` (4-checker), and both targeted test files
all pass.
qnbs added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
… isolation
Consolidated remediation for the #502 review epoch (Sourcery, CodeRabbit,
chatgpt-codex-connector).
Root cluster A -- fingerprint representation:
- defaultReadFileAtRef decoded git-show output as UTF-8 before hashing,
while calculateDependencyFingerprint hashes raw filesystem bytes. A
manifest with invalid UTF-8 bytes hashed differently on the two paths
even when identical, reporting DIVERGED instead of MATCHES. Fixed by
reading git-show output as a raw Buffer (spawnSync's default) instead
of decoding it, so both paths hash the same bytes.
- Separately, a core.autocrlf=true checkout hashes CRLF working-tree
bytes while the git blob is LF-normalized, producing a false DIVERGED
for otherwise-identical manifests. Fixed with a binary-safe CRLF->LF
normalization (latin1 round-trip, lossless for all 256 byte values)
applied uniformly to both fingerprint paths inside the shared
hashManifests -- one canonical representation, not two competing
authorities. Scoped to this repo's always-text dependency manifests
(package.json/pnpm-lock.yaml/pnpm-workspace.yaml/patches); no
.gitattributes change.
- Both regressions are proven with deterministic byte-level tests:
invalid-UTF8-byte fingerprint identity, and CRLF-vs-LF fingerprint
identity.
Root cluster B -- diagnostic isolation:
- An injected worktreeMatchesCommit or dependencyStateForRef that throws
propagated through resolvePushEvidence's canonical try/catch, turning
a diagnostic-only failure into evidenceState: INVALID -- otherwise-
valid #494/#498 evidence would be rejected outright. Fixed with a
safeDiagnostic wrapper at both call sites (TAG and NEW_BRANCH/UPDATED)
so a throw maps to the dimension's own UNKNOWN state, symmetrically
for both diagnostic dimensions. Regression tests added for each.
False positive: CodeRabbit's "duplicate const shared declaration" claim
(tests/unit/signing.test.ts) does not match current HEAD -- there is
exactly one `shared` declaration per test scope; the file already
typechecks and lints clean. No change made; will reply with this
evidence and resolve the thread.
qnbs added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
…ization
Consolidated remediation for the #503 review epoch. Reconstructs the
isolated-worktree dependency environment via a real
`pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --offline` instead of symlinking the
live checkout's node_modules.
Root cluster A -- exact-tree dependency-resolution soundness:
The original design symlinked the real checkout's node_modules into
the isolated worktree, reasoning a full reinstall was the unbounded
cost this program had repeatedly avoided. Review, and the empirical
investigation it prompted, found this unsound: pnpm workspace-package
symlinks (node_modules/@domain/<pkg>) are relative, so a whole-directory
symlink transitively resolves them back into the live, possibly-
uncommitted packages/* -- confirmed directly (readlink -f resolved into
the live checkout, not the isolated tree). A second, deeper leak was
found nested at node_modules/.pnpm/node_modules/@domain/desktop-contracts,
proving a hand-patched subset of the link graph could never be trusted
exhaustive; package-local packages/*/node_modules directories would
also simply be absent from a fresh worktree under that approach.
Fixed by running a real, frozen-lockfile, offline pnpm install from
inside the isolated worktree -- pnpm's own algorithm, not a
reconstruction, so it is structurally correct for every link class
(top-level, nested .pnpm, package-local, transitive), not just the
ones this round happened to find. --offline never touches the network;
a package missing from the local store fails the install, mapped to
UNKNOWN, never a silently-wrong PASS. Verified end-to-end against this
actual repository (real commit, real isolated worktree, real install,
real tsgo): PASS, with the install completing in ~1m22s-2m20s on this
hardware using the warm local store -- fully acceptable given Part 2b
is opt-in. The now-unnecessary dependencyState precondition (it only
ever guarded the symlink design's soundness) is removed rather than
kept as inert logic; #502's dependencyState remains the sole authority
for its own distinct question, unchanged.
Root cluster B -- bounded process/result semantics:
- resolveRef used a raw, timeout-less spawnSync, conflicting with the
#500 bounded-subprocess authority, and the real CLI path crashed
outright (resolveRef(ref) called without its dependencies argument,
which the function then dereferenced unconditionally). Fixed by
reusing signing-core's already-bounded (5s timeout), output-capturing
runGit -- a distinct, pre-existing (#494) wrapper for exactly this
job, since runBounded's own contract is inherit-stdio-only and
structurally cannot capture stdout. main() now threads a real
dependencies parameter through to resolveRef and the verification
path, closing the exact gap that let the crash ship uncaught by
helper-only tests.
- Split the single bounded-result check into two correctly-scoped
predicates: boundedCommandFailed (worktree/install lifecycle -- any
non-zero or unreadable exit fails the step outright) and
tsgoResultUnknown (only the tsgo result -- a genuine numeric non-zero
status is a real FAIL; error/timeout/interrupt/signal/non-numeric-
status mean UNKNOWN, so a signal, including an external OOM kill,
can never read as a false FAIL). The prior single conflated helper
broke lifecycle-failure detection for numeric non-zero exits.
- verify-exact-tree.d.mts now reuses shared.d.mts's real BoundedResult
type instead of an inaccurate GitResult-shaped declaration.
- repoRoot is canonicalized to an absolute path before any git/install
call, so a relative caller-supplied root can't produce an ambiguous
cwd.
- Worktree cleanup now unconditionally sweeps the mkdtemp-created
directory after a successful git worktree remove, not only on
failure -- git deregisters and clears the worktree's own content but
leaves the pre-existing (now-empty) directory in place, which was
accumulating empty leftovers under os.tmpdir() across runs.
Root cluster C -- routine regression admission:
.mjs node:test tooling suites (dependency-state.test.mjs,
verify-exact-tree.test.mjs) fall outside Vitest's .ts/.tsx-only include
glob and were never run in CI at all. Added a `test:node` script and a
dedicated CI step in the quality matrix job -- the one authoritative
place these run routinely, not ad-hoc local-only invocation. This
retroactively covers Part 2a's dependency-state.test.mjs too, with
zero touch to that file.
Tests: three deliberate tiers. Fast DI-based unit coverage (bounded-
result semantics, fail-closed cleanup including the leftover-directory
fix, aggregation, ref resolution, and the real main() CLI entry point
with realistic injected dependencies -- specifically because the
resolveRef bug was invisible to helper-only tests). A real git
worktree + real, zero-external-dependency pnpm workspace fixture
(root -> demo-pkg -> inner-pkg) proving root, package-local, and
transitive workspace-link resolution lands inside the isolated tree
via direct file-content comparison against a deliberately live-mutated
checkout -- the load-bearing regression proof, strong by construction
(a leak would read the live, wrong value). A manual, one-time,
real-repository smoke proof against this actual repo and a real
commit, documented as evidence rather than run routinely (the real
install alone measures over a minute on this hardware).
False-positive note: CodeRabbit's "duplicate `shared` declaration"
claim on the earlier #502 epoch did not match its exact-HEAD code
(verified via grep + a clean typecheck/test run) and was resolved with
that evidence at the time; unrelated to this remediation.
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