fix(files): read remote-case file previews and downloads over ssh

A remote case's workingDir is an absolute path on the remote host, but the
file read routes resolved it with local `fs`: `validateSessionFilePath`'s
realpathSync fails for a path that does not exist on the Codeman host, so
every preview of an agent-written file answered "File not found" (#415).

Add src/remote-files.ts as the single remote-read layer, built on the same
buildSshConnectionArgs() the launch uses:

- remoteProbePaths(): ONE round trip returning realpath + stat for the
  requested path AND the workspace root, so containment is checked against a
  remotely canonicalized root (a symlinked remotePath is ordinary).
- remoteCreateReadStream(): streams the body (cat, or tail -c +N | head -c L
  for a Range) with nothing buffered in memory, and reaps the ssh child when
  the response ends so an aborted download cannot orphan it.
- remoteReadFile(): bounded read for file-content.

file-raw, file-content, file-preview and file-thumbnail now share one local/
remote target resolution. Guards keep their local strength: lexical pre-check,
remote realpath, workspace containment, sensitive-path blocklist, and the size
cap applied to the remote size before any bytes are read. An unreachable host
answers 502 with the remote reason instead of a misleading 404. Nothing is ever
copied to the Codeman host and there is NO local fallback (an sshfs mount of
the same tree must not shadow the remote bytes).

Deliberately unchanged: writes (edit=1 / PUT now answer 400 explicitly while
the viewer hides its Edit affordance), office previews, thumbnails, file tree,
picker, external attachment registration and tail-file stay local-only.
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/**
* @fileoverview Remote (SSH) file access for remote-SSH cases.
*
* A remote case's `workingDir` is an absolute path on ANOTHER host
* (`Session.workingDir = RemoteCase.remotePath`, see docs/remote-sessions.md). Every
* file route used to read it with local `fs`, which cannot work: the local
* `realpathSync` in `validateSessionFilePath` fails first, so the request died as a
* 404 "File not found" before a byte was read (#415). This module is the ONE place
* that reads remote bytes, mirroring how `remote-hosts.ts` is the one place that
* builds an ssh command line.
*
* Connection options come from `buildSshConnectionArgs()` — never a hand-built ssh
* line (the COD-107 discipline in docs/remote-sessions.md) — so a proxied,
* custom-port or jump-hosted case reaches its files with exactly the credentials the
* launch used, and `BatchMode=yes` means a host that needs a passphrase fails fast
* instead of hanging on a prompt nothing can answer.
*
* ⚠️ The path is the injection surface: it arrives from the browser (`?path=`). It is
* always interpolated as a single `shellescape`d token, and the whole remote command
* is itself shellescaped into the ssh line, so the local shell and the remote shell
* each see one opaque argument. Never build a command here by concatenating a raw
* path into the string.
*
* Read-only by design: previews, text reads and streaming. Writing to a remote file
* is deliberately NOT implemented (docs/file-viewer-edit-plan.md §6), nor are the
* office-conversion/thumbnail paths that would need the bytes on the server's disk.
*/
import { exec, spawn } from 'node:child_process';
import { promisify } from 'node:util';
import type { Readable } from 'node:stream';
import type { SessionRemote } from './types/session.js';
import { buildSshConnectionArgs, remoteSshTarget, shellescape } from './remote-hosts.js';
const execAsync = promisify(exec);
/**
* Bound on the probe (realpath + stat) round trip. The connect itself is already
* bounded by `buildSshConnectionArgs`'s default `-o ConnectTimeout=10`; this covers
* a host that accepts the TCP connection and then never answers.
*/
const REMOTE_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS = 20_000;
/** Bound on a buffered remote read (`cat`), on top of the caller's own size cap. */
const REMOTE_READ_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000;
/** Slack over the caller's byte cap so a file exactly at the limit still fits. */
const READ_BUFFER_SLACK_BYTES = 64 * 1024;
/** Marker a probe prints when the path does not exist on the remote host. */
const NOT_FOUND_MARKER = 'n';
/** What a remote path turned out to be. `other` = symlink/socket/fifo/device. */
export type RemotePathKind = 'file' | 'directory' | 'other';
export interface RemoteProbe {
/** The path with symlinks resolved on the REMOTE host. */
realPath: string;
kind: RemotePathKind;
/** Size in bytes (0 for anything that is not a regular file). */
size: number;
/** mtime in ms since epoch (0 when the remote `stat` reported none). */
mtimeMs: number;
}
/**
* A remote file access failed for a reason that is NOT "the file is missing" —
* unreachable host, timeout, ssh error, unexpected probe output. Callers map this to
* a 5xx with the remote reason in the message; a missing file is reported separately
* as `null`/404 so the two cannot be confused.
*/
export class RemoteFileAccessError extends Error {
constructor(message: string) {
super(message);
this.name = 'RemoteFileAccessError';
}
}
/**
* Wrap a remote shell command in the shared, shellescaped ssh line.
*
* The single entry point for "run this on the remote host": connection args (port,
* identity, jump host, SOCKS ProxyCommand, extra `-o`) all come from
* `buildSshConnectionArgs`, and the command is ONE shellescaped token, so a path with
* spaces, quotes or `$(…)` cannot escape into the ssh command line.
*/
export function buildRemoteFileCommand(remote: SessionRemote, shellCommand: string): string {
return [...buildSshConnectionArgs(remote), remoteSshTarget(remote), shellescape(shellCommand)].join(' ');
}
/**
* `realpath + stat + existence` for one or more paths, in a SINGLE ssh round trip.
*
* One call instead of three matters: without a shared connection (no ControlMaster)
* every extra `ssh` is a fresh handshake, and the file routes need the path AND the
* workspace root canonicalized to compare them.
*
* Each path emits exactly one line — `n` when it does not exist, otherwise
* `kind|size|mtime|realPath` with `realPath` LAST so a path containing `|` still
* parses (the earlier fields are fixed and the remainder is the path).
*
* Symlink resolution is portable on purpose: `readlink -f` where available (Linux,
* macOS >= 12.3), else the POSIX `cd`/`pwd -P` fallback, which resolves the DIRECTORY
* chain. Resolution is required here rather than optional: `isSensitivePath()`
* demands an already-realpath'd input, so a remote read must not be able to reach a
* blocked target through a symlink any more than a local one can.
*/
export function buildRemoteProbeCommand(paths: readonly string[]): string {
const probes = paths.map((path) => `probe ${shellescape(path)}`).join('\n');
return [
'probe() {',
' p=$1',
' r=$(readlink -f "$p" 2>/dev/null) || r=$(cd "$(dirname "$p")" 2>/dev/null && printf %s/%s "$(pwd -P)" "$(basename "$p")")',
' [ -n "$r" ] || r=$p',
` if [ ! -e "$p" ]; then printf '%s\\n' ${NOT_FOUND_MARKER}; return; fi`,
' if [ -d "$r" ]; then t=d; elif [ -f "$r" ]; then t=f; else t=o; fi',
' s=0',
' if [ "$t" = f ]; then s=$(wc -c < "$r" 2>/dev/null | tr -d " "); [ -n "$s" ] || s=0; fi',
' m=$(stat -c %Y "$r" 2>/dev/null || stat -f %m "$r" 2>/dev/null || printf 0)',
` printf '%s|%s|%s|%s\\n' "$t" "$s" "$m" "$r"`,
'}',
probes,
].join('\n');
}
/** Parse one probe line. `null` for the not-found marker or anything malformed. */
export function parseRemoteProbeLine(line: string): RemoteProbe | null {
const trimmed = line.replace(/\r$/, '');
if (!trimmed || trimmed === NOT_FOUND_MARKER) return null;
const parts = trimmed.split('|');
if (parts.length < 4) return null;
const [kindRaw, sizeRaw, mtimeRaw] = parts;
const kind: RemotePathKind | null =
kindRaw === 'f' ? 'file' : kindRaw === 'd' ? 'directory' : kindRaw === 'o' ? 'other' : null;
if (!kind) return null;
const realPath = parts.slice(3).join('|');
if (!realPath) return null;
const size = Number.parseInt(sizeRaw, 10);
const mtimeSeconds = Number.parseInt(mtimeRaw, 10);
return {
realPath,
kind,
size: Number.isFinite(size) && size > 0 ? size : 0,
mtimeMs: Number.isFinite(mtimeSeconds) && mtimeSeconds > 0 ? mtimeSeconds * 1000 : 0,
};
}
/**
* Parse the output of {@link buildRemoteProbeCommand} into one entry per requested
* path, in order. Throws when the output cannot be one line per path — that means the
* transport or the remote shell did something unexpected, and silently treating it as
* "not found" would turn an infrastructure failure into a wrong 404.
*
* The LAST `paths.length` lines are used so a login banner or an eager rc-file `echo`
* on the remote host cannot shift the alignment.
*/
export function parseRemoteProbeLines(stdout: string, paths: readonly string[]): Array<RemoteProbe | null> {
const lines = stdout.split('\n').filter((line) => line !== '');
if (lines.length < paths.length) {
throw new RemoteFileAccessError('remote host returned no usable file information');
}
return lines.slice(-paths.length).map((line) => parseRemoteProbeLine(line));
}
/** Probe one or more remote paths. Entry is `null` for a path that does not exist. */
export async function remoteProbePaths(
remote: SessionRemote,
paths: readonly string[]
): Promise<Array<RemoteProbe | null>> {
const command = buildRemoteFileCommand(remote, buildRemoteProbeCommand(paths));
let stdout: string;
try {
const result = await execAsync(command, { timeout: REMOTE_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS, maxBuffer: 64 * 1024 });
stdout = result.stdout;
} catch (err) {
throw new RemoteFileAccessError(
`remote host ${remote.label || remote.host} unreachable: ${describeExecError(err)}`
);
}
return parseRemoteProbeLines(stdout, paths);
}
/** Read a whole remote file into memory, capped by `maxBytes`. */
export async function remoteReadFile(remote: SessionRemote, remotePath: string, maxBytes: number): Promise<Buffer> {
const command = buildRemoteFileCommand(remote, `cat ${shellescape(remotePath)}`);
try {
const result = await execAsync(command, {
timeout: REMOTE_READ_TIMEOUT_MS,
maxBuffer: maxBytes + READ_BUFFER_SLACK_BYTES,
encoding: 'buffer',
});
return Buffer.isBuffer(result.stdout) ? result.stdout : Buffer.from(result.stdout);
} catch (err) {
throw new RemoteFileAccessError(`failed to read remote file: ${describeExecError(err)}`);
}
}
/**
* Command that writes a remote file's bytes to stdout.
*
* ⚠️ Range reads use `tail -c +N | head -c L` (both POSIX, constant memory) because
* the alternative — `dd bs=1` — issues one read syscall per byte and would make video
* seeking unusable. The trade-off is that a `tail` failure (the file vanished
* mid-request) reports `head`'s exit status, i.e. a short body on an already-sent
* 206; the client retries. The uncompressed path (`cat`) reports its own failure
* correctly, so the streaming error path is still covered by the normal case.
*/
export function buildRemoteReadCommand(remotePath: string, range?: { start: number; end: number }): string {
const quoted = shellescape(remotePath);
if (!range) return `cat ${quoted}`;
const length = range.end - range.start + 1;
return `tail -c +${range.start + 1} ${quoted} | head -c ${length}`;
}
export interface RemoteFileStream {
/** The remote file's bytes, streamed from the ssh child's stdout. */
stream: Readable;
/**
* Abort the transfer and reap the ssh child. The caller MUST call this when the
* HTTP request ends — especially on a client disconnect — or the `ssh` process
* keeps running (and holding a connection open) after nobody is reading it.
*/
close(): void;
}
/**
* Stream a remote file (optionally a byte range) as a Node Readable.
*
* Nothing is buffered in server memory: the bytes go from `ssh`'s stdout straight to
* the HTTP response, which is what makes a multi-GB remote video cost one pipe.
*/
export function remoteCreateReadStream(
remote: SessionRemote,
remotePath: string,
range?: { start: number; end: number }
): RemoteFileStream {
const command = buildRemoteFileCommand(remote, buildRemoteReadCommand(remotePath, range));
const child = spawn(command, { shell: true, stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'] });
let stderr = '';
child.stderr?.on('data', (chunk: Buffer) => {
if (stderr.length < 2000) stderr += chunk.toString();
});
const stream = child.stdout;
let ended = false;
stream.on('end', () => {
ended = true;
});
stream.on('error', () => {
ended = true;
});
child.on('error', (err: Error) => {
stream.destroy(err);
});
child.on('close', (code: number | null) => {
// Only a truncated transfer is an error. A non-zero exit AFTER the body finished
// (e.g. a signal delivered as the last byte was flushed) must not destroy an
// already-complete response, or the browser reports a broken body for a file it
// received in full.
if (ended || code === 0 || code === null) return;
const detail = stderr.trim().split('\n')[0];
stream.destroy(new RemoteFileAccessError(`remote read failed (ssh exit ${code})${detail ? `: ${detail}` : ''}`));
});
return {
stream,
close(): void {
if (!stream.destroyed) stream.destroy();
child.kill('SIGTERM');
},
};
}
/** First useful line of an exec/stderr error, for a user-facing message. */
function describeExecError(err: unknown): string {
if (typeof err === 'object' && err !== null) {
const record = err as { stderr?: unknown; message?: unknown; code?: unknown; killed?: unknown };
const stderr =
typeof record.stderr === 'string' ? record.stderr : Buffer.isBuffer(record.stderr) ? String(record.stderr) : '';
const line = stderr
.split('\n')
.map((entry) => entry.trim())
.find((entry) => entry.length > 0);
if (line) return line;
if (record.killed) return 'timed out';
if (typeof record.message === 'string' && record.message.length > 0) return record.message;
if (typeof record.code === 'string' || typeof record.code === 'number') return `ssh exit ${record.code}`;
}
return 'unknown error';
}