fix(clone): harden per review: symlink-safe scaffolding, race-safe cleanup, decode guard, bounded git queue

Addresses all four findings from the #251 review:

- Scaffolding no longer writes through repository-controlled symlinks.
  The guard lives in hooks-config.ts (settingsWriteBlocker) so it also
  covers quick-start/docker/ralph writers, not just the clone route:
  refuses a symlinked .claude or settings.local.json, a .claude that is
  a file, or one resolving outside the case. The clone route surfaces
  the refusal as a user-visible warning, and the CLAUDE.md write checks
  presence via lstat so a BROKEN repo-shipped symlink counts as present
  (existsSync follows links and would have created the outside target).

- Failed-clone cleanup can no longer delete a concurrent winner's tree:
  git clones into an attempt-owned temp sibling (.<name>.cloning-<rand>)
  which is atomically renamed into place; the loser reports
  DESTINATION_EXISTS and only ever removes its own temp dir.

- decodeURIComponent(url.pathname) is guarded: malformed percent-escapes
  now come back as BAD_SYNTAX instead of an uncaught URIError 500.

- The git pool's waiter queue is bounded (CODEMAN_MAX_GIT_QUEUE, default
  16): overflow answers BUSY immediately (HTTP 429 via RATE_LIMITED),
  and queue time counts against the operation's own deadline.

Tests: hostile symlink fixture repo (route level), settingsWriteBlocker
units, concurrent same-destination race, temp-dir leak assertions,
percent-escape rejection, and a fake-git pool-bounds suite.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Codeman maintainer
2026-08-10 00:07:01 +02:00
parent 6cc7b4328b
commit 93df8188a5
6 changed files with 391 additions and 34 deletions
+25 -6
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
*/
import { FastifyInstance } from 'fastify';
import { existsSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, createReadStream } from 'node:fs';
import { existsSync, lstatSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, createReadStream } from 'node:fs';
import { exec } from 'node:child_process';
import fs from 'node:fs/promises';
import { join, resolve, basename } from 'node:path';
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ import {
} from '../../git-clone.js';
import type { GitRemoteProbe, GitUrlParse } from '../../git-clone.js';
import { generateClaudeMd } from '../../templates/claude-md.js';
import { writeHooksConfig } from '../../hooks-config.js';
import { settingsWriteBlocker, writeHooksConfig } from '../../hooks-config.js';
import {
canAccessOwned,
getAuthUser,
@@ -477,17 +477,25 @@ export function registerCaseRoutes(app: FastifyInstance, ctx: EventPort & Config
? ApiErrorCode.ALREADY_EXISTS
: clone.failure.code === 'REF_NOT_FOUND'
? ApiErrorCode.INVALID_INPUT
: ApiErrorCode.OPERATION_FAILED;
: clone.failure.code === 'BUSY'
? ApiErrorCode.RATE_LIMITED
: ApiErrorCode.OPERATION_FAILED;
const detail = clone.failure.stderr
? `${clone.failure.message} (${gitDiagnosticLine(clone.failure.stderr)})`
: clone.failure.message;
return createErrorResponse(code, detail);
}
// Scaffold WITHOUT overwriting anything the repository shipped.
// Scaffold WITHOUT overwriting anything the repository shipped, and
// WITHOUT writing through anything it shipped as a symlink.
const warnings = [...parsed.warnings];
try {
if (!existsSync(join(casePath, 'CLAUDE.md'))) {
// Presence via lstat, not existsSync: a repo-shipped CLAUDE.md SYMLINK
// counts as "the repository ships its own" even when the link is
// broken (existsSync follows links and reports a broken one as
// absent), because writeFileSync would write THROUGH it to a
// repository-chosen path outside the case.
if (!lstatSync(join(casePath, 'CLAUDE.md'), { throwIfNoEntry: false })) {
const templatePath = await ctx.getDefaultClaudeMdPath();
const summary = description || `Cloned from ${parsed.repository}`;
writeFileSync(join(casePath, 'CLAUDE.md'), generateClaudeMd(name, summary, templatePath));
@@ -499,7 +507,18 @@ export function registerCaseRoutes(app: FastifyInstance, ctx: EventPort & Config
'This repository ships its own .claude/settings files. Codeman merged its hooks alongside them without removing anything — review them before starting a session, since repo-supplied hooks run on this machine.'
);
}
await writeHooksConfig(casePath);
// A repository can ship `.claude` (or the settings file) as a symlink
// pointing anywhere on this machine; writeHooksConfig itself refuses
// to write through those (settingsWriteBlocker in hooks-config.ts).
// Checking here too turns that refusal into a user-visible warning.
const hooksBlocker = await settingsWriteBlocker(casePath);
if (hooksBlocker) {
warnings.push(
`Codeman hooks were NOT installed: ${hooksBlocker}. Codeman refuses to write through repository-controlled links; replace the link with a real file or directory if you want hooks in this case.`
);
} else {
await writeHooksConfig(casePath);
}
} catch (err) {
// The clone itself succeeded: keep the case and report the scaffolding
// problem, rather than deleting a tree the user just waited for.