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Tom Boucher
2972da4c9d enhance(#3619): ratchet the platform seam with local/no-private-binary-resolution (epic #3411 Phase 3) (#3636)
* chore(#3619): ratchet the platform seam with local/no-private-binary-resolution

Epic #3411 Phase 3, the ratchet. Scope revised with maintainer approval and
recorded on the issue: the epic's literal ask was a rule rejecting a bare-name
spawn outside the seam. Surveyed at ac1b6d679, ~30 such sites exist and none is
a defect — git, gh and npm ship native .exe that CreateProcess resolves unaided,
and the rest are POSIX-only tools. ADR-1703 rules 2 and 3 forbid grandfathering
and escape hatches, so a literal rule would be unsuppressable and would force
rewriting 30 correct calls.

The epic's actual thesis was four private RESOLVERS, not four bare spawns. So
the rule flags re-implementing resolution: reading PATHEXT in any casing from
any object, and a hardcoded list carrying two or more of .exe/.cmd/.bat/.com —
precisely the shapes fallow-runner's candidateNames and gsd-tools' PATHEXT
string had before Phases 1 and 2 deleted them.

Three boundaries were arrived at rather than assumed:

  two-or-more   a single .endsWith('.cmd') is a classification, not a candidate
                set; runtime-hooks-surface derives .cmd shim paths that way
  boundary-aware  a naive substring test flags .execute and .compacting, caught
                on src/host-integration.cts before it could become a false
                positive nobody could suppress
  suffix-anchored  the seam exemption matches src/shell-command-projection.cts
                exactly; a substring match would also exempt the dispatch test
                file. Case I9 pins it.

PATH scans are deliberately NOT flagged — membership checks (bin/install.js)
are indistinguishable from resolution scans, and an unsound rule in a
zero-escape-hatch architecture is worse than no rule.

To make the ratchet strict with no carve-out, resolveExecutableBinary gained
pathOverride: search THIS PATH, read everything else including PATHEXT from the
ambient environment. resolveFallowBinary now supplies its own search path
without hand-threading PATHEXT, which would itself have been a private read.
The three alternatives were all worse: exempting the file is grandfathering,
exempting the AST shape is a carve-out every future caller must replicate, and
dropping the pass-through would silently ignore a user's real PATHEXT — buying
a lint rule with a correctness regression.

eslint-rules/** is outside the rule's globs rather than exempted, because
portability-vocab.cjs owns the extension set. scripts/**/*.cjs got its own block
so that exclusion does not leave a hole in the ratchet.

Started green with nothing suppressed. Proven able to fail: a fixture with both
signals reports two errors.

Refs #3411

* fix(#3619): close the PATHEXT destructuring evasion and correct two overclaims

Adversarial review found a trivial evasion of the rule's primary signal: the
visitor only handled MemberExpression, so

  const { PATHEXT } = process.env
  const { PATHEXT: exts } = process.env
  const { Pathext } = opts.env

were all unflagged. That is a common idiom, not an exotic bypass. An ObjectPattern
visitor now catches it in every form — renamed, any casing, any receiver, string
keys — while leaving a computed key alone, since it is not statically decidable.
I10-I13 pin the invalid forms and V9/V10 pin PATH and the computed key.

Two overclaims corrected, both mine:

Standards review proved the docs were factually wrong. Both the ADR amendment and
the CONTEXT.md entry asserted that tests/shell-command-projection-dispatch.test.cjs
is still linted by this rule. It is not — the rule's surface is src, gsd-core/bin,
scripts and hooks, and tests/** is deliberately outside it because test setup
legitimately assigns process.env.PATHEXT (fallow-runner's P3 does exactly that).
The suffix-vs-substring distinction is therefore proven by RuleTester case I9
feeding a synthetic filename, NOT by real coverage of that file. Both documents now
say so.

The rule's own docstring claimed the seam exemption matches the seam path
'exactly'. It is a suffix match, so a nested foo/src/shell-command-projection.cts
would also be exempt. Suffix matching is kept — it is how sibling rules resolve
paths and the nested case does not exist — but the docstring now states the
boundary rather than overstating the precision.

The evasion fix was verified by executing eslint against both destructuring forms
in scripts/, not by inspection. Probe: 31/31.

Refs #3411

* chore(#3619): backfill changeset pr number 3636

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-18 16:40:17 -04:00
Tom Boucher
ac1b6d679f enhance(#3618): fold fallow-runner onto the canonical binary resolver (epic #3411 Phase 2) (#3633)
* chore(#3618): fold fallow-runner onto the canonical binary resolver

Epic #3411 Phase 2. src/fallow-runner.cts was the fourth divergent
implementation of Windows binary resolution the epic enumerated —
candidateNames, isExecutableFile, findInPath, findInNodeModules, 40 lines.
All four are deleted; resolveFallowBinary is one seam call.

Two OPT-IN options were added to resolveExecutableBinary to make the fold
behavior-preserving, both defaulting off so Phase 1's callers are byte-identical:

  prependPaths      dirs searched before env.PATH, in order, through the
                    identical per-directory candidate logic. This expresses
                    node_modules/.bin-first precedence without env surgery —
                    the rejected alternative re-introduced the
                    spread-loses-the-proxy hazard the Windows lane caught in
                    Phase 1, at every future call site instead of once.
  requireExecutable POSIX-only accessSync(X_OK); a no-op on win32 where mode
                    bits do not mean execute. Opt-in rather than default
                    because unconditional X_OK breaks #3445's suite, which
                    stages candidates with plain writeFileSync and never sets
                    an exec bit — the repo bans chmod in tests — so every one
                    would resolve to null on POSIX.

Deliberate behavior change on Windows: fallow's prior candidate list ended in a
BARE fallow. The seam never tries a bare name there, so an extensionless file
beside fallow.cmd is no longer resolved. That is the fix, not a regression — the
extensionless file is npm's POSIX sh shim, which CreateProcess cannot run
(#3275). Rows 7 and 8 of the design record it.

Defect found while working, fixed inline: the resolution order was documented
BACKWARDS as PATH-then-.bin in structural-pre-pass.md, docs/INVENTORY.md and
four INVENTORY translations. The code has always been .bin first, and .bin first
is correct — a project-local tool should beat a global one. The archived
changeset is left alone as a historical record.

fallow-runner had no test file at all. tests/fallow-runner.test.cjs is new
(F1-F15) and the seam options are pinned by S1-S12 folded into the existing
dispatch suite. RED proven by execution: with both source files stashed and
build:lib re-run, 7 of 27 probe cases failed.

Refs #3411

* chore(#3618): backfill changeset pr number 3633

* fix(#3618): assert both platform contracts in F4 instead of a POSIX-only premise

Windows CI on #3633 failed F4. The test monkeypatched accessSync to throw and
asserted resolveFallowBinary returned null — but that premise, that the X_OK
check is consulted at all, is POSIX-only by design. requireExecutable is a
deliberate no-op on win32 because Windows mode bits do not mean execute, so the
staged fixture correctly resolved there.

40-design.md's negative-space section already states this carve-out verbatim.
The test contradicted the design it was written from: fixtures were made
platform-adaptive in the previous commit, and this assertion was left
platform-blind.

F4 now asserts BOTH contracts — null on POSIX, resolves on win32 — rather than
skipping either. A t.skip on one lane would have been green and would have left
the win32 carve-out unpinned by fallow's own entry point.

Audited every other row for the same class. F1-F3, F5, F6, F11-F15 hold on both
platforms; F7-F10 and S1-S12 inject platform explicitly and are unaffected. F4
was the only row with a single-platform premise.

The local probe runs on one platform and structurally cannot catch this, which
is why it was green — that limitation is now stated at the top of the probe so a
green probe is not mistaken for platform coverage. The win32 branch was proven
by injecting platform:'win32' with accessSync throwing and asserting it still
resolves.

Refs #3411

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-18 15:32:57 -04:00