fix: protect discovery metadata and generated commands - #244
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change validates dynamic identifiers before generating runnable commands and enforces package-root containment before reading skill metadata. Discovery skips rejected entries, while direct loading preserves containment errors. Tests cover shell arguments, unsafe names, symlinks, warnings, and redaction. ChangesDiscovery safety
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The security hardening is broadly covered, but generated guidance can still target a normalized identifier, a symlink race may expose external metadata, and benchmark skill types are no longer discovered correctly. Resolve or explicitly accept these risks before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SkillScanner
participant CommandFormatter
participant IntentCLI
participant Shell
SkillScanner->>CommandFormatter: provide discovered skill identifier
CommandFormatter->>CommandFormatter: validate identifier
CommandFormatter->>IntentCLI: return safe command
IntentCLI->>Shell: execute generated command
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In `@packages/intent/src/commands/install/guidance.ts`:
- Line 309: Update the guidance generation around formatSkillUse so raw package
and skill names reach formatIntentCommand’s array validator before trimming or
normalization; use the raw combined identifier or validate both names first,
preserving existing formatting for valid names. Add coverage for
whitespace-wrapped package and skill names.
In `@packages/intent/src/commands/list.ts`:
- Around line 89-93: Validate the raw discovered skill name before passing it to
the command formatting flow, rejecting names that become different after
trimming or are otherwise invalid. Update the logic around skill.use and
formatIntentCommand so formatSkillUse cannot normalize an invalid
whitespace-containing name into a valid different skill; preserve normal
formatting for already-valid names.
In `@packages/intent/src/discovery/scanner.ts`:
- Line 277: Update the parseFrontmatter flow around realSkillFile to perform
containment validation and file reading atomically, preventing a concurrent
package replacement from escaping the validated location. Reuse the existing
readFs and containment mechanisms, and add a regression test covering
replacement of realSkillFile between validation and reading.
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Merging this PR will degrade performance by 27.72%
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| Benchmark | BASE |
HEAD |
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| ❌ | loads a direct dependency from a large workspace |
15.7 ms | 35.4 ms | -55.56% |
| ❌ | checks a shipped skills tree |
57.3 ms | 71.5 ms | -19.89% |
| ❌ | scans a consumer workspace |
40.1 ms | 46 ms | -12.95% |
| ❌ | reports workspace drift |
35.6 ms | 40.4 ms | -11.94% |
| 🆕 | empty node process (baseline) |
N/A | 2 ms | N/A |
| 🆕 | intent --help |
N/A | 1.9 ms | N/A |
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In `@benchmarks/intent/helpers.ts`:
- Line 176: Update writeSkill so the type field emitted from options.type
remains at the frontmatter root, matching scanner.ts readScalarField(fm, 'type')
and preserving SkillEntry.type during discovery; do not place it beneath
metadata unless the scanner and every consumer are updated consistently.
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Groups the two discovery-safety issues: package-provided identifiers could become shell syntax in runnable guidance, and a SKILL.md symlink could expose frontmatter from outside its package.
Raw discovered names in list commands, install mappings, and runtime lookup hints now reach the shared portable-character check before trimming, so whitespace cannot redirect a command to a different skill. Whitespace, substitutions, quotes, control characters, and shell operators fail with an actionable error before a runnable command is emitted. Existing scoped names, nested skill paths, command templates, and package-manager runners remain supported.
Discovery resolves each skill file and its package root, captures the regular file's identity, rechecks the resolved path, and opens it without following a final symlink where supported. The opened descriptor must match the checked device and inode before any metadata is read. Both the bounded probe and large-frontmatter fallback read that same descriptor, which is closed on success and failure. Escaping, replaced, and unresolved entries are skipped. Direct-load hints retain identity without reading external metadata so the existing load boundary still reports its containment error. Hidden-source warning redaction is covered, including malformed package names.
Benchmark fixtures now use leaf-segment names and put
typeandlibrary_versionundermetadata, matching the current validator. This fixes the CodSpeed validation suite's 54 fixture errors without changing validation rules or benchmark workloads.Fixes #231.
Fixes #232.
PR #243's picker, permission flow, tests, changeset, and installer/configuration/trust documentation are untouched. The only installer file changed here is the mapping formatter in
guidance.ts.✅ Checklist
pnpm run test:pr.Verification at
f54ca19: 620 unit tests and 73 integration tests passed, including Yarn PnP. Generated commands were executed with harmless runner stubs in sh, Bash, and Zsh to verify exact arguments. Tests reject whitespace-wrapped package and skill names, including a trimmed-name collision. Deterministic replacement tests cover parent swaps during the identity check, file and parent swaps before opening, pathname replacement before reading, large-frontmatter fallback, and descriptor cleanup on read failure. In-package symlinks and direct-load errors remain covered. Types, lint, build, Knip, Sherif, documentation links, andgit diff --checkpassed. Windows shell execution was not verified locally.Benchmark follow-up: the exact 30-skill fixture now validates successfully; all eight benchmark scenario callbacks pass against the built CLI. Benchmark TypeScript and formatting checks pass. Direct ESLint on the helper reports one pre-existing unnecessary assertion at line 145, reproduced on the unchanged HEAD version. Before the descriptor-read follow-up, Linux CodSpeed simulation at
bf84d37passed and uploaded performance data in run 33939514086. CI forf54ca19is pending. The CodSpeed performance comparison remains separate from successful execution: its earlier report used an older base and warned about different runtime environments.The benchmark
metadata.typereview concern is a false positive:readScalarFieldalready readsmetadatafirst and falls back to top-level fields. No parser migration is needed. The file-identity checks prevent the tested pathname-replacement races; they do not freeze the contents of an already opened file against writes.Local checks used
NX_NO_CLOUD=true,NX_DAEMON=false, a temporary npm cache, andpnpm_config_verify_deps_before_run=falsein the isolated worktree.🚀 Release Impact
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