feat(redirect): key the sanctioned mutation to the protected path, not the verb (CLOUD-280) - #504
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CLOUD-280 A protected path cannot carry its own redirect, so the sanctioned mutation is per verb rather than per path class
Why CLOUD-96's §1 asked for "a per-path-class redirect message (the sanctioned mutation) declared beside the set". It shipped per verb instead, because per-class is not expressible today — recorded there as amendment 1, filed here so the deferral has an owner. The refusal contract (CLOUD-122) is that a deny names the fix. Per-verb gets that mostly right — Why it is not a small change. Rejected alternative Widen Put the redirect on the rule. There is no rule row here: the gate is a derived cross product of Definition of done
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Refinement — Ready (an optional glob→mutation table, consulted before the verb's own redirect) Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds path-class redirect configuration. Redirects use ordered glob matching, merge across authority and local configuration, and take precedence over verb-level remedies in protected mutation refusals without changing policy verdicts. ChangesPath-class redirect support
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds path-based redirect overrides, but malformed or empty entries from the main or local configuration can currently load silently, causing an intended fix to be ignored or a redirect tier to be dropped. The current head is not merge-ready until all redirect layers are validated consistently. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Config
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Config->>Resolver: load authority and local redirects
Resolver->>Resolver: append local entries and reject duplicates
Resolver-->>Policy: provide resolved redirects
ProtectedMutation->>Policy: evaluate protected mutation
Policy->>Policy: match normalized path redirect
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…ot the verb CLOUD-96 put the redirect on the `[[verb]]` row because a per-class one was not expressible then, and recorded the gap as an amendment. CLOUD-122 made every deny carry a `Fix`, which turned that gap from a rough edge into the contract's weakest point: the useful remedy is a property of what is protected, not of the program reaching for it. `rm` against agent memory, against a committed workflow, and against generated output want three different answers, and one string on `rm` has to be vague enough for all three. The duplication is measured, not predicted. Once CLOUD-312 made the write tools verbs and CLOUD-442 added the qualifier columns, this repository's own table reached seventeen `redirect` strings of which TEN repeat the same per-path clause verbatim — one fact about `.serena/memories/**`, copy-pasted across every program that can reach it, because there was nowhere else to put it. `[[redirect]]` is a glob->mutation table consulted before the verb's own redirect, so the tiers are: the path class the consumer declared, then the verb's general remedy, then `Fix::None`. The last two are CLOUD-96's behaviour untouched, which makes the floor structural rather than careful — `Fix::declared(Option<&str>)` was built for exactly this seam. A sibling table rather than a wider `protected`: widening the element type would break `trust::removed_entries`, whose `protected[<entry>]` keys are how the raise-only comparison names a removed guard. `protected` keeps `Vec<String>`. Declaration order decides, first match wins — the tie-break `shape_rules` already uses, for the reason stated there: a reviewer reads a table top to bottom, and any cleverer precedence is a rule about rules the config does not state. The lookup takes the normalised path the protected check was asked about, so the two tables cannot disagree about which path is under discussion. A redirect is not policy-bearing — it changes what a refusal says, never whether it fires — so no raise-only clamp applies, and a test asserts exactly that rather than leaving it to inference. BREAKING CHANGE: `Config` and `OverrideConfig` gain a `redirects` field. Both are public structs with public fields, so a downstream struct literal naming every field no longer compiles — `cargo-semver-checks` reports it as `constructible_struct_adds_field`. Declared rather than worked around: the alternative is `#[non_exhaustive]`, a larger and separate API decision than this table needs. Below 0.1.0 release-plz bumps the patch whatever the type says. Refs: CLOUD-280
…nnot know Consumer #1 adopts the table, and the adoption is narrower than the issue assumed — which is the interesting part. `.github/workflows/**` and `batten.toml` get rows: for both, the useful remedy is a property of the path and the verb's is actively misleading. `rm` says "restore it with `git checkout --`", but a workflow file is CI's definition of green, so the answer is that the change goes through review, not that the bytes come back. Measured before and after on the live binary: before Fix: restore it with `git checkout --`, or change it through the surface that owns it after Fix: change it in a pull request — these files are CI's definition of green, so the change has to be reviewed rather than restored `.serena/memories/**` is DELIBERATELY not declared, and finding out why changed the shape of this commit. The ten duplicated redirect tails that motivated the issue are not in fact identical: four name different Serena tools, because the right one depends on the action — `write_memory` for a write, `edit_memory` for an in-place edit, `rename_memory` for a move (the only route that rewrites `mem:` referrers), `delete_memory` for a delete. A path-class row would override all four with one weaker sentence, which is the opposite of what this table is for. So the tails stay, and the fallback tier is the correct answer there rather than a leftover. That is the boundary this feature has, stated in the config where the next author meets it: per-path beats per-verb only where the path fact dominates. Two censuses caught the new table and both are now satisfied — the override-key list in `config_schema.rs` and `hk.pkl`'s `schema-check` glob, without which a commit touching only this module would move a published schema without firing the drift gate. Schemas regenerated. Refs: CLOUD-280
`module-map-check` requires a row per crate module, and the row is worth more than the gate: the interesting fact about this table is not what it does but where it stops. Consumer #1 declares `.github/workflows/**` and `batten.toml` and deliberately not `.serena/memories/**`, because that class's remedy depends on the ACTION — `write_memory`, `edit_memory`, `rename_memory`, `delete_memory` — so a path row would override four correct per-verb answers with one weaker sentence. Per-path beats per-verb only where the path fact dominates, and the next author meets that boundary here rather than rediscovering it. Written through the Serena tool, which is the surface the protected-path gate names. The session that wrote the code could not add this row: Serena lost its handshake by ~80ms against a budget the host ignores, measured and recorded on CLOUD-668 with CLOUD-700 filed for the gate that would catch it. Refs: CLOUD-280
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In `@crates/batten/src/redirect.rs`:
- Around line 85-107: Update validate to call Selector::new for each entry.glob
after the existing non-empty check, mapping any error to UsageError::raise with
the redirect glob included in the message; do not propagate the selector error
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validation unchanged.
Apply the same fix in `@crates/batten/src/config.rs` around lines 473 - 479:
Covers missing validation of the merged redirect table.
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| pub fn validate(table: &[Redirect]) -> Result<()> { | ||
| for (index, entry) in table.iter().enumerate() { | ||
| if entry.glob.trim().is_empty() { | ||
| return Err(UsageError::raise( | ||
| "redirect: `glob` must not be empty".to_owned(), | ||
| )); | ||
| } | ||
| if entry.mutation.trim().is_empty() { | ||
| return Err(UsageError::raise(format!( | ||
| "redirect {}: `mutation` must not be empty — a redirect that names nothing is a \ | ||
| fix clause that says nothing", | ||
| entry.glob | ||
| ))); | ||
| } | ||
| if table[..index].iter().any(|prior| prior.glob == entry.glob) { | ||
| return Err(UsageError::raise(format!( | ||
| "redirect {}: declared twice; a path class has one sanctioned mutation", | ||
| entry.glob | ||
| ))); | ||
| } | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Validate every redirect layer before resolution.
A malformed glob currently becomes an inert redirect because glob_match converts selector-construction errors into false, allowing the verb redirect to be used instead. Validate each authority [[redirect]] row in redirect::validate with row context so malformed patterns fail at load time.
The same validation must also cover batten.local.toml overrides and the merged redirect table. Without it, duplicate globs or empty mutations in local configuration can load successfully; an empty mutation is then treated as Fix::None, silently dropping a redirect tier. Add validation in the override parser and validate the committed merged table after layering.
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crates/batten/src/redirect.rs#L85-L107(this comment)crates/batten/src/config.rs#L473-L479
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In `@crates/batten/src/redirect.rs` around lines 85 - 107, Update validate to call
Selector::new for each entry.glob after the existing non-empty check, mapping
any error to UsageError::raise with the redirect glob included in the message;
do not propagate the selector error directly without row context. Keep the
existing mutation and duplicate-glob validation unchanged.
Apply the same fix in `@crates/batten/src/config.rs` around lines 473 - 479:
Covers missing validation of the merged redirect table.
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Correction to this PR's body — the
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| container | budget in the log | outcome |
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| 07:06 | 30000 | failed at 28162 ms, CONNECT_TIMEOUT |
| 14:28 | 120000 | succeeded at 52747 ms |
The 14:28 connection opened with Starting connection with timeout of 120000ms and took 52.7 s — a connect no 30 s default survives. So the declaration does reach the client; what varies is whether a given container gets it. "Never once honoured" was a conclusion drawn from a sample that happened to contain no container that had.
What in that paragraph still stands, because it was measured rather than inferred: Serena itself is fine (1.7 s to serve 21 tools when started by hand), the 07:06 handshake missed its 30 s deadline by roughly 80 ms, and contention was disproven (1.303 s under mise run doctor against 1.110 s idle). Only the "never honoured" conclusion falls.
One consequence for the follow-up. CLOUD-700's gate landed in 32f68be and reads the client's own connection log rather than the declaration. Its floor moved 60000 → 105000, because the worst observed success is no longer 16.65 s but 52747 ms — which left the old floor at 1.14× headroom, tighter than the margin CLOUD-668 itself calls a coin flip.
The retraction is also recorded on CLOUD-668 and CLOUD-700. This comment exists because the body is what a post-merge reviewer reads first, and under trunk-based development that review happens after the claim has already landed.
Nothing in the merged diff depends on this — [[redirect]] and its tests are unaffected.
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… restating it `mem:serena-setup` still carried the 30,000 ms MCP startup budget that CLOUD-668 -> CLOUD-700 -> CLOUD-730 retracted. CLOUD-730's provenance records chasing that number across CLOUD-668, CLOUD-700, PR #504 and the gate header; this memory was the surface it missed, and it is the one a session reads when it is diagnosing exactly the failure the number governs. Two passages were wrong in different ways. The first derived a prescription from the dead value -- "a gate asserting the effective budget must expect ~28.3 s" -- for a gate CLOUD-700 has since built to the opposite specification, asserting the observed budget from the client's own log. The second told a reader to look for `timeout of 30000ms`, which is now the CLOUD-700 symptom rather than the healthy reading; measured on this container, both recorded connections opened at the declared value and a reader following that line would have called the healthy log anomalous. Neither is re-synced. The value is removed and the owner named: `MCP_TIMEOUT` in `.claude/settings.json` declares it, `mise run mcp-timeout-budget` judges it and carries the floor with its measurement. That is the form this same file already uses for the pin (`pipx:serena-agent@<v>`), which is why the pin reference never drifted while the budget did. Adds two diagnostic traps measured while establishing the above, both pointer-shaped: the handshake's `serverVersion` comes from the `mcp` SDK rather than Serena and reads as pin drift, and a slow attach is usually CLOUD-670's cold rust-analyzer index. Leaves CLOUD-714's dated measurements alone -- those are facts about the world at a date, not a value a mechanism owns, and that distinction is the point of the change. Refs: CLOUD-769
… restating it `mem:serena-setup` still carried the 30,000 ms MCP startup budget that CLOUD-668 -> CLOUD-700 -> CLOUD-730 retracted. CLOUD-730's provenance records chasing that number across CLOUD-668, CLOUD-700, PR #504 and the gate header; this memory was the surface it missed, and it is the one a session reads when it is diagnosing exactly the failure the number governs. Two passages were wrong in different ways. The first derived a prescription from the dead value -- "a gate asserting the effective budget must expect ~28.3 s" -- for a gate CLOUD-700 has since built to the opposite specification, asserting the observed budget from the client's own log. The second told a reader to look for `timeout of 30000ms`, which is now the CLOUD-700 symptom rather than the healthy reading; measured on this container, both recorded connections opened at the declared value and a reader following that line would have called the healthy log anomalous. Neither is re-synced. The value is removed and the owner named: `MCP_TIMEOUT` in `.claude/settings.json` declares it, `mise run mcp-timeout-budget` judges it and carries the floor with its measurement. That is the form this same file already uses for the pin (`pipx:serena-agent@<v>`), which is why the pin reference never drifted while the budget did. Adds two diagnostic traps measured while establishing the above, both pointer-shaped: the handshake's `serverVersion` comes from the `mcp` SDK rather than Serena and reads as pin drift, and a slow attach is usually CLOUD-670's cold rust-analyzer index. Leaves CLOUD-714's dated measurements alone -- those are facts about the world at a date, not a value a mechanism owns, and that distinction is the point of the change. Refs: CLOUD-769
… restating it `mem:serena-setup` still carried the 30,000 ms MCP startup budget that CLOUD-668 -> CLOUD-700 -> CLOUD-730 retracted. CLOUD-730's provenance records chasing that number across CLOUD-668, CLOUD-700, PR #504 and the gate header; this memory was the surface it missed, and it is the one a session reads when it is diagnosing exactly the failure the number governs. Two passages were wrong in different ways. The first derived a prescription from the dead value -- "a gate asserting the effective budget must expect ~28.3 s" -- for a gate CLOUD-700 has since built to the opposite specification, asserting the observed budget from the client's own log. The second told a reader to look for `timeout of 30000ms`, which is now the CLOUD-700 symptom rather than the healthy reading; measured on this container, both recorded connections opened at the declared value and a reader following that line would have called the healthy log anomalous. Neither is re-synced. The value is removed and the owner named: `MCP_TIMEOUT` in `.claude/settings.json` declares it, `mise run mcp-timeout-budget` judges it and carries the floor with its measurement. That is the form this same file already uses for the pin (`pipx:serena-agent@<v>`), which is why the pin reference never drifted while the budget did. Adds two diagnostic traps measured while establishing the above, both pointer-shaped: the handshake's `serverVersion` comes from the `mcp` SDK rather than Serena and reads as pin drift, and a slow attach is usually CLOUD-670's cold rust-analyzer index. Leaves CLOUD-714's dated measurements alone -- those are facts about the world at a date, not a value a mechanism owns, and that distinction is the point of the change. Refs: CLOUD-769
… restating it `mem:serena-setup` still carried the 30,000 ms MCP startup budget that CLOUD-668 -> CLOUD-700 -> CLOUD-730 retracted. CLOUD-730's provenance records chasing that number across CLOUD-668, CLOUD-700, PR #504 and the gate header; this memory was the surface it missed, and it is the one a session reads when it is diagnosing exactly the failure the number governs. Two passages were wrong in different ways. The first derived a prescription from the dead value -- "a gate asserting the effective budget must expect ~28.3 s" -- for a gate CLOUD-700 has since built to the opposite specification, asserting the observed budget from the client's own log. The second told a reader to look for `timeout of 30000ms`, which is now the CLOUD-700 symptom rather than the healthy reading; measured on this container, both recorded connections opened at the declared value and a reader following that line would have called the healthy log anomalous. Neither is re-synced. The value is removed and the owner named: `MCP_TIMEOUT` in `.claude/settings.json` declares it, `mise run mcp-timeout-budget` judges it and carries the floor with its measurement. That is the form this same file already uses for the pin (`pipx:serena-agent@<v>`), which is why the pin reference never drifted while the budget did. Adds two diagnostic traps measured while establishing the above, both pointer-shaped: the handshake's `serverVersion` comes from the `mcp` SDK rather than Serena and reads as pin drift, and a slow attach is usually CLOUD-670's cold rust-analyzer index. Leaves CLOUD-714's dated measurements alone -- those are facts about the world at a date, not a value a mechanism owns, and that distinction is the point of the change. Refs: CLOUD-769
… restating it `mem:serena-setup` still carried the 30,000 ms MCP startup budget that CLOUD-668 -> CLOUD-700 -> CLOUD-730 retracted. CLOUD-730's provenance records chasing that number across CLOUD-668, CLOUD-700, PR #504 and the gate header; this memory was the surface it missed, and it is the one a session reads when it is diagnosing exactly the failure the number governs. Two passages were wrong in different ways. The first derived a prescription from the dead value -- "a gate asserting the effective budget must expect ~28.3 s" -- for a gate CLOUD-700 has since built to the opposite specification, asserting the observed budget from the client's own log. The second told a reader to look for `timeout of 30000ms`, which is now the CLOUD-700 symptom rather than the healthy reading; measured on this container, both recorded connections opened at the declared value and a reader following that line would have called the healthy log anomalous. Neither is re-synced. The value is removed and the owner named: `MCP_TIMEOUT` in `.claude/settings.json` declares it, `mise run mcp-timeout-budget` judges it and carries the floor with its measurement. That is the form this same file already uses for the pin (`pipx:serena-agent@<v>`), which is why the pin reference never drifted while the budget did. Adds two diagnostic traps measured while establishing the above, both pointer-shaped: the handshake's `serverVersion` comes from the `mcp` SDK rather than Serena and reads as pin drift, and a slow attach is usually CLOUD-670's cold rust-analyzer index. Leaves CLOUD-714's dated measurements alone -- those are facts about the world at a date, not a value a mechanism owns, and that distinction is the point of the change. Refs: CLOUD-769



What
CLOUD-96 put the sanctioned mutation on the
[[verb]]row because a per-classone was not expressible then, and recorded the gap as an amendment. CLOUD-122
then made every deny carry a
Fix, which turned that gap from a rough edge intothe contract's weakest point: the useful remedy is a property of what is
protected, not of the program reaching for it.
[[redirect]]is a glob→mutation table consulted before the verb's ownredirect, so a protected-path deny resolves its fix in three tiers:
[[redirect]]row for this path classredirectFix::None— "none declared", naming the gateThe floor is structural rather than careful:
Fix::declared(Option<&str>)wasbuilt for exactly this seam, so tiers 2 and 3 are reached by
.or(…)on anOptionand cannot regress.The duplication that motivated it, measured
Once CLOUD-312 made the write tools verbs and CLOUD-442 added the qualifier
columns,
batten.tomlreached 17redirectstrings, 10 of which repeat thesame per-path clause about
.serena/memories/**— one fact about a path,copy-pasted across every program that can reach it, because there was nowhere
else to put it.
What adoption actually showed — the interesting half
Those ten tails are not identical, and finding that out changed the shape of
this PR. Four name different Serena tools, because the right one depends on the
action:
write_memoryfor a write,edit_memoryfor an in-place edit,rename_memoryfor a move (the only route that rewritesmem:referrers),delete_memoryfor a delete. A path-class row would override all four with oneweaker sentence — the opposite of what this table is for.
So
.serena/memories/**is deliberately not declared, and the config sayswhy where the next author meets it. The two classes that are declared are the
ones where the path fact dominates and the verb's text is actively misleading:
Both verified on the live binary, along with the unregressed fallback
(
sed -ion a memory still namesedit_memory).Per-path beats per-verb only where the path fact dominates. That is the
boundary this feature has, and it is stated rather than discovered later.
Design decisions, each settling a question the issue left open
protected. Widening the element type breakstrust::removed_entries, whoseprotected[<entry>]keys name a removed guardin the raise-only comparison.
protectedkeepsVec<String>, assertedbyte-for-byte by a new
trust.rscase.shape_rulesalready uses, for the reason stated there: a reviewer reads a table top to
bottom, and any cleverer precedence is a rule about rules the config does not
state. Resolves the issue's stated assumption 2.
rather than assumed:
a_redirect_changes_the_message_and_never_the_verdictshows the same command deny with and without the table, and an allow stay an
allow. Resolves stated assumption 1.
so the two tables cannot disagree about which path is under discussion — a
regression
./batten.tomlwould otherwise produce silently.CLOUD-663 was canceled on that distinction and it is recorded in the module
doc, so the next reader does not mistake this for an availability fix.
Tests
redirect.rsunits (tie-break, duplicate/empty refusals, no-match), sixhook.rscases covering all three tiers plus normalisation and the non-policy-bearing
property,
trust.rs's key-format assertion, threeresolve.rslayering cases(local may add, may not redefine, absent is empty), and an E2E in
tests/cli.rsasserting both tiers over the compiled binary.
Two censuses caught the new table and are now satisfied: the override-key list in
config_schema.rs, andhk.pkl'sschema-checkglob — without which a committouching only this module would move a published schema without firing the drift
gate. Schemas regenerated.
The
mem:corerow, and the session that could not write itmodule-map-checkrequires aredirect.rsrow in.serena/memories/core.md, andthe only sanctioned writer is Serena. The session that wrote this code lost its
Serena handshake and could not add it — so rather than write around the gate, the
row waited for a session that had the surface. It is in this PR now, written
through
edit_memory, and bothmodule-map-checkandmemories-checkare green.That outage was diagnosed rather than shrugged at, and the diagnosis is recorded
on CLOUD-668: Serena is fine (1.7 s to serve 21 tools by hand), the handshake
missed a 30 s deadline by ~80 ms, and the committed
MCP_TIMEOUT: 120000thatshould have absorbed it has never once been honoured — all ten recorded
connections used
30000ms. CLOUD-700 is filed for the gate that would have caughtthat, since the one CLOUD-668 specified asserts the declaration rather than the
effect and would pass today.
Closes CLOUD-280
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