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Copilot AI commented Jan 3, 2026

Addresses 8 code quality issues flagged by CodeFactor: 4 security vulnerabilities, 2 complex methods, and 2 ambiguous variable names.

Security Fixes

  • Shell injection in visualization.py:392 - Replaced os.system(f"open {f.name}") with subprocess.run(["open", f.name], check=False) to prevent command injection
  • Platform logic in visualization.py:393 - Fixed inverted conditional that called os.startfile() on non-Windows platforms
  • Pickle deserialization in computeengine.py:1524-1526 - Added security warning to read_dill() docstring about arbitrary code execution risks

Complexity Reduction

  • Refactored add_node() (computeengine.py:359-498) - Extracted parameter processing into _process_function_args(), _build_param_map(), and _process_function_kwds() helper methods
  • Refactored to_pydot() (visualization.py:452-507) - Decomposed graph construction into _group_nodes_and_edges(), _create_pydot_nodes(), _ensure_parent_subgraphs(), _link_subgraphs(), and _add_edges_to_subgraphs() helper functions

Maintainability

  • Renamed ambiguous variable l to node_list in test_computeengine.py (lines 365, 415)

All changes preserve existing behavior and pass 91 existing tests.

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<issue_title>Fix 4 Security, 2 Complexity, 2 Maintainability issues in multiple files</issue_title>
<issue_description>CodeFactor found multiple issues:

Pickle and modules that wrap it can be unsafe when used to deserialize untrusted data, possible security issue.

Complex Method

Ambiguous variable name 'l'.

Starting a process with a shell, possible injection detected, security issue.

Starting a process without a shell.

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Co-authored-by: tschm <2046079+tschm@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Fix security, complexity, and maintainability issues in multiple files Fix security, complexity, and maintainability issues Jan 3, 2026
Copilot AI requested a review from tschm January 3, 2026 04:07
@tschm tschm marked this pull request as ready for review January 3, 2026 04:23
@tschm tschm merged commit 8a16dab into master Jan 3, 2026
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@tschm tschm deleted the copilot/fix-security-complexity-issues branch January 3, 2026 14:31
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Fix 4 Security, 2 Complexity, 2 Maintainability issues in multiple files

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