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Summary

  • Adds split-body binary framing to EncodeMessage for hook-type messages with html or content payload fields — large strings are stripped from the JSON envelope and sent as raw bytes after it, eliminating JSON escaping overhead
  • Updates DecodeMessage and Send to parse multi-header frames (X-Body-Length, X-Body-Field) and inject raw body bytes back into the result map
  • Falls back to standard single-header framing for non-hook messages, empty fields, and payloads without recognized split fields

Closes #1181

Implementation details

Outbound (EncodeMessage): splitBodyField identifies the field to split (html for HookRenderedPayload/HookTransformPayload, content for HookFormatRenderedPayload, html > content priority for map[string]interface{}). stripField creates a shallow copy of the message with the field removed from the payload (structs converted to maps to fully omit the field from JSON). The frame is: Content-Length: <N>\r\nX-Body-Length: <M>\r\nX-Body-Field: <field>\r\n\r\n<JSON><raw bytes>.

Inbound (DecodeMessage): parseFrameHeaders extracts all headers. If X-Body-Length is present, reads raw bytes after the JSON body and injects them into the result map under the X-Body-Field name.

Inbound (Send): Header reading loop replaces single-line read, supporting arbitrary header count. After JSON body, reads split-body raw bytes if X-Body-Length header is present.

Test plan

  • All 9 red spec tests from test: spec tests for Node IPC binary framing (#1181) #1191 pass
  • All 301 plugin tests pass (292 pre-existing + 9 new)
  • Full suite go test -race ./... passes (0 failures across all packages)
  • Caller's map payload not mutated by EncodeMessage
  • Multi-byte UTF-8 content: X-Body-Length is byte count, not rune count
  • html takes priority over content when both present in map payload
  • Empty split field falls back to single-header format
  • Non-hook messages (filter, SSR) preserve single-header format
  • Backward compatible: old single-header frames still parse correctly

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance
    • Added “split-body” IPC framing for large hook payloads by sending html/content outside the JSON envelope to reduce overhead.
  • Compatibility
    • Maintains the existing single-header format for non-split messages and correctly reconstructs responses with the original field content and byte-accurate lengths.
  • Testing
    • Expanded test coverage for split framing, header validation, multi-byte characters, payload immutability, and malformed-frame error cases.
  • Documentation
    • Updated the Node IPC protocol specification and implementation plan to reflect the new framing behavior.

zeroedin and others added 4 commits July 24, 2026 20:23
8 red tests for split-body binary framing that avoids JSON-encoding
large HTML/content payloads in the Node IPC protocol:

- EncodeMessage: 5 tests for typed payloads (HookRenderedPayload,
  HookFormatRenderedPayload, HookTransformPayload) and chained map
  results (html/content keys), plus single-header preservation for
  non-hook messages
- DecodeMessage: 1 test for multi-header frame parsing with raw body
  injection into result map
- Send: 1 test for multi-header response reading with raw body
  injection under X-Body-Field name

PLAN.md and IMPLEMENTATION.md updated with split-body framing spec
and implementation guidance.

Refs #1181

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- P1 #6: Updated summary table (Phase 5: ~129, cumulative downstream)
- P2 #1: Added multi-byte character table entry (CJK, emoji) —
  validates X-Body-Length is byte count not rune count
- P2 #7: Added \r\n suffix to X-Body-Length assertion to prevent
  decimal-prefix false match (50 matching 500)
- P3 #2: Use parsed headers map from parseSplitFrame, assert
  header value matches actual raw body byte count
- P3 #3: Added empty split field test — falls back to single-header
- P3 #4: Added dual-key map priority test — html over content
- P3 #5: Added caller map immutability guard test

12 total tests (was 8). Test counts updated in IMPLEMENTATION.md
(section header, node.go description, impl guidance, summary table).
PLAN.md updated with empty-field fallback, dual-key priority, and
map immutability constraints.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…g-spec

test: spec tests for Node IPC binary framing (#1181)
#1181)

Hook messages with large HTML/content fields now use split-body framing
to avoid JSON-encoding the large string. The field is stripped from the
JSON body and sent as raw bytes after it, with X-Body-Length and
X-Body-Field headers describing the split. DecodeMessage and Send both
parse the multi-header format and inject the raw bytes back into the
result map. Non-hook messages and empty fields fall back to standard
single-header framing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Node IPC framing now separates large hook html or content fields from JSON bodies, transmits them as raw bytes with metadata headers, and restores them during decoding. Tests and protocol plans cover framing, compatibility, byte accuracy, and malformed-frame handling.

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Node IPC split-body framing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Outbound split-body encoding
internal/plugin/node.go, internal/plugin/bridge.js
Go and Node send eligible hook fields using X-Body-Length and X-Body-Field, stripping them from JSON and preserving standard framing otherwise.
Inbound frame decoding
internal/plugin/node.go, internal/plugin/bridge.js
Go and Node parse multi-header responses, read raw bytes, and inject them into result or payload maps.
Protocol tests and specification
internal/plugin/node_test.go, plans/IMPLEMENTATION.md, plans/PLAN.md
Tests and plans cover framing, byte lengths, field precedence, immutability, decoding, backward compatibility, and malformed frames.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

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Possibly related PRs

  • zeroedin/alloy#1028 — Both changes extend malformed or stdout-pollution handling coverage for plugin.Bridge.Send.
  • zeroedin/alloy#1118 — Its onPageRendered payload shape can trigger this PR’s split-body handling for html.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GoPlugin
  participant bridge.js
  participant Hook
  participant NodeBridge
  GoPlugin->>bridge.js: Send JSON metadata and raw html/content bytes
  bridge.js->>Hook: Reconstruct hook payload
  Hook-->>bridge.js: Return hook result
  bridge.js-->>NodeBridge: Send JSON response and optional raw bytes
  NodeBridge->>NodeBridge: Restore split field in result
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A bunny hops through bytes so light,
With HTML tucked beyond JSON’s sight.
Headers guide the fields along,
Raw content joins the result song.
Split and stitched, the bridge runs bright!

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internal/plugin/node.go (1)

139-181: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

stripField re-declares each payload's field list — new struct fields will silently vanish from split frames.

The plan specifies marshal-to-JSON → unmarshal-to-map → delete(key) precisely so the projection stays in sync with the struct definitions. Deriving the map generically also removes the duplicated type switch with splitBodyField.

♻️ Generic strip via JSON round-trip
 func stripField(msg *Message, fieldName string) *Message {
 	cp := *msg
-	switch p := msg.Payload.(type) {
-	case HookRenderedPayload:
-		m := map[string]interface{}{
-			"frontMatter": p.FrontMatter,
-			"url":         p.URL,
-			"path":        p.Path,
-		}
-		cp.Payload = m
-	case HookFormatRenderedPayload:
-		...
-	case map[string]interface{}:
+	switch p := msg.Payload.(type) {
+	case map[string]interface{}:
 		m := make(map[string]interface{}, len(p))
 		for k, v := range p {
 			if k != fieldName {
 				m[k] = v
 			}
 		}
 		cp.Payload = m
+	default:
+		raw, err := jsonCodec.Marshal(p)
+		if err != nil {
+			return &cp
+		}
+		var m map[string]interface{}
+		if err := jsonCodec.Unmarshal(raw, &m); err != nil {
+			return &cp
+		}
+		delete(m, fieldName)
+		cp.Payload = m
 	}
 	return &cp
 }

Note this re-marshals the large field once; strip it from the struct first (or shallow-clear the field on a struct copy) if that cost matters.

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@internal/plugin/node.go` around lines 139 - 181, Update stripField to derive
payload fields generically through JSON marshal and unmarshal into a map, then
delete fieldName, instead of maintaining per-payload field lists in the
HookRenderedPayload, HookFormatRenderedPayload, and HookTransformPayload cases.
Preserve the existing map[string]interface{} handling and return a copied
Message without mutating the original; align the projection with the struct
definitions so newly added fields are retained.
internal/plugin/node_test.go (1)

1101-1126: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add split-frame round-trip and malformed-length cases.

Two gaps the current specs leave open, both matching real defects in internal/plugin/node.go:

  1. EncodeMessageDecodeMessage round-trip of a hook payload — the field currently lands in Result, not back in Payload.
  2. Truncated frame / negative X-Body-Length — currently panics rather than erroring.
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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@internal/plugin/node_test.go` around lines 1101 - 1126, The DecodeMessage
split-body specs only cover injection into Result; add cases that round-trip a
hook payload through EncodeMessage and DecodeMessage, asserting the split field
is restored to Payload, and add malformed-frame cases for truncated bodies and
negative X-Body-Length values, asserting DecodeMessage returns an error without
panicking. Anchor the tests in the existing “DecodeMessage split-body parsing”
Describe block and use the existing hook payload and EncodeMessage APIs.
🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents
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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@internal/plugin/node.go`:
- Around line 919-936: Validate the parsed body length in the split-body
handling before allocating rawBody: reject negative or unreasonably large
X-Body-Length values using the same validation rule and established limit as
DecodeMessage. Return a descriptive error for invalid lengths, and only call
make and io.ReadFull after validation succeeds.
- Around line 199-228: Validate plugin-supplied frame lengths before using them:
in internal/plugin/node.go lines 199-228, reject negative contentLen/bodyLen and
ensure contentLen plus bodyLen does not exceed len(afterSep) before slicing; in
lines 919-936, reject negative bodyLen and enforce a sane maximum before
make([]byte, bodyLen). Apply these checks in the decoder and bridge reader paths
without changing valid-frame behavior.
- Around line 875-906: Update the response-header parsing loop to validate the
first header line specifically as a Content-Length header before accepting
generic key-value lines. Ensure stdout pollution such as “debug: loading plugin”
immediately returns stdoutPollutionErrFmt with its truncated snippet, while
preserving handling of valid Content-Length and X-Body-* headers.
- Around line 213-228: Update the split-body injection logic in the decoder
around msg.Result so it prefers an existing Result map, but when Result is nil
falls back to the message Payload map instead of synthesizing an empty Result.
Insert the body field into the selected map and preserve the decoded hook
request’s payload/result placement so EncodeMessage and DecodeMessage round-trip
correctly.
- Around line 103-137: Update the Node reader in bridge.js to parse
X-Body-Length and X-Body-Field headers alongside Content-Length, then consume
and reattach the raw body field after decoding the JSON payload. Preserve the
existing Content-Length-only path for standard frames, and ensure split-body
frames consume all bytes before reading the next message.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/plugin/node_test.go`:
- Around line 1101-1126: The DecodeMessage split-body specs only cover injection
into Result; add cases that round-trip a hook payload through EncodeMessage and
DecodeMessage, asserting the split field is restored to Payload, and add
malformed-frame cases for truncated bodies and negative X-Body-Length values,
asserting DecodeMessage returns an error without panicking. Anchor the tests in
the existing “DecodeMessage split-body parsing” Describe block and use the
existing hook payload and EncodeMessage APIs.

In `@internal/plugin/node.go`:
- Around line 139-181: Update stripField to derive payload fields generically
through JSON marshal and unmarshal into a map, then delete fieldName, instead of
maintaining per-payload field lists in the HookRenderedPayload,
HookFormatRenderedPayload, and HookTransformPayload cases. Preserve the existing
map[string]interface{} handling and return a copied Message without mutating the
original; align the projection with the struct definitions so newly added fields
are retained.
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Code Review Results

Scope: internal/plugin/node.go (implementation), plans/PLAN.md + plans/IMPLEMENTATION.md (spec updates)
Intent: Add split-body binary framing to Node IPC to avoid JSON-encoding ~800KB HTML payloads in hook messages

P0 — Critical

# File Issue Reviewer Confidence Route
1 bridge.js (unchanged) bridge.js not updated — Go→Node split-body frames will corrupt the Node message stream. EncodeMessage now produces split-body frames for hook messages. Send() writes these to Node's stdin. bridge.js only parses Content-Length (line 75 regex), reads that many bytes as JSON, then advances the buffer — leaving the raw body bytes as garbage for the next message parse. Every CallHook/BatchCallHook with HTML content will corrupt the bridge. IMPLEMENTATION.md steps 4-5 specify bridge.js changes that are missing from this PR. adversarial + manual 100 Fix or gate
2 node.go:206,220 No bounds check on Content-Length/X-Body-Length before slicing. afterSep[:contentLen] panics if contentLen > len(afterSep). afterSep[contentLen:contentLen+bodyLen] panics if sum exceeds length. A truncated frame or lying header causes a runtime panic in DecodeMessage. adversarial 100 Fix
3 node.go:201,215,903,921 Negative Content-Length or X-Body-Length causes panic. strconv.Atoi("-1") succeeds. make([]byte, -1) panics in Send(). afterSep[:-1] panics in DecodeMessage. No non-negative validation after any Atoi call. adversarial 100 Fix

P1 — High

# File Issue Reviewer Confidence Route
4 node.go:219,925 Missing X-Body-Field with present X-Body-Length injects under empty-string key. headers["X-Body-Field"] returns "" when absent. resultMap[""] = string(rawBody) pollutes the result map with a ghost key. Both DecodeMessage and Send have this path. adversarial 100 Fix
5 node.go:888 Stdout pollution detection regression. Old code required the first line to be Content-Length:. New header loop accepts ANY key: value line as a valid header. "DEBUG: processing request" from a plugin writes to headers["DEBUG"] silently. IMPLEMENTATION.md step 3 explicitly requires: "The first line must still be checked for the Content-Length: prefix." adversarial + spec 80 Fix
6 node.go:143-180 stripField diverges from spec. IMPLEMENTATION.md step 1 says "marshal the struct to JSON, unmarshal to map[string]interface{}, delete the key". Implementation manually constructs map literals, hardcoding field names from each payload struct. New fields added to HookTransformPayload etc. will be silently dropped — no compile-time enforcement, no test failure. maintainability 88 Fix per spec
7 node.go:213-228 DecodeMessage only injects into Result, never Payload. IMPLEMENTATION.md step 2 says "type-assert Result (or Payload if Result is nil)". The implementation only handles Result. Outbound frames (Go→Node) have the split field in Payload, not Result. Round-trip EncodeMessageDecodeMessage loses the field. correctness + spec 90 Fix

P2 — Moderate

# File Issue Reviewer Confidence Route
8 node.go:128 Unnecessary ~800KB allocation per encode. rawBytes := []byte(fieldValue) copies the entire HTML string to get byte length. len(string) already returns byte count in Go. Use len(fieldValue) for the header and append(frame, fieldValue...) directly. For a 1000-page batch, this is ~800MB of throwaway allocation. performance 95 Fix
9 node.go:187 string(data) copies entire frame including ~800KB raw body. DecodeMessage converts all input to string for header parsing, but only the header block (< 200 bytes) needs string conversion. No production callers today, but if wired into a hot path this is wasteful. performance 70 Advisory
10 node_test.go:7 encoding/json in test file. Tests import encoding/json instead of using jsonCodec/sonic. Pre-existing from spec PR — tests are immutable. Flagging for architect awareness: if sonic has different deserialization behavior, tests could pass with encoding/json but fail in production. standards 100 Architect issue

P3 — Advisory

# File Issue Reviewer Confidence Route
11 node.go:888-891 Malformed protocol headers silently dropped. A header like X-Body-Length:42 (no space after colon) passes the HasPrefix check but fails SplitN — silently swallowed. For X-Body headers, this causes silent fallback to non-split-body mode, and the raw body bytes remain in the stream corrupting the next message. adversarial 75 Advisory
12 (missing) No benchmarks for the perf feature. PR claims performance improvement but includes no benchmark comparing split-body vs. all-JSON at realistic sizes. performance 95 Open issue

Coverage

  • Testing gaps: No tests for truncated frames (Content-Length lies), negative header values, missing X-Body-Field with present X-Body-Length, EncodeMessageDecodeMessage round-trip, or stdout pollution with key: value format lines. Tests are spec-derived and immutable — open an issue for the architect.
  • Residual risks: After any protocol parse error in Send(), the bufio.Reader is in an unknown state. Subsequent Send() calls on the same bridge will read stale bytes. No drain/reset/reconnect mechanism exists.

Verdict: Not ready

Reasoning: P0 #1 is a showstopper — EncodeMessage sends split-body frames to Node's stdin, but bridge.js doesn't understand the format (steps 4-5 of IMPLEMENTATION.md are unimplemented). Every hook call with HTML content will corrupt the bridge protocol stream. P0 #2-3 are panic-on-malformed-input bugs that need bounds/sign validation. P1 #5-7 are spec deviations that need alignment. The Go-side implementation logic is sound in isolation, but it cannot ship without either (a) updating bridge.js to parse/produce split-body frames, or (b) gating split-body encoding so it only activates when bridge.js signals support (version handshake).

- P0 #1: Update bridge.js inbound parser to handle split-body frames
  (X-Body-Length/X-Body-Field headers) and outbound sendMessage to
  produce split-body frames for hook results with html/content fields
- P0 #2-3: Add bounds and negative-value validation on Content-Length
  and X-Body-Length in both DecodeMessage and Send before slicing or
  allocating
- P1 #4: Require X-Body-Field header when X-Body-Length is present;
  error on empty field name
- P1 #5: Restore stdout pollution detection — first header line in
  Send must start with "Content-Length:", rejecting "debug: ..." lines
- P1 #6: Switch stripField to JSON round-trip (marshal struct → unmarshal
  to map → delete key) per IMPLEMENTATION.md spec, so new struct fields
  are automatically included
- P1 #7: DecodeMessage split-body injection prefers Result map, falls
  back to Payload map when Result is nil, per spec
- P2 #8: Use len(fieldValue) directly in EncodeMessage instead of
  allocating []byte(fieldValue) copy for byte-length measurement

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All fixes pushed in 531539d before these replies.

P0 #1 — bridge.js not updated

Fixed in 531539d. bridge.js inbound parser now reads X-Body-Length/X-Body-Field headers alongside Content-Length, accounts for both in the overflow guard (buffer.length < bodyStart + totalLen), and injects the raw body into msg.payload[splitBodyField]. Outbound sendMessage now accepts a requestType parameter — hook results with html or content string fields are split-body encoded (shallow clone, field deleted from JSON, raw bytes written after header). The hook case in handleMessage passes 'hook' as the request type.

P0 #2 — No bounds check before slicing

Fixed in 531539d. DecodeMessage: contentLen < 0 || contentLen > len(afterSep) check before JSON slice, bodyLen < 0 || contentLen+bodyLen > len(afterSep) check before split-body slice. Both return descriptive errors with available vs. requested byte counts.

P0 #3 — Negative lengths cause panic

Fixed in 531539d. Same bounds checks as #2. Send: contentLen < 0 after Atoi, bodyLen < 0 before make([]byte, bodyLen).

P1 #4 — Missing X-Body-Field injects under empty key

Fixed in 531539d. Both DecodeMessage and Send now check bodyField == "" and return "split-body frame has X-Body-Length but missing X-Body-Field".

P1 #5 — Stdout pollution detection regression

Fixed in 531539d. Added first flag to the header loop. The first line must start with Content-Length: — anything else triggers stdoutPollutionErrFmt. Subsequent lines accept X-Body-* headers via SplitN.

P1 #6 — stripField diverges from spec

Fixed in 531539d. stripField now uses JSON round-trip for struct payloads: jsonCodec.Marshal(p)jsonCodec.Unmarshal(raw, &m)delete(m, fieldName). New fields added to payload structs are automatically included. The map[string]interface{} case still uses direct shallow copy (no marshal needed).

P1 #7 — DecodeMessage only injects into Result

Fixed in 531539d. Injection logic now: (1) if msg.Result is a map[string]interface{}, inject there; (2) if msg.Result is nil and msg.Payload is a map[string]interface{}, inject into Payload; (3) otherwise, synthesize a new Result map. This preserves round-trip fidelity for outbound frames.

P2 #8 — Unnecessary allocation in EncodeMessage

Fixed in 531539d. Replaced rawBytes := []byte(fieldValue) with rawByteLen := len(fieldValue) for the header and append(frame, fieldValue...) for the body. No intermediate []byte allocation.

P2 #9 — string(data) copies entire frame

Skipped. DecodeMessage is not on the hot path — Send is the production reader, and it reads from a bufio.Reader without full-frame string conversion. No measurable impact.

P2 #10 — encoding/json in test file

Skipped (architect issue). Tests are immutable. Opened #1195 for the architect to evaluate.

P3 #11 — Malformed protocol headers silently dropped

Skipped. The SplitN(line, ": ", 2) fallthrough only affects the non-first-line path (first line is already validated as Content-Length: per #5 fix). A malformed X-Body-Length:42 (no space) falls through to the else-if which checks HasPrefix(line, "X-Body-") — it passes this check and is silently dropped. The split-body headers are then absent, so it falls back to standard single-header mode. The raw body bytes remaining in the stream is a valid concern for Send (streaming reader), but not for DecodeMessage (complete byte slice). For Send, a Content-Length-only parse consumes only the JSON body, leaving raw bytes in the reader. This requires protocol-level recovery (drain/resync) which is out of scope for this PR — flagged in #1194.

P3 #12 — No benchmarks

Skipped (architect issue). Opened #1194 which covers benchmark specs among other edge case tests.

Testing gaps (advisory)

Opened #1194 for the architect — covers round-trip fidelity, truncated frames, negative lengths, missing X-Body-Field, and stdout pollution with key: value format.
Opened #1195 for the encoding/json import in test files.

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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@internal/plugin/bridge.js`:
- Around line 96-127: Validate the split-body headers immediately after
computing blMatch, bfMatch, splitBodyLen, and splitBodyField: reject frames
where exactly one of X-Body-Length or X-Body-Field is present, before
calculating totalLen or consuming buffer data. Surface the mismatch as a parsing
error, while preserving the existing split-body handling when both headers are
present and normal frames when neither is present.
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Comment thread internal/plugin/bridge.js
, #1195)

Add 7 edge case tests for split-body binary framing: round-trip fidelity,
truncated frame rejection, negative X-Body-Length, missing X-Body-Field,
stdout pollution in key:value format, and Send-path variants. Replace
encoding/json with jsonutil.JSON (bytedance/sonic) in node_test.go to
match production codec behavior.

Refs #1194
Refs #1195

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Follow-up: issues #1194 and #1195

Pushed in 3cbd51e.

Issue #1195 — encoding/json → sonic

Replaced encoding/json import with jsonutil.JSON (bytedance/sonic) across all 6 json.Unmarshal callsites in node_test.go. Import moved to the internal packages group.

Issue #1194 — 7 edge case tests added

Test Section Verifies
Round-trip fidelity EncodeMessage → DecodeMessage round-trip fidelity Split field is injected back into Payload map (not lost or misplaced in Result)
Truncated frame DecodeMessage malformed split-body frames Content-Length exceeding available bytes returns descriptive error
Negative X-Body-Length DecodeMessage malformed split-body frames -1 rejected despite strconv.Atoi succeeding
Missing X-Body-Field DecodeMessage malformed split-body frames X-Body-Length without X-Body-Field returns descriptive error
Stdout pollution key:value Send malformed split-body responses "debug: loading plugin" triggers pollution diagnostic, not parsed as header
Send negative X-Body-Length Send malformed split-body responses Mirrors DecodeMessage test for the Send reader path
Send missing X-Body-Field Send malformed split-body responses Mirrors DecodeMessage test for the Send reader path

All 308 plugin tests pass (301 pre-existing + 7 new). PLAN.md and IMPLEMENTATION.md updated with error handling spec and test counts.

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internal/plugin/node_test.go (1)

1216-1273: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a case for a truncated split body (X-Body-Length beyond available bytes).

The negative-length test only covers the bodyLen < 0 half of the bounds check in DecodeMessage (internal/plugin/node.go: bodyLen < 0 || contentLen+bodyLen > len(afterSep)). The overflow half — a realistic short-write/killed-child scenario — is unasserted, so a regression there would surface as a slice panic rather than an error.

💚 Suggested additional spec
It("returns error when X-Body-Length exceeds bytes available after the JSON body", func() {
	jsonPart := `{"id":1,"result":{"status":"ok"}}`
	rawPart := "<p>short</p>"
	frame := fmt.Sprintf(
		"Content-Length: %d\r\nX-Body-Length: %d\r\nX-Body-Field: html\r\n\r\n%s%s",
		len(jsonPart), len(rawPart)+100, jsonPart, rawPart,
	)

	_, err := plugin.DecodeMessage([]byte(frame))
	Expect(err).To(HaveOccurred(),
		"DecodeMessage must reject a split-body frame whose raw body is truncated")
	Expect(err.Error()).To(ContainSubstring("X-Body-Length"))
})
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In `@internal/plugin/node_test.go` around lines 1216 - 1273, Add a DecodeMessage
test in the “malformed split-body frames” specs covering X-Body-Length greater
than the bytes available after the JSON body. Build a frame with X-Body-Field, a
short raw body, and an intentionally oversized X-Body-Length; assert an error
occurs and identifies X-Body-Length, ensuring truncation returns an error rather
than panicking.
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In `@internal/plugin/node_test.go`:
- Around line 1216-1273: Add a DecodeMessage test in the “malformed split-body
frames” specs covering X-Body-Length greater than the bytes available after the
JSON body. Build a frame with X-Body-Field, a short raw body, and an
intentionally oversized X-Body-Length; assert an error occurs and identifies
X-Body-Length, ensuring truncation returns an error rather than panicking.

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Code Review Results (Re-review)

Scope: internal/plugin/node.go, internal/plugin/bridge.js, internal/plugin/node_test.go, plans/PLAN.md, plans/IMPLEMENTATION.md
Intent: Split-body binary framing for Node IPC hook payloads — avoids JSON-encoding ~800KB HTML

Previous findings disposition

Prior # Severity Finding Status
P0 #1 Critical bridge.js not updated Fixed — inbound parser + outbound sendMessage both updated
P0 #2 Critical No bounds check on Content-Length/X-Body-Length Fixednode.go:191-192, node.go:212
P0 #3 Critical Negative values cause panic Fixednode.go:191, 212, 916, 941
P1 #4 High Missing X-Body-Field injects under empty key Fixednode.go:209-210, 938-939
P1 #5 High Stdout pollution detection regression Fixedfirst flag + node.go:892-894
P1 #6 High stripField manual maps vs spec Fixed — default case uses JSON round-trip
P1 #7 High DecodeMessage only injects into Result Fixednode.go:217-228 with Payload fallback
P2 #8 Moderate Unnecessary []byte allocation Fixedlen(fieldValue) + append(frame, fieldValue...)
P2 #10 Moderate encoding/json in tests Fixed — replaced with jsonutil.JSON

All P0 and P1 findings are resolved. New edge-case spec tests cover truncated frames, negative values, missing headers, stdout pollution in key: value format, and round-trip fidelity. CI passes. Race detector clean. 308 tests pass (19 for split-body framing).

P2 — Moderate

# File Issue Reviewer Confidence Route
1 node.go:154-164 stripField JSON round-trip marshals the full payload including the 800KB field being stripped. jsonCodec.Marshal(p) serializes the complete struct (including the large HTML), then Unmarshal builds a map, then delete(m, fieldName) removes it. Benchmark: 825µs / 4MB per encode on M2 Pro for 800KB HTML. For a 1000-page batch across 12 cores, that's ~69s of CPU time and ~4GB of temporary allocation just for the round-trip that exists to remove one field. The prior manual-map approach only copied the small metadata fields (~200 bytes), avoiding all serialization of the large field. Recommendation: Restore per-type manual map construction for the three known types as the fast path; keep the JSON round-trip default case as a future-proof fallback for unknown types. This gives both maintainability (new types auto-work) and performance (known types stay fast). performance 85 Fix

P3 — Advisory

# File Issue Reviewer Confidence Route
2 node.go:155-157 stripField error path silently returns unstripped payload. If jsonCodec.Marshal or Unmarshal fails, stripField returns the copy with the original payload (including the large field). EncodeMessage then marshals the full payload into JSON AND appends the raw bytes — the field appears in both places. Decode-side injection overwrites the JSON value with the raw value, so data correctness is preserved, but the perf optimization is silently defeated. Theoretical risk only (Marshal on known struct types won't fail), but a log warning would aid debugging. correctness 60 Advisory
3 bridge.js:76-78 Three separate realStdoutWrite calls for split-body output. Header, JSON body, and raw value are written in three calls. Node.js is single-threaded for user code, so no interleaving from concurrent hooks. OS pipe buffering coalesces the writes. No issue in practice. performance 95 No action
4 (missing) No benchmarks for the perf feature. The PR claims a performance win but includes no committed benchmark. The one I ran ad-hoc showed 825µs/4MB per 800KB encode. A committed benchmark would catch regressions and validate the JSON round-trip cost. performance 95 Open issue

Coverage

  • Testing gaps: Edge cases now well-covered (19 tests). No integration test exercises a full Go→Node→Go round-trip with split-body frames through the live subprocess — the bridge.js changes are tested only by code inspection, not by the test suite. This is acceptable for now since the unit-level Send/DecodeMessage tests verify the Go-side protocol parsing, and the bridge.js changes are straightforward.
  • Residual risks: After any protocol parse error in Send(), the bufio.Reader remains in an unknown state. No drain/reset mechanism exists. This is pre-existing and not introduced by this PR.

Verdict: Ready with fixes

Reasoning: All P0 and P1 findings from the first review are resolved. bridge.js now handles split-body framing in both directions. Bounds checking, negative-value rejection, and missing-header validation are all in place with new spec tests covering each case. The one remaining P2 is stripField's JSON round-trip performance — it marshals the full 800KB payload just to build a map and delete one key. This is a measurable regression vs. the prior approach (825µs/4MB per call) that's worth fixing before merge, but it's a targeted change: restore manual map construction for the three known types as the fast path while keeping the default JSON round-trip for future types.

- P2 #1: Restore per-type manual map construction in stripField for the
  three known payload types (avoids marshaling the 800KB field just to
  delete it). JSON round-trip kept as default fallback for future types.
- P3 #2: Add log.Printf warnings on stripField marshal/unmarshal error
  paths so silent optimization skips are diagnosable.
- CodeRabbit: Add mismatched split-body header validation in bridge.js
  (X-Body-Length present but X-Body-Field missing → error response).

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Review response (re-review)

All fixes pushed in d6af1c3 before these replies.

P2 #1 — stripField JSON round-trip marshals 800KB field

Fixed in d6af1c3. Restored per-type manual map construction for HookRenderedPayload, HookFormatRenderedPayload, and HookTransformPayload as the fast path — copies only the small metadata fields (~200 bytes), never touches the large field. JSON round-trip kept as the default case for future unknown payload types. Both fast path and fallback are now covered.

P3 #2 — stripField error path silently returns unstripped payload

Fixed in d6af1c3. Added log.Printf warnings on both Marshal and Unmarshal error paths in the default case, identifying the payload type and error. The known-type fast paths can't fail (direct field access, no serialization).

P3 #3 — Three separate realStdoutWrite calls

Skipped. Node.js is single-threaded for user code — no interleaving from concurrent hooks. OS pipe buffering coalesces the writes.

P3 #4 — No benchmarks

Skipped (architect issue). Benchmark specs are outside the developer scope. Already tracked in #1194 which covers benchmark and edge case test gaps.

CodeRabbit nitpick — truncated split body test

Skipped (architect issue). Test file modification — already tracked in #1194.

CodeRabbit — bridge.js mismatched split-body headers

Fixed in d6af1c3. Added validation in bridge.js: X-Body-Length present without X-Body-Field sends an error response and advances the buffer past the malformed frame. Matches Go-side behavior.

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Code Review Results (Re-review #2) ✅

Scope: Delta from 3cbd51e to d6af1c3internal/plugin/node.go, internal/plugin/bridge.js
Intent: Address P2/P3 feedback from the previous review round

Previous findings disposition

Prior # Severity Finding Status
P2 #1 Moderate stripField JSON round-trip marshals full 800KB payload Fixed — manual map construction restored for known types; JSON round-trip kept as default fallback
P3 #2 Advisory stripField error path silently returns unstripped payload Fixedlog.Printf warnings added for marshal/unmarshal failures

New changes verified

  1. stripField hybrid approach (node.go:144-192): Three known payload types (HookRenderedPayload, HookFormatRenderedPayload, HookTransformPayload) use direct map construction — avoids marshaling the large HTML/content field entirely. map[string]interface{} uses shallow copy with field exclusion. default case uses JSON round-trip for future-proofing. This is the best of both worlds: fast for known types, auto-works for new types.

  2. bridge.js inbound validation (bridge.js:108-112): Added check for X-Body-Length present without X-Body-Field — sends error response and advances buffer past the malformed frame. Matches the Go-side validation already in place.

  3. Log warnings on error paths (node.go:181,186): stripField now logs when marshal/unmarshal fails, making it diagnosable if the optimization is silently bypassed.

Verification

  • go vet ./internal/plugin/ — clean
  • go test -race -count=1 ./internal/plugin/ — 308 tests pass, no races
  • CI — green (test + deploy preview)
  • No encoding/json imports in implementation or test files

Verdict: Ready ✅

Reasoning: All findings from both review rounds are resolved. The implementation correctly handles split-body framing in both Go and JavaScript, with proper bounds checking, negative-value rejection, missing-header validation, first-line stdout pollution detection, and efficient per-type field stripping. The hybrid stripField approach gives both performance (manual maps for known types) and maintainability (JSON round-trip fallback for future types). 19 spec tests cover the happy path and edge cases. CI green.

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