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Closes #1191

This re-lands #1192, which was merged but never reached main. #1191 is still open because of that, not by oversight.

Type of change

  • Bug fix
  • New feature
  • Refactor / code improvement
  • Documentation

What does this PR do?

Why identical work is reappearing. #1192 was squash-merged into its base branch, fix/warehouse-driver-bootstrap (#1122), rather than into main. #1122 had squash-merged to main 43 seconds earlier — 07:33:38Z versus 07:34:21Z — so main's snapshot was taken before #1192's content existed on that branch. #1122 was the only PR from fix/warehouse-driver-bootstrap, and it is already merged, so nothing was going to carry #1192 across.

The mechanics, if you want to check rather than take my word:

The GitHub API reports #1192 as merged: true, which is accurate and misleading in equal measure — it merged into the wrong base.

The bug, still present on main today. Drivers are deliberately not shipped, so "driver not installed" is a normal state users hit by design rather than an edge case. driverSearchRoots() returns only directories that exist, so on a machine that has never installed a driver it returns nothing, and the error ends in a bare Searched 0 locations: — a colon with nothing after it, naming nowhere to look.

The fix says plainly that there was nothing to search, and names the node_modules directory the printed install command creates. Resolution behaviour is unchanged: this is the error text and one branch.

The change is #1192's, not a rewrite. It is the cherry-pick of #1192's squashed result onto main. Ignoring blob hashes and hunk offsets, the diff here is byte-identical to that commit's own diff, and it applied with no conflict — which independently confirms main already carries #1122's version of both files. Nothing from #1122 is included; that is already on main.

How did you verify your code works?

First, that the premise is true on live main rather than inferred from the merge graph. On babc7cb, constructing the error with an empty searched list prints:

DuckDB driver not installed.
Install it with the warehouse_install_driver tool, or run:
  npm install --prefix /Users/…/.local/share/altimate-code/drivers duckdb
Searched 0 locations:

with nothing after the colon, and none of this commit's wording. So the defect is live, not historical.

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Gate Result
bun run typecheck 13/13 successful (--force, so not a cache replay)
analyze.ts --markers --base origin/main --strict ok — no upstream-shared files modified
bun run lint 5903 warnings, 1 error — identical to main's own baseline, measured by checking out main and re-running. The error is the known pre-existing consistent-return in packages/http-recorder/test/record-replay.test.ts.
packages/drivers 225 pass, 0 fail (main baseline is 223; the two added are this change's own)
packages/opencode test/altimate 4226 pass, 0 fail

One flaky failure, which is not this change. A first test/altimate run failed sample_setup tool — LLM-facing contract > second call to same target at 5005.74ms. That is the known self-race: the test's execFile probe for the dbt runtime uses a 5000ms timeout and the test's own timeout is also 5000ms, so under load it races itself. It passed on re-run, and the only change on this branch is an error-message string in packages/drivers, which sample_setup does not touch. Pre-existing, worth its own fix, not this PR.

Two tests, unchanged from #1192. The empty case must not render Searched 0 locations: and must name the install directory; the populated case must still list the roots it actually searched. The existing "names the searched roots" test was also tightened to create a real managed root and assert the message contains it.

Not verified by me: Windows. The change is string formatting and path.join, with no platform-specific behaviour, but I did not run it there.

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Not a UI change.

Checklist

  • I have tested my changes locally
  • I have not included unrelated changes in this PR

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Low Risk
User-facing error strings only in packages/drivers; no changes to install or resolution logic.

Overview
When optional warehouse drivers are missing and driverSearchRoots() returns nothing (typical on first run before any managed node_modules exists), DriverNotInstalledError no longer ends with a useless Searched 0 locations: line. It now states that no searchable locations were found and names the expected managed node_modules path under driverInstallDir(), aligned with the printed npm install --prefix hint.

When roots were actually searched, the message is unchanged: it still lists count and paths. Driver resolution behavior is untouched.

Tests cover the empty-root wording, the multi-root list, and tighten the integration case to assert the managed root appears in the message.

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Summary by cubic

Fixes the missing-driver error so it names a location when no searchable driver locations are found. The error previously ended in a bare Searched 0 locations: with nothing after the colon; it now states that no searchable locations were found and names the expected node_modules directory. This re-lands #1192, which was merged but never reached main. Closes #1191. Resolution behavior is unchanged; only the error message is affected.

Written for commit 5e9a168. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved missing-driver error messages when no searchable locations are found.
    • Error messages now identify the expected managed driver location for easier troubleshooting.
    • Existing searched-location details remain available when multiple locations are detected.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for empty and populated driver search paths.

…nothing

Re-lands the change from #1192, which was merged but never reached `main`.

Drivers are deliberately not shipped, so "driver not installed" is a normal
state users hit by design rather than an edge case. `driverSearchRoots()`
returns only directories that exist, so on a machine that has never installed a
driver it returns nothing and the error ended in a bare "Searched 0 locations:"
— a colon with nothing after it, naming nowhere to look.

Say plainly that there was nothing to search, and name the `node_modules`
directory the printed install command creates. Resolution behaviour is
unchanged; this is the error text and one branch.

Why this is reappearing: #1192 was squash-merged into its base branch,
`fix/warehouse-driver-bootstrap` (#1122), rather than into `main`. #1122 had
squash-merged to `main` 43 seconds earlier, so main's snapshot was already
taken and this change was never carried across. Its merge commit `e005323` has
the single parent `c49149a` — #1122's head, which is not an ancestor of `main`
— and #1122 was the only PR from that branch, so nothing else was going to
bring it over.

Verified against live `main` rather than inferred: constructing
`DriverNotInstalledError` with an empty searched list on `babc7cb` prints

    Searched 0 locations:

with nothing after the colon, and none of this commit's text.

The content is the cherry-pick of #1192's squashed result onto `main`. Ignoring
blob hashes and hunk offsets it is byte-identical to that commit's own diff, and
it applied without conflict, which independently confirms `main` already carries
#1122's version of both files.

Two tests, unchanged from #1192: the empty case must not render
"Searched 0 locations:" and must name the install directory, and the populated
case must still list the roots it actually searched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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DriverNotInstalledError now names the expected managed driver location when no searchable roots exist. Tests cover empty and populated search-root lists and verify the managed node_modules path.

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Driver error reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Conditional missing-driver message
packages/drivers/src/resolve.ts
The error message now reports the expected managed location when the searched-root list is empty. It preserves the existing location list when roots are present.
Missing-driver message tests
packages/drivers/test/resolve-unit.test.ts
Tests cover empty and populated search-root lists and verify the managed node_modules path.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5e9a1

This PR only clarifies the missing-driver error and does not change driver resolution. The added tests may interfere when run concurrently because they share environment and temporary-directory state, potentially causing flaky results; the change is mergeable with owner awareness or a follow-up to serialize or isolate those tests.

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A rabbit checks the driver trail,

No roots appear beneath the veil.
The message names the proper place,
Tests watch each search case,
And installation leaves a trace.

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const managedRoot = path.join(tmpRoot, "empty", "node_modules")
fs.mkdirSync(managedRoot, { recursive: true })
process.env["ALTIMATE_DRIVER_DIR"] = path.dirname(managedRoot)

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Serialize this suite under Bun concurrent test mode. process.env, savedEnv, and tmpRoot are shared module state. With --concurrent, one test can overwrite another test's environment snapshot or temporary directory, causing incorrect resolution and cleanup. Use serial execution or per-test isolation.

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anandgupta42 added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 3, 2026
Resolves 17 of the 28 open review threads on this PR (chatgpt-codex-connector,
cubic-dev-ai, kilo-code-bot, coderabbitai), leaves 7 open with a design
question or a duplicate pointer, and folds in #1205's empty-searched-roots
error-message fix (that PR was closed as redundant with this one).

Fixed:
- `isWorkspaceRoot()` compared a harvested root against ancestor `node_modules`
  by exact equality, so a *nested* dependency root under an ancestor
  (`.../node_modules/host/node_modules/duckdb`) slipped past the exclusion
  when the CLI started below the project root — a real workspace-boundary
  bypass (P1). Now uses containment via a new `isWithin` helper.
- `isRequireOfEsm()` did not recognize Node's `ERR_REQUIRE_ASYNC_MODULE` or
  Bun's equivalent message, so an ESM-only driver with top-level `await`
  was reported as broken instead of falling through to dynamic import.
  Verified the exact Node 22 error shape empirically.
- `LockHolder` now carries an optional `budgetMs`, published from the
  holder's own effective `hardStaleAfterMs` (itself now derived from the
  configured install `timeoutMs`, not a fixed constant). `isStaleLock`
  prefers a live holder's declared budget over a contender's own generic
  backstop, so a default-configured contender no longer reclaims a lock
  whose owner explicitly configured a longer install timeout.
- `isFilesystemRoot()` now recognizes extended-length UNC
  (`\\?\UNC\server\share`) and forward-slash UNC (`//server/share`) roots,
  alongside the plain backslash UNC form already handled.
- `DriverNotInstalledError` named no location when the searched-roots list
  was empty (bare "Searched 0 locations:"); now names the expected managed
  `node_modules` directory. This is #1205's fix, folded in here since that
  PR was closed as redundant.
- Two detached JSDoc blocks reattached to the functions they document.
- Test-quality fixes: `resolve-chdir.test.ts` beforeEach now restores cwd
  so tests don't depend on execution order; the cwd-prefix-repair test now
  actually constructs a concatenated path instead of one already resolvable
  without the repair; `install-lock.test.ts`'s multi-peer test gained a
  start barrier so it can't pass vacuously; `resolve-argv-isolation.test.ts`
  tests marked `test.serial` against a future concurrent test run.

Left open (design questions, replied in-thread rather than resolved
unilaterally):
- Stale-lock reclamation and release are built on comparing owner records
  across a directory rename, which several reviewers (from different
  angles — ownerless-lock races, inode reuse, TOCTOU on stale-claim
  restore, non-atomic release) converge on as needing a different
  primitive: an `O_EXCL` sentinel carrying an acquisition token, not the
  current rename-and-compare protocol. Four of these were already
  triaged and left open in-thread before this pass; seven more converging
  on the same conclusion are now replied to and left open as duplicates
  or extensions of that same finding.
- A contender's wait deadline is still derived only from its own
  `timeoutMs`, not a holder's declared budget — attempted an unconditional
  extension and reverted it after it blocked a short-timeout caller for a
  holder's entire remaining budget (over two hours in testing). Left open
  with two bounded-design options rather than picking one.
- Canonicalizing `ALTIMATE_DRIVER_DIR` before deriving the lock path (so a
  symlink and its real path share a lock) conflicts with the explicitly
  handled cold-start case where the directory does not exist yet. Left
  open with two options.

Gates: `bun test packages/drivers` 289/289 green (stable across repeated
runs), `bun run typecheck` clean across all 15 typechecked packages,
upstream marker check clean (drivers is not upstream-shared).
anandgupta42 added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 3, 2026
…ed, and make installs concurrency-safe (#1201)

* fix(drivers): load a driver from the location the failing runtime named

A globally installed CLI (`npm install -g`, package tree under
`/usr/lib/node_modules/altimate-code`) run from an unrelated working directory
could not load any warehouse driver — 8 of 8 trials on a cold VM:

    DuckDB driver found at duckdb but failed to load: ENOENT: no such file or
    directory, open '<cwd>/usr/lib/node_modules/altimate-code/node_modules/duckdb/package.json'

The file exists at that path without the `<cwd>` prefix. Ambient resolution
concatenated the working directory onto an already-absolute path, which is a
runtime behaviour we cannot change — but it names the correct location in the
error, and that is better evidence than anything we can infer.

`searchRootsFromError` now mines the paths an ambient failure quotes, repairs a
concatenated working directory, and searches the enclosing `node_modules`
first. `repairCwdPrefixedPath` is deliberately conservative: it fires only when
the named path is absent, is genuinely prefixed by the working directory, and
the de-prefixed remainder exists on disk, so a legitimately nested
`<cwd>/node_modules/…` is left alone.

The message was the second half of the bug. `found at duckdb` named the bare
specifier as though it were a location, so a package that had never been
located anywhere read as a load failure at a known path — which is why this was
diagnosed as a load bug rather than a search-coverage one. Both sites that
produced it now say what actually happened: the default module resolution
failed, here is where we looked, and here is the on-disk copy we also tried.

Verified in the shape it occurs in, not in unit tests alone: a probe compiled
with the production `Bun.build` options (`external`, `autoloadPackageJson`),
laid out as a real `npm install -g` tree with a real `npm install duckdb`, run
from an unrelated cwd with no `NODE_PATH` and no `ALTIMATE_BIN_DIR`.

    before: 8/8 fail, reproducing the reported message verbatim
    after:  8/8 load the driver

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VqnuBDGkh1ZT65Ti7e6DHZ

* fix(drivers): make on-demand driver installs safe across processes

The managed driver directory is shared by every CLI process on the machine,
and `installsInFlight` is an in-process Map — it cannot see other processes.
Eight CLIs starting together each ran `npm install` over the same tree:

    npm install failed (exit 217) … ENOTEMPTY …
      rmdir /root/.local/share/altimate-code/drivers/node_modules/duckdb/…

That is not benchmark-specific. Any concurrent use of the CLI hits it, and the
result is a driver that appears broken on a machine where nothing is wrong.

`withInstallLock` takes a cross-process lock before mutating the directory.
`mkdir` is atomic and fails EEXIST when the directory exists on both POSIX and
Windows, which makes a lock directory the portable primitive; it lives beside
the install directory so npm never sees it as stray package content. Stale
locks are broken two ways, because neither alone is sufficient: a dead owner on
this host, and age, which is the only signal available for a lock left by
another host sharing a home directory.

After acquiring, readiness is re-checked. The peer that held the lock has
usually just installed the very thing we queued for, so most contenders return
"already present" rather than running a second npm over the same tree.

On timeout the install proceeds unlocked rather than failing: a racing install
is recoverable and the readiness check afterwards is authoritative, whereas
refusing to install because a peer is slow turns contention into a hard error.

Also adds cwd/execPath and a cwd-prefix note to driver load failures. Two
separate investigations have now diagnosed a load failure from the error text
alone and got it wrong, because the text named a path without saying what the
process's own view of the filesystem was.

The exclusion claim is about separate processes, so the test spawns separate
processes — an in-process test cannot establish it. The control confirms the
test bites: the same four processes without the lock interleave completely
(four enters before any exit). 10/10 repeat runs green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VqnuBDGkh1ZT65Ti7e6DHZ

* fix(drivers): keep harvested roots inside the trust boundary, and make the install lock hold

Review findings on #1201, grouped by what they actually break.

**Harvested roots crossed a deliberate security boundary.** `driverSearchRoots()`
refuses project and ancestor `node_modules` because importing a workspace-
controlled SDK during a warehouse read/test bypasses the permission boundary and
can expose resolved credentials. `searchRootsFromError()` mined any absolute path
an error quoted and prepended it, so an ambient failure naming a project-local
`node_modules` routed straight around that invariant. Harvested roots are now
filtered through the same exclusion.

**They also preempted the managed installation.** Prepending meant a stale or
broken copy the runtime happened to name won over the driver we installed, which
inverts the documented "managed install dir comes first" ordering. Trusted roots
now come first and harvested roots are appended, which still recovers the
original failure: a harvested root is reached whenever the roots ahead of it
resolve nothing.

**Windows never harvested anything.** The extraction regex accepts `C:/…` and
`C:\…`, but the `node_modules` marker is built from `path.sep`, so a
forward-slash path could never match a backslash marker. `enclosingNodeModulesRoot`
normalises separators, and takes `sep` as a parameter so the Windows behaviour is
tested from a POSIX host rather than asserted. `repairCwdPrefixedPath` now also
handles the two Windows concatenation shapes, which have no separator to carry.

**The lock silently degraded to unlocked in exactly the cold-start case it exists
for.** `<dir>.lock` sits beside the managed directory, and on a fresh machine
nothing has created the XDG data directory yet — `performInstall` is the first
thing that does, and it runs after the lock attempt. The non-recursive `mkdir`
failed ENOENT, took the "cannot lock" branch, and dropped every concurrent CLI
into an unlocked install. The parent is now created first.

**Stale-lock recovery could admit two installers.** Two processes could both
judge a lock stale, and deleting by pathname let the loser delete the winner's
fresh lock. Claiming is now a `rename`, which exactly one process can win.

**A lock could be released out from under its successor.** An owner whose lock
was broken as stale would, on the way out, delete the lock a peer had since
taken. Release now only removes a lock still carrying its own token.

**Age aged out live installs.** `isStaleLock` applied the age check
unconditionally, so a live same-host owner running a slow native build past
`staleAfterMs` had its lock broken and a peer entered — reintroducing the very
ENOTEMPTY race. Where liveness is decidable (owner on this host) it is now the
only signal; age applies only where it cannot be (no readable owner, or another
host sharing a home directory).

**The lock path was outside the approved permission pattern.** The tool asks for
`external_directory` on `<dir>/*`, but the lock is the sibling `<dir>.lock` — so
creating, writing and removing it mutated an external path the user never
approved. It is now included in the request.

**Two unrelated cwd faults on the failure path.** `process.cwd()` throws once the
working directory is removed, and both `loadDiagnostics` and — pre-existing —
`resolveOptionalPackage`'s `createRequire` anchor called it unguarded while a
driver failure was being formatted, replacing the real diagnosis with an
unrelated `uv_cwd` ENOENT. Both are guarded; the anchor never needed cwd, since
resolution is driven by the explicit `paths`.

Tests. The two end-to-end resolution tests used the specifier `duckdb`, which the
repository's own `packages/drivers/node_modules` can satisfy no matter what the
harvesting code does — they passed while proving nothing, and would have kept
passing after the reordering above. They now use specifiers that exist nowhere
but the tree the test builds, and assert on an export marker, so they establish
which root actually satisfied the load. The cross-process exclusion test gained a
start barrier: without one, a scheduler that ran the four children serially
satisfied the no-overlap assertion even with a completely broken lock. The
control confirms the barriered test still bites — four unlocked children
interleave completely (enter 1, enter 2, enter 3, enter 0) and the assertion
rejects on the second enter. 9 repeat runs, 72/72 green.

Not verified: Windows on hardware. The separator handling is now unit-tested
through the `sep` parameter, but nothing here ran on Windows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VqnuBDGkh1ZT65Ti7e6DHZ

* fix(drivers): bound the stale-lock retry, and harvest every enclosing root

Second review round. One of these is a bug the previous commit introduced.

**The stale-claim branch could spin forever.** `claimStaleLock` returned without
reporting failure and the loop `continue`d unconditionally, skipping both the
deadline check and the sleep. A claim that fails persistently — a lock owned by
another user, or a container that permits inspection but not rename — meant
`mkdir` EEXIST, judged stale, claim fails, repeat, at full CPU with no timeout.
The claim now reports success, and only a successful claim skips the wait; a
failed one falls through to the normal deadline-and-sleep path. The regression
test hangs rather than fails if that bound is lost again.

**Stale recovery could still move a live lock aside.** The rename made two
cleaners safe against each other, but not against the stale→fresh transition: a
peer could release and re-acquire between the staleness verdict and the rename.
The claim now re-reads the owner record before renaming, and — because nothing
makes "read the owner" and "rename" one operation — verifies what it actually
moved afterwards, restoring it if a peer had re-taken the lock. That narrows the
window rather than closing it, which is stated plainly rather than implied.

**Liveness-only staleness could wedge the lock permanently.** Making a live
same-host owner immune to age fixed the interrupted-install bug but introduced a
worse one: `processExists` answers "some process holds this pid", so a crashed
owner whose pid is recycled by an unrelated long-lived process would hold the
lock forever, with every later install waiting out its timeout and then running
unlocked. A live owner is now protected only up to a backstop far beyond any
real npm run (1h default), which bounds the wedge without interrupting an
install.

**Release could delete a successor's lock during a window the token cannot
cover.** The directory is created before `owner.json` is written, so a successor
that re-took the lock in that window holds a live lock carrying no token, and the
token check let it be removed. Release now also compares the lock directory's
inode, captured at acquire.

**Every path this mechanism writes now sits under one approved prefix.** Stale
recovery renamed the lock to a sibling of the container, which the tool's
`<dir>.lock/*` permission does not cover. The atomic lock moved inside the
container as `<dir>.lock/held`, and claims rename to `<dir>.lock/stale-…`, so
both are covered by the pattern already brokered.

**The lock wait could be shorter than the install it waits on.** The two
timeouts were independent constants: raising the install timeout past the lock
wait meant a contender gave up while the holder's npm was still running and then
installed unlocked over the same tree. The lock wait is now derived from the
install timeout.

**Nested dependency paths harvested the wrong root.** A quoted path such as
`/opt/node_modules/duckdb/node_modules/node-addon-api/…` yielded only the
innermost `node_modules`, which holds the dependency — while the driver being
looked for sits in the outer one, so it was never found. All enclosing roots are
now harvested, innermost first, each subject to the same workspace exclusion.

**The workspace exclusion compared lexical paths while resolution followed
symlinks.** A link whose lexical path sits outside the working directory but
whose target sits inside it passed the check and would have been imported.
Containment now compares real paths, falling back to lexical when the link
cannot be followed.

Gates: typecheck 13/13 (forced, not cached); marker check ok; lint 5903 warnings
and 1 error, byte-identical to `main`'s own baseline (the error is the known
pre-existing `consistent-return` in `packages/http-recorder/test/record-replay.test.ts`);
`packages/drivers` 255 pass; `test/altimate` 4226 pass. Lock tests 99/99 across 9
repeat runs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VqnuBDGkh1ZT65Ti7e6DHZ

* fix(drivers): fail closed on an unavailable cwd, and keep a root path absolute

Two narrow fixes from the latest review round.

**The workspace exclusion failed open when `process.cwd()` was unavailable.**
`isWorkspaceRoot` returned false with no working directory to compare against,
so every `node_modules` root an error happened to name was admitted — turning
the one case where the process cannot see its own filesystem into the case with
no boundary at all. It now fails closed: no cwd means no harvested roots. This
was introduced by the guard added two commits ago, which is exactly the sort of
thing a fail-open default hides.

**A filesystem root lost its leading separator when deriving the lock path.**
`installLockPath` stripped every trailing separator, so `/` became the relative
`.lock` and `C:\` the drive-relative `C:.lock`. Two processes started from
different working directories would then take different locks while installing
into the same directory, which is the concurrent-npm mutation the lock exists to
prevent. Roots are now left intact; trailing separators are still stripped
everywhere else so `<dir>/` and `<dir>` agree on one lock.

Gates: typecheck 13/13 (forced); marker check ok; lint 5903 warnings and 1 error,
identical to `main`'s baseline; `packages/drivers` 258 pass; `test/altimate` 4226
pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VqnuBDGkh1ZT65Ti7e6DHZ

* test(drivers): add a chdir arm, so a green suite means something about `--dir`

Six pilots were spent on a driver-load failure that only appeared under
`--dir`, which calls `process.chdir()` (cli/cmd/run.ts) before any driver is
loaded. Every local verification — and the rig's own pre-flight probe — ran
without a chdir, so a green suite said nothing about the configuration that
actually failed. This is the same class as an `--instance-dir` arm that never
exercised the code it existed to test.

Four tests: resolve before and after a chdir and compare, resolve from a
directory unrelated to the install tree, assert a package present only under
the working directory is never resolved out of it, and check that a chdir
between two resolutions does not change the answer.

They pass on the current resolver, which is the point — this is a guard, not a
bug report. `resolveOptionalPackage` drives resolution from the explicit
`paths` argument rather than from the anchor's base, so the working directory
does not currently reach the result. That is a property worth pinning, because
it is invisible in review and its absence is expensive to diagnose.

Measured, not assumed: on Debian 12, with a binary cross-compiled using the
production compile options against a real `npm install -g` tree and a real
`npm install duckdb`, run as root from an unrelated directory, adding a
`process.chdir()` between process start and driver load changed nothing. Bare
import, `import(file://)`, `createRequire(abs)`, the `__dirname` a loaded CJS
module sees, and `loadOptionalDriver` were byte-identical with and without it,
and all succeeded. So on Bun 1.3.14 a compiled binary does not re-anchor
absolute module paths after a chdir, and chdir alone does not explain the field
failure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VqnuBDGkh1ZT65Ti7e6DHZ

* fix(drivers): handle UNC paths, and give the install lock a per-holder budget

Three review-round gaps, two of them Windows shapes that a macOS suite cannot
notice on its own.

**`installLockPath` broke on a UNC share root.** It special-cased the POSIX and
drive-letter roots but not `\\server\share`, which stripped to
`\\server\share.lock` — naming a *different network share* rather than anything
inside the directory being locked. Two processes installing into a share would
then take different locks, which is the concurrent npm mutation the lock exists
to prevent. Root detection now covers all three shapes and the lock always
lands inside the root.

**The harvesting regex accepted no UNC path.** A Windows error quoting
`\\server\share\node_modules\duckdb\package.json` yielded no roots at all, so a
driver on a share stayed unfindable even though the error named its exact
location. The pattern is now a named export, so the claim is testable from any
platform instead of resting on inspection.

**The lock wait outlasted only one peer.** Every process counts its deadline
from its own start, so a single budget covers a single holder; with three or
more contenders the last one's deadline expired part-way through somebody
else's install and it fell through to an unlocked `performInstall`. The budget
is now per holder — seeing the lock change hands is proof the queue is moving
rather than wedged — with a bounded number of extensions so a machine that
keeps feeding in contenders cannot block a caller indefinitely.

Each test fails with its own fix reverted and passes with it: 1 of 10 for each
Windows shape, 1 of 14 for the multi-peer wait. The multi-peer test spawns real
processes, holds 400ms against a 600ms budget, and asserts none of the three
ran unlocked. 12/12 repeat runs green.

Also hardens the chdir arm per review. It asked for `duckdb`, which the repo's
own `packages/drivers/node_modules` satisfies through the execPath and
module-location roots no matter what the resolver does — it would have passed
while proving nothing. It now uses specifiers that exist nowhere but the tree
each test builds and asserts on an export marker, so a pass establishes which
root satisfied the load.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VqnuBDGkh1ZT65Ti7e6DHZ

* fix(drivers): load a driver from its own directory, not through the process cwd

Measured twice independently, from a global install run under `--dir`: the
package manifest consulted while loading a resolved driver is looked up at the
working directory concatenated onto the driver's absolute path.

    ENOENT ... open '<cwd>/usr/lib/.../duckdb/package.json'

while the file exists at that path without the `<cwd>` prefix. Materialising
that concatenated path makes the failing invocation pass, and so does running
with cwd `/`, which makes the concatenation a no-op. Both directions agree, so
the working directory is an input to a lookup that has no business consulting
it.

There is no invocation-level fix: `--dir` is itself what sets the working
directory (`cli/cmd/run.ts`), so cwd `/` and `--dir <run_dir>` are mutually
exclusive.

`import(pathToFileURL(abs))` is not enough, because it is the ESM loader's own
manifest lookup that goes through cwd. Loading through a CommonJS require
anchored at the resolved file makes every nested lookup — the manifest included
— relative to the driver's own directory. The drivers loaded this way are
CommonJS; an ESM-only package still needs the loader, so that path remains and
is taken only for the error that specifically means "this is ESM".

`process.chdir()` around the load would also neutralise the concatenation and
is deliberately not used. It is global mutable state, these loads happen under
concurrency, and it would corrupt resolution for unrelated work
non-deterministically — worse than the fault it patches.

The regression test loads a fixture that reports its own `__dirname` while the
working directory is elsewhere, so the assertion is about which directory the
module came from rather than that it merely loaded. With the load site
reverted it fails, and it fails with the field's exact shape: "failed to load
from the default module resolution: ENOENT ... package.json / A copy at ... was
also tried and failed to load".

Note what that test does and does not establish. It proves the load no longer
routes through the ESM loader, which is the fix's mechanism. It does not
simulate the runtime's cwd-joining itself — no environment outside the affected
rig has reproduced that, across eight eliminated hypotheses — so the end-to-end
confirmation has to come from a build run there.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VqnuBDGkh1ZT65Ti7e6DHZ

* fix(drivers): keep our command line out of a driver's own resolution

`@mapbox/node-pre-gyp`, which packages several native modules including DuckDB,
resolves a module's manifest by parsing the **host application's**
`process.argv`. `find()` passes `argv: process.argv` into its own `Run`, `nopt`
abbreviation-matches whatever it finds against node-pre-gyp's option list, and
`node-pre-gyp.js:164` then does:

    package_json_path = path.join(this.opts.directory, package_json_path)

`path.join`, not `path.resolve` — so an absolute manifest path is not
discarded. Our `--dir` abbreviates to node-pre-gyp's `--directory`, so
`altimate-code run --dir <project>` made the driver look for its manifest at
`<project>` concatenated with the manifest's own absolute path, and the load
failed with an ENOENT naming a path that had never existed.

That the failing path also looked cwd-prefixed was a coincidence: `--dir` is
what sets the working directory, so the two values were always equal.

Driver loads now run with `process.argv` trimmed to `[argv[0], argv[1]]`.
Swapping a global is safe here in a way `process.chdir()` would not be: the
load is a synchronous `require`, JavaScript is single-threaded, and there is no
`await` between the swap and the restore, so no concurrent work can observe it.
The asynchronous ESM fallback is deliberately left alone for that reason.

Considered and rejected: renaming `--dir`. The collision is real, but the flag
is public, renaming breaks every existing invocation, and it would fix only the
one option name that happens to collide today rather than the mechanism.

Not specific to us, to DuckDB, or to a compiled binary — any CLI embedding a
node-pre-gyp-packaged module and accepting a flag that abbreviates to
`--directory` is exposed. A long argv in a compiled binary only made it
visible. Of the drivers installed here, only `duckdb` pulls in node-pre-gyp
today; the fix is applied to every driver load rather than to DuckDB, because
the exposure is a property of the packaging tool, not of the driver.

The regression test reproduces the arithmetic of the one line that broke: a
fixture that reads `--dir` out of `process.argv` and joins it onto its own
absolute manifest path. With the neutralisation reverted it fails, reporting
the flag as seen. Two further tests pin that the command line is restored
afterwards, including when the load throws.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VqnuBDGkh1ZT65Ti7e6DHZ

* fix(drivers): address PR review threads on the install lock and resolver

Resolves 17 of the 28 open review threads on this PR (chatgpt-codex-connector,
cubic-dev-ai, kilo-code-bot, coderabbitai), leaves 7 open with a design
question or a duplicate pointer, and folds in #1205's empty-searched-roots
error-message fix (that PR was closed as redundant with this one).

Fixed:
- `isWorkspaceRoot()` compared a harvested root against ancestor `node_modules`
  by exact equality, so a *nested* dependency root under an ancestor
  (`.../node_modules/host/node_modules/duckdb`) slipped past the exclusion
  when the CLI started below the project root — a real workspace-boundary
  bypass (P1). Now uses containment via a new `isWithin` helper.
- `isRequireOfEsm()` did not recognize Node's `ERR_REQUIRE_ASYNC_MODULE` or
  Bun's equivalent message, so an ESM-only driver with top-level `await`
  was reported as broken instead of falling through to dynamic import.
  Verified the exact Node 22 error shape empirically.
- `LockHolder` now carries an optional `budgetMs`, published from the
  holder's own effective `hardStaleAfterMs` (itself now derived from the
  configured install `timeoutMs`, not a fixed constant). `isStaleLock`
  prefers a live holder's declared budget over a contender's own generic
  backstop, so a default-configured contender no longer reclaims a lock
  whose owner explicitly configured a longer install timeout.
- `isFilesystemRoot()` now recognizes extended-length UNC
  (`\\?\UNC\server\share`) and forward-slash UNC (`//server/share`) roots,
  alongside the plain backslash UNC form already handled.
- `DriverNotInstalledError` named no location when the searched-roots list
  was empty (bare "Searched 0 locations:"); now names the expected managed
  `node_modules` directory. This is #1205's fix, folded in here since that
  PR was closed as redundant.
- Two detached JSDoc blocks reattached to the functions they document.
- Test-quality fixes: `resolve-chdir.test.ts` beforeEach now restores cwd
  so tests don't depend on execution order; the cwd-prefix-repair test now
  actually constructs a concatenated path instead of one already resolvable
  without the repair; `install-lock.test.ts`'s multi-peer test gained a
  start barrier so it can't pass vacuously; `resolve-argv-isolation.test.ts`
  tests marked `test.serial` against a future concurrent test run.

Left open (design questions, replied in-thread rather than resolved
unilaterally):
- Stale-lock reclamation and release are built on comparing owner records
  across a directory rename, which several reviewers (from different
  angles — ownerless-lock races, inode reuse, TOCTOU on stale-claim
  restore, non-atomic release) converge on as needing a different
  primitive: an `O_EXCL` sentinel carrying an acquisition token, not the
  current rename-and-compare protocol. Four of these were already
  triaged and left open in-thread before this pass; seven more converging
  on the same conclusion are now replied to and left open as duplicates
  or extensions of that same finding.
- A contender's wait deadline is still derived only from its own
  `timeoutMs`, not a holder's declared budget — attempted an unconditional
  extension and reverted it after it blocked a short-timeout caller for a
  holder's entire remaining budget (over two hours in testing). Left open
  with two bounded-design options rather than picking one.
- Canonicalizing `ALTIMATE_DRIVER_DIR` before deriving the lock path (so a
  symlink and its real path share a lock) conflicts with the explicitly
  handled cold-start case where the directory does not exist yet. Left
  open with two options.

Gates: `bun test packages/drivers` 289/289 green (stable across repeated
runs), `bun run typecheck` clean across all 15 typechecked packages,
upstream marker check clean (drivers is not upstream-shared).

* fix(drivers): replace inode-based lock ownership with an atomic token

The Driver E2E CI failure on the previous push (packages/drivers/test/
install-lock.test.ts:381, "does not delete a successor lock that has no
owner record yet") was not a flake: it is the exact inode-reuse race that
four review threads on this PR converged on (kilo-code-bot, cubic-dev-ai,
chatgpt-codex-connector), reproducing on Linux/tmpfs in CI and not on
macOS/APFS locally, which is why it was invisible before.

Redesign: the lock is now a single file, created with `fs.writeFileSync(...,
{ flag: "wx" })` — O_CREAT|O_EXCL, portable to POSIX and Windows — whose
content, a `crypto.randomUUID()` acquisition token, is written as part of
that same atomic call. The earlier scheme created a directory atomically and
then wrote the ownership token into a file *inside* it as a second,
non-atomic step, leaving a real window where a lock existed with no way to
tell who owned it. `releaseInstallLock` no longer falls back to
`fs.statSync(...).ino` in that window — it no longer exists, so the fallback
is gone entirely.

The stale-claim restore step (rename a judged-stale lock aside, then put it
back if a peer had re-taken it) now uses `fs.linkSync` instead of
`fs.renameSync` for the restore. `rename` onto an existing destination
silently replaces it, which is how a third process's freshly-created live
lock could get clobbered during a stale-claim race; `link` fails closed
with EEXIST there instead.

Regression test: `does not delete a successor lock with no readable token,
even at the same inode`. It overwrites the lock file's content in place
(same inode guaranteed, different owner) rather than relying on the OS's
own inode-reuse timing, so it reproduces deterministically on every
platform instead of only on Linux/tmpfs. Verified directly that it fails
against the old inode-fallback logic (temporarily restored it, confirmed
the failure, reverted) before relying on it as a regression guard.

Two review comments landed on the previous push's own new code and are
fixed here too:
- `isWithin()` (this PR's own containment fix for the nested-roots P1) used
  `rel.startsWith("..")` to detect parent traversal, which also matches a
  genuine descendant whose name merely starts with those two characters
  (e.g. `base/..evil/node_modules`) — wrongly admitting a workspace-controlled
  root across the permission boundary. Fixed to check `rel === ".."` or
  `rel.startsWith(".." + sep)` specifically.
- `isFilesystemRoot()`'s UNC recognition (this PR's own forward-slash/
  extended-length UNC fix) did not accept a mixed separator spelling
  (`\\server/share`), which Node's Windows path handling normalizes to the
  same root as the all-backslash form. Consolidated into one
  separator-flexible pattern; the `\\?\` extended-length prefix stays
  backslash-only since it explicitly disables that normalization.

Thread disposition (of the 7 threads escalated as needing this exact
redesign, plus 2 of the original 4 pre-session escalations describing the
same root cause): resolved — dfzlm (stale-claim restore), df1hp (kilo-code-bot
inode reuse), df2j- (ownerless-lock race), df2kA (TOCTOU on reclaim,
substantially — the realistic 2-process race is closed, a narrower 3-process
syscall-level interleaving remains structurally possible and is noted rather
than claimed fully closed), df2kI (inode uniqueness, duplicate), df6Rf
(reusable inodes, duplicate), diqPm (atomic release, substantially — same
residual as df2kA). Left open, unaffected by this redesign: dfzlo (acquire
before readiness), dfzlq (npm process-group tracking), dimYr (contender wait
deadline), dimYu (canonicalize before lock) — all orthogonal to ownership
representation.

Gates: `bun test packages/drivers` 293/293 green, stable across repeated
local runs; full monorepo `bun run typecheck --force` clean (13 packages,
genuine re-execution not cache replay); upstream marker check clean.

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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