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Summary

Closes #327.

In a remote pane, cmd-clicking link/../file.rb (with link -> nested/dir) opened file.rb at the workroom root. The Mac resolved .. itself, lexically, because the agent's File service refuses any .. on read. Only the host knows where link points, so the host now resolves it.

wr-agent (vcs/crates/wr-agent/src/file.rs). A new File-service request, resolve:

• It takes a root and a relative path that may hold ... It resolves the part through the last .. on the host, through any symlink, keeps the rest as written, and answers the path under the root's real path.
• A path that climbs above the root as written is refused before any lookup, which keeps read's before-any-I/O rule for paths that climb out.
• A path that leaves the root through a link is refused, and so are the root itself and a non-UTF-8 result.
• It shares read's cap of four in flight, since a link can lead into a slow mount.
• No protocol bump: every agent with a File service already answers an unknown method with Unsupported.

macapp.

• PathCandidate.onHost carries a remote candidate's path with its .. kept, when it stays inside the workroom as written.
• TerminalSessions.remoteFile sends it to resolve, then probes the answer with read.
• remoteCandidates stays synchronous, because the cmd-hover gate never asks the host.
• Only an agent that predates resolve, recognised by its exact unknown-method reply (AgentFileProvider.unknownMethod, pinned against the real agent), falls back to the Mac-side path. Any other failure (busy, unreadable, a loop) opens nothing rather than a possibly wrong file.
• FileProviding.resolve added across the providers. NativeFileProvider throws, with a ponytail: note, since only remote panes resolve.

Also in this branch:

• The design doc's "As built (Remote pane parity: pane close, cmd-click, forwarded ports and idle state #254)" path-handling bullet now describes resolve instead of listing this as a known limit.
• Two flaky tests found while shipping are recorded as P0 in TODOS.md: a test worker killed by EXC_GUARD on a double-closed descriptor, and ReverseForwardTests' reconnect test, which fails on master too (2 of 20).
• Merged master (CredentialRelayTests.testIdleStrangersDoNotBlockAKnownWorkroom fails under full-suite load #322).
• A test in vcs.rs now judges "released" from one reading, since the new read-cap test briefly holds a permit.

Follow-ups filed from the adversarial review (all part of #154): #334 (a resolve through a link onto a dead mount holds a read slot until the agent restarts), #335 (a deleted cwd makes ../x.rb open nothing), #336 (the lexical decoy still opens when the written path climbs above the root), #337 (shape-check the path resolve returns), #338 (resolve a .. prefix once per click), #339 (the root-symlink race between resolve's two lookups).

Test Coverage

CODE PATHS (vcs/crates/wr-agent/src/file.rs)
- dispatch: resolve takes a ReadSlot                         [★★ TESTED] a_resolve_is_refused_busy_while_every_read_slot_is_held
- resolve: climbs root as written => Unsupported, no I/O     [★★★ TESTED]
- stays_under_root: `.`/inner `..` allowed                   [★★ TESTED]
- resolve_path: link before the last `..` resolves on host   [★★★ TESTED]
- resolve_path: what follows the last `..` kept as written   [★★★ TESTED] resolve_keeps_what_follows_the_last_parent_traversal_as_written
- resolve_path: link out of root / root itself => Refused    [★★★ TESTED]
- resolve_path: missing dir before `..` => NotFound          [★★★ TESTED]
- resolve_path: root is itself a symlink                     [★★ TESTED]
- resolve: missing `path` => Unsupported                     [GAP] same shape as read; app always sends a path
- resolve_path: non-UTF-8 result => Refused                  [GAP] APFS can't create such a name

CODE PATHS (macapp)
- AgentFileProvider.resolve over the real agent              [★★★ TESTED] AgentFileIntegrationTests (local) + RemoteHostIntegrationTests (ssh fixture)
- the agent's unknown-method text == AgentFileProvider.unknownMethod  [★★★ TESTED] real agent
- HostFileProvider.resolve                                   [★★ TESTED] fixture-gated
- LocalFallbackFileProvider.resolve (transport fallback, semantic answers propagate)  [★★ TESTED]
- NativeFileProvider.resolve / UnavailableFileProvider.resolve throw  [GAP] no caller
- remoteCandidates: onHost set / nil without `..` / nil when climbing / must start at root  [★★★ TESTED]
- remoteFile: host resolve success keeps line/column         [★★★ TESTED]
- remoteFile: old agent => lexical fallback                  [★★★ TESTED]
- remoteFile: busy / I/O error => opens nothing              [★★★ TESTED] (mutation-checked)
- remoteFile: host NotFound => decoy not opened              [★★★ TESTED]

USER FLOWS
- cmd-click link/../file.rb, new agent                       [★★★ TESTED] unit + real agent (ssh fixture and local)
- same, agent predating resolve                              [★★★ TESTED]
- link out of root / host says missing / host busy           [★★★ TESTED]

• Coverage gate PASS: 80% value-weighted (80% of paths have any test). The remaining gaps are listed above with reasons.
• Test value: 3 tests written, 5 rejected by the authoring gate, 1 existing test extended, 0 paths weakly covered. The review then added 4 more regression tests and extended 3.
• Every new regression test was checked red against a mutation of the code it covers, then green on the fix:
  • link/../current.rb resolves to nested/v2.rb under whole-path canonicalization;
  • the fallback widened to any .failed opens the decoy for busy and EACCES;
  • "resolve" dropped from the read cap;
  • the unit test with the host step skipped;
  • the real-agent integration test run against an agent built from master.
• Base control: unavailable (no package.json ecosystem).

Pre-Landing Review

There were three review passes. The cap is three fix cycles; you chose to continue after cycle 3, which fixed only comments. The review log records cycles: 3, converged: false.

• Pass 1: specialists testing, maintainability, security, performance, simplification, plus Red Team. Fixed:

  • the fallback now triggers only on the unknown-method reply, since busy and EACCES opened the decoy (maintainability + Red Team, reproduced by QA);
  • resolve resolves only through the last .., since a leaf link was renamed to its target (Red Team, reproduced by QA);
  • resolve_path is private;
  • resolve added to the fallback table tests.

  Skipped by the owner (advisory): dropping the Mac-side climb check.

• Pass 2: 3 stale comments and docs fixed (d28624ce); Red Team one conf-4 doc note, fixed.

• Pass 3: 2 stale comments fixed (c2000503); Red Team found nothing.

Before /ship, the independent adversarial pass required by macapp/AGENTS.md rule 3 found three issues, all fixed: the existence-oracle comment was wrong, a non-UTF-8 path now answers Refused, and resolve takes a read slot.

Step 11 adversarial:

• Claude: 5 findings, filed as wr-agent resolve through a link onto a dead mount holds a File read slot until the agent restarts #334–Remote cmd-click: resolve a .. prefix once, not once per candidate #338.
• Codex adversarial: 3 P2, which corroborate wr-agent resolve through a link onto a dead mount holds a File read slot until the agent restarts #334 and Remote cmd-click still opens the lexical decoy when a .. comes before the workroom root as written #336 and add wr-agent resolve races a root symlink that changes between its two lookups #339.
• Codex structured review: missing coverage. It concluded "No actionable regressions were found", but its output lacked the severity/no-findings marker, so the P1 gate wasn't established.
• Review binding: the last Step 9 pass started before c2000503 (2 comment lines). The Step 11 adversarial passes are verified on the final tree.

Exploratory QA

Functional surface only: the wr-agent File service resolve, on owned fixtures under .gstack/qa-reports/.

• Pass 1: FAIL.
  • Probe 2 reproduced the leaf-link rename: realpath link/../current.rb gave nested/v2.rb.
  • Probe 3 reproduced EACCES while resolving: realpath plink/../file.rb gave "Permission denied", which reached the app as .failed.
• Pass 2, after the fixes: PASS.
  • The Rust resolve tests pass, 6/6.
  • The fallback replay passes: busy and EACCES stay shut, and the real agent's unknown-method text is pinned (2/2).
• Limits: no live GUI click in a remote pane was driven. The app's remoteFile was exercised with a fake host and the real local agent, and over ssh against the container fixture.

Design Review

No frontend files changed — design review skipped.

Eval Results

No prompt-related files changed — evals skipped.

Scope Drift

Scope Check: CLEAN. Beyond #327: two P0 TODO entries for flaky tests (approved at ship time), and a race fix in one existing vcs.rs test, needed by the new read-cap test.

Plan Completion

No plan file detected. The plan was #327's "Fix" section plus the request, audited as 10 items: 8 DONE, 1 CHANGED (approved: remoteCandidates stays host-free and emits onHost; remoteFile calls resolve), and 1 that the diff can't show, the macapp/AGENTS.md rule 3 adversarial pass. That pass was confirmed from its report, and its 3 fixes are in the diff.

Verification Results

No plan-specific verification items. Automatic diff-scoped QA is above.

TODOS

No TODO items completed in this PR. Added two P0 entries: the EXC_GUARD test-worker crash, and the ReverseForwardTests reconnect flake.

Documentation

Status: current. No documentation edits were needed for #327.

Scope: the committed diff 7e51a76d..c2000503 (12 files: wr-agent file.rs and vcs.rs, the macapp File-service and terminal-link Swift files and tests, TODOS.md, docs/designs/remote-workrooms.md) plus the clean working tree and index. Docs audited: docs/designs/remote-workrooms.md, README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, AGENTS.md, macapp/AGENTS.md, macapp/README.md, docs/repository-notes.md, TODOS.md (read-only). Cross-doc grep for File service, cmd-click, symlink and #327.

Documentation health:
docs/designs/remote-workrooms.md Current (the "As built (#254)" Path handling bullet, already updated on the branch, matches the code: cap of four in flight, refusal above the root before lookup, unknown-method detection, last-.. resolution; the Known limits bullet never listed #327)
README.md Current (no File-service or cmd-click content)
CONTRIBUTING.md Current
AGENTS.md Current ("VCS and File services" is generic, still true)
macapp/AGENTS.md Current (same)
macapp/README.md, docs/repository-notes.md Current
TODOS.md Current (read-only; the two new P0 entries are unrelated flaky-test and fd-guard follow-ups)

Documentation coverage: the File service's resolve method is documented as reference in file.rs's module doc and as explanation in the design doc's Path handling bullet. The design doc's line 66 status summary of the File service (#211) does not mention resolve. It is not wrong, just not updated, so it is minor debt. There is no standalone wire-method reference doc for the File service. No tutorial or how-to is needed, since the behaviour is internal.

Diagram drift: none; the touched docs contain no diagrams naming these entities.

Test plan

• cargo test --manifest-path vcs/Cargo.toml --workspace: all suites pass (wr-agent 291 lib tests) on c2000503
• make app-test: full Swift unit suite passes on c2000503
• vcs/scripts/ssh-fixture/run.sh <linux wr-agent> make app-test APP_TEST_FLAGS=-only-testing:WorkroomAppTests/RemoteHostIntegrationTests: 18/18 pass, including the real-agent symlink case (run before the review fixes; the review fixes touched no fixture-gated code path except comments)
• cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy -D warnings, make app-lint: clean

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Remote file links now resolve paths on the host, correctly following symlinks before .. path components. Paths that escape the workroom remain blocked.
  • When host-side path resolution is unsupported, the app falls back to the normalized path.

• Bug Fixes

  • File-link checks now stop safely on resolution errors instead of risking opening a different file.
  • Updated a busy-state test to avoid failures caused by timing-sensitive checks.

• Documentation

  • Added investigation notes for two outstanding test and worker issues.

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Walkthrough

The agent adds host-side resolution for remote paths containing ... The Mac uses that operation when opening remote terminal links, with lexical fallback for agents that do not support it. The pull request also adds follow-up notes and adjusts a VCS test assertion.

Changes

Remote path resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Agent path resolution vcs/crates/wr-agent/src/file.rs	The File service adds resolve, validates paths against the repository root, resolves the prefix through the last .., and shares the four-slot limit with reads. Tests cover path resolution, rejection cases, and concurrency.
Mac remote-link resolution macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/AgentFileProvider.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/FileServices.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/TerminalLinkOpener.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/TerminalSessions.swift, macapp/WorkroomAppTests/*, docs/designs/remote-workrooms.md	The Mac adds resolve to its file-provider interface and retains eligible .. paths for host resolution. Terminal link probing uses the resolved path, falls back to the lexical candidate for an unknown method, and skips candidates on other resolution errors. Tests and design documentation cover the behavior.

Documented P0 follow-ups

Layer / File(s)	Summary
P0 follow-up entries TODOS.md	The document records a suspected file-descriptor double-close that killed a test worker and intermittent reverse-forward reconnect test failures, with investigation steps.

Busy-state test adjustment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Polling assertion vcs/crates/wr-agent/src/vcs.rs	The test records whether is_busy() was false during polling and asserts that it observed that state.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TerminalSessions
  participant AgentFileProvider
  participant FileService
  participant HostFilesystem
  TerminalSessions->>AgentFileProvider: resolve host-side candidate path
  AgentFileProvider->>FileService: send resolve request
  FileService->>HostFilesystem: resolve path prefix through final ..
  HostFilesystem-->>FileService: resolved path or filesystem error
  FileService-->>AgentFileProvider: return result
  AgentFileProvider-->>TerminalSessions: return resolved path or error

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: remote cmd-click resolves paths containing .. on the host through symlinks.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	#327 requires remote cmd-click on an in-root path such as link/../file.rb to resolve the symlink on the host. vcs/crates/wr-agent/src/file.rs adds resolve, and `macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/TerminalS…

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[Medium risk] Adds path resolution for symlinks in remote file clicks.

The PR appears safe to merge; no new actionable issue was identified in the changes since the previous review.

Summary

This PR adds host-side resolution for remote ⌘-click paths containing .., so traversal through a symlink follows the host’s filesystem rather than the Mac’s lexical path.

• The agent resolves the path through the last .. and shares the file-read concurrency cap.
• The app probes the resolved path, falling back to lexical resolution only when the agent does not support the method.
• Tests cover the agent protocol, symlink behavior, fallback, and remote-host flow.

Diagram

sequenceDiagram
  participant Mac as Mac app
  participant Agent as Remote agent
  Mac->>Agent: resolve(link/../file.rb)
  Agent-->>Mac: nested/file.rb
  Mac->>Agent: read(nested/file.rb, maxBytes: 1)
  Agent-->>Mac: file result
  Mac->>Mac: Open resolved file

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