fix(server): allow Antigravity writes into nested workspace paths

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Antigravity rejects writes into new nested directories when the workspace path contains a symlink, including canonicalized temporary directories on macOS. Resolving only the immediate parent leaves a noncanonical path that incorrectly fails workspace containment.

Resolve the nearest existing ancestor and append the missing path components before checking containment. Existing escaping and dangling symlinks remain rejected. The adapter regression test writes through an alias into two missing directory levels.

Validation: all 8 Antigravity adapter tests pass; focused lint and formatting pass for both changed files.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This focused fix changes workspace path canonicalization and symlink handling before server-side file reads and writes. Although the nested-path behavior has targeted regression coverage, the affected containment boundary carries security implications beyond a routine mechanical or test-only change.

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Walkthrough

resolveClientFilePath now searches upward for a resolvable ancestor when the requested path cannot be resolved directly. A containment test verifies that writing through an external symlink to the workspace creates a nested file inside the workspace.

Changes

Workspace path resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve paths through ancestors apps/server/src/provider/acp/AntigravityClientFiles.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AntigravityAdapterV2.test.ts	The resolver searches upward for a resolvable ancestor and appends missing path components. It returns the outside-workspace error if an unresolved entry exists or cannot be checked, or if the search reaches the filesystem root. The test writes a nested file through an external symlink to the workspace and verifies its contents.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2ef98

The nested-write fix adds filesystem logic to the provider callback rather than the workspace service. Preserve the workspace and attachments access rules when moving it; no containment failure is established.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2ef98

The change accepts nested paths through aliases without expanding the configured workspace or attachment roots. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Whether concurrent filesystem changes can defeat containment remains unresolved.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The intended authority remains the current policy workspace plus the configured attachment directory; a null workspace grants only attachments. A successful concurrent redirection could potentially reach other files accessible to the server process, but that outcome requires mutation authority and filesystem behavior not established here. No increased independently attackable filesystem scope was demonstrated.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The supplied security candidate is deferred, not a verified finding. Validation and filesystem use are separate in both base and head. Base already permitted recursive creation beneath canonical roots, so accepting equivalent aliased requests does not by itself prove a newly reachable escape. Exploitability and any material exposure increase remain unresolved.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The callback cwd comes from adapter policy rather than the filesystem request. The file-write callback does not itself consume a permission grant; the existing design relies on the agent requesting permission before edits and separately enforces path containment. This separation is unchanged from base. Complete transport/session identity enforcement was not inspected.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Directory creation precedes writing, and creation failure prevents the write. The helper provides no rollback or atomic transaction around those operations: later failure or interruption can leave created directories. Repetition resolves the path again and repeats the operations without an explicit recovery protocol. These behaviors predate the PR and do not establish a newly weakened security guarantee.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — If less-trusted concurrent filesystem mutation is part of the deployment threat model, consider directory-handle-relative, symlink-resistant operations that bind validation to file access. Confirm concrete provider support and preserve the existing workspace and attachment-root semantics.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the fix for Antigravity writes to nested workspace paths.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/provider/acp/AntigravityClientFiles.ts:
- Around line 40-42: Move ACP path resolution, ancestor walking, directory
creation, and file writes out of AntigravityClientFiles into a
WorkspaceFileSystem operation that enforces the session’s approved workspace and
attachment roots. Update the WorkspaceFileSystem root semantics to support this
operation; keep the ACP callback limited to delegating to the service and
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rg -n 'resolveClientFilePath|AntigravityClientFiles|WorkspacePaths' apps/server/src/provider/acp apps/server/src/workspace apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AntigravityAdapterV2.ts

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printf '\\n--- adapter imports and callback wiring ---\\n'
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printf '%s\\n' '--- workspace file service methods ---'
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printf '%s\\n' '--- workspace read/write contract types ---'
rg -n -C 5 'Project(Read|Write)File(Input|Result)|relativePath:|cwd:' packages apps/server/src/contracts
printf '%s\\n' '--- ACP adapter callback contract and dispatch ---'
rg -n -C 7 'clientFileSystem|readTextFile|writeTextFile' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AcpAdapterV2.ts apps/server/src/provider/acp

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printf '%s\\n' '--- ACP transport dispatch with line numbers ---'
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Move ACP file access behind WorkspaceFileSystem.

When an ACP file request reaches Antigravity’s callbacks, AntigravityClientFiles can walk the path’s ancestors and perform filesystem operations directly. The write helper creates directories and writes the file. This puts path resolution, containment, and disk work in the provider callback instead of a domain service.

Add a service operation for this capability that preserves the session’s approved workspace and attachments roots. Keep the callback to service delegation and ACP error mapping. Extend WorkspaceFileSystem for these root semantics rather than calling its existing methods unchanged.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/provider/acp/AntigravityClientFiles.ts around
lines 40 - 42:
Move ACP path resolution, ancestor walking, directory creation, and file writes
out of AntigravityClientFiles into a WorkspaceFileSystem operation that enforces
the session’s approved workspace and attachment roots. Update the
WorkspaceFileSystem root semantics to support this operation; keep the ACP
callback limited to delegating to the service and mapping errors.

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