Fix Intent-Staleness Check to Read the Manifest's intentRef - #977
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check_intent_staleness compared six intent-fidelity entries (.editorconfig, .editorconfig-checker.json, .gitattributes, version.json, AUDIT.md, spec/secrets.json) against the hub file sharing their own path, because it only read the manifest's `reference` field, which none of the six set. Their entries declare `intentRef` instead, naming a different canonical, so the comparison ran against the wrong hub file in both directions: a false positive (AUDIT.md's fleet-wide procedure changing flagged a downstream repo's unrelated self-audit doc) and a silent false negative (docs/repo-config.md changing raised nothing, since no entry declared it as anyone's canonical). Add intent_canonical_rel(item, path): reference, then intentRef, then path, stripping an intentRef's #anchor since it names a section for a reader rather than a narrower file to diff against. Covered by four cases in _selftest(). Fixes #726
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe audit now resolves canonical intent paths from ChangesIntent staleness auditing
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PR Summary by QodoFix intent staleness to resolve canonicals via manifest intentRef
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1. Non-string intentRef crashes audit
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In `@spec/audit.py`:
- Line 1684: Remove the “(`#726`)” issue references from the documentation
comments near the path fallback explanation and the test rationale around
testAuditPath, preserving all behavior explanations and rationale text.
- Line 2122: Add an offline audit test around check_intent_staleness using fakes
that records the canonical_rel argument, invokes the staleness caller with a
resolved intent path, and verifies the downstream path remains unchanged while
the canonical value is passed through correctly.
- Line 1678: Update the public helper intent_canonical_rel by adding type
annotations for both item and path parameters and its return value, using the
project’s modern typing conventions.
- Line 1685: Update the reference selection logic around the return expression
so fragment stripping is applied only when the value comes from intentRef;
preserve path and reference values containing “#” unchanged before
check_intent_staleness.
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Review findings on PR #977: - intent_canonical_rel() stripped a `#anchor` from whatever value it picked, so a `reference` or bare `path` legitimately containing a literal `#` would be truncated too, though only `intentRef` is ever meant to carry one. Restructure the resolution as reference, then intentRef, then path, and strip only in the intentRef branch. - A non-string `intentRef` (a malformed spec/files.json entry) would crash `.split()` and abort the whole audit run; `reference` gets the same string-type check in spec/validate.py already, `intentRef` did not. Add the matching check there, so the audit engine can trust the type the same way it already trusts `reference`. Verified by hand: an injected non-string intentRef is caught, reverted after. - Reformatted the new docstring to one sentence per line (it was wrapped mid-sentence) and dropped a spaced-hyphen dash and two current-task references, none of which belong in carried prose. Two new _selftest() cases cover the literal-'#' fix. Declined, with evidence in-thread: full type annotations on this function (spec/ is the lint-only Scripts profile, not the strict src/ layout the cited rule targets, and 70 of this file's other 71 functions carry none) and the PR title's casing (its "to" is an explicitly listed lowercase bind word, and "intentRef" is a manifest field name kept in its own casing, matching existing PR-title precedent for identifiers).
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In `@spec/audit.py`:
- Around line 4716-4726: Update the two test descriptions in the relevant cases
to say a literal “#” is preserved rather than stripped, leaving their expected
values and test behavior unchanged.
In `@spec/validate.py`:
- Around line 814-817: Update the intentRef validation in the files.json
validation flow to apply the same repository-relative path checks used for
reference, after stripping any fragment. Reject absolute paths and traversal
outside the repository while preserving the existing string-type validation and
valid relative intentRef behavior.
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CodeRabbit findings on PR #977's fix commit: - The new intentRef string check accepted any string, including `../../outside` or `/etc/passwd`, which intent_canonical_rel() then joins with ROOT unconfined, the same escape `reference` is already guarded against a few lines above. Add the matching repo-relative check, on the fragment-stripped path since that is the part the audit engine actually reads. Verified by hand: an injected `../../etc/passwd` intentRef is now caught, reverted after. - Two new _selftest() case labels said a literal '#' is "stripped" when the case actually asserts the opposite, that it survives untouched. Reworded to say what the case checks.
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- Around line 818-828: Update the string intentRef validation near intent_path
so the fragment-stripped, repo-relative path must resolve to an existing tracked
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CodeRabbit finding on PR #977's fix commit: a shape-valid but unresolved intentRef, a missing file or a directory such as ".", passed every check added so far and reached check_intent_staleness(). A missing canonical produces no finding at all: git log on a never-tracked path returns nothing, so hub_last_change() reads it as untracked and the check silently no-ops. A directory produces the opposite failure: `git log -- .` matches every commit in the repo, so hub_last_change(".") returns the single most recent commit anywhere, which reads as newer than any real file's own history, false-flagging every intent unit on that entry as stale. Verified both by hand: `git log -1 -- .` on this checkout returned this branch's own latest commit, and `git log -1 -- missing.md` returned nothing. Require the fragment-stripped intentRef to name an existing file. Verified by hand: injected intentRef values of "missing.md" and "." into files.json, confirmed validate.py now rejects both, reverted.
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- Around line 829-834: Apply the existing native-path validation to both
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CodeRabbit finding on PR #977's fix commit: PurePosixPath reads a backslash as an ordinary filename character, so a value such as `..\outside.md` passes the ".." check that assumes POSIX separators. On a host where ROOT is a WindowsPath, `ROOT / value` parses that same string with native separators and can resolve outside ROOT. A bare Windows drive-absolute path (`C:/outside.md`, no backslash at all) escapes the leading-`/` check the same way. Extract escapes_repo_root(), covering POSIX `..` and a leading `/` (what the reference check already had), plus a backslash and a drive letter (what it was missing), and use it for both `reference` and the identical, adjacent gap this PR's own new `intentRef` check has. Verified: unit-checked the new function against nine escape and non-escape strings directly (OS-independent, since it is a string check rather than an actual path resolution), then end-to-end against files.json with an injected `..\..\outside.md` intentRef, confirmed validate.py rejects it, reverted.
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- Around line 816-817: In the validation branch handling string references that
pass escapes_repo_root(), require (ROOT / ref).is_file() when fid == "intent"
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CodeRabbit finding on PR #977's fix commit: reference outranks intentRef in intent_canonical_rel(), so an intent-fidelity item that sets reference (codecov.yml does today) skipped the existing-file check just added for intentRef entirely, the existing-file check below it only ever runs for the losing field. A missing or directory-shaped reference on such an item reaches check_intent_staleness() exactly as unverified as an unchecked intentRef did. Add the same is_file() check, gated on fid == "intent" so a non-intent unit's reference (a verbatim or interface unit's, checked separately by its own existing rule) is unaffected. Verified: the real files.json still validates clean (codecov.yml's reference resolves), then injected a missing reference on it, confirmed validate.py now rejects it, reverted.
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CodeRabbit finding on the develop -> main promotion PR (#978), against `spec/validate.py`'s new `is_file()` checks from PR #977: a tracked in-repo symlink whose target escapes `ROOT` passes both `escapes_repo_root()` (a lexical string check) and a bare `Path.is_file()` (which follows the link) the same way a real file would. The audit engine would then read that external target's live filesystem content while dating it from the symlink's own git history. Add `canonical_file_in_root()`, which resolves the candidate strictly and requires the result to both exist as a file and stay under `ROOT`, in place of the two `is_file()` calls. Verified by hand: symlinked a path inside this checkout to a file outside it, confirmed the new check rejects it while still accepting a real hub file and still rejecting a missing path and a directory, removed the symlink after. `--selftest`, `ruff`, `mypy`, `prose_lint.py`, `repo_gate.py`, and the `scripts/tests/` pytest suite (838 passed) all clean. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **Bug Fixes** - Improved validation of referenced files to ensure paths resolve to existing files within the repository. - Added protection against references that use symlinks or path variations to escape the repository boundary. - Updated `reference` and `intentRef` validation for more accurate and reliable results. - Invalid or out-of-bound file references are now rejected consistently. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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qodo findings on PR #978, the develop -> main promotion PR: - `intent_canonical_rel()` called `.split()` on `intentRef` through a bare truthiness check, so a non-string value (a malformed `files.json` entry) still crashed the whole audit run. `spec/validate.py`'s own type check (added on PR #977) only helps a caller that runs it first, and `spec/audit.py` does not: it loads `files.json` directly. `reference`'s parallel or-based use elsewhere never method-calls the value, so it carried no matching risk, `isinstance` guards on this function specifically close the gap. Verified by hand: calling the function with a non-string `intentRef` used to raise `AttributeError`, now returns `path`. - `escapes_repo_root()`'s docstring, and one line of `intent_canonical_rel()`'s, still wrapped a single sentence across physical lines. `prose_lint.py`'s comment-wrap check reads `#` comments, not `"""` docstrings, so neither round that touched these functions caught it. Reformatted both to one sentence per line, plus a leftover `_selftest()` comment with the identical wrap. Verified: `--selftest` (new crash-safety case included), `ruff`, `mypy`, `prose_lint.py`, `repo_gate.py`, and the `scripts/tests/` pytest suite (838 passed) all clean. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Bug Fixes** * Improved validation of intent references by rejecting malformed values and falling back to the item path when needed. * Preserved correct reference precedence and anchor stripping behavior. * **Documentation** * Clarified path validation behavior for parent-directory traversal, leading slashes, backslashes, and Windows drive letters. * **Tests** * Added coverage for invalid intent references and reference normalization. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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Promotes issue #726's fix (squash-merged PR #977) from develop to main. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Bug Fixes** * Improved validation for intent references, including anchored paths and invalid or unsafe path formats. * References must now resolve to existing files within the repository. * Staleness checks consistently use the canonical intent reference path. * **Tests** * Added coverage for reference precedence, fallback behavior, anchor handling, literal `#` characters, and path traversal scenarios. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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check_intent_stalenesscompared six intent-fidelity entries (.editorconfig,.editorconfig-checker.json,.gitattributes,version.json,AUDIT.md,spec/secrets.json) against the hub file sharing their own path, because itonly read the manifest's
referencefield, which none of the six set. Theirentries declare
intentRefinstead, naming a different canonical, so thecomparison ran against the wrong hub file in both directions: a false
positive (
AUDIT.md's fleet-wide procedure changing flagged a downstreamrepo's unrelated self-audit doc) and a silent false negative
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docs/repo-config.mdchanging raised nothing, since no entry declared itas anyone's canonical).
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intent_canonical_rel(item, path):reference, thenintentRef, thenpath, stripping anintentRef's#anchorsince it names a section for areader rather than a narrower file to diff against. Covered by four cases
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_selftest().Verified:
--selftestpasses (including the four new cases),ruff check/format --check,mypy,scripts/prose_lint.py,scripts/repo_gate.py,and the
scripts/tests/pytest suite (838 passed) all clean. A pre-existingpyrightfinding atspec/audit.py:832is unrelated to this change (presentidentically on
origin/develop).Fixes #726
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