fix(tests): arm the home guard before the run lock can throw - #3507
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A Windows baseline reported 179 failures. 161 of them were this one bug. `tests/preload.ts` acquired the run lock before it armed `OCX_TEST_HOME_GUARD`, with no try/finally between them. Taking the lock resolves a user-scoped path, which on Windows spawns PowerShell for the effective SID; under four-shard load that spawn timed out, the refusal threw straight out of the preload, and every statement below it — the sandbox, the arming, and the assertion that exists to catch exactly this — never ran. The worker then executed its whole file with the guard down, and 161 tests failed asserting "this helper is only available under the repository test preload". The count is the least of it. `src/lib/windows-elevation.ts` and `src/service.ts` refuse live elevation and machine-global Task Scheduler mutation only while the guard is armed, so an unguarded worker launched a real PowerShell process (pid 18144) and reached real scheduler registration on the developer's own machine. The guard is what stands between a test run and the user's Task Scheduler, and it was being skipped by the one failure most likely to happen under load. Reordered to sandbox → arm + assert → lock. Arming earlier is safe because the guard is a deny-list keyed on a path captured at module import, not a "sandbox is present" flag: its worst case when armed early is refusing a write to the real home, which is the direction that fails closed. Putting the lock last is the load-bearing part — arming before the lock but sandboxing after it would still leave a worker that is armed and unsandboxed, able to read the real home. The lock error stays unswallowed: a run that cannot take the lock must still fail, it just must not fail while unprotected. Two regressions. The first asserts the order on the source itself, because nothing else can see it: with a lock that happens to succeed the runtime state is identical either way, and the defect only reproduces when the lock throws. Stashing the reorder was verified to turn it red. The second proves an armed process with a real HOME and no lock still refuses the protected home — the state the timed-out worker was actually in. Evidence and the remaining Windows triage: `devlog/_plan/260905_admin_token_local_ux/030_windows_baseline.md`.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change set adds planning and delivery records for admin-token UX work. It also changes test preload ordering so home-directory protection is active before lock acquisition and adds tests for that ordering and fail-closed behavior. ChangesAdmin token UX
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The preload now arms test-home protection before lock acquisition, reducing the risk of tests reaching a real home on lock failure. Merge readiness remains low risk because one regression test does not verify the expected refusal and a planning document still describes an authentication gate that differs from the shipped behavior. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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This delivery record says all three PRs have merged and the associated issues are closed, so the unit has a terminal outcome; keeping the newly added directory under devlog/_plan/ misclassifies completed work. Move 260905_admin_token_local_ux to devlog/_fin/, as the repository reserves _plan for open units and requires closed units to be moved to _fin.
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| // guard could still see the true home). Isolating again is harmless and deliberate: the | ||
| // alternative — inferring "already isolated" from path shapes — would trust exactly the | ||
| // user-controlled environment state this file exists to distrust. | ||
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When acquireTestRunLock rejects—as in the Windows timeout this patch specifically handles—or the process is interrupted during its wait, execution never reaches the exit-handler registration at lines 91–94. Because this change now creates the sandbox first, every affected worker leaves its opencodex-test-* directory behind; register cleanup immediately after creating the sandbox, before any operation that can await or throw.
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In `@devlog/_plan/260905_admin_token_local_ux/010_suppress_local_prompt.md`:
- Around line 31-33: Update the plan’s prompt-eligibility rule to use the
bind-based isApiAuthRequired predicate rather than runtimeRoleFromDocument() ===
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In `@tests/test-home-guard.test.ts`:
- Line 334: Update the try/catch assertion around assertNotRealHomeUnderTest so
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Update the plan to match the shipped bind-based gate.
This section still defines prompt eligibility as runtimeRoleFromDocument() === "hub" and states that every standalone dashboard must suppress the prompt. devlog/_plan/260905_admin_token_local_ux/040_delivery_record.md Lines 58-64 records that this rule was rejected: standalone with hostname: "0.0.0.0" is an exposed bind that requires a token, and the shipped predicate is isApiAuthRequired from src/server/auth-cors.ts Lines 285-287.
If this plan remains an active implementation contract, a future change can reintroduce an authentication dead end for exposed standalone deployments. Describe the bind-based predicate here, or mark the role-based section as superseded and add the exposed-standalone case to the verification matrix.
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lines 31 - 33, Update the plan’s prompt-eligibility rule to use the bind-based
isApiAuthRequired predicate rather than runtimeRoleFromDocument() === "hub";
document that exposed standalone deployments such as hostname "0.0.0.0" must
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| import { assertNotRealHomeUnderTest, isTestHomeGuardArmed } from "${REPO_ROOT_URL}src/lib/test-home-guard"; | ||
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| try { assertNotRealHomeUnderTest(${JSON.stringify(join(realHome, ".opencodex"))}); } catch { rejected = true; } |
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Assert the expected guard refusal.
At tests/test-home-guard.test.ts:334, the empty catch accepts any exception. assertNotRealHomeUnderTest should throw an error containing refusing to write the real OpenCodex home; a TypeError would otherwise make this test pass. Capture the error and assert its type and stable refusal message.
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around assertNotRealHomeUnderTest so the catch captures the thrown error and
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Reviewed exact head f92793516. The core safety ordering is correct and important: sandbox, then arm/assert the real-home guard, then acquire the run lock. Please keep that direction.
The current head still has four valid blockers before approval:
- Register
isolated.cleanup()(or the equivalent exit handler) immediately after sandbox creation, before any later assertion or awaited lock can throw. The failure path this PR fixes would otherwise leak one temp tree per worker. - Tighten the new subprocess regression so it asserts an
Errorwith the stable real-OpenCodex-home refusal message. Treating any exception asrejected: truecan pass on an unrelated TypeError and would not prove the guard boundary. - Reconcile
010_suppress_local_prompt.mdwith the shipped bind-basedisApiAuthRequiredcontract; exposed standalone binds must still prompt, while loopback does not. - This admin-token unit now records a terminal outcome, so move it from
_planto_finper the repository devlog contract.
Please resolve the existing review threads and rerun exact-head CI. I do not see a reason to change or reject the actual preload ordering fix.
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Both are process-startup-timing shaped: the launcher failure is "the proxy never answered /healthz within budget" with empty launcher output, and the status failure is a stale-PID record read back as live. Both pass locally, twice each ( Two independent checks that this PR is not the cause:
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Records PR #3507 (`663fdbb0a`) as the closure of carry-forward item 1 from the Windows baseline triage, and adds `031` explaining why that fix mattered independently of the failure count it removed. The count was the wrong headline. 161 red tests were the alarm; the damage was the handful that went green by doing something to the developer's machine, because the guard those suites rely on to refuse live elevation and Task Scheduler mutation had been skipped. A luckier run would have shown fewer failures and made the same writes. Also records what the plan audit changed — arm-then-lock became sandbox → arm → lock, because the first still leaves a worker able to read the real home — and the delivery-record rows for #3504 and #3507.
…ix (#3514) Records PR #3507 (`663fdbb0a`) as the closure of carry-forward item 1 from the Windows baseline triage, and adds `031` explaining why that fix mattered independently of the failure count it removed. The count was the wrong headline. 161 red tests were the alarm; the damage was the handful that went green by doing something to the developer's machine, because the guard those suites rely on to refuse live elevation and Task Scheduler mutation had been skipped. A luckier run would have shown fewer failures and made the same writes. Also records what the plan audit changed — arm-then-lock became sandbox → arm → lock, because the first still leaves a worker able to read the real home — and the delivery-record rows for #3504 and #3507. Co-authored-by: jun <jun@lidge.dev>
…#3497) (#3518) * test(layout): move server, storage, ci-workflows into tests/<domain>/ (#3497) * test(layout): map docs-429-failover-claims and honour #3523 placement of anthropic-quorum-cache * test(layout): re-anchor the preload read in test-home-guard after the #3507 rebase * test(layout): drop anthropic-quorum-cache from the map after #3526 removed the duplicate * test(layout): map anthropic-quorum-cache to routing after #3530 restored it --------- Co-authored-by: jun <jun@lidge.dev>
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A Windows baseline reported 179 failures. 161 of them were this one bug, and the count is the least of it.
tests/preload.tsacquired the run lock before it armedOCX_TEST_HOME_GUARD, with notry/finallybetween them. Taking the lock resolves a user-scoped path, which on Windows spawns PowerShell for the effective SID (scripts/test-run-lock.ts→resolveEffectiveUserIdentity). Under four-shard load that spawn timed out, the refusal threw straight out of the preload, and every statement below it — the sandbox, the arming, and the assertion that exists to catch exactly this — never ran.The worker then executed its whole file with the guard down. 161 tests failed asserting "this helper is only available under the repository test preload".
The real problem is what else the guard was holding back.
src/lib/windows-elevation.ts:537andsrc/service.ts:952/:2653refuse live elevation and machine-global Task Scheduler mutation only while armed. Unguarded, one worker launched a real PowerShell process (pid18144where the test expectedlauncherPid: null) and another reached real scheduler registration instead of the expected "refusing to mutate the machine-global Windows Task Scheduler from an armed test process". The guard is what stands between a test run and the developer's own Task Scheduler, and it was being skipped by the failure most likely to happen under load.The fix
Reordered to sandbox → arm + assert → lock.
Arming earlier is safe because the guard is a deny-list keyed on a path captured at module import (
src/lib/test-home-guard.ts:61-63), not a "sandbox is present" flag. Its worst case when armed early is refusing a write to the real home — the direction that fails closed.Putting the lock last is the load-bearing part. Arming before the lock but sandboxing after it would still leave a worker armed-but-unsandboxed, able to read the real home. That refinement came from the plan audit, not the original plan.
The lock error stays unswallowed: a run that cannot take the lock must still fail, it just must not fail while unprotected.
Verification
bun run typecheck— cleanbun run test:changed— 12 pass / 0 failbun test tests/test-home-guard.test.ts tests/gui-static.test.ts tests/server-management-auth.test.ts— 52 pass / 0 failsandbox 1414, arm 2969, assert 3228, lock 4168 → ORDER_OK trueTwo regressions. The first asserts the order on the source, because nothing else can see it: with a lock that happens to succeed the runtime state is identical either way, and the defect only reproduces when the lock throws. Stashing the reorder was verified to turn it red (
Expected: < 1931, Received: 3245). The second proves an armed process with a realHOMEand no lock still refuses the protected home — the state the timed-out worker was actually in.Not included
The SID lookup timeout budget itself, the
multi-account auth storeWindows failures, and #3320 each need their own reproduction. They are named as carry-forward indevlog/_plan/260905_admin_token_local_ux/030_windows_baseline.mdrather than guessed at here.For scale: the same suite on Bun 1.4.0 reports 25 failures instead of 179.
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