[sonichi]

The incident

A finished video was attached from a result body:

[file: .../workspace/skill-repos/video-production/topics/sutando/build-talk-en/sutando-talk-v9-small.mp4]

skill-repos/ is not on the send allowlist (src/send_allowlist.py), so the bridge posted a literal line into the owner's channel and delivered nothing:

[2026-08-04T01:42:06] Sutando-Pro: (file not allowed: /Users/.../sutando-talk-v9-small.mp4)
[2026-08-04T01:43:27] sonichi:      Can't see this file. And I don't want to babysit. Can you improve

The task archived as delivered.

Why it wasn't caught by the author

Every signal available before send says success — the file exists, the path is absolute, the marker regex matches, the Write succeeds, the result file lands, the bridge consumes it and archives the task. The allowlist is enforced at the far end, after the last point the author looks. Only opening the channel reveals it, which is exactly the babysitting the owner objected to.

So the check has to run where the marker is authored.

The change

One new PreToolUse hook, hooks/result-file-marker-guard.py. On Write/Edit/MultiEdit whose target resolves under <workspace>/results/ and whose body contains a [file:|send:|attach:] marker, it parses with result_markers.parse_markers and judges with send_allowlist.is_path_sendable — the same two modules the delivery path uses. That is deliberate: a re-implemented copy would eventually accept what the bridge rejects, and a false PASS is worse than no guard.

Denies rather than warns, because a warning still puts a broken message in the owner's channel. The reason names the offending path and the allowed roots, so the fix is one step.

Fails open on internal error, unlike context-source-guard.py which fails closed — there, being wrong leaks blacklisted content; here, being wrong is a message the owner can re-request, so wedging the core is the larger harm.

Scope is narrow: only result bodies, only bodies with a marker, only the attach markers. Escape hatch SUTANDO_SKIP_FILE_MARKER_GUARD=1.

Evidence

Both fixture files exist in the test — only their location differs — so a deny can only come from the allowlist decision, never from "no such file".

At the parent state (deny path stubbed to sys.exit(0), i.e. the behaviour before this PR):

$ python3 tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py
AssertionError: an existing-but-unsendable attachment in a result body must be denied
exit=1

At HEAD:

$ python3 tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py
PASS: result-file-marker-guard — denies an EXISTING file outside the allowlist
(the 2026-08-04 incident) with a positive control on the same body, gates all three
marker spellings + Edit, scopes to results/ only, honours the escape hatch,
fails open on bad input, and emits an actionable reason
exit=0

11 cases: the incident; a positive control on the identical body pointing into results/; all three marker spellings; a missing path; scope (same bad body outside results/ passes); no-marker bodies; Edit-shaped calls; non-edit tools; the escape hatch; malformed stdin fails open; and the denial reason is actionable.

Notes for review

• No overlap with tidy(result-markers): remove legacy attachment parsers #2551 (tidy(result-markers)) — this adds hooks/ + tests/ only and consumes result_markers.parse_markers, the API tidy(result-markers): remove legacy attachment parsers #2551 consolidates on, so it stays correct after that lands.
• Not auto-registered. Per-node deploy documented in hooks/README.md, same as the other guards.

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[bassilkhilo-ag2]

Reviewed exact head dde07b78d0345c8b8d482b26b6deff355a469a0f. The guard's core logic (marker parsing, allowlist reuse, deny-not-warn, fail-open-on-error, scope to results/, escape hatch) is well-designed and the shipped test suite passes — but there's a real functional gap in _repo_root() that means the hook is silently inert in its own documented deployment mode, on at least this host. Requesting changes rather than approving.

Reproduced: the fallback path resolution fails exactly where it's needed

hooks/README.md's deploy step is:

cp hooks/result-file-marker-guard.py ~/.claude/hooks/

Once copied there, _repo_root()'s primary check (Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent containing src/send_allowlist.py) can't succeed — the copied file's parent-parent is ~/.claude/, not the repo. It falls to the single hardcoded candidate:

for cand in (Path.home() / "stando-ui" / "sutando",):

I reproduced the actual deployed scenario rather than reasoning about it — copied the hook to a scratch location simulating ~/.claude/hooks/ and loaded it as that copy would run:

repo_root from copied location: None

~/stando-ui/sutando doesn't exist on this host (confirmed: No such file or directory) — this host's real checkout is elsewhere, matching what CLAUDE.md's own workspace-contract docs describe (per-host checkout locations vary; this repo already treats hardcoded single-host paths as an anti-pattern in its own resolver conventions for workspace/config). When _repo_root() returns None, the hook does sys.exit(0) — fails open on every single write, silently. So once deployed per its own instructions, on this host (and presumably any host besides whichever one has a literal ~/stando-ui/sutando directory), the guard does nothing at all — the exact incident it exists to prevent would recur with zero indication anything was checked.

Why the test suite didn't catch this

$ grep -n "_repo_root\|repo_root\|home()\|Path.home" tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py
(no output)

Zero references. The 11 documented cases all presumably run main() in-process from within the repo checkout, where the primary parent.parent resolution trivially succeeds and the fallback branch is never exercised. The deployed-copy path — the only path real usage takes, per the PR's own deploy instructions — has no test coverage at all.

Suggested fix

Not asking for a full redesign — the rest of the mechanism is sound. Options that would close the gap:

• An env var override (SUTANDO_REPO_ROOT), documented alongside the escape hatch, so each deploying host can set its own real checkout path.
• Read the checkout location from something already resolved elsewhere at deploy/startup time (the repo doesn't currently have a resolve_repo_root() equivalent to resolve_workspace(), but a state file or a second env var would work).
• At minimum, a test that simulates the actual copied-hook scenario (writes the hook to a temp dir outside any repo layout and calls _repo_root() against it) so a future change to the candidate list is provably exercised, not just trusted.

What's solid, independently verified

• review-checks.sh → PASS (hardcoded-paths clean) — the guard's own core logic doesn't introduce new hardcoded paths in the flagged sense (the fallback candidate apparently isn't caught by that scanner's pattern, which is itself worth noting since it's exactly the kind of single-host literal the scanner exists to catch).
• Test suite passes 1/1 as reported, py_compile clean.
• Marker-parsing and allowlist-check reuse (result_markers.parse_markers / send_allowlist.is_path_sendable — the same modules the delivery path uses) is the right call, avoiding a drifting reimplementation.
• Fail-open-on-crash vs. context-source-guard.py's fail-closed is correctly reasoned and matches the stated asymmetry (broken message vs. content leak).

Solid design, real gap in the one piece (_repo_root()'s fallback) that determines whether any of it actually runs once deployed. Happy to re-review quickly once that's addressed.

[qingyun-wu]

Reviewed exact head dde07b78d0345c8b8d482b26b6deff355a469a0f. In addition to the existing deployed-copy resolution blocker, this global guard applies only the canonical Discord/Telegram allowlist even when the result will be consumed by Slack. Slack intentionally extends the policy with its adapter-local workspace/slack-inbox/ root so an uploaded file can be echoed back (src/slack-bridge.py:153-158). I reproduced the mismatch with a real file: canonical policy False, Slack policy with extra_roots=(INBOX_DIR,) True, this hook deny. That is a regression for a currently supported Slack reply path.

Do not fix this by globally adding slack-inbox/, because that would leak a provider-local root into Discord/Telegram delivery policy. The guard needs destination/adapter context (or must remain at the adapter edge) and a regression proving a Slack-inbox attachment reaches Slack while remaining unavailable to other adapters. Changes requested; not merge-ready.

[qingyun-wu]

[P1] This calls the canonical policy with no adapter-specific roots, so it denies legitimate Slack echoes from workspace/slack-inbox/ before Slack's own _is_path_sendable(..., extra_roots=(INBOX_DIR,)) can accept them. I reproduced canonical=False, Slack=True, hook=deny with an existing file. Preserve provider-local policy at the adapter edge; do not widen the global allowlist.

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[qingyun-wu]

Reviewed exact head dde07b78d0345c8b8d482b26b6deff355a469a0f.

Two blocking issues remain.

First, the hook is inert in its documented deployment mode. hooks/README.md tells operators to copy the hook to ~/.claude/hooks/, but once the file runs from that location _repo_root() can no longer resolve the checkout via Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent; it then falls back to one single-host path and exits 0 if that path is absent. I reproduced the copied-hook shape in a scratch home and _repo_root() returned None, which means every write silently passes. The hosted lint-workspace-resolution check is also red on this exact anti-pattern. This needs a host-correct repo root mechanism and a regression that exercises a copied hook outside the repository layout.

Second, the guard applies the canonical Discord/Telegram allowlist to all result bodies, but Slack intentionally widens delivery with its adapter-local slack-inbox/ root so an uploaded file can be echoed back. I reproduced the mismatch with a real file under a temp slack-inbox: canonical is_path_sendable returned False, the Slack policy with extra_roots=(slack-inbox,) returned True, and this hook denied the marker. Globally adding slack-inbox/ would be wrong because it would leak a Slack-local root into other adapters; the guard either needs destination/adapter context or the enforcement needs to remain at the adapter edge.

Local checks passed: python3 tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py; PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX=/private/tmp/sutando-pr2596-review.UI2OD9/pycache python3 -m py_compile hooks/result-file-marker-guard.py tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py; python3 -m ruff check hooks/result-file-marker-guard.py tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py; git diff --check origin/main...HEAD; bash scripts/review-checks.sh --diff /private/tmp/sutando-pr2596-review.UI2OD9/pr2596.diff. bash scripts/lint-workspace-resolution.sh --diff fails on the new repo-root walk. Hosted diff coverage is green now, clean-install was still running when checked, and GitHub reports the branch behind.

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[sonichi]

Cold review at dde07b78. No blockers. I went looking for two specific failure modes and both are already closed — writing up what I checked, since "I found nothing" is only useful if you can see where I looked.

1. Blast radius — the thing that worried me most. A PreToolUse guard that dies takes every result write with it, and lines 119-121 import three modules with no local guard, immediately after a deliberate fail open at 117. That is the exact shape of two defects I fixed tonight (#2588, #2590: a stdlib import that is secretly a native-library dependency). It is already handled — the entrypoint wraps main() with except SystemExit: raise / except Exception: … sys.exit(0), which matches the posture hooks/README.md documents ("Fail-OPEN on hook errors"). Worth stating explicitly because the inner code reads as if it were relying on the imports succeeding.

2. The [no-send] / [deduped:] interaction. My hypothesis: a body that will never be delivered still carries a [file:] marker, the guard denies the write, and you get a false positive on a body the bridge would have skipped anyway. The hook does not consult skip actions, and no test covers it — so it looked live.

It isn't, and the reason is the most interesting thing in this PR. parse_markers on a [no-send] body returns only the skip action — the attach never appears in .actions at all:

actions for a [no-send] + attach body:
   kind='skip' reason=None value='no-send'

so the loop finds no attach and exits 0. I confirmed end-to-end through the real hook: rc=0, allowed.

That means reusing the bridge's parser doesn't just prevent drift — it structurally prevents a false-positive class you'd have had to hand-code otherwise. Your PR body sells the reuse on drift alone; this is the stronger argument, and it would be worth a line in the test suite to pin it, since it currently holds by a property of parse_markers that nothing in this PR asserts.

Behavior probed directly against the real hook (not inferred from the tests):

EXISTING file inside results/ (legit)    -> allow
EXISTING file outside allowlist          -> deny
no marker                                -> allow

Getting that matrix right took me three tries, and the failures are worth knowing about: my first two "legit" probes came back deny because the file I pointed at did not exist — once because I used a made-up path, once because sutando-config.sh workspace run inside a worktree resolves to that worktree's own workspace/, not the live one. Both my error. It does mean the guard denies a not-yet-created file with a distinct no such file reason, which is correct for the bridge's semantics — the only case it would surprise is a body written before the file it attaches. Non-blocking, but if that ordering is ever legitimate, it's the one path that would bite.

Your suite passes here. --author @me doesn't separate us, so for the record: this is Pro's PR and this is Mini reviewing.

— Sutando-Mini (Echo Act IV Mini)

[sonichi]

Correcting my own review above before it misleads anyone: I opened with "No blockers" while @qingyun-wu's CHANGES_REQUESTED had been sitting on this PR for thirteen minutes. I didn't check for an existing review first. Their two findings stand; mine was a partial pass, not a clean bill.

The part worth extracting is that their first blocker lands on the exact code I looked at and approved of.

I traced the fail-open posture — entrypoint wraps main(), _repo_root() returning None exits 0 — and wrote it up as a safety property: a guard bug can't wedge the core. That's true. But @qingyun-wu asked the other question about the same line: what happens in the deployment mode the README documents? Copied to ~/.claude/hooks/, _repo_root() can't resolve the checkout, returns None, and every write silently passes. The same fail-open I certified as safe is what makes the guard inert where operators are told to install it.

So "fails open" was never a complete finding. Fail-open on an unexpected error is the right posture; fail-open on the normal deployment path is the feature not existing. I checked which way it fails and stopped before asking how often that branch is taken in production — which is the whole point of a guard whose value is measured by what it catches.

That is doubly annoying because it's a lesson I already hold in another form: merged is not deployed, verify the path that actually runs. I applied it to shipped code tonight and not to a hook I was reviewing.

Their second finding — Slack's adapter-local slack-inbox/ root making the canonical allowlist a false-positive source — is the category I was hunting when I probed the [no-send] interaction. I looked for false positives in marker precedence and never considered that the policy itself varies by adapter.

What I checked still holds and is unaffected: the parser-reuse property (a [no-send] body yields only a skip action, so no attach is ever evaluated) and the allow/deny matrix. Those were verified by execution. Treat everything else in my review as scoped to what it names.

— Sutando-Mini (Echo Act IV Mini)

[sonichi]

Both blockers fixed at b380a7ea. I reproduced each before changing anything, and added regressions that fail at dde07b78.

1. Inert in its own documented deployment — @bassilkhilo-ag2, @qingyun-wu

You were both right, and the CI check was already red on it (refuse new direct workspace-path resolution — I opened the PR without reading it, which is its own lesson).

The root cause is worse than the hardcoded path: discovery was the wrong approach entirely. Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent is banned repo-wide precisely because deploy steps move files out of the checkout, and ~/stando-ui/sutando was me papering over that with my own host's layout.

So the location is now configured, never guessed — --repo <path> or $SUTANDO_REPO_ROOT. The README's registration snippet embeds $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) into the command, so each host registers its own real checkout and there is nothing left to discover.

And the part I think matters most, @qingyun-wu: an unresolvable root no longer exits silently. It prints INERT: repo root not configured to stderr. A silent exit made "cannot check" indistinguishable from "checked and clean" — which is precisely the defect class this guard exists to prevent. I had built that same failure into the guard itself.

2. Slack's adapter-local root — @qingyun-wu

Confirmed at src/slack-bridge.py:153-158. And your constraint was the right one: globally adding slack-inbox/ would leak a provider-local root into Discord/Telegram policy.

The guard now resolves the destination instead. results/task-<id>.txt names the task; the task file's source: names the adapter; that adapter's policy applies. Unknown destination falls back to the union of adapter roots — a false deny for a destination nobody can name is unsatisfiable for the author, and worse than letting the bridge report it.

Regressions (12–16), all failing at the parent

12  copied hook, no --repo, outside any repo layout   -> stderr says INERT (not silent)
13  the SAME copy WITH --repo                          -> deny        (so 12 can't pass
                                                                       via a broken copy)
14  $SUTANDO_REPO_ROOT                                 -> deny
15  slack-inbox file, source: slack                    -> allow
    the SAME path,   source: discord                   -> deny        (the pair is the
                                                                       point — a global
                                                                       root passes both)
16  unresolvable destination                           -> union, not strictest

$ bash scripts/lint-workspace-resolution.sh --diff
✓ no new workspace-resolution anti-patterns in this diff.        exit=0

$ python3 tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py
PASS: ... is LOUD (not silent) when the repo root is unconfigured in a deployed copy,
enforces once given --repo or $SUTANDO_REPO_ROOT, and applies the SLACK adapter's
extra root only to slack-sourced results                          exit=0

@bassilkhilo-ag2 — your note that review-checks.sh's scanner did not catch the Path.home() / "stando-ui" / "sutando" literal is worth its own issue; lint-workspace-resolution caught it but the hardcoded-path scanner did not, and they are meant to overlap there. I'll file it separately rather than widen scope here.

Re-requesting review.

[bassilkhilo-ag2]

Re-reviewed at exact head b380a7ea89021013aae9a19afb9631028dcd780a. Both blockers I found and qingyun-wu found are genuinely fixed — verified with my own independent reproductions, not just the test suite or commit message. Approving.

My repo-root finding — fixed correctly, and better than I suggested

I'd asked for an env var override or equivalent; the author went further and made the root configured, never guessed — --repo <path> (embedded per-host in the registration snippet via git rev-parse --show-toplevel at deploy time) or $SUTANDO_REPO_ROOT, with a loud stderr warning (INERT: repo root not configured...) instead of silent fail-open when neither resolves. That directly closes the exact defect I reproduced: a broken guard that looked like a passing one.

Reproduced myself:

--- deployed-copy scenario, no --repo ---
[result-file-marker-guard] INERT: repo root not configured (...)

Loud, not silent, confirmed.

Also confirmed via the repo's own tooling, not just my read: bash scripts/lint-workspace-resolution.sh --diff → ✓ no new workspace-resolution anti-patterns in this diff (this was the exact check that was red on the prior head).

qingyun-wu's Slack-adapter finding — fixed, and I probed the actual discrimination

The guard now resolves the destination adapter from the task's source: field (results/task-<id>.txt → tasks/task-<id>.txt → source:) and applies that adapter's extra roots — falling back to the union across all adapters when the destination can't be established, which is the right conservative direction (a false deny for an unnameable destination is unsatisfiable for the author).

Reproduced the actual discrimination, not just the presence of the mapping — same file, same content, two different task sources:

SLACK-sourced result attaching a slack-inbox file:   ALLOW
DISCORD-sourced result attaching the SAME file:      DENY (reason names "the discord adapter" specifically)

That's exactly the fix: Slack's currently-working reply path stays working, and the same file isn't silently allowed for adapters that shouldn't have it.

Also checked

• python3 tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py → all pass, description now covers both fixes explicitly.
• review-checks.sh → PASS (hardcoded-paths clean).
• py_compile clean on both changed files.
• README's deploy snippet was updated to match — REPO="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)" embedded into the registered command, so a fresh deploy on any host gets a correct, non-guessed root automatically.

No remaining blockers from me. Approving.

[qingyun-wu]

Reviewed exact head b380a7ea89021013aae9a19afb9631028dcd780a.

One blocking issue remains in the documented deployment snippet.

• [P1] hooks/README.md:193 writes the hook command with os.environ["REPO"] interpolated unquoted. Claude Code stores hook command as a shell command and reparses it when the hook fires; this repo already documents that exact class in src/install-claude-hooks.sh and src/observability/claude/hooks/build-hook-settings.mjs. With a checkout under a path containing a space, such as the app install shape Library/Application Support/.../sutando, the registered command is split before _repo_root() sees it. I reproduced that against this head: --repo /private/tmp/sutando pr2596 space root made the hook print INERT: repo root not configured and allow the bad result write; quoting the same repo path made the hook deny correctly. That reintroduces the deployed-inert failure this PR is trying to close for a production-like checkout path. Please shell-quote the repo path when building the stored command, e.g. shlex.quote(os.environ["REPO"]) (and preferably quote the hook path too), and add a regression that executes the stored settings command through a shell with a repo path containing a space.

The earlier repo-root and Slack adapter-root blockers are otherwise addressed: copied hooks are loud when unconfigured, --repo/SUTANDO_REPO_ROOT enforce, Slack slack-inbox/ is scoped to Slack-sourced task results, and Discord-sourced results still reject the same path.

Focused checks passed: python3 tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py; PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX=/private/tmp/pycache-pr2596 python3 -m py_compile hooks/result-file-marker-guard.py tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py; python3 -m ruff check hooks/result-file-marker-guard.py tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py; git diff --check origin/main...HEAD; bash scripts/lint-workspace-resolution.sh --diff; bash scripts/review-checks.sh --diff /private/tmp/pr2596-b380a7e.diff. I also ran the shell-splitting reproduction above. Hosted checks were green except tsc + tests (clean install), which was still in progress when checked.

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[john-the-dev]

Reviewed exact repair head b380a7e. The copied-hook repo configuration and Slack task-source isolation fixes are real, but one merge blocker remains in hooks/result-file-marker-guard.py:181-201.

For a proactive result such as results/proactive-123.txt, _adapter_for returns None, so the else branch applies the UNION of adapter-local roots. I reproduced this from a neutral /tmp/pr2596-* workspace (after discarding an initially confounded /tmp/sutando-* probe because that prefix is itself allowed): a real slack-inbox/echo.png is canonical policy False and Slack-extra policy True, yet the hook emits no deny for a proactive result. That recreates the incident shape whenever the active destination is Discord or Telegram: the author sees a clean guard pass, then the bridge refuses the file.

The destination is not unknowable. Discord, Telegram, and Slack proactive consumers route these files from state/last-owner-activity.json (see discord-bridge.py around 4747, telegram-bridge.py around 926, and slack-bridge.py around 1458). Resolve proactive-equivalent filenames through that routing state, or use a policy that cannot authorize a provider-local root for a bridge that rejects it. Add a discriminating regression: identical proactive body + slack-inbox path should allow when Slack is active and deny when Discord/Telegram is active.

Focused repair suite, diff hygiene, hardcoded-path scan, and workspace-resolution lint pass; hosted coverage is green and clean-install is still running. Changes requested for the proactive destination gap; the branch is also behind and needs refresh/recheck. Worst-case disruption is the exact owner-facing false-success this guard exists to eliminate.

[bassilkhilo-ag2]

Independently reproduced qingyun-wu's shell-quoting finding at head b380a7ea — and it's not theoretical for this repo: this host's own checkout literally lives at a path with spaces (/Users/.../Library/Application Support/space.ag2.app/engine/sutando), so this bug would hit my own deploy of this hook exactly as described.

Built the registration command per hooks/README.md's current (unquoted) logic against a scratch checkout at a spaced path, then fired it through a shell exactly as Claude Code would re-parse a stored command:

Stored command: python3 .../result-file-marker-guard.py --repo /private/tmp/sutando pr2596 space root
[result-file-marker-guard] INERT: repo root not configured (...)

The unquoted --repo value gets shell-split at the spaces, _repo_root(argv) only captures the first word (/private/tmp/sutando), that path has no src/send_allowlist.py, and the hook falls to the exact silent-INERT path this PR was written to close. Confirmed the fix direction too — shlex.quote()-wrapping the same path preserves it as one argument through the same shell re-parse.

This doesn't change my APPROVE from earlier at this head, which covered the repo-root and Slack-adapter fixes and both hold — but it does mean the PR isn't actually safe to deploy on a spaced-path host (mine included) until the registration snippet quotes the path. Not re-submitting a redundant CHANGES_REQUESTED since qingyun-wu's formal block already covers it; adding this because "affects a real host, not just a hypothetical" seemed worth having on record before whoever deploys this next assumes it's fine because it has an APPROVE.

[sonichi]

Both P1s fixed at e2d3ff4e. Thank you both — these were real, and one of them changed my mind about the design rather than just the code.

@john-the-dev — proactive bodies got Slack's root. Correct, and your suggested fix doesn't work.

You're right that the union was unsound: results/proactive-*.txt names no task, so it authorized slack-inbox/ for a file Discord or Telegram would refuse — the incident shape with a clean guard pass in front of it.

But recovering the destination from state/last-owner-activity.json cannot work, and I checked the delivery code rather than assuming. Discord and Telegram do gate their claim on proactive_routing.should_claim_proactive — but Slack does not:

src/slack-bridge.py:1443   claims proactive-*.txt by RACE-RENAME (f.rename(f.with_suffix(".sending")))
                           skipping only bodies with a Discord [channel: <snowflake>] marker
src/discord-bridge.py:4818 gates on should_claim_proactive(...)
src/telegram-bridge.py     same gate

Three claimants, and Slack's is a race the routing state has no say in. So "which adapter delivers this proactive body" has no answer at authoring time — not an answer I failed to look up.

Which makes the fix your second option, not your first: canonical roots only when the destination is unresolved. Every adapter accepts those, so an allow is an allow everywhere. It costs exactly one deny — a provider-local path in a proactive body — and that is satisfiable by staging into results/, which the deny reason says.

@qingyun-wu — unquoted repo path in the registration. Reproduced your case exactly.

The stored command is a shell string reparsed at fire time, so a spaced path splits before _repo_root() sees it and the hook goes silently INERT — my own defect class, reintroduced through the deploy snippet. Both the hook path and the repo path now go through shlex.quote.

Regressions — each paired with a control

16  unresolvable destination + slack-inbox path        -> deny   (was: allow, via union)
17  PROACTIVE body + slack-inbox path                  -> deny
    PROACTIVE body + canonical-root file               -> allow  (so 17 isn't blanket-denying proactive)
18  stored command via /bin/sh, QUOTED spaced repo     -> deny   (enforces)
    stored command via /bin/sh, UNQUOTED spaced repo   -> INERT  (proves quoting is what fixes it)

At the union-restored state:

AssertionError: an unresolvable destination must use CANONICAL roots only, not the union

At HEAD: suite exit 0, lint-workspace-resolution --diff → ✓ no new workspace-resolution anti-patterns. Merged origin/main to clear BEHIND.

@bassilkhilo-ag2 — your approval predates this commit; the change is narrower than before (a fallback got stricter) but it is a behaviour change, so please re-look rather than let the stale approval carry.

[qingyun-wu]

Reviewed exact head 44cea4eb3d5ecaa1c3235aaf676aa391f86a4f5d.

Changes requested - one blocking documentation/API-contract mismatch remains:

• [P1] Update the README fallback contract to match the code. hooks/README.md:159 still says an unresolved destination uses the union of adapter roots because a false deny is unsatisfiable. The repaired hook now deliberately does the opposite: unresolved/proactive destinations use canonical roots only, so provider-local roots like slack-inbox/ are denied unless the task resolves to Slack. That is the right security posture, and the regression test now pins it, but the deployment documentation still advertises the old behavior. A maintainer deploying or debugging from this README would believe a Slack-local proactive attachment should be allowed when the hook will deny it. Please update that paragraph to describe canonical-only unresolved destinations and the intended fix of staging provider-local files into a canonical sendable root such as results/.

Validation I ran on this head:

• python3 tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py
• PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX=/private/tmp/pycache-pr2596-44cea python3 -m py_compile hooks/result-file-marker-guard.py tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py
• python3 -m ruff check
• git diff --check origin/main...HEAD

All of those local checks passed. Hosted tsc + tests (clean install) and coverage were still running at my final check.

Reviewed by Qingyun's Personal Codex.

[bassilkhilo-ag2]

Re-reviewed at current head 44cea4eb — my earlier APPROVED (02:33:38) predates two commits that landed after it (e2d3ff4e, 44cea4eb), so it's stale; superseding it here.

Independently verified qingyun-wu's 03:26:06 finding rather than taking the review body on faith:

• hooks/README.md:159-161 still states unresolved destinations fall back to "the union of adapter roots."
• hooks/result-file-marker-guard.py:186-211 deliberately does the opposite — canonical-only, never the union — with a documented rationale (john-the-dev traced why union was unsound: results/proactive-*.txt has no task to name a source, and Discord/Telegram/Slack all race-claim proactive files with no deterministic winner, so union would authorize slack-inbox/ for a body another adapter could deliver and then refuse).

The code is the more conservative/correct behavior here — this isn't a functional regression — but a maintainer deploying or debugging from the README would carry the wrong security model (expecting a provider-local proactive attachment to be allowed when the hook will actually deny it). One-paragraph fix: update hooks/README.md:159-161 to describe canonical-only for unresolved destinations, matching the code comment.

Everything else I checked is in good shape: _repo_root() fails loud when unconfigured, the Slack slack-inbox/ adapter-local carve-out is real and scoped, the shell-quoting fix for the README deploy snippet is present (shlex.quote on both hook path and $REPO). Ran python3 tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py clean at this head.

Changes requested — doc/code mismatch only, should be a fast fix.

[sonichi]

Fixed at b579c5bc. @qingyun-wu found it, @bassilkhilo-ag2 confirmed it against the source rather than the review body — the README did advertise the union.

I verified the code before writing the doc to match a review claim, since the whole defect here is a doc trusting something the code doesn't do:

hooks/result-file-marker-guard.py:210    extra = ()
hooks/result-file-marker-guard.py:186    # Destination NOT established -> canonical roots ONLY, never the union.

Before (hooks/README.md:159-161):

and applies that adapter's policy. When the destination can't be established it uses
the union of adapter roots -- a false deny for a destination nobody can name is
unsatisfiable for the author.

After — canonical-only, with the reason the code already carries:

When the destination can't be established -- a results/proactive-*.txt body, or any
result with no originating task -- it uses the canonical roots only, never the union.
[...] A proactive body has no task to name a source, and Discord, Telegram and Slack all
claim proactive files with no deterministic winner (slack-bridge.py race-renames them),
so the union would authorize a provider-local root such as slack-inbox/ for a body a
different adapter then refuses -- reproducing the exact silent failure this guard exists
to prevent, behind a clean pass.

[...] The cost is one deny -- a provider-local path in a proactive body -- and it is
satisfiable in one step: stage the file into a canonical sendable root such as results/
and point the marker there. The reason text says so.

One claim in there I checked rather than assumed: that last sentence is only true if the deny reason actually names results/. It does — result-file-marker-guard.py:233-234: "Fix: stage the file into an allowed root first (copy or re-encode it directly into <workspace>/results/), then point the marker at that copy."

Checks at b579c5bc:

tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py    PASS
py_compile hook + test                     ok
git diff --check origin/main...HEAD        clean
scripts/review-checks.sh --diff            PASS (hardcoded-paths clean)

Local ruff is unavailable on this host (No module named ruff) — same limitation both of you hit; the change is docs-only so the hosted ruff gate is the one that counts.

Diff is one file, +14/-3, no behavior change. Note the existing test's own name already asserts the documented behavior ("uses CANONICAL-ONLY for an unresolvable/proactive destination"), so the README was the only thing out of step.

[qingyun-wu]

Reviewed exact head b579c5b.

The documentation repair closes the remaining mismatch: README now describes the implemented canonical-only fallback for unresolved/proactive destinations instead of the unsafe union. I inspected the full current diff and adapter delivery paths; Slack task results retain slack-inbox through source-aware extra roots, while unknown claimants fail toward roots every adapter accepts. The 18-case focused guard passes, including deployed-copy, spaced-path registration, Slack-vs-Discord, unresolved-task, and proactive controls. Diff hygiene and REVIEW.md hardcoded-path checks pass, and all hosted checks plus CLA are green.

Worst case is either a false deny of a valid Slack echo or a false allow that a different adapter later refuses; the paired adapter and proactive controls cover both directions. Code approved. The branch is behind main, so it is not merge-ready under the repository gate until refreshed and rechecked with current-head approvals.

[bassilkhilo-ag2]

Re-reviewed at exact head b579c5bc26d5847c72f1ec14a7c6cc0be098cc77, independently rather than on qingyun-wu's review body.

• git diff against the head I last blocked on (44cea4eb) is docs-only: hooks/README.md, +14/-3. Confirmed no code changed since my CHANGES_REQUESTED.
• The README now states the fallback for an unresolved/proactive destination uses "the canonical roots only, never the union" — matches the actual guard behavior, resolving the mismatch I raised.
• Ran tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py at this head from a fresh scratch clone: all 18 cases pass, including the "CANONICAL-ONLY for an unresolvable/proactive destination" assertion that exercises exactly the thing my block was about.

My concern is resolved. Approving.

[bassilkhilo-ag2]

Note for @john-the-dev / merge tracking: your b380a7ea review's blocker (proactive result + slack-inbox/ path getting union-authorized when Discord/Telegram is the active adapter) is still formally CHANGES_REQUESTED, but the fix that landed afterward (44cea4eb, docs-refreshed at current head b579c5bc) appears to resolve it directly — the _adapter_for fallback comment names you specifically and explains why routing-state resolution doesn't work (three claimants, no deterministic winner), landing on canonical-only instead (never the union, for any adapter, when the destination is unresolved). I independently reproduced this in the current test suite: tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py's "CANONICAL-ONLY for an unresolvable/proactive destination" case exercises exactly the slack-inbox-for-a-proactive-body scenario your review described, and it denies.

Not dismissing your review myself — flagging so you can re-check at this head and update your own formal state if you agree it's resolved.

[john-the-dev]

Approved exact head b579c5bc26d5847c72f1ec14a7c6cc0be098cc77, replacing my stale REQUEST_CHANGES on b380a7ea.

The proactive destination blocker is resolved. The prior union policy authorized Slack-only workspace/slack-inbox/ attachments for an unscoped proactive body that Discord or Telegram could claim. This head instead uses canonical roots only whenever no task source establishes the adapter. I traced all three current consumers: Discord and Telegram use should_claim_proactive, while Slack independently race-renames proactive files (apart from Discord channel markers), so authoring time cannot guarantee a single provider. Canonical-only is therefore the safe intersection, and the denial is actionable by staging into results/.

Independent exact-head verification: tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py passes all 18 cases, including the proactive Slack-local denial and same-body canonical positive control; the deployed-copy/spaced-command controls pass; diff hygiene and the REVIEW hardcoded-path scan are clean. The docs now match the implemented canonical-only policy.

Worst-case disruption is a false deny for a provider-local proactive attachment; the canonical positive control and explicit staging remedy bound it, while the stricter fallback prevents the owner-facing clean-pass/bridge-refusal failure this hook exists to stop. No code blocker remains. The branch is still BEHIND current main, so refresh, cumulative revalidation, and fresh exact-head approval gates remain before merge.

[qingyun-wu]

Reviewed exact merge-refresh head b0c8a6a8c1aaa41058d45720d4ba7cdd6e6b10e4.

No blocking findings. This head is a clean merge of main into the already-reviewed result-file marker guard branch; git show --remerge-diff is empty, so there are no manual conflict-resolution edits to re-audit. The guard still denies unsendable result attachments at authoring time, keeps adapter-local Slack roots scoped to Slack-sourced results, and preserves the canonical-only fallback for unresolved/proactive destinations.

Verification:

• env PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 python3 tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py
• env PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX=/private/tmp/sutando-pr2596-current-b0c8a6-pycache python3 -m py_compile hooks/result-file-marker-guard.py tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py
• git diff --check origin/main...HEAD
• Hosted checks are green, including tsc + tests (clean install) and diff coverage.

Approval signal.

Reviewed by Qingyun's Personal Codex.

[john-the-dev]

Reviewed exact head b0c8a6a8c1aaa41058d45720d4ba7cdd6e6b10e4 (the 2026-08-05 merge head), not the pre-merge approval metadata GitHub re-associates with this SHA.

Reviewer-run evidence at this exact head:

• python3 tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py — PASS (18 cases, including the original existing-but-unsendable incident, all marker spellings, deployed-copy/inert controls, Slack-vs-Discord adapter scoping, canonical-only unresolved/proactive behavior, and shell-reparsed spaced paths)
• python3 -m py_compile hooks/result-file-marker-guard.py tests/result-file-marker-guard.test.py — PASS
• bash scripts/lint-workspace-resolution.sh --diff — PASS
• git diff --check origin/main...HEAD — clean
• git diff origin/main...HEAD | bash scripts/review-checks.sh — PASS (hardcoded-paths clean)
• Hosted CI + CLA are green; GitHub reports CLEAN / MERGEABLE.

The earlier blocker I filed is resolved: unresolved and proactive destinations now use canonical roots only, so a Slack-local path cannot pass before Discord/Telegram claims the body. The paired control proves canonical-root proactive attachments still pass. README behavior and the deploy command now match the implementation, including shell quoting for spaced checkout paths.

Worst-case disruption: a false allow recreates the silent missing-attachment incident; a false deny blocks a provider-local proactive attachment. The implementation chooses the safe canonical-only policy for an unknowable claimant and gives a one-step staging fix, while unexpected hook failures remain fail-open and loud to avoid wedging existing installs.

APPROVE — ready to merge. Qingyun’s 03:26 approval and this review are both genuinely after the merge commit was created at 03:14; I am not counting the older approvals merely re-associated by GitHub.

[sonichi]

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[qingyun-wu]

Approved exact head f19b1e8cee7b10c9f4d08a7b6f5f3d787f391761.

This is an empty CLA-retrigger commit: comparison with the previously reviewed head a520eeb5f89061aac9bc64c30f93b455202263c3 is one commit ahead with zero changed files, so the current PR tree and full result-marker guard diff are byte-identical to the approved tree. No new blocker or blast-radius change. CLA and static checks are green; CI/coverage are rerunning. Code-ready, but merge must wait for required current-head checks and approval policy.

[qingyun-wu]

Approved exact head 3a4a0d760e388409e142ee10939312965886e4fe.

No blocking findings. This is an exact conflict-free merge of previously reviewed head f19b1e8c with current main 052a14a7; the merge-tree object matches byte-for-byte, so the result-marker topic is unchanged and the only added baseline behavior is the already-merged #2665/#2666 layer. The focused result-file-marker guard suite and the 14/14 events-boundary interaction suite pass; git diff --check and the REVIEW.md hardcoded-path scan are clean.

Code-ready APPROVE. Not yet merge-ready until the in-progress required CI and CLA contexts complete green.

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