[dotCooCoo]

What and why

An automation client started with --automation-read-root could read the local path of a linked file outside its roots from the link replies. links.list, links.check and links.info returned each image's or placed document's authored path, and links.info also its folder and the file size and date the document stores. document.open's missingLinks, modifiedLinks and updatedLinks rows returned the path too. A document the person opened in the app, or one a client with wider roots opened, could then show a confined client folders it may not read. docs/mcp.md says "Links in an opened document that point outside the read roots show as missing."; the reply fields are VectorCraft's own rule: the field is left out, the row stays, and no placeholder takes its place, as ui.inspect does for a library panel's path (#6608).

• crates/engine/src/cmd/links.rs: a path goes into a reply only when no read roots are in force, or when the file it names (a relative path taken from the document's folder) passes file_access::check_read for the caller asking. This applies to path and found in links.list and links.check, to path, link and location in links.info (images and placed documents), and to the path of document.open's link rows. For a hidden link, links.info gives fileSize and modified only from a file it can read, not from the values the document stores. Each row keeps its id (or ids in links.check and document.open), its name (fileName in links.info), its status and its other fields. The document's links are not changed, and the paths a client gives links.relink and links.unembed stay in their replies.
• crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/find_links.rs: Find in Folder matched a search's rows by path and ids, so a row without a path showed no files. It now compares paths only when both rows have one.
• The params text of links.check, links.list and links.info, docs/mcp.md (the read-roots list and the Links panel section) and docs/target-app-parity.md state the rule. The docs/mcp.md Links section also had a garbled topLeft…bottomRight, now fixed.

Under read roots, the links.list, links.check, links.info and document.open replies no longer carry the paths of linked files outside the roots; without read roots they are unchanged. This pull request does not change links.findFiles.

How it was tested

New tests, each failing without the change:

• tests::linkspanel::link_paths_outside_the_read_roots_are_left_out (vectorcraft-engine): a file outside the client's root leaves no trace of its folder in links.list, links.check, links.info or document.open, the rows keep the id, name and missing, and the unconfined replies keep the path and size. With the document saved inside the root next to a copy of the file, found shows the copy's path.
• tests::placed_document::link_info_leaves_out_a_placed_documents_path_outside_the_read_roots (vectorcraft-engine): for a placed document outside the root, links.info keeps fileName and leaves out link, path and location, and links.list keeps name and does not carry the file's folder; unconfined, both paths are there.
• dialogs::find_links::tests::a_row_without_its_path_shows_the_files_found_for_its_objects (vectorcraft-ui-egui).

Focused checks on the final tree, on main at 7f3a046b184:

• cargo fmt --all -- --check
• cargo check --workspace --tests
• cargo clippy -p vectorcraft-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings and cargo clippy -p vectorcraft-ui-egui --all-targets -- -D warnings
• cargo test -p vectorcraft-engine --lib -- tests::linkspanel tests::placed_document::link_info read_roots: 18 passed
• cargo test -p vectorcraft-ui-egui --lib -- dialogs::find_links: 10 passed
• cargo xtask brands, cargo xtask layers (30 crates) and cargo xtask assets (334 files)
• cargo xtask ci runs in this pull request's CI.

The branch merges cleanly with main at 7f3a046b18.

cargo xtask ci passed in this pull request's CI run on 0e874f65f2: https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft/actions/runs/43116262792/job/130844948878. The gate on c02f2a5d75 is pending.

Checklist

• cargo xtask ci passes (fmt, clippy, tests, assets, brands, layers, wasm).
• No panics in shipped code: no unwrap(), expect(), panic!, unreachable!, todo! or
  unimplemented! outside tests, and no unchecked indexing on data from files, parameters or
  messages. Errors are returned as Result and shown to the user
  (why and how).
• Clean-room: nothing copied from Adobe products or GPL/AGPL code (AGENTS.md).
• Every new asset has a row in ASSETS.md.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Link queries and document views now omit paths, folder details, and selected file metadata for linked files outside automation read roots. Link names, IDs, and statuses remain visible.
  • Search results can still be matched to link rows when their paths are hidden.

• Documentation

  • Clarified which link details are hidden by automation read roots and which link operations continue to include supplied paths.

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Walkthrough

Link queries and document-open replies now hide selected path and file metadata for linked files outside automation read roots. The find-links dialog can match search results to rows whose paths are hidden. Tests and documentation cover these changes.

Changes: Read-root link detail redaction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Link reply redaction crates/engine/src/cmd/links.rs, crates/engine/src/tests/linkspanel.rs, crates/engine/src/tests/placed_document.rs, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md	Link replies conditionally omit paths and selected file metadata for linked files outside read roots. Tests cover confined and unconfined replies. Documentation describes the omitted fields and retained row details.
Find-links matching for hidden paths crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/find_links.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/find_links/tests.rs	The dialog matches rows by object IDs when either path is absent. When both paths are present, it still requires them to match. Tests cover matching and non-matching object IDs.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: aiongg, bflatastic, ruchirguitar

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 0e874

The change hides paths of linked files outside automation read roots and keeps the find-links dialog working with hidden paths. No functional risk was identified. Before merging, add the status line and revision history entry that the repository's documentation rules require.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the MCP link replies (links.list, links.check, links.info, document.open) and the change of leaving out paths outside the read roots. This matches the main change in the changeset. It …
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The description explains the problem and the fix. Automation clients started with --automation-read-root could read paths of linked files outside their roots in links.list, links.check, links.info, an…

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The title names the MCP link replies (links.list, links.check, links.info, document.open) and the change of leaving out paths outside the read roots. This matches the main change in the changeset. It is long at 97 characters, but it is specific and descriptive.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description explains the problem and the fix. Automation clients started with --automation-read-root could read paths of linked files outside their roots in links.list, links.check, links.info, and document.open replies. The change omits those path fields (and links.info folder, size, and date for hidden links) while keeping row ids, names, statuses, and other fields. It also covers the Find in Folder matching change and the docs updates. It lists the new tests with their names, the focused checks run on the final tree, and the CI run. The template's What and why and How it was tested sections are filled in. The checklist is partly ticked: the ci box is unchecked and the other three are checked. The description does not state whether ASSETS.md was touched, but the checked box for new assets is accepted as is. The description is detailed and on topic, so it passes.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Review comments at @docs/target-app-parity.md:
- Line 746: Update the Change field in the document’s status line and add a
revision-history row for the link-reply change described in the new parity
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• crates/engine/src/cmd/links.rs
• crates/engine/src/tests/linkspanel.rs
• crates/engine/src/tests/placed_document.rs
• crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/find_links.rs
• crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/find_links/tests.rs
• docs/mcp.md
• docs/target-app-parity.md

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[bflatastic]

Approved and CI was green, but this now conflicts with main after today's batch of merges. Could you rebase? I'll merge once CI is green again.

[dotCooCoo]

@bflatastic Merged main in (c02f2a5); the conflicts were in docs/mcp.md and docs/target-app-parity.md, resolved keeping both sides.

[bflatastic]

Merged, thanks @dotCooCoo! It passed its CI checks.