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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe runtime adds path-based read, write, and search restrictions for the primary orchestrator, resets its source-read count at each turn, and requests confirmation for bounded-writer dispatches when UI confirmation is available. The changes also update delegation instructions and add guardrail tests and task records. ChangesRuntime Guardrails
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Orchestrator
participant ConfirmationUI as ctx.ui.confirm
participant SubagentRun as subagent_run
Orchestrator->>ConfirmationUI: Request approval with agent and edit surfaces
ConfirmationUI-->>Orchestrator: Return approval or decline
Orchestrator->>SubagentRun: Dispatch after approval
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Traversal paths can bypass the new orchestrator limits and reach source operations on the inspected supported host, so resolve this guardrail gap before merging. WSL users may also experience TUI stalls on large repositories with slow filesystems. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2 | ❌ 2 | ❓ 1❌ Failed checks (2 warnings, 1 inconclusive)
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Review comments at @extensions/gentle-ai.ts:
- Around line 470-489: Update isAllowedOrchestratorMutationPath and the related
path checks at extensions/gentle-ai.ts:470-489, 513-521, and 610-614 to classify
paths only after resolution. Add one shared helper that returns the path
relative to cwd for resolved paths inside cwd, or undefined when outside; remove
raw-path allowlist checks and use the helper at all three sites. Check path
segments rather than string prefixes so traversal components such as “..” cannot
bypass the checks.
- Around line 558-560: Update targetRoot selection in the dispatch flow to use
repository_root or workspace_root only when each is a non-empty string;
otherwise fall back to ctx.cwd, so non-string values are never shown as the
target.
- Around line 10207-10211: Move the `processTurnCodeReadCounts` reset from the
`turn_start` handler to `before_agent_start`, limiting the reset to primary
sessions. Keep the existing session key lookup via
`pendingReviewConsentSessionKey` and the counter initialized to zero once per
agent run.
Review comments at @tests/subagent-guardrails.test.ts:
- Around line 106-109: In the test using statusTool and resultTool, remove the
conditional that checks statusTool.description before asserting; assert directly
that both descriptions match the blocked-by-runtime-policy pattern.
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| function isAllowedOrchestratorMutationPath(rawPath: string, cwd: string): boolean { | ||
| if (typeof rawPath !== "string" || !rawPath.trim()) return false; | ||
| const normalized = rawPath.trim().replace(/\\/g, "/"); | ||
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| const absPath = isAbsolute(rawPath) ? resolve(rawPath) : resolve(resolvedCwd, rawPath); | ||
| const relFromCwd = relative(resolvedCwd, absPath).replace(/\\/g, "/"); | ||
| const isInsideCwd = !relFromCwd.startsWith("..") && !isAbsolute(relFromCwd); | ||
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| const cleanRel = relFromCwd.replace(/^\.\//, ""); | ||
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Classify paths only after you resolve them. All three new path checks compare the raw path with allowlist prefixes before resolution. An input such as .git/../src/x.ts or docs/../src passes the check. Each guard is then bypassed: source writes, the uncounted source reads, and repository-wide search. Add one shared helper that returns the path.relative(cwd, resolved) value, or undefined when the path is outside cwd. Use that helper in all three functions.
extensions/gentle-ai.ts#L470-L489: remove the rawstrippedLeadingDotallowlist return, and use only the resolvedrelFromCwd. Test for..as a full segment.extensions/gentle-ai.ts#L513-L521: remove the unresolved prefix loop, and keep only the resolved check.extensions/gentle-ai.ts#L610-L614: test the temp and allowlist prefixes against the resolvedrelFromCwdonly.
Based on learnings: "do not rely on string prefix or substring comparisons".
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Review comment at @extensions/gentle-ai.ts around lines 470 - 489:
Update isAllowedOrchestratorMutationPath and the related path checks at
extensions/gentle-ai.ts:470-489, 513-521, and 610-614 to classify paths only
after resolution. Add one shared helper that returns the path relative to cwd
for resolved paths inside cwd, or undefined when outside; remove raw-path
allowlist checks and use the helper at all three sites. Check path segments
rather than string prefixes so traversal components such as “..” cannot bypass
the checks.
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| const agentName = input.agent; | ||
| const label = typeof input.label === "string" ? input.label : "code modification"; | ||
| const targetRoot = (input.repository_root as string) || (input.workspace_root as string) || ctx.cwd; |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Check the type of repository_root and workspace_root.
Line 560 casts these fields to string without checking their type. If a caller sends a non-string value, the prompt shows [object Object]. The user then approves the dispatch without seeing the real target.
- const targetRoot = (input.repository_root as string) || (input.workspace_root as string) || ctx.cwd;
+ const targetRoot = typeof input.repository_root === "string" && input.repository_root
+ ? input.repository_root
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| const agentName = input.agent; | |
| const label = typeof input.label === "string" ? input.label : "code modification"; | |
| const targetRoot = (input.repository_root as string) || (input.workspace_root as string) || ctx.cwd; | |
| const agentName = input.agent; | |
| const label = typeof input.label === "string" ? input.label : "code modification"; | |
| const targetRoot = typeof input.repository_root === "string" && input.repository_root | |
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Review comment at @extensions/gentle-ai.ts around lines 558 - 560:
Update targetRoot selection in the dispatch flow to use repository_root or
workspace_root only when each is a non-empty string; otherwise fall back to
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| pi.on("turn_start", (_event, ctx) => { | ||
| const sessionKey = pendingReviewConsentSessionKey(ctx, pendingReviewConsentFallbackKey); | ||
| processTurnCodeReadCounts.set(sessionKey, 0); | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
🔎 Supported by static analysis
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pi-coding-agent extension events turn_start vs agent_start semantics
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**`agent_start` is the outer run boundary; `turn_start` is one assistant-response cycle within it.**
- **`agent_start`** fires when a low-level agent run begins. It can cover multiple turns, and a run may end yet be followed by retry or other automatic continuation. So don’t treat `agent_end` as proof that Pi is fully done; use **`agent_settled`** when you need that signal. ([github.com](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/blob/main/packages/coding-agent/docs/json.md?utm_source=openai))
- **`turn_start`** fires for each turn: one assistant response and its resulting tool calls/results. A tool-using response is still one turn; a later assistant response after the tool results starts another. It includes `turnIndex` and `timestamp`. ([github.com](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/blob/main/packages/coding-agent/src/core/extensions/types.ts?utm_source=openai))
**Practical choice:** use `agent_start` for run-level state (e.g. mark a run active), and `turn_start` for per-response work (e.g. count model turns or reset turn-scoped state). The current `main` source defines the event types and the docs describe these boundaries; exact retry/continuation behavior can vary by version. ([github.com](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/blob/main/packages/coding-agent/src/core/extensions/types.ts?utm_source=openai))
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- 1: https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/blob/main/packages/coding-agent/docs/json.md?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/blob/main/packages/coding-agent/src/core/extensions/types.ts?utm_source=openai
- 3: https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/blob/main/packages/coding-agent/src/core/extensions/types.ts?utm_source=openai
Reset the code-read counter at the agent-run boundary.
turn_start fires for each assistant-response cycle, not once per user prompt. Each additional response resets processTurnCodeReadCounts, so the primary orchestrator can read two code-source files per response instead of two per prompt. Reset the counter in before_agent_start for primary sessions.
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Review comment at @extensions/gentle-ai.ts around lines 10207 - 10211:
Move the `processTurnCodeReadCounts` reset from the `turn_start` handler to
`before_agent_start`, limiting the reset to primary sessions. Keep the existing
session key lookup via `pendingReviewConsentSessionKey` and the counter
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| if (/blocked by runtime policy/i.test(statusTool.description)) { | ||
| assert.match(statusTool.description, /blocked by runtime policy/i); | ||
| assert.match(resultTool.description, /blocked by runtime policy/i); | ||
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Make the description assertion unconditional.
Lines 106-109 run the assertions only after the regex already matches. This check therefore never fails. Assert both descriptions directly.
--- "a/tests/subagent-guardrails.test.ts"
+++ "b/tests/subagent-guardrails.test.ts"
@@ -103,10 +103,8 @@
const resultTool = fixture.tools.get("subagent_result");
assert.ok(statusTool, "subagent_status tool registered");
assert.ok(resultTool, "subagent_result tool registered");
- if (/blocked by runtime policy/i.test(statusTool.description)) {
- assert.match(statusTool.description, /blocked by runtime policy/i);
- assert.match(resultTool.description, /blocked by runtime policy/i);
- }
+ assert.match(statusTool.description, /blocked by runtime policy/i);
+ assert.match(resultTool.description, /blocked by runtime policy/i);
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| assert.match(statusTool.description, /blocked by runtime policy/i); | |
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| return function gentleAi(pi: ExtensionAPI): void { | ||
| // WSL filesystem optimization: bypass slow DrvFS stat probes in pi-lens across /mnt/c/... | ||
| if (process.platform === "linux" && /microsoft/i.test(release())) { | ||
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Remove the WSL slow-filesystem opt-out.
On WSL, this sets PI_LENS_ALLOW_SLOW_FS_SCAN=1. pi-lens documents that this disables slow-filesystem mode, which limits synchronous scans and skips heavyweight scans on slow filesystems. On slow DrvFS worktrees, this can re-enable scans that stall the TUI on large repositories. Remove this assignment; it does not bypass the slow-filesystem safeguards. (app.unpkg.com)
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Remove the PI_LENS_ALLOW_SLOW_FS_SCAN assignment from the WSL environment setup
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Enforce the Pure Thinker architectural contract and WSL runtime optimizations in
extensions/gentle-ai.ts:PI_LENS_ALLOW_SLOW_FS_SCAN = "1"when running on Linux under WSL (/microsoft/i.test(release())), bypassing slow DrvFS stat probes and preventingpi-lensfrom freezing or degrading on/mnt/c/...mounts.writeandediton codebase source files in the primary orchestrator (!isChild), directing changes togentle-ai-worker. Allow internal tracking/bookkeeping paths (odd/tasks/**,.atl/**,.pi/**,.git/**, temporary files).gentle-ai-explore(preserving orchestrator context <20k tokens). Configuration files, manifests, docs, and feature files do not consume quota. Counter resets on eachturn_start.gentle-ai-explore.subagent_runtargeting bounded writers (gentle-ai-worker,worker,jd-fix-agent) in interactive UI sessions withctx.ui.confirm, asking the user for authorization with the parsed allowed edit surfaces before dispatching.Changes
extensions/gentle-ai.tsPI_LENS_ALLOW_SLOW_FS_SCAN, plus runtime guardrails intool_callforwrite/edit,read,grep/find, and worker dispatch confirmation.tests/subagent-guardrails.test.tsodd/tasks/*.mdTest plan
node --experimental-strip-types --test tests/subagent-guardrails.test.ts(12 passed, 0 failures).PI_LENS_ALLOW_SLOW_FS_SCANunder WSL environment check.git diff --checkclean.Contributor checklist
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