[Fix] Ship only what the app needs: turn build.files into an allow-list, Fixes #399, Fixes #387 - #450
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…st, Fixes #399, Fixes #387 `build.files` was an exclusion list, so every top-level entry of the checkout shipped inside app.asar unless somebody had named it. That shape packaged the App Store Connect key in #390, and it is why a developer's artifact differs from a CI one: a baseline build with leftovers seeded packed test-results/, docs/.vitepress/dist/ and gitignored personal files beside tests/ and docs/. The list is now positive: package.json, src/**/* minus the esbuild entry point the bundle replaces, and the optional local-playground-web. The dugite trims stay as negative rules, which is also how they keep working — electron-builder applies only the `!` patterns of `files` to node_modules. The packaged smoke test reads the payload against the same list from both sides: the root of app.asar through Electron's asar-aware fs inside the packaged process, and the root of app.asar.unpacked on disk. A third test holds the two lists together, so an edit to one and not the other fails without needing an artifact to demonstrate it. CI seeds a signing key, Playwright output, an intermediate dist/ and the VitePress build before packaging, on macOS and Windows. The nested dist/ of #387 is docs/.vitepress/dist: electron-builder already excludes its own output directory, so a top-level dist/ never shipped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XJUaihwanFHxEps959WLhs
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`src/main.js`, `src/install-runner.js` and `src/script-runner.js` all resolve `npm/package.json` to find the npm the app runs installs and build scripts with — a contributor with no npm on the machine is the premise of the app — and nothing asserted it survived packaging. Now that `build.files` is the single statement of what ships, this is where that belongs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XJUaihwanFHxEps959WLhs
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- Line 46: Replace the recursive src inclusion in the electron-builder files
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CodeRabbit's review of the allow-list made the point that `src/**/*` is recursive: the root assertion cannot see one level down, so anything sitting under `src/` at build time ships unchecked. Enumerating the runtime files by hand would rebuild the maintenance problem the allow-list exists to remove — eighty entries edited under time pressure are the exclusion list again. The expected set is derived from Git instead: tracked under `src/`, minus the esbuild entry point, plus the two build outputs that replace it. It moves with the repository on its own, and an untracked file anywhere under `src/` fails by name. Verified by dropping a file into `src/`, packaging, and watching the test name it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XJUaihwanFHxEps959WLhs
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Security — 🟡 medium — [fix here]: Reject non-runtime tracked files under src/.
Line 335 accepts every tracked src/ file except src/renderer/index.jsx. Git tracking does not prove that a file is runtime content or non-sensitive. If a credential, test, documentation file, or build artifact is committed below src/, this test accepts its inclusion in app.asar. Define approved runtime paths or reject prohibited path classes before building expected.
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…ary on Windows Inspecting the signed Windows artifact for this branch showed node_modules/fs-ext-extra-prebuilt/build/ carrying nineteen compiler intermediates next to the fs_ext.node the app actually loads: an .iobj, an .ipdb, .lib, .exp, the .vcxproj pair and eight .tlog logs under obj/. About 680 KB, none of it used at run time, and macOS ships only the binary. Same family as #387 — a build leftover that depends on the machine that compiled — through a different door: `electron-builder install-app-deps` rebuilds the module on the Windows builder, and node_modules is not governed by the allow-list, since electron-builder applies only the `!` patterns there. Its default excludes miss every one of these by an extension: `obj` is not `iobj`, `csproj` is not `vcxproj`. Three `!` rules name them. Two assertions hold the line: the build directory in app.asar.unpacked must contain exactly the binary, and the module is now loaded for real inside the packaged main process rather than only resolved, so a rule that overreached into fs_ext.node, or a binary built against the wrong ABI, fails here instead of on a contributor's first site. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XJUaihwanFHxEps959WLhs
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build.filesin package.json was an exclusion list, so every top-level entry of the checkout shipped insideapp.asarunless someone had named it. That shape is what packaged the App Store Connect key in #390, and it is why a developer's checkout ships different contents from a CI checkout (#387): a baselinenpm run pack:diron trunk4110349with seeded leftovers packedtest-results/, the VitePress build underdocs/.vitepress/dist/, and even gitignored personal files (CLAUDE.local.md,AGENTS.override.md) next totests/,docs/,scripts/,.buildkite/,fastlane/and every root Markdown file. This is not a size change and the PR does not claim one: #399 is about which way the default points.What changes
build.filesis now a positive list:package.json,src/**/*(minussrc/renderer/index.jsx, which the esbuild bundle replaces), andlocal-playground-web/**/*(optional, served bysrc/main.jswhen present). The dugite trims stay as!rules; electron-builder applies only the negative patterns offilestonode_modules, so production dependencies ship exactly as before (same 28538 entries undernode_modules).!vendorand!.codesigninggo, because unlisted is excluded.src/is checked, not just the archive root.src/**/*is recursive, so the expected set is derived from Git — tracked undersrc/, minus the esbuild entry point, plus the two build outputs that replace it — and compared against a recursive walk inside the archive. An untracked file anywhere undersrc/fails by name. Deriving beats enumerating here: a hand-written list of eighty entries is the exclusion list again.fs_ext.node(.iobj,.ipdb,.lib,.exp, the.vcxprojpair, eight.tloglogs underobj/), about 680 KB that electron-builder's default excludes miss by an extension. Three!rules trim them. Two assertions hold the line: the build directory inapp.asar.unpackedmust contain exactly the binary, and the module is now loaded inside the packaged main process rather than only resolved, so a rule that overreached into the binary, or an ABI mismatch, fails in CI instead of on a contributor's first site.src/main.js,src/install-runner.jsandsrc/script-runner.jsall resolvenpm/package.jsonto run installs and build scripts, and nothing checked that it survived packaging. It is inREQUIRED_MODULESbeside the Playground CLI, the file-lock native module and dugite.app.asarthrough Electron's asar-aware fs from the packaged main process, and the root ofapp.asar.unpackedon disk. Anything outsidenode_modules,package.json,src(and the optionallocal-playground-web) fails, and the three required entries must be present. The in-asar.codesigningcheck is subsumed; the plain-fs walk of the whole payload for.codesigningstays, since it covers places neither root listing reaches.test-results/, a top-leveldist/intermediate/anddocs/.vitepress/dist/and then proves none ships, on macOS and Windows.directories.output, so a top-leveldist/never shipped), but nothing covered adist/anywhere else. The one in the asar isdocs/.vitepress/dist/, the VitePress build.test-results/had no rule at all.Not in this PR:
build/icon.png, whichsrc/main.jsreferences on Linux only. electron-builder excludesbuildResourcesby default, so that path has never resolved in a packaged app; the allow-list does not change it, and Linux is outside the v1.1.0 validation scope (#388).How to test this
Platforms: macOS and Windows, because the assertion is about the packaged payload and the payload is built per platform.
Automated, any platform with a checkout:
In the repository root:
Fifteen tests pass. To watch the new assertion fail on the old rule: check out trunk's package.json (
git show trunk:package.json > package.json), rebuild with the same two commands, and runnpx --no-install playwright test --project=packaged -g allow-listed. It fails listing every root entry that used to ship (verified on macOS: 27 offenders,test-resultsanddocsamong them).Automated, run in CI at
010ec0e: the packaged job seeds all four leftovers and then packages, on both platforms. Thirteen tests passed on macOS (job103260902735) and thirteen on Windows (job103260902938), all seven checks green. At7a40ce8: fifteen pass on macOS (job103300828500) and fifteen on Windows (job103300828243). The Windows run is the one that proves the native-module trim: it is the platform that leaves the MSVC working set behind, and its build directory now holds exactlyfs_ext.node. The module also loads for real on both. Those two runs are the CI half of "a local build and a CI build contain the same tree".Payload verified on the signed Buildkite artifacts, both platforms. Buildkite build #1020 is the build for
7a40ce8, all three platform steps green. Its Windows.exewas inspected directly, with its SHA-256 (3c693d13…496c9eb) matched against the artifact Buildkite lists, so the file is tied to that exact build and commit. The macOS.dmginspected is from the branch's previous build (the three earlier commits are payload-identical to each other;7a40ce8changes only the Windows tree, as the row below shows):.dmg.exeapp.asarrootnode_modules,package.json,srcapp.asar.unpackedrootnode_modulessrc/contents vsgit ls-filestests,docs,test-results,dist,scripts,fastlane,.buildkite.codesigninganywhere in the payloadfs-ext-extra-prebuilt/build/Releasefs_ext.nodeonlyfs_ext.nodeonly (at7a40ce8; 19 MSVC intermediates before)Same tree, local versus CI (#387's third acceptance): discharged. A local
pack:diron this branch and the signed macOS artifact list 28620 identical entries, the same paths with no diff at all. The Windows artifact of build #1020 differs from the previous Windows artifact in exactly the 19 entries7a40ce8set out to remove, and in nothing else. The two platform artifacts now differ only in the bundled Git (262 entries on macOS, 417 on Windows).Manual pass done — JuanMa, Windows 11, Buildkite build #1020 (commit
7a40ce8), with Git for Windows installed on the machine, which is the case that matters. The installed app booted and painted the site list. On a site created with the app: two tickets linked (ticket/60001,ticket/60002), a switch between them, PR #13456 applied, and an Update trunk that offered to save the five applied files, then reset the checkout; afterwards, plaingit statusin the site directory read "On branch trunk, up to date with origin/trunk, working tree clean" andgit branchlisted both ticket branches. During a fresh "Create WordPress Core site", a PowerShell loop overGet-Processcaught the Git processes atand never at the system Git. That is the bundled binary spawning from the signed installation, with a competing Git on
PATHand ignored, as the invariant says.Starting state:
Download the macOS
.dmg(or.zip) and the Windows.exefrom that build.Install and launch each. The first window paints and the site list shows "WordPress Core".
macOS: in Terminal, from any directory, list the asar root:
npx @electron/asar list "/Applications/WordPress Contributor Toolkit.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar" | awk -F/ 'NF>=2{print $2}' | sort -uExpected: exactly
node_modules,package.json,src.Windows: in PowerShell, from any directory (the install folder is named after the package, not the product):
npx @electron/asar list "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\electron-setup-wordpress-core\resources\app.asar" | ForEach-Object { ($_ -split '/')[1] } | Sort-Object -UniqueExpected: the same three entries.
Either platform: create a site or open an existing one and run Update trunk or link a ticket, so the bundled Git spawns from
app.asar.unpacked. On Windows, also run annpm installon a site, which exercises the bundled npm CLI and the two shims copied out ofsrc/.Same tree, local versus CI (Build and test leftovers are packaged into app.asar #387's third acceptance). On macOS, in the repository root, build locally and compare the installed Buildkite artifact against it:
Run it from a checkout that has already run the test suites, so the leftovers are present locally and their absence means something.
What must not have happened:
tests,docs,test-results,.codesigningor any root Markdown file in the asar listing.asarUnpackrule and the dugite trims survived the new list.win-spawn-patch.jsandelectron-node-compat.jsshims are copied out ofsrc/at run time; a droppedsrc/file would surface as a failednpm install).Risks and limitations
build.filesand asserts it equals the literal list.local-playground-webis allowed but not asserted present, because it is not in the repository. A checkout that carries one ships it, as before.src/main.jswas already unreachable in packaged builds and stays so; recorded here rather than filed, per the no-new-issues rule for v1.1.0.node_modulesis not governed by the allow-list. electron-builder collects production dependencies itself and applies only the!patterns offilesto them, so a leftover inside a dependency has to be named. The one such case found, the MSVC working set offs-ext-extra-prebuilton Windows, is trimmed in7a40ce8and asserted on both platforms; the packaged smoke test would not have noticed it before, because the module was resolved but never loaded. Only Windows can fail the new assertion, so its packaged CI job is the proof, and the signed Windows artifact of build #1020 was re-inspected: the build directory holds exactlyfs_ext.node.files. The macOS artifact is signed with Automattic's Developer ID and notarized, confirmed bycodesignandspctl. The Windows Authenticode signature could not be checked from macOS.buildkey from the packagedpackage.json, so an artifact cannot be tied to a commit from the inside. The Windows artifact is tied to7a40ce8from the outside, by its SHA-256 against Buildkite build #1020. The macOS.dmginspected predates7a40ce8; that commit changes only the Windows tree, and the macOS packaged CI job at7a40ce8(15/15) covers the rest.Related
Fixes #399
Fixes #387
Follow-up to #390 and #396 (the key incident), #377 (the
test/totests/move an exclusion list would have had to track).Design decisions and alternatives considered
src/**stops matching after a rename) fails here rather than at first launch.!test-resultsand!**/distinstead (what Build and test leftovers are packaged into app.asar #387 first proposed) was rejected: it keeps the exclusion shape The packaged app ships the whole repository, because the files rule is an exclusion list #399 identifies as the problem, and adist/glob would need care not to stripdist/directories inside published npm packages, which many have.@electron/asarwas rejected in favour ofreaddirSync(app.getAppPath())inside the packaged process: it uses the same asar-aware fs the app runs on, needs no extra dependency in the test, and is the pattern the other in-asar assertions already use..codesigningexists only on a signing machine, so the complete proof is the CI run.build/icon.pngleft out. Adding it would put a newbuildentry in every asar for a Linux-only path that has never resolved in a packaged app. Out of scope for v1.1.0.Review outcome (required — see AGENTS.md)
0 [fix here] · 3 [follow-up] — 2 of the 3 follow-ups fixed in the branch, 1 recorded as a limitation.
/self-review, judgement pass in a fresh subagent context against.github/instructions/code-review.instructions.md; reviewed headb1579be(reviewed as the working tree at that content) / basetrunk4110349; evidence:npm run lintclean,npm test1284 pass 2 skip 0 fail,npm run test:e2e:packaged11/11 on macOS against a build made with the new list; outcome below.4110349→b1579be→c7f430d→010ec0e→23b41f9(trunk merged in from GitHub, [Fix] Say why the downloads badge counts the v0.1.1 draft #449 and [Fix] Reject a run that never started, instead of streaming to nobody #452, no overlap with this diff) →7a40ce8.7a40ce8trims the native module's Windows build leftovers found while inspecting the signed artifact, and turns the native-module check from resolve into load; lint, the unit suite (1285 pass) and the packaged suite (15/15 on macOS) re-run on it. The self-review ran against the working tree that becameb1579be, plus the two fixes listed below.c7f430dadds the npm CLI assertion, written while checking the runtime paths the allow-list could drop.010ec0eanswers CodeRabbit's one finding. Each step was re-run through lint, the unit suite and the packaged suite (13/13 on macOS at010ec0e).c7f430donly. Its incremental review of010ec0edid not run: "Review rate limited", and it replies that it does not re-review already-reviewed commits. So the last commit carries the self-review and the CI evidence, not a bot pass. Full detail onc7f430d: Its first two runs did not happen: the check readpasswith the message "Review rate limited". The third ran. One Major finding, fixed in010ec0eand answered inline:src/**/*is recursive and nothing asserted the nested contents. It proposed enumerating the runtime files by hand; the fix derives the expected set from Git instead, which closes the same gap without a list that has to be maintained. Verified by dropping a file intosrc/, packaging, and watching the test name it.Fixed here:
tests/e2e/packaged/smoke.spec.js). Removing a pattern frombuild.filesfailed nothing. Added a test that derives the allowed set frompackage.jsonand asserts it equals the literal list in the spec. Verified by deletinglocal-playground-web/**/*from package.json: the test fails naming that entry.!src/renderer/index.jsxcould stop matching silently. The asar test now also listssrc/rendererand assertsindex.jsxis absent whileindex.html,index.jsandindex.cssare present — which doubles as a check that the renderer bundle was built before packaging.Deferred, with reason:
src/main.js:490) resolves to<app.asar>/build/icon.png, which has never shipped: electron-builder excludesdirectories.buildResourcesunconditionally, so the old exclusion list did not carry it either. Pre-existing and Linux-only, and Linux formats are explicitly outside the v1.1.0 validation scope (The bundled Git on Linux: AppImage, deb, and snap's confinement #388). Recorded in Risks rather than filed as an issue.Style notes from the same pass, all applied: the stale
vendorsentence in.gitignore:33now points at the allow-list; the two failure messages named the whole listing instead of the offenders; the local-equivalence claim inTESTING.mdwas unconditional and is now hedged (.codesigningexists only on a signing machine, so the full proof is the CI run). Thedist/intermediateseed in the workflow was noted as redundant — electron-builder already excludes its own output directory — and kept deliberately: it is the seed that documents why a top-leveldist/is safe, and it guards a future re-introduction of a permissive pattern.Implementation notes
node_modules/app-builder-lib/out/fileMatcher.js:getMainFileMatchersaddspackage.jsonwhen the list is positive, prepends!**/node_modules/**,!<buildResources>{,/**/*}and!<output>{,/**/*}, and appends the default name and extension excludes.getNodeModuleFileMatchertakes only the!patterns fromfiles, which is why the dugite trims keep working.4110349(macOS, local, seeded):node_modules,tests,src,docs,scripts,.buildkite,.claude,.agents,test-results,fastlane,.bundle,TESTING.md,STATS.md,README.md,playwright.config.js,package.json,LICENSE,Gemfile.lock,Gemfile,eslint.config.mjs,CONTRIBUTING.md,CLAUDE.md,CLAUDE.local.md,AGENTS.override.md,AGENTS.md,.ruby-version,.nvmrc,.coderabbit.yaml. Absent: top-leveldist,.codesigning,build,vendor.node_modules(28538 entries, unchanged),src(81),package.json.app.asar.unpackedholds onlynode_modules(@php-wasm,dugite,fs-ext-extra-prebuilt).Screenshots or recording
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