feat(history): per-instance JSONL store, project identity, and storage tests (slice 1/6) - #1390
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Slice 1/6 of the PR Gentleman-Programming#819 split (maintainer-requested review slices). - atomic-write: same-dir tmp+rename JSON writer, concurrent-instance-safe staging names, never throws - store: project identity (realpath+sha256[:16], raw-path fallback, 24-char collision re-key), project/seed/global/registry path derivations, advisory registry with fail-open reads and atomic writes, tolerant JSONL line parser, lazy per-instance session writer with command filtering - extension entry: identity constants and capture-only wiring (before_agent_start -> appendSessionCapture); migration, seeding, selector, deletion, and GC join in later slices - tests: 32 node:test cases covering storage concurrency and recovery (parallel writers, interleaved captures, burst order integrity, torn-line matrix + crash-tail recovery window, rapid same-target atomic writes with zero staging residue, two-instance registry interleaving, collision re-key, corrupt/wrong-shape fail-open) - test vectors are machine-independent: literal cwds exercise the documented raw-string fallback identically on every platform Gates: scoped history tests 32/32 green. verify-package-files and package-manifest failures are pre-existing environmental (gitignored contracts/.DS_Store; missing node_modules) and reproduce on vanilla origin/main.
Review fix (CodeRabbit #5160388228): ensureRegistryEntry now searches the registry for an existing mapping of the incoming cwd before the collision branch, returning the existing short or long key unchanged. Previously, re-entering a cwd that an earlier collision had re-keyed to 24 chars re-triggered the collision and flipped the other occupant's key every time — collision assignments were not stable. Adds a stability test: the re-keyed cwd keeps its long key, the short-hash holder keeps its key, and the registry bytes do not change across re-entries. Note: the atomic-write staging-name race CodeRabbit reported in the original commit was already hardened on this branch (unique .tmp-<pid>-<ts> staging + unlink-on-failure); no further change.
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds project-scoped history storage and atomic JSON writing. It adds per-instance JSONL session writers and a prompt-history extension that records delivered prompts through a ChangesPrompt History Capture
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant before_agent_start handler
participant getWriter
participant ensureRegistryEntry
participant openSessionWriter
participant appendSessionCapture
participant session JSONL file
before_agent_start handler->>getWriter: Request the session writer
getWriter->>ensureRegistryEntry: Register the project directory
getWriter->>openSessionWriter: Open the instance writer
before_agent_start handler->>appendSessionCapture: Append prompt and timestamp
appendSessionCapture->>session JSONL file: Write accepted JSONL entry
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Opted-in history can expose prompts to other local accounts, disabling capture may not work as documented for a running session, and valid prompts or manual cleanup commands may fail. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@extensions/history/store.ts`:
- Around line 199-201: Update isLikelyCommand to match a slash-prefixed command
token whose name contains no further slashes, so prompts beginning with absolute
paths are not classified as commands; add coverage confirming `/Users/me/app.ts
fails` is preserved by appendSessionCapture.
- Around line 95-101: Update writeRegistryAtomic to reuse writeJsonAtomic from
the atomic-write module instead of duplicating temporary-file creation and
rename logic, so failed writes clean up staging files. Preserve the registry’s
existing pretty-printed JSON format, extending writeJsonAtomic only if needed to
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- Around line 113-130: Update ensureRegistryEntry to resolve cwd to its
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| function writeRegistryAtomic(root: string, data: RegistryData): void { | ||
| const target = registryPath(root); | ||
| const tmp = `${target}.tmp-${process.pid}-${Date.now()}`; | ||
| fs.mkdirSync(root, { recursive: true }); | ||
| fs.writeFileSync(tmp, JSON.stringify(data, null, 2) + "\n", "utf8"); | ||
| fs.renameSync(tmp, target); | ||
| } |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win
Reuse writeJsonAtomic for the registry write and clean up the staging file.
writeRegistryAtomic copies the tmp+rename logic from extensions/history/atomic-write.ts. It does not unlink the staging file when writeFileSync or renameSync fails. The registry lives in the shared store root, so each failed write leaves an orphan registry.json.tmp-* file. writeJsonAtomic already handles this cleanup. The comment in that file says the two writers follow the same convention, so keep one implementation.
♻️ Proposed refactor
+import { writeJsonAtomic } from "./atomic-write.ts";
...
function writeRegistryAtomic(root: string, data: RegistryData): void {
- const target = registryPath(root);
- const tmp = `${target}.tmp-${process.pid}-${Date.now()}`;
- fs.mkdirSync(root, { recursive: true });
- fs.writeFileSync(tmp, JSON.stringify(data, null, 2) + "\n", "utf8");
- fs.renameSync(tmp, target);
+ // Registry is advisory: a failed write is dropped, never thrown.
+ writeJsonAtomic(registryPath(root), data);
}If the pretty-printed format matters, add an optional space parameter to writeJsonAtomic.
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[warning] 98-98: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.writeFileSync(tmp, JSON.stringify(data, null, 2) + "\n", "utf8")
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In `@extensions/history/store.ts` around lines 95 - 101, Update
writeRegistryAtomic to reuse writeJsonAtomic from the atomic-write module
instead of duplicating temporary-file creation and rename logic, so failed
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| const hash = projectHash(cwd); | ||
| const data = readRegistry(root); | ||
| if (data[hash] === cwd) return { hash, created: false }; | ||
| // An earlier collision may have re-keyed THIS cwd to a long key. | ||
| // Return the existing mapping unchanged so collision assignments stay | ||
| // stable across calls instead of flipping the other occupant's key. | ||
| const existingKey = Object.keys(data).find((k) => data[k] === cwd); | ||
| if (existingKey !== undefined) return { hash: existingKey, created: false }; | ||
| if (data[hash] !== undefined) { | ||
| // Collision: re-key the EXISTING occupant at 24 hash chars so both | ||
| // identities coexist; the incoming cwd keeps the short hash — the | ||
| // key shape projectDir/sessionFilePath/drains derive. | ||
| const existing = data[hash]; | ||
| data[projectHashLong(existing)] = existing; | ||
| data[hash] = cwd; | ||
| writeRegistryAtomic(root, data); | ||
| return { hash, created: true }; | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Canonicalize cwd before you compare or store it in the registry.
projectHash(cwd) hashes realpathSync(cwd). Lines 115, 119 and 127 compare and store the raw cwd string. Two spellings of one project can therefore produce the same hash with different strings, for example a symlink and its target. When this happens, the code takes the collision branch at Line 121 for a path that is not a collision:
- The code writes a spurious 24-char entry for the earlier spelling.
- The code moves the short-hash label to the new spelling.
Both spellings still write to the same projectDir. This conflicts with the doc comment at lines 18-25, which says symlinked paths merge into one identity. Resolve the path once, then use the canonical value for the hash, the comparisons and the stored value.
🐛 Proposed fix
+function canonicalCwd(cwd: string): string {
+ try {
+ return fs.realpathSync(cwd);
+ } catch {
+ return cwd;
+ }
+}
+
export function ensureRegistryEntry(
root: string,
- cwd: string,
+ rawCwd: string,
): RegistryEntryResult {
+ const cwd = canonicalCwd(rawCwd);
const hash = projectHash(cwd);projectHash and projectHashLong can then call canonicalCwd too, so the canonicalization logic exists in one place.
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In `@extensions/history/store.ts` around lines 113 - 130, Update
ensureRegistryEntry to resolve cwd to its canonical path once, then use that
value for projectHash, registry comparisons, and stored mappings so symlink and
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| function isLikelyCommand(text: string): boolean { | ||
| return /^\/[A-Za-z]/.test(text.trim()); | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Stop isLikelyCommand from dropping prompts that start with an absolute path.
The regex /^\/[A-Za-z]/ matches any text that starts with / and a letter. A prompt such as /Users/me/app.ts throws on start counts as a command, and appendSessionCapture drops it without any signal. Pasting a file path as the first token of a prompt is common. Match a command token only: a leading / followed by a name that contains no further /.
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function isLikelyCommand(text: string): boolean {
- return /^\/[A-Za-z]/.test(text.trim());
+ return /^\/[A-Za-z][\w:.-]*(?:\s|$)/.test(text.trim());
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| function isLikelyCommand(text: string): boolean { | |
| return /^\/[A-Za-z]/.test(text.trim()); | |
| } | |
| function isLikelyCommand(text: string): boolean { | |
| return /^\/[A-Za-z][\w:.-]*(?:\s|$)/.test(text.trim()); | |
| } |
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In `@extensions/history/store.ts` around lines 199 - 201, Update isLikelyCommand
to match a slash-prefixed command token whose name contains no further slashes,
so prompts beginning with absolute paths are not classified as commands; add
coverage confirming `/Users/me/app.ts fails` is preserved by
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Thanks for splitting the history work. Before slice 1 ships, please keep the automatic |
Review follow-up on the slice-01 PR: the before_agent_start handler recorded delivered prompts by default while the deletion UI is still unshipped, so an intermediate release could accumulate sensitive prompts with no removal path. - Capture is now strictly opt-in via GENTLE_PI_HISTORY_CAPTURE=1|true|on (default off); the switch doubles as the disable path, is checked per prompt, and a disabled session writes nothing - no registry entry, no files. - promptHistoryExtension takes injectable deps (env/root/cwd/ instanceId/now) with one writer closure per extension load. - New tests: strict opt-in matrix, default-off inertness, opted-in capture, disable-leaves-existing-files. - docs/prompt-history.md documents the switch, storage locations, permissions/readers, and disable/removal semantics; the README docs table gains a pointer.
Resolves PR Gentleman-Programming#1390's README.md conflict: main's 3.5 documentation restructure replaced the former docs table; the prompt-history row is re-applied in the new Destination/Purpose shape. No other conflicts; all other upstream changes auto-merged.
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In `@docs/prompt-history.md`:
- Line 60: Update the single-project removal command in the prompt history
documentation to use a quoted path built from a separately assigned hash value,
and tell users to replace that value with the project directory name so the
command can be copied and executed safely.
- Around line 19-20: Update the prompt-history documentation to remove the claim
that unsetting the shell variable disables capture in a running Pi process;
state that disabling capture requires restarting Pi, unless an existing
in-process disable control is available. Keep the documented behavior aligned
with how captureEnabled reads the process environment.
In `@extensions/history/index.ts`:
- Line 83: Update the directory and file handling used by appendSessionCapture
to create history directories with mode 0700 and files with mode 0600, and also
restrict permissions on existing history paths rather than relying on creation
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| - The check runs per prompt: unsetting the switch (or setting it to `0`) stops | ||
| new captures immediately, no pi restart needed. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Correct the no-restart disable instruction.
If a user launches GENTLE_PI_HISTORY_CAPTURE=1 pi, unsetting that variable in a shell does not change the running Pi process’s environment. captureEnabled therefore remains true, and later prompts can still be stored. The test changes an injected object inside the process; it does not test the documented action. Document that disabling capture requires a restart, or provide an in-process disable control. (gnu.org)
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In `@docs/prompt-history.md` around lines 19 - 20, Update the prompt-history
documentation to remove the claim that unsetting the shell variable disables
capture in a running Pi process; state that disabling capture requires
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| ```bash | ||
| rm -rf ~/.pi/agent/history # whole store | ||
| rm -rf ~/.pi/agent/history/projects/<hash> # one project (see registry.json) |
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Make the single-project removal command executable.
If a user copies this command literally, Bash interprets < and > as redirections. The command does not remove the project history. Use a quoted path with a separately assigned hash value, and tell the user to replace that value with the project directory name. (gnu.org)
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In `@docs/prompt-history.md` at line 60, Update the single-project removal command
in the prompt history documentation to use a quoted path built from a separately
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| if (!captureEnabled(env)) return; | ||
| try { | ||
| const event = args[0] as { prompt?: string } | undefined; | ||
| appendSessionCapture(getWriter(), event?.prompt ?? "", now()); |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Detected with Advanced Tier | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
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Sensitive Data Exposure
Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-732 — Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Create prompt-history files with restrictive permissions.
The documented store uses default umask permissions, typically 0644 files in 0755 directories. Other local accounts can read prompts wherever they can traverse the home directory. Set restrictive modes for new directories and files. Also protect existing history paths because creation modes do not update existing entries.
Set restrictive creation modes
- fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(state.filePath), { recursive: true });
- fs.appendFileSync(state.filePath, serializeEntry(entry) + "\n", "utf8");
+ fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(state.filePath), { recursive: true, mode: 0o700 });
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+ encoding: "utf8",
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In `@extensions/history/index.ts` at line 83, Update the directory and file
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Source: Learnings
The history slice branches must not touch README.md: the docs table lives in main and evolves independently of the extension slices. The opt-in capture documentation stays in docs/prompt-history.md; the README pointer row introduced by the capture-gate commit is dropped and README.md is restored to upstream/main verbatim.
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mainas each previous slice merges. Branches already exist on the fork.Changes
extensions/history/atomic-write.ts.tmp-<pid>-<ts>staging + rename, failure-safeextensions/history/store.tsextensions/history/index.tstests/history-atomic-write.test.tstests/history-multi-reader.test.tstests/history-registry.test.tstests/history-session-writer.test.tstests/history-store-paths.test.tsConcurrency & recovery coverage (per the #819 review requirement)
atomic-write)multi-reader)multi-reader)registry)Test plan
os.tmpdir(); the real~/.pistore root is never touchedNotes for reviewers
type:featureandstatus:needs-reviewseem fitting.main.Review follow-ups addressed (84c1232)
Capture is no longer automatic, per the review feedback:
GENTLE_PI_HISTORY_CAPTURE=1|true|on; unset or any other value means off. The switch doubles as the disable path and is checked per prompt; a disabled session writes nothing — no registry entry, no files.docs/prompt-history.mddocuments the switch, storage locations (~/.pi/agent/history/), default-umask readability (who can read the files), and what disabling does to existing files (kept; manual removal until the deletion UI ships). The README docs table gains a pointer.tests/history-session-writer.test.ts; history suite 74 pass / 0 fail under bun.extensions/history/index.tscaptureEnabled), injectable deps, per-load writer closuretests/history-session-writer.test.tsdocs/prompt-history.mdREADME.mdSummary by CodeRabbit
Refs #818