fix(tools): preserve file encoding on overwrite - #988
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WalkthroughThe change adds explicit Changeswrite_file encoding preservation
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Reviewed exact head 3f47d7e8048a5e9223d758d815aad0ba884319fa.
Third-party integration gate: clear. This PR changes only the existing internal/tools implementation/tests and adds no module, SDK, service, provider, plugin, vendored code, remote asset, or dependency.
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[Medium] Keep the full-file observation after transparent encoding preservation
modelKnownContent is captured before preserveWriteFileEncoding, but the equality gate at internal/tools/write_file.go:128 compares it with the byte-restored content. Therefore every CRLF- or BOM-preserving overwrite takes the unequal branch even when format-on-write is disabled or is a no-op. FileTracker.Record has already cleared the old observation at line 127, and line 129 does not restore it. The next write_file overwrite (and similarly a subsequent edit into the file) is refused as “not read in this session,” although Zero just received and wrote the complete replacement.
I reproduced this on the PR head with a tracked two-line CRLF file: mark it fully seen, overwrite it with LF-normalized model content, then assert tracker.SeenWhole(path) and perform a second overwrite. The assertion fails immediately; without that assertion, the second overwrite is blocked by the unseen-file guard.
Please distinguish the deterministic encoding restoration from an external formatter rewrite. For example, retain the post-preservation bytes as the model-equivalent write baseline, compare the formatter result against that value, and restore whole-file coverage when only the transparent BOM/EOL transformation occurred. Add a regression covering two successive tracked writes (or write followed by edit) for CRLF and BOM+CRLF.
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- New byte-preservation tests: pass
go test ./internal/tools -count=1: pass without the generated reproducer- Focused
go test -race: pass go vet ./internal/tools: passgofmt -dandgit diff --check: clean- Generated FileTracker lifecycle regression: fail as described above
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In `@internal/tools/write_file.go`:
- Around line 101-104: Update the existing-file handling around os.ReadFile in
the write flow to return the read error instead of proceeding when reading
absolutePath fails. Preserve assigning priorBytes and priorContent only on
successful reads, and ensure the subsequent write cannot bypass
preserveWriteFileEncoding for an existing file.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
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[P1] Rebase onto current
mainbefore merge
internal/tools/write_file.go:101
This branch forked from27b319ca, while livemainis1b5db176and now includes 13 changed files across active MCP/OAuth and TUI work. The current merge is mechanically clean, but the repository treats a stale base as a blocker: it can conceal integration regressions and leaves the review evidence tied to an outdated target.Rebase this branch onto the current
main, preserve the intended encoding-restoration behavior when resolving any future overlap inwrite_file, then rerun the focusedinternal/toolstests plus the required project validation on the rebased head. This keeps the change scoped to the approved encoding fix while establishing a reviewable, current integration point.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
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[P2] Fail closed when an existing file cannot be read
internal/tools/write_file.go:101
The overwrite path establishes that the target exists, but treats the subsequentos.ReadFileerror as if there were no prior bytes.priorBytesremains nil, sopreserveWriteFileEncodingis skipped andos.WriteFilestill replaces the file. A write-only existing CRLF/BOM file can therefore be overwritten successfully with the model’s normalized bytes, losing its original EOL convention and BOM—the exact transformation this change is intended to avoid.The root cause is that capturing the existing bytes is both the source for the preview and a prerequisite for safe encoding restoration, yet the code makes that capture optional after it has committed to the existing-file overwrite path. Please make an unsuccessful prior-byte read a fail-closed write error before
os.WriteFile(and add a regression for a writable-but-unreadable existing target). That preserves the new-file pass-through behavior while ensuring an existing file is never silently overwritten through the unpreserved fallback.
The overwrite path proves the target exists, then treated a failed os.ReadFile as if there were no prior bytes: priorBytes stayed nil, preserveWriteFileEncoding was skipped, and os.WriteFile replaced the file anyway. A write-only existing CRLF/BOM file was therefore overwritten successfully with the model's normalized bytes, losing the exact convention this change exists to preserve. Those prior bytes are both the diff source and the only evidence of the encoding to restore, so capturing them can no longer be optional once we are on the existing-file path. An unreadable existing target is now a write error before os.WriteFile; a fresh create still passes the caller's bytes through untouched. The regression covers a writable-but-unreadable target on both shapes of platform: chmod 0o200 elsewhere, and a protected owner-only DACL without FILE_READ_DATA on Windows, which has no chmod to express it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01REzorhNj3F1DGPXyn5Uq7j
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Addressed in f33ec58. Confirmed reachable. The tracked-file guard above only re-reads when Fix. Once the overwrite path has committed to an existing target, capturing its bytes is no longer optional — they are both the diff source and the only evidence of the convention to restore. A failed read is now a write error before if existed {
prev, rerr := os.ReadFile(absolutePath)
if rerr != nil {
return errorResult("Error writing file " + relativePath + ": cannot read the existing file to preserve its line endings and BOM: " + rerr.Error())
}
priorContent = string(prev)
content = preserveWriteFileEncoding(prev, content)
}New-file pass-through is unchanged ( Regression. Since
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
Merge readiness
- [P1] Get the Windows check green before merge
internal/tools/exec_command_test.go:378
The current head is mergeable but GitHub reports the Windows smoke job failed, leaving the check suite blocked. The retained log shows the failure is the unchanged timing-sensitiveTestExecCommandForegroundServerReturnsSessionAndServesHTTPnot observing its listening address before the deadline, rather than one of this PR's new encoding tests, so this looks unrelated to the diff; please rerun the required job and investigate only if it reproduces. The Ubuntu, macOS, performance, security, and review jobs are green.
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[P2] Add an explicit encoding-intent path instead of inferring solely from bytes
internal/tools/write_file.go:168
The current helper has only the existing bytes and the submittedcontent. That is insufficient to distinguish the two cases this tool must support: normalized line-moderead_fileoutput omits the BOM and changes CRLF to LF, but a caller intentionally removing a BOM or converting CRLF to LF submits the same byte shape. The helper resolves that ambiguity by always restoring the old BOM and CRLF convention. As a result, an empty full-file replacement of a BOM file leaves the three BOM bytes on disk, and an exact LF replacement of a CRLF file reports success while writing CRLF. Both operations worked onmain, and both contradict the approved issue's requirement to preserve these features “unless the caller explicitly changes them.”Please address the ambiguity at the API/intent boundary rather than adding more content heuristics. Provide an unambiguous overwrite intent—whether through a narrowly scoped option or another explicit signal—that lets the caller independently request the BOM and line-ending outcome. Default behavior must continue to preserve an existing BOM and dominant EOL convention for ordinary normalized
read_fileround trips. The implementation should support at least these independent outcomes without guessing:- preserve both BOM and EOL convention by default;
- remove a BOM while preserving the existing EOL convention;
- convert CRLF to LF while preserving the existing BOM choice;
- explicitly add a BOM or convert LF to CRLF, which the current patch already supports;
- write an actually empty file when empty content and explicit BOM removal are requested.
Keep the fix bounded to encoding intent. Do not change new-file byte passthrough, the fail-closed unreadable-target behavior, conflict detection, tracker observation semantics, mixed-ending normalization, or the existing opt-in formatter precedence. Add table-driven byte assertions for the default and explicit cases above, including the combined BOM+CRLF case, and verify two successive tracked writes so an override does not regress the already-fixed observation lifecycle.
Overall guidance
There is one code finding on the current head. The earlier whole-file-observation and unreadable-existing-target requests are addressed. The repeated review rounds came from treating each downstream symptom separately while the producer contract remained ambiguous: read_file intentionally exposes a normalized view, whereas write_file also promises a full-file replacement. Once the exact same LF/no-BOM payload can mean either “round-trip the normalized view” or “change the encoding,” no byte-counting rule can recover intent reliably.
Please define that precedence once at the tool boundary and encode it in a compact behavior table before changing the transformation helper. A useful invariant is: explicit encoding intent wins; otherwise existing-file overwrites preserve the hidden convention; new files retain caller bytes; formatter behavior remains governed by the existing format-on-write contract. Testing that matrix end to end—from arguments through persisted bytes and tracker state—should close the remaining gap without expanding this PR into formatter, atomic-write, or broader file-tool redesign work.
* feat(acp): surface safe browser tool metadata * fix(acp): align browser permission titles * fix(acp): namespace browser metadata * fix(acp): reject unsafe browser title text
…itlawb#1009) * fix(specialist): keep the pinned model when a specialist is resumed Metadata.Model exists so a bounded, delegated task can run on a cheaper model than its parent, and BuildArgs appends it to the child argv through appendModelArgs. BuildResumeArgs never did. So a specialist pinned to a cheap model ran on that model exactly once. The moment the orchestrator resumed it, the child fell back to whatever the parent's configured model resolved to. Nothing surfaced it: the resumed child starts normally and does the work, so the only symptom is the bill. Cost-motivated delegation quietly stopped saving anything. Resuming does not restore the recorded model on its own. sessions.PrepareExec records the model a run used but never feeds it back into provider construction, so the flag has to be passed again rather than relied upon. BuildResumeArgsInput now carries ParentModel and ParentReasoningEffort, the same fallbacks the fresh path takes, and runResume passes what TaskRunOptions already held. The reasoning-effort rule travels with the model unchanged: the parent's effort is inherited only when the manifest pins no model of its own, because a manifest that chose a different model has not agreed to the parent's effort for it. Regressions drive both builders and compare them, so the two paths cannot drift again: a pinned model survives resume, an unpinned one still inherits the parent's, both halves of the effort rule hold, and the flag keeps its position relative to --auto in both. Refs Gitlawb#554 * test(specialist): cover the resume call site, not just its builder The builder tests all call BuildResumeArgs directly, so dropping the ParentModel field from the runResume call site still compiled and still passed every one of them. The defect this fixes lived at the call site, so it needs a test that goes through Run. Driven through the real dispatch with the RunChild seam capturing argv. * test(specialist): guard the fresh call site as well runFresh and runResume each construct their builder input by hand and carry a byte-identical ParentModel line. Deleting either compiles and, until now, deleting the fresh one was silent. The resume half is what this branch repairs. This covers the other half so the pair cannot drift again in the direction nobody was looking.
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The overwrite path proves the target exists, then treated a failed os.ReadFile as if there were no prior bytes: priorBytes stayed nil, preserveWriteFileEncoding was skipped, and os.WriteFile replaced the file anyway. A write-only existing CRLF/BOM file was therefore overwritten successfully with the model's normalized bytes, losing the exact convention this change exists to preserve. Those prior bytes are both the diff source and the only evidence of the encoding to restore, so capturing them can no longer be optional once we are on the existing-file path. An unreadable existing target is now a write error before os.WriteFile; a fresh create still passes the caller's bytes through untouched. The regression covers a writable-but-unreadable target on both shapes of platform: chmod 0o200 elsewhere, and a protected owner-only DACL without FILE_READ_DATA on Windows, which has no chmod to express it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01REzorhNj3F1DGPXyn5Uq7j Co-authored-by: Pierre Bruno <pierrebruno@hotmail.ch>
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PierrunoYT addressed the remaining encoding-intent request in 2a9174d. Published head 04c4bd2 includes current upstream main and preserves the previous remote head's ancestry; the push was fast-forward, not forced. The ancestry-preserving merge has exactly the same tree as the validated implementation.
The end-to-end byte matrix covers default BOM+CRLF preservation, BOM removal while keeping CRLF, LF conversion with/without BOM, BOM addition, CRLF conversion, combined overrides, and genuinely empty output with explicit BOM removal. Every matrix case verifies two successive tracked writes and whole-file observation. Invalid options are rejected without changing the target. Regression proof: running the new tests with the pre-fix implementation via Go's Local verification: All seven current-head checks are now green: native Windows, macOS, Ubuntu, performance, security/code health, CodeRabbit, and Zero Review. Fresh CI run: the Windows test/build/smoke job passed, clearing the previous foreground-server timeout blocker. No PR merge performed. The new CodeRabbit nitpick about |
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internal/specialist/resume_model_test.go (1)
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ParentReasoningEffortat therunResumecall path.This test verifies
ParentModelpropagation only. AddParentReasoningEffortand assert the captured child arguments contain--reasoning-effort. The direct builder test cannot detect removal of the new forwarding assignment inrunResume.Proposed test extension
}, TaskRunOptions{ - ParentSessionID: parent.SessionID, - ParentModel: "claude-opus-4.1", + ParentSessionID: parent.SessionID, + ParentModel: "claude-opus-4.1", + ParentReasoningEffort: "high", }); err != nil { t.Fatalf("Run(resume): %v", err) } ... + effort, ok := argValue(captured, "--reasoning-effort") + if !ok || effort != "high" { + t.Fatalf("the resumed child was launched with --reasoning-effort %q (present=%t), want the parent's", effort, ok) + }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@internal/specialist/resume_model_test.go`:
- Around line 231-234: Extend the runResume test around the TaskRunOptions
passed to runResume to set ParentReasoningEffort, then assert the captured child
arguments include the corresponding --reasoning-effort value. Keep the existing
ParentModel propagation assertion and verify forwarding specifically through
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Summary
write_fileoverwrites normalized contentBefore the fix, the regression rewrote CRLF as LF and removed the BOM.
Fixes #967
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