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This PR adds safeWriteText, one primitive for publishing text files atomically. Today, if the process crashes or the machine loses power while the extension is writing a config or state file, the file can be left truncated or half-written. After this PR, the payload is written to a private staging file and flushed to disk before a single rename puts it in place: readers only ever see the old content or the new content, never a mix.

It is the first of nine PRs that together make every file write in the extension safe against concurrent writers and half-written files (epic #1375, chain tracked on #1991). Every later unit publishes through this primitive, so this is the foundation PR of the chain.

Related GitHub Issue

Closes: #2016 (this unit's tracking issue).
Refs: #1991 (chain tracking), #1375 (epic).

Description

What this PR changes:

1. New safeWriteText: the payload is encoded, written into a private per-write staging directory, and fsynced before anything is published.
2. The existing target's permissions are preserved on the staged file (CWE-732) so the rename cannot widen permissions; on Windows the target's DACL is saved with icacls /save before the copy and restored after the commit rename (best-effort, reported through onWarning when it cannot be done).
3. With backup: true, the target is copied (never moved - a move would leave the canonical path absent for the whole commit window) to a safeWriteText.bak_* file, chmod 0o600, fsynced, and removed after a successful commit (one retry, then the path is reported through onWarning).
4. Publish is a single rename; on POSIX the parent directory is then fsynced so the new directory entry is durable - a failure there surfaces as PostCommitDurabilityError rather than a silent success.
5. On any pre-commit failure the staged file and staging directory are removed. Because the backup is a copy, nothing is restored over the target and there is deliberately no rollback error class in this unit.

Why the diff looks bigger than the change: the chain is non-cumulative - this branch is based on main, not on another unit's branch - and the spec tests the new file as a unit, so implementation and tests land together.

Review focus: src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts and src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts.

Test Procedure

From the repository root, with dependencies installed:

pnpm --dir src exec vitest run --globals services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts   # expect 62 passed
pnpm --dir src exec tsc --noEmit                                                                  # expect clean
pnpm --dir src exec eslint --max-warnings=0 services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts

Environment: Windows 11, Node 20, unit layer only.

Pre-Submission Checklist

• Scope is one gate scope and matches the unit.
• No .changeset or CHANGELOG changes (AGENTS.md).
• src/eslint-suppressions.json unchanged - no suppression count increased.
• New code lints clean (--max-warnings=0) rather than relying on suppressions.
• Tests added at the lowest layer that would have caught each finding.
• Visual Snapshot item considered: not applicable (no rendered surface).

Visual Snapshots

Not applicable - no rendered surface; this is an extension-host file primitive.

Videos (interaction / animation only)

Not applicable - no interaction or animation surface.

Documentation Updates

No user-facing documentation change: no new setting, no new surface, no model-facing text. No .changeset and no CHANGELOG edit (AGENTS.md).

Additional Notes

• Budget: ~1380 a+d / ~440 changed executable lines. Above the 1000 a+d cap - documented deviation: safeWriteText.ts is a new file and its spec tests that file as a unit, so the two cannot be separated without breaking the fidelity contract.
• Content source of record: the superseded umbrella PR feat(tools): track read completeness and guard the diff-view save path (S4b, #1375) #1833 (closed), replayed onto the current main tip so this branch carries nothing that main already has. Split plan of record: comments 5993969784 / 5994039786 / 5994053776 on [Tracking] guarded-write chain (epic 1375): rules, port sources, chain-level rows #1991.
• Merge order for the chain: U1 -> U2 -> U3 -> U4 -> U5 -> U8 -> U6 -> U7 -> U9. This unit is first.

Verification at this head

• safeWriteText spec: 62 passed (including the staging-fsync failure path, the backup-cleanup retry, and the reported-but-unremovable backup).
• tsc --noEmit clean; ESLint --max-warnings=0 clean on every file in the unit; Prettier clean; suppressions unchanged.
• CI at this head: all required checks green, mutation-diff green.

Updated this round

• Rewrote the description for human reviewers (maintainer feedback: the previous text read like machine output) and linked this unit's tracking issue Tracking fws U1: atomic text publish primitive (safeWriteText) #2016, so the PR now has a linked issue.

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Reviewer and maintainer questions are welcome as comments on this PR or on #1991.

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• New Features
  • Text and byte files are published atomically, reducing the chance of incomplete files when a write fails.
  • Existing file permissions are preserved. Optional backups copy the original before publishing, and failed writes report backups or other files that could not be cleaned up.
  • Writes support custom staging paths and symbolic-link targets; invalid staging paths are rejected.
  • On Windows, failures to inspect or save existing access permissions prevent publishing; failures to restore permissions after publishing are reported.
  • Durability failures after publishing are reported while leaving the new file in place.

Adds safeWriteText for staged file writes, optional backups, and platform-specific handling. It resolves targets, validates staging paths, flushes staged content, and atomically publishes it. Unit and integration tests cover publication, failures, cleanup, permissions, and target resolution.

Changes: Safe text writing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Target resolution and staged writes src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts, src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts, knip.json	Adds target and lock-key resolution, staging-path validation, and staged writes that preserve existing permissions or use mode 0o644 for a new target. Tests cover target resolution, staging, content handling, and permissions.
Backup, commit, and platform handling src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts, src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts, src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.integration.spec.ts	Adds optional flushed backups, atomic publication, parent-directory fsync handling, and Windows DACL capture and restoration. Tests cover backup creation, commit and durability ordering, DACL behavior, and filesystem effects.
Cleanup and leftover reporting src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts, src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts	Retries cleanup and reports leftover paths and cleanup errors. Tests cover warning callbacks, cleanup failures, and residue attached to results or errors.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant safeWriteText
  participant FileSystem
  Caller->>safeWriteText: Provide path, content, and options
  safeWriteText->>FileSystem: Stage and flush content
  safeWriteText->>FileSystem: Copy and flush backup when enabled
  safeWriteText->>FileSystem: Rename staged file to target
  safeWriteText->>FileSystem: Clean up temporary paths
  safeWriteText-->>Caller: Return leftover paths or throw

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Possibly related issues

• Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code#2148 — Tracks descriptor-relative hardening for the staging and rename publication behavior added here.

Possibly related PRs

• Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code#1915 — Routes apply_patch writes through guardedWrite, which publishes through the safeWriteText contract.
• Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code#1918 — Routes write tools and safeWriteJson through publication behavior supplied by safeWriteText.
• Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code#1912 — Extends the safeWriteText path-resolution contract used by this publication flow.

Merge Risk: Low · up to f6e1e

Rare combined Windows cleanup failures can misidentify which retained file caused the recovery problem; record the DACL restore error alongside its retained dump before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e1eee

Atomic writes improve content safety, but Windows permission restoration can fail silently, and backup rollback can overwrite another writer’s committed update. No production caller was identified, limiting immediate exposure.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Windows permission preservation is not a publication-success invariant. Replacement content becomes visible before DACL restoration; save and restore failures are suppressed, and the recovery dump is deleted even after restore failure. If the replacement’s permissions are broader than the original target’s, exposure can persist despite a successful return. No production invocation was identified.
• Medium · reliability · inferred: Backup rollback does not establish ownership of the target it restores over. With concurrent calls to the same target, writer A can move the old target aside, writer B can publish successfully, and a subsequent pre-commit failure in A can restore stale content over B’s committed update. Unique staging directories prevent staging collisions, and the committed flag protects A’s own successful commit, but neither serializes target transitions. Caller-side serialization could prevent this; no enforced caller contract was established.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The authority exercised is local filesystem authority of the calling process: replacing a resolved target, creating staging and recovery files, and changing replacement permissions. There is no root-directory allowlist in this API. A future privileged caller must constrain paths before invoking it; no tenant, network, IAM, or cross-service expansion was established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A conditional Windows disclosure or modification path exists if a caller replaces a protected target with a staging file whose DACL permits additional principals: content is published before restoration, and restoration failure is silent. Actual permissions and attacker reachability were not demonstrated; the supplied tests mock filesystem and icacls behavior.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Symlink resolution and staging validation constrain what gets renamed but do not authorize the requested destination. These checks are path-based, not a binding between a validated filesystem object and every later operation. The injectable execution runner is documented as a code-valued test hook, not an input-text command interface.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Backup recovery requires a single-writer ownership policy to contain failed transactions. The exported canonical lock-key helper can support such a policy, but safeWriteText neither uses it nor verifies that rollback still owns the target. A committed peer update can therefore be reverted by another invocation’s recovery.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Before using this API for permission-sensitive files, establish the required DACL on the replacement before making its contents visible. If metadata recovery remains post-commit, report failure distinctly and retain usable recovery material rather than returning ordinary success.
• proposed — Define and enforce canonical-target serialization across resolution, mode capture, backup, publication, and recovery, including the intended cross-process scope. For backup mode, assign interruption recovery ownership or preserve the canonical target while creating the recovery copy.

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Failed checks: 2 errors · 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		Issue #2016 requires Windows DACL handling to remain best-effort and to report inspection, save, and restore failures through onWarning. At the reviewed head, safeWriteText.ts instead throws `Dacl…	Align Windows DACL failure handling with #2016. Do not fail the publish for DACL inspection, save, or restore failures. Report each failure through onWarning, and update the focused tests and exported error contract to match.
Security Boundaries		The changed path src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts can expose file contents on Windows. _stagingDir and the staged file use POSIX 0o700/0o600 modes and chmod, but the implementation …	On Windows, create the staging directory, staged file, backup file, and DACL dump with explicit restrictive security descriptors. Apply and verify the target DACL on the staged and backup files before writing or copying sensitive content. E…
Regression Evidence		The standing regression remains. The changed public option SafeWriteTextOptions.execFileRunner is passed to both Windows DACL save and restore paths (safeWriteText.ts:572, 692), and each helper se…	Add a unit test in safeWriteText.spec.ts that passes a distinct execFileRunner, runs the Windows DACL save and restore path, invokes its callbacks, and asserts both calls use the supplied runner while the imported execFile is not call…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup		The changed backup path can leak the seed file descriptor. When backup: true and the target exists, safeWriteText opens seedFd at safeWriteText.ts:622 and calls closeSync once at line 628. I…	Remove the manually managed seed descriptor or use a descriptor-ownership helper that guarantees closure on every exit while preserving the original close error. Add a failure test that verifies the descriptor is not left open after seed-cl…

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the atomic text publishing primitive added by this pull request.
Description check		The description is complete and relevant. It links the tracking issue, explains the implementation and review focus, documents test procedures and results, covers documentation and UI impact, and reco…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed implementation, error and residue types, focused unit and integration tests, and knip.json exclusion all support the safeWriteText primitive and issue #2016. No unrelated product behav…
Persistence Integrity		PASS. The changed persistence path is safeWriteText. It writes all bytes to a private staging file, fsyncs and closes it before one fs.rename commit (safeWriteText.ts:495-535, 661-683). POSIX …

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description is complete and relevant. It links the tracking issue, explains the implementation and review focus, documents test procedures and results, covers documentation and UI impact, and records notable scope deviations.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changed implementation, error and residue types, focused unit and integration tests, and knip.json exclusion all support the safeWriteText primitive and issue #2016. No unrelated product behavior or surface is shown.

Full details: Persistence Integrity

Explanation

PASS. The changed persistence path is safeWriteText. It writes all bytes to a private staging file, fsyncs and closes it before one fs.rename commit (safeWriteText.ts:495-535, 661-683). POSIX parent-directory fsync failures raise PostCommitDurabilityError instead of reporting success. Pre-commit failures clean staged files and backups, and post-commit failures are reported with residue paths (safeWriteText.ts:730-799). No changed consumer or persisted default exists; knip.json only excludes the new, not-yet-wired module.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #2016 requires Windows DACL handling to remain best-effort and to report inspection, save, and restore failures through onWarning. At the reviewed head, safeWriteText.ts instead throws DaclInspectionError before publish and DaclRestoreError after commit. The implementation supports the other stated requirements: staged write and fsync, single rename, POSIX PostCommitDurabilityError, permission preservation, copy-based backup, and pre-commit cleanup.

Resolution

Align Windows DACL failure handling with #2016. Do not fail the publish for DACL inspection, save, or restore failures. Report each failure through onWarning, and update the focused tests and exported error contract to match.

Full details: Security Boundaries

Explanation

The changed path src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts can expose file contents on Windows. _stagingDir and the staged file use POSIX 0o700/0o600 modes and chmod, but the implementation never applies a Windows DACL before writing the staged payload (lines 181-193, 520-532). With backup: true, it also copies the old contents into a backup before any Windows ACL is applied (lines 622-630). A target with a restrictive DACL in a parent directory that grants another local account read access can therefore expose new or old contents through the staging or backup path; cleanup failure can prolong the backup exposure. The DACL is only saved after staging and restored after the commit rename (lines 561-600, 686-710). The Windows tests mock icacls call counts and do not verify ACLs on real staging or backup files.

Resolution

On Windows, create the staging directory, staged file, backup file, and DACL dump with explicit restrictive security descriptors. Apply and verify the target DACL on the staged and backup files before writing or copying sensitive content. Ensure the replacement carries the target DACL before the rename makes it visible. Refuse the publish before writing or committing when ACL application or verification fails. Add a Windows integration test with a restrictive target DACL and a more permissive parent DACL, including staging reads, backup reads, and cleanup-failure coverage.

Full details: Regression Evidence

Explanation

The standing regression remains. The changed public option SafeWriteTextOptions.execFileRunner is passed to both Windows DACL save and restore paths (safeWriteText.ts:572, 692), and each helper selects the supplied runner (safeWriteText.ts:208, 228). No test supplies execFileRunner:. The Windows tests mock and assert the imported execFile directly, so they would still pass if the supplied runner were ignored. This leaves the changed runner-selection behavior without focused coverage.

Resolution

Add a unit test in safeWriteText.spec.ts that passes a distinct execFileRunner, runs the Windows DACL save and restore path, invokes its callbacks, and asserts both calls use the supplied runner while the imported execFile is not called. Add supplied-runner callback-error coverage for DACL save and restore if those public error paths remain supported.

Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup

Explanation

The changed backup path can leak the seed file descriptor. When backup: true and the target exists, safeWriteText opens seedFd at safeWriteText.ts:622 and calls closeSync once at line 628. If that close reports an error without releasing the descriptor, the catch only removes the seeded backup path and rethrows; it has no guaranteed descriptor-closure path. The added test at safeWriteText.spec.ts:723-747 checks one mocked close attempt and backup cleanup, but not descriptor release.

Resolution

Remove the manually managed seed descriptor or use a descriptor-ownership helper that guarantees closure on every exit while preserving the original close error. Add a failure test that verifies the descriptor is not left open after seed-close failure.

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Addressed at aa0cdaba0, one change per finding:

• Security boundaries — a caller-supplied tempPath is now checked before anything is written: it must sit in the target's directory (a rename across filesystems fails with EXDEV, and a path elsewhere lets a caller publish an unrelated file onto the target) and must be a regular file rather than a link, since renaming a link over the target publishes whatever the link points at. Rejections carry StagingPathError with the offending path. Two tests cover both rejections and assert nothing was opened or renamed.
• Persistence integrity — the POSIX parent-directory fsync is no longer swallowed. A failure now throws PostCommitDurabilityError, which states plainly that the content is at the target and only the directory entry may not be durable, so a successful return no longer claims durability the filesystem did not grant. The test that asserted best-effort behaviour was replaced with one that asserts the new contract.
• Regression evidence — focused coverage for resolveLockKey added at the file-safety layer: canonical parent directory, a dangling-link chain, and termination at the bounded depth on a two-link cycle.
• Lifecycle resource cleanup — the staged file and this write's own staging directory are released before RollbackFailureError is thrown; the backup stays on disk. A test asserts the ordering by call order.

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One more finding closed at c4120b057: resolvePublishTarget now propagates an lstat failure that is not ENOENT instead of falling back to the given path. A failed lstat says nothing about whether the path is a link, so the fallback would publish through a link we were not allowed to inspect. Focused tests added for both branches (50 pass).

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PR description seems to be written for a machine, would have reviewed, but didn't understand what this is for. Especially since 1375 no longer exists.

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Thanks for the honest read - that is fair. I rewrote the descriptions on all nine PRs of this chain to lead with what each PR does and why in plain terms, and gave each PR its own tracking issue so the sidebar link resolves (this PR's is #2016). The epic is #1375 and the chain plan lives on #1991; the old text referenced both as bare numbers with no links, which is most likely why 1375 looked missing. Happy to take scope questions here or on #1991.

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All four review threads addressed

• icacls errors as causes — _saveDaclWindows / _restoreDaclWindows now return the icacls error (or null on success) instead of swallowing it, and DaclInspectionError / DaclRestoreError pass it as the Error cause, so a support report can say why icacls failed. Tests assert the cause is the icacls Error.
• Keep the DACL dump when restore fails — after a DaclRestoreError the dump is no longer deleted by the finally: its path is recorded in leftoverPaths, reported on the error, and a warning names it for a manual icacls /restore. Tests assert the dump is kept (no unlink for .acl) and surfaced.
• Exact restore directory — the restore-args test now pins path.dirname(targetPath) instead of a stringContaining that also matched the file path.
• No post-rename unlink — a committed flag is set right after the successful rename; the failure-path cleanup only unlinks tempPath while the rename has not committed. A caller reusing a fixed staging name (safeWriteJson) can no longer have its newly staged file deleted by the old write's catch.

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- Line 702: Update the _restoreDaclWindows failure handling after the committed
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- Around line 569-594: Update the existing-target DACL failure branches in
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Disposition: keep the strict DACL contract (evidence)

Both threads propose reverting the fail-closed DACL contract to warn-and-continue. That contract is the deliberate point of U1 and was itself a prior review outcome on this PR — the current code comments mark exactly this as a contract change from the old warn-and-resolve behaviour:

• saveDirectly/safeWriteText refuses before the commit when an existing target's DACL cannot be saved or inspected (DaclInspectionError), because publishing then inherits different access rights; the target still holds its content on that exit.
• After the commit, a failed restore surfaces DaclRestoreError instead of resolving: a write that silently widened who can read the file is not a save the user can trust, and the caller still gets the kept dump path for manual icacls /restore.
• Pinned by safeWriteText.spec.ts: 'refuses to publish ...' (DaclInspectionError, rename not called), 'a failed restore is an error and the dump is kept', and the cause/leftover assertions added in the previous round.

Warn-and-continue would reintroduce the silent ACL widening that this PR exists to prevent, so the strict behaviour and the tests stay as they are. If maintainers want best-effort semantics, that is a follow-up contract change (and should update the PR body and these tests together) — not a review comment that flips the shipped contract.

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Minor · Keep cleanupErrors aligned with the retained DACL dump. · safeWriteText.ts:700-702

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep cleanupErrors aligned with the retained DACL dump.

When backup: true is used on Windows, a DACL restore failure adds the dump path to leftoverPaths but not to cleanupErrors. If backup cleanup then also fails, the backup error is paired with the DACL dump instead of the backup path. Add the restore error as the dump's corresponding residue reason. This does not change the intentional DaclRestoreError rejection.

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					const keptDumpPath = daclDumpPath
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					leftoverPaths.push(keptDumpPath)
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When retaining the DACL dump after a restore failure, update the cleanup residue
tracking alongside leftoverPaths so cleanupErrors records the corresponding
restore error in the same order. Preserve the intentional DaclRestoreError
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Minor · Record the DACL restore error with the retained dump path. · safeWriteText.ts:690-710

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Record the DACL restore error with the retained dump path.

When DACL restoration fails, the code throws before normal backup cleanup. The catch block then attempts backup cleanup. If that cleanup also fails, it records the backup path and error, but the retained DACL dump has no matching error. The PublishResidue arrays become mispaired.

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 					const keptDumpPath = daclDumpPath
 					daclDumpPath = null
 					leftoverPaths.push(keptDumpPath)
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In the DACL restoration failure branch, record restoreDaclError in cleanupErrors
alongside keptDumpPath in leftoverPaths before throwing DaclRestoreError, so the
PublishResidue arrays remain paired when later backup cleanup also fails.

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