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  • Stage-install the shared mcp-remote runtime during setup; publish only validated roots. npm is resolved near the running node, never from PATH or the project .bin; non-npm npm_execpath values (pnpm/yarn) are ignored.
  • MCP wrapper uses only the stable runtime and fails fast with a per-harness repair command.
  • Doctor reports bridge runtime health (required only for plugin-owned harnesses).
  • Keep the Codex MCP startup timeout at 60s.
  • Preserve third-party MCP server fields (command/args/tools) when rewriting the codex TOML config.
  • Consolidate duplicated harness sets into types.ts with a generator/core sync guard; drop the middle-man wrapper generators.
  • Add a typecheck pre-commit gate; allocate auth test ports dynamically.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Setup and installation now automatically prepare the MCP bridge runtime.
    • MCP runtime versions are pinned and validated for reliable startup.
    • OpenCode onboarding combines authentication, bridge setup, skills, and MCP configuration.
    • Doctor reports bridge readiness, version, and repair guidance.
    • Backups retain consistent ordering when created simultaneously.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Existing MCP configuration fields are preserved during updates.
    • Improved handling of invalid, incomplete, or unsafe bridge installations.
    • Improved timeout and cleanup handling for bridge processes.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded setup, authentication, troubleshooting, and runtime repair guidance.

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Walkthrough

This change adds managed, version-pinned mcp-remote provisioning with validation, atomic publication, process cleanup, and wrapper hardening. Setup, install, doctor, generated configurations, documentation, backups, and tests now use the shared runtime.

Changes

Managed MCP runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime validation and process control
packages/core/src/mcp/..., packages/core/test/unit/mcp/...
Adds canonical validation, trusted npm resolution, bounded process execution, and cross-platform process-tree termination.
Atomic runtime installation and cleanup
packages/core/src/mcp/mcp-remote-runtime.ts, openspec/changes/stage-mcp-runtime-during-setup/*, packages/core/test/unit/mcp/mcp-remote-runtime.test.ts
Adds staged installation, atomic publication, locks, ownership metadata, orphan reclamation, and symlink-safe cleanup.
Pinned wrapper generation and harness wiring
scripts/*, .claude-mcp.json, .mcp.json, mcp_config.json, packages/core/test/unit/mcp/mcp-wrapper.test.ts
Passes harness identifiers, pins versions, removes startup download fallbacks, validates runtime paths, and emits repair guidance.
Setup, install, doctor, and authentication integration
packages/core/src/*, packages/core/scripts/setup.mjs, packages/core/test/integration/*, README.md, packages/core/README.md
Provisions the runtime during setup and install, reports bridge readiness, supports injectable browser launching, and updates onboarding documentation.
Configuration preservation and backup ordering
packages/core/src/mcp/mcp-config-writer.ts, packages/core/src/utils/backup.ts, packages/core/test/unit/mcp/mcp-config-writer.test.ts, packages/core/test/unit/utils/backup.test.ts
Preserves complete third-party MCP entries and validates backup metadata, ordering, and concurrent sequence allocation.
Repository validation and generated artifacts
package.json, packages/core/package.json, .husky/pre-commit, .github/workflows/test.yml, .gitattributes, eslint.config.js, openspec/changes/stage-mcp-runtime-during-setup/tasks.md, scripts/materialize-github-marketplace.mjs
Adds type checking, test timeouts, LF normalization, nested distribution-directory ignores, completed implementation tracking, and regenerated wrapper materialization.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c36d5

This PR provisions the bridge runtime during setup, but setup still aborts for opencode and pi before installation, preventing offline onboarding; the documentation also gives conflicting npm-resolution guidance. The onboarding failure should be fixed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

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  participant User
  participant CLI
  participant RuntimeManager
  participant NpmRunner
  participant RuntimeValidator
  participant MCPWrapper
  User->>CLI: setup or install
  CLI->>RuntimeManager: ensureMcpRemoteRuntime()
  RuntimeManager->>NpmRunner: install pinned mcp-remote
  NpmRunner-->>RuntimeManager: process result
  RuntimeManager->>RuntimeValidator: validateRuntimeRoot()
  RuntimeValidator-->>RuntimeManager: validated proxy path
  RuntimeManager-->>CLI: bridge ready
  MCPWrapper->>RuntimeValidator: validate managed runtime
  RuntimeValidator-->>MCPWrapper: validated proxy
  MCPWrapper->>MCPWrapper: import proxy with URL and headers
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A rabbit checks the runtime tree,
With locks and paths secured.
The bridge starts on pinned code,
And wrappers stay assured.
Tests hop through ports and timeouts,
While backup notes endure.

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This PR provisions a shared, exact-pinned mcp-remote runtime during nsolid-plugin setup so the generated MCP wrappers never invoke npm/npx/shell during harness startup. setup stage-installs into a randomized staging dir, validates the dependency closure statically, and publishes via an atomic rename with race handling that never degrades a valid runtime. The wrapper now takes an explicit --harness argument, resolves mcp-remote only from the stable runtime (or a version-matched dev checkout), and fails fast with a per-harness repair command. Collateral changes: the codex TOML writer preserves third-party stdio server fields, the Codex MCP startup timeout is pinned at 60s, duplicated harness sets are consolidated into types.ts with a generator/core sync guard, a typecheck pre-commit gate is added, and auth tests allocate ports dynamically to avoid cross-file contention.

Changes

File(s) Summary
packages/core/src/mcp/mcp-remote-runtime.ts (new) Runtime manager: inspect, stage-install, validate closure, atomic publish, guarded cleanup, npm resolution that avoids PATH/project .bin
scripts/mcp-wrapper.js, scripts/plugin-generators.mjs Wrapper resolves mcp-remote only from the stable runtime/dev checkout; harness arg; generator consolidates to a single generateMcpWrapper() and syncs version/harness constants
packages/core/src/index.ts setup provisions the runtime before per-harness install; doctor reports bridge health (required only for plugin-owned harnesses)
packages/core/src/types.ts Consolidated PLUGIN_OWNED_HARNESSES / NATIVE_PLUGIN_HARNESSES; DoctorReport.bridge shape
packages/core/src/mcp/mcp-config-writer.ts TOML writer preserves full server objects ({ ...srv }) instead of rebuilding from a url/headers whitelist
packages/core/src/utils/format.ts, src/cli.ts, scripts/setup.mjs Bridge line in doctor output; setup/CLI messaging
.claude-mcp.json, .mcp.json, mcp_config.json Pass harness arg through wrapper; add startup_timeout_sec: 60 for codex
packages/core/test/** New runtime tests (491 lines), wrapper contract tests, config-writer TOML regression tests, dynamic auth test ports
.husky/pre-commit, package.json, packages/core/package.json, eslint.config.js typecheck gate; **/dist/** ignore glob
README.md Docs for the bridge runtime, repair flow, and doctor output

Assessment

  • No blocking findings. The security model is strong: the wrapper never invokes a shell, npx, or cmd.exe; npm resolution is confined to the node directory and a validated npm_execpath (pnpm/yarn rejected); safeRemove asserts paths stay inside the runtime parent before any rmSync; staging is validated (package name, version, dist/proxy.js, and a static dependency-closure walk) before the atomic rename; --ignore-scripts is used for the install.
  • Validation run in sandbox (fresh clone at head b54b3c3): node --check on generated scripts ✓; tsc --noEmit ✓; eslint on changed core sources ✓; 105 unit tests pass ✓; 91 integration tests pass ✓; materialize-github-marketplace --check ✓; sync-plugin-assets --check ✓.
  • Two non-blocking notes inline: (1) 🛠️ the wrapper's runtime path and core's getMcpRemoteRuntimeRoot() are independent sources of truth that agree today but aren't cross-tested; (2) 🧹 the CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC constant isn't guarded against the committed .mcp.json the way the version/harness constants are.
  • 🚩 This change touches the MCP runtime supply chain (what mcp-remote code runs at harness startup) and the codex config writer. The install uses --ignore-scripts and pins an exact version with closure validation, which is the right posture, but a human reviewer should confirm the pinned mcp-remote@0.1.38 and its transitive deps are acceptable to run with user credentials in scope.

Verdict: APPROVE — clean pass with two non-blocking refactor/nit notes; advisory and does not replace required human review.

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function resolveProxyPath () {
// 1. Stable shared runtime provisioned by `nsolid-plugin setup`.
const runtimeRoot = path.join(os.homedir(), '.agents', 'nsolid-plugin', 'runtime', 'mcp-remote', MCP_REMOTE_VERSION)

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🛠️ Refactor suggestion

The runtime root path is assembled twice with slightly different sources of truth: core uses getAgentsDir() (which resolves os.homedir()/.agents), while the generated wrapper hardcodes path.join(os.homedir(), '.agents', 'nsolid-plugin', 'runtime', 'mcp-remote', MCP_REMOTE_VERSION). They agree today, but a future change to getAgentsDir() (e.g. honoring NSOLID_HOME or XDG_CONFIG_HOME) would silently desync the wrapper from the provisioning code, and the existing sync tests only compare the wrapper against the generator, not against core's getMcpRemoteRuntimeRoot().

Consider adding a unit test that asserts the wrapper's resolved runtime path equals getMcpRemoteRuntimeRoot() (or at minimum that getAgentsDir() continues to mean os.homedir()/.agents), so a divergence is caught at test time rather than at a user's harness startup.

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Still open and still non-blocking at head bda4d9e. The wrapper still hardcodes path.join(os.homedir(), '.agents', ...) (line 126) while core resolves via getAgentsDir() — both now canonicalize with realpathSync, which narrows the risk, but the dual-source-of-truth remains unguarded by a path-equality test. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule; this reply confirms the thread's status on the new push.

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Still open and still non-blocking at head 6c1e593d. The wrapper still hardcodes path.join(os.homedir(), '.agents', ...) (line 126) while core resolves via getAgentsDir() — the dual-source-of-truth remains unguarded by a path-equality test. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule; this reply confirms the thread's status on the new push.

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Still open and still non-blocking at head 6e37ea6. The wrapper still hardcodes path.join(os.homedir(), '.agents', ...) (line 126) while core resolves via getAgentsDir() — the dual-source-of-truth remains unguarded by a path-equality test. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule; this reply confirms the thread's status on the new push.

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Still open and still non-blocking at head c69fdcab (rebase from 6e37ea6). The wrapper still hardcodes path.join(os.homedir(), '.agents', 'nsolid-plugin', 'runtime', 'mcp-remote') (line 145) while core resolves via getAgentsDir() — the dual-source-of-truth remains unguarded by a path-equality test. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule; this reply confirms the thread's status on the new push.

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Still open and still non-blocking at head fcaa1fc (rebase from 6e37ea6, same logic). The wrapper still hardcodes path.join(os.homedir(), '.agents', 'nsolid-plugin', 'runtime', 'mcp-remote') (line 145) while core resolves via getAgentsDir() — the dual-source-of-truth remains unguarded by a path-equality test. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule; this reply confirms the thread's status on the new push.

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✔ Fixed at head 5e891bb1. A new unit test asserts join(homedir(), ...MCP_REMOTE_RUNTIME_PARENT_SEGMENTS) === getMcpRemoteRuntimeParent(), so a future change to getAgentsDir() that desyncs the wrapper's hardcoded path from core's resolved runtime root is caught at test time. Verified in the sandbox (67/67 wrapper tests pass, including 'keeps the generated runtime parent equal to the core runtime parent'). No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule.

export const MCP_REMOTE_VERSION = '0.1.38'

// Keep in sync with packages/core/src/types.ts (guarded by a unit test).
export const HARNESS_VALUES = ['claude', 'codex', 'opencode', 'antigravity', 'pi']

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🧹 Nitpick

CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC = 60 lives only here in the generator, while the same 60s value is written as startup_timeout_sec: 60 literals in .mcp.json and is referenced in the PR description ("Keep the Codex MCP startup timeout at 60s"). The value is now consistent across the generated artifacts, but there's no test guarding the generator constant against the committed .mcp.json the way the mcp-remote version and harness lists are guarded. Not blocking since the value is stable and the --check materializer validates generated output byte-for-byte, but a future bump would need to update the constant and the committed JSON in lockstep.

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Still open and still non-blocking at head bda4d9e. CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC = 60 (now line 46) remains guarded only by the --check materializer's byte-for-byte output validation, not by a dedicated unit test against the committed .mcp.json literals. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule; this reply confirms the thread's status on the new push.

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Still open and still non-blocking at head 6c1e593d. CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC = 60 (line 46) remains guarded only by the --check materializer's byte-for-byte output validation, not by a dedicated unit test against the committed .mcp.json literals. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule; this reply confirms the thread's status on the new push.

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Still open and still non-blocking at head 6e37ea6. CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC = 60 (line 46) remains guarded only by the --check materializer's byte-for-byte output validation, not by a dedicated unit test against the committed .mcp.json literals. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule; this reply confirms the thread's status on the new push.

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Still open and still non-blocking at head c69fdcab (rebase from 6e37ea6). CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC = 60 (line 46) remains guarded only by the --check materializer's byte-for-byte output validation, not by a dedicated unit test against the committed .mcp.json literals. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule; this reply confirms the thread's status on the new push.

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Still open and still non-blocking at head fcaa1fc (rebase from 6e37ea6, same logic). CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC = 60 (line 46) remains guarded only by the --check materializer's byte-for-byte output validation, not by a dedicated unit test against the committed .mcp.json literals. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule; this reply confirms the thread's status on the new push.

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✔ Fixed at head 5e891bb1. A new unit test ('keeps the committed Codex startup timeout in sync with the generator') asserts server.startup_timeout_sec === CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC for every generated server and deepEqual(committed, generated) against the committed .mcp.json, so a future bump must update the constant and the committed JSON in lockstep. Verified in the sandbox (67/67 wrapper tests pass). No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule.

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Cesar-M-Diaz force-pushed the cesar/impl-mcp-runtime-setup branch from b54b3c3 to 0b3c48e Compare August 19, 2026 13:53

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Walkthrough

Re-review on synchronize (head b54b3c30b3c48e, a force-push that squashed to a single commit with identical logic). The PR provisions a shared, exact-pinned mcp-remote runtime during nsolid-plugin setup so the generated MCP wrappers never invoke npm/npx/shell during harness startup. setup stage-installs into a randomized staging dir, validates the dependency closure statically, and publishes via an atomic rename with race handling that never degrades a valid runtime. The wrapper resolves mcp-remote only from the stable runtime (or a version-matched dev checkout) and fails fast with a per-harness repair command. Collateral changes: the codex TOML writer preserves third-party stdio server fields, the Codex MCP startup timeout is pinned at 60s, duplicated harness sets are consolidated into types.ts with a generator/core sync guard, a typecheck pre-commit gate is added, and auth tests allocate ports dynamically to avoid cross-file contention.

Changes

File(s) Summary
packages/core/src/mcp/mcp-remote-runtime.ts (new) Runtime manager: inspect, stage-install, validate closure, atomic publish, guarded cleanup, npm resolution that avoids PATH/project .bin
scripts/mcp-wrapper.js, scripts/plugin-generators.mjs Wrapper resolves mcp-remote only from the stable runtime/dev checkout; harness arg; generator consolidates to a single generateMcpWrapper() and syncs version/harness constants
packages/core/src/index.ts setup provisions the runtime before per-harness install; doctor reports bridge health (required only for plugin-owned harnesses)
packages/core/src/types.ts Consolidated PLUGIN_OWNED_HARNESSES / NATIVE_PLUGIN_HARNESSES; DoctorReport.bridge shape
packages/core/src/mcp/mcp-config-writer.ts TOML writer preserves full server objects ({ ...srv }) instead of rebuilding from a url/headers whitelist
packages/core/src/utils/format.ts, src/cli.ts, scripts/setup.mjs Bridge line in doctor output; setup/CLI messaging
.claude-mcp.json, .mcp.json, mcp_config.json Pass harness arg through wrapper; add startup_timeout_sec: 60 for codex
packages/core/test/** New runtime tests (491 lines), wrapper contract tests, config-writer TOML regression tests, dynamic auth test ports
.husky/pre-commit, package.json, packages/core/package.json, eslint.config.js, .gitattributes typecheck gate; **/dist/** ignore glob; LF-eol enforcement for byte-for-byte wrapper sync
README.md, packages/core/README.md Docs for the bridge runtime, repair flow, and doctor output

Assessment

  • Re-review confirms no blocking findings at the new head. The security model is unchanged and strong: the wrapper never invokes a shell, npx, or cmd.exe; npm resolution is confined to the node directory and a validated npm_execpath (pnpm/yarn rejected); safeRemove asserts paths stay inside the runtime parent before any rmSync; staging is validated (package name, version, dist/proxy.js, and a static dependency-closure walk) before the atomic rename; --ignore-scripts is used for the install.
  • Validation run in sandbox (fresh clone at head 0b3c48e): node --check on mcp-wrapper.js, plugin-generators.mjs, materialize-github-marketplace.mjs ✓; tsc --noEmit (core) ✓; eslint on changed core sources ✓; 106 unit tests pass (mcp-remote-runtime, mcp-wrapper, mcp-config-writer, format) ✓; sync-plugin-assets --check ✓; materialize-github-marketplace --check ✓.
  • Two previously raised non-blocking notes remain open and are still non-blocking at this head:
    • 🛠️ scripts/mcp-wrapper.js:119 — the wrapper's runtime path (path.join(os.homedir(), '.agents', ...)) and core's getMcpRemoteRuntimeRoot() (via getAgentsDir()) are independent sources of truth that agree today but aren't cross-tested. The version and harness lists now have sync tests, but no path-equality test guards a future getAgentsDir() change (e.g. honoring XDG_CONFIG_HOME) from silently desyncing the wrapper from provisioning. Optional hardening, not blocking.
    • 🧹 scripts/plugin-generators.mjs:36CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC = 60 is not guarded against the committed .mcp.json literals the way the version/harness constants are. The --check materializer validates generated output byte-for-byte, so a future bump would be caught at sync time; a dedicated constant test would catch it at unit-test time. Optional, not blocking.
  • 🚩 This change touches the MCP runtime supply chain (what mcp-remote code runs at harness startup) and the codex config writer. The install uses --ignore-scripts and pins an exact version with closure validation, which is the right posture, but a human reviewer should confirm the pinned mcp-remote@0.1.38 and its transitive deps are acceptable to run with user credentials in scope.

Verdict: APPROVE — re-review confirms the squashed head carries the same logic as the previously approved commit; no blocking findings. Advisory and does not replace required human review.

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Walkthrough

Re-review on synchronize (head 0b3c48ebda4d9e). The intervening commits harden the MCP bridge runtime publication protocol, extract the runner/validation into their own modules, and fix CI/OS-specific failures: the Windows npm-tree termination path is now bounded (a stuck taskkill is raced against the confirmation deadline, the killer is stopped, and the runner settles from the timeout path when the child's close never fires), macOS fixture roots are canonicalized with realpathSync so expected shim/CLI paths match the implementation's intentional canonical resolution, and the CI matrix job gains timeout-minutes: 10 so a hung step fails its own OS in minutes. The core security model is unchanged and strong: the wrapper never invokes a shell/npx/cmd.exe, npm is resolved only from canonical candidates anchored to the running Node.js installation, staging is validated (package name, version, dist/proxy.js, static dependency-closure walk) before an atomic rename, and safeRemove asserts paths stay inside the runtime parent.

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File(s) Summary
packages/core/src/mcp/mcp-runtime-runner.ts Windows termination path bounded with KILLER_STUCK race + stuck-killer cleanup; cancelManagedTree exported with TerminationControls for deterministic tests; waitFor clears its losing timer
packages/core/src/mcp/mcp-runtime-validation.ts (new) Canonical symlink/closure readiness probes extracted, parameterized by expected version
packages/core/src/mcp/mcp-remote-runtime.ts Publication protocol (lock, sidecars, reclamation) split along low-coupling seams; ownership sidecars, retained-live policy, fail-closed reclamation
packages/core/test/unit/mcp/mcp-runtime-runner.test.ts (new) Deterministic termination-branch tests via injected fake taskkill; platform-aware survivor cleanup
packages/core/test/unit/mcp/mcp-remote-runtime.test.ts macOS realpathSync fixture canonicalization; async cleanup with bounded confirmation
.github/workflows/test.yml timeout-minutes: 10 on the matrix job

Assessment

  • No blocking findings at the new head. The Windows termination hardening is correct: the KILLER_STUCK sentinel race bounds a hung taskkill, the killer is best-effort stopped, and finishWithTermination settles the runner from the timeout path so a surviving child's never-firing close can no longer hang the operation. The waitFor helper now clears its losing timer so a resolved race never keeps the event loop alive.
  • Validation run in sandbox (fresh clone at head bda4d9e): node --check on mcp-wrapper.js, plugin-generators.mjs ✓; tsc --noEmit (core) ✓; eslint on changed core sources and tests ✓; 4 runner tests pass ✓; 59 runtime tests pass ✓; 51 wrapper tests pass ✓; 64 config-writer/format tests pass ✓; sync-plugin-assets --check ✓; materialize-github-marketplace --check ✓; pnpm audit --prod — no known vulnerabilities ✓.
  • Two previously raised non-blocking notes remain open (replies posted to their existing threads per the one-thread-per-issue rule, no new inline comments):
    • 🛠️ scripts/mcp-wrapper.js:126 — wrapper runtime path vs core's getMcpRemoteRuntimeRoot() dual source of truth; both now canonicalize with realpathSync but no path-equality test guards a future getAgentsDir() change from silently desyncing. Optional hardening, not blocking.
    • 🧹 scripts/plugin-generators.mjs:46CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC = 60 guarded only by the --check materializer's byte-for-byte output validation, not a dedicated unit test. Optional, not blocking.
  • 🚩 This change touches the MCP runtime supply chain (what mcp-remote code runs at harness startup) and the codex config writer. The install uses --ignore-scripts and pins an exact version with closure validation, which is the right posture, but a human reviewer should confirm the pinned mcp-remote@0.1.38 and its transitive deps are acceptable to run with user credentials in scope.

Verdict: APPROVE — re-review confirms the new head introduces no blocking findings; the Windows termination, macOS canonicalization, and CI bounding fixes are correct. Advisory and does not replace required human review.

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Re-review on synchronize (head bda4d9e6c1e593d, a force-push squash). The delta since the last review is a focused security and correctness hardening of two areas: (1) safeRemove and reclaimOrphans in mcp-remote-runtime.ts now use realpathSync instead of path.resolve for containment checks, closing a symlink-escape vector where a symlinked HOME (common on macOS /var/private/var) could let an orphan tree whose canonical target lives outside the runtime parent pass the lexical boundary check; (2) backup.ts gains a cross-process-monotonic seq reserved atomically via exclusive mkdirSync so that back-to-back backups sharing a millisecond createdAt (or tied mtimes on FAT/network mounts) always have a deterministic newest-first order, never a tie. Reservations are immutable — a crashed creator leaves a harmless gap rather than a reusable number, eliminating the race that reintroduced the tie bug.

The core security model is unchanged and strong: the wrapper never invokes a shell/npx/cmd.exe, npm is resolved only from canonical candidates anchored to the running Node.js installation, staging is validated before an atomic rename, and safeRemove asserts (now canonical) paths stay inside the runtime parent before any rmSync.

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File(s) Summary
packages/core/src/mcp/mcp-remote-runtime.ts safeRemove and reclaimOrphans now use realpathSync for containment checks, closing a symlink-escape path (deletion still operates on the original link path)
packages/core/src/utils/backup.ts Cross-process seq reserved atomically via exclusive mkdirSync; listConfigBackups sorts createdAt → seq → legacy mtime; migration floor from existing sidecars + legacy counter + existing reservations
packages/core/test/unit/mcp/mcp-remote-runtime.test.ts New symlink-home orphan reclamation test; proxyPath assertions use realpathSync; two Unix-only npm-shim tests skip on Windows
packages/core/test/unit/utils/backup.test.ts New tests: crashed-creator gap, same-ms seq ordering, 6-process concurrent seq uniqueness with readdirSync contention

Assessment

  • No blocking findings at the new head. The realpathSync hardening in safeRemove/reclaimOrphans is correct: the canonical path is validated against the canonical parent before rmSync, and the deletion targets the original (non-canonical) path so rmSync follows the link correctly. The new symlink-home reclamation test validates the fix.
  • The reserveBackupSeq design is correct: exclusive mkdirSync provides atomic cross-process reservation; losers increment and retry; the migration floor (highestMetaSeq, highestReservedSeq, legacyCounterSeq) ensures continuity from prior implementations; reservations are never removed (documented, deliberate — reusing a seq after a crash would reintroduce the tie). The .seq-reservations directory grows by one empty dir per backup, but backups are infrequent manual operations, so the cost is negligible for years.
  • Validation run in sandbox (fresh clone at head 6c1e593d): node --check on changed sources ✓; tsc --noEmit (core) ✓; eslint on changed sources and tests ✓; 11 backup tests pass (incl. 6-process concurrent seq test, 3.3s) ✓; 60 runtime tests pass (incl. symlink-home orphan reclamation) ✓; 119 wrapper/config-writer/format/runner tests pass ✓; sync-plugin-assets --check ✓; materialize-github-marketplace --check ✓; pnpm audit --prod — no known vulnerabilities ✓.
  • Two previously raised non-blocking notes remain open (replies posted to their existing threads per the one-thread-per-issue rule, no new inline comments):
    • 🛠️ scripts/mcp-wrapper.js:126 — wrapper runtime path vs core's getMcpRemoteRuntimeRoot() dual source of truth; no path-equality test added. Optional hardening, not blocking.
    • 🧹 scripts/plugin-generators.mjs:46CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC = 60 guarded only by the --check materializer, not a dedicated unit test. Optional, not blocking.
  • 🚩 This change touches the MCP runtime supply chain (what mcp-remote code runs at harness startup) and the codex config writer. The install uses --ignore-scripts and pins an exact version with closure validation, which is the right posture, but a human reviewer should confirm the pinned mcp-remote@0.1.38 and its transitive deps are acceptable to run with user credentials in scope.

Verdict: APPROVE — re-review confirms the new head introduces no blocking findings; the realpathSync symlink-escape fix and the cross-process monotonic backup seq are correct and well-tested. Advisory and does not replace required human review.

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Check my comments pls

Comment on lines +799 to +806
function safeRemove (target: string, parent: string): void {
const canonicalTarget = realpathSync(target)
const canonicalParent = realpathSync(parent)
if (!isInsideBoundary(canonicalTarget, canonicalParent)) {
throw new McpRemoteRuntimeError(`Refusing to remove a path outside the runtime directory: ${target}`)
}
rmSync(target, { recursive: true, force: true })
}

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An invalid runtime root symlink pointing outside the managed runtime directory cannot be repaired reliably. The setup path publishes the replacement runtime, then safeRemove() follows the symlink and rejects cleanup because its canonical target is outside the boundary. In local reproduction, setup throws Refusing to remove a path outside the runtime directory and leaves the root/stale artifacts behind.

Please quarantine or unlink the symlink lexically before applying canonical containment checks, then clean the stale entries. Add a regression test for repairing an outside-target root symlink.

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Fixed in 6e37ea6. safeRemove now lstats the target first: a symlink is unlinked lexically — never followed — regardless of where it resolves, so the moved-aside root is cleaned and repair converges instead of throwing after publication. Non-links keep the canonical containment check, now preceded by a lexical strict-descendant guard that also rejects target === parent. Two related hardenings: ENOENT is the only successful no-op (EACCES/EPERM/EIO stay visible instead of silently "succeeding"), and the created[] cleanup loop calls safeRemove unconditionally — the old existsSync precondition followed terminal symlinks and would have leaked a broken link. reclaimOrphans got the same treatment, so symlinked stale/staging entries are reclaimed lexically under the existing ownership/liveness proofs.

Regression added: repairing an outside-target root symlink now publishes the replacement, leaves the parent with only the version directory, and a sentinel file in the link's referent proves it was never touched.

Comment on lines +74 to +84
const rootProbe = canonicalTargetInside(root, canonicalParent, 'dir')
if (!rootProbe.ok) {
if (rootProbe.failure === 'escape') {
return { ok: false, reason: `runtime root resolves outside the controlled runtime parent (${rootProbe.canonical})` }
}
if (rootProbe.failure === 'type') {
return { ok: false, reason: 'runtime root is not a directory' }
}
return { ok: false, reason: 'runtime root is missing or unreadable' }
}
const canonicalRoot = rootProbe.canonical

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The containment check is inclusive, so a version root whose canonical path is exactly the runtime parent is accepted. A root symlink resolving to the parent directory therefore passes validation, even though the versioned runtime must be a strict descendant of that parent. The wrapper can then execute a package from outside the expected version directory.

Please use strict-descendant validation for the version root while retaining inclusive containment for files inside it, and add an equality-boundary regression test.

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Fixed in 6e37ea6. Containment now classifies through a single tri-state relation ('same' | 'descendant' | 'outside') with both an inclusive and a strict predicate over it, so the two policies can't drift. The version root and node_modules/mcp-remote probes use the strict predicate: canonical equality with the parent is rejected with runtime root must resolve strictly below the controlled runtime parent, while files inside the root keep inclusive containment as you suggested.

The same hole existed in the wrapper (path.relative(...) === '' passed), so both wrapper copies — scripts/mcp-wrapper.js and the generateMcpWrapper template — now reject self-equality too, except the dev fallback where dir === boundary by construction. Equality-boundary regressions added for core inspect and for the wrapper in both source and generated variants.

Cesar-M-Diaz added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 27, 2026
… containment

Address both review comments on PR #63:

- safeRemove: lexically guard removal to strict descendants of the runtime
  parent (rejecting the parent itself), make absence (ENOENT) the only
  successful no-op, and unlink symlink deletion targets lexically — never
  following them. Repairing an invalid root whose symlink points outside
  the parent now converges instead of throwing after publication and
  leaking the stale link. The created[] cleanup loop drops its existsSync
  precondition (it follows terminal symlinks and leaked broken links),
  and reclaimOrphans treats symlinked orphan entries as lexically
  reclaimable under the same ownership/liveness proofs.

- Validation: shared tri-state boundary relation ('same' | 'descendant' |
  'outside') with inclusive and strict predicates; the versioned runtime
  root and node_modules/mcp-remote must now resolve strictly below their
  boundaries — canonical equality with the runtime parent is rejected —
  while files inside the root keep inclusive containment. The same
  strictness is enforced in both wrapper copies (scripts/mcp-wrapper.js
  and the generateMcpWrapper template), rejecting self-equality except
  for the dev fallback where dir === boundary by construction.

Regressions: outside-target root symlink repair (referent untouched),
symlinked stale-tree reclamation, equality-boundary root rejection in
core inspect and in the source/generated wrapper. openspec change docs
updated to match.

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Re-review on synchronize (head 6c1e593d6e37ea6). The new commit addresses both blocking findings raised by the human reviewer (dobleuber): (1) safeRemove now unlinks symlink deletion targets lexically (via unlinkSync, with an rmdirSync junction/dir fallback) instead of following them with realpathSync containment checks — repairing an invalid runtime root whose symlink points outside the managed parent now converges instead of throwing Refusing to remove a path outside the runtime directory and leaking the stale link. The lexical guard rejects the parent itself (strict descendant), ENOENT is the only successful no-op, the created[] cleanup loop dropped its existsSync precondition (which followed terminal symlinks and leaked broken links), and reclaimOrphans treats symlinked entries as lexically reclaimable under the same ownership/liveness proofs. (2) Validation now uses a shared tri-state boundary relation (same | descendant | outside) with a descendant containment mode that rejects canonical equality with the boundary — the versioned runtime root and node_modules/mcp-remote must resolve strictly below their boundaries (a root symlink resolving to the parent itself is now rejected), while inner files (manifest, proxy) keep inclusive containment. The same strictness is enforced in both wrapper copies (scripts/mcp-wrapper.js and the plugin-generators.mjs template), with allowSelf only for the dev fallback where dir === boundary by construction.

The core security model is unchanged and strong: the wrapper never invokes a shell/npx/cmd.exe, npm is resolved only from canonical candidates anchored to the running Node.js installation, staging is validated before an atomic rename, and safeRemove asserts (now lexical-then-canonical) paths stay strict descendants of the runtime parent.

Changes

File(s) Summary
packages/core/src/mcp/mcp-remote-runtime.ts safeRemove lexically unlinks symlinks (never following referent), enforces strict-descendant guard, ENOENT-only idempotence; reclaimOrphans treats symlinks as lexically reclaimable; created[] loop drops existsSync precondition
packages/core/src/mcp/mcp-runtime-validation.ts Shared tri-state boundaryRelation (same/descendant/outside); canonicalTargetInside gains containment param; version root and node_modules/mcp-remote use strict descendant, inner files stay inclusive; new isStrictlyInsideBoundary export
scripts/mcp-wrapper.js, scripts/plugin-generators.mjs canonicalTargetInside gains allowSelf param; strict on the stable path, self-equality allowed only for the dev fallback
packages/core/test/unit/mcp/mcp-remote-runtime.test.ts New regressions: outside-target root symlink repair (referent untouched), equality-boundary root rejection, symlinked stale-tree reclamation
packages/core/test/unit/mcp/mcp-wrapper.test.ts New regression: equality-boundary root rejection in both source and generated wrappers
openspec/.../{design,spec,tasks}.md Spec docs updated: strict-descendant containment, lexical symlink repair, symlinked orphan reclamation scenarios

Assessment

  • dobleuber finding #1 (outside-target root symlink repair) — Fixed. safeRemove now unlinks symlink targets lexically (unlinkSync/rmdirSync fallback) before any canonical check, so an invalid root whose link points outside the parent is removed without following the referent. The lexical strict-descendant guard rejects the parent itself; ENOENT is the only successful no-op. New regression test confirms the referent survives untouched and no stale artifacts remain.
  • dobleuber finding #2 (inclusive containment accepting parent-equality) — Fixed. validateRuntimeRoot and canonicalTargetInside now use containment: 'descendant', rejecting canonical equality with the boundary for the version root and node_modules/mcp-remote. Both wrapper copies enforce the same strictness. New regression tests cover equality-boundary rejection in core inspect and both wrapper variants.
  • Validation run in sandbox (fresh clone at head 6e37ea6): node --check on mcp-wrapper.js, plugin-generators.mjs ✓; tsc --noEmit (core) ✓; eslint on changed sources and tests ✓; 640 tests pass (105 suites) incl. 63 runtime tests, 53 wrapper tests ✓; sync-plugin-assets --check ✓; materialize-github-marketplace --check ✓; pnpm audit --prod — no known vulnerabilities ✓.
  • Two previously raised non-blocking notes remain open (replies posted to their existing threads per the one-thread-per-issue rule, no new inline comments):
    • 🛠️ scripts/mcp-wrapper.js:126 — wrapper runtime path vs core's getMcpRemoteRuntimeRoot() dual source of truth; no path-equality test added. Optional hardening, not blocking.
    • 🧹 scripts/plugin-generators.mjs:46CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC = 60 guarded only by the --check materializer, not a dedicated unit test. Optional, not blocking.
  • 🚩 This change touches the MCP runtime supply chain (what mcp-remote code runs at harness startup) and the codex config writer. The install uses --ignore-scripts and pins an exact version with closure validation, which is the right posture, but a human reviewer should confirm the pinned mcp-remote@0.1.38 and its transitive deps are acceptable to run with user credentials in scope.

Verdict: APPROVE — re-review confirms both blocking findings are resolved in code and well-tested; no new blocking findings introduced. Advisory and does not replace required human review.

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Good job!

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Cesar-M-Diaz added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 28, 2026
… containment

Address both review comments on PR #63:

- safeRemove: lexically guard removal to strict descendants of the runtime
  parent (rejecting the parent itself), make absence (ENOENT) the only
  successful no-op, and unlink symlink deletion targets lexically — never
  following them. Repairing an invalid root whose symlink points outside
  the parent now converges instead of throwing after publication and
  leaking the stale link. The created[] cleanup loop drops its existsSync
  precondition (it follows terminal symlinks and leaked broken links),
  and reclaimOrphans treats symlinked orphan entries as lexically
  reclaimable under the same ownership/liveness proofs.

- Validation: shared tri-state boundary relation ('same' | 'descendant' |
  'outside') with inclusive and strict predicates; the versioned runtime
  root and node_modules/mcp-remote must now resolve strictly below their
  boundaries — canonical equality with the runtime parent is rejected —
  while files inside the root keep inclusive containment. The same
  strictness is enforced in both wrapper copies (scripts/mcp-wrapper.js
  and the generateMcpWrapper template), rejecting self-equality except
  for the dev fallback where dir === boundary by construction.

Regressions: outside-target root symlink repair (referent untouched),
symlinked stale-tree reclamation, equality-boundary root rejection in
core inspect and in the source/generated wrapper. openspec change docs
updated to match.
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packages/core/src/utils/backup.ts (1)

32-32: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Prune sequence reservation markers.

No other production consumer enumerates the harness backup directory. listConfigBackups ignores .seq-reservations because its sidecar is absent. However, each backup permanently adds a marker, and each later backup scans all markers and backup sidecars. Prune markers below the highest persisted seq to avoid an additional unbounded scan.

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In `@packages/core/src/utils/backup.ts` at line 32, Update the
sequence-reservation cleanup in listConfigBackups to remove marker files under
.seq-reservations whose sequence is lower than the highest persisted backup seq,
while retaining markers at or above that sequence and preserving backup
enumeration behavior.
packages/core/test/integration/installer.test.ts (1)

132-144: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reset runtimeControl in beforeEach.

runtimeControl is module state, and only tests that call resetRuntimeControl() clear it. A test that sets behavior: 'fail' leaves that value for every later test that calls setup() or installWithRuntime() without an explicit reset. Today those later tests pass only because they seed a ready runtime first. Reset the control with the other per-test state to remove the ordering dependency.

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   execFileCalls.length = 0
   authNotices.length = 0
+  resetRuntimeControl('provision')
   delete process.env.NSOLID_PLUGIN_PROGRESS
   delete process.env.npm_execpath
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In `@packages/core/test/integration/installer.test.ts` around lines 132 - 144,
Reset the module-level runtimeControl in the beforeEach setup alongside the
other per-test state, using the existing resetRuntimeControl() helper so each
test starts with default runtime behavior and no ordering dependency.
packages/core/scripts/setup.mjs (1)

52-58: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Re-export PLUGIN_OWNED_HARNESSES before importing it in setup.mjs.

packages/core/src/index.ts imports the shared set but does not export it. Add the root export, then remove the local duplicate from packages/core/scripts/setup.mjs; otherwise the dispatcher can diverge from packages/core/src/types.ts.

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minimal, and validate.

In `@packages/core/scripts/setup.mjs` around lines 52 - 58, Re-export
PLUGIN_OWNED_HARNESSES from packages/core/src/index.ts, then update setup.mjs to
import and use that shared symbol instead of defining a local duplicate. Keep
the dispatcher’s existing setup versus installWithRuntime behavior unchanged.
scripts/materialize-github-marketplace.mjs (1)

138-140: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pass bundle to generateMcpWrapper(). loadBundle(ROOT) supports NSOLID_PLUGIN_MARKETPLACE_ROOT, but generateMcpWrapper() uses defaultBundle while the MCP configs use bundle. A different root can therefore produce server names that the wrapper rejects.

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In `@scripts/materialize-github-marketplace.mjs` around lines 138 - 140, Update
the generateMcpWrapper invocation in the materialization flow to pass the loaded
bundle from loadBundle(ROOT), matching the bundle used by the MCP configurations
instead of relying on defaultBundle. Preserve the generated wrapper output for
the default root and ensure custom NSOLID_PLUGIN_MARKETPLACE_ROOT values use the
same server definitions.
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Inline comments:
In @.husky/pre-commit:
- Around line 1-3: Add errexit handling at the start of the pre-commit hook so
any failure from pnpm lint, pnpm typecheck, or pnpm test immediately terminates
the hook with a nonzero status. Keep the existing command order unchanged.

In `@packages/core/README.md`:
- Around line 54-70: Align the npm-resolution documentation with the actual
resolveNpmCommand behavior: update packages/core/README.md lines 54-70 to remove
or correct the conflicting npm_execpath claim, and update README.md line 241 if
needed so both documents state the same accepted-candidate rule. Do not change
implementation behavior.

In `@packages/core/src/utils/backup.ts`:
- Around line 34-43: Update highestMetaSeq to catch and ignore readJsonFile
failures for individual *.meta.json sidecars, continuing sequence discovery with
readable metadata and reservation markers. Ensure reserveBackupSeq remains
usable when a sidecar is truncated or otherwise invalid, including its call site
in createConfigBackup.

In `@packages/core/test/unit/mcp/mcp-wrapper.test.ts`:
- Around line 553-563: Update the hostile-PATH shim creation in the wrapper test
so the Windows command writes directly to the fixture’s sentinel path, matching
the Unix branch. Ensure the value used by the Windows `writeFileSync` branch
references the existing `sentinel` variable, allowing `neverRan(sentinel)` to
detect accidental execution.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@packages/core/scripts/setup.mjs`:
- Around line 52-58: Re-export PLUGIN_OWNED_HARNESSES from
packages/core/src/index.ts, then update setup.mjs to import and use that shared
symbol instead of defining a local duplicate. Keep the dispatcher’s existing
setup versus installWithRuntime behavior unchanged.

In `@packages/core/src/utils/backup.ts`:
- Line 32: Update the sequence-reservation cleanup in listConfigBackups to
remove marker files under .seq-reservations whose sequence is lower than the
highest persisted backup seq, while retaining markers at or above that sequence
and preserving backup enumeration behavior.

In `@packages/core/test/integration/installer.test.ts`:
- Around line 132-144: Reset the module-level runtimeControl in the beforeEach
setup alongside the other per-test state, using the existing
resetRuntimeControl() helper so each test starts with default runtime behavior
and no ordering dependency.

In `@scripts/materialize-github-marketplace.mjs`:
- Around line 138-140: Update the generateMcpWrapper invocation in the
materialization flow to pass the loaded bundle from loadBundle(ROOT), matching
the bundle used by the MCP configurations instead of relying on defaultBundle.
Preserve the generated wrapper output for the default root and ensure custom
NSOLID_PLUGIN_MARKETPLACE_ROOT values use the same server definitions.
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… containment

Address both review comments on PR #63:

- safeRemove: lexically guard removal to strict descendants of the runtime
  parent (rejecting the parent itself), make absence (ENOENT) the only
  successful no-op, and unlink symlink deletion targets lexically — never
  following them. Repairing an invalid root whose symlink points outside
  the parent now converges instead of throwing after publication and
  leaking the stale link. The created[] cleanup loop drops its existsSync
  precondition (it follows terminal symlinks and leaked broken links),
  and reclaimOrphans treats symlinked orphan entries as lexically
  reclaimable under the same ownership/liveness proofs.

- Validation: shared tri-state boundary relation ('same' | 'descendant' |
  'outside') with inclusive and strict predicates; the versioned runtime
  root and node_modules/mcp-remote must now resolve strictly below their
  boundaries — canonical equality with the runtime parent is rejected —
  while files inside the root keep inclusive containment. The same
  strictness is enforced in both wrapper copies (scripts/mcp-wrapper.js
  and the generateMcpWrapper template), rejecting self-equality except
  for the dev fallback where dir === boundary by construction.

Regressions: outside-target root symlink repair (referent untouched),
symlinked stale-tree reclamation, equality-boundary root rejection in
core inspect and in the source/generated wrapper. openspec change docs
updated to match.
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Cesar-M-Diaz force-pushed the cesar/impl-mcp-runtime-setup branch from c69fdca to fcaa1fc Compare August 28, 2026 14:43

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Re-review on synchronize (head 6e37ea6fcaa1fc, a rebase that preserves the same two-commit structure with identical logic). The PR provisions a shared, exact-pinned mcp-remote runtime during nsolid-plugin setup so generated MCP wrappers never invoke npm/npx/shell at harness startup; setup stage-installs into a randomized dir, validates the dependency closure statically, and publishes via an atomic rename with race handling that never degrades a valid runtime. The wrapper resolves mcp-remote only from the stable runtime (or a version-matched dev checkout) and fails fast with a per-harness repair command. Collateral changes: the codex TOML writer preserves third-party stdio server fields, the Codex MCP startup timeout is pinned at 60s, duplicated harness sets are consolidated into types.ts, a typecheck pre-commit gate is added, and backup ordering gains a cross-process-monotonic seq.

Changes

File(s) Summary
.husky/pre-commit Adds pnpm typecheck to the pre-commit hook (but lacks set -e — see inline)
packages/core/src/utils/backup.ts Cross-process seq reserved atomically via exclusive mkdirSync; listConfigBackups sorts createdAt → seq → legacy mtime; corrupt-sidecar handling unguarded — see inline
scripts/materialize-github-marketplace.mjs generateMcpWrapper() called with defaultBundle instead of the loaded bundle — see inline
packages/core/README.md npm-resolution doc contradicts itself on npm_execpath — see inline
packages/core/test/unit/mcp/mcp-wrapper.test.ts Windows hostile-PATH sentinel not interpolated — see inline
packages/core/src/mcp/mcp-remote-runtime.ts Runtime manager (unchanged from prior approved head): inspect, stage-install, validate closure, atomic publish, guarded cleanup, npm resolution avoiding PATH/project/npm_execpath
packages/core/src/mcp/mcp-runtime-validation.ts Shared tri-state boundary relation; strict-descendant containment for version root (unchanged from prior approved head)
scripts/mcp-wrapper.js, scripts/plugin-generators.mjs Wrapper resolves mcp-remote only from stable runtime; harness arg; generator syncs version/harness constants (unchanged)

Assessment

  • ⚠️ .husky/pre-commit — missing set -e (blocking). The hook runs three plain commands without errexit; the script exits with the status of the last command only, so a failing pnpm typecheck or pnpm lint does not fail the hook. The typecheck gate this PR adds is effectively inactive. One-line fix.
  • ⚠️ mcp-wrapper.test.ts:561 — Windows hostile-PATH sentinel not interpolated. The Windows branch writes a literal %SENTINEL% while the Unix branch interpolates ${sentinel}, so neverRan(sentinel) checks the wrong file on Windows and the assertion passes vacuously even if a hostile shim ran. The test gives false confidence on Windows.
  • 🛠️ materialize-github-marketplace.mjs:140generateMcpWrapper() ignores the loaded bundle. It reads defaultBundle.mcpServers while other generators use bundle (from loadBundle(ROOT), honoring NSOLID_PLUGIN_MARKETPLACE_ROOT). A custom marketplace root produces a wrapper that rejects valid custom-root servers.
  • 🛠️ backup.ts:39,157 — corrupt sidecar throws. readJsonFile throws on invalid JSON; highestMetaSeq and listConfigBackups don't catch. A truncated sidecar degrades the backup feature (MCP writes are unaffected — backupMcpConfig catches and warns). reserveBackupSeq at line 121 is also outside the try block, so the error reaches callers unwrapped.
  • 🧹 packages/core/README.md:54-58 — npm-resolution doc contradicts itself. One bullet claims npm_execpath is used; another (line 69-70) and the implementation say it's never consulted. The first bullet is stale.
  • Two previously raised non-blocking notes remain open (replies posted to their existing threads per the one-thread-per-issue rule):
    • 🛠️ scripts/mcp-wrapper.js:145 — wrapper runtime path vs core's getMcpRemoteRuntimeRoot() dual source of truth; no path-equality test added. Optional hardening, not blocking.
    • 🧹 scripts/plugin-generators.mjs:46CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC = 60 guarded only by the --check materializer, not a dedicated unit test. Optional, not blocking.
  • ✔ Prior approved findings (symlink repair, strict-descendant containment) carry unchanged logic at this rebased head.
  • 🚩 This change touches the MCP runtime supply chain (what mcp-remote code runs at harness startup) and the codex config writer. The install uses --ignore-scripts and pins an exact version with closure validation, which is the right posture, but a human reviewer should confirm the pinned mcp-remote@0.1.38 and its transitive deps are acceptable to run with user credentials in scope.
  • Validation run in sandbox (fresh clone at head fcaa1fc): node --check on mcp-wrapper.js, plugin-generators.mjs, materialize-github-marketplace.mjs ✓.

Verdict: REQUEST_CHANGES — the inactive set -e pre-commit gate is a blocking functional-correctness issue; the Windows test sentinel and the generateMcpWrapper() bundle mismatch are correctness gaps; the corrupt-sidecar and README items are non-blocking. Advisory and does not replace required human review.

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pnpm lint
pnpm typecheck
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⚠️ Potential issue

The hook runs pnpm lint, pnpm typecheck, and pnpm test as plain commands without set -e. In POSIX sh the script exits with the status of the last command, so a failing pnpm typecheck (or pnpm lint) does not fail the hook — only pnpm test's exit status matters. The typecheck gate this PR adds is therefore inactive: a type error passes through as long as the tests are green.

Add set -e at the top so any failing step terminates the hook with a nonzero status.

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pnpm lint
pnpm typecheck
pnpm test
set -e
pnpm lint
pnpm typecheck
pnpm test

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Still open and blocking at head 9a708779. The new commit (BrowserLauncher injection) only touches auth test files, auth-manager.ts, types.ts, and index.ts — the pre-commit hook is unchanged. .husky/pre-commit still runs pnpm lint, pnpm typecheck, pnpm test as plain commands with no set -e; the typecheck gate remains inactive. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule; this reply confirms the thread's status on the new push.

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✔ Fixed at head 5e891bb1. .husky/pre-commit now starts with set -e before pnpm lint, pnpm typecheck, and pnpm test, so any failing step terminates the hook with a nonzero status. The typecheck gate is now active. Verified in the sandbox: the hook file reads set -e\n\npnpm lint\npnpm typecheck\npnpm test. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule.

mkdirSync(hostile)
for (const name of process.platform === 'win32' ? ['npm.cmd', 'node.exe'] : ['npm', 'node']) {
const p = join(hostile, name)
writeFileSync(p, process.platform === 'win32' ? '@echo off\r\necho pwned > "%SENTINEL%"\r\n' : `#!/bin/sh\necho pwned > "${sentinel}"\n`)

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⚠️ Potential issue

The Windows branch of the hostile-PATH shim writes a literal %SENTINEL% instead of interpolating the sentinel path:

writeFileSync(p, process.platform === 'win32' ? '@echo off\r\necho pwned > "%SENTINEL%"\r\n' : `#!/bin/sh\necho pwned > "${sentinel}"\n`)

SENTINEL is never set in the child environment, so cmd expands it to the literal text %SENTINEL% and writes to a file named %SENTINEL%. The marker file that neverRan(sentinel) inspects stays empty, so the assertion at line 575 passes vacuously on Windows even if a hostile shim actually ran. The test gives false confidence on Windows.

Interpolate the sentinel path in both branches:

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writeFileSync(p, process.platform === 'win32' ? '@echo off\r\necho pwned > "%SENTINEL%"\r\n' : `#!/bin/sh\necho pwned > "${sentinel}"\n`)
writeFileSync(p, process.platform === 'win32' ? `@echo off\r\necho pwned > "${sentinel}"\r\n` : `#!/bin/sh\necho pwned > "${sentinel}"\n`)

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Still open and blocking at head 9a708779. The Windows branch at mcp-wrapper.test.ts:561 still writes a literal %SENTINEL% instead of interpolating ${sentinel}, so neverRan(sentinel) checks the wrong file on Windows and the assertion passes vacuously even if a hostile shim ran. The new commit did not touch this test file. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule; this reply confirms the thread's status on the new push.

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✔ Fixed at head 5e891bb1. The hostile-PATH test no longer uses a literal %SENTINEL%; the Windows branch now interpolates ${sentinel} via the writeCommandSentinel helper, so neverRan(sentinel) inspects the correct marker file and the assertion is meaningful on Windows. Verified in the sandbox (67/67 wrapper tests pass). No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule.

files.set('scripts/mcp-wrapper.js', generateSharedWrapper())
// The wrapper receives the harness as an explicit argument, so a single
// generated artifact serves Claude, Codex, and Antigravity unchanged.
files.set('scripts/mcp-wrapper.js', generateMcpWrapper())

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🛠️ Refactor suggestion

generateMcpWrapper() is called with no argument while every other generator here receives the loaded bundle (from loadBundle(ROOT), which honors NSOLID_PLUGIN_MARKETPLACE_ROOT). Inside plugin-generators.mjs:160-161, generateMcpWrapper() reads defaultBundle.mcpServers directly and bakes those server names into the wrapper's SERVER_NAMES set. A custom marketplace root would therefore generate MCP configs with server names from the custom bundle, but the wrapper would still validate against the default bundle's names — rejecting valid custom-root servers.

Pass bundle through so the wrapper and the configs share one source of truth:

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files.set('scripts/mcp-wrapper.js', generateMcpWrapper())
files.set('scripts/mcp-wrapper.js', generateMcpWrapper(bundle))

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Still open and non-blocking at head 9a708779. materialize-github-marketplace.mjs:140 still calls generateMcpWrapper() with no argument while every other generator receives the loaded bundle (from loadBundle(ROOT), honoring NSOLID_PLUGIN_MARKETPLACE_ROOT). A custom marketplace root would generate a wrapper validating against the default bundle's server names. The new commit did not touch this file. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule; this reply confirms the thread's status on the new push.

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✔ Fixed at head 5e891bb1. materialize-github-marketplace.mjs now calls generateMcpWrapper(bundle) (passing the loaded bundle from loadBundle(ROOT)), so a custom marketplace root generates a wrapper validating against that root's server names — consistent with the other generators. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule.

Comment on lines +34 to +43
/** Highest seq persisted in existing backup sidecars (0 when none). */
function highestMetaSeq (dir: string): number {
let max = 0
for (const name of readdirSync(dir)) {
if (!name.endsWith('.meta.json')) continue
const meta = readJsonFile<BackupMeta>(path.join(dir, name))
if (meta?.seq !== undefined && meta.seq > max) max = meta.seq
}
return max
}

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🛠️ Refactor suggestion

readJsonFile (packages/core/src/utils/config.ts:10-18) throws on invalid JSON — the catch re-throws a wrapped error. highestMetaSeq (line 39) and listConfigBackups (line 157) both call it without a try/catch, so a single truncated or foreign *.meta.json sidecar makes reserveBackupSeq throw and breaks backup creation/listing for that harness.

The blast radius is limited: backupMcpConfig (mcp-config-writer.ts:341-347) catches the error and logs a warning, so MCP config writes are not blocked — only the backup feature degrades. But reserveBackupSeq at backup.ts:121 is outside the try block (which starts at line 123), so the error reaches the caller unwrapped rather than as a clean MCP_CONFIG_BACKUP_FAILED. Sequence discovery doesn't need valid sidecar contents (reservation markers establish the floor), so unreadable sidecars can be safely skipped.

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/** Highest seq persisted in existing backup sidecars (0 when none). */
function highestMetaSeq (dir: string): number {
let max = 0
for (const name of readdirSync(dir)) {
if (!name.endsWith('.meta.json')) continue
const meta = readJsonFile<BackupMeta>(path.join(dir, name))
if (meta?.seq !== undefined && meta.seq > max) max = meta.seq
}
return max
}
function highestMetaSeq (dir: string): number {
let max = 0
for (const name of readdirSync(dir)) {
if (!name.endsWith('.meta.json')) continue
let meta: BackupMeta | null = null
try {
meta = readJsonFile<BackupMeta>(path.join(dir, name))
} catch {
continue
}
if (meta?.seq !== undefined && meta.seq > max) max = meta.seq
}
return max
}

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Still open and non-blocking at head 9a708779. backup.ts:39 (highestMetaSeq) and :157 (listConfigBackups) still call readJsonFile without a try/catch, so a single truncated *.meta.json sidecar makes reserveBackupSeq throw. reserveBackupSeq at line 121 remains outside the try block, so the error reaches callers unwrapped rather than as MCP_CONFIG_BACKUP_FAILED. The new commit did not touch this file. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule; this reply confirms the thread's status on the new push.

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✔ Fixed at head 5e891bb1. highestMetaSeq now wraps readJsonFile in a try/catch that continues on failure (via the new normalizeBackupMeta helper), so a truncated or foreign *.meta.json sidecar no longer makes reserveBackupSeq throw. listConfigBackups gets the same treatment via normalizeBackupMeta. Verified in the sandbox (562/562 unit tests pass). No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule.

Comment thread packages/core/README.md Outdated
Comment on lines +54 to +58
- **Safe**: npm runs with `shell: false`, separated argv,
`--ignore-scripts`, no audit/fund, resolved from `npm_execpath` (only when
it is npm's own CLI — pnpm/yarn lifecycle scripts set it to their own
binary, which is ignored) or next to `process.execPath` — never from
`PATH`/project `node_modules/.bin`. No

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🧹 Nitpick

The npm-resolution rule is stated two different ways in this file. Lines 54-58 say npm is "resolved from npm_execpath (only when it is npm's own CLI…)", but lines 69-70 (and the root README.md:241) say "never from PATH, npm_execpath, or the project." The implementation (resolveNpmCommand, mcp-remote-runtime.ts:170-178) is unambiguous: process.env.npm_execpath is never consulted — it's documented as attacker-influenceable environment input.

The first bullet is stale/wrong; remove or correct it so both passages agree with the code.

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Still open and non-blocking at head 9a708779. packages/core/README.md:54-58 still states npm is resolved from npm_execpath (only when it is npm's own CLI), while lines 69-70 and the implementation (resolveNpmCommand) never consult npm_execpath. The first bullet remains stale. The new commit did not touch this file. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule; this reply confirms the thread's status on the new push.

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✔ Fixed at head 5e891bb1. packages/core/README.md now consistently states npm is resolved "never from PATH, npm_execpath, the current directory, or project node_modules/.bin" — the earlier bullet claiming npm is resolved from npm_execpath was removed/corrected, matching resolveNpmCommand and the root README.md. No new inline comment per the one-thread-per-issue rule.

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Walkthrough

Re-review on synchronize (head fcaa1fc9a708779). The new commit adds an injectable BrowserLauncher to the OAuth sign-in flow: ensureAuthenticated now accepts an optional browserLauncher (defaulting to the production openBrowser()), setup forwards options.browserLauncher, and the auth integration tests replace the previous child_process.execFile monkey-patching with a capture-only launcher so authentication never spawns a real browser. The change is well-scoped, orthogonal to the runtime-provisioning work, and introduces no new issues. All five previously raised findings remain unaddressed at this head — replies posted to their existing threads per the one-thread-per-issue rule, no new inline comments.

Changes

File(s) Summary
packages/core/src/types.ts New BrowserLauncher type + browserLauncher? on SetupOptions
packages/core/src/auth/auth-manager.ts ensureAuthenticated uses injected browserLauncher (default openBrowser)
packages/core/src/index.ts setup forwards browserLauncher; re-exports SetupOptions/BrowserLauncher
packages/core/test/integration/auth/auth-manager.test.ts Tests inject capture-only launcher; drop execFile monkey-patching
packages/core/test/integration/installer.test.ts Installer tests pass the capture-only launcher

Assessment

  • ⚠️ .husky/pre-commit — missing set -e (still blocking). Unchanged at this head; the typecheck gate this PR adds remains inactive because the hook exits only with the last command's status. Reply posted to thread r3881550400.
  • ⚠️ mcp-wrapper.test.ts:561 — Windows hostile-PATH sentinel not interpolated (still blocking). Unchanged; the Windows branch writes a literal %SENTINEL%, so neverRan() checks the wrong file and the assertion passes vacuously on Windows. Reply posted to thread r3881550628.
  • 🛠️ materialize-github-marketplace.mjs:140generateMcpWrapper() ignores loaded bundle (still open, non-blocking). Reply posted to thread r3881550848.
  • 🛠️ backup.ts:39,121,157 — corrupt sidecar throws (still open, non-blocking). Reply posted to thread r3881551069.
  • 🧹 packages/core/README.md:54-58 — npm-resolution doc contradicts itself (still open, non-blocking). Reply posted to thread r3881551287.
  • Two earlier non-blocking notes (wrapper path dual-source-of-truth, CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC test gap) remain open; replied on prior pushes and still valid at this head.
  • 🚩 The new BrowserLauncher seam is a clean dependency-injection addition and does not weaken auth — but a human reviewer should confirm the production default openBrowser() path is unchanged and that no test reaches it.

Verdict: REQUEST_CHANGES — the two blocking findings from the prior head remain unresolved at 9a708779; the new BrowserLauncher commit is clean and adds no new issues. Advisory and does not replace required human review.

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packages/core/src/index.ts (1)

189-204: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider aligning the setup failure policy with the doctor requiredness rule.

setup() returns success: false for every harness when ensureMcpRemoteRuntime() fails. Doctor classifies the bridge as not required for opencode and pi and for direct installs (Line 714). So an offline setup --harness opencode fails even though that configuration never uses the bridge, and skills plus MCP config are then never written.

If provisioning for all harnesses is intentional, keep this behavior. Otherwise report a warning and continue for harnesses where the bridge is not required, so onboarding still completes offline.

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In `@packages/core/src/index.ts` around lines 189 - 204, The setup flow around
ensureMcpRemoteRuntime should follow the doctor requiredness policy: for
opencode, pi, and direct installs where the MCP bridge is not required, log a
warning and continue writing skills and MCP configuration when runtime
provisioning fails; retain the existing failure return for harnesses that
require the bridge.
packages/core/test/integration/auth/auth-manager.test.ts (1)

567-577: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Restore direct coverage for the Windows branch of openBrowser.

This change removed the ensureAuthenticated - Windows browser launch test. openBrowser still contains the Windows branch with the drive-qualified SystemRoot check and the explicit rundll32.exe path (auth-manager.ts Lines 20-38). That hardening now has no test.

Add a direct unit test for openBrowser with a stubbed execFile. Do not route it through ensureAuthenticated, so the injected launcher seam stays intact.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@packages/core/test/integration/auth/auth-manager.test.ts` around lines 567 -
577, The authentication tests lack direct coverage for the Windows branch of
openBrowser. Add a focused unit test that invokes openBrowser directly with a
stubbed execFile, verifies the drive-qualified SystemRoot handling and explicit
rundll32.exe invocation, and avoids routing through ensureAuthenticated or
replacing the browser-launcher seam.
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Inline comments:
In `@packages/core/test/integration/installer.test.ts`:
- Around line 1069-1081: Update the installer test setup around the before hook
and its core build invocation to avoid rebuilding packages/core when CI has
already performed the workspace build. Reuse the existing build in CI while
retaining a local safeguard against stale or missing dist output.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@packages/core/src/index.ts`:
- Around line 189-204: The setup flow around ensureMcpRemoteRuntime should
follow the doctor requiredness policy: for opencode, pi, and direct installs
where the MCP bridge is not required, log a warning and continue writing skills
and MCP configuration when runtime provisioning fails; retain the existing
failure return for harnesses that require the bridge.

In `@packages/core/test/integration/auth/auth-manager.test.ts`:
- Around line 567-577: The authentication tests lack direct coverage for the
Windows branch of openBrowser. Add a focused unit test that invokes openBrowser
directly with a stubbed execFile, verifies the drive-qualified SystemRoot
handling and explicit rundll32.exe invocation, and avoids routing through
ensureAuthenticated or replacing the browser-launcher seam.
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- Around line 152-155: Update listConfigBackups to prioritize persisted backup
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Walkthrough

Re-review on synchronize (head 9a7087795e891bb1). The new commit ("fix: address MCP runtime review feedback") resolves every previously raised finding: the pre-commit hook now uses set -e, the Windows hostile-PATH test interpolates the sentinel path, materialize-github-marketplace.mjs passes the loaded bundle to generateMcpWrapper, highestMetaSeq/listConfigBackups catch corrupt sidecars via normalizeBackupMeta, the npm-resolution docs are consistent across both READMEs, and two new unit tests guard the wrapper↔core runtime path equality and the Codex startup-timeout constant against the committed .mcp.json. The PR provisions a shared, exact-pinned mcp-remote runtime during nsolid-plugin setup so MCP wrappers never invoke npm/npx/shell at startup, with atomic publish, race handling, and fail-fast repair messages.

Changes

File(s) Summary
.husky/pre-commit Added set -e so lint/typecheck failures fail the hook; added pnpm typecheck step
packages/core/src/utils/backup.ts normalizeBackupMeta validates sidecars; highestMetaSeq/listConfigBackups skip corrupt sidecars; monotonic seq via immutable reservation markers
packages/core/test/unit/mcp/mcp-wrapper.test.ts Windows sentinel interpolation; new sync tests (runtime-parent equality, Codex timeout, harness lists); rewritten hostile-PATH and fail-fast coverage
scripts/materialize-github-marketplace.mjs Passes bundle to generateMcpWrapper; drops the middle-man generateSharedWrapper
packages/core/README.md, README.md Consistent npm-resolution docs (never from npm_execpath); expanded bridge runtime/troubleshooting guidance
scripts/mcp-wrapper.js, scripts/plugin-generators.mjs Wrapper resolves mcp-remote only from stable runtime/dev checkout; harness arg; consolidated generators with version/harness sync guards
packages/core/src/mcp/mcp-remote-runtime.ts (new) Runtime manager: stage-install, validate closure, atomic publish, guarded cleanup
packages/core/src/mcp/mcp-runtime-validation.ts (new) Tri-state boundary relation with strict/inclusive predicates
packages/core/src/index.ts, src/types.ts setup provisions runtime; doctor reports bridge health; consolidated harness sets
packages/core/src/auth/auth-manager.ts Injectable BrowserLauncher (default openBrowser)

Assessment

  • .husky/pre-commit — missing set -e (was blocking). Fixed: set -e added before pnpm lint, pnpm typecheck, pnpm test. Reply on thread r3881550400.
  • mcp-wrapper.test.ts — Windows hostile-PATH sentinel not interpolated (was blocking). Fixed: writeCommandSentinel interpolates ${sentinel} in both branches. Reply on thread r3881550628.
  • materialize-github-marketplace.mjsgenerateMcpWrapper() ignored loaded bundle (was non-blocking). Fixed: now calls generateMcpWrapper(bundle). Reply on thread r3881550848.
  • backup.ts — corrupt sidecar throws (was non-blocking). Fixed: normalizeBackupMeta + try/catch in highestMetaSeq/listConfigBackups. Reply on thread r3881551069.
  • packages/core/README.md — npm-resolution doc contradicts itself (was non-blocking). Fixed: both passages now say "never from npm_execpath". Reply on thread r3881551287.
  • scripts/mcp-wrapper.js — wrapper path dual-source-of-truth (was non-blocking). Fixed: new unit test asserts join(homedir(), ...MCP_REMOTE_RUNTIME_PARENT_SEGMENTS) === getMcpRemoteRuntimeParent(). Reply on thread r3813380006.
  • CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC test gap (was non-blocking). Fixed: new unit test asserts generated .mcp.json servers match the constant and deepEqual the committed file. Reply on thread r3813380199.
  • Sandbox validation: pnpm build ✓, pnpm typecheck ✓, pnpm lint ✓, 562/562 unit tests pass (67/67 wrapper tests including all new sync tests), pnpm test clean.
  • 🚩 The BrowserLauncher seam is a clean dependency-injection addition and does not weaken auth — the production default openBrowser() path is unchanged. A human reviewer should confirm no test reaches the production default.

Verdict: APPROVE — all seven previously raised findings are verifiably fixed in the code at head 5e891bb1; no new issues found. Advisory and does not replace required human review.

… createdAt

listConfigBackups used createdAt as the primary sort key with seq as a
tie-breaker, contradicting the documented invariant that the reserved seq
guarantees 'latest is always the backup that was created last'. When the
system clock steps backwards between two backups (NTP correction, manual
change, VM snapshot restore), the default restoreConfigBackup selection
picked an older backup.

Sequenced backups are now compared by seq (monotonic, cannot tie);
comparisons involving legacy entries without a seq fall back to createdAt,
tie-broken by meta mtime, as before.

Adds a regression test simulating a backwards clock step and tightens the
concurrent-processes ordering invariant to strictly decreasing seq.

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Re-review on synchronize (head 9a708779261c3dc). The intervening commit 5e891bb resolved all five previously raised ns-control-tower findings (two blocking, three non-blocking); the new commit 261c3dc addresses a CodeRabbit finding by making listConfigBackups order sequenced backups by the persisted monotonic seq instead of wall-clock createdAt, which can step backwards (NTP corrections, VM snapshot restores). A regression test simulates a backwards clock step and asserts the newest backup (highest seq) is still selected. All prior findings verified fixed in the code at this head — no new blocking or non-blocking issues introduced.

Changes

File(s) Summary
packages/core/src/utils/backup.ts listConfigBackups now sorts sequenced backups by descending seq (monotonic, cannot tie); legacy entries without a seq fall back to createdAt tie-broken by meta mtime, as before
packages/core/test/unit/utils/backup.test.ts New regression test for backwards-clock-step ordering; concurrent-processes invariant tightened to strictly decreasing seq

Assessment

  • .husky/pre-commit — missing set -e — fixed at 5e891bb; hook now starts with set -e before pnpm lint, pnpm typecheck, pnpm test. Typecheck gate is active.
  • mcp-wrapper.test.ts:561 — Windows hostile-PATH sentinel — fixed at 5e891bb; the writeCommandSentinel helper interpolates ${sentinelMarker} in both Windows and Unix branches, so neverRan() inspects the correct marker file.
  • materialize-github-marketplace.mjs:140generateMcpWrapper() ignores bundle — fixed at 5e891bb; now calls generateMcpWrapper(bundle), so a custom marketplace root generates a wrapper validating against that root's server names.
  • backup.ts — corrupt sidecar throws — fixed at 5e891bb; highestMetaSeq and listConfigBackups now wrap readJsonFile in the normalizeBackupMeta helper that returns null on parse failure, so a truncated *.meta.json sidecar no longer breaks backup creation/listing.
  • packages/core/README.md:54-58 — npm-resolution doc contradiction — fixed at 5e891bb; the stale npm_execpath bullet was removed, both READMEs now consistently state npm is resolved "never from PATH, npm_execpath, the current directory, or project node_modules/.bin".
  • wrapper runtime-parent dual-source-of-truth — fixed at 5e891bb; a new unit test asserts join(homedir(), ...MCP_REMOTE_RUNTIME_PARENT_SEGMENTS) === getMcpRemoteRuntimeParent().
  • CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC sync test gap — fixed at 5e891bb; a new unit test asserts every generated server's startup_timeout_sec === CODEX_MCP_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_SEC and deepEqual(committed, generated) against the committed .mcp.json.
  • New commit 261c3dc (backup seq ordering) — correct and well-tested: the sort comparator returns b.seq - a.seq only when both entries have a positive seq, preserving the legacy createdAt/mtime fallback; the regression test and tightened invariant are deterministic. No new issues.
  • Sandbox validation: 713/713 unit tests pass (including the new backwards-clock-step regression), tsc --noEmit clean.

Verdict: APPROVE — all previous blocking findings are verifiably fixed in the code at 261c3dc, the new backup-ordering commit is correct with a regression test, and sandbox validation is green. Advisory and does not replace required human review.

…A-05)

Codex launches every plugin MCP server with cwd set to the user's home
directory. The generated bootstrap located scripts/mcp-wrapper.js by
recursively walking [~/.codex/plugins/cache, process.cwd()], so on
Windows it traversed the entire home tree (546k entries, ~9.4s per
server in QA) before the proxy could start; with three servers scanning
concurrently, total startup exceeded the 60s startup_timeout_sec and
codex never saw them ready.

Bound the readdirSync walk to the Codex plugin cache (the only root
that actually contains the installed wrapper) and probe cwd only at
fixed dev candidate paths with existsSync, mirroring the antigravity
bootstrap. The nsolid-plugin path-segment fail-closed filter is
unchanged and installed cache copies keep precedence over dev
checkouts. Wrapper discovery drops from ~9.4s to ~12ms.
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