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15 changes: 13 additions & 2 deletions src/roots.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -20,9 +20,20 @@ assert.equal(
resolve(home, "personal", "devspace"),
);

// Home expansion applies before working-directory resolution, so a `~` path
// resolves against the home directory rather than becoming a literal `~`
// directory inside the workspace.
assert.equal(
resolveAllowedPath("~/file.txt", "/workspace", ["/workspace"]),
resolve("/workspace", "~/file.txt"),
resolveAllowedPath("~/personal/devspace", "/workspace", [join(home, "personal")]),
resolve(home, "personal", "devspace"),
);

// A `~` path outside the allowed roots is denied instead of being silently
// mapped inside the workspace. Skill reads rely on this: the denial lets the
// read fall through to the skill-path resolver.
assert.throws(
() => resolveAllowedPath("~/file.txt", "/workspace", ["/workspace"]),

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the outside-root test independent of HOME.

If homedir() is /workspace or a descendant, ~/file.txt resolves inside the allowed /workspace root, so this assertion fails. Derive both cwd and the allowed root from home; the old behavior will still resolve the literal ~ path inside that root.

Proposed test fixture 
--- "a/src/roots.test.ts"
+++ "b/src/roots.test.ts"
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@
 // mapped inside the workspace. Skill reads rely on this: the denial lets the
 // read fall through to the skill-path resolver.
 assert.throws(
-  () => resolveAllowedPath("~/file.txt", "/workspace", ["/workspace"]),
+  () => {
+    const workspace = resolve(home, "workspace");
+    return resolveAllowedPath("~/file.txt", workspace, [workspace]);
+  },
   /Path is outside allowed roots/,
 );
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() => resolveAllowedPath("~/file.txt", "/workspace", ["/workspace"]),
() => {
const workspace = resolve(home, "workspace");
return resolveAllowedPath("~/file.txt", workspace, [workspace]);
},
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Review comment at @src/roots.test.ts at line 35:
Update the outside-root test using resolveAllowedPath so its cwd and allowed
root are derived from the home directory, keeping the literal `~/file.txt`
outside that root regardless of the environment’s HOME value.

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/Path is outside allowed roots/,
);

if (process.platform === "win32") {
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion src/roots.ts
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Expand Up @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ export function assertAllowedPath(path: string, allowedRoots: string[]): string
}

export function resolveAllowedPath(inputPath: string, cwd: string, allowedRoots: string[]): string {
const absolutePath = resolve(cwd, inputPath);
const absolutePath = resolve(cwd, expandHomePath(inputPath));
return assertAllowedPath(absolutePath, allowedRoots);
}

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