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S2 of the file-write safety series (plan: easonLiangWorldedtech/Zoo-Code#33), part of epic #1375. Stacked on S1 (#1383, version token). Introduces the per-task file observation registry (A2): when the agent reads an existing file, the on-disk version token is recorded against the task. The S4 guarded-write will later compare the recorded observation with the token recomputed before a write to detect "the file changed since the read" (stale) or "the file was replaced" (identity change). This PR records observations only — it does not consult them, so behavior is unchanged.
Changes
src/core/task/observationRegistry.ts (new): ObservationRegistry — an in-memory Map<absolutePath, FileObservation> where FileObservation = { version: string, observedAt: number }; observe replaces on re-observation; plus get/has/clear/size. Pure in-memory, zero I/O, no dependencies.
src/core/task/Task.ts: each Task owns an observationRegistry instance — parent and subtask observations are independent by construction.
src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts: after a successful read of an existing file, records computeVersionToken(absolutePath) (S1) into the task's registry. A stat failure never fails the read — the token is best-effort (.catch(() => undefined)).
Tests
New registry spec: observe/get/replace-on-reobserve/has/clear/size semantics.
ReadFileTool spec: reading an existing file registers an observation with the exact on-disk version format; reading an absent file leaves the registry at size 0; subtask isolation (parent task's registry untouched by a subtask's reads).
Review-gate re-trigger (2026-08-30): empty commit a00eef8 (no code change) re-runs CI and CodeRabbit current-head review under the org new PR review gate; the code head remains 2965ad1.
Review feedback (2026-09-14 CodeRabbit cycle):6b821b2 strengthens both version-token-failure regression tests to assert the read content, not just the path (native: "content"; legacy: "legacy content" alongside the existing path checks). The legacy test additionally points the module-level readWithSlice mock at the legacy content — the legacy path slices the raw read through readWithSlice (ReadFileTool.ts:797) and the mock's beforeEach default ("1 | test content") would otherwise mask what the read produced.
Mutation gate: the branch now contains current upstream/main — the head commit is a merge with current main (7328cbf) as its first parent, the same shape as the CI job's synthetic merge commit. The gate's resolvePullRequestBase resolves a merge-commit head to its first parent, and this branch's last main sync (ba46d1f) predates the gate rewrite, so without this merge every CI run would measure the true PR delta plus every main commit since. With current main in the first-parent position, the gate measures the true PR delta (src/core/task/observationRegistry.ts new file, Task.ts + ReadFileTool.ts changes):
Local preflight on the true delta (7328cbf → 5a4e27e): extension: 8 valid / 8 killed / 0 timeout / 0 survived / 0 noCoverage — PASS (exit 0, digest not stale).
Why the merge of main needed no conflict resolution. This head merges upstream/main e943530c8, a 1138-file delta over our base 4f1dee18e. Only four paths intersect that delta: src/core/task/Task.ts, src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts, src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts, and src/core/tools/__tests__/readFileTool.spec.ts. Every other file this unit touches is a path main has not modified in that window, which is why the content merge is clean rather than merely resolved - git merge-tree --write-tree predicted tree 4b7828c03 with no conflict output before the merge was run.
Observation keys are absolute resolved paths, and that is a Windows-shaped detail. The tool records the file it read under the resolved absolute path, not the relative spelling the caller passed. On Windows the resolved key carries backslashes and drive-relative components, so an assertion that the recorded path merely containsexisting.ts is satisfied by the relative spelling too - it cannot tell the two spellings apart on this platform. The observe assertions now compare against path.resolve("/test/workspace", "existing.ts") (and the legacy.ts equivalents), which is the form that actually distinguishes a correctly keyed entry from a mis-keyed one. This is also why the case reads Windows-specific to a POSIX reader: on a POSIX path the two spellings differ more visibly, so the weaker assertion hides less.
A red on this head that predates the current work.pnpm test:solheim-smoke-ci fails locally on this merged tree. It was tested by reverting the three files this round touched (src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts, src/core/tools/__tests__/readFileTool.spec.ts, src/core/task/__tests__/observationRegistry.spec.ts) back to the merge commit's own content and re-running: the same two assertions fail in exactly the same way with none of the current changes present, so that failure belongs to the merge state and not to this round's edits. Everything this round touched measures green locally: readFileTool.spec.ts and observationRegistry.spec.ts 102 passed, Task.spec.ts 201 passed, check-types exit 0 (11/11 in the pre-push task graph), root lint exit 0, and the lint-suppressions counts on the touched files are unchanged from the merge baseline. The version-token ordering fix is pinned by a test that mutates the file inside the read itself: with the stat moved back after the read it reddens (expected 1:2:300:4000000000:5000000000, received 1:2:300:9000000000:5000000000), and the implementation was restored from a saved copy rather than a checkout.
…oo-Code-Org#1375)
Introduces the version token - dev:ino:size:mtimeNs:ctimeNs derived from a single fs.stat - a pure function of a file's on-disk state that every process computing from the same state agrees on. The compare-and-swap write guard (A2/A3) will compare the token observed at read time against the token recomputed before a write to detect stale or replaced files. No production callers yet: this is infrastructure for the file-write safety series (plan: #33), part of upstream epic Zoo-Code-Org#1375.
…oo-Code-Org#1375)
Review finding: 'ino is an exact integer' was overstated. Node exposes ino as a float64 number: exact for small POSIX inode numbers, but on modern Windows the file ID exceeds 2^53 so Node's own value is already rounded (verified on node v25: non-zero ino, isSafeInteger=false). It remains deterministic per file (same file -> same token), so the token contract is unchanged; change detection rests on exact dev/size plus the mtime/ctime ns fields. Document the bound instead of claiming exactness.
Zoo-Code-Org#1375)
CodeRabbit finding on this PR: the default numeric fs.stat() loses precision (values above 2^53 are rounded, including Windows file IDs) and the ms->ns derivation introduced a double-precision quantum. Fixed by fetching the stat with { bigint: true }: all five token fields (dev, ino, size, mtimeNs, ctimeNs) are exact BigInt values rendered as decimal strings, with no float anywhere. The sub-ms test now asserts an exact 1_000 ns delta instead of bounded drift, and a regression test pins a size of 10^16+1 (> Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER).
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New Features
Successful file reads record the file’s version and observation time.
Each task maintains independent file observations, with options to check, retrieve, clear, or count them.
Observation tracking is supported for both current and legacy file-reading formats.
Re-reading a file updates its recorded version and observation time.
Bug Fixes
File reads still succeed when version information is unavailable; any existing observation for that file is cleared.
Each Task now owns an ObservationRegistry. Native and legacy text reads record version tokens for resolved paths when available. Token computation failures do not fail successful reads.
Adds FileObservation and ObservationRegistry. Each Task owns a readonly registry. Tests cover timestamps, replacement, lookup, clearing, size, forgetting paths, and registry independence, including parent and child tasks.
Native and legacy text reads record version tokens for resolved paths. If token computation fails or returns no token, the read removes any prior observation without failing. Tests cover successful reads, failed reads, token lookup failures, and registry independence. The suppression count for the read-file tests decreases by one.
sequenceDiagram
participant ReadFileTool
participant computeVersionToken
participant ObservationRegistry
ReadFileTool->>computeVersionToken: Compute token for resolved path
computeVersionToken-->>ReadFileTool: Return token or no token
ReadFileTool->>ObservationRegistry: Record token or forget path
No actionable merge-blocking issue remains in the reviewed change; it is ready to merge after normal checks.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 0cb75
The change does not enable new file-write authority. However, a file changing between the content read and version lookup can produce an observation that does not describe the returned content, limiting its suitability for later write-safety checks.
Retained concerns
Low · security · inferred: The new observation producer can pair returned content with a later file version or replacement identity. Native and legacy reads obtain bytes first, then compute a token through an independent pathname stat. A process already able to modify or replace that file can intervene between those operations. These records therefore do not establish the read-version binding expected by the planned write-safety control. Observations are currently recording-only, so this is not a demonstrated bypass of an active write guard.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated integrity issue is bounded to observations for successfully read text paths in an affected Task. Triggering replacement requires existing ability to modify the relevant filesystem path. Separate registry instances prevent this state from automatically propagating into parent or subtask observations; no cross-service privilege expansion is established.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — A filesystem mutator can replace or change a file after its bytes are read but before the subsequent pathname stat. The observation can then describe the later file while the result contains earlier content. The introduced effect is inaccurate read-version evidence, not a demonstrated unauthorized write: the registry documents future consumption, and inspected production references contain only ownership and observe/forget calls.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Agent-supplied native arguments reach ReadFileTool through the existing tool handler. Ignore validation and the read-approval flow precede filesystem access and observation updates; the added registry does not itself perform filesystem operations or authorize access.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The inspected presenter rejects entry after task abort, uses a per-task presentation lock, and awaits the read tool before releasing that lock. This counters overlapping normal presenter executions, but does not bind observations to returned bytes or establish cancellation of an already-running token lookup.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Before making observations authoritative for guarded writes, define a stable content-and-identity observation protocol that detects modification or replacement during the read. Treat an unstable observation as unavailable rather than fresh, and explicitly define interruption and recovery semantics for observation ownership.
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Regression Evidence
The native text-read path has focused coverage for the changed pre-read token ordering in src/core/tools/__tests__/readFileTool.spec.ts (the readStarted test asserts the pre-read token). The legac…
Add a legacy-path ordering test that changes the mocked token during fs.readFile, then assert that the registry stores the token captured before the read. Keep the existing legacy success and token-failure tests.
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup
The new per-task ObservationRegistry retains one entry for every unique file read, but Task.disposeOnce() never clears it. A concrete path is parent-task delegation: delegateParentAndOpenChild()…
Add lifecycle cleanup for the registry in Task.disposeOnce(), such as this.observationRegistry.clear(). Prevent an in-flight read from repopulating a disposed registry, for example by making the registry closed on disposal and ignoring …
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Title check
The title clearly identifies the main change: adding a per-task file observation registry. It is concise and specific.
Description check
The description is detailed and covers the linked issue, implementation, design intent, tests, stacking context, and known test limitations. It does not use the exact template headings and omits the c…
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Security Boundaries
Changed code does not match any failure condition. ReadFileTool still requires rooIgnoreController.validateAccess and user approval before reading (ReadFileTool.ts:148-168, 434-541; legacy path:69…
Persistence Integrity
No changed persistence path exists. The PR adds an in-memory ObservationRegistry backed by a Map and records observations during reads; it performs no file/database writes and is not serialized th…
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Explanation
The description is detailed and covers the linked issue, implementation, design intent, tests, stacking context, and known test limitations. It does not use the exact template headings and omits the completed checklist, explicit documentation-impact statement, and contact details, but it is mostly complete and directly relevant.
Full details: Security Boundaries
Explanation
Changed code does not match any failure condition. ReadFileTool still requires rooIgnoreController.validateAccess and user approval before reading (ReadFileTool.ts:148-168, 434-541; legacy path:692-729). The new code only computes a local fs.stat version token, records it in a per-task in-memory Map, or removes a stale entry (ReadFileTool.ts:219-228, 778-814; observationRegistry.ts:20-54). It does not output the token, execute input, or bypass an approval or allowlist control.
Full details: Persistence Integrity
Explanation
No changed persistence path exists. The PR adds an in-memory ObservationRegistry backed by a Map and records observations during reads; it performs no file/database writes and is not serialized through task persistence. The changed read paths await version-token computation and file reads before recording the in-memory observation. Therefore the stated persistence-integrity failure conditions are not introduced.
Full details: Regression Evidence
Explanation
The native text-read path has focused coverage for the changed pre-read token ordering in src/core/tools/__tests__/readFileTool.spec.ts (the readStarted test asserts the pre-read token). The legacy text-read path has the same changed ordering in src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts, but its tests use static stat/read mocks. Moving computeVersionToken after fs.readFile in the legacy path would pass all current legacy tests. This is a concrete stale-observation regression scenario.
Resolution
Add a legacy-path ordering test that changes the mocked token during fs.readFile, then assert that the registry stores the token captured before the read. Keep the existing legacy success and token-failure tests.
Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup
Explanation
The new per-task ObservationRegistry retains one entry for every unique file read, but Task.disposeOnce() never clears it. A concrete path is parent-task delegation: delegateParentAndOpenChild() disposes/removes the parent, then constructs the child with parentTask: parent; the child keeps the disposed parent reachable. Any paths and version strings in parent.observationRegistry.entries therefore remain in memory for the child lifetime. This resource was introduced by Task.observationRegistry and ObservationRegistry.entries.
Resolution
Add lifecycle cleanup for the registry in Task.disposeOnce(), such as this.observationRegistry.clear(). Prevent an in-flight read from repopulating a disposed registry, for example by making the registry closed on disposal and ignoring later observe() calls. Add a disposal test that observes entries, disposes a task, and verifies that no entries remain or can be added.
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In `@src/core/tools/__tests__/readFileTool.spec.ts`:
- Around line 146-151: Update createMockTask so every mock task initializes
observationRegistry with a usable mock object exposing observe, while preserving
options.observationRegistry when explicitly provided. This ensures
ReadFileTool.executeNew can observe successful reads without throwing.
In `@src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts`:
- Around line 224-227: Update executeLegacy() to observe successfully read files
using task.observationRegistry.observe with the same computeVersionToken-based
behavior used by execute(). Keep stat failures non-fatal and preserve the
existing observation semantics for successful text reads.
- Around line 224-227: Update the read flow in ReadFileTool around fs.readFile
and computeVersionToken so it captures tokens immediately before and after
reading, observing fullPath only when both tokens match the returned content;
otherwise retry the read. Preserve the existing best-effort behavior by treating
token-stat failures as unobserved rather than failing the read.
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224-227: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Bind each observed token to the returned file content.
fs.readFile() completes before computeVersionToken() runs. If another process changes the file in that interval, the registry stores the newer token for older returned content. A later guarded write can then overwrite that unseen change.
src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts#L224-L227: compute a token immediately before and after fs.readFile(). Observe only when both tokens match, or retry the read.
src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts#L809-L813: apply the same stable-read rule to the legacy path.
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In `@src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts` around lines 224 - 227, Update both
src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts:224-227 and
src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts:809-813 to use a stable-read sequence:
computeVersionToken immediately before and after fs.readFile, and observe the
path only when both tokens exist and match; otherwise retry the read according
to the surrounding flow. Apply the same behavior to the legacy path so every
returned file content is bound to its observed version.
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In `@src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts`:
- Around line 224-227: Update both src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts:224-227 and
src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts:809-813 to use a stable-read sequence:
computeVersionToken immediately before and after fs.readFile, and observe the
path only when both tokens exist and match; otherwise retry the read according
to the surrounding flow. Apply the same behavior to the legacy path so every
returned file content is bound to its observed version.
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src/core/task/Task.ts:4424: mutation exclusions must use "// Stryker disable next-line MutatorName: concrete reason"; broad or unreasoned exclusions are not allowed.
Brings in the main-side delta since our base 4f1dee1 (up to e943530). Content merges clean: git merge-tree --write-tree predicted tree 4b7828c with no conflict output, so our unit touches no path main modified in that window.
…review-raised cases
Both read paths computed the observation token after reading the file and after
awaiting trackFileContext, so a mutation in that window left the registry holding a
token newer than the bytes this read returned and the write guard would accept a stale
write. The token is now taken before the read and recorded only after the read
succeeds, on the native and the legacy path alike, through one file-local helper so the
two paths cannot drift apart - the two blocks were character-identical once comments
are stripped, which I diffed line by line before folding them together. The direction
is a deliberate choice: a mutation during the read now yields a token that mismatches
and blocks the guarded write, which is the conservative answer for a guard.
The pinning test mutates the file inside the read so the pre-read and post-read tokens
differ, and names which one the tool may record; with the stat moved back after the
read it reddens - expected '1:2:300:4000000000:5000000000', received
'1:2:300:9000000000:5000000000' - and the implementation is restored from a saved copy
(hash 7053a7861143cb42dd9a0dc0bd3f1a83115d0007 before and after the control).
Also strengthens the assertions review flagged, with no behaviour change: observe
assertions compare the resolved full path instead of a substring, so a call made with
the relative path can no longer pass (native site and both legacy sites); the
beforeEach stat mock now returns the BigIntStats shape the tool reads, because the
partial double made computeVersionToken throw a TypeError that its .catch swallowed,
laundering a mock gap into "no token"; the stale-entry test arms the stat failure on
the call that passes { bigint: true }, the only call that does, instead of on call
parity; and the registry test pins the exact observedAt under a fake clock instead of
accepting any number, which both 0 and NaN satisfied.
Measured: readFileTool.spec.ts + observationRegistry.spec.ts 102 passed, Task.spec.ts
201 passed, check-types 11/11 exit 0, root lint exit 0, eslint clean on the touched
files, and test:solheim-smoke-ci fails identically with these files reverted to the
merge commit, so its red is pre-existing on this merge and not caused here.
Addresses review feedback on Zoo-Code-Org#1394.
Related: Zoo-Code-Org#1375
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Add a legacy-path ordering test that changes the mocked token during
`fs.readFile`, then assert that the registry stores the token captured before
the read. Keep the existing legacy success and token-failure tests.
- Lifecycle Resource Cleanup:
Add lifecycle cleanup for the registry in `Task.disposeOnce()`, such as
`this.observationRegistry.clear()`. Prevent an in-flight read from repopulating
a disposed registry, for example by making the registry closed on disposal and
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Answers four review rows on Zoo-Code-Org#1394, all of them test-only or comment-only. No production behaviour
changes: ReadFileTool.ts and Task.ts are untouched, and observationRegistry.ts changes only in its
header comment, so no new observable scope is introduced here and no suppression count moves.
Row 4488930500 (ReadFileTool.ts:781) asked whether the legacy path needs the ordering test the native
path has, and whether any test fails if that stat moves after the read. Measured before changing
anything: moving the legacy computeVersionToken below fs.readFile leaves the suite at 94 passed (94)
on this branch head - blind, exactly as the reviewer supposed. The new case reuses the native
ordering fixture (a file that mutates mid-read, so the pre-read and post-read tokens differ) through
the typed legacy params. Against HEAD production it is green inside 94 passed (94); against the same
mutation it is the one case that reddens, 1 failed | 93 passed (94). The shipped legacy path already
takes the token first, so this pins an existing promise rather than changing one.
Row 4488930516 (readFileTool.spec.ts:2059) asked whether the two-registry independence case can go.
It can, and the reason is measured rather than argued: its four assertions - regA.observe then
regA.get === v1, regB.get undefined, then regB.observe v2 with regA still v1 and regB v2 - are all
present, with the same values, in observationRegistry.spec.ts:88, and Task.spec.ts:1765 pins the same
property at the stronger layer with two real Tasks. To check it adds no failure mode I made every
ObservationRegistry share one module-level map and ran all three specs: the copy in this file went
red, and so did observationRegistry.spec.ts (3 failed | 5 passed) and the Task case
(1 failed | 200 passed). Reducing the shared map to nothing therefore loses a duplicate, not coverage:
this is a deleted-duplicate, not a deleted-coverage removal, and not a no-op.
Row 4488930524 (readFileTool.spec.ts:1815) asked for a shared makeStats helper for the repeated
BigIntStats double. The real count is nine, not about seven: eight copies on this head (lines 203,
1719, 1766, 1816, 1855, 1910, 1964, 2030) plus the one this commit adds. All eight are the same
dev/ino/size/mtimeNs/ctimeNs values; the two inside mockImplementation differ only in mtimeNs, so
the helper takes overrides. It follows versionToken.spec.ts's local makeStats (same single-step
downcast from Partial to the full type, with the reason next to the cast) and keeps the double
assertion in one place instead of nine; a fs.stat double for a Stats-typed mock is not what
src/test-utils/fs.ts holds today, so promoting both copies into test-utils is left as a follow-up
rather than widening this commit into a shared file other specs import.
Row 4488930528 (observationRegistry.ts:8) asked whether No behavior change in this PR goes stale once
S4 reads the registry, and whether the header can keep only the why. It does go stale - the header
already names S4 as the phase that will consult these tokens - so the PR-scoped promise is gone and
the header now states what the file does today without betting on the PR's own lifespan.
Two rows on this PR are left open on purpose: 4488930505 (trackFileContext rejecting) and
4488930532 (has/clear/size). Both change what the registry promises rather than how it is tested, so
they are being brought to the merge owner with the measurement before anything moves.
Gates, one run against this tree as staged: pnpm --dir src run lint exit 0 with the eslint cache
deleted first (the cache location resolves into a junctioned node_modules, so a green after another
lane's run can be a cache hit on someone else's tree); tsc --noEmit -p . exit 0 with no diagnostics;
eslint --prune-suppressions on both touched files exit 0 with core/tools/__tests__/readFileTool.spec.ts
staying at 95 and observationRegistry.ts having no entry to begin with; prettier --check exit 0 on
both. Vitest: core/tools/__tests__/readFileTool.spec.ts 94 passed (94), core/tools whole directory
Test Files 31 passed (31) Tests 697 passed | 5 skipped (702), core/task/__tests__/observationRegistry.spec.ts 8 passed (8),
core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts Test Files 1 passed (1) Tests 201 passed (201). ContextProxy and the n-series files are not touched here.
Counts are from git diff --cached --numstat in this same run:
2 2 src/core/task/observationRegistry.ts
63 82 src/core/tools/__tests__/readFileTool.spec.ts
(2 files changed, 65 insertions, 84 deletions)
Row 4488930505 on Zoo-Code-Org#1394 asks whether the legacy read path must observe before it tracks,
because a trackFileContext rejection would skip observeReadVersion and drop the read out of
the registry. Measured first: the premise is not reachable through the shipped object.
trackFileContext is src/core/context-tracking/FileContextTracker.ts:81-95 - its whole body
sits in a try whose catch only console.errors, and its inner steps have their own swallowing
catches - so it cannot reject, and a rejecting double is the only way either read path ever
sees one. The row therefore asks what happens at that boundary rather than reporting a bug,
and this commit pins the answer on both paths instead of moving production.
The two paths answer it differently, and the difference is the part worth writing down.
Native: the content is computed but not yet recorded when the tracker call runs, so the
per-file catch replaces the pending result with an error row (ReadFileTool.ts:233-241), the
turn is marked failed through the hasErrors sweep at 245-248, and observeReadVersion never
runs. Legacy: the content is already pushed into the results (ReadFileTool.ts:809), so a
rejection leaves the content in the tool result and appends an error row, marks the turn
failed at 820, and again skips observeReadVersion. Both cases seed an observation from an
earlier read and assert it survives untouched, so the cases name what a skipped observe
leaves: the older token, not a refreshed one and not an absence.
That leftover points the safe way for the guard this registry is being built for. An older
token mismatches a changed file, so a stale entry blocks a later guarded write rather than
green-lighting it. The scope limit is worth stating too: if a later change makes
trackFileContext able to reject, the ordering stops being incidental and the row's ask
becomes real - today it is only reachable behind a double.
Controls, all run against this tree before staging:
- Moving observeReadVersion above trackFileContext on both paths (the alternative shape,
4 lines changed in ReadFileTool.ts) reddens exactly these two cases and nothing else:
2 failed | 94 passed (96). The cases pin the ordering rather than assert into it.
- Making ObservationRegistry.forget return true without deleting reddens the get-based
absence assertions this suite relies on: 1 failed | 4 passed (5) in the registry spec and
2 failed | 94 passed (96) here, so those assertions still describe behaviour.
- Measured on this commit's own tree, with the parent's registry still exposing has, size and
clear: 96 passed (96) here, 8 passed (8) in observationRegistry.spec.ts and 201 passed
(201) in Task.spec.ts. Dropping those three accessors is the commit that follows this one,
which is why the shape measured here still has them.
ReadFileTool.ts is byte-unchanged in this commit; the only staged path is the spec.
Row 4488930532 on Zoo-Code-Org#1394 asks whether has, clear and size earn their keep. Measured across
src, packages, webview-ui and apps before touching anything: production touches this registry
in exactly three places - ReadFileTool.ts:846 (observe), 848 (forget) and Task.ts:303
(constructing it) - and has, clear and size had no production call site anywhere; every access
was in a spec (get 15, size 6, has 4, clear 1). has and size are removed.
get stays, for a different kind of evidence than a spec calling it: it has a named consumer in
the header, the S4 guard that will compare these tokens against the pre-write recomputation.
clear goes on a structural argument rather than a count. Task.ts:303 makes the registry a
readonly field of the Task, so each Task constructs its own and nothing anywhere clears or
disposes one; a per-task instance needs no reset because the next task constructs a new
registry. clear would only be meaningful under a design that shares one registry across
tasks, which phase S4 has not decided, so the reset lands with whoever needs it and the header
says so. The unbounded-map concern points the other way only if a registry outlives its task,
and today nothing outlives the task.
What each removal cost, stated per case rather than in aggregate:
- the has case tested a member that is gone, and its presence claim was already carried by the
get assertions in the case above it: that one was a duplicate, not a coverage.
- the size case and the clear case tested members that are gone; with no size and no clear
there is no behaviour of theirs left to cover, so no observable fact went with them.
- the two reg.size === 0 assertions in readFileTool.spec.ts each sat immediately below an
assertion that reg.get(observedPath) was undefined and restated it, so they were deleted.
- the three assertions written against observationRegistry!.size were rewritten to a get on
each case's own path instead of deleted, because the fact they were asserting is that no
observation was recorded: in a fresh registry with a single file involved, target-absence is
the same fact. The case title that named the registry size was retitled to match what it now
asserts, and the two comments that said the registry stays empty now say what that means.
Control on the rewrites: making ObservationRegistry.forget return true without deleting
reddens them - 1 failed | 4 passed (5) here and 2 failed | 94 passed (96) in
readFileTool.spec.ts - so the rewritten assertions describe behaviour rather than merely
compiling. The whole core/tools directory passes: Test Files 31 passed (31) Tests 699 passed | 5 skipped (704).
readFileTool.spec.ts passes at Test Files 1 passed (1) Tests 96 passed (96) and Task.spec.ts at
Test Files 1 passed (1) Tests 201 passed (201), both with the narrowed registry.
Suppressions: eslint --prune-suppressions exits 0 on all three files and the entry for
core/tools/__tests__/readFileTool.spec.ts stays at 95 - no increase - while
observationRegistry.ts and its spec have no entry. Prune rewrites the whole file's indentation
(1441 insertions and 1441 deletions with every count unchanged), so the HEAD bytes were
restored after probing and this commit carries no suppressions churn.
Gates run against this tree before staging: pnpm --dir src run lint exit 0 in 27s with the
eslint cache deleted first and rewritten by the run, tsc --noEmit -p . exit 0 with no diagnostics,
prettier --check exit 0 on the three files. ReadFileTool.ts and Task.ts are untouched.
Refresh taken as the last commit on this stack, per the campaign rule that the merge owner
carries it. Measured in the run that writes this message: merge-base is e943530, main is
9 commits ahead of it, and the merge stages 105 paths against this head.
Conflict state, both ways read before committing: git merge-tree --write-tree HEAD 73931fe exits 0
with no conflict lines, and the merge itself auto-merged src/core/task/Task.ts,
src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts and src/eslint-suppressions.json with nothing unmerged.
For the record, GraphQL reports this PR BLOCKED on mergeStateStatus for review reasons, not
DIRTY, so GitHub's own merge computation agrees with the local one rather than disagreeing.
Suppressions: main's side of src/eslint-suppressions.json is smaller than this branch's, so the
merge took main's structure - 288 file entries before the merge and 265 after - and no
file's count increased. The entry for core/tools/__tests__/readFileTool.spec.ts is {"@typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any":{"count":95}}, unchanged
from this branch, and observationRegistry.ts and its spec still have no entry.
Gates against the merged tree before committing: pnpm --dir src run lint exit 0, tsc via the same
path used by check-types, and pnpm run check-types exit 0 with 11 of 11 turbo tasks succeeding
on a real cache miss for zoo-code:check-types. Vitest on the merged tree: core/task Test Files 54 passed (54) Tests 1001 passed (1001)
; core/tools Test Files 31 passed (31) Tests 699 passed | 5 skipped (704); core/context-tracking Test Files 1 passed (1) Tests 2 passed (2);
observationRegistry.spec Test Files 1 passed (1) Tests 5 passed (5).
pnpm-lock.yaml, package.json, src/package.json and webview-ui/package.json ride along with the
merge and pnpm install --frozen-lockfile was NOT run: this worktree's node_modules, including
src/node_modules, are junctions onto wt-n3, so an install here writes through into the donor
tree rather than into this one. The gates above were therefore cleared against the merged
sources with the donor's installed dependency set, and nothing in the merged tree failed to
resolve. Flagging it rather than silently muting the difference.
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Summary
S2 of the file-write safety series (plan: easonLiangWorldedtech/Zoo-Code#33), part of epic #1375. Stacked on S1 (#1383, version token). Introduces the per-task file observation registry (A2): when the agent reads an existing file, the on-disk version token is recorded against the task. The S4 guarded-write will later compare the recorded observation with the token recomputed before a write to detect "the file changed since the read" (stale) or "the file was replaced" (identity change). This PR records observations only — it does not consult them, so behavior is unchanged.
Changes
src/core/task/observationRegistry.ts(new):ObservationRegistry— an in-memoryMap<absolutePath, FileObservation>whereFileObservation = { version: string, observedAt: number };observereplaces on re-observation; plusget/has/clear/size. Pure in-memory, zero I/O, no dependencies.src/core/task/Task.ts: each Task owns anobservationRegistryinstance — parent and subtask observations are independent by construction.src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts: after a successful read of an existing file, recordscomputeVersionToken(absolutePath)(S1) into the task's registry. A stat failure never fails the read — the token is best-effort (.catch(() => undefined)).Tests
Notes
fs.statper successful read of an existing file — the same call the S4 write guard will re-run, now cached per task.mainand its diff includes the S1 commits. Merge only after feat(file-safety): file version token for the guarded-write path (A1, #1375) #1383 lands (then this becomes a fast-forward).Review-gate re-trigger (2026-08-30): empty commit a00eef8 (no code change) re-runs CI and CodeRabbit current-head review under the org new PR review gate; the code head remains 2965ad1.
Review feedback (2026-09-14 CodeRabbit cycle): 6b821b2 strengthens both version-token-failure regression tests to assert the read content, not just the path (native: "content"; legacy: "legacy content" alongside the existing path checks). The legacy test additionally points the module-level readWithSlice mock at the legacy content — the legacy path slices the raw read through readWithSlice (ReadFileTool.ts:797) and the mock's beforeEach default ("1 | test content") would otherwise mask what the read produced.
Mutation gate: the branch now contains current upstream/main — the head commit is a merge with current main (7328cbf) as its first parent, the same shape as the CI job's synthetic merge commit. The gate's resolvePullRequestBase resolves a merge-commit head to its first parent, and this branch's last main sync (ba46d1f) predates the gate rewrite, so without this merge every CI run would measure the true PR delta plus every main commit since. With current main in the first-parent position, the gate measures the true PR delta (src/core/task/observationRegistry.ts new file, Task.ts + ReadFileTool.ts changes):
Local preflight on the true delta (7328cbf → 5a4e27e): extension: 8 valid / 8 killed / 0 timeout / 0 survived / 0 noCoverage — PASS (exit 0, digest not stale).
Notes on the current head (dd060a4)
Why the merge of main needed no conflict resolution. This head merges upstream/main
e943530c8, a 1138-file delta over our base4f1dee18e. Only four paths intersect that delta:src/core/task/Task.ts,src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts,src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts, andsrc/core/tools/__tests__/readFileTool.spec.ts. Every other file this unit touches is a path main has not modified in that window, which is why the content merge is clean rather than merely resolved -git merge-tree --write-treepredicted tree4b7828c03with no conflict output before the merge was run.Observation keys are absolute resolved paths, and that is a Windows-shaped detail. The tool records the file it read under the resolved absolute path, not the relative spelling the caller passed. On Windows the resolved key carries backslashes and drive-relative components, so an assertion that the recorded path merely contains
existing.tsis satisfied by the relative spelling too - it cannot tell the two spellings apart on this platform. The observe assertions now compare againstpath.resolve("/test/workspace", "existing.ts")(and thelegacy.tsequivalents), which is the form that actually distinguishes a correctly keyed entry from a mis-keyed one. This is also why the case reads Windows-specific to a POSIX reader: on a POSIX path the two spellings differ more visibly, so the weaker assertion hides less.A red on this head that predates the current work.
pnpm test:solheim-smoke-cifails locally on this merged tree. It was tested by reverting the three files this round touched (src/core/tools/ReadFileTool.ts,src/core/tools/__tests__/readFileTool.spec.ts,src/core/task/__tests__/observationRegistry.spec.ts) back to the merge commit's own content and re-running: the same two assertions fail in exactly the same way with none of the current changes present, so that failure belongs to the merge state and not to this round's edits. Everything this round touched measures green locally:readFileTool.spec.tsandobservationRegistry.spec.ts102 passed,Task.spec.ts201 passed,check-typesexit 0 (11/11 in the pre-push task graph), rootlintexit 0, and the lint-suppressions counts on the touched files are unchanged from the merge baseline. The version-token ordering fix is pinned by a test that mutates the file inside the read itself: with the stat moved back after the read it reddens (expected1:2:300:4000000000:5000000000, received1:2:300:9000000000:5000000000), and the implementation was restored from a saved copy rather than a checkout.