feat(mcp): brain_read + brain_edit, contained to the sync source (brain#4) (#96)
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brain_read returns a note verbatim; brain_edit is str_replace with an
exactly-once match, operating on the tree brain-sync commits from.

An adversarial design review before implementation changed three things:

1. Governance files are not in the model-facing tool. Brain content is
   ingested from the outside world and reaches a model's context, and that
   model would hold the editor — one poisoned page could rewrite the
   CLAUDE.md a .dispatch-allow agent later loads as instructions. And
   brain-sync merges with --strategy-option=ours, so the live tree beats a
   human's corrective push on the conflicting lines. CLAUDE.md now goes
   through brain_edit_root: de-surfaced from tools/list and gated on the
   local static principal. The scopes are disjoint — the privileged door
   has the smaller reach.

2. Reads needed the same allowlist, and brain_get already lacked it: it
   returned verbatim session transcripts under archive/ by path. A test
   proved the exposure live before the fix.

3. Canonicalise before allowlisting — knowledge/../.git/hooks/post-commit
   would otherwise reach a hook that brain-sync executes in a pod holding
   the Gitea push credentials.

Plus overlapping match counting, UTF-8 validation both ways, refusal while
git is mid-operation, flock with the read inside the lock, atomic
same-dir rename, and reindex only when frontmatter is touched.

Refs brain#4.

Co-authored-by: Mathias <mthbqv@gmail.com>
This commit was merged in pull request #96.
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package notes
import (
"crypto/sha256"
"encoding/hex"
"errors"
"fmt"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strings"
"sync"
"syscall"
"unicode/utf8"
)
// maxNoteBytes caps what Read will hand back. Generous for knowledge/ and
// wiki/ (the largest note today is far under it) and small enough that a
// pathological file cannot flood a caller's context.
const maxNoteBytes = 256 << 10
// Errors callers distinguish.
var (
ErrNoMatch = errors.New("notes: old_str not found")
ErrAmbiguous = errors.New("notes: old_str matches more than once")
ErrNotUTF8 = errors.New("notes: content is not valid UTF-8")
ErrGitBusy = errors.New("notes: a git operation is in progress")
ErrTooLarge = errors.New("notes: file exceeds the readable size limit")
ErrDegenerate = errors.New("notes: edit is degenerate")
ErrInConflict = errors.New("notes: file contains unresolved conflict markers")
)
// pathLocks serialises edits per file within this process. The flock below
// covers the cross-process case (two pods share the hostPath during a rolling
// update, and brain-fix/brain-enrich write the same tree).
var pathLocks sync.Map // string -> *sync.Mutex
// Result is what a successful edit reports.
type Result struct {
Path string `json:"path"`
ContentHash string `json:"content_hash"`
BytesBefore int `json:"bytes_before"`
BytesAfter int `json:"bytes_after"`
ReindexError string `json:"reindex_error,omitempty"`
}
// Read returns a note's bytes verbatim.
//
// No frontmatter parsing, no excerpting, no normalisation: the entire purpose
// is to give a caller an exact basis for an edit. An excerpt from brain_query
// would be truncated and normalised, and every old_str built from one would
// miss.
func Read(brainDir, path string) ([]byte, error) {
t, err := Resolve(brainDir, path, ScopeNotes)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return readContained(t)
}
// ReadScoped is Read for a caller already holding the privileged scope.
func ReadScoped(brainDir, path string, scope Scope) ([]byte, error) {
t, err := Resolve(brainDir, path, scope)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return readContained(t)
}
func readContained(t Target) ([]byte, error) {
fi, err := os.Stat(t.Abs)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("notes: stat %s: %w", t.Rel, err)
}
if fi.Size() > maxNoteBytes {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s is %d bytes (limit %d)", ErrTooLarge, t.Rel, fi.Size(), maxNoteBytes)
}
b, err := os.ReadFile(t.Abs)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("notes: read %s: %w", t.Rel, err)
}
// The MCP response marshals this into a JSON string, and encoding/json
// substitutes U+FFFD for invalid UTF-8 — silently returning different
// bytes than the file holds, which defeats "verbatim" entirely.
if !utf8.Valid(b) {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", ErrNotUTF8, t.Rel)
}
return b, nil
}
// Edit replaces exactly one occurrence of oldStr with newStr, in place.
//
// Fails loudly and writes nothing on: zero matches, more than one match
// (counted with overlap), degenerate arguments, invalid UTF-8, a git operation
// in flight, or unresolved conflict markers in the target.
func Edit(brainDir, path, oldStr, newStr string, scope Scope) (Result, error) {
t, err := Resolve(brainDir, path, scope)
if err != nil {
return Result{}, err
}
if oldStr == "" {
return Result{}, fmt.Errorf("%w: old_str is empty", ErrDegenerate)
}
if oldStr == newStr {
return Result{}, fmt.Errorf("%w: old_str equals new_str", ErrDegenerate)
}
if !utf8.ValidString(newStr) {
return Result{}, fmt.Errorf("%w: new_str", ErrNotUTF8)
}
// brain#2 guard: refuse to write to a tree the sync does not commit from.
if err := assertSyncSource(brainDir); err != nil {
return Result{}, err
}
if err := assertGitIdle(brainDir); err != nil {
return Result{}, err
}
mu := lockFor(t.Abs)
mu.Lock()
defer mu.Unlock()
unlock, err := flockFile(t.Abs)
if err != nil {
return Result{}, err
}
defer unlock()
// Read INSIDE the lock: the match count must be evaluated against the
// bytes we are about to overwrite, or a concurrent edit is silently lost
// while both callers are told they succeeded.
before, err := readContained(t)
if err != nil {
return Result{}, err
}
if hasConflictMarkers(before) {
return Result{}, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", ErrInConflict, t.Rel)
}
switch n := countOverlapping(string(before), oldStr); {
case n == 0:
return Result{}, fmt.Errorf("%w in %s (0 matches)%s", ErrNoMatch, t.Rel, crlfHint(string(before), oldStr))
case n > 1:
return Result{}, fmt.Errorf("%w in %s (%d matches) — extend old_str until it is unique",
ErrAmbiguous, t.Rel, n)
}
after := strings.Replace(string(before), oldStr, newStr, 1)
if err := writeAtomic(t.Abs, []byte(after)); err != nil {
return Result{}, err
}
sum := sha256.Sum256([]byte(after))
return Result{
Path: t.Rel,
ContentHash: hex.EncodeToString(sum[:]),
BytesBefore: len(before),
BytesAfter: len(after),
}, nil
}
// countOverlapping counts occurrences allowing overlap. bytes.Count does not:
// "aa" occurs once in "aaa" by its reckoning, so a Count-based uniqueness
// check accepts an ambiguous edit as unique.
func countOverlapping(s, sub string) int {
var n, from int
for {
i := strings.Index(s[from:], sub)
if i < 0 {
return n
}
n++
from += i + 1
}
}
// crlfHint reports whether the caller's old_str would have matched if line
// endings agreed. It never normalises — that would break byte-identity — but
// an opaque "no match" is unfixable from the caller's side, and a stripped \r
// is the likeliest cause.
func crlfHint(content, oldStr string) string {
if strings.Contains(content, "\r\n") && !strings.Contains(oldStr, "\r\n") {
if strings.Contains(strings.ReplaceAll(content, "\r\n", "\n"), oldStr) {
return " — the file uses CRLF line endings and old_str does not; include the \\r"
}
}
return ""
}
func hasConflictMarkers(b []byte) bool {
s := string(b)
return strings.Contains(s, "\n<<<<<<< ") || strings.HasPrefix(s, "<<<<<<< ")
}
// assertGitIdle refuses while brain-sync (or brain-fix, or a human) has a git
// operation in flight. An edit landing between `git merge` and its abort is
// either hard-reset away or committed as a wrongly resolved conflict — and the
// caller was told it succeeded.
func assertGitIdle(brainDir string) error {
for _, marker := range []string{"MERGE_HEAD", "REBASE_HEAD", "CHERRY_PICK_HEAD", "index.lock"} {
if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(brainDir, ".git", marker)); err == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("%w (.git/%s present) — retry after the sync settles", ErrGitBusy, marker)
}
}
return nil
}
func lockFor(abs string) *sync.Mutex {
v, _ := pathLocks.LoadOrStore(abs, &sync.Mutex{})
return v.(*sync.Mutex)
}
// flockFile takes an advisory lock covering other processes sharing the
// hostPath — during a RollingUpdate two ingestion pods do.
func flockFile(abs string) (func(), error) {
f, err := os.OpenFile(abs+".lock", os.O_CREATE|os.O_RDWR, 0o644)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("notes: lock %s: %w", filepath.Base(abs), err)
}
if err := syscall.Flock(int(f.Fd()), syscall.LOCK_EX); err != nil {
_ = f.Close()
return nil, fmt.Errorf("notes: flock %s: %w", filepath.Base(abs), err)
}
return func() {
_ = syscall.Flock(int(f.Fd()), syscall.LOCK_UN)
_ = f.Close()
_ = os.Remove(abs + ".lock")
}, nil
}
// writeAtomic replaces the file via a same-directory temp + rename, then
// fsyncs the directory so the rename survives a node crash.
//
// Same directory because a rename across the hostPath boundary fails with
// EXDEV; the ".tmp" suffix because the tree's .gitignore already covers it, so
// a leaked temp is not committed by `git add -A`.
func writeAtomic(abs string, content []byte) error {
dir := filepath.Dir(abs)
tmp, err := os.CreateTemp(dir, filepath.Base(abs)+".*.tmp")
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("notes: temp file: %w", err)
}
tmpName := tmp.Name()
defer func() { _ = os.Remove(tmpName) }() // no-op once renamed
if _, err := tmp.Write(content); err != nil {
_ = tmp.Close()
return fmt.Errorf("notes: write temp: %w", err)
}
if err := tmp.Sync(); err != nil {
_ = tmp.Close()
return fmt.Errorf("notes: sync temp: %w", err)
}
if err := tmp.Close(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("notes: close temp: %w", err)
}
// CreateTemp makes 0600; every other writer of this tree uses 0644 and
// other uids read it.
if err := os.Chmod(tmpName, 0o644); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("notes: chmod temp: %w", err)
}
if err := os.Rename(tmpName, abs); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("notes: rename: %w", err)
}
return fsyncDir(dir)
}
func fsyncDir(dir string) error {
d, err := os.Open(dir)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("notes: open dir: %w", err)
}
defer func() { _ = d.Close() }()
if err := d.Sync(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("notes: fsync dir: %w", err)
}
return nil
}