feat(mcp): add brain_read + brain_edit, contained to the sync source (brain#4)
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brain_read returns a note verbatim; brain_edit is str_replace with an
exactly-once match. Both operate on INGEST_BRAIN_DIR, which is the pod's
mount of /var/lib/supervisor/brain — the tree brain-sync commits from, so
an edit reaches gitea on the next cycle rather than landing somewhere the
sync cannot see it (brain#2).

An adversarial design review before implementation changed three things,
each of which would otherwise have shipped:

1. Governance files are NOT in the model-facing tool. The original plan
   allowed root *.md so CLAUDE.md had an MCP path at all — the absence of
   one is what pushed a session to edit via the gitea REST API on
   2026-06-16 and wedge the sync. But brain content is ingested from the
   outside world, reaches a model's context via brain_query, and that
   model would hold the editor: one poisoned page could rewrite the
   CLAUDE.md a .dispatch-allow agent later loads as instructions. Worse,
   brain-sync merges with --strategy-option=ours, so the live tree wins
   against a human's corrective push on exactly the conflicting lines.
   CLAUDE.md now goes through brain_edit_root: de-surfaced from
   tools/list (the brain_index precedent, ADR-0012 rule 4) and gated on
   the local static principal, so a claude.ai-origin session is refused.
   The two scopes are disjoint — the privileged door has the smaller reach.

2. Reads needed the same allowlist, and brain_get already lacked it.
   api.ReadNote resolves any brain-relative path and parseFrontmatter
   returns the whole file when there is no fence, so brain_get reads
   verbatim session transcripts under archive/ (up to 500 KB, never
   BM25-indexed, so nobody thinks of them as reachable). A test proves
   the exposure was live; the same Resolve now gates brain_get.

3. Canonicalise before allowlisting. A prefix check on the raw argument
   accepts knowledge/../.git/hooks/post-commit, which Clean collapses to
   a git hook that brain-sync executes inside a pod holding the Gitea
   push credentials. Traversal, symlink escape, dotfiles, .git/, archive/,
   sessions/ and raw/ are refused by a static backstop that does not
   depend on the allowlist being right. There were no traversal tests in
   this repo before.

Also from the review: overlapping match counting (bytes.Count says "aa"
occurs once in "aaa", so a Count-based uniqueness check accepts an
ambiguous edit); UTF-8 validation on both sides, because encoding/json
substitutes U+FFFD and would hand back bytes the file does not contain,
making every derived old_str unmatchable; refusal while .git/MERGE_HEAD
or index.lock exists, since an edit racing brain-sync's merge is either
hard-reset away or committed as a wrongly resolved conflict; flock plus a
per-path mutex with the read taken inside the lock, because two pods
share the hostPath during a RollingUpdate and uniqueness evaluated
against a stale read loses an update while reporting success; same-dir
*.tmp + rename + chmod 0644 + fsync of file and parent; and reindex only
when the edit touches frontmatter, since BM25 walks live and embeddings
are mtime-driven.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BeAp5LTscnz2W7Ubt4eJ6m
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import (
"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/capture"
"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/extract"
"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/graphsync"
"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/notes"
"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/pipeline"
"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/search"
"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/session"
@@ -97,6 +98,8 @@ func (s *Server) tools() []map[string]any {
"slug": str("optional target slug; defaults to filename minus date prefix"),
}),
},
noteToolDescriptors()[0],
noteToolDescriptors()[1],
{
"name": "brain_tunnel",
"description": "Create an explicit bidirectional [[wikilink]] between two notes in different wings. Idempotent.",
@@ -320,6 +323,15 @@ func (s *Server) brainGet(ctx context.Context, args json.RawMessage) (json.RawMe
if target == "" {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("id or path is required")
}
// Containment: the store resolves any brain-relative path, and
// parseFrontmatter returns the WHOLE file as body when there is no
// frontmatter fence — so without this, brain_get reads verbatim session
// transcripts under archive/ and sessions/, which BM25 never indexes and
// which nobody therefore thinks of as reachable. Same allowlist as
// brain_read (brain#4).
if _, err := notes.Resolve(s.brainDir, target, notes.ScopeNotes); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
note, err := s.store.Get(ctx, target)
if err != nil {
return nil, err