Option 1 of #157, slice 2. readExcerpt (brain_context), api.ReadNote
(brain_get / read-after-write) and notes.ReadScoped (brain_read) read
the Syncthing-shared brain by path. Under a symlink swap race each
leaked an outside file hundreds of thousands of times in 1.5s, including
brain_read, whose Lstat check was raced by the reopen-by-name; a FIFO
blocked os.ReadFile.
- All three read through brainfs (os.Root, regular files only,
non-blocking open, type check on the handle).
- brainfs.ReadRegularMax checks a size limit on the opened handle;
notes keeps its ErrTooLarge.
- New internal/brainfs/brainfstest: the shared swap-race harness
(symlink and held-writer FIFO swappers, awaited before TempDir
cleanup; AssertNoLeak / AssertNoHang) for this and later slices.
Tests red first: each reader under a symlink-swap race and a held-writer
FIFO race, plus static checks. Flipped: readExcerpt back to os.ReadFile
is red.
Refs #157
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brain_edit_root was gated but unobserved: on success it emitted a slog.Warn
and nothing else. That proves a rewrite was allowed, not that one happened —
and brain-sync commits it within 15 minutes authored `brain-sync`, so git
history cannot tell a CLAUDE.md rewrite apart from routine note traffic.
A successful brain_edit_root now emits an ntfy notification and an AuditEntry
through the same sink a capture already uses. notes.Result gains
PrevContentHash so both ends of the change are identifiable.
Path and hashes only in the notification body. Reserved at Internal, not
Confidential, because Confidential makes DegradingSink refuse to record while
loki is down rather than buffer. Observation is best-effort and never fails
the call; a failure to observe logs at ERROR.
Ordinary brain_edit on knowledge//wiki/ is deliberately not audited — git
history already carries the same before/after bytes with a diff.
Closes#97.
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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.
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