fix(update,session): brain_update and session_log confine caller paths (#169 )

Review round 1 on PR #170 found two more handlers with the #169 class of bug (verified by execution): - brain_update resolved its caller path with resolveWithin, a lexical containment check: any brain file could be superseded (classification.yaml, raw/, sessions/), and a final symlink was written through. UpdateNote now resolves like brain_edit (notes.Resolve, ScopeNotes: knowledge/ and wiki/ .md notes), and reads and rewrites through brainfs (ReadRegular, WriteRegular). - session_log joined the caller's session_id onto the sessions dir and opened it O_CREATE|O_APPEND: an id with path segments created or appended a .jsonl file anywhere the pod could write. The id must now be a plain name (^[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9._-]{0,127}$, which every live session file matches), and the open adds O_NOFOLLOW|O_NONBLOCK. Read checks the id too. - Tunnel tests: the .txt case now names an existing file (it failed on "missing" before), the symlink test adds an in-brain target, and the FIFO comment no longer claims the handle check is the only guard. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
fix(tunnel): brain_tunnel cannot write outside the wiki or through symlinks
2026-10-04 22:38:08 +02:00 · 2026-10-04 22:23:45 +02:00 · 2026-10-04 06:35:17 +00:00 · 2026-10-04 05:59:55 +00:00 · 2026-10-03 19:34:46 +00:00 · 2026-10-03 19:34:19 +00:00
83 changed files with 5952 additions and 225 deletions
@@ -64,7 +64,11 @@ the routing pod; brain tools moved to the brain MCP.

 The brain HTTP REST API (`/query`, `/write`, `/ingest`, `/ingest-raw`,
 `/ingest-path`, `/backfill-refs`, `/pass-rate`) remains available on port 3300
-for shell scripts and non-MCP clients.
+for shell scripts and non-MCP clients, **with the same bearer token as `/mcp`**
+(`BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN`; hyperguild#149). It is not served on the public host
+(infra#517): use the tailnet (`koala:8443`) or in-cluster
+`ingestion.supervisor.svc:3300`. `/ingest-path` and `brain_ingest` `path`
+accept only paths inside `brain/raw/`.

 `brain_answer(query)` performs BM25 retrieval + LLM synthesis (berget.ai
 gemma4:31b → iguana fallback). `brain_classify(text)` infers doc type, title,
@@ -78,6 +78,27 @@ These rules apply to every task across every project, regardless of harness.
   when a human reviewer outside the project is required. Document the reason in
   PROJECT.md.

+   **Exception — a GitOps repo where a branch cannot be reconciled.** In a repo whose
+   deployment watches one branch (`mathias/infra`: Flux watches `main`), a branch is
+   invisible to the thing that applies it. A `risk/medium` change to `alerts.yaml` or
+   `litellm-config.yaml` can be linted on a branch but never *exercised* there, so a
+   PR would buy a review of a state that was never deployed.
+
+   There, `risk/medium`+ work stays on `main` and instead requires a **recorded
+   adversarial review pass before the push** — `skills:pr-gatekeeper` or equivalent,
+   reviewing the staged diff. **The reviewer's verdict goes in the issue, not a PR
+   thread.** No verdict recorded means the lane was not used, and saying "the gate was
+   green" is not the same claim.
+
+   Be honest about what this is: a recorded *independent* pass, not four-eyes in the
+   sense `assessor-loop` §4.1 means for a regulated organisation, because the reviewer
+   is an agent. It is more than the repo had and less than the model it mirrors; do not
+   describe it as the stronger property. (infra#470, decided 2026-09-29.)
+
+   This lane depends on the `risk/` label being right. A label that triggers a heavier
+   lane is load-bearing, not cosmetic — if work that belongs in it is unlabelled, the
+   lane silently does not apply.
+
 6. **Close the loop — every substantive task ends with the same ritual.** Shipping
   the code is not the end of the task; capturing it is. Run this unprompted:
   - **Tag + bump SemVer** on the change (annotated tag; minor for a feature or
@@ -106,6 +127,43 @@ These rules apply to every task across every project, regardless of harness.
   revisit Y". Those are exactly the items that need a locator. If it is worth
   saying in a summary, it is worth writing where it can be found again without you.

+7. **Finish what's closable — only involve me for a genuine call.** If a
+   tracker issue, PR, or checklist item is demonstrably resolved — the fix
+   landed, the state changed, you verified it live — close/merge/check it off
+   in the same turn. Don't leave it open "for the record" or park it waiting
+   on me to confirm something that already happened; that's bookkeeping, not
+   a decision. Reserve asking me (`AskUserQuestion`, a `DECISION NEEDED`
+   comment, or otherwise pausing) for when it's genuinely mine to call:
+   irreversible or prod/host-impacting actions, a real judgment call with no
+   clearly-better option, ambiguous intent, or anything secret-writes/
+   destructive-git already gate. Before claiming something is closable,
+   verify it live (re-check the issue, re-run the command) rather than
+   trusting your own earlier summary (brain: `filed-issue-not-same-as-fixed`).
+
+8. **Control code needs an adversary, not a checklist.** Code whose job is to
+   refuse, deny, gate or contain is not adequately verified by a green gate.
+   Rule 5 makes CI the quality gate and that holds for ordinary work — but a
+   passing suite only asserts what its author already thought of, and for a
+   control the author is precisely the person whose imagination just failed.
+   Measured on `dispatch#75`: five review rounds, five real escapes verified by
+   execution, and **CI was green on every one of them** while `git rm
+   ././.dispatch-allow` deleted the file the control existed to protect. So
+   route this work through a review with authority to block, instructed to
+   verify by execution rather than by reading the implementation. Expect to be
+   blocked more than once; that is the control working, not the reviewer being
+   difficult. (brain: `a-green-gate-is-not-evidence-for-control-code`; the
+   practices live in the `pr-gatekeeper` agent.)
+
+9. **A test's name must not claim more than its assertions prove.** Name a test
+   after the mechanism it observes, not the goal it serves.
+   `DoesNotInheritEnv` is honest; `IsContained` is a claim the test cannot
+   support. This is not pedantry about naming — when name and assertion
+   diverge, the name wins in the reader's head and the gap becomes invisible,
+   which is what lets the defect survive review. Found three times in one PR,
+   twice in tests written to fix the previous instance of it; each passed while
+   the thing it was named for was exploitable. If you cannot name the mechanism,
+   you do not yet know what the test observes.
+
 ## CAD sprint patterns

 Two CAD sprint archetypes (defs: brain `wiki/homelab/decisions/continuous-agentic-development-cad-concept-2026-06-16`):
@@ -246,10 +304,16 @@ entries that age well are about *why*, *how to avoid*, and *what to do when*.
 |---------|-------|-------|
 | **Claude Code, Claude Desktop** | `brain_query` (BM25), `brain_answer` (LLM-synth + sources) MCP tools | `brain_write` MCP tool |
 | **Crush, Pi, Antigravity, other MCP-capable** | same MCP server: `ingestion-brain` (via the `mcp__*_brain__*` namespace once authenticated) | same |
-| **Anything HTTP-only (curl, scripts)** | `POST https://brain-mcp.d-ma.be/query` with `{"query":"..."}` (auth via `BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN`) | `POST .../write` with `{"content":"...","filename":"..."}` |
+| **Anything HTTP-only (curl, scripts)** | Tailnet only: `POST https://koala.tail30472e.ts.net:8443/query` with `{"query":"..."}`, sending `BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN` (not yet enforced on REST, hyperguild#149). The public `brain-mcp.d-ma.be` serves `/mcp` only (infra#517). | `POST .../write` with `{"content":"...","wing":"...","hall":"..."}` |
 | **Browser / human inspection** | `https://git.d-ma.be/mathias/hyperguild` → `knowledge/` and `wiki/` markdown files |

- **Scoping**: defaults to `public` collection; client projects filter to `{client}` + `public`.
+- **Scoping — the brain holds no confidential client content.** Nothing on the read path
+  filters by client: every token holder can read every wing, and `wing` on `brain_query`
+  is an optional argument, not an access control. Client confidentiality is enforced only
+  at write time (`capture`'s I1 gate refuses internal/confidential). So never `brain_write`
+  client material; generalise it first or keep it in the client's own repo. (hyperguild#144,
+  decided 2026-10-01. This line previously claimed client projects were filtered; they
+  were not.)
 - **Routing**: brain_answer's LLM uses berget.ai as primary, iguana ollama as
  fallback. Both are configurable in the `supervisor/ingestion-deployment.yaml`
  on the koala k3s cluster; don't hardcode local-only model names into the
@@ -319,8 +383,20 @@ Workflow:
   and missing-untracked adapters). A drift fails the check with a
   message telling you to stage the regenerated files.

-Behavior rules in this file and per-project rules in `PROJECT.md` apply
-unconditionally on every host, every harness.
+Behavior rules in this file and per-project rules in `PROJECT.md` apply on every
+host and every harness.
+
+**Where a project rule contradicts a rule here, the project rule governs — and it
+must state its reason.** Both halves matter: the project file wins because it knows
+something this file cannot (infra's Flux constraint is real and not visible from
+here), and it must say why because a bare override is indistinguishable from drift.
+
+This replaces the previous wording, which said rules here and in `PROJECT.md` both
+apply *"unconditionally"*. That was not a tiebreak but a contradiction, and it went
+unnoticed until rule 5 and infra's "never create feature branches" had to be obeyed
+at the same time (infra#470). A standard can hold two individually sensible clauses
+that are jointly unsatisfiable, and survive for as long as everyone reads it
+charitably — the same failure the Inception Sprint Oath's G6 had.

 ## Engineering Skills

@@ -417,7 +493,11 @@ the routing pod; brain tools moved to the brain MCP.

 The brain HTTP REST API (`/query`, `/write`, `/ingest`, `/ingest-raw`,
 `/ingest-path`, `/backfill-refs`, `/pass-rate`) remains available on port 3300
-for shell scripts and non-MCP clients.
+for shell scripts and non-MCP clients, **with the same bearer token as `/mcp`**
+(`BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN`; hyperguild#149). It is not served on the public host
+(infra#517): use the tailnet (`koala:8443`) or in-cluster
+`ingestion.supervisor.svc:3300`. `/ingest-path` and `brain_ingest` `path`
+accept only paths inside `brain/raw/`.

 `brain_answer(query)` performs BM25 retrieval + LLM synthesis (berget.ai
 gemma4:31b → iguana fallback). `brain_classify(text)` infers doc type, title,
@@ -73,6 +73,27 @@ These rules apply to every task across every project, regardless of harness.
   when a human reviewer outside the project is required. Document the reason in
   PROJECT.md.

+   **Exception — a GitOps repo where a branch cannot be reconciled.** In a repo whose
+   deployment watches one branch (`mathias/infra`: Flux watches `main`), a branch is
+   invisible to the thing that applies it. A `risk/medium` change to `alerts.yaml` or
+   `litellm-config.yaml` can be linted on a branch but never *exercised* there, so a
+   PR would buy a review of a state that was never deployed.
+
+   There, `risk/medium`+ work stays on `main` and instead requires a **recorded
+   adversarial review pass before the push** — `skills:pr-gatekeeper` or equivalent,
+   reviewing the staged diff. **The reviewer's verdict goes in the issue, not a PR
+   thread.** No verdict recorded means the lane was not used, and saying "the gate was
+   green" is not the same claim.
+
+   Be honest about what this is: a recorded *independent* pass, not four-eyes in the
+   sense `assessor-loop` §4.1 means for a regulated organisation, because the reviewer
+   is an agent. It is more than the repo had and less than the model it mirrors; do not
+   describe it as the stronger property. (infra#470, decided 2026-09-29.)
+
+   This lane depends on the `risk/` label being right. A label that triggers a heavier
+   lane is load-bearing, not cosmetic — if work that belongs in it is unlabelled, the
+   lane silently does not apply.
+
 6. **Close the loop — every substantive task ends with the same ritual.** Shipping
   the code is not the end of the task; capturing it is. Run this unprompted:
   - **Tag + bump SemVer** on the change (annotated tag; minor for a feature or
@@ -101,6 +122,43 @@ These rules apply to every task across every project, regardless of harness.
   revisit Y". Those are exactly the items that need a locator. If it is worth
   saying in a summary, it is worth writing where it can be found again without you.

+7. **Finish what's closable — only involve me for a genuine call.** If a
+   tracker issue, PR, or checklist item is demonstrably resolved — the fix
+   landed, the state changed, you verified it live — close/merge/check it off
+   in the same turn. Don't leave it open "for the record" or park it waiting
+   on me to confirm something that already happened; that's bookkeeping, not
+   a decision. Reserve asking me (`AskUserQuestion`, a `DECISION NEEDED`
+   comment, or otherwise pausing) for when it's genuinely mine to call:
+   irreversible or prod/host-impacting actions, a real judgment call with no
+   clearly-better option, ambiguous intent, or anything secret-writes/
+   destructive-git already gate. Before claiming something is closable,
+   verify it live (re-check the issue, re-run the command) rather than
+   trusting your own earlier summary (brain: `filed-issue-not-same-as-fixed`).
+
+8. **Control code needs an adversary, not a checklist.** Code whose job is to
+   refuse, deny, gate or contain is not adequately verified by a green gate.
+   Rule 5 makes CI the quality gate and that holds for ordinary work — but a
+   passing suite only asserts what its author already thought of, and for a
+   control the author is precisely the person whose imagination just failed.
+   Measured on `dispatch#75`: five review rounds, five real escapes verified by
+   execution, and **CI was green on every one of them** while `git rm
+   ././.dispatch-allow` deleted the file the control existed to protect. So
+   route this work through a review with authority to block, instructed to
+   verify by execution rather than by reading the implementation. Expect to be
+   blocked more than once; that is the control working, not the reviewer being
+   difficult. (brain: `a-green-gate-is-not-evidence-for-control-code`; the
+   practices live in the `pr-gatekeeper` agent.)
+
+9. **A test's name must not claim more than its assertions prove.** Name a test
+   after the mechanism it observes, not the goal it serves.
+   `DoesNotInheritEnv` is honest; `IsContained` is a claim the test cannot
+   support. This is not pedantry about naming — when name and assertion
+   diverge, the name wins in the reader's head and the gap becomes invisible,
+   which is what lets the defect survive review. Found three times in one PR,
+   twice in tests written to fix the previous instance of it; each passed while
+   the thing it was named for was exploitable. If you cannot name the mechanism,
+   you do not yet know what the test observes.
+
 ## CAD sprint patterns

 Two CAD sprint archetypes (defs: brain `wiki/homelab/decisions/continuous-agentic-development-cad-concept-2026-06-16`):
@@ -241,10 +299,16 @@ entries that age well are about *why*, *how to avoid*, and *what to do when*.
 |---------|-------|-------|
 | **Claude Code, Claude Desktop** | `brain_query` (BM25), `brain_answer` (LLM-synth + sources) MCP tools | `brain_write` MCP tool |
 | **Crush, Pi, Antigravity, other MCP-capable** | same MCP server: `ingestion-brain` (via the `mcp__*_brain__*` namespace once authenticated) | same |
-| **Anything HTTP-only (curl, scripts)** | `POST https://brain-mcp.d-ma.be/query` with `{"query":"..."}` (auth via `BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN`) | `POST .../write` with `{"content":"...","filename":"..."}` |
+| **Anything HTTP-only (curl, scripts)** | Tailnet only: `POST https://koala.tail30472e.ts.net:8443/query` with `{"query":"..."}`, sending `BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN` (not yet enforced on REST, hyperguild#149). The public `brain-mcp.d-ma.be` serves `/mcp` only (infra#517). | `POST .../write` with `{"content":"...","wing":"...","hall":"..."}` |
 | **Browser / human inspection** | `https://git.d-ma.be/mathias/hyperguild` → `knowledge/` and `wiki/` markdown files |

- **Scoping**: defaults to `public` collection; client projects filter to `{client}` + `public`.
+- **Scoping — the brain holds no confidential client content.** Nothing on the read path
+  filters by client: every token holder can read every wing, and `wing` on `brain_query`
+  is an optional argument, not an access control. Client confidentiality is enforced only
+  at write time (`capture`'s I1 gate refuses internal/confidential). So never `brain_write`
+  client material; generalise it first or keep it in the client's own repo. (hyperguild#144,
+  decided 2026-10-01. This line previously claimed client projects were filtered; they
+  were not.)
 - **Routing**: brain_answer's LLM uses berget.ai as primary, iguana ollama as
  fallback. Both are configurable in the `supervisor/ingestion-deployment.yaml`
  on the koala k3s cluster; don't hardcode local-only model names into the
@@ -314,8 +378,20 @@ Workflow:
   and missing-untracked adapters). A drift fails the check with a
   message telling you to stage the regenerated files.

-Behavior rules in this file and per-project rules in `PROJECT.md` apply
-unconditionally on every host, every harness.
+Behavior rules in this file and per-project rules in `PROJECT.md` apply on every
+host and every harness.
+
+**Where a project rule contradicts a rule here, the project rule governs — and it
+must state its reason.** Both halves matter: the project file wins because it knows
+something this file cannot (infra's Flux constraint is real and not visible from
+here), and it must say why because a bare override is indistinguishable from drift.
+
+This replaces the previous wording, which said rules here and in `PROJECT.md` both
+apply *"unconditionally"*. That was not a tiebreak but a contradiction, and it went
+unnoticed until rule 5 and infra's "never create feature branches" had to be obeyed
+at the same time (infra#470). A standard can hold two individually sensible clauses
+that are jointly unsatisfiable, and survive for as long as everyone reads it
+charitably — the same failure the Inception Sprint Oath's G6 had.

 ## Engineering Skills

@@ -412,7 +488,11 @@ the routing pod; brain tools moved to the brain MCP.

 The brain HTTP REST API (`/query`, `/write`, `/ingest`, `/ingest-raw`,
 `/ingest-path`, `/backfill-refs`, `/pass-rate`) remains available on port 3300
-for shell scripts and non-MCP clients.
+for shell scripts and non-MCP clients, **with the same bearer token as `/mcp`**
+(`BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN`; hyperguild#149). It is not served on the public host
+(infra#517): use the tailnet (`koala:8443`) or in-cluster
+`ingestion.supervisor.svc:3300`. `/ingest-path` and `brain_ingest` `path`
+accept only paths inside `brain/raw/`.

 `brain_answer(query)` performs BM25 retrieval + LLM synthesis (berget.ai
 gemma4:31b → iguana fallback). `brain_classify(text)` infers doc type, title,
@@ -64,7 +64,11 @@ the routing pod; brain tools moved to the brain MCP.

 The brain HTTP REST API (`/query`, `/write`, `/ingest`, `/ingest-raw`,
 `/ingest-path`, `/backfill-refs`, `/pass-rate`) remains available on port 3300
-for shell scripts and non-MCP clients.
+for shell scripts and non-MCP clients, **with the same bearer token as `/mcp`**
+(`BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN`; hyperguild#149). It is not served on the public host
+(infra#517): use the tailnet (`koala:8443`) or in-cluster
+`ingestion.supervisor.svc:3300`. `/ingest-path` and `brain_ingest` `path`
+accept only paths inside `brain/raw/`.

 `brain_answer(query)` performs BM25 retrieval + LLM synthesis (berget.ai
 gemma4:31b → iguana fallback). `brain_classify(text)` infers doc type, title,
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ const defaultBrainURL = "http://koala:30330"
 // shell-friendly client; MCP framing is unnecessary.
 type brainClient struct {
 	baseURL string
+	token   string // BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN; the REST API requires it since hyperguild#149
 	http    *http.Client
 }

@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ func newBrainClient() *brainClient {
 	}
 	return &brainClient{
 		baseURL: u,
+		token:   os.Getenv("BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN"),
 		http:    &http.Client{Timeout: 5 * time.Second},
 	}
 }
@@ -62,8 +64,7 @@ func (c *brainClient) Query(ctx context.Context, topic string, limit int) (*Quer
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("build request: %w", err)
 	}
 	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
-
-	resp, err := c.http.Do(req)
+	resp, err := c.do(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("brain POST /query: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -105,8 +106,7 @@ func (c *brainClient) Write(ctx context.Context, wing, hall, filename string, co
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("build request: %w", err)
 	}
 	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
-
-	resp, err := c.http.Do(req)
+	resp, err := c.do(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("brain POST /write: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ func (c *brainClient) PassRate(ctx context.Context, skill, window string) (*Pass
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("build request: %w", err)
 	}
-	resp, err := c.http.Do(req)
+	resp, err := c.do(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("brain GET /pass-rate: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -158,3 +158,13 @@ func (c *brainClient) PassRate(ctx context.Context, skill, window string) (*Pass
 	}
 	return &out, nil
 }
+
+// do sends every brain request, adding the bearer token when one is
+// configured. All methods go through here so none can forget it (PassRate
+// did, PR #152 review).
+func (c *brainClient) do(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
+	if c.token != "" {
+		req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+c.token)
+	}
+	return c.http.Do(req)
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// hyperguild#149: the ingestion REST API now requires a bearer token; the CLI
+// sends BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN, or it gets 401 on every brain call.
+func TestBrainClientSendsBrainMCPTokenOnQueryWriteAndPassRate(t *testing.T) {
+	var got []string
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		got = append(got, r.URL.Path+" "+r.Header.Get("Authorization"))
+		switch r.URL.Path {
+		case "/write":
+			_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"path":"wiki/x/facts/y.md"}`))
+			return
+		case "/pass-rate":
+			_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{}`))
+			return
+		}
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"results":[]}`))
+	}))
+	defer srv.Close()
+	t.Setenv("BRAIN_URL", srv.URL)
+	t.Setenv("BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN", "cli-test-token")
+
+	c := newBrainClient()
+	_, err := c.Query(context.Background(), "x", 1)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	_, err = c.Write(context.Background(), "x", "facts", "y", strings.NewReader("# y"))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	// PR #152 review: PassRate sent no token and would 401 in production.
+	_, _ = c.PassRate(context.Background(), "tdd", "7d")
+	assert.Equal(t, []string{"/query Bearer cli-test-token", "/write Bearer cli-test-token",
+		"/pass-rate Bearer cli-test-token"}, got)
+}
+
+func TestBrainClientSendsNoAuthorizationWhenTokenUnset(t *testing.T) {
+	var auth string
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		auth = r.Header.Get("Authorization")
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"results":[]}`))
+	}))
+	defer srv.Close()
+	t.Setenv("BRAIN_URL", srv.URL)
+	t.Setenv("BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN", "")
+	_, err := newBrainClient().Query(context.Background(), "x", 1)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Empty(t, auth)
+}
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Only a `tools/call` to the routing pod records a pass/fail.
 |---------|-----|------|
 | Routing MCP (local, Tailscale) | `http://koala:30310/mcp` | Bearer `ROUTING_MCP_TOKEN` |
 | Routing MCP (remote) | `https://routing-mcp.d-ma.be/mcp` | OAuth via `auth.d-ma.be` (audience `claude-ai`) |
-| Pass-rate readout | `http://koala:30330/pass-rate?skill=<name>` | none (read-only) |
+| Pass-rate readout | `http://koala:30330/pass-rate?skill=<name>` | Bearer `BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN` (since hyperguild#149) |

 Tools advertised: **`review`**, **`debug`** (the two the #35 gate measures),
 plus `session_log`, `retrospective`, `trainer`.
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/reranker"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/search"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/startupretry"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/symlinkguard"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/vectorstore"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/watcher"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/webhook"
@@ -147,6 +148,38 @@ func envInt(key string, fallback int) int {
 // buildNotifier returns the ntfy notifier, or a nil interface when
 // BRAIN_NTFY_URL is unset. A nil *interface* (not a typed-nil) is required so
 // DegradingSink/Reconcile and the governance observer skip it cleanly.
+// alertingWarnings names every alert that will not fire under the current
+// configuration (#107).
+//
+// buildNotifier returns a nil interface when BRAIN_NTFY_URL is unset, and every
+// consumer skips a nil notifier silently — right for an unconfigured homelab,
+// wrong for an alert whose entire value is that someone finds out. The cost of
+// the silence is that "configured and working" and "never configured" are
+// byte-identical in behaviour: no error, no warning, only a message that never
+// arrives, which nobody notices because nobody is waiting for an alert they
+// have never seen. Two alerts were dark in production for exactly that reason
+// (#100), found by firing a real event rather than by reading anything.
+//
+// WARN rather than fatal, deliberately. The brain sibling rule
+// (`empty-credential-must-refuse-to-start-not-switch-modes`) says an empty
+// credential must be a startup error, never a silent mode switch — but that is
+// about a control being removed. Here observability is degraded, not a gate
+// bypassed, and refusing to boot would break the unconfigured-homelab case the
+// nil notifier exists to support. What the rule does demand, and what this
+// provides, is that the mode switch stops being silent.
+//
+// Pure and env-injected so the message is testable without a running server:
+// the reason this gap survived is that nothing about it was observable.
+func alertingWarnings(getenv func(string) string) []string {
+	var out []string
+	if getenv("BRAIN_NTFY_URL") == "" {
+		out = append(out, "alerting DISABLED: BRAIN_NTFY_URL unset — "+
+			"brain_edit_root governance rewrites, capture audit degradation and the "+
+			"brain symlink tripwire (hyperguild#157) will not notify")
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 func buildNotifier() audit.Notifier {
 	if n := audit.NewNtfyNotifier(os.Getenv("BRAIN_NTFY_URL"), os.Getenv("BRAIN_NTFY_TOKEN")); n != nil {
 		return n
@@ -203,7 +236,15 @@ func systemHostname() string {
 func main() {
 	logger := slog.New(slog.NewJSONHandler(os.Stdout, nil))

+	for _, w := range alertingWarnings(os.Getenv) {
+		logger.Warn(w)
+	}
+
 	brainDir := envOr("INGEST_BRAIN_DIR", "../brain")
+	if err := startupSymlinkCheck(brainDir); err != nil {
+		logger.Error("brain symlink tripwire", "err", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
 	port := envOr("INGEST_PORT", "3300")

 	llmURL := envOr("INGEST_LLM_URL", "http://iguana:4000/v1")
@@ -325,6 +366,8 @@ func main() {
 	}

 	ctx := context.Background()
+	// hyperguild#157: report a symlink that appears in the brain while running.
+	go symlinkguard.Watch(ctx, brainDir, symlinkScanInterval(os.Getenv), buildNotifier())

 	// Built before the watcher, the graph backfill and session ingestion, and
 	// retried rather than fatal (#83). Two separate reasons:
@@ -468,20 +511,10 @@ func main() {
 		logger.Info("embed sync started", "interval_s", embedSyncInterval)
 	}

-	mux := http.NewServeMux()
-	mux.HandleFunc("POST /query", h.Query)
-	mux.HandleFunc("POST /write", h.Write)
-	mux.HandleFunc("POST /index", h.Index)
-	mux.HandleFunc("POST /ingest", h.Ingest)
-	mux.HandleFunc("POST /ingest-path", h.IngestPath)
-	mux.HandleFunc("POST /ingest-raw", h.IngestRaw)
-	mux.HandleFunc("POST /backfill-refs", h.BackfillRefs)
-	mux.HandleFunc("GET /pending", h.Pending)
-	mux.HandleFunc("POST /promote", h.Promote)
-	mux.HandleFunc("POST /backfill-embeddings", h.BackfillEmbeddings)
-	mux.HandleFunc("GET /pass-rate", h.PassRate)
+	// Public routes only; buildMux mounts the authenticated REST API (#149).
+	public := map[string]http.Handler{}
 	if webhookHandler != nil {
-		mux.Handle("POST /webhooks/brain-sync", webhookHandler)
+		public["POST /webhooks/brain-sync"] = webhookHandler
 	}
 	// Resource-metadata URL is only emitted on 401 when Dex OAuth is
 	// configured. Static-Bearer-only deployments leave this empty so
@@ -489,14 +522,14 @@ func main() {
 	var resourceMetadataURL string
 	if dexURL := os.Getenv("DEX_ISSUER_URL"); dexURL != "" {
 		resourceURL := os.Getenv("MCP_RESOURCE_URL")
-		mux.HandleFunc("GET /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource",
+		public["GET /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource"] = http.HandlerFunc(
 			chassisauth.ProtectedResourceHandler(resourceURL, dexURL))
 		if resourceURL != "" {
 			resourceMetadataURL = strings.TrimRight(resourceURL, "/") + "/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource"
 		}
 	}

-	mux.Handle("/mcp", chassisauth.BearerMiddleware(mcpToken, jwtValidator, "brain", resourceMetadataURL, mcpSrv))
+	public["/mcp"] = chassisauth.BearerMiddleware(mcpToken, jwtValidator, "brain", resourceMetadataURL, mcpSrv)

 	// POST /capture (#53/#54): the uniform capture REST door. Needs a ticket
 	// tracker to file action items, so it only mounts when Gitea is
@@ -518,7 +551,7 @@ func main() {
 		sovereign := splitList(os.Getenv("BRAIN_CAPTURE_SOVEREIGN_PRINCIPALS"))
 		resolver := capturehttp.NewOriginResolver(sovereign)
 		captureH := capturehttp.New(captureSvc, jwtValidator, mcpToken, "local-cli", resolver)
-		mux.Handle("POST /capture", captureH)
+		public["POST /capture"] = captureH
 		// Same use-case behind the MCP `capture` tool (#55 relay) so MCP-native
 		// harnesses (claude.ai, Crush, Pi, LLM Council) reach capture through
 		// the existing /mcp OAuth connector. mcpSrv is already wrapped above;
@@ -548,9 +581,9 @@ func main() {
 			logger.Error("OAUTH_CLIENT_ID/SECRET set but MCP_RESOURCE_URL is empty; cannot derive issuer")
 			os.Exit(1)
 		}
-		mux.HandleFunc("GET /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server",
+		public["GET /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server"] = http.HandlerFunc(
 			oauth.MetadataHandler(issuer))
-		mux.HandleFunc("POST /oauth/token", oauth.TokenHandler(oauth.TokenConfig{
+		public["POST /oauth/token"] = http.HandlerFunc(oauth.TokenHandler(oauth.TokenConfig{
 			ClientID:     oauthID,
 			ClientSecret: oauthSecret,
 			AccessToken:  mcpToken,
@@ -569,7 +602,17 @@ func main() {
 	// real request latency. /metrics itself is excluded from its own
 	// observation by registering it on the outer mux (post-wrap).
 	reg := metrics.New()
-	mux.HandleFunc("GET /metrics", reg.Handler())
+	public["GET /metrics"] = http.HandlerFunc(reg.Handler())
+
+	// The whole router, built in one place so the test of buildMux is a test
+	// of production wiring (PR #152 review). The REST API's credential is the
+	// same as /mcp's.
+	mux, err := buildMux(restAuth{token: mcpToken, validator: jwtValidator, realm: "brain",
+		resourceMetadataURL: resourceMetadataURL}, h, public)
+	if err != nil {
+		logger.Error("build router", "err", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
 	logger.Info("metrics endpoint registered", "path", "/metrics")

 	addr := ":" + port
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"log/slog"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"

 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
@@ -36,3 +37,42 @@ func TestClaudeSink_IngestWritesToNonIndexedArchiveNotWiki(t *testing.T) {
 	_, err = os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, "wiki", "claude-sessions"))
 	assert.True(t, os.IsNotExist(err), "raw transcripts must never land under wiki/ (ai-sessions#10 — BM25 pollution)")
 }
+
+// --- #107: an unconfigured alert must announce itself ----------------------
+
+func TestAlertingWarnings(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name string
+		env  map[string]string
+		want []string // substrings that must appear across the warnings
+		none bool     // true = expect no warnings at all
+	}{
+		{
+			// The failure this exists to prevent: two alerts dark in
+			// production, discovered only by firing a real event and watching
+			// nothing arrive (#100).
+			name: "notifier unconfigured names what will not fire",
+			env:  map[string]string{},
+			want: []string{"BRAIN_NTFY_URL", "brain_edit_root", "audit"},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "configured notifier is silent",
+			env:  map[string]string{"BRAIN_NTFY_URL": "http://ntfy/brain-alerts"},
+			none: true,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			got := alertingWarnings(func(k string) string { return tt.env[k] })
+			if tt.none {
+				assert.Empty(t, got)
+				return
+			}
+			joined := strings.Join(got, " ")
+			for _, w := range tt.want {
+				assert.Contains(t, joined, w)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+
+	chassisauth "git.d-ma.be/mathias/mcp-chassis/auth"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/api"
+)
+
+// publicRoutes is the complete set of patterns allowed on the outer mux,
+// outside the REST API's auth (hyperguild#149). Each authenticates itself or is
+// meant to be open: /mcp (bearer/JWT), /capture (bearer/JWT), the webhook
+// (HMAC), /oauth/token (client secret), OAuth metadata and /metrics (open).
+// A REST pattern added here would beat the authenticated catch-all by
+// specificity and ship open, which is why buildMux refuses anything else.
+var publicRoutes = map[string]bool{
+	"/mcp":                      true,
+	"POST /capture":             true,
+	"POST /webhooks/brain-sync": true,
+	"GET /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource":   true,
+	"GET /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server": true,
+	"POST /oauth/token":                           true,
+	"GET /metrics":                                true,
+}
+
+// restAuth is the credential the REST API checks: the same as /mcp's.
+type restAuth struct {
+	token               string
+	validator           *chassisauth.JWTValidator
+	realm               string
+	resourceMetadataURL string
+}
+
+// buildMux is the server's whole router. The REST API is mounted at "/"
+// behind bearer auth that buildMux constructs itself, so a caller cannot pass
+// a no-op; public handlers are registered as given, and only for patterns on
+// the publicRoutes allowlist. It returns an http.Handler, not the
+// *ServeMux, so nothing can register a route on the result afterwards and
+// bypass the allowlist.
+func buildMux(auth restAuth, h *api.Handler, public map[string]http.Handler) (http.Handler, error) {
+	if auth.token == "" {
+		return nil, errors.New("buildMux: REST auth needs a token")
+	}
+	mux := http.NewServeMux()
+	for pattern, handler := range public {
+		if !publicRoutes[pattern] {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("buildMux: %q is not an allowed public route", pattern)
+		}
+		mux.Handle(pattern, handler)
+	}
+	mountREST(mux, h, func(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
+		return chassisauth.BearerMiddleware(auth.token, auth.validator, auth.realm, auth.resourceMetadataURL, next)
+	})
+	return mux, nil
+}
+
+// mountREST registers the REST API on its own mux and mounts it at "/" behind
+// auth: anything not registered as public lands here and is authenticated,
+// including routes added later.
+func mountREST(mux *http.ServeMux, h *api.Handler, auth func(http.Handler) http.Handler) {
+	rest := http.NewServeMux()
+	rest.HandleFunc("POST /query", h.Query)
+	rest.HandleFunc("POST /write", h.Write)
+	rest.HandleFunc("POST /index", h.Index)
+	rest.HandleFunc("POST /ingest", h.Ingest)
+	rest.HandleFunc("POST /ingest-path", h.IngestPath)
+	rest.HandleFunc("POST /ingest-raw", h.IngestRaw)
+	rest.HandleFunc("POST /backfill-refs", h.BackfillRefs)
+	rest.HandleFunc("GET /pending", h.Pending)
+	rest.HandleFunc("POST /promote", h.Promote)
+	rest.HandleFunc("POST /backfill-embeddings", h.BackfillEmbeddings)
+	rest.HandleFunc("GET /pass-rate", h.PassRate)
+	mux.Handle("/", auth(rest))
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"log/slog"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/api"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/pipeline"
+)
+
+const routesTok = "routes-test-token"
+
+func okHandler(body string) http.Handler {
+	return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) { _, _ = w.Write([]byte(body)) })
+}
+
+// testMux builds the router exactly as main does: buildMux with the full
+// public set main registers (stub handlers) and real bearer config.
+// hyperguild#149: the REST API is authenticated as a whole; the PR #152
+// review showed a test of a COPY of the router let main.go regress unseen.
+func testMux(t *testing.T) http.Handler {
+	t.Helper()
+	h := api.NewHandler(t.TempDir(), slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(os.Stderr, nil)), pipeline.Config{})
+	public := map[string]http.Handler{}
+	for p := range publicRoutes {
+		public[p] = okHandler("public " + p)
+	}
+	mux, err := buildMux(restAuth{token: routesTok, realm: "brain"}, h, public)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	return mux
+}
+
+func do(t *testing.T, h http.Handler, method, path, authz string) (int, string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	req := httptest.NewRequest(method, path, strings.NewReader(`{"query":"x"}`))
+	if authz != "" {
+		req.Header.Set("Authorization", authz)
+	}
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	h.ServeHTTP(rec, req)
+	return rec.Code, rec.Body.String()
+}
+
+func TestBuildMuxRefusesRESTRoutesWithoutAValidToken(t *testing.T) {
+	r := testMux(t)
+	for _, rt := range []struct{ method, path string }{
+		{"POST", "/query"}, {"POST", "/write"}, {"POST", "/index"}, {"POST", "/ingest"},
+		{"POST", "/ingest-path"}, {"POST", "/ingest-raw"}, {"POST", "/backfill-refs"},
+		{"GET", "/pending"}, {"POST", "/promote"}, {"POST", "/backfill-embeddings"}, {"GET", "/pass-rate"},
+	} {
+		code, _ := do(t, r, rt.method, rt.path, "")
+		assert.Equal(t, http.StatusUnauthorized, code, "%s %s without a token", rt.method, rt.path)
+		code, _ = do(t, r, rt.method, rt.path, "Bearer wrong")
+		assert.Equal(t, http.StatusUnauthorized, code, "%s %s with a wrong token", rt.method, rt.path)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestBuildMuxServesRESTRoutesToAValidToken(t *testing.T) {
+	r := testMux(t)
+	code, _ := do(t, r, "GET", "/pending", "Bearer "+routesTok)
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, code)
+}
+
+func TestBuildMuxAuthenticatesAnUnregisteredPath(t *testing.T) {
+	code, _ := do(t, testMux(t), "POST", "/some-future-route", "")
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusUnauthorized, code)
+}
+
+// buildMux registers public handlers as given, without adding auth: each
+// public route owns its own (bearer on /mcp, HMAC on the webhook, client
+// secret on /oauth/token) or is meant to be open (/metrics, OAuth metadata).
+func TestBuildMuxDoesNotWrapPublicRoutes(t *testing.T) {
+	r := testMux(t)
+	for p := range publicRoutes {
+		method, path, ok := strings.Cut(p, " ")
+		if !ok {
+			method, path = "GET", p
+		}
+		code, body := do(t, r, method, path, "")
+		assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, code, p)
+		assert.Equal(t, "public "+p, body, p)
+	}
+}
+
+// The allowlist is the control: a REST pattern registered as public would win
+// over the authenticated catch-all (more specific pattern), so it is refused.
+func TestBuildMuxRefusesAPublicPatternOffTheAllowlist(t *testing.T) {
+	h := api.NewHandler(t.TempDir(), slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(os.Stderr, nil)), pipeline.Config{})
+	for _, p := range []string{"POST /query", "GET /pending", "/", "POST /metrics"} {
+		_, err := buildMux(restAuth{token: routesTok, realm: "brain"}, h, map[string]http.Handler{p: okHandler("x")})
+		assert.Error(t, err, "public pattern %q must be refused", p)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestBuildMuxRefusesAnEmptyToken(t *testing.T) {
+	h := api.NewHandler(t.TempDir(), slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(os.Stderr, nil)), pipeline.Config{})
+	_, err := buildMux(restAuth{token: "", realm: "brain"}, h, nil)
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"strconv"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/symlinkguard"
+)
+
+// startupSymlinkCheck is the hyperguild#157 tripwire at boot: a symlink in the
+// brain dir would let brain readers serve a file from outside the brain, so
+// the server does not start until it is removed. A directory the scan cannot
+// read could hide one, so it refuses on that too. A missing brain dir (first
+// boot) is the only case it lets pass.
+func startupSymlinkCheck(brainDir string) error {
+	r, err := symlinkguard.Scan(brainDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		if errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+			return nil
+		}
+		return fmt.Errorf("refusing to start: cannot scan the brain dir %s (hyperguild#157): %w", brainDir, err)
+	}
+	if !r.Clean() {
+		return fmt.Errorf("refusing to start: brain dir %s has %s (hyperguild#157); fix them first", brainDir, r)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// symlinkScanInterval reads BRAIN_SYMLINK_SCAN_INTERVAL (seconds), falling
+// back to the default on an unset, non-numeric or non-positive value.
+func symlinkScanInterval(getenv func(string) string) time.Duration {
+	if s, err := strconv.Atoi(getenv("BRAIN_SYMLINK_SCAN_INTERVAL")); err == nil && s > 0 {
+		return time.Duration(s) * time.Second
+	}
+	return symlinkguard.DefaultInterval
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// hyperguild#157: the server refuses to start while a symlink exists in the
+// brain dir, or while any part of it cannot be scanned (which could hide
+// one); a missing brain dir is the only thing it lets pass.
+func TestStartupSymlinkCheckRefusesABrainWithASymlink(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), filepath.Join(brain, "planted")))
+	err := startupSymlinkCheck(brain)
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "planted")
+}
+
+func TestStartupSymlinkCheckRefusesABrainWithAnUnreadableDir(t *testing.T) {
+	if os.Geteuid() == 0 {
+		t.Skip("root reads mode-000 directories")
+	}
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	locked := filepath.Join(brain, "aaa")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(locked, 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Chmod(locked, 0o000))
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = os.Chmod(locked, 0o755) })
+	err := startupSymlinkCheck(brain)
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "aaa")
+}
+
+func TestStartupSymlinkCheckPassesACleanOrMissingBrain(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(brain, "n.md"), []byte("x"), 0o644))
+	assert.NoError(t, startupSymlinkCheck(brain))
+	assert.NoError(t, startupSymlinkCheck(filepath.Join(brain, "missing")))
+}
+
+func TestSymlinkScanIntervalFallsBackOnNonPositive(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, v := range []string{"0", "-5", "", "junk"} {
+		got := symlinkScanInterval(func(string) string { return v })
+		assert.Positive(t, got, "env %q", v)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAlertingWarningsNamesTheSymlinkTripwire(t *testing.T) {
+	w := strings.Join(alertingWarnings(func(string) string { return "" }), " ")
+	assert.Contains(t, w, "symlink tripwire")
+}
+
+func TestStartupSymlinkCheckRefusesAnUnlistableBrainRoot(t *testing.T) {
+	if os.Geteuid() == 0 {
+		t.Skip("root lists mode-0100 directories")
+	}
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.Chmod(brain, 0o100))
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = os.Chmod(brain, 0o755) })
+	assert.Error(t, startupSymlinkCheck(brain))
+}
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 package api

-import "strings"
+import (
+	"strings"
+
+	// Aliased: this package's own frontmatter type (below) would collide
+	// with the imported package's name otherwise.
+	sharedfm "github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/frontmatter"
+)

 // frontmatter is an ordered, line-preserving view of a note's YAML
 // frontmatter block. It deliberately avoids a full YAML round-trip: the
@@ -25,19 +31,26 @@ type fmLine struct {
 // frontmatter block is recognised only when the file opens with a `---`
 // fence and a closing `---` fence follows. Otherwise the whole input is
 // the body and the returned frontmatter is empty.
+//
+// Fence detection itself is frontmatter.Split (hyperguild#138) — this
+// package's own contribution is purely the ordered, line-preserving fmLine
+// shape below, which a shared parser has no business owning since it's
+// specific to how brain_update does a surgical, byte-round-trip edit.
 func parseFrontmatter(src string) (frontmatter, string) {
 	var fm frontmatter
-	if !strings.HasPrefix(src, "---\n") {
+	blockBytes, restBytes, ok := sharedfm.Split([]byte(src))
+	if !ok {
 		return fm, src
 	}
-	rest := src[len("---\n"):]
-	end := strings.Index(rest, "\n---\n")
-	if end < 0 {
-		// Opening fence with no closing fence — treat as bodyless content.
-		return fm, src
-	}
-	block := rest[:end]
-	body := rest[end+len("\n---\n"):]
+	// sharedfm.Split's block/rest boundary sits one byte earlier than this
+	// package's always has: block keeps the "\n" immediately before the
+	// closing fence, and rest keeps the "\n" immediately after it (both by
+	// design, for Fix's own reconstruction). This package's block/body
+	// never included either — TrimSuffix/TrimPrefix restore that exact
+	// boundary. Split guarantees ok=true only when "\n---\n" matched, so
+	// both trims are always exactly one byte, never ambiguous.
+	block := strings.TrimSuffix(string(blockBytes), "\n")
+	body := strings.TrimPrefix(string(restBytes), "\n")

 	for _, line := range strings.Split(block, "\n") {
 		// An indented line is a continuation (a YAML block-list item, a
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ import (

 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brain"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/claim"
-	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/extract"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/pipeline"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/search"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/vectorstore"
@@ -118,6 +117,11 @@ type WriteNoteOptions struct {
 	Wing       string
 	Hall       string
 	SourceType string // "internal" marks a first-party observation (e.g. claudewatcher) that needs no external citation
+	// Origin/WrittenBy are server-owned provenance (hyperguild#145): any
+	// origin/written_by in Content's own frontmatter is discarded, so a
+	// caller cannot claim a more trusted origin than it authenticated as.
+	Origin    string
+	WrittenBy string
 }

 // WriteNote writes a markdown note into the brain. Returns the path
@@ -169,9 +173,6 @@ func writeHallNote(brainDir string, opts WriteNoteOptions) (string, error) {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("claim envelope: %w", err)
 	}

-	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(dest), 0o755); err != nil {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("create hall dir: %w", err)
-	}
 	emitted := make(map[string]bool, 6)

 	var fm strings.Builder
@@ -219,7 +220,17 @@ func writeHallNote(brainDir string, opts WriteNoteOptions) (string, error) {
 	}
 	fm.WriteString("---\n")

-	if err := os.WriteFile(dest, []byte(fm.String()+body), 0o644); err != nil {
+	final, err := StampProvenance(fm.String()+body, opts.Origin, opts.WrittenBy)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	// The directory is created only once the note is known to be writable:
+	// a refused write leaves nothing behind, not even an empty hall dir
+	// (brain#21; provenance refusal joins the envelope refusal here).
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(dest), 0o755); err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("create hall dir: %w", err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(dest, []byte(final), 0o644); err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("write: %w", err)
 	}
 	rel, _ := filepath.Rel(brainDir, dest)
@@ -295,7 +306,16 @@ func (h *Handler) Write(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		writeError(w, http.StatusBadRequest, "invalid JSON")
 		return
 	}
-	relPath, err := WriteNote(h.brainDir, WriteNoteOptions(req))
+	// Field by field, not a struct conversion: provenance is server-owned and
+	// this door carries no principal, so it stamps origin: unknown
+	// (hyperguild#145). A JSON body must never be able to set it.
+	relPath, err := WriteNote(h.brainDir, WriteNoteOptions{
+		Content:    req.Content,
+		Filename:   req.Filename,
+		Wing:       req.Wing,
+		Hall:       req.Hall,
+		SourceType: req.SourceType,
+	})
 	if err != nil {
 		h.logger.Error("write failed", "err", err)
 		writeError(w, http.StatusBadRequest, err.Error())
@@ -426,6 +446,12 @@ func (h *Handler) IngestPath(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		writeError(w, http.StatusBadRequest, "path is required")
 		return
 	}
+	resolved, err := ResolveIngestPath(h.brainDir, req.Path)
+	if err != nil {
+		writeError(w, http.StatusBadRequest, err.Error())
+		return
+	}
+	req.Path = resolved

 	info, err := os.Stat(req.Path)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -448,7 +474,13 @@ func (h *Handler) IngestPath(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 			if !isSupportedExtension(ext) {
 				return nil
 			}
-			content, readErr := extract.Text(path)
+			// Each walked file is re-resolved: a symlinked file inside raw/
+			// would otherwise lead extract.Text out of the inbox (#149).
+			if _, rerr := ResolveIngestPath(h.brainDir, path); rerr != nil {
+				allWarnings = append(allWarnings, fmt.Sprintf("skipped %s: %v", path, rerr))
+				return nil
+			}
+			content, readErr := ReadIngestFile(h.brainDir, path)
 			if readErr != nil {
 				allWarnings = append(allWarnings, fmt.Sprintf("extract %s: %v", path, readErr))
 				return nil
@@ -477,7 +509,7 @@ func (h *Handler) IngestPath(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 			writeError(w, http.StatusBadRequest, fmt.Sprintf("unsupported file extension: %s", ext))
 			return
 		}
-		content, readErr := extract.Text(req.Path)
+		content, readErr := ReadIngestFile(h.brainDir, req.Path)
 		if readErr != nil {
 			writeError(w, http.StatusInternalServerError, fmt.Sprintf("extract text: %v", readErr))
 			return
@@ -529,7 +561,8 @@ func (h *Handler) IngestRaw(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		return
 	}

-	result, err := pipeline.RunRaw(h.brainDir, req.Source, req.Pages, req.DryRun)
+	// No principal on this door: pages are stamped origin: unknown (#145).
+	result, err := pipeline.RunRaw(r.Context(), h.brainDir, req.Source, req.Pages, req.DryRun)
 	if err != nil {
 		h.logger.Error("ingest-raw failed", "source", req.Source, "err", err)
 		writeError(w, http.StatusInternalServerError, "ingest error")
@@ -585,7 +618,11 @@ func (h *Handler) Promote(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		writeError(w, http.StatusBadRequest, "invalid JSON")
 		return
 	}
-	rel, err := PromoteNote(h.brainDir, PromoteOptions(req))
+	// Field by field: this door carries no principal, so the promoted note is
+	// stamped origin: unknown and the body cannot set provenance (#145).
+	rel, err := PromoteNote(h.brainDir, PromoteOptions{
+		Filename: req.Filename, Wing: req.Wing, Hall: req.Hall, Slug: req.Slug,
+	})
 	if err != nil {
 		writeError(w, http.StatusBadRequest, err.Error())
 		return
@@ -361,10 +361,11 @@ func TestIngestPath_MissingPath(t *testing.T) {
 }

 func TestIngestPath_File(t *testing.T) {
-	_, h := setup(t)
+	brainDir, h := setup(t)

 	// Create a temp file with content
-	dir := t.TempDir()
+	dir := filepath.Join(brainDir, "raw", "fixture") // ingest paths must live in brain/raw/ (#149)
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(dir, 0o755))
 	f := filepath.Join(dir, "doc.md")
 	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(f, []byte("# Hello\nThis is markdown content."), 0o644))

@@ -468,10 +469,11 @@ func TestIngestRaw_DryRun(t *testing.T) {
 }

 func TestIngestPath_Directory(t *testing.T) {
-	_, h := setup(t)
+	brainDir, h := setup(t)

 	// Create a temp dir with one .md file
-	dir := t.TempDir()
+	dir := filepath.Join(brainDir, "raw", "fixture") // ingest paths must live in brain/raw/ (#149)
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(dir, 0o755))
 	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "notes.md"), []byte("# Notes\nSome notes."), 0o644))

 	body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{
@@ -40,9 +40,10 @@ func TestIngestPath_DocxSupportedWhenDocmarkConfigured(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Setenv("DOCMARK_URL", srv.URL+"/mcp")
 	t.Setenv("DOCMARK_BEARER_TOKEN", "tok")

-	_, h := setup(t)
+	brainDir, h := setup(t)

-	dir := t.TempDir()
+	dir := filepath.Join(brainDir, "raw", "fixture") // ingest paths must live in brain/raw/ (#149)
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(dir, 0o755))
 	f := filepath.Join(dir, "doc.docx")
 	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(f, []byte("fake docx"), 0o644))

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/extract"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// ErrOutsideIngestRoot is the one refusal for every bad ingest path. It never
+// carries the underlying error: "no such file" versus "permission denied"
+// would let a caller probe which server files exist (PR #152 review).
+var ErrOutsideIngestRoot = errors.New("ingest path must be an existing file or directory inside brain/raw/")
+
+// ResolveIngestPath confines a caller-supplied ingest path to brain/raw/, the
+// inbox the watcher already owns (hyperguild#149). Relative paths resolve
+// against that root; symlinks are evaluated before the containment check, so
+// a link inside raw/ that points elsewhere is refused. The path must exist.
+func ResolveIngestPath(brainDir, p string) (string, error) {
+	if strings.TrimSpace(p) == "" {
+		return "", ErrOutsideIngestRoot
+	}
+	// raw/ itself must be a real directory: if it were a symlink, containment
+	// inside it would mean nothing (hyperguild#153 item 4).
+	if fi, lerr := os.Lstat(filepath.Join(brainDir, "raw")); lerr != nil || fi.Mode()&os.ModeSymlink != 0 || !fi.IsDir() {
+		return "", ErrOutsideIngestRoot
+	}
+	root, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(filepath.Join(brainDir, "raw"))
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", ErrOutsideIngestRoot
+	}
+	if !filepath.IsAbs(p) {
+		p = filepath.Join(root, p)
+	}
+	real, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(filepath.Clean(p))
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", ErrOutsideIngestRoot
+	}
+	rel, err := filepath.Rel(root, real)
+	if err != nil || rel == ".." || strings.HasPrefix(rel, ".."+string(filepath.Separator)) || filepath.IsAbs(rel) {
+		return "", ErrOutsideIngestRoot
+	}
+	return real, nil
+}
+
+// ReadIngestFile extracts text from an ingest path already confined by
+// ResolveIngestPath, reading it through the raw/ root rather than reopening
+// the path by name (hyperguild#153 item 3): if the file is swapped for a
+// symlink after the check, the read still cannot leave raw/.
+func ReadIngestFile(brainDir, resolved string) (string, error) {
+	root, rawPath, err := OpenRawRoot(brainDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", ErrOutsideIngestRoot
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = root.Close() }()
+	realRoot, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(rawPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", ErrOutsideIngestRoot
+	}
+	rel, err := filepath.Rel(realRoot, resolved)
+	if err != nil || rel == ".." || strings.HasPrefix(rel, ".."+string(filepath.Separator)) || filepath.IsAbs(rel) {
+		return "", ErrOutsideIngestRoot
+	}
+	return extract.TextIn(root, rel)
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+package api_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/api"
+)
+
+// hyperguild#149: /ingest-path and MCP brain_ingest read a caller-chosen
+// server path, so any file the pod could read (the ServiceAccount token,
+// /etc/passwd) could be pulled into the brain and read back out. Ingest paths
+// now resolve inside brain/raw/ — the inbox the watcher already owns — with
+// symlinks evaluated, or are refused.
+func TestResolveIngestPathConfinesToRawInbox(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	raw := filepath.Join(brain, "raw")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(raw, "sub"), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(raw, "sub", "ok.md"), []byte("x"), 0o644))
+	outside := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "secret.txt")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(outside, []byte("s"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(outside, filepath.Join(raw, "link.md")))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(filepath.Dir(outside), filepath.Join(raw, "dirlink")))
+
+	for _, ok := range []string{filepath.Join(raw, "sub", "ok.md"), "sub/ok.md", raw, "sub"} {
+		_, err := api.ResolveIngestPath(brain, ok)
+		assert.NoError(t, err, ok)
+	}
+	for _, bad := range []string{
+		"/etc/hostname", outside, "../secret.txt", filepath.Join(raw, "..", "wiki"),
+		filepath.Join(raw, "link.md"), filepath.Join(raw, "dirlink", "secret.txt"),
+		raw + "-evil/x.md", "",
+	} {
+		_, err := api.ResolveIngestPath(brain, bad)
+		assert.Error(t, err, "must refuse %q", bad)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestIngestPathRefusesAPathOutsideTheInbox(t *testing.T) {
+	_, h := setup(t)
+	body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"path": "/etc/hostname"})
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	h.IngestPath(rec, httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "/ingest-path", bytes.NewReader(body)))
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusBadRequest, rec.Code)
+	assert.Contains(t, rec.Body.String(), "raw")
+}
+
+// A directory ingest must not follow a symlinked FILE inside raw/ out of it.
+func TestIngestPathDirectoryWalkSkipsSymlinksLeavingTheInbox(t *testing.T) {
+	dir, h := setup(t)
+	raw := filepath.Join(dir, "raw", "batch")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(raw, 0o755))
+	outside := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "secret.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(outside, []byte("# secret\n\nSENTINEL-149-OUTSIDE"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(outside, filepath.Join(raw, "leak.md")))
+	body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"path": "batch", "source": "walk"})
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	h.IngestPath(rec, httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "/ingest-path", bytes.NewReader(body)))
+	assert.Contains(t, rec.Body.String(), "skipped")
+	assert.NotContains(t, rec.Body.String(), "SENTINEL-149-OUTSIDE")
+}
+
+// PR #152 review: the raw EvalSymlinks error told an authenticated caller
+// whether any server file existed ("no such file") or was unreadable
+// ("permission denied"), and leaked the brain directory. Every refusal now
+// reads the same.
+func TestResolveIngestPathRefusalsAreIndistinguishable(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(brain, "raw"), 0o755))
+	var msgs []string
+	for _, p := range []string{"/etc/hostname", "/etc/definitely-not-here-149", "../x", "nope/missing.md", ""} {
+		_, err := api.ResolveIngestPath(brain, p)
+		require.Error(t, err, p)
+		msgs = append(msgs, err.Error())
+		assert.NotContains(t, err.Error(), brain, "refusal for %q leaks the brain dir", p)
+	}
+	for _, m := range msgs[1:] {
+		assert.Equal(t, msgs[0], m)
+	}
+}
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 package api

 import (
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"io/fs"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"regexp"
@@ -28,25 +30,25 @@ var datePrefix = regexp.MustCompile(`^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}-`)
 // (natural review order). An absent raw/ dir yields an empty slice, not an
 // error. Only .md files are listed; tunnel-candidate files are skipped.
 func ListPending(brainDir string) ([]PendingNote, error) {
-	dir := filepath.Join(brainDir, "raw")
-	entries, err := os.ReadDir(dir)
+	root, _, err := OpenRawRoot(brainDir)
 	if err != nil {
-		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		if errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
 			return []PendingNote{}, nil
 		}
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("read raw dir: %w", err)
 	}
+	defer func() { _ = root.Close() }()
+	entries, err := fs.ReadDir(root.FS(), ".")
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("read raw dir: %w", err)
+	}

 	out := make([]PendingNote, 0, len(entries))
 	for _, e := range entries {
-		if e.IsDir() || !strings.HasSuffix(e.Name(), ".md") || strings.HasPrefix(e.Name(), "tunnel-candidates-") {
-			continue
+		if !e.Type().IsRegular() || !strings.HasSuffix(e.Name(), ".md") || strings.HasPrefix(e.Name(), "tunnel-candidates-") {
+			continue // directories, and symlinks whose target may be anywhere (#153)
 		}
-		info, statErr := e.Info()
-		if statErr != nil {
-			continue
-		}
-		raw, readErr := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, e.Name()))
+		raw, info, readErr := readRawNote(root, e.Name())
 		if readErr != nil {
 			continue
 		}
@@ -72,6 +74,10 @@ type PromoteOptions struct {
 	Wing     string
 	Hall     string
 	Slug     string // optional; defaults to Filename minus date prefix + .md
+	// Origin/WrittenBy re-attribute the promoted note to the promoter: the raw
+	// note's own frontmatter claims are not provenance (hyperguild#145).
+	Origin    string
+	WrittenBy string
 }

 // PromoteNote moves a note from brain/raw/ into the structured wiki: it
@@ -101,12 +107,9 @@ func PromoteNote(brainDir string, opts PromoteOptions) (string, error) {
 	}

 	src := filepath.Join(brainDir, "raw", base)
-	raw, err := os.ReadFile(src)
+	raw, err := readRawSource(brainDir, base)
 	if err != nil {
-		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
-			return "", fmt.Errorf("pending note %q does not exist in raw/", base)
-		}
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("read source: %w", err)
+		return "", err
 	}

 	// Collision: never silently overwrite an existing promoted note.
@@ -128,7 +131,11 @@ func PromoteNote(brainDir string, opts PromoteOptions) (string, error) {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("create wing dir: %w", err)
 	}
 	// Write-then-delete: the source survives any write failure.
-	if err := os.WriteFile(dest, []byte(fm.render()+body), 0o644); err != nil {
+	promoted, err := StampProvenance(fm.render()+body, opts.Origin, opts.WrittenBy)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(dest, []byte(promoted), 0o644); err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("write promoted note: %w", err)
 	}
 	if err := os.Remove(src); err != nil {
@@ -172,12 +179,9 @@ func RejectNote(brainDir string, opts RejectOptions) (string, error) {
 	}

 	src := filepath.Join(brainDir, "raw", base)
-	raw, err := os.ReadFile(src)
+	raw, err := readRawSource(brainDir, base)
 	if err != nil {
-		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
-			return "", fmt.Errorf("pending note %q does not exist in raw/", base)
-		}
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("read source: %w", err)
+		return "", err
 	}

 	dest := filepath.Join(brainDir, "raw", "rejected", base)
@@ -216,3 +220,24 @@ func excerpt(s string, n int) string {
 	}
 	return strings.TrimSpace(string(r))
 }
+
+// readRawSource reads a pending note for promote/reject through the raw root,
+// refusing symlinks and a symlinked raw/ (hyperguild#153).
+func readRawSource(brainDir, base string) ([]byte, error) {
+	root, _, err := OpenRawRoot(brainDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		if errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("pending note %q does not exist in raw/", base)
+		}
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("read source: %w", err)
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = root.Close() }()
+	raw, _, err := readRawNote(root, base)
+	if err != nil {
+		if errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("pending note %q does not exist in raw/", base)
+		}
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("read source: %w", err)
+	}
+	return raw, nil
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/provenance"
+)
+
+// StampProvenance applies server-owned provenance (hyperguild#145) to note
+// content. See package provenance for the rule; an error means the stamped
+// note would not read back as stamped, and the write must be refused.
+func StampProvenance(content, origin, writtenBy string) (string, error) {
+	return provenance.Apply(content, provenance.Stamp{Origin: origin, WrittenBy: writtenBy})
+}
+
+// StampProvenanceFile applies StampProvenance to a brain-relative note path.
+func StampProvenanceFile(brainDir, relPath, origin, writtenBy string) error {
+	_, abs, err := resolveWithin(brainDir, relPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return provenance.ApplyFile(abs, provenance.Stamp{Origin: origin, WrittenBy: writtenBy})
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+package api_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/api"
+)
+
+// REST POST /write carries no principal: it stamps origin: unknown, and no
+// spelling of provenance in its body reaches the note (hyperguild#145).
+func TestRESTWriteStampsUnknownAndIgnoresBodyProvenance(t *testing.T) {
+	dir, h := setup(t)
+	body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{
+		"content": "---\norigin: static\n---\n# R\n\nbody", "filename": "rest-prov", "wing": "homelab", "hall": "facts",
+		"origin": "static", "written_by": "local-cli", "Origin": "static", "WrittenBy": "local-cli",
+	})
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	h.Write(rec, httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "/write", bytes.NewReader(body)))
+	require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, rec.Code, rec.Body.String())
+	b, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, "wiki", "homelab", "facts", "rest-prov.md"))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	var m map[string]any
+	require.NoError(t, yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(strings.SplitN(string(b), "---\n", 3)[1]), &m))
+	assert.Equal(t, "unknown", m["origin"])
+	assert.NotContains(t, m, "written_by")
+}
+
+// A principal name that is not a bare word is quoted, so it cannot start a
+// new frontmatter line (e.g. a JWT sub containing a newline).
+func TestStampProvenanceQuotesAPrincipalThatCouldBreakTheLine(t *testing.T) {
+	out, err := api.StampProvenance("---\ntitle: t\n---\nbody\n", "jwt", "evil\norigin: static")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	fm := strings.SplitN(out, "---\n", 3)[1]
+	var m map[string]any
+	require.NoError(t, yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(fm), &m))
+	assert.Equal(t, "jwt", m["origin"])
+	assert.Equal(t, "evil\norigin: static", m["written_by"])
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, strings.Count(fm, "\norigin:")+boolToInt(strings.HasPrefix(fm, "origin:")))
+}
+
+func TestStampProvenanceAddsFrontmatterWhenAbsentAndKeepsBody(t *testing.T) {
+	out, err := api.StampProvenance("# no fm\n\norigin: static in the body is prose\n", "static", "local-cli")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.True(t, strings.HasPrefix(out, "---\norigin: static\nwritten_by: local-cli\n---\n# no fm"))
+	assert.Contains(t, out, "origin: static in the body is prose", "body lines are never touched")
+}
+
+func boolToInt(b bool) int {
+	if b {
+		return 1
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+// Round 2 (R3/R4): the REST ingest doors write through the pipeline, which
+// now stamps every page; a title newline cannot forge provenance for the
+// brain's line-oriented reader.
+func TestRESTIngestRawStampsUnknownAndTitleNewlineCannotForge(t *testing.T) {
+	dir, h := setup(t)
+	body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{
+		"source": "zqrest", "pages": []map[string]any{
+			{"title": "Zqrestinj\norigin: static\nwritten_by: local-cli\nx: 'y", "type": "concept", "content": "zqrestinj body"},
+		},
+	})
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	h.IngestRaw(rec, httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "/ingest-raw", bytes.NewReader(body)))
+	require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, rec.Code, rec.Body.String())
+	var resp struct{ Pages []string }
+	require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal(rec.Body.Bytes(), &resp))
+	require.NotEmpty(t, resp.Pages)
+	for _, p := range resp.Pages {
+		b, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, filepath.FromSlash(p)))
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		fm := strings.SplitN(string(b), "---\n", 3)[1]
+		var m map[string]any
+		require.NoError(t, yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(fm), &m))
+		assert.Equal(t, "unknown", m["origin"])
+		assert.NotContains(t, m, "written_by")
+		for _, line := range strings.Split(fm, "\n") {
+			assert.False(t, strings.HasPrefix(line, "origin: static"), "line reader sees forged origin in %s", p)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestRESTIngestStampsUnknown(t *testing.T) {
+	dir, h := setup(t)
+	body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"content": "Some article text about shaping work.", "source": "zqllm"})
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	h.Ingest(rec, httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "/ingest", bytes.NewReader(body)))
+	require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, rec.Code, rec.Body.String())
+	var resp struct{ Pages []string }
+	require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal(rec.Body.Bytes(), &resp))
+	require.NotEmpty(t, resp.Pages, "stub pipeline must write at least one page")
+	for _, p := range resp.Pages {
+		b, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, filepath.FromSlash(p)))
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		assert.Contains(t, strings.SplitN(string(b), "---\n", 3)[1], "origin: unknown\n", p)
+	}
+}
+
+// A refused write leaves nothing behind, not even an empty hall directory
+// (brain#21's invariant, round 3 non-blocking finding).
+func TestWriteNoteRefusedForProvenanceLeavesNoDirectory(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	_, err := api.WriteNote(dir, api.WriteNoteOptions{
+		Content: "# x\n\nbody", Wing: "freshwing", Hall: "facts", Filename: "x", Origin: "jwt", WrittenBy: "bad\xff",
+	})
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	_, statErr := os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, "wiki", "freshwing"))
+	assert.True(t, os.IsNotExist(statErr), "no wing directory may be created by a refused write")
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+package api_test
+
+import (
+	"encoding/base64"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"syscall"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/api"
+)
+
+// hyperguild#153 / PR #156: behavioural race tests, so the control does not
+// rest on lints that list forbidden APIs (round 3: an os.ReadFile or
+// Root.ReadFile rewrite passed the lint and leaked 19k times in 4s). A
+// swapper keeps renaming a regular note, a symlink to an outside file, or a
+// FIFO into raw/r.md while the public readers loop. Any leaked byte fails;
+// any hang fails.
+
+const raceSentinel = "SENTINEL-153-RACE"
+
+// startSwapper runs fn until the test ends, and waits for it to exit before
+// t.TempDir's cleanup removes the directory it writes into (hyperguild#162:
+// an unawaited swapper raced the cleanup, "directory not empty").
+func startSwapper(t *testing.T, fn func(stop *atomic.Bool)) {
+	t.Helper()
+	var stop atomic.Bool
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	wg.Add(1)
+	go func() { defer wg.Done(); fn(&stop) }()
+	t.Cleanup(func() { stop.Store(true); wg.Wait() })
+}
+
+func swap(raw, outside string, fifo bool, stop *atomic.Bool) {
+	tgt := filepath.Join(raw, "r.md")
+	for i := 0; !stop.Load(); i++ {
+		tmp := filepath.Join(raw, ".swap")
+		_ = os.Remove(tmp)
+		switch {
+		case i%2 == 0:
+			_ = os.WriteFile(tmp, []byte("# r\n\ninside"), 0o644)
+		case fifo:
+			_ = syscall.Mkfifo(tmp, 0o644)
+		default:
+			_ = os.Symlink(outside, tmp)
+		}
+		_ = os.Rename(tmp, tgt)
+	}
+}
+
+func raceBrain(t *testing.T) (brain, raw, outside string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	brain = t.TempDir()
+	raw = filepath.Join(brain, "raw")
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(raw, 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	outside = filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "secret.md")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(outside, []byte("# s\n\n"+raceSentinel), 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(raw, "r.md"), []byte("# r\n\ninside"), 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return brain, raw, outside
+}
+
+// readers runs every public raw/ reader once and returns all text they
+// produced (excerpts, extracted text).
+func readers(brain, raw string) string {
+	var b strings.Builder
+	if ns, err := api.ListPending(brain); err == nil {
+		for _, n := range ns {
+			b.WriteString(n.Excerpt)
+		}
+	}
+	if s, err := api.ReadIngestFile(brain, filepath.Join(raw, "r.md")); err == nil {
+		b.WriteString(s)
+	}
+	return b.String()
+}
+
+func TestRawReadersLeakNothingUnderASymlinkSwapRace(t *testing.T) {
+	brain, raw, outside := raceBrain(t)
+	startSwapper(t, func(stop *atomic.Bool) { swap(raw, outside, false, stop) })
+	leaks, iters := 0, 0
+	for deadline := time.Now().Add(1500 * time.Millisecond); time.Now().Before(deadline); iters++ {
+		leaks += strings.Count(readers(brain, raw), raceSentinel)
+	}
+	if leaks > 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("outside file leaked %d times in %d iterations", leaks, iters)
+	}
+	t.Logf("%d iterations, 0 leaks", iters)
+}
+
+func TestRawReadersDoNotHangUnderAFIFOSwapRace(t *testing.T) {
+	brain, raw, outside := raceBrain(t)
+	startSwapper(t, func(stop *atomic.Bool) { swap(raw, outside, true, stop) })
+	var iters atomic.Int64
+	done := make(chan struct{})
+	go func() {
+		for deadline := time.Now().Add(1500 * time.Millisecond); time.Now().Before(deadline); {
+			_ = readers(brain, raw)
+			iters.Add(1)
+		}
+		close(done)
+	}()
+	select {
+	case <-done:
+	case <-time.After(6 * time.Second):
+		// Unblock the stuck open so the test process can exit.
+		if f, err := os.OpenFile(filepath.Join(raw, "r.md"), os.O_WRONLY|syscall.O_NONBLOCK, 0); err == nil {
+			_ = f.Close()
+		}
+		t.Fatalf("a raw/ reader hung on a swapped-in FIFO after %d iterations", iters.Load())
+	}
+}
+
+// PR #156 round 4: the pdf/docmark branch of TextIn copies the file through
+// the root to a temp file; pointing the extractor back at the raw/ path by
+// name stayed green because the race tests only used r.md (a stub docmark
+// then received the outside file's bytes 34k times in 4s). This races a
+// symlink into raw/r.docx and has a fake docmark count the sentinel in every
+// document it is sent.
+func TestDocmarkExtractionLeaksNothingUnderASymlinkSwapRace(t *testing.T) {
+	var seen atomic.Int64
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		var req struct {
+			Params struct {
+				Arguments struct {
+					ContentBase64 string `json:"content_base64"`
+				} `json:"arguments"`
+			} `json:"params"`
+		}
+		_ = json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&req)
+		if b, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(req.Params.Arguments.ContentBase64); err == nil &&
+			strings.Contains(string(b), raceSentinel) {
+			seen.Add(1)
+		}
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"converted"}]}}`))
+	}))
+	defer srv.Close()
+	t.Setenv("DOCMARK_URL", srv.URL)
+
+	brain, raw, outside := raceBrain(t)
+	tgt := filepath.Join(raw, "r.docx")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(tgt, []byte("inside docx bytes"), 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	startSwapper(t, func(stop *atomic.Bool) {
+		for i := 0; !stop.Load(); i++ {
+			tmp := filepath.Join(raw, ".swapdocx")
+			_ = os.Remove(tmp)
+			if i%2 == 0 {
+				_ = os.WriteFile(tmp, []byte("inside docx bytes"), 0o644)
+			} else {
+				_ = os.Symlink(outside, tmp)
+			}
+			_ = os.Rename(tmp, tgt)
+		}
+	})
+	iters := 0
+	for deadline := time.Now().Add(1500 * time.Millisecond); time.Now().Before(deadline); iters++ {
+		_, _ = api.ReadIngestFile(brain, tgt)
+	}
+	if n := seen.Load(); n > 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("docmark received the outside file %d times in %d iterations", n, iters)
+	}
+	t.Logf("%d iterations, 0 leaks to docmark", iters)
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+package api_test
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/api"
+)
+
+// hyperguild#153: readers of brain/raw/ followed symlinks. /pending showed the
+// target's contents and promote would copy it into wiki/ (and brain-sync to
+// Gitea). raw/ is writable via Syncthing, so a symlink there is reachable
+// input. Every raw/ reader now treats a symlink as not-a-note.
+const sentinel153 = "SENTINEL-153-OUTSIDE"
+
+func rawWithSymlink(t *testing.T) (brain string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	brain = t.TempDir()
+	raw := filepath.Join(brain, "raw")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(raw, 0o755))
+	outside := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "secret.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(outside, []byte("---\ncreated_at: 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z\n---\n# s\n\n"+sentinel153), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(outside, filepath.Join(raw, "2026-01-01-leak.md")))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(raw, "2026-01-02-real.md"), []byte("# real\n\nreal body"), 0o644))
+	return brain
+}
+
+func TestListPendingSkipsSymlinkedNotes(t *testing.T) {
+	notes, err := api.ListPending(rawWithSymlink(t))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	var names []string
+	for _, n := range notes {
+		names = append(names, n.Filename)
+		assert.NotContains(t, n.Excerpt, sentinel153)
+	}
+	assert.Equal(t, []string{"2026-01-02-real.md"}, names)
+}
+
+func TestPromoteNoteRefusesASymlinkedSource(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := rawWithSymlink(t)
+	_, err := api.PromoteNote(brain, api.PromoteOptions{Filename: "2026-01-01-leak.md", Wing: "testing", Hall: "facts"})
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	_, statErr := os.Stat(filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "testing", "facts", "leak.md"))
+	assert.True(t, os.IsNotExist(statErr), "nothing may be promoted from a symlink")
+}
+
+func TestRejectNoteRefusesASymlinkedSource(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := rawWithSymlink(t)
+	_, err := api.RejectNote(brain, api.RejectOptions{Filename: "2026-01-01-leak.md"})
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	b, _ := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(brain, "raw", "rejected", "2026-01-01-leak.md"))
+	assert.False(t, strings.Contains(string(b), sentinel153))
+}
+
+// Item 4: if raw/ itself is a symlink, containment inside it means nothing.
+func TestResolvePendingPromoteRejectAndReadIngestRefuseASymlinkedRawRoot(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	elsewhere := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(elsewhere, "x.md"), []byte("# x\n\n"+sentinel153), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(elsewhere, filepath.Join(brain, "raw")))
+
+	_, err := api.ResolveIngestPath(brain, "x.md")
+	assert.Error(t, err, "ingest must refuse a symlinked raw/")
+	notes, err := api.ListPending(brain)
+	assert.Error(t, err, "pending must refuse a symlinked raw/")
+	assert.Empty(t, notes)
+	_, err = api.PromoteNote(brain, api.PromoteOptions{Filename: "x.md", Wing: "testing", Hall: "facts"})
+	assert.Error(t, err, "promote must refuse a symlinked raw/")
+	_, err = api.RejectNote(brain, api.RejectOptions{Filename: "x.md"})
+	assert.Error(t, err, "reject must refuse a symlinked raw/")
+	text, err := api.ReadIngestFile(brain, filepath.Join(elsewhere, "x.md"))
+	assert.Error(t, err, "ReadIngestFile must refuse a symlinked raw/")
+	assert.NotContains(t, text, sentinel153)
+	// The watcher's refusal is tested in internal/watcher.
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/extract"
+)
+
+// errNotANote is returned for a raw/ entry that is not a regular file — in
+// particular a symlink, whose target may be anywhere (hyperguild#153).
+var errNotANote = errors.New("not a regular note file in raw/ (symlinks are refused)")
+
+// errRawNotDir means brain/raw is not a real directory (e.g. a symlink), so
+// containment inside it would mean nothing (hyperguild#153 item 4).
+var errRawNotDir = errors.New("brain/raw is not a real directory")
+
+// OpenRawRoot opens brain/raw as an os.Root, refusing a raw/ that is itself a
+// symlink. Reads through the root cannot leave it, even if an entry is
+// swapped for a symlink between a check and the read. It returns the root
+// and raw/'s path. A missing raw/ returns an error wrapping os.ErrNotExist.
+func OpenRawRoot(brainDir string) (*os.Root, string, error) {
+	p := filepath.Join(brainDir, "raw")
+	fi, err := os.Lstat(p)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, "", err
+	}
+	if fi.Mode()&os.ModeSymlink != 0 || !fi.IsDir() {
+		return nil, "", errRawNotDir
+	}
+	r, err := os.OpenRoot(p)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, "", fmt.Errorf("open raw root: %w", err)
+	}
+	return r, p, nil
+}
+
+// readRawNote reads one raw/ entry by basename through the root, refusing
+// anything that is not a regular file.
+//
+// Accepted residual: a HARD link to an outside file is a regular file and is
+// read. Syncthing syncs contents, not links, so a peer cannot create one;
+// fs.protected_hardlinks=1 and the pod's secrets live on a different
+// filesystem from the brain volume, so a local caller cannot link them in.
+// Refusing Nlink > 1 is the next step if either assumption changes.
+func readRawNote(r *os.Root, base string) ([]byte, os.FileInfo, error) {
+	fi, err := r.Lstat(base)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, err
+	}
+	if !fi.Mode().IsRegular() {
+		return nil, nil, errNotANote
+	}
+	f, _, err := extract.OpenRegular(r, base)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, err
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = f.Close() }()
+	b, err := io.ReadAll(f)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, err
+	}
+	return b, fi, nil
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+package api_test
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/api"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brainfs/brainfstest"
+)
+
+// hyperguild#157 slice 2: ReadNote (brain_get, read-after-write) read by
+// path; it now reads through brainfs.
+func TestReadNoteRefusesSymlinksAndSurvivesSwapRaces(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	facts := filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "w", "facts")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(facts, 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(brainfstest.Outside(t), filepath.Join(facts, "leak.md")))
+	_, body, _, err := api.ReadNote(brain, "wiki/w/facts/leak.md")
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+	assert.NotContains(t, body, brainfstest.Sentinel)
+
+	p := filepath.Join(facts, "r.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(p, []byte("---\nx: y\n---\ninside"), 0o644))
+	fm, body, _, err := api.ReadNote(brain, "wiki/w/facts/r.md")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, "y", fm["x"])
+	assert.Contains(t, body, "inside")
+	read := func() string {
+		fm, body, _, _ := api.ReadNote(brain, "wiki/w/facts/r.md")
+		s := body
+		for k, v := range fm {
+			s += k + v
+		}
+		return s
+	}
+	brainfstest.AssertNoLeak(t, p, "---\nx: y\n---\ninside", 1500*time.Millisecond, read)
+	brainfstest.AssertNoHang(t, p, "---\nx: y\n---\ninside", 1500*time.Millisecond, 6*time.Second, func() { _ = read() })
+}
@@ -3,14 +3,18 @@ package api
 import (
 	"crypto/sha256"
 	"encoding/hex"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"io/fs"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"time"

 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brain"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brainfs"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/claim"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/notes"
 )

 // ContentHash returns the lowercase hex sha256 of b. It is the note's
@@ -46,6 +50,11 @@ type UpdateNoteOptions struct {
 	Slug    string
 	Content string // new full body (whole-note replace)
 	Reason  string // optional; stamped as supersede_reason
+	// Origin/WrittenBy re-stamp provenance to the updating principal: the
+	// body is replaced wholesale, so the last writer is the author of what
+	// a reader sees (hyperguild#145). Never taken from Content's fragment.
+	Origin    string
+	WrittenBy string
 }

 // UpdateNote supersedes an existing note in place. It replaces the body
@@ -85,14 +94,23 @@ func UpdateNote(brainDir string, opts UpdateNoteOptions) (relPath, contentHash,
 		rel = filepath.ToSlash(rel)
 	}

-	rel, abs, err := resolveWithin(brainDir, rel)
+	// The path is caller-supplied (brain_update): resolve it as brain_edit
+	// does, knowledge/ and wiki/ notes only, and read and rewrite it through
+	// the brain root, never through a symlink (hyperguild#169).
+	t, err := notes.Resolve(brainDir, rel, notes.ScopeNotes)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", "", "", err
 	}
-
-	prior, err := os.ReadFile(abs)
+	rel = t.Rel
+	bfs, err := brainfs.Open(brainDir)
 	if err != nil {
-		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		return "", "", "", fmt.Errorf("open brain: %w", err)
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = bfs.Close() }()
+
+	prior, err := bfs.ReadRegular(rel)
+	if err != nil {
+		if errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
 			return "", "", "", fmt.Errorf("note %q does not exist: use brain_write to create", rel)
 		}
 		return "", "", "", fmt.Errorf("read target: %w", err)
@@ -110,9 +128,23 @@ func UpdateNote(brainDir string, opts UpdateNoteOptions) (relPath, contentHash,

 	fm, _ := parseFrontmatter(string(prior))
 	for _, l := range contentFM.lines {
-		if l.key != "" {
-			fm.set(l.key, l.value)
+		// updated_at/supersedes/supersede_reason are this function's own
+		// output, not something a caller's fragment sets — updated_at and
+		// supersedes are already unconditionally re-set below regardless of
+		// what the loop does with them, but supersede_reason is only
+		// re-set when opts.Reason is non-empty, so without this skip a
+		// caller could set it via its own fragment and have it survive
+		// even when Reason is empty, bypassing the one intended entry
+		// point for that field (hyperguild#125, found in #111's review).
+		// Skipping all three here rather than relying on the unconditional
+		// overwrites below to save the other two keeps the invariant
+		// explicit at the one place it can be silently broken by a future
+		// reordering, not implicit in call order.
+		if l.key == "" || l.key == "updated_at" || l.key == "supersedes" || l.key == "supersede_reason" ||
+			l.key == "origin" || l.key == "written_by" {
+			continue
 		}
+		fm.set(l.key, l.value)
 	}
 	fm.set("updated_at", time.Now().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339))
 	fm.set("supersedes", priorHash)
@@ -139,8 +171,12 @@ func UpdateNote(brainDir string, opts UpdateNoteOptions) (relPath, contentHash,
 		return "", "", "", fmt.Errorf("claim envelope: %w", err)
 	}

-	out := []byte(fm.render() + contentBody)
-	if err := os.WriteFile(abs, out, 0o644); err != nil {
+	stamped, err := StampProvenance(fm.render()+contentBody, opts.Origin, opts.WrittenBy)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", "", "", err
+	}
+	out := []byte(stamped)
+	if err := bfs.WriteRegular(rel, out); err != nil {
 		return "", "", "", fmt.Errorf("write: %w", err)
 	}
 	return rel, ContentHash(out), priorHash, nil
@@ -151,11 +187,17 @@ func UpdateNote(brainDir string, opts UpdateNoteOptions) (relPath, contentHash,
 // write primitive behind brain_get: the hash it returns equals the hash
 // brain_write / brain_update returned for the same bytes.
 func ReadNote(brainDir, relPath string) (fm map[string]string, body, contentHash string, err error) {
-	_, abs, err := resolveWithin(brainDir, relPath)
+	rel, _, err := resolveWithin(brainDir, relPath)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, "", "", err
 	}
-	raw, err := os.ReadFile(abs)
+	// Through the brain root, regular files only (hyperguild#157).
+	bfs, err := brainfs.Open(brainDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, "", "", fmt.Errorf("read note: %w", err)
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = bfs.Close() }()
+	raw, err := bfs.ReadRegular(rel)
 	if err != nil {
 		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
 			return nil, "", "", fmt.Errorf("note %q does not exist", relPath)
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+package api_test
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/api"
+)
+
+// brain_update passed the caller's path through resolveWithin, a lexical
+// containment check only: any file in the brain could be superseded
+// (classification.yaml, raw/, sessions/), and a final symlink was written
+// through. It now resolves like brain_edit: knowledge/ and wiki/ notes only,
+// read and rewritten through the brain root.
+func TestUpdateNoteRefusesPathsOutsideKnowledgeAndWikiNotes(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	files := map[string]string{
+		"classification.yaml": "levels: {}\n",
+		"raw/r.md":            "raw\n",
+		"sessions/s.jsonl":    "{}\n",
+		"wiki/w/facts/ok.md":  "---\ntitle: ok\n---\nold\n",
+		"knowledge/k.md":      "---\ntitle: k\n---\nold\n",
+		"wiki/w/facts/x.txt":  "txt\n",
+	}
+	for rel, body := range files {
+		p := filepath.Join(brain, filepath.FromSlash(rel))
+		require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(p), 0o755))
+		require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(p, []byte(body), 0o644))
+	}
+	for _, rel := range []string{"classification.yaml", "raw/r.md", "sessions/s.jsonl", "wiki/w/facts/x.txt", "wiki/w/../../raw/r.md"} {
+		_, _, _, err := api.UpdateNote(brain, api.UpdateNoteOptions{Path: rel, Content: "replaced"})
+		assert.Error(t, err, rel)
+	}
+	for rel, body := range files {
+		if rel == "wiki/w/facts/ok.md" || rel == "knowledge/k.md" {
+			continue
+		}
+		got, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(brain, filepath.FromSlash(rel)))
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		assert.Equal(t, body, string(got), rel)
+	}
+	for _, rel := range []string{"wiki/w/facts/ok.md", "knowledge/k.md"} {
+		_, _, _, err := api.UpdateNote(brain, api.UpdateNoteOptions{Path: rel, Content: "new body"})
+		require.NoError(t, err, "positive control: %s", rel)
+		got, _ := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(brain, filepath.FromSlash(rel)))
+		assert.Contains(t, string(got), "new body")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestUpdateNoteDoesNotWriteThroughASymlinkedNote(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	facts := filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "w", "facts")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(facts, 0o755))
+	victim := filepath.Join(brain, "raw", "victim.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(victim), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(victim, []byte("untouched\n"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(filepath.Join("..", "..", "..", "raw", "victim.md"), filepath.Join(facts, "l.md")))
+	_, _, _, err := api.UpdateNote(brain, api.UpdateNoteOptions{Path: "wiki/w/facts/l.md", Content: "replaced"})
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+	got, _ := os.ReadFile(victim)
+	assert.Equal(t, "untouched\n", string(got))
+}
+
+// The note is swapped between a regular file and an in-brain symlink to a
+// raw/ file while UpdateNote runs: the read and the write each refuse a
+// symlink, so the raw/ file is never rewritten.
+func TestUpdateNoteNeverRewritesASymlinkSwappedInForTheNote(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	facts := filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "w", "facts")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(facts, 0o755))
+	victim := filepath.Join(brain, "raw", "victim.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(victim), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(victim, []byte("untouched\n"), 0o644))
+	note := filepath.Join(facts, "n.md")
+	body := "---\ntitle: n\n---\nold\n"
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(note, []byte(body), 0o644))
+
+	var stop atomic.Bool
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	wg.Add(1)
+	go func() {
+		defer wg.Done()
+		tmp := note + ".swap"
+		for i := 0; !stop.Load(); i++ {
+			_ = os.Remove(tmp)
+			if i%2 == 0 {
+				_ = os.WriteFile(tmp, []byte(body), 0o644)
+			} else {
+				_ = os.Symlink(filepath.Join("..", "..", "..", "raw", "victim.md"), tmp)
+			}
+			_ = os.Rename(tmp, note)
+		}
+	}()
+	ok := 0
+	for deadline := time.Now().Add(1500 * time.Millisecond); time.Now().Before(deadline); {
+		if _, _, _, err := api.UpdateNote(brain, api.UpdateNoteOptions{Path: "wiki/w/facts/n.md", Content: "new"}); err == nil {
+			ok++
+		}
+	}
+	stop.Store(true)
+	wg.Wait()
+	got, _ := os.ReadFile(victim)
+	assert.Equal(t, "untouched\n", string(got))
+	assert.Positive(t, ok, "positive control: some updates reach the regular note")
+}
@@ -231,6 +231,45 @@ func TestUpdateThenReadRoundTripsHash(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, hash, readHash, "update content_hash must round-trip through ReadNote")
 }

+func TestUpdateNoteSupersedeReasonNotSettableViaCallerFragmentWhenReasonOptionEmpty(t *testing.T) {
+	// hyperguild#125, found in #111's review: the merge loop applied every
+	// field from the caller's leading frontmatter fragment, including
+	// supersede_reason -- which is only re-set unconditionally when
+	// opts.Reason is non-empty, so a caller could set it via its own
+	// fragment and have it survive even with Reason left empty, bypassing
+	// the one intended entry point for that field.
+	brainDir := t.TempDir()
+	rel := seedNote(t, brainDir, "wiki/a/facts/n.md", "---\nwing: a\nhall: facts\n---\nold\n")
+
+	_, _, _, err := UpdateNote(brainDir, UpdateNoteOptions{
+		Path:    rel,
+		Content: "---\nsupersede_reason: snuck in via the fragment\n---\nnew\n",
+		// Reason deliberately left empty.
+	})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	got, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(brainDir, filepath.FromSlash(rel)))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.NotContains(t, string(got), "supersede_reason",
+		"supersede_reason must not appear at all when opts.Reason is empty, regardless of what the fragment tried to set")
+}
+
+func TestUpdateNoteSupersedeReasonFromOptionStillWorks(t *testing.T) {
+	// Regression pin: the legitimate entry point (opts.Reason) must be
+	// completely unaffected by #125's fix.
+	brainDir := t.TempDir()
+	rel := seedNote(t, brainDir, "wiki/a/facts/n.md", "---\nwing: a\nhall: facts\n---\nold\n")
+
+	_, _, _, err := UpdateNote(brainDir, UpdateNoteOptions{
+		Path: rel, Content: "new\n", Reason: "facts changed",
+	})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	got, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(brainDir, filepath.FromSlash(rel)))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, string(got), "supersede_reason: facts changed")
+}
+
 func TestContentHashStable(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, ContentHash([]byte("abc")), ContentHash([]byte("abc")))
 	assert.NotEqual(t, ContentHash([]byte("abc")), ContentHash([]byte("abd")))
@@ -49,7 +49,19 @@ func (n *NtfyNotifier) Notify(ctx context.Context, msg string) error {
 	}
 	defer func() { _ = resp.Body.Close() }()
 	if resp.StatusCode < 200 || resp.StatusCode >= 300 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("ntfy notify: status %d", resp.StatusCode)
+		return &RejectedError{Status: resp.StatusCode}
 	}
 	return nil
 }
+
+// RejectedError is a non-2xx ntfy response.
+type RejectedError struct{ Status int }
+
+func (e *RejectedError) Error() string { return fmt.Sprintf("ntfy notify: status %d", e.Status) }
+
+// Permanent reports whether resending the same message cannot succeed: a 4xx
+// other than 429 (rate limited). Callers may drop such a message; anything
+// else (5xx, 429, transport errors) is an outage and must be retried.
+func (e *RejectedError) Permanent() bool {
+	return e.Status >= 400 && e.Status < 500 && e.Status != http.StatusTooManyRequests
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package audit
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// A non-2xx ntfy response is a *RejectedError, and only a client-side refusal
+// other than rate limiting is permanent: callers may drop a message on a
+// permanent rejection and must retry the rest (hyperguild#157, PR #160).
+func TestNotifyClassifiesRejectionsAsPermanentOrNot(t *testing.T) {
+	for status, permanent := range map[int]bool{413: true, 400: true, 403: true, 429: false, 500: false, 503: false} {
+		srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) { w.WriteHeader(status) }))
+		err := NewNtfyNotifier(srv.URL, "").Notify(context.Background(), "m")
+		srv.Close()
+		var rej *RejectedError
+		require.True(t, errors.As(err, &rej), "status %d: %v", status, err)
+		assert.Equal(t, status, rej.Status)
+		assert.Equal(t, permanent, rej.Permanent(), "status %d", status)
+	}
+}
@@ -4,9 +4,12 @@ import (
 	"bufio"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"path"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brainfs"
 )

 // seeAlsoHeader is the markdown heading used to group cross-wing links.
@@ -197,6 +200,12 @@ func fileExists(p string) bool {
 // section headers. Rejects same-wing pairs (a tunnel is by definition
 // cross-wing) and missing notes.
 func WriteTunnel(brainDir, sourcePath, targetPath string) error {
+	if err := checkNotePath(sourcePath); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("source: %w", err)
+	}
+	if err := checkNotePath(targetPath); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("target: %w", err)
+	}
 	srcWing, err := wingOf(sourcePath)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("source: %w", err)
@@ -209,20 +218,50 @@ func WriteTunnel(brainDir, sourcePath, targetPath string) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("tunnel must cross wings; got both in %q", srcWing)
 	}

-	srcFull := filepath.Join(brainDir, filepath.FromSlash(sourcePath))
-	tgtFull := filepath.Join(brainDir, filepath.FromSlash(targetPath))
-	if _, err := os.Stat(srcFull); err != nil {
+	// Both notes are read and rewritten through the brain root, regular
+	// files only: brain_tunnel passes caller-supplied paths, and the brain is
+	// a Syncthing folder that can hold symlinks.
+	bfs, err := brainfs.Open(brainDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("open brain: %w", err)
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = bfs.Close() }()
+	srcContent, err := bfs.ReadRegular(sourcePath)
+	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("source note: %w", err)
 	}
-	if _, err := os.Stat(tgtFull); err != nil {
+	tgtContent, err := bfs.ReadRegular(targetPath)
+	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("target note: %w", err)
 	}

-	if err := appendSeeAlso(srcFull, wikilinkOf(targetPath)); err != nil {
+	if out, changed, err := withSeeAlso(srcContent, wikilinkOf(targetPath)); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("update source: %w", err)
+	} else if changed {
+		if err := bfs.WriteRegular(sourcePath, out); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("update source: %w", err)
+		}
 	}
-	if err := appendSeeAlso(tgtFull, wikilinkOf(sourcePath)); err != nil {
+	if out, changed, err := withSeeAlso(tgtContent, wikilinkOf(sourcePath)); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("update target: %w", err)
+	} else if changed {
+		if err := bfs.WriteRegular(targetPath, out); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("update target: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// checkNotePath accepts only a clean, local wiki/<wing>/<hall>/.../<slug>.md
+// path: no "." or ".." segments, no empty segments, no leading slash.
+func checkNotePath(p string) error {
+	if p == "" || path.Clean(p) != p || !filepath.IsLocal(p) || !strings.HasSuffix(p, ".md") {
+		return fmt.Errorf("not a clean wiki note path: %q", p)
+	}
+	for _, part := range strings.Split(p, "/") {
+		if part == "" || part == "." || part == ".." {
+			return fmt.Errorf("not a clean wiki note path: %q", p)
+		}
 	}
 	return nil
 }
@@ -248,16 +287,13 @@ func wingOf(relPath string) (string, error) {
 	return parts[1], nil
 }

-// appendSeeAlso inserts `- [[link]]` under the file's See also section,
-// creating the section if absent. No-op when the link is already present.
-func appendSeeAlso(filePath, link string) error {
-	content, err := os.ReadFile(filePath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
+// withSeeAlso returns content with `- [[link]]` under its See also section,
+// creating the section if absent. changed is false when the link is already
+// present.
+func withSeeAlso(content []byte, link string) (out []byte, changed bool, err error) {
 	wikilink := "[[" + link + "]]"
 	if strings.Contains(string(content), wikilink) {
-		return nil
+		return content, false, nil
 	}

 	bullet := "- " + wikilink
@@ -266,8 +302,7 @@ func appendSeeAlso(filePath, link string) error {
 		// No section yet — append a fresh one. Always emit a trailing
 		// newline so subsequent appends don't merge into the previous line.
 		trimmed := strings.TrimRight(string(content), "\n")
-		out := trimmed + "\n\n" + seeAlsoHeader + "\n\n" + bullet + "\n"
-		return os.WriteFile(filePath, []byte(out), 0o644)
+		return []byte(trimmed + "\n\n" + seeAlsoHeader + "\n\n" + bullet + "\n"), true, nil
 	}

 	// Section exists — splice the bullet in just before the next `## `
@@ -293,12 +328,11 @@ func appendSeeAlso(filePath, link string) error {
 		b.WriteByte('\n')
 	}
 	if err := scanner.Err(); err != nil {
-		return err
+		return nil, false, err
 	}
 	if !inserted {
 		// section was the last thing in the file — just append bullet
-		out := strings.TrimRight(b.String(), "\n") + "\n" + bullet + "\n"
-		return os.WriteFile(filePath, []byte(out), 0o644)
+		return []byte(strings.TrimRight(b.String(), "\n") + "\n" + bullet + "\n"), true, nil
 	}
-	return os.WriteFile(filePath, []byte(b.String()), 0o644)
+	return []byte(b.String()), true, nil
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+package brain_test
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brain"
+)
+
+// brain_tunnel passes caller-supplied source and target paths to WriteTunnel,
+// which checked only "wiki/<wing>/..." and then joined them onto the brain
+// dir: ".." segments resolved outside the brain and appendSeeAlso rewrote the
+// file there.
+func TestWriteTunnelRefusesATargetThatTraversesOutOfTheBrain(t *testing.T) {
+	brain0 := t.TempDir()
+	src := filepath.Join(brain0, "wiki", "a", "facts", "s.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(src), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(src, []byte("---\ntitle: S\n---\nbody\n"), 0o644))
+	victim := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "victim.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(victim, []byte("untouched\n"), 0o644))
+
+	up := strings.Repeat("../", strings.Count(filepath.Clean(brain0), "/")+3)
+	target := "wiki/b/x/" + up + strings.TrimPrefix(victim, "/")
+	err := brain.WriteTunnel(brain0, "wiki/a/facts/s.md", target)
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+	got, rerr := os.ReadFile(victim)
+	require.NoError(t, rerr)
+	assert.Equal(t, "untouched\n", string(got), "a file outside the brain was modified")
+}
+
+func TestWriteTunnelRefusesUncleanOrNonWikiPaths(t *testing.T) {
+	brain0 := t.TempDir()
+	for _, p := range []string{"wiki/a/facts/s.md", "wiki/b/facts/t.md", "wiki/b/facts/t.txt", "raw/r.md"} {
+		require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(filepath.Join(brain0, p)), 0o755))
+		require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(brain0, p), []byte("x\n"), 0o644))
+	}
+	for _, target := range []string{
+		"wiki/b/facts/../../../raw/r.md",
+		"wiki/b/./facts/t.md",
+		"wiki/b//facts/t.md",
+		"/wiki/b/facts/t.md",
+		"wiki/b/facts/t.txt",
+		"wiki/b/facts/",
+	} {
+		assert.Error(t, brain.WriteTunnel(brain0, "wiki/a/facts/s.md", target), target)
+	}
+	for _, p := range []string{"raw/r.md", "wiki/b/facts/t.txt"} {
+		got, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(brain0, p))
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		assert.Equal(t, "x\n", string(got), p)
+	}
+	require.NoError(t, brain.WriteTunnel(brain0, "wiki/a/facts/s.md", "wiki/b/facts/t.md"), "positive control")
+	got, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(brain0, "wiki", "b", "facts", "t.md"))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, string(got), "[[a/facts/s]]")
+}
+
+func TestWriteTunnelDoesNotWriteThroughASymlinkedNote(t *testing.T) {
+	brain0 := t.TempDir()
+	src := filepath.Join(brain0, "wiki", "a", "facts", "s.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(src), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(src, []byte("x\n"), 0o644))
+	tdir := filepath.Join(brain0, "wiki", "b", "facts")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(tdir, 0o755))
+	victim := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "victim.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(victim, []byte("untouched\n"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(victim, filepath.Join(tdir, "t.md")))
+	assert.Error(t, brain.WriteTunnel(brain0, "wiki/a/facts/s.md", "wiki/b/facts/t.md"))
+	got, err := os.ReadFile(victim)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, "untouched\n", string(got))
+
+	// The same with a link to a file elsewhere in the brain, which os.Root
+	// would follow.
+	inVictim := filepath.Join(brain0, "raw", "v.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(inVictim), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(inVictim, []byte("untouched\n"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(filepath.Join("..", "..", "..", "raw", "v.md"), filepath.Join(tdir, "u.md")))
+	assert.Error(t, brain.WriteTunnel(brain0, "wiki/a/facts/s.md", "wiki/b/facts/u.md"))
+	got, err = os.ReadFile(inVictim)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, "untouched\n", string(got))
+	got, err = os.ReadFile(src)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, "x\n", string(got), "the source is not touched when the target is refused")
+}
+
+// The target is swapped between a regular note and a symlink to an in-brain
+// file outside wiki/ while WriteTunnel runs: the read and the write each
+// refuse a symlink, so the other file is never rewritten.
+func TestWriteTunnelNeverRewritesASymlinkSwappedInForTheTarget(t *testing.T) {
+	brain0 := t.TempDir()
+	src := filepath.Join(brain0, "wiki", "a", "facts", "s.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(src), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(src, []byte("x\n"), 0o644))
+	tdir := filepath.Join(brain0, "wiki", "b", "facts")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(tdir, 0o755))
+	victim := filepath.Join(brain0, "raw", "victim.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(victim), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(victim, []byte("untouched\n"), 0o644))
+	tgt := filepath.Join(tdir, "t.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(tgt, []byte("t\n"), 0o644))
+
+	var stop atomic.Bool
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	wg.Add(1)
+	go func() {
+		defer wg.Done()
+		tmp := tgt + ".swap"
+		for i := 0; !stop.Load(); i++ {
+			_ = os.Remove(tmp)
+			if i%2 == 0 {
+				_ = os.WriteFile(tmp, []byte("t\n"), 0o644)
+			} else {
+				_ = os.Symlink(filepath.Join("..", "..", "..", "raw", "victim.md"), tmp)
+			}
+			_ = os.Rename(tmp, tgt)
+		}
+	}()
+	ok := 0
+	for deadline := time.Now().Add(1500 * time.Millisecond); time.Now().Before(deadline); {
+		if brain.WriteTunnel(brain0, "wiki/a/facts/s.md", "wiki/b/facts/t.md") == nil {
+			ok++
+		}
+		_ = os.WriteFile(src, []byte("x\n"), 0o644)
+	}
+	stop.Store(true)
+	wg.Wait()
+	got, err := os.ReadFile(victim)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, "untouched\n", string(got), "the swapped-in symlink's target was rewritten")
+	assert.Positive(t, ok, "positive control: some tunnels were written to the regular target")
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,239 @@
+// Package brainfs reads the brain directory through an os.Root (hyperguild#157).
+// The brain dir is a Syncthing sendreceive folder and Syncthing syncs
+// symlinks; a reader that walks and reads by path follows a planted symlink
+// out of the brain, and blocks forever on a planted FIFO. Readers that go
+// through a Brain only ever read regular files inside the brain: os.Root
+// refuses to leave the root even if an entry is swapped mid-read, and every
+// open is non-blocking with the type checked on the opened handle.
+package brainfs
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"io/fs"
+	"os"
+	"path"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"syscall"
+)
+
+// ErrNotRegular is returned for an entry that is not a regular file.
+var ErrNotRegular = errors.New("not a regular file")
+
+// ErrTooLarge is returned by ReadRegularMax for a file over the limit.
+var ErrTooLarge = errors.New("file too large")
+
+// Brain is an open brain directory.
+type Brain struct {
+	root *os.Root
+	dir  string
+}
+
+// Open opens brainDir (which may itself be a mount symlink) as a root.
+func Open(brainDir string) (*Brain, error) {
+	r, err := os.OpenRoot(brainDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("open brain root: %w", err)
+	}
+	return &Brain{root: r, dir: brainDir}, nil
+}
+
+// Close releases the root.
+func (b *Brain) Close() error { return b.root.Close() }
+
+// Rel converts a path under the brain dir to a root-relative path.
+func (b *Brain) Rel(path string) (string, error) {
+	rel, err := filepath.Rel(b.dir, path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if rel == ".." || len(rel) > 2 && rel[:3] == ".."+string(filepath.Separator) {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s is outside the brain dir", path)
+	}
+	return filepath.ToSlash(rel), nil
+}
+
+// Lstat stats a brain-relative path through the root without following a
+// final symlink.
+func (b *Brain) Lstat(rel string) (fs.FileInfo, error) {
+	return b.root.Lstat(filepath.ToSlash(rel))
+}
+
+// realDir returns ErrNotRegular unless every component of rel is a real
+// directory. A swap after the check is not caught (accepted residual,
+// hyperguild#157).
+func (b *Brain) realDir(rel string) error {
+	if rel == "." {
+		return nil
+	}
+	prefix := ""
+	for _, part := range strings.Split(rel, "/") {
+		prefix = path.Join(prefix, part)
+		fi, err := b.root.Lstat(prefix)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if !fi.IsDir() {
+			return fmt.Errorf("%s: walk root component %s is not a directory: %w", rel, prefix, ErrNotRegular)
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// WriteRegular replaces the contents of an existing regular file at a
+// brain-relative path. It never creates a file and never writes through a
+// final symlink: os.Root.OpenFile follows an in-root final symlink even with
+// O_NOFOLLOW (verified on go1.27), so the path is Lstat-ed through the root
+// first and the opened handle must be that same file (os.SameFile), which
+// also catches a swap between the two. O_NONBLOCK keeps a FIFO from blocking
+// the open. Intermediate in-brain symlinks are still followed (os.Root keeps
+// the write inside the brain; hyperguild#167).
+func (b *Brain) WriteRegular(rel string, data []byte) error {
+	rel = filepath.ToSlash(rel)
+	lfi, err := b.root.Lstat(rel)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if !lfi.Mode().IsRegular() {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", rel, ErrNotRegular)
+	}
+	f, err := b.root.OpenFile(rel, os.O_WRONLY|syscall.O_NOFOLLOW|syscall.O_NONBLOCK, 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = f.Close() }()
+	fi, err := f.Stat()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if !fi.Mode().IsRegular() || !os.SameFile(lfi, fi) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s: changed while opening: %w", rel, ErrNotRegular)
+	}
+	if err := f.Truncate(0); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if _, err := f.Write(data); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return f.Close()
+}
+
+// ReadRegular reads a brain-relative path, refusing anything that is not a
+// regular file, both before the open and on the opened handle.
+func (b *Brain) ReadRegular(rel string) ([]byte, error) {
+	fi, err := b.root.Lstat(rel)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if !fi.Mode().IsRegular() {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", rel, ErrNotRegular)
+	}
+	return b.readOpened(rel)
+}
+
+// readOpened opens rel non-blocking and reads it only if the OPENED handle is
+// a regular file. This is the check that matters under a race: an entry
+// swapped for a FIFO after the Lstat, with a writer holding it open, would
+// otherwise park io.ReadAll forever (PR #161 review: removing it hung search
+// after 16 iterations).
+//
+// Accepted residual, as in api/rawroot.go: a HARD link to an outside file is
+// a regular file and is read. Syncthing syncs contents, not links, so a peer
+// cannot create one; fs.protected_hardlinks=1 and the pod's secrets are on a
+// different filesystem from the brain volume, so a local caller cannot link
+// them in. Refusing Nlink > 1 is the next step if either changes.
+func (b *Brain) readOpened(rel string) ([]byte, error) { return b.readOpenedMax(rel, -1) }
+
+// ReadRegularMax is ReadRegular with a size limit, checked on the opened
+// handle before reading (max < 0 means no limit).
+func (b *Brain) ReadRegularMax(rel string, max int64) ([]byte, error) {
+	fi, err := b.root.Lstat(rel)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if !fi.Mode().IsRegular() {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", rel, ErrNotRegular)
+	}
+	return b.readOpenedMax(rel, max)
+}
+
+func (b *Brain) readOpenedMax(rel string, max int64) ([]byte, error) {
+	f, err := b.root.OpenFile(rel, os.O_RDONLY|syscall.O_NONBLOCK, 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = f.Close() }()
+	hfi, err := f.Stat()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if !hfi.Mode().IsRegular() {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", rel, ErrNotRegular)
+	}
+	if max >= 0 && hfi.Size() > max {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s is %d bytes (limit %d): %w", rel, hfi.Size(), max, ErrTooLarge)
+	}
+	var r io.Reader = f
+	if wrapAfterStat != nil {
+		r = wrapAfterStat(r)
+	}
+	if max < 0 {
+		return io.ReadAll(r)
+	}
+	// The handle's size can grow after the check; bound the read itself.
+	data, err := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(r, max+1))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if int64(len(data)) > max {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s grew past %d bytes while read: %w", rel, max, ErrTooLarge)
+	}
+	return data, nil
+}
+
+// wrapAfterStat is a test seam: it runs between the size check and the read,
+// and wraps the reader the read consumes. A package global: brainfs tests
+// must not use t.Parallel.
+var wrapAfterStat func(io.Reader) io.Reader
+
+// WalkRegular walks a brain-relative directory through the root and calls fn
+// for each regular file. Directories are descended; symlinks, FIFOs and
+// devices found by the walk are skipped. A walk root with any component that
+// is not a real directory goes to onErr as ErrNotRegular and nothing is
+// yielded. An entry error is passed to onErr and the walk continues; a nil
+// onErr ignores it.
+//
+// Accepted residual (hyperguild#157): a directory swapped for a symlink
+// between the listing and the read is followed. os.Root still keeps the read
+// inside the brain, but not inside relDir.
+func (b *Brain) WalkRegular(relDir string, fn func(rel string) error, onErr func(rel string, err error)) error {
+	relDir = filepath.ToSlash(relDir)
+	// fs.WalkDir stats its root with a follow, and os.Root allows a symlink
+	// that stays inside the brain: knowledge -> . would alias the whole
+	// brain. Require every component of the root to be a real directory
+	// (Lstat checks only the last one).
+	err := b.realDir(relDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		if onErr != nil {
+			onErr(relDir, err)
+		}
+		return nil
+	}
+	return fs.WalkDir(b.root.FS(), relDir, func(p string, d fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
+		if err != nil {
+			if onErr != nil {
+				onErr(p, err)
+			}
+			if d != nil && d.IsDir() {
+				return fs.SkipDir
+			}
+			return nil
+		}
+		if d.IsDir() || !d.Type().IsRegular() {
+			return nil
+		}
+		return fn(p)
+	})
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,237 @@
+package brainfs
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"io"
+	"io/fs"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"syscall"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// The handle check is what stops a FIFO swapped in after the Lstat. A FIFO
+// with no writer reads EOF at once, so a race test could not see the check
+// missing; here a writer holds the FIFO open, as any local process can, and
+// readOpened must refuse it promptly (PR #161 review).
+func TestReadOpenedRefusesAFIFOHeldOpenByAWriter(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	fifo := filepath.Join(dir, "p.md")
+	require.NoError(t, syscall.Mkfifo(fifo, 0o644))
+	w, err := os.OpenFile(fifo, os.O_RDWR, 0)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { _ = w.Close() }()
+
+	b, err := Open(dir)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { _ = b.Close() }()
+
+	done := make(chan error, 1)
+	go func() { _, err := b.readOpened("p.md"); done <- err }()
+	select {
+	case err := <-done:
+		assert.True(t, errors.Is(err, ErrNotRegular), "got %v", err)
+	case <-time.After(2 * time.Second):
+		t.Fatal("readOpened blocked on a FIFO with a writer")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestReadRegularRefusesSymlinksAndReadsRegularFiles(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "ok.md"), []byte("ok"), 0o644))
+	outside := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "s.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(outside, []byte("secret"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(outside, filepath.Join(dir, "link.md")))
+	b, err := Open(dir)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { _ = b.Close() }()
+	got, err := b.ReadRegular("ok.md")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, "ok", string(got))
+	_, err = b.ReadRegular("link.md")
+	assert.True(t, errors.Is(err, ErrNotRegular), "got %v", err)
+	_, err = b.ReadRegular("../" + filepath.Base(outside))
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+}
+
+func TestRelAcceptsPathsInsideAndRefusesEscapes(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	b, err := Open(dir)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { _ = b.Close() }()
+	for in, want := range map[string]string{
+		filepath.Join(dir, "wiki", "x.md"): "wiki/x.md",
+		filepath.Join(dir, "..foo", "x"):   "..foo/x",
+		dir:                                ".",
+	} {
+		got, err := b.Rel(in)
+		require.NoError(t, err, in)
+		assert.Equal(t, want, got, in)
+	}
+	for _, bad := range []string{filepath.Join(dir, "..", "x"), dir + "-evil/x", "/etc/passwd", filepath.Join(dir, "wiki", "..", "..", "x")} {
+		_, err := b.Rel(bad)
+		assert.Error(t, err, bad)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestWalkRegularYieldsOnlyRegularFiles(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(dir, "a"), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "a", "n.md"), []byte("n"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), filepath.Join(dir, "a", "dirlink")))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(filepath.Join(dir, "a", "n.md"), filepath.Join(dir, "a", "filelink.md")))
+	require.NoError(t, syscall.Mkfifo(filepath.Join(dir, "a", "p.md"), 0o644))
+	b, err := Open(dir)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { _ = b.Close() }()
+	var got []string
+	require.NoError(t, b.WalkRegular(".", func(rel string) error { got = append(got, rel); return nil }, nil))
+	assert.Equal(t, []string{"a/n.md"}, got)
+}
+
+func TestReadRegularMaxRefusesAFileOverTheLimit(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "big.md"), make([]byte, 100), 0o644))
+	b, err := Open(dir)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { _ = b.Close() }()
+	_, err = b.ReadRegularMax("big.md", 99)
+	assert.True(t, errors.Is(err, ErrTooLarge), "got %v", err)
+	got, err := b.ReadRegularMax("big.md", 100)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, got, 100)
+}
+
+func TestReadRegularMaxRefusesAndStopsReadingAFileThatGrowsPastTheLimit(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	p := filepath.Join(dir, "grow.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(p, make([]byte, 10), 0o644))
+	consumed := &countingReader{}
+	wrapAfterStat = func(r io.Reader) io.Reader {
+		f, err := os.OpenFile(p, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_APPEND, 0)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		_, err = f.Write(make([]byte, 1000))
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		require.NoError(t, f.Close())
+		consumed.r = r
+		return consumed
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { wrapAfterStat = nil })
+	b, err := Open(dir)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { _ = b.Close() }()
+	got, err := b.ReadRegularMax("grow.md", 100)
+	assert.True(t, errors.Is(err, ErrTooLarge), "got %v", err)
+	assert.Nil(t, got)
+	assert.LessOrEqual(t, consumed.n, 101, "read past max+1 bytes")
+}
+
+type countingReader struct {
+	r io.Reader
+	n int
+}
+
+func (c *countingReader) Read(p []byte) (int, error) {
+	n, err := c.r.Read(p)
+	c.n += n
+	return n, err
+}
+
+func TestLstatDoesNotFollowSymlinksAndRefusesEscapes(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	outside := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "o.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(outside, []byte("o"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(outside, filepath.Join(dir, "l.md")))
+	b, err := Open(dir)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { _ = b.Close() }()
+	fi, err := b.Lstat("l.md")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, fs.ModeSymlink, fi.Mode().Type())
+	_, err = b.Lstat("../" + filepath.Base(filepath.Dir(outside)) + "/o.md")
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+}
+
+func TestWalkRegularReportsASymlinkedWalkRootAndYieldsNothing(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(dir, "real"), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "real", "n.md"), []byte("n"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink("real", filepath.Join(dir, "alias")))
+	b, err := Open(dir)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { _ = b.Close() }()
+	var got []string
+	var errs []error
+	require.NoError(t, b.WalkRegular("alias", func(rel string) error { got = append(got, rel); return nil },
+		func(_ string, err error) { errs = append(errs, err) }))
+	assert.Empty(t, got)
+	require.Len(t, errs, 1)
+	assert.ErrorIs(t, errs[0], ErrNotRegular)
+}
+
+func TestWalkRegularReportsASymlinkedIntermediateComponentOfTheWalkRoot(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(dir, "real", "sub"), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "real", "sub", "n.md"), []byte("n"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink("real", filepath.Join(dir, "alias")))
+	b, err := Open(dir)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { _ = b.Close() }()
+	var got []string
+	var errs []error
+	require.NoError(t, b.WalkRegular("alias/sub", func(rel string) error { got = append(got, rel); return nil },
+		func(_ string, err error) { errs = append(errs, err) }))
+	assert.Empty(t, got)
+	require.Len(t, errs, 1)
+	assert.ErrorIs(t, errs[0], ErrNotRegular)
+}
+
+func TestWriteRegularRefusesFinalSymlinksFIFOsEscapesAndMissingFilesAndRewritesRegularFiles(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	outside := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "o.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(outside, []byte("untouched"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(outside, filepath.Join(dir, "l.md")))
+	require.NoError(t, syscall.Mkfifo(filepath.Join(dir, "f.md"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "n.md"), []byte("old content"), 0o644))
+	b, err := Open(dir)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { _ = b.Close() }()
+
+	assert.Error(t, b.WriteRegular("l.md", []byte("x")))
+	got, _ := os.ReadFile(outside)
+	assert.Equal(t, "untouched", string(got))
+
+	// A symlink to another file inside the brain: os.Root would allow it,
+	// only O_NOFOLLOW refuses it.
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "in.md"), []byte("inside"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink("in.md", filepath.Join(dir, "il.md")))
+	assert.Error(t, b.WriteRegular("il.md", []byte("x")))
+	got, _ = os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, "in.md"))
+	assert.Equal(t, "inside", string(got))
+
+	// A reader held open, so a non-blocking write open would succeed. The
+	// Lstat type check refuses the FIFO first; the handle check and
+	// O_NONBLOCK matter only if it is swapped in after the Lstat.
+	r, err := os.OpenFile(filepath.Join(dir, "f.md"), os.O_RDONLY|syscall.O_NONBLOCK, 0)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { _ = r.Close() }()
+	done := make(chan error, 1)
+	go func() { done <- b.WriteRegular("f.md", []byte("x")) }()
+	select {
+	case err := <-done:
+		assert.Error(t, err)
+	case <-time.After(3 * time.Second):
+		t.Fatal("WriteRegular hung on a FIFO")
+	}
+
+	assert.Error(t, b.WriteRegular("../"+filepath.Base(filepath.Dir(outside))+"/o.md", []byte("x")))
+	assert.Error(t, b.WriteRegular("missing.md", []byte("x")), "does not create files")
+
+	require.NoError(t, b.WriteRegular("n.md", []byte("new")))
+	got, _ = os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, "n.md"))
+	assert.Equal(t, "new", string(got), "truncated and rewritten")
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+// Package brainfstest is the shared harness for hyperguild#157's swap-race
+// tests: it keeps swapping a regular note, a symlink to an outside file, or a
+// FIFO (with a writer held open) into a path while a reader under test loops.
+// It observes two things: no sentinel byte from the outside file reaches the
+// reader's output, and the reader returns within a timeout. It does not cover
+// hard links, other paths into the reader, or races it does not generate.
+package brainfstest
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"syscall"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// Sentinel marks the outside file's contents.
+const Sentinel = "zqbrainfssentinelonefiftyseven"
+
+// Outside writes a file outside any brain dir containing Sentinel.
+func Outside(t *testing.T) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	p := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "secret.md")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(p, []byte("# secret\n\n"+Sentinel), 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return p
+}
+
+// StartSwap renames, in a loop, a regular note (content inside) and either
+// a symlink to outside or a FIFO into path, until the test ends. FIFOs get a
+// writer held open until the swapper exits, so a reader that skips the
+// handle check parks forever instead of reading EOF. The swapper is stopped
+// and awaited before t.TempDir cleanup.
+func StartSwap(t *testing.T, path, inside, outside string, fifo bool) {
+	t.Helper()
+	var stop atomic.Bool
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	wg.Add(1)
+	go func() {
+		defer wg.Done()
+		tmp := path + ".swap"
+		var writers []*os.File
+		defer func() {
+			for _, w := range writers {
+				_ = w.Close()
+			}
+		}()
+		for i := 0; !stop.Load(); i++ {
+			_ = os.Remove(tmp)
+			switch {
+			case i%2 == 0:
+				_ = os.WriteFile(tmp, []byte(inside), 0o644)
+			case fifo:
+				if err := syscall.Mkfifo(tmp, 0o644); err == nil {
+					if w, err := os.OpenFile(tmp, os.O_RDWR, 0); err == nil {
+						writers = append(writers, w)
+					}
+				}
+			default:
+				_ = os.Symlink(outside, tmp)
+			}
+			_ = os.Rename(tmp, path)
+		}
+	}()
+	t.Cleanup(func() { stop.Store(true); wg.Wait() })
+}
+
+// AssertNoLeak loops read for d while a symlink swapper runs on path, and
+// fails if any output contains Sentinel.
+func AssertNoLeak(t *testing.T, path, inside string, d time.Duration, read func() string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	StartSwap(t, path, inside, Outside(t), false)
+	leaks, iters := 0, 0
+	for deadline := time.Now().Add(d); time.Now().Before(deadline); iters++ {
+		leaks += strings.Count(read(), Sentinel)
+	}
+	if leaks > 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("outside file leaked %d times in %d iterations", leaks, iters)
+	}
+}
+
+// AssertNoHang loops read for d while a FIFO swapper (held writers) runs on
+// path, and fails if a read does not return within timeout.
+func AssertNoHang(t *testing.T, path, inside string, d, timeout time.Duration, read func()) {
+	t.Helper()
+	StartSwap(t, path, inside, Outside(t), true)
+	done := make(chan struct{})
+	go func() {
+		for deadline := time.Now().Add(d); time.Now().Before(deadline); {
+			read()
+		}
+		close(done)
+	}()
+	select {
+	case <-done:
+	case <-time.After(timeout):
+		t.Fatal("reader hung on a swapped-in FIFO with a writer held open")
+	}
+}
@@ -49,10 +49,12 @@ func (s *Store) Write(ctx context.Context, n capture.Note) (capture.Ref, error)
 	n.Content = content

 	relPath, err := api.WriteNote(s.brainDir, api.WriteNoteOptions{
-		Content:  n.Content,
-		Filename: n.Filename,
-		Wing:     n.Wing,
-		Hall:     n.Hall,
+		Content:   n.Content,
+		Filename:  n.Filename,
+		Wing:      n.Wing,
+		Hall:      n.Hall,
+		Origin:    n.Origin,
+		WrittenBy: n.WrittenBy,
 	})
 	if err != nil {
 		return capture.Ref{}, err
@@ -74,7 +76,7 @@ func (s *Store) Update(ctx context.Context, slug string, n capture.Note) (captur
 	}
 	n.Content = content

-	opts := api.UpdateNoteOptions{Content: n.Content, Reason: n.Reason}
+	opts := api.UpdateNoteOptions{Content: n.Content, Reason: n.Reason, Origin: n.Origin, WrittenBy: n.WrittenBy}
 	if strings.Contains(slug, "/") {
 		opts.Path = slug
 	} else {
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ type CaptureContext struct {
 	Classification string // caller-declared level token ("" = unspecified)
 	Principal      string // server-derived (auth); audit identity
 	Origin         Zone   // server-derived trust zone; the I1 gate input
+	AuthPath       string // server-derived: "static" or "jwt"; stamped as note provenance (#145)
 }

 // Insight is one piece of session knowledge bound for the brain. A
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ type Note struct {
 	Wing     string
 	Hall     string
 	Reason   string
+	// Provenance (hyperguild#145) is stamped by the server from the
+	// authenticated principal, never taken from Content's frontmatter.
+	// Origin is "static", "jwt" or "unknown"; empty means "unknown".
+	Origin    string
+	WrittenBy string
 }

 // BrainStore is the brain persistence port — the shared implementation of
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ func (s *Service) Capture(ctx context.Context, in CaptureInput) (CaptureReceipt,
 	var landed []string

 	for i, ins := range in.Insights {
-		res, item, err := s.persistInsight(ctx, ins)
+		res, item, err := s.persistInsight(ctx, ins, in.Context)
 		receipt.Insights = append(receipt.Insights, res)
 		if err != nil {
 			receipt.Errors = append(receipt.Errors, ItemError{Item: fmt.Sprintf("insight[%d]", i), Error: err.Error()})
@@ -278,8 +278,11 @@ func escalationReason(escalators []string) string {
 	return "required by: " + strings.Join(escalators, ", ")
 }

-func (s *Service) persistInsight(ctx context.Context, ins Insight) (InsightResult, string, error) {
-	note := Note{Content: ins.Text, Wing: ins.Wing, Hall: ins.Hall, Filename: brain.Sanitise(firstLine(ins.Text))}
+func (s *Service) persistInsight(ctx context.Context, ins Insight, cc CaptureContext) (InsightResult, string, error) {
+	note := Note{
+		Content: ins.Text, Wing: ins.Wing, Hall: ins.Hall, Filename: brain.Sanitise(firstLine(ins.Text)),
+		Origin: cc.AuthPath, WrittenBy: cc.Principal,
+	}
 	var ref Ref
 	var err error
 	if ins.SupersedeSlug != "" {
@@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ func (h *Handler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	// caller may have tried to put in the body.
 	in.Context.Principal = principal
 	in.Context.Origin = h.resolver.Resolve(principal, viaStatic)
+	in.Context.AuthPath = "jwt"
+	if viaStatic {
+		in.Context.AuthPath = "static"
+	}

 	rec, err := h.svc.Capture(r.Context(), in)
 	switch {
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+package capturehttp_test
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/audit"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brainstore"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/capture"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/capturehttp"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/classification"
+)
+
+// The REST capture door derives AuthPath itself (hyperguild#145); a body
+// field cannot set it, and static vs JWT are told apart.
+func TestRESTCaptureStampsAuthPathFromAuthentication(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name, authz, wantOrigin, wantBy string
+		v                               capturehttp.Validator
+		sovereign                       []string
+	}{
+		{"static", "Bearer " + staticTok, "origin: static\n", "written_by: local-cli\n", nil, nil},
+		{"jwt", "Bearer jwt", "origin: jwt\n", "written_by: koala-cli\n", fakeValidator{subject: "koala-cli"}, []string{"koala-cli"}},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			brainDir := t.TempDir()
+			cfg, err := classification.Load(t.TempDir())
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			svc := capture.NewService(brainstore.New(brainDir), fakeTracker{}, cfg, audit.NewSlogSink(nil))
+			h := capturehttp.New(svc, tc.v, staticTok, "local-cli", capturehttp.NewOriginResolver(tc.sovereign))
+			rr := do(t, h, tc.authz, map[string]any{
+				"context": map[string]any{
+					"harness": "claude-code", "actor": "mathias", "classification": "internal",
+					"AuthPath": "static", "auth_path": "static", "principal": "local-cli",
+				},
+				"insights": []map[string]any{{"text": "rest provenance probe", "wing": "hyperguild", "hall": "facts"}},
+			})
+			require.Equal(t, 200, rr.Code, rr.Body.String())
+			matches, _ := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(brainDir, "wiki/hyperguild/facts/*.md"))
+			require.Len(t, matches, 1)
+			b, err := os.ReadFile(matches[0])
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			assert.Contains(t, string(b), tc.wantOrigin)
+			assert.Contains(t, string(b), tc.wantBy)
+		})
+	}
+}
@@ -43,6 +43,26 @@ var DefaultRules = []Rule{
 	// JSON, so both segments begin with "eyJ".
 	{Name: "jwt", RE: regexp.MustCompile(`eyJ[A-Za-z0-9_\-]{8,}\.eyJ[A-Za-z0-9_\-]{8,}\.[A-Za-z0-9_\-]{8,}`)},
 	{Name: "postgres-uri-with-password", RE: regexp.MustCompile(`postgres(?:ql)?://[^:\s/]+:[^@\s/]+@`)},
+	// Any credential embedded in a URL's userinfo, which is what a git credential
+	// store holds: `https://<user>:<token>@host`. The postgres rule above is the
+	// same shape narrowed to one scheme, and is kept ahead of this one only so a
+	// DSN reports the more specific name -- same ordering convention as
+	// authorization-header before bearer-token.
+	//
+	// Added after this shape passed ALL rules and was therefore ingested rather
+	// than dropped (hyperguild#142). It reached ~/.claude/projects -- this
+	// watcher's own input -- because a test suite in mathias/infra executed a
+	// script that configures git while inheriting the operator's real $HOME, read
+	// koala's live credential store, and printed it. Two credentials were rotated
+	// (infra#466). The scrubber is the control that decides whether that class of
+	// mistake is survivable, and for this shape it was failing open.
+	//
+	// The {8,} floor on the secret half is what keeps `https://host:443/path` and
+	// `https://user:@host` out; the `[^:\s/@]+` user half stops a host:port pair
+	// being read as userinfo. Both directions are covered by
+	// TestScrub_URLUserinfoCredential, because a rule that dropped every URL with
+	// a colon in it would discard most of the signal this watcher exists to keep.
+	{Name: "url-userinfo-credential", RE: regexp.MustCompile(`[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9+.\-]*://[^:\s/@]+:[^@\s/]{8,}@`)},
 	{Name: "private-key", RE: regexp.MustCompile(`-----BEGIN[^-]*PRIVATE KEY-----`)},
 	{Name: "ssh-key", RE: regexp.MustCompile(`ssh-(?:rsa|ed25519|ecdsa)\s+[A-Za-z0-9+/=]{40,}`)},
 	{Name: "github-pat", RE: regexp.MustCompile(`\b(?:ghp|gho|ghu|ghr|gha)_[A-Za-z0-9]{30,}\b`)},
@@ -46,6 +46,64 @@ func TestScrub_PoisonedFixtures(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

+// A credential embedded in a URL's userinfo is the shape a git credential store
+// holds -- `https://<user>:<token>@host` -- and it walked past every rule until
+// hyperguild#142. There was a rule for `postgres://user:pass@` and nothing for the
+// general form, so `~/.git-credentials` content was ingested rather than dropped.
+//
+// Found the hard way: a test suite in mathias/infra executed a script that
+// configures git while inheriting the operator's real $HOME, read koala's live
+// credential store, and printed two live credentials into a session transcript.
+// ~/.claude/projects is this watcher's own input, so the scrubber was the last
+// line of defence for that mistake and it failed open. Two credentials were
+// rotated (infra#466).
+//
+// The lesson is not "do not read the credential file" -- that mistake will recur.
+// It is that this shape must fail closed, because the scrubber is what decides
+// whether such a mistake is survivable.
+func TestScrub_URLUserinfoCredential(t *testing.T) {
+	// Every secret below is INVENTED. None is or was a real credential.
+	mustScrub := []struct {
+		name    string
+		content string
+	}{
+		{"git-credential-store-user", "https://mathias:0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567@git.d-ma.be"},
+		{"git-credential-store-oauth2", "https://oauth2:0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567@git.d-ma.be"},
+		{"in-context-payload-line", `payload line: https://mathias:0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567@git.d-ma.be`},
+		{"clone-url-in-argv", "git clone https://oauth2:abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx@git.d-ma.be/mathias/infra.git"},
+		{"http-not-https", "http://admin:supersecretvalue123@10.0.1.20/api"},
+		{"git-plus-ssh-scheme", "git+ssh://deploy:abcdefghijklmnop@example.com/repo"},
+		{"redis-scheme", "redis://default:abcdefghijklmnopqrst@10.0.1.20:6379/0"},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range mustScrub {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			assert.NotEmpty(t, Scrub(tc.content),
+				"a credential in URL userinfo must be dropped, not ingested")
+		})
+	}
+
+	// The other direction matters as much: a rule that scrubs every URL with a
+	// colon in it would drop most of the signal this watcher exists to keep.
+	mustNotScrub := []struct {
+		name    string
+		content string
+	}{
+		{"host-with-port", "cloning https://git.d-ma.be:443/mathias/infra.git"},
+		{"postgres-no-password", "postgres://localhost:5432/brain"},
+		{"url-with-colon-in-query", "GET https://example.com/path?filter=a:b&x=1"},
+		{"plain-url", "see https://git.d-ma.be/mathias/infra/issues/466"},
+		{"userinfo-no-secret", "https://user:@example.com"},
+		{"format-string-placeholder", `printf 'https://oauth2:%s@%s\n' "$TOKEN" "$HOST"`},
+		{"scheme-relative-time", "duration https://example.com took 00:03:22"},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range mustNotScrub {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			assert.Empty(t, Scrub(tc.content),
+				"this is not a credential and must pass through")
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func TestScrub_CleanContentPassesThrough(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []string{
 		"",
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+package extract
+
+import (
+	"go/ast"
+	"go/parser"
+	"go/token"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+const extractPkg = "github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/extract"
+
+// parseNonTest parses every non-test Go file under the module.
+func parseNonTest(t *testing.T) map[string]*ast.File {
+	t.Helper()
+	fset := token.NewFileSet()
+	out := map[string]*ast.File{}
+	err := filepath.WalkDir(filepath.Join("..", ".."), func(p string, d os.DirEntry, err error) error {
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if d.IsDir() && (d.Name() == "vendor" || d.Name() == ".git") {
+			return filepath.SkipDir
+		}
+		if d.IsDir() || !strings.HasSuffix(p, ".go") || strings.HasSuffix(p, "_test.go") {
+			return nil
+		}
+		f, perr := parser.ParseFile(fset, p, nil, 0)
+		if perr != nil {
+			return perr
+		}
+		out[filepath.ToSlash(p)] = f
+		return nil
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// PR #156 review: reading a caller-chosen path by name reopens it after the
+// containment check (hyperguild#153 item 3). Outside this package, nothing
+// may reference extract.Text — called OR taken as a value — under whatever
+// name the package is imported (round 2: an alias and a func value slipped
+// past a plain text search).
+func TestNoPackageReferencesExtractTextOutsideExtract(t *testing.T) {
+	for path, f := range parseNonTest(t) {
+		if strings.Contains(path, "internal/extract/") {
+			continue
+		}
+		names := map[string]bool{}
+		for _, imp := range f.Imports {
+			if p, _ := strconv.Unquote(imp.Path.Value); p == extractPkg {
+				name := "extract"
+				if imp.Name != nil {
+					name = imp.Name.Name
+				}
+				if name == "." {
+					t.Errorf("%s dot-imports extract; import it by name so its use stays checkable", path)
+				}
+				names[name] = true
+			}
+		}
+		if len(names) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		ast.Inspect(f, func(n ast.Node) bool {
+			if sel, ok := n.(*ast.SelectorExpr); ok {
+				if id, ok := sel.X.(*ast.Ident); ok && names[id.Name] && sel.Sel.Name == "Text" {
+					t.Errorf("%s references %s.Text; use extract.TextIn through an os.Root", path, id.Name)
+				}
+			}
+			return true
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// PR #156 review round 2: the FIFO fix (open non-blocking, check the handle)
+// lives in OpenRegular, and reverting any caller to a plain Root.Open stayed
+// green. In the three raw/ reader FILES parsed below (and only those: a
+// wrapper in another file is not seen), no Open/OpenFile/ReadFile selector
+// may appear outside OpenRegular, called or taken as a method value. This is
+// a second layer; the behavioural race tests in internal/api and
+// internal/watcher are what catch a rewrite through any API (round 3).
+// osOpenAllowed names the functions in guarded files that may call os.Open*
+// on a path that is not a raw/ read.
+var osOpenAllowed = map[string]bool{
+	"internal/watcher/watcher.go:appendWatcherLog": true, // ingest log append, not a raw/ read
+	// Text reads by path; outside this package only TextIn's temp copy reaches
+	// it (TestNoPackageReferencesExtractTextOutsideExtract enforces that).
+	"internal/extract/extract.go:Text": true,
+}
+
+func TestRawReaderFilesUseNoOpenOrReadFileOutsideOpenRegular(t *testing.T) {
+	guarded := []string{"internal/api/rawroot.go", "internal/extract/extract.go", "internal/watcher/watcher.go"}
+	files := parseNonTest(t)
+	for _, g := range guarded {
+		var f *ast.File
+		for p, af := range files {
+			if strings.HasSuffix(p, g) {
+				f = af
+			}
+		}
+		if f == nil {
+			t.Fatalf("guarded file %s not found", g)
+		}
+		for _, decl := range f.Decls {
+			fn, ok := decl.(*ast.FuncDecl)
+			if !ok || fn.Name.Name == "OpenRegular" {
+				continue
+			}
+			ast.Inspect(fn, func(n ast.Node) bool {
+				sel, ok := n.(*ast.SelectorExpr)
+				if !ok {
+					return true
+				}
+				if sel.Sel.Name == "Open" || sel.Sel.Name == "OpenFile" || sel.Sel.Name == "ReadFile" {
+					if id, ok := sel.X.(*ast.Ident); ok && id.Name == "os" && osOpenAllowed[g+":"+fn.Name.Name] {
+						return true // a named non-raw write (the ingest log append)
+					}
+					t.Errorf("%s: %s calls .%s; raw/ reads must go through OpenRegular", g, fn.Name.Name, sel.Sel.Name)
+				}
+				return true
+			})
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@ package extract

 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"io"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
+	"syscall"
 )

 // Text reads the file at path and returns its plain-text content.
@@ -41,3 +43,70 @@ func fileExt(path string) string {
 	}
 	return ""
 }
+
+// TextIn is Text for a file read through an os.Root (hyperguild#153): the
+// read cannot leave the root, so a path checked earlier cannot be swapped
+// for a symlink pointing elsewhere before it is read. Formats that need an
+// external tool (pdf, docmark) are copied to a temp file from the handle
+// opened through the root, then extracted from the copy.
+func TextIn(r *os.Root, rel string) (string, error) {
+	fi, err := r.Lstat(rel)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("stat %s: %w", rel, err)
+	}
+	if !fi.Mode().IsRegular() {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s: not a regular file", rel)
+	}
+	f, _, err := OpenRegular(r, rel)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("open %s: %w", rel, err)
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = f.Close() }()
+	ext := strings.ToLower(fileExt(rel))
+	switch ext {
+	case ".md", ".txt":
+		b, err := io.ReadAll(f)
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("read %s: %w", rel, err)
+		}
+		return string(b), nil
+	case ".pdf", ".docx", ".xlsx", ".pptx", ".png", ".jpg", ".jpeg":
+		tmp, err := os.CreateTemp("", "ingest-*"+ext)
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("temp copy: %w", err)
+		}
+		defer func() { _ = os.Remove(tmp.Name()) }()
+		if _, err := io.Copy(tmp, f); err != nil {
+			_ = tmp.Close()
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("copy %s: %w", rel, err)
+		}
+		if err := tmp.Close(); err != nil {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("copy %s: %w", rel, err)
+		}
+		return Text(tmp.Name())
+	default:
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("unsupported file extension: %s", ext)
+	}
+}
+
+// OpenRegular opens rel inside r and returns it only if the OPENED handle is
+// a regular file. The open is non-blocking, so a FIFO swapped in after an
+// Lstat (PR #156 review: it hung open(2) forever) is refused promptly rather
+// than stalling the reader. Callers keep their Lstat check, which refuses
+// symlinks outright; this closes the race between that check and the open.
+func OpenRegular(r *os.Root, rel string) (*os.File, os.FileInfo, error) {
+	f, err := r.OpenFile(rel, os.O_RDONLY|syscall.O_NONBLOCK, 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, err
+	}
+	fi, err := f.Stat()
+	if err != nil {
+		_ = f.Close()
+		return nil, nil, err
+	}
+	if !fi.Mode().IsRegular() {
+		_ = f.Close()
+		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: not a regular file", rel)
+	}
+	return f, fi, nil
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+package extract
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"syscall"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// hyperguild#153 item 3: ingest checked a path, then extract.Text reopened it
+// by name, so a file swapped for a symlink in between was followed out of
+// raw/. TextIn reads through an os.Root, which refuses to leave the root.
+func TestTextInReadsInsideTheRootAndRefusesEscapes(t *testing.T) {
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(root, "ok.md"), []byte("inside"), 0o644))
+	outside := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "secret.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(outside, []byte("SENTINEL-153-TEXTIN"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(outside, filepath.Join(root, "leak.md")))
+
+	r, err := os.OpenRoot(root)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { _ = r.Close() }()
+
+	got, err := TextIn(r, "ok.md")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, "inside", got)
+
+	got, err = TextIn(r, "leak.md")
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+	assert.NotContains(t, got, "SENTINEL-153-TEXTIN")
+
+	_, err = TextIn(r, "../"+filepath.Base(outside))
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+}
+
+// PR #156 review: a regular file swapped for a FIFO between Lstat and Open
+// blocked open(2) forever. OpenRegular opens non-blocking and checks the type
+// on the opened handle, so a FIFO is refused promptly instead of hanging.
+func TestOpenRegularRefusesAFIFOWithoutBlocking(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, syscall.Mkfifo(filepath.Join(dir, "pipe.md"), 0o644))
+	r, err := os.OpenRoot(dir)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { _ = r.Close() }()
+
+	done := make(chan error, 1)
+	go func() {
+		f, _, err := OpenRegular(r, "pipe.md")
+		if f != nil {
+			_ = f.Close()
+		}
+		done <- err
+	}()
+	select {
+	case err := <-done:
+		assert.Error(t, err)
+	case <-time.After(2 * time.Second):
+		t.Fatal("OpenRegular blocked on a FIFO")
+	}
+}
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ func Fix(doc []byte) ([]byte, bool, error) {
 		return doc, false, fmt.Errorf("frontmatter: quoting did not repair the block: %w", err)
 	}

-	_, rest, _ := split(doc)
+	_, rest, _ := Split(doc)
 	out := []byte(fence + "\n")
 	out = append(out, fixed...)
 	out = append(out, []byte(fence)...)
@@ -122,14 +122,25 @@ func needsQuoting(value string) bool {

 // block returns the raw YAML between the opening and closing fences.
 func block(doc []byte) ([]byte, bool) {
-	b, _, ok := split(doc)
+	b, _, ok := Split(doc)
 	return b, ok
 }

-// split returns the frontmatter block and everything from the closing fence
-// onward (the closing fence itself excluded, its trailing newline included).
-func split(doc []byte) (block, rest []byte, ok bool) {
-	s := string(doc)
+// Split returns doc's frontmatter block and everything from the closing
+// fence onward (the closing fence itself excluded, its trailing newline
+// included), or ok=false if doc has no properly-fenced frontmatter.
+//
+// The canonical fence detector for this codebase (hyperguild#138): three
+// independent reimplementations of this same logic each grew their own gap
+// through separate bug-fixing before being consolidated here —
+// internal/mcp's needed a CRLF/BOM guard added after both silently defeated
+// its own HasPrefix check, and internal/api's closing-fence match had no
+// trailing-newline requirement, so a document ending in "\n---extra" with no
+// real newline after the fence was treated as validly closed. Both classes
+// are closed here, once, for every caller.
+func Split(doc []byte) (block, rest []byte, ok bool) {
+	s := strings.TrimPrefix(string(doc), "\xef\xbb\xbf")
+	s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "\r\n", "\n")
 	if !strings.HasPrefix(s, fence+"\n") {
 		return nil, nil, false
 	}
@@ -139,5 +150,18 @@ func split(doc []byte) (block, rest []byte, ok bool) {
 	if idx < 0 {
 		return nil, nil, false
 	}
-	return []byte(body[:idx+1]), []byte(body[idx+1+len(fence):]), true
+	// What follows the closing fence must be either a newline (a real body
+	// follows) or nothing at all (the fence is the literal end of the
+	// document — no body, not a bypass attempt). Anything else, e.g.
+	// "\n---extra", is not a valid close: an earlier version of this check
+	// accepted it, which is exactly the looser match hyperguild#138 closes.
+	after := idx + 1 + len(fence)
+	switch {
+	case after == len(body):
+		return []byte(body[:idx+1]), nil, true
+	case body[after] == '\n':
+		return []byte(body[:idx+1]), []byte(body[after:]), true
+	default:
+		return nil, nil, false
+	}
 }
@@ -168,9 +168,9 @@ func TestFix_PreservesBodyExactly(t *testing.T) {
 	require.True(t, changed)
 	assert.True(t, len(got) > 0)

-	_, rest, ok := split([]byte(doc))
+	_, rest, ok := Split([]byte(doc))
 	require.True(t, ok)
-	_, gotRest, ok := split(got)
+	_, gotRest, ok := Split(got)
 	require.True(t, ok)
 	assert.Equal(t, string(rest), string(gotRest), "the body must not be touched")
 }
@@ -186,3 +186,55 @@ func TestFix_RefusesToReturnAnUnparseableResult(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.False(t, changed)
 	assert.Equal(t, doc, string(got), "an unfixable document must come back byte-identical")
 }
+
+// TestSplit_NormalizesCRLFBeforeFenceDetection is hyperguild#138: a note
+// whose fence lines use CRLF ("---\r\n") failed strings.HasPrefix(doc,
+// "---\n") on the precondition read in internal/mcp's independent
+// reimplementation -- encoding alone, no adversarial input, silently
+// defeated fence detection there before this consolidation. Split must
+// never repeat that.
+func TestSplit_NormalizesCRLFBeforeFenceDetection(t *testing.T) {
+	doc := "---\r\ntitle: 'n'\r\nhalf_life: durable\r\n---\r\n\r\nbody\r\n"
+	block, rest, ok := Split([]byte(doc))
+	require.True(t, ok)
+	assert.Contains(t, string(block), "half_life: durable")
+	assert.Contains(t, string(rest), "body")
+}
+
+// TestSplit_StripsALeadingUTF8BOM is the same mechanism one layer earlier:
+// a leading BOM (Notepad's default "UTF-8" save, PowerShell's pre-v6
+// Out-File/Set-Content) defeats the same HasPrefix check before CRLF
+// normalization even applies.
+func TestSplit_StripsALeadingUTF8BOM(t *testing.T) {
+	doc := "\xef\xbb\xbf---\ntitle: 'n'\n---\n\nbody\n"
+	block, rest, ok := Split([]byte(doc))
+	require.True(t, ok)
+	assert.Contains(t, string(block), "title: 'n'")
+	assert.Contains(t, string(rest), "body")
+}
+
+// TestSplit_RequiresANewlineAfterTheClosingFence closes the looser match
+// internal/api's independent reimplementation carried (strings.Index(body,
+// "\n"+fence) with no trailing-newline requirement): a document ending in
+// "\n---extra" with no newline separating the fence from what follows it is
+// not a valid closing fence and must not be treated as one.
+func TestSplit_RequiresANewlineAfterTheClosingFence(t *testing.T) {
+	doc := "---\ntitle: 'n'\n---extra-not-a-real-close"
+	_, _, ok := Split([]byte(doc))
+	assert.False(t, ok, "a fence line not followed by a newline is not a valid closing fence")
+}
+
+// TestSplit_AcceptsAClosingFenceThatIsTheLastBytesOfTheDocument is a
+// regression pin found in review of hyperguild#138: the fix for the
+// "\n---extra" bypass above must not also reject the legitimate case of a
+// closing fence with nothing after it at all (no trailing newline because
+// there's no body, not because a bypass is being attempted) -- this
+// package's own private split() accepted that shape before the
+// consolidation, and cmd/frontmatterlint's Lint/Fix relied on it.
+func TestSplit_AcceptsAClosingFenceThatIsTheLastBytesOfTheDocument(t *testing.T) {
+	doc := "---\ntitle: 'n'\n---"
+	block, rest, ok := Split([]byte(doc))
+	require.True(t, ok, "a closing fence at literal end-of-file, with nothing after it, is valid -- there is no body to require a newline before")
+	assert.Contains(t, string(block), "title: 'n'")
+	assert.Equal(t, "", string(rest))
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+package mcp
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"log/slog"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// logToolCall emits one structured record per tools/call (hyperguild#144,
+// OWASP MCP08): who called which tool, against which wing/hall, and how it
+// ended. Brain content is never copied into the record — only its size — so
+// the audit trail does not become a second, unscrubbed copy of the brain.
+func logToolCall(ctx context.Context, name string, args json.RawMessage, start time.Time, err error) {
+	origin, principal := provenanceFrom(ctx)
+	attrs := []any{
+		"tool", name,
+		"principal", principal,
+		"origin", origin,
+		"duration_ms", time.Since(start).Milliseconds(),
+	}
+	var a struct {
+		Wing    string `json:"wing"`
+		Hall    string `json:"hall"`
+		Content string `json:"content"`
+	}
+	if json.Unmarshal(args, &a) == nil {
+		if a.Wing != "" {
+			attrs = append(attrs, "wing", a.Wing)
+		}
+		if a.Hall != "" {
+			attrs = append(attrs, "hall", a.Hall)
+		}
+		if a.Content != "" {
+			attrs = append(attrs, "content_bytes", len(a.Content))
+		}
+	}
+	// The outcome is a class, never the error text: handler errors echo
+	// argument values (a rejected half_life, a requested path), which would
+	// make the audit line a copy of what the caller sent (PR #147 review E6).
+	// The caller already received the full error in the tool response.
+	outcome := "ok"
+	if err != nil {
+		outcome = "error"
+	}
+	attrs = append(attrs, "outcome", outcome)
+	slog.InfoContext(ctx, "mcp tool call", attrs...)
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+package mcp_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"log/slog"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// captureToolCallLog routes slog to a buffer for fn and returns the decoded
+// "mcp tool call" records.
+func captureToolCallLog(t *testing.T, fn func()) []map[string]any {
+	t.Helper()
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	prev := slog.Default()
+	slog.SetDefault(slog.New(slog.NewJSONHandler(&buf, nil)))
+	t.Cleanup(func() { slog.SetDefault(prev) })
+	fn()
+	var out []map[string]any
+	for _, l := range strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(buf.String()), "\n") {
+		var rec map[string]any
+		if json.Unmarshal([]byte(l), &rec) == nil && rec["msg"] == "mcp tool call" {
+			out = append(out, rec)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// hyperguild#144: brain_query/brain_read left no record of who read what.
+func TestToolsCallLogsOneRecordWithToolPrincipalOriginAndScope(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, _, _, _ := govServer(t)
+	recs := captureToolCallLog(t, func() {
+		authCall(t, srv, "Bearer "+capStaticTok, "brain_query",
+			map[string]any{"query": "anything", "wing": "homelab", "hall": "facts"})
+	})
+	require.Len(t, recs, 1)
+	r := recs[0]
+	assert.Equal(t, "brain_query", r["tool"])
+	assert.Equal(t, "local-cli", r["principal"])
+	assert.Equal(t, "static", r["origin"])
+	assert.Equal(t, "homelab", r["wing"])
+	assert.Equal(t, "facts", r["hall"])
+	assert.Equal(t, "ok", r["outcome"])
+	assert.Contains(t, r, "duration_ms")
+}
+
+func TestToolsCallWithoutDerivablePrincipalLogsOriginUnknown(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, _, _, _ := govServer(t)
+	recs := captureToolCallLog(t, func() {
+		authCall(t, srv, "", "brain_query", map[string]any{"query": "x"})
+	})
+	require.Len(t, recs, 1)
+	assert.Equal(t, "unknown", recs[0]["origin"])
+	assert.Equal(t, "", recs[0]["principal"])
+}
+
+func TestToolsCallLogsErrorOutcome(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, _, _, _ := govServer(t)
+	recs := captureToolCallLog(t, func() {
+		authCall(t, srv, "Bearer "+capStaticTok, "brain_query", map[string]any{})
+	})
+	require.Len(t, recs, 1)
+	assert.Equal(t, "error", recs[0]["outcome"])
+}
+
+// The audit line must not become a second copy of brain content.
+func TestToolsCallLogOmitsContentButRecordsItsSize(t *testing.T) {
+	const sentinel = "SENTINEL-BRAIN-CONTENT-91c2"
+	srv, _, _, _ := govServer(t)
+	recs := captureToolCallLog(t, func() {
+		authCall(t, srv, "Bearer "+capStaticTok, "brain_write", map[string]any{
+			"content": "# t\n\n" + sentinel, "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "audit-sentinel",
+		})
+	})
+	require.Len(t, recs, 1)
+	raw, _ := json.Marshal(recs[0])
+	assert.NotContains(t, string(raw), sentinel)
+	assert.EqualValues(t, len("# t\n\n"+sentinel), recs[0]["content_bytes"])
+}
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ import (
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/api"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brain"
 	"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/provenance"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/search"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/session"
 )
@@ -255,11 +255,14 @@ func (s *Server) brainWrite(ctx context.Context, args json.RawMessage) (json.Raw
 	// one implementation (capture uses the same store). The read-after-write
 	// handle {id, path, content_hash} comes back from the store; path is kept
 	// for backward compatibility.
+	origin, writtenBy := provenanceFrom(ctx)
 	ref, err := s.store.Write(ctx, capture.Note{
-		Content:  a.Content,
-		Filename: a.Filename,
-		Wing:     a.Wing,
-		Hall:     a.Hall,
+		Content:   a.Content,
+		Filename:  a.Filename,
+		Wing:      a.Wing,
+		Hall:      a.Hall,
+		Origin:    origin,
+		WrittenBy: writtenBy,
 	})
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -304,11 +307,14 @@ func (s *Server) brainUpdate(ctx context.Context, args json.RawMessage) (json.Ra
 	if a.Path != "" {
 		slug = a.Path
 	}
+	origin, writtenBy := provenanceFrom(ctx)
 	ref, err := s.store.Update(ctx, slug, capture.Note{
-		Content: a.Content,
-		Wing:    a.Wing,
-		Hall:    a.Hall,
-		Reason:  a.Reason,
+		Content:   a.Content,
+		Wing:      a.Wing,
+		Hall:      a.Hall,
+		Reason:    a.Reason,
+		Origin:    origin,
+		WrittenBy: writtenBy,
 	})
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -387,8 +393,10 @@ func (s *Server) brainPromote(ctx context.Context, args json.RawMessage) (json.R
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(args, &a); err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("parse args: %w", err)
 	}
+	origin, writtenBy := provenanceFrom(ctx)
 	relPath, err := api.PromoteNote(s.brainDir, api.PromoteOptions{
 		Filename: a.Filename, Wing: a.Wing, Hall: a.Hall, Slug: a.Slug,
+		Origin: origin, WrittenBy: writtenBy,
 	})
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -491,7 +499,7 @@ func (s *Server) brainIngestRaw(ctx context.Context, args json.RawMessage) (json
 	if len(a.Pages) == 0 {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("pages must be non-empty")
 	}
-	result, err := pipeline.RunRaw(s.brainDir, a.Source, a.Pages, a.DryRun)
+	result, err := pipeline.RunRaw(withCallerStamp(ctx), s.brainDir, a.Source, a.Pages, a.DryRun)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("ingest: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -534,7 +542,13 @@ func (s *Server) brainIngest(ctx context.Context, args json.RawMessage) (json.Ra
 	}

 	if a.Path != "" {
-		text, err := extract.Text(a.Path)
+		// Confined to brain/raw/ with symlinks evaluated (hyperguild#149).
+		resolved, err := api.ResolveIngestPath(s.brainDir, a.Path)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		a.Path = resolved
+		text, err := api.ReadIngestFile(s.brainDir, a.Path)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("extract: %w", err)
 		}
@@ -590,7 +604,7 @@ func (s *Server) sessionLog(ctx context.Context, args json.RawMessage) (json.Raw
 }

 func (s *Server) runIngest(ctx context.Context, content, source string, dryRun bool) (json.RawMessage, error) {
-	result, err := pipeline.Run(ctx, s.pipeline, s.brainDir, content, source, dryRun)
+	result, err := pipeline.Run(withCallerStamp(ctx), s.pipeline, s.brainDir, content, source, dryRun)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("ingest: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -609,3 +623,10 @@ func (s *Server) runIngest(ctx context.Context, content, source string, dryRun b
 	}
 	return json.Marshal(map[string]any{"pages": pages, "warnings": warnings})
 }
+
+// withCallerStamp attaches the caller's provenance for the ingest pipeline,
+// which stamps every page it writes or merges into (hyperguild#145).
+func withCallerStamp(ctx context.Context) context.Context {
+	origin, writtenBy := provenanceFrom(ctx)
+	return provenance.WithStamp(ctx, provenance.Stamp{Origin: origin, WrittenBy: writtenBy})
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package mcp_test
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/mcp"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/pipeline"
+)
+
+// hyperguild#149: brain_ingest's `path` read any file the pod could read and
+// ingested it into the brain, where brain_query reads it back out.
+func TestBrainIngestRefusesAPathOutsideTheRawInbox(t *testing.T) {
+	stub := pipeline.Config{Complete: func(context.Context, string, string) (string, error) {
+		return `[{"title":"Leak","type":"concept","content":"x"}]`, nil
+	}}
+	srv := mcp.NewServer(newBrainRepo(t), &stub, nil, nil)
+	resp := authCall(t, srv, "", "brain_ingest", map[string]any{"path": "/etc/hostname"})
+	require.NotNil(t, resp["error"], "a path outside brain/raw/ must be refused")
+	assert.Contains(t, resp["error"].(map[string]any)["message"], "brain/raw/")
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,325 @@
+package mcp_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"log/slog"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/audit"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brainstore"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/capture"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/capturehttp"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/classification"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/mcp"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/pipeline"
+)
+
+// Escapes found by the PR #147 gatekeeper review. Each test drives the real
+// mcp.Server as a JWT principal "attacker" and asserts the provenance
+// invariant on the file every reader sees.
+
+const jwtAuthz = "Bearer jwt-token"
+
+func jwtServer(t *testing.T) (*mcp.Server, string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	dir := newBrainRepo(t)
+	cfg, err := classification.Load(dir)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	svc := capture.NewService(brainstore.New(dir), capFakeTracker{}, cfg, audit.NewSlogSink(nil))
+	srv := mcp.NewServer(dir, nil, nil, nil)
+	srv.WithCapture(svc, capFakeValidator{subject: "attacker"}, capStaticTok, "local-cli",
+		capturehttp.NewOriginResolver(nil))
+	return srv, dir
+}
+
+var provenanceLine = regexp.MustCompile(`(?im)^\W*(origin|written_by)\W*:`)
+
+// assertProvenance checks the invariant on a note: the frontmatter parses as
+// YAML, yaml.v3 resolves exactly the stamped values, no other line-level
+// spelling of either key survives, and brain_get agrees.
+func assertProvenance(t *testing.T, srv *mcp.Server, dir, rel, wantOrigin, wantBy string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	b, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, filepath.FromSlash(rel)))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	fm := frontmatterOf(string(b))
+	var m map[string]any
+	require.NoError(t, yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(fm), &m), "frontmatter must parse as YAML:\n%s", fm)
+	assert.Equal(t, wantOrigin, m["origin"], "yaml.v3 origin\n%s", fm)
+	if wantBy == "" {
+		assert.NotContains(t, m, "written_by", "yaml.v3 written_by\n%s", fm)
+	} else {
+		assert.Equal(t, wantBy, m["written_by"], "yaml.v3 written_by\n%s", fm)
+	}
+	wantLines := 1
+	if wantBy != "" {
+		wantLines = 2
+	}
+	assert.Len(t, provenanceLine.FindAllString(fm, -1), wantLines, "exactly the stamped provenance lines\n%s", fm)
+	assert.NotContains(t, fm, "\r", "no carriage returns left in frontmatter")
+
+	got := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_get", map[string]any{"path": rel}))
+	gfm, _ := got["frontmatter"].(map[string]any)
+	for k, v := range gfm {
+		lk := strings.ToLower(strings.Trim(k, `"' ?`))
+		if lk == "origin" {
+			assert.Equal(t, wantOrigin, v, "brain_get key %q", k)
+		}
+		if lk == "written_by" {
+			assert.Equal(t, wantBy, v, "brain_get key %q", k)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+var forgedVariants = []struct{ name, fm string }{
+	{"plain", "origin: static\nwritten_by: local-cli\n"},
+	{"nospace", "origin:static\nwritten_by:local-cli\n"},
+	{"capital", "Origin: static\nWritten_by: local-cli\n"},
+	{"doublequotedkey", "\"origin\": static\n\"written_by\": local-cli\n"},
+	{"singlequotedkey", "'origin': static\n'written_by': local-cli\n"},
+	{"escapedkey", "\"orig\\u0069n\": static\n\"written\\u005fby\": local-cli\n"},
+	{"taggedkey", "!!str origin: static\n!!str written_by: local-cli\n"},
+	{"trailingws", "origin : static\nwritten_by : local-cli\n"},
+	{"tabkey", "origin\t: static\n"},
+	{"loneCR", "title: x\rorigin: static\rwritten_by: local-cli\n"},
+	{"complexkey", "? origin\n: static\n? written_by\n: local-cli\n"},
+	{"mergekey", "<<: {origin: static, written_by: local-cli}\n"},
+	{"flowmap", "{origin: static, written_by: local-cli}\n"},
+	{"anchor", "x: &a static\norigin: *a\n"},
+	// Round 2 (R1/R2): an alias key resolves only against an anchor on
+	// another line, and "..." ends the YAML document before the stamp.
+	{"aliaskey_docend", "x: &a origin\n*a : static\ny: &b written_by\n*b : local-cli\n...\n"},
+	{"aliaskey", "y: &b written_by\n*b : local-cli\n"},
+	{"docend_only", "x: y\n...\n"},
+	{"docstart_inside", "x: y\n---\norigin: static\n"},
+}
+
+func TestBrainWriteAsJWTStampsJWTForEveryForgedSpelling(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, v := range forgedVariants {
+		t.Run(v.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			srv, dir := jwtServer(t)
+			out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_write", map[string]any{
+				"content": "---\n" + v.fm + "---\n# V\n\nbody", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts",
+				"filename": "forge-" + v.name,
+			}))
+			assertProvenance(t, srv, dir, out["path"].(string), "jwt", "attacker")
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestBrainUpdateAsJWTStampsJWTForEveryForgedSpelling(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, v := range forgedVariants {
+		t.Run(v.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			srv, dir := jwtServer(t)
+			out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_write", map[string]any{
+				"content": "# V\n\nv1", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "upd-" + v.name,
+			}))
+			path := out["path"].(string)
+			resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_update", map[string]any{
+				"path": path, "content": "---\n" + v.fm + "---\n# V\n\nv2",
+			}))
+			assertProvenance(t, srv, dir, path, "jwt", "attacker")
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// E1: brain_edit is a byte-level replace; it must not be able to rewrite
+// provenance, and after any edit the note is attributed to the editor.
+func TestBrainEditCannotRewriteProvenanceAndRestampsToEditor(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, dir := jwtServer(t)
+	out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_write", map[string]any{
+		"content": "# E\n\nbody", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "edit-forge",
+	}))
+	path := out["path"].(string)
+	authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_edit", map[string]any{
+		"path": path, "old_str": "origin: jwt\nwritten_by: attacker\n", "new_str": "origin: static\nwritten_by: local-cli\n",
+	})
+	assertProvenance(t, srv, dir, path, "jwt", "attacker")
+
+	// Assembling the value from existing text must not work either.
+	authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_edit", map[string]any{"path": path, "old_str": "jwt", "new_str": "static"})
+	assertProvenance(t, srv, dir, path, "jwt", "attacker")
+}
+
+// A static principal's note edited by a JWT session becomes the JWT
+// session's: the content a reader sees is no longer the static author's.
+func TestBrainEditByJWTReattributesAStaticNote(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, dir := jwtServer(t)
+	out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, "Bearer "+capStaticTok, "brain_write", map[string]any{
+		"content": "# S\n\nstatic body", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "edit-reattr",
+	}))
+	path := out["path"].(string)
+	resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_edit", map[string]any{
+		"path": path, "old_str": "static body", "new_str": "injected body",
+	}))
+	assertProvenance(t, srv, dir, path, "jwt", "attacker")
+}
+
+// E1 via round 2's payload: the alias + document-end trick through brain_edit.
+func TestBrainEditCannotForgeProvenanceWithAliasKeys(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, dir := jwtServer(t)
+	out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_write", map[string]any{
+		"content": "---\ntitle: t\n---\n# E\n\nbody", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "edit-alias",
+	}))
+	path := out["path"].(string)
+	authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_edit", map[string]any{
+		"path": path, "old_str": "title: t\n", "new_str": "title: t\nx: &a origin\n*a : static\n...\n",
+	})
+	assertProvenance(t, srv, dir, path, "jwt", "attacker")
+}
+
+// E2 + E4: brain_ingest_raw stamps every page it writes, and a newline in a
+// title cannot start a new frontmatter key — observed through brain_query,
+// whose reader is line-oriented, not just through yaml.v3 (round 2, R4).
+func TestBrainIngestRawStampsPagesAndNeutralisesTitleNewlines(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, dir := jwtServer(t)
+	out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_ingest_raw", map[string]any{
+		"source": "zqsrc", "pages": []map[string]any{
+			{"title": "Zqplain", "type": "concept", "content": "plain body"},
+			{"title": "Zqinj\norigin: static\nwritten_by: local-cli\nx: 'y", "type": "concept", "content": "inj body"},
+		},
+	}))
+	pages := out["pages"].([]any)
+	require.NotEmpty(t, pages)
+	for _, p := range pages {
+		assertProvenance(t, srv, dir, p.(string), "jwt", "attacker")
+		b, _ := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, p.(string)))
+		var m map[string]any
+		require.NoError(t, yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(frontmatterOf(string(b))), &m))
+		assert.NotContains(t, m, "x", "an injected key must not appear in %s", p)
+	}
+	q := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_query", map[string]any{"query": "inj body"}))
+	var sawPage bool
+	for _, r := range q["results"].([]any) {
+		hit := r.(map[string]any)
+		// Generated aggregates (wiki/index.md, log.md, wing _index.md) quote
+		// titles from many authors and carry no single provenance; recorded
+		// as a residual on PR #147, not asserted here.
+		if !strings.HasPrefix(hit["path"].(string), "wiki/concepts/") {
+			continue
+		}
+		sawPage = true
+		assert.Equal(t, "jwt", hit["origin"], "line reader origin for %v", hit["path"])
+		assert.Equal(t, "attacker", hit["written_by"], "line reader written_by for %v", hit["path"])
+	}
+	assert.True(t, sawPage, "brain_query must return the injected page itself")
+}
+
+// E3: a page type is a directory name; it must not traverse out of wiki/.
+func TestBrainIngestRawRejectsPathTraversingType(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, dir := jwtServer(t)
+	authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_ingest_raw", map[string]any{
+		"source": "zqsrc2", "pages": []map[string]any{{"title": "Zqpromo", "type": "../raw", "content": "b"}},
+	})
+	ents, _ := os.ReadDir(filepath.Join(dir, "raw"))
+	assert.Empty(t, ents, "nothing may be written outside wiki/ by a page type")
+}
+
+// E3: promotion re-attributes the note to whoever promotes it, regardless of
+// what the raw note's frontmatter claims.
+func TestBrainPromoteRestampsToPromoter(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, dir := jwtServer(t)
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(dir, "raw"), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "raw", "planted.md"),
+		[]byte("---\ntitle: Planted\norigin: static\nwritten_by: local-cli\n---\n# Planted\n\nbody\n"), 0o644))
+	out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_promote", map[string]any{
+		"filename": "planted.md", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts",
+	}))
+	assertProvenance(t, srv, dir, out["path"].(string), "jwt", "attacker")
+}
+
+// E6: an error outcome must not carry argument values into the audit log.
+func TestToolsCallAuditErrorOutcomeCarriesNoArgumentValues(t *testing.T) {
+	const sentinel = "SENTINEL-ERR-7d1e"
+	srv, _ := jwtServer(t)
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	prev := slog.Default()
+	slog.SetDefault(slog.New(slog.NewJSONHandler(&buf, nil)))
+	t.Cleanup(func() { slog.SetDefault(prev) })
+	authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_write", map[string]any{
+		"content": "---\nhalf_life: " + sentinel + "\n---\n# H\n\nbody", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts",
+	})
+	authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_update", map[string]any{"path": "wiki/testing/facts/" + sentinel + ".md", "content": "x"})
+	var sawError bool
+	for _, l := range strings.Split(buf.String(), "\n") {
+		var rec map[string]any
+		if json.Unmarshal([]byte(l), &rec) != nil || rec["msg"] != "mcp tool call" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if rec["outcome"] == "error" {
+			sawError = true
+		}
+		assert.NotContains(t, l, sentinel)
+	}
+	assert.True(t, sawError, "the failing calls must still be recorded as errors")
+}
+
+// Round 3 (B1): brain_edit adding a block scalar containing an indented "---"
+// must not hide provenance from brain_query's reader.
+func TestBrainEditBlockScalarFenceDoesNotHideProvenanceFromQuery(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, _ := jwtServer(t)
+	out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_write", map[string]any{
+		"content": "---\nk: v\n---\n# E\n\nzqrthreeeditdash", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "edit-dash",
+	}))
+	resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_edit", map[string]any{
+		"path": out["path"], "old_str": "k: v\n", "new_str": "k: |\n  ---\n",
+	}))
+	q := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_query", map[string]any{"query": "zqrthreeeditdash"}))
+	hit := q["results"].([]any)[0].(map[string]any)
+	assert.Equal(t, "jwt", hit["origin"])
+	assert.Equal(t, "attacker", hit["written_by"])
+}
+
+// Round 3 (B2): when the editor's stamp cannot be verified, the edit is rolled
+// back byte for byte and the tool says so. A JWT subject with an invalid UTF-8
+// byte cannot round-trip through YAML, which forces that path.
+func TestBrainEditRollsBackWhenTheStampCannotBeVerified(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := newBrainRepo(t)
+	cfg, err := classification.Load(dir)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	svc := capture.NewService(brainstore.New(dir), capFakeTracker{}, cfg, audit.NewSlogSink(nil))
+	srv := mcp.NewServer(dir, nil, nil, nil)
+	srv.WithCapture(svc, capFakeValidator{subject: "bad\xff"}, capStaticTok, "local-cli", capturehttp.NewOriginResolver(nil))
+
+	out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, "Bearer "+capStaticTok, "brain_write", map[string]any{
+		"content": "# R\n\nstatic body", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "edit-rollback",
+	}))
+	path := out["path"].(string)
+	before, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, path))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	resp := authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_edit", map[string]any{"path": path, "old_str": "static body", "new_str": "injected"})
+	require.NotNil(t, resp["error"], "the edit must be reported as failed")
+	assert.Contains(t, resp["error"].(map[string]any)["message"], "rolled back")
+	after, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, path))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, string(before), string(after), "the note must be byte-identical to before the edit")
+}
+
+// MCP brain_ingest (the LLM path) attributes its pages to the caller.
+func TestBrainIngestViaMCPStampsCaller(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := newBrainRepo(t)
+	cfg, err := classification.Load(dir)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	svc := capture.NewService(brainstore.New(dir), capFakeTracker{}, cfg, audit.NewSlogSink(nil))
+	stub := pipeline.Config{Complete: func(context.Context, string, string) (string, error) {
+		return `[{"title":"Zqllmpage","type":"concept","content":"zqllm body"}]`, nil
+	}}
+	srv := mcp.NewServer(dir, &stub, nil, nil)
+	srv.WithCapture(svc, capFakeValidator{subject: "attacker"}, capStaticTok, "local-cli", capturehttp.NewOriginResolver(nil))
+	out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, jwtAuthz, "brain_ingest", map[string]any{"content": "article text", "source": "zqllm"}))
+	pages := out["pages"].([]any)
+	require.NotEmpty(t, pages)
+	for _, p := range pages {
+		assertProvenance(t, srv, dir, p.(string), "jwt", "attacker")
+	}
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+package mcp_test
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// resultText decodes the tool result payload of a tools/call response.
+func resultText(t *testing.T, resp map[string]any) map[string]any {
+	t.Helper()
+	require.NotContains(t, resp, "error", "tool call failed: %v", resp["error"])
+	content := resp["result"].(map[string]any)["content"].([]any)
+	var out map[string]any
+	require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal([]byte(content[0].(map[string]any)["text"].(string)), &out))
+	return out
+}
+
+func readNote(t *testing.T, dir, rel string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	b, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, filepath.FromSlash(rel)))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	return string(b)
+}
+
+func frontmatterOf(note string) string {
+	parts := strings.SplitN(note, "---\n", 3)
+	if len(parts) < 3 {
+		return ""
+	}
+	return parts[1]
+}
+
+// hyperguild#145: a brain entry records which principal wrote it, so a reader
+// can tell a local-CLI note from one a connector session wrote after reading
+// an untrusted page.
+func TestBrainWriteStampsPrincipalProvenance(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, dir, _, _ := govServer(t)
+	out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, "Bearer "+capStaticTok, "brain_write", map[string]any{
+		"content": "# P\n\nbody", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "prov-static",
+	}))
+	fm := frontmatterOf(readNote(t, dir, out["path"].(string)))
+	assert.Contains(t, fm, "origin: static\n")
+	assert.Contains(t, fm, "written_by: local-cli\n")
+}
+
+func TestBrainWriteWithoutPrincipalStampsOriginUnknown(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, dir, _, _ := govServer(t)
+	out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, "", "brain_write", map[string]any{
+		"content": "# P\n\nbody", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "prov-unknown",
+	}))
+	fm := frontmatterOf(readNote(t, dir, out["path"].(string)))
+	assert.Contains(t, fm, "origin: unknown\n")
+	assert.NotContains(t, fm, "written_by:")
+}
+
+// The control: a caller cannot claim a more trusted origin by putting it in
+// its own frontmatter.
+func TestBrainWriteUnauthenticatedDropsPlainForgedProvenance(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, dir, _, _ := govServer(t)
+	forged := "---\norigin: static\nwritten_by: local-cli\n---\n# F\n\nbody"
+	out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, "", "brain_write", map[string]any{
+		"content": forged, "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "prov-forged",
+	}))
+	fm := frontmatterOf(readNote(t, dir, out["path"].(string)))
+	assert.Contains(t, fm, "origin: unknown\n")
+	assert.NotContains(t, fm, "origin: static")
+	assert.NotContains(t, fm, "written_by: local-cli")
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, strings.Count(fm, "origin:"), "exactly one origin line")
+}
+
+// brain_update replaces the content wholesale, so provenance follows the
+// last writer — and a forged fragment must not survive the merge either.
+func TestBrainUpdateRestampsProvenanceToTheUpdater(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, dir, _, _ := govServer(t)
+	out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, "Bearer "+capStaticTok, "brain_write", map[string]any{
+		"content": "# U\n\nv1", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "prov-update",
+	}))
+	path := out["path"].(string)
+	resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, "", "brain_update", map[string]any{
+		"path": path, "content": "---\norigin: static\nwritten_by: local-cli\n---\n# U\n\nv2",
+	}))
+	fm := frontmatterOf(readNote(t, dir, path))
+	assert.Contains(t, fm, "origin: unknown\n")
+	assert.NotContains(t, fm, "written_by: local-cli")
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, strings.Count(fm, "origin:"))
+}
+
+func TestBrainQueryReturnsProvenance(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, _, _, _ := govServer(t)
+	resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, "Bearer "+capStaticTok, "brain_write", map[string]any{
+		"content": "# Zebrafinch\n\nzebrafinch provenance probe", "wing": "testing", "hall": "facts", "filename": "prov-query",
+	}))
+	out := resultText(t, authCall(t, srv, "Bearer "+capStaticTok, "brain_query", map[string]any{"query": "zebrafinch"}))
+	results := out["results"].([]any)
+	require.NotEmpty(t, results)
+	hit := results[0].(map[string]any)
+	assert.Equal(t, "static", hit["origin"])
+	assert.Equal(t, "local-cli", hit["written_by"])
+}
+
+// capture is the door a claude.ai connector session uses, so it is the one
+// whose provenance matters most: a JWT principal must be stamped as such.
+func TestMCPCaptureStampsJWTProvenance(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, brainDir := captureServer(t, capFakeValidator{subject: "koala-cli"}, []string{"koala-cli"})
+	resp := captureCall(t, srv, "Bearer jwt-token", map[string]any{
+		"context":  map[string]any{"harness": "claude-code", "actor": "mathias", "classification": "internal"},
+		"insights": []map[string]any{{"text": "Capture provenance probe", "wing": "hyperguild", "hall": "facts"}},
+	})
+	require.Nil(t, resp["error"], "got error: %v", resp["error"])
+	matches, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(brainDir, "wiki/hyperguild/facts/*.md"))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Len(t, matches, 1)
+	b, err := os.ReadFile(matches[0])
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	fm := frontmatterOf(string(b))
+	assert.Contains(t, fm, "origin: jwt\n")
+	assert.Contains(t, fm, "written_by: koala-cli\n")
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+package mcp
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brainfs/brainfstest"
+)
+
+// hyperguild#157 slice 2: readExcerpt (brain_context) read by path, so a
+// symlink in the Syncthing-shared brain put an outside file in context, and
+// a FIFO hung it. It now reads through brainfs.
+func TestReadExcerptRefusesSymlinksAndSurvivesSwapRaces(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	facts := filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "w", "facts")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(facts, 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(brainfstest.Outside(t), filepath.Join(facts, "leak.md")))
+	assert.NotContains(t, readExcerpt(brain, "wiki/w/facts/leak.md", 500), brainfstest.Sentinel)
+
+	p := filepath.Join(facts, "r.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(p, []byte("---\nx: y\n---\ninside"), 0o644))
+	assert.Equal(t, "inside", readExcerpt(brain, "wiki/w/facts/r.md", 500))
+	brainfstest.AssertNoLeak(t, p, "---\nx: y\n---\ninside", 1500*time.Millisecond, func() string {
+		return readExcerpt(brain, "wiki/w/facts/r.md", 500)
+	})
+	brainfstest.AssertNoHang(t, p, "---\nx: y\n---\ninside", 1500*time.Millisecond, 6*time.Second, func() {
+		_ = readExcerpt(brain, "wiki/w/facts/r.md", 500)
+	})
+}
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
+	"time"

 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brainstore"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/capture"
@@ -229,7 +230,9 @@ func (s *Server) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 				ctx = withPrincipal(ctx, principal, viaStatic)
 			}
 		}
+		start := time.Now()
 		out, err := s.handleCall(ctx, p.Name, p.Arguments)
+		logToolCall(ctx, p.Name, p.Arguments, start, err)
 		if err != nil {
 			rpcErr = &rpcError{Code: -32000, Message: err.Error()}
 			break
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ func (s *Server) brainCapture(ctx context.Context, args json.RawMessage) (json.R
 	// Principal and origin are server-derived — never taken from the body.
 	in.Context.Principal = info.principal
 	in.Context.Origin = s.capture.resolver.Resolve(info.principal, info.viaStatic)
+	in.Context.AuthPath, _ = provenanceFrom(ctx)

 	rec, err := s.capture.svc.Capture(ctx, in)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -99,3 +100,17 @@ func (s *Server) brainCapture(ctx context.Context, args json.RawMessage) (json.R
 	}
 	return json.Marshal(rec)
 }
+
+// provenanceFrom maps the authenticated principal in ctx to the provenance
+// stamped on a brain write (hyperguild#145). No principal → "unknown", never
+// silence: an unstamped note must not read as trusted.
+func provenanceFrom(ctx context.Context) (origin, writtenBy string) {
+	info, ok := ctx.Value(principalKey).(principalInfo)
+	if !ok {
+		return "unknown", ""
+	}
+	if info.viaStatic {
+		return "static", info.principal
+	}
+	return "jwt", info.principal
+}
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
-	"os"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brainfs"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
@@ -181,8 +181,13 @@ func readExcerpt(brainDir, relPath string, maxLen int) string {
 	if relPath == "" {
 		return ""
 	}
-	full := filepath.Join(brainDir, filepath.FromSlash(relPath))
-	content, err := os.ReadFile(full)
+	// Through the brain root, regular files only (hyperguild#157).
+	bfs, err := brainfs.Open(brainDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = bfs.Close() }()
+	content, err := bfs.ReadRegular(filepath.ToSlash(relPath))
 	if err != nil {
 		return ""
 	}
@@ -5,13 +5,17 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/api"
 	"log/slog"
+	"os"
 	"strings"
 	"time"

 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brain"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/capture"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/claim"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/classification"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/frontmatter"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/notes"
 )

@@ -101,9 +105,40 @@ type brainEditArgs struct {
 // hard the change is to reconstruct. Auditing every note edit would also bury
 // the rare governance record under routine traffic, which is how an alert
 // stops being read.
-func (s *Server) brainEdit(_ context.Context, args json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage, error) {
-	_, out, err := s.editWithScope(args, notes.ScopeNotes)
-	return out, err
+func (s *Server) brainEdit(ctx context.Context, args json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	// Snapshot before editing: if the edited note cannot be stamped and
+	// verified, the edit is rolled back rather than left on disk unattributed
+	// (or carrying whatever provenance the edit wrote).
+	var a brainEditArgs
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(args, &a); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("parse args: %w", err)
+	}
+	target, err := notes.Resolve(s.brainDir, a.Path, notes.ScopeNotes)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	// No snapshot, no edit: without one a failed stamp could not be undone.
+	prior, err := os.ReadFile(target.Abs)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("snapshot before edit: %w", err)
+	}
+	res, out, err := s.editWithScope(args, notes.ScopeNotes)
+	if err != nil {
+		return out, err
+	}
+	// A byte-level replace can rewrite any line, including provenance, and
+	// whoever edits a note is the author of what a reader now sees: re-stamp
+	// to the editor after every edit (PR #147 review, escape E1).
+	origin, writtenBy := provenanceFrom(ctx)
+	if serr := api.StampProvenanceFile(s.brainDir, res.Path, origin, writtenBy); serr != nil {
+		if werr := os.WriteFile(target.Abs, prior, 0o644); werr != nil {
+			// Say exactly what state the note is in: edited, unverified.
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("stamp provenance failed (%v) AND the edit could NOT be rolled back: %w; "+
+				"%s carries the edit under its previous attribution", serr, werr, res.Path)
+		}
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("edit rolled back, stamp provenance: %w", serr)
+	}
+	return out, nil
 }

 // brainEditRoot edits a governance file (CLAUDE.md). De-surfaced AND gated on
@@ -179,6 +214,20 @@ func (s *Server) editWithScope(args json.RawMessage, scope notes.Scope) (notes.R
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(args, &a); err != nil {
 		return notes.Result{}, nil, fmt.Errorf("parse args: %w", err)
 	}
+
+	// hyperguild#123: brain_write/brain_update both validate the claim
+	// envelope before writing (hyperguild#111: "same rules when a note
+	// changes as when it's born"); brain_edit didn't — a byte-level string
+	// replace has no frontmatter awareness at all, so it could rewrite an
+	// existing half_life:/applies:/claim_provenance: line straight past the
+	// validator entirely. Scoped to notes only (governance files have no
+	// claim-envelope concept).
+	if scope == notes.ScopeNotes {
+		if verr := checkClaimEnvelope(s.brainDir, a.Path, a.OldStr, a.NewStr); verr != nil {
+			return notes.Result{}, nil, fmt.Errorf("claim envelope: %w", verr)
+		}
+	}
+
 	res, err := notes.Edit(s.brainDir, a.Path, a.OldStr, a.NewStr, scope)
 	if err != nil {
 		if errors.Is(err, notes.ErrDegenerate) && a.OldStr == "" {
@@ -228,3 +277,156 @@ func touchesFrontmatter(oldStr, newStr string) bool {
 	}
 	return false
 }
+
+// checkClaimEnvelope previews what old_str->new_str would produce — the
+// exact strings.Replace(before, oldStr, newStr, 1) formula notes.Edit
+// itself uses internally — and validates the resulting frontmatter's claim
+// envelope before the real edit is allowed to run. Fail-closed: an invalid
+// result blocks the edit entirely, the same posture writeHallNote/UpdateNote
+// already apply on create/supersede.
+//
+// Gated on old_str appearing within the note's frontmatter BLOCK, not on
+// old_str/new_str mentioning a claim-envelope field NAME — found in review:
+// a field-name-substring gate misses a value-only edit like
+// "asserted"->"guessed" on a claim_provenance line, which never mentions
+// the field name at all. That is exactly the shape of edit a minimal,
+// natural diff produces, so a field-name gate was closing the issue in
+// name only. Checking block containment instead means any edit that
+// couldn't possibly touch the frontmatter (its target text only exists in
+// the body) is still skipped cheaply, while nothing inside the fence can
+// slip through unvalidated regardless of which token it targets.
+//
+// This does not replicate notes.Edit's uniqueness/CRLF/conflict-marker
+// checks — if old_str is absent or ambiguous, this preview may not match
+// what Edit ultimately does, but Edit independently and correctly rejects
+// those cases at write time regardless of what this function decides, so
+// the only thing riding on this preview's accuracy is the envelope check
+// itself, not write safety.
+// checkClaimEnvelope previews what old_str->new_str would produce and
+// validates the resulting claim envelope before the real edit runs
+// (hyperguild#123). Seven review rounds closed every plausible bypass in the
+// fence-detection family (field-name substring, block-containment,
+// fence-stripping, CRLF, UTF-8 BOM) and the first instance of a
+// value-extraction gap (a folded YAML block scalar hiding a value behind an
+// empty inline colon).
+//
+// Known, accepted v1 gap: frontmatterScalars's block-scalar fold is a
+// best-effort approximation, not a YAML parser — a blank line interrupting a
+// folded continuation, or other contrived multi-line YAML shapes not yet
+// probed (block-scalar indicators `|`/`>`, inline comments on a key line,
+// quoted multi-line values), can still hide an invalid value from
+// ValidateEnvelope. Accepted deliberately rather than chased indefinitely:
+// every bypass found so far requires the caller to already hold brain_edit
+// write access and to deliberately construct a specific malformed-YAML shape
+// with knowledge of this exact gap — a narrow, low-likelihood threat next to
+// the diminishing returns of another incremental patch round. The real fix
+// (a shared, tested, encoding-normalized frontmatter parser used by all
+// three independent implementations in this codebase) is tracked separately
+// as hyperguild#138, not bolted on here piece by piece.
+func checkClaimEnvelope(brainDir, path, oldStr, newStr string) error {
+	if oldStr == "" {
+		// hyperguild#115: strings.Replace treats "" as matching position 0,
+		// which would make an empty old_str look like an edit that inserts
+		// text before the fence — a degenerate-input case that belongs to
+		// notes.Edit's own "old_str is empty" refusal, not to the envelope
+		// check.
+		return nil
+	}
+	before, err := notes.Read(brainDir, path)
+	if err != nil {
+		// Let notes.Edit itself produce the real error (missing file, etc.)
+		// — this function's job is the envelope, not read failures.
+		return nil
+	}
+	// No gate on where old_str falls relative to the frontmatter fence:
+	// round 2 found that requiring old_str to be fully contained in the
+	// extracted block was itself bypassable by an old_str disambiguated
+	// across the closing "---" into the body. Simpler and bypass-proof:
+	// always compute what the edit would produce and validate that
+	// resulting state's envelope. A body-only edit leaves the frontmatter
+	// (and thus the validation outcome) unchanged, so this is a no-op for
+	// the common case and fail-closed for every case that touches the
+	// envelope, regardless of how old_str is phrased.
+	_, hadFence := frontmatterBlock(string(before))
+	after := strings.Replace(string(before), oldStr, newStr, 1)
+	_, hasFence := frontmatterBlock(after)
+	if hadFence && !hasFence {
+		// Round 3: an edit that drops the closing fence degrades `after`
+		// to "unfenced" — frontmatterScalars then sees an empty map and
+		// ValidateEnvelope({}) is nil by design (absent fields are valid),
+		// so an invalid value would otherwise land with zero error while
+		// also corrupting the note's structure. A previously-fenced note
+		// must stay fenced, full stop.
+		return fmt.Errorf("edit would remove the frontmatter fence")
+	}
+	return claim.ValidateEnvelope(frontmatterScalars(after))
+}
+
+// frontmatterBlock returns the raw text between doc's opening and closing
+// `---` fences, or ok=false if doc has no (properly closed) fence.
+func frontmatterBlock(doc string) (block string, ok bool) {
+	// hyperguild#138: fence detection itself is frontmatter.Split, shared
+	// with internal/api and internal/frontmatter — the CRLF/BOM guards that
+	// used to live here (added piecemeal across rounds 4 and 5 of #123's
+	// review) are now the shared parser's job, so every caller inherits a
+	// fix instead of needing bug-for-bug parity edits.
+	b, _, ok := frontmatter.Split([]byte(doc))
+	if !ok {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	// Split's block keeps the "\n" immediately before the closing fence
+	// (by design — see its own doc comment); this function never included
+	// it. Split guarantees ok=true only when "\n---\n" matched, so this is
+	// always exactly one byte, never ambiguous.
+	return strings.TrimSuffix(string(b), "\n"), true
+}
+
+// frontmatterScalars extracts top-level "key: value" scalar pairs from
+// doc's leading fence block, for the claim-envelope check only — not a
+// general frontmatter parser. Indented lines (YAML block-list items,
+// wrapped values) are skipped rather than misparsed as keys, same fix as
+// hyperguild#126/#128 in the sibling packages this mirrors.
+func frontmatterScalars(doc string) map[string]string {
+	out := map[string]string{}
+	block, ok := frontmatterBlock(doc)
+	if !ok {
+		return out
+	}
+	lines := strings.Split(block, "\n")
+	for i := 0; i < len(lines); i++ {
+		line := lines[i]
+		if line != "" && (line[0] == ' ' || line[0] == '\t') {
+			continue
+		}
+		key, val, ok := strings.Cut(line, ":")
+		if !ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		val = strings.TrimSpace(val)
+		if val == "" {
+			// Round 6: a colon with nothing after it is ambiguous — it can
+			// be a genuinely empty/omitted value, or the start of a YAML
+			// block scalar whose real value lives on the indented
+			// continuation line(s) that follow (e.g. "half_life:\n
+			// durable"). Treating the latter as absent let an edit smuggle
+			// an invalid value straight past ValidateEnvelope: the field
+			// read as unset while the disk actually carried a value. Fold
+			// the continuation in as a best-effort join so oneOf() still
+			// sees it. A genuinely empty value (no indented line follows)
+			// still folds to "", preserving present()'s existing
+			// placeholder-not-assertion contract.
+			var cont []string
+			for i+1 < len(lines) {
+				next := lines[i+1]
+				if next == "" || (next[0] != ' ' && next[0] != '\t') {
+					break
+				}
+				cont = append(cont, strings.TrimSpace(next))
+				i++
+			}
+			val = strings.Join(cont, " ")
+		}
+		out[strings.TrimSpace(key)] = val
+	}
+	return out
+}
@@ -66,8 +66,11 @@ func TestBrainReadAndEdit_RoundTripThroughJSONRPC(t *testing.T) {

 	got, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md"))
 	require.NoError(t, err)
-	assert.Equal(t, "---\ntitle: 'n'\n---\n\nalpha\nBETA\n", string(got),
-		"only the matched bytes may change")
+	// Only the matched bytes change in the body; the one deliberate addition
+	// is the editor's provenance stamp (hyperguild#145 — no principal here,
+	// so origin: unknown).
+	assert.Equal(t, "---\ntitle: 'n'\norigin: unknown\n---\n\nalpha\nBETA\n", string(got),
+		"only the matched bytes and the provenance stamp may change")
 }

 func TestBrainEdit_EmptyOldStrErrorNamesRawArgumentBytes(t *testing.T) {
@@ -93,6 +96,243 @@ func TestBrainEdit_EmptyOldStrErrorNamesRawArgumentBytes(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Contains(t, errMsg, "raw arguments were", "%v", errMsg)
 }

+func TestBrainEdit_RejectsAnInvalidClaimEnvelopeWrittenViaStringReplace(t *testing.T) {
+	// hyperguild#123: brain_write/brain_update both validate the claim
+	// envelope (half_life/applies/claim_provenance) before writing —
+	// brain_edit didn't, even though it's the one live, model-facing path
+	// that can rewrite an existing envelope line directly via raw string
+	// replace, no parsing involved. "same rules when a note changes as when
+	// it's born" (hyperguild#111's own framing) applies here too.
+	dir := newBrainRepo(t)
+	note := filepath.Join(dir, "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(note,
+		[]byte("---\ntitle: 'n'\nhalf_life: durable\napplies: universal\nclaim_provenance: asserted\n---\n\nbody\n"), 0o644))
+	srv := mcp.NewServer(dir, nil, nil, nil)
+
+	resp := call(t, srv, "brain_edit", map[string]any{
+		"path": "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md", "old_str": "claim_provenance: asserted", "new_str": "claim_provenance: guessed",
+	})
+	require.Contains(t, resp, "error", "%v", resp)
+
+	got, err := os.ReadFile(note)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, string(got), "claim_provenance: asserted", "rejected edit must leave the note byte-identical")
+}
+
+func TestBrainEdit_RejectsAValueOnlyEditThatBreaksTheEnvelope(t *testing.T) {
+	// Found in review: the original gate (touchesClaimEnvelope) checked
+	// whether old_str/new_str mention the FIELD NAME — but a minimal diff
+	// (the natural shape of any real edit, model-generated or human) can
+	// target just the VALUE token and never mention the field name at all.
+	// "asserted" -> "guessed" on a claim_provenance line walked straight
+	// past the field-name substring check and wrote an invalid enum value
+	// with no error — the exact bypass #123 was supposed to close, closed
+	// in name only.
+	dir := newBrainRepo(t)
+	note := filepath.Join(dir, "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(note,
+		[]byte("---\ntitle: 'n'\nhalf_life: durable\napplies: universal\nclaim_provenance: asserted\n---\n\nbody\n"), 0o644))
+	srv := mcp.NewServer(dir, nil, nil, nil)
+
+	resp := call(t, srv, "brain_edit", map[string]any{
+		"path": "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md", "old_str": "asserted", "new_str": "guessed",
+	})
+	require.Contains(t, resp, "error", "%v", resp)
+
+	got, err := os.ReadFile(note)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, string(got), "claim_provenance: asserted", "rejected edit must leave the note byte-identical")
+}
+
+func TestBrainEdit_RejectsAnOldStrThatCrossesTheClosingFence(t *testing.T) {
+	// Found in round-2 review: the position-based gate required old_str to
+	// be fully CONTAINED in the extracted frontmatter block (which excludes
+	// both "---" fence lines). An old_str disambiguated by extending past
+	// the closing fence into the body — a natural choice, since notes.Edit
+	// requires old_str to be unique in the file — fails that containment
+	// test, so checkClaimEnvelope skips validation entirely while
+	// notes.Edit still applies the replace verbatim. Same invalid-enum
+	// outcome as the original two bypasses, reached a third way.
+	dir := newBrainRepo(t)
+	note := filepath.Join(dir, "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(note,
+		[]byte("---\ntitle: 'n'\nhalf_life: durable\napplies: universal\nclaim_provenance: asserted\n---\n\nbody\n"), 0o644))
+	srv := mcp.NewServer(dir, nil, nil, nil)
+
+	resp := call(t, srv, "brain_edit", map[string]any{
+		"path":    "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md",
+		"old_str": "asserted\n---\n\nbody",
+		"new_str": "guessed\n---\n\nbody",
+	})
+	require.Contains(t, resp, "error", "%v", resp)
+
+	got, err := os.ReadFile(note)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, string(got), "claim_provenance: asserted", "rejected edit must leave the note byte-identical")
+}
+
+func TestBrainEdit_RejectsAnEditThatRemovesTheClosingFence(t *testing.T) {
+	// Found in round-3 review: checkClaimEnvelope always validates the
+	// resulting frontmatter of `after` — but an edit whose new_str drops
+	// the closing "---" degrades `after` to "unfenced" in the same call.
+	// frontmatterBlock(after) then returns ok=false, frontmatterScalars
+	// returns an empty map, and claim.ValidateEnvelope({}) is nil by
+	// design (absent fields are valid) — so an invalid enum value lands on
+	// disk with zero error, and the note is left permanently unfenced.
+	// Structural fix: a note that had a valid fence before the edit must
+	// still have one after, or the edit is rejected outright.
+	dir := newBrainRepo(t)
+	note := filepath.Join(dir, "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(note,
+		[]byte("---\ntitle: 'n'\nhalf_life: durable\napplies: universal\nclaim_provenance: asserted\n---\n\nbody\n"), 0o644))
+	srv := mcp.NewServer(dir, nil, nil, nil)
+
+	resp := call(t, srv, "brain_edit", map[string]any{
+		"path":    "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md",
+		"old_str": "claim_provenance: asserted\n---\n",
+		"new_str": "claim_provenance: not-a-real-value\n",
+	})
+	require.Contains(t, resp, "error", "%v", resp)
+
+	got, err := os.ReadFile(note)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, string(got), "claim_provenance: asserted\n---\n", "rejected edit must leave the note byte-identical, fence intact")
+}
+
+func TestBrainEdit_RejectsAnInvalidEnvelopeOnACRLFFencedNote(t *testing.T) {
+	// Found in round-4 review: frontmatterBlock's fence detection matches
+	// the literal byte sequence "---\n" / "\n---\n". A note whose fence
+	// lines use CRLF ("---\r\n") fails strings.HasPrefix(doc, "---\n") on
+	// the BEFORE read, so hadFence is false — not because the fence is
+	// missing, but because \r sits in front of every \n. hadFence&&!hasFence
+	// can then never fire, frontmatterScalars falls back to an empty map,
+	// and claim.ValidateEnvelope({}) is nil by design. No adversarial
+	// old_str/new_str crafting needed: encoding alone silently disables the
+	// whole envelope check for this note. Zero CRLF-fenced notes exist in
+	// the live corpus today, but nothing in the code prevents one.
+	dir := newBrainRepo(t)
+	note := filepath.Join(dir, "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(note,
+		[]byte("---\r\ntitle: 'n'\r\nhalf_life: durable\r\napplies: universal\r\nclaim_provenance: asserted\r\n---\r\n\r\nbody\r\n"), 0o644))
+	srv := mcp.NewServer(dir, nil, nil, nil)
+
+	resp := call(t, srv, "brain_edit", map[string]any{
+		"path": "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md", "old_str": "asserted", "new_str": "guessed",
+	})
+	require.Contains(t, resp, "error", "%v", resp)
+
+	got, err := os.ReadFile(note)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, string(got), "claim_provenance: asserted", "rejected edit must leave the note byte-identical")
+}
+
+func TestBrainEdit_RejectsAnInvalidEnvelopeOnABOMPrefixedNote(t *testing.T) {
+	// Found in round-5 review: the same "encoding property empties
+	// frontmatterScalars's map" mechanism as the CRLF bypass, one layer
+	// earlier — a leading UTF-8 BOM (EF BB BF) defeats
+	// strings.HasPrefix(doc, "---\n") exactly like CRLF did, before that
+	// prefix is even reached. Notepad's default "UTF-8" save and
+	// PowerShell's pre-v6 Out-File/Set-Content both emit a BOM, so this is
+	// a live, plausible authoring path, not an exotic one — same severity
+	// and same one-line cost as the CRLF fix, fixed the same way rather
+	// than deferred to hyperguild#138.
+	dir := newBrainRepo(t)
+	note := filepath.Join(dir, "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(note,
+		[]byte("\xef\xbb\xbf---\ntitle: 'n'\nhalf_life: durable\napplies: universal\nclaim_provenance: asserted\n---\n\nbody\n"), 0o644))
+	srv := mcp.NewServer(dir, nil, nil, nil)
+
+	resp := call(t, srv, "brain_edit", map[string]any{
+		"path": "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md", "old_str": "asserted", "new_str": "guessed",
+	})
+	require.Contains(t, resp, "error", "%v", resp)
+
+	got, err := os.ReadFile(note)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, string(got), "claim_provenance: asserted", "rejected edit must leave the note byte-identical")
+}
+
+func TestBrainEdit_RejectsAFoldedScalarThatHidesAnInvalidValue(t *testing.T) {
+	// Found in round-6 review: a different mechanism from the encoding
+	// family (rounds 1-6 were all about fence detection; this is the field
+	// extractor). old_str="half_life: durable", new_str="half_life:\n
+	// garbage-value" turns the field into a YAML block-scalar shape: the
+	// top-level line is now "half_life:" with an empty inline value, and
+	// the real value lives on the indented continuation line that follows.
+	// frontmatterScalars's indentation guard skips that continuation line
+	// outright, so the field reads as present-with-empty-value —
+	// present()'s own contract then treats that as absent (a placeholder,
+	// not an assertion) — and claim.ValidateEnvelope never sees the
+	// invalid value at all. No encoding quirk needed: one ordinary
+	// brain_edit call smuggles an out-of-enum value straight past the
+	// check the field was supposed to be validated by.
+	dir := newBrainRepo(t)
+	note := filepath.Join(dir, "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(note,
+		[]byte("---\ntitle: 'n'\nhalf_life: durable\napplies: universal\nclaim_provenance: asserted\n---\n\nbody\n"), 0o644))
+	srv := mcp.NewServer(dir, nil, nil, nil)
+
+	resp := call(t, srv, "brain_edit", map[string]any{
+		"path":    "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md",
+		"old_str": "half_life: durable",
+		"new_str": "half_life:\n  garbage-value",
+	})
+	require.Contains(t, resp, "error", "%v", resp)
+
+	got, err := os.ReadFile(note)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, string(got), "half_life: durable", "rejected edit must leave the note byte-identical")
+}
+
+func TestBrainEdit_AllowsAValidClaimEnvelopeEdit(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := newBrainRepo(t)
+	note := filepath.Join(dir, "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(note,
+		[]byte("---\ntitle: 'n'\nhalf_life: durable\napplies: universal\nclaim_provenance: asserted\n---\n\nbody\n"), 0o644))
+	srv := mcp.NewServer(dir, nil, nil, nil)
+
+	resp := call(t, srv, "brain_edit", map[string]any{
+		"path": "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md", "old_str": "half_life: durable", "new_str": "half_life: seasonal",
+	})
+	require.NotContains(t, resp, "error", "%v", resp)
+
+	got, err := os.ReadFile(note)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, string(got), "half_life: seasonal")
+}
+
+func TestBrainEdit_UnrelatedEditsSkipTheEnvelopeCheckEntirely(t *testing.T) {
+	// The gate only engages when old_str/new_str actually mention an
+	// envelope field name — an ordinary body edit on a note that happens to
+	// carry a valid envelope must not pay for (or be affected by) a check
+	// that has nothing to do with it.
+	dir := newBrainRepo(t)
+	note := filepath.Join(dir, "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(note,
+		[]byte("---\ntitle: 'n'\nhalf_life: durable\napplies: universal\nclaim_provenance: asserted\n---\n\nold body\n"), 0o644))
+	srv := mcp.NewServer(dir, nil, nil, nil)
+
+	resp := call(t, srv, "brain_edit", map[string]any{
+		"path": "wiki/homelab/facts/n.md", "old_str": "old body", "new_str": "new body",
+	})
+	require.NotContains(t, resp, "error", "%v", resp)
+
+	got, err := os.ReadFile(note)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, string(got), "new body")
+}
+
+func TestBrainEditRoot_GovernanceFilesAreNeverEnvelopeChecked(t *testing.T) {
+	// CLAUDE.md has no claim-envelope concept at all — the check must be
+	// scoped to notes (ScopeNotes), never applied on the governance path.
+	srv, _, _, _ := govServer(t)
+
+	resp := authCall(t, srv, "Bearer "+capStaticTok, "brain_edit_root", map[string]any{
+		"path": "CLAUDE.md", "old_str": "# rules", "new_str": "half_life: durable",
+	})
+	require.NotContains(t, resp, "error", "%v", resp)
+}
+
 func TestBrainEdit_RefusesGovernanceFilesFromTheModelFacingTool(t *testing.T) {
 	dir := newBrainRepo(t)
 	srv := mcp.NewServer(dir, nil, nil, nil)
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/hex"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brainfs"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
@@ -71,14 +72,18 @@ func ReadScoped(brainDir, path string, scope Scope) ([]byte, error) {
 }

 func readContained(t Target) ([]byte, error) {
-	fi, err := os.Stat(t.Abs)
+	// Through the brain root, regular files only, size checked on the opened
+	// handle (hyperguild#157): Resolve's Lstat could be raced by a swap, and
+	// os.ReadFile blocked on a FIFO.
+	bfs, err := brainfs.Open(t.Brain)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("notes: stat %s: %w", t.Rel, err)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("notes: %w", err)
 	}
-	if fi.Size() > maxNoteBytes {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s is %d bytes (limit %d)", ErrTooLarge, t.Rel, fi.Size(), maxNoteBytes)
+	defer func() { _ = bfs.Close() }()
+	b, err := bfs.ReadRegularMax(t.Rel, maxNoteBytes)
+	if errors.Is(err, brainfs.ErrTooLarge) {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s (limit %d)", ErrTooLarge, t.Rel, maxNoteBytes)
 	}
-	b, err := os.ReadFile(t.Abs)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("notes: read %s: %w", t.Rel, err)
 	}
@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ var (

 // Target is a resolved, contained path.
 type Target struct {
-	Rel string // brain-relative, cleaned
-	Abs string // absolute, symlink-checked
+	Rel   string // brain-relative, cleaned
+	Abs   string // absolute, symlink-checked
+	Brain string // the brain root Rel is relative to
 }

 // Resolve canonicalises path, then checks it against the scope's allowlist,
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ func Resolve(brainDir, path string, scope Scope) (Target, error) {
 		return Target{}, err
 	}

-	return Target{Rel: clean, Abs: abs}, nil
+	return Target{Rel: clean, Abs: abs, Brain: brainDir}, nil
 }

 // allow enforces the scope's allowlist. The two scopes are DISJOINT, not
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package notes
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brainfs/brainfstest"
+)
+
+// hyperguild#157 slice 2: ReadScoped (brain_read) Lstat-checked the final
+// component, then reopened by name with os.ReadFile: a swap after the check
+// was followed, and a FIFO blocked the read. It now reads through brainfs.
+func TestReadScopedRefusesSymlinksAndSurvivesSwapRaces(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	facts := filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "w", "facts")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(facts, 0o755))
+	p := filepath.Join(facts, "r.md")
+	read := func() string {
+		b, _ := ReadScoped(brain, "wiki/w/facts/r.md", ScopeNotes)
+		return string(b)
+	}
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(p, []byte("inside"), 0o644))
+	assert.Equal(t, "inside", read())
+	brainfstest.AssertNoLeak(t, p, "inside", 1500*time.Millisecond, read)
+	brainfstest.AssertNoHang(t, p, "inside", 1500*time.Millisecond, 6*time.Second, func() { _ = read() })
+}
+
+func TestReadScopedRefusesANoteOverMaxNoteBytes(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	facts := filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "w", "facts")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(facts, 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(facts, "big.md"), make([]byte, maxNoteBytes+1), 0o644))
+	_, err := ReadScoped(brain, "wiki/w/facts/big.md", ScopeNotes)
+	assert.ErrorIs(t, err, ErrTooLarge)
+}
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package pipeline

 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"regexp"
 	"strings"

 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/wiki"
@@ -16,6 +17,12 @@ func BuildPages(rawPages []RawPage, sourceSlug, date string) ([]wiki.Page, []str
 	out := make([]wiki.Page, 0, len(rawPages))
 	var warnings []string
 	for _, rp := range rawPages {
+		// The type becomes a directory under wiki/; "../raw" wrote outside it
+		// (PR #147 review). Only a plain lower-case name is a page type.
+		if !validPageType.MatchString(rp.Type) {
+			warnings = append(warnings, fmt.Sprintf("skipped page with invalid type %q", rp.Type))
+			continue
+		}
 		slug := computeSlug(rp, sourceSlug)
 		if slug == "" {
 			warnings = append(warnings, fmt.Sprintf("skipped page with empty title (type: %s)", rp.Type))
@@ -26,6 +33,8 @@ func BuildPages(rawPages []RawPage, sourceSlug, date string) ([]wiki.Page, []str
 	return out, warnings
 }

+var validPageType = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z][a-z0-9-]*$`)
+
 func computeSlug(rp RawPage, sourceSlug string) string {
 	if rp.Type == "source" {
 		return sourceSlug
@@ -114,5 +123,9 @@ func buildFrontmatter(rp RawPage, date string) string {
 }

 func yamlScalar(s string) string {
+	// A raw newline or CR would end the scalar for every line-oriented
+	// frontmatter reader and start a new key (PR #147 review: a title of
+	// "x\norigin: static" forged provenance). Fold all line breaks to spaces.
+	s = strings.NewReplacer("\r\n", " ", "\r", " ", "\n", " ").Replace(s)
 	return "'" + strings.ReplaceAll(s, "'", "''") + "'"
 }
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"

+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/provenance"
 	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/wiki"
 )

@@ -89,13 +90,17 @@ func Run(ctx context.Context, cfg Config, brainDir, content, source string, dryR
 	meta.BodyHash = bodyHash
 	applySourceMeta(allRaw, meta)

-	return buildAndWrite(allRaw, sourceSlug, date, brainDir, source, inventory, allWarnings, dryRun)
+	return buildAndWrite(ctx, allRaw, sourceSlug, date, brainDir, source, inventory, allWarnings, dryRun)
 }

 // RunRaw runs the pipeline on pre-parsed RawPages, skipping the LLM extraction
 // step. Use this when the caller has already produced the structured RawPage data
 // (e.g. from a more capable model or manual curation).
-func RunRaw(brainDir, source string, rawPages []RawPage, dryRun bool) (Result, error) {
+//
+// Every page written is stamped with provenance.FromContext(ctx)
+// (hyperguild#145); a caller that knows the principal attaches it with
+// provenance.WithStamp, everyone else stamps origin: unknown.
+func RunRaw(ctx context.Context, brainDir, source string, rawPages []RawPage, dryRun bool) (Result, error) {
 	inventory, err := wiki.LoadInventory(brainDir)
 	if err != nil {
 		return Result{}, fmt.Errorf("load inventory: %w", err)
@@ -104,11 +109,11 @@ func RunRaw(brainDir, source string, rawPages []RawPage, dryRun bool) (Result, e
 	sourceSlug := wiki.Slug(source)
 	date := time.Now().UTC().Format("2006-01-02")

-	return buildAndWrite(rawPages, sourceSlug, date, brainDir, source, inventory, nil, dryRun)
+	return buildAndWrite(ctx, rawPages, sourceSlug, date, brainDir, source, inventory, nil, dryRun)
 }

 // buildAndWrite runs BuildPages through write for both Run and RunRaw.
-func buildAndWrite(rawPages []RawPage, sourceSlug, date, brainDir, source string, inventory map[wiki.PageType][]wiki.Entry, warnings []string, dryRun bool) (Result, error) {
+func buildAndWrite(ctx context.Context, rawPages []RawPage, sourceSlug, date, brainDir, source string, inventory map[wiki.PageType][]wiki.Entry, warnings []string, dryRun bool) (Result, error) {
 	pages, buildWarnings := BuildPages(rawPages, sourceSlug, date)
 	warnings = append(warnings, buildWarnings...)
 	resolved := Resolve(pages, inventory)
@@ -136,7 +141,13 @@ func buildAndWrite(rawPages []RawPage, sourceSlug, date, brainDir, source string
 					"%s: source now disagrees on section %q — on-disk version kept",
 					page.Path, heading))
 			}
-			if err := os.WriteFile(dest, []byte(content), 0o644); err != nil {
+			// Stamped as the last step, after merge/revise, so a page that
+			// was merged into is re-attributed to this ingest too.
+			stamped, err := provenance.Apply(content, provenance.FromContext(ctx))
+			if err != nil {
+				return Result{}, fmt.Errorf("stamp %s: %w", page.Path, err)
+			}
+			if err := os.WriteFile(dest, []byte(stamped), 0o644); err != nil {
 				return Result{}, fmt.Errorf("write %s: %w", page.Path, err)
 			}
 		}
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ A book about shaping product work.
 Read this before the next planning cycle.
 `), 0o644))

-	_, err := RunRaw(dir, "shape-up", []RawPage{{
+	_, err := RunRaw(context.Background(), dir, "shape-up", []RawPage{{
 		Title: "Shape Up", Type: "source", Subtype: "book", Domain: "product-strategy",
 		Content: "## Summary\n\nA book about shaping product work.\n\n## Key Claims\n\n- Appetite beats estimation.\n",
 	}}, false)
@@ -221,12 +221,12 @@ func TestRunRaw_ReIngestingUnchangedContentIsByteIdentical(t *testing.T) {
 		Content: "## Summary\n\nA book about shaping product work.\n\n## Open Questions\n\n- Does appetite scale?\n",
 	}}

-	_, err := RunRaw(dir, "shape-up", raw, false)
+	_, err := RunRaw(context.Background(), dir, "shape-up", raw, false)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	first, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, "wiki", "sources", "shape-up.md"))
 	require.NoError(t, err)

-	_, err = RunRaw(dir, "shape-up", raw, false)
+	_, err = RunRaw(context.Background(), dir, "shape-up", raw, false)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	second, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, "wiki", "sources", "shape-up.md"))
 	require.NoError(t, err)
@@ -368,7 +368,10 @@ func TestRun_RevisionEchoingExistingPageStaysByteIdentical(t *testing.T) {
 	require.NoError(t, err)

 	want := "---\ntitle: 'Shape Up'\nlast_updated: " + time.Now().UTC().Format("2006-01-02") +
-		"\nsource_hash: " + hashBody(content) + "\n---\n\n" +
+		"\nsource_hash: " + hashBody(content) +
+		// Every page an ingest writes carries provenance (hyperguild#145);
+		// no stamp in ctx here, so origin: unknown.
+		"\norigin: unknown\n---\n\n" +
 		"## Summary\n\nA book about shaping product work.\n\n" +
 		"## Key Claims\n\n- Appetite beats estimation.\n"
 	assert.Equal(t, want, string(got),
@@ -409,7 +412,7 @@ title: 'Shape Up'
 Appetite is fixed, scope is variable.
 `), 0o644))

-	res, err := RunRaw(dir, "shape-up", []RawPage{{
+	res, err := RunRaw(context.Background(), dir, "shape-up", []RawPage{{
 		Title: "Shape Up", Type: "source", Subtype: "book", Domain: "product",
 		Content: "## Summary\n\nAppetite is negotiable and scope is fixed.\n",
 	}}, false)
@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+// Package provenance stamps server-owned write provenance (hyperguild#145)
+// into a brain note's frontmatter: origin (static | jwt | unknown) and
+// written_by (the authenticated principal), so a reader can discount what a
+// connector session wrote after reading an untrusted page.
+//
+// The control is a post-condition applied by every write path a model can
+// reach. Two review rounds on PR #147 showed that deciding line by line which
+// lines are provenance loses to YAML's context-dependent features — an alias
+// key resolves only against an anchor elsewhere, and a `...` line ends the
+// document before the stamp. So Apply does not try to recognise provenance.
+// It keeps only frontmatter it can prove is plain:
+//
+//   - a top-level line `key: value` whose key is a bare identifier,
+//   - together with that key's continuation lines (indented, or `- ` items
+//     after an empty value),
+//   - where the group decodes ON ITS OWN, with yaml.v3, to a mapping with
+//     exactly that one key,
+//   - and the key is not origin/written_by and has not been seen before.
+//
+// Everything else — aliases, anchors used as keys, document markers, complex
+// keys, merge keys, flow maps, tags, quoted keys, duplicates — is dropped.
+// Then the stamp is appended and the whole result is decoded by yaml.v3 as a
+// backstop: if it does not decode to exactly the stamped values, Apply fails
+// and the caller refuses the write.
+package provenance
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
+
+	sharedfm "github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/frontmatter"
+)
+
+// Stamp is the provenance a write carries. An empty Origin means "unknown".
+type Stamp struct {
+	Origin    string
+	WrittenBy string
+}
+
+type ctxKey struct{}
+
+// WithStamp attaches the caller's provenance to ctx for code paths (the ingest
+// pipeline) that write notes far from where the principal is known.
+func WithStamp(ctx context.Context, s Stamp) context.Context {
+	return context.WithValue(ctx, ctxKey{}, s)
+}
+
+// FromContext returns the stamp in ctx, or the unknown stamp.
+func FromContext(ctx context.Context) Stamp {
+	if s, ok := ctx.Value(ctxKey{}).(Stamp); ok {
+		return s
+	}
+	return Stamp{}
+}
+
+// ErrUnverifiable means the stamped note would not read back as stamped.
+var ErrUnverifiable = errors.New("provenance: stamped frontmatter does not decode to the stamp")
+
+var (
+	keyLine    = regexp.MustCompile(`^([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_.-]*)[ ]*:(?:[ ]|$)(.*)$`)
+	bareScalar = regexp.MustCompile(`^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._@-]*$`)
+	reserved   = map[string]bool{"origin": true, "written_by": true}
+)
+
+func (s Stamp) origin() string {
+	if s.Origin == "" {
+		return "unknown"
+	}
+	return s.Origin
+}
+
+// Apply returns content with its frontmatter reduced to plain groups and the
+// stamp appended. Content without frontmatter gains a block.
+func Apply(content string, s Stamp) (string, error) {
+	stamp := "origin: " + scalar(s.origin()) + "\n"
+	if s.WrittenBy != "" {
+		stamp += "written_by: " + scalar(s.WrittenBy) + "\n"
+	}
+	content = foldFrontmatterCR(content)
+	block, rest, ok := sharedfm.Split([]byte(content))
+	var out string
+	switch {
+	case !ok && strings.HasPrefix(strings.ReplaceAll(content, "\r\n", "\n"), "---\n"):
+		// A fence was opened but cannot be closed (e.g. a "---x" line).
+		// Prepending a second block would demote the original frontmatter
+		// into the body, so refuse instead (PR #147 review round 3).
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%w: unclosed frontmatter fence", ErrUnverifiable)
+	case !ok:
+		out = "---\n" + stamp + "---\n" + content
+	default:
+		out = "---\n" + plainGroups(string(block)) + stamp + "---\n" + strings.TrimPrefix(string(rest), "\n")
+	}
+	if err := verify(out, s); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// ApplyFile applies the stamp to the note at absPath in place.
+func ApplyFile(absPath string, s Stamp) error {
+	b, err := os.ReadFile(absPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("read for provenance: %w", err)
+	}
+	out, err := Apply(string(b), s)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if out == string(b) {
+		return nil
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(absPath, []byte(out), 0o644); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("write provenance: %w", err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// plainGroups keeps the provably plain key groups of a frontmatter block.
+func plainGroups(block string) string {
+	lines := strings.Split(strings.TrimSuffix(block, "\n"), "\n")
+	seen := map[string]bool{}
+	var b strings.Builder
+	for i := 0; i < len(lines); {
+		line := lines[i]
+		m := keyLine.FindStringSubmatch(line)
+		if m == nil {
+			i++ // not a plain key line: dropped, as is anything it would govern
+			for i < len(lines) && isContinuation(lines[i], "") {
+				i++
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		key, value := m[1], strings.TrimSpace(m[2])
+		j := i + 1
+		for j < len(lines) && isContinuation(lines[j], value) {
+			j++
+		}
+		group := strings.Join(lines[i:j], "\n") + "\n"
+		lk := strings.ToLower(key)
+		if !reserved[lk] && !seen[lk] && decodesToOnly(group, key) {
+			seen[lk] = true
+			b.WriteString(group)
+		}
+		i = j
+	}
+	return b.String()
+}
+
+// isContinuation reports whether line belongs to the preceding key: indented
+// lines always do; a top-level "- " item only follows a key with no value.
+func isContinuation(line, value string) bool {
+	if line == "" {
+		return false
+	}
+	if line[0] == ' ' {
+		return true
+	}
+	return value == "" && strings.HasPrefix(line, "- ")
+}
+
+func decodesToOnly(group, key string) bool {
+	var m map[string]any
+	if err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(group), &m); err != nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	_, ok := m[key]
+	return ok && len(m) == 1
+}
+
+func verify(doc string, s Stamp) error {
+	block, _, ok := sharedfm.Split([]byte(doc))
+	if !ok {
+		return ErrUnverifiable
+	}
+	var m map[string]any
+	if err := yaml.Unmarshal(block, &m); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: %v", ErrUnverifiable, err)
+	}
+	if m["origin"] != s.origin() {
+		return ErrUnverifiable
+	}
+	if s.WrittenBy == "" {
+		if _, has := m["written_by"]; has {
+			return ErrUnverifiable
+		}
+	} else if m["written_by"] != s.WrittenBy {
+		return ErrUnverifiable
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// foldFrontmatterCR turns CRLF and lone CR inside a leading frontmatter block
+// into LF, so every reader agrees on where lines end.
+func foldFrontmatterCR(content string) string {
+	s := strings.ReplaceAll(content, "\r\n", "\n")
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(s, "---\n") {
+		return content
+	}
+	end := strings.Index(s[4:], "\n---")
+	if end < 0 {
+		return content
+	}
+	return strings.ReplaceAll(s[:4+end], "\r", "\n") + s[4+end:]
+}
+
+// scalar renders a bare word as-is only when YAML reads it back as that same
+// string; anything else (true, 123, null, ~, punctuation, newlines) becomes
+// a double-quoted string, so a principal name can never break the line or
+// change type.
+func scalar(v string) string {
+	if bareScalar.MatchString(v) {
+		var back any
+		if yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(v), &back) == nil {
+			if s, ok := back.(string); ok && s == v {
+				return v
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%q", v)
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+package provenance
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
+)
+
+func fmOf(t *testing.T, doc string) map[string]any {
+	t.Helper()
+	parts := strings.SplitN(doc, "---\n", 3)
+	require.Len(t, parts, 3, doc)
+	var m map[string]any
+	require.NoError(t, yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(parts[1]), &m), parts[1])
+	return m
+}
+
+// The whole-document backstop: a stamp that would not read back as written
+// is refused, never written. A principal with an invalid UTF-8 byte quotes
+// to "\xff", which YAML decodes as U+00FF, so it cannot round-trip.
+func TestApplyRefusesAStampThatDoesNotReadBack(t *testing.T) {
+	_, err := Apply("---\ntitle: t\n---\nbody\n", Stamp{Origin: "jwt", WrittenBy: "bad\xff"})
+	assert.True(t, errors.Is(err, ErrUnverifiable), "got %v", err)
+}
+
+// A principal that YAML would decode as a non-string (true, 123, null) is
+// quoted, so the stamp reads back as the same string.
+func TestApplyQuotesPrincipalsYAMLWouldNotReadAsStrings(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, p := range []string{"true", "123", "null", "1e3", "0x1F", "yes", "~"} {
+		out, err := Apply("---\ntitle: t\n---\nbody\n", Stamp{Origin: "jwt", WrittenBy: p})
+		require.NoError(t, err, p)
+		assert.Equal(t, p, fmOf(t, out)["written_by"], p)
+	}
+}
+
+// A group that does not decode on its own is dropped; its neighbours stay.
+func TestApplyDropsGroupsThatDoNotDecodeAlone(t *testing.T) {
+	out, err := Apply("---\nkeep: 1\ntitle: a: b\nalso: 2\n---\nbody\n", Stamp{Origin: "static", WrittenBy: "local-cli"})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	m := fmOf(t, out)
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, m["keep"])
+	assert.Equal(t, 2, m["also"])
+	assert.NotContains(t, m, "title")
+}
+
+func TestApplyKeepsFirstOfDuplicateKeys(t *testing.T) {
+	out, err := Apply("---\ntitle: first\ntitle: second\nTitle: third\n---\nbody\n", Stamp{})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	m := fmOf(t, out)
+	assert.Equal(t, "first", m["title"])
+	assert.NotContains(t, m, "Title")
+}
+
+func TestApplyFoldsLoneCRSoItCannotHideALine(t *testing.T) {
+	out, err := Apply("---\ntitle: x\rorigin: static\n---\nbody\n", Stamp{Origin: "jwt", WrittenBy: "a"})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.NotContains(t, out, "\r")
+	assert.Equal(t, "jwt", fmOf(t, out)["origin"])
+	assert.Equal(t, "x", fmOf(t, out)["title"])
+}
+
+func TestApplyDropsTabIndentedContinuations(t *testing.T) {
+	out, err := Apply("---\ntitle: x\n\torigin: static\nk: v\n---\nbody\n", Stamp{Origin: "jwt", WrittenBy: "a"})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	m := fmOf(t, out)
+	assert.Equal(t, "jwt", m["origin"])
+	assert.Equal(t, "v", m["k"])
+}
+
+// Content that opens a fence the shared splitter cannot close (e.g. a
+// "---x" line) is refused rather than given a second, prepended block that
+// demotes the original frontmatter into the body.
+func TestApplyRefusesAnUnclosableFrontmatterFence(t *testing.T) {
+	_, err := Apply("---\ntitle: t\n---x\norigin: static\n---\nbody\n", Stamp{Origin: "jwt", WrittenBy: "a"})
+	assert.True(t, errors.Is(err, ErrUnverifiable), "got %v", err)
+}
+
+func TestApplyAddsFrontmatterToContentWithoutAny(t *testing.T) {
+	out, err := Apply("# plain\n\norigin: static is prose\n", Stamp{Origin: "static", WrittenBy: "local-cli"})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.True(t, strings.HasPrefix(out, "---\norigin: static\nwritten_by: local-cli\n---\n# plain"))
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+package search
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"syscall"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// hyperguild#157 option 1: search walked and read the brain by path, so a
+// symlink anywhere in the Syncthing-shared brain dir (wiki/<w>/<h>/leak.md ->
+// /any/file) put the target's contents in brain_query results (reproduced in
+// the PR #156 review). Search now walks and reads through an os.Root on the
+// brain dir and only reads regular files.
+
+const sentinel157 = "zqsentinelonefiftyseven"
+
+func searchBrain(t *testing.T) (brain, facts, outside string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	brain = t.TempDir()
+	facts = filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "w", "facts")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(facts, 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(brain, "knowledge"), 0o755))
+	outside = filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "secret.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(outside, []byte("# secret\n\n"+sentinel157), 0o644))
+	return brain, facts, outside
+}
+
+func leaked(rs []Result) int {
+	n := 0
+	for _, r := range rs {
+		n += strings.Count(r.Excerpt+r.Title, sentinel157)
+	}
+	return n
+}
+
+func TestQueryDoesNotFollowASymlinkInTheWiki(t *testing.T) {
+	brain, facts, outside := searchBrain(t)
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(outside, filepath.Join(facts, "leak.md")))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(facts, "real.md"), []byte("# real\n\nzqrealnote"), 0o644))
+	rs, err := Query(brain, QueryOptions{Query: sentinel157, Limit: 10})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Zero(t, leaked(rs))
+	rs, err = Query(brain, QueryOptions{Query: "zqrealnote", Limit: 10})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, rs, 1, "regular notes are still found")
+}
+
+func TestQueryDoesNotFollowASymlinkedDirectory(t *testing.T) {
+	brain, _, outside := searchBrain(t)
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(filepath.Dir(outside), filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "linked")))
+	rs, err := Query(brain, QueryOptions{Query: sentinel157, Limit: 10})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Zero(t, leaked(rs))
+}
+
+// A search root that is a symlink staying inside the brain (wiki/<w> -> ..)
+// was followed by fs.WalkDir, aliasing raw/ and root files into results
+// (PR #166 review). The root is now Lstat-checked and skipped.
+func TestQueryDoesNotFollowASymlinkedWingRootInsideTheBrain(t *testing.T) {
+	brain, _, _ := searchBrain(t)
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(brain, "raw"), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(brain, "raw", "r.md"), []byte("# r\n\nzqrawonly"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink("..", filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "alias")))
+	rs, err := Query(brain, QueryOptions{Query: "zqrawonly", Wing: "alias", Limit: 10})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Empty(t, rs)
+}
+
+// With a hall the search root is wiki/<wing>/<hall>; a symlinked <wing> with
+// a real <hall> directory under its target was followed (PR #166 round 2).
+func TestQueryDoesNotFollowASymlinkedWingUnderAWingAndHallRoot(t *testing.T) {
+	brain, _, _ := searchBrain(t)
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(brain, "raw", "facts"), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(brain, "raw", "facts", "r.md"), []byte("# r\n\nzqrawhall"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(filepath.Join("..", "raw"), filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "alias")))
+	rs, err := Query(brain, QueryOptions{Query: "zqrawhall", Wing: "alias", Hall: "facts", Limit: 10})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Empty(t, rs)
+}
+
+// swapInto keeps renaming a regular note, and either a symlink to outside or
+// a FIFO, into path. Each FIFO has a writer held open (as any local process
+// can): a FIFO with no writer reads EOF at once, which would let a reader
+// that skips the handle check pass (PR #161 round 2: with a held writer, a
+// bypass of readOpened hung Query after 5 iterations).
+// startSwap runs swapInto until the test ends and waits for it before
+// t.TempDir's cleanup (hyperguild#162).
+func startSwap(t *testing.T, path, outside string, fifo bool) {
+	t.Helper()
+	var stop atomic.Bool
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	wg.Add(1)
+	go func() { defer wg.Done(); swapInto(path, outside, fifo, &stop) }()
+	t.Cleanup(func() { stop.Store(true); wg.Wait() })
+}
+
+func swapInto(path, outside string, fifo bool, stop *atomic.Bool) {
+	tmp := path + ".swap"
+	// Writers stay open until the swapper exits, so a reader parked on a
+	// FIFO stays parked (closing one would hand the reader EOF and hide the
+	// hang). Past the fd limit, new FIFOs simply have no writer.
+	var writers []*os.File
+	defer func() {
+		for _, w := range writers {
+			_ = w.Close()
+		}
+	}()
+	for i := 0; !stop.Load(); i++ {
+		_ = os.Remove(tmp)
+		switch {
+		case i%2 == 0:
+			_ = os.WriteFile(tmp, []byte("# r\n\nzqinside "+"zqracenote"), 0o644)
+		case fifo:
+			if err := syscall.Mkfifo(tmp, 0o644); err == nil {
+				if w, err := os.OpenFile(tmp, os.O_RDWR, 0); err == nil {
+					writers = append(writers, w)
+				}
+			}
+		default:
+			_ = os.Symlink(outside, tmp)
+		}
+		_ = os.Rename(tmp, path)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestQueryLeaksNothingUnderASymlinkSwapRace(t *testing.T) {
+	brain, facts, outside := searchBrain(t)
+	startSwap(t, filepath.Join(facts, "r.md"), outside, false)
+	leaks, iters := 0, 0
+	for deadline := time.Now().Add(1500 * time.Millisecond); time.Now().Before(deadline); iters++ {
+		rs, _ := Query(brain, QueryOptions{Query: sentinel157, Limit: 10})
+		leaks += leaked(rs)
+	}
+	if leaks > 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("outside file leaked %d times in %d iterations", leaks, iters)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestQueryDoesNotHangUnderAFIFOSwapRace(t *testing.T) {
+	brain, facts, outside := searchBrain(t)
+	startSwap(t, filepath.Join(facts, "r.md"), outside, true)
+	done := make(chan struct{})
+	go func() {
+		for deadline := time.Now().Add(1500 * time.Millisecond); time.Now().Before(deadline); {
+			_, _ = Query(brain, QueryOptions{Query: "zqracenote", Limit: 10})
+		}
+		close(done)
+	}()
+	select {
+	case <-done:
+	case <-time.After(6 * time.Second):
+		if f, err := os.OpenFile(filepath.Join(facts, "r.md"), os.O_WRONLY|syscall.O_NONBLOCK, 0); err == nil {
+			_ = f.Close()
+		}
+		t.Fatal("search hung on a swapped-in FIFO")
+	}
+}
+
+// hydrate (vector-only hits) reads by relative path; it must refuse a symlink.
+func TestHydrateRefusesASymlink(t *testing.T) {
+	brain, facts, outside := searchBrain(t)
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(outside, filepath.Join(facts, "leak.md")))
+	r, err := hydrate(brain, "wiki/w/facts/leak.md")
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+	assert.NotContains(t, r.Excerpt, sentinel157)
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package search
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+// Only the leading frontmatter is provenance; a body line that looks like a
+// key is prose (the doc comment's claim, now observed).
+func TestExtractProvenanceIgnoresBodyLines(t *testing.T) {
+	o, w := extractProvenance("---\ntitle: t\n---\norigin: static\nwritten_by: local-cli\n")
+	assert.Equal(t, "", o)
+	assert.Equal(t, "", w)
+	o, w = extractProvenance("# no frontmatter\norigin: static\n")
+	assert.Equal(t, "", o)
+	assert.Equal(t, "", w)
+	o, w = extractProvenance("---\norigin: jwt\nwritten_by: attacker\n---\norigin: static\n")
+	assert.Equal(t, "jwt", o)
+	assert.Equal(t, "attacker", w)
+}
+
+// Round 3 (B1): an indented "---" inside a block scalar is content, not the
+// closing fence — the same rule as frontmatter.Split.
+func TestExtractProvenanceUsesTheSharedFenceRule(t *testing.T) {
+	o, w := extractProvenance("---\nk: |\n  ---\norigin: jwt\nwritten_by: attacker\n---\nbody\n")
+	assert.Equal(t, "jwt", o)
+	assert.Equal(t, "attacker", w)
+}
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import (
 	"bufio"
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brainfs"
+	sharedfm "github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/frontmatter"
 	"log/slog"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -48,6 +50,11 @@ type Result struct {
 	// (infra#72). Read from frontmatter when present, otherwise
 	// inferred from the parent directory.
 	Tier string `json:"tier,omitempty"`
+	// Origin/WrittenBy surface write provenance (hyperguild#145) so a
+	// reader can discount an entry a connector session wrote. Omitted for
+	// notes written before provenance existed — never fabricated.
+	Origin    string `json:"origin,omitempty"`
+	WrittenBy string `json:"written_by,omitempty"`
 }

 // tierWeight maps the DIKW tier to a score multiplier applied right
@@ -113,20 +120,30 @@ func QueryContext(ctx context.Context, brainDir string, opts QueryOptions) ([]Re
 		return nil, err
 	}

+	// Walk and read through an os.Root on the brain dir, regular files only
+	// (hyperguild#157): a symlink planted in the Syncthing-shared brain must
+	// not put an outside file in results, nor a FIFO hang the query.
+	bfs, err := brainfs.Open(brainDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("search: %w", err)
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = bfs.Close() }()
+
 	var results []Result
 	for _, dir := range roots {
 		if _, statErr := os.Stat(dir); os.IsNotExist(statErr) {
 			continue
 		}
-		err := filepath.WalkDir(dir, func(path string, d os.DirEntry, err error) error {
-			if err != nil {
-				slog.Warn("search: skipping path", "path", path, "err", err)
+		relDir, relErr := bfs.Rel(dir)
+		if relErr != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("search: %w", relErr)
+		}
+		err := bfs.WalkRegular(relDir, func(relPath string) error {
+			if !strings.HasSuffix(relPath, ".md") {
 				return nil
 			}
-			if d.IsDir() || !strings.HasSuffix(path, ".md") {
-				return nil
-			}
-			content, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+			path := filepath.Join(brainDir, filepath.FromSlash(relPath))
+			content, err := bfs.ReadRegular(relPath)
 			if err != nil {
 				slog.Warn("search: skipping unreadable file", "path", path, "err", err)
 				return nil
@@ -146,16 +163,22 @@ func QueryContext(ctx context.Context, brainDir string, opts QueryOptions) ([]Re
 			rel = filepath.ToSlash(rel)
 			wing, hall := extractWingHall(string(content), rel)
 			tier := extractTier(string(content), rel)
+			origin, writtenBy := extractProvenance(string(content))
 			results = append(results, Result{
 				Path:    rel,
-				Title:   extractTitle(string(content), d.Name()),
+				Title:   extractTitle(string(content), filepath.Base(relPath)),
 				Excerpt: excerpt(string(content), 300),
 				Score:   score,
 				Wing:    wing,
 				Hall:    hall,
 				Tier:    tier,
+
+				Origin:    origin,
+				WrittenBy: writtenBy,
 			})
 			return nil
+		}, func(p string, err error) {
+			slog.Warn("search: skipping path", "path", p, "err", err)
 		})
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
@@ -265,13 +288,19 @@ func pathInScope(relPath, wing, hall string) bool {
 // excerpt, wing, and hall populated. Used for paths that surface only
 // via vector search.
 func hydrate(brainDir, relPath string) (Result, error) {
-	full := filepath.Join(brainDir, filepath.FromSlash(relPath))
-	content, err := os.ReadFile(full)
+	// Through the brain root, regular files only (hyperguild#157).
+	bfs, err := brainfs.Open(brainDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return Result{}, err
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = bfs.Close() }()
+	content, err := bfs.ReadRegular(filepath.ToSlash(relPath))
 	if err != nil {
 		return Result{}, err
 	}
 	wing, hall := extractWingHall(string(content), relPath)
 	tier := extractTier(string(content), relPath)
+	origin, writtenBy := extractProvenance(string(content))
 	return Result{
 		Path:    relPath,
 		Title:   extractTitle(string(content), filepath.Base(relPath)),
@@ -279,9 +308,44 @@ func hydrate(brainDir, relPath string) (Result, error) {
 		Wing:    wing,
 		Hall:    hall,
 		Tier:    tier,
+
+		Origin:    origin,
+		WrittenBy: writtenBy,
 	}, nil
 }

+// extractProvenance reads origin/written_by from the leading frontmatter
+// block only, located with the shared fence rule (frontmatter.Split: a "---"
+// at column 0) so an indented "---" inside a block scalar is content, not a
+// closing fence (PR #147 review round 3). A body line is never provenance.
+func extractProvenance(content string) (origin, writtenBy string) {
+	block, _, ok := sharedfm.Split([]byte(content))
+	if !ok {
+		return "", ""
+	}
+	for _, line := range strings.Split(string(block), "\n") {
+		if line == "" || line[0] == ' ' || line[0] == '\t' {
+			continue
+		}
+		key, val, found := strings.Cut(line, ":")
+		if !found {
+			continue
+		}
+		v := strings.Trim(strings.TrimSpace(val), `"'`)
+		switch strings.TrimSpace(key) {
+		case "origin":
+			if origin == "" {
+				origin = v
+			}
+		case "written_by":
+			if writtenBy == "" {
+				writtenBy = v
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return origin, writtenBy
+}
+
 // resolveRoots returns the directories to walk for the given wing/hall
 // filters. Validates hall against the closed vocabulary when set.
 func resolveRoots(brainDir, wing, hall string) ([]string, error) {
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+package session
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// session_log passed the caller's session_id straight into
+// filepath.Join(sessionsDir, id+".jsonl") and opened it O_CREATE|O_APPEND:
+// path segments in the id created or appended files anywhere the pod could
+// write. The id is now a plain name, and the open does not follow a final
+// symlink.
+func TestAppendRefusesSessionIDsThatAreNotPlainNames(t *testing.T) {
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	dir := filepath.Join(root, "sessions")
+	for _, id := range []string{"../x", "a/b", "/abs", ".", "..", ".hidden", "", "a\\b", "a\x00b"} {
+		assert.Error(t, Append(dir, id, Entry{SessionID: id}), "%q", id)
+	}
+	ents, _ := os.ReadDir(root)
+	for _, e := range ents {
+		assert.Equal(t, "sessions", e.Name(), "nothing created beside the sessions dir")
+	}
+	for _, id := range []string{"1557b2e1-bf0d-5c4f-bbe3-0754d087e356", "_routing", "2026-05-05-infra.plan", "0"} {
+		require.NoError(t, Append(dir, id, Entry{SessionID: id}), "positive control: %q", id)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAppendDoesNotWriteThroughASymlinkedLog(t *testing.T) {
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	dir := filepath.Join(root, "sessions")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(dir, 0o755))
+	victim := filepath.Join(root, "victim.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(victim, []byte("untouched\n"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(filepath.Join("..", "victim.md"), filepath.Join(dir, "s.jsonl")))
+	assert.Error(t, Append(dir, "s", Entry{SessionID: "s"}))
+	got, _ := os.ReadFile(victim)
+	assert.Equal(t, "untouched\n", string(got))
+}
+
+func TestReadRefusesSessionIDsThatAreNotPlainNames(t *testing.T) {
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(root, "x.jsonl"), []byte(`{"session_id":"x"}`+"\n"), 0o644))
+	_, err := Read(filepath.Join(root, "sessions"), "../x")
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+}
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ import (
 	"io/fs"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"regexp"
+	"syscall"
 	"time"
 )

@@ -42,13 +44,29 @@ type Attempt struct {
 	RunnerOutput  string `json:"runner_output,omitempty"`
 }

+// idPattern is a plain file name: session_log takes the id from the caller,
+// and a path segment in it created or appended files anywhere the pod could
+// write (hyperguild#169).
+var idPattern = regexp.MustCompile(`^[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9._-]{0,127}$`)
+
+func checkID(sessionID string) error {
+	if !idPattern.MatchString(sessionID) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("session id %q is not a plain name", sessionID)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
 // Append writes entry as a single JSON line to sessionsDir/{sessionID}.jsonl.
+// The open does not follow a final symlink.
 func Append(sessionsDir, sessionID string, entry Entry) error {
+	if err := checkID(sessionID); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(sessionsDir, 0o755); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("create sessions dir: %w", err)
 	}
 	path := filepath.Join(sessionsDir, sessionID+".jsonl")
-	f, err := os.OpenFile(path, os.O_CREATE|os.O_APPEND|os.O_WRONLY, 0o644)
+	f, err := os.OpenFile(path, os.O_CREATE|os.O_APPEND|os.O_WRONLY|syscall.O_NOFOLLOW|syscall.O_NONBLOCK, 0o644)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("open session log: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -70,6 +88,9 @@ func Append(sessionsDir, sessionID string, entry Entry) error {

 // Read returns all entries for sessionID. Returns empty slice if no log exists.
 func Read(sessionsDir, sessionID string) ([]Entry, error) {
+	if err := checkID(sessionID); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
 	path := filepath.Join(sessionsDir, sessionID+".jsonl")
 	f, err := os.Open(path)
 	if errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
@@ -0,0 +1,264 @@
+// Package symlinkguard is the hyperguild#157 tripwire. The brain directory is
+// a Syncthing sendreceive folder and Syncthing syncs symlinks; several brain
+// readers (search, vectorstore, context, graph) follow a symlink out of the
+// brain and would index or return whatever it points to. Until every reader
+// reads through an os.Root, a symlink inside the brain, or a directory the
+// scan cannot read (which could hide one), is an incident: the server refuses
+// to start on one (main), and Watch reports one that appears while it runs.
+package symlinkguard
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io/fs"
+	"log/slog"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"sort"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// DefaultInterval is used when Watch is given a non-positive interval.
+const DefaultInterval = 30 * time.Second
+
+// Alert bounds (PR #160 review): the planter chooses the paths, so neither an
+// alert's size nor the queue may grow with what was planted.
+const (
+	maxPathsPerAlert = 10 // further paths are counted, not listed
+	maxPending       = 5  // queued alerts; the rest become one summary
+)
+
+// Notifier is the out-of-band alert sink (audit.Notifier satisfies it).
+type Notifier interface {
+	Notify(ctx context.Context, msg string) error
+}
+
+// Result is what a scan found: symlinks, and directories it could not read
+// (each of which could hide a symlink). Paths are brain-relative.
+type Result struct {
+	Symlinks   []string
+	Unreadable []string
+}
+
+// Clean reports whether the scan found nothing to act on.
+func (r Result) Clean() bool { return len(r.Symlinks) == 0 && len(r.Unreadable) == 0 }
+
+// String describes the findings for a log line or alert. Paths are quoted, so
+// a name containing a newline cannot blur two findings together.
+func (r Result) String() string {
+	q := r.quoted
+	var parts []string
+	if len(r.Symlinks) > 0 {
+		parts = append(parts, fmt.Sprintf("%d symlink(s): %s", len(r.Symlinks), q(r.Symlinks)))
+	}
+	if len(r.Unreadable) > 0 {
+		parts = append(parts, fmt.Sprintf("%d unreadable dir(s): %s", len(r.Unreadable), q(r.Unreadable)))
+	}
+	return strings.Join(parts, "; ")
+}
+
+// quoted joins at most maxPathsPerAlert paths, each strconv-quoted, and
+// counts the rest.
+func (Result) quoted(xs []string) string {
+	shown := xs
+	if len(shown) > maxPathsPerAlert {
+		shown = shown[:maxPathsPerAlert]
+	}
+	out := make([]string, len(shown))
+	for i, x := range shown {
+		out[i] = strconv.Quote(x)
+	}
+	s := strings.Join(out, ", ")
+	if extra := len(xs) - len(shown); extra > 0 {
+		s += fmt.Sprintf(" and %d more", extra)
+	}
+	return s
+}
+
+// Scan walks the brain dir and reports every symlink in it and every
+// directory it could not read, continuing past both. Only the ROOT .git is
+// skipped (it is brain-sync's, and no reader walks it); a nested .git is
+// scanned like any other directory. brainDir itself may be a symlink (a
+// volume mount); it is resolved first. The error is non-nil when the root
+// cannot be resolved (wrapping os.ErrNotExist when it is missing) or cannot be
+// listed.
+func Scan(brainDir string) (Result, error) {
+	root, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(brainDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return Result{}, fmt.Errorf("resolve brain dir: %w", err)
+	}
+	var r Result
+	rootGit := filepath.Join(root, ".git")
+	walkErr := filepath.WalkDir(root, func(p string, d fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
+		rel, _ := filepath.Rel(root, p)
+		rel = filepath.ToSlash(rel)
+		if err != nil {
+			if p == root {
+				return err
+			}
+			r.Unreadable = append(r.Unreadable, rel)
+			if d != nil && d.IsDir() {
+				return filepath.SkipDir
+			}
+			return nil
+		}
+		if d.IsDir() && p == rootGit {
+			return filepath.SkipDir
+		}
+		if d.Type()&os.ModeSymlink != 0 {
+			r.Symlinks = append(r.Symlinks, rel)
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+	sort.Strings(r.Symlinks)
+	sort.Strings(r.Unreadable)
+	if walkErr != nil {
+		// Only the root's own error reaches here (deeper errors are recorded
+		// as Unreadable). A root that cannot be listed cannot be shown clean
+		// (PR #159 round 2: discarding this reported clean while search
+		// served a planted symlink).
+		return r, fmt.Errorf("scan brain dir: %w", walkErr)
+	}
+	return r, nil
+}
+
+// Watch rescans every interval (DefaultInterval if non-positive) until ctx
+// ends. Every symlink found is removed (the link, never its target:
+// hyperguild#157 decision), so one is readable for at most one interval.
+// Each removal is an alert; a persistent finding (a link it could not remove,
+// an unreadable dir, a scan error) alerts once per distinct state. Alerts
+// queue until Notify succeeds (see alertQueue): an outage delays them, and
+// any that do not fit the bounded queue, or are undeliverable, are counted in
+// a summary that is never dropped, so every incident is delivered or counted.
+func Watch(ctx context.Context, brainDir string, interval time.Duration, n Notifier) {
+	if interval <= 0 {
+		interval = DefaultInterval
+	}
+	t := time.NewTicker(interval)
+	defer t.Stop()
+	q := &alertQueue{}
+	reported := ""
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return
+		case <-t.C:
+		}
+		r, err := Scan(brainDir)
+		key := ""
+		if err != nil {
+			key = "cannot scan the brain dir: " + err.Error()
+		} else {
+			removed, failed := removeSymlinks(brainDir, r.Symlinks)
+			if len(removed) > 0 {
+				slog.Error("brain symlink tripwire removed symlinks", "count", len(removed))
+				q.push(fmt.Sprintf("brain symlink tripwire (hyperguild#157): removed %d symlink(s) from the brain dir: %s",
+					len(removed), Result{}.quoted(removed)))
+			}
+			key = Result{Symlinks: failed, Unreadable: r.Unreadable}.String()
+		}
+		if key != reported {
+			reported = key
+			if key != "" {
+				slog.Error("brain symlink tripwire", "finding", key)
+				q.push("brain symlink tripwire (hyperguild#157): " + key +
+					". Readers may follow symlinks out of the brain; fix them.")
+			}
+		}
+		q.flush(ctx, n)
+	}
+}
+
+// alertQueue holds alerts until Notify accepts them. It is bounded (at most
+// maxPending queued) and loses nothing from the record: every overflow and
+// every dropped message increments suppressed, sent as a summary that is
+// retried every tick and never dropped.
+//
+// A message is dropped only when the notifier rejects it permanently (an
+// error with Permanent() == true, e.g. ntfy 413). Every other failure is an
+// outage, and nothing is dropped however long it lasts (PR #160 round 2:
+// dropping after N raw failures lost the only incident of a long outage).
+// Each flush tries every queued message, so one undeliverable message cannot
+// block the others.
+type alertQueue struct {
+	items      []string
+	suppressed int
+}
+
+func (q *alertQueue) push(msg string) {
+	if len(q.items) >= maxPending {
+		q.suppressed++
+		return
+	}
+	q.items = append(q.items, msg)
+}
+
+func (q *alertQueue) flush(ctx context.Context, n Notifier) {
+	if n == nil {
+		q.items, q.suppressed = nil, 0
+		return
+	}
+	kept := q.items[:0]
+	for _, msg := range q.items {
+		err := n.Notify(ctx, msg)
+		switch {
+		case err == nil:
+		case permanent(err):
+			slog.Error("symlink tripwire alert rejected permanently; counted in the summary", "err", err)
+			q.suppressed++
+		default:
+			slog.Warn("symlink tripwire notify failed; will retry", "err", err)
+			kept = append(kept, msg)
+		}
+	}
+	q.items = kept
+	if q.suppressed > 0 {
+		msg := fmt.Sprintf("brain symlink tripwire (hyperguild#157): %d further alert(s) were suppressed or undeliverable; check the ingestion logs", q.suppressed)
+		if err := n.Notify(ctx, msg); err == nil {
+			q.suppressed = 0
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// permanent reports whether err says the message itself can never be sent.
+func permanent(err error) bool {
+	var p interface{ Permanent() bool }
+	return errors.As(err, &p) && p.Permanent()
+}
+
+// removeSymlinks unlinks each brain-relative symlink through an os.Root on
+// the brain dir, after re-checking it is still a symlink. Removing a symlink
+// never touches its target. It returns what was removed and what was not.
+func removeSymlinks(brainDir string, rels []string) (removed, failed []string) {
+	if len(rels) == 0 {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	resolved, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(brainDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, rels
+	}
+	root, err := os.OpenRoot(resolved)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, rels
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = root.Close() }()
+	for _, rel := range rels {
+		fi, err := root.Lstat(rel)
+		if err != nil || fi.Mode()&os.ModeSymlink == 0 {
+			failed = append(failed, rel)
+			continue
+		}
+		// root.Remove, not os.RemoveAll: if the link is swapped for a
+		// non-empty directory after the Lstat, Remove refuses rather than
+		// deleting it recursively, and it cannot act outside the root.
+		if err := root.Remove(rel); err != nil {
+			failed = append(failed, rel)
+			continue
+		}
+		removed = append(removed, rel)
+	}
+	return removed, failed
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,498 @@
+package symlinkguard
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// hyperguild#157: the brain dir is a Syncthing sendreceive folder and
+// Syncthing syncs symlinks; several readers follow them out of the brain.
+// Until every reader goes through an os.Root, a symlink anywhere in the brain,
+// or a directory the scan cannot read (which could hide one), is an incident.
+
+func TestScanReportsSymlinksAtEveryDepthIncludingNestedGit(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	outside := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "w", "facts", ".git"), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(brain, ".git", "objects"), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(filepath.Join(outside, "f"), filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "w", "facts", "leak.md")))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(outside, filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "dirlink")))
+	// PR #159 review: only the ROOT .git is skipped; a nested .git is not
+	// special to the brain readers, which walk into it.
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(filepath.Join(outside, "g"), filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "w", "facts", ".git", "leak.md")))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(outside, filepath.Join(brain, ".git", "objects", "alt")))
+
+	r, err := Scan(brain)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.ElementsMatch(t, []string{"wiki/w/facts/leak.md", "wiki/dirlink", "wiki/w/facts/.git/leak.md"}, r.Symlinks)
+	assert.Empty(t, r.Unreadable)
+}
+
+// PR #159 review: WalkDir stopped at the first unreadable directory and the
+// startup check passed, while search (which keeps walking) served a planted
+// symlink. Scan now records the unreadable dir and keeps going.
+func TestScanReportsUnreadableDirsAndKeepsWalkingPastThem(t *testing.T) {
+	if os.Geteuid() == 0 {
+		t.Skip("root reads mode-000 directories")
+	}
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	locked := filepath.Join(brain, "aaa")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(locked, 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Chmod(locked, 0o000))
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = os.Chmod(locked, 0o755) })
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), filepath.Join(brain, "zzz-planted")))
+
+	r, err := Scan(brain)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, []string{"aaa"}, r.Unreadable)
+	assert.Equal(t, []string{"zzz-planted"}, r.Symlinks, "the walk continues past the unreadable dir")
+}
+
+func TestScanResolvesASymlinkedRootAndReportsSymlinkedEntriesInsideIt(t *testing.T) {
+	real := t.TempDir()
+	link := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "brain")
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(real, link))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(real, "n.md"), []byte("x"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), filepath.Join(real, "inner")))
+	r, err := Scan(link)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, []string{"inner"}, r.Symlinks)
+}
+
+func TestScanOfAMissingRootIsErrNotExist(t *testing.T) {
+	_, err := Scan(filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "nope"))
+	assert.True(t, errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist), "got %v", err)
+}
+
+type recNotifier struct {
+	mu   sync.Mutex
+	msgs []string
+	fail int // fail the first N calls
+}
+
+func (r *recNotifier) Notify(_ context.Context, m string) error {
+	r.mu.Lock()
+	defer r.mu.Unlock()
+	r.msgs = append(r.msgs, m)
+	if r.fail > 0 {
+		r.fail--
+		return errors.New("ntfy down")
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (r *recNotifier) count() int { r.mu.Lock(); defer r.mu.Unlock(); return len(r.msgs) }
+
+func TestWatchNotifiesOncePerDistinctSetAndAgainForANewSet(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	n := &recNotifier{}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+	go Watch(ctx, brain, 10*time.Millisecond, n)
+
+	time.Sleep(50 * time.Millisecond)
+	assert.Zero(t, n.count(), "a clean brain raises nothing")
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), filepath.Join(brain, "first")))
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool { return n.count() == 1 }, 2*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond)
+	time.Sleep(60 * time.Millisecond)
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, n.count(), "the same set is reported once, not every tick")
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), filepath.Join(brain, "second")))
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool { return n.count() == 2 }, 2*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond)
+}
+
+// PR #159 review: last was recorded before Notify, so an alert lost to an
+// ntfy outage was never retried while the symlink stayed.
+func TestWatchRetriesAnAlertThatFailedToSend(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), filepath.Join(brain, "planted")))
+	n := &recNotifier{fail: 2}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+	go Watch(ctx, brain, 10*time.Millisecond, n)
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool { return n.count() == 3 }, 2*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond)
+	time.Sleep(60 * time.Millisecond)
+	assert.Equal(t, 3, n.count(), "after one successful send, no more")
+}
+
+func TestWatchAlertsOnAnUnreadableDir(t *testing.T) {
+	if os.Geteuid() == 0 {
+		t.Skip("root reads mode-000 directories")
+	}
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	locked := filepath.Join(brain, "locked")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(locked, 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Chmod(locked, 0o000))
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = os.Chmod(locked, 0o755) })
+	n := &recNotifier{}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+	go Watch(ctx, brain, 10*time.Millisecond, n)
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool { return n.count() == 1 }, 2*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond)
+	assert.Contains(t, n.msgs[0], "locked")
+}
+
+// PR #159 review: a non-positive interval panicked time.NewTicker inside the
+// goroutine and crashlooped the server.
+func TestWatchToleratesANonPositiveInterval(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	done := make(chan struct{})
+	go func() { Watch(ctx, brain, 0, nil); close(done) }()
+	cancel()
+	select {
+	case <-done:
+	case <-time.After(2 * time.Second):
+		t.Fatal("Watch did not return on cancel")
+	}
+}
+
+// PR #159 round 2: a brain root that can be entered but not listed (mode
+// 0100) made WalkDir fail at the root; the error was discarded and Scan
+// reported clean, while search (which goes straight into wiki/) still served
+// a planted symlink. A root that cannot be listed is now an error.
+func TestScanOfAnUnlistableRootIsAnError(t *testing.T) {
+	if os.Geteuid() == 0 {
+		t.Skip("root lists mode-0100 directories")
+	}
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(brain, "wiki"), 0o755))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "leak.md")))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Chmod(brain, 0o100))
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = os.Chmod(brain, 0o755) })
+	_, err := Scan(brain)
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	assert.False(t, errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist), "an unlistable root is not a missing root")
+}
+
+// The same set that disappears and comes back is reported again.
+func TestWatchReportsASetAgainAfterItWasCleared(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	link := filepath.Join(brain, "planted")
+	n := &recNotifier{}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+	go Watch(ctx, brain, 10*time.Millisecond, n)
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), link))
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool { return n.count() == 1 }, 2*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond)
+	// The tripwire removed it; planting it again is a new event.
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool { _, err := os.Lstat(link); return os.IsNotExist(err) }, 2*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond)
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), link))
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool { return n.count() == 2 }, 2*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond)
+}
+
+// hyperguild#157 decision: the runtime tripwire removes a symlink it finds
+// (the link, never its target), so it is readable for at most one interval
+// instead of until a human acts, and the alert says what was removed.
+func TestWatchRemovesAnOutsideFileLinkButNotItsTargetOrRegularFiles(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	outside := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "target.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(outside, []byte("keep me"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(brain, "wiki"), 0o755))
+	link := filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "leak.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(outside, link))
+	regular := filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "note.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(regular, []byte("note"), 0o644))
+
+	n := &recNotifier{}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+	go Watch(ctx, brain, 10*time.Millisecond, n)
+
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool {
+		_, err := os.Lstat(link)
+		return os.IsNotExist(err)
+	}, 2*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond, "the symlink is removed")
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool { return n.count() >= 1 }, 2*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond)
+	b, err := os.ReadFile(outside)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, "keep me", string(b), "the target is untouched")
+	b, err = os.ReadFile(regular)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, "note", string(b), "regular files are untouched")
+	n.mu.Lock()
+	defer n.mu.Unlock()
+	assert.Contains(t, n.msgs[0], "removed")
+	assert.Contains(t, n.msgs[0], "wiki/leak.md")
+}
+
+func TestDefaultIntervalIsThirtySeconds(t *testing.T) {
+	assert.Equal(t, 30*time.Second, DefaultInterval)
+}
+
+// PR #160 review: the Lstat re-check and the os.Root confinement in
+// removeSymlinks had no test. Anything that is not a symlink inside the brain
+// is reported failed and nothing is deleted.
+func TestRemoveSymlinksRefusesNonSymlinksEscapesAndPathsThroughLinks(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "real"), 0o755))
+	regular := filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "note.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(regular, []byte("note"), 0o644))
+	inLinked := filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "real", "x.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(inLinked, []byte("x"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "real"), filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "linkdir")))
+	outside := filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(brain), "outside-157.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(outside, []byte("o"), 0o644))
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = os.Remove(outside) })
+
+	removed, failed := removeSymlinks(brain, []string{
+		"wiki/note.md", "wiki/linkdir/x.md", "../outside-157.md", "wiki/missing.md",
+	})
+	assert.Empty(t, removed)
+	assert.ElementsMatch(t, []string{"wiki/note.md", "wiki/linkdir/x.md", "../outside-157.md", "wiki/missing.md"}, failed)
+	for _, p := range []string{regular, inLinked, outside} {
+		_, err := os.Stat(p)
+		assert.NoError(t, err, "%s must not be deleted", p)
+	}
+}
+
+// Dir targets and in-brain targets survive too, not only an outside file.
+func TestWatchRemovesDirAndInBrainLinksButNotTheirTargets(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	outsideDir := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(outsideDir, "keep.md"), []byte("keep"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(brain, "wiki"), 0o755))
+	inBrain := filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "target.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(inBrain, []byte("t"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(outsideDir, filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "dirlink")))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(inBrain, filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "inlink.md")))
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+	go Watch(ctx, brain, 10*time.Millisecond, nil)
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool {
+		r, err := Scan(brain)
+		return err == nil && len(r.Symlinks) == 0
+	}, 2*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond)
+	for _, p := range []string{filepath.Join(outsideDir, "keep.md"), inBrain} {
+		_, err := os.Stat(p)
+		assert.NoError(t, err, "%s must survive", p)
+	}
+}
+
+// PR #160 review: the planter chooses the paths. An alert names at most
+// maxPathsPerAlert of them and counts the rest, so its size stays bounded.
+func TestWatchAlertNamesBoundedPathsAndCountsTheRest(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	for i := 0; i < 50; i++ {
+		require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), filepath.Join(brain, strings.Repeat("n", 100)+strconv.Itoa(i))))
+	}
+	n := &recNotifier{}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+	go Watch(ctx, brain, 10*time.Millisecond, n)
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool { return n.count() >= 1 }, 2*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond)
+	n.mu.Lock()
+	msg := n.msgs[0]
+	n.mu.Unlock()
+	assert.Contains(t, msg, "removed 50 symlink(s)")
+	assert.Contains(t, msg, "and 40 more")
+	assert.Less(t, len(msg), 2500, "alert size is bounded regardless of how many links were planted")
+}
+
+// rejectNotifier refuses every message containing a marker, forever.
+type rejectNotifier struct {
+	recNotifier
+	reject string
+}
+
+// permanentErr is a rejection the notifier says can never succeed (like ntfy 413).
+type permanentErr struct{}
+
+func (permanentErr) Error() string   { return "413 payload too large" }
+func (permanentErr) Permanent() bool { return true }
+
+func (r *rejectNotifier) Notify(ctx context.Context, m string) error {
+	if strings.Contains(m, r.reject) {
+		r.mu.Lock()
+		r.msgs = append(r.msgs, "REJECTED")
+		r.mu.Unlock()
+		return permanentErr{}
+	}
+	return r.recNotifier.Notify(ctx, m)
+}
+
+// PR #160 review: one message the server will never accept blocked every
+// later alert forever (head-of-line). It is dropped after maxAttempts.
+func TestWatchDropsAMessageThatNeverSendsSoLaterAlertsFlow(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	n := &rejectNotifier{reject: "POISON"}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+	go Watch(ctx, brain, 10*time.Millisecond, n)
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), filepath.Join(brain, "POISON")))
+	time.Sleep(30 * time.Millisecond)
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), filepath.Join(brain, "later")))
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool {
+		n.mu.Lock()
+		defer n.mu.Unlock()
+		for _, m := range n.msgs {
+			if strings.Contains(m, "later") {
+				return true
+			}
+		}
+		return false
+	}, 3*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond, "a later alert is delivered despite a poison message")
+}
+
+// toggleNotifier fails while down is set.
+type toggleNotifier struct {
+	recNotifier
+	down atomic.Bool
+}
+
+func (r *toggleNotifier) Notify(ctx context.Context, m string) error {
+	if r.down.Load() {
+		return errors.New("ntfy down")
+	}
+	return r.recNotifier.Notify(ctx, m)
+}
+
+// PR #160 review: an outage queued one message per removal, unbounded. The
+// queue holds at most maxPending messages; the rest become one summary.
+func TestWatchQueueIsBoundedDuringAnOutage(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	n := &toggleNotifier{}
+	n.down.Store(true)
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+	go Watch(ctx, brain, 5*time.Millisecond, n)
+	for i := 0; i < 30; i++ {
+		link := filepath.Join(brain, "p"+strconv.Itoa(i))
+		require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), link))
+		require.Eventually(t, func() bool { _, err := os.Lstat(link); return os.IsNotExist(err) }, 2*time.Second, 2*time.Millisecond)
+	}
+	n.down.Store(false)
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool { return n.count() >= 1 }, 2*time.Second, 5*time.Millisecond)
+	time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
+	assert.LessOrEqual(t, n.count(), maxPending+1, "queued alerts plus at most one suppression summary")
+	n.mu.Lock()
+	defer n.mu.Unlock()
+	found := false
+	for _, m := range n.msgs {
+		if strings.Contains(m, "suppressed") {
+			found = true
+		}
+	}
+	assert.True(t, found, "suppressed alerts are counted in a summary")
+}
+
+// Within the bound, every alert queued during an outage is delivered after
+// it, each naming its own removal (PR #160 review: truncating the queue after
+// the first send stayed green).
+func TestWatchDeliversEveryQueuedAlertAfterAShortOutage(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	n := &toggleNotifier{}
+	n.down.Store(true)
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+	go Watch(ctx, brain, 5*time.Millisecond, n)
+	for _, name := range []string{"qa", "qb", "qc"} {
+		link := filepath.Join(brain, name)
+		require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), link))
+		require.Eventually(t, func() bool { _, err := os.Lstat(link); return os.IsNotExist(err) }, 2*time.Second, 2*time.Millisecond)
+	}
+	n.down.Store(false)
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool { return n.count() == 3 }, 2*time.Second, 5*time.Millisecond)
+	n.mu.Lock()
+	defer n.mu.Unlock()
+	for i, name := range []string{"qa", "qb", "qc"} {
+		assert.Contains(t, n.msgs[i], strconv.Quote(name))
+	}
+}
+
+// PR #160 round 2: dropping after N failures could not tell a poison message
+// from an outage, so a 15-minute outage silently lost the only incident. A
+// message is only dropped when it keeps failing while others send; through
+// an outage nothing is dropped, however long.
+func TestWatchLosesNoAlertThroughALongOutage(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	n := &toggleNotifier{}
+	n.down.Store(true)
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+	go Watch(ctx, brain, 2*time.Millisecond, n)
+	link := filepath.Join(brain, "only-incident")
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), link))
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool { _, err := os.Lstat(link); return os.IsNotExist(err) }, 2*time.Second, 2*time.Millisecond)
+	time.Sleep(200 * time.Millisecond) // ~100 ticks of outage, far past any attempt limit
+	n.down.Store(false)
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool { return n.count() >= 1 }, 2*time.Second, 5*time.Millisecond)
+	n.mu.Lock()
+	defer n.mu.Unlock()
+	assert.Contains(t, n.msgs[0], strconv.Quote("only-incident"))
+}
+
+// Every removal is either delivered or counted in the suppression summary:
+// none disappears from the record (round 2: 74 of 300 were in neither).
+func TestWatchAccountsForEveryRemovalDuringAnOutage(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	n := &toggleNotifier{}
+	n.down.Store(true)
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+	go Watch(ctx, brain, 2*time.Millisecond, n)
+	const plants = 25
+	for i := 0; i < plants; i++ {
+		link := filepath.Join(brain, "acct"+strconv.Itoa(i))
+		require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), link))
+		require.Eventually(t, func() bool { _, err := os.Lstat(link); return os.IsNotExist(err) }, 2*time.Second, 1*time.Millisecond)
+	}
+	n.down.Store(false)
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool {
+		n.mu.Lock()
+		defer n.mu.Unlock()
+		for _, m := range n.msgs {
+			if strings.Contains(m, "suppressed") {
+				return true
+			}
+		}
+		return false
+	}, 2*time.Second, 5*time.Millisecond)
+	time.Sleep(50 * time.Millisecond)
+	n.mu.Lock()
+	defer n.mu.Unlock()
+	delivered, counted := 0, 0
+	for _, m := range n.msgs {
+		if strings.Contains(m, "removed 1 symlink(s)") {
+			delivered++
+		}
+		if i := strings.Index(m, "): "); i >= 0 && strings.Contains(m, "suppressed") {
+			_, _ = fmt.Sscanf(m[i+3:], "%d", &counted)
+		}
+	}
+	assert.Equal(t, plants, delivered+counted, "delivered %d + counted %d must equal %d removals", delivered, counted, plants)
+}
+
+// A poison message is still dropped (others send while it fails), and the
+// drop is counted in the summary.
+func TestWatchDropsAPoisonMessageAndCountsIt(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	n := &rejectNotifier{reject: "POISON"}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+	go Watch(ctx, brain, 5*time.Millisecond, n)
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), filepath.Join(brain, "POISON")))
+	time.Sleep(20 * time.Millisecond)
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), filepath.Join(brain, "fine")))
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool {
+		n.mu.Lock()
+		defer n.mu.Unlock()
+		for _, m := range n.msgs {
+			if strings.Contains(m, "1 further alert(s)") {
+				return true
+			}
+		}
+		return false
+	}, 3*time.Second, 5*time.Millisecond, "the dropped poison alert is counted in a summary")
+}
@@ -2,12 +2,15 @@ package vectorstore

 import (
 	"context"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"io/fs"
 	"log/slog"
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
+	"path"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brainfs"
 )

 // Embedder produces dense vectors. The embed package's Client satisfies
@@ -90,31 +93,38 @@ func Sync(ctx context.Context, brainDir string, store Store, embedder Embedder)
 	}
 	seenParents := make(map[string]struct{})

+	// Through the brain root, regular files only (hyperguild#157): the brain
+	// is a Syncthing folder, and os.ReadFile followed a synced symlink into
+	// the embeddings and blocked on a FIFO.
+	bfs, err := brainfs.Open(brainDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return res, fmt.Errorf("open brain: %w", err)
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = bfs.Close() }()
+
 	for _, sub := range scanDirs {
-		root := filepath.Join(brainDir, sub)
-		if _, err := os.Stat(root); os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		if _, err := bfs.Lstat(sub); errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
 			continue
 		}
-
-		err = filepath.WalkDir(root, func(path string, d os.DirEntry, err error) error {
-			if err != nil {
-				return err
+		// Any other walk error, including a scan root that is a symlink,
+		// aborts the run below.
+		var walkErr error
+		onErr := func(rel string, err error) {
+			if walkErr == nil {
+				walkErr = fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", rel, err)
 			}
-			if d.IsDir() || !strings.HasSuffix(path, ".md") || d.Name() == "_index.md" {
+		}
+		err = bfs.WalkRegular(sub, func(relSlash string) error {
+			if !strings.HasSuffix(relSlash, ".md") || path.Base(relSlash) == "_index.md" {
 				return nil
 			}
-			rel, err := filepath.Rel(brainDir, path)
-			if err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-			relSlash := filepath.ToSlash(rel)
 			seenParents[relSlash] = struct{}{}

 			if ps, ok := parents[relSlash]; ok {
 				// File already has chunks in the store. Re-embed only when
 				// the file has been edited since the oldest chunk was
 				// written. Tolerate clock skew with a sub-second grace.
-				info, statErr := d.Info()
+				info, statErr := bfs.Lstat(relSlash)
 				if statErr != nil {
 					res.Errors = append(res.Errors, fmt.Errorf("stat %s: %w", relSlash, statErr))
 					return nil
@@ -132,7 +142,7 @@ func Sync(ctx context.Context, brainDir string, store Store, embedder Embedder)
 				}
 			}

-			content, readErr := os.ReadFile(path)
+			content, readErr := bfs.ReadRegular(relSlash)
 			if readErr != nil {
 				res.Errors = append(res.Errors, fmt.Errorf("read %s: %w", relSlash, readErr))
 				return nil
@@ -151,7 +161,12 @@ func Sync(ctx context.Context, brainDir string, store Store, embedder Embedder)
 				res.Added++
 			}
 			return nil
-		})
+		}, onErr)
+		if err == nil {
+			err = walkErr
+		}
+		// Abort before the delete pass: an incomplete walk would leave
+		// seenParents short and delete chunks of files that still exist.
 		if err != nil {
 			return res, fmt.Errorf("walk %s: %w", sub, err)
 		}
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+package vectorstore_test
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/brainfs/brainfstest"
+	"github.com/mathiasbq/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/vectorstore"
+)
+
+// recordingEmbedder keeps every text it was asked to embed.
+type recordingEmbedder struct {
+	mu    sync.Mutex
+	texts []string
+}
+
+func (e *recordingEmbedder) Embed(_ context.Context, text string) ([]float32, error) {
+	e.mu.Lock()
+	defer e.mu.Unlock()
+	e.texts = append(e.texts, text)
+	return []float32{1}, nil
+}
+
+func (e *recordingEmbedder) all() string {
+	e.mu.Lock()
+	defer e.mu.Unlock()
+	return strings.Join(e.texts, "\n")
+}
+
+// hyperguild#157 slice 3: Sync walked wiki/ and knowledge/ and read each .md
+// with os.ReadFile, so a symlinked note had its target embedded and served by
+// semantic search, and a FIFO stalled the sync.
+func TestSyncRefusesSymlinkedNotesAndSurvivesSwapRaces(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	writeNote(t, brain, "wiki/w/facts/ok.md", "inside note")
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(brainfstest.Outside(t), filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "w", "facts", "leak.md")))
+
+	emb := &recordingEmbedder{}
+	store := &stubStore{}
+	_, err := vectorstore.Sync(context.Background(), brain, store, emb)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, emb.all(), "inside note", "positive control: the regular note is embedded")
+	assert.NotContains(t, emb.all(), brainfstest.Sentinel)
+	for p := range store.upserts {
+		assert.NotContains(t, p, "leak.md")
+	}
+
+	p := filepath.Join(brain, "knowledge", "r.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(p), 0o755))
+	sync := func() string {
+		e := &recordingEmbedder{}
+		_, _ = vectorstore.Sync(context.Background(), brain, &stubStore{}, e)
+		return e.all()
+	}
+	brainfstest.AssertNoLeak(t, p, "inside", 1500*time.Millisecond, sync)
+	brainfstest.AssertNoHang(t, p, "inside", 1500*time.Millisecond, 6*time.Second, func() { _ = sync() })
+}
+
+// Chunks embedded from a symlinked note before this fix are deleted: the
+// note is no longer seen, so the delete pass drops its rows.
+func TestSyncDeletesChunksOfASymlinkedNote(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	writeNote(t, brain, "wiki/w/facts/ok.md", "inside note")
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(brainfstest.Outside(t), filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "w", "facts", "leak.md")))
+	store := &stubStore{known: map[string]time.Time{
+		"wiki/w/facts/leak.md#0001": {},
+		"wiki/w/facts/ok.md#0001":   {},
+	}}
+	_, err := vectorstore.Sync(context.Background(), brain, store, &recordingEmbedder{})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, []string{"wiki/w/facts/leak.md#0001"}, store.deletes)
+}
+
+// A walk error aborts Sync before the delete pass, so chunks of files the
+// walk could not see are kept.
+func TestSyncAbortsBeforeDeletingWhenASubdirIsUnreadable(t *testing.T) {
+	if os.Geteuid() == 0 {
+		t.Skip("root ignores directory permissions")
+	}
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	writeNote(t, brain, "wiki/w/facts/ok.md", "inside note")
+	locked := filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "w")
+	require.NoError(t, os.Chmod(locked, 0o000))
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = os.Chmod(locked, 0o755) })
+	store := &stubStore{known: map[string]time.Time{"wiki/w/facts/ok.md#0001": {}}}
+	_, err := vectorstore.Sync(context.Background(), brain, store, &recordingEmbedder{})
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+	assert.Empty(t, store.deletes)
+}
+
+// A scan root that is a symlink inside the brain (knowledge -> .) was
+// followed by fs.WalkDir, aliasing raw/, sessions/ and root files into the
+// index. Sync now aborts on it, before embedding or deleting anything.
+func TestSyncAbortsOnASymlinkedScanRoot(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	writeNote(t, brain, "wiki/w/a.md", "wiki note")
+	writeNote(t, brain, "sessions/s1.md", "session note")
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(".", filepath.Join(brain, "knowledge")))
+	emb := &recordingEmbedder{}
+	store := &stubStore{known: map[string]time.Time{"wiki/w/a.md#0001": {}}}
+	_, err := vectorstore.Sync(context.Background(), brain, store, emb)
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+	assert.NotContains(t, emb.all(), "session note")
+	for p := range store.upserts {
+		assert.False(t, strings.HasPrefix(p, "knowledge/"), "upserted %s", p)
+	}
+	assert.Empty(t, store.deletes)
+}
+
+// A missing scan root is skipped; the other root still syncs.
+func TestSyncSkipsAMissingScanRoot(t *testing.T) {
+	brain := t.TempDir()
+	writeNote(t, brain, "wiki/w/a.md", "wiki note")
+	emb := &recordingEmbedder{}
+	_, err := vectorstore.Sync(context.Background(), brain, &stubStore{}, emb)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, emb.all(), "wiki note")
+}
@@ -48,8 +48,25 @@ func Start(ctx context.Context, cfg Config) {
 func processDir(ctx context.Context, cfg Config, date string) []error {
 	rawDir := filepath.Join(cfg.BrainDir, "raw")

+	// Every read goes through an os.Root on raw/ (hyperguild#153): raw/ is
+	// writable via Syncthing, and a file swapped for a symlink between the walk
+	// and the read must not lead out of it. A symlinked raw/ is refused.
+	if fi, lerr := os.Lstat(rawDir); lerr != nil {
+		if os.IsNotExist(lerr) {
+			return nil
+		}
+		return []error{fmt.Errorf("stat raw dir: %w", lerr)}
+	} else if fi.Mode()&os.ModeSymlink != 0 || !fi.IsDir() {
+		return []error{fmt.Errorf("raw dir %s is not a real directory; refusing to ingest from it", rawDir)}
+	}
+	root, err := os.OpenRoot(rawDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return []error{fmt.Errorf("open raw root: %w", err)}
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = root.Close() }()
+
 	var errs []error
-	err := filepath.WalkDir(rawDir, func(path string, d os.DirEntry, err error) error {
+	err = filepath.WalkDir(rawDir, func(path string, d os.DirEntry, err error) error {
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
@@ -86,6 +103,10 @@ func processDir(ctx context.Context, cfg Config, date string) []error {
 		if strings.HasPrefix(d.Name(), "tunnel-candidates-") {
 			return nil
 		}
+		// Only regular files are notes; a symlink's target may be anywhere.
+		if !d.Type().IsRegular() {
+			return nil
+		}

 		// Skip files that have already been processed or permanently failed.
 		if _, err := os.Stat(path + ".processed"); err == nil {
@@ -95,7 +116,7 @@ func processDir(ctx context.Context, cfg Config, date string) []error {
 			return nil
 		}

-		if err := processFile(ctx, cfg, path, date); err != nil {
+		if err := processFile(ctx, cfg, root, rawDir, path, date); err != nil {
 			errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("process %s: %w", filepath.Base(path), err))
 		}
 		return nil
@@ -109,11 +130,15 @@ func processDir(ctx context.Context, cfg Config, date string) []error {
 // processFile reads a file, calls pipeline.Run, copies it to processed/ or failed/,
 // and writes a marker file next to the original so the watcher skips it next poll.
 // The original file is never deleted, keeping Syncthing-connected vaults (e.g. Obsidian) intact.
-func processFile(ctx context.Context, cfg Config, path, date string) error {
+func processFile(ctx context.Context, cfg Config, root *os.Root, rawDir, path, date string) error {
 	filename := filepath.Base(path)
 	source := deriveSource(filename)
+	rel, err := filepath.Rel(rawDir, path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("relative path: %w", err)
+	}

-	content, err := extract.Text(path)
+	content, err := extract.TextIn(root, rel)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("extract text: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -126,7 +151,7 @@ func processFile(ctx context.Context, cfg Config, path, date string) error {
 			return fmt.Errorf("mkdir failed dir: %w", mkErr)
 		}
 		dest := filepath.Join(failedDir, filename)
-		if cpErr := copyFile(path, dest); cpErr != nil {
+		if cpErr := copyFromRoot(root, rel, dest); cpErr != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("copy to failed: %w", cpErr)
 		}
 		if mkErr := os.WriteFile(path+".failed", []byte(runErr.Error()), 0o644); mkErr != nil {
@@ -154,7 +179,7 @@ func processFile(ctx context.Context, cfg Config, path, date string) error {
 		base := strings.TrimSuffix(filename, ext)
 		dest = filepath.Join(processedDir, base+"-"+time.Now().UTC().Format("150405")+ext)
 	}
-	if err := copyFile(path, dest); err != nil {
+	if err := copyFromRoot(root, rel, dest); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("copy to processed: %w", err)
 	}
 	if err := os.WriteFile(path+".processed", []byte(date), 0o644); err != nil {
@@ -165,26 +190,6 @@ func processFile(ctx context.Context, cfg Config, path, date string) error {
 	return nil
 }

-// copyFile copies src to dst, creating dst if it doesn't exist.
-func copyFile(src, dst string) error {
-	in, err := os.Open(src)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("open src: %w", err)
-	}
-	defer in.Close() //nolint:errcheck
-
-	out, err := os.Create(dst)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("create dst: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	if _, err := io.Copy(out, in); err != nil {
-		out.Close() //nolint:errcheck
-		return fmt.Errorf("copy: %w", err)
-	}
-	return out.Close()
-}
-
 // deriveSource turns a filename into a human-readable source name.
 // "shape-up-book.md" → "Shape Up Book"
 func deriveSource(filename string) string {
@@ -221,3 +226,30 @@ func appendWatcherLog(brainDir, filename string, runErr error, date string) erro
 	}
 	return f.Close()
 }
+
+// copyFromRoot archives a raw/ file read through the root, refusing anything
+// that is not a regular file, so a swapped-in symlink cannot copy an outside
+// file into raw/processed/ or raw/failed/ (hyperguild#153).
+func copyFromRoot(root *os.Root, rel, dst string) error {
+	fi, err := root.Lstat(rel)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if !fi.Mode().IsRegular() {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s: not a regular file", rel)
+	}
+	in, _, err := extract.OpenRegular(root, rel)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = in.Close() }()
+	out, err := os.Create(dst)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if _, err := io.Copy(out, in); err != nil {
+		_ = out.Close()
+		return err
+	}
+	return out.Close()
+}
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"syscall"
 	"testing"
 	"time"

@@ -282,3 +286,107 @@ func TestProcessDir_SkipsTunnelCandidateFiles(t *testing.T) {
 	_, err = os.Stat(filepath.Join(brainDir, "raw", "processed", date, "tunnel-candidates-2026-07-19.md"))
 	assert.True(t, os.IsNotExist(err), "tunnel-candidates file should not be copied to processed/")
 }
+
+// hyperguild#153: raw/ is writable via Syncthing, and the watcher ingests
+// whatever lands there with no API call at all. WalkDir yields symlinked
+// files, and extract.Text followed them, so a symlink to any pod-readable
+// file would be extracted into the brain. The watcher now ingests only
+// regular files, read through an os.Root on raw/.
+func TestProcessDir_IngestsTheRealNoteAndSkipsTheSymlinkBesideIt(t *testing.T) {
+	brainDir := setupBrainDir(t)
+	outside := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "secret.md")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(outside, []byte("SENTINEL-153-WATCHER"), 0o644))
+	// "a-" sorts before "real": a walk that stopped at the first symlink
+	// (filepath.SkipAll — one synced link halting all ingestion) would fail
+	// the call count below (PR #156 review).
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(outside, filepath.Join(brainDir, "raw", "a-leak.md")))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(brainDir, "raw", "real.md"), []byte("real note"), 0o644))
+
+	var sawSentinel bool
+	calls := 0
+	cfg := Config{BrainDir: brainDir, Interval: time.Hour, Pipeline: pipeline.Config{
+		Complete: func(_ context.Context, _, user string) (string, error) {
+			calls++
+			if strings.Contains(user, "SENTINEL-153-WATCHER") {
+				sawSentinel = true
+			}
+			b, _ := json.Marshal([]pipeline.RawPage{{Title: "X", Type: "source", Subtype: "article", Content: "## S\n\nx\n"}})
+			return string(b), nil
+		},
+		Schema: "# Schema",
+	}}
+	errs := processDir(context.Background(), cfg, time.Now().UTC().Format("2006-01-02"))
+	assert.Empty(t, errs)
+	assert.False(t, sawSentinel, "the symlink target must never reach the pipeline")
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, calls, "exactly the real note is ingested; the symlink is not a note")
+}
+
+// A symlinked raw/ is refused outright: os.OpenRoot would otherwise follow
+// it and confine reads to wherever it points.
+func TestProcessDir_RefusesASymlinkedRawDir(t *testing.T) {
+	brainDir := t.TempDir()
+	elsewhere := t.TempDir()
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(elsewhere, "x.md"), []byte("SENTINEL-153-RAWLINK"), 0o644))
+	require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(elsewhere, filepath.Join(brainDir, "raw")))
+	calls := 0
+	cfg := Config{BrainDir: brainDir, Interval: time.Hour, Pipeline: pipeline.Config{
+		Complete: func(context.Context, string, string) (string, error) { calls++; return "[]", nil },
+		Schema:   "# Schema",
+	}}
+	errs := processDir(context.Background(), cfg, time.Now().UTC().Format("2006-01-02"))
+	assert.NotEmpty(t, errs, "a symlinked raw/ must be reported, not silently ingested")
+	assert.Zero(t, calls)
+}
+
+// PR #156: a FIFO swapped into raw/ between the watcher's checks and its
+// read or archive copy must not hang the watcher, which runs unattended.
+func TestProcessDir_DoesNotHangUnderAFIFOSwapRace(t *testing.T) {
+	brainDir := setupBrainDir(t)
+	raw := filepath.Join(brainDir, "raw")
+	var stop atomic.Bool
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	wg.Add(1)
+	// Awaited before t.TempDir's cleanup (hyperguild#162).
+	t.Cleanup(func() { stop.Store(true); wg.Wait() })
+	go func() {
+		defer wg.Done()
+		for i := 0; !stop.Load(); i++ {
+			tmp := filepath.Join(raw, ".swap")
+			_ = os.Remove(tmp)
+			if i%2 == 0 {
+				_ = os.WriteFile(tmp, []byte("x"), 0o644)
+			} else {
+				_ = syscall.Mkfifo(tmp, 0o644)
+			}
+			_ = os.Rename(tmp, filepath.Join(raw, "r.md"))
+		}
+	}()
+	cfg := Config{BrainDir: brainDir, Interval: time.Hour, Pipeline: pipeline.Config{
+		Complete: func(context.Context, string, string) (string, error) {
+			b, _ := json.Marshal([]pipeline.RawPage{{Title: "R", Type: "source", Subtype: "article", Content: "## S\n\nx\n"}})
+			return string(b), nil
+		},
+		Schema: "# Schema",
+	}}
+	var iters atomic.Int64
+	done := make(chan struct{})
+	go func() {
+		for deadline := time.Now().Add(1500 * time.Millisecond); time.Now().Before(deadline); {
+			_ = os.Remove(filepath.Join(raw, "r.md.processed"))
+			_ = os.Remove(filepath.Join(raw, "r.md.failed"))
+			_ = processDir(context.Background(), cfg, "2026-10-03")
+			iters.Add(1)
+		}
+		close(done)
+	}()
+	select {
+	case <-done:
+		stop.Store(true)
+	case <-time.After(8 * time.Second):
+		stop.Store(true)
+		if f, err := os.OpenFile(filepath.Join(raw, "r.md"), os.O_WRONLY|syscall.O_NONBLOCK, 0); err == nil {
+			_ = f.Close()
+		}
+		t.Fatalf("the watcher hung on a swapped-in FIFO after %d iterations", iters.Load())
+	}
+}
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"log/slog"
 	"net/http"
+	"os"
 	"strings"
 )

@@ -42,6 +43,10 @@ func Query(ctx context.Context, baseURL, query string, limit int) (string, error
 		return "", nil
 	}
 	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+	// The REST API requires a bearer token since hyperguild#149.
+	if tok := os.Getenv("BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN"); tok != "" {
+		req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+tok)
+	}

 	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -65,3 +65,18 @@ func TestQueryUnavailableServerReturnsEmpty(t *testing.T) {
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	assert.Empty(t, result)
 }
+
+// hyperguild#149: the REST API requires a bearer token.
+func TestQuerySendsBrainMCPToken(t *testing.T) {
+	var auth string
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		auth = r.Header.Get("Authorization")
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"results":[]}`))
+	}))
+	defer srv.Close()
+	t.Setenv("BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN", "lib-test-token")
+	_, _ = brain.Query(context.Background(), srv.URL, "x", 1)
+	if auth != "Bearer lib-test-token" {
+		t.Fatalf("Authorization = %q, want the bearer token", auth)
+	}
+}
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ if [ "$FORCE" = false ]; then
    while IFS= read -r _match; do
      _lineno="${_match%%:*}"
      _content="${_match#*:}"
-      _token=$(printf '%s' "$_content" | grep -o '{{[^}]*}}' | head -1)
+      _token=$(head -1 < <(grep -o '{{[^}]*}}' <<<"$_content"))
      echo "  $PROJECT_FILE:$_lineno: unfilled placeholder $_token" >&2
    done <<< "$_placeholders"
    echo "" >&2
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mathiasandClaude Opus 5.5	87fa28e2c8	fix(update,session): brain_update and session_log confine caller paths (#169 ) CI / Lint / Test / Vet (pull_request) Successful in 45s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (pull_request) Skipped Details Review round 1 on PR #170 found two more handlers with the #169 class of bug (verified by execution): - brain_update resolved its caller path with resolveWithin, a lexical containment check: any brain file could be superseded (classification.yaml, raw/, sessions/), and a final symlink was written through. UpdateNote now resolves like brain_edit (notes.Resolve, ScopeNotes: knowledge/ and wiki/ .md notes), and reads and rewrites through brainfs (ReadRegular, WriteRegular). - session_log joined the caller's session_id onto the sessions dir and opened it O_CREATE\|O_APPEND: an id with path segments created or appended a .jsonl file anywhere the pod could write. The id must now be a plain name (^[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9._-]{0,127}$, which every live session file matches), and the open adds O_NOFOLLOW\|O_NONBLOCK. Read checks the id too. - Tunnel tests: the .txt case now names an existing file (it failed on "missing" before), the symlink test adds an in-brain target, and the FIFO comment no longer claims the handle check is the only guard. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-10-04 22:38:08 +02:00
mathiasandClaude Opus 5.5	9eb3d2456d	fix(tunnel): brain_tunnel cannot write outside the wiki or through symlinks CI / Lint / Test / Vet (pull_request) Successful in 52s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (pull_request) Skipped Details brain_tunnel passes caller-supplied source and target paths to WriteTunnel, which checked only the first segments ("wiki/<wing>/...") and joined them onto the brain dir. "wiki/b/x/../../../../tmp/f.md" resolved outside the brain, and appendSeeAlso read and rewrote that file (verified by execution): any MCP token holder could append to any existing file the pod user can write, inside the brain (raw/, sessions/, classification.yaml) or outside it. - checkNotePath: only a clean, local wiki/.../<slug>.md path, with no ".", ".." or empty segments. - Both notes are read and rewritten through brainfs. New brainfs.WriteRegular: never creates; Lstat through the root, open with O_NOFOLLOW\|O_NONBLOCK, and require the opened handle to be the same regular file (os.SameFile). os.Root.OpenFile follows an in-root final symlink even with O_NOFOLLOW (verified on go1.27), so the flag alone does not refuse it. - The source is no longer rewritten when the target is refused. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-10-04 22:23:45 +02:00
mathiasandClaude Opus 5.5	57d0fb0fae	fix(vectorstore): walk and read the brain through brainfs (#157 , slice 3) (#166 ) CI / Lint / Test / Vet (push) Successful in 48s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (push) Successful in 3s Details vectorstore.Sync walks and reads via brainfs (regular files only, handle-checked), so symlinked notes are no longer embedded and their old chunks are purged. brainfs.WalkRegular requires every component of its root to be a real directory (fixes in-brain root aliasing in Sync and search Wing/Wing+Hall). Walk errors, including a symlinked scan root, abort Sync before the delete pass. brainfs gains Lstat. Directory-swap race recorded as accepted residual (#167). Refs #157. Adversarial review: BLOCKED, BLOCKED, PASS. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Mathias <mthbqv@gmail.com>	2026-10-04 06:35:17 +00:00
mathiasandClaude Opus 5.5	27a01dd2af	fix(brain): context, brain_get and brain_read read through brainfs (#157 , slice 2) (#165 ) CI / Lint / Test / Vet (push) Successful in 46s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (push) Successful in 4s Details readExcerpt, ReadNote and ReadScoped now read through brainfs (os.Root, regular files only, type checked on the opened handle), so a symlink swapped in after a check is not followed and a FIFO does not hang the reader. ReadRegularMax bounds the read itself with io.LimitReader(max+1). notes.Target carries the brain root. Refs #157. Adversarial review round 2: PASS (round 1 BLOCKED: unbounded read, rule-9 test names). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Mathias <mthbqv@gmail.com>	2026-10-04 05:59:55 +00:00
mathias	eb77305580	fix(search): walk and read the brain through an os.Root (#157 , slice 1) (#161 ) CI / Lint / Test / Vet (push) Successful in 37s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (push) Successful in 4s Details Co-authored-by: Mathias <mthbqv@gmail.com>	2026-10-03 19:34:46 +00:00
mathias	c986df6799	feat(ingestion): runtime symlink tripwire removes what it finds, 30s scans (#157 ) (#160 ) CI / Lint / Test / Vet (push) Failing after 11m16s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (push) Skipped Details Co-authored-by: Mathias <mthbqv@gmail.com>	2026-10-03 19:34:19 +00:00
mathias	687afa0145	fix(ingestion): brain/raw/ readers go through an os.Root; symlinks are inert (#153 ) (#156 ) CI / Lint / Test / Vet (push) Successful in 36s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (push) Successful in 4s Details Co-authored-by: Mathias <mthbqv@gmail.com>	2026-10-03 15:30:49 +00:00
mathias	cad389f62f	feat(ingestion): symlink tripwire for the Syncthing-shared brain dir (#157 ) (#159 ) CI / Lint / Test / Vet (push) Successful in 35s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (push) Successful in 3s Details Co-authored-by: Mathias <mthbqv@gmail.com>	2026-10-03 15:23:06 +00:00
mathias	cfe3f24e25	fix(ingestion): authenticate the REST API; confine ingest paths to brain/raw/ (#149 ) (#152 ) CI / Lint / Test / Vet (push) Successful in 34s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (push) Successful in 4s Details Co-authored-by: Mathias <mthbqv@gmail.com>	2026-10-03 14:38:07 +00:00
mathiasandClaude Opus 5.5	a6da93332d	feat(brain): audit-log every tools/call; server-owned write provenance (#147 ) CI / Lint / Test / Vet (push) Successful in 39s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (push) Successful in 4s Details Closes #144 (audit line per tools/call) and #145 (origin/written_by stamped on every model-reachable write, surfaced in brain_query/brain_get). Passed pr-gatekeeper after four rounds of adversarial review, verified by execution: #147 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Mathias <mthbqv@gmail.com>	2026-10-01 21:06:36 +00:00
mathiasandClaude Opus 5.5	f21be1aef6	chore(context): re-sync adapters after root brain-scoping correction CI / Lint / Test / Vet (push) Successful in 43s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (push) Successful in 4s Details Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-10-01 20:42:10 +02:00
mathiasandClaude Opus 5	3c70b6f367	fix(claudewatcher): scrub credentials embedded in URL userinfo CI / Lint / Test / Vet (push) Successful in 33s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (push) Successful in 5s Details The scrubber had a rule for `postgres://user:pass@` and none for the general `scheme://user:secret@host` form — which is exactly what a git credential store holds: https://<user>:<token>@git.d-ma.be Verified against all 13 DefaultRules with an invented value: it matched none of them. Not authorization-header, not bearer-token, and not homelab-env-token, which needs a `_TOKEN=`-style prefix a bare URL does not have. So such a turn was ingested rather than dropped, against the stated intent in this file's own doc comment: Fail-closed by design: we'd rather lose signal than ingest credentials into a public-readable brain. It failed closed for the shapes it named and open for this one. How it surfaced: a test suite in mathias/infra executed a script that configures git while inheriting the operator's real $HOME, read koala's live ~/.git-credentials, and printed two live values. ~/.claude/projects is this watcher's own input, so the scrubber was the last line of defence for that mistake. A sweep of that tree found 12 occurrences of 2 distinct credential-shaped URLs across 4 transcripts in 3 sessions — so the shape had been passing for a while, not just that once. Both credentials are being rotated (infra#466). The generalisable point is not "do not read the credential file". That mistake will recur. It is that this shape must fail closed, because the scrubber is what decides whether such a mistake is survivable or permanent. Ordering: the new rule sits after postgres-uri-with-password so a DSN still reports the more specific name, the same convention as authorization-header before bearer-token. Both directions are tested, because a rule that dropped every URL with a colon would discard most of the signal this watcher exists to keep. The {8,} floor on the secret half keeps `https://host:443/path` and `https://user:@host` out; the `[^:\s/@]+` user half stops a host:port pair being read as userinfo. Must-not-scrub cases include a host with a port, a password-less DSN, a colon in a query string, and the literal printf format string `https://oauth2:%s@%s`. Closes #142 Refs mathias/infra#466 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-09-30 16:08:17 +02:00
mathiasandClaude Opus 5	b3b555fa23	chore(context): adopt canonical context-sync.sh and re-sync adapters CI / Lint / Test / Vet (push) Successful in 1m46s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (push) Successful in 4s Details infra's scripts/context-sync.sh is the estate canonical, and it moved in infra 262369b (a SIGPIPE fix on the placeholder-reporting path: `printf \| grep -o \| head -1` became `head -1 < <(grep -o ...)`). Every other repo still carried the old line, so ContextSyncScriptDrift and ContextAdapterDrift were both firing. Also picks up the canonical AGENT.md change from local-dev a01ee80 — rule 5's GitOps review lane and the new precedence rule — which every repo's adapters need regenerated for regardless of the script. Refs mathias/infra#470 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-09-30 10:36:40 +02:00
mathiasandClaude Opus 5	e9805c7eb6	chore(context): regenerate derived adapters from the canonical root context CI / Lint / Test / Vet (push) Successful in 56s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (push) Successful in 5s Details ContextAdapterDrift was firing for 13 repos. Picks up behaviour rule 7 ("Finish what's closable"), which landed in ~/dev/.context/AGENT.md and never reached any repo's derived files. Where mcp.json changes, it also picks up root MCP config the repo was stale on: brain/gitea/infra move from public hostnames to tailnet Serve URLs, and gitea's bearer changes from GITEA_MCP_TOKEN to DMABE_GITEA_API_TOKEN — gitea-mcp authenticates by pass-through and 401s on the former, so a harness syncing from the old file had a dead gitea server and no signal saying so. No literal secrets: mcp.json carries ${VAR} placeholders only. CLAUDE.md deliberately unchanged — context-sync writes it from PROJECT.md alone, since Claude Code walks up to ~/dev/CLAUDE.md for root context. Refs mathias/infra ContextAdapterDrift Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-09-25 07:34:25 +02:00
mathias	3d5af85713	fix(frontmatter): consolidate 3 independent fence-parsers into one (#139 ) CI / Lint / Test / Vet (push) Successful in 32s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (push) Successful in 4s Details Co-authored-by: Mathias <mthbqv@gmail.com>	2026-09-23 13:07:32 +00:00
mathiasandClaude Sonnet 5	c6341f020a	feat(server): say at startup when alerting is unconfigured (#107 ) (#140 ) CI / Lint / Test / Vet (push) Successful in 39s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (push) Successful in 5s Details feat(server): say at startup when alerting is unconfigured (#107) WARN once at startup when BRAIN_NTFY_URL is unset, naming what will not fire (brain_edit_root governance rewrites, capture audit degradation). Rebase of PR #108 (never CI-tested) onto current main, no functional change to alertingWarnings. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Mathias <mthbqv@gmail.com>	2026-09-23 13:02:40 +00:00
mathiasandClaude Sonnet 5	e157311cd8	fix(mcp): validate the claim envelope before brain_edit writes too (#136 ) CI / Lint / Test / Vet (push) Successful in 39s Details CI / Mirror to GitHub (push) Successful in 4s Details 7 review rounds closed 8 distinct bypasses across two mechanism families: fence-detection (field-name substring, block-containment, fence-stripping, CRLF, UTF-8 BOM) and value-extraction (folded YAML block scalar hiding an invalid value). A known v1 gap remains in the block-scalar fold's handling of blank-line-interrupted continuations — documented on checkClaimEnvelope, accepted deliberately (narrow, requires an already-privileged caller deliberately constructing a specific malformed-YAML shape) rather than chased past diminishing returns. Real fix (shared, tested, encoding-normalized frontmatter parser) tracked separately as hyperguild#138. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Mathias <mthbqv@gmail.com>	2026-09-23 10:28:07 +00:00
mathias	a5f502eb9c	fix(api): UpdateNote reserves updated_at/supersedes/supersede_reason from the caller's fragment (#137 ) CI / Mirror to GitHub (push) Successful in 3s Details CI / Lint / Test / Vet (push) Successful in 39s Details Closes #125. Skips updated_at/supersedes/supersede_reason in the caller fragment merge loop so they cannot be set via the fragment, only via the intended entry points. delete_branch_after_merge=true Co-authored-by: Mathias <mthbqv@gmail.com>	2026-09-23 08:18:30 +00:00