fix(setup,relink): ownership proof has two strengths; weak proof never deletes a directory or discards a differing file

The first #2119 gate treated a byte-identical or banner-bearing real-file
SKILL.md as full ownership, so a prefix flip could rm -rf a user's directory
(their own qa skill started from a gstack SKILL.md, plus my-templates/) and
the link pass could replace their customized file with a symlink. Two
strengths now:

- STRONG: the .gstack-owned marker (we created the directory), or a
  directory holding nothing but symlinks and the marker (deleting it loses
  no data). Only strong proof removes a directory whole.
- WEAK: byte-identity with our source or the two-line gen-skill-docs banner
  on a real file. Weak proof covers that SKILL.md and our runtime-asset
  links only; a differing file is moved to
  ${GSTACK_HOME:-~/.gstack}/backups/skills/<ts>/<skill>/ before we link
  over it, and setup/relink print one summary line naming what moved.

The marker is written on every platform now (path-independent proof for
Windows copies and for checkouts whose path carries no gstack segment), but
only for a directory gstack creates: a directory we merely link into
(unclaimed, or a legacy install) never becomes deletable whole. A directory
with no SKILL.md at all is unclaimed: the link pass may add our file, the
cleanup pass has nothing to remove.

Also from the review passes: the banner check reads 8192 bytes, not 40
lines (investigate, office-hours, plan-ceo-review and design-consultation
carry the banner past line 40 and were left "foreign" on pre-marker
Windows installs); a link into a checkout named without a gstack segment
(git worktree add ../gstack-<branch>) is ours when that tree carries
setup + VERSION + bin/; relink's fast path is gone so both files
canonicalize before judging; relink's root alias (_gstack-command) is
gated and stamped like every other entry; relink reports the bare entry
name with setup's wording and setup dedupes when forwarding
(_run_relink_quiet); the summary names the browser skills as examples.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Garry Tan
2026-09-04 17:55:07 +00:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5.1
parent 953ae675df
commit 73506b59c6
6 changed files with 642 additions and 58 deletions
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@@ -49,8 +49,18 @@ RENDER_DIR="${GSTACK_USER_RENDER_DIR:-${GSTACK_HOME:-$HOME/.gstack}/render/claud
# path) was deleted or had its SKILL.md replaced by a symlink into gstack
# (#2119; Linux replaces a real file with `ln -snf`, macOS refuses by accident).
# setup (link_claude_skill_dirs, cleanup_old_claude_symlinks,
# cleanup_prefixed_claude_symlinks) and gstack-uninstall apply the same rule;
# keep the four in sync until the shared helper TODOS.md files lands.
# cleanup_prefixed_claude_symlinks) applies the same rule; keep the two files
# in sync until the shared helper filed in TODOS.md lands. gstack-uninstall
# has its own stricter inventory+banner gate.
#
# Proof comes in two strengths. STRONG (a symlink resolving into gstack, or the
# .gstack-owned marker) means we created the entry: it may be deleted whole or
# refreshed in place. WEAK (byte-identity with our source, or gen-skill-docs'
# two-line banner on a real file) proves only that the SKILL.md came from us:
# it authorizes touching that one file, never deleting the directory, and a
# differing file is moved to ${GSTACK_HOME:-~/.gstack}/backups/skills/<ts>/
# before we link over it (a user who started their own skill from a gstack
# SKILL.md looks exactly like a pre-marker legacy copy).
#
# An entry is OURS when:
# - it is a symlink resolving into $INSTALL_DIR or $RENDER_DIR (as written or
@@ -75,11 +85,17 @@ _target_is_ours() {
# $1 = an ABSOLUTE path a symlink resolves to; ours when it lives under one
# of our roots. "$ROOT"/* requires the separator, so /home/u/gstack2/x never
# matches a /home/u/gstack root.
local root
case "$1" in
"$INSTALL_DIR"/*|"$RENDER_DIR"/*|"$_INSTALL_REAL"/*|"$_RENDER_REAL"/*) return 0 ;;
gstack/*|*/gstack/*|*/.gstack/render/claude/*) return 0 ;;
*) return 1 ;;
esac
# A checkout named without a `gstack` segment (git worktree add
# ../gstack-<branch>): the target's skill root is a gstack tree if it
# carries setup + VERSION + bin/. Same rule as setup's _gstack_target_is_ours.
root="${1%/*/SKILL.md}"
if [ "$root" != "$1" ] && [ -f "$root/VERSION" ] && [ -f "$root/setup" ] && [ -d "$root/bin" ]; then return 0; fi
return 1
}
# readlink of a RELATIVE symlink (older installs wrote `gstack/qa/SKILL.md`)
@@ -92,12 +108,6 @@ _link_target_abs() {
local link="$1" dest d b d_real
dest="$(readlink "$link" 2>/dev/null || true)"
[ -n "$dest" ] || return 1
# Fast path: the common absolute link setup/relink wrote is decided without
# any further fork (relink runs on every ./setup and gstack-config set).
case "$dest" in
*/../*|*/./*|*/..|*/.) ;; # dot segments: canonicalize before judging (/x/gstack/../foreign)
/*) if _target_is_ours "$dest"; then printf '%s\n' "$dest"; return 0; fi ;;
esac
case "$dest" in
/*) ;;
*) dest="${link%/*}/$dest" ;;
@@ -110,22 +120,38 @@ _link_target_abs() {
fi
}
# _entry_is_ours ENTRY SKILL — SKILL names the gstack skill this entry would
# serve, so a real-file copy can be compared against our own source.
_entry_is_ours() {
local entry="$1" skill="${2:-}" dest src
# _entry_owned_strongly ENTRY — we created this entry: a symlink resolving
# into gstack, or a real dir carrying the .gstack-owned marker or a SKILL.md
# symlink into gstack.
_entry_owned_strongly() {
local entry="$1" dest
if [ -L "$entry" ]; then
dest="$(_link_target_abs "$entry")" || return 1
_target_is_ours "$dest"
return $?
fi
if [ -d "$entry" ]; then
[ -f "$entry/.gstack-owned" ] && return 0
if [ -L "$entry/SKILL.md" ]; then
dest="$(_link_target_abs "$entry/SKILL.md")" || return 1
_target_is_ours "$dest"
return $?
fi
[ -d "$entry" ] || return 1
[ -f "$entry/.gstack-owned" ] && return 0
if [ -L "$entry/SKILL.md" ]; then
dest="$(_link_target_abs "$entry/SKILL.md")" || return 1
_target_is_ours "$dest"
return $?
fi
return 1
}
# _entry_is_ours ENTRY SKILL — strong proof, or WEAK proof on a real-file
# SKILL.md (SKILL names the gstack skill this entry would serve, so the copy
# can be compared against our own source).
_entry_is_ours() {
local entry="$1" skill="${2:-}" src
_entry_owned_strongly "$entry" && return 0
if [ -d "$entry" ] && [ ! -L "$entry/SKILL.md" ]; then
# No SKILL.md at all: an UNCLAIMED directory (a weak cleanup left the
# user's other files behind, or the dir was never a skill). Adding our
# SKILL.md overwrites nothing, so the link pass may proceed; the cleanup
# pass has nothing of ours to remove (see _cleanup_skill_entry).
[ -e "$entry/SKILL.md" ] || return 0
if [ -f "$entry/SKILL.md" ]; then
for src in "$RENDER_DIR/$skill/SKILL.md" "$INSTALL_DIR/$skill/SKILL.md"; do
[ -n "$skill" ] && [ -f "$src" ] && cmp -s "$entry/SKILL.md" "$src" && return 0
@@ -134,7 +160,7 @@ _entry_is_ours() {
# top (same rule as setup's _gstack_generated_header), not a one-line
# substring another generator could emit. A gstack fork rendering the
# same banner is the accepted, filed residual.
case "$(head -n 40 "$entry/SKILL.md" 2>/dev/null)" in
case "$(head -c 8192 "$entry/SKILL.md" 2>/dev/null)" in
*'<!-- AUTO-GENERATED from '*'<!-- Regenerate: bun run gen:skill-docs -->'*) return 0 ;;
esac
fi
@@ -145,15 +171,32 @@ _entry_is_ours() {
FOREIGN_SKIPPED=()
_report_foreign() {
echo " skipped $1: not a gstack-managed entry (foreign skill with the same name) — left untouched" >&2
FOREIGN_SKIPPED+=("$1")
# Same wording and bare name as setup's own line, so setup can dedupe when it
# forwards relink's output.
echo " skipped ${1##*/}: existing entry is not gstack-managed (foreign skill with the same name) — left untouched" >&2
FOREIGN_SKIPPED+=("${1##*/}")
}
# Weakly-proven real files we would otherwise overwrite go here, one summary
# line at the end. mv, not cp: the link that follows needs the path free.
BACKUP_ROOT="${GSTACK_HOME:-$HOME/.gstack}/backups/skills/$(date +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S)"
BACKED_UP=()
_backup_skill_md() {
local file="$1" name="$2"
mkdir -p "$BACKUP_ROOT/$name" 2>/dev/null || return 0
if mv -f "$file" "$BACKUP_ROOT/$name/SKILL.md" 2>/dev/null; then BACKED_UP+=("$name"); fi
return 0
}
# Helper: remove an OLD skill entry from the opposite prefix mode. Only entries
# we can prove are ours are removed; anything else is reported and kept.
_cleanup_skill_entry() {
local entry="$1" skill="${2:-}"
local entry="$1" skill="${2:-}" e dest
[ -e "$entry" ] || [ -L "$entry" ] || return 0
# Unclaimed dir (no SKILL.md, no marker): nothing of ours to clean.
if [ -d "$entry" ] && [ ! -L "$entry" ] && [ ! -e "$entry/SKILL.md" ] && [ ! -L "$entry/SKILL.md" ] && [ ! -f "$entry/.gstack-owned" ]; then
return 0
fi
if ! _entry_is_ours "$entry" "$skill"; then
_report_foreign "$entry"
return 0
@@ -161,14 +204,47 @@ _cleanup_skill_entry() {
if [ -L "$entry" ]; then
rm -f "$entry"
elif [ -d "$entry" ]; then
rm -rf "$entry"
# Whole-directory removal needs proof that nothing of the user's is inside:
# the marker (we created the dir) or a directory holding nothing but links.
if [ -f "$entry/.gstack-owned" ] || { [ -L "$entry/SKILL.md" ] && _dir_only_links "$entry"; }; then
rm -rf "$entry"
else
# Otherwise only what is ours goes: the SKILL.md, the marker, and our
# runtime-asset links. The user's files stay, and so does the directory
# if it is not empty afterwards.
rm -f "$entry/SKILL.md" "$entry/.gstack-owned"
for e in "$entry"/* "$entry"/.[!.]* "$entry"/..?*; do
[ -L "$e" ] || continue
dest="$(_link_target_abs "$e")" || continue
if _target_is_ours "$dest"; then rm -f "$e"; fi
done
rmdir "$entry" 2>/dev/null || echo " cleaned ${entry##*/}/SKILL.md (other files in that directory were left in place)"
fi
fi
}
# _dir_only_links DIR — deleting DIR whole loses no real data: every entry is
# a symlink or our marker.
_dir_only_links() {
local d="$1" e
for e in "$d"/* "$d"/.[!.]* "$d"/..?*; do
{ [ -e "$e" ] || [ -L "$e" ]; } || continue
[ -L "$e" ] && continue
[ "${e##*/}" = ".gstack-owned" ] && continue
return 1
done
return 0
}
_link_root_skill_alias() {
local target="$SKILLS_DIR/_gstack-command"
[ -f "$INSTALL_DIR/SKILL.md" ] || return 0
# Same ownership gate as every other entry (#2119): a user's own
# `_gstack-command` skill is reported and left alone, never overwritten.
if { [ -e "$target" ] || [ -L "$target" ]; } && ! _entry_is_ours "$target" ""; then
_report_foreign "$target"
return 0
fi
[ -L "$target" ] && rm -f "$target"
mkdir -p "$target"
# Copy-then-rewrite, never a symlink (#2511): a symlinked alias re-serves
@@ -178,6 +254,9 @@ _link_root_skill_alias() {
# write through it into the generated source.
rm -f "$target/SKILL.md"
sed "1,/^---\$/ s/^name:[[:space:]].*/name: _gstack-command/" "$INSTALL_DIR/SKILL.md" > "$target/SKILL.md"
# The rewritten copy is a real file on every platform: the marker, not the
# banner, is what proves it ours on the next run.
printf '%s\n' "$_INSTALL_REAL" > "$target/.gstack-owned" 2>/dev/null || true
}
_link_root_skill_alias
@@ -221,16 +300,29 @@ for skill_dir in "$INSTALL_DIR"/*/; do
_report_foreign "$target"
continue
fi
# Remember whether WE are creating this directory: only then may the marker
# below make it deletable whole. A directory we merely link into (unclaimed,
# or a legacy install) never gets one — legacy all-links dirs are removed by
# the only-links rule instead.
_pre_exists=0
if [ -e "$target" ] || [ -L "$target" ]; then _pre_exists=1; fi
# Upgrade old directory symlinks to real directories
[ -L "$target" ] && rm -f "$target"
# Create real directory with symlinked SKILL.md (absolute path)
mkdir -p "$target"
skill_md_src="$INSTALL_DIR/$skill/SKILL.md"
[ -f "$RENDER_DIR/$skill/SKILL.md" ] && skill_md_src="$RENDER_DIR/$skill/SKILL.md"
# A real-file SKILL.md we can only WEAKLY prove ours and whose content
# differs from what we are about to serve is moved aside, not overwritten.
if [ -f "$target/SKILL.md" ] && [ ! -L "$target/SKILL.md" ] && ! _entry_owned_strongly "$target" \
&& ! cmp -s "$target/SKILL.md" "$skill_md_src"; then
_backup_skill_md "$target/SKILL.md" "$link_name"
fi
ln -snf "$skill_md_src" "$target/SKILL.md"
# On Windows without Developer Mode `ln -snf` degrades to a copy; leave the
# same provenance marker setup writes so the next flip can prove ownership.
if [ ! -L "$target/SKILL.md" ]; then
# Provenance marker on every platform (path-independent proof; on Windows
# without Developer Mode `ln -snf` degrades to a copy and this is the only
# proof), but only for a directory we created or already owned.
if [ "$_pre_exists" -eq 0 ] || [ -f "$target/.gstack-owned" ]; then
printf '%s\n' "$_INSTALL_REAL" > "$target/.gstack-owned" 2>/dev/null || true
fi
SKILL_COUNT=$((SKILL_COUNT + 1))
@@ -250,6 +342,9 @@ if [ "$PREFIX" = "true" ]; then
else
echo "Relinked $SKILL_COUNT skills as flat names"
fi
if [ ${#BACKED_UP[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
echo "Moved ${#BACKED_UP[@]} pre-existing SKILL.md file(s) to $BACKUP_ROOT before linking gstack's: ${BACKED_UP[*]}"
fi
if [ ${#FOREIGN_SKIPPED[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
echo "Skipped ${#FOREIGN_SKIPPED[@]} foreign entr$( [ ${#FOREIGN_SKIPPED[@]} -eq 1 ] && echo y || echo ies) (not gstack-managed, left untouched): ${FOREIGN_SKIPPED[*]}"
fi