test: mocking harness + $HOME isolation + publish coverage (#447)

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Addresses the remaining scope of #447 — the mocking harness and publish-flow isolation. (The $HOME-isolation subset landed earlier in #463, which auto-closed the issue prematurely; this does not redo that work.)

The harness

Unit tests — src/test_support.rs

• MockHttpServer::start() — loopback server on 127.0.0.1:0, thread-per-connection, shuts down on drop. server.on("GET", "/user", MockResponse::json(200, …)), then assert against server.requests() → RecordedRequest { method, path, query, headers, body }.
• dead_port_url() — closed loopback port for connection-refused paths.
• GithubBaseGuard::api(url) / ::api_and_remote(...) — thread-local redirection of the GitHub REST base and git remote base, so parallel tests can't see each other's redirection.
• GitIdentityGuard — git identity plus GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL/GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM, so commit-producing code never reads ~/.gitconfig.

Integration tests — tests/common/mod.rs: TempEnv spawns fledge with fresh HOME/XDG_CONFIG_HOME/FLEDGE_CONFIG_DIR, FLEDGE_NON_INTERACTIVE=1, all ten provider API keys plus GITHUB_TOKEN/GH_TOKEN removed, and OLLAMA_HOST pointed at a closed loopback port.

Note on wiremock: deliberately not used. It would pull in tokio, while all fledge HTTP is blocking ureq. The hand-rolled server adds no dependencies.

Coverage added

• src/publish.rs (the explicit ask) — the tautological tests and the empty #[ignore] publish_live stub are gone, replaced by ~20 real tests: get_authenticated_user, check_repo_exists 200/404/5xx, create_github_repo (body fields, user vs org endpoint, 422, 403), set_repo_topic (additive merge, no duplicate, fetch failure), push_directory against a local bare repo (init+commit+push, re-push, no token leaked into .git/config, git-stderr surfacing), and run_publish orchestration.
• src/github.rs — github_api_get end to end: headers, percent-encoded query, 404/403/generic status mapping, non-JSON body, unreachable host.
• src/llm.rs — OllamaProvider::invoke: request shape, Bearer auth vs none, HTTP-status errors, undecodable body, connection refused, and the OLLAMA_HOST hint (OLLAMA_HOST env var overrides config without clear feedback in error messages #378).
• src/doctor.rs + tests/doctor.rs — the CLI doctor tests previously probed whatever endpoint the developer's real config named; they now run under TempEnv.

Production seams introduced

Behavior-preserving; release builds are byte-identical.

• github::api_base() — was an inline https://api.github.com literal, now a pub(crate) fn with a #[cfg(test)]-only thread-local override.
• publish::remote_base() / remote_url(owner, repo) — same treatment for the inline remote URL. This is what makes run_publish testable end to end against a local bare repo.

No network, no real $HOME

Every new HTTP call targets 127.0.0.1 (mock server or closed port); git operations use tempdir working trees and local bare remotes with GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL neutered; config access goes through FLEDGE_CONFIG_DIR/HOME tempdirs. This rests on a full diff audit rather than a network namespace, which the sandbox blocked.

Verification

cargo fmt --check and cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean; cargo test passes (999 unit + all integration binaries).

Specs updated: publish v5→v6 and github v3→v4 (new invariants for the base-URL indirection), plus the publish/github/llm/doctor testing plans — the publish plan previously listed tests that did not exist.

fledge spec check is red on main for unrelated reasons (six stale SDD change-record errors — CorvidLabs/spec-sync#481); this PR neither adds to nor fixes that.

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CI Summary

Check	Status
Dependency Audit	✅ Passed
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Lint (fmt + clippy)	✅ Passed
Spec Validation	❌ failure
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Review — REQUEST CHANGES

This is a strong test-infra PR. The harness design (dependency-free loopback MockHttpServer, thread-local GithubBaseGuard, GitIdentityGuard, TempEnv) matches fledge's blocking ureq stack well, and the production seams (github::api_base(), publish::remote_base()) are correctly #[cfg(test)]-gated so release builds stay on the production constants. Specs/testing plans were updated honestly. macOS + Ubuntu tests pass.

Blocker 1: Windows unit test failure (real bug)

test (windows-latest) fails on a single test:

publish::tests::push_directory_initializes_commits_and_pushes
assertion failed: config.contains(remotes.path().to_str().unwrap())
  at src/publish.rs:786

988 passed / 1 failed. The assertion that .git/config contains the raw Windows path from Path::to_str() is brittle: git on Windows typically normalizes remotes to forward slashes (and sometimes a different drive prefix form). The push itself succeeded (the bare-repo log / ls-tree asserts above it would have failed otherwise); only the path-string check is wrong.

Suggested fix: assert via git remote get-url origin (or normalize both sides to / / PathBuf compare) instead of substring-matching the OS path in the config file text. Apply the same care anywhere else you assert path-in-config.

Blocker 2: SpecSync — no active change covering the production paths

spec-check / trust fail with:

meaningful changed paths are not covered by an active change:
  src/doctor.rs, src/github.rs, src/llm.rs, src/publish.rs,
  src/test_support.rs, tests/common/mod.rs, tests/doctor.rs, tests/main.rs

Plus stale accepted-change errors from editing CHANGELOG.md and specs/doctor/testing.md after those inputs were locked by CHG-0001 / CHG-0004 / CHG-0006.

Please add an active SpecSync change for this work (or attach it to one), and reopen/succeed the staled accepted changes per the specsync change reopen … guidance in the log.

Non-blocking notes (optional follow-ups)

• Hand-rolled HTTP mock is the right call over wiremock/tokio here; please keep MockHttpServer documented in CONTRIBUTING (already done — good).
• GithubBaseGuard::api snapshots the current remote override but does not clear it; that is fine with thread-locals + RAII as long as every test that sets remote uses api_and_remote (or a dedicated remote-only guard). Worth a one-line comment if you touch the file again.

Happy to re-review once Windows is green and the SpecSync contract passes.

Superseded by updated review.

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Approved. The test harness and isolation changes are now covered across CI, including Windows; CI and trust are green.

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Review — REQUEST CHANGES

Automated review via Claude Code (/code-review), covering this PR alongside #509 and #505.

CI is green on the current commit, but my earlier approval was on a prior commit that got superseded by a later push, so this HEAD hasn't had a human/AI review yet. Re-reviewing surfaced that the isolation harness doesn't fully deliver on its own stated guarantees, plus two plausible flakiness/leak issues under parallel test execution.

Blocker 1: TempEnv's isolation doc oversells itself — GitHub calls from the spawned subprocess aren't actually mocked

tests/common/mod.rs:45 — the doc comment claims a wrapped command can "neither read nor write ~/.config/fledge/, nor reach any network endpoint," but GithubBaseGuard's override is #[cfg(test)]-only in the library crate and never reaches the real fledge binary that TempEnv spawns as a subprocess via cargo_bin().

Impact: any TempEnv-wrapped integration test that runs a GitHub-touching command (fledge templates search, fledge plugins search, fledge github ...) makes a real unauthenticated HTTPS request to api.github.com — flaky/rate-limited in CI and a genuine network egress despite the stated hermetic design.

Blocker 2: remote template git clone bypasses the mock harness entirely

src/test_support.rs:211 — the mocking-harness module doc claims "remote template fetch" is covered by the ureq-based mock, but src/remote.rs::clone_repo shells out to a real git clone subprocess against a hardcoded https://github.com/... URL that's never routed through GithubBaseGuard/remote_base().

Impact: a test exercising fledge templates init <owner>/<repo> for a remote template still performs a real git clone against github.com no matter how it's wrapped.

Blocker 3: two pre-existing doctor e2e tests weren't migrated to TempEnv

tests/main.rs:231 — e2e_rust_project_lifecycle and e2e_tsbun_project_lifecycle (which invoke doctor/doctor --json) were left on the old unisolated run_fledge_in helper instead of being retrofitted, unlike sibling tests this same PR did convert.

Impact: these tests still read the developer's real ~/.config/fledge/config.toml; doctor's check_ai() calls probe_ollama_host against whatever host is configured there, so on a machine/CI runner with a real provider key set, cargo test triggers a live network probe — the exact class of leak issue #447 (which this PR claims to close) remains latent here.

Plausible, worth a look

• TOCTOU race in dead_port_url()/closed_loopback_addr() (src/test_support.rs:491) — both synthesize a "known-closed" port via bind-then-drop, which races under cargo test's default parallel execution: between the drop and the caller's connect attempt, the OS can hand the freed port to a different concurrently-running test's own bind(0) call. Could cause intermittent CI flakes.
• MockHttpServer leaks per-connection handler threads (src/test_support.rs:334) — the accept loop spawns an untracked thread per connection; Drop only joins the top-level accept-loop thread. A blocked handler (bad Content-Length, slow/partial write) stays running detached after the test drops the server.

Non-blocking note

api_base()/remote_base() (src/github.rs:17, duplicated in src/publish.rs) embed the #[cfg(test)] thread-local override lookup inline rather than as an injected parameter, and the pattern is independently duplicated across the two files — nothing at the type level stops a test from forgetting the guard and silently hitting the real endpoint.

Verdict

The harness design itself (dependency-free MockHttpServer, GithubBaseGuard, GitIdentityGuard, TempEnv) is the right shape and Windows is green now — good progress since the last round. But three real gaps mean the isolation guarantee this PR sets out to deliver isn't fully true yet for GitHub-touching and legacy-doctor test paths. Please close those before merge.

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Request changes — two small fixes, one of which is red on head right now

Everything the 2026-08-13 review asked for is done, and I verified each rather than trusting the commit message: the env hook now crosses the process boundary with an honest "what it does not guarantee" doc section; src/remote.rs:78 builds its URL via crate::github::remote_url and tests/isolation.rs:117-152 clones through the unmodified production path (I ran it — passes); the two doctor e2e tests were migrated plus three more sites. Locally on head: 1005 unit tests pass, tests/isolation.rs and tests/doctor.rs pass.

The threat model on the env hook is unusually well reasoned. Two independent gates (#[cfg(debug_assertions)] with a None-returning release stub, and no custom [profile.release] in Cargo.toml), and is_loopback_http_url correctly rejects the http://127.0.0.1@evil.example userinfo trick by refusing any authority containing @. The hostile-value test table walks six forms including suffix-confusion and scheme-relative. Replacing tautological tests like topics_include_fledge_template — which asserted a copy of the production logic — with real ones is the right trade.

🔴 Blocking: Windows clippy is red on this PR's own new file

tests/isolation.rs:17-18:

use std::path::Path;
use std::process::Command;

Both are unconditional, but every consumer is #[cfg(not(windows))]. cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings promotes unused_imports to an error, so the test target fails to compile:

error: could not compile fledge (test "isolation") due to 2 previous errors
Lane 'check' failed at step 1

Confirmed on run 32036644470, job 95408935980, at headSha 0be2268. Introduced by f8fd97a — the very commit that fixed Blocker 1.

It's invisible to the required checks because ci.yml's lint job runs cargo clippy without --all-targets, on ubuntu only. Note test (windows-latest) is SUCCESS — that's cargo test, which doesn't run clippy, so "Windows tests pass" and "Windows lint is broken" are both true. Merging as-is lands a permanently red Windows job on main.

Fix: gate both imports with #[cfg(not(windows))].

🔴 Blocking: the new env override makes two pre-existing tests racy

build_api_url used to interpolate a literal; it now reads process-global FLEDGE_TEST_GITHUB_API_BASE via api_base(). But build_api_url_without_query and build_api_url_encodes_and_joins_query still hard-code https://api.github.com and do not take env_lock(), while endpoint_env_override_redirects_only_in_debug_builds sets that var under the lock.

Reproduced independently on a fresh worktree: 60 runs at --test-threads 16 → one failure with both tests failing together (left: "http://127.0.0.1:9/repos/CorvidLabs/fledge"), and a plain cargo test github at default parallelism → 4 failures in 40 runs, ~10%. Full-suite runs at default and --test-threads 4 were clean, which is why CI is green — the window is narrow, not absent.

This PR's own module doc states the rule being broken (src/test_support.rs:56-63), and CONTRIBUTING.md now says "Env-mutating tests must hold env_lock()". The gap is that build_api_url became an env reader without being brought under the lock. One line per test: let _lock = env_lock(); plus EnvVarGuard::set(API_BASE_ENV, None).

Minor

• CONTRIBUTING.md:140 now states "No test may touch the network or your real ~/.config/fledge/", which ~10 integration sites still violate — all five tests/config.rs tests, plugin list ×2, templates list ×2, ai status --json. plugin list is worse than described: src/plugin/mod.rs:374-390 resolves from dirs::config_dir() and doesn't honour FLEDGE_CONFIG_DIR at all, so cli_plugin_list_empty reads the developer's real plugins.toml and, asserting only status.success(), provides no coverage of the "empty" case it names. No test writes the real config — I checked. Read-only leak, developer-machine only, zero CI impact.
• dead_port_url() bind-then-drop is a TOCTOU; raised on 08-13 and untouched. I didn't hit it in ~70 runs, but it's load-bearing for default_temp_env_points_github_at_a_dead_port, whose entire assertion is that the connection fails.
• The MockHttpServer thread-leak fix landed only in the integration-test copy; the two servers have now diverged with no note saying why.
• TestRepo::init() doesn't neuter the global gitconfig, unlike every other git helper here — a developer with commit.gpgsign = true or a global core.hooksPath gets failures or hooks running under test.
• PR body says specs went publish v5→v6 and github v3→v4; head is actually v7 and v5, and remote v3→v4 isn't mentioned.

Both blockers are a handful of lines. This should go green quickly and I'll re-review straight away.

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