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Previously skipChecks:true only skipped the rule-check loop in
checker.js - readTheme still read every .css/.js/.hbs file's content
and ran the full Handlebars AST parse (theme.helpers) even though
nothing consumed that output.

  • Thread options (skipChecks) from check() through readTheme() into
    readFiles(), which now skips the AST parse/processHelpers and the
    .hbs/.css/.js content reads when skipChecks is true, only reading
    package.json (for customSettings). partials are derived from file
    paths instead of content.
  • Parallelize readThemeStructure's directory walk (Promise.all over
    readdir entries instead of a sequential .reduce() chain) - pure I/O
    win for both skipChecks and non-skipChecks callers.
  • Add tests covering skipChecks correctness, unchanged non-skipChecks
    behavior, and stable file ordering after parallelizing the walk.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 noreply@anthropic.com


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The change adds a FIFO concurrency limiter and uses it to bound directory reads and removals to 64 operations. Directory results preserve their original order. readTheme now accepts options and forwards skipChecks to file loading. Skip mode retains metadata, partials, templates, and custom settings while omitting rule-check content and AST parsing. Tests cover limiter behavior, traversal ordering, concurrency, and both loading modes.

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Theme scans can stall after a synchronous task failure, while skip mode may still read unintended files. These regressions should be fixed before merge.

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acburdine changed the base branch from main to fix/path-injection September 3, 2026 15:33
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Review finding (P2): the parallel directory walk introduces quadratic file-list assembly.

In readThemeStructure, perEntryResults.reduce((result, entryResult) => result.concat(entryResult), arr) copies the entire accumulated file list for every directory entry. A wide directory therefore requires O(n²) array-element copying, including for non-source assets and when skipChecks is enabled. This synchronous aggregation also blocks the event loop and affects normal scans, not just the optimized boot path.

In a synthetic comparison with fs.readdir mocked to return 30,000 PNG entries (no disk reads), the stack took approximately 422 ms versus 24 ms for the sequential implementation from #914. These are illustrative local timings, not an end-to-end theme benchmark.

Suggested fix: flatten the per-entry arrays once, or append their elements into one result array using nested loops. Either preserves the existing ordering without repeatedly copying the accumulated result. A wide-directory regression or benchmark would help protect the optimization.

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Fixed — replaced the .reduce((result, entryResult) => result.concat(entryResult), arr) with a single linear pass over perEntryResults (nested for loops pushing each item), avoiding the repeated full-array copy. Added a 5000-entry mocked-fs.readdir correctness/ordering test in ffe98f4.

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Codex flagged (P2) on #909: the parallelized directory walk starts a
readdir for every sibling directory at once via Promise.all, with no
cap - a theme with thousands of directories (or a maliciously crafted
one) could fan out into thousands of simultaneous filesystem
operations, risking thread-pool congestion and memory spikes. The
existing 5,000-entry regression test only covers files in one
directory, so it didn't exercise this.

- Add lib/utils/create-limiter.js: a small counting-semaphore
  (limit(fn) runs fn immediately under the cap, otherwise queues it
  FIFO). No new dependency.
- Wrap the fs.readdir() and the ignored-path fs.rm() calls in
  readThemeStructure with a single limiter instance shared across the
  whole recursive walk (passed down through recursive calls), capped
  at 64 concurrent operations. Scheduling recursive calls themselves
  stays unbounded (cheap - just queues on the limiter); only the
  actual filesystem operations are throttled.
- Add tests: unit coverage for createLimiter itself, and a
  readThemeStructure regression test with a mocked 200-directory tree
  asserting peak concurrent fs.readdir calls never exceeds the cap.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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acburdine changed the base branch from main to fix/node-glob-migration September 3, 2026 17:54
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acburdine added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 3, 2026
Codex flagged (P2) on #909: the parallelized directory walk starts a
readdir for every sibling directory at once via Promise.all, with no
cap - a theme with thousands of directories (or a maliciously crafted
one) could fan out into thousands of simultaneous filesystem
operations, risking thread-pool congestion and memory spikes. The
existing 5,000-entry regression test only covers files in one
directory, so it didn't exercise this.

- Add lib/utils/create-limiter.js: a small counting-semaphore
  (limit(fn) runs fn immediately under the cap, otherwise queues it
  FIFO). No new dependency.
- Wrap the fs.readdir() and the ignored-path fs.rm() calls in
  readThemeStructure with a single limiter instance shared across the
  whole recursive walk (passed down through recursive calls), capped
  at 64 concurrent operations. Scheduling recursive calls themselves
  stays unbounded (cheap - just queues on the limiter); only the
  actual filesystem operations are throttled.
- Add tests: unit coverage for createLimiter itself, and a
  readThemeStructure regression test with a mocked 200-directory tree
  asserting peak concurrent fs.readdir calls never exceeds the cap.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Base automatically changed from fix/node-glob-migration to main September 3, 2026 18:17
acburdine and others added 2 commits September 3, 2026 14:17
Previously skipChecks:true only skipped the rule-check loop in
checker.js - readTheme still read every .css/.js/.hbs file's content
and ran the full Handlebars AST parse (theme.helpers) even though
nothing consumed that output.

- Thread options (skipChecks) from check() through readTheme() into
  readFiles(), which now skips the AST parse/processHelpers and the
  .hbs/.css/.js content reads when skipChecks is true, only reading
  package.json (for customSettings). partials are derived from file
  paths instead of content.
- Parallelize readThemeStructure's directory walk (Promise.all over
  readdir entries instead of a sequential walk) - pure I/O win for
  both skipChecks and non-skipChecks callers. Flattens the per-entry
  results in a single linear pass (nested for-loops) rather than
  repeatedly .concat()-ing onto the accumulator, which re-copies the
  whole accumulated array on every directory entry and is O(n^2) for
  a wide directory.
- Add tests covering skipChecks correctness, unchanged non-skipChecks
  behavior, stable file ordering after parallelizing the walk, and a
  5000-entry wide-directory correctness check for the flattening fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codex flagged (P2) on #909: the parallelized directory walk starts a
readdir for every sibling directory at once via Promise.all, with no
cap - a theme with thousands of directories (or a maliciously crafted
one) could fan out into thousands of simultaneous filesystem
operations, risking thread-pool congestion and memory spikes. The
existing 5,000-entry regression test only covers files in one
directory, so it didn't exercise this.

- Add lib/utils/create-limiter.js: a small counting-semaphore
  (limit(fn) runs fn immediately under the cap, otherwise queues it
  FIFO). No new dependency.
- Wrap the fs.readdir() and the ignored-path fs.rm() calls in
  readThemeStructure with a single limiter instance shared across the
  whole recursive walk (passed down through recursive calls), capped
  at 64 concurrent operations. Scheduling recursive calls themselves
  stays unbounded (cheap - just queues on the limiter); only the
  actual filesystem operations are throttled.
- Add tests: unit coverage for createLimiter itself, and a
  readThemeStructure regression test with a mocked 200-directory tree
  asserting peak concurrent fs.readdir calls never exceeds the cap.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review finding (P2): skipChecks reintroduces symlinked partials that the normal path deliberately excludes.

After #912, themeFilesContent excludes every themeFile.symlink, so normal readFiles() never adds a symlink such as partials/escape.hbs to theme.partials. In the new skipChecks branch, however, partials are derived by iterating all theme.files without checking themeFile.symlink, so the same symlink is included. That makes the returned activation metadata depend on skipChecks and weakens the symlink hardening specifically on the boot-optimization path; downstream theme activation consumes checkedTheme.partials.

Suggested fix: skip symlinked entries while deriving partials (if (!themeFile.symlink && partialMatch)) and add a regression test comparing normal and skipChecks behavior for a symlink-shaped partial entry. More generally, metadata derived without content reads should preserve the same eligibility filter as the normal path.

After the #912 symlink-content-read fix, readFiles' normal (non-
skipChecks) path never adds a symlinked partial to theme.partials -
themeFilesContent excludes every themeFile.symlink before any partial
derivation happens. The skipChecks branch derives partials by iterating
theme.files directly, without that same check, so a symlinked partial
(e.g. partials/escape.hbs) was included there but not otherwise.

theme.partials is consumed downstream for theme activation regardless
of skipChecks, so this made that metadata depend on skipChecks - a
theme could get symlink-hardening on the normal path but not on the
boot-optimization path scanning the exact same files.

Added a regression test comparing readFiles() with and without
skipChecks for the same symlinked-partial input, asserting both
exclude it identically.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Good catch — fixed in 073bab9. The skipChecks partial-derivation loop now skips themeFile.symlink entries too, matching the non-skipChecks path's themeFilesContent filter. Added a test comparing readFiles() with and without skipChecks for the same symlinked-partial input, asserting both exclude it identically.

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In `@lib/read-theme.js`:
- Line 147: Update the package-file check in the skip-mode filtering logic to
use an exact equality comparison with “package.json” instead of the current
case-insensitive pattern match, ensuring only the root package settings file is
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Two CodeRabbit findings on lib/utils/create-limiter.js and the
skipChecks readFiles() filter:

- createLimiter called fn() directly before attaching .then()/.finally().
  A task that throws synchronously (rather than returning a rejected
  promise) skipped the .finally() that decrements `active`, permanently
  leaking that concurrency slot - enough synchronous throws would stall
  the queue forever. Deferred the fn() call into the promise chain
  (Promise.resolve().then(fn)) so a sync throw is caught the same as an
  async rejection. Not currently reachable through gscan's own call
  sites (fs.readdir/fs.rm never throw synchronously), but createLimiter
  is a general-purpose exported utility, not scoped to this one caller.

- The skipChecks content-read filter used the loose
  themeFile.file.match(/package.json/i) (pre-existing pattern, copied
  from the non-skipChecks filter below it) to decide what to read.
  Tightened to an exact themeFile.file === 'package.json' check for the
  skipChecks branch specifically, since skipChecks exists to minimize
  reads - a nested vendor/package.json or an unrelated
  assets/package.json.hbs shouldn't be read just because its name
  contains the substring. Left the non-skipChecks filter's existing
  loose match untouched (out of scope - unrelated to this optimization,
  and already harmless there since only an exact-match check further
  down ever acts on the content).

Added regression tests for both: a synchronously-throwing limiter task
that still releases its slot for the next queued task, and a
skipChecks readFiles() call with a nested/lookalike package.json
confirming only the root file is read.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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