fix(tui): prove ownership of an untagged control window (#531) - #749
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…g#531) ctl_window_id admitted an untagged control-session row on runs.is_run alone -- ownership inferred from a run-id collision on the filesystem rather than from identity. --run-id is caller-supplied and deterministic, so two projects can both hold a run dir for one id, and each then admitted the *other's* untagged window: `a` attached to it, set_return_pane stamped it, and `x` killed a live orchestrator next door. Machine-wide on tmux, where the control session carries a fixed name. The gate is now the record this project wrote for the window its own launch minted. start_detached records before it tags, so a window whose best-effort tag write never landed -- the case this fallback exists for -- keeps its reach. With no usable record the untagged bucket stays empty and the lookup answers None rather than guessing by listing order. Known gaps, both deliberate: - A window minted before any record exists (a fresh run/sweep, where _record_ctl_window skips because the run dir is not minted yet) is unreachable by `a`/`x` until a relaunch records one. `x` no-ops and still reports the run stopped, so the orchestrator window is left running with no notice. - An untagged neighbour survives one conjunction: a backend that reuses a freed window id hands it the id this project recorded, while both projects script the same run id, the neighbour's own tag write failed, and the window this record named is already gone. Deferred -- closing it needs an identity channel written at mint time, and this function must read the tag, never write it. The pruning consumer of the same weak-ownership shape (_ctl_window_candidates) is untouched; that half is partitioned to bmad-code-org#419. Closes bmad-code-org#531
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change substantially reduces accidental cross-project control-window targeting by requiring an exact recorded window ID, but that record remains writable and does not prove which project created the window. A stale or replaced record can still authorize attach, mutation, or termination of another project's window in shared-identity environments, and failed ownership proof can report a stop as complete while leaving the orchestrator running. This is a bounded but material security and reliability risk that needs explicit owner acceptance or follow-up before merging. Suggested reviewers: Poem
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- Prove ownership of an untagged control window before targeting it (`#531`). `ctl_window_id` - admitted an untagged row whenever this project merely held a run dir for the run id, and - `--run-id` is caller-supplied, so two projects scripting the same id each admitted the - _other's_ window — `a` attached to it, the return stamp landed on it, and `x` killed a live - orchestrator next door. An untagged row now needs the record this project's own launch - wrote for that exact window; with no record the lookup answers nothing rather than guessing - by listing order. A window minted before its record exists (a fresh `run`/`sweep`) is - unreachable by `a`/`x` until a relaunch records one. + Require a recorded control-window ID before targeting an untagged window (`#531`).As per coding guidelines:
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In `@src/bmad_loop/tui/launch.py`:
- Line 491: Update the ownership checks used by action_attach and
kill_ctl_window so ctl-window records from the session-writable run directory
cannot prove window ownership; persist and validate host-managed launch metadata
outside that directory, including the run ID and window identity, before
selecting or terminating an untagged window. Add a regression test covering a
forged ctl-window record that points to a foreign window with the same run ID.
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summary describing ownership validation for untagged control windows; remove the
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Both tests refuse the record write on purpose - a symlinked run dir, and the same refusal through the non-dir-fd fallback - and then assert the launch still resolves its window. FakeRun's scripted listing does not carry the PROJECT_OPTION tag start_detached stamps, so with the record refused the row had no proof of ownership left and answered None: a fixture that never modelled the tag, not the confinement these pin. Windows skips both (POSIX symlinks, dir-fd anchoring), which is why the local run missed them.
The ctl-window record lives under the project root every coding session can write, so its content proves the mint only as far as it is unforgeable. A record naming an untagged window this project never minted is admitted, and `x` resolves through the same function. Pinned rather than fixed because it is not a regression: the gate this replaced took runs.is_run, and anything that can write the record can equally mint the run dir -- which admitted every untagged row under the name, with no id to guess. Closing it needs an identity channel the session does not own, which is the pane-pid direction filed as bmad-code-org#750; this test is the state that fix changes.
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ctl_window_idadmitted an untagged control-session row whenever this project merely held a run dir for the run id (local = runs.is_run(runs.run_dir_for(project, run_id))). That is ownership inferred from a filesystem coincidence, not from identity.--run-idis caller-supplied and validated for shape only, so two projects scripting the same id both hold a run dir for it — and each then admitted the other's untagged window. All three verbs resolve through this function, soaattached to the neighbour's window,set_return_panestamped the return target on it, andxkilled a live orchestrator in another project. Machine-wide by construction on tmux, where the control session carries a fixed name.What changed
An untagged row is admitted only when the record this project wrote names that exact window.
_read_ctl_windowmoves below thelist_windowscall and above the row loop,localgoes away, and the admission becomeselif not tag and win_id == recorded. Tagged rows,matches = tagged or untagged, and the post-loop re-prove are unchanged.The record is the right gate rather than a merely different one, because
start_detachedrecords before it tags (launch.py:874-877). The window whose best-effortset_window_optionnever landed — the exact case this fallback exists for — therefore still has a record and keeps its reach. What the run dir bought was reachability for a window nothing else could prove; what it cost was admitting the neighbour's.Note that the transportability half of #531's stated Direction already shipped in #523:
project_tagis a 16-hex digest now, so a tag value the transport would mangle is no longer a route into the untagged bucket. What remained was the admission rule itself, which is what this changes.What it costs, stated plainly
A window minted before any record exists — a fresh
run/sweep, where_record_ctl_windowdeliberately skips because the run dir is not minted yet — answersNoneuntil a relaunch records one. The two consumers wear that differently:afalls through to the live agent session or reports nothing to attach, whilexkills nothing (kill_ctl_windowno-ops onNone) and still reports the run stopped, so the orchestrator window is left running with no notice. That is the honest price. It is the cheaper half, because the alternative is not "reach my window" but "reach a window": with nothing proving ownership the untagged bucket fills by listing order, andxwould close whatever sorted first.The deferred residual, and why
One conjunction survives, and it is being deferred rather than fixed here. A backend that reuses a freed window id (a divergence the multiplexer seam explicitly tolerates) hands the neighbour the id this project recorded, while both projects script the same run id, and the neighbour's own tag write failed, and the window this record named is already gone. Name and id then both match, and the neighbour is admitted.
The reason it is not closed in this PR is a mechanism boundary, not effort. Closing it needs a channel that says this window is mine rather than an id I once minted — an identity written at mint time and read here. The only channel this function has is the tag, and it must read the tag and never write it: re-tagging on read is claiming rather than proving, and would stamp a neighbour's window with this project's tag. The realistic remedy is a read-only attribute that does not depend on the write that failed — the window's pane pid, recorded at mint and re-proven at lookup, since a recycled id carries a different pid. That is a new column through the mux seam with tmux/psmux parity work behind it, which is a separate change by size regardless of what it is called.
Honesty about the direction of the trade, because it is not uniform: wherever
runs.is_runstill holds, every condition in that conjunction was already satisfied by the gate being replaced — which admitted the neighbour on the run-id collision alone, with no id reuse and no dead window required — so over those states this is a strict narrowing. It is not a narrowing everywhere._read_ctl_windowasks nothing about the run dir, so an untagged row named by a readable record whose runruns.is_runnow rejects is admitted here and would have been refused by the old gate. Both halves are written into thectl_window_iddocstring rather than left for a reader to rediscover, and the residual is tracked as #750, with the pane-pid direction written up there.Out of scope
_ctl_window_candidates/prune_ctl_windowsstill use the run-dir rule for untagged rows. That is the same weak-ownership shape reaching pruning instead of targeting, and #531 partitions it to #419 explicitly, so it is untouched here.Testing
uv run pytest tests/test_tui_launch.py tests/test_tui_app.py -q— 326 passed, 18 skipped.uv run pytest -q -n logical— 7171 passed, 18 failed, 249 skipped. All 18 attributed against ad489c422worktree and an in-place stash: 17 reproduce at baseline (skill-seed drift, WinError 1314 symlink cases, a live psmux rig, install-time skill cases); the 18th (test_tui_app.py::test_decision_modal_survives_lock_and_state_root_failures) passes at baseline in every configuration and passes on this branch alone, in the targeted pair, and undertests/test_tui_app.py -n logical— it is attributed to a whole-suite xdist flake family that lands on two different tests in the same file at baseline, and it is stated as an attribution rather than as a reproduction. No test expectation, skip marker or assertion was weakened.uv run pyright— 7 errors, all pre-existing win32-onlyosattribute reports in the untouchedplatform_util.py.runs.is_run(...)fails 4 of the 5 new untagged tests, includingtest_ctl_window_id_refuses_an_untagged_neighbour_on_a_run_id_collision, which then answers the neighbour's window.Reviewed across six adversarial rounds by codex and 20 findings, all implemented. Round 2 caught that the round-1 fix (reading the record before the listing) had widened the stale half of a two-read snapshot; the new
test_ctl_window_id_reads_the_record_after_the_listingpins the ordering.Closes #531
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