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fix(code-reviews): keep sandbox paths correct and validated - #5114
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| "hardConstraints": "# HARD CONSTRAINTS (READ FIRST)\n\n1. **READ-ONLY MODE** - You can ONLY read files and post comments. DO NOT edit files, make commits, or execute code.\n2. **NON-INTERACTIVE MODE** - NEVER ask the user questions. NEVER request permission. NEVER wait for user input. If information is missing, make the best review possible from available context and state assumptions in the final summary.\n3. **NO INTERACTIVE PROCESSES** - Do NOT start shells, REPLs, editors, pagers, watchers, long-running servers, login flows, or any command that can prompt for input. Run allowed commands directly; do NOT invoke shell wrappers such as `bash`, `sh`, `zsh`, `bash -lc`, or `sh -c`.\n4. **CONTINUE AFTER REJECTIONS** - If a command or tool call is rejected, blocked, unavailable, or would require interaction, skip that command, use another read-only method if available, and continue the review. Do NOT stop solely because one command failed.\n5. **NEVER suggest X → X** - If old value equals new value, you are hallucinating. Skip the comment.\n6. **NEVER duplicate comments** - Before commenting, check Existing Comments table for same FILE + LINE. If a comment exists for that file and line, DO NOT comment again.\n7. **ONE summary only** - Post or update the summary exactly ONCE at the very end.\n8. **Atomic comments** - Post inline comments one at a time (GitLab doesn't support batch).\n9. **Changed lines only** - Only report issues on lines changed by this MR, or directly caused by those changed lines. Ignore pre-existing issues in unchanged lines, even within files you read for context.\n10. **ALL changed-code issues in ONE pass** - Report EVERY issue you find in changed code in a single review. Do NOT hold back findings. Never anchor or summarize an unchanged-code issue on a nearby changed line.\n11. **NEVER invent filesystem paths** - You already run inside the repository. NEVER guess or construct an absolute filesystem path such as `/workspace/...`: paths outside the repository are rejected by the sandbox and the tool call is lost. Glob, Grep and List take an OPTIONAL `path` argument - omit it to search the repository. Read takes a REQUIRED `filePath` - pass one relative to the repository root (e.g. `src/utils.ts`). Absolute paths that Glob and Grep return in their own results are safe to pass straight back to Read unchanged. If a tool call is rejected because of its path, retry it with a repository-relative path, omitting `path` where it is optional.\n\n**If you violate ANY constraint, the review is invalid.**", |
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SUGGESTION: Consider landing the same path constraint in the GitHub and Bitbucket templates
Constraint 11 guards a platform-agnostic failure mode: any review agent that invents an absolute /workspace/... path gets rejected by the sandbox regardless of platform. These templates are normally updated together for platform-agnostic changes (e.g. #3252, #3296, #3468, #4097, #4203), but this PR only bumps v5.7.4-gitlab while default-prompt-template.json (v5.6.5) and default-prompt-template-bitbucket.json (v5.7.6-bitbucket) stay without the guard. If the GitLab-only scope is intentional (e.g. GitHub sessions receive the workspace path via another channel), a note in the PR description would help; otherwise the other two templates likely need the same constraint and sub-agent guidance.
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Intentional staged rollout, not a scope gap.
The failure mode is platform agnostic, but the denials have only been observed on GitLab, and this constraint is unenforceable prompt guidance, so we are holding the GitHub and Bitbucket ports until the v5.7.3-gitlab vs v5.7.4-gitlab deny rate comparison (promptVersion is recorded on dispatch) confirms the rule moves the number. If it does, Bitbucket ports first since it runs defaultDeny and has the least room to recover from a lost tool call. Will add a note to the PR description as well.
Code Review SummaryStatus: No Issues Found | Recommendation: Merge Executive SummaryIncremental review of commit Files Reviewed (0 files)
Previous Review Summaries (2 snapshots, latest commit 1dfacc5)Current summary above is authoritative. Previous snapshots are kept for context only. Previous review (commit 1dfacc5)Status: No Issues Found | Recommendation: Merge Executive SummaryIncremental review of commit Files Reviewed (1 file)
Previous review (commit 3251c77)Status: 2 Issues Found | Recommendation: Address before merge Executive SummarySolid defensive fix - workspace path segments are now validated before reaching the sandbox and malformed session dirs are skipped during cleanup; only two low-severity observations: the new prompt path-guard landed in the GitLab template only, and one new comment mispoints to the allowlist location. Overview
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Summary
GitLab code review sessions were losing tool calls to
external_directorypermission denials, 29 to 44 per review in the sessions I traced. The agent was passing invented absolute paths like/workspace/<orgId>/sessions/<sessionId>to Glob, Grep and Read. Those resolve outside the session workspace, so the CLI refuses the call, and it refuses by throwing inside the CLI, where nothing on our side records it. In one traced session, 31 of the 42 denials came from sub-agents, which start without the parent's context and so cannot know where the repository is.The paths we build were correct in every session I checked, so this is two separate pieces of work: tell the GitLab review agent and its sub-agents how to address files, and make the path builders reject a malformed id instead of quietly producing a path that reads as valid.
Changes
GitLab prompt (
default-prompt-template-gitlab.json, versionv5.7.3-gitlabtov5.7.4-gitlab)pathargument that should be omitted, while Read takes a requiredfilePaththat should be repository relative. It also states that absolute paths appearing in Glob and Grep output are safe to pass back to Read unchanged, since both tools return absolute paths and forbidding their reuse would make ordinary tool chaining a constraint violation.Path construction (
services/cloud-agent-next/src/workspace.ts)/and:are legitimate in them (oauth/google:1234). Ids we generate (organization ids, session ids) are rejected rather than rewritten, so one id cannot render two ways.getSessionHomePathvalidates its session id. Previously it interpolated the raw value, so a malformed id could produce/home/or disagree with the workspace path for the same session. Both feed the same permission allowlist.getBaseWorkspacePathtakes the personal account branch only when the organization id is absent (nullorundefined). A supplied but unusable value now throws instead of routing an org session into the personal namespace, which would have placed its workspace, allowlist and cleanup root outside the namespace it belongs to.cleanupStaleWorkspacesskips, with a warning, any directory undersessions/whose name is not a valid session id. Those names come from the sandbox filesystem and are interpolated intorm -rf '<path>'.Observability (
services/cloud-agent-next/src/session-service.ts)workspacePathis added to the existingEnabled read-only command guard policylog. That path is the root of theexternal_directoryallowlist, and until now the only way to see it for a given review was to download the session log archive from R2.Tests (
services/cloud-agent-next/src/workspace.test.ts)Verification
No manual testing. The prompt rule is guidance to a model, so exercising it needs a real GitLab review against a live merge request, which requires a deploy.
external_directorydenial counts in the session logs for reviews recorded asv5.7.3-gitlabagainstv5.7.4-gitlab.Visual Changes
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Reviewer Notes
/or:, and an empty or whitespace user id. The tRPC boundary already validates the organization id asz.string().uuid().optional()and session metadata parses throughz.string().optional(), so these should be unreachable. Worth a second opinion on whether any entry point bypasses both.cleanupStaleWorkspaceswill now leave an oddly named directory in place rather than removing it. This trades one leaked directory against passing an unvalidated filesystem name intorm -rf. Such a name cannot be produced by our own id generation.sanitizeIdForPathis left as is. Replacing its two character deny list with an allowlist would change the output for any user id containing other characters, which would move those workspaces and leave the originals unreachable by cleanup. That needs a check against real user ids first.