ljos 0.35.5

Memory, a work tracker and a shell-command gate for coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, agy, opencode) over MCP and hooks.
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//! The prompt the hook kept and its bind, as a tool call reaches them.
//! A path word is resolved before it is compared: variables and `~`
//! expanded, joined to the directory the shell stands in, `.` and `..`
//! taken out, and the symlinks of the part that exists followed. A word
//! the guard cannot resolve is compared by its file name alone.

use std::path::{Component, Path, PathBuf};

/// The file names of the prompt the hook kept and its bind.
pub(crate) const NAMES: &[&str] = &["latest-prompt", "latest-prompt.bind"];

/// Programs that remove, move or link what they are given: run on a
/// directory above the kept prompt, they replace it with everything else.
const MOVERS: &[&str] = &[
    "mv", "rm", "rmdir", "unlink", "ln", "rsync", "shred", "trash",
];

/// Programs that write, replace or open for editing the files they are
/// given, besides [`MOVERS`].
const WRITERS: &[&str] = &[
    "cp",
    "install",
    "tee",
    "dd",
    "touch",
    "truncate",
    "chmod",
    "chown",
    "mkfifo",
    "mknod",
    "vi",
    "vim",
    "nvim",
    "view",
    "nano",
    "pico",
    "emacs",
    "emacsclient",
    "ed",
    "ex",
    "micro",
    "hx",
    "kak",
    "joe",
    "sh",
    "bash",
    "dash",
    "zsh",
    "ksh",
    "fish",
];

/// Whether `cmd` given `args` writes the files it names: a mover or
/// writer, an interpreter running a script, `sed` or `perl` editing in
/// place, or a `find` that deletes or runs a command.
fn writes(cmd: &str, args: &[String]) -> bool {
    MOVERS.contains(&cmd)
        || WRITERS.contains(&cmd)
        || interpreter(cmd).is_some()
        || (matches!(cmd, "sed" | "gsed" | "perl")
            && args.iter().any(|a| {
                a == "--in-place"
                    || a.starts_with("--in-place=")
                    || (a.starts_with('-') && !a.starts_with("--") && a.contains('i'))
            }))
        || (cmd == "find"
            && args.iter().any(|a| {
                matches!(
                    a.as_str(),
                    "-delete" | "-exec" | "-execdir" | "-ok" | "-okdir"
                )
            }))
}

/// The runtime ljos directories a tool call could write into, resolved:
/// the one this process uses, `/run/user/UID/ljos`, and the fallback a
/// shell without `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` uses.
fn dirs() -> Vec<PathBuf> {
    let uid = crate::euid();
    let home = std::env::var_os("HOME").map(PathBuf::from);
    let mut out: Vec<PathBuf> = [
        crate::runtime_dir_path(),
        PathBuf::from(format!("/run/user/{uid}/ljos")),
        crate::runtime_fallback(&std::env::temp_dir(), home.as_deref(), uid),
    ]
    .iter()
    .map(|d| resolve(d))
    .collect();
    out.dedup();
    out
}

/// The value of `$NAME` for a path: the environment, and the user id the
/// shell sets itself.
fn var(name: &str) -> Option<String> {
    match name {
        "UID" | "EUID" => Some(crate::euid().to_string()),
        _ => std::env::var(name).ok(),
    }
}

/// `word` with `~`, `$NAME` and `${NAME}`, `${NAME:-x}` and `${NAME-x}`
/// expanded. `None` for anything else a shell would expand.
fn expand(word: &str) -> Option<String> {
    let word = match word.strip_prefix('~') {
        Some(rest) if rest.is_empty() || rest.starts_with('/') => format!("{}{rest}", var("HOME")?),
        Some(_) => return None,
        None => word.to_string(),
    };
    let mut out = String::new();
    let mut rest = word.as_str();
    while let Some(at) = rest.find('$') {
        out.push_str(&rest[..at]);
        rest = &rest[at + 1..];
        if let Some(inner) = rest.strip_prefix('{') {
            let close = inner.find('}')?;
            let body = &inner[..close];
            rest = &inner[close + 1..];
            let (name, default, empty_too) = match body.split_once(":-") {
                Some((n, d)) => (n, Some(d), true),
                None => match body.split_once('-') {
                    Some((n, d)) => (n, Some(d), false),
                    None => (body, None, false),
                },
            };
            let set = var(name).filter(|v| !(empty_too && v.is_empty()));
            out.push_str(&match (set, default) {
                (Some(v), _) => v,
                (None, Some(d)) => expand(d)?,
                (None, None) => return None,
            });
        } else {
            let len = rest
                .find(|c: char| !(c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || c == '_'))
                .unwrap_or(rest.len());
            if len == 0 {
                return None;
            }
            out.push_str(&var(&rest[..len])?);
            rest = &rest[len..];
        }
    }
    out.push_str(rest);
    Some(out)
}

/// `path` as the filesystem reaches it: the longest part that exists with
/// its symlinks followed, and the rest with `.` and `..` taken out.
pub(crate) fn resolve(path: &Path) -> PathBuf {
    for top in path.ancestors() {
        if let Ok(real) = std::fs::canonicalize(top) {
            let rest = path.strip_prefix(top).unwrap_or(Path::new(""));
            return crate::lexical_path(&real.join(rest));
        }
    }
    crate::lexical_path(path)
}

/// The path a shell word names, standing in `cwd`. `None` when the word
/// needs an expansion the guard does not make, or is relative and the
/// directory is not known.
pub(crate) fn path_of(word: &str, cwd: Option<&Path>) -> Option<PathBuf> {
    let word = expand(word)?;
    let path = Path::new(&word);
    if path.is_absolute() {
        Some(resolve(path))
    } else {
        cwd.map(|cwd| resolve(&cwd.join(path)))
    }
}

/// Whether the shell pattern `pat` matches the whole of `name`.
fn glob(pat: &[char], name: &[char]) -> bool {
    match pat.split_first() {
        None => name.is_empty(),
        Some(('*', rest)) => (0..=name.len()).any(|i| glob(rest, &name[i..])),
        Some(('?', rest)) => !name.is_empty() && glob(rest, &name[1..]),
        Some(('[', rest)) => {
            let Some(close) = rest.iter().skip(1).position(|c| *c == ']').map(|i| i + 1) else {
                return name.first() == Some(&'[') && glob(rest, &name[1..]);
            };
            let Some((first, tail)) = name.split_first() else {
                return false;
            };
            let set = &rest[..close];
            let (negate, set) = match set.split_first() {
                Some(('!' | '^', s)) => (true, s),
                _ => (false, set),
            };
            let mut hit = false;
            let mut i = 0;
            while i < set.len() {
                if set.get(i + 1) == Some(&'-') && i + 2 < set.len() {
                    hit |= (set[i]..=set[i + 2]).contains(first);
                    i += 3;
                } else {
                    hit |= set[i] == *first;
                    i += 1;
                }
            }
            hit != negate && glob(&rest[close + 1..], tail)
        }
        Some((c, rest)) => name.first() == Some(c) && glob(rest, &name[1..]),
    }
}

/// The most paths [`globbed`] reads one pattern as.
const MAX_GLOBBED: usize = 256;

/// The paths on disk the pattern `path` matches, each resolved, so a
/// match that is a symlink counts as where it leads. Empty for a path
/// with no pattern in it.
pub(crate) fn globbed(path: &Path) -> Vec<PathBuf> {
    let is_pattern = |s: &str| s.contains(['*', '?', '[']);
    if !is_pattern(&path.to_string_lossy()) {
        return Vec::new();
    }
    let mut found = vec![PathBuf::new()];
    for part in path.components() {
        let name = part.as_os_str().to_string_lossy();
        if !matches!(part, Component::Normal(_)) || !is_pattern(&name) {
            found.iter_mut().for_each(|f| f.push(part));
            continue;
        }
        let pat: Vec<char> = name.chars().collect();
        let mut next = Vec::new();
        for dir in &found {
            let Ok(entries) = std::fs::read_dir(dir) else {
                continue;
            };
            for entry in entries.flatten() {
                let entry_name: Vec<char> = entry.file_name().to_string_lossy().chars().collect();
                if glob(&pat, &entry_name) && next.len() < MAX_GLOBBED {
                    next.push(dir.join(entry.file_name()));
                }
            }
        }
        found = next;
    }
    found.iter().map(|p| resolve(p)).collect()
}

/// Whether each component of `pat`, a pattern or a name, matches the one
/// beside it in `real`.
fn same_parts(pat: &[Component<'_>], real: &[Component<'_>]) -> bool {
    pat.len() == real.len()
        && pat.iter().zip(real).all(|(p, r)| match (p, r) {
            (Component::Normal(p), Component::Normal(r)) => {
                let p: Vec<char> = p.to_string_lossy().chars().collect();
                let r: Vec<char> = r.to_string_lossy().chars().collect();
                glob(&p, &r)
            }
            _ => p == r,
        })
}

/// Whether `path`, a path or a pattern, is `dir` or inside it.
pub(crate) fn within(path: &Path, dir: &Path) -> bool {
    let p: Vec<Component<'_>> = path.components().collect();
    let d: Vec<Component<'_>> = dir.components().collect();
    p.len() >= d.len() && same_parts(&p[..d.len()], &d)
}

/// Whether `path`, a path or a pattern, is `dir` itself.
pub(crate) fn names_dir(path: &Path, dir: &Path) -> bool {
    path.components().count() == dir.components().count() && within(path, dir)
}

/// Whether `path`, a path or a pattern, is `dir` or a directory above it.
pub(crate) fn encloses(path: &Path, dir: &Path) -> bool {
    let p: Vec<Component<'_>> = path.components().collect();
    let d: Vec<Component<'_>> = dir.components().collect();
    p.len() <= d.len() && same_parts(&p, &d[..p.len()])
}

/// Whether `path` is a runtime ljos directory or inside one.
pub(crate) fn inside(path: &Path) -> bool {
    dirs().iter().any(|d| within(path, d))
}

/// The name right below `path` on the way down to a runtime ljos
/// directory, when `path` is above one. The root is left to the rules
/// that refuse removing it.
pub(crate) fn above(path: &Path) -> Option<String> {
    let p: Vec<Component<'_>> = path.components().collect();
    dirs().iter().find_map(|d| {
        let d: Vec<Component<'_>> = d.components().collect();
        (p.len() > 1 && p.len() < d.len() && same_parts(&p, &d[..p.len()]))
            .then(|| d[p.len()].as_os_str().to_string_lossy().into_owned())
    })
}

/// Whether a word's file name is the kept prompt's or its bind's.
pub(crate) fn names_one(word: &str) -> bool {
    let name = word
        .trim_end_matches('/')
        .rsplit('/')
        .next()
        .unwrap_or(word);
    NAMES.contains(&name)
}

/// The word of one command, its wrappers off, that reaches the kept prompt
/// when the shell stands in `cwd`: a redirection into the runtime ljos
/// directory, a path into it given to anything but a reader, or a
/// directory above it given to a program in [`MOVERS`].
pub(crate) fn reached(words: &[String], cwd: Option<&Path>, reader: bool) -> Option<String> {
    let cmd = words.first()?.rsplit('/').next().unwrap_or("");
    let mut operands: Vec<&str> = Vec::new();
    let mut it = words.iter().skip(1);
    while let Some(w) = it.next() {
        if w == ">" {
            let target = it.next()?;
            if names_one(target) || path_of(target, cwd).is_some_and(|p| inside(&p)) {
                return Some(target.clone());
            }
            continue;
        }
        if w.contains(char::is_whitespace) || w.contains("://") {
            continue;
        }
        operands.push(w);
        if let Some((_, value)) = w.split_once('=') {
            operands.push(value);
        }
    }
    if reader {
        return None;
    }
    if writes(cmd, &words[1..]) {
        if let Some(w) = operands.iter().find(|w| names_one(w)) {
            return Some((*w).to_string());
        }
    }
    let paths: Vec<(&str, Option<PathBuf>)> =
        operands.iter().map(|w| (*w, path_of(w, cwd))).collect();
    if let Some((w, _)) = paths.iter().find(|(_, p)| p.as_deref().is_some_and(inside)) {
        return Some((*w).to_string());
    }
    if !MOVERS.contains(&cmd) {
        return None;
    }
    let files: Vec<&(&str, Option<PathBuf>)> =
        paths.iter().filter(|(w, _)| !w.starts_with('-')).collect();
    let last = files.len().saturating_sub(1);
    for (i, (w, p)) in files.iter().enumerate() {
        let Some(below) = p.as_deref().and_then(above) else {
            continue;
        };
        // `mv x DIR/` puts x inside DIR, which replaces nothing unless x
        // is named as what DIR holds on the way down.
        let into = i == last && i > 0 && matches!(cmd, "mv" | "ln" | "rsync");
        let named = files[..i]
            .iter()
            .any(|(s, _)| s.trim_end_matches('/').rsplit('/').next() == Some(below.as_str()));
        if !into || named {
            return Some((*w).to_string());
        }
    }
    None
}

/// Interpreters that take their code as an argument, and the flags it
/// follows. A Python is any `python*` or `pypy*`.
const CODE_FLAGS: &[(&str, &[&str])] = &[
    ("python", &["-c"]),
    ("perl", &["-e", "-E"]),
    ("ruby", &["-e"]),
    ("node", &["-e", "--eval", "-p", "--print"]),
    ("nodejs", &["-e", "--eval", "-p", "--print"]),
    ("bun", &["-e", "--eval", "-p", "--print"]),
    ("deno", &["eval"]),
    ("php", &["-r"]),
    ("lua", &["-e"]),
    ("osascript", &["-e"]),
];

const AWKS: &[&str] = &["awk", "gawk", "mawk", "nawk"];

/// Whether code or text a program runs names the kept prompt: a runtime
/// ljos directory as written or resolved, `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`, or a kept
/// file's name. Code builds a path however it likes, so naming any one
/// of them is taken as a write.
fn names_it(code: &str) -> bool {
    let uid = crate::euid();
    code.contains("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR")
        || NAMES.iter().any(|n| code.contains(n))
        || dirs()
            .iter()
            .cloned()
            .chain([
                crate::runtime_dir_path(),
                PathBuf::from(format!("/run/user/{uid}/ljos")),
            ])
            .any(|d| d.to_str().is_some_and(|d| code.contains(d)))
}

/// Which interpreter `cmd` is, by the name [`CODE_FLAGS`] lists it under.
fn interpreter(cmd: &str) -> Option<&'static str> {
    if cmd.starts_with("python") || cmd.starts_with("pypy") {
        return Some("python");
    }
    CODE_FLAGS.iter().map(|(n, _)| *n).find(|n| *n == cmd)
}

/// The code of one command, its wrappers off, that names the kept prompt.
pub(crate) fn code_reaches(words: &[String], line: &str) -> Option<String> {
    let (code, fed) = code_of(words, line)?;
    let cmd = words.first()?.rsplit('/').next().unwrap_or("");
    names_it(code).then(|| if fed { cmd } else { code }.to_string())
}

/// The code one command, its wrappers off, runs: the argument of an
/// interpreter's code flag or an awk program, or, for an interpreter,
/// `git apply`, `git am` or `patch` given no file to read, the whole
/// `line` that feeds it its stdin, marked `true`.
pub(crate) fn code_of<'a>(words: &'a [String], line: &'a str) -> Option<(&'a str, bool)> {
    let cmd = words.first()?.rsplit('/').next().unwrap_or("");
    let args = &words[1..];
    if AWKS.contains(&cmd) {
        let mut it = args.iter();
        while let Some(w) = it.next() {
            if matches!(w.as_str(), "-F" | "-v" | "-f") {
                it.next();
            } else if !w.starts_with('-') {
                return Some((w, false));
            }
        }
        return None;
    }
    // A here-document's `<<EOF` and a `<` read stdin; neither is a file.
    let no_file = |ws: &[String]| {
        ws.iter()
            .all(|w| (w.starts_with('-') && w != "--") || w.starts_with('<'))
            || ws.iter().any(|w| w == "-")
    };
    let reads_stdin = if let Some(name) = interpreter(cmd) {
        let flags = CODE_FLAGS.iter().find(|(n, _)| *n == name)?.1;
        let short: Vec<char> = flags
            .iter()
            .filter(|f| f.len() == 2 && f.starts_with('-'))
            .filter_map(|f| f.chars().nth(1))
            .collect();
        for (i, w) in args.iter().enumerate() {
            // `-ne CODE` bundles flags and ends on the one that takes code.
            let bundle = w.len() > 2
                && w.starts_with('-')
                && w[1..].chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_alphabetic())
                && w.chars().last().is_some_and(|c| short.contains(&c));
            let code = if flags.contains(&w.as_str()) || bundle {
                args.get(i + 1).map(String::as_str)
            } else {
                flags.iter().find_map(|f| {
                    if f.len() == 2 {
                        w.strip_prefix(f).filter(|rest| !rest.is_empty())
                    } else {
                        w.strip_prefix(f).and_then(|rest| rest.strip_prefix('='))
                    }
                })
            };
            if let Some(code) = code {
                return Some((code, false));
            }
        }
        no_file(args)
    } else {
        let git = cmd == "git" && matches!(args.first().map(String::as_str), Some("apply" | "am"));
        (cmd == "patch" && no_file(args)) || (git && no_file(&args[1..]))
    };
    reads_stdin.then_some((line, true))
}

/// File tools that only read what they are given, by the name after an
/// MCP server's `mcp__server__` prefix, lower-cased.
const READ_TOOLS: &[&str] = &[
    "read",
    "view",
    "grep",
    "glob",
    "ls",
    "notebookread",
    "codebase_search",
    "file_search",
    "grep_search",
    "directory_tree",
    "get_file_info",
    "list_allowed_directories",
];

/// Prefixes of a read-only file tool's name: `read_file`, `view_file`,
/// `list_directory`, `search_files`.
const READ_PREFIXES: &[&str] = &["read_", "view_", "list_", "search_"];

/// Whether the file tool `name` only reads.
pub(crate) fn reads_only(name: &str) -> bool {
    let name = name.to_ascii_lowercase();
    let base = name.rsplit("__").next().unwrap_or(&name);
    READ_TOOLS.contains(&base) || READ_PREFIXES.iter().any(|p| base.starts_with(p))
}

/// The path, resolved, of the first string in a file tool's `args` that
/// reaches into a runtime ljos directory, when tool `name` does not only
/// read. Every key counts, however deep, and a string that is itself JSON
/// arguments is looked into.
pub(crate) fn written_target(
    name: &str,
    args: &serde_json::Value,
    cwd: Option<&Path>,
) -> Option<PathBuf> {
    fn walk(v: &serde_json::Value, cwd: Option<&Path>, depth: usize) -> Option<PathBuf> {
        use serde_json::Value;
        if depth > 8 {
            return None;
        }
        match v {
            Value::String(s) => {
                let s = s.trim();
                if s.starts_with('{') || s.starts_with('[') {
                    if let Ok(inner) = serde_json::from_str::<Value>(s) {
                        return walk(&inner, cwd, depth + 1);
                    }
                }
                let s = s.strip_prefix("file://").unwrap_or(s);
                if s.is_empty() || s.contains(char::is_whitespace) {
                    return None;
                }
                path_of(s, cwd).filter(|p| inside(p))
            }
            Value::Array(items) => items.iter().find_map(|i| walk(i, cwd, depth + 1)),
            Value::Object(map) => map.values().find_map(|i| walk(i, cwd, depth + 1)),
            _ => None,
        }
    }
    if reads_only(name) {
        return None;
    }
    walk(args, cwd, 0)
}

/// The path `word` names from `cwd`, with `.` and `..` removed and
/// symlinks left as the shell spelled them. Bash `cd` keeps that
/// spelling: `/tmp` stays `/tmp` when it points at `/private/tmp`, and
/// `..` pops `/tmp`, not `/private`.
pub(crate) fn logical_path_of(word: &str, cwd: Option<&Path>) -> Option<PathBuf> {
    let word = expand(word)?;
    let path = Path::new(&word);
    let joined = if path.is_absolute() {
        path.to_path_buf()
    } else {
        cwd?.join(path)
    };
    Some(crate::lexical_path(&joined))
}

/// Where the shell stands after `cd` or `pushd` with `words`, from `cwd`.
/// `None` when that is not known. The directory is the logical one.
pub(crate) fn after_cd(words: &[String], cwd: Option<&Path>) -> Option<PathBuf> {
    let target = words
        .iter()
        .skip(1)
        .find(|w| !w.starts_with('-') || *w == "-");
    match target.map(String::as_str) {
        None => var("HOME").map(|h| crate::lexical_path(Path::new(&h))),
        Some("-") => None,
        Some(t) => logical_path_of(t, cwd),
    }
}