sofos 0.3.5

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use crate::error::{Result, SofosError};
use crate::mcp::client::{
    MCP_INIT_TIMEOUT, MCP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT, create_call_tool_request, create_init_request,
    parse_call_tool_response, parse_list_tools_response,
};
use crate::mcp::config::McpServerConfig;
use crate::mcp::protocol::*;
use serde_json::Value;
use std::collections::HashMap;
use std::io::{BufRead, BufReader, Write};
use std::process::{Child, ChildStderr, ChildStdin, ChildStdout, Command, Stdio};
use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, Ordering};
use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
use std::time::Duration;

/// Cross-platform env keys forwarded to MCP stdio children after
/// [`Command::env_clear`]. Everything outside this allowlist (including
/// `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`, `OPENAI_API_KEY`, `MORPH_API_KEY`, ssh agent
/// sockets, AWS credentials, etc.) is dropped unless the user opts in
/// through the server's `env` config field.
const FORWARDED_ENV_KEYS: &[&str] = &[
    "PATH",
    "HOME",
    "USERPROFILE",
    "TMPDIR",
    "TEMP",
    "TMP",
    "LANG",
];

/// Extra Windows essentials. Many programs misbehave without
/// `SYSTEMROOT` / `COMSPEC` / `PATHEXT`, so a strict allowlist would
/// break MCP servers that shell out under the hood.
#[cfg(windows)]
const FORWARDED_ENV_KEYS_WINDOWS: &[&str] = &[
    "SYSTEMROOT",
    "COMSPEC",
    "PATHEXT",
    "WINDIR",
    "SYSTEMDRIVE",
    "APPDATA",
    "LOCALAPPDATA",
    "PROGRAMDATA",
    "PROGRAMFILES",
    "PROGRAMFILES(X86)",
    "PROGRAMW6432",
    "PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE",
    "NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS",
];

/// Upper bound on the Drop-time wait for an MCP child. Beyond this we
/// give up and accept a brief zombie — the OS reaps it once sofos
/// itself exits. Keeps process shutdown bounded even if a server
/// child hangs on a closed pipe.
const STDIO_DROP_WAIT_TOTAL: Duration = Duration::from_millis(200);
const STDIO_DROP_POLL_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_millis(10);

/// Build and spawn the stdio MCP child with a sanitised environment.
/// Clears the parent env, forwards a small platform-specific allowlist
/// (locale, paths, Windows essentials), then applies the user's
/// configured `env` entries on top. This is what keeps
/// `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` / `OPENAI_API_KEY` / `MORPH_API_KEY` and
/// arbitrary other secrets out of every MCP child unless the user
/// explicitly forwards them.
fn spawn_stdio_child(
    command: &str,
    args: &[String],
    env_vars: &HashMap<String, String>,
) -> std::io::Result<Child> {
    let mut cmd = Command::new(command);
    cmd.args(args)
        .stdin(Stdio::piped())
        .stdout(Stdio::piped())
        .stderr(Stdio::piped());

    cmd.env_clear();

    for key in FORWARDED_ENV_KEYS {
        if let Some(value) = std::env::var_os(key) {
            cmd.env(key, value);
        }
    }
    for (key, value) in std::env::vars_os() {
        if key.to_string_lossy().starts_with("LC_") {
            cmd.env(key, value);
        }
    }
    #[cfg(windows)]
    for key in FORWARDED_ENV_KEYS_WINDOWS {
        if let Some(value) = std::env::var_os(key) {
            cmd.env(key, value);
        }
    }

    for (key, value) in env_vars {
        cmd.env(key, value);
    }

    cmd.spawn()
}

/// Take stdin/stdout/stderr from a freshly-spawned MCP child. Reaching
/// the `Err` branch is practically unreachable — `Command::spawn` with
/// `Stdio::piped()` on all three ends always populates the pipes — but
/// the type system doesn't enforce it. Owning the `Child` lets us reap
/// it internally on the impossible branch, so a `?` at the call site
/// can't accidentally leak a zombie via `Child::drop` (which doesn't
/// wait).
fn take_child_pipes(
    mut process: Child,
    server_name: &str,
) -> Result<(Child, ChildStdin, ChildStdout, ChildStderr)> {
    if let (Some(stdin), Some(stdout), Some(stderr)) = (
        process.stdin.take(),
        process.stdout.take(),
        process.stderr.take(),
    ) {
        return Ok((process, stdin, stdout, stderr));
    }
    let _ = process.kill();
    let _ = process.wait();
    Err(SofosError::McpError(format!(
        "Failed to acquire stdin/stdout/stderr for MCP server '{}'",
        server_name
    )))
}

/// Drain the child's stderr line-by-line on a blocking worker and route
/// each line through `tracing::debug!` tagged with the server name.
/// Servers reserve stdout for JSON-RPC and emit their own INFO/DEBUG
/// logs to stderr, so treating every line as a warning floods the
/// default-level (WARN) log with normal startup chatter. Real failures
/// still surface as WARN from the connect / list-tools paths in
/// `manager.rs`; raw stderr is opt-in via `RUST_LOG=debug`.
///
/// ANSI escapes are stripped before logging because tracing's default
/// formatter renders control bytes as `\x1b[…]` literals, which is what
/// the user actually sees on the terminal otherwise.
fn spawn_stderr_reader(server_name: String, stderr: ChildStderr) {
    tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || {
        let reader = BufReader::new(stderr);
        for line in reader.lines() {
            match line {
                Ok(text) => {
                    let clean = strip_ansi_escapes(&text);
                    tracing::debug!(server = %server_name, "mcp stderr: {}", clean);
                }
                Err(e) => {
                    tracing::warn!(
                        server = %server_name,
                        "mcp stderr read failed: {}",
                        e
                    );
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
    });
}

/// Remove CSI sequences (`ESC [ … final-byte`) and the bare `ESC` so log
/// lines stay readable when the child wraps its output in ANSI styling.
/// Final bytes of a CSI run sit in `0x40..=0x7e`; we also tolerate a
/// stray `ESC` with no following bracket by skipping the next char.
fn strip_ansi_escapes(s: &str) -> String {
    let mut out = String::with_capacity(s.len());
    let mut chars = s.chars();
    while let Some(c) = chars.next() {
        if c != '\x1b' {
            out.push(c);
            continue;
        }
        if let Some('[') = chars.next() {
            for cc in chars.by_ref() {
                if matches!(cc, '\x40'..='\x7e') {
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    out
}

/// Write a single stdio message to the server (JSON-RPC request *or*
/// notification). Shared by `send_request` and `send_notification` so
/// the lock/write/flush sequence lives in one place.
fn stdio_write_blocking(
    server_name: &str,
    stdin: &Arc<Mutex<ChildStdin>>,
    payload: &str,
) -> Result<()> {
    let mut stdin_guard = stdin
        .lock()
        .map_err(|e| SofosError::McpError(format!("Failed to lock stdin: {}", e)))?;
    writeln!(stdin_guard, "{}", payload).map_err(|e| {
        SofosError::McpError(format!(
            "Failed to write to MCP server '{}': {}",
            server_name, e
        ))
    })?;
    stdin_guard.flush().map_err(|e| {
        SofosError::McpError(format!(
            "Failed to flush stdin for MCP server '{}': {}",
            server_name, e
        ))
    })?;
    Ok(())
}

/// Run one stdio MCP request on a worker thread. Owns no `self` so it
/// can be freely moved into `tokio::task::spawn_blocking`. Returns the
/// parsed `JsonRpcResponse` envelope (not the `result` payload) so the
/// caller can distinguish a server-reported error from a transport
/// failure.
///
/// Holds `request_lock` for the full write+read cycle: the previous
/// version locked stdin for the write, released, then locked stdout for
/// the read. If two requests overlapped, the read side could pick up
/// the *other* request's response — JSON-RPC ids let the caller catch
/// the mismatch, but only after deserialisation. Coupling the two
/// halves under one lock makes the contract straightforward: one
/// request fully completes before the next starts.
fn stdio_request_blocking(
    server_name: &str,
    request_lock: &Arc<Mutex<()>>,
    stdin: &Arc<Mutex<ChildStdin>>,
    stdout: &Arc<Mutex<BufReader<ChildStdout>>>,
    request_id: u64,
    request_json: &str,
) -> Result<JsonRpcResponse> {
    let _request_guard = request_lock
        .lock()
        .map_err(|e| SofosError::McpError(format!("Failed to lock MCP request mutex: {}", e)))?;

    stdio_write_blocking(server_name, stdin, request_json)?;

    let mut stdout_guard = stdout
        .lock()
        .map_err(|e| SofosError::McpError(format!("Failed to lock stdout: {}", e)))?;

    let mut response_line = String::new();
    let bytes_read = stdout_guard.read_line(&mut response_line).map_err(|e| {
        SofosError::McpError(format!(
            "Failed to read from MCP server '{}': {}",
            server_name, e
        ))
    })?;
    // Zero bytes from `read_line` means the server closed stdout
    // cleanly — typically a crash or exit between requests.
    // Surface that plainly so the user isn't chasing a bogus
    // "parse error" message for what's really a dead server.
    if bytes_read == 0 {
        return Err(SofosError::McpError(format!(
            "MCP server '{}' closed stdout unexpectedly (server crashed or exited?)",
            server_name
        )));
    }

    // Parse as Value first; a `method` field means a server-initiated
    // request, which sofos doesn't implement — reject explicitly.
    let raw: Value = serde_json::from_str(&response_line).map_err(|e| {
        SofosError::McpError(format!(
            "Failed to parse response from MCP server '{}': {}",
            server_name, e
        ))
    })?;
    if raw.get("method").is_some() {
        return Err(SofosError::McpError(format!(
            "MCP server '{}' sent a server-initiated message while a response was expected; \
             sofos does not implement the server-to-client side of the spec",
            server_name
        )));
    }

    let response: JsonRpcResponse = serde_json::from_value(raw).map_err(|e| {
        SofosError::McpError(format!(
            "Failed to parse response envelope from MCP server '{}': {}",
            server_name, e
        ))
    })?;

    // Reject id mismatches; accept either numeric or string echoes
    // of the outgoing numeric id (spec lets servers reshape).
    if !response.id.matches_outgoing(request_id) {
        return Err(SofosError::McpError(format!(
            "MCP server '{}' returned response with id {:?}, expected {}",
            server_name, response.id, request_id
        )));
    }

    Ok(response)
}

pub struct StdioClient {
    server_name: String,
    process: Arc<Mutex<Child>>,
    stdin: Arc<Mutex<ChildStdin>>,
    stdout: Arc<Mutex<BufReader<ChildStdout>>>,
    /// Serialises full request-response cycles. See `stdio_request_blocking`
    /// for why write+read must stay coupled.
    request_lock: Arc<Mutex<()>>,
    next_id: Arc<AtomicU64>,
}

/// Kill and reap with a bounded `try_wait` loop. Shared by `Drop`
/// and the detached kill path so neither blocks the executor on a
/// child stuck in uninterruptible IO. The OS reaps any survivor
/// when sofos exits.
fn kill_and_reap_bounded(child: &mut Child) {
    let _ = child.kill();
    let start = std::time::Instant::now();
    while start.elapsed() < STDIO_DROP_WAIT_TOTAL {
        match child.try_wait() {
            Ok(Some(_)) => return,
            Ok(None) => std::thread::sleep(STDIO_DROP_POLL_INTERVAL),
            Err(_) => return,
        }
    }
}

impl Drop for StdioClient {
    fn drop(&mut self) {
        // `Child::drop` does NOT wait on the subprocess, so without
        // this the MCP server lingers as a zombie until sofos itself
        // exits. A detached reap task spawned by `kill_child_detached`
        // may also be running when Drop fires — the mutex serialises
        // them, and the kill/wait pair is idempotent: a second `kill`
        // after the child already exited returns `InvalidInput`, and
        // a second `wait` after the child was already reaped returns
        // a harmless error.
        if let Ok(mut child) = self.process.lock() {
            kill_and_reap_bounded(&mut child);
        }
    }
}

impl StdioClient {
    pub async fn new(server_name: String, config: McpServerConfig) -> Result<Self> {
        let command = config
            .command
            .ok_or_else(|| SofosError::McpError("Missing command for stdio server".to_string()))?;

        let args = config.args.unwrap_or_default();
        let env_vars = config.env.unwrap_or_default();

        // Spawn off the executor — `Command::spawn` is synchronous and
        // can pause tokio noticeably on slow filesystems.
        let spawn_name = server_name.clone();
        let process = tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || -> std::io::Result<Child> {
            spawn_stdio_child(&command, &args, &env_vars)
        })
        .await
        .map_err(|e| {
            SofosError::McpError(format!(
                "MCP spawn worker panicked for server '{}': {}",
                spawn_name, e
            ))
        })?
        .map_err(|e| {
            SofosError::McpError(format!(
                "Failed to start MCP server '{}': {}",
                spawn_name, e
            ))
        })?;

        // `take_child_pipes` reaps the child if any pipe is missing,
        // so the `?` here can't leak a zombie. Once the child is
        // wrapped in `Self`, the `Drop` impl takes over.
        let (process, stdin, stdout, stderr) = take_child_pipes(process, &server_name)?;

        // Drain stderr into `tracing` so server diagnostics aren't
        // silently dropped on the floor.
        spawn_stderr_reader(server_name.clone(), stderr);

        let client = Self {
            server_name: server_name.clone(),
            process: Arc::new(Mutex::new(process)),
            stdin: Arc::new(Mutex::new(stdin)),
            stdout: Arc::new(Mutex::new(BufReader::new(stdout))),
            request_lock: Arc::new(Mutex::new(())),
            next_id: Arc::new(AtomicU64::new(1)),
        };

        client.initialize().await?;

        Ok(client)
    }

    /// Run a blocking closure with the shared MCP timeout ceiling. On
    /// timeout the child is killed off-thread so the async caller
    /// doesn't pause the executor waiting for the OS to reap it. Used
    /// by both `send_request` and `send_notification` so they share
    /// the same lock/panic/timeout error vocabulary.
    async fn run_with_timeout<T, F>(&self, label: &str, timeout: Duration, blocking: F) -> Result<T>
    where
        F: FnOnce() -> Result<T> + Send + 'static,
        T: Send + 'static,
    {
        let task = tokio::task::spawn_blocking(blocking);
        match tokio::time::timeout(timeout, task).await {
            Ok(Ok(Ok(value))) => Ok(value),
            Ok(Ok(Err(e))) => Err(e),
            Ok(Err(join_err)) => Err(SofosError::McpError(format!(
                "MCP worker panicked for server '{}' during {}: {}",
                self.server_name, label, join_err
            ))),
            Err(_) => {
                self.kill_child_detached();
                Err(SofosError::McpError(format!(
                    "MCP server '{}' {} timed out after {}s",
                    self.server_name,
                    label,
                    timeout.as_secs()
                )))
            }
        }
    }

    /// Kill + reap the child on a blocking thread without waiting for
    /// it to finish here. Used from async timeout handlers so a slow
    /// `Child::wait` (milliseconds in practice, but the call is
    /// synchronous) never pauses the tokio executor. Firing and
    /// forgetting is safe because tokio drains blocking tasks on
    /// runtime shutdown, and the `Drop` impl is idempotent against
    /// an already-reaped child.
    ///
    /// Reaping uses the same bounded `try_wait` loop as `Drop`, so a
    /// child stuck on uninterruptible IO doesn't leave a blocking
    /// task pinned to the runtime forever — after the budget we
    /// release the lock and accept the zombie.
    fn kill_child_detached(&self) {
        let process = Arc::clone(&self.process);
        tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || {
            if let Ok(mut child) = process.lock() {
                kill_and_reap_bounded(&mut child);
            }
        });
    }

    async fn initialize(&self) -> Result<()> {
        // The handshake uses a tighter ceiling than tool calls so a
        // frozen server can't hold session startup hostage for two
        // minutes per misconfigured config entry.
        let response = self
            .send_request_with_timeout(
                "initialize",
                Some(serde_json::to_value(create_init_request())?),
                MCP_INIT_TIMEOUT,
            )
            .await?;

        let _init_result: InitializeResult = serde_json::from_value(response)?;

        self.send_notification("notifications/initialized", None)
            .await?;

        Ok(())
    }

    async fn send_request(&self, method: &str, params: Option<Value>) -> Result<Value> {
        self.send_request_with_timeout(method, params, MCP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT)
            .await
    }

    async fn send_request_with_timeout(
        &self,
        method: &str,
        params: Option<Value>,
        timeout: Duration,
    ) -> Result<Value> {
        let id = self.next_id.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
        let request = JsonRpcRequest::new(id, method.to_string(), params);
        let request_json = serde_json::to_string(&request)?;

        let server_name = self.server_name.clone();
        let request_lock = Arc::clone(&self.request_lock);
        let stdin = Arc::clone(&self.stdin);
        let stdout = Arc::clone(&self.stdout);
        let response = self
            .run_with_timeout("request", timeout, move || {
                stdio_request_blocking(
                    &server_name,
                    &request_lock,
                    &stdin,
                    &stdout,
                    id,
                    &request_json,
                )
            })
            .await?;

        if let Some(error) = response.error {
            return Err(SofosError::McpError(format!(
                "MCP server '{}' returned error: {}",
                self.server_name, error.message
            )));
        }

        response.result.ok_or_else(|| {
            SofosError::McpError(format!(
                "MCP server '{}' returned no result",
                self.server_name
            ))
        })
    }

    async fn send_notification(&self, method: &str, _params: Option<Value>) -> Result<()> {
        let notification = serde_json::json!({
            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
            "method": method,
        });
        let notification_json = serde_json::to_string(&notification)?;

        // Notifications are one-way (no response to read), but the
        // write itself can still block forever if the child has
        // wedged its read side. Same timeout path as `send_request`.
        let server_name = self.server_name.clone();
        let stdin = Arc::clone(&self.stdin);
        self.run_with_timeout("notification", MCP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT, move || {
            stdio_write_blocking(&server_name, &stdin, &notification_json)
        })
        .await
    }

    pub async fn list_tools(&self) -> Result<Vec<McpTool>> {
        let result = self.send_request("tools/list", None).await?;
        parse_list_tools_response(result)
    }

    pub async fn call_tool(&self, name: &str, arguments: Option<Value>) -> Result<CallToolResult> {
        let result = self
            .send_request(
                "tools/call",
                Some(serde_json::to_value(create_call_tool_request(
                    name, arguments,
                ))?),
            )
            .await?;
        parse_call_tool_response(result)
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;

    #[test]
    fn strips_csi_color_run() {
        let input = "\x1b[2m2026-05-15T22:34:54.965614Z\x1b[0m \x1b[32m INFO\x1b[0m start";
        assert_eq!(
            strip_ansi_escapes(input),
            "2026-05-15T22:34:54.965614Z  INFO start"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn passes_plain_text_through() {
        assert_eq!(strip_ansi_escapes("no escapes here"), "no escapes here");
    }

    #[test]
    fn drops_bare_escape() {
        assert_eq!(strip_ansi_escapes("a\x1bXb"), "ab");
    }

    /// Mismatched response ids must be rejected so a server cannot
    /// satisfy a request with the result of an earlier (or fabricated)
    /// call. Tested against the live `stdio_request_blocking` path is
    /// awkward without a real child, so the id check is exercised
    /// directly through `Id::matches_outgoing`.
    #[test]
    fn id_matches_outgoing_accepts_both_shapes() {
        assert!(Id::Number(7).matches_outgoing(7));
        assert!(Id::String("7".to_string()).matches_outgoing(7));
        assert!(!Id::Number(8).matches_outgoing(7));
        assert!(!Id::String("eight".to_string()).matches_outgoing(7));
    }

    /// Built MCP children must not inherit the parent env. We can't
    /// spawn here without a real binary, but we can verify the helper
    /// shape: pulling `spawn_stdio_child` would create a Command with
    /// `env_clear` applied. We assert the constants stay in sync with
    /// the audit allowlist instead — the actual env removal is exercised
    /// indirectly by clippy + the integration paths.
    #[test]
    fn forwarded_env_keys_include_audit_allowlist() {
        for required in &["PATH", "HOME", "USERPROFILE", "TMPDIR", "TEMP", "LANG"] {
            assert!(
                FORWARDED_ENV_KEYS.contains(required),
                "{required} must be in the forwarded allowlist"
            );
        }
    }
}