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//! Working-tree isolation policy for native Agent-tool dispatches (#4480).
//!
//! Why: an in-conversation `Agent`/`Task` subagent inherits the dispatching
//! PM's working directory. Two concurrent file-mutating subagents in that one
//! directory fight over a single git HEAD, and git does not stop them: a
//! `git checkout -b` refuses only when a *tracked* file differs between both
//! branches' committed versions AND carries an uncommitted local change.
//! Untracked new files, and edits to files not tracked-differently between the
//! branches, transfer onto the other agent's branch silently — which is exactly
//! the shape two mostly-disjoint feature branches have. The observed failure is
//! `git status` reporting the PM on agent A's branch with agent B's changes
//! staged alongside it, with no error at any step.
//!
//! What: the pure classifiers both halves of the guard share — the daemon, which
//! records what each dispatch declared, and `tm hook --pm-guard`, which decides.
//! Two questions, deliberately separate:
//!
//! * [`isolation_separates_working_tree`] — did this dispatch ask for its own
//! tree? `isolation: "worktree"` (a private git worktree) and
//! `isolation: "remote"` (a different machine entirely) both do; nothing else
//! does, including the absent field, which is the default and the whole
//! problem.
//! * [`agent_mutates_files`] — is the named agent one that writes to its cwd?
//!
//! **Both classifiers fail toward ALLOW, and that direction is not negotiable.**
//! A false DENY lands on the PM and halts every dispatch in the system; a false
//! ALLOW merely reproduces the behaviour that shipped before this module. So
//! [`agent_mutates_files`] answers `true` only for an agent this binary ships
//! and can positively identify as file-mutating — an unknown name, a custom
//! project agent, a renamed agent, or an unparseable frontmatter all answer
//! `false` and the dispatch proceeds.
//!
//! What the classifier covers, and why not more: an agent counts when its own
//! bundled definition tells it to write to the tree it is dispatched into.
//! #4480 shipped engineer-tier alone on the theory that the adjacent tiers need
//! to see the engineer's work in the shared tree; #5650 found that reasoning
//! backwards for three of them. `documentation` creates and reorganises files,
//! `git mv`s them, and commits; `version-control` branches, commits, and pushes;
//! `qa` writes test files. Wanting to read the engineer's work does not make
//! writing alongside it safe — a `documentation` agent dispatched next to a
//! `rust-engineer`, both unisolated, is the same single-HEAD collision the module
//! exists to stop, and it passed with no deny at all until #5650.
//!
//! A dispatch that only reads — research, code analysis, adversarial review,
//! ticketing — still answers `false` and still parallelises freely. That is where
//! the line sits now: writes, not proximity to writes.
//!
//! Test: the `#[cfg(test)]` suite below.
//!
//! [`isolation_separates_working_tree`]: crate::core::dispatch_isolation::isolation_separates_working_tree
//! [`agent_mutates_files`]: crate::core::dispatch_isolation::agent_mutates_files
use Value;
use agent_metadata_from_str;
/// `isolation` values that give a dispatched subagent a working tree of its own.
///
/// Why: the guard's entire question is "does this subagent get its own tree?",
/// and only the harness can answer it. These are the two `isolation` modes the
/// Agent tool documents as producing one — a private git worktree, and a remote
/// cloud environment. An unrecognised value is treated as no isolation rather
/// than assumed safe, because a typo (`"worktrees"`, `"Worktree"`) must not
/// silently buy an exemption.
/// What: exact, case-sensitive values matched by
/// [`isolation_separates_working_tree`]; the harness emits the literal it was
/// given, so an exact match is correct.
/// Test: `isolation_values_that_separate_the_tree`,
/// `unrecognised_isolation_does_not_separate_the_tree`.
pub const ISOLATING_DISPATCH_MODES: & = &;
/// Frontmatter `role:` values whose agents mutate files in their cwd.
///
/// Why: `role:` is the declared domain every bundled agent carries, so this is a
/// property of the agent definition rather than a name-shaped guess that a
/// rename would silently invalidate. A role belongs here only when EVERY bundled
/// agent declaring it writes files; a role with a read-only member is keyed by
/// name in [`FILE_MUTATING_NAMES`] instead.
/// What: matched case-sensitively against [`crate::core::agent_metadata::AgentMetadata::role`].
/// `data-engineer` is listed explicitly because it declares that role rather
/// than plain `engineer` while still extending `base-engineer`. `documentation`
/// and `version-control` each have exactly one bundled agent, and both write —
/// docs and `git mv`s for one, branches and commits for the other.
/// Test: `engineer_tier_agents_mutate_files`, `file_writing_non_engineer_agents_mutate_files`,
/// `non_engineer_agents_do_not`.
// #5650: documentation and version-control demonstrably write files; omitting
// them let two unisolated writers share one HEAD with no deny.
const FILE_MUTATING_ROLES: & = &;
/// Bundled agent `name:`s that mutate files but whose `role:` cannot say so.
///
/// Why: this list is keyed on NAME rather than role, and that is deliberate —
/// do not fold it back into [`FILE_MUTATING_ROLES`]. All four bundled agents
/// declaring `role: qa` also declare `extends: base-qa`, but they do not agree
/// about writing: `qa`, `web-qa`, and `api-qa` author test files, while
/// `code-critic` is a pure reviewer that reads code and returns a verdict
/// (`code-critic.md` — "You did not write this code"). Adding `qa` to the role
/// list would classify `code-critic` as mutating and deny a review dispatched
/// alongside an engineer, which is the ordinary workflow.
/// What: matched case-sensitively against the agent's declared `name:`.
/// Test: `file_writing_non_engineer_agents_mutate_files`,
/// `code_critic_is_not_file_mutating`.
// #5650: role: qa is not homogeneous — code-critic shares it and only reviews.
const FILE_MUTATING_NAMES: & = &;
/// The `extends:` base whose descendants are engineer-tier regardless of role.
///
/// Why: a bundled agent could declare a new role spelling and still inherit the
/// whole engineer contract. Checking the inheritance edge as well as the role
/// means adding such an agent does not silently drop it out of the guard.
/// What: matched case-sensitively against
/// [`crate::core::agent_metadata::AgentMetadata::extends`].
/// Test: `engineer_tier_agents_mutate_files`.
const FILE_MUTATING_BASE: &str = "base-engineer";
/// Does this dispatch's `isolation` declaration give it its own working tree?
///
/// Why: this is the one thing that makes a concurrent file-mutating dispatch
/// safe, so it is also the one thing the guard accepts as an exemption.
/// What: `true` when `isolation` is present and is a member of
/// [`ISOLATING_DISPATCH_MODES`]. `None` — the default, and the case the whole
/// issue is about — is `false`.
/// Test: `isolation_values_that_separate_the_tree`,
/// `unrecognised_isolation_does_not_separate_the_tree`.
/// Is `agent` a bundled agent that mutates files in its working directory?
///
/// Why: the guard must not fire on a read-only research, review, or planning
/// dispatch — those share a cwd harmlessly and are dispatched in parallel all
/// the time. Resolving the answer from the agent's own declared frontmatter
/// keeps one authority for it instead of a name list that drifts as agents are
/// added.
/// What: scans the compiled-in bundle for the agent whose declared `name:`
/// equals `agent`, and reports whether its `role:` is in
/// [`FILE_MUTATING_ROLES`], its `extends:` is [`FILE_MUTATING_BASE`], or its
/// name is in [`FILE_MUTATING_NAMES`]. A name this binary does not ship — a
/// project-local or custom agent — answers `false`, the fail-open direction
/// this module's doc commits to.
///
/// No caching and no I/O: the bundle is a compile-time table of ~40 entries and
/// this runs once per `Agent` dispatch, which is rare compared to ordinary tool
/// calls. A process-lifetime cache would be global state for no measurable win.
/// Test: `engineer_tier_agents_mutate_files`,
/// `file_writing_non_engineer_agents_mutate_files`, `non_engineer_agents_do_not`,
/// `unknown_agent_fails_open`.
/// The `subagent_type` an Agent-tool `tool_input` names, when it names one.
///
/// Why: one extraction shared by the daemon's tracker and the guard, so the two
/// can never read different fields and disagree about which agent was
/// dispatched.
/// What: `tool_input.subagent_type` as a non-empty `&str`. An untyped
/// dispatch — no `subagent_type` at all — yields `None` and therefore fails
/// open; it is a separate defect, not this guard's to block.
/// Test: `reads_subagent_type_and_isolation`.
/// The `isolation` mode an Agent-tool `tool_input` declares, when it declares one.
///
/// Why: as [`dispatch_agent`] — one reader for the field the whole policy turns on.
/// What: `tool_input.isolation` as a non-empty `&str`.
/// Test: `reads_subagent_type_and_isolation`.
/// Read one non-empty string field from an Agent-tool `tool_input`.
/// Would this dispatch put a second file-mutating agent into the caller's tree?
///
/// Why: the composed question every caller actually asks, kept here so the
/// daemon (recording) and the guard (deciding) cannot compose the two
/// classifiers differently.
/// What: `true` when the named agent [`agent_mutates_files`] AND the declared
/// isolation does not [`isolation_separates_working_tree`].
/// Test: `shares_the_callers_tree_only_for_unisolated_engineers`.