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kaish_kernel/
dispatch.rs

1//! Command dispatch — the single execution path for all commands.
2//!
3//! The `CommandDispatcher` trait defines how a single command is resolved and
4//! executed. The Kernel implements this trait with the full dispatch chain:
5//! user tools → builtins → .kai scripts → external commands → backend tools.
6//!
7//! `PipelineRunner` calls `dispatcher.dispatch()` for each command in a
8//! pipeline, handling I/O routing (stdin piping, redirects) around each call.
9//!
10//! ```text
11//! Stmt::Command ──┐
12//!                  ├──▶ execute_pipeline() ──▶ PipelineRunner::run(dispatcher, commands, ctx)
13//! Stmt::Pipeline ──┘                                  │
14//!                                               for each command:
15//!                                                 dispatcher.dispatch(cmd, ctx)
16//!                                                     │
17//!                                               ┌─────┼──────────────┐
18//!                                               │     │              │
19//!                                          user_tools builtins  .kai scripts
20//!                                                                external cmds
21//!                                                                backend tools
22//! ```
23
24use std::sync::Arc;
25
26use anyhow::Result;
27use async_trait::async_trait;
28
29use crate::ast::{Command, Expr, Value};
30use crate::interpreter::ExecResult;
31use crate::tools::ExecContext;
32
33// The following imports are only used by the test-only `BackendDispatcher`.
34#[cfg(test)]
35use crate::ast::Arg;
36#[cfg(test)]
37use crate::backend::BackendError;
38#[cfg(test)]
39use crate::interpreter::apply_output_format;
40#[cfg(test)]
41use crate::scheduler::build_tool_args;
42#[cfg(test)]
43use crate::tools::{GlobalFlags, ToolRegistry};
44#[cfg(all(test, feature = "subprocess"))]
45use crate::tools::{resolve_in_path, virtual_cwd_error};
46
47/// Position of a command within a pipeline.
48///
49/// Used by external command execution to decide stdio inheritance:
50/// - `Only` or `Last` in interactive mode → inherit terminal
51/// - `First` or `Middle` → always capture
52#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
53pub enum PipelinePosition {
54    /// Single command, no pipe.
55    #[default]
56    Only,
57    /// First command in a pipeline (no stdin from pipe).
58    First,
59    /// Middle of a pipeline (piped stdin, piped stdout).
60    Middle,
61    /// Last command in a pipeline (piped stdin, final output).
62    Last,
63}
64
65/// Trait for dispatching a single command through the full resolution chain.
66///
67/// Implementations handle argument parsing, tool lookup, and execution.
68/// The pipeline runner handles I/O routing (stdin, redirects, piping).
69#[async_trait]
70pub trait CommandDispatcher: Send + Sync {
71    /// Dispatch a single command for execution.
72    ///
73    /// The `ctx` provides stdin (from pipe or redirect), scope, and backend.
74    /// Implementations should handle schema-aware argument parsing and
75    /// output format extraction internally.
76    async fn dispatch(&self, cmd: &Command, ctx: &mut ExecContext) -> Result<ExecResult>;
77
78    /// Evaluate an expression through the full async chain.
79    ///
80    /// Unlike the runner's sync `eval_simple_expr`, this can run command
81    /// substitution (`$(...)`) because it has access to pipeline execution.
82    /// Used for redirect targets and heredoc bodies so `cat < $(cmd)`,
83    /// `echo x > $(cmd)`, and `$(...)` inside heredoc bodies work. The `ctx`
84    /// carries scope/cwd/backend for dispatchers that evaluate against it;
85    /// stateful dispatchers (Kernel) snapshot their own session state and
86    /// only let command output escape (side effects like `cd` do not).
87    async fn eval_expr(&self, expr: &Expr, ctx: &ExecContext) -> Result<Value>;
88
89    /// Fork the dispatcher for concurrent execution (detached).
90    ///
91    /// Returns a subsidiary dispatcher with independent mutable state, safe
92    /// to run concurrently with the parent and other forks without data
93    /// races on shared scope/cwd/aliases. Used by background `&` jobs,
94    /// where the fork must survive parent cancellation.
95    ///
96    /// For stateful dispatchers (e.g. Kernel) this snapshots per-session
97    /// state into a fresh instance. Stateless dispatchers may clone.
98    async fn fork(&self) -> Arc<dyn CommandDispatcher>;
99
100    /// Fork the dispatcher for concurrent execution (attached to parent cancel).
101    ///
102    /// Like [`Self::fork`] but the fork's cancellation token is a *child* of
103    /// the parent's. Cancelling the parent (timeout, Ctrl-C, embedder
104    /// `Kernel::cancel`) cascades into the fork, which then kills its own
105    /// external children via the usual SIGTERM/SIGKILL discipline.
106    ///
107    /// Used for foreground concurrency: scatter workers, concurrent pipeline
108    /// stages, command substitution. Default implementation delegates to
109    /// [`Self::fork`] for stateless dispatchers that don't track cancellation.
110    async fn fork_attached(&self) -> Arc<dyn CommandDispatcher> {
111        self.fork().await
112    }
113}
114
115/// Minimal stateless dispatcher used by pipeline/runner unit tests.
116///
117/// Production code uses `Kernel` (via `Kernel::fork` for concurrent contexts).
118/// This test-only dispatcher routes directly through `backend.call_tool()` so
119/// the pipeline runner can be exercised without spinning up a full Kernel.
120///
121/// Limitations (intentional — these are test-only constraints):
122/// - No user-defined tools
123/// - No .kai script resolution
124/// - No async argument evaluation (command substitution in args won't work)
125#[cfg(test)]
126pub(crate) struct BackendDispatcher {
127    tools: Arc<ToolRegistry>,
128}
129
130#[cfg(test)]
131impl BackendDispatcher {
132    /// Create a new backend dispatcher with the given tool registry.
133    pub(crate) fn new(tools: Arc<ToolRegistry>) -> Self {
134        Self { tools }
135    }
136
137    /// Try to execute an external command (PATH lookup + process spawn).
138    ///
139    /// Used as fallback when no builtin/backend tool matches. Returns None if
140    /// the command is not found in PATH. Always captures stdout/stderr (never
141    /// inherits terminal — pipeline stages don't need interactive I/O).
142    #[cfg(not(feature = "subprocess"))]
143    async fn try_external(
144        &self,
145        _name: &str,
146        _args: &[Arg],
147        _ctx: &mut ExecContext,
148    ) -> Option<ExecResult> {
149        None
150    }
151
152    /// Try to execute an external command (PATH lookup + process spawn).
153    #[cfg(feature = "subprocess")]
154    async fn try_external(
155        &self,
156        name: &str,
157        args: &[Arg],
158        ctx: &mut ExecContext,
159    ) -> Option<ExecResult> {
160        if !ctx.allow_external_commands {
161            return None;
162        }
163
164        // Real filesystem location of the shell's cwd, if any. A `None` real
165        // path means the cwd is virtual (a CoW overlay, an in-memory VFS
166        // mount, …) — there's nowhere for a child OS process to run. Don't
167        // bail out here: a bare command name that isn't in PATH at all is a
168        // genuine "not found" regardless of cwd. Once the command actually
169        // resolves, `real_cwd` is checked again below and the honest reason
170        // is given then — kept in sync with kernel.rs::try_execute_external
171        // (issue #181).
172        let real_cwd = ctx.backend.resolve_real_path(&ctx.cwd);
173
174        // Resolve command: absolute/relative path or PATH lookup
175        let executable = if name.contains('/') {
176            // Resolve relative paths (./script, ../bin/tool) against the shell's cwd
177            let resolved = if std::path::Path::new(name).is_absolute() {
178                std::path::PathBuf::from(name)
179            } else {
180                match &real_cwd {
181                    Some(real_cwd) => real_cwd.join(name),
182                    // Can't resolve a relative path without a real cwd to
183                    // join against, so we can't even tell whether it would
184                    // exist — name the actual blocker.
185                    None => return Some(virtual_cwd_error(name, &ctx.cwd)),
186                }
187            };
188            if resolved.exists() {
189                resolved.to_string_lossy().into_owned()
190            } else {
191                return Some(ExecResult::failure(127, format!("{}: No such file or directory", name)));
192            }
193        } else {
194            // PATH from scope only — never OS env (keeps this test-only spawn
195            // site in sync with kernel.rs::try_execute_external).
196            let path_var = ctx.scope.get("PATH")
197                .map(crate::interpreter::value_to_string)
198                .unwrap_or_default();
199            resolve_in_path(name, &path_var)?
200        };
201
202        // The executable resolved — found in PATH, or a path that exists —
203        // but there's still nowhere to run it without a real cwd.
204        let real_cwd = match real_cwd {
205            Some(p) => p,
206            None => return Some(virtual_cwd_error(name, &ctx.cwd)),
207        };
208
209        // Build flat argv from args. A for-loop (not filter_map) so the
210        // Decision D collection-argv guard can short-circuit the whole spawn
211        // — kept in sync with the production build in kernel.rs::build_args_flat.
212        let mut argv: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
213        for arg in args {
214            match arg {
215                Arg::Positional(expr) => match expr {
216                    Expr::Literal(Value::String(s)) => argv.push(s.clone()),
217                    Expr::Literal(Value::Int(i)) => argv.push(i.to_string()),
218                    Expr::Literal(Value::Float(f)) => argv.push(f.to_string()),
219                    Expr::VarRef(path) => {
220                        if let Ok(v) = ctx.scope.resolve_path(path) {
221                            if let Some(msg) = crate::interpreter::structured_boundary_error("a command argument", &v) {
222                                return Some(ExecResult::failure(1, msg));
223                            }
224                            // Text sink: binary goes loud (kept in sync with
225                            // kernel.rs::build_args_flat).
226                            match crate::interpreter::value_to_text_sink(&v) {
227                                Ok(s) => argv.push(s),
228                                Err(e) => return Some(ExecResult::failure(1, e.to_string())),
229                            }
230                        }
231                    }
232                    // Remaining literal types (Bool/Json/Null/Bytes) — kept in
233                    // sync with the production build_args_flat, which resolves
234                    // every positional through value_to_text_sink (binary loud).
235                    Expr::Literal(other) => match crate::interpreter::value_to_text_sink(other) {
236                        Ok(s) => argv.push(s),
237                        Err(e) => return Some(ExecResult::failure(1, e.to_string())),
238                    },
239                    _ => {}
240                },
241                Arg::ShortFlag(f) => argv.push(format!("-{f}")),
242                Arg::LongFlag(f) => argv.push(format!("--{f}")),
243                Arg::Named { key, value } => match value {
244                    Expr::Literal(Value::String(s)) => argv.push(format!("--{key}={s}")),
245                    _ => argv.push(format!("--{key}=")),
246                },
247                Arg::WordAssign { key, value } => match value {
248                    Expr::Literal(Value::String(s)) => argv.push(format!("{key}={s}")),
249                    _ => argv.push(format!("{key}=")),
250                },
251                Arg::DoubleDash => argv.push("--".to_string()),
252            }
253        }
254
255        // Check for streaming pipes
256        let has_pipe_stdin = ctx.pipe_stdin.is_some();
257        let has_buffered_stdin = ctx.stdin.is_some();
258
259        // Spawn process
260        use tokio::process::Command;
261        use tokio::io::{AsyncReadExt, AsyncWriteExt};
262
263        let mut cmd = Command::new(&executable);
264        cmd.args(&argv);
265        cmd.current_dir(&real_cwd);
266        cmd.kill_on_drop(true);
267
268        // Hermetic env: child sees only kaish's exported vars, not the kaish
269        // process's OS env. Frontends that want OS-env passthrough (REPL, MCP)
270        // populate it via KernelConfig::initial_vars at construction.
271        cmd.env_clear();
272        let exported = ctx.scope.exported_vars();
273        // A structured value can't cross the process boundary; refuse rather than
274        // silently JSON-serialize it into the child's environment. Kept in sync
275        // with the production spawn site in kernel.rs::try_execute_external.
276        if let Some(msg) = crate::interpreter::structured_export_error(&exported) {
277            return Some(ExecResult::failure(1, msg));
278        }
279        for (var_name, value) in exported {
280            // Binary can't cross the process boundary as an env var value
281            // either — loud, not the `[binary: N bytes]` placeholder (kept in
282            // sync with the production spawn site).
283            match crate::interpreter::value_to_text_sink_named(
284                &value,
285                "an exported environment variable value",
286            ) {
287                Ok(s) => {
288                    cmd.env(var_name, s);
289                }
290                Err(e) => return Some(ExecResult::failure(1, e.to_string())),
291            }
292        }
293
294        // Stdin: pipe_stdin or buffered bytes or inherit (interactive) or null
295        cmd.stdin(if has_pipe_stdin || has_buffered_stdin {
296            std::process::Stdio::piped()
297        } else if ctx.interactive && matches!(ctx.pipeline_position, PipelinePosition::First | PipelinePosition::Only) {
298            std::process::Stdio::inherit()
299        } else {
300            std::process::Stdio::null()
301        });
302        cmd.stdout(std::process::Stdio::piped());
303        cmd.stderr(std::process::Stdio::piped());
304
305        // On Unix, always put the child in its own process group so a
306        // cancel can `killpg` the whole tree (the child plus any
307        // grandchildren) — matching the production spawn site
308        // (kernel.rs::try_execute_external) exactly. Without this, `killpg`
309        // targets a group nobody is actually in (an ESRCH no-op), and a
310        // grandchild spawned by the child survives cancellation — the exact
311        // gap GH #133 item 4 closes. This dispatcher has no job-control
312        // terminal integration (no `terminal_state`), so unlike production
313        // there is no signal-handler restoration to gate here.
314        #[cfg(unix)]
315        {
316            // SAFETY: setpgid is async-signal-safe per POSIX; safe to call
317            // between fork and exec.
318            #[allow(unsafe_code)]
319            unsafe {
320                cmd.pre_exec(|| {
321                    nix::unistd::setpgid(nix::unistd::Pid::from_raw(0), nix::unistd::Pid::from_raw(0))
322                        .map_err(|e| std::io::Error::from_raw_os_error(e as i32))?;
323                    Ok(())
324                });
325            }
326        }
327
328        let mut child = match cmd.spawn() {
329            Ok(c) => c,
330            Err(e) => return Some(ExecResult::failure(127, format!("{}: {}", name, e))),
331        };
332        // Open a pidfd (Linux) for race-free direct-child kill via wait_or_kill.
333        let kill_target = crate::pidfd::KillTarget::from_child(&child);
334
335        // Stream stdin: copy pipe_stdin → child stdin in chunks (bounded memory)
336        let stdin_task: Option<tokio::task::JoinHandle<()>> = if let Some(mut pipe_in) = ctx.pipe_stdin.take() {
337            child.stdin.take().map(|mut child_stdin| {
338                tokio::spawn(async move {
339                    let mut buf = [0u8; 8192];
340                    loop {
341                        match pipe_in.read(&mut buf).await {
342                            Ok(0) => break, // EOF
343                            Ok(n) => {
344                                if child_stdin.write_all(&buf[..n]).await.is_err() {
345                                    break; // child closed stdin
346                                }
347                            }
348                            Err(_) => break,
349                        }
350                    }
351                    // Drop child_stdin signals EOF to child
352                })
353            })
354        } else if let Some(data) = ctx.stdin.take() {
355            // Buffered stdin bytes written from a DETACHED task, not inline:
356            // an inline write deadlocks once the stdin pipe fills before the
357            // output drain below has spawned (mirrors the kernel.rs fix; keeps
358            // the two spawn sites in sync). Drop signals EOF; a broken pipe
359            // (child closed stdin early) is fine.
360            child.stdin.take().map(|mut child_stdin| {
361                tokio::spawn(async move {
362                    let _ = child_stdin.write_all(&data).await;
363                })
364            })
365        } else {
366            None
367        };
368
369        // Capture stdout via the spill-aware collector, regardless of whether
370        // this is a pipeline stage (`ctx.pipe_stdout` set) or the last/only
371        // stage. This intentionally does NOT special-case `ctx.pipe_stdout`
372        // — production's `try_execute_external` never touches that field at
373        // all; a middle/first pipeline stage's forwarding to the next stage
374        // is entirely `PipelineRunner::run_pipeline`'s job (pipeline.rs),
375        // which reads `stage_ctx.pipe_stdout` (still `Some`, untouched here)
376        // after `dispatch()` returns and forwards `result.out` itself.
377        //
378        // Before this fix, this dispatcher special-cased `pipe_stdout` and
379        // streamed the child's stdout straight through in 8KB chunks — full
380        // fidelity, no cap. Production has no such fast path: every external
381        // stage's stdout is captured here first, then forwarded by the
382        // runner, so a >10MB intermediate stage silently loses its head in
383        // production (the runner's forward goes through the SAME capture,
384        // still true after this fix — see GH #133 item 2 for the capture
385        // primitive itself). Losing the pipe_stdout special case is what lets
386        // a test reproduce that production bug class at all (GH #133 item 3).
387        let Some(child_stdout) = child.stdout.take() else {
388            return Some(ExecResult::failure(1, "internal: stdout not available"));
389        };
390        let Some(mut child_stderr) = child.stderr.take() else {
391            return Some(ExecResult::failure(1, "internal: stderr not available"));
392        };
393
394        // Capture stdout into a fixed 10MB tail-evicting ring (`BoundedStream`
395        // + `drain_to_stream`) — the SAME capture primitive the production
396        // spawn site uses (kernel.rs::try_execute_external), not the
397        // limit-aware `spill_aware_collect` this used to call. Production
398        // does not spill-check an external command's own capture inline
399        // against `ctx.output_limit`; the pipeline-level post-hoc
400        // `spill_if_needed` (`Kernel::execute_pipeline`) is what applies that
401        // afterward, and `did_spill` is left `false` here for THAT reason — a
402        // caller wanting the limit-aware post-hoc behavior applies it
403        // separately, same as the real pipeline path (GH #133 item 2).
404        // Independently, `did_spill` CAN still end up `true` below: if the
405        // ring itself overflows (unconditionally, regardless of
406        // `ctx.output_limit`), that's the GH #191 loud-overflow signal, not
407        // the limit-aware spill this comment is about.
408        let stdout_stream = Arc::new(crate::scheduler::BoundedStream::new(
409            crate::scheduler::DEFAULT_STREAM_MAX_SIZE,
410        ));
411        let stdout_clone = stdout_stream.clone();
412        let stdout_task = tokio::spawn(async move {
413            crate::scheduler::drain_to_stream(child_stdout, stdout_clone).await;
414        });
415
416        // Stderr streaming is intentionally left as-is (live to
417        // `ctx.stderr` when present, else buffered) — production instead
418        // caps stderr into its own 10MB ring with no live streaming. That
419        // divergence is out of scope for this PR; see GH #133 follow-ups.
420        let stderr_stream_handle = ctx.stderr.clone();
421        let stderr_task = tokio::spawn(async move {
422            let mut buf = Vec::new();
423            let mut chunk = [0u8; 8192];
424            loop {
425                match child_stderr.read(&mut chunk).await {
426                    Ok(0) => break,
427                    Ok(n) => {
428                        if let Some(ref stream) = stderr_stream_handle {
429                            stream.write(&chunk[..n]);
430                        } else {
431                            buf.extend_from_slice(&chunk[..n]);
432                        }
433                    }
434                    Err(_) => break,
435                }
436            }
437            if stderr_stream_handle.is_some() {
438                String::new()
439            } else {
440                String::from_utf8_lossy(&buf).into_owned()
441            }
442        });
443
444        let cancel = ctx.cancel.clone();
445        // Mirror production's cancel-aware drain handling: spawn the
446        // drains concurrently with the wait (not after collection
447        // completes) so a cancel can actually interrupt a still-running,
448        // still-silent child instead of blocking until it produces EOF.
449        let cancelled_before_wait = cancel.is_cancelled();
450        let status = crate::kernel::wait_or_kill(
451            &mut child,
452            kill_target.as_ref(),
453            &cancel,
454            std::time::Duration::from_secs(2),
455        ).await;
456        if let Some(task) = stdin_task { task.abort(); }
457        let mut stderr = if cancelled_before_wait || cancel.is_cancelled() {
458            // The child's pipes are gone; late output is lost but
459            // predictable death beats partial capture (same tradeoff
460            // production makes).
461            stdout_task.abort();
462            stderr_task.abort();
463            String::new()
464        } else {
465            let _ = stdout_task.await;
466            stderr_task.await.unwrap_or_default()
467        };
468
469        // Signal-death mapping (128+signal, e.g. SIGKILL→137) must match
470        // the production spawn site exactly — kept in sync via the shared
471        // `exit_code_from_status` helper (GH #133 item 1). A `wait_or_kill`
472        // I/O error (not a signal death) falls back to 1, same as before.
473        let code = match status {
474            Ok(s) => crate::kernel::exit_code_from_status(&s),
475            Err(_) => 1,
476        };
477        let stdout = stdout_stream.read().await;
478        // stdout came back as raw bytes: text if valid UTF-8, else a Bytes
479        // result (so `curl url`, `curl url > file.bin`, etc. keep binary intact).
480        let mut result = ExecResult::success_text_or_bytes(stdout).with_code(code);
481
482        // Mirror production's overflow signaling (GH #191) for the piece this
483        // twin actually shares with `kernel.rs::try_execute_external`: the
484        // stdout `BoundedStream` ring. Stderr here is captured differently
485        // from production (live-streamed to `ctx.stderr` when set, else an
486        // unbounded `Vec` — see the comment above `stderr_stream_handle`,
487        // GH #133 follow-up), so there is no stderr `BoundedStream` overflow
488        // to mirror; only the stdout side applies. `did_spill` stays `false`
489        // otherwise, matching `output_limit_is_not_applied_inline_matching_production`
490        // below — this is the fixed-ring overflow signal, not the
491        // limit-aware post-hoc spill Kernel::execute_pipeline applies.
492        if stdout_stream.has_overflowed().await {
493            let stats = stdout_stream.stats().await;
494            stderr = format!("{}{stderr}", stats.overflow_marker("stdout"));
495            result.did_spill = true;
496        }
497        result.err = stderr;
498        Some(result)
499    }
500}
501
502#[cfg(test)]
503#[async_trait]
504impl CommandDispatcher for BackendDispatcher {
505    async fn dispatch(&self, cmd: &Command, ctx: &mut ExecContext) -> Result<ExecResult> {
506        // Handle built-in true/false
507        match cmd.name.as_str() {
508            "true" => return Ok(ExecResult::success("")),
509            "false" => return Ok(ExecResult::failure(1, "")),
510            _ => {}
511        }
512
513        // Build tool args through the reduced sync evaluator (no command
514        // substitution) — see `SyncEvalSource` in `scheduler::pipeline`.
515        // A bad/subscripted collection access is a genuine PathError here too —
516        // propagate it via `?` rather than swallowing, same as the production
517        // Kernel::dispatch_command's `execute_command(..).await?`.
518        let schema = self.tools.get(&cmd.name).map(|t| t.schema());
519        let tool_args = build_tool_args(&cmd.args, ctx, schema.as_ref())
520            .await
521            .map_err(|e| anyhow::anyhow!(e))?;
522
523        // Honor --json before the tool runs so a parse failure inside the
524        // builtin doesn't drop the format on the floor. See kernel.rs for the
525        // matching call in the production path.
526        GlobalFlags::apply_from_args(&tool_args, ctx);
527
528        // Execute via backend
529        let backend = ctx.backend.clone();
530        let result = match backend.call_tool(&cmd.name, tool_args, ctx).await {
531            // Route through the same `From<ToolResult> for ExecResult` the
532            // production dispatch path uses (kernel.rs) rather than
533            // hand-rolling the field-by-field copy: the old inline version
534            // wrapped `data` unconditionally as `Value::Json`, which skipped
535            // `json_to_value_no_envelope`'s scalar-unwrap (`Value::Int`/
536            // `Value::String`/…) and silently dropped `did_spill`/
537            // `original_code` — a divergence this test-only dispatcher must
538            // not have from the real path (GH #93 item 4).
539            Ok(tool_result) => ExecResult::from(tool_result),
540            Err(BackendError::ToolNotFound(_)) => {
541                // Fall back to external command execution
542                match self.try_external(&cmd.name, &cmd.args, ctx).await {
543                    Some(result) => result,
544                    None => ExecResult::failure(127, format!("command not found: {}", cmd.name)),
545                }
546            }
547            Err(e) => ExecResult::failure(127, e.to_string()),
548        };
549
550        // Migrated builtins parse --json via the GlobalFlags flatten and
551        // write ctx.output_format. The kernel just applies it.
552        let result = match ctx.output_format {
553            Some(format) => apply_output_format(result, format),
554            None => result,
555        };
556
557        Ok(result)
558    }
559
560    /// Sync-only evaluation (no command substitution) — matches this
561    /// test dispatcher's documented "no async argument evaluation" limit.
562    async fn eval_expr(&self, expr: &Expr, ctx: &ExecContext) -> Result<Value> {
563        crate::scheduler::pipeline::eval_simple_expr(expr, ctx)
564            .map_err(|e| anyhow::anyhow!(e))?
565            .ok_or_else(|| anyhow::anyhow!("cannot evaluate expression in test dispatcher"))
566    }
567
568    /// BackendDispatcher is stateless, so a fork is just a clone.
569    async fn fork(&self) -> Arc<dyn CommandDispatcher> {
570        Arc::new(Self { tools: Arc::clone(&self.tools) })
571    }
572}
573
574/// Tests that spawn real external processes through `try_external`, to catch
575/// behavioral drift from the production spawn site (`kernel.rs::try_execute_external`)
576/// — GH #133. Unlike the `BackendDispatcher` tests in `scheduler::pipeline`,
577/// which exercise builtins over a `MemoryFs` (virtual cwd, so `try_external`
578/// never spawns), these give the dispatcher a real tempdir cwd + PATH so the
579/// external fallback actually runs a child process.
580#[cfg(all(test, feature = "subprocess"))]
581mod external_process_tests {
582    // Test-fixture helpers (not `#[test]` bodies themselves), so the
583    // workspace's usual allow-in-tests clippy.toml carve-out doesn't cover
584    // them — see CLAUDE.md's "clap builtin gotchas" / test-code conventions.
585    #![allow(clippy::unwrap_used, clippy::expect_used)]
586    use super::*;
587    use crate::ast::{Arg, Command, Expr, Value};
588    use crate::tools::{ExecContext, ToolRegistry};
589    use crate::vfs::{LocalFs, VfsRouter};
590
591    /// A `BackendDispatcher` + `ExecContext` rooted at a real tempdir, with an
592    /// empty tool registry (every command name falls through to
593    /// `try_external`, exactly like a real external command with no matching
594    /// builtin/user tool) and PATH seeded from the test process's own OS env.
595    /// Reading OS env here is fixture code, not kaish's hermetic runtime — see
596    /// CLAUDE.md and `external_command_tests.rs::repl_kernel`.
597    fn real_cwd_dispatcher() -> (BackendDispatcher, ExecContext, tempfile::TempDir) {
598        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().expect("tempdir");
599        let mut vfs = VfsRouter::new();
600        vfs.mount("/", LocalFs::new(dir.path().to_path_buf()));
601        let tools = Arc::new(ToolRegistry::new());
602        let mut ctx = ExecContext::with_vfs_and_tools(Arc::new(vfs), tools.clone());
603        // Exported (not just set): try_external's own PATH lookup reads
604        // ctx.scope directly, but the CHILD process only inherits exported
605        // vars (cmd.env_clear() + exported_vars()) — a script that shells
606        // out further (`sh -c "yes | head"`) needs PATH in ITS env too,
607        // not just kaish's resolver.
608        ctx.scope.set_exported(
609            "PATH",
610            Value::String(std::env::var("PATH").unwrap_or_default()),
611        );
612        let dispatcher = BackendDispatcher::new(tools);
613        (dispatcher, ctx, dir)
614    }
615
616    /// `sh -c <script>` as a `Command`, matching how the parser would build it
617    /// from `sh -c 'script'` (a short flag, then a positional literal).
618    fn sh_cmd(script: &str) -> Command {
619        Command {
620            name: "sh".to_string(),
621            args: vec![
622                Arg::ShortFlag("c".to_string()),
623                Arg::Positional(Expr::Literal(Value::String(script.to_string()))),
624            ],
625            redirects: vec![],
626        }
627    }
628
629    /// GH #133 item 1: production maps a signal-killed child to `128 + signal`
630    /// (SIGKILL -> 137); the twin used to hardcode `code().unwrap_or(1)` -> 1,
631    /// so a cancel/timeout test run through this dispatcher observed an exit
632    /// code production never actually produces. Fails at `code == 1` pre-fix.
633    #[tokio::test]
634    async fn signal_killed_child_maps_to_128_plus_signal() {
635        let (dispatcher, mut ctx, _dir) = real_cwd_dispatcher();
636        let cmd = sh_cmd("kill -KILL $$");
637        let result = dispatcher.dispatch(&cmd, &mut ctx).await.expect("dispatch");
638        assert_eq!(
639            result.code, 137,
640            "SIGKILL should map to 128+9=137 (production's mapping), got {}",
641            result.code
642        );
643    }
644
645    /// GH #133 item 2: the twin used to call the limit-aware
646    /// `spill_aware_collect` in its non-pipe capture branch, applying
647    /// `ctx.output_limit` inline and setting `did_spill` itself. Production's
648    /// `try_execute_external` never spill-checks its own capture that way —
649    /// spill is a pipeline-level, post-hoc step (`Kernel::execute_pipeline`
650    /// calls `spill_if_needed` AFTER the dispatcher returns). So even with a
651    /// tiny `output_limit` configured, `try_external` itself must return the
652    /// full (up to the 10MB ring) captured output with `did_spill == false`.
653    /// Pre-fix, the twin truncated inline and set `did_spill = true` here.
654    #[tokio::test]
655    async fn output_limit_is_not_applied_inline_matching_production() {
656        let (dispatcher, mut ctx, _dir) = real_cwd_dispatcher();
657        // A tiny in-memory limit (no disk spill file — CLAUDE.md: no real
658        // system paths in tests) — if try_external still spill-checked
659        // inline (the bug), this would trigger truncation right here.
660        ctx.output_limit = crate::output_limit::OutputLimitConfig::agent().in_memory();
661        ctx.output_limit.set_limit(Some(64));
662
663        let cmd = sh_cmd("yes x | head -c 1000");
664        let result = dispatcher.dispatch(&cmd, &mut ctx).await.expect("dispatch");
665
666        assert_eq!(result.code, 0, "err: {}", result.err);
667        assert_eq!(
668            result.text_out().len(),
669            1000,
670            "try_external must return the full captured output — production \
671             defers spill to the post-hoc pipeline step, not its own capture; \
672             got {} bytes: {:?}",
673            result.text_out().len(),
674            result.text_out()
675        );
676        assert!(
677            !result.did_spill,
678            "try_external itself must not set did_spill — that's \
679             Kernel::execute_pipeline's post-hoc spill_if_needed's job, \
680             matching production"
681        );
682    }
683
684    /// GH #133 item 3: before this fix, `try_external` special-cased
685    /// `ctx.pipe_stdout` — taking it out of the context and hand-streaming
686    /// the child's stdout straight into it in 8KB chunks, bypassing the
687    /// capture logic a non-pipeline external goes through, and always
688    /// returning an empty `result.out` ("output was streamed to pipe").
689    /// Production's `try_execute_external` has no such special case: it never
690    /// reads or writes `ctx.pipe_stdout` at all — `PipelineRunner::run_pipeline`
691    /// (pipeline.rs) is solely responsible for reading a stage's captured
692    /// `result.out` back out and forwarding it to the next stage.
693    #[tokio::test]
694    async fn pipeline_stage_leaves_pipe_stdout_for_the_runner_to_forward() {
695        let (dispatcher, mut ctx, _dir) = real_cwd_dispatcher();
696
697        // Simulate what PipelineRunner::run_pipeline wires onto a first/middle
698        // stage's ctx before calling dispatch(): a pipe_stdout the runner
699        // expects to read back out afterward.
700        let (writer, reader) = crate::scheduler::pipe_stream_default();
701        ctx.pipe_stdout = Some(writer);
702
703        // Drain the reader concurrently — a full-fidelity writer (the old
704        // special case) would otherwise still work here for a small payload,
705        // but this also lets the pipe close out cleanly either way.
706        let drain = tokio::spawn(async move {
707            use tokio::io::AsyncReadExt;
708            let mut reader = reader;
709            let mut buf = Vec::new();
710            let _ = reader.read_to_end(&mut buf).await;
711            buf
712        });
713
714        let cmd = sh_cmd("echo hello");
715        // A generous but bounded timeout: a real hang here (e.g. an
716        // accidental deadlock reintroduced by a future edit) should fail
717        // loud and fast in CI, not stall the suite indefinitely.
718        let result = tokio::time::timeout(
719            std::time::Duration::from_secs(15),
720            dispatcher.dispatch(&cmd, &mut ctx),
721        )
722        .await
723        .expect("dispatch timed out")
724        .expect("dispatch");
725
726        assert!(
727            ctx.pipe_stdout.is_some(),
728            "try_external must leave ctx.pipe_stdout untouched — forwarding \
729             to the next stage is PipelineRunner's job, matching production, \
730             which never reads or writes this field at all"
731        );
732
733        // Drop the writer now (the runner would take it back out and, after
734        // forwarding, let it go) so the reader sees EOF and `drain` actually
735        // completes — nothing else in this test closes the pipe, since
736        // try_external no longer touches it at all post-fix.
737        drop(ctx.pipe_stdout.take());
738        let _ = drain.await;
739
740        assert!(
741            result.text_out().contains("hello"),
742            "try_external must capture and return stdout the same way for a \
743             pipeline stage as a non-pipeline call (not force it empty \
744             because a pipe was attached) — got: {:?}",
745            result.text_out()
746        );
747    }
748
749    /// GH #133 item 3, large-payload consequence: before this fix, a pipeline
750    /// stage's stdout went through the hand-rolled full-fidelity streamer,
751    /// which ignored any size cap entirely and forwarded byte-for-byte no
752    /// matter the size — an intermediate stage had NO cap at all, of any
753    /// kind. Post-fix, every stage (pipe or not) goes through the same
754    /// capture path a non-pipeline external uses.
755    ///
756    /// Updated for GH #133 item 2 (landed since this test was written): the
757    /// shared capture path now caps via an *unconditional* ~10MB
758    /// `BoundedStream` ring regardless of `ctx.output_limit` configuration —
759    /// production never spill-checks its own capture inline against
760    /// `ctx.output_limit`, deferring THAT to the pipeline-level, post-hoc
761    /// `spill_if_needed`. So `ctx.output_limit` is configured below only to
762    /// prove it's inert here (matching item 2's contract) — it plays no part
763    /// in why this payload gets capped.
764    ///
765    /// Updated again for GH #191: the fixed ring overflowing IS now loud on
766    /// its own terms, independent of `ctx.output_limit`. `did_spill` flips to
767    /// `true` (this dispatcher calling `dispatch()` directly, not through
768    /// `Kernel::execute_pipeline`, is exactly why `code` stays `0` here — the
769    /// exit-3 remap lives in that caller, not in `try_external` itself), and
770    /// stderr carries a truncation marker. Stdout still comes back as a
771    /// clean, marker-free tail — the marker is never prepended into stdout
772    /// (which may be binary), only into stderr. This test still pins the
773    /// piece item 3 alone is responsible for: a pipeline stage is no longer
774    /// special-cased into a no-cap-of-any-kind fast path.
775    #[tokio::test]
776    async fn oversized_pipeline_stage_output_is_no_longer_forwarded_losslessly() {
777        let (dispatcher, mut ctx, _dir) = real_cwd_dispatcher();
778
779        ctx.output_limit = crate::output_limit::OutputLimitConfig::agent().in_memory();
780        ctx.output_limit.set_limit(Some(1024)); // tiny vs. the >10MB payload below
781
782        let (writer, reader) = crate::scheduler::pipe_stream_default();
783        ctx.pipe_stdout = Some(writer);
784
785        // Drain the pipe concurrently — a full-fidelity writer would
786        // otherwise block on the 64KB pipe capacity well before finishing an
787        // 11MB write, deadlocking the test.
788        let drain = tokio::spawn(async move {
789            use tokio::io::AsyncReadExt;
790            let mut reader = reader;
791            let mut buf = Vec::new();
792            let _ = reader.read_to_end(&mut buf).await;
793            buf
794        });
795
796        let cmd = sh_cmd("yes x | head -c 11000000");
797        // A generous but bounded timeout: a real hang here should fail loud
798        // and fast in CI, not stall the suite indefinitely.
799        let result = tokio::time::timeout(
800            std::time::Duration::from_secs(15),
801            dispatcher.dispatch(&cmd, &mut ctx),
802        )
803        .await
804        .expect("dispatch timed out")
805        .expect("dispatch");
806
807        // Drop the writer (try_external no longer touches it post-fix, so
808        // nothing else will) so the reader sees EOF and `drain` completes.
809        drop(ctx.pipe_stdout.take());
810        let _ = drain.await;
811
812        // The exit-3 remap lives in `Kernel::execute_pipeline` (`if
813        // result.did_spill { code = 3 }`), which this test never calls —
814        // it drives `dispatcher.dispatch()` directly. So `code` stays the
815        // child's own exit status (0) even though `did_spill` is now `true`.
816        assert_eq!(result.code, 0, "err: {}", result.err);
817        assert!(
818            result.text_out().len() < 11_000_000,
819            "an oversized (~11MB) pipeline stage's output must now be capped, \
820             not forwarded byte-for-byte losslessly — the pre-fix special \
821             case ignored any cap entirely; post-fix it goes through the same \
822             capped capture (the unconditional ~10MB ring) a non-pipeline \
823             external uses. got {} bytes",
824            result.text_out().len()
825        );
826        assert!(
827            !result.text_out().contains("truncated"),
828            "the loud-overflow marker (GH #191) must never contaminate stdout \
829             — it belongs in stderr only, since stdout may be binary: got {:?}",
830            &result.text_out()[..result.text_out().len().min(80)]
831        );
832        assert!(
833            result.did_spill,
834            "the fixed ~10MB ring overflowing must set did_spill (GH #191) so \
835             a real `Kernel::execute_pipeline` caller remaps to exit 3 — this \
836             is independent of ctx.output_limit's own spill_if_needed, which \
837             stays out of scope for try_external as before"
838        );
839        assert!(
840            result.err.contains("stdout truncated"),
841            "stderr must carry the loud overflow marker (GH #191): {}",
842            result.err
843        );
844    }
845
846    /// GH #133 item 4: production always puts the spawned child in its own
847    /// process group (`setpgid(0,0)` in `pre_exec`) so a cancel's `killpg`
848    /// reaches the whole tree — the direct child AND any grandchildren it
849    /// spawns. Pre-fix, this dispatcher never called `setpgid`, so `killpg`
850    /// targeted a process group nobody was actually in (an ESRCH no-op): a
851    /// grandchild survived cancellation even though the direct child died.
852    /// Any existing test asserting "grandchild cleanup" against this
853    /// dispatcher was passing trivially, verifying nothing real.
854    ///
855    /// # Why this test checks the structural fact, not an end-to-end kill
856    ///
857    /// The most faithful reproduction of the issue would background a
858    /// grandchild (`sleep N &`), cancel mid-flight, and assert the
859    /// grandchild dies too — pinning the exact "existing test passes
860    /// trivially" symptom. That reproduction turned out to be **blocked by a
861    /// separate, pre-existing ordering issue** in this dispatcher, not
862    /// introduced by this PR: `try_external`'s output collection used to run
863    /// to completion BEFORE `wait_or_kill` was even called, so cancellation
864    /// had no observable effect until the child's stdout closed on its own —
865    /// which, for a `sh -c '... & wait'` script producing no stdout, only
866    /// happened once the whole script finished naturally. GH #133 item 2 (PR
867    /// #152, already landed on main alongside this fix) restructured
868    /// collection to run *concurrently* with `wait_or_kill`, matching
869    /// production — an end-to-end grandchild-kill test is now meaningful and
870    /// fast, and remains a natural follow-up. Until then, this test pins the
871    /// concrete, fast, unconfounded consequence of *this* PR's diff: the
872    /// spawned child's own pgid equals its own pid, i.e. `setpgid(0, 0)` in
873    /// `pre_exec` actually took effect. `ps -p $$` runs and exits almost
874    /// immediately, producing no stdout for kaish to block draining — so the
875    /// ordering issue above never enters into it either way.
876    #[cfg(unix)]
877    #[tokio::test]
878    async fn spawned_child_becomes_its_own_process_group_leader() {
879        let tmp = tempfile::tempdir().expect("tempdir");
880        let out_file = tmp.path().join("pgid_info");
881
882        let (dispatcher, mut ctx, _dir) = real_cwd_dispatcher();
883
884        // `$$` is the running shell's own PID; `ps -o pid=,pgid= -p $$`
885        // reports that shell's pid and process-group id. If setpgid(0,0)
886        // took effect in pre_exec (before `ps` even execs), the two must be
887        // equal. Redirected straight to a file — sh's own captured stdout
888        // (what kaish pipes) stays empty, so collection returns immediately.
889        let script = format!("ps -o pid=,pgid= -p $$ > {}", out_file.display());
890        let cmd = sh_cmd(&script);
891
892        let result = tokio::time::timeout(
893            std::time::Duration::from_secs(10),
894            dispatcher.dispatch(&cmd, &mut ctx),
895        )
896        .await
897        .expect("dispatch timed out")
898        .expect("dispatch");
899        assert_eq!(result.code, 0, "err: {}", result.err);
900
901        let contents = std::fs::read_to_string(&out_file).expect("read pgid info");
902        let mut fields = contents.split_whitespace();
903        let pid: i32 = fields.next().expect("pid field").parse().expect("pid parse");
904        let pgid: i32 = fields.next().expect("pgid field").parse().expect("pgid parse");
905
906        assert_eq!(
907            pid, pgid,
908            "the spawned child's pgid must equal its own pid — setpgid(0,0) \
909             in pre_exec should make it its own process-group leader (so a \
910             later killpg reaches it and any of its own children), matching \
911             production (kernel.rs::try_execute_external); got pid={pid} \
912             pgid={pgid}"
913        );
914    }
915}