[MannXo]

What

Each workspace's agent folder gets a .git file naming no repository (gitdir: .git-none), written by ensure_thread_folder before a thread's folder is made (thread_folder/repo_fence.py). An existing .git there is left alone.

opencode 1.18.34 resolves a session's project in Git.repo.discover (packages/core/src/git.ts): it walks up from the directory to the nearest .git, file or folder (FSUtil.up checks existence), then runs git rev-parse --git-dir beside it, and a non-zero exit means no repository. The fence is that nearest .git for every thread, and git fails on it (exit 128), so opencode resolves no repository, exactly as when none is above the data folder. The user's own repository still resolves from above the agent folder, and sees it as a broken nested repository that git status and git add skip.

agent.md drops the Known gap, the summary gap now names one opencode hole instead of two, and Folders describes the fence. The file-agent proposal's "Still open" line says the same.

Why

With the data folder inside a git repository (a home folder kept in git), opencode took the repository's root as the project, so every thread's agent could read, grep and glob every other thread's and workspace's folder without asking.

Fixes #2229

How to test

cd surfsense_local/backend
uv run pytest -m integration tests/integration/agent/test_thread_folders.py

24 passed. The new test runs git init in the data folder, syncs a thread, then repeats opencode's discovery from the thread's folder: without the fence it finds the data folder's repository, with it none. It also checks the repository still resolves from the data folder itself. ruff check, ruff format, the bandit-desktop hook and scripts/check_docs.py pass. Agent integration: 373 passed, 115 skipped (no staged opencode). The discovery steps were read from opencode's source at v1.18.34; opencode itself was not run against the fence.

High-level PR Summary

This PR fixes a security issue where git repositories above the data folder (such as a home folder tracked in git) would be detected by opencode as the project, allowing any agent thread to read files from other threads and workspaces. The fix introduces a repository fence: a .git file containing gitdir: .git-none is written to the agent folder, which opencode discovers first when walking up the directory tree. Since git fails on this invalid reference, opencode correctly determines no repository exists, while the user's actual repository above still works normally and treats the agent folder as a broken nested repository to ignore.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Agent workspaces no longer treat a Git repository above the workspace as the project. The user’s own repository remains available.
• Documentation
  • Updated architecture and proposal docs to reflect this protection and clarify remaining file-access limitations.

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Before configuring opencode, ready_opencode now applies a .git fence to each workspace agent directory when an enclosing repository exists. Integration tests check repository discovery with and without an enclosing repository. Documentation updates the related access-gap descriptions.

Changes: Thread repository fencing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Create the repository fence surfsense_local/backend/modules/agent/thread_folder/repo_fence.py	Adds fence_repository to preserve an existing .git entry, skip fencing when no enclosing repository exists, and otherwise write a placeholder .git file. Adds fence_every_workspace to apply the check to each workspace.
Apply and verify the fence surfsense_local/backend/modules/agent/opencode_runtime.py, surfsense_local/backend/tests/integration/agent/test_repo_fence.py, docs/architecture/agent.md, docs/proposals/file-agent/01-sources-and-folders.md, docs/proposals/agent/03-opencode.md	ready_opencode runs workspace fencing before selecting the model and writing opencode configuration. Integration tests check repository discovery with and without an enclosing repository. The documents update related access-gap descriptions.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ready_opencode
  participant transact
  participant fence_every_workspace
  participant Session
  participant fence_repository
  participant Filesystem
  ready_opencode->>transact: Run workspace fencing
  transact->>fence_every_workspace: Invoke fencing
  fence_every_workspace->>Session: Query workspace IDs
  fence_every_workspace->>fence_repository: Fence each workspace agent directory
  fence_repository->>Filesystem: Check for .git entries and write placeholder if needed
  ready_opencode->>ready_opencode: Select model and write opencode configuration

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An existing repository in an agent folder can leave sibling thread folders within the discovered project. Address that exception before merging.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 91d93

The change reduces accidental access to other threads and workspaces through an enclosing repository. No newly expanded access was established, but existing repository markers and running sessions limit how broadly the protection can be guaranteed.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The relevant exposure is the enclosing repository’s project scope, which can encompass other threads and workspaces. For fresh discovery in the tested configuration, the fence narrows that scope. The setup mutation itself spans every workspace, rather than only the requesting thread’s workspace, without itself granting additional read access.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The documented filesystem policy denies shell execution, confines edits and writes to thread outputs, and denies external directories except shipped skills. The workspace-level .git and .git-none locations lie outside normal thread-output write authority. This is counterevidence to treating the new marker as a newly available agent-controlled bypass.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Define the fence’s supported lifecycle explicitly: distinguish application-owned markers from user repository entries, publish owned markers atomically, specify interrupted-write recovery, and ensure affected instances rediscover their project when a fence is introduced. Document exceptions where existing entries are intentionally preserved.

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing a Git repository above the data folder from becoming opencode's project.
Linked Issues check		The changes satisfy the coding requirement in #2229. ready_opencode calls fence_every_workspace before model selection and configuration. fence_repository writes gitdir: .git-none only when an…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes remain within #2229. The fence implementation, ready_opencode integration, focused integration tests, and documentation updates directly support preventing an ancestor repository from be…
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[MODSetter]

Reviewed this. The fence itself works. With the pinned opencode 1.18.34, a thread instance started after the fence reports worktree='/', the same as having no repository, with or without git on the PATH. opencode's discovery is as you describe it: the nearest .git, then rev-parse, and a failure means no repository. One thing before it can merge.

1. The fence comes too late for a thread that's opened before it's written

opencode resolves a folder's project once, when that folder's instance starts, and caches it until the instance is disposed. The fence is written only at layout.py:24, which runs for a new thread or a turn's sync. But opening a thread reads its history first: thread_messages.py:40-43 calls client.messages(folder, session_id), which starts the instance if it isn't running (live_instances.py:30), with no fence.

Reproduced as follows:

1. Make a session in a thread folder inside a repository.
2. Dispose its instance.
3. Read its history.
4. Write the fence.

/path still reports the repository as the worktree. The same steps with the fence written first report '/'. So on the first run after updating, someone who opens an existing agent thread and continues it keeps their whole repository, their home folder say, as that thread's project until the instance is disposed.

What to change

• Write the fence before opencode can open any of a workspace's folders: once for every workspace at API start, or in ready_opencode.
• Write it only when a .git is actually found above the agent folder. Today every workspace gets one, so every opencode start runs git rev-parse for every user. On a Mac without the Command Line Tools, /usr/bin/git is Apple's stub, which prompts the user to install them. Users without a repository should see nothing change.
• Test it against the real opencode with the existing opencode_harness.py, including the read-history-first order. The current test (test_thread_folders.py:159-196) repeats opencode's discovery with git rev-parse, so it can't catch this or a future opencode change, and its git init fails rather than skips where git is missing.

Not blocking:

• agent.md:95 isn't true. It says the user's repository "sees the folder as a broken nested one and leaves it out". Git treats a folder as nested only when its .git points at a real repository: git status -uall still lists the thread sources, and git add -A adds them. Say what's true there.
• The open question is answered. docs/proposals/agent/03-opencode.md:179 still lists this case as open.

Push the fixes to this branch and it will be reviewed again.

[MannXo]

Thanks for the repro, the read-first order was the hole. Fixed in 91d93de.

• The fence moved out of ensure_thread_folder into ready_opencode, which fences every workspace's agent folder (fence_every_workspace) before it writes the configuration. Reading a thread's history, opening a session and a turn all pass through it, so no instance starts on an unfenced folder.
• It is written only where a .git lies above the agent folder. Without one nothing is written and opencode runs no git.
• test_repo_fence.py runs against the staged opencode through agent_api. One test opens a thread with no repository above, then git inits the data folder, disposes the instance, reads the history through the API first, and asserts /path reports worktree /. With the fence back at sync time it reports the repository. The other asserts no fence is written without a repository. It skips where git is missing. The old git rev-parse test is gone.
• agent.md now says the user's repository still lists and adds the thread files (checked: git status -uall shows them and git add -A stages them), and the answered question is out of 03-opencode.md.

[MODSetter]

Merged into dev, thanks, and #2229 is closed. Fencing every workspace in ready_opencode before the config is written, and only where a .git sits above, holds against the real opencode for each case:

• an upgraded workspace whose history is read first;
• a workspace created later;
• a .git file;
• a repository removed afterwards.

Three things for a follow-up PR, none blocking:

1. A few opencode calls still go out without the fence. stored_step.py:21-27 (client.messages), agent_threads/router.py:54-60 (client.reply) and the forget paths use connect_opencode(), which doesn't fence. Opening a step's result after a repository appears and opencode restarts starts an unfenced instance that keeps the repository as its worktree. That's rare, but fencing the thread's workspace there too closes it.
2. The fence walk runs inside the write lock. fence_every_workspace checks every workspace's parent folders inside a BEGIN IMMEDIATE transaction on every ready_opencode call (about 26 ms for 50 workspaces 16 folders deep). Read the workspace ids inside the transaction, then fence outside it, as the docs ask for file work.
3. test_repo_fence.py:56 assumes pytest's temp folder isn't inside a git repository. It is when a Windows home folder is kept in git. Skip it in that case.