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fix(messaging): reject macOS ACL-exposed state - #7520

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Messaging state on macOS can have private mode bits while an extended ACL still grants access. Reject that state during directory/file inspection and before atomic publication, preserving the existing owner and symlink checks.

Close the temporary file descriptor and remove unpublished state when ACL inspection refuses, errors or times out, reporting unsafe_remote_storage without changing the old destination. If destination ACL inspection fails after rename, report remote_storage_unknown: replacement has already happened, permissions and crash durability need inspection, and the operation must not be automatically retried or rolled back.

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  • Regression tests use real file descriptors and replacements while simulating Darwin ACL probes. The temporary-file cases require descriptor closure, removal and no publication; the post-rename cases require the new destination to remain, one rename, no directory sync and a typed unknown-publication outcome. The three new post-rename cases failed before the fix and pass afterward.
  • Pinned Bun 1.4.3, official runner on Windows: 7 passed / 10 native-platform skips / 0 failed. TypeScript, structure, privacy, changed-file size and whitespace checks passed. The unmodified upstream hygiene evaluator reported no findings. Independent review checked both failure boundaries.
  • A broader local hygiene test encountered sparse-checkout ENOENTs; it is not reported as passing. Current-head hosted CI, all four test shards and the documentation build passed at 11d7ca30a59f8d9d476202f5e4dd200c77a0a9c4: Cross-platform CI.
  • Native macOS validation passed at 11d7ca30a59f8d9d476202f5e4dd200c77a0a9c4: 17 passed / 0 failed, 102 assertions, exit 0, on Darwin with Bun 1.4.3. Hosted validation run. It exercises actual chmod +a / -N for directories and files, unchanged mode bits, the typed refusal and successful read before/after ACL removal, plus enable/read/atomic-publication controls.
  • The first native run exposed a message-only test assertion mismatch. The final test uses the stable LocalMessagingError / unsafe_remote_storage contract and stronger positive controls; runtime code was unchanged by that test correction. The subsequent pre-publication error-classification fix is included in both current-head native validation and full CI.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • On macOS, remote messaging storage now checks access-control permissions on directories and files, rejecting storage that cannot be confirmed private.
    • If a permission check fails after a file has been replaced, the app reports that the new state may already be visible.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified when storage changes may require manual inspection and recovery, including after sync or permission-check failures.

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The remote messaging store now checks macOS ACLs for directories and files. Reads and file publication reject failed or unexpected ACL checks. A failed ACL check after replacement reports remote_storage_unknown.

Changes: Remote messaging ACL validation

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Directory and read checks
src/messaging/remote-files.ts, tests/codex-integration/messaging-remote-store.test.ts
The ACL check accepts only expected private-mode output. Directory validation and file reads check ACLs. Tests cover ACL output parsing, probe failures, and extended ACLs.
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src/messaging/remote-files.ts, tests/codex-integration/messaging-remote-store.test.ts, structure/remote-messaging.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/cli/messaging.md
Publication checks the temporary file before writing and syncing, then checks the published file after renaming. Tests cover cleanup after pre-publication failures and remote_storage_unknown after a post-rename failure. Documentation describes visible state and recovery guidance after publication or sync failures.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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- Line 120: Wrap the post-rename checkMacAcl(path) call in the renameSync flow
so probe failures are reported as remote_storage_unknown with recovery guidance,
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Reviewed the complete three-file diff at d0b519a8253bd02f9c33451efac8e23c4caa30e0. Moving the temporary ACL check inside the descriptor's try/finally addresses the cleanup boundary, and the subprocess regressions meaningfully check a real closed descriptor (EBADF), removal and no write/sync/rename on that refusal path. Those tests simulate Darwin; they do not execute macOS ACL behavior.

Before treating the ACL protection as platform-validated, please provide an exact-head native macOS run of tests/codex-integration/messaging-remote-store.test.ts, including its chmod +a / -N case and ordinary enable/read/atomic-publication controls. The PR description correctly says that path and the native CI legs were not run; four green Ubuntu shards cannot fill that gap. An ordinary contributor-owned hosted macOS dispatch is suitable; this does not request a scanner or a live messaging/account operation.

No whole-branch approval or native-macOS guarantee from this review. Keep the unverified platform requirement explicit until that evidence is available.

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- Line 118: In writeRemoteFile, catch failures from the pre-publication
checkMacAcl call and convert them with remoteError into a LocalMessagingError
coded unsafe_remote_storage; keep the existing post-publication error behavior
unchanged. Add an assertion that a pre-publication ACL failure exposes that
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Updated verification after the pre-publication error classification fix: native macOS validation passed at current head 11d7ca30a59f8d9d476202f5e4dd200c77a0a9c4, 17 passed, 0 failed, 102 assertions, exit 0, with Darwin and Bun 1.4.3 verified in the hosted run.

This includes real chmod +a / -N on both directories and files, unchanged mode bits, typed ACL refusals, successful reads before and after removal, and the ordinary enable/read/atomic-publication controls. An earlier native run caught a message-only assertion mismatch; that test was corrected to check the stable error code and stronger positive controls. Current-head full CI and documentation build have also passed; the PR is ready for maintainer review.

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Approved the full four-file patch at 11d7ca30a59f8d9d476202f5e4dd200c77a0a9c4 against dev. Manual scoped review covers the macOS extended-ACL refusal, bounded /bin/ls -lde probe, private ownership/mode/no-follow checks, descriptor cleanup, and the distinction between an unpublished-file refusal and an already-renamed state whose privacy/durability is unknown. The latter preserves visible state for explicit recovery rather than retrying or rolling back. The contract and CLI documentation match those outcomes. This is a manual patch review, not a security-scan result.

Independent Bun 1.4.3 / Linux bun test ./tests/codex-integration/messaging-remote-store.test.ts: 16 passed / 1 native-macOS skip / 0 failed, 80 assertions, with isolated homes and hard cgroup limits. The initial local run correctly rejected my group-writable scratch ancestor; re-running beneath private owned directories under root-owned sticky /tmp passed without changing source, shared directory permissions, resource limits or assertions. The original failure receipt is retained.

I also inspected the actual author-hosted macOS job: it verifies Darwin, Bun 1.4.3 and exact source SHA 11d7ca30..., then reports 17 passed / 0 failed / 102 assertions, including real directory/file ACL add/remove controls. This is externally hosted native evidence, not a native run I performed locally. Current-head repository CI succeeded, including the four Ubuntu shards, gates and docs build; no unresolved review threads remained at this check. The full local suite was not repeated on this shared host under the documented resource exception. No live messaging state, service or production permissions were changed, and this approval is not a merge/release claim.

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Merged on the owner path (squash, --match-head-commit 45bc063cab). Windows-sensitive, so rule C applies: ci.yml lane=all run 39832428587 on this exact head has every test, Windows, macOS and gate job green; only the final ci aggregate job was still waiting for a runner behind a 200+ run queue, and it only re-checks those same job results. PR checks are green, review threads are resolved, and a squash simulation onto current dev (with the other merge in this batch) passed typecheck, structure:check and the changed test files.

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