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This is the second half of the crash sweep, split from the cache/sidecar/file-handle PR by area. Each defect below takes ripwire down, or holds it for minutes, when a CLI argument, a repository file or an MCP request is nested or shaped past what a recursive or throwing path survives. Each was reproduced on the base, and each fix extends the gate that already owns the verb. The commits are one per defect, plus a CHANGELOG commit.

#	trigger	before	after	gate
1	--graph-query nested 50,000 levels	recursive-descent evaluator overflows the stack: SIGSEGV (exit 139)	refused before evaluation past 256 levels, exit 1 with the reason	graphqueryrefusecheck 6
2	a --layout extent: #define 200,000 ( deep / (0-2^40)*2^23/(0-1) / 2^40*2^40	SIGSEGV (139) everywhere / SIGFPE (136) on Linux x86-64 / signed overflow (abort under ASan)	checked arithmetic, INT64_MIN/-1 refused, parens bounded at 64: an unknown extent with its caveat	layoutcheck §12
3	--eval-skills over a skills dir with a SKILL.md link loop, a directory link loop, a mode-000 skill	uncaught filesystem_error from the throwing overloads: SIGABRT (134)	error_code overloads and increment(ec); skipped entries are named on stderr	skillevalcheck
4	ripwire wrap <agent> in a repo whose ./skills nests past the path-name limit	operator++ throws inside a noexcept function: std::terminate (134)	increment(ec); the early stop is disclosed and scored WARN; the recipe still prints	codexwrapcheck
5	--match (or a --lint-rules query) nested 4,000 levels	ts_query_new recursion on a 512 KB worker stack: SIGBUS (138); 2,000 levels ran past a minute	refused before any compile past 256 levels, exit 1	matchgrammarcheck 6
6	--slice / MCP slice on a function of 4,000 chained if (x)	cubic walk: 1,000 → 5.7 s, 2,000 → 48 s, 4,000 → killed at 2 min (server wedged)	syntax depth measured with a cursor first; past 512 levels, refused	slicecheck (15)

The four new bounds are registered in docs/LIMITS.md as BOUNDARY, since each one refuses an input and truncates nothing.

Runtime checks. Only (2c) trips a sanitizer that a test reaching the path would have caught (UBSan in the G1 build). (1), (2a) and (5) are stack exhaustion, which ASan reports only as the crash itself. (3) and (4) are throws from std::filesystem's throwing overloads, and clang-tidy's bugprone-exception-escape flags (4) statically, because the throw is inside noexcept.

Verification. Every new arm was run red on the base binary and green on this branch, which is merged with main 31e788c, on both the plain and ASan builds. These gates also passed, rc 0: gateexitcheck, manifestcheck, gatecountcheck, limitstablecheck, limits_build.py --check, querycheck, mcpslicecheck, sliceflowcheck, slicediffcheck, matchcapturecheck, lintrulescheck, skillevalsplitcheck, wrapverbscheck and opencodewrapcheck. --quality-delta=<merge-base>..HEAD reports gating="0": 11 minor rows, and one non-gating dead-code row that is the for loop's own iterator. No new gate, and no kParserVer, cache or qsnap-scheme change.

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• Bug Fixes

  • Prevented crashes and hangs caused by deeply nested graph queries, match specifications, slice targets, and layout expressions.
  • Invalid arithmetic and excessive parentheses in layout expressions are now safely rejected.
  • Skill discovery now skips unreadable, looping, or non-regular entries instead of aborting.
  • Skill-directory scans stop safely on traversal errors while still producing available output and warnings.
  • Excessively nested slice definitions are refused with a clear error.

• Documentation

  • Updated documented safety limits for query, layout, and slice processing.

• Tests

  • Added regression coverage for hostile inputs, filesystem errors, overflow, and nesting limits.

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The change adds bounds and error handling for deeply nested queries, layout expressions, slice definitions, and hostile filesystem entries. It also adds regression tests, updates the disclosed limit inventory, and documents the fixes in the changelog.

Input validation and query evaluation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Query nesting guards src/ingest.h, src/ingest_astquery.h, src/query.h, test/graphqueryrefusecheck.sh, test/matchgrammarcheck.sh	AST queries and graph queries now refuse nesting above 256 levels before compilation or evaluation.
Layout extent validation src/layout.h, test/layoutcheck.sh	Extent evaluation checks arithmetic overflow, rejects INT64_MIN / -1, and limits parenthesis nesting to 64 levels.
Filesystem scan handling src/skilleval.h, src/wrap.h, test/skillevalcheck.sh, test/codexwrapcheck.sh	Skill scans use error-code APIs, skip hostile entries, report early traversal termination, and continue to emit the wrapper recipe.
Slice depth validation src/slice.h, src/mcpverbs.h, src/verbs_navigate.h, test/slicecheck.sh	Slice processing measures syntax depth before walking and refuses definitions deeper than 512 levels.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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In `@src/layout.h`:
- Around line 709-716: Update IntEval::atom so the parens counter incremented
for a parenthesized expression is restored after the recursive level call
completes, preferably using scope-based restoration. Preserve the
maximum-nesting protection while allowing sequential parenthesized atoms in
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- Line 186: Update the directory-entry handling around is_directory so
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than no_such_file_or_directory, including the failed entry path, before the
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- Line 510: Update the recursive_directory_iterator construction in
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severity 1 and prevent runWrap() from emitting an incomplete recipe.

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Disposition for the 12 red jobs on 6369f88e: one push, two new commits.

1. graphqueryrefusecheck arm 6 — "Argument list too long" (ubuntu), fixed in 94e34236. Linux caps one argv string at MAX_ARG_STRLEN (128 KiB), and the 50,000-level kind( chain was about 400 KB. --graph-query has no file or stdin form, so the arm now uses the form that nests the most frames per byte, cx(…all,1): 20,000 levels in 120 KB. It runs under ulimit -s 2048, so without the bound the depth overflows regardless of a build's frame size; the fix refuses before evaluating.
   • Red on the unfixed evaluator: exit 139 on macOS (dev, 8 MB and 2 MB stacks) and in the rw-linux-x64 container, clang release and gcc builds, 8 MB and 2 MB.
   • Green here: exit 1 with the bound named.
2. codexwrapcheck — "the early-stopped skill scan was not disclosed" (ubuntu), fixed in 94e34236. The PATH_MAX fixture was macOS-only. The trigger is now the descriptor limit: 64 nested directories under ulimit -n 24. The iterator holds one open directory per level on both standard libraries, so it runs out of descriptors the same way everywhere.
   • Red on the unfixed walk: exit 134 on macOS (libc++), and on Linux clang and gcc (libstdc++: "cannot increment recursive directory iterator: Too many open files").
   • Green here: exit 0, the early stop disclosed, recipe printed. The arm does not depend on root, because EMFILE is not a permission check.
3. readmedriftcheck L2, fixed in dea01caf. limits_build.py does not write that README sentence, so it was updated by hand to 217 caps. limits_build.py --check agrees (217 caps, 7 parameters).
4. capsweepcheck (C), fixed in dea01caf. Ran python3 bench/capsweep/capsweep.py emit; docs/TUNING.md goes from 131 to 134 declarations.
5. recentscopecheck arm 10e: unrelated flake, left unchanged. The arm runs --rank-by=churn-decay --in … --exclude … --since … --limit=39 --offset=1 and asserts the scoped block's next= cap. This branch touches none of that path: its source changes are the query.h evaluator, layout.h, skilleval.h, wrap.h, the astquery nesting check, slice depth, and the matching refusals in verbs_navigate.h and mcpverbs.h. The arm passed on the other 7 legs, and 4 of 4 local runs of the whole gate on this branch passed.

Verified locally at dea01caf, all rc 0: limits_build.py --check, capsweepcheck, readmedriftcheck, graphqueryrefusecheck, codexwrapcheck, gateexitcheck, manifestcheck, recentscopecheck (×4). Per the machine rule, no local ASan build for this PR; CI's ASan legs cover it.

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Disposition for the independent review and the three unanswered CodeRabbit threads at dea01caf. One push, six new commits, no main merge.

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• layout.h:713, parens never restored. Valid, and it was a regression: 66 sibling parenthesised terms sized to 268 on main and came back unknown here. Fixed in b8bd2463: the counter is now parenDepth, raised on entry to a ( level and restored when it closes, so 64 bounds the nesting depth. layoutcheck §12 adds WideExtent (a 264-byte field, modeled="1"), red at dea01caf and green here.
• skilleval.h:186, an is_directory error skipped silently. Valid. Fixed in 05701a5e: the entry's error is named on stderr before the skip, and an unlistable root now says "cannot list". skillevalcheck asserts both ends of the directory link loop are named; red at dea01caf.
• wrap.h:510, skip_permission_denied hides a sealed subtree. Valid; it predates this PR and is fixed now per the fix-now rule. Fixed in f7149be5: a folder the scan cannot enter is named as a WARN on stderr, the score rises to at least WARN, and its siblings are still scanned. codexwrapcheck seals a folder holding injection text next to a readable one and requires exit 0, the named WARN and the recipe (SKIP by name as root); red at dea01caf.
• codexwrapcheck.sh:42, the path fixture never trips on Linux. Already fixed in 94e34236 (the EMFILE fixture), red on macOS and on Linux clang and gcc.

Slice bound (i): chose the linear walk, not a raised cap. Fixed in 52359644.

• Cause: every occurrence climbed to its statement anchor, scope and classifier shape through ts_node_parent, which descends from the tree root on each call. That made the walk cubic.
• Change: sliceScanDefinition builds a parent table in one cursor pass (keyed on TSNode::id, the address ts_node_eq compares) and installs it through an RAII scope. The 19 parent calls go through sliceParent, which falls back to ts_node_parent for any node outside the table. The statement anchor is memoized per node.
• Measured, plain build: 2,000 / 4,000 / 8,000 nested ifs in 0.05 / 0.06 / 0.08 s (the old walk took 48 s at 2,000 and did not finish at 4,000). The 808-level chain takes 0.06 s (11.6 s on main).
• Parity: output is byte-identical to main on 17 slices of this repo's functions, 7 of them with --slice-flow=both, and on the chains.
• Why a bound remains: the walks still recurse once per level, so it is a named stack guard at 4,096 levels. 8,100 nested ifs overflowed a 2 MB stack and fit in 4 MB, so 4,096 sits inside half the default 8 MB main-thread stack, with room for sanitizer frames. The deepest function in the reviewer's 47,795-file survey is 808. Both refusal messages now say "would exhaust the stack"; the cube claim is gone.
• Gate: slicecheck (15a) 3,000 nested ifs are answered inside 30 s; (15b) an 806-name chained assignment (the CPython shape, ~808 levels) is answered, the must-answer arm; (15c) 6,000 nested blocks are refused by name. (15a) and (15b) are red at dea01caf; (15a) is also red on main.

Found on main (j), fixed in bac39c46. --layout treated any statement containing ( as a member function. So char a[(4)]; (and, found while fixing it, int x = (3); and int x{ (3) };) dropped the field while still reporting modeled="1" and a short size. A ( now opens a parameter list only before the first [, =, { or bitfield :, and operator members stay functions. layoutcheck §13 covers ParenExtent, ParenInit and ParenBrace (2 fields, size 8), plus an OperatorAssign control; red on main and at dea01caf.

e90643f1 updates the CHANGELOG entry. docs/LIMITS.md is regenerated for the 4,096 value; the README cap count stays 217.

Verified on the tree identical to e90643f1, all rc 0: layoutcheck, slicecheck, mcpslicecheck, sliceflowcheck, sliceflowsenscheck, slicediffcheck, skillevalcheck, skillevalsplitcheck, codexwrapcheck, wrapverbscheck, readmedriftcheck, capsweepcheck, gateexitcheck, manifestcheck, limitstablecheck, and limits_build.py --check. No local ASan (machine rule).

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Disposition for the re-review at e90643f1 (slice stack safety). One push, one new commit: 1d93429b.

kMaxSliceDepth 4,096 → 2,048 (coordinator call).

• Why: the re-review measured about 4,085 levels needing 3,660 KB for nested loops on plain arm64 (~870 B a level). Every slice path runs on the ~8 MB main thread, ASan frames are 2–3× wider, and CI's asan job doesn't run slicecheck, so 4,096 levels wasn't shown to be ASan-safe.
• At 2,048: the worst shape needs about 1.8 MB plain. That still leaves the bound 2.5× the deepest real function (808). The refusal wording is unchanged ("would exhaust the stack"). docs/LIMITS.md and docs/TUNING.md are regenerated.

slicecheck (15), all four red at dea01caf and green here:

• (15a) 2,000 nested ifs: answered.
• (15b) new: 2,040 nested for loops, the widest frame per level, must be answered. 2,043 are answered and 2,044 are refused, so the arm sits at the guard's edge. It needs 2 MB of stack on this build (1.5 MB overflows).
• (15c) the CPython-shaped ~808-level chain: must answer.
• (15d) 6,000 blocks: refused by name at 2,048.

Allocation note (optional, done): the parent and anchor tables are reserved from the definition's ts_node_descendant_count, and the anchor climb reuses one scratch vector. Slice output is still byte-identical to main (9 --slice-flow=both slices).

Verified, all rc 0: slicecheck, mcpslicecheck, sliceflowcheck, sliceflowsenscheck, slicediffcheck, readmedriftcheck, capsweepcheck, limitstablecheck, gateexitcheck, manifestcheck, limits_build.py --check. No local ASan (machine rule); running slicecheck with RIPWIRE_BIN=asan/ripwire is what would prove (15b) under sanitizer frames.

The --layout field drops on main (alignas, __attribute__((aligned)), decltype, std::function<void(int)>) are noted as the separate follow-up lane, not this PR.

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Addendum, 2acfe5c9 (the ASan run): RIPWIRE_BIN=asan/ripwire test/slicecheck.sh at 1d93429b, with CI's sanitizer options minus log_path, failed. (15a) and (15b) aborted with an AddressSanitizer stack-overflow in SliceRdWalker::loop → stmtC → stmt. ASan frames are ~10× plain, not 2–3×. On the main thread, 2,040 nested loops need 18.8 MB, ifs 14.0 MB and else-if chains 8.5 MB. At 8 MB, loops overflow past ~880 levels; at 5.3 MB (a 1.5× margin), past ~570. A ~560 guard would refuse the 808-level CPython chain (15c). So kMaxSliceDepth stays at 2,048, and a definition deeper than 256 levels now walks on a joined thread with its own 64 MB stack. Measured on that thread: loops need 18.6 MB under ASan (3.5× margin), ifs 13.8 MB (4.7×), plain loops 1.8 MB (37×). If the thread can't start, the slice is refused by name. (15b) now runs with the caller's stack held to 1 MB, where a plain build of the old walk overflowed. slicecheck passes on plain and on ASan (44 PASS). The gates listed above were re-run at 2acfe5c9, all rc 0.