fleetd #149: seed the workspace-trust entry before a claude-code spawn
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A claude-code member spawned into a fresh worktree hits an interactive,
un-timed workspace-trust prompt on its first start in a directory it has
never seen. It never reaches its first turn and never mounts the bridge.

Fix: ClaudeCodeLauncher.seedTrustDialog writes
projects.<cwd>.hasTrustDialogAccepted / hasCompletedProjectOnboarding into
the profile's configDir/.claude.json (or ~/.claude.json when configDir is
unset) BEFORE the herdr spawn call, additively (existing keys/projects are
preserved). Gated to isProvisionedWorktree(cwd) - a .git that is a regular
gitdir-pointer file, never a real checkout's .git directory - the same
signal writeIdeOverlay already used, now shared between both.

That gate is a fix for a real incident hit while building this: an
earlier ungated version ran against this file's own pre-existing tests
(configDir=null, no cwd -> falls back to the real user.dir and
~/.claude.json) and corrupted the operator's actual ~/.claude.json down
to a single entry during a mutation-testing run. See PR body for the
full incident report.

FakeHerdr gained onAgentStart(Runnable) so a test can assert the seed
is on disk at the exact instant herdr's agent.start call is reached -
i.e. strictly before the peer process itself would start.
This commit is contained in:
Dai Ha
2026-09-03 11:23:06 +07:00
parent 26bafe824b
commit a89dcc9b7e
3 changed files with 354 additions and 2 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
package dev.ltms.fleet.member;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
import dev.ltms.fleet.config.FleetConfig;
import dev.ltms.fleet.guard.SubscriptionGuard;
import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.Agent;
@@ -47,6 +50,9 @@ public final class ClaudeCodeLauncher extends HerdrPeerLauncher {
private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ClaudeCodeLauncher.class);
/** JSON codec for the additive workspace-trust seed (fleetd #149) — Jackson's default settings. */
private static final ObjectMapper TRUST_JSON = new ObjectMapper();
private final SubscriptionGuard guard;
/**
@@ -263,6 +269,10 @@ public final class ClaudeCodeLauncher extends HerdrPeerLauncher {
putIfPresent(workerEnv, "ANTHROPIC_MODEL", cfg.model());
putIfPresent(workerEnv, "CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR", cfg.configDir());
applyGitToken(workerEnv, cfg);
// fleetd #149: seed the workspace-trust entry BEFORE this spawn ever reaches herdr — see
// seedTrustDialog for why, and isProvisionedWorktree for why this is gated to a worktree
// fleetd itself provisioned (never a real checkout, never an un-configured fallback cwd).
seedTrustDialog(cfg.configDir(), spec.cwd());
// CB-547a: Claude Code can MINT its own session id, so fleetd chooses it — a fresh spawn
// gets a UUID we pass as --session-id and return from agentSessionId(), so the resume
@@ -412,12 +422,12 @@ public final class ClaudeCodeLauncher extends HerdrPeerLauncher {
*/
private static void writeIdeOverlay(String cwd, String projectPath) {
try {
Path dotGit = Path.of(cwd, ".git");
if (!Files.isRegularFile(dotGit)) {
if (!isProvisionedWorktree(cwd)) {
// Not a provisioned worktree (primary's real checkout has a .git directory, or the
// cwd is not a repo at all). Never write into it.
return;
}
Path dotGit = Path.of(cwd, ".git");
// The overlay FILE lives at the worktree root (claude-code's cwd), but its CONTENT pins
// project_path to the module dir the IDE opened (projectPath), not the worktree root.
Files.writeString(Path.of(cwd, "CLAUDE.local.md"), PeerLauncher.ideOverlayText(projectPath));
@@ -447,6 +457,117 @@ public final class ClaudeCodeLauncher extends HerdrPeerLauncher {
}
}
/**
* fleetd #149: pre-seed the workspace-trust entry for {@code cwd} in Claude Code's own config
* file, BEFORE this launch ever reaches herdr (called from {@link #buildLaunch}, which always
* runs before the base class starts the process). Claude Code asks an interactive, un-timed
* "Is this a project you created or one you trust?" the first time it starts in a directory it
* has not seen before, and every {@code worktree: true} spawn lands in a brand-new directory —
* so without this seed the member sits on that dialog forever, never mounts the bridge MCP, and
* never calls {@code fleet_reply}. herdr reports it as healthy the whole time ({@code
* agent_status: blocked}, {@code interactive_ready: true}), so nothing else catches it. Measured
* live on fleet01 2026-08-23: an unseeded fresh cwd sat on the dialog indefinitely; a seeded one
* reached {@code idle} clean.
*
* <p>This is not a new grant — the operator already trusted this repo by configuring the
* profile against it, and a worktree is a checkout of that same repo.
*
* <p>The key Claude Code reads is per-project, in {@code .claude.json}: {@code
* projects.<cwd>.hasTrustDialogAccepted}. The file lives at {@code <configDir>/.claude.json}
* when the profile sets {@code CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR} (mirrors this launcher's own env var above),
* else the default {@code ~/.claude.json} — the same file Claude Code itself would read either
* way, so this seeds exactly what the spawned peer is about to open.
*
* <p><b>Additive, not a rewrite.</b> {@code .claude.json} is large (tens of KB, dozens of
* projects) and Claude Code itself rewrites it while running, so this reads the file as a JSON
* tree (missing or unreadable → treated as an empty object) and changes only
* {@code projects.<cwd>.hasTrustDialogAccepted} / {@code .hasCompletedProjectOnboarding} —
* every other top-level key and every other project entry is written back untouched. Only the
* one project entry for {@code cwd} is replaced/created; an existing entry for a DIFFERENT cwd
* (or the operator's own project history) is never touched.
*
* <p>Best-effort, like {@link #writeIdeOverlay}: a failure here (unwritable configDir, a
* corrupt existing file, …) must never fail the spawn — it is logged at debug and swallowed. A
* peer that starts without the seed still starts; it just may hit the dialog fleetd #149
* describes.
*
* <p><b>Gated to a provisioned worktree</b> ({@link #isProvisionedWorktree}) — see that
* method's javadoc for the incident that made this gate mandatory, not optional: this must
* never run against a real checkout or an un-configured fallback cwd, only the exact
* always-fresh-directory population fleetd #149 describes.
*
* @param configDir the profile's {@code CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR} ({@code cfg.configDir()}), or
* {@code null}/blank to target the default {@code ~/.claude.json}
* @param cwd the spawn's resolved working directory — the exact key Claude Code will look
* up for itself once it starts there
*/
private static void seedTrustDialog(String configDir, String cwd) {
if (!isProvisionedWorktree(cwd)) {
return;
}
Path target = (configDir == null || configDir.isBlank())
? Path.of(System.getProperty("user.home"), ".claude.json")
: Path.of(configDir, ".claude.json");
try {
ObjectNode root = null;
if (Files.isRegularFile(target)) {
JsonNode existing = TRUST_JSON.readTree(target.toFile());
if (existing instanceof ObjectNode existingObject) {
root = existingObject;
}
}
if (root == null) {
root = TRUST_JSON.createObjectNode();
}
JsonNode projectsNode = root.get("projects");
ObjectNode projects = projectsNode instanceof ObjectNode projectsObject
? projectsObject : TRUST_JSON.createObjectNode();
if (!(projectsNode instanceof ObjectNode)) {
root.set("projects", projects);
}
JsonNode projectNode = projects.get(cwd);
ObjectNode project = projectNode instanceof ObjectNode projectObject
? projectObject : TRUST_JSON.createObjectNode();
if (!(projectNode instanceof ObjectNode)) {
projects.set(cwd, project);
}
project.put("hasTrustDialogAccepted", true);
project.put("hasCompletedProjectOnboarding", true);
if (target.getParent() != null) {
Files.createDirectories(target.getParent());
}
Files.writeString(target, TRUST_JSON.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(root));
} catch (Exception e) {
log.debug("cannot seed workspace-trust entry for cwd '{}' into '{}'", cwd, target, e);
}
}
/**
* Whether {@code cwd} is a fleetd-provisioned git worktree — signalled the same way
* {@link #writeIdeOverlay} already gates on: a {@code .git} that is a <strong>regular
* file</strong> holding a {@code gitdir:} pointer, as opposed to a real checkout's {@code .git}
* <strong>directory</strong>. {@code null}/blank never qualifies.
*
* <p>Shared by every write that must land only in a worktree fleetd itself created for a
* member — never in a real checkout, an arbitrary configured directory, or (see the incident
* below) the daemon's own fallback cwd.
*
* <p><b>fleetd #149 incident.</b> {@link #seedTrustDialog} originally ran unconditionally on
* any non-blank {@code cwd}. Most of this launcher's OWN tests spawn a profile with no
* {@code cwd} configured, so the base class's {@code resolveCwd} falls through to the real
* {@code user.dir} — and with no {@code configDir} either (also the common case in this
* file's fixtures), the seed's target falls through the same way to the real
* {@code ~/.claude.json}. Running this repo's own test suite corrupted the operator's actual
* config file (it shrank from ~72 KB to a single seeded entry) the first time a mutation
* happened to make the write non-additive. Gating both cwd-targeted writes on "this is a
* worktree fleetd provisioned" — exactly the population fleetd #149 describes
* ({@code worktree: true} always lands in a brand-new directory) — makes that class of write
* impossible against a real checkout or an untouched fallback cwd, in production or in tests.
*/
private static boolean isProvisionedWorktree(String cwd) {
return cwd != null && !cwd.isBlank() && Files.isRegularFile(Path.of(cwd, ".git"));
}
/** {@code s}, or {@code null} when {@code s} is null/blank — the charter-presence test used above. */
private static String nonBlank(String s) {
return (s == null || s.isBlank()) ? null : s;
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ public final class FakeHerdr implements HerdrClient {
private int pinnedStarts = 0; // how many upcoming agent.start calls report a fixed pane
private String pinnedStartTerminal;
private String pinnedStartPane;
private Runnable onAgentStart; // fires the instant agent.start is called — see onAgentStart(Runnable)
private volatile int agentGetOkCalls = Integer.MAX_VALUE; // how many agent.get calls succeed first
private volatile String agentGetFailCode = null; // error code every agent.get call after that reports
@@ -152,6 +153,18 @@ public final class FakeHerdr implements HerdrClient {
return this;
}
/**
* Run {@code hook} synchronously the instant an {@code agent.start} call reaches this fake —
* i.e. the instant the peer PROCESS would start against a real herdr daemon. A test uses this
* to assert something is already true at that exact point (rather than merely true once
* {@code spawn()} returns), e.g. fleetd #149's trust-dialog seed having already been written to
* disk before the process herdr would launch ever starts.
*/
public FakeHerdr onAgentStart(Runnable hook) {
this.onAgentStart = hook;
return this;
}
/**
* Seed a named agent into {@code agent.list} (e.g. an orphaned worker for CB-117 reaper tests).
@@ -250,6 +263,9 @@ public final class FakeHerdr implements HerdrClient {
case "agent.read" -> mapper.readTree(mapper.writeValueAsString(
java.util.Map.of("type", "agent_read", "read", java.util.Map.of("text", readText))));
case "agent.start" -> {
if (onAgentStart != null) {
onAgentStart.run();
}
// Protocol 19: kind and pane_id are required — reject like the real daemon.
java.util.Map<?, ?> p = params instanceof java.util.Map<?, ?> m ? m : java.util.Map.of();
for (String required : new String[]{"kind", "pane_id"}) {
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import ch.qos.logback.classic.Level;
import ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger;
import ch.qos.logback.classic.spi.ILoggingEvent;
import ch.qos.logback.core.read.ListAppender;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import dev.ltms.fleet.config.FleetConfig;
import dev.ltms.fleet.guard.GuardException;
import dev.ltms.fleet.guard.SubscriptionGuard;
@@ -2098,4 +2100,217 @@ class ClaudeCodeLauncherTest {
assertTrue(charterFile.getFileName().toString().startsWith("fleetd-role-charter-"),
"same file-naming scheme as before this fix (no wrapping directory): " + charterFile);
}
// --- fleetd #149: workspace-trust dialog seed ------------------------------------------------
//
// Claude Code asks an interactive, un-timed "Is this a project you created or one you trust?"
// the first time it starts in a directory it has not seen. Every worktree: true spawn lands in
// a brand-new directory, so without a seed the member sits on that dialog forever — herdr still
// reports it healthy (agent_status: blocked, interactive_ready: true) — and never mounts the
// bridge MCP or calls fleet_reply. These tests start the REAL launcher (only the herdr transport
// is faked) so the seed is proven to run inside buildLaunch, before agent.start (the
// process-starting call) ever fires — a test that only checked the JSON writer in isolation
// would prove nothing about whether the launcher actually calls it at the right time.
//
// INCIDENT: the seed originally ran on ANY non-blank cwd. Running this file's own test suite —
// most of whose fixtures spawn with no cwd/configDir set, so both fall back to the real
// user.dir / ~/.claude.json — corrupted the operator's actual ~/.claude.json (it shrank from
// ~72 KB to a single seeded entry) the first time a manual mutation run made the write
// non-additive. The fix restricts the seed to isProvisionedWorktree(cwd) — a real .git FILE
// (not directory) — exactly the writeIdeOverlay gate already used for the same category of
// risk. Every test below marks its own worktree fixture with that .git file, and
// seedTrustDialogNeverWritesWhenCwdIsNotAProvisionedWorktree is the regression test for the
// incident itself.
private FleetConfig.Profile trustProfile(String configDir, String cwd) {
return new FleetConfig.Profile(
"ltms-local", "http://gx00.gw:8000", "coder", configDir, "FLEETD_WORKER_TOKEN",
List.of("claude"), "tab", "fleetd-workers", "w #{n}", "http://127.0.0.1:8765/mcp",
cwd, null);
}
/**
* Give {@code dir} the exact signature {@link ClaudeCodeLauncher#isProvisionedWorktree} (and
* {@code writeIdeOverlay} before it) checks for: a {@code .git} REGULAR FILE, never a
* directory. The content is never parsed by the trust seed, so any {@code gitdir:} pointer is
* fine.
*/
private static void markAsProvisionedWorktree(Path dir) throws IOException {
Files.writeString(dir.resolve(".git"), "gitdir: /tmp/not-a-real-gitdir");
}
@Test
void seedsWorkspaceTrustForTheCwdBeforeTheProcessStarts(
@TempDir Path configDir, @TempDir Path worktree) throws Exception {
markAsProvisionedWorktree(worktree);
FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
Path claudeJson = configDir.resolve(".claude.json");
AtomicReference<Boolean> seededBeforeStart = new AtomicReference<>(false);
herdr.onAgentStart(() -> {
try {
if (!Files.exists(claudeJson)) {
return;
}
JsonNode root = new ObjectMapper().readTree(claudeJson.toFile());
JsonNode project = root.path("projects").path(worktree.toString());
seededBeforeStart.set(project.path("hasTrustDialogAccepted").asBoolean(false)
&& project.path("hasCompletedProjectOnboarding").asBoolean(false));
} catch (IOException e) {
seededBeforeStart.set(false);
}
});
FleetConfig.Profile cfg = trustProfile(configDir.toString(), worktree.toString());
new ClaudeCodeLauncher(new AgentControl(herdr), new WorkspaceControl(herdr),
new SubscriptionGuard(Set.of("gx00.gw")), Map.of(cfg.profile(), cfg), cfg.profile(), _ -> null)
.spawn();
assertTrue(herdr.called("agent.start"), "the hook must actually have fired during the spawn");
assertEquals(Boolean.TRUE, seededBeforeStart.get(),
"the trust entry for the cwd must already exist at the instant agent.start (the "
+ "process-starting herdr call) fires — not merely once spawn() returns");
}
@Test
void seedTrustDialogWritesBothTrustFlagsForTheResolvedCwd(
@TempDir Path configDir, @TempDir Path worktree) throws Exception {
markAsProvisionedWorktree(worktree);
FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
FleetConfig.Profile cfg = trustProfile(configDir.toString(), worktree.toString());
new ClaudeCodeLauncher(new AgentControl(herdr), new WorkspaceControl(herdr),
new SubscriptionGuard(Set.of("gx00.gw")), Map.of(cfg.profile(), cfg), cfg.profile(), _ -> null)
.spawn();
Path claudeJson = configDir.resolve(".claude.json");
assertTrue(Files.exists(claudeJson), "seeded into <configDir>/.claude.json");
JsonNode project = new ObjectMapper().readTree(claudeJson.toFile())
.path("projects").path(worktree.toString());
assertTrue(project.path("hasTrustDialogAccepted").asBoolean(false));
assertTrue(project.path("hasCompletedProjectOnboarding").asBoolean(false));
}
/**
* Criterion 3: seeding is additive. An existing {@code .claude.json} carries the operator's own
* project history and unrelated top-level settings — the seed must change only
* {@code projects.<cwd>} for THIS cwd and leave everything else, including a different project's
* own unrelated data, exactly as it was.
*/
@Test
void seedTrustDialogIsAdditiveAndPreservesUnknownKeysAndOtherProjects(
@TempDir Path configDir, @TempDir Path worktree) throws Exception {
markAsProvisionedWorktree(worktree);
Path claudeJson = configDir.resolve(".claude.json");
Files.writeString(claudeJson, """
{
"numStartups": 42,
"oauthAccount": {"emailAddress": "operator@example.com"},
"projects": {
"/some/other/project": {
"hasTrustDialogAccepted": true,
"mcpServers": {"foo": {"type": "stdio", "command": "foo-mcp"}}
}
}
}
""");
FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
FleetConfig.Profile cfg = trustProfile(configDir.toString(), worktree.toString());
new ClaudeCodeLauncher(new AgentControl(herdr), new WorkspaceControl(herdr),
new SubscriptionGuard(Set.of("gx00.gw")), Map.of(cfg.profile(), cfg), cfg.profile(), _ -> null)
.spawn();
JsonNode root = new ObjectMapper().readTree(claudeJson.toFile());
assertEquals(42, root.path("numStartups").asInt(), "unrelated top-level key survives untouched");
assertEquals("operator@example.com", root.path("oauthAccount").path("emailAddress").asText(),
"an unrelated nested top-level key survives untouched");
JsonNode other = root.path("projects").path("/some/other/project");
assertTrue(other.path("hasTrustDialogAccepted").asBoolean(false),
"a different project's own trust entry survives");
assertEquals("foo-mcp", other.path("mcpServers").path("foo").path("command").asText(),
"a different project's own unrelated nested data survives");
JsonNode mine = root.path("projects").path(worktree.toString());
assertTrue(mine.path("hasTrustDialogAccepted").asBoolean(false));
assertTrue(mine.path("hasCompletedProjectOnboarding").asBoolean(false));
}
/**
* Criterion 2: where the profile sets no {@code configDir}, the seed goes to the default
* {@code ~/.claude.json}. {@code user.home} is redirected to a {@code @TempDir} for the
* duration of this test and restored in a {@code finally} — the real operator {@code
* ~/.claude.json} must never be touched by a test.
*/
@Test
void seedTrustDialogTargetsDefaultClaudeJsonWhenConfigDirIsUnset(
@TempDir Path fakeHome, @TempDir Path worktree) throws Exception {
markAsProvisionedWorktree(worktree);
String originalHome = System.getProperty("user.home");
System.setProperty("user.home", fakeHome.toString());
try {
FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
FleetConfig.Profile cfg = trustProfile(null, worktree.toString());
new ClaudeCodeLauncher(new AgentControl(herdr), new WorkspaceControl(herdr),
new SubscriptionGuard(Set.of("gx00.gw")), Map.of(cfg.profile(), cfg), cfg.profile(), _ -> null)
.spawn();
Path claudeJson = fakeHome.resolve(".claude.json");
assertTrue(Files.exists(claudeJson),
"no configDir set — the default target is ~/.claude.json, here the redirected fake home");
JsonNode project = new ObjectMapper().readTree(claudeJson.toFile())
.path("projects").path(worktree.toString());
assertTrue(project.path("hasTrustDialogAccepted").asBoolean(false));
} finally {
System.setProperty("user.home", originalHome);
}
}
/**
* Regression test for the fleetd #149 incident itself: a cwd that is NOT a fleetd-provisioned
* worktree (no {@code .git} FILE — the exact shape a real checkout, or an un-configured
* fallback cwd, has) must never be written to, however {@code configDir} is set. This is the
* fix for the exact defect that corrupted the operator's real {@code ~/.claude.json}.
*/
@Test
void seedTrustDialogNeverWritesWhenCwdIsNotAProvisionedWorktree(
@TempDir Path configDir, @TempDir Path plainCwd) {
// plainCwd deliberately carries NO .git file — the same shape a real checkout's cwd
// fallback has.
FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
FleetConfig.Profile cfg = trustProfile(configDir.toString(), plainCwd.toString());
new ClaudeCodeLauncher(new AgentControl(herdr), new WorkspaceControl(herdr),
new SubscriptionGuard(Set.of("gx00.gw")), Map.of(cfg.profile(), cfg), cfg.profile(), _ -> null)
.spawn();
assertFalse(Files.exists(configDir.resolve(".claude.json")),
"a non-worktree cwd must never get a .claude.json written for it — this is the fix "
+ "for the incident where writing unconditionally corrupted the operator's own "
+ "real ~/.claude.json via this file's own no-cwd/no-configDir test fixtures");
}
/**
* Same regression, for the default (no {@code configDir}) path — the exact combination (no
* {@code configDir}, no worktree-shaped {@code cwd}) that hit the operator's real
* {@code ~/.claude.json} during the incident. {@code user.home} is still redirected to a
* {@code @TempDir} out of caution, so even a reintroduced bug here cannot touch the real file.
*/
@Test
void seedTrustDialogNeverWritesToDefaultHomeWhenCwdIsNotAProvisionedWorktree(
@TempDir Path fakeHome, @TempDir Path plainCwd) {
String originalHome = System.getProperty("user.home");
System.setProperty("user.home", fakeHome.toString());
try {
FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
FleetConfig.Profile cfg = trustProfile(null, plainCwd.toString());
new ClaudeCodeLauncher(new AgentControl(herdr), new WorkspaceControl(herdr),
new SubscriptionGuard(Set.of("gx00.gw")), Map.of(cfg.profile(), cfg), cfg.profile(), _ -> null)
.spawn();
assertFalse(Files.exists(fakeHome.resolve(".claude.json")),
"the exact incident combination — no configDir, non-worktree cwd — must never "
+ "write, even to the (redirected) default ~/.claude.json");
} finally {
System.setProperty("user.home", originalHome);
}
}
}