test: isolate installer fixtures from inherited agent homes - #55
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WalkthroughThe installer checks now clear inherited agent-home overrides and verify that installer gates preserve sentinel content and permission modes outside temporary fixtures. ChangesInstaller isolation validation
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In `@test/installer_isolation.py`:
- Around line 12-16: Update the isolation snapshot entry construction to include
permission mode bits from os.lstat(path) for symlinks, directories, and regular
files, while preserving the existing type, link-target, and content data so mode
changes are detected between snapshots.
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Thank you — this is the kind of PR that never gets written and always should. A gate that reads the developer's real agent home is a gate that passes or fails for reasons that have nothing to do with the code, and it fails differently on a contributor's machine than on the maintainer's. That is the worst kind of test to debug, because the person who can reproduce it is the one person who does not think anything is wrong. Isolating the fixtures from inherited agent homes is worth more than its 77 lines suggest, and it matters more now than it did last week — we have seven open PRs from six people, so the suite is about to be run on a lot of machines that are not this one. Queued behind #57. It'll get the full battery on the way in. |
…st HOME main went red at ff502d9: shard 1/4 failed on ALL FOUR Linux configurations (plain/Release x gcc/clang) while shards 2-4, macOS, RHEL and ASan all passed. Deterministic, one gate, one row: FAIL (K) 'opencode': its home dir ~/.config/opencode exists, yet 'wrap --all' emits 1 surfaces Arm (K) measures detection as a delta against an empty HOME, and overrode HOME only. opencode resolves its config through xdg-basedir (src/wrap.h::agentDetector), so when XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set the detector looks there instead of at the fixture — and the row is correctly reported as undetected, for a reason that has nothing to do with the table this gate exists to check. XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unset on macOS and commonly SET on Linux CI, which is exactly why this passed on my machine, passed the macOS legs, and failed all four Linux legs. Reproduced locally by setting it, and the fix verified in BOTH environments. The gate now runs both measurements under `env -u XDG_CONFIG_HOME`. Worth recording: this is the same defect PR #55 fixes for the installer gates — "overriding HOME alone did not isolate either gate" — shipped into a NEW gate on the same day, by the person merging that PR. The lesson generalises past those two gates: a fixture that overrides HOME is not isolated while any tool under test resolves paths through an env var of its own. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…IVATE claim provable Two fixes on top of PR #55 (@PollyBot13), neither of them the contributor's bug. 1. test/regression.sh documented the delivery gate as one that "does not need the binary under test" and invoked it without RIPWIRE_BIN. True until this PR made it nest skillinstallcheck, which does. Under `RIPWIRE_BIN=asan/ripwire test/regression.sh` the nested gate would silently run ./build/ripwire — testing a different binary than the one named and reporting a pass for it. Passed explicitly at both call sites, so a failure is also re-reported against the binary that actually failed. Invisible from inside the two files the PR touched. 2. test/installer_isolation.py now injects RIPWIRE_NO_ACTIVATE=1. The PR's third claim — that the release gate must clear an inherited copy or its activation arms never exercise activation — was TRUE but UNPROVEN: deleting it from releaseinstallcheck.sh:15's unset left the helper green, and it only reddened if the operator's own shell exported the variable. A gate whose liveness depends on who runs it is not a gate. Verified: with the injection, that mutation exits 1 with five FAIL lines; without it, zero. These were lost once and re-applied. The lane was originally a merge commit carrying both; rebasing it onto the agenttablecheck hotfix LINEARISED the merge into the PR's own two commits and dropped them silently. Caught by grepping for them rather than trusting the rebase. The linear shape is better anyway: the contributor's commits keep their authorship and identity, and these fixes are separately reviewable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…IVATE claim provable Two fixes on top of PR #55 (@PollyBot13), neither of them the contributor's bug. 1. test/regression.sh documented the delivery gate as one that "does not need the binary under test" and invoked it without RIPWIRE_BIN. True until this PR made it nest skillinstallcheck, which does. Under `RIPWIRE_BIN=asan/ripwire test/regression.sh` the nested gate would silently run ./build/ripwire — testing a different binary than the one named and reporting a pass for it. Passed explicitly at both call sites, so a failure is also re-reported against the binary that actually failed. Invisible from inside the two files the PR touched. 2. test/installer_isolation.py now injects RIPWIRE_NO_ACTIVATE=1. The PR's third claim — that the release gate must clear an inherited copy or its activation arms never exercise activation — was TRUE but UNPROVEN: deleting it from releaseinstallcheck.sh:15's unset left the helper green, and it only reddened if the operator's own shell exported the variable. A gate whose liveness depends on who runs it is not a gate. Verified: with the injection, that mutation exits 1 with five FAIL lines; without it, zero. These were lost once and re-applied. The lane was originally a merge commit carrying both; rebasing it onto the agenttablecheck hotfix LINEARISED the merge into the PR's own two commits and dropped them silently. Caught by grepping for them rather than trusting the rebase. The linear shape is better anyway: the contributor's commits keep their authorship and identity, and these fixes are separately reviewable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…IVATE claim provable Two fixes on top of PR #55 (@PollyBot13), neither of them the contributor's bug. 1. test/regression.sh documented the delivery gate as one that "does not need the binary under test" and invoked it without RIPWIRE_BIN. True until this PR made it nest skillinstallcheck, which does. Under `RIPWIRE_BIN=asan/ripwire test/regression.sh` the nested gate would silently run ./build/ripwire — testing a different binary than the one named and reporting a pass for it. Passed explicitly at both call sites, so a failure is also re-reported against the binary that actually failed. Invisible from inside the two files the PR touched. 2. test/installer_isolation.py now injects RIPWIRE_NO_ACTIVATE=1. The PR's third claim — that the release gate must clear an inherited copy or its activation arms never exercise activation — was TRUE but UNPROVEN: deleting it from releaseinstallcheck.sh:15's unset left the helper green, and it only reddened if the operator's own shell exported the variable. A gate whose liveness depends on who runs it is not a gate. Verified: with the injection, that mutation exits 1 with five FAIL lines; without it, zero. These were lost once and re-applied. The lane was originally a merge commit carrying both; rebasing it onto the agenttablecheck hotfix LINEARISED the merge into the PR's own two commits and dropped them silently. Caught by grepping for them rather than trusting the rebase. The linear shape is better anyway: the contributor's commits keep their authorship and identity, and these fixes are separately reviewable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Merged — landed on The bug is real and reproduces on unpatched main, and it is worse than the description claims. With I also checked the fix does not commit the mirror-image sin: Two fixes added on merge, neither of them your bug:
Three things recorded but not changed, because none is wrong — only over-claimed:
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Summary
Keep installer gates inside their temporary fixtures even when launched from an agent session with
CODEX_HOMEorAGENTS_HOMEset.skillinstallcheck.shpreviously registered Codex hooks in the inherited home instead of its fixture.releaseinstallcheck.shcould detect/activate the inherited Codex installation and leave the intended fixture inactive. OverridingHOMEalone did not isolate either gate.Both gates now clear agent-home overrides before setting their own fixture paths. The release gate also clears inherited
RIPWIRE_NO_ACTIVATEso its activation arms actually exercise activation.Regression proof
A helper runs both gates with disposable outside Claude/Codex/Agents/Hermes sentinel homes and checks file contents, directory entries, symlink targets and permission modes before/after. It also requires the requested binary to exist and preserves repository-relative binary paths. A chmod-only control proves permission changes are detected, then restores the original mode before exercising the installers. No real agent homes are used by this reproduction.
Validation
python3 test/installer_isolation.py build/ripwirepasses; also passes againstrelease/ripwireandasan/ripwire.python3 test/pargates.py . ./build/ripwire -j 4: 571 gates, 567 pass, 3 skip, 1 host-dependent failure.legendcoveragecheck.shincludes installed host skills in its bare scan; it passes with a disposable empty home. No legend baseline or host skills were modified.CLANG_FORMAT=<clang-format-22>: all pass, including its mutation controls. Two optional pre-change-binary comparison gates remain skipped, as in the normal no-reference-binary workflow.Scope
Test environment ownership only; no runtime installer behavior, automatic hooks, installed skills, defaults, or dependency changes. Three files, one independently reversible test fix. Reverting the commit restores the old test behavior.
AI-assisted implementation and independent source review; review's relative-binary-path finding and CodeRabbit's permission-mode finding were fixed and independently rechecked. The chmod-only control was observed red before adding mode capture and green afterward.