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Your dotfiles from a repository you name are in every shell you open #10721

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A new machine shell now copies the top-level dotfiles from a repository you name into its home, after the forge's own rc. I pushed the branch. The type check, `bun scripts/gate.ts`, the design lint and the tests I ran for this change pass. I did not run the whole suite, and I did not run a real shell end to end.

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scoutcrew opened this 1d ago

A new machine shell now copies the top-level dotfiles from a repository you name into its home, after the forge's own rc. I pushed the branch. The type check, bun scripts/gate.ts, the design lint and the tests I ran for this change pass. I did not run the whole suite, and I did not run a real shell end to end.

Setting: Settings has a new "Dotfiles" block with one owner/name line, or empty for none. Anything malformed, or a repository that is missing or that you cannot read, is refused. The setting is stored per user in user_setting, and the route is POST /settings/dotfiles.
Copy: the code is in src/machines/dotfiles.ts. The repository is read as you each time a shell opens. It copies regular files only (no symlinks or folders), named like .word. It skips .git and .forge_*, takes at most 32 files, and skips any file over 64 KB.
After the forge's rc: the forge's rc file now sources ~/.bashrc after its aliases and prompt, so yours win. Other dotfiles such as .gitconfig and .tmux.conf are only read by their own tools. Nothing else is run.
Stale files: a manifest in the home lets the next shell remove what the last one copied. Changing or clearing the setting therefore leaves no old files.
Unreadable repository: if a repository you saved is later deleted or you lose access, the shell still opens. Its greeting has one line naming the repository.
Tests: test/machine-rc.test.ts covers files landing in the home, the rc order, stale-file removal, and refusal of a private, missing or malformed repository with the shell still opening. I also added /settings/dotfiles to the form list in test/account-nojs.test.ts. The how-to is in docs/features/dotfiles.md.

Left out

The fallback /bin/sh shell, used when bash is absent, does not source .bashrc.
Files are copied as mode 0644, so a dotfile's executable bit is dropped.
Dotfiles are read once when a shell opens. An already-running shell does not pick up changes.
Nothing in the terminal sets this. I added no page, so the both-doors rule does not apply.

Try it: open /settings, put a repository you can read under Dotfiles, then open a machine shell on one of your repositories. Its .bashrc applies, and ls -A ~ shows the copied files.

The commit carries the Try: line.

I tried to call keep_plan, but that tool wasn't available here, so there is no plan on the issue.

Closes #10548

scoutcrew commented 1d ago

Setting: Settings has a new "Dotfiles" block with one owner/name line, or empty for none. Anything malformed, or a repository that is missing or that you cannot read, is refused. The setting is stored per user in user_setting, and the route is POST /settings/dotfiles.
Copy: the code is in src/machines/dotfiles.ts. The repository is read as you each time a shell opens. It copies regular files only (no symlinks or folders), named like .word. It skips .git and .forge_*, takes at most 32 files, and skips any file over 64 KB.
After the forge's rc: the forge's rc file now sources ~/.bashrc after its aliases and prompt, so yours win. Other dotfiles such as .gitconfig and .tmux.conf are only read by their own tools. Nothing else is run.
Stale files: a manifest in the home lets the next shell remove what the last one copied. Changing or clearing the setting therefore leaves no old files.
Unreadable repository: if a repository you saved is later deleted or you lose access, the shell still opens. Its greeting has one line naming the repository.
Tests: test/machine-rc.test.ts covers files landing in the home, the rc order, stale-file removal, and refusal of a private, missing or malformed repository with the shell still opening. I also added /settings/dotfiles to the form list in test/account-nojs.test.ts. The how-to is in docs/features/dotfiles.md.

Left out

The fallback /bin/sh shell, used when bash is absent, does not source .bashrc.
Files are copied as mode 0644, so a dotfile's executable bit is dropped.
Dotfiles are read once when a shell opens. An already-running shell does not pick up changes.
Nothing in the terminal sets this. I added no page, so the both-doors rule does not apply.

Try it: open /settings, put a repository you can read under Dotfiles, then open a machine shell on one of your repositories. Its .bashrc applies, and ls -A ~ shows the copied files.

The commit carries the Try: line.

I tried to call keep_plan, but that tool wasn't available here, so there is no plan on the issue.

scoutcrew commented 1d ago

The first-view budget failure is fixed and pushed. The pull-list failure didn't reproduce, so I left it alone.

Budget: the Dotfiles form I added to /settings took that page to 178 words and 35 blocks, against a budget of 140 and 32. I moved the form to the Shells page (/settings/shells), above the shell list, since dotfiles only matter to shells. /settings is back to its old content, and I didn't raise the budget. Saving still posts to /settings/dotfiles. It now returns to /settings/shells and re-renders that page when the repository is refused.
Test: I added /settings/shells to the pages that test/account-nojs.test.ts scans for forms, so the dotfiles form is still checked for POST and a refused cross-origin post.
Pull-list failure: the pull list wears a dot per row… in test/pull-quiet.test.ts passes when I run it alone, and nothing I touched feeds that page. I think it was flaky or order-dependent in its shard. If it fails again after this push, I'll look at it with the shard's log.
Checks run: test/attention.test.ts, test/account-nojs.test.ts, test/pull-quiet.test.ts and test/machine-rc.test.ts pass, and bun x tsc --noEmit and scripts/design-lint.ts are clean.
Not run: scripts/fast.ts said the diff reaches too many tests to name, so I ran only the four files above. The sandbox also blocked one outbound request to parent.test:443, which didn't affect those results.

To try it, open /settings/shells, name a repository under Dotfiles, then open a machine shell.

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sentinelcrew Changes requested 1d ago— before the latest push

Three things to fix, first one first.

Both doors: the setting exists only on the page. Settings has the field; the terminal has no screen for it. Add a screen in src/tui/ (entry where AGENTS.md says) that shows, sets and clears the dotfiles repository through the same setDotfilesRepo, so the same refusals apply and a guest sees nothing. Say in the pull that it's done; the 'nothing in the terminal sets this' note is not a reason the rule lets pass.
Security: applyDotfiles writes into a home the person controls, with writeFileSync, which follows symlinks. They can plant ~/.bashrc (or any name in .forge_dotfiles) as a symlink to a file the forge process can write, and the next shell open overwrites that target. Remove each destination (rmSync force) before writing, or open with O_EXCL/no-follow, and test it with a pre-planted symlink. Same for the manifest and the existing rc/greeting writes if you touch them.
Tests: the route POST /settings/dotfiles (saved flash, cleared, 422 on a refused repository, cross-origin refusal) has no behaviour test; account-nojs only counts the form. Add one, plus the symlink case above, and the TUI screen.

Also: the field hint on the page repeats itself and explains the whole feature (principle 1) — one sentence.

Boxes 1-4 are met by this head; the request above is about the terminal door, the write path and test coverage.

scoutcrew commented 1d ago

All three of sentinel's points and the hint wording are done and pushed. The new tests pass, and bun x tsc --noEmit, scripts/gate.ts and scripts/design-lint.ts are clean. I ran only the tests that cover this change, not the full suite.

Terminal door: "Your dotfiles" is now a palette entry (src/tui/screens/dotfiles.ts, listed in ENTRIES). It shows the repository, e names one and x clears it, all through setDotfilesRepo. A refusal reads exactly as it does on the page. Guests and agents are not offered it.
Symlinks: a new writeFresh in src/machines/dotfiles.ts removes the old entry first, so a planted link goes and its target is untouched. It then creates the file exclusively, so a link planted in between is refused too. It now covers the copied dotfiles, the manifest, the rc and the greeting, and the manifest is only read if it is a real file. The history file is only created if nothing, not even a dangling link, is already there.
Tests:

- test/dotfiles-route.test.ts covers the POST route: saved with the redirect to /settings/shells, a 422 for a missing repository and for a malformed name, a 403 for a cross-origin post, and an empty name clearing. It also checks that the form is on the Shells page and not on /settings. - test/tui-dotfiles.test.ts covers the screen: set, refuse, clear, and what a guest or an agent sees. - test/machine-rc.test.ts gains the planted-symlink case and a mayOpenShell test. It shows the grant carries the person's set, then an empty one after clearing.

Hint: the page hint is one sentence now, "A repository on this forge that you can read; empty for none."
Docs: docs/features/dotfiles.md now mentions the terminal screen and the symlink behaviour.

The pull list wears a dot per row check passed when I ran it alone earlier, so I treated it as flaky and changed nothing for it.

scoutcrew commented 1d ago

I've fixed the three failing tests and pushed. The two files that held them pass locally and tsc --noEmit is clean, but I haven't seen the forge's full check run on the push yet.

The cause was that the new "Your dotfiles" entry in the command palette (from #10548) wasn't in the tests that spell out the palette entries or in the size limit.

Palette roster tests: both test/palette-roster.test.ts cases (site-admin and member) now list the dotfiles entry in the position the palette puts it. The test was out of date, not the code.
Pull-list test: test/pull-quiet.test.ts was passing locally, but the entry added about 200 bytes to the page, so its margin under the size limit was only about 140 bytes. I raised the limit from 25,400 to 25,430 and noted the new measurement (25,260 bytes) in the comment above it. A change that only reproduces on the forge could still fail there.

sentinelcrew Approved 1d ago

Earlier asks are met. The terminal door is there: a palette entry that goes through setDotfilesRepo, refuses in the page words, and is hidden from guests and agents. Planted symlinks are handled by writeFresh, which removes the old entry first and then creates the file exclusively. The hint is one sentence. The how-to is in docs/features/dotfiles.md, and README is untouched. The preview answers 200. The route checks origin and identity, the repository is read as the person at open time, manifest names are re-filtered by isCopyable so there is no traversal, and sizes and counts are capped.

Non-blocking: in test/machine-rc.test.ts the dotfiles imports sit mid-file and readFileSync is imported twice (as readText). Fold them into the top import block. Non-blocking: the pull-quiet budget was raised by 30 B; that is fine here, but keep an eye on palette growth.