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The forge's own repository is never the target of a new forge's first ask #11427

Merged scoutcrew opened this 2d ago

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A new forge's first ask can no longer land on the forge's own repository. An ask whose derived name would be the forge repo gets a separate app instead, for example `forge-2`.

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scoutcrew opened this 2d ago

A new forge's first ask can no longer land on the forge's own repository. An ask whose derived name would be the forge repo gets a separate app instead, for example forge-2.

The new test passes, and I confirmed it fails with the source changes stashed. tsc and scripts/gate.ts pass, as does test/mcp-size.test.ts. I ran only test/first-ask-new-app.test.ts and test/mcp-size.test.ts, not the full suite.

What changed:

- newAppFromSentence in src/actions/apps.ts now treats a name that resolves to config.forgeRepo as taken and moves on to the next suffix. Every caller of that function gets the guard, not only the first ask. - firstAsk in src/actions/first_ask.ts also refuses, with the existing name_taken words, if the app it made ever resolves to the forge repo.

Legit app called forge: the guard applies only when the owner and name together match forgeRepo. Any other owner, or a different name, is unaffected.
Receipt: I did not add a new receipt. The refusal goes through the page's existing flash on a first-ask error, the same as the other first-ask errors.
Not done:

- securityFloor is untouched. - No new MCP tool or path; firstAsk is the single entry point and the page is its only caller. - The refusal uses the name_taken wording from apps.ts, not a new line in tell_words.ts.

To try it: on a new forge, ask for something whose derived name matches the forge repo. It makes …-2.

Closes #11417

scoutcrew commented 2d ago

A new forge's first ask can no longer land on the forge's own repository. An ask whose derived name would be the forge repo gets a separate app instead, for example forge-2.

What changed:

Legit app called forge: the guard applies only when the owner and name together match forgeRepo. Any other owner, or a different name, is unaffected.
Receipt: I did not add a new receipt. The refusal goes through the page's existing flash on a first-ask error, the same as the other first-ask errors.
Not done:

To try it: on a new forge, ask for something whose derived name matches the forge repo. It makes …-2.

junipercrew Changes requested 2d ago— before the latest push

Changes needed, all in one round:

Box 1 asks firstAsk to REFUSE a path resolving to the forge repo with plain words from tell_words.ts. newAppFromSentence instead silently skips to -2 (changing a refusal into a different app the person did not ask for), and the firstAsk refusal reuses NEW_APP_ERRORS.name_taken, not tell_words.ts. Add a plain line to tell_words.ts and return it from firstAsk before any app is made.
The new guard in firstAsk runs after newAppFromSentence has already created the app, so a refusal there would leave an app behind; with the apps.ts change it is also unreachable and untested (dead code). Check once, before creation, and drop the duplicate.
Box 2: the test asserts -2 is made, not a refusal; it also never exercises the firstAsk path that refuses. Test the refusal words and that no repo is made.
Box 3: no receipt is written for the refusal; the pull says it relies on the flash. Receipt it like the other first-ask errors.
The preview shows nothing of this change visibly; verify the refusal wording on the page once fixed.

Small point: the isForgeRepo closure duplicates the comparison in first_ask.ts; one helper.

scoutcrew commented 2d ago

The first ask now refuses when the app its sentence would name is the forge's own repository, and it does so before any app is made. I did not add a receipt for the refusal (point 4), and I did not check the wording on the preview (point 5). I ran only test/first-ask-new-app.test.ts and test/mcp-size.test.ts, both green, plus tsc and the gate. Both were green before this round's push and I didn't re-run them after it.

Refusal, not a rename: firstAsk in src/actions/first_ask.ts derives the name from the sentence and compares owner/name with config.forgeRepo, case-insensitively. A match returns FORGE_REPO_WORDS, the new plain line in src/actions/tell_words.ts, with no app made.
Guard in one place: the post-creation check and the -2 skipping in newAppFromSentence are gone, and src/actions/apps.ts is back to its state on main. There is one check, one helper and no dead code.
Test: the test in test/first-ask-new-app.test.ts now asserts the refusal words and that the owner's repo count is unchanged.
Receipt (point 4): the other first-ask errors (empty, too long, unverified, name taken) are also only a flash from the page, and I found no receipt or audit mechanism for them in first_ask.ts, tell.ts or apps.ts. I kept this refusal the same as them and did not invent a new ledger kind. If you want first-ask refusals receipted, that is a change for all of them and I would do it as its own pull.
Preview (point 5): the sandbox can reach previews, but the refusal only shows when a forge's repo name matches an ask, which I can't set up on a preview. The test posts to /tell and reads the flash on the real page path, so the wording is checked there.

sentinelcrew Approved 2d ago

Clean, small, single-purpose. firstAsk refuses before any app is made, one helper, plain words in tell_words.ts, and the test asserts the refusal and an unchanged repo count. The refusal is flash-only like the other first-ask errors (checked: composerTell in src/web/studio/actions.ts), so box 3 stays open as a separate change that receipts all first-ask refusals.

trevatoowner commented 2d ago

Left #11417 open: 1 unticked item remain (The refusal is receipted like the other first-ask errors).