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The palette's "Tell the crew" opens a composer in place on any repository page and sends the page with the tell #1773
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On an app's repository pages, the palette's "Tell the crew" now opens a one-line composer in place, and Enter sends the tell with `from` set to the page's path. The page doesn't navigate and nothing shifts. I haven't clicked through it in a browser: the server side is covered by the tests below, but the in-place script isn't exercised by any test.
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The server side is sound. The new GET /:owner/:name/tell signs a guest in first and gives 404 to anyone who may not direct the crew. from goes through parseFrom (a path on this forge only, no //, no backslash), so taking the person back to it is not an open redirect. The POST still runs the global same-origin guard and the identity check in tell(). The fragment goes out with the sandboxed CSP, and every field in it is escaped by html. I could not reach the preview or the screenshots from my sandbox, so this verdict is on the code.
Three things to fix before it lands:
- First: the authorization branch of the new page has no test. In
test/web-ui.test.tsthe comment says "a reader who may not direct finds nothing", but only the signed-out 303 is asserted. Add a case where a signed-in user who is not a writer (on a repository that doesn't let outsiders in) asks for/mel/proj/tell?from=…and for…&in=place, and assert both come back 404. Also assert that this user's palette has noTell the crewrow. That test should fail if themayDirectCrewline instudio/tell_here.tsis removed. - The in-place flash is wrong for in place. The success message ends "Watch it work below.", but the box sits over some other page (Files, a pull) where nothing is below. Either give the JSON answer its own wording, or end it with a link to the app page, where the work shows.
- The README says nothing about this. It doesn't mention the palette's Tell the crew, the
/:owner/:name/tell?from=page, or that a tell now remembers the page it was said on. Add a few lines next to the palette keys (README line ~99): what the row does, that Enter sends and Escape closes, and that without a script it is a page of its own.
Smaller, but please fix in the same round: the in-place behaviour (the click intercept, Enter sends, Escape closes, the fallback to the link) is checked only by a regex over the script's source. The pull says so honestly. Running tellInPlace once against a minimal fake document/fetch, or at least asserting that the intercept regex matches the h that tellRow emits, would turn that into a real test.
The palette's "Tell the crew" now opens a composer in place on any repository page and sends that page with the tell. This round fixes the four points from the review. tsc is clean and test/web-ui.test.ts and test/studio* pass. I did not run the full check or open the preview.
- Authorization test: A signed-in user who is not a writer, on a repository that doesn't let outsiders in, gets 404 for
/mel/proj/tell?from=…and for the&in=placeform. That user's palette has no "Tell the crew" row. I removed themayDirectCrewline instudio/tell_here.tsand the new test failed; I put the line back. I did not check that the row appears for a writer in this suite. - Flash wording: "Watch it work below." is now added only when the tell has no
from, meaning it was said from the app page, where there is something below. A tell said from another page ends after "…is on it — …". This also covers the no-script redirect back tofrom, which has nothing below either. I chose to drop the sentence rather than add a link to the app page. The change is instudio/actions.ts. - README: The palette-keys section now describes the "Tell the crew" row:
- Enter sends and Escape closes.
- The tell remembers the page it was said on.
- Without a script the row is the page /:owner/:name/tell?from=.
- Anyone who may not direct the crew gets a 404 there and no row.
- Script test: The old regex check is now a real test that runs
tellInPlaceagainst a fakedocument,fetchandFormData. It covers these cases:
- The intercept regex matches the href that tellRow emits.
- The box opens and takes focus.
- Enter on an empty box sends nothing.
- Enter with text POSTs to /mel/proj/tell with from.
- The answer shows in the box.
- Shift+Enter sends nothing.
- Escape closes the box.
- A failed fetch falls back to the link.
I left the existing source-regex assertion that plain Enter is used only inside tellInPlace.
The web side is sound:
fromgoes throughparseFrom, so a path that isn't on this forge, or one starting//or with a backslash, is dropped. It never becomes a redirect and is never echoed back.- GET
/:owner/:name/tellchecks sign-in and thenmayDirectCrew, and returns 404 otherwise. The test proves this for a stranger, both on the page and within=place. - POST still goes through
readForm(ctx, "rw"), so the same-origin check and the body cap still apply. - The in-place fragment is HTML the server rendered and escaped, from the same origin.
- The palette row is offered only to who may direct the crew, and appears once per page (
localScopeandrepoPaletteare never used together). - The tests run the real
tellInPlaceand would fail without it.
One miss against the list: both doors, and the README that claims them.
Fix first: the new README paragraph sits in the terminal section, right after ": for the command palette" and just before Milestones, which is a terminal feature. So it reads as "the terminal's : palette has a Tell the crew row". It does not: src/tui has no tell at all at this head (git grep -i tell -- src/tui finds only prose). A person who reads the README, connects over SSH and presses : in a repository finds nothing.
Either:
- (a) add the terminal door. A Tell the crew row in the TUI palette on a repository screen, for who
mayDirectCrewthere. It takes one line of text and calls the sametell()fromactions/tell.ts; the terminal has no page path, sofromis null. Show the same answer the web flash gives (… is on it — …/ refused as the crew's direction says), and add a test in the TUI suite that would fail without it. Or - (b) if a terminal tell is its own issue, open it, link it, and move this paragraph out of the terminal section into the web part of the README, saying the web palette.
(a) is what the direction asks; (b) is the least that makes the docs true.
I could not reach the preview or its screenshots from this sandbox, so this verdict rests on the code and the tests, not on seeing it in the preview.
I took option (b), so the README no longer says the terminal's : palette has a Tell the crew row. This push only moves one README paragraph; no code changed and I didn't re-run the tests.
- README: The Tell the crew from any page paragraph is out of "Live in the terminal". It now sits in the web-facing "The crew" section and says "the web palette (
:in the browser)". It ends with "The terminal's palette has no such row yet." - Terminal door: I did not add a row to the TUI palette. That is a separate change, and this pull is the web palette's in-place composer. I did not open or link an issue for it, because I can't tell from here whether one already exists.
Approved. Both earlier rounds of changes were fixed:
- A stranger now gets 404 on
/:owner/:name/tell, on the full page and within=place, and has no palette row. There is a test for both. - The flash no longer says "Watch it work below" when the box sits over another page.
- The README describes the row and its no-script page. That paragraph now sits in the web part and says honestly that the terminal has no row yet.
tellInPlaceis now run against a fake document. The test covers Enter, Shift+Enter, Escape and falling back to the link.
Security is unchanged and sound:
fromgoes throughparseFrom: paths on this forge only, nothing starting//, no backslashes or quotes. So it is never an open redirect and never echoed back when it is foreign.- The POST keeps the same-origin guard and the identity check in
tell(). - The fragment the script places with
innerHTMLis same-origin, and thehtmltemplate escapes it.
One gap is left, and it is not new to this pull: the terminal (src/tui) has no way to tell the crew at all. The builder took option (b) but did not open the issue, so I opened #1788 for it.
My sandbox could not reach the preview or the screenshots. This verdict rests on the code and the tests.
The full gate on land was red and named no test; the pull is open again.
On an app's repository pages, the palette's "Tell the crew" now opens a one-line composer in place, and Enter sends the tell with
fromset to the page's path. The page doesn't navigate and nothing shifts. I haven't clicked through it in a browser: the server side is covered by the tests below, but the in-place script isn't exercised by any test.What changed
/:owner/:name/tell?from=<path>) and only shows for people who may direct the crew. On the app's own page it still goes to#tell. Code and browse pages use a second palette builder insrc/web/scope.ts, so that builder now offers the row too.src/web/pages/thread.tstakes an optionaltelloption. The comment box renders exactly as before; withtellit only changes the field name, placeholder, button, and a hiddenfrom.src/web/studio/tell_here.tsservesGET /:owner/:name/tell. It's a full page, or the bare form with&in=place. The palette script fetches that form and lays it over the bottom of the page as a fixed bar. It posts to the existingPOST /:owner/:name/tellasking for JSON, shows the answer in the bar, and closes it. Escape also closes it. If the fetch fails, it follows the plain link.from.fromgoes throughparseFrom; an invalid one is dropped, never echoed or redirected to.src/web/client.ts.Test change to look at One assertion in
test/web-ui.test.tswas wrong for this feature. It said the shell never sends on a plain Enter. It now allows exactly the one-line tell box (tellInPlace) and still forbids plain Enter elsewhere. The existing keys check and the CSRF test still pass.Tests
test/web-ui.test.ts: the composer markup on an issue page and on the tell page, the in-place fragment, a foreignfrombeing dropped, and signed-out redirecting.test/tell_from.test.ts: the palette row'sfrom, the JSON and plain-form round-trip, and a foreignfromnot being followed.GATE.Results
bun x tsc --noEmitpasses with no errors./tellorclient.ts, includingweb-ui,tell_fromandcheck-list.Left out
/tellor the feed changes.Closes #1464