fix(workspace): bound discovery in multi-project parent directories - #374
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A non-Git parent containing several immediate Git projects is used as a catalogue. Limit its discovery to immediate instruction files while retaining recursive discovery in selected projects and existing Git checkouts. Constraint: Preserve selected-project instruction discovery and existing filesystem authorization Confidence: high Scope-risk: narrow Tested: Regression fails with original implementation; all 43 server/workspace tests; TypeScript typecheck Not-tested: Live ChatGPT conversation and Windows runtime Related: Waishnav#372
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughWorkspace instruction discovery now limits traversal for non-Git parents with multiple immediate Git projects. Tests and guidance cover shallow discovery at the parent and recursive discovery after opening a project. ChangesInstruction discovery
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to A marker-access error can make a catalogue show nested instruction files that should be omitted. This is a bounded issue to fix or accept before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to Discovery is narrower for recognized multi-project parents, while opening a selected project still finds its nested instructions. The change does not appear to expand workspace access. Unrecognized layouts can still receive recursive discovery, and security verification is incomplete. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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In @src/workspaces.ts:
- Line 733: Update both Git-marker checks in isMultiProjectParent so ENOENT and
ENOTDIR mean the marker is absent, and propagate all other errors instead of
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Propagate unexpected Git-marker errors.
When a Git-marker check returns an unexpected error, isMultiProjectParent can select the unbounded walk. The walk lists nested instruction-file paths in availableAgentsFiles; it does not load their contents or block workspace opening. This can still produce an incorrect catalogue boundary, but it is not a major workflow outage.
Treat only ENOENT and ENOTDIR as absent markers. Propagate other errors in both marker checks.
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- if (!isErrnoException(error) || error.code !== "ENOENT") return false;
+ if (!isErrnoException(error) || !["ENOENT", "ENOTDIR"].includes(error.code)) {
+ throw error;
+ }
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- } catch {
+ } catch (error) {
+ if (!isErrnoException(error) || !["ENOENT", "ENOTDIR"].includes(error.code)) {
+ throw error;
+ }
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In @src/workspaces.ts at line 733, Update both Git-marker checks in
isMultiProjectParent so ENOENT and ENOTDIR mean the marker is absent, and
propagate all other errors instead of treating them as absence.
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| for (const entry of entries) { | ||
| if (!entry.isDirectory() || SKIPPED_CONTEXT_DIRS.has(entry.name)) continue; | ||
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| await stat(join(root, entry.name, ".git")); | ||
| if (++projects >= 2) return true; | ||
| } catch { | ||
| // No accessible Git marker for this immediate child. | ||
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If a parent directory has many immediate children on a slow filesystem, opening it waits for each child’s .git check in sequence before discovering instructions. With 80 children and 12 ms of latency per check, opening took about one second instead of roughly 10–15 ms. This is a non-blocking responsiveness concern; bounded concurrency would reduce the delay.
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Executable workspace-opening latency probe
- The authored script runs the actual base or head `openWorkspace` against identical directory shapes and records child Git checks and elapsed time.
Base workspace openings with delayed Git checks
- The base implementation opened both 80-child fixtures in 15.14 and 9.95 ms without child `.git` stats, establishing the comparison.
PR head workspace openings with delayed Git checks
- With 12 ms injected per child `.git` stat, the PR head made 80 serial checks and took about one second for each fixture, supporting the finding.
Base workspace openings without injected delay
- The base implementation opened the same fixtures in 12.02 and 6.58 ms on the local filesystem, providing a practical baseline.
PR head workspace openings without injected delay
- The PR head opened the same fixtures in 16.46 and 15.03 ms locally despite making 80 serial checks, showing the impact depends on filesystem latency.
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A user can open a non-Git parent containing many projects just to decide which project to inspect. Today, instruction discovery walks every descendant before returning, so a catalogue operation can spend its time in unrelated source trees, environments, and data. The reported timeout in #90 also occurs on this path.
This change recognizes a non-Git parent containing at least two immediate Git markers and limits discovery there to immediate instruction files. Opening the selected Git project still discovers its complete nested instructions. Existing Git roots and non-Git directories with fewer markers keep their current behavior. The host instructions and workflow documentation explain when to open the selected project; this is a discovery boundary, not a shell sandbox or additional path authorization.
The change is in workspace discovery, with a small host-guidance update and three regression/control cases. With the new tests retained, the original implementation reports
# pass 2/# fail 1; the failing case includes the unwanted child-projectsrc/AGENTS.mdfiles. The implementation reports# pass 3/# fail 0. TypeScript typecheck, all 43 focused server/workspace tests, and the complete 151-test suite passed locally. The Vite and TypeScript build also passed; the pnpm build entrypoint was blocked by a dependency-download timeout, so its equivalent build commands were run directly. Live ChatGPT and Windows execution were not tested; the repository's CI covers its configured platforms.This is a narrower alternative to #197: it preserves unrestricted nested discovery in a concrete checkout instead of applying a time/file budget to all workspaces. The Git marker is a lightweight signal, and parent layouts it does not recognize retain the existing traversal. External research references do not apply to this maintenance change.
Closes #372. Related to #90 and #197.