fix(sandbox): refcount temporary roots so one holder's cleanup cannot revoke another's

[gnanam1990]

Split out of #829 — independent concurrency fix

Fifth piece of the split @Vasanthdev2004 asked for, and one of the fourteen changes he enumerated ("sandbox temporary-root refcounting"). Not stacked on anything — builds and tests against current main on its own.

The bug

A temporary root grant was add-then-remove with no notion of who still needed it. So:

1. Caller A asks for a temporary read on /some/dir → root added, A gets a real undo
2. Caller B asks for the same root, already present → B gets a no-op undo
3. A finishes and releases → the root is stripped while B still holds a live grant

B then believes it has access it has already silently lost.

Two read-only tools in the same parallel batch, both blocked on the same directory, is exactly that shape — and read-only tools are precisely the ones the batch runs concurrently, so this is the ordinary path rather than a corner.

The fix

tempReads/tempWrites count live holders; the root is stripped only when the last one releases.

The release also does both mutations under one hold of the lock. Dropping it between them left a window where the root was still in readRoots but no longer in tempReads — a concurrent AddTemporaryRead landing there reads it as a permanent root, hands its caller a no-op undo, and this call then strips the root. Same silent loss, reached a different way.

Verification

Mutation-checked: making the release always strip (the pre-fix behaviour) fails both regressions —

--- FAIL: TestReleasingATemporaryReadCannotStripALiveGrant
--- FAIL: TestTemporaryReadGrantsSurviveConcurrentReleases

gofmt, go vet, go build ./..., go test ./internal/sandbox/, and go test -race -count=2 — all clean on current main.

Part of #829.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added support for temporary read-only and read/write sandbox access.
  • Read-only grants allow reading without permitting modifications.

• Bug Fixes

  • Temporary access now remains available until all active holders release it.
  • Overlapping and nested grants no longer revoke valid access prematurely.
  • Permanent access remains available during temporary-access cleanup.
  • Repeated releases are handled safely.
  • Read access no longer retains write permissions after write access ends.

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Walkthrough

Scope now tracks temporary read and write grants independently with per-root reference counts. Exact-root holders share counts, narrower grants remain independent, and release callbacks remove authority only after the final holder releases.

Changes

Sandbox grant lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Grant coverage rules internal/sandbox/scope.go	Permanent and temporary read/write coverage checks now distinguish permanent authority, exact-root promotion, and narrower independent grants.
Counted grant lifecycle internal/sandbox/scope.go	Temporary grants use per-root reference counts. Release callbacks update read and write state atomically and remain idempotent per holder.
Grant behavior validation internal/sandbox/scope_temp_refcount_test.go, internal/sandbox/scope_temporary_test.go, internal/sandbox/scope_extra_read_test.go	Tests cover read-only authority, nested and overlapping grants, permanent coverage, concurrent holders, release ordering, direct fixtures, and cleanup behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0697a

This change prevents one temporary access holder from removing a shared root still needed by another, preserving access during concurrent read-only work. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal review and checks.

Suggested reviewers: vasanthdev2004, anandh8x, kevincodex1

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In `@internal/sandbox/scope_temporary_test.go`:
- Around line 19-24: Update the temporary directory setup in the
scopeOutsideRoots test to use os.UserHomeDir() with os.MkdirTemp, matching the
cross-platform approach in scope_extra_read_test.go. Preserve the existing
fallback and skip behavior only when no suitable directory can be created, and
ensure the selected root is outside the default temporary write roots on Linux,
macOS, and Windows.
- Around line 211-219: Update the synchronization in the test around
AddTemporaryRead so every holder signals and passes an acquisition barrier
before release is opened. Replace the current single hasReadRoot(scope, outside)
polling condition with a barrier that accounts for all holder goroutines, then
close release only after all have acquired their grants.

In `@internal/sandbox/scope.go`:
- Around line 166-169: Update the branch around writeRootCoversLocked in the
temporary read-grant flow to detect when the covering root is a temporary write
entry, increment its tempWrites count, and return cleanup using
releaseTemporaryWrite for that covering root; retain the no-op cleanup only for
permanent coverage. Add a regression test covering overlapping AddTemporaryWrite
and AddTemporaryRead lifetimes, ensuring the write root remains until both
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[gnanam1990]

@Vasanthdev2004 @anandh8x — review please. This is "sandbox temporary-root refcounting" from your list of fourteen, @Vasanthdev2004, carved out on its own. 537 lines, independent of everything else still in #829, builds and tests against current main.

The part I would most want a second opinion on is the second failure mode rather than the refcount itself. The refcount is straightforward. But the release also had to move both mutations under one hold of the lock, because dropping it between them leaves a window where the root is still in readRoots and already gone from tempReads — and a concurrent AddTemporaryRead landing exactly there reads it as a permanent root and hands its caller a no-op undo. Same silent loss of access, reached a different way, and it is the kind of window that a test can pass over by luck.

TestTemporaryReadGrantsSurviveConcurrentReleases covers it and the mutation fails it, but a concurrency window is exactly where I would rather have a sceptical reader than a green test.

All checks green.

[anandh8x]

The core refcount direction is right and the focused tests pass under the race detector, but two lifetime bugs remain:

1. [P1] A permanent grant must promote temporary coverage. Add/AddRead return early when an existing temporary root covers the requested path, without recording permanence. I added a temporary write, called Add for the same path, then released the temporary grant; write access disappeared. The equivalent temporary-read followed by AddRead also lost access. Track permanent and temporary ownership separately so releasing the temporary holder cannot revoke the session grant, including broader-temporary/narrower-permanent coverage.

2. [P1] Cleanup must be idempotent per holder. Returned closures decrement a shared count on every invocation. With two live readers, calling the first reader's cleanup twice removes the root while the second still holds it—contradicting the function comment and revoking live access. Wrap each returned cleanup in per-holder sync.Once semantics (while keeping the shared root count).

All current CI checks are green on 87a722c.

[Vasanthdev2004]

Reviewed at 4a7063aa. The refcounting is the right shape and the portability problem is already fixed, so this is an approve.

I started on 87a722cb, where five of the ten new tests skipped on everything except macOS:

--- SKIP: TestATemporaryReadSurvivesASiblingsCleanup
--- SKIP: TestANarrowerRequestHoldsTheCoveringGrant
--- SKIP: TestATemporaryGrantNeverRevokesAPermanentRoot
--- SKIP: TestATemporaryWriteSurvivesASiblingsCleanup
--- SKIP: TestConcurrentHoldersOfOneRoot

scopeOutsideRoots looked for /Users/Shared and fell back to /var/empty, so ubuntu skipped too and the whole write-side refcount path had no coverage on two of the three CI platforms. You fixed it in a12050e0 before I could post. All eleven run and pass here now.

Worth saying since I have done this three times myself this week: a test that skips is a test you have not run, and the skip reason is usually the last place anyone looks. The fixture being the platform-bound part rather than the assertion is what makes it easy to miss.

The refcounting itself holds up under the questions that matter for a write grant handed to a sandboxed command. A grant outliving its holder is the expensive direction and I could not produce one: a narrower request pins the covering root, a sibling's cleanup does not strip a live grant, and a temporary grant never revokes a permanent root.

One thing I could not confirm, recorded rather than raised

The review surfaced a claim that a session-scoped READ grant is discarded when a temporary grant already covers the same path, and so dies at the turn boundary with it. I could not reproduce it at the Scope level on this head: taking a temporary read, then a permanent read on the same root, then releasing the temporary one leaves the read allowed. scope.go is byte-identical between the two heads, so this is not something your last commit fixed.

The claim was made against the Engine path rather than raw Scope, and I did not chase it that far. Not blocking on something I could not stand up, but if you know that path well it is worth five minutes: the shape would be AddRead returning early as "already covered" when the covering root is temporary, which is the case AddTemporaryRead was specifically taught to handle in this PR.

[gnanam1990]

@anandh8x @Vasanthdev2004 — both P1s fixed, head 4a7063aa, CI green 6/6, race detector clean. Both reproduced first, and they are the same mistake in two places: treating "something covers this path" as though it answered "and will it still be there afterwards".

1. Permanent grants. extraRoots holds temporary write roots alongside permanent ones, so Add only asked whether the path was already covered — a session-scoped grant made while a temporary holder happened to cover it recorded nothing and vanished when that holder released. Outliving the request that prompted it is the entire difference between Add and AddTemporaryWrite. AddRead had it too, including across the boundary: a permanent read covered only by a temporary write root died with that root.

Permanent coverage is looked for first and across every root, so a temporary cover cannot decide the answer when a permanent one is also present. The same root held temporarily is promoted in place. Your broader-temporary/narrower-permanent case is the one a promotion-only fix would have missed — the narrower root has to be recorded in its own right, and it now is.

2. Cleanup idempotency. You were right, and the comment on releaseTemporaryRead asserted the opposite: that each undo is called exactly once and flooring at zero handled the rest. Flooring stops the count going negative; it does nothing about a holder's second call consuming a different holder's reference. Every undo handed out is now wrapped so it drops its own reference at most once, and the comment says what is actually true.

Separately, CodeRabbit's two findings on the earlier head are also fixed here, and one is worth flagging because it means this PR's concurrency claim was previously untested: the concurrency test was not concurrent. The gate spun until hasReadRoot saw somebody holding the root, which the first holder satisfies. Instrumented over 200 runs, 194 peaked at one simultaneous holder and none reached eight. Against a deliberately broken refcount it passed 33 times in 40. Counting all eight acquisitions: 200/200 now peak at eight, and the broken refcount is caught 40/40. Its helper also skipped outright on Windows (/Users/Shared, /var/empty), so every test built on it reported green having asserted nothing.

Both of your findings mutation-checked: unwrapping the undo, and ignoring permanence in Add, each fail the test that covers them.

[gnanam1990]

@anandh8x — head 4a7063aa (unchanged since your review; @Vasanthdev2004 approved it there). Re-requesting because your two P1s are fixed on this head and I have since attacked it further.

Both fixed as described: permanent coverage is looked for first and across every root so a temporary cover cannot decide the answer; the same root held temporarily is promoted in place; a broader temporary over a narrower permanent is recorded in its own right, which is the case a promotion-only fix would have missed. And every undo now drops its own reference at most once — you were right that flooring the count only stops it going negative.

Running the review protocol over this head, I attacked the lifetime logic with cases beyond your two, under -race:

• two temporary holders, then Add, then both releases
• a temporary grant taken after promotion — its release must not re-arm
• a permanent read promoted while a temporary write root covers it
• eight holders, each calling its undo twice, concurrently
• a narrow temporary released inside a broad permanent root

All pass. No new defects found here.

Not verified: Windows. The %TEMP%/%TMP% roots and the junction handling are covered by CI and inspection, not by a local run — I am on darwin.

Also fixed on this head, from CodeRabbit, and worth knowing because it changes how much the earlier green CI was worth: the concurrency test was not concurrent. The gate spun until hasReadRoot saw somebody holding the root, which the first holder satisfies. Instrumented over 200 runs, 194 peaked at one simultaneous holder and none reached eight; against a deliberately broken refcount it passed 33 times in 40. It now counts all eight acquisitions — 200/200 peak at eight, and the broken refcount is caught 40/40.

[anandh8x]

Reviewed latest head 4a7063a. Permanent grants now survive temporary coverage, narrower grants survive broader temporary roots, and every returned undo is idempotent per holder. The acquisition barrier also makes the concurrency regression exercise genuinely overlapping holders. Focused sandbox tests pass under the race detector. Good to merge after normal CI requirements.

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@kevincodex1 — same situation as #908, raising it here so it is on this PR too.

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I found an issue that needs to be addressed before this is ready.

Overall guidance before the next review

The current head has one remaining blocker. The number of earlier review rounds did not come from a growing list of unrelated feature requests; most were different manifestations of the same state-machine and test-design gaps. Please address the remaining item below, then do one complete final-head audit rather than another local patch so this does not turn into one more sibling case per review.

The central design problem was treating “some root covers this path” as a complete answer. It is only the first half of the decision. Every grant operation must answer two independent questions:

1. Which capability may survive? Read versus write, and the exact requested subtree versus a broader covering root.
2. How long may it survive? Permanent/session lifetime versus one or more temporary holders, including repeated cleanup and concurrent release.

Conflating those questions is what produced the earlier variants: a temporary root could shadow a permanent grant; a read holder could retain write authority; a narrow holder could retain a broader sibling-capable root; and one holder's repeated cleanup could consume another holder's reference. Those cases are addressed on the current head, but the full construct should be reviewed as one state machine across Add, AddRead, AddTemporaryRead, and AddTemporaryWrite, not as four independent functions.

Use this matrix for the final audit:

Dimension	Cases that must be considered together	Required invariant
Capability	read, write, and read under write coverage	A surviving holder never gains a stronger mode than it requested.
Path relationship	exact, broader, narrower, disjoint	Exact temporary roots may share a count; nested requests retain only their requested subtree once the broader holder exits.
Lifetime	workspace, permanent read/write, temporary read/write	Permanent authority never depends on a temporary holder or slice insertion order.
Ordering	broad first, narrow first, permanent first, temporary first	Acquisition and release order do not change the final authority.
Cleanup	once, repeated, partial acquisition failure, concurrent release	One cleanup consumes at most its own reference; count and root-list mutations remain atomic.
Observation	Roots, ReadRoots, validate, validateRead, refcount maps, native profile consumers	The externally usable authority and internal bookkeeping agree at every live interval and after the last cleanup.

For each applicable row, test both halves of the contract during the interval after one holder exits:

• a positive assertion that the surviving holder can still access the exact path and mode it requested;
• a negative assertion that it cannot access a sibling, covering root, or stronger write mode whose holder has exited;
• a terminal assertion that the root and refcount entry disappear after the final cleanup; and
• the reverse acquisition/release order as a control.

The test infrastructure needs the same whole-system treatment. Build scopes with controlled roots so fixtures can stay under t.TempDir() without being pre-authorized by production's default temp roots. Assert the target is unreadable/unwritable before granting it. Fixture construction failures should fail rather than skip; concurrency tests should wait for every acquisition, size failure channels for every possible send, and assert drained bookkeeping. Do not write fixtures into the real home directory or let a setup assumption turn an authorization test into a vacuous pass.

Finally, run the required checks on the exact final commit, after removing obsolete helpers and unrelated split residue: make fmt-check, go vet ./..., go test ./..., the race-enabled sandbox suite, go run ./cmd/zero-release build, go run ./cmd/zero-release smoke, make lint-static, make vulncheck, and git diff HEAD --check. Inspect the final diff again after those commands so a helper that lost its last caller or code copied from another #829 area does not survive only because focused tests are green.

Findings

• [P2] Keep child-grant accessors out of this refcount split
  internal/sandbox/scope.go:69
ExtraRoots and ExtraReadRoots have no production caller; they are exercised only by this PR's tests. They entered in the initial split commit together with scope_extra_read_test.go, but their comments and test scenario belong to #829's separate child read-grant propagation area, whose CLI/runner wiring is not part of this branch. The root cause is that the split was made at the file/commit level without fully separating the contracts: the temporary-root implementation came across with propagation-only accessors and a getter test even though the consumer side stayed behind. That leaves unrelated production surface in a PR explicitly scoped to refcounting and violates AGENTS.md's focused-change rule. Remove ExtraRoots, ExtraReadRoots, and the getter-only propagation assertion from this PR. Where the refcount regressions currently use ExtraRoots only to inspect write-root state, use the existing Roots() snapshot (excluding the workspace entry) or a test-only/private helper instead. Preserve the refcount, permanence, least-authority, atomic-release, and hermetic-fixture fixes. Do not wire child propagation here; that would expand the scope rather than fix the extraction boundary.

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internal/sandbox/scope.go (2)

264-269: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the duplicated tempReads nil guard.

Lines 245-247 already initialize s.tempReads. The repeat at lines 265-267 can never fire. In a function this security-sensitive, a dead guard makes a reader re-derive the invariant.

♻️ Proposed fix

 	s.readRoots = append(s.readRoots, root)
-	if s.tempReads == nil {
-		s.tempReads = map[string]int{}
-	}
 	s.tempReads[root] = 1

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In `@internal/sandbox/scope.go` around lines 264 - 269, Remove the redundant
nil-check and map initialization for s.tempReads near the temporary read
registration; rely on the earlier initialization in the surrounding function,
then assign s.tempReads[root] directly before returning the release callback.

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130-162: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The doc comment for permanentWriteRootCoversLocked is attached to the wrong function.

Lines 130-138 document permanentWriteRootCoversLocked, but there is no blank line before line 139. Go treats lines 130-160 as one comment block belonging to permanentReadRootCoversLocked. The actual permanentWriteRootCoversLocked at line 162 then has no doc comment at all, and go doc shows the read helper with two stacked descriptions.

Move the write-helper comment above line 162.

♻️ Proposed fix

-// permanentWriteRootCoversLocked reports whether root sits under write authority
-// that outlives every temporary holder: the workspace root, or a session-scoped
-// grant. Coverage by a TEMPORARY write root deliberately does not count —
-// it is going to be released, so nothing recorded on the strength of it
-// survives. Callers must hold the lock.
-//
-// One helper rather than a copy per caller because Add, AddRead and
-// AddTemporaryRead all turn on the same question, and three copies of "covered,
-// but by what" is how one of them ends up answering it differently.
 // permanentReadRootCoversLocked reports whether root is already readable by a
 // grant that outlives every temporary holder.
@@
 	return false
 }
 
+// permanentWriteRootCoversLocked reports whether root sits under write authority
+// that outlives every temporary holder: the workspace root, or a session-scoped
+// grant. Coverage by a TEMPORARY write root deliberately does not count —
+// it is going to be released, so nothing recorded on the strength of it
+// survives. Callers must hold the lock.
+//
+// One helper rather than a copy per caller because Add, AddRead and
+// AddTemporaryRead all turn on the same question, and three copies of "covered,
+// but by what" is how one of them ends up answering it differently.
 func (s *Scope) permanentWriteRootCoversLocked(root string) bool {

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In `@internal/sandbox/scope.go` around lines 130 - 162, Separate the doc comments
for permanentReadRootCoversLocked and permanentWriteRootCoversLocked: keep only
the read-helper documentation above permanentReadRootCoversLocked, and move the
write-helper description directly above permanentWriteRootCoversLocked with a
blank line between comment blocks.

internal/sandbox/scope_temp_refcount_test.go (1)

220-229: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

This subtest passes even if the broad temporary root was never released.

The loop accepts any write root that covers inner. The released outside root also covers inner. So a regression where releaseBroad() fails to remove outside still satisfies the assertion, and the subtest stops proving that the narrower permanent root was recorded in its own right.

Assert that outside is gone and that inner is present.

💚 Proposed fix

 		releaseBroad()
-		covered := false
-		for _, existing := range writeRootsBeyondWorkspace(scope) {
-			if pathWithinRoot(existing, inner) {
-				covered = true
-			}
-		}
-		if !covered {
-			t.Error("a narrower permanent grant died with the broader temporary root it sat under")
-		}
+		if hasExtraRoot(scope, outside) {
+			t.Error("the broad temporary write root outlived its only holder")
+		}
+		if !hasExtraRoot(scope, inner) {
+			t.Error("a narrower permanent grant died with the broader temporary root it sat under")
+		}

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In `@internal/sandbox/scope_temp_refcount_test.go` around lines 220 - 229, Update
the subtest after releaseBroad() to explicitly verify that the broad temporary
root outside is absent from writeRootsBeyondWorkspace(scope) and that the
narrower permanent root inner remains present, rather than accepting any root
that covers inner. Use the existing path comparison helpers and retain failure
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Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/sandbox/scope_temp_refcount_test.go`:
- Around line 220-229: Update the subtest after releaseBroad() to explicitly
verify that the broad temporary root outside is absent from
writeRootsBeyondWorkspace(scope) and that the narrower permanent root inner
remains present, rather than accepting any root that covers inner. Use the
existing path comparison helpers and retain failure assertions for both
conditions.

In `@internal/sandbox/scope.go`:
- Around line 264-269: Remove the redundant nil-check and map initialization for
s.tempReads near the temporary read registration; rely on the earlier
initialization in the surrounding function, then assign s.tempReads[root]
directly before returning the release callback.
- Around line 130-162: Separate the doc comments for
permanentReadRootCoversLocked and permanentWriteRootCoversLocked: keep only the
read-helper documentation above permanentReadRootCoversLocked, and move the
write-helper description directly above permanentWriteRootCoversLocked with a
blank line between comment blocks.

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[jatmn]

LGTM