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Head-to-head benchmarking against Grok Build on grok-4.6 (3 tasks × 3 runs) showed Zero solving every task but spending 2.7× the tokens and 2.3× the time on the multi-file feature task. Every one of the 20 apply_patch calls in those runs failed, after which the model degraded to whole-file write_file rewrites and read→write verification loops.

Root causes and fixes:

  • The sandbox and the tool both rejected an absolute path that lies inside the workspace ("must stay inside the workspace"). Models routinely echo the absolute path read_file showed them. Absolute paths now flow through the normal workspace-scope validation (inside → allowed, outside → still denied); unified-diff headers are rewritten to a/ b/ relative form before git apply, and platform symlink prefixes (/var → /private/var) are normalised the same way the other file tools do.
  • The structured parser demanded a byte-exact "*** Begin Patch" / "*** End Patch"; grok-4.6 writes "*** Begin Patch ***". Decorated marker spellings are accepted, and a unified range after "@@" ("-12,4 +12,6", optionally with a heading) no longer becomes a literal context search.
  • Parse errors now carry a one-line format reminder so a failed call is recoverable in one retry instead of a format-guessing loop.
  • edit_file (exact search/replace with uniqueness guard, CRLF and fuzzy fallbacks) is advertised to the model again alongside apply_patch, and the apply_patch description shows the structured format.
  • Writers (edit_file, write_file, apply_patch) recorded a file's line total with lineCount, which is one higher than read_file's count for a file ending in a newline. RecordSeenRange resets every observation when the total changes, so a partial read_file after a successful edit silently discarded whole-file knowledge and the next edit was refused with "content that has not been read exactly in this session". All writers now record the same total read_file reports (trackedLineTotal).
  • read_file's padded " N | " line prefix was ~19% of every read (about 1.5k tokens per 800-line file) and was re-sent on every later call. It is now the compact "N→" prefix models already know; nothing parsed the old form.
  • The editing-discipline prompt steers: edit_file for a targeted change, apply_patch for multi-hunk/multi-file changes, write_file only for new files or full rewrites; a successful edit result is confirmation, so the file is not re-read to verify it.

Tests: regression tests for decorated markers, writer/reader line-total agreement (edit → partial read → edit far away still succeeds), range hunk headers, absolute in-workspace paths (structured + unified), outside-workspace rejection, header-line-only relativisation, and tool visibility; the prompt and tool-budget tests updated to the new contract.

Benchmark (grok-4.6, 3 tasks x 3 runs, harness in demo/bench-zero-vs-grok): Zero 0.8.0 617 s / 1,527k tokens -> with this change 346 s / 493k tokens; Grok Build 407 s / 713k. Every run of every configuration solved its task.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Improved file-editing guidance for targeted edits, multi-file patches, and new files.
    • Unified patch support now includes copying, renaming, creation, deletion, and safe absolute paths.
    • Both editing tools are available when appropriate.
    • File previews now use compact arrow-style line numbers.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved line tracking after edits and writes.
    • Blocked unsafe traversal and symlink escapes.
    • Improved patch validation, newline handling, and change detection.
    • Prevented overwriting files changed during processing.

Head-to-head benchmarking against Grok Build on grok-4.6 (3 tasks × 3 runs)
showed Zero solving every task but spending 2.7× the tokens and 2.3× the
time on the multi-file feature task. Every one of the 20 apply_patch calls
in those runs failed, after which the model degraded to whole-file
write_file rewrites and read→write verification loops.

Root causes and fixes:

- The sandbox and the tool both rejected an absolute path that lies inside
  the workspace ("must stay inside the workspace"). Models routinely echo
  the absolute path read_file showed them. Absolute paths now flow through
  the normal workspace-scope validation (inside → allowed, outside → still
  denied); unified-diff headers are rewritten to a/ b/ relative form before
  git apply, and platform symlink prefixes (/var → /private/var) are
  normalised the same way the other file tools do.
- The structured parser demanded a byte-exact "*** Begin Patch" /
  "*** End Patch"; grok-4.6 writes "*** Begin Patch ***". Decorated marker
  spellings are accepted, and a unified range after "@@" ("-12,4 +12,6",
  optionally with a heading) no longer becomes a literal context search.
- Parse errors now carry a one-line format reminder so a failed call is
  recoverable in one retry instead of a format-guessing loop.
- edit_file (exact search/replace with uniqueness guard, CRLF and fuzzy
  fallbacks) is advertised to the model again alongside apply_patch, and
  the apply_patch description shows the structured format.
- Writers (edit_file, write_file, apply_patch) recorded a file's line total
  with lineCount, which is one higher than read_file's count for a file
  ending in a newline. RecordSeenRange resets every observation when the
  total changes, so a partial read_file after a successful edit silently
  discarded whole-file knowledge and the next edit was refused with
  "content that has not been read exactly in this session". All writers
  now record the same total read_file reports (trackedLineTotal).
- read_file's padded "  N | " line prefix was ~19% of every read (about
  1.5k tokens per 800-line file) and was re-sent on every later call. It is
  now the compact "N→" prefix models already know; nothing parsed the old
  form.
- The editing-discipline prompt steers: edit_file for a targeted change,
  apply_patch for multi-hunk/multi-file changes, write_file only for new
  files or full rewrites; a successful edit result is confirmation, so the
  file is not re-read to verify it.

Tests: regression tests for decorated markers, writer/reader line-total
agreement (edit → partial read → edit far away still succeeds), range hunk headers,
absolute in-workspace paths (structured + unified), outside-workspace
rejection, header-line-only relativisation, and tool visibility; the
prompt and tool-budget tests updated to the new contract.

Benchmark (grok-4.6, 3 tasks x 3 runs, harness in demo/bench-zero-vs-grok):
Zero 0.8.0 617 s / 1,527k tokens -> with this change 346 s / 493k tokens;
Grok Build 407 s / 713k. Every run of every configuration solved its task.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012JqvAf7zsP1qYFVZayKXHq
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Head: 4f016510076a
Changed files (22): internal/agent/prompt_budget_test.go, internal/agent/system_prompt.md, internal/agent/system_prompt_models.go, internal/agent/system_prompt_test.go, internal/sandbox/apply_patch_paths_test.go, internal/sandbox/risk.go, internal/tools/apply_patch.go, internal/tools/apply_patch_tolerance_test.go, internal/tools/edit_file.go, internal/tools/file_tools_test.go, internal/tools/model_visibility.go, internal/tools/model_visibility_test.go, and 10 more

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relativizeUnifiedPatchPaths split on a normalized "\n" and rejoined with
"\n", so any CRLF patch that needed a header rewrite lost its line endings
everywhere; git apply could then fail to match a CRLF file. Split on "\n"
only and carry each line's trailing "\r" through, including on rewritten
headers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012JqvAf7zsP1qYFVZayKXHq
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Walkthrough

The change exposes both file-editing tools, applies unified diffs in-process, expands workspace-safe patch handling, and aligns read output and file tracking with newline-aware semantics.

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Editing tools and agent guidance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Agent tool guidance and visibility
internal/agent/*, internal/tools/model_visibility*
Prompts and visibility checks now advertise edit_file and apply_patch. Guidance defines when to use each editing tool.

Patch parsing and workspace validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Unified and structured patch application
internal/tools/unified_patch.go, internal/tools/structured_patch.go, internal/tools/apply_patch.go
Unified diffs are parsed and applied in-process. Updates, additions, deletions, renames, copies, hunks, and EOF markers are supported.
Patch path classification and validation
internal/sandbox/*, internal/tools/apply_patch_tolerance_test.go
Structured markers and absolute paths are normalized for scope validation. Relative traversal and symlink escapes remain rejected. Tests cover patch operations, malformed input, and pre-commit source changes.

File output and tracking consistency

Layer / File(s) Summary
Read formatting and newline-aware tracking
internal/tools/read_file.go, internal/tools/read_minified_file.go, internal/tools/{edit_file,write_file}.go
Read output uses N→ prefixes. File tracking uses newline-aware totals across file operations.
Output and tracking validation
internal/tools/*_test.go, internal/tui/*_test.go
Tests cover compact line prefixes, newline variants, whole-file tracking, partial rereads, later edits, and pre-commit move behavior.

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

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 4f016

The patch improves editing compatibility but currently leaves two merge-readiness issues: rename/copy-only patches can bypass workspace and protected-file validation, and malformed hunk counts can consume following file headers and silently skip changes. These can cause unauthorized file operations or incomplete edits, so the PR should not merge until fixed or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Agent
  participant apply_patch
  participant unified_patch
  participant structured_patch
  participant sandbox
  Agent->>apply_patch: Submit a structured or unified patch
  apply_patch->>unified_patch: Parse unified diff input
  apply_patch->>structured_patch: Apply patch operations
  apply_patch->>sandbox: Validate normalized patch paths
  sandbox-->>apply_patch: Return scope validation
  apply_patch->>Agent: Report applied files
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Inline comments:
In `@internal/agent/system_prompt_models.go`:
- Around line 63-66: Clarify the tool-call guidance in the prompt text around
the edit_file, apply_patch, and write_file instructions: apply the
one-tool-call-per-file rule specifically to read_file, edit_file, and
write_file, while explicitly allowing a single apply_patch call to modify
multiple files.

In `@internal/tools/apply_patch.go`:
- Around line 276-287: The current normalizePatchPathForRoot and
recheckPatchWriteTargets flow relies on pathname and symlink resolution before
git apply, allowing a check-to-use race. Remove this pre-open containment
approach and update patch application to use an opened applyRoot/workspace
descriptor with descriptor-relative, no-follow target creation and writes,
rather than letting git apply reopen validated paths by name.

In `@internal/tools/structured_patch.go`:
- Around line 72-89: Unify structured-patch marker recognition so tool and
sandbox parsing accept the same normalized spellings, including “***Begin
Patch”; update structuredPatchMarker and applyPatchPaths to share that detection
while preserving fail-closed target validation in applyPatchPathBlock and
requestPaths. In internal/tools/structured_patch.go lines 72-89 and
internal/sandbox/risk.go lines 284-292, apply the shared classifier; in
internal/sandbox/apply_patch_paths_test.go lines 9-57, add coverage proving the
no-space marker allows only inside paths and blocks traversal or outside paths
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Review follow-ups for #956:

- The tool accepted decorated structured markers ("***Begin Patch") that
  the sandbox's applyPatchPaths did not recognise, so for that spelling the
  boundary scanned the patch as a unified diff, extracted no targets and
  validated nothing. The marker classifier now lives in the sandbox package
  (StructuredPatchMarker / IsStructuredPatch) and the tool delegates to it,
  so both sides accept exactly the same set; tests cover inside, traversal
  and outside targets for the no-space spelling at the boundary.
- Document the containment model at the apply site: structured patches are
  applied through an opened os.Root (descriptor-relative, no-follow);
  unified diffs keep the pre-existing git-apply pathname flow, which the
  absolute-path rewrite does not widen (they become the same root-relative
  form relative paths always used).
- OpenAI addendum: the one-file-per-call rule names read_file, edit_file and
  write_file explicitly and allows a single multi-file apply_patch.

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…es on Windows

structuredPatchHeaderPaths normalises separators to "/", so the absolute
outside-workspace path in the boundary test must be compared in its slash
form; on Windows the backslash original never matched and the Smoke job
failed.

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In `@internal/sandbox/apply_patch_paths_test.go`:
- Around line 72-75: Update the test around applyPatchRequestPaths and
scope.validate so each parsed paths[0] value is passed directly to
scope.validate inside the patch-spelling loop. Preserve the
separator-normalization assertion, and add coverage for the validation failure
path to ensure every patch spelling is rejected at the workspace boundary.
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For each accepted marker spelling, pass the exact path applyPatchRequestPaths
produced to scope.validate: an outside path must be denied and an inside
path accepted, so a separator-handling regression between the parser and the
scope cannot slip past the test.

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/sandbox/risk.go`:
- Around line 284-287: Update recheckPatchWriteTargets and the unified patch
application flow so patch files are opened and written relative to a
workspace-rooted directory handle or equivalent rooted path, preventing symlink
swaps from redirecting writes outside the workspace. Preserve existing
workspace-scope validation, and add a regression test that swaps a target
symlink between validation and write to verify the outside file is not modified.

Apply the same fix in `@internal/tools/apply_patch.go` around lines 68 - 74.

In `@internal/tools/apply_patch.go`:
- Around line 334-346: Update the diff-header normalization logic around
relativize to parse Git-quoted path tokens instead of using strings.Fields, so
absolute paths containing whitespace are handled as single paths. Rebuild the
diff --git header while preserving valid Git quoting, and keep it consistent
with the rewritten --- and +++ headers. Add regression coverage for both
successful normalization and rejection of an absolute whitespace-containing path
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Review follow-up for #956. Unified diffs were validated by pathname and then
handed to git apply, which reopened the targets by name — a check-to-use
window a symlink swap could exploit — and the absolute-path rewrite added in
this PR normalised `diff --git` headers with strings.Fields, which splits a
git C-quoted path containing whitespace.

Both go away by not shelling out at all: parseUnifiedPatch translates a
unified diff into the same operations a structured patch produces, and both
formats are applied by applyPatchOperations through os.OpenRoot — every
stat, read, create and write is descriptor-relative and refuses to follow a
link out of the root. git is no longer required by apply_patch.

Unified-diff support: modifications, creations (--- /dev/null), deletions
(+++ /dev/null), multiple hunks per file, git "rename from/to" (a move,
hunks optional) and "copy from/to" (a new copy operation whose destination
inherits only the tracker credit the source had), "\ No newline at end of
file" on either side, a/ b/ prefixes, C-quoted paths, CRLF patches, and
git's diff/index/mode lines. Hunks are placed at their "@@ -a,b" range when
the expected lines match there and located by context otherwise (so a
stale range still applies and duplicate blocks are disambiguated by the
range). Binary patches are rejected.

Removed: the git apply flow, relativizeUnifiedPatchPaths,
recheckPatchWriteTargets, missingPatchTargets, completeCreatedPatchTargets
and recordCreatedPatchTargets. validatePatchPaths/changedFilesFromPatch stay
for mutation-target listing.

Tests: the existing unified-diff suite now runs through the in-process
applier unchanged; new coverage for quoted whitespace paths (inside applies,
outside is refused untouched), a workspace path swapped for a symlink that
escapes the root (both formats refused, outside file unmodified), create +
delete + no-newline markers, range hint vs context fallback, rename with a
hunk, and binary/empty rejection.

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internal/tools/unified_patch.go (2)

87-132: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reject hunks whose body does not match the declared counts.

The loop consumes lines while oldRemaining or newRemaining stays above zero, but it never verifies that a hunk ended exactly on the declared counts. When a model over-declares the counts, the next file's --- a/next.txt line starts with - and the next +++ b/next.txt line starts with +, so both are absorbed as hunk content. The second file is then never applied, and the user sees a could not find expected lines error that names the wrong file.

Detect the leftover counters at the next header and report the malformed hunk instead.

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 		inHunk = false
 		trimmed := strings.TrimSpace(raw)
+		if oldRemaining > 0 || newRemaining > 0 {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid unified diff at line %d: hunk ended before its declared line counts", lineNumber)
+		}
 		switch {
 		case trimmed == "":

Note: oldRemaining/newRemaining must be reset to zero once reported, or the loop must exit, so the error path stays single-shot.

Add a failure-path test for an over-declared count in a multi-file patch. As per coding guidelines, "Every behavior or security-boundary change needs a regression test, including the failure path."

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In `@internal/tools/unified_patch.go` around lines 87 - 132, Validate hunk
completion in the unified patch parser before processing the next file header:
if oldRemaining or newRemaining is still nonzero, return a malformed-hunk error
at that boundary and stop further consumption, rather than treating header lines
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89-98: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Scope the no-newline marker to its hunk. eofNewline remains operation-wide across hunks, so a marker in an earlier hunk can force or strip the final newline after a later hunk. Store the marker on its chunk and apply it only when that chunk reaches EOF, or reject non-final markers. Add a two-hunk regression test.

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In `@internal/tools/unified_patch.go` around lines 89 - 98, Update the no-newline
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only when its associated chunk reaches EOF, or reject markers that are not
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internal/tools/structured_patch.go (1)

462-490: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Zero-context insertions trust the stale range with no verification.

For len(chunk.old) == 0 with hasHint, the insertion index comes only from the hunk range. A git diff -U0 patch produces exactly this shape, and no context line is available to confirm the position. If the file changed above the hunk, the lines land at the wrong offset and the tool still reports success.

The replacement path (Line 486) is safe because it re-verifies content at the hint. Consider recording the hunk's expected surrounding line count, or documenting that zero-context unified diffs are position-trusting. This is acceptable behavior if it is intentional; git behaves the same way when it applies without fuzz.

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In `@internal/tools/structured_patch.go` around lines 462 - 490, Update the
zero-context insertion handling in the structured patch application flow around
structuredPatchReplacement so hasHint insertions do not silently trust stale
offsets without an explicit policy. Either validate the expected surrounding
line count before applying, or clearly document and preserve position-trusting
behavior for zero-context unified diffs, including the intentional
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In `@internal/tools/apply_patch_tolerance_test.go`:
- Around line 299-333: Extend TestUnifiedPatchRenameWithHunkAndRejectsBinary
with copy-operation coverage: add a successful copy-from/copy-to patch that
preserves the source, creates the destination with hunks applied, and verifies
the destination is tracked with the source’s whole-file state; add failure cases
for an existing destination and copy-from x/copy-to x. Use the existing patch
runner and assertions in this test.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/tools/structured_patch.go`:
- Around line 462-490: Update the zero-context insertion handling in the
structured patch application flow around structuredPatchReplacement so hasHint
insertions do not silently trust stale offsets without an explicit policy.
Either validate the expected surrounding line count before applying, or clearly
document and preserve position-trusting behavior for zero-context unified diffs,
including the intentional git-compatible semantics.

In `@internal/tools/unified_patch.go`:
- Around line 87-132: Validate hunk completion in the unified patch parser
before processing the next file header: if oldRemaining or newRemaining is still
nonzero, return a malformed-hunk error at that boundary and stop further
consumption, rather than treating header lines as hunk content. Update the
relevant loop state in the hunk parsing function and add a regression test
covering an over-declared hunk count in a multi-file patch.
- Around line 89-98: Update the no-newline handling in the unified patch parser
so EOF state is scoped to the current hunk/chunk rather than shared across the
entire operation; apply each marker only when its associated chunk reaches EOF,
or reject markers that are not final. Preserve existing newline behavior and add
a regression test covering two hunks where an earlier marker must not affect the
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Review follow-ups for #956 (in-process unified applier):

- A hunk that ends before its declared line counts is reported as
  malformed instead of silently absorbing the next file's ---/+++ header
  pair (which then failed later against the wrong file). Both shapes are
  caught: leftover counts at a header or at end of input, and a --- line
  directly followed by +++ inside a hunk. The element after a patch's final
  newline is no longer counted as an empty context line, so a truncated
  hunk cannot look complete.
- "\ No newline at end of file" may only follow a file's final hunk; a
  marker before another hunk is rejected rather than leaking into that
  hunk's result.
- Zero-context insertions (git diff -U0) are documented as
  position-trusting by design, matching git apply without fuzz; hunks with
  context are verified at the range before it is used.

Tests: copy from/to (source kept, destination created with the hunk
applied and tracked with the source's whole-file state; existing
destination refused untouched; copy onto itself refused), over-declared and
truncated hunk counts, and the no-newline marker before vs after the final
hunk.

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internal/tools/unified_patch.go (1)

239-241: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider tolerating an over-declared count at end of input.

The PR goal is tolerance, and hunk ranges are already hints because application falls back to context matching. At end of input there is no following file whose headers could be swallowed, so the only outcome of this check is that a patch with complete content and a miscounted @@ range is refused. Model-authored diffs miscount ranges often.

If you want to keep the strict signal, restrict the error to the case where content is missing rather than merely over-declared, for example by failing only when the last hunk collected no lines for a side that still declares lines and no context fallback is possible. If the strict behavior is deliberate for all end-of-input cases, keep it and no change is needed.

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In `@internal/tools/unified_patch.go` around lines 239 - 241, Update the
end-of-input validation in the unified diff parser around inHunk and the
oldRemaining/newRemaining counters to tolerate over-declared hunk ranges when
all declared content has been collected. Retain an error only for genuinely
missing hunk content, preserving context-matching fallback where applicable.
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In `@internal/tools/unified_patch.go`:
- Around line 94-101: The lookahead in the unified diff hunk parser must only
treat “--- ” followed by “+++ ” as a next-file header when the following line
starts with “@@” at column 0. Update the guard in the hunk-processing logic and
add a regression test covering a valid adjacent removed/added pair.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/tools/unified_patch.go`:
- Around line 239-241: Update the end-of-input validation in the unified diff
parser around inHunk and the oldRemaining/newRemaining counters to tolerate
over-declared hunk ranges when all declared content has been collected. Retain
an error only for genuinely missing hunk content, preserving context-matching
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…as a file boundary

A removed "-- x" line directly followed by an added "++ y" line is valid
hunk content that also matches the ---/+++ header shape; the boundary check
now additionally requires the following line to be a hunk header, and a
regression test keeps such a pair intact. End-of-input strictness for a hunk
cut short is documented as deliberate: applying a truncated hunk would make
a partial change (removals without their replacements).

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internal/tools/read_minified_file.go (1)

199-208: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Share one implementation with sourceLineCount.

trackedLineTotal (Lines 199-208) and sourceLineCount (Lines 173-182) in this same file compute the identical count. Only the parameter type differs. If one drifts, the reader and the writer disagree again, which is the exact failure this change fixes.

Delegate one to the other and keep the tracker-contract comment on trackedLineTotal.

♻️ Proposed refactor
 func sourceLineCount(content []byte) int {
-	if len(content) == 0 {
-		return 1
-	}
-	lines := strings.Count(string(content), "\n")
-	if content[len(content)-1] != '\n' {
-		lines++
-	}
-	return lines
+	return trackedLineTotal(string(content))
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In `@internal/tools/read_minified_file.go` around lines 199 - 208, Refactor
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Keep the tracker-contract comment attached to trackedLineTotal and preserve the
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- Around line 199-208: Refactor trackedLineTotal and sourceLineCount to share a
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…nd writer

sourceLineCount and trackedLineTotal computed the same count; keeping two
copies invites exactly the reader/writer drift this PR fixed. The reader now
delegates to trackedLineTotal, which carries the tracker contract.

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Requesting changes for one reproducible data-integrity issue.

Blocking: unified deletion ignores the expected old content

I reproduced this on the latest head, 3f65447:

  1. Create gone.txt containing current\n.
  2. Apply a unified deletion patch whose hunk expects stale\n:
diff --git a/gone.txt b/gone.txt
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/gone.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-stale

apply_patch returns Patch applied successfully. and deletes gone.txt. It should reject the stale hunk and leave the file untouched, as git apply would.

The parser creates a delete operation when the new path is /dev/null, but hunk chunks are retained only for update/copy operations. The planner reads the existing file but applies and validates chunks only for update/copy, after which the delete path removes the file unconditionally. A header-only unified deletion is accepted for the same reason.

Required change

  • Retain parsed hunks for unified deletion operations.
  • Require at least one hunk for a unified deletion.
  • Verify the hunk's expected old content against the current file before removing it. The verified result should be empty before deletion proceeds.
  • Keep the existing structured *** Delete File behavior unchanged; this requirement is specifically for unified diffs that carry expected old content.
  • Add regression coverage for:
    • a matching deletion succeeds;
    • a stale deletion is rejected and leaves the file byte-for-byte unchanged;
    • a header-only unified deletion is rejected;
    • a multi-hunk deletion verifies all old content before removing anything.

Architecture assessment

The overall direction is sound and does not need a rewrite. Keeping the structured and unified parsers separate, normalizing both into one planned operation model, preflighting all targets before mutation, and applying through an opened os.Root is a good design. Create-only writes and refusing an existing move/copy destination are also appropriately conservative.

The deletion bug is at the normalization boundary: a structured delete means “delete this path,” while a unified delete means “delete this path only if the expected old content matches.” The normalized operation needs to preserve that distinction. A clean fix would either carry verified delete chunks/expected content on the delete operation, or derive an empty post-image through the normal update verifier before allowing removal. Avoid special-casing the final Remove call without preserving the expected-content contract in the planned change.

Two worthwhile hardening follow-ups, not blockers for this review:

  • Recheck an update/delete source against its planned before bytes immediately before commit. The current preflight catches stale content before planning, but another process can change the file between planning and replacement/removal.
  • Return the exact committed prefix when a later filesystem operation fails. The current error warns that the patch was partially applied and clears tracker knowledge, but reporting the files already changed would make recovery precise instead of requiring every target to be rediscovered.

Before/after coding run

I ran current main and this implementation through the same clean inventory fixture with the same ChatGPT/GPT-5.6 Sol configuration and prompt. Both outputs passed the visible CLI checks and an independent hidden search-contract test.

Metric Current main PR #956 Change
Correctness Passed Passed Same
Completion 4m10.1s 3m31.4s 15.4% faster
Model requests 25 21 16% fewer
Tool calls 33 25 24.2% fewer
Input tokens 450.6K 319.3K 29.1% fewer
Output tokens 7.27K 6.14K 15.6% fewer
Local CPU 4.29s 3.37s 21.4% lower
Peak RSS 156.3 MiB 176.6 MiB 13% higher

Completion time has normal model variance—another valid main run finished in 2m22.6s—so the strongest evidence here is the reduction in model requests, tool calls, and total input tokens rather than one wall-clock sample.

The benchmark used 08100a3; the current 3f65447 commit only delegates the duplicate reader line-count function to the same shared implementation. I validated the latest head separately with formatting, vet, diff hygiene, and focused race tests for agent, sandbox, and tools.

Relationship to #932

This is not redundant with our runtime-performance PR #932. PR #956 supplies the rooted unified-patch implementation, edit-tool visibility, read-prefix change, and editing guidance; #932 focuses on startup and turn overhead. They overlap in several prompt/tool files, so whichever lands second should rebase carefully and preserve both sets of intentional behavior rather than resolving those files wholesale.

The current Windows smoke failure is in the existing format-on-write timeout test; the previous 08100a3 head passed Windows and the latest commit does not touch that path. It should still be rerun after the deletion fix so the final head is fully green.

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…ing the file

A unified diff's "+++ /dev/null" hunks state the content being removed, but
the in-process applier dropped them and deleted unconditionally, so a stale
deletion removed a file whose current content the patch never described.
Unified deletions now keep their hunks, require at least one, and run them
through the same verifier as updates: the hunks must match the current file
and leave nothing behind, otherwise the deletion is refused and the file is
untouched. A structured "*** Delete File" keeps its unconditional meaning.

Hardening from the same review: every non-create change re-reads its source
through the opened root immediately before commit and refuses to proceed if
the bytes differ from what was planned.

Tests: matching deletion, stale deletion (file byte-for-byte unchanged),
partial deletion, header-only deletion, multi-hunk deletion with one stale
hunk (nothing removed) and all-good hunks, structured delete unchanged, and
a source changed between planning and commit for update and delete.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The pre-commit recheck now refuses a move whose source vanished after
planning instead of publishing the destination and then failing; update the
test to the safer contract (error names the recheck, nothing is created).

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internal/tools/apply_patch_tolerance_test.go (1)

567-570: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a copy case to the table.

The pre-commit guard in structured_patch.go Lines 678-686 runs for every kind except structuredPatchAdd, so structuredPatchCopy also depends on it. The table covers only update and delete.

💚 Proposed extra case
 	target := structuredPatchTarget{requested: "file.txt", absolute: path, relative: "file.txt"}
+	destination := structuredPatchTarget{requested: "copy.txt", absolute: filepath.Join(root, "copy.txt"), relative: "copy.txt"}
 	for name, change := range map[string]structuredPatchChange{
 		"update": {kind: structuredPatchUpdate, from: target, to: target, before: "planned\n", after: "new\n", mode: 0o644},
 		"delete": {kind: structuredPatchDelete, from: target, to: target, before: "planned\n", mode: 0o644},
+		"copy":   {kind: structuredPatchCopy, from: target, to: destination, before: "planned\n", after: "planned\n", mode: 0o644},
 	} {

For the copy case, also assert that copy.txt was not created.

As per coding guidelines, "Every behavior or security-boundary change needs a regression test, including the failure path."

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In `@internal/tools/apply_patch_tolerance_test.go` around lines 567 - 570, Extend
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case, using the existing target setup and expected pre-commit failure behavior;
also assert that copy.txt is not created. Keep the existing update and delete
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In `@internal/tools/structured_patch.go`:
- Around line 406-414: The verifyDelete branch in the structured patch
application flow must validate deletions byte-exactly: compare the reconstructed
remaining content from applyStructuredPatchUpdate directly against the current
file bytes, without TrimSpace or other whitespace normalization, and reject any
mismatch or leftover bytes. Keep the tolerant findStructuredPatchSequence
behavior unchanged for non-deletion updates.

In `@internal/tools/unified_patch.go`:
- Around line 58-61: The unified patch parser must recognize Git’s header-only
format for deleting an empty file, which currently produces no
structuredPatchDelete and can reject or omit the deletion. Update
parseUnifiedPatch and the deletion-planning flow to emit and process a deletion
for this header-only case, requiring confirmation that the current file has no
content before removing it; preserve the existing hunk-content requirement for
non-empty deletions.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/tools/apply_patch_tolerance_test.go`:
- Around line 567-570: Extend the table-driven test around structuredPatchChange
with a structuredPatchCopy case, using the existing target setup and expected
pre-commit failure behavior; also assert that copy.txt is not created. Keep the
existing update and delete cases unchanged and cover the copy failure path
governed by structured_patch.go.
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In `@internal/tools/write_tools_test.go`:
- Around line 869-871: Update
TestStructuredPatchMoveWithMissingSourceIsRefusedBeforePublishing to create
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…file forms

Review follow-ups for #956:

- A unified deletion is verified byte for byte: the removed lines (with the
  removed side's "\ No newline at end of file" honoured) must equal the
  current file exactly, with only the file's own line-ending style
  normalised. None of the whitespace tolerance used to locate update hunks
  applies, and a whitespace-only remainder no longer passes; a deletion is
  not recoverable, so it fails closed.
- git describes an empty file's deletion or creation with header lines only
  ("diff --git", "deleted file mode"/"new file mode", "index") and no
  hunks. Both forms are recognised: the deletion is applied only when the
  current file is empty, the creation writes an empty file, and they compose
  with hunk-carrying files in the same patch.
- The pre-commit recheck test also covers the copy operation and asserts no
  destination is created on refusal.

Tests: whitespace/indentation/blank-line/space-only/missing-newline
mismatches all refused with the file unchanged, matching no-newline marker
and CRLF file accepted, header-only deletion of a non-empty file refused,
multi-file patch with header-only delete + create + a normal hunk.

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The refused-move test now creates source.txt, plans the move, and removes
the file through a test-only pre-commit hook (structuredPatchBeforeCommit)
so it exercises the post-planning disappearance path rather than a source
that was never there. Assertions unchanged: refused before publishing, no
destination created.

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In `@internal/tools/read_file.go`:
- Around line 384-388: Update the three TUI fixtures in
tool_render_registry_test.go, model_test.go, and rendering_lime_test.go to
expect the compact N→ line prefix emitted by appendReadFileRange instead of the
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kevincodex1 and others added 2 commits August 25, 2026 17:14
Three TUI fixtures still built fake read_file output in the legacy
"  N | text" shape; they pass either way but pinned an outdated contract.
They now mirror what appendReadFileRange emits, and the shape comment and
the expanded-card assertion are updated.

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Review follow-up for #956. When a later change in a multi-file patch fails
(for example the pre-commit recheck refuses a file that changed after
planning), the error now lists exactly which files were already committed
and states that the rest are unchanged, instead of a generic "partially
applied" warning. The model can then re-read only what actually changed.

Test: a three-file structured patch whose second file is altered after
planning fails with "already committed: first.txt", first.txt holds the
patched content, and the other two files are untouched.

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internal/sandbox/risk.go (1)

330-335: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Extract rename and copy paths before applying the patch.

internal/tools/unified_patch.go accepts rename-only and copy-only patches without diff --git or ---/+++ headers. patchHeaderPaths extracts none of their paths, so requestPaths skips validatePathWithPolicy. This bypasses outside-workspace and protected-metadata checks.

Extract both source and destination paths from rename from/to and copy from/to headers. Add boundary tests for outside-workspace rename-only and copy-only patches.

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In `@internal/sandbox/risk.go` around lines 330 - 335, Update applyPatchPaths and
its path-extraction helpers to parse both source and destination paths from
rename from/to and copy from/to headers, including patches without diff --git or
---/+++ headers, so requestPaths validates every affected path. Add boundary
tests covering outside-workspace rename-only and copy-only patches.

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internal/tools/unified_patch.go (1)

283-285: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Name the miscounted range when a hunk overruns its declared counts.

A hunk whose content is longer than its @@ range declares exits the in-hunk branch at Line 180. The next content line then falls to this default case and reports unexpected "-old". The over-declared direction already reports "hunk ended before its declared line counts", so the two symmetric model mistakes produce very different guidance. A model retrying on the vague message tends to rewrite the whole file instead of fixing the range.

Detect a leftover hunk-content line here and report it as a count mismatch.

♻️ Suggested error for surplus hunk lines
 		default:
+			if strings.HasPrefix(raw, "-") || strings.HasPrefix(raw, "+") || strings.HasPrefix(raw, " ") {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid unified diff at line %d: hunk continues past its declared line counts (%q); correct the @@ range or the hunk body", lineNumber, trimmed)
+			}
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid unified diff at line %d: unexpected %q", lineNumber, trimmed)
 		}
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In `@internal/tools/unified_patch.go` around lines 283 - 285, Update the default
branch in the unified diff parser to detect when a leftover hunk-content line
follows a hunk whose declared counts have already been satisfied, and report a
hunk line-count mismatch instead of treating it as an unexpected line. Preserve
the existing generic error for genuinely invalid lines and keep the established
“hunk ended before its declared line counts” behavior for the opposite mismatch.
internal/tools/read_minified_file.go (1)

181-203: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Two similarly named line counters with different results now sit side by side.

lineCount and trackedLineTotal disagree for every newline-terminated file: lineCount("a\nb\n") is 3 and trackedLineTotal("a\nb\n") is 2. They also disagree on the empty string (0 versus 1). The comment on Lines 188-193 documents the exact bug that follows when a writer picks the wrong one, so the next contributor needs a signpost on both functions.

Add a short comment on lineCount that states it counts display lines and must not be used for FileTracker totals. Consider moving trackedLineTotal into the file that owns the tracker contract, since write_file.go, edit_file.go, and structured_patch.go all depend on it while it lives in read_minified_file.go.

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+// lineCount counts display lines (a trailing newline starts a further line).
+// Never pass this to FileTracker totals; use trackedLineTotal instead.
 func lineCount(s string) int {
 	if s == "" {
 		return 0
 	}
 	return strings.Count(s, "\n") + 1
 }
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In `@internal/tools/read_minified_file.go` around lines 181 - 203, Add a brief
comment above lineCount clarifying that it counts display lines and must not be
used for FileTracker totals; leave trackedLineTotal behavior unchanged and
consider relocating it only if needed to the file owning the tracker contract.
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Outside diff comments:
In `@internal/sandbox/risk.go`:
- Around line 330-335: Update applyPatchPaths and its path-extraction helpers to
parse both source and destination paths from rename from/to and copy from/to
headers, including patches without diff --git or ---/+++ headers, so
requestPaths validates every affected path. Add boundary tests covering
outside-workspace rename-only and copy-only patches.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/tools/read_minified_file.go`:
- Around line 181-203: Add a brief comment above lineCount clarifying that it
counts display lines and must not be used for FileTracker totals; leave
trackedLineTotal behavior unchanged and consider relocating it only if needed to
the file owning the tracker contract.

In `@internal/tools/unified_patch.go`:
- Around line 283-285: Update the default branch in the unified diff parser to
detect when a leftover hunk-content line follows a hunk whose declared counts
have already been satisfied, and report a hunk line-count mismatch instead of
treating it as an unexpected line. Preserve the existing generic error for
genuinely invalid lines and keep the established “hunk ended before its declared
line counts” behavior for the opposite mismatch.

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