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…oo-Code-Org#1939) Workspace-scope zoo-code.allowedCommands/deniedCommands settings were never enforced, and saving the auto-approve dialog flattened the merged dialog list into user-global settings, leaking project entries into every workspace. Activation additionally seeded global state from the effective config, permanently copying workspace overrides into global settings. - Read/enforcement: new src/core/auto-approval/commandScope.ts unions the extension global-state layer with the workspace layer from inspect().workspaceFolderValue ?? workspaceValue; ClineProvider.getState() and getStateToPostToWebview() share the same merged value so enforcement and display cannot drift (old mergeCommandLists deleted). - Write/scope-leak: splitCommandListScopes() + resolveWorkspaceWriteTarget() keep workspace entries in their folder/workspace scope, route new entries to Global, remove deleted entries from the owning scope, and persist only the global layer to extension global state. - Activation seed leak: seedAllowedCommands.ts reads inspect().globalValue only, so workspace overrides are no longer folded into (and copied permanently to) global state at activation. - Dead code: remove vestigial allowedCommands/deniedCommands webview message handlers (zero senders), their WebviewMessage union members, and the orphaned commands payload. Closes Zoo-Code-Org#1939
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Read and split command-list scopes src/core/auto-approval/commandScope.ts, src/core/auto-approval/__tests__/commandScope.spec.ts |
New helpers inspect and sanitize global and workspace lists, merge values, split edits by origin, and resolve workspace write targets. Tests cover precedence, filtering, deduplication, and target selection. |
Seed global allowed commands src/utils/seedAllowedCommands.ts, src/extension.ts, src/utils/__tests__/seedAllowedCommands.spec.ts, src/__tests__/extension.spec.ts |
Activation seeds global state from inspected global configuration when no value is stored. Tests cover workspace overrides, existing values, inspection failures, and copied arrays. |
Expose command-list state by scope src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts, src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts |
getState returns merged global and workspace lists. getStateToPostToWebview returns stored global lists. Tests cover workspace and workspace-folder values. |
Persist command-list edits by scope packages/types/src/vscode-extension-host.ts, src/core/webview/webviewMessageHandler.ts, src/core/webview/__tests__/webviewMessageHandler.spec.ts |
Settings updates retain existing entries at their current scope, write new entries globally, and store only global lists in extension state. Failed writes can trigger restoration of the prior workspace value. Dedicated command-list message types were removed. |
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes
Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium
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Webview->>updateSettings: Submit allowed or denied command list
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Issue #1939 requires workspace command entries to remain visible and preserved when the settings dialog saves. ClineProvider.getState() uses readCommandListScopes(...).merged, but `getStateToPostT… |
Use readCommandListScopes("allowedCommands", allowedCommands).merged and the equivalent denied-command value in getStateToPostToWebview(). Keep a regression test that verifies a workspace-only entry appears in webview state and survives… |
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The prior security finding remains valid. In changed ClineProvider.getState() (src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts:2962-2966), readCommandListScopes() unions workspace and global command lists. Th… |
Make global deny entries authoritative at the approval boundary. Reject or ignore a workspace allow when the command matches a global deny, or run a separate global-deny check before longest-prefix resolution. Add regression tests for globa… |
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The changed command-list save path still has an unhandled partial-persistence failure. In webviewMessageHandler.ts:821-831, the workspace and global configuration writes complete before `webviewMess… |
Make command-list persistence transactional across configuration and extension state. Capture the prior workspace configuration value, prior global configuration value, prior extension global-state value, and prior cache value. If `contextP… |
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Check name Status Explanation Title check The title clearly identifies the primary fix: enforcing and persisting workspace-scoped auto-approve command lists. Description check The description is complete. It links issue #1939, explains the implementation, documents tests and manual verification steps, and completes the checklist. The use of “Fixes#1939” satisfies the requi…Out of Scope Changes check The changes remain within issue #1939. The scope helpers, enforcement path, settings persistence, activation seed correction, dead message removal, and regression tests support the linked issue. The d…Regression Evidence Focused coverage is present for the changed behavior. commandScope.spec.tscovers scope precedence, unions, sanitization, write splitting, target selection, missing inspections, lookup failures, and…Lifecycle Resource Cleanup No changed lifecycle path creates or retains a listener, watcher, provider, timer, task, or other resource. The new paths only inspect/update VS Code configuration and extension global state, and `act…
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#1939requires workspace command entries to remain visible and preserved when the settings dialog saves.ClineProvider.getState()usesreadCommandListScopes(...).merged, butgetStateToPostToWebview()still assignsallowedCommandsanddeniedCommandsfrom extension global state only. A workspace-only entry is absent from the dialog state. An unchanged dialog save can therefore remove that entry from its workspace scope.Resolution
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readCommandListScopes("allowedCommands", allowedCommands).mergedand the equivalent denied-command value ingetStateToPostToWebview(). Keep a regression test that verifies a workspace-only entry appears in webview state and survives an unchanged dialog save.
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The prior security finding remains valid. In changed
ClineProvider.getState()(src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts:2962-2966),readCommandListScopes()unions workspace and global command lists. The unchanged matcher (src/core/auto-approval/commands.ts:407-423) lets the longer allow prefix win. Therefore, with global statedeniedCommands: ["rm"], workspaceallowedCommands: ["rm -rf"], andalwaysAllowExecuteenabled,rm -rf /reaches the approval boundary and is auto-approved. The changed scope tests do not cover this conflict.Resolution
Make global deny entries authoritative at the approval boundary. Reject or ignore a workspace allow when the command matches a global deny, or run a separate global-deny check before longest-prefix resolution. Add regression tests for global
deniedCommands: ["rm"]with workspaceallowedCommands: ["rm -rf"], and globaldeniedCommands: ["*"]with workspaceallowedCommands: ["rm"]; neither command may auto-approve.
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The changed command-list save path still has an unhandled partial-persistence failure. In
webviewMessageHandler.ts:821-831, the workspace and global configuration writes complete beforewebviewMessageHandler.ts:949awaitscontextProxy.setValue(). ForallowedCommandsanddeniedCommands,ContextProxy.setValue()callsupdateGlobalState(), which updatesstateCachebefore awaitingglobalState.update()(ContextProxy.ts:363-370, 538-542). IfglobalState.update()rejects after both configuration writes succeed, no catch or rollback restores either configuration layer or the extension-state cache. For example, savingdeniedCommandswith an existing workspace entry can leave the new global/workspace settings on disk while the old extension global-state list remains persisted; after restart, new entries disappear or removed entries return. The added tests cover configuration-write and workspace-restore failures, but no extension-state-write failure.Resolution
Make command-list persistence transactional across configuration and extension state. Capture the prior workspace configuration value, prior global configuration value, prior extension global-state value, and prior cache value. If
contextProxy.setValue()fails after configuration writes, restore both configuration layers and restore the extension-state cache and persisted value, or report an explicit unrecoverable partial failure that identifies the changed layers and prevents the handler from reporting success. Add a test that rejects the extension-state write after successful configuration writes and verifies compensation or explicit partial-failure reporting.
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAbort the command-list save when the ownership snapshot is unavailable.
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undefined,readCommandListScopestreats the workspace layer as empty andresolveWorkspaceWriteTargetreturnsundefined. A retained workspace command then entersglobalWrite, the workspace write is skipped, and the handler still performs the Global update.The rollback capture does not prevent this path. It runs after the split and only restores a workspace write after a later Global-write failure. Use one validated inspection snapshot for the split, target selection, and rollback. Abort this key's save when that snapshot is unavailable.
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diff --git a/src/core/auto-approval/commandScope.ts b/src/core/auto-approval/commandScope.ts @@ export type CommandListConfigKey = "allowedCommands" | "deniedCommands" +export interface CommandListInspection { + workspaceValue?: string[] + workspaceFolderValue?: string[] +} + export interface CommandListScopes { @@ export function readCommandListScopes( configKey: CommandListConfigKey, globalList: string[] | undefined, + inspectionOverride?: CommandListInspection, ): CommandListScopes { const global = sanitizeCommandList(globalList) @@ - let inspected: { workspaceValue?: string[]; workspaceFolderValue?: string[] } | undefined - try { - inspected = commandListConfiguration().inspect<string[]>(configKey) - } catch { - inspected = undefined + let inspected = inspectionOverride + if (inspectionOverride === undefined) { + try { + inspected = commandListConfiguration().inspect<string[]>(configKey) + } catch { + inspected = undefined + } } @@ export function resolveWorkspaceWriteTarget( configKey: CommandListConfigKey, + inspectionOverride?: CommandListInspection, ): vscode.ConfigurationTarget.WorkspaceFolder | vscode.ConfigurationTarget.Workspace | undefined { @@ - let inspected: { workspaceValue?: string[]; workspaceFolderValue?: string[] } | undefined - try { - inspected = commandListConfiguration().inspect<string[]>(configKey) - } catch { - inspected = undefined + let inspected = inspectionOverride + if (inspectionOverride === undefined) { + try { + inspected = commandListConfiguration().inspect<string[]>(configKey) + } catch { + inspected = undefined + } } diff --git a/src/core/webview/webviewMessageHandler.ts b/src/core/webview/webviewMessageHandler.ts @@ - const currentScopes = readCommandListScopes(key, getGlobalState(key)) + let config: vscode.WorkspaceConfiguration + let ownershipSnapshot: CommandListInspection | undefined + try { + config = commandListConfiguration() + ownershipSnapshot = config.inspect<string[]>(key) + } catch (error) { + vscode.window.showErrorMessage(`Failed to save ${key}: ${String(error)}`) + continue + } + if (ownershipSnapshot === undefined) { + vscode.window.showErrorMessage(`Failed to save ${key}: configuration scope unavailable`) + continue + } + + const currentScopes = readCommandListScopes(key, getGlobalState(key), ownershipSnapshot) @@ - const workspaceTarget = resolveWorkspaceWriteTarget(key) - const config = commandListConfiguration() + const workspaceTarget = resolveWorkspaceWriteTarget(key, ownershipSnapshot) @@ - const previousInspected = config.inspect<string[]>(key) + const previousInspected = ownershipSnapshot🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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@coderabbitai The three pre-merge rows from your top level comment are factually wrong on 0cf1628. Recompute and clear them if you agree. Linked Issues: getStateToPostToWebview() already uses the merged lists. It destructures allowedCommands and deniedCommands from getState() (src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts:2536), which returns readCommandListScopes(...).merged (:2965-2966). Test "getStateToPostToWebview shows the same merged command lists as getState" (src/core/webview/tests/ClineProvider.spec.ts:1644) passes; CI green. Security Boundaries: contradicts your own withdrawal: inline thread 4276973618, comment 4281619458, 2026-10-15T10:03:04Z, "I withdraw the finding. No change is required for this concern." src/core/auto-approval/commands.ts is untouched by this PR; union semantics are the #1939 contract, recorded in your Learnings. Persistence Integrity: the flagged contextProxy.setValue() call (webviewMessageHandler.ts:949) is base-identical for every key this PR touches; every PR-new persistence path is tested (webviewMessageHandler.spec.ts); 28/28 check-runs pass on this head. |
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This line adds the workspace layer to the enforced list, and zoo-code.allowedCommands has no scope or untrustedWorkspaces restriction in package.json. Can a cloned repo's .vscode/settings.json now grant auto-approved commands once the user trusts it? Would machine-overridable scope, or workspace entries for deniedCommands only, fit the goal of #1939?
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Answering the factual part first: yes, a workspace .vscode/settings.json can carry allow entries, and the longest-prefix match can let a workspace entry outrank a global deny today. So your concern is valid — as implemented, this PR makes workspace-granted auto-approval possible in a way that can reasonably be considered unsafe, and I don't want it to stay that way. My plan is not to remove workspace entries but to change the model with the following two rules, which I intend to implement once we agree on the direction:
1. The global layer outranks the workspace layer. The user's own lists are evaluated first and decide wherever they have a matching entry, in both directions. A global deny of git then blocks git commands in every project no matter what a repository's allow list grants — the global deny list finally becomes a genuine personal veto. Symmetrically, a team's deny cannot outrank a member's global allow either. The authority over Zoo is the person running it; a project file fills gaps in the user's policy, never outranks it.
2. A user-level setting — not settable by workspace files, default off — gates the entire workspace layer. Until the user switches it on, a project's settings.json cannot influence command policy at all. This goes beyond your "workspace entries for deniedCommands only" suggestion: even repo-carried denies are a policy change by a potentially untrusted source, so nothing from the workspace applies by default, and curated project lists materialize only for members who opted in on their machine. For existing users the feature simply does not exist until they enable it.
Why project-scoped lists at all: an allow list is project knowledge — test runners, build commands — and today it accumulates in one global list that grows into the union of every project you have opened. The intended steady state is a curated project list under blanket auto-deny: everything outside the list is denied, so the list is the project's capability boundary. Manually approving commands that match neither list does not scale — models invent new command strings constantly. The last piece is exact-match entries (#1940): a prefix entry like npm run grants arbitrary execution today, so exact entries are what make a curated list safe to rely on unattended.
Neither rule is part of this PR yet — I'd like to settle the model here before implementing it. I'm very happy to hear your thoughts, especially if you spot a flaw in the model or if you have additional wishes.
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Can we tie into the vscode workspace trust api, instead of introducing something new?
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Currently, Zoo is not loaded at all if a workspace is not trusted. I took a brief look at the api, for Zoo to be able to function in untrusted environments, we would need to define a set of functions that are safe even in untrusted workspaces. While certainly interesting, this would be a better fit in a separate pr altogether, and it also would not solve the issue here, as this is about the behaviour in an already trusted workspace.
I can think of several ways forward:
- we integrate the pr as-is. That would mean that global and workspace coped lists get merged, longest prefix wins (this is also the current global behaviour if allow/deny lists are in conflict). This means a workspace scoped specific allow could override a global deny (for example workspace "git status" could override globally denied "git". Imho easy to understand, might have surprising results when the allowlists of a workspace are not reviewed by the user before they are first used, or if the user is not aware that workspace-scoped command lists exist.
- Implement the above mentioned change, that the global allow/deny lists always outrank a workspace list. This allows the user to implement a general veto for certain commands, for example putting "git" on the global deny list would disable all git commands, no matter what a workspace list would define. This would be a good use for the deny list, as I suspect that the blanket auto-deny will make all other uses of any deny list obsolete anyway. The drawback to that solution is that while it provides more flexibility than 1) it is probably less intuitive. Still, this would be my preferred solution now.
- No matter if 1) or 2) is chosen, implementing workspace scoped command lists might surprise users that are not aware of the feature. This led to my suggestion to add a setting that is disabled per default, and that needs to be enabled to activate the workspace scoped command lists. This setting would be global, and once activated would enable workspace soped lists for all workspaces, not per-workspace. That way, a user would have to be aware of the feature to use it, reducing surprises. Downside is that it adds another setting.
What do you think? Or do you have something completely different in mind?
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2 makes sense to me, if the workspace is untrusted, but if the workspace is trusted then it's list should take priority.
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So to clarify I was thinking 2+3 actually. Would we be able to update vscode config, and scope it to either machine or application?
see: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/contribution-points#Configuration-property-schema
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This write replaces the user-scope value with globalWrite, but enforcement and display no longer read inspect().globalValue. If a user hand-edited entries in their user settings.json, do they disappear on the next save? Should globalValue join the global layer, or is the seed the only intended source?
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The three merge tests here cover deniedCommands, and this is the only allowedCommands assertion ([]). If getState() returned the raw stateValues.allowedCommands, would any test fail? Can we add a case with a workspace-only allow entry for both getState() and getStateToPostToWebview()?
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…nce (Zoo-Code-Org#1939) A user-level command-list entry now decides any command it matches: an entry from a workspace's .vscode/settings.json applies only where no user-level entry (allow or deny) matches, in both directions. The whole workspace layer sits behind a new setting, zoo-code.workspaceCommandListsEnabled, default off. It is declared with "scope": "application" in the extension manifest, so only user settings resolve it and a repository file cannot enable it; the settings save path also refuses a gate value supplied by the webview. Entries hidden while the gate is off are hidden from the approval dialog as well, and saving from the dialog preserves the workspace entries it does not show. The setting's description resolves from the nls bundles, translated for all 17 locales. Covers allow-side state propagation in tests. Addresses reviewer feedback on Zoo-Code-Org#2056.
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Fixes #1939
Description
Workspace-scope
zoo-code.allowedCommands/zoo-code.deniedCommandsentries were never enforced, and saving the auto-approve settings dialog copied project-scoped entries into user-global settings. Three leak paths caused this; each gets a targeted fix:ClineProvider.getState()read only extension global state, so a workspace-only allow-list had no effect on command auto-approval. Newsrc/core/auto-approval/commandScope.tsprovidesreadCommandListScopes(), which unions the global-state layer with the workspace layer frominspect().workspaceFolderValue ?? workspaceValue.getState()andgetStateToPostToWebview()now share this merged value, so enforcement (Task.ask→getCommandDecisionDetailed) and the settings display show the same list and cannot drift. The oldmergeCommandListshelper is deleted.updateSettingsinwebviewMessageHandler.tsnow usessplitCommandListScopes()andresolveWorkspaceWriteTarget(): existing workspace entries stay in their folder/workspace scope, new entries route to Global, deleted entries are removed from the scope that owned them, and only the global layer is persisted to extension global state.src/utils/seedAllowedCommands.tsreadsinspect().globalValueonly;extension.tscalls it.The PR also removes vestigial
allowedCommands/deniedCommandswebview message handlers (verified zero senders), theirWebviewMessageunion members, and the orphanedcommandspayload inpackages/types.Reviewers should note one deliberate exception:
createTaskstill writes command lists to the Global scope. That path carries "start this task with exactly this auto-approval policy" semantics (handoff/delegation payloads), unlike the scope-split persistence in the settings dialog; a comment records this.Test Procedure
New specs:
src/core/auto-approval/__tests__/commandScope.spec.ts(scope union, workspace-folder-over-workspace precedence, sanitization),src/utils/__tests__/seedAllowedCommands.spec.ts(globalValue-only seeding). Extended:ClineProvider.spec.ts(merged state round-trip),webviewMessageHandler.spec.ts(scope-split save: keep, route-new-to-global, remove-from-owning-scope),extension.spec.ts(activation seed call).From
src/:npx vitest run core/auto-approval core/webview core/task utils/__tests__/seedAllowedCommands.spec.ts __tests__/extension.spec.ts __tests__/migrateSettings.spec.ts— 90 files, 1,541 tests pass.tscclean insrc,packages/types, andwebview-ui; ESLint clean;src/eslint-suppressions.jsonunchanged.To verify manually: set
zoo-code.allowedCommandsin a workspace.vscode/settings.json, open the auto-approve dialog, and confirm the entry appears, enforcement honors it, and saving the dialog does not add it to user settings.Pre-Submission Checklist
webview-ui/AGENTS.md→ "When a UI change needs a snapshot".Documentation Updates
Additional Notes
ClineProvider.spec.tsrun standalone exits 1 on pre-existingEnvironmentTeardownErrorunhandled rejections while all 179 assertions pass; this reproduces on baselinemainand is unrelated to this change.Get in Touch
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