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A recorded control-window id is a handle, not an identity (bmad-code-org#750). The record could readmit an untagged neighbour's window in two ways: a window id reused after a control-server restart, or a record forged by anything able to write under the project root (CWE-284, raised on bmad-code-org#749). Measured before choosing the remedy: neither psmux 3.3.8 nor tmux 3.4 reuses window ids within one server's life (psmux's next_win_id only increments), but both restart at @1/@0 after a server restart. #{pane_pid} works as a list-windows field on both backends, so no seam change is needed. - The ctl-window record is now "<window id>\n<pane pid>". The pid is read at mint through the same list_windows column the lookup uses; if it cannot be read, the record keeps the id alone (best-effort, never fails the launch). - ctl_window_id admits an untagged row only when both the id and the pid match the listing. A pid-less record (an older release's) or a malformed one still breaks ties among tagged rows, and never admits an untagged row: otherwise a forger would simply write the old format. - The lookup never writes the record or the tag. Limits, stated in the docstring: a writer with mux access to the ctl server can read the pid, but that access can already set the tag directly. Pid reuse after a restart is a residual. An active-pane change fails closed. Known gaps: - An untagged window minted before this change has a pid-less record, so it is unreachable by a/x until relaunched. Tagged windows are unaffected. - After the last test-only edit, only test_tui_launch.py was re-run on Windows (112 passed). WSL ran all three touched files after it (926 passed). The rest of the Linux suite is unverified locally. Closes bmad-code-org#750
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The previous commit wrote "<window id>\n<pane pid>" into ctl-window. A pre-change release reads that whole payload as the window id, matches no row, and falls back to the first tagged window, so with a parked run-RID beside a live resume-RID it could attach to or stop the stale one (the bmad-code-org#482 failure). ctl-window is again the window id alone, byte-identical to the old format. The pane pid moves to a sibling file, ctl-window-pid, written by the same atomic writer and read with the same hardening (O_NOFOLLOW, O_NONBLOCK, S_ISREG on the descriptor, size cap). - Writes go pid first, record second; lookup reads record first, pid second. A crash between the writes, or a lookup racing a relaunch, leaves a newer pid beside an older id, which no row satisfies, so it fails closed. - Admission is unchanged: an untagged row needs the id and the pid to match; a missing or malformed pid never admits it; tagged tie-break uses the id. - Forgetting a ctl window removes both files. Known gaps: - Two concurrent launches of the same run can interleave into one launch's id beside the other's pid. That fails closed (no untagged admission, tagged rows unaffected, the next launch repairs it) and is documented rather than locked. - Tests were updated but not run locally; CI verifies them. Refs bmad-code-org#750
A pane pid is an observable identifier, not proof of ownership. On a host where same-UID processes can read the process table, code with only project-write access could find a neighbour's pane pid and forge both ctl-window and ctl-window-pid. Measured before choosing: - A pane's own environment exposes the tmux socket path, so on an unsandboxed host process-table read already implies mux access. - Anything minted into the window at creation travels through the client's argv: a naive /proc watcher saw a window-name nonce in 15 of 20 mints. No mint-time secret reaches the mux-access bar without a seam or name-contract change. So ctl_window_id now admits only rows carrying this project's tag, the same bar as writing the tag itself (a mux write). The ctl-window record (still the window id alone, as older releases read it) only breaks ties among tagged rows. The ctl-window-pid sibling and all its machinery are removed. Cost, accepted: a window whose best-effort tag write failed is no longer reachable by a/x until relaunched. That fails closed, the price bmad-code-org#749 already accepts for recordless windows. Known gap: the ablation was not run locally; CI verifies the tests. The portability guard passes (446). Refs bmad-code-org#750
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start_detachedrecords the window before its best-effort tag write. If that write fails,ctl_window_idrejects the untagged window, sokill_ctl_windowdoes nothing._stop_run_workerthen reports success.runs.stop_runstops the engine, but the detached control-session window remains parked.Make the failed tag verification visible to the launch caller, as
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…t no-op Tag-only admission made the project tag load-bearing for every control window lookup. When psmux's option probe fails, list_windows fills every option column with "", so all of this run's windows read as untagged, ctl_window_id answered "no window", `x` became a no-op that still reported success, and `a` fell through silently. - ctl_window_lookup returns the admitted window id plus the number of same-run rows it refused for an empty tag. The count is returned even beside a tagged answer, since an untagged row may be a relaunch whose tag write failed. ctl_window_id stays a thin wrapper. - `x` warns that the run stopped but a control window under its name was not closed, naming both causes (a tag that could not be read, or a tag write that failed) and asking the operator to check and close it by hand. - `a` says why an unproven window is out of reach, then still attaches to whatever is reachable. Known gaps: - Telling "unreadable" apart from "unset" would need an on_fault on list_windows (a seam change), so the notice names both causes. - The CLI attach path relies on psmux's own stderr warning. - Tests were written but not run locally; CI verifies them. The portability guard passes (446). Refs bmad-code-org#750
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attach_plan resolved the control window through the ctl_window_id wrapper and dropped the count of same-run rows refused for an empty tag. So `bmad-loop attach` reported "nothing to attach", or silently attached to the agent, while a decision could be waiting in a control window it could not prove. attach_plan now uses ctl_window_lookup and returns the count with its plan. cmd_attach prints the same operator notice the TUI uses, on stderr, before attaching or before "nothing to attach". Exit codes are unchanged. Other callers of the ctl_window_id wrapper were checked: ctl_window_recorded is safe (it compares an id it just minted, so no refusal count is lost that an operator needs); TUI a and x already use ctl_window_lookup. No other source caller remains. Known gap: tests were written but not run locally; CI verifies them. The portability guard passes (446). Refs bmad-code-org#750
Several paths still read a failed control-window lookup as a clean absence. A failed primary listing returned [], so `x` reported a clean stop while the window could be alive, and attach reported nothing to attach. - Control-window listings that come back empty are confirmed through list_window_ids, which raises when a failed query proves nothing. The lookup, the kill, `x`, `a`, CLI attach and the ctl-window prune surface that failure instead of treating it as "no window". - The prune's has-session short-circuit only trusts a False answer when list_window_ids also proves the session empty, because a refused connect reads as False too. - Run and sweep launches warn when the window they just minted is not reachable by lookup (its tag write failed), as resume already did. - The unproven-window notice picks its pronouns by count. Residual, documented in _ctl_window_candidates: when psmux's option probe fails, every tag reads empty, so the prune skips an untagged window of ours whose run dir is gone without reporting it. Telling "unreadable" from "unset" needs an on_fault on list_windows (a seam change). Tests were written but not run locally; CI verifies them. The portability guard passes (446). Refs bmad-code-org#750
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…n gone An empty control-window listing is now confirmed through list_window_ids, which only accepts the _SESSION_GONE_STDERR wordings as proof of absence. The double's bare "no session" proves nothing, so the lookup rightly raised; use tmux's "can't find session" wording instead.
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Closes the residual #749 deferred to #750: a recorded control-window id is a handle, not an identity. The record could readmit an untagged neighbour's window in two ways:
Change: admit only tagged windows
ctl_window_idnow admits only rows carrying this project'sPROJECT_OPTIONtag. Thectl-windowrecord, still the window id alone and byte-identical to the format older releases read, only breaks ties among tagged rows (#482). An untagged row is never admitted, whatever the record says. The lookup never writes the record or the tag.The forgery bar becomes the tag's own bar: setting a tag needs a mux write.
Why not a pane-pid proof (the first revision of this PR)
The first revision recorded the pane pid at mint and re-proved it at lookup. Review showed that a pid is an observable identifier, not proof of ownership. The follow-up measurements found that no mint-time secret reaches the mux-access bar without a seam or naming-contract change:
/proc/<pid>/environcarriesTMUX=<socket path>,…/procwatcher saw it in 15 of 20 mints@1/@0after a server restartSo the pid machinery was removed: net code removal.
Cost (accepted, fails closed)
A window whose best-effort tag write failed is no longer reachable by
a/xuntil relaunched. That is the same price #749 already accepts for recordless windows, wherexreports the run stopped and leaves the window running.Tests
test_ctl_window_id_admits_a_record_naming_a_window_it_never_mintedflips from characterization to refusal.tui-guideand CHANGELOG are updated.Closes #750
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