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…connections (storytold#777) Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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I resolved the current-main roadmap conflicts and prepared a tested refresh of your authentication branch: vangel76#2. Your authentication implementation and roadmap entries are preserved alongside all incoming upstream entries. All eight Ubuntu |
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thanks @scottcampbelldata for the integration branch (vangel76#2). I have merged current main into this branch directly, so it is conflict-free again; I closed the fork PR as superseded. Ready for review. |
Keep the token check on the first line and the new bounded-line request parsing; tests authenticate before sending their requests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Merged upstream/main. Only conflict: apps/gridcraft/src/control_server.rs (main's bounded line reader / request rejection vs the token check). Kept both: the first line must authenticate, then main's parsing loop runs; main's tests now authenticate first and the two test modules are merged into one. Checks run locally: cargo fmt --all --check and cargo check --workspace --all-targets, both clean. No tests, clippy or wasm run locally; relying on CI. |
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Review comments at @AGENTS.md:
- Line 45: Update the token-path guidance in the AGENTS.md control-protocol
example to include the macOS fallback at ~/.cache/gridcraft/control-7979.token
when XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is unset; make the same documentation change to the
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Review comments at @apps/gridcraft/src/control_server.rs:
- Around line 69-71: Update the first-line authentication read in the
control-server handler so AUTH_TIMEOUT is enforced as a total deadline, not just
a per-read timeout. Track the deadline and set the stream’s read timeout to the
remaining duration before each buffer fill; stop and reject the line when the
deadline expires, while preserving the MAX_AUTH_LINE limit and requiring a
complete newline-terminated first line.
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- Line 63: Update Remote to track whether its token was obtained through
client_token, and refresh that token during reconnect before authentication.
Keep tokens supplied through connect_with_token fixed, and preserve the existing
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| ## Running and looking at the app | ||
| - `cargo run --release -p gridcraft -- --sample sales --control 7979` (sample workbook + control channel). | ||
| - Drive it: JSON lines on `127.0.0.1:7979`, e.g. `{"id":1,"method":"engine.execute","params":{"command":"cell.set","params":{"cell":"B2","input":"=SUM(A1:A9)"}}}` then `{"id":2,"method":"ui.screenshot","params":{"path":"/tmp/shot.png"}}`. Methods: `crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs`, docs: `docs/control-protocol.md`. | ||
| - Drive it: `gridcraft-cli send 7979 <method> '<json>'` (reads the token file the app printed on stderr), or JSON lines on `127.0.0.1:7979` whose first line is `{"id":0,"method":"auth","params":{"token":"…"}}` (token: `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/gridcraft/control-7979.token`, or your own `GRIDCRAFT_CONTROL_TOKEN`), e.g. `{"id":1,"method":"engine.execute","params":{"command":"cell.set","params":{"cell":"B2","input":"=SUM(A1:A9)"}}}` then `{"id":2,"method":"ui.screenshot","params":{"path":"/tmp/shot.png"}}`. Methods: `crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs`, docs: `docs/control-protocol.md`. |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Give the macOS token path as well.
On macOS, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is normally unset. In that case token_path falls back to ~/.cache/gridcraft/control-7979.token. The docs list only $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/gridcraft/control-7979.token, so an agent on the macOS dev machine looks in the wrong place. CLAUDE.md line 45 has the same text and needs the same edit.
📝 Proposed doc fix
-(token: `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/gridcraft/control-7979.token`, or your own `GRIDCRAFT_CONTROL_TOKEN`)
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Update the token-path guidance in the AGENTS.md control-protocol example to
include the macOS fallback at ~/.cache/gridcraft/control-7979.token when
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| let _ = out.set_read_timeout(Some(AUTH_TIMEOUT)); | ||
| let mut first = String::new(); | ||
| let read = reader.by_ref().take(control_auth::MAX_AUTH_LINE as u64).read_line(&mut first); |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Make AUTH_TIMEOUT a total deadline for the first line.
set_read_timeout(Some(AUTH_TIMEOUT)) limits each read() syscall, not the whole read_line call. read_line keeps calling read until it gets \n or reaches MAX_AUTH_LINE. Suppose a peer sends one byte every 9 seconds. Then no single read times out, and the unauthenticated connection and its thread stay alive for about 4096 × 9 s ≈ 10 hours. docs/control-protocol.md promises refusal when there is "no line within 10 s", so the code does not meet the documented contract. Fix this with a deadline: before each buffer fill, set the read timeout to the time that remains.
🛡️ Proposed fix: deadline-bounded first line
--- "a/apps/gridcraft/src/control_server.rs"
+++ "b/apps/gridcraft/src/control_server.rs"
@@ -66,13 +66,10 @@
/// Read the connection's first line (at most [`control_auth::MAX_AUTH_LINE`] bytes, within
/// [`AUTH_TIMEOUT`]) and check the token. `true` when the peer may go on.
fn authenticate(reader: &mut BufReader<TcpStream>, out: &mut TcpStream, token: &str) -> bool {
- let _ = out.set_read_timeout(Some(AUTH_TIMEOUT));
- let mut first = String::new();
- let read = reader.by_ref().take(control_auth::MAX_AUTH_LINE as u64).read_line(&mut first);
- let verdict = match read {
- Ok(n) if n > 0 && first.ends_with('\n') => control_auth::check_first_line(&first, token),
- _ => Err(json!({"ok": false, "error": "authentication required"})),
- };
+ let verdict = match read_auth_line(reader, out) {
+ Some(first) => control_auth::check_first_line(&first, token),
+ None => Err(json!({"ok": false, "error": "authentication required"})),
+ };
let allowed = verdict.is_ok();
let reply = verdict.unwrap_or_else(|e| e);
let _ = writeln!(out, "{reply}");/// The first line, newline included, if it arrives whole within AUTH_TIMEOUT and MAX_AUTH_LINE.
fn read_auth_line(reader: &mut BufReader<TcpStream>, out: &TcpStream) -> Option<String> {
let deadline = std::time::Instant::now() + AUTH_TIMEOUT;
let mut line = Vec::new();
loop {
let left = deadline.checked_duration_since(std::time::Instant::now()).filter(|d| !d.is_zero())?;
out.set_read_timeout(Some(left)).ok()?;
let chunk = reader.fill_buf().ok()?;
if chunk.is_empty() {
return None;
}
let room = control_auth::MAX_AUTH_LINE.saturating_sub(line.len());
let n = chunk.len().min(room);
let part = chunk.get(..n)?;
if let Some(i) = part.iter().position(|&b| b == b'\n') {
line.extend_from_slice(part.get(..=i)?);
reader.consume(i + 1);
return String::from_utf8(line).ok();
}
line.extend_from_slice(part);
reader.consume(n);
if line.len() >= control_auth::MAX_AUTH_LINE {
return None;
}
}
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Review comment at @apps/gridcraft/src/control_server.rs around lines 69 - 71:
Update the first-line authentication read in the control-server handler so
AUTH_TIMEOUT is enforced as a total deadline, not just a per-read timeout. Track
the deadline and set the stream’s read timeout to the remaining duration before
each buffer fill; stop and reject the line when the deadline expires, while
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| let read = s.try_clone()?; | ||
| self.conn = Some((BufReader::new(read), s)); | ||
| let mut conn = (BufReader::new(read), s); | ||
| Self::authenticate(&mut conn, &self.token)?; |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Reload the token on reconnect when it came from the token file or the environment.
Remote::connect reads the token once, through client_token, and stores it in self.token. reconnect always sends that stored token. When the app restarts, make_token writes a new random token to the port's file. Every later roundtrip → reconnect then gets "the app refused the control token". A long-running gridcraft-cli mcp --connect session therefore stays broken until it is restarted. Before this change, the reconnect path recovered after an app restart without any action. Fix this by recording whether the token was looked up. If it was, call client_token(&self.addr) again on each reconnect, or retry once with a fresh lookup after PermissionDenied. Keep the fixed token for connect_with_token.
🔁 Proposed fix
pub struct Remote {
addr: String,
token: String,
+ /// The token came from `client_token`, so look it up again on reconnect (the app may have restarted).
+ reload_token: bool,
conn: Option<(BufReader<TcpStream>, TcpStream)>,
next_id: u64,
}// In connect(): set reload_token = true after connect_with_token.
// In reconnect(), before connecting:
if self.reload_token
&& let Ok(t) = crate::control_auth::client_token(&self.addr)
{
self.token = t;
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Review comment at @crates/mcp/src/backend.rs at line 63:
Update Remote to track whether its token was obtained through client_token, and
refresh that token during reconnect before authentication. Keep tokens supplied
through connect_with_token fixed, and preserve the existing authentication flow
for those connections.
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Merged main (docs conflicts only, in ROADMAP.md). Checks run: cargo fmt --check, cargo check --workspace --all-targets, tests of gridcraft-mcp and gridcraft. |
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| c.set_read_timeout(Some(Duration::from_secs(5))).unwrap(); | ||
| c.write_all(send.as_bytes()).unwrap(); | ||
| // Replies up to the server closing the connection. | ||
| BufReader::new(c).lines().map_while(Result::ok).map(|l| serde_json::from_str(&l).unwrap()).collect() |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Require EOF in the connection-closure tests.
If a server sends one refusal but keeps the connection open, map_while(Result::ok) treats the read timeout as EOF. The new rejection tests then pass even though the connection did not close. Let a read error fail the test; only EOF should finish the reply list.
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--- "a/apps/gridcraft/src/control_server.rs"
+++ "b/apps/gridcraft/src/control_server.rs"
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@
c.set_read_timeout(Some(Duration::from_secs(5))).unwrap();
c.write_all(send.as_bytes()).unwrap();
// Replies up to the server closing the connection.
- BufReader::new(c).lines().map_while(Result::ok).map(|l| serde_json::from_str(&l).unwrap()).collect()
+ BufReader::new(c).lines().map(|l| serde_json::from_str(&l.unwrap()).unwrap()).collect()
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Part of #777 (part 1, the hyperlink allowlist, is #780).
Root cause
--control <port>/GRIDCRAFT_CONTROL_PORTran every JSON line on127.0.0.1:<port>with no authentication and kept reading after an unparsable line. Any local process, or a web page POSTingtext/plainto the port, could run any command (e.g.app.saveto any path).Changes
gridcraft_mcp::control_auth(shared by the app and the client incrates/mcp, so no code is duplicated): constant-time compare (own small fn, no unsafe), hex, handshake check, token file path and writer.apps/gridcraft/src/control_server.rs): on start a 256-bit token from the OS RNG (getrandom0.4, already in the lockfile, no new crate) is kept in memory and written to$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/gridcraft/control-<port>.token(else~/.cache/gridcraft/; Windows%USERPROFILE%\.gridcraft\), folder 0700, file 0600 (an older file is removed first,create_new). The path is printed on stderr, the token never. A user-chosen token (GRIDCRAFT_CONTROL_TOKENor--control-token, >= 16 chars) is used instead and no file is written.{"id":..,"method":"auth","params":{"token":".."}}. Anything else (wrong/missing token, other method, non-JSON such as an HTTP request, no line within 10 s, line > 4 KiB) gets one genericauthentication requiredreply and the connection is closed. After auth an unparsable line also closes the connection.Remote::connectauthenticates (env token, else the port's token file);Remote::connect_with_tokenadded.gridcraft-cli sendandmcp --connectneed no change.docs/control-protocol.md(new Authentication section),docs/mcp.md, CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md "Drive it" line, ROADMAP row.Breaking change
Any client other than
gridcraft-cli/gridcraft_mcp::Remote(own scripts, the Python client in #444) must send theauthline first, with the token from the file or fromGRIDCRAFT_CONTROL_TOKEN.Interaction with other PRs
serve/startincontrol_server.rs; this PR changes onlystart's signature and token setup, addsauthenticate()before the read loop, and onebreakin the invalid-JSON branch. Expect a textual conflict inserve; rebase after control server: bound request lines and concurrent connections #473/cli, control: fix mcp source conflict, document run flags, cap request size #654 (the first-line read here is already bounded by its own 4 KiB cap, and works with their bounded reader). The cli, control: fix mcp source conflict, document run flags, cap request size #654 CLI test changes don't overlap.Tests and commands
gridcraft-mcp: handshake accept / refuse-identically / constant-time compare; token file mode 0600 (folder 0700) and replacement of a loose leftover (unix); the existing TCP remote test now runs the handshake.gridcraft(control_server): correct token serves requests; wrong token, other method, HTTP text and empty line are answered once and closed without serving the next line; unparsable line after auth closes; short chosen token refused.cargo test -p gridcraft-mcp -p gridcraft-cli -p gridcraft,cargo clippy -p gridcraft-mcp -p gridcraft -p gridcraft-cli --all-targets -- -D warnings,cargo fmt --check.gridcraft --sample sales --control 47979; the token file was-rw-------; rawapp.saveand an HTTP POST were refused and closed (no file written);gridcraft-cli send 47979 sheet.readworked; a wrongGRIDCRAFT_CONTROL_TOKENwas refused.Not done / unverified
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