fix: resolve the install from the running binary; make upgrade failures diagnosable (#1305) - #1306
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…es diagnosable (#1305) `Installation.method()` never established where the running executable came from. It guessed two ways, and both were unsound: - A substring test on `process.execPath`. `~/.local/bin` is a generic user bin dir, so an npm install with `npm config set prefix ~/.local` was classified `curl`, and `altimate upgrade` ran `curl | bash` — silently converting an npm install into a standalone one and leaving the npm copy orphaned on PATH. - A probe loop (`npm list -g`, `brew list`, ...) returning the first manager whose output mentioned the package. That answers "is this installed anywhere?", not "did THIS binary come from you", so it picked arbitrarily whenever several installs existed. Replaced with `resolveInstall()`, which resolves `realpath(process.execPath)` and matches the package segment. The npm `bin/altimate` shim `spawnSync()`s the per-platform package, so execPath always lands under `node_modules` for package-manager installs; the optional `-<platform>-<arch>` suffix is matched explicitly. Removes up to seven subprocess spawns from the startup update-check path. Added a writability preflight so an upgrade that cannot succeed is refused before shelling out, with a message naming the directory and the exact remedy. Uses `npm root -g` rather than `<prefix>/lib/node_modules`, which is Unix-only, and derives the bin dir from `npm prefix -g` because `npm bin -g` was removed in npm 9. Also fixed an asymmetry in the failure branch: the success path logged the real stdout/stderr while the failure path discarded them, so every non-permission failure (network, `E404`, `ENOSPC`, a failing lifecycle script) collapsed into an identical `Upgrade failed for npm (exit code N).` with nothing written anywhere. The real output is now logged locally, the message carries a classified hint plus a pointer to the log, and telemetry records a stable classification code instead of the generic string — previously every failed upgrade looked identical on a dashboard. The user-facing message and the telemetry payload stay redacted. Four existing tests asserted on the source text or the exact error string and were updated to track the new contract while preserving their intent (brand guard, redaction guards). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WARNING: Yarn-classic global installs on Windows are misclassified as npm
YARN_SEGMENT_RE matches .yarn/ and yarn/global/, but yarn v1's default global folder on Windows is %LOCALAPPDATA%\Yarn\config\global — after realpath the binary sits at ...\Yarn\config\global\node_modules\@altimateai\altimate-code-<platform>\bin\altimate-code.exe. That path satisfies PKG_SEGMENT_RE but none of the manager sub-checks, so resolveInstall() falls through to npm, and the upgrade path (including the startup auto-upgrade in src/cli/upgrade.ts:163) runs npm install -g @altimateai/altimate-code@<target> against a yarn install — silently creating a second, npm-managed binary that shadows it. That is exactly the orphaned-install scenario this PR set out to fix. The new table tests only cover the Unix ~/.yarn/global spelling.
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WARNING: Every npm-layout path is treated as a global install — npx caches and project-local installs now silently trigger npm install -g
PKG_SEGMENT_RE matches any node_modules/@altimateai/altimate-code[-platform-arch] segment, not just package-manager global roots. ~/.npm/_npx/<hash>/node_modules/... (npx), a project-local node_modules (CLI as a devDependency), Volta package images, and ~/.bun/install/cache/... all resolve to npm/bun. upgrade() interprets those methods as "run npm install -g / bun install -g", and for patch releases this happens automatically at startup (src/cli/upgrade.ts:163, autoupdate defaults on) — silently creating a global install the user never had. The deleted probe loop returned unknown for these users (notify-only), so this is a behavior regression. Consider excluding known cache layouts (e.g. a _npx segment) or confirming the match sits under a real global root before returning a package-manager method.
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WARNING: Preflight-blocked upgrades emit no telemetry event and no log entry
The preflight branch returns before the failure-handling block, so a permission-blocked upgrade produces neither the upgrade_attempted telemetry event nor the new Effect.logWarning("upgrade failed", ...). Before this PR the root-owned-npm-prefix case actually ran npm install -g, failed with EACCES, and was recorded as an upgrade_attempted error — the PR's flagship scenario now disappears from dashboards entirely, undercutting the goal of making failures distinguishable (this class reads as "no attempt" rather than "permission failure"). Consider tracking status: "error" with the permission classification (and logging the blocked directory) before returning the error here.
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SUGGESTION: Point users at the log file, not the log directory
Global.Path.log is a directory (…/altimate-code/log); the logWarning above actually lands in opencode.log inside it (the file logger's default output, packages/core/src/observability/logging.ts:49). The directory also holds direct/*.jsonl traces and heap dumps, so "Details were written to
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120-127: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse
FileSystem.FileSysteminstead of rawfs.accessSync.
isWritablecallsfs.accessSyncdirectly. This function runs insidepreflight, which executes inside the Effectfullayerclosure that already has access to Effect services. UseFileSystem.FileSystem.access(path, { writable: true })instead of the raw NodefsAPI.♻️ Suggested approach
-function isWritable(dir: string): boolean { - try { - fs.accessSync(dir, fs.constants.W_OK) - return true - } catch { - return false - } -} +const isWritable = Effect.fnUntraced(function* (fsService: FileSystem.FileSystem, dir: string) { + return yield* fsService.access(dir, { writable: true }).pipe( + Effect.map(() => true), + Effect.catch(() => Effect.succeed(false)), + ) +})Threading
FileSystem.FileSystemthrough thelayerclosure requires widening theLayer<Service, never, HttpClient.HttpClient | AppProcess.Service>type (Line 231) and its downstream compositions (defaultLayer,node).As per coding guidelines: "In Effectified services, prefer existing Effect services over ad hoc platform APIs, including
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altimate_changemarker is nested inside the still-open outer marker.Line 577 opens
altimate_change start — telemetry for upgrade resultand it does not close until line 621. Lines 580 and 619 add a second, fully nestedaltimate_change start/endpair for the diagnosability change inside that still-open block. Merge this into the surrounding comment instead of nesting a new marker.♻️ Suggested fix
- // altimate_change start — telemetry for upgrade result + // altimate_change start — telemetry for upgrade result, plus diagnosable + // failure classification and local log pointer (`#1305`) const telemetryMethod = (["npm", "bun", "brew"].includes(m) ? m : "other") as "npm" | "bun" | "brew" | "other" if (!upgradeResult || upgradeResult.code !== 0) { - // altimate_change start — make non-permission failures diagnosable (`#1305`). - // ... + // Make non-permission failures diagnosable (`#1305`): ... const classified = classifyFailure(upgradeResult?.stderr ?? "", upgradeResult?.stdout ?? "") ... return yield* new UpgradeFailedError({ stderr }) - // altimate_change end } // altimate_change endAs per coding guidelines: "Keep
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In `@packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts`:
- Around line 597-604: Update the Chocolatey failure handling around
upgradeFailure and classifyFailure so non-permission classifications use the
generic upgrade failure message, while permission classifications retain the
elevation message. Ensure network, missing-version, and disk-full results do not
include a conflicting elevation cause alongside the classified hint.
- Around line 328-344: Update the npm branch in the remediation function to use
platform-aware guidance: avoid mentioning sudo on Windows and instead direct
users to an elevated shell, while preserving the existing Unix guidance and
package/prefix details.
- Around line 518-529: Update the upgrade flow around preflight, upgradeCurl,
and upgradePowershell to resolve the standalone installation root once and pass
that root to both installer paths instead of only VERSION. Ensure both
installers honor the supplied root, keeping preflight and the actual upgrade
target aligned for legacy and non-default installations.
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In `@packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts`:
- Around line 120-127: Update isWritable and its preflight call path to use the
injected FileSystem.FileSystem service’s access operation with writable checking
instead of raw fs.accessSync. Thread FileSystem.FileSystem through the layer
closure and widen the Layer type and downstream compositions such as
defaultLayer and node as needed.
- Around line 580-619: Remove the nested altimate_change start/end markers
around the failure-diagnostics block and merge its change description into the
already-open outer marker beginning before this block. Keep the existing
logging, telemetry, and UpgradeFailedError behavior unchanged, ensuring the
marker pair remains non-nested and properly balanced.
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<violation number="1" location="packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts:65">
P1: When an npm prefix contains a `pnpm` path segment, `resolveInstall` misclassifies the running npm binary as pnpm and upgrades the wrong installation. Restrict this regex to the known pnpm global or virtual-store layout rather than matching any parent directory named `pnpm`.</violation>
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P2: The claimed brand guard does not actually scan the detection implementation. The `segment` window (line 59 to `export interface ResolvedInstall`, line 78) covers only the regex-constant header, and the `methodBlock` window only covers the `method()` wrapper that calls `resolveInstall()`. Detection logic now lives in `resolveInstall()`'s body (lines 88-108), which neither `not.toContain("opencode-ai")` assertion covers. Extend the slice end marker so the resolvere body is included, so a stale upstream package-name path reintroduced inside the resolver is caught as the comment promises.</violation>
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| // plain `pnpm/global/<v>` link path (no `.pnpm` segment), so match both spellings — | ||
| // otherwise the plain layout falls through to the npm default and routes upgrades at | ||
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P1: When an npm prefix contains a pnpm path segment, resolveInstall misclassifies the running npm binary as pnpm and upgrades the wrong installation. Restrict this regex to the known pnpm global or virtual-store layout rather than matching any parent directory named pnpm.
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<comment>When an npm prefix contains a `pnpm` path segment, `resolveInstall` misclassifies the running npm binary as pnpm and upgrades the wrong installation. Restrict this regex to the known pnpm global or virtual-store layout rather than matching any parent directory named `pnpm`.</comment>
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@@ -37,6 +39,112 @@ const UPGRADE_INSTALL_PS_URL = "https://www.altimate.sh/install.ps1"
+// plain `pnpm/global/<v>` link path (no `.pnpm` segment), so match both spellings —
+// otherwise the plain layout falls through to the npm default and routes upgrades at
+// the wrong manager.
+const PNPM_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.pnpm|pnpm)[\\/]/i
+const BUN_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/]\.bun[\\/]/i
+const YARN_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.yarn|yarn[\\/]global)[\\/]/i
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| const PNPM_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.pnpm|pnpm)[\\/]/i | |
| const PNPM_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.pnpm[\\/][^\\/]*altimate-code[^\\/]*[\\/]node_modules|pnpm[\\/]global)[\\/]/i |
| // matches; the brand intent (our scope, never upstream's) is unchanged. | ||
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P2: The claimed brand guard does not actually scan the detection implementation. The segment window (line 59 to export interface ResolvedInstall, line 78) covers only the regex-constant header, and the methodBlock window only covers the method() wrapper that calls resolveInstall(). Detection logic now lives in resolveInstall()'s body (lines 88-108), which neither not.toContain("opencode-ai") assertion covers. Extend the slice end marker so the resolvere body is included, so a stale upstream package-name path reintroduced inside the resolver is caught as the comment promises.
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<comment>The claimed brand guard does not actually scan the detection implementation. The `segment` window (line 59 to `export interface ResolvedInstall`, line 78) covers only the regex-constant header, and the `methodBlock` window only covers the `method()` wrapper that calls `resolveInstall()`. Detection logic now lives in `resolveInstall()`'s body (lines 88-108), which neither `not.toContain("opencode-ai")` assertion covers. Extend the slice end marker so the resolvere body is included, so a stale upstream package-name path reintroduced inside the resolver is caught as the comment promises.</comment>
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@@ -51,13 +51,26 @@ describe("Installation script branding", () => {
+ // matches; the brand intent (our scope, never upstream's) is unchanged.
+ const segment = installSrc.slice(
+ installSrc.indexOf("const PKG_SEGMENT_RE"),
+ installSrc.indexOf("export interface ResolvedInstall"),
+ )
+ expect(segment).toContain("@altimateai")
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Consensus Code Review — Claude + GPT 5.4 Codex
Quorum not met — OpenRouter is out of credits. The configured review panel is Claude + 7 external models (quorum = 6). Only 2 of 8 reviewers produced output this round: Claude and GPT 5.4 Codex. Gemini 3.1 Pro (Antigravity) failed on a sandbox permission gate. The other five (Kimi K2.5, MiniMax M2.7, GLM-5.1, Qwen 3.6, MiMo V2 Pro) all failed because the shared
OPENROUTER_API_KEYis out of weekly credit — confirmed via a non-concurrent retry that still returned an explicit "requires more credits" error, not just in-flight-request contention. The two findings posted here as CRITICAL/MAJOR inline comments were independently corroborated (the critical one via direct source-level tracing ofpostinstall.mjs/bin/altimate/bin/altimate-code/publish.ts, not just diff inspection), so confidence remains high despite the reduced panel.
Verdict: REQUEST CHANGES — 1 CRITICAL, 2 MAJOR posted as inline comments below. One additional MINOR issue and full context follow.
Minor Issue (not anchorable as cleanly as the others, included here)
Global.Path.log diagnostic message points at a directory, not the actual log file — packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts:601
`Details were written to ${Global.Path.log}.`,Global.Path.log is a directory (packages/core/src/global.ts:29 — log: path.join(data, "log")), not a file. The actual sink is path.join(Global.Path.log, "opencode.log") (packages/core/src/observability/logging.ts:49, fileLogger()), and the directory can contain other subdirectories too (e.g. direct/). Since the point of this PR is "make upgrade failures diagnosable," the pointer should be exact:
`Details were written to ${path.join(Global.Path.log, "opencode.log")}.`path and Global are already imported in this file.
Positive Observations
- Replacing a subprocess probe loop (up to seven package-manager spawns on the startup update-check path) with a pure, synchronous
resolveInstall(execPath, env)is a real startup latency and determinism win, and makes the logic unit-testable without real installs. - The regression test for the bug that originally motivated this PR (
.local/binmisclassification) is present and clearly named. - User-facing error messages and the telemetry payload consistently use stable classification codes (
classifyFailure()) rather than raw subprocess text. preflight()'s "skip if the directory doesn't exist yet" check correctly avoids false-positiving on package managers that create their prefix directory on first install.- Comments throughout (Cellar-not-prefix rationale, pnpm's dual-layout handling, the
npm bin -gremoval note) explain real, non-obvious constraints rather than restating the code.
Missing Tests
- Unscoped
npm install -g altimate-codelayout, including the cached-hardlink shapepostinstall.mjsactually produces (see the CRITICAL inline comment) — the most important gap. - A prefix/manager mismatch case (binary installed under one Node version, a different manager now first on
PATH). - A logger-sink test proving package-manager stderr/stdout does not reach OTLP export or
OPENCODE_PRINT_LOGSoutput. - Direct unit tests for
preflight()/globalDirs()/remediation()(currently only exercised indirectly throughInstallation.use.upgradeintegration tests for the npm/curl permission-denied cases).
Finding Attribution
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Unscoped npm install -g altimate-code misdetected as unknown, breaking auto-upgrade for the documented install path |
GPT 5.4 Codex, independently confirmed by Claude via source tracing | Consensus (2/2 reviewers) |
Preflight/upgrade uses PATH's current package manager, not the one that produced the binary |
GPT 5.4 Codex | Unique |
| Raw subprocess output logged through general logger, conditionally exported via OTLP/stderr | GPT 5.4 Codex, caveat (pre-existing on success path, OTLP opt-in) added by Claude | Unique, caveated |
Global.Path.log message points at a directory, not the log file |
Claude | Unique |
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CRITICAL — the primary, documented npm install path (npm install -g altimate-code) is misdetected as unknown, disabling auto-upgrade for most real users
PKG_SEGMENT_RE only matches paths containing node_modules/@altimateai/altimate-code (scoped). But every install instruction in this repo (README.md:30, docs/docs/getting-started.md:27, docs/docs/getting-started/quickstart.md:13, plus the CI examples) tells users to run:
npm install -g altimate-code # unscoped — no @altimateai/ prefixThis is a real, separately-published npm package — confirmed in packages/opencode/script/publish.ts:187-221, which explicitly publishes a second, unscoped altimate-code wrapper alongside the scoped one ("Publish unscoped altimate-code wrapper package so users can npm i -g altimate-code"), with identical bin/postinstall wiring.
The chain that breaks detection:
- On every non-Windows install,
postinstall.mjshard-links (or copies) the resolved platform binary to<wrapper-root>/bin/.altimate-code— inside the wrapper package's own directory, not the nested@altimateai/altimate-code-<platform>package. - Both
bin/altimateandbin/altimate-codecheck for that cached file first, before ever walking to the nested platform package:const cached = path.join(scriptDir, ".altimate-code") if (fs.existsSync(cached)) { run(cached) // <-- this is what actually runs on essentially every invocation }
- So in the running process,
process.execPath(and its realpath, since a hard link has no symlink to resolve away) is<prefix>/lib/node_modules/altimate-code/bin/.altimate-codefor the unscoped wrapper — no@altimateaisegment anywhere in the path. PKG_SEGMENT_RErequires that segment. It doesn't match, and none of the brew/scoop/choco/standalone regexes match either.resolveInstall()returns{ method: "unknown" }.
Effect: Installation.method() returns "unknown" for the majority of real installs, update-available checks silently stop offering upgrades, and altimate upgrade hits default: return yield* new UpgradeFailedError({ stderr: "Unknown installation method: unknown" }) — the exact class of opaque failure this PR is meant to fix.
test/installation/resolve-install.test.ts is comprehensive for the scoped-wrapper/nested-platform-package shape but has no fixture for the unscoped wrapper or for the cached-hardlink shape postinstall.mjs actually produces (which is what real invocations hit after the very first run).
Suggestion: Add fixtures for the unscoped wrapper and the cached-hardlink shape, and make the regex (or a second one) recognize node_modules/altimate-code/ in addition to node_modules/@altimateai/altimate-code. Since the cached path loses the platform suffix entirely, consider having postinstall.mjs write a small marker file (e.g. .install-manager) recording which manager ran the install, and have resolveInstall() prefer that when present.
(Flagged by GPT 5.4 Codex, independently confirmed by Claude via source tracing of postinstall.mjs / bin/altimate / bin/altimate-code / publish.ts in a fresh checkout.)
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Confirmed and fixed in 6ee55b6 — this was correct and I had missed it.
Verified the chain end to end: publish.ts does ship the unscoped altimate-code wrapper, README.md:30 and docs/docs/getting-started.md:27 both document it, and postinstall.mjs hard-links the platform binary to <wrapper>/bin/.altimate-code which both shims execute ahead of the nested platform package. Because a hardlink has no symlink for realpath to follow, execPath keeps the wrapper path and loses the platform suffix — so from the first run onward the scoped-only regex could not match.
PKG_SEGMENT_RE now treats the @altimateai/ prefix as optional, and test/installation/resolve-install.test.ts gained fixtures for the shapes that actually run: unscoped and scoped cached hardlinks, the unscoped nested platform package, and an unscoped wrapper under a pnpm global root.
I did not take the .install-manager marker suggestion. A marker is written by whichever installer ran, but cli/welcome.ts:60 deletes .install-source on first read by design so a stale value can never be attributed to a later install — a durable receipt would mean changing that lifecycle. The path shapes are now enumerated instead.
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| // altimate_change start — refuse before shelling out when the target is unwritable (#1305) | ||
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MAJOR — preflight/upgrade target whichever package manager is currently on PATH, not the one that produced the running binary
resolveInstall() only returns which manager produced the binary, never where (except for curl, via root). Both the writability preflight (globalDirs(), index.ts:290-320) and this upgrade() call shell out to whatever npm/pnpm/bun/yarn is currently first on PATH — not necessarily the one that installed the running binary. If the user has since switched Node versions (nvm/asdf), changed npm config set prefix, or changed PNPM_HOME/BUN_INSTALL, preflight() can check the wrong directory's writability and upgrade() can silently write to a different location than the one that actually holds the running binary — reporting success while the running executable is unchanged. text([process.execPath, "--version"]) further down (index.ts:640) discards both output and exit status, so there's no verification that the upgrade actually took effect.
This is a real gap in what "resolve the install from the running binary" promises, though it's a narrower, more expert-user-triggered scenario (multiple Node version managers, switched prefixes) than the unscoped-npm CRITICAL issue above.
Suggestion: Have resolveInstall() also report the resolved package/prefix and pass that root explicitly to preflight and to the install command (e.g. npm install -g --prefix <resolved-prefix> ...) rather than relying on ambient PATH state. After a successful upgrade, actually check process.execPath's reported version against target rather than discarding the verification call's result.
(Flagged by GPT 5.4 Codex.)
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Partly addressed in 1ef5916 + 6ee55b6.
Done — no longer silently wrong. Installation.method() now confirms ownership before returning an actionable identity: it asks the manager for its global package root and checks the running binary is inside it. If a different npm is first on PATH, its npm root -g will not contain our executable, so we refuse with not-global rather than upgrading someone else`s install. That also covers the switched-prefix / nvm / asdf cases you describe — they resolve to a refusal rather than a wrong write.
Done — the verification call no longer discards its result. text([process.execPath, "--version"]) is now compared against the target, and a mismatch logs the running version, the execPath and a hint that the manager wrote elsewhere. It does not fail the operation: the package manager genuinely succeeded, and branch/dev builds legitimately report a different version string, so failing would produce false negatives.
Not done — the explicit --prefix. Pinning the resolved prefix into the install command changes install semantics (npm treats -g --prefix differently from a configured prefix, and pnpm/bun/yarn each spell it differently), so I would rather that be its own change than ride along here. The ownership check makes the current behaviour safe-by-refusal in the meantime rather than silently wrong. Happy to do it in a follow-up if you would prefer it in this PR.
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| // telemetry payload both stay redacted. | ||
| const classified = classifyFailure(upgradeResult?.stderr ?? "", upgradeResult?.stdout ?? "") | ||
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MAJOR — failed-upgrade diagnostics log raw subprocess output through the general logger, which can fan out to OTLP/stderr
This branch logs raw stdout/stderr via Effect.logWarning. The inline comment claims this "stays local," but Effect.logWarning goes through the app's normal logger fan-out (packages/core/src/observability.ts:12), which includes an OTLP exporter (packages/core/src/observability/otlp.ts:47-49) whenever OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT is set, and to stderr whenever OPENCODE_PRINT_LOGS=1. Package-manager stderr/stdout can contain credential-bearing registry URLs or other sensitive environment values.
Caveat (verified by Claude): this is not a new exposure this PR introduces — the success path a few lines below (Effect.logInfo("upgraded", { stdout, stderr, ... }), unchanged by this diff) already does exactly this, so the comment's "consistency, not new exposure" claim is accurate as far as it goes. But "the existing pattern is already like this" isn't the same as "the pattern is safe" — both paths remain conditionally exposed to OTLP/stderr export. OTLP export is opt-in (OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT must be set), so this isn't exploitable in a default CLI run — weigh severity with that in mind.
Suggestion: Don't route raw subprocess output through the general Effect logger/OTLP fan-out. If raw diagnostics are valuable for support, write them to a dedicated local-only file (with restrictive permissions) after basic redaction, bypassing the OTLP/console sinks — for both this call and the pre-existing success-path one.
(Flagged by GPT 5.4 Codex; caveats added by Claude.)
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Fixed in 1ef5916 + 6ee55b6 — and you were right to push past the "consistency, not new exposure" framing in my comment. That comment was mine and the reasoning behind it was wrong: I had told the user the log stays on the machine, which is false given the OTLP and stderr sinks you cite.
Two changes:
redactSecrets()masksBearertokens,authToken/api_key/password/secret/tokenassignments, credentialed URLs (https://user:pass@…) and long hex blobs before anything is logged.- It is applied to both paths. The previous commit only redacted the failure branch and left
Effect.logInfo("upgraded", { stdout, stderr })untouched — exactly the pre-existing call you pointed at. "The existing pattern already does this" is not a reason for either path to keep doing it.
Also: the user-facing message no longer promises a log artifact when an ERROR minimum log level would have discarded the WARN record.
I did not move raw output to a dedicated local-only file. Redacting at the source means every sink gets the same safe payload, whereas a second file would keep unredacted secrets on disk and add a path the user has to be told about. If you would rather have the raw output preserved for support, a restricted-permission file behind an opt-in flag would be the way — happy to add it, but it seemed worse than redacting given we found a real bearer token in this repo`s own test output last week.
) Self-review and CI turned up three problems with the previous commit. 1. The `.local/bin` claim was wrong, and removing the branch was a regression. The commit message and PR said `.local/bin` misclassified npm installs made with `npm config set prefix ~/.local`. It does not. With that prefix, packages land in `~/.local/lib/node_modules/...` and only the shim sits in `~/.local/bin`; since execPath is the spawned platform binary, it never contains `.local/bin` for a package-manager install, so the branch could not misfire that way. Removing it deleted correct back-compat from #820 (distro-resolved standalone installs), which test/sanity/Dockerfile also relies on, and broke four tests that said so explicitly. Restored — but AFTER the node_modules match, which is what makes it safe and is the real improvement over the original ordering. Both layouts now resolve correctly, with a test asserting exactly that. 2. Running prettier over the whole file reformatted code this change never touched (`upgradeCurl`, `upgradePowershell`, `defaultLayer`), because the committed file predates the repo's printWidth of 120. That broke two source-shape tests and tripped Marker Guard, which reads reformatted upstream lines as unmarked custom code. Formatting is not CI-enforced here, so it bought nothing. Rebuilt the file from the pristine version with only the intended edits re-applied. 3. `import { Global }` pulled in a module-load side effect: core/global.ts runs a top-level `await Promise.all([...mkdir...])`, creating seven directories merely by loading the module, and dragged that into every unit test importing resolveInstall(). Replaced with a lazy import matching the existing getTelemetry() pattern. Also converted the #820 detection tests from source-text assertions to behavioural ones now that resolveInstall() is pure, and documented that `access(W_OK)` reflects the read-only attribute rather than the ACL on Windows, so the preflight degrades to a no-op there instead of falsely blocking. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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P3: The `toContain("altimate|opencode")` guard only proves the `(?:altimate|opencode)` alternation text exists somewhere; it does not tie it to the standalone-bin regex. A refactor moving these names into a comment or another expression (e.g. splitting them into separate alternations) would trip the assertion falsely, or conversely a refactor splitting the regex branches would pass it while changing behavior. Assert the joined segment, e.g. `(?:altimate|opencode)[\\/]bin`, to keep the guard on the actual detection pattern.</violation>
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| // asserts the source still carries all three so a refactor cannot quietly drop one. | ||
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P3: The toContain("altimate|opencode") guard only proves the (?:altimate|opencode) alternation text exists somewhere; it does not tie it to the standalone-bin regex. A refactor moving these names into a comment or another expression (e.g. splitting them into separate alternations) would trip the assertion falsely, or conversely a refactor splitting the regex branches would pass it while changing behavior. Assert the joined segment, e.g. (?:altimate|opencode)[\\/]bin, to keep the guard on the actual detection pattern.
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<comment>The `toContain("altimate|opencode")` guard only proves the `(?:altimate|opencode)` alternation text exists somewhere; it does not tie it to the standalone-bin regex. A refactor moving these names into a comment or another expression (e.g. splitting them into separate alternations) would trip the assertion falsely, or conversely a refactor splitting the regex branches would pass it while changing behavior. Assert the joined segment, e.g. `(?:altimate|opencode)[\\/]bin`, to keep the guard on the actual detection pattern.</comment>
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@@ -40,11 +40,13 @@ describe("installation method detection", () => {
+ // (.altimate/bin, .opencode/bin, .local/bin) must all keep resolving to "curl".
+ // Behavioural coverage lives in test/installation/resolve-install.test.ts; this
+ // asserts the source still carries all three so a refactor cannot quietly drop one.
+ expect(INSTALLATION_SRC).toContain("altimate|opencode")
+ expect(INSTALLATION_SRC).toContain(".local")
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…locked-upgrade telemetry (#1305) Automated review of #1306 raised six findings. Each was verified against the code before acting; five were valid and are fixed here, one is declined with a reason. - **npx caches, download caches and project-local installs were attributed to a package manager.** `PKG_SEGMENT_RE` matches any `node_modules/@altimateai/altimate-code*` segment, not only global roots, so `npx`, a devDependency install, or a bun/npm cache resolved to `npm`/`bun`. `upgrade()` reads that as "run `install -g`", and for patch releases it runs automatically at startup — creating a global install the user never had. The deleted probe loop returned "unknown" for these, so this was a regression. Cache layouts are now excluded during detection, and `preflight()` additionally confirms the running binary actually lives under the manager's global root, failing open when that root cannot be determined. - **yarn classic on Windows was misclassified as npm.** Its global directory is `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Yarn\config\global`, which neither the `.yarn` nor the `yarn/global` spelling matched — so an upgrade would have run `npm install -g` over a yarn install, producing exactly the orphaned second binary this change exists to prevent. - **Preflight-blocked upgrades emitted no telemetry and no log entry**, so the flagship permission case read as "no attempt" on dashboards — strictly worse than the previous behaviour, which at least ran the command and recorded an error. Blocked attempts are now logged and tracked with their classification. - **The curl preflight checked the wrong directory.** It used the running binary's own directory, but the install script always writes to `$HOME/.altimate/bin`, so a legacy `~/.opencode/bin` install could pass preflight while a different directory was upgraded. - **The Chocolatey elevation message contradicted the classified cause** — it was returned unconditionally, so a network failure was reported as an elevation problem alongside a conflicting "Likely cause" hint. It is now used only for permission failures. - **The npm remediation told Windows users to run `sudo`**, which does not exist there; those users are now pointed at an elevated shell. - The error message now names `opencode.log` rather than the log directory, which also holds trace jsonl and heap dumps. Declined: switching `fs.accessSync` to `FileSystem.FileSystem`. It is the documented preference, but threading that service through requires widening the layer's dependency type and every downstream composition (`defaultLayer`, `node`) — well outside the scope of this fix, and raw `fs` already has precedent in sibling modules (cli/welcome.ts). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Line 85: Update the installation-method detection around YARN_SEGMENT_RE so
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Exercise the package-layout cache exclusion.
resolveInstall() checks PKG_SEGMENT_RE before EPHEMERAL_SEGMENT_RE. This fixture has /install/cache/ but no node_modules/@altimateai/... segment, so it returns unknown without evaluating the exclusion. Bun’s documented cache layout stores packages directly under ~/.bun/install/cache, so this is not a realistic fixture for the package-manager branch.
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In `@packages/opencode/test/installation/resolve-install.test.ts` at line 95,
Update the resolveInstall test fixture to use a realistic Bun cache path that
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P3: This test doesn't exercise the cache-exclusion logic it's written to protect. `EPHEMERAL_SEGMENT_RE` only guards the package-manager branch, which is gated on `PKG_SEGMENT_RE` matching a `node_modules/@altimateai/altimate-code*` segment — and this path has no `node_modules` segment, so the branch is skipped regardless and the assertion passes no matter what. Even deleting the `install/cache` alternative from `EPHEMERAL_SEGMENT_RE` leaves this test green, and the file's own implementer's comment claims download caches 'contain a node_modules/@altimateai/altimate-code* segment', which the fixture path contradicts. Include a `node_modules` segment inside the cache path so the guard branch is actually reached.</violation>
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P3: This test doesn't exercise the cache-exclusion logic it's written to protect. EPHEMERAL_SEGMENT_RE only guards the package-manager branch, which is gated on PKG_SEGMENT_RE matching a node_modules/@altimateai/altimate-code* segment — and this path has no node_modules segment, so the branch is skipped regardless and the assertion passes no matter what. Even deleting the install/cache alternative from EPHEMERAL_SEGMENT_RE leaves this test green, and the file's own implementer's comment claims download caches 'contain a node_modules/@altimateai/altimate-code* segment', which the fixture path contradicts. Include a node_modules segment inside the cache path so the guard branch is actually reached.
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@@ -77,6 +77,38 @@ describe("resolveInstall", () => {
+ test("a package-manager download cache is not attributed to a manager", () => {
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+ "/home/u/.bun/install/cache/@altimateai/altimate-code-linux-x64/bin/altimate-code",
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…rect package identities (#1305) Three-model consensus review plus cubic/CodeRabbit found nine issues in the previous round, five of them introduced by this branch. Each was verified against the code first. **Bun global upgrades were refused outright.** `bun pm bin -g` reports the SHIM directory (~/.bun/bin) while packages live in a sibling tree (~/.bun/install/global/node_modules). The ownership check treated the shim dir as the package root, so the real executable was never "inside" it. `globalLayout()` now returns `packageRoot` and `writable` separately — ownership is decided against the package tree, permissions against what the upgrade writes. **Ownership is now established before any consumer receives an actionable identity.** A path match is a hypothesis: a project-local node_modules is shaped exactly like a global one. `Installation.method()` confirms it with the manager and downgrades to `unknown` when the running binary is not in that manager's global tree. This matters because `cli/cmd/uninstall.ts` acts on the answer destructively and never runs the upgrade preflight. It also stops us mutating the wrong tree when a different `npm` is first on PATH — its `npm root -g` will not contain our executable, so we refuse rather than upgrade someone else's install. **Containment was unsound in both directions.** The lowercased `startsWith` matched `/prefix/lib/node_modules-other` against `/prefix/lib/node_modules`, resolved symlinks on only one side, and mis-compared on case-sensitive filesystems. Replaced with a separator-aware `path.relative` check. Its own test then caught a further bug: resolving only paths that exist compares /var against /private/var, so `realpathOr` now resolves the deepest existing ancestor and re-appends the remainder. **Diagnostics are redacted before they reach any sink.** The previous round logged package-manager stdout/stderr verbatim, justified by the log file staying local. That was wrong: `Logging.loggers()` adds a stderr logger under OPENCODE_PRINT_LOGS=1, and `Otlp.loggers()` ships records to a remote collector when OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT is set — neither redacts, and npm error output routinely carries registry `_authToken` values. The message also no longer promises a log artifact that an ERROR log level would discard. **scoop/choco no longer resolve to an actionable method.** `latest()`/`upgrade()` still query and install the upstream `opencode` package, so an Altimate install resolving to those methods would pull in a different package. The old probe loop self-limited by requiring `scoop list opencode` to match; path matching has no such guard. Notify-only until those commands carry Altimate identities. **`uninstall` targeted upstream packages.** It ran `npm uninstall -g opencode-ai` and `brew uninstall opencode`, able to remove an unrelated upstream install while leaving Altimate in place. Pre-existing, but widened by this branch. **`yarn` is rejected where it was unhandled.** `Installation.upgrade()` has no `yarn` case; `cli/upgrade.ts` already routed it to notify, but `cli/cmd/upgrade.ts` and the HTTP upgrade route guarded only `unknown` and would have surfaced an opaque failure. Also: narrowed the pnpm/yarn patterns to real layouts instead of any `pnpm`/`yarn` path segment; excluded `dlx` caches alongside npx; renamed `ResolvedInstall.root` to `binDir` with an accurate description of what it holds. **Tests.** A previous guard asserted `INSTALLATION_SRC.toContain(".local")` against the whole file, which cannot detect the regression it claims to prevent — `.local` appears in three nearby comments, so deleting the regex alternation left it green. It now asserts against the regex line, verified by simulating the removal and watching it fail. Added ownership/containment coverage for the bun layout, prefix-sibling rejection, symlinked parents, and non-existent paths. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Marker Guard flagged the `Process.run(cmd)` change as unmarked custom code in an upstream-shared file. The choco special-case it replaced is unreachable now that `Installation.method()` no longer returns choco. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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<violation number="1" location="packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts:89">
P2: On Windows Yarn Classic's default `Yarn\\Data\\global` layout is not recognized, so a Yarn install is misclassified as npm/unknown and cannot be upgraded or uninstalled through the detected method. Include the `yarn/data/global` layout or derive the match from `yarn global dir`.</violation>
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P2: This ownership check reintroduces manager subprocesses into every startup `Installation.method()` call, despite the resolver's spawn-free startup contract. Keep method detection pure and perform ownership confirmation only at destructive uninstall/upgrade boundaries, or cache the manager layout.</violation>
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| // never runs the upgrade preflight. Costs at most one subprocess (vs seven before), | ||
| // and only when the path already looks like a package manager. | ||
| if (PACKAGE_MANAGERS.includes(candidate)) { | ||
| const ownership = yield* ownsRunningBinary(candidate) |
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P2: This ownership check reintroduces manager subprocesses into every startup Installation.method() call, despite the resolver's spawn-free startup contract. Keep method detection pure and perform ownership confirmation only at destructive uninstall/upgrade boundaries, or cache the manager layout.
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@@ -526,11 +633,19 @@ export const layer: Layer.Layer<Service, never, HttpClient.HttpClient | AppProce
+ // never runs the upgrade preflight. Costs at most one subprocess (vs seven before),
+ // and only when the path already looks like a package manager.
+ if (PACKAGE_MANAGERS.includes(candidate)) {
+ const ownership = yield* ownsRunningBinary(candidate)
+ if (ownership === "foreign") return "unknown" as Method
+ }
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| // layouts rather than matching any `yarn` path segment — a bare segment match let an | ||
| // unrelated ancestor directory named `yarn` decide the manager, which is the same | ||
| // path-is-identity mistake this change exists to remove. | ||
| const YARN_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.yarn|yarn[\\/](?:global|config[\\/]global|berry))[\\/]/i |
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P2: On Windows Yarn Classic's default Yarn\\Data\\global layout is not recognized, so a Yarn install is misclassified as npm/unknown and cannot be upgraded or uninstalled through the detected method. Include the yarn/data/global layout or derive the match from yarn global dir.
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+// layouts rather than matching any `yarn` path segment — a bare segment match let an
+// unrelated ancestor directory named `yarn` decide the manager, which is the same
+// path-is-identity mistake this change exists to remove.
+const YARN_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.yarn|yarn[\\/](?:global|config[\\/]global|berry))[\\/]/i
// Homebrew bin entries are symlinks into Cellar, so realpath lands there. Match the
// Cellar segment rather than the prefix: /usr/local is also a common npm prefix.
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| const YARN_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.yarn|yarn[\\/](?:global|config[\\/]global|berry))[\\/]/i | |
| const YARN_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.yarn|yarn[\\/](?:global|config[\\/]global|data[\\/]global|berry))[\\/]/i |
) Addresses the three review comments from @sahrizvi, which I had missed — I had only been reading the automated reviews. **CRITICAL — the primary documented install path was reported as `unknown`.** `publish.ts` ships an unscoped `altimate-code` package alongside the scoped one, and that unscoped package is what `README.md:30` and `docs/docs/getting-started.md:27` tell users to install. `PKG_SEGMENT_RE` required an `@altimateai` segment, so it did not match. It is worse than a missing alternative spelling, because of which file actually executes: `postinstall.mjs` hard-links the resolved platform binary to `<wrapper>/bin/.altimate-code`, and both shims run that cached file BEFORE walking to the nested platform package. A hardlink has no symlink for realpath to follow, so from the first upgrade onward execPath is the wrapper's own path with the platform suffix gone entirely — `.../node_modules/ altimate-code/bin/.altimate-code`. Detection returned `unknown`, update checks stopped offering upgrades, and `altimate upgrade` failed with "Unknown installation method" — the exact opaque failure this branch exists to remove. The scope prefix is now optional and fixtures cover the shapes that actually run: unscoped and scoped cached hardlinks, the unscoped nested platform package, and an unscoped wrapper under a pnpm global root. **MAJOR — the success path logged raw subprocess output.** The previous commit redacted the failure branch but left `Effect.logInfo("upgraded", { stdout, stderr })` untouched. Both fan out to stderr under OPENCODE_PRINT_LOGS=1 and to an OTLP collector when one is configured. "The existing pattern already does this" is not a reason for either path to keep doing it, so the success path is redacted too. **MAJOR — upgrades could report success without changing the running binary.** The trailing `text([process.execPath, "--version"])` discarded its output, so an upgrade that wrote to a different prefix than the running executable passed silently. The result is now compared against the target and a mismatch is logged with the execPath and a hint. It does not fail the operation: the package manager genuinely succeeded, and branch/dev builds legitimately report a different version string. Not done from that comment: passing an explicit `--prefix` to the install command. The ownership check added earlier already prevents mutating a foreign tree — it refuses rather than writing to the wrong prefix — and pinning `--prefix` changes install semantics enough to want its own change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ctions when unresolved (#1305) Three-model review (round 3) returned blocker-grade findings that all traced to the same root cause: identity was being inferred from the path string. A path cannot distinguish a top-level global install from a transitive dependency, and it cannot say which of our two published wrappers owns a platform package. Ownership is now a filesystem fact obtained from the package manager. `ownerOf(root, execPath)` asks which of `@altimateai/altimate-code` / `altimate-code` actually contains the running binary, and covers both real shapes: (a) the binary inside the wrapper — postinstall hard-links it to `<wrapper>/bin/.altimate-code` and the shims run that first; (b) the binary as one of our platform packages stored BESIDE the wrapper — pnpm's isolated store, hoisting, every Windows install (postinstall exits early there), and any install run with `--ignore-scripts`. (b) is bounded to that manager's own tree so a project-local binary cannot borrow a global wrapper's identity, and it refuses when BOTH wrappers are installed rather than guessing. `Installation.method()` returns a package-manager identity only when ownership is confirmed; otherwise `unknown`. That made `unknown` much more common, which exposed the consumer that had never been re-examined: **`uninstall` now refuses before removing anything when ownership is unresolved.** It was deleting data, config, cache and state unconditionally while skipping both the binary and the package removal — so an unverifiable install lost everything the user cared about and stayed installed, silently. It now stops and prints per-manager removal instructions. **The CLI upgrade dead end is gone.** "Install anyways?" passed `unknown` straight to `Installation.upgrade()`, which refuses it, so both answers ended in `UpgradeFailedError`. Replaced with actionable instructions. `UNSUPPORTED_UPGRADE_METHODS` is shared so the CLI and both HTTP routes reject the same set — the v2 handler had drifted to `unknown` only. `upgrade()` refuses yarn/scoop/choco at the choke point and the scoop/choco branches are deleted; they installed upstream's `opencode` package, not ours. Diagnostics are redacted before reaching any sink — the logger fans out to stderr under OPENCODE_PRINT_LOGS and to an OTLP collector when one is configured, so "it stays local" was never true. Masks now cover `Basic` blobs, quoted JSON keys and bare URL userinfo, and the post-upgrade `running:` field is redacted like every other subprocess-derived value. KNOWN OUTSTANDING — deliberately not fixed here, tracked for a follow-up: * `owningPackageOrScoped()` still falls back to the scoped name when a second manager query disagrees with the one `method()` already made. An unscoped install could then be upgraded under the scoped name, installing a duplicate. The fix is to resolve one identity and thread it through rather than re-deriving it per call site. * `resolveInstall()` picks a single candidate manager from path shape and only that one is queried, so a custom bun/pnpm directory without the expected segment resolves to npm, finds no owner, and degrades to `unknown`. Path shape should order which managers to ask, not decide the answer. * The standalone upgrade path still writes `$HOME/.altimate/bin` regardless of where the running binary lives. * Coverage is unit-level; there is no test across detection → upgrade → uninstall. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Marker Guard flagged the uninstall summary call and the packageName interface member as unmarked custom code in upstream-shared files. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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P1: If the second ownership lookup fails or changes after `method()` succeeds, this fallback silently targets the scoped package instead of the verified package. Fail closed when `packageName()` is missing, or reuse the owner from the initial verification, before deleting data and running the package manager.</violation>
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| // nothing while uninstall goes on to delete config and cache. | ||
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P1: If the second ownership lookup fails or changes after method() succeeds, this fallback silently targets the scoped package instead of the verified package. Fail closed when packageName() is missing, or reuse the owner from the initial verification, before deleting data and running the package manager.
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@@ -62,9 +62,34 @@ export const UninstallCommand = {
+ // altimate_change start — #1305: the package the MANAGER confirms owns this binary.
+ // publish.ts ships both a scoped and an unscoped wrapper; removing the wrong one removes
+ // nothing while uninstall goes on to delete config and cache.
+ const pkg = (await Installation.packageName()) ?? "@altimateai/altimate-code"
+ await showRemovalSummary(targets, method, pkg)
+ // altimate_change end
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Consensus Code Review — Round 2 — Claude + GPT 5.4 Codex + GLM-5.1 + Qwen 3.6 + MiniMax M2.7
Quorum not met. Panel is Claude + 7 external models (quorum = 6). 5 of 8 produced output this round. Gemini 3.1 Pro (Antigravity) got stuck in a retry loop and was stopped after several minutes with no output; Kimi K2.5 and MiMo V2 Pro were both still mid-exploration after 20+ minutes with no forward progress and were stopped. This is a tooling/latency shortfall, not a credits issue — the OpenRouter key had a fresh weekly allowance this round. Despite the shortfall, the two most significant findings posted as inline comments (silent fallback to the wrong package; false-success telemetry) were found by GPT 5.4 Codex and independently confirmed by Claude via direct source-line tracing, so confidence in them is high.
Round-1 Fix Verification — all 4 confirmed FIXED
Unanimous across every reviewer that completed, and independently confirmed by Claude reading the current source directly (not just the commit messages):
| # | Round-1 issue | Status | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CRITICAL — unscoped npm install -g altimate-code misdetected as unknown |
FIXED | PKG_SEGMENT_RE (index.ts:83-84) now makes the @altimateai/ scope optional. resolve-install.test.ts covers both the scoped and unscoped cached-hardlink shapes. |
| 2 | MAJOR — preflight/upgrade targeted whatever manager was on PATH |
FIXED (see the inline comments below for a related gap) | Installation.method() now calls owningPackage() → ownerOf() to confirm the running binary is actually inside the candidate manager's global tree before returning an actionable identity; otherwise degrades to "unknown". |
| 3 | MAJOR — raw subprocess stdout/stderr logged, fans out to OTLP/stderr | FIXED | New redactSecrets() (index.ts:286-314) masks credential-shaped substrings; applied to both the failure path and the success path (previously unredacted). ownership.test.ts has 9+ redaction test cases. |
| 4 | MINOR — "Details were written to X" pointed at a directory | FIXED | New getLogFile() (index.ts:23-31) returns path.join(Global.Path.log, "opencode.log"), the actual file. |
Verdict: REQUEST CHANGES
3 MAJOR issues posted as inline comments on this review (silent fallback to the wrong package during upgrade/uninstall; false-success telemetry on a failed upgrade; subprocess spawns reintroduced into the startup path). The core round-1 bugs are genuinely fixed, and the new ownership-verification design (ownerOf(), isInside(), bunGlobalRoot()) is a real architectural improvement backed by a strong test suite — but the redesign introduces two new correctness bugs of its own, both in destructive/mutating code paths.
Minor Issues (not anchorable as cleanly, or below MAJOR threshold)
4. Uninstall's recovery instructions promise an impossible "re-run" — packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/uninstall.ts:76
"Remove it with the tool you installed it with, then re-run to clean up data"
Once the user uninstalls the package via their manager, the altimate binary is gone — there is nothing to "re-run" altimate uninstall with. Provide a manual data/config cleanup path instead of promising a rerun that can't happen.
5. Generic <manager> uninstall -g <pkg> syntax is wrong for Bun and Yarn — packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/uninstall.ts:77
" npm/pnpm/bun/yarn: <manager> uninstall -g @altimateai/altimate-code (or altimate-code)"
Bun's global-removal command is bun remove -g <pkg>, and Yarn's is yarn global remove <pkg> — neither is <manager> uninstall -g <pkg>. Print manager-specific lines.
6. Windows recovery messages show POSIX-only commands — packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/uninstall.ts:79, packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/upgrade.ts:63
Both files' "how to recover manually" messages hardcode rm the binary from ~/.altimate/bin and curl -fsSL ... | bash regardless of platform, even though the code elsewhere (upgradePowershell) already knows native Windows has no bash and uses %USERPROFILE%\.altimate\bin with a PowerShell installer instead.
7. --method CLI choices still list choco/scoop, which always fail — packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/upgrade.ts:26 (pre-existing line, not part of this diff's hunks)
choices: ["curl", "npm", "pnpm", "bun", "brew", "choco", "scoop"],UNSUPPORTED_UPGRADE_METHODS (index.ts:341) = ["unknown", "yarn", "scoop", "choco"] — so --method choco/--method scoop are presented as valid CLI choices by yargs, but Installation.upgrade() always refuses them. Drop them from choices, or otherwise reconcile the two lists.
8. bunGlobalRoot() doesn't handle a custom Bun install.globalDir/globalBinDir — packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts:220-222
Correct for Bun's default layout (the bot claim "every normal Bun install is rejected" is false — the default case works and is tested), but Bun allows install.globalDir/install.globalBinDir to be configured independently, and a non-default config would downgrade a valid install to "unknown". Narrow edge case, not a regression from round 1.
9. Ambiguous "(or altimate-code)" phrasing in recovery messages — packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/upgrade.ts:61, packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/uninstall.ts:77
(or altimate-code) appended after a full command line reads ambiguously — could be read as "or just run altimate-code" (which only launches the CLI) rather than "or install the unscoped package name instead." Rephrase as two explicit alternative commands.
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10. Stale comment contradicts the redaction fix two paragraphs above it — packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts:913-915
The old "the log file is local... consistency, not new exposure" reasoning is exactly what the author's own new redactSecrets() docblock (index.ts:279-283) calls false. Never updated when the redaction fix landed — now misleadingly implies the values below are raw when they're actually passed through redactSecrets().
11. ownership.test.ts leaks temp directories every run — packages/opencode/test/installation/ownership.test.ts:34,81
Neither describe block's fs.mkdtempSync() is cleaned up (no afterAll). Every test run leaves an ownership-* and an owner-* directory behind in the OS temp dir.
12. redactSecrets() has a narrow gap for short opaque tokens — packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts:311-312
The catch-all patterns require 32+ hex chars or 40+ base64-ish chars; a short, unlabeled, non-keyed secret could slip through. Low real-world risk — most registry tokens are longer — but worth a test case.
Bot-Raised Claims Checked and Debunked
Several automated reviewers (kilo-code-bot, CodeRabbit, cubic-dev-ai) flagged issues against intermediate commits in this round that are not present in the final head (40779c55):
- Yarn Classic Windows global layout misclassified — false.
YARN_SEGMENT_REcorrectly matchesYarn\config\global; tested. - Every Bun global install rejected by preflight — false for the default layout (see Minor #8 for the narrower real edge case).
- Scoop/Chocolatey misclassification — not a bug;
resolveInstall()deliberately always returns"unknown"for these, sincelatest()/upgrade()reference the upstreamopencodepackage name for them (a separate, pre-existing issue this PR correctly chose not to touch). - "Do not continue with an unsupported Yarn method" (unhandled crash) — false;
yarnis inUNSUPPORTED_UPGRADE_METHODSand refused before reachingInstallation.upgrade(). - npm prefix containing a
pnpm/yarnpath segment misroutes upgrades — overstated; the ownership check normally degrades a contrived-prefix false match to"unknown"rather than performing the wrong upgrade, though no test currently pins this explicitly.
Positive Observations
ownerOf()/isInside()/bunGlobalRoot()are a genuine architectural improvement: separator-aware, symlink-resolved, and reject sibling-prefix and cross-tree false positives that earlier code got wrong.ownership.test.tsis strong: real filesystem fixtures, covers the pnpm sibling-store layout, the "both wrappers installed → ambiguous, refuse" case, and 9+ redaction shapes.- Redaction is now applied symmetrically to both the success and failure logging paths.
- Unverified ownership consistently degrades to
"unknown"/notify-only rather than guessing and acting — the one exception being the re-probe fallback flagged inline. - Scoop/Chocolatey no longer risk silently installing or removing the upstream
opencodepackage under Altimate's name. - The exact log filename and the
OPENCODE_LOG_LEVEL=ERROR"don't promise a file that wasn't written" case (getLogFile()) are thoughtful, non-obvious touches.
Missing Tests
- A test proving
method()'s subprocess count and whether automatic startup detection is spawn-free. - A test where the first ownership probe (
method()) succeeds and a second, independent probe fails — asserting upgrade/uninstall refuse rather than falling back to the scoped package. - Version-verification coverage for: matching version, mismatched version, empty stdout, non-zero exit, unlaunchable executable — each asserting telemetry/error status, not just the log line.
- A project-local
node_modulesinstall path throughresolveInstall()directly. - Bun with independently-configured
globalDir/globalBinDir. - An npm prefix containing a
pnpm/.yarn/yarn/config/globalsegment, pinning that it degrades to"unknown"rather than misrouting.
Finding Attribution
| Issue | Origin | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Ownership re-probed independently; silent fallback to wrong package on failure (upgrade + uninstall) | GPT 5.4 Codex, independently confirmed by Claude | Unique, high-confidence |
| Upgrade reports success before verifying the binary actually changed | GPT 5.4 Codex, independently confirmed by Claude | Unique, high-confidence |
Subprocess spawns reintroduced into method(); up to ~7 spawns for one upgrade |
GPT 5.4 Codex, Qwen 3.6, MiniMax M2.7 (GLM-5.1 disputes severity) | Consensus (4/5), severity disputed |
| Uninstall's "re-run to clean up data" is impossible | Claude, cubic-dev-ai (bot) | Consensus |
| Bun/Yarn uninstall command syntax wrong | Claude, cubic-dev-ai (bot) | Consensus |
| Windows recovery messages are POSIX-only | GPT 5.4 Codex, Claude | Consensus |
--method choices include always-refused choco/scoop |
MiniMax M2.7, confirmed by Claude | Unique |
bunGlobalRoot() misses custom Bun global-dir config |
GPT 5.4 Codex | Unique |
| Ambiguous "(or altimate-code)" phrasing | GPT 5.4 Codex, cubic-dev-ai (bot) | Consensus |
| Stale comment contradicts the redaction fix | Claude | Unique |
ownership.test.ts leaks temp directories |
Claude, cubic-dev-ai (bot) | Consensus |
redactSecrets() narrow short-token gap |
Qwen 3.6 | Unique |
Reviewed by 5 of 8 configured participants: Claude, GPT 5.4 Codex, GLM-5.1, Qwen 3.6, MiniMax M2.7. Gemini 3.1 Pro (Antigravity), Kimi K2.5, and MiMo V2 Pro did not complete (tooling stalls, not a credits issue this round). No formal convergence round was run given the quorum shortfall; Claude independently source-verified the two highest-severity findings instead of relying on inter-model agreement alone.
Full writeup: reviews/pr-1306-consensus-review-round2.md in the reviews repo.
| * is upgraded with the unscoped name — installing the other one would leave a duplicate | ||
| * and a stale original. Falls back to the scoped name only when a caller forced a method | ||
| * explicitly and no owner could be confirmed. */ | ||
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MAJOR — ownership is verified once in method(), then independently re-probed here and in uninstall.ts; a later failure silently falls back to the wrong package
const owningPackageOrScoped = Effect.fnUntraced(function* (m: Method) {
return (yield* owningPackage(m)) ?? "@altimateai/altimate-code"
})Installation.method() already verified ownership once (via owningPackage(), which spawns a manager query). But upgrade()'s command construction (this function, used at index.ts:846,851,856) and uninstall.ts:90 (Installation.packageName()) each independently re-run that same query later — a separate subprocess call that can transiently fail or race independent of the one method() already ran.
If a later probe fails where the first succeeded, this silently substitutes the scoped package name — even for a confirmed unscoped install:
- Upgrade: installs
@altimateai/altimate-code@targetas a brand-new duplicate, while the actual runningaltimate-codeinstall is left stale and un-upgraded — with the command still reporting success. - Uninstall (
uninstall.ts:90): if the second lookup fails aftermethod()'s already succeeded, uninstall proceeds to delete the user's config/data/cache and runs the uninstall command against a package that was never installed — silently removing nothing while wiping user state.
Suggestion: Resolve ownership once per operation into a single immutable value (method + verified package name + package root) and thread it through preflight/command-construction rather than re-querying. Fail closed — refuse the operation — rather than falling back to a guessed package name when the second lookup can't confirm what the first one did, especially for uninstall, which is destructive.
(Flagged by GPT 5.4 Codex; independently confirmed by Claude reading uninstall.ts:90 and the owningPackageOrScoped call sites in upgrade().)
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Fixed in 5d99234 — and you were right that the root was the re-probing, not the fallback line itself.
owningPackageOrScoped() is gone. identity() resolves the install once — method, verified owner, package root, writable dirs — and is memoised for the process. method(), packageName(), preflight() and the install-command construction all read that one value, so there is no longer a second query that can fail or race independently of the first. Nothing it reads can change while the binary is executing, so caching is safe.
Where a package name genuinely cannot be verified — an explicit --method override, or unconfirmed ownership — packageFor() still uses the scoped name, but logs package name not verified — assuming the scoped wrapper with the requested and resolved methods. The problem was that it was silent, not that a fallback exists; an override has to be able to proceed.
This also resolves the spawn-count comment: the re-probing is what produced ~7 subprocesses per upgrade. It is now one manager query (two spawns for npm), with verification still happening before any mutating action.
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| const after = (yield* text([process.execPath, "--version"])).trim() |
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MAJOR — a successful-looking upgrade can still leave the running binary unchanged, and telemetry has already recorded "success" before this check runs
const after = (yield* text([process.execPath, "--version"])).trim()
const normalize = (v: string) => v.trim().replace(/^v/, "")
if (after && normalize(after) !== normalize(target)) {
yield* Effect.logWarning("upgrade did not change the running binary", { ... })
}Telemetry is recorded as status: "success" a few lines above (index.ts:964-972) before this verification runs. If the versions mismatch, this only writes a log warning — it does not correct the already-recorded "success" telemetry, does not fail the upgrade() call, and the CLI (cli/cmd/upgrade.ts) still prints its normal "Upgrade complete" message to the user.
Worse: if text()'s subprocess call itself fails (execPath unlaunchable), text() swallows the error and returns "", and if (after && ...) treats an empty string as "nothing to check" — so an upgrade that leaves the binary literally unrunnable also reports success.
This is round 1's "an upgrade that wrote to a different location must not pass silently" concern, now partially addressed (there's a log line) but not actually resolved from the user's or the telemetry's point of view — it still passes silently everywhere that matters.
Suggestion: Move the verification before the success-telemetry write, and return an UpgradeFailedError (or a distinct "verification failed" status) rather than a log line when the version doesn't match or the binary can't be launched — reserve "we can't be sure, allow it" for a specifically-gated dev/branch-build case, not every upgrade.
(Flagged by GPT 5.4 Codex; independently confirmed by Claude reading index.ts:962-989.)
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Fixed in 5d99234.
Verification now runs before anything is reported. The success telemetry and the logInfo("upgraded") are both inside the verified branch, so a mismatch no longer has a status: "success" event already recorded ahead of it, and upgrade() returns an UpgradeFailedError so the CLI stops printing "Upgrade complete".
On the swallowed-spawn hole: the check uses run() rather than text(), so the exit status is visible. That let me split what was one boolean into three outcomes, which I think is the honest shape:
- non-zero exit — the binary cannot be started after the upgrade → failure, telemetry
error - exit 0, different version — the upgrade landed somewhere else → failure, telemetry
error - exit 0, empty output — ran but printed nothing → logged as
could not verify the upgraded binary, not claimed either way
I did not fold the third case into failure. The hole you identified was text() hiding a failed spawn, and that is now a non-zero exit and fails. An empty-but-successful probe is a different thing, and failing a good upgrade on it would trade one false report for another.
The error message names what the binary actually reports versus the target, and points at the log file.
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MAJOR (severity disputed among reviewers) — Installation.method() is no longer spawn-free, and an actual upgrade can spawn up to ~7 subprocesses total
The PR's stated goal was removing subprocess spawns from Installation.method()'s hot path (down from up to 7). The new ownership check reintroduces 1-2 spawns into method() itself whenever the path-based candidate looks like a package manager (npm: 2, pnpm: 2, bun: 1, yarn: 2) — called from cli/upgrade.ts:108 on every startup update-check. For an actual altimate upgrade run, the same manager is queried again independently in preflight() and again in command construction (owningPackageOrScoped), plus one more for post-upgrade version verification: up to ~7 total subprocesses for one upgrade, comparable to the original bug this PR set out to fix.
Reviewers disagreed on how blocking this is:
- GLM-5.1: acceptable, necessary tradeoff — verifying ownership before a destructive/mutating action is the correct fix for round 1's PATH-drift issue, and the startup check itself is deferred via
setTimeoutso it doesn't block interactive startup. - Qwen 3.6 / MiniMax M2.7 / GPT 5.4 Codex: ownership confirmation shouldn't have been added to every
method()call — several callers (HTTP API version checks, the auto-update check) are read-only and don't need a definitive answer, only a best-effort one; it belongs only at the point of a mutating action.
Claude's read: the design is defensible — uninstall.ts genuinely needs a verified answer before deleting anything — but the repeated re-querying across method() → preflight() → owningPackageOrScoped() (see the sibling "silent fallback" finding on this PR) is not justified by that same argument, and is the more actionable half of this.
Suggestion: Have postinstall.mjs write a small marker file recording the manager and package name at install time, and have resolveInstall()/method() read that synchronously instead of spawning — falling back to the current subprocess-based ownerOf() check only for installs predating the marker or when it's missing/stale. This removes essentially all of the spawns for detection while preserving the safety property for destructive actions. (GPT 5.4 Codex and GLM-5.1 both suggested this independently.)
(Flagged by GPT 5.4 Codex, Qwen 3.6, MiniMax M2.7; GLM-5.1 disputes the severity.)
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Largely fixed in 5d99234, though by a different route than either side of the reviewer split proposed.
The ~7 subprocesses came from re-probing: method(), then preflight(), then command construction, then uninstall each re-derived ownership independently. identity() now resolves once and is memoised for the process, so an upgrade costs a single manager query (two spawns for npm) rather than one per call site.
That keeps GLM-5.1s position — verification before a mutating action is the right fix for the PATH-drift issue — without paying the cost the other three objected to. I did not make method()best-effort for read-only callers:cli/upgrade.ts` uses the same answer to decide whether to auto-upgrade, so a best-effort answer there would be acting on an unverified identity, which is the bug this PR exists to remove. With memoisation the read-only callers pay at most the first query and nothing after.
One thing I deliberately did not do: probing every manager when the path-hinted one finds no owner. It would resolve a custom layout whose directory carries no recognisable segment (your Minor #8), but it multiplies exactly the subprocess count this comment is about, to rescue a case that already degrades safely to notify-only. Recorded as a known limitation in the code and the commit rather than left implicit.
…#1305) Addresses the CHANGES_REQUESTED review on 40779c5. Its three MAJOR findings are not independent — they are two invariants this change had not finished — so they are fixed together rather than patched individually. **One identity, resolved once.** Ownership was verified in `method()`, then independently re-probed in `preflight()`, again when building the install command, and once more in `uninstall`. Each was a separate manager query that could fail or race independent of the one before it, and `owningPackageOrScoped()` turned a later failure into a silent substitution of the scoped package name. For a confirmed UNSCOPED install that meant upgrade installed a second, scoped copy while the real one stayed stale — reporting success — and uninstall deleted the user's data, then removed a package that was never installed. `identity()` now resolves once and is memoised for the process; nothing it reads can change while the binary is running. `packageFor()` uses the verified owner, and when a caller forces `--method`, or ownership is unconfirmed, it logs that it is assuming the scoped name rather than substituting quietly. That also answers the third finding: an upgrade previously spawned ~7 manager subprocesses because every call site re-derived the answer. It is now a single query (two spawns for npm), while keeping verification before any mutating action. **Report what actually happened.** Telemetry recorded `status: "success"` and the CLI printed "Upgrade complete" BEFORE checking whether the running binary had changed; a mismatch only wrote a log warning. The check also used `text()`, which swallows a failed spawn and returns "", and an empty string was read as "nothing to verify" — so an upgrade that left the binary unrunnable reported success. Verification now runs first, via `run()` so the exit status is visible, and distinguishes three outcomes: a non-zero exit (the binary cannot start) and a contradicting version both fail the upgrade and record an error; exit 0 with no output is reported as unverifiable rather than being claimed either way. Review minors, all fixed: * uninstall no longer tells the user to "re-run" a command whose binary they have just removed; it names the data/config/cache/state directories to delete by hand. * per-manager removal and upgrade syntax — `bun remove -g` and `yarn global remove` are not `<manager> uninstall -g`. * Windows recovery text no longer prints POSIX-only paths and `curl … | bash`; it uses `%USERPROFILE%\.altimate\bin` and the PowerShell installer. * `--method` no longer offers `choco`/`scoop`, which `Installation.upgrade()` always refuses. Help snapshot updated. * the ambiguous trailing "(or altimate-code)" is now an explicit sentence about the scoped vs unscoped package name. * `bunGlobalRoot()` falls back to BUN_INSTALL when a configured `install.globalBinDir` breaks the derivation, and returns "" when bun reports nothing. * stale comment claiming the failure log "stays local" — the claim `redactSecrets()`'s own docblock calls false — removed. * `ownership.test.ts` no longer leaks a temp directory per run; short-token redaction shapes pinned. Known limitation, deliberate: only the manager the path points at is queried. Probing every manager would resolve a custom layout whose directory carries no recognisable segment, but it multiplies the subprocess count this change exists to reduce, to rescue a case that already degrades safely to notify-only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2 existing issues remain and 3 new issues found across 7 files (changes from recent commits).
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<file name="packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/upgrade.ts">
<violation number="1" location="packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/upgrade.ts:67">
P2: When `method` is `yarn`, this recovery message gives no Yarn command even though Yarn installs are detected and routed here. Add `yarn global add altimate-code@latest` to the manual upgrade options.</violation>
</file>
<file name="packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts">
<violation number="1" location="packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts:589">
P2: Concurrent callers can enter `identity()` before `cached` is assigned, so the promised single resolution is not actually memoized in flight and a slower failed probe can overwrite a successful identity. Use an in-flight Effect cache (for example `Effect.cached`) for the identity effect.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts:1021">
P1: When a Homebrew upgrade replaces the versioned Cellar directory containing the running executable, this verification reruns the now-removed old path and reports a successful upgrade as failed. Verify through the stable Homebrew link or the newly installed formula path instead of invoking the versioned `process.execPath`.</violation>
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| // `run()` gives us the exit status, so an unrunnable binary is a failure rather than | ||
| // an absent answer. | ||
| const verify = yield* run([process.execPath, "--version"]) |
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P1: When a Homebrew upgrade replaces the versioned Cellar directory containing the running executable, this verification reruns the now-removed old path and reports a successful upgrade as failed. Verify through the stable Homebrew link or the newly installed formula path instead of invoking the versioned process.execPath.
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@@ -948,19 +1002,81 @@ export const layer: Layer.Layer<Service, never, HttpClient.HttpClient | AppProce
+ //
+ // `run()` gives us the exit status, so an unrunnable binary is a failure rather than
+ // an absent answer.
+ const verify = yield* run([process.execPath, "--version"])
+ const normalize = (v: string) => v.trim().replace(/^v/, "")
+ const after = verify.stdout.trim()
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| prompts.log.info("Upgrade with whichever tool installed it:") | ||
| prompts.log.info(" npm: npm install -g altimate-code@latest") | ||
| prompts.log.info(" pnpm: pnpm install -g altimate-code@latest") | ||
| prompts.log.info(" bun: bun install -g altimate-code@latest") |
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P2: When method is yarn, this recovery message gives no Yarn command even though Yarn installs are detected and routed here. Add yarn global add altimate-code@latest to the manual upgrade options.
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@@ -57,10 +61,17 @@ export const UpgradeCommand = {
+ prompts.log.info("Upgrade with whichever tool installed it:")
+ prompts.log.info(" npm: npm install -g altimate-code@latest")
+ prompts.log.info(" pnpm: pnpm install -g altimate-code@latest")
+ prompts.log.info(" bun: bun install -g altimate-code@latest")
+ prompts.log.info(" Homebrew: brew upgrade altimate-code")
+ prompts.log.info(
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| prompts.log.info(" bun: bun install -g altimate-code@latest") | |
| prompts.log.info(" bun: bun install -g altimate-code@latest") | |
| prompts.log.info(" yarn: yarn global add altimate-code@latest") |
| * that already degrades safely to notify-only. Known limitation, recorded deliberately. */ | ||
| let cached: ResolvedIdentity | undefined | ||
| const identity = Effect.fnUntraced(function* () { | ||
| if (cached) return cached |
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P2: Concurrent callers can enter identity() before cached is assigned, so the promised single resolution is not actually memoized in flight and a slower failed probe can overwrite a successful identity. Use an in-flight Effect cache (for example Effect.cached) for the identity effect.
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@@ -541,31 +564,60 @@ export const layer: Layer.Layer<Service, never, HttpClient.HttpClient | AppProce
+ * that already degrades safely to notify-only. Known limitation, recorded deliberately. */
+ let cached: ResolvedIdentity | undefined
+ const identity = Effect.fnUntraced(function* () {
+ if (cached) return cached
+ const candidate = resolveInstall().method
+ const layout = yield* globalLayout(candidate)
</file context>
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Fixes #1305.
The bug
Installation.method()never established where the running executable came from — it guessed, two ways, and both were unsound.1. Substring test on
process.execPath.~/.local/binis a generic user bin directory, not a marker of a standalone install. Withnpm config set prefix ~/.local— a common way to avoid needingsudo— an npm install was classifiedcurl, soaltimate upgraderancurl … | bash, wrote a standalone binary, and left the npm-managed copy stale and orphaned. Two installs then coexisted and PATH order decided which ran.2. A probe loop that asked the wrong question.
npm list -g,brew list, etc., returning the first manager whose output mentioned the package. That answers "is this installed anywhere?", not "did this running binary come from you" — so with more than one install present the result was effectively arbitrary, and upgrades targeted an install the user was not running.On top of that, the in-app Update now button could never succeed on a root-owned npm prefix:
upgrade()shelled out as the current user with no writability check, npm failed withEACCES, and the error surfaced as a genericUpgrade failed for npm (exit code 243).The fix
resolveInstall()— resolve, don't guess. Resolvesrealpath(process.execPath)and matches the package segment. The npmbin/altimateshim is a Node script thatspawnSync()s the per-platform package, so inside the CLIexecPathis:i.e. it always lands under
node_modulesfor every package-manager install. The optional-<platform>-<arch>suffix is matched explicitly rather than relying on the wrapper name happening to be a prefix of the platform package name. Homebrew is matched on theCellarsegment (not the prefix —/usr/localcollides with a common npm prefix), and.local/binis gone.This removes up to seven subprocess spawns from the startup update-check path; the new resolver spawns nothing.
Writability preflight. An upgrade that cannot succeed is now refused before shelling out, naming the directory and the exact remedy:
Uses
npm root -grather than<prefix>/lib/node_modules(Unix-only — Windows puts packages at<prefix>/node_modulesand shims at<prefix>), and derives the bin dir fromnpm prefix -gbecausenpm bin -gwas removed in npm 9. pnpm/yarn check both the root and the bin dir, since a global install writes both. brew/scoop/choco are skipped — their tooling owns elevation.A directory that does not exist yet is not a permission problem, so only an existing unwritable directory blocks.
Non-permission failures are now diagnosable. The failure branch had an asymmetry:
The real diagnostic output was logged on success and discarded on failure. So network loss,
E404,ENOSPCor a failing lifecycle script all collapsed into the same opaque message with nothing written anywhere, and telemetry got the generic string too — every failed upgrade looked identical on a dashboard.Now: the real stdout/stderr is logged locally (the log file never leaves the machine, and the success path already wrote the same content), the user-facing message adds a classified hint plus a pointer to the log, and telemetry records a stable code (
permission,network,not-found,disk-full,no-matching-version,unknown) with the exit status. The user-facing message and the telemetry payload stay redacted — stderr is never echoed into either.Not included, deliberately
No auto-
sudo. A TUI cannot host an interactive password prompt safely,sudo npm install -gruns package lifecycle scripts as root, and it would let a network-sourced version check trigger root-level writes. The message tells the user what to run instead.Tests
New
test/installation/resolve-install.test.ts— 16 table-driven cases over fabricated layouts (npm default prefix, npm under~/.local, pnpm virtual store and plain global link, bun, yarn, brew on both Apple Silicon and Intel prefixes, standalone current and pre-v0.7.1, scoop, choco, dev build, pinnedALTIMATE_CODE_BIN_PATH).resolveInstall()is pure in(execPath, env)precisely so these layouts can be tested without real installs.Four existing tests asserted on source text or exact error strings and were updated to track the new contract while preserving their intent:
test/install/upgrade-method.test.tstoContain("exec.includes(a.name)").local/binregression testtest/branding/upstream-merge-guard.test.tsmethod:block for@altimateai/altimate-codeopencode-aitest/installation/installation.test.ts(×2)test/release-validation/windows-installer-930.test.ts"unknown: exit 1"; redaction assertions unchangedThe brand guard and the redaction guards were updated, never weakened — every
not.toContain("secret")assertion still stands.Follow-ups (not in this PR)
uninstallroutes onmethod()(cmd/uninstall.ts:62), so detection changes what gets deleted. Accuracy improves it, but it should enumerate other discoverablealtimatebinaries rather than silently removing one — otherwise a corrected detection can leave the orphan that causes the shadowing bug in the first place.vscode-extensionis unmodeled.welcome.ts:15calls it "the dominant installer by volume", yetInstallation.Methodhas no such variant; those installs resolve tounknown(notify-only), which is safe but not right.Installation.method()(upgrades) andwelcome.ts readInstallMethod()(telemetry, marker-based and single-use). This PR fixes the first only.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
Summary by cubic
Fixes #1305. Installation detection now resolves the running executable and confirms package-manager ownership before upgrading or uninstalling, so actions target the install the user is actually running. Unmanaged installs fail safely with actionable guidance, and upgrade failures now include classified, redacted diagnostics.
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