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Summary

  • preserve a non-empty SOURCEBOT_INSTALL_ID supplied through the environment on first boot
  • generate an ID with uuidgen only when no value is supplied, while propagating generator failures
  • safely construct persisted state and PostHog payloads with jq --arg so arbitrary supplied values cannot corrupt JSON
  • retain the existing behavior where .installedv3 is authoritative after first boot
  • add an entrypoint regression harness covering supplied, generated, persisted, escaped, restart, upgrade-telemetry, and generation-failure paths

This enables callers such as setup-sourcebot to hand an installation identity into a newly created Sourcebot deployment, allowing setup telemetry and deployment telemetry to use the same ID.

Testing

  • .github/scripts/test-entrypoint-install-id.sh
  • /bin/sh -n entrypoint.sh
  • bash -n .github/scripts/test-entrypoint-install-id.sh
  • shellcheck -e SC3037 entrypoint.sh .github/scripts/test-entrypoint-install-id.sh
  • git diff --check

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Medium Risk
Changes container startup identity and telemetry HTTP behavior; mistakes could mis-attribute installs or break first-boot when uuidgen fails, but scope is limited to entrypoint.sh with new regression tests.

Overview
First-boot install identity now honors a non-empty SOURCEBOT_INSTALL_ID from the environment instead of always calling uuidgen, while still generating an ID when unset and leaving .installedv3 authoritative on later boots.

Safer persistence and telemetry: .installedv3 and PostHog install/upgrade payloads are built with jq --arg so special characters in install IDs cannot break JSON, and telemetry curl calls add --proto-redir '=https' to avoid following insecure redirects.

CI: adds .github/scripts/test-entrypoint-install-id.sh (fake uuidgen/curl harness) and wires it into the vulnerability-automation workflow to cover supplied, generated, persisted, upgrade, redirect-policy, and uuidgen-failure paths.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Preserves a provided SOURCEBOT_INSTALL_ID during initial startup.
    • Generates a new install ID only when none is supplied.
    • Retains the persisted install ID on subsequent startups.
    • Safely preserves special characters in install IDs sent through telemetry.
    • Prevents incomplete installation metadata when ID generation fails.
    • Blocks insecure HTTP redirects during telemetry submission.
  • Tests

    • Expanded automated coverage for install-ID selection, telemetry payloads, redirect handling, and generation failures.
    • Added workflow automation to run these checks.

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Walkthrough

The entrypoint preserves supplied install IDs, generates missing IDs, and writes telemetry and installation metadata as validated JSON. Telemetry redirects remain HTTPS-only and retain POST behavior. Tests cover escaped IDs, persisted IDs, redirect handling, UUID failure, and CI execution.

Changes

Install ID and telemetry behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Entrypoint install ID selection
entrypoint.sh
The entrypoint preserves supplied IDs, generates IDs only when absent, reads persisted metadata, builds JSON with jq, and restricts telemetry redirects to HTTPS.
Install ID scenario validation
.github/scripts/test-entrypoint-install-id.sh, .github/workflows/test.yml
The test captures telemetry payloads, validates escaped supplied and persisted IDs, verifies HTTP 307 and 308 redirects are blocked without changing POST requests, checks UUID generation failure cleanup, and runs in CI.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 7ddc3

UUID generation failures stop startup rather than saving an empty installation identity. No active merge risk remains.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: preserving a supplied Sourcebot install ID during first boot.
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In `@entrypoint.sh`:
- Line 151: Update the first-run branch around SOURCEBOT_INSTALL_ID so uuidgen’s
status is checked before exporting the value: assign its output first, handle a
failed uuidgen command without continuing, then export the validated ID and use
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touch "$FIRST_RUN_FILE"
export SOURCEBOT_INSTALL_ID=$(uuidgen)
if [ -z "$SOURCEBOT_INSTALL_ID" ]; then
export SOURCEBOT_INSTALL_ID=$(uuidgen)

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

output=$(/bin/sh -c 'set -e; export SOURCEBOT_INSTALL_ID="$(false)"; printf "continued:%s\n" "$SOURCEBOT_INSTALL_ID"')
test "$output" = "continued:"

Repository: sourcebot-dev/sourcebot

Length of output: 161


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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- entrypoint.sh (relevant sections) ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- file metadata ---'
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Repository: sourcebot-dev/sourcebot

Length of output: 9692


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Preserve the uuidgen failure status.

In the first-run branch, export can succeed when uuidgen fails. The empty SOURCEBOT_INSTALL_ID is then sent to telemetry and written to FIRST_RUN_FILE. Assign the value first, check the command result, and then export it.

Proposed fix
-        export SOURCEBOT_INSTALL_ID=$(uuidgen)
+        SOURCEBOT_INSTALL_ID="$(uuidgen)" || exit 1
+        export SOURCEBOT_INSTALL_ID
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export SOURCEBOT_INSTALL_ID=$(uuidgen)
SOURCEBOT_INSTALL_ID="$(uuidgen)" || exit 1
export SOURCEBOT_INSTALL_ID
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[warning] 151-151: Declare and assign separately to avoid masking return values.

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[warning] 151-151: Quote this to prevent word splitting.

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In `@entrypoint.sh` at line 151, Update the first-run branch around
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then export the validated ID and use it for telemetry and FIRST_RUN_FILE.

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In `@entrypoint.sh`:
- Line 163: Restrict curl redirects to HTTPS for both telemetry requests in
entrypoint.sh at lines 163 and 184 by adding the HTTPS-only redirect policy
alongside -L, or remove redirect following if unnecessary; preserve POST
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1 issue found across 2 files (changes from recent commits).

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<file name=".github/scripts/test-entrypoint-install-id.sh">

<violation number="1" location=".github/scripts/test-entrypoint-install-id.sh:138">
P3: The redirect-policy assertions verify that the entrypoint passes `-L`, `--proto-redir '=https'`, and `-d` to the mock, but they do not exercise real curl's redirect handling. The "POST" method shown in the log is produced by the mock's own `-d` parser, so "without changing the POST method" and "never follows an insecure telemetry redirect" don't validate that a real curl invocation would refuse an http downgrade or preserve the body. The tests provide solid regression coverage of the flags; consider rewording the assertions so the descriptions match what they actually verify (flag presence), or dropping the method-preservation claim.</violation>
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echo "FAIL: install telemetry payload did not safely encode the supplied install ID"
exit 1
fi
assert_equals "blocks an HTTP 307 redirect without changing the POST method" "$(sed -n '1p' "$CURL_REDIRECT_POLICY_LOG")" "307|true|=https|POST"

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P3: The redirect-policy assertions verify that the entrypoint passes -L, --proto-redir '=https', and -d to the mock, but they do not exercise real curl's redirect handling. The "POST" method shown in the log is produced by the mock's own -d parser, so "without changing the POST method" and "never follows an insecure telemetry redirect" don't validate that a real curl invocation would refuse an http downgrade or preserve the body. The tests provide solid regression coverage of the flags; consider rewording the assertions so the descriptions match what they actually verify (flag presence), or dropping the method-preservation claim.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At .github/scripts/test-entrypoint-install-id.sh, line 138:

<comment>The redirect-policy assertions verify that the entrypoint passes `-L`, `--proto-redir '=https'`, and `-d` to the mock, but they do not exercise real curl's redirect handling. The "POST" method shown in the log is produced by the mock's own `-d` parser, so "without changing the POST method" and "never follows an insecure telemetry redirect" don't validate that a real curl invocation would refuse an http downgrade or preserve the body. The tests provide solid regression coverage of the flags; consider rewording the assertions so the descriptions match what they actually verify (flag presence), or dropping the method-preservation claim.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -99,19 +135,22 @@ if ! jq -e --arg expected "$supplied_id" \
   echo "FAIL: install telemetry payload did not safely encode the supplied install ID"
   exit 1
 fi
+assert_equals "blocks an HTTP 307 redirect without changing the POST method" "$(sed -n '1p' "$CURL_REDIRECT_POLICY_LOG")" "307|true|=https|POST"
 
 # Exercise the next-boot read and upgrade telemetry paths with the same escaped ID.
</file context>

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