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ADR-0012 says a Knowledge base plugin is registered on each machine, by name, and that a Topic records only the name. This adds the registry and the commands that change it (mordor-forge#79). Nothing starts or contacts a plugin yet, and no Topic names one. study knowledge-base add <name> (--url URL | -- <command> [args...]), list and remove <name>, each with --json, and with --dry-run and shell completion of the registered names where they apply. CLI-only. Decisions: - The file is knowledge-base-plugins.json in Lamplight's configuration folder, beside config.toml: a format number and the plugins as a list ordered by name. JSON, like the other files only study writes. It is created for the learner alone to read, since a URL may carry a key. A newer format is refused before anything else in it is read. Anything this version cannot vouch for whole, an unknown key included, is corrupt, with advice. A registry that is a symbolic link is not followed. - The registry is read only where the agent cannot write it. When the configuration folder is the Study home or inside it, by its path or through a link, or is not an absolute path, the registry is not read and the three commands say why (failed_precondition). Everything else in study works as before. - It lives in the core, behind Core (Plugins, AddPlugin, RemovePlugin): it needs the Study home, the environment and the folder study started in, and the core is what will look a Topic's plugin up. - A name follows the rule of a Topic's id. none and plugin, the kinds of Knowledge base a Topic records, are refused. - A command's program is found in the absolute folders of PATH, or from the folder study started in, and stored as an absolute path with its links unresolved, so a package manager's link survives an upgrade. A program inside the Study home is refused, by its path and by where its links lead. The arguments are kept as given. - Registering a plugin as it is registered changes nothing. Another command or URL under a registered name is already_exists, unless --replace is given. - A change takes the lock of a file beside the registry, plans again under it and replaces the file whole, so two changes at once keep each other's. A dry run, and a change that changes nothing or cannot be made, take no lock and make nothing. - It records no Event: the registry is the computer's and no Topic's. - No MCP tool. Tests fail if the server's source names an operation of the core that changes the registry, or imports what could write a file itself, and if a tool's input has a field for a program, an address or a plugin that the test does not know. list also says when a registered program is inside the Study home this study uses, which can happen when the Study home was another then. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MiRo28rkKaL63n4NpMDWX3
…indings A review of 69957c7 showed that the registry's promise, that nothing the agent can write decides which program study starts, did not hold. "Inside the Study home" was decided from names, at the first hop of a path and at its end, and the folder was then opened again by name. This closes the nine points the review raised (mordor-forge#79). - A path is now followed one name at a time, each folder opened from the one before it and each symbolic link followed from the folder that really holds it, and is refused as soon as it enters the Study home, wherever it ends. The Study home is known by file identity, not by name, so another letter case, link or mount of it is still the Study home; one that is not there yet is known by where it will be. Lamplight's configuration folder is found that way once, and the registry is read, locked and written through the folder as it was opened. A program is checked the same way, and pluginregistry.OpenProgram returns it open for whoever starts it: the file is started, and its path is not resolved again. - An argument that names something in the Study home, as a whole or after an =, is refused unless --allow-study-home-arguments is given; the entry records it (allow_study_home_arguments, format still 1) and list flags a plugin whose argument is there without it. An argument that names a file relative to where the command was typed is refused, since a plugin is started from the registry's folder. docs/cli.md says that this catches the honest mistake and is no guarantee, and that no check of a path sees a hard link. - What changes the registry moved out of the core, into internal/pluginregistry/registrar, which only internal/cli imports. internal/pluginregistry reads it, and the core and the MCP server link that. What the two share, the opened configuration folder included, is in an internal package neither the core nor the server can import. A test fails when go list -deps ./internal/mcpserver holds the registrar, so a wrapper in the core can no longer register a plugin for a tool. The tests that look at names stay as a second line, and split camelCase. - A change never writes a registry study would not read back: one over the 1 MiB the reader takes is refused before the lock, in the dry run too. - A dry run looks at everything the change needs and fails where the real run would, with the same message: a folder that cannot be written in or made, a link that leads nowhere, a lock that is no regular file or cannot be opened. Each is failed_precondition with advice. - The reader takes exactly what the writer writes. Now corrupt: a program path that is not clean, bytes that are no text, a null, a key in another letter case, a key given twice (the format included), a URL not written as add cleans it. U+200E, U+200F and U+061C are refused in arguments like the other characters that change the direction of text. - add refuses a program path with .. in it, which leads elsewhere by name than through a link. - The registry's lock is never opened through a link. list quotes a word that starts with =. A refused URL is not repeated, so its password is not; a port of 0 or above 65535 and a #fragment are refused. The registry's errors carry the documented codes on a type of their own, which core.CodeOf reads. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MiRo28rkKaL63n4NpMDWX3
The registry decides "inside the Study home" by file identity at every step, checks a command's arguments as it checks its program, and keeps what writes the registry in a package only the CLI imports. ADR-0012 now says so, with the reason for each. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MiRo28rkKaL63n4NpMDWX3
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a per-computer Knowledge base plugin registry, CLI commands to manage it, and read-only registry access through core. It validates registry data and checks registry and plugin paths against the Study home. Tests and documentation describe these behaviors and the CLI-only write boundary. ChangesKnowledge base plugin registry
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CLI
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CLI->>Registrar: Add or remove plugin
Registrar->>RegistryFile: Read and validate registry
Registrar->>RegistryFile: Lock and recheck change
Registrar->>RegistryFile: Write updated registry
Registrar-->>CLI: Return operation result
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The new knowledge-base commands look sound. The usage line in docs/cli.md shows 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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67-73: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winWrite the invisible format characters in test literals as escapes. The test inputs contain raw Unicode format and bidi control characters that a reader cannot see. If an editor drops one of these characters, a test case no longer checks what its name says. Raw bidi controls in source also trigger Trojan Source warnings. staticcheck ST1018 reports the Go literals.
internal/pluginregistry/internal/regfile/command_test.go#L67-L73: replace the raw U+202E, U+202A, U+2066, U+2069, U+200E, U+200F and U+061C characters with\u202e,\u202a,\u2066,\u2069,\u200e,\u200fand\u061c.internal/pluginregistry/internal/regfile/command_test.go#L47-L47: replace the raw zero-width joiner with\u200d.internal/pluginregistry/internal/regfile/file_test.go#L196-L199: replace the raw characters inside the JSON raw strings with JSON escapes (\u202e,\u200e,\u200f,\u061c). The decoder produces the same runes.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @docs/cli.md:
- Line 38: Update the `study knowledge-base add` syntax so
`--allow-study-home-arguments`, `--replace`, and `--dry-run` appear before the
`-- <command> [args...]` separator, not as plugin arguments.
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Review comments at @internal/pluginregistry/internal/regfile/command_test.go:
- Around line 67-73: Replace the invisible Unicode characters in the test
literals with explicit escapes, preserving the same test inputs. In
internal/pluginregistry/internal/regfile/command_test.go lines 67-73, escape the
listed bidi controls; at lines 47-47, escape the zero-width joiner as \u200d. In
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…characters in tests Review: the documented syntax of study knowledge-base add put its flags after -- <command>, where they would be taken as the plugin's arguments. And the registry's tests held raw bidirectional and zero-width characters in their literals, which no reader can see; they are written as escapes now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MiRo28rkKaL63n4NpMDWX3
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…nable means runnable by this user Two findings on the registry's walk (mordor-forge#79). A Walker that was made while the Study home did not exist knew it only by where it would be, and applied that only to paths that did not exist either. When another study made the Study home before the walk got there, a first study topic create racing study knowledge-base add, every name existed, nothing compared it with anything, and a program, an argument or a configuration folder inside the new Study home was taken for outside. The Walker now looks for the Study home again at every folder for as long as it knows none, and takes its identity as soon as it is there. Once it is known by what it is, where it would have been no longer counts. A program counted as runnable when any execute bit was set, so a file whose only execute bit is for others, or for the group, on a file the learner owns, was registered although they cannot run it. The system is now asked whether the user study runs as may run the file, through the folder the walk ended in and not through the path again. On PATH such a file is passed over, as a shell passes it over. What OpenProgram opens must be the file the walk looked at: another file put under the name meanwhile is refused, since nobody checked it. pluginregistry.Read and pluginregistry.OpenProgram keep their signatures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MiRo28rkKaL63n4NpMDWX3
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When another process repoints a registered symlink into the Study home after w.OpenProgram has safely opened its original target, this call invokes problem, which runs CheckProgram on the path again and rejects the already-open safe descriptor based on the new target. That makes startup race link changes and contradicts the descriptor-handoff guarantee; use an argument-only check here and reserve the full program check for listings.
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When PATH starts with a Topic-local directory such as $STUDY_HOME/topic/.venv/bin, CheckProgram returns InsideError as soon as it enters the Study home even if that directory has no file named by program, so this branch rejects a later global executable. The standard-library os/exec.LookPath contract says it “searches for an executable ... in the directories named by PATH,” and its Unix loop returns only when a candidate is executable; continue when the inside candidate itself is absent or non-runnable, while still refusing an executable actually found there.
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On a case-sensitive Linux filesystem, if the Study home and configuration path are both still missing below the same parent (for example /home/u/study and /home/u/Study/config), EqualFold treats their first components as identical and rejects every registry command as being inside the Study home. These are distinct future folders on that filesystem, so prospective-name comparison must reflect the filesystem's case behavior rather than unconditionally folding case.
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When an option is --config=-local.toml and the regular file -local.toml exists in the invocation directory, candidates produces the extracted value but this condition skips it because it starts with -. The registration then succeeds even though the plugin starts in the registry directory and resolves that relative filename somewhere else; only treat the original whole option as a flag, not its value after =.
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The Knowledge base plugin registry and its commands (#79, the first step of ADR-0012). No plugin is started yet: that is #80.
knowledge-base-plugins.json, with aformatnumber, besideconfig.toml, created 0600. It is not read when Lamplight's configuration folder is the Study home or inside it.--allow-study-home-argumentsis given, which the entry records.Evidence
An independent review attacked the first commit and broke the main promise four ways. Each is now a test.
Before, a configuration folder reached through a link in the Study home, while the agent flips that link:
After, the same race against the new binary:
read 0 times in 400.Before, on a file system that ignores case, with
STUDY_HOME=…/Study:After: refused. The identity rule's tests also pass on a casefold tmpfs.
Before, a planted MCP tool that reached
AddPluginthrough one wrapper in the core kept every test green and wrote the registry over MCP.After: the same shape fails the dependency test, because the core cannot import
registrar.Before:
add x -- python3 <Study home>/topic/kb.pyregistered a script the agent could rewrite. After: refused, with the flag to allow it named in the advice.Before:
addat the documented limits wrote a registry over the reader's 1 MiB cap, after which every command called it damaged. After: refused before the lock, and in the dry run.Held from the start, and rerun on the final binary: 60 processes changing the registry at once lose nothing; 311 SIGKILLs at random moments leave a registry that parses; about 100 malformed registries give
corruptornewer_format, never a panic and never a rewrite.make lint,make test(-race),go test -shuffle=on ./...andGOOS=darwin go vet ./...pass. 66 mutations of the new code each fail a test.Merge Danger
Door: two-way
Nothing reads the registry to start a program yet. The file's shape becomes harder to change once #80 uses it.
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docs/cli.md: a hard link outside the Study home to a file inside it cannot be seen;sh -c,envand the like decide more at start than a check of arguments can; the walk needs to list each folder on the way.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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