fix(server): refuse PR handoffs in unrelated checkouts#23368

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Problem

When a linked pull request has no matching project checkout, PR details can borrow another project's host credentials. Resolve, Fix, and Checkout then use that unrelated directory to fetch the PR or create a worktree.

Change

Validate the resolved pull request's base and head repository identities against the checkout's remotes before either local or worktree preparation changes git state. Return the existing checkout error when neither matches. Read fallback continues to work. Raw and rewritten remote URLs preserve local mirrors, insteadOf shorthand, and the existing GitHub SSH alias mapping. Provider refinement retains supported Forgejo SSH identities; HTTP ports and serving URL prefixes distinguish separate repositories. The committed browser fixture is registered as an intended Knip entry, and both seeders use fixture.json for the repository root.

Scope and approval

Fixes #16455 GitCafe: https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/16455 Triaged bug via the automated issue flow. This fixes the wrong-repository mutation reported in #16455.

Related work: #20727, #20728.

Verification

Additional visible difference: successful baseline draft shows Astra, while the refused handoff shows Sol. This is included in the evidence comparison.

  • On main e075957, the wrong-checkout regression fails with expected 'Success' to be 'Failure': red output.
  • At 7ec918e, vp test run src/git/GitManager.test.ts from apps/server passes all 115 tests: full output. Coverage includes both refusal modes before fetch, HTTP ports, different serving roots, mounted HTTPS/SSH forks, URL rewrites and GitHub SSH aliases. The two serving-root refusal cases fail before the correction: red assertions.
  • Two isolated final source reviews (GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5) found no blocking findings at 7ec918e.
  • Targeted lint and format passed at the production guard revision. A scoped server typecheck exposed four test-scenario literal-widening errors; 21d4399 gives both scenarios the existing FakeGhScenario type. The local typecheck process timed out after emitting diagnostics. CI on 21d4399 subsequently passed all 30 checks, including Build and Typecheck, all server/web tests, lint, CodeRabbit and Macroscope. The fixture temporary-root check accepts a resolved /tmp symlink and rejects the temporary directory itself, sibling paths and escapes; verified with a Python symlink diagnostic. Production code is unchanged by this follow-up.

Evidence

The paired captures below remain pinned to their recorded revisions. Later server-only identity corrections are verified by focused regression tests; the captures are not relabelled to the latest head.

Before e075957; after 060ffe0. Real isolated dev apps, Chromium 154 on Linux, DPR 2, 100% visual scale, system UI font, 1440×900 and 390×844 CSS pixels. Client clock fixed at 2026-10-22 04:30 UTC; server and video clocks remain real. Matching initial thread state, sidebar, panel tab, scroll, and theme. No masks.

For each pair: open the linked PR panel → Check out → In a separate worktree → await the terminal outcome. Baseline adds a fork remote and attempts the fetch; the dark narrow baseline completes checkout in the unrelated project. The fixed version refuses the unrelated checkout in every cell.

1440x900-light

Before recording · After recording

Approximate elapsed video observations (each clip begins at 00:00; sampled frames, not exact click times):

Before: 00:00 initial linked details; ≈00:02.5 Checkout menu visible; ≈00:03.1 preparing visible; ≈00:04.0 unrelated draft visible; ≈00:38.0 materialization failure visible.

After: 00:00 initial linked details; ≈00:02.5 Checkout menu visible; ≈00:03.6 preparing visible; ≈00:04.0 unrelated draft visible; ≈00:04.8 repository mismatch refusal visible.

1440x900-dark

Before recording · After recording

Approximate elapsed video observations (each clip begins at 00:00; sampled frames, not exact click times):

Before: 00:00 initial linked details; ≈00:02.5 Checkout menu visible; ≈00:03.1 preparing visible; ≈00:03.5 unrelated draft visible; ≈00:35.1 materialization failure visible.

After: 00:00 initial linked details; ≈00:02.5 Checkout menu visible; ≈00:03.1 preparing visible; ≈00:03.6 unrelated draft visible; ≈00:20.0 slow-request warning visible; ≈00:30.5 repository mismatch refusal visible (warning briefly remains above it).

390x844-light

Before recording · After recording

Approximate elapsed video observations (each clip begins at 00:00; sampled frames, not exact click times):

Before: 00:00 initial linked details; ≈00:01.6 Checkout menu visible; ≈00:02.0 preparing visible; ≈00:02.5 unrelated draft visible; ≈00:33.0 slow-request warning visible; ≈00:34.1 materialization failure visible.

After: 00:00 initial linked details; ≈00:02.0 Checkout menu visible; ≈00:02.5 preparing visible; ≈00:03.0 unrelated draft visible; ≈00:03.5 repository mismatch refusal visible.

390x844-dark

Before recording · After recording

Approximate elapsed video observations (each clip begins at 00:00; sampled frames, not exact click times):

Before: 00:00 initial linked details; ≈00:02.0 Checkout menu visible; ≈00:02.5 unrelated draft/preparing visible; ≈00:43.1 slow-request warning still visible; ≈00:45.6 green Checked out success visible; success remains through ≈00:54.4.

After: 00:00 initial linked details; ≈00:02.0 Checkout menu visible; ≈00:02.5 unrelated draft/preparing visible; ≈00:03.3 repository mismatch refusal visible.

The terminal error text, wrapping, toast height, copy control, shadows, timing, pointer/focus states, and video compression differ. In the successful dark narrow baseline, worktree/branch controls and the draft model label also differ (Astra before, Sol after); both drafts remain empty. Initial layout/content match closely, with remaining glyph/icon/cursor and compressed-region pixel differences. No zero-difference claim.

Local checkout and dismiss/retry recording: local refusal → click its close control → reload and reopen the linked panel → worktree retry → refusal → click the close control. The clip ends before the final toast visibly clears.

Latest integrated real-client check at 4f61cbc: Chromium 154 Linux, CSS 1280×800, DPR 2, real clock. Recording starts 06:28:11.824 UTC at the linked panel; Check out → In a separate worktree → mismatch refusal visible by 06:28:22.685; terminal frame retained before stopping at 06:28:31.913. Local git config, refs, HEAD, status and worktree list compare equal. No provider turn was started. The subsequent serving-root correction changes server identity matching only.

Integrated Checkout recording · Transcript

Integrated checkout refusal

Runtime transcript: PR details succeed before and after both refused checkout modes. Local config, refs, HEAD, status, and worktree snapshots remain identical. Primary integrated check confirms the real-client refusal and unchanged repository state.

Committed fixture · Raw recordings, initial frames, differences, manifests and runtime snapshots. Full evidence index. Independent proof audit: sufficient for these scoped recordings. Rebuilt settled frame differs at 37.6585% of pixels above zero and 0.2135% above 16/255, including pointer/caret and encoding differences; layout and refusal text match. Fresh app-record creation by the fixture was not checked; existing isolated records were reused.

Unverified: Electron shell, native iOS and Android, relay/tunnel connections, and separate final-client Fix/Resolve, prompt-link, and branch-dialog actions. Those checkout callers reach the same server guard.

Model: GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 | Harness: Codex and Claude Code in T3 Code

Checks

24 successful · 10 skipped · 1 neutral
All checks passed
21d4399

Added 9 commits

  • test(server): add isolated PR handoff reproduction fixture060ffe0
  • fix(server): PR checkout accepts GitHub SSH host alias remotes0ad50b9
  • Merge commit 'defb7e6e6b87d03259745367214db13060fb322b' into fix/issue-164553ce96ed
  • test(server): refuse PR worktree checkout in another repository's checkout52a3ab6
  • fix(server): PR checkout accepts insteadOf shorthand remotes6f8fcb6
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/issue-1645589ae33f
  • feat(server): webhook filters fan out over arrays with a [] path wildcarda50cd98
  • fix(server): PR checkout refuses a project that is not a checkout of its repositoryae1a340
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/issue-16455ebe3e15
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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This fixes an important wrong-checkout mutation, but it adds substantial repository-identity resolution and a new gate before existing checkout/worktree flows, including provider-specific and URL-rewrite cases. The breadth of runtime matching logic merits human review.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ProviderMetricMain baselineThis PRImpactPR ceiling
CodexTotal thread wire5.0 KiB5.0 KiB−7 B (−0.1%)6.8 KiB✅
CodexThread snapshot wire3.8 KiB3.8 KiB0 B (0.0%)4.9 KiB✅
CodexLive turn WebSocket wire1.2 KiB1.2 KiB−7 B (−0.6%)2.0 KiB✅
CodexLive turn WebSocket decoded20.9 KiB20.9 KiB0 B (0.0%)29.3 KiB✅
CodexLive turn messages220 (0.0%)8✅
ClaudeTotal thread wire5.0 KiB5.0 KiB+24 B (+0.5%)6.8 KiB✅
ClaudeThread snapshot wire3.8 KiB3.8 KiB0 B (0.0%)4.9 KiB✅
ClaudeLive turn WebSocket wire1.2 KiB1.2 KiB+24 B (+2.0%)2.0 KiB✅
ClaudeLive turn WebSocket decoded21.2 KiB21.2 KiB+41 B (+0.2%)29.3 KiB✅
ClaudeLive turn messages12+1 (+100.0%)8✅

Baseline: 3b95e78 · PR result: 21d4399 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

  • Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
  • Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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📝 Walkthrough

The pull request adds repository identity validation before preparing a pull request thread. It also adds a fixture configuration and scripts to seed local repositories and app data for a pull request handoff.

Changes: Pull request checkout validation

Layer / File(s)Summary
Validate checkout repository identity
apps/server/src/git/GitManager.ts
preparePullRequestThread checks configured and reported Git remotes against the pull request’s base or head repository. The check accounts for GitHub SSH aliases and HTTP(S) ports. A mismatch raises a GitManagerError.
Test repository matching and checkout behavior
apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts
Tests cover repository and port mismatches, shorthand URLs, SSH aliases, mounted Forgejo remotes, and clones with only the head fork as a remote. Existing fixtures use visible GitHub URLs mapped to local remotes.

Pull request handoff fixture

Layer / File(s)Summary
Define handoff fixture data
scripts/fixtures/pr-handoff/fixture.json
Defines the fixture root, projects, thread, and pull request metadata.
Create fixture repositories
scripts/fixtures/pr-handoff/seed-repositories.py
Restricts the fixture root to /tmp/, checks for existing project directories, and initializes repositories with a README commit and origin.
Seed app projects and pull request
scripts/fixtures/pr-handoff/seed-app.js, knip.jsonc
seedIssue16455 retrieves the app snapshot, creates missing projects and a thread, dispatches a manual pull request link, and closes the WebSocket. Knip includes the fixture seeder as an entry.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

mermaid
1sequenceDiagram
2 participant seedIssue16455
3 participant ShellSnapshotAPI
4 participant Protocol2WebSocket
5 seedIssue16455->>ShellSnapshotAPI: Fetch orchestration snapshot
6 ShellSnapshotAPI-->>seedIssue16455: Return snapshot
7 seedIssue16455->>Protocol2WebSocket: Connect and send fixture RPC calls
8 Protocol2WebSocket-->>seedIssue16455: Return RPC responses
9 seedIssue16455->>Protocol2WebSocket: Dispatch manual pull request link
10 seedIssue16455->>Protocol2WebSocket: Close socket

Possibly related issues

  • Issue 14939 — This change validates checkout remotes against pull request repositories. The related issue also concerns host-qualified fork lookup.

Suggested reviewers: luhagel

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 21d43

PR preparation can use another repository’s history or credentials; validate the actual fetch URL before merging.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4
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Title checkPassedThe title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing pull request handoffs in unrelated checkouts.
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Out of Scope Changes checkPassedCheck skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description checkPassedThe pull request description includes all required sections. It explains the problem, implementation, scope and approval, focused verification, evidence, unverified areas, and the model and harness us…
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4582-4583: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the repository-guard failure.

The fake GitHub provider returns the configured PR unless failWith is set, and this fixture starts with a clean checkout. However, the test still accepts any later failure. Assert the guard's message so the test proves the repository check ran.

Suggested fix
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1- const exit = yield* Effect.exit(
2- preparePullRequestThread(manager, {
3- cwd: repoDir,
4- reference: "https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/pull/23165",
5- mode,
6- }),
7- );
8+ const error = yield* preparePullRequestThread(manager, {
9+ cwd: repoDir,
10+ reference: "https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/pull/23165",
11+ mode,
12+ }).pipe(Effect.flip);
13
14- expect(exit._tag).toBe("Failure");
15+ expect(error.message).toContain("is not a checkout of it");
16 expect(gitCommands.filter((command) => command.startsWith("fetch"))).toEqual([]);
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6Review comment at @apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts around lines 4582 -
74583:
8Update the test around preparePullRequestThread to assert that the failure
9message contains “is not a checkout of it,” rather than accepting any failure;
10preserve the assertion that no fetch command ran.

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7Review comments at @scripts/fixtures/pr-handoff/seed-app.js:
8- Around line 1-2: Register the standalone fixture script containing
9seedIssue16455 in the Knip configuration as an intended entry point or
10exclusion, so Knip no longer reports it as unused.
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12Review comments at @scripts/fixtures/pr-handoff/seed-repositories.py:
13- Line 5: Update the app-seeding step in the repository seeding flow to pass the
14selected root resolved from the root argument or fixture.root into seed-app.js,
15so project records reference the same directory where repositories are created.
16
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19Nitpick comments:
20Review comments at @apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts:
21- Around line 4582-4583: Update the test around preparePullRequestThread to
22assert that the failure message contains “is not a checkout of it,” rather than
23accepting any failure; preserve the assertion that no fetch command ran.
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  • fix(server): PR checkout guard honors server ports and Forgejo SSH hosts9d5ed8e
  • fix(server): preserve mounted PR fork repository identity3f162dd
  • Merge origin/main into fix/issue-164554f61cbc
  • fix(server): mounted PR forks only match their serving root7ec918e

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All 115 GitManager tests pass, including local/worktree rejection of a root-hosted fork for a mounted-server PR. Targeted lint and format pass. Both isolated final source reviews found no blocking findings. Test output. The PR verification section retains the actual capture revisions and unverified surfaces.

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  • fix(server): type mounted PR test scenarios and accept resolved /tmp in fixture seeder21d4399

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🟠 Major · Use fetch URLs for the repository-identity check. · GitManager.ts:2786-2813

apps/server/src/git/GitManager.ts:2786-2813 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use fetch URLs for the repository-identity check.

listRemoteUrls includes both fetch and push entries. A matching push URL can therefore satisfy the guard even when the same remote's fetch URL points to another repository. Later PR fetches pass only the remote name, so Git uses that unrelated fetch URL and its credentials. If it serves the requested ref, the checkout can materialize objects from the wrong repository.

Filter push entries before building remotes (or validate the URL used by the fetch operation).

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1- const url = line
2+ if (line.endsWith(" (push)")) return [];
3+ const url = line
4 .slice(separator + 1)
5- .replace(/ \((?:fetch|push)\)$/, "")
6+ .replace(/ \(fetch\)$/, "")
7 .trim();
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6Review comment at @apps/server/src/git/GitManager.ts around lines 2786 - 2813:
7Update listRemoteUrls to exclude push entries before adding URLs to remotes, so
8the repository-identity check uses only fetch URLs; preserve parsing of
9configuration URL entries and fetch entries from remote -v.

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8- Around line 2786-2813: Update listRemoteUrls to exclude push entries before
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