fix(web): PR descriptions no longer link the author's paths into the viewer's machine#30309

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fix/issue-30285
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Problem

Pull request descriptions and comments in the PR panel turned paths the author wrote about their own machine into local file chips. In PR #29617's description, `~/Dév` and `~/` became chips that resolved to the viewer's home folder and offered Open in editor, Copy full path and, on desktop, Reveal. Absolute paths (`/etc/hosts`), ../ paths and markdown links or images pointing at such paths did the same. Reproduced on main e53672d8fc with the web dev server and a fresh database: once with a project at /tmp/… and a GitHub origin, once with a project under /home/ubuntu and a GitCafe origin, which resolved the chips to /home/ubuntu/Dév and /home/ubuntu/.

Change

ChatMarkdown takes a workspaceFileLinksOnly prop, set only by PullRequestMarkdown. With it on, a resolved file link is kept only when its target is inside the project root (workspaceRelativePath is not null). The check covers inline code, markdown links and non-media image syntax. It runs both in the precomputed file-link maps and in each renderer's fallback lookup. Rejected inline code renders as ordinary <code>. A rejected link or image renders only its label, so a local path never reaches the external-link or open-externally handling. Repo-relative paths keep their chips. Chat leaves the prop off and is unchanged. The file-link memo key is still computed from primitives, so the renderer context stays stable while text streams in.

Scope and approval

Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#30285

Triaged via the automated issue flow.

Verification

  • vp test run apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestMarkdown.browser.test.tsx apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.browser.test.tsx: 24 passed.
    • chips only inline code paths inside the repository fails on main: all five spans become chips (~/Dév, ~/, /etc/hosts, ../outside.ts, packages/x/y.ts). It passes on this branch, where only packages/x/y.ts does.
    • chips only links and images to files inside the repository fails on main: [hosts](/etc/hosts), [key](~/.ssh/id_rsa), [up](file:///etc/hosts) and ![rc](/home/alice/.bashrc) all become chips. It passes on this branch.
  • vp run check:changed: passed.
  • Reviewers compiled ChatMarkdown.tsx with the React Compiler. The scope object and file-link maps are memoized on cwd, imageBaseDir, the flag and the file-link key, not on the text.

Evidence

Real PR #29617 description in the PR panel. Web dev server per side on a fresh database (T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0), same scratch project, Preview Chromium 156 on Linux, no device emulation, DPR 2, 100% font scaling, clock frozen at 2026-11-03 18:30 UTC. Before = e53672d8fc, after = 0222542236. Merging main afterwards (136d7c7a8b) did not touch the renderer files. 1440×900 CSS captures are exported at 1280×800, and 390×844 at 780×1688. Diff0 is ImageMagick compare -metric AE at 0% fuzz, amplified to full magenta. DiffT is the same at 5% fuzz.

What else changed: at zero threshold, every changed pixel is inside the first Problem bullet, where the text reflows as two chips become inline code. Nothing else changed.

Problem bullet, 1440 dark

Before e53672d8fcAfter 0222542236
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Problem bullet, 1440 light

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Problem bullet, 390 light

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Whole surface, 1440 dark

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Whole surface, 390 light

Before e53672d8fcAfter 0222542236

After 0222542236, 1440 light. The in-repo paletteSearch.ts chip still opens its file menu, while ~/Dév and ~/ in the Problem bullet render as plain inline code.

Links, image syntax and same-name chips: harness capture. A synthetic body rendered by PullRequestMarkdown with the app stylesheet in the vitest browser runner (Chromium, 760×360 viewport). The project root is /home/alice/repo. Before uses main's renderer files and after uses this branch's. Those files are byte-identical between e53672d8fc and the merged main, and between 0222542236 and the merged head. Real PR bodies rarely link outside paths, so there is no real-app capture of this row. On the last line, before, ~/AGENTS.md and ./AGENTS.md were labelled apart (home/alice vs repo/.). After, the outside one is plain code and the in-repo chip is just AGENTS.md. The two in-repo package.json chips keep their folder labels.

Before e53672d8fcAfter 0222542236
Harness driver (scratch, not committed)
tsx
1import "~/index.css";
2import { EnvironmentId } from "@t3tools/contracts";
3import { expect, it } from "vite-plus/test";
4import { page } from "vite-plus/test/browser";
5
6import { render } from "../../../test/render";
7import { PullRequestMarkdown, PullRequestMarkdownContext } from "./PullRequestMarkdown";
8
9const BODY = [
10 "Inline code: `~/Dév`, `~/`, `/etc/hosts`, `../outside.ts` and `packages/x/y.ts`.",
11 "",
12 "Links: [hosts](/etc/hosts), [key](~/.ssh/id_rsa), [up](file:///etc/hosts) and [y](packages/x/y.ts).",
13 "",
14 "Image syntax: ![rc](/home/alice/.bashrc) next to ![notes](docs/notes) in the repo.",
15 "",
16 "Same names: `~/AGENTS.md` and `./AGENTS.md`; `apps/web/package.json` and `apps/server/package.json`.",
17].join("\n");
18
19it("harness capture", async () => {
20 await page.viewport(760, 360);
21 await using screen = await render(
22 <PullRequestMarkdownContext value={{ remarkPlugins: [], lineBreaks: true, threadRef: null }}>
23 <div style={{ padding: 16, width: 720 }} data-harness>
24 <PullRequestMarkdown text={BODY} cwd="/home/alice/repo" environmentId={EnvironmentId.make("local")} />
25 </div>
26 </PullRequestMarkdownContext>,
27 );
28 await expect.element(screen.getByText(/Image syntax/)).toBeInTheDocument();
29 await document.fonts.ready;
30 await page.screenshot({ path: "__harness__/<side>.png", element: screen.container.querySelector("[data-harness]")! });
31});

Not captured:

  • Comments, timeline events, review annotations, the editor preview and guide prose. They all render through PullRequestMarkdown, so they get the same flag. The browser tests render PullRequestMarkdown directly, not each of these surfaces.
  • A chat control. Chat leaves the flag off; an existing ChatMarkdown.browser.test.tsx case still opens an outside-cwd path from chat.
  • Desktop's Reveal action. Desktop wraps the same renderer.
  • Mobile. Its PR renderer has no file chips, so it is unaffected.

The real-app capture driver (Preview-browser scripts that open the PR route and diff with ImageMagick) is scratch and not published. The images above are attached through cafe.

Model and harness: Claude Opus 5.5 (lead, red test, implementation) in Claude Code under T3 Code. Reviews, proof audit and captures by GPT-6.1 Sol in Codex and by Claude Opus 5.5.

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  • fix(web): keep file-link memo stable and gate image chips in PR markdown0222542
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/issue-30285136d7c7
  • test(web): reproduce #30285, PR markdown chips inline code paths outside the repo38e3217
  • fix(web): PR markdown chips only files inside the repositorydb20830
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Verdict: Approved at b72ca7c

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — PR descriptions now leave out-of-workspace file paths as text instead of linking them into the viewer’s machine. The restriction is scoped to PR rendering, with ordinary chat behavior unchanged.

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Walkthrough

Pull request Markdown now limits file-link chips to paths resolved inside the workspace. Out-of-scope links render as labels, and out-of-scope image paths render as alt text. The option defaults to false and is enabled for pull request content.

Changes: Pull request Markdown file-link scope

Layer / File(s)Summary
Scoped file-link resolution
apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx
ChatMarkdown adds workspaceFileLinksOnly, defaulting to false. File-link discovery and resolution use a shared scope containing cwd, imageBaseDir, and the option.
Pull request rendering and coverage
apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestMarkdown.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestMarkdown.browser.test.tsx
PullRequestMarkdown enables workspace-only resolution. Out-of-scope links render as labels, non-direct image paths outside the workspace render as alt text, and inline-code paths outside the workspace remain code. Browser tests check paths inside and outside the repository.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

Suggested reviewers: flamboh, shivamhwp

Merge Risk: External image Moderate · up to b72ca

Pull request content can still offer access to local media outside the project. Apply the workspace restriction to media before merging.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4

Check nameStatusExplanation
Title checkPassedThe title clearly and concisely describes the primary fix: PR descriptions no longer expose author paths as local file links in the viewer.
Description checkPassedThe description includes all required sections: Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification. It explains the behavior, implementation scope, linked issue, tests, manual validation, screensho…
Linked Issues checkPassedIssue #30285 requires PR-rendered paths outside the repository to remain non-actionable, while in-repository paths retain file chips and chat behavior remains unchanged. PullRequestMarkdown enables …
Out of Scope Changes checkPassedThe changes are limited to the scoped ChatMarkdown option and filtering logic, the PullRequestMarkdown opt-in, and focused pull-request renderer tests. These changes directly implement issue #3028…
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The description includes all required sections: Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification. It explains the behavior, implementation scope, linked issue, tests, manual validation, screenshots, and limitations.

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Issue #30285 requires PR-rendered paths outside the repository to remain non-actionable, while in-repository paths retain file chips and chat behavior remains unchanged. PullRequestMarkdown enables workspaceFileLinksOnly. ChatMarkdown applies the repository-boundary check to inline code, Markdown links, eligible images, precomputed file-link maps, and fallback lookups. The focused browser tests cover outside paths and an in-repository path. The option defaults to false, which preserves chat behavior.

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The changes are limited to the scoped ChatMarkdown option and filtering logic, the PullRequestMarkdown opt-in, and focused pull-request renderer tests. These changes directly implement issue #30285 and do not add unrelated behavior.

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8- Line 1485: Apply the workspace-only scope check to classified local media
9before the image and audio branches, using the existing `fileLinkScope`,
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14561483 );
14571484 }
1458- if (mediaKind === null && imageSource._tag === "WorkspaceFile") {
1485+ if (mediaKind === null && imageSource._tag !== "Direct") {
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6cat -n apps/server/src/ws.ts | sed -n '3020,3125p'
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Apply the workspace scope to local media.

With a thread reference, a PR image such as ![preview](/home/alice/private.png) can load that local file instead of rendering its alt text. Local audio also offers an open action for outside paths. Apply the scope before the media branches.

Suggested fix

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1-import { isHostPath, resolveWorkspaceFilePath } from "@t3tools/shared/path";
2+import { isHostPath, resolveWorkspaceFilePath, workspaceRelativeFilePath } from "@t3tools/shared/path";
diff
1 const imageSource = classifyMarkdownImageSource(classifiedSrc, imageBaseDir ?? cwd);
2 const mediaKind = mediaKindFromPath(classifiedSrc);
3+ if (
4+ mediaKind !== null &&
5+ fileLinkScope.workspaceFileLinksOnly &&
6+ imageSource._tag === "WorkspaceFile" &&
7+ workspaceRelativeFilePath(imageSource.path, cwd) === null
8+ ) {
9+ return <span>{altText}</span>;
10+ }
11 if (mediaKind === "audio") {
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3Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx at line 1485:
4Apply the workspace-only scope check to classified local media before the image and audio branches, using the existing `fileLinkScope`, `mediaKind`, and `imageSource` flow. For media outside the workspace, render the image alt text and prevent audio from offering an open action; preserve behavior for in-scope media and non-media links.
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in the real app the problem is still there, and the rework changed nothing:

No code change. Branch stays at b72ca7c04c2ba7964b99cbb2813ac1ba7dc73255. The scenario confirmed the issue is fixed on head: only the repository chip is actionable, and the outside inline code paths and the hosts link render without file actions. The remaining item, the outside image showing 'Image unavailable · rc' instead of only its label, describes correct behavior. PullRequestDetailPanel passes pullRequestMarkdownPlugins(detail), whose remarkChangeRequestMediaUrls resolves image URLs that start with '/' against the forge repository, as GitHub does. In the real panel rc becomes https://github.com/home/alice/.bashrc before ChatMarkdown sees it. I confirmed this by rendering PullRequestMarkdown with the real plugin list for a GitHub PR: the output was External image, and hosts rendered as hosts. That is a forge web image, not a path on the viewer's machine. It has no file actions and shows unavailable for the same reason GitHub shows it broken. Issue #30285 is about local file links. The fix's image branch matters when no forge URL is known (the PR tests' setup): there absolute, ~/ and file: image paths used to become file chips and now render only their label. Rendering forge images as bare labels would change forge media semantics beyond this fix.

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