fix(server): a saved source control token that can't be read no longer falls back to another account#31646
Problem
A GitHub, GitCafe or Bitbucket token saved in Settings as a secret provider reference resolved to an empty string when the provider could not read it (vault locked, provider removed). The credential code took that as "no saved token" and quietly used GH_TOKEN, gh, CAFE_TOKEN, cafe or the Bitbucket env credentials instead, so PR actions could run as a different account without any sign.
Change
- Resolving settings secrets keeps a reference it cannot read instead of turning it into
"". - The three providers read their saved credential through a new
requireSettingsSecretLiteral(contracts), which fails withSettingsSecretUnresolvedErrornaming the secret provider.SettingsSecretUnresolvedErrormoved to contracts so provider packages can use it; the EAS host'srequireSettingsSecretuses the same error. - Only an empty field still falls back to env tokens or the CLI login.
- The status probes for all three hosts show that error instead of a fallback account. A Settings refresh recovers as before.
- Usage limit sources still read an unreadable key as empty and show the error they showed before.
Verification
- Extended existing tests per provider (
GitHubCredentials.test.ts,gitHubDiscovery.test.ts,GitCafeCredentials.test.ts,BitbucketApi.test.ts,sourceControlHostSecrets.test.ts): a saved but unreadable reference fails and the env or CLI fallback is never consulted; an empty field still falls back. Each new assertion fails with the source change reverted. vp run check:changedpasses.- Not checked in a real client; the error reuses the existing status detail field.
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Verdict: Approved at 381358a
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Unreadable saved source-control credentials now produce an authentication error instead of silently falling back to another account. The change is confined to credential failure handling and reduces unintended account switching without changing product defaults.
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Thread transfer impact
✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.
| Provider | Metric | Main baseline | This PR | Impact | PR ceiling | |
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| Codex | Total thread wire | 5.0 KiB | 5.0 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 6.8 KiB | ✅ |
| Codex | Thread snapshot wire | 3.8 KiB | 3.8 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 4.9 KiB | ✅ |
| Codex | Live turn WebSocket wire | 1.2 KiB | 1.2 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 2.0 KiB | ✅ |
| Codex | Live turn WebSocket decoded | 21.5 KiB | 21.5 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 24.4 KiB | ✅ |
| Codex | Live turn messages | 1 | 1 | 0 (0.0%) | 8 | ✅ |
| Claude | Total thread wire | 5.0 KiB | 5.0 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 6.8 KiB | ✅ |
| Claude | Thread snapshot wire | 3.8 KiB | 3.8 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 4.9 KiB | ✅ |
| Claude | Live turn WebSocket wire | 1.2 KiB | 1.2 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 2.0 KiB | ✅ |
| Claude | Live turn WebSocket decoded | 21.9 KiB | 21.9 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 24.4 KiB | ✅ |
| Claude | Live turn messages | 1 | 1 | 0 (0.0%) | 8 | ✅ |
Baseline: 37481f0 · PR result: 381358a · 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
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Unreadable secret references now remain in settings instead of becoming empty values. Credential consumers can require literal secrets and receive an explicit unresolved-secret error. Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitCafe handle that error in credential and authentication flows.
Changes: Unresolved secret handling
Layer / File(s) Summary Secret resolution contract
packages/contracts/src/settingsSecretValue.ts,apps/server/src/secrets/settingsSecretValue.ts,packages/source-control-core/src/server/SourceControlHost.ts,apps/server/src/sourceControl/sourceControlHostSecrets.test.tsThe contracts package adds SettingsSecretUnresolvedErrorandrequireSettingsSecretLiteral. The resolver preserves unreadable or empty secret references, and the test expects an unreadable reference to remain unchanged.Bitbucket credential resolution
packages/source-control-bitbucket/src/server/BitbucketApi.ts,packages/source-control-bitbucket/src/server/BitbucketPullRequestProvider.ts,packages/source-control-bitbucket/src/server/BitbucketApi.test.tsBitbucket resolves settings credentials through secret providers before requests. An unresolved secret produces an unauthenticated probe result or a SettingsSecretUnresolvedErrorwhen listing pull requests.GitHub credential and discovery handling
packages/source-control-github/src/server/GitHubCredentials.ts,packages/source-control-github/src/server/GitHubSourceControlProvider.ts,packages/source-control-github/src/server/GitHubPullRequestProvider.ts,packages/source-control-github/src/server/GitHubCredentials.test.ts,packages/source-control-github/src/server/gitHubDiscovery.test.tsGitHub credential lookup and discovery require literal saved tokens. Unresolved references produce unauthenticated results with error details. Tests cover readable, empty, and unresolved saved-token states. GitCafe credential and probe handling
packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeCredentials.ts,packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeSourceControlProvider.ts,packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeApi.ts,packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeCredentials.test.tsGitCafe credential lookup propagates unresolved-secret errors. Discovery adds credentials to the CLI environment only when lookup succeeds and reports unauthenticated status when it fails. Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes
Change: Bug fix
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8324cb7Open thread| … | … | @@ -236,8 +236,21 @@ export const makeDiscovery = Effect.gen(function* () { | |
| 239 | + | const saved = yield* Effect.result( | |
| 240 | + | requireSettingsSecretLiteral(settings.tokens["github.com"]), | |
| 241 | + | ); | |
| 242 | + | if (Result.isFailure(saved) && settings.hosts["github.com"]?.enabled !== false) { | |
External image Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Report unresolved tokens for discovered enterprise hosts.
If gh reports an authenticated enterprise host with an unreadable saved token, this check misses the reference because it reads only settings.tokens["github.com"]. Discovery can report that host as authenticated, but GitHubCredentials.get(host) fails with SettingsSecretUnresolvedError. Check the saved token for the discovered host before retaining the CLI auth result, and extend the existing discovery scenarios for that case. As per coding guidelines, “The most common defect in this repo is a change that works on the path you tested and is missing everywhere else.”
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Not changing this here. This discovery probe only reports the github.com account, as on main; enterprise hosts get their status from gh. The goal of this PR is that an unreadable saved token never silently uses another account, and that holds for every host: GitHubCredentials.get(host) fails with SettingsSecretUnresolvedError for an enterprise host too, so nothing runs as a different account. Reporting per-host saved-token status in discovery would be a separate change.
@juliusmarminge Understood. I conflated discovery status with credential execution. The enterprise discovery status comes from gh, while GitHubCredentials.get(host) rejects the unreadable saved token instead of using another account. I withdraw this request from this PR.
Would you like a follow-up issue for per-host saved-token status in discovery?
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| … | … | @@ -22,6 +23,32 @@ export function settingsSecretLiteral(value: SettingsSecretValue | undefined): s | |
| 44 | + | isSecretReference(value) | |
| 45 | + | ? Effect.fail( | |
| 46 | + | new SettingsSecretUnresolvedError({ | |
| 47 | + | provider: secretProviders[value.provider]?.label.trim() || value.provider, | |
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Guard the provider-label lookup against inherited properties.
If a saved reference names a removed provider with the valid identifier constructor, an empty provider map returns the inherited constructor function. Its label is undefined, so .trim() throws a TypeError instead of returning SettingsSecretUnresolvedError. Check for an own provider entry, or guard label before trimming. The provider identifier schema permits this value. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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✅ Confirmed as addressed by @juliusmarminge
Fixed in 381358a004b: the label lookup only uses an own provider entry. The GitCafe credential test now names a removed provider constructor; it threw the TypeError without the fix.
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shell1 #!/bin/bash 2 set -u 3 printf '%s\n' '--- Current revision ---' 4 git rev-parse HEAD 5 printf '%s\n' '--- Reported commit ancestry ---' 6 if git cat-file -e '381358a004b^{commit}' 2>/dev/null; then 7 git show -s --format='%H %s' 381358a004b 8 if git merge-base --is-ancestor 381358a004b HEAD; then 9 echo 'Reported commit is an ancestor of HEAD.' 10 else 11 echo 'Reported commit is not an ancestor of HEAD (or ancestry is unavailable).' 12 fi 13 else 14 echo 'Reported commit is not available in this checkout.' 15 fi 16 printf '%s\n' '--- Contract outline ---' 17 ast-grep outline packages/contracts/src/settingsSecretValue.ts --items all --match 'requireSettingsSecretLiteral|SettingsSecretUnresolvedError' --view expanded 18 printf '%s\n' '--- Provider lookup ---' 19 rg -n -C 12 'requireSettingsSecretLiteral|Object\.hasOwn|hasOwnProperty' packages/contracts/src/settingsSecretValue.ts 20 printf '%s\n' '--- GitCafe test outline ---' 21 ast-grep outline packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeCredentials.test.ts --items all --match 'credential|secret|provider' --view expanded 22 printf '%s\n' '--- Constructor regression test ---' 23 rg -n -C 24 'constructor|SettingsSecretUnresolvedError' packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeCredentials.test.ts Length of output: 5713
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shell1 #!/bin/bash 2 set -euo pipefail 3 repo='pingdotgg/t3code' 4 head_sha=$(gh api "repos/$repo/pulls/31646" --jq '.head.sha') 5 printf '%s\n' "--- Pull request head: $head_sha ---" 6 printf '%s\n' '--- Reported commit metadata ---' 7 gh api "repos/$repo/commits/381358a004b" --jq '{sha: .sha, message: .commit.message, files: [.files[] | {filename, patch}]}' 8 printf '%s\n' '--- Current provider lookup ---' 9 gh api "repos/$repo/contents/packages/contracts/src/settingsSecretValue.ts?ref=$head_sha" --jq '.content' | 10 base64 -d | rg -n -C 12 'requireSettingsSecretLiteral|Object\.hasOwn|hasOwnProperty' 11 printf '%s\n' '--- Current GitCafe regression test ---' 12 gh api "repos/$repo/contents/packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeCredentials.test.ts?ref=$head_sha" --jq '.content' | 13 base64 -d | rg -n -C 24 'constructor|SettingsSecretUnresolvedError' Length of output: 7559
@juliusmarminge Verified in 381358a004b: the lookup ignores inherited properties, and the GitCafe test covers the constructor case. I did not run the test.
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