[beardthelion]

What

gl doctor reported a healthy node and exited 0 on a stock install whose git push and git clone could not reach anything. gl's --node defaults to https://node.gitlawb.com while git-remote-gitlawb fell back to http://127.0.0.1:7545, so with GITLAWB_NODE unset the check validated a URL the transport never contacts. An explicit --node outranks the environment, so the two could disagree even when the variable was set, and that state produced no signal at all.

Observed on main before the change, same shell, variable unset both times:

gl doctor:  ✓  node   https://node.gitlawb.com — v0.7.0 (did:key:z6Mkicjkc95VcFx38Xg2Sv…)   EXIT=0
helper:     repo_base: http://127.0.0.1:7545/z6Mk.../myrepo

A real git clone gitlawb:// with the variable unset never left the machine (connecting to 127.0.0.1:7545, then error sending request). The same clone with GITLAWB_NODE=https://node.gitlawb.com reached the node and returned a genuine anonymous info/refs returned 404.

Fix

gitlawb_core::resolve_transport_node is now the single resolution both binaries call. Doctor probes whatever it returns whenever that differs from args.node, and folds the result into the existing GITLAWB_NODE row rather than adding a second row for one condition.

Three properties the probe holds that a naive reachability check does not:

1. It requires identity, not a 200. The row reports the transport usable only when the response carries a did. A local service answering 200 on that port otherwise reads as a working transport, which is the same false green this change exists to remove. A stub serving <html>not a node</html> now produces something is listening but it is not a gitlawb node.
2. It uses a dedicated client. no_proxy, 3s timeout. The shared NodeClient routes a loopback probe through HTTP_PROXY (verified: a proxy listener received GET http://127.0.0.1:7545/), which reports a running local node as dead, and its 30s timeout stalled every stock run behind a hung listener. Measured 30s before, 3s after.
3. It sanitizes. The URL is caller-supplied and the remedy line is printed for the user to paste, so the value goes through sanitize_node_msg and is single-quoted.

A blank or whitespace-only GITLAWB_NODE now resolves to the local default in both binaries. It previously gave the helper an empty base, so repo_base came out as /z6Mk.../repo with no scheme or host.

Tiering follows who chose the broken value. An unset variable stays advisory, because gl itself still works and #357 requires a stock install to keep exiting 0. A variable the user set to something unusable fails.

Verification

Every state driven against the built binaries:

state	row
unset	⚠ git push/clone will use http://127.0.0.1:7545 (unreachable: ...); gl targets ...
blank or whitespace	same, and the helper now resolves the same URL
--node overriding a set variable	✗ naming the variable's node (previously no row)
variable and flag agree	✓, no divergence clause
loopback	✓ ... (local node, intentional for self-hosting/dev ...), unchanged
non-gitlawb 200 on the port	something is listening but it is not a gitlawb node

Seven mutations, run one at a time, each observed RED: dropping the identity check, disabling the divergence gate, treating blank as configured, removing sanitization, the helper reverting to a private literal, the help text going stale, and mis-tiering the row. One initially came back green and exposed that the test's own stub never delivered a usable 200; the stub was fixed and the assertion made positive before it was trusted.

cargo fmt --all -- --check clean. cargo test --locked green for gl (363 + 8), gitlawb-core (101), git-remote-gitlawb (53 + 8). cargo clippy --all-targets --locked -- -D warnings clean. No lockfile change.

Notes for review

• Conflicts with fix(gl): make doctor exit non-zero on Fail-class checks (#357) #391. That PR edits the same GITLAWB_NODE arm to re-tier it to Warn and add a non-zero exit on Fail rows. Whichever lands second needs a rebase. The tiering here is deliberately compatible: a stock install produces a Warn row, so fix(gl): make doctor exit non-zero on Fail-class checks (#357) #391's exit gate keeps it at 0.
• The unchanged node row still prints the URL unsanitized. That is pre-existing and now filed as gl doctor prints the node URL unsanitized, so ANSI and bidi characters from --node reach the terminal #393; the control-character test here is scoped to the rows this change owns rather than reaching into adjacent code.
• DEFAULT_LOCAL_NODE is an IPv4 literal, so a node bound only to [::1] reads as unreachable. The row is truthful, since the helper shares the constant and fails identically, but the remedy steers to the public node instead of export GITLAWB_NODE=http://[::1]:7545. Left as is; changing it changes transport behaviour, not the diagnostic.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Git transport now uses a consistent local default node when no node is configured.
  • gl doctor checks whether Git transport and the CLI target different nodes, and reports whether the transport node appears usable.
  • Diagnostics include a suggested configuration for mismatched nodes.
  • Release checks can use a custom GitHub API URL.

• Bug Fixes

  • Blank or whitespace-padded node settings are handled consistently.
  • Diagnostic suggestions avoid unsafe terminal characters in node URLs.

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Walkthrough

The change centralizes transport-node resolution, updates the Git transport helper to use it, and extends gl doctor to compare and probe transport-node configuration.

Changes: Transport Node Workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared transport-node resolution crates/gitlawb-core/src/lib.rs	Adds DEFAULT_LOCAL_NODE and resolve_transport_node. The resolver trims configured values and uses http://127.0.0.1:7545 when the value is absent or blank. Tests cover these cases.
Git transport alignment crates/git-remote-gitlawb/src/main.rs	The remote helper uses the shared resolver for node selection and derives its help text default from DEFAULT_LOCAL_NODE. Tests cover helper resolution and the displayed default.
Doctor transport diagnostics crates/gl/src/doctor.rs, crates/gl/src/http.rs, crates/gl/tests/doctor_transport_node.rs	gl doctor compares the CLI and transport nodes, probes differing endpoints, and reports warnings or failures. The probe uses a timeout, same-origin redirects, environment proxies, a response-size limit, and a did check. The suggested export uses a normalized, shell-quoted URL. Release lookup accepts a nonblank API URL override. Tests cover these behaviors.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant gl_doctor
  participant gitlawb_core
  participant transport_endpoint
  gl_doctor->>gitlawb_core: Resolve GITLAWB_NODE
  gl_doctor->>transport_endpoint: Probe when transport and CLI nodes differ
  transport_endpoint-->>gl_doctor: Return response or request error
  gl_doctor-->>gl_doctor: Report warning or failure

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Merge Risk: Low · up to 77661

The change makes gl doctor diagnose the node the Git transport will actually use, and the earlier quoting and redirect concerns are addressed. One gap remains. When the environment node and the --node value are the same URL, doctor can still report a non-gitlawb HTTP service as healthy. This is advisory and low impact.

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In `@crates/gl/src/doctor.rs`:
- Line 178: Update the remedy construction in sanitize_node_msg to escape single
quotes in the node value before inserting it into the export assignment,
ensuring pasted shell commands remain safely quoted.
- Around line 365-368: Update the reqwest client used by the doctor probe around
probe_transport to apply the same restricted redirect policy as Git transport,
preventing cross-origin redirects from being followed. Add a regression test for
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Escape single quotes in the shell remedy.

sanitize_node_msg retains '. A node value containing ' closes this assignment when a user pastes the displayed remedy. Escape single quotes before formatting the value.

Proposed fix

-        let fix = format!("export GITLAWB_NODE='{gl_node}'");
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	let fix = format!("export GITLAWB_NODE='{gl_node}'");
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Use the transport redirect policy for the probe.

probe_transport uses a default reqwest::Client, so it can follow a cross-origin redirect and accept the redirected origin's successful {"did":"..."} response. The Git transport stops at that redirect. gl doctor can therefore report GITLAWB_NODE as usable when clone and push fail. Apply the restricted policy and add a regression test that rejects this redirect.

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In `@crates/gl/src/doctor.rs` around lines 365 - 368, Update the reqwest client
used by the doctor probe around probe_transport to apply the same restricted
redirect policy as Git transport, preventing cross-origin redirects from being
followed. Add a regression test for probe_transport that verifies a redirect to
another origin is rejected rather than accepting a successful DID response.

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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Findings

• [P2] Separate shell serialization from terminal sanitization
  crates/gl/src/doctor.rs:178
  CodeRabbit's unresolved request here is valid. gl_node comes from sanitize_node_msg, which removes terminal control characters but deliberately does not escape shell syntax. Embedding that value between single quotes means an apostrophe closes the assignment: for example, a node ending in '; command; #' makes the paste-ready remedy run command when the user follows it. The same sanitizer caps output at 200 characters, so using it as command data can also turn a long valid URL into a different, truncated value.

  The root cause is that one representation is being used for two different trust boundaries: safe terminal display and lossless shell argument encoding. Please define the canonical value that is safe to place back into configuration, encode it with a dedicated shell-quoting routine (or avoid emitting a paste-ready assignment), and apply the 200-character cap only to explanatory prose. Add regression cases containing an apostrophe, whitespace, shell metacharacters, rejected/stripped control characters, and an otherwise-valid value longer than the display cap; for accepted values, the rendered command should set exactly one variable to the complete canonical value and execute nothing else.

• [P2] Build the probe from the transport's redirect contract
  crates/gl/src/doctor.rs:365
  CodeRabbit's unresolved redirect request is valid. The dedicated probe keeps reqwest's default redirect behavior, whereas git-remote-gitlawb applies the shared same-origin, same-request-target policy with a bounded chain. A configured endpoint can therefore redirect / to another origin that returns a did; doctor reports reachable, but clone/push stop at the original 3xx. The probe can also contact a redirect-selected origin that the transport deliberately refuses.

  The root cause is duplicating HTTP-client construction without carrying over the transport semantics this diagnostic is supposed to model. Please reuse the shared redirect decision and chain bound—or extract a common client-policy builder if that is the maintainable boundary—while retaining the probe's shorter timeout and credential-free request. A regression test should prove that cross-origin and request-target-changing redirects are not followed, while any redirect shape intentionally supported by the transport remains supported by doctor too.

• [P2] Make proxy behavior part of the shared transport policy
  crates/gl/src/doctor.rs:366
.no_proxy() applies to every probe URL, but the actual remote helper retains reqwest's normal environment/system proxy discovery. The two processes can consequently test different routes: a corporate-proxy-only node can work for clone/push while doctor marks it unreachable, and a directly reachable listener can look healthy even though the helper's configured proxy route fails or reaches another service. This is especially important because the row claims to describe what git push/clone will use, not merely whether the origin is directly reachable.

  The root cause is solving the loopback-proxy symptom only in the diagnostic, which creates a second network policy instead of aligning the producer and observer. Please define the intended proxy rule once and apply it consistently to both the helper and probe. If loopback must bypass proxies, update or explicitly configure both paths rather than special-casing only doctor. Cover at least a proxy-required remote node and a loopback node under a configured proxy, asserting that doctor's verdict matches the helper's effective route in both cases.

• [P2] Derive the suggested fix from normalized state, not the raw blank value
  crates/gl/src/doctor.rs:178
  With blank or whitespace-only GITLAWB_NODE and no explicit --node, the shared resolver correctly maps the transport to the local default, but clap leaves the raw blank value in args.node. The new remedy is built from that raw/display value, so doctor prints export GITLAWB_NODE=' '. Pasting it recreates the broken configuration instead of fixing it; before this PR, the branch at least suggested a concrete public-node URL.

  The root cause is mixing three states—raw env/CLI input, normalized effective transport configuration, and display text—when constructing recovery guidance. Please choose the intended valid recovery target from normalized configuration and explicit-flag precedence, then pass that value through the shell serializer described above. Add an end-to-end case that invokes the binary with only blank/whitespace GITLAWB_NODE (no synthetic --node override) and asserts that the suggested command changes the state to a valid target rather than reproducing the blank input.

• [P3] Apply a response-size budget before parsing probe JSON
  crates/gl/src/doctor.rs:381
resp.json::<serde_json::Value>() buffers the complete success response. The three-second timeout bounds elapsed time but not the number of bytes a local or configured endpoint can deliver, so a fast large response can consume excessive memory before parsing fails. This is a newly added untrusted response path, and the crate already has read_body_capped to enforce the same hostile-node boundary elsewhere.

  The root cause is treating the timeout as the probe's full resource budget. Please read only a small bounded root document, reject truncation/read failure as unusable, and parse the bounded bytes into the narrow response shape the probe needs. Include an oversized-body regression proving that allocation/read work stops at the cap and cannot be mistaken for a valid identity response.

• [P3] Give subprocess tests a seam for every external dependency
  crates/gl/tests/doctor_transport_node.rs:35
  The helper comment says the subprocess is kept off the unrelated iCaptcha and GitHub networks, but only iCaptcha is redirected. Every doctor() invocation still reaches check_version(current, "https://api.github.com"); offline or filtered environments therefore acquire real external side effects and can wait on the five-second timeout even though release lookup is unrelated to these assertions.

  The root cause is testing the full command through hard-coded production dependencies without a controllable boundary. Please inject the release API base/checker into the doctor runner, provide a narrowly scoped test override, or otherwise route it to a local fixture; production should continue using the real release endpoint. Add an assertion at the fixture boundary so these focused tests fail if any request escapes to the public API instead of silently succeeding or timing out.

[euxarist]

Finally doctor diagnosing the node the transport actually uses, with the shared resolver pinned from both sides (the literal-revert test is the right kind of paranoid). The 8-state binary-level suite including the non-gitlawb-200 stub and the control-char sanitization on exactly the rows this change owns is thorough, and scoping the pre-existing unsanitized node row out to #393 is honest. Non-blocking nits: the 3s probe timeout may mis-tier a cold-TLS public node, and the version check makes a real api.github.com call per invocation (fail-soft, but worth knowing offline).

[beardthelion]

Pushed 77661b4. All six findings are fixed, each test-first, and I reverted each guard to confirm its test goes red.

• Shell quoting. The paste-ready remedy is built from the normalized node value and quoted by a dedicated single-quote routine, with no 200-character cap (that stays on the prose). A value with control characters falls back to the public node. The unit test runs the quoted word through sh with an apostrophe, whitespace, shell metacharacters and a 500-character value, and checks that exactly one value comes back and nothing runs.
• Blank value. With only a blank GITLAWB_NODE and no --node, the remedy is now export GITLAWB_NODE='https://node.twigpine.com'. A subprocess test covers it without --node.
• Redirects. The probe uses the shared same_origin_redirect and its chain bound. Tests: a cross-origin redirect is refused and its target is never contacted, a request-target-changing redirect is refused, an identical-target redirect is still followed.
• Proxy. .no_proxy() is gone, so the probe takes the same environment proxy discovery as the helper. Tests: a node reachable only through HTTP_PROXY reads reachable, and a loopback node behind a dead proxy reads unreachable.
• Size. The body is read through read_body_capped at 16 KiB, and a truncated or failed read is unusable. The test serves a 2 MiB body with a valid did at the start and expects rejection.
• Test seam. GITLAWB_GITHUB_API_URL overrides the release endpoint. The subprocess helper points it at a local fixture and fails if the fixture sees no request.

I also merged origin/main (conflicts in doctor.rs and main.rs, kept both sides). doctor_still_exits_zero is replaced by a row-level check, because main now exits 1 on any failing row and the empty test identity always has one.

The gl, git-remote-gitlawb and gitlawb-core suites pass. In a full workspace run, one gitlawb-node test failed. It is outside this diff and passes on its own. CI on the new head is still running.

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Major · Consume the command flush after push-cert-end. · main.rs:851-852

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Consume the command flush after push-cert-end.

Git sends a flush after the certificate. Its receiver continues reading commands after push-cert-end until that flush arrives. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

For a signed delete-only push, this break returns before reading the flush. The POST therefore contains an incomplete command section. With push options, the options loop consumes that command flush instead of the options block.

Continue reading through the command flush before processing options. Update the certificate fixtures, including the blocking delete-only fixture, to include that flush.

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Review comment at @crates/git-remote-gitlawb/src/main.rs around lines 851 - 852:
Update the certificate-reading flow around the `push-cert-end` check so it consumes the following command flush before processing push options, ensuring the options loop begins at the options block. Update the certificate fixtures, including the blocking delete-only fixture, to include that flush.

Minor · Reject unsuccessful DID responses before decoding them. · main.rs:623

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Reject unsuccessful DID responses before decoding them.

A non-2xx response containing {"did":"..."} currently passes this lookup and can produce an X-Ucan invocation. An error response must instead take the documented fallback that omits the header. Check the status before calling json, and cover a non-2xx response containing a valid DID.

Based on learnings, reject non-2xx responses before decoding a success payload.

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Review comment at @crates/git-remote-gitlawb/src/main.rs at line 623:
In the DID lookup response chain, check that the HTTP response is successful before decoding its JSON; route non-2xx responses through the existing fallback that omits the X-Ucan header. Add coverage for a non-2xx response containing a valid DID and verify that no header is produced.

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Review comments at @crates/gl/src/doctor.rs:
- Line 200: Update the matching-URL path around gitlawb_node_env_check so it
validates node identity instead of passing based only on HTTP connectivity;
alternatively, strengthen the shared connectivity check to require a valid DID.
Add a regression case where GITLAWB_NODE returns HTTP 200 with HTML and no
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Review comments at @crates/git-remote-gitlawb/src/main.rs:
- Around line 851-852: Update the certificate-reading flow around the
`push-cert-end` check so it consumes the following command flush before
processing push options, ensuring the options loop begins at the options block.
Update the certificate fixtures, including the blocking delete-only fixture, to
include that flush.
- Line 623: In the DID lookup response chain, check that the HTTP response is
successful before decoding its JSON; route non-2xx responses through the
existing fallback that omits the X-Ucan header. Add coverage for a non-2xx
response containing a valid DID and verify that no header is produced.

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Validate node identity when both URLs match.

If GITLAWB_NODE points to a service returning HTTP 200 with HTML and no --node override is supplied, both URLs match. This branch marks GITLAWB_NODE as passing. The connectivity check also passes because it does not require a DID.

Doctor therefore reports a usable configuration for a non-node service in the normal environment-only configuration. Apply the identity check on this path too, or strengthen the shared connectivity check. Add a matching-URL HTML-response regression case.

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Review comment at @crates/gl/src/doctor.rs at line 200:
Update the matching-URL path around gitlawb_node_env_check so it validates node identity instead of passing based only on HTTP connectivity; alternatively, strengthen the shared connectivity check to require a valid DID. Add a regression case where GITLAWB_NODE returns HTTP 200 with HTML and no --node override, and verify Doctor rejects the configuration.

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[jatmn]

I found two low-risk correctness issues in the newly added paths.

Merge readiness

Reviewed head 77661b4cc07d0fba46666b743a16db72863e71f8 against merge base and current main a4e1bca06eeffc5b617d061c27010d22543e8de1. The branch includes current main, is mergeable without conflicts, and has successful CI with conditional skips. GitHub requires an approving review. No rebase or duplicate/superseded-work blocker identified.

Findings

🔵 P3 — Preserve the supported transport base when probing its identity

📍 Where: probe_transport, doctor.rs:460–461, feeding the new GITLAWB_NODE verdict and remedy.

💥 What fails: Set GITLAWB_NODE=http://host/mount and select a different healthy --node. A supported reverse proxy can serve identity at /mount and Git services below /mount/<owner>/<repo>, while returning 404 or a slash-removing redirect for /mount/. Clone works, but the new probe requests the latter URL and marks the transport as failed. Doctor then exits 1 and suggests replacing the working transport with the unrelated CLI target.

let target = format!("{}/", url.trim_end_matches('/'));

A local fixture with a generated valid identity/registration and a real empty Git repository demonstrates: clone exits 0; merge-base doctor exits 0; PR-head doctor exits 1 solely because of this row. Serving the extra slash alias makes the same head exit 0. Both 404 and slash-removing 301 reproduce the failure.

🔎 Root cause: The new diagnostic rewrites a nonempty base path before looking up identity, instead of honoring the transport's existing identity-request target. Its strict redirect policy then correctly refuses the redirect that would undo that rewrite.

📜 Stated contract: Existing helper documentation explicitly says:

Strips the KNOWN trailing <owner>/<repo>/<service> rather than reading the first two segments, because GITLAWB_NODE may carry a path prefix — a reverse-proxied https://host/gitlawb is a supported base, and repo_base is built as {node_base}/{owner}/{repo} with the service appended after it.

The existing delegation_header_probes_the_prefixed_node_base test serves identity at exact /gitlawb, and the helper's identity lookup requests that base verbatim.

🏷️ Attribution: PR-introduced. At merge base/current main, this configuration has a passing environment row and a healthy separately selected CLI node. The PR adds the differently spelled identity request and its Fail-class result. The helper's supported prefix behavior is unchanged. This regression belongs to the new transport check; the existing CLI connectivity path is not part of the requested fix.

📌 In this PR:

• Shared resolver and helper call site preserve a configured nonempty base: honor the rule.
• New probe_transport target appends a slash to that base: violates the rule.
• New verdict/exit/remedy consumes the incorrect failure: affected consequence.
• New integration fixtures use origin-only bases: omit this distinct supported input.
• Helper help uses the shared default: consistent; no documentation rewrite needed.

🔒 Unchanged on main: The helper's prefixed identity lookup and Git route construction already implement the supported base. The ordinary CLI connectivity check has a separate existing URL construction; this finding does not require changing it.

🔧 Required correction: Preserve the configured non-root identity path in the new probe; requesting the base directly lets reqwest supply / for an origin-only URL. Add a fixture exposing identity at the exact configured prefix and working Git services beneath it, without a slash alias. Verify the new row accepts that transport; a parameterized case can cover 404 and slash-removing redirect behavior. Keep the existing redirect restrictions.

🛠️ Author fix: Close the new probe's target-preservation rule and its missing prefix regression together. Address the downstream verdict through the corrected request, rather than weakening Fail tiering or changing the working transport. No helper, shared HTTP framework, or unrelated caller rewrite is needed.

🚫 Out of scope: Changing transport defaults, supporting new URL forms, changing NodeClient, loosening redirect policy, or redesigning Git URL assembly.

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🔵 P3 — Sanitize release metadata when the API override is enabled

📍 Where: New release-source override, doctor.rs:346–350, flowing into check_version's displayed tag.

💥 What fails: When the optional, testing-oriented GITLAWB_GITHUB_API_URL override selects a custom endpoint, that endpoint can return this response and send raw terminal controls to stdout:

{"tag_name":"v999.0.0\u001b]0;RELEASE-CONTROL\u0007\nspoofed-row"}

The higher major version passes is_newer even though the suffix is malformed. The version row then contains the actual ESC/BEL and newline, allowing the configured remote response to alter terminal display or forge output lines. The independent probe used safe node URLs and safe node identity/version responses; the leak comes from release metadata. This demonstrated path requires the override; it is not a regression in the default GitHub lookup.

🔎 Root cause: The raw release-tag formatter is pre-existing. This PR adds a runtime-configurable response source that can feed the demonstrated payload into that formatter without the existing remote-text sanitizer. The omitted protection is on this newly admitted source-to-display path; the transport display and shell-recovery sanitizers protect different values.

📜 Stated contract: Existing core sanitization documentation states:

Untrusted peer/remote bytes that reach an operator's terminal (node error bodies, node-advertised strings) must be stripped of BOTH Cc control bytes (char::is_control()) AND Cf bidi/format controls before display: a right-to-left override or directional isolate can visually reorder the line and spoof the text (Trojan Source, CWE-451).

🏷️ Attribution: PR-activated, not a newly introduced formatter defect. Merge base/current main ignores this environment variable and selects the fixed GitHub API. The PR adds the runtime source selector. With the same custom-source configuration and safe node inputs, the base executable does not consume the supplied release payload, while head consumes it and emits its ASCII controls. The requested correction covers that added source edge only.

📌 In this PR:

• New GITLAWB_GITHUB_API_URL source → release tag_name → version row: lacks remote-text sanitization.
• New transport URL/error/detail output: already uses the shared sanitizer.
• New shell remedy: separately quotes the complete value and rejects controls; release metadata never enters that command.
• Probe response did: used for classification, not rendered.
• New local release fixture: returns 404 and does not exercise hostile displayed release metadata. No Markdown or generated operator-copy surfaces changed.

🔒 Unchanged on main: The release formatter and default GitHub lookup already exist. The finding does not ask for a general formatter, versioning, or CLI-output audit. Existing raw node/registration/iCaptcha output is separate baseline debt.

🔧 Required correction: Apply the existing sanitize_node_msg protection to displayed release metadata on the newly configurable path, or reject control-bearing metadata before displaying it. Add a local custom-release fixture returning a newer tag with ASCII controls and assert those controls cannot reach stdout; include the shared sanitizer's bidi protection without adding a new versioning policy. Preserve the default GitHub lookup, ordinary release comparison, the optional fixture override, and the static install remedy.

🛠️ Author fix: Close the new source-to-terminal boundary in one pass, including its regression. The other PR-owned display/shell surfaces listed above already honor their rule. Use the existing sanitizer; do not broaden this into unrelated CLI output cleanup or a shared client/versioning rewrite.

🚫 Out of scope: A new release protocol, strict semantic-version redesign, global client changes, or fixing every pre-existing terminal-output path.

Changed-contract coverage

Contract	Producer → consumer	Lifecycle and ordering reviewed	Regression boundary
Transport resolution	env → shared trim/default → helper Git requests and doctor target	resolved per process; no persistent state; helper retries/signing unchanged	absent/blank/trim and helper call site
Transport diagnosis	env/flag → target comparison → bounded probe → verdict → render/exit	3s total timeout; proxy/redirect chain; status/body failure before identity classification; no credentials added	real subprocesses, HTML/size/redirect/proxy controls; prefix gap above
Remote identity document	HTTP response → 16KiB capped JSON → string-valued did discriminator	missing/wrong type/malformed/truncated bodies fail; no identity persistence or response-DID rendering	synthetic positive identity, explicit negative text
Recovery/display	canonical node → control rejection + shell quote; separate sanitized prose	complete export value kept; display cap does not truncate shell value	real sh round trips and subprocess assertions
Release fixture seam	optional API URL → release JSON → comparison → version row	absent/blank URL keeps default; 5s timeout; missing/wrong-type tag produces existing advisory	fixture-hit assertion; terminal-output gap above

Record constraints	Producer/loader	Consumer/tests	Operator output
Node URL	optional string; transport trims and blank falls back; singleton	reqwest parses; distinct env/flag values; helper path-prefix contract	sanitized/capped detail; complete shell-quoted export
Probe did	capped JSON; string presence, no attestation claim	malformed/nonstring fails; identity not persisted	not rendered by new probe
Release tag_name	optional string from new configurable source; no uniqueness requirement	existing version comparison and local fixture seam	new-source terminal boundary needs the existing sanitizer

No new admission handler or durable state is introduced. Inspected malformed probe paths include invalid URL/scheme/host, null/scalar/array/non-JSON bodies, missing/nonstring identity, non-2xx, incomplete/oversized responses, redirects, proxy failures, and timeouts. No new storage, authorization, pagination, dependency, or workflow contract is changed.

Validation

• cargo fmt --all -- --check: passed.
• cargo test --locked -p gl --test doctor_transport_node: 16 passed.
• Three-crate run: helper 75 unit + 9 integration tests passed (4 ignored), core 165 passed; gl 625 passed and one unchanged task test failed identically at merge base.
• cargo test --locked --workspace: node 1999 passed, 26 failed, 13 ignored. The failures are unchanged key-storage/ancestor fixtures blocked by this local workspace's mode-0775 ancestor; a focused reproduction confirms that environmental refusal. The workspace run stops before later targets, so it is not a full local pass.
• Independent production-binary probes verify both findings and the prefix positive control against immutable base/head; current target equals the captured base. GitHub stable/beta, Windows, build, fmt/clippy and analysis checks succeeded.