fix(server): allow Antigravity writes into nested workspace paths

[lastobelus]

Antigravity rejects new nested file paths when a workspace is reached through a symlink. Canonicalizing only the immediate parent leaves missing directory levels unresolved and incorrectly fails containment.

Resolve the nearest existing ancestor, then append only the missing path components before applying the existing approved-root containment check. Existing and dangling symlinks still go through the containment boundary. Only NotFound allows walking upward; permission and other resolution errors are rejected. Original implementation by @lastobelus in #15154; maintainer takeover preserves the contributor history and merges main.

Validation: eight adapter tests before and after; extended the existing containment integration case with missing descendants under escaping and dangling symlinks. Reverting the production fix fails the workspace-alias regression (1 failed, 7 passed) and independently fails the nested containment check after omitting the alias assertion (1 failed, 7 passed). Restoring exact production bytes passes all eight. Targeted test lint and formatting checks pass. The final implementation passes all eight again, the scoped server typecheck, changed-file lint, formatting, and whitespace checks. Independent Claude Opus 5.5 and Codex GPT-6 Sol adversarial reviews found no introduced actionable issues in one parallel round.

Headless Linux verification exercises the real ACP adapter with its mock agent process and actual temporary directories: nested writes through a workspace alias succeed, escaped and dangling descendants are rejected, outside directories stay absent, and allowed attachments remain readable. Native Antigravity sessions and macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Electron desktop were not verified. This changes server file resolution and has no new UI to screenshot.

The existing ACP helpers keep their approved workspace and attachment roots and their text-size semantics. The suggested migration to WorkspaceFileSystem is broader pre-existing architecture work, since that service currently has different known-workspace, root, and size constraints. This fix keeps the established callback delegation.

Human review remains required for the server containment boundary; the existing approvability bot decision was an eligibility gate, not a reported code defect.

Maintainer work: Codex GPT-6 Astra (tests), GPT-6.1 Sol (implementation), Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol (adversarial review), through T3 Code delegation and Codex harness.

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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The PR changes production ACP filesystem resolution and the workspace containment boundary, including symlink handling and permitted write paths. Despite focused integration coverage, this security-sensitive runtime behavior requires human review.

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• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AntigravityAdapterV2.test.ts
• apps/server/src/provider/acp/AntigravityClientFiles.ts

📝 Walkthrough

resolveClientFilePath now searches upward for a resolvable ancestor when the requested path cannot be resolved directly. A containment test verifies that writing through an external symlink to the workspace creates a nested file inside the workspace.

Changes: Workspace path resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve paths through ancestors apps/server/src/provider/acp/AntigravityClientFiles.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AntigravityAdapterV2.test.ts	The resolver searches upward for a resolvable ancestor and appends missing path components. It returns the outside-workspace error if an unresolved entry exists or cannot be checked, or if the search reaches the filesystem root. The test writes a nested file through an external symlink to the workspace and verifies its contents.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2ef98

The nested-write fix adds filesystem logic to the provider callback rather than the workspace service. Preserve the workspace and attachments access rules when moving it; no containment failure is established.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2ef98

The change accepts nested paths through aliases without expanding the configured workspace or attachment roots. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Whether concurrent filesystem changes can defeat containment remains unresolved.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The intended authority remains the current policy workspace plus the configured attachment directory; a null workspace grants only attachments. A successful concurrent redirection could potentially reach other files accessible to the server process, but that outcome requires mutation authority and filesystem behavior not established here. No increased independently attackable filesystem scope was demonstrated.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The supplied security candidate is deferred, not a verified finding. Validation and filesystem use are separate in both base and head. Base already permitted recursive creation beneath canonical roots, so accepting equivalent aliased requests does not by itself prove a newly reachable escape. Exploitability and any material exposure increase remain unresolved.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The callback cwd comes from adapter policy rather than the filesystem request. The file-write callback does not itself consume a permission grant; the existing design relies on the agent requesting permission before edits and separately enforces path containment. This separation is unchanged from base. Complete transport/session identity enforcement was not inspected.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Directory creation precedes writing, and creation failure prevents the write. The helper provides no rollback or atomic transaction around those operations: later failure or interruption can leave created directories. Repetition resolves the path again and repeats the operations without an explicit recovery protocol. These behaviors predate the PR and do not establish a newly weakened security guarantee.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — If less-trusted concurrent filesystem mutation is part of the deployment threat model, consider directory-handle-relative, symlink-resistant operations that bind validation to file access. Confirm concrete provider support and preserve the existing workspace and attachment-root semantics.

Pre-merge checks: 5

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Title check		The title is concise, conventional, and accurately describes the main server change: allowing Antigravity writes into nested workspace paths.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/provider/acp/AntigravityClientFiles.ts:
- Around line 40-42: Move ACP path resolution, ancestor walking, directory
creation, and file writes out of AntigravityClientFiles into a
WorkspaceFileSystem operation that enforces the session’s approved workspace and
attachment roots. Update the WorkspaceFileSystem root semantics to support this
operation; keep the ACP callback limited to delegating to the service and
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Independent LastCode copy: lastobelus#266. Neither delivery depends on the other.

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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Hi! We are cleaning up open PRs, and this one appears to have been created with an older model (gpt-6). If this change is really important, we recommend rebuilding the PR with a newer model if possible.

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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Reopening, this was closed by mistake. Sorry for the noise!

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Taking over this one. I will preserve your branch history, verify nested writes and containment together, and finish with independent reviews.