Merge pull request 'feat: add server code parity gate for mutations (Closes #420)' (#444) from feat/issue-420-server-code-parity into master

This commit was merged in pull request #444.
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@@ -828,6 +828,13 @@ import audit_reconciliation_mode # noqa: E402
import review_merge_state_machine # noqa: E402
import pr_work_lease # noqa: E402
import native_mcp_preference # noqa: E402
import master_parity_gate # noqa: E402
# Master-parity baseline (#420): the commit this server process started at.
# Captured once so that, at mutation time, we can detect when the on-disk
# master has advanced past the running code and fail closed until restart.
# Read-only operations are never blocked by staleness.
_STARTUP_PARITY = master_parity_gate.capture_startup_parity(PROJECT_ROOT)
import worktree_cleanup_audit # noqa: E402
@@ -5585,15 +5592,41 @@ def _try_auto_switch_for_operation(op: str, host: str | None = None) -> bool:
return False
def _current_master_parity() -> dict:
"""Assess this process's code against the on-disk master HEAD (#420)."""
current_head = master_parity_gate.read_git_head(PROJECT_ROOT)
return master_parity_gate.assess_master_parity(_STARTUP_PARITY, current_head)
def _master_parity_block(op: str) -> list[str]:
"""Fail-closed staleness reasons for a mutation *op* (#420).
Read-only operations (``gitea.read``) are never blocked: a stale server can
still be inspected. Any other (mutating) operation is refused when the
on-disk master has definitively advanced past the running code, since newly
merged capability gates would not yet be loaded in memory.
"""
if op == "gitea.read":
return []
return master_parity_gate.parity_block_reasons(_current_master_parity())
def _profile_operation_gate(op: str) -> list[str]:
"""Profile permission check for a single gated operation (#126, #216).
"""Profile permission check for a single gated operation (#126, #216, #420).
Issue discussion comments are gated separately from the gitea.pr.*
review/merge family: listing requires ``gitea.read``, creating requires
``gitea.issue.comment``. Closing a PR requires the distinct
``gitea.pr.close`` (#216). Returns a list of block reasons (empty =
allowed); an unreadable profile fails closed.
A mutating operation is additionally refused when the server code is stale
relative to master (#420), so a long-running process cannot bypass a
capability gate that has since been merged.
"""
stale_reasons = _master_parity_block(op)
if stale_reasons:
return stale_reasons
try:
profile = get_profile()
except Exception as exc:
@@ -7697,6 +7730,24 @@ def gitea_get_runtime_context(
PROJECT_ROOT),
}
parity = _current_master_parity()
result["master_parity"] = {
"in_parity": parity["in_parity"],
"stale": parity["stale"],
"restart_required": parity["restart_required"],
"startup_head": parity["startup_head"],
"current_head": parity["current_head"],
"summary": master_parity_gate.format_parity(parity),
"mutation_gate_enforced": not master_parity_gate.gate_disabled(),
}
if parity["stale"] and not master_parity_gate.gate_disabled():
safe_next_action = (
"Server code is stale relative to master; restart the Gitea MCP "
"server to load current capability gates before mutating. "
f"({master_parity_gate.format_parity(parity)})"
)
result["safe_next_action"] = safe_next_action
if reveal and h:
result["server"] = gitea_url(h, "").rstrip("/")
@@ -7704,6 +7755,43 @@ def gitea_get_runtime_context(
@mcp.tool()
def gitea_assess_master_parity(
remote: str = "dadeschools",
host: str | None = None,
) -> dict:
"""Read-only: is the running server code in parity with the on-disk master?
The MCP server loads its capability-gate code into memory at startup;
``master`` advancing (e.g. a newly merged security gate) does not take
effect until the process restarts. This tool compares the commit the
process started at against the current workspace ``HEAD`` and reports
whether a restart is required before mutations are safe again (#420).
Never mutates and makes no network calls. Read-only operations are never
blocked by staleness; only mutating operations fail closed while stale.
Returns:
dict with 'in_parity', 'stale', 'restart_required', 'startup_head',
'current_head', 'mutation_gate_enforced', 'summary', 'reasons', and a
'report' recovery payload when stale.
"""
parity = _current_master_parity()
enforced = not master_parity_gate.gate_disabled()
out = {
"in_parity": parity["in_parity"],
"stale": parity["stale"],
"restart_required": parity["restart_required"],
"determinable": parity["determinable"],
"startup_head": parity["startup_head"],
"current_head": parity["current_head"],
"mutation_gate_enforced": enforced,
"summary": master_parity_gate.format_parity(parity),
"reasons": parity["reasons"],
"process_root": PROJECT_ROOT,
}
if parity["stale"] and enforced:
out["report"] = master_parity_gate.parity_report(parity)
return out
def gitea_record_pre_review_command(
command: str,
cwd: str | None = None,
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"""Master-parity staleness gate (#420).
The Gitea MCP server loads its capability-gate code and workflow logic into
memory when the process starts. When ``master`` advances -- for example a newly
merged security gate such as the branch-delete capability gate (#408/#410) --
the running process keeps executing the *old* code until it is restarted. A
stale server can therefore still perform a mutation that the updated codebase
would forbid.
Runtime profile/config data is already read live from disk on every call
(``gitea_config.load_config`` re-reads the JSON file each time), so profile
``allowed_operations`` changes take effect immediately without a restart. The
gap this module closes is *code* parity: it captures the server process's
source-tree commit at startup and detects, at mutation time, when the on-disk
``master`` HEAD has advanced past it. Detected staleness fails closed with a
restart-required recovery report, while read-only operations stay allowed so a
stale server can still be inspected.
The core assessment is pure -- callers inject the observed HEAD SHAs -- so the
logic is fully unit-testable without a git checkout.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import os
import subprocess
# Environment escape hatches (ops + tests):
# GITEA_MCP_DISABLE_PARITY_GATE -> disable enforcement entirely (fail open).
# GITEA_TEST_CURRENT_HEAD -> force the "current" HEAD read, for tests.
ENV_DISABLE = "GITEA_MCP_DISABLE_PARITY_GATE"
ENV_TEST_CURRENT_HEAD = "GITEA_TEST_CURRENT_HEAD"
def read_git_head(root: str) -> str | None:
"""Return the current ``HEAD`` commit SHA of *root*, or ``None``.
``None`` means the SHA could not be determined (not a git checkout, git
unavailable, or an error). A test override via ``GITEA_TEST_CURRENT_HEAD``
takes precedence so the gate can be exercised deterministically.
"""
forced = os.environ.get(ENV_TEST_CURRENT_HEAD)
if forced is not None:
return forced.strip() or None
if not root:
return None
try:
res = subprocess.run(
["git", "-C", root, "rev-parse", "HEAD"],
capture_output=True,
text=True,
check=False,
)
except Exception:
return None
if res.returncode != 0:
return None
return (res.stdout or "").strip() or None
def capture_startup_parity(root: str, head: str | None = None) -> dict:
"""Capture the process source-tree baseline once at server startup.
*head* may be injected (tests); otherwise it is read from *root*. The result
is an opaque baseline handed back to :func:`assess_master_parity`.
"""
startup_head = head if head is not None else read_git_head(root)
return {"root": root, "startup_head": startup_head}
def _short(sha: str | None) -> str:
return sha[:12] if sha else "unknown"
def assess_master_parity(startup: dict | None, current_head: str | None) -> dict:
"""Compare the startup baseline against the current on-disk ``HEAD``.
Pure: both HEADs are supplied by the caller. Returns a structured result:
- ``in_parity`` -- server code matches the on-disk master (or parity
could not be determined, which is not treated as stale).
- ``stale`` -- the on-disk master has definitively advanced past the
running process.
- ``restart_required`` -- alias of ``stale``; the recovery action.
- ``determinable`` -- whether both HEADs were known well enough to compare.
- ``startup_head`` / ``current_head`` / ``reasons``.
"""
startup_head = (startup or {}).get("startup_head")
reasons: list[str] = []
if startup_head is None:
reasons.append(
"startup commit was not captured; code parity cannot be enforced")
return _result(True, False, False, startup_head, current_head, reasons)
if current_head is None:
reasons.append(
"current workspace HEAD could not be read; code parity cannot be "
"enforced")
return _result(True, False, False, startup_head, current_head, reasons)
if startup_head == current_head:
return _result(True, False, True, startup_head, current_head, reasons)
reasons.append(
f"MCP server started at commit {_short(startup_head)} but the workspace "
f"master is now {_short(current_head)}; restart the server to load the "
f"current capability gates")
return _result(False, True, True, startup_head, current_head, reasons)
def _result(in_parity, stale, determinable, startup_head, current_head, reasons):
return {
"in_parity": in_parity,
"stale": stale,
"restart_required": stale,
"determinable": determinable,
"startup_head": startup_head,
"current_head": current_head,
"reasons": list(reasons),
}
def gate_disabled() -> bool:
"""Whether the parity gate is disabled by env escape hatch."""
return bool((os.environ.get(ENV_DISABLE) or "").strip())
def parity_block_reasons(assessment: dict) -> list[str]:
"""Block reasons for a mutation gate (empty when the mutation may proceed).
A disabled gate or an in-parity / non-determinable assessment yields no
reasons; only a definitively stale server blocks.
"""
if gate_disabled():
return []
if assessment.get("stale"):
return list(assessment.get("reasons") or
["server code is stale relative to master (fail closed)"])
return []
def parity_report(assessment: dict) -> dict:
"""Structured stale-server report for permission-block payloads."""
return {
"kind": "server_stale",
"restart_required": True,
"startup_head": assessment.get("startup_head"),
"current_head": assessment.get("current_head"),
"reasons": list(assessment.get("reasons") or []),
"recovery": [
"The running MCP server is executing code older than the current "
"master and may not enforce newly merged capability gates.",
"Restart the Gitea MCP server so it reloads master's capability "
"gates and execution profiles before retrying the mutation.",
],
}
def format_parity(assessment: dict) -> str:
"""One-line human summary for logs / runtime context."""
if assessment.get("stale"):
return (f"STALE: started {_short(assessment.get('startup_head'))}, "
f"master now {_short(assessment.get('current_head'))} "
f"(restart required)")
if not assessment.get("determinable"):
return "parity indeterminate (baseline or current HEAD unknown)"
return f"in parity at {_short(assessment.get('current_head'))}"
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"""Tests for the master-parity staleness gate (#420).
Covers the pure assessment logic, the mutation-block helper, the env escape
hatches, and the server-side wiring: reads are never blocked by staleness, a
mutation is refused when the on-disk master has advanced, and the read-only
gitea_assess_master_parity tool reports the stale state.
"""
import os
import sys
import unittest
from unittest.mock import patch
sys.path.insert(0, str(__import__("pathlib").Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
import master_parity_gate as mp # noqa: E402
SHA_A = "a" * 40
SHA_B = "b" * 40
class TestAssessMasterParity(unittest.TestCase):
def test_in_parity_when_heads_match(self):
res = mp.assess_master_parity({"startup_head": SHA_A}, SHA_A)
self.assertTrue(res["in_parity"])
self.assertFalse(res["stale"])
self.assertFalse(res["restart_required"])
self.assertTrue(res["determinable"])
def test_stale_when_master_advanced(self):
res = mp.assess_master_parity({"startup_head": SHA_A}, SHA_B)
self.assertFalse(res["in_parity"])
self.assertTrue(res["stale"])
self.assertTrue(res["restart_required"])
self.assertTrue(res["determinable"])
self.assertTrue(any("restart" in r for r in res["reasons"]))
def test_missing_startup_head_not_determinable(self):
res = mp.assess_master_parity({"startup_head": None}, SHA_B)
self.assertFalse(res["determinable"])
self.assertFalse(res["stale"])
self.assertTrue(res["in_parity"])
def test_missing_current_head_not_determinable(self):
res = mp.assess_master_parity({"startup_head": SHA_A}, None)
self.assertFalse(res["determinable"])
self.assertFalse(res["stale"])
self.assertTrue(res["in_parity"])
def test_none_startup_baseline(self):
res = mp.assess_master_parity(None, SHA_A)
self.assertFalse(res["determinable"])
self.assertFalse(res["stale"])
class TestBlockReasonsAndReport(unittest.TestCase):
def test_stale_produces_block_reasons(self):
res = mp.assess_master_parity({"startup_head": SHA_A}, SHA_B)
self.assertTrue(mp.parity_block_reasons(res))
def test_in_parity_no_block_reasons(self):
res = mp.assess_master_parity({"startup_head": SHA_A}, SHA_A)
self.assertEqual(mp.parity_block_reasons(res), [])
def test_disable_env_suppresses_block(self):
res = mp.assess_master_parity({"startup_head": SHA_A}, SHA_B)
with patch.dict(os.environ, {mp.ENV_DISABLE: "1"}):
self.assertTrue(mp.gate_disabled())
self.assertEqual(mp.parity_block_reasons(res), [])
def test_report_shape_when_stale(self):
res = mp.assess_master_parity({"startup_head": SHA_A}, SHA_B)
report = mp.parity_report(res)
self.assertEqual(report["kind"], "server_stale")
self.assertTrue(report["restart_required"])
self.assertEqual(report["startup_head"], SHA_A)
self.assertEqual(report["current_head"], SHA_B)
self.assertTrue(report["recovery"])
class TestReadGitHead(unittest.TestCase):
def test_test_override_takes_precedence(self):
with patch.dict(os.environ, {mp.ENV_TEST_CURRENT_HEAD: SHA_B}):
self.assertEqual(mp.read_git_head("/nonexistent"), SHA_B)
def test_blank_override_is_none(self):
with patch.dict(os.environ, {mp.ENV_TEST_CURRENT_HEAD: " "}):
self.assertIsNone(mp.read_git_head("/nonexistent"))
def test_empty_root_is_none(self):
# No override set; empty root cannot resolve a HEAD.
env = {k: v for k, v in os.environ.items()
if k != mp.ENV_TEST_CURRENT_HEAD}
with patch.dict(os.environ, env, clear=True):
self.assertIsNone(mp.read_git_head(""))
class TestServerWiring(unittest.TestCase):
"""Integration with the gate choke point in the server namespace."""
def setUp(self):
import mcp_server
self.srv = mcp_server
# Pin a known startup baseline so the current-HEAD override can diverge.
self._saved = self.srv._STARTUP_PARITY
self.srv._STARTUP_PARITY = {"root": self.srv.PROJECT_ROOT,
"startup_head": SHA_A}
def tearDown(self):
self.srv._STARTUP_PARITY = self._saved
def test_reads_not_blocked_when_stale(self):
with patch.dict(os.environ, {mp.ENV_TEST_CURRENT_HEAD: SHA_B}):
self.assertEqual(self.srv._master_parity_block("gitea.read"), [])
def test_mutation_blocked_when_stale(self):
with patch.dict(os.environ, {mp.ENV_TEST_CURRENT_HEAD: SHA_B}):
reasons = self.srv._master_parity_block("gitea.pr.create")
self.assertTrue(reasons)
# The profile-operation choke point surfaces the same block.
self.assertTrue(self.srv._profile_operation_gate("gitea.pr.create"))
def test_mutation_allowed_when_in_parity(self):
with patch.dict(os.environ, {mp.ENV_TEST_CURRENT_HEAD: SHA_A}):
self.assertEqual(
self.srv._master_parity_block("gitea.pr.create"), [])
def test_disable_env_lets_mutation_through(self):
with patch.dict(os.environ, {mp.ENV_TEST_CURRENT_HEAD: SHA_B,
mp.ENV_DISABLE: "1"}):
self.assertEqual(
self.srv._master_parity_block("gitea.pr.create"), [])
def test_assess_tool_reports_stale(self):
with patch.dict(os.environ, {mp.ENV_TEST_CURRENT_HEAD: SHA_B}):
out = self.srv.gitea_assess_master_parity(remote="prgs")
self.assertTrue(out["stale"])
self.assertTrue(out["restart_required"])
self.assertEqual(out["startup_head"], SHA_A)
self.assertEqual(out["current_head"], SHA_B)
self.assertIn("report", out)
def test_assess_tool_reports_in_parity(self):
with patch.dict(os.environ, {mp.ENV_TEST_CURRENT_HEAD: SHA_A}):
out = self.srv.gitea_assess_master_parity(remote="prgs")
self.assertFalse(out["stale"])
self.assertTrue(out["in_parity"])
self.assertNotIn("report", out)
if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()