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Summary

  • add schema-versioned local workload catalog under ~/.stroppy/workloads/
  • add stroppy build, list, and remove commands
  • compile standalone Go projects with compatible system Go and preserve compiler diagnostics
  • discover workload identity through standalone probe -o json
  • run and probe stored artifacts by name without their source tree
  • reject built-in name collisions and require --replace for existing custom names
  • publish replacement artifacts and manifests atomically while preserving last successful build after failure

Validation

  • make tests TEST_FLAGS=-short
  • GOLANGCI_LINT_CACHE=/tmp/stroppy-lint-176 GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.26.0 go run github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@v2.12.2 --config .golangci.yml run ./...
  • go test ./internal/cli -run TestManagedCatalogCommands -count=1
  • go mod tidy -diff
  • make build

Closes #176

Stacked on #183; rebase onto its eventual target after #183 merges.

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  • New Features
    • Added commands to build, list, run, probe, and remove compiled custom workloads.
    • Run or probe registered workloads by name, even after moving or deleting their source directory. Rebuild after editing source to use the latest changes.
    • List built-in and custom workloads in human-readable or JSON format.
    • Optionally replace an existing build. Failed builds or replacements leave the previous build available.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on managing standalone workloads, including building, listing, running, probing, replacing, and removing them.

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Stroppy can build standalone Go workloads into a local catalog. The CLI adds commands to list and remove catalog entries, and routes named workloads through run and probe. Registered workloads can run without their source directory.

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Managed workload catalog

Layer / File(s) Summary
Catalog entries and persistence
internal/workloadcatalog/catalog.go, internal/workloadcatalog/files.go, internal/workloadcatalog/lock_unix.go, internal/workloadcatalog/catalog_test.go
The catalog stores manifests and executable artifacts. It validates entries and paths, supports listing, lookup, publication, replacement, and removal, and uses locking and staged file writes. Tests cover replacement, concurrent publication, invalid artifacts, and path validation.
Build, probe, and execute artifacts
internal/workloadcatalog/build.go, internal/workloadcatalog/process.go, internal/workloadcatalog/process_unix.go, internal/workloadcatalog/process_test.go
Build compiles a Go project and probes the resulting artifact for its workload name. Store.Run executes catalog artifacts with configured process settings. On Unix, cancellation terminates the process group. Tests check bounded cancellation.
CLI commands and catalog dispatch
internal/cli/catalog.go, internal/cli/root.go, cmd/stroppy/commands/root.go, cmd/stroppy/commands/run/run.go, internal/cli/catalog_e2e_test.go, cmd/stroppy/commands/run/run_test.go, docs/standalone-workloads.md, CHANGELOG.md
The CLI adds build, list, and remove commands, and routes named workloads through run and probe. Catalog initialization is wired into root construction. Tests exercise the command flow, and documentation describes catalog use and replacement behavior.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant BuildCommand
  participant Build
  participant GoExecutable
  participant Probe
  participant WorkloadArtifact
  participant CatalogStore
  User->>BuildCommand: build source path
  BuildCommand->>Build: compile workload project
  Build->>GoExecutable: build into temporary directory
  GoExecutable-->>Build: compiled artifact
  Build->>Probe: probe artifact identity
  Probe->>WorkloadArtifact: run probe -o json
  WorkloadArtifact-->>Probe: workload identity
  Build-->>BuildCommand: return build result
  BuildCommand->>CatalogStore: publish artifact and manifest
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 660f1

A catalog manifest can direct managed runs or removal to a sibling file outside the artifact directory. Restricting artifact paths to artifacts/ is a localized fix; no broader release-blocking risk is established.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 660f1

The new local workload lifecycle has bounded but meaningful integrity and cleanup risks: damaged catalog metadata can affect a different workload, and interrupted removal can leave an artifact behind. The reviewed paths do not establish a cross-user attack.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: A manifest stored under workload A's name can declare workload B's name and valid artifact. Get(A) can then select B's executable, while Remove(A) can delete B's artifact and leave B's manifest broken. This requires altered or corrupt local metadata; no independent remote or cross-user writer is established.
  • Low · reliability · inferred: Removal discards the manifest before deleting its executable. Interruption between those operations leaves an artifact without the catalog record needed for a subsequent named removal; replacement has a similar post-publication cleanup window for the old artifact.
  • Low · security · inferred: Remove resolves and checks the artifact path, then deletes by pathname. A concurrent actor able to change the catalog's artifact-directory path could redirect that deletion outside the catalog between check and use. The demonstrated default is a private, current-user catalog; greater privilege or a separate attacker with directory control has not been established.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The evidenced default exposure is the invoking user's local catalog and child-process privileges. The inspected paths do not establish a network entrypoint or a cross-user authority boundary.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — Altered local manifest metadata can alias one requested name to another catalog artifact. A separate security candidate at manifest loading remains deferred, not verified; the evidence does not establish a distinct attacker able to write that metadata.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — CLI callers supply a workload name rather than a deletion path. Store.Remove validates that name, loads the manifest, and checks artifact ownership again before deletion; a static outside-catalog artifact path is not an authorized deletion target.
  • observed — Custom build probing and named runs execute workload binaries with the host environment or supplied process environment; no sandbox or credential reduction is visible in these execution paths.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The catalog lock coordinates cooperating writers but does not prevent a process with filesystem access from changing a checked path. Manifest-first removal also leaves no manifest-driven way to repeat cleanup after interruption.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bind the manifest's declared name and artifact identity to the requested manifest key; consider deletion anchored to an opened catalog directory rather than a separately checked pathname.
  • proposed — Define recovery or reconciliation for unreferenced artifacts after interrupted remove and replacement operations.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main change: managing local custom workloads through a catalog.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR satisfies the coding requirements in #176. Build compiles a standalone Go project, preserves diagnostics, probes the declared identity, and publishes a schema-versioned artifact and manifest.…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within #176. The catalog, CLI integration, resolver, build and probe process handling, atomic publication, cleanup, documentation, changelog, and tests support local custom workload…
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Review comments at @cmd/stroppy/commands/root.go:
- Around line 16-22: Update newRoot so a workloadcatalog.Open failure leaves
store nil instead of panicking during package initialization; preserve the
existing command setup so catalog-dependent features can use the nil-store
handling in catalogResolver and addManagedCommands.

Review comments at @internal/workloadcatalog/catalog.go:
- Around line 214-247: Split readManifest validation into structural checks for
schema, name, and artifact-path prefix, and artifact checks for existence and
executability. Use structural validation in List, Remove, and the Publish
replace path; have List report broken artifacts as status, and apply artifact
checks in Get for run and probe.
- Around line 140-190: Update Publish to serialize the full publish sequence
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- Around line 233-246: Update readManifest to resolve the artifact path and
catalog root through symlinks, and reject the path unless it remains beneath the
resolved root before calling os.Stat. Ensure the artifacts directory itself
cannot resolve outside the catalog root during ensureDirs.

Review comments at @internal/workloadcatalog/process.go:
- Around line 31-81: Update Store.Run’s cancellation branch to wait only for a
bounded grace period after terminateProcessGroup, then escalate to process-group
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- Around line 250-252: Update Remove’s handling of errors from
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🟡 Minor · Validate the resolved artifact path against artifacts/. · catalog.go:265-295

internal/workloadcatalog/catalog.go:265-295
🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Validate the resolved artifact path against artifacts/.

A manifest path such as artifacts/../artifacts-extra/<entryID>-... passes the raw prefix and basename checks. validateOwnedPath checks only containment under the catalog root.

The managed workload path calls Get, then Store.Run executes entry.ArtifactPath. The reachable remove NAME command can also delete the sibling file.

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-	if err := store.validateOwnedPath(entry.ArtifactPath); err != nil {
+	if err := store.validateArtifactPath(entry.ArtifactPath); err != nil {
 		return Entry{}, fmt.Errorf("%w %q: unexpected artifact path: %w", ErrInvalidEntry, path, err)
 	}
@@
-	if err := store.validateOwnedPath(entry.ArtifactPath); err != nil {
+	if err := store.validateArtifactPath(entry.ArtifactPath); err != nil {
 		if errors.Is(err, errOutsideCatalog) || errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
 			return nil
 		}
@@
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (store *Store) validateArtifactPath(path string) error {
+	if err := store.validateOwnedPath(path); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	artifactDir, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(store.artifactsDir())
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	resolved, err := evalExistingPath(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	relative, err := filepath.Rel(artifactDir, resolved)
+	if err != nil || filepath.IsAbs(relative) || relative == ".." ||
+		strings.HasPrefix(relative, ".."+string(os.PathSeparator)) {
+		return errOutsideCatalog
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
 func (store *Store) validateOwnedPath(path string) error {
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Update readManifest to validate the resolved artifact path against the resolved
artifacts directory, not only the raw prefix and catalog-root containment. Reuse
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Fixed the outside-diff artifact-directory finding in ec82d24. readManifest, List, and Remove now validate resolved paths beneath resolved artifacts/, not only beneath catalog root. This file does not exist in parent PR #183; the finding belongs entirely to PR #184. Parent stack remains conflict-free.

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