fix(config): lock config read-modify-write across processes - #960
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WalkthroughConfiguration mutations and MCP commands now use a shared sibling lock file. The lock covers complete read-modify-write workflows, supports cross-process exclusion, propagates release errors, and is validated by concurrent and integration tests. ChangesConfiguration write serialization
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change serializes configuration updates across processes and prevents lost writes, but some failure paths still need owner attention: a command may print success before a lock-release failure is reported, and setup-script compatibility plus MCP lock edge cases remain open. The PR is mergeable with explicit follow-up or acceptance of these bounded risks. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In @.agents/setup:
- Around line 29-36: Update the toolchain replacement flow in the setup script
to stage and validate the extracted Go tree under the destination parent, rather
than deleting the existing go_root first. Publish the staged tree atomically
while preserving the prior toolchain, and restore it if publication fails; avoid
relying on a cross-filesystem mv from temp_dir. Ensure rollback removes only
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- Around line 64-67: Update the Node.js prerequisite checks in .agents/setup
lines 64-67 and .agents/resume lines 9-13 to validate the installed Node.js
major version is at least 18, not merely that node and npm are available; reject
unsupported versions before npm ci in setup and before the ready message in
resume, while preserving the existing failure behavior.
In `@internal/config/lock.go`:
- Line 55: Update the lock-release callback in the relevant mutator flow to
return the error from lock.Release instead of discarding it, and change the
unlock contract accordingly. Ensure mutation methods return the release error
when the mutation succeeds, while preserving any existing mutation error
precedence.
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Preserve the existing Go toolchain until replacement succeeds.
Line 34 deletes a pre-existing toolchain before Line 36 publishes the replacement. If mv fails, the setup fails and leaves "$go_root" unavailable. A temporary directory under /tmp can also require a cross-filesystem copy instead of an atomic rename.
Stage and validate the new toolchain under the destination parent. Keep the prior toolchain until publication succeeds. Restore it if publication fails.
As per coding guidelines, “On multi-step setup, roll back only what this run created; never destroy pre-existing resources you did not create,” and “Write a complete temporary file, then atomically replace the destination so concurrent readers never see a partial write.”
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In @.agents/setup around lines 29 - 36, Update the toolchain replacement flow in
the setup script to stage and validate the extracted Go tree under the
destination parent, rather than deleting the existing go_root first. Publish the
staged tree atomically while preserving the prior toolchain, and restore it if
publication fails; avoid relying on a cross-filesystem mv from temp_dir. Ensure
rollback removes only resources created by this run.
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| echo "Node.js and npm are required (package.json requires Node >=18)." >&2 | ||
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Reject Node.js versions below 18.
package.json requires Node.js >=18, but both scripts only check command availability. Validate the Node.js major version before npm ci in .agents/setup and before the ready message in .agents/resume.
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In @.agents/setup around lines 64 - 67, Update the Node.js prerequisite checks
in .agents/setup lines 64-67 and .agents/resume lines 9-13 to validate the
installed Node.js major version is at least 18, not merely that node and npm are
available; reject unsupported versions before npm ci in setup and before the
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Every config mutator loads the whole document, edits independent fields, and publishes a complete replacement by rename. The rename is atomic, so a reader never sees partial JSON — but two processes that loaded the same revision each write a full document, and the second rename silently discards the first one's acknowledged update. The result is valid JSON with one update missing and no error anywhere. lockConfigFile takes a cross-process advisory lock through lockutil, using the retry-with-deadline idiom cron, hooks and oauth already share (10s timeout, 20ms retry). Callers acquire BEFORE their first read, so the lock spans load, mutation, validation and publication and the read inside it is authoritative — holding it only around the write would still let both processes start from the same stale revision. The lock file is a sibling (config.json.lock), never the config itself: an advisory lock is held against an inode, and publishing by rename installs a new one, so locking the config directly would leave each process holding a different inode. Covered: all 14 mutators in writer.go, plus ClearProviderKeyStored and MigratePlaintextProviderKeys in credentials.go. The migration matters most — it rewrites the config on every startup, so it is the likeliest writer to collide with an interactive mutation in another Zero. The SetProviderDescription test seam locks too, so it cannot stand in as the one unsynchronized writer. Two shapes needed care: - The lock is not reentrant. EnsureCatalogProvider scans for an existing profile and then upserts, so UpsertProvider is split into a locking wrapper and upsertProviderLocked; one lock now spans the scan and the upsert, which also closes the window where two processes could both create the same catalog profile. - SetPet edits raw bytes to preserve unknown members and formatting rather than round-tripping the struct. It takes the same lock, so it neither clobbers nor is clobbered by the struct writers. Regression tests, each verified to FAIL with the lock disabled: - TestConcurrentMutationsDoNotLoseUpdates — theme, pet, recaps, favorites and a provider mutated at once; all five are independent fields, so a lost update shows up as a zero value in exactly one of them. - TestConcurrentProviderUpsertsAllSurvive — 16 distinct providers added concurrently, all must be present. - TestConcurrentSameFieldMutationsSerialize — 24 writers contending on one field; every call succeeds and the document stays readable. - TestCrossProcessMutationExcludesAndPreserves — the coordinated two-process case. Goroutines share this process's descriptors, so only a second OS process shows the lock is kernel-held. The child announces itself, then the parent asserts its write cannot land while the lock is held elsewhere, does its own mutation, releases, and requires both updates to survive. Fixes Gitlawb#832 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01U389qmQUhoZB3YtXkFmiTq
The previous commit locked internal/config's mutators, but that is not every writer of the user config document. internal/cli's MCP editor reads the SAME file, edits it, and republishes it with the identical temp-file+rename shape, at three sites (add/update, remove, disable/enable). Locking only one package left `zero mcp add` free to clobber a concurrent provider or preference write — and to be clobbered by one — with the file still valid JSON afterwards, which is the same silent lost update issue Gitlawb#832 reports. config.LockFile exports the existing helper so the lock is one authority across packages rather than a private detail of internal/config. A second, adjacent implementation would drift from the first exactly the way this writer already drifted from the mutators. TestRunMCPAddParticipatesInConfigLock is the regression. Racing the two writers and waiting to observe a lost update is NOT reliable — the losing interleaving is narrow, and a straightforward concurrent version of this test passed five consecutive runs against the unlocked code, so it would have shipped as reassurance that proved nothing. It instead asserts the deterministic property: while the config lock is held elsewhere, the MCP writer's update cannot land, and it completes once the lock is released. That fails immediately against the unlocked code and passes with it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01U389qmQUhoZB3YtXkFmiTq
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In `@internal/cli/mcp_config_lock_test.go`:
- Around line 47-50: Extend the lock regression tests around runWithDeps to
cover mcp add, mcp remove, mcp enable, and mcp disable, including both lock
contention and config.LockFile acquisition failures. Verify each command returns
the expected error and does not proceed with configuration changes.
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| done <- runWithDeps([]string{"mcp", "add", "docs", "--", "docs-mcp"}, &stdout, &stderr, appDeps{ | ||
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Test every changed lock path.
This test invokes only mcp add. It does not cover mcp remove, mcp enable or mcp disable, and it does not exercise the config.LockFile error path. Add regression coverage for lock contention and lock-acquisition failure for each changed command path.
As per coding guidelines, “Every behavior or security-boundary change needs a regression test, including the failure path.”
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In `@internal/cli/mcp_config_lock_test.go` around lines 47 - 50, Extend the lock
regression tests around runWithDeps to cover mcp add, mcp remove, mcp enable,
and mcp disable, including both lock contention and config.LockFile acquisition
failures. Verify each command returns the expected error and does not proceed
with configuration changes.
Source: Coding guidelines
AGENTS.md requires that a mutator never report success when unlock failed, and
the release error was being dropped on the floor. A failed Release can leave the
lock held for the rest of the process, so returning (cfg, nil) after one claims
a state the next mutation cannot reproduce — it will block for the full lock
timeout and then fail.
lockConfigFile now returns lock.Release directly, and every caller joins it into
its own result with the idiom credstore already uses:
defer func() { err = errors.Join(err, unlock()) }()
Joined, not chosen between: a release failure annotates the result rather than
masking the mutation error that explains what actually went wrong. That covers
all 16 mutators in writer.go, both in credentials.go, and the test seam. The
three MCP sites return an exit code rather than an error, so they convert a
release failure into a crash exit and a stderr message, without overwriting a
failure the command had already reported.
A release failure cannot be provoked through the public API — lockutil.Release
is idempotent and reports nil once released — so the mutators call through a
lockConfigFileFn seam that a test can substitute. My first attempt at this test
could only ever t.Skip, which asserts nothing; the seam is what turns it into a
real assertion.
- TestMutationReportsUnlockFailure: SetTheme surfaces the release error AND the
mutation is still published, since a release failure annotates the result
rather than undoing the write.
- TestMutationErrorSurvivesUnlockFailure: an unknown-provider error and the
release failure are both present in the joined error.
Both verified to fail when the defer discards the release error.
Note for review: cron, hooks, oauth and swarm all still discard their
lockutil.Release error, so this makes internal/config stricter than its
siblings. Worth deciding whether the guideline should be applied to them too —
out of scope here.
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In `@internal/cli/mcp_config.go`:
- Around line 77-84: Update the command success paths around the deferred unlock
in the MCP configuration handlers to call unlock before writing JSON or text
success output, so unlock failures can change the result before success is
emitted. Retain deferred unlock cleanup for earlier failure paths and apply the
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| defer func() { | ||
| // A failed release leaves the lock held for the rest of the process, so | ||
| // exiting success here would claim a state the next config write cannot | ||
| // reproduce. It must not mask a failure this command already reported. | ||
| if releaseErr := unlock(); releaseErr != nil && exitCode == exitSuccess { | ||
| exitCode = writeAppError(stderr, redaction.ErrorMessage(releaseErr, redaction.Options{}), exitCrash) | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Release the lock before writing successful command output.
Each command writes its success response before the deferred unlock call runs. If unlock fails, the command emits a success response, then reports a crash and exits unsuccessfully. Release the lock before JSON or text success output, while retaining deferred cleanup for earlier failure paths.
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In `@internal/cli/mcp_config.go` around lines 77 - 84, Update the command success
paths around the deferred unlock in the MCP configuration handlers to call
unlock before writing JSON or text success output, so unlock failures can change
the result before success is emitted. Retain deferred unlock cleanup for earlier
failure paths and apply the same ordering to all corresponding success branches,
including those near the other reported locations.
Source: Coding guidelines
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Summary
Config mutations lose updates when two processes write concurrently. Every mutator loads the whole document, edits its fields, and publishes a complete replacement by rename. The rename is atomic — a reader never sees partial JSON — but two processes that loaded the same revision each write a full document, and the second rename silently discards the first one's acknowledged update. The result is valid JSON with one update missing and no error anywhere.
Fixes #832
The fix
lockConfigFile(internal/config/lock.go) takes a cross-process advisory lock throughlockutil, using the retry-with-deadline idiomcron,hooksandoauthalready share (10s timeout, 20ms retry).Callers acquire before their first read, so the lock spans load → mutation → validation → publication and the read inside it is authoritative. Holding it only around the write would still let both processes start from the same stale revision — which is the whole bug.
The lock file is a sibling (
config.json.lock), never the config itself. An advisory lock is held against an inode, and publishing by rename installs a new one, so locking the config directly would leave each process holding a different inode.lockutilkeeps the sibling's path stable and never removes it, for the same reason.This also serializes goroutines inside one process: each acquisition opens its own file description, so a second in-process attempt contends exactly as another process would.
Coverage
All 14 mutators in
writer.go, plusClearProviderKeyStoredandMigratePlaintextProviderKeysincredentials.go.MigratePlaintextProviderKeysmatters most: it rewrites the config on every startup, so it is the likeliest writer to collide with an interactive mutation in another Zero. TheSetProviderDescriptiontest seam locks too, so it cannot stand in as the one unsynchronized writer in a future concurrency test.Two shapes that needed care
The lock is not reentrant.
EnsureCatalogProviderscans for an existing profile and then upserts. Going through the publicUpsertProviderwould have spun in the retry loop until the 10s deadline and then failed.UpsertProvideris split into a locking wrapper plusupsertProviderLocked, and one lock now spans the scan and the upsert — which additionally closes the window where two processes could both create the same catalog profile.SetPetedits raw bytes rather than round-tripping the struct, to preserve unknown members and existing formatting. It takes the same lock, so it neither clobbers nor is clobbered by the struct writers. It is deliberately included in the mixed-mutation regression below for that reason.Regression tests
Each was verified to fail with the lock disabled and pass with it.
TestConcurrentMutationsDoNotLoseUpdatesTestConcurrentProviderUpsertsAllSurviveTestConcurrentSameFieldMutationsSerializeTestCrossProcessMutationExcludesAndPreservesOn the cross-process test. Goroutines share this process's descriptors, so only a second OS process shows the lock is held by the kernel rather than by in-process state. My first version of this test was worthless — it passed with and without the lock, because child-process startup latency meant the child usually read after the parent had already written. It is now written so the child announces itself before contending, and the parent asserts the child's write provably cannot land while the lock is held elsewhere, then mutates, releases, and requires both updates to survive. Deterministic in the passing direction rather than a scheduling coin flip.
Validation
go build ./...,go vet ./...,gofmtcleango test ./internal/config/ -count=1— greengo test ./...— onlyinternal/clifails, with 15 pre-existing ambient-config failures (no active provider configured: active provider "chatgpt" not found). I diffed the failing test names against agit stashbaseline of this same tree: identical set, so none of them come from this change.Note on scope
This implements the issue's primary suggestion (hold a cross-process lock across the whole transaction, re-read inside it). It does not add the optional generation/revision field — with the lock spanning load-through-publish there is no stale-writer window left for a revision check to catch, and adding one would change the on-disk schema. Happy to add it if you would rather have defence in depth against a future caller that mutates without the lock.
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