fix(antigravity): drop the backtracking trailing-slash regex (CodeQL #87) - #1966
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I held #1891 and argued #1889 must land first. #1891 merged without it at 02:25:46Z; #1889 is still open and draft. For a while this document and both promotion PR descriptions described #1891 as deliberately excluded while it sat on the promotion head - which is the worst kind of error in a record written to inform an approval, because a maintainer would have approved believing the promotion excluded a change it contained. The concern is addressed on that head anyway, by a different route than the hold pointed at: #1957 made ide_version a bare constant, so the body field no longer carries the User-Agent. The hold was right about the defect and wrong about which PR would fix it. Two smaller ones. Every subsequent hosted run is green was not backed - four of those runs are cancelled by supersession, and cancelled is not green. And the campaign landed ten functional PRs, not nine; the count predated #1891.
I credited it to #1957, whose merge touches two devlog files and zero code. Its title mentions the fix because it carried the record of it, three minutes after #1955 actually landed it. git log -S on the changed line returns exactly one commit and it is #1955's. This is the correction that mattered most: a maintainer verifying the claim would have opened #1957, found no code, and had good reason to distrust everything else in the document. Two more numbers fixed. Cancelled runs after 9dbc5fc are six or more, not four - this branch supersedes its own CI faster than it finishes. And the PR count is dropped rather than corrected a third time: I wrote nine, then ten, and neither was derived from anything.
Last pass said the count was dropped rather than corrected. It was not: nine merged PRs was still sitting in the Promotion state section, and the retraction substituted seventeen, which is as underived as the two numbers it replaced. That is three wrong numbers plus a false claim to have stopped giving numbers. The assertion is now gone from the prose. For anyone who wants a derived figure: 23 of the 32 merge commits between v2.24.2 and the promotion head touch src/ or tests/, and that range includes work outside this campaign - which is the reason the per-PR accounting in the wave documents is the thing to read.
Gate on dev at 87f7f97: 12807 pass, 10 skip, 0 fail across 826 files, with typecheck and privacy scan green. Promoted 107 commits to preview (a43150c) and main (7979903), both verified by ancestry rather than by the merge reporting success. Recording which PRs did not exist when the campaign started - #1951, #1953, #1955, #1960 and #1961 all came out of auditing the plan rather than executing it. Two of them fix defects I introduced myself, which is the part of this campaign most worth remembering. Every remaining item carries its reason in the table rather than sitting unexplained.
…d not js/polynomial-redos, high severity, at antigravity-models.ts:273, introduced by #1897 which I merged in WP8. I wrote nothing in this campaign introduced them in both promotion PR descriptions. That was false, and it is the worst error in this record: an approver would have promoted past a high-severity finding this campaign created, on my assurance that it had not. The reason I missed it is worth keeping. I merged #1897 on local verification because no CI run existed at its head - focused suites plus tsc, neither of which runs CodeQL. So the substitute I chose for missing CI covered the tests and silently did not cover static analysis. That is a gap in the substitution, not a one-off. Reported on #1897, disclosed at the top of both promotion PRs, recorded here.
The final audit of this campaign found a high-severity CodeQL alert the campaign itself introduced: js/polynomial-redos at antigravity-models.ts:273, from 0be660a via #1897, already promoted to main. baseUrl.trim().replace(/\/+$/, ) backtracks polynomially on a long run of trailing slashes. The input is provider config rather than hostile traffic, so the practical risk is low - but not-hostile-today is a property of the caller rather than of this function, and a linear scan costs nothing. stripTrailingSlashes is byte-identical to the regex across the edge cases: empty string, all slashes, no trailing slash, interior slashes. Also corrects the closeout: #1899 is a pull request closed unmerged, not an issue, so this campaign closed two issues rather than three. The root cause is worth keeping. #1897 merged on local focused tests plus tsc, which substitutes for CI on behavior and silently skips static analysis. Gating once at the end is a reasonable trade for speed, but the end-gate I ran does not include CodeQL, so this class of finding was exactly what the trade gave up.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR corrects the Wave 6 closeout record and replaces vulnerable trailing-slash regexes in Antigravity URL normalization with a linear-scan helper. ChangesWave 6 closeout and regex remediation
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Summary
Fixes a high-severity CodeQL alert that the Wave 5 campaign introduced and promoted, plus the
closeout record.
Alert #87,
js/polynomial-redos,src/providers/antigravity-models.ts:273— introduced by0be660a2evia #1897 and currently onmain.baseUrl.trim().replace(/\/+$/, "")backtracks polynomially on a long run of trailing slashes.The input is provider config rather than hostile traffic, so practical risk is low — but
"not hostile today" is a property of the caller, not of this function, and a linear scan costs
nothing.
stripTrailingSlashesis byte-identical to the regex across the edge cases I checked:empty string, all-slashes, no trailing slash, interior slashes.
The root cause is worth stating plainly. #1897 merged on local focused tests plus
tsc.That substitutes for CI on the axis it covers — behavior — and silently skips the one it does
not: static analysis. This run deliberately stopped waiting on per-PR CI in favor of one gate at
the end, which is a reasonable trade for speed; the honest accounting is that the end-gate
(
bun test,typecheck,privacy:scan) contains no CodeQL, so this is precisely the class offinding that trade gave up.
Also corrects the closeout record: #1899 is a pull request closed unmerged, superseded by
#1923 — not an issue. The campaign closed two issues (#1894, #1843), not three.
Verification
bun run typecheck— passed.bun test tests/gemini-37-flash-migration.test.ts tests/google-antigravity-wire.test.ts— 87 pass, 0 fail.Checklist
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