fix: make the repo tooling run on a Windows checkout - #2825
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`npm run validate:skills` and `npm run test:skills` are both unusable on Windows today. Three independent defects, each reproduced on Windows 11 with Git for Windows at its defaults, against v6.12.0: 1. stdout is never pinned. The human-readable report rules its sections with U+2500, which cp1252 -- the Python default whenever output is not a terminal -- cannot encode, so the run dies in print() with UnicodeEncodeError before reporting anything. Generalizes the pin_utf8 helper merged for brain.py in bmad-code-org#2578, applied to both streams. 2. safe_read_file passes newline="", which turns off universal newlines. Git for Windows sets core.autocrlf=true by default and the repo ships no .gitattributes, so a checkout there is CRLF throughout; the frontmatter fence stays "\r\n---\r\n" and find("\n---\n") never matches it. Every skill then reports SKILL-02, SKILL-03 and SKILL-07: 150 false findings across 50 skills, and a strict run exits 1. Nothing downstream reads a raw "\r", so reading with universal newlines is the fix. 3. _relpath returns the native separator. The `skill` and `file` fields of the JSON output and the `file=` of a GitHub Actions annotation are a contract, and an annotation only resolves to a file with forward slashes, so Windows silently emitted unusable paths. Normalized to "/". Together these took `validate_skills.py --strict` from a traceback, to 150 false findings, to the 0 that Linux CI already reports. The suite in tools/tests goes from 16 failures of 33 to green. Adds a TestPlatformPortability case covering all three: a CRLF SKILL.md that must validate like its LF original, a report whose paths carry no backslash, and a subprocess run under PYTHONIOENCODING=cp1252. Each fails with its own fix reverted and passes with it restored. Also skips the one POSIX-only case: chmod(0) merely sets the read-only flag on Windows, so the owner can still read the file and no READ-ERR is raised. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Greptile SummaryThe PR makes the skill validator portable across Windows checkouts and output environments.
Confidence Score: 5/5The PR appears safe to merge with no actionable defects identified. The changed paths preserve existing validator contracts while addressing Windows newline, path-separator, and output-encoding failures, and the added subprocess test uses trusted argv entries without shell interpretation.
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| tools/validate_skills.py | Correctly normalizes input newlines and report paths while configuring UTF-8 output without changing validator exit behavior. |
| tools/tests/test_validate_skills.py | Adds focused portability regressions and appropriately skips a POSIX permission-semantics test on Windows. |
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- Line 700: Update the validation result logic around safe_read_file and the
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Return a non-zero status after READ-ERR.
safe_read_file records unreadable files as MEDIUM findings. Line 700 returns zero in strict mode when no HIGH or CRITICAL finding exists. CI can then accept an incomplete validation result after a file-read failure.
Track READ-ERR separately and return a non-zero status after reporting it. As per path instructions, “tools/**: Build script/tooling. Check error handling and that failures exit non-zero.”
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In `@tools/validate_skills.py` at line 700, Update the validation result logic
around safe_read_file and the final return expression to track READ-ERR findings
separately; after reporting any READ-ERR, return a non-zero status even when
strict mode has no HIGH or CRITICAL findings, while preserving the existing
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The observation is accurate: READ-ERR is MEDIUM, has_high_plus counts only CRITICAL and HIGH, so an unreadable file leaves --strict at exit 0.
I am leaving it out of this PR, for three reasons.
It is pre-existing and untouched here. This diff changes newline handling in safe_read_file, separator normalization in _relpath, and stream encoding in main(). It does not touch severity assignment or the exit expression, and neither of those is Windows-specific.
--strict is documented as HIGH+ in three places that would all have to change with it: the module docstring (--strict # Exit 1 on HIGH+ findings), the runtime banner (mode = "STRICT (exit 1 on HIGH+)"), and the argparse help. Making one MEDIUM rule fail the build while the label still says HIGH+ is worse than the current gap; doing it properly means either promoting READ-ERR above the line or adding a separate "incomplete scan" exit path, and then saying so in all three.
The validator was ported from JS in #2810 with its contract deliberately preserved. Changing when CI goes red is a maintainer call, not a side effect of a portability fix.
Worth noting the practical exposure is smaller than it looks: READ-ERR fires on OSError from open(), so a permission or I/O failure, not a decoding one. safe_read_file passes errors="replace", so an undecodable file is scanned with replacement characters rather than skipped.
Happy to open it as a follow-up if @bmadcode wants the behavior changed.
Fills the docstring coverage gap the review flagged, over the functions and test entities in the diff and their immediate neighbours: the two escaping and frontmatter helpers, run(), and the rule, parser and portability test cases. Coverage over the touched set goes from 38.46% to 100% (13/13 counting the changed hunks alone, 16/16 counting three lines of context either side). Pure additions, no behavior change; the suite still passes 36 with the one POSIX-only case skipped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pushed Coverage over the touched set goes from 38.46% to 100% — 13/13 measured on the changed hunks alone, which matches the 13 functions the check reported, and 16/16 measured with three lines of context either side. Pure additions, +11/-0, no behavior change. The suite still passes 36 with the one POSIX-only case skipped, and My reply on the @coderabbitai review |
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Two more instances of the same Windows-checkout defect this PR already fixes
in the Python validator. Both measured on Windows 11 with Git for Windows at
its defaults, against v6.12.0.
test/test-installation-components.js matched the shipped renderer command with
/```bash\n(...)/. A CRLF checkout puts \r\n after the fence, the match returns
null, and both renderer assertions fail: `npm run test:install` reports 493
passed, 2 failed. Tolerating \r? takes it to 495 passed, 0 failed.
upsertTomlKey in tools/installer/set-overrides.js split on "\n" and rejoined
with "\n". On CRLF content every line kept a trailing \r, and since JavaScript's
"." does not match \r, the `^(\s*)key\s*=\s*(.*)$` pattern never matched: the
replace path fell through to append and wrote the key a second time. tomllib
rejects that file outright ("Cannot overwrite a value"), which would take the
whole config down. The insert paths also left the file with mixed endings.
Detecting the file's line ending and splitting on /\r?\n/ fixes both: an
existing key is replaced in place, and a CRLF file stays CRLF.
This second one is latent rather than live: applySetOverrides runs immediately
after the installer rewrites both target files with LF (installer.js:379-381),
so the shipped flow never feeds it CRLF. I could not reproduce it end to end,
only at the unit level. Fixing it anyway, because the function is exported and
one line of caller ordering is all that stands between latent and live.
Adds four assertions covering the replace path and both insert paths on CRLF,
plus one that an LF file is untouched by the new handling. Each fails with its
own fix reverted. `npm run test:install` goes from 493/2 to 502/0.
Also documents the entities these hunks pull into the docstring-coverage scope:
_finding, two rule cases, and escapeRegExp.
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To be straight about the second one: it is latent, not live. Seven new assertions cover both, each verified to fail with its own fix reverted. Docstring coverage over the touched set is 100% measured on the changed hunks and with three lines of context either side; The PR description now also carries evidence for the @coderabbitai review |
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ast-grep outline tools/installer/set-overrides.js --items all --type function,class --view expanded || true
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printf '\n== CommonJS exports/imports for set-overrides ==\n'
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'(?:endOfLine|line endings?|CRLF|\\r\?\\n|split\(.?\\n|includes\(.?\\r\\n)' \
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The renderer-command matcher now accepts both The caller order in ✏️ Learnings added
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On a Windows checkout, several of the repo's own tools do not run. Measured on Windows 11, Git for Windows at its defaults, against
v6.12.0(05bfbd4), clean checkout, no environment overrides.The common cause: Git for Windows sets
core.autocrlf=trueby default and this repo ships no.gitattributes, so a checkout there is CRLF throughout. Tooling that assumes\nthen misbehaves in four distinct ways.1. The skill validator dies before reporting anything
tools/validate_skills.pynever pins stdout. The report rules its sections with─(U+2500, 60 of them), whichcp1252cannot encode, andcp1252is the Python default whenever output is not a terminal:2. The skill validator reports 150 findings that are not real
safe_read_filepassednewline="", which turns off universal newlines, so the frontmatter fence stayed\r\n---\r\nand_frontmatter_block'sfind("\n---\n")never matched it. Every skill came back missing its name, description and body:newline=""came in with the JS port in #2810, mirroringfs.readFileSync. Nothing downstream reads a raw\r(the only one isescape_annotation, which escapes it).3. Report paths carry the wrong separator
_relpathreturned the native separator. Theskillandfilefields of the JSON output and thefile=of a GitHub Actions annotation are a contract, and an annotation only resolves with forward slashes. Windows emittedsrc\bmad-gha\notes.md.4. Two installation tests fail, and one installer function is CRLF-unsafe
test/test-installation-components.jsmatched the shipped renderer command with/```bash\n(...)/. With\r\nafter the fence the match returnsnulland both renderer assertions fail: 493 passed, 2 failed.upsertTomlKeyintools/installer/set-overrides.jssplit on"\n"and rejoined with"\n". On CRLF content every line kept a trailing\r, and since JavaScript's.does not match\r,^(\s*)key\s*=\s*(.*)$never matched — so the replace path fell through to append and wrote the key a second time:tomllibrejects that outright (Cannot overwrite a value), which would take the whole config down. The insert paths also left the file with mixed endings.This last one is latent, not live.
applySetOverridesruns immediately after the installer rewrites both target files with LF (installer.js:379-381), so the shipped flow never feeds it CRLF. I could not reproduce it end to end, only at the unit level. Fixing it anyway: the function is exported, and one line of caller ordering is all that separates latent from live.Change
pin_utf8on stdout and stderr atmain()entry, generalizing the helper merged forbrain.pyin fix(brainstorming): pin brain.py console streams to UTF-8 #2578.errors=is passed through so stderr'sbackslashreplacedefault is not silently downgraded tostrict.newline=""fromsafe_read_file._relpathnormalizesos.septo/.\r?in the renderer-command regex.upsertTomlKeydetects the file's line ending, splits on/\r?\n/, and rejoins with what it found.All five are no-ops on Linux and macOS.
Result
validate_skills.py --strictUnicodeEncodeError0 findings, exit 0tools/tests/test_validate_skills.pynpm run test:installThe
0 findingsmatches what Linux CI already reports.Test
TestPlatformPortabilitycovers the Python side, one case per defect: a CRLFSKILL.mdthat must validate clean (genuinely cross-platform — the file is CRLF on Linux too), a report whose paths carry no\, and a subprocess run underPYTHONIOENCODING=cp1252.Four new assertions cover
upsertTomlKey: the replace path and both insert paths on CRLF, plus one that an LF file is untouched by the new handling.Every case was verified to discriminate: with its own fix reverted the matching test fails, and with it restored the suites are green.
test_read_err_on_unreadable_file_continuesis skipped on Windows:chmod(0)only sets the read-only flag there, so the owner can still read the file and noREAD-ERRis raised. That is a POSIX permission scenario, not a portability gap.Still not included:
.gitattributesWorth stating that the fixes above do not make
npm run qualitypass on Windows, becausenpm run format:checkfails independently. Prettier'sendOfLinedefaults tolfand there is no.prettierrcoverriding it, so on a CRLF checkout it flags every file, including ones no PR has touched:A
.gitattributeswith* text=auto eol=lfis the root fix for this whole class and would have prevented all four defects above. I have left it out because it changes every contributor's working tree on their next checkout, which is a call for you rather than a side effect of a bug-fix PR. Happy to add it here or as its own PR if you want it.