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Summary

  • Workspaces are only reachable from the host/container filesystem today. Adds a "Files" view to the portal so you can look at, edit, or grab what pi produced without shelling in.
  • New GET/PUT /api/workspaces/:name/files|file for directory listing, reading and saving a file's content, plus GET /api/workspaces/:name/archive streaming a .tar.gz of the whole workspace (node_modules, .git, .venv, __pycache__, dist, build excluded).
  • All paths are resolved and checked against the workspace root before touching the filesystem, so a path query value can't escape it via .. or an absolute override.
  • Frontend: breadcrumb-navigable file list, a plain textarea editor for text files (binary/large files fall back to download-only), a per-file download link, and a "Download project" button for the whole-workspace archive.

Test plan

  • npm run build (server tsc + web tsc -b && vite build) — both clean
  • Directory listing at nested paths, including an empty folder
  • Read + edit + save round-trip on a text file, confirmed on disk
  • Path-traversal attempt (../../../etc/passwd) rejected with 400
  • Single-file download (Content-Disposition: attachment) and whole-workspace .tar.gz download, contents verified with tar tzf
  • Manual click-through in a browser (no browser automation available in this environment — API-level testing only)

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  • New Features
    • Added a Files panel to browse workspace directories and files from the chat interface.
    • Users can view, edit, save, delete, and download workspace files.
    • Added breadcrumb navigation, file size details, confirmations, error feedback, and workspace archive downloads.
    • Added guidance when opening binary files and warnings before discarding unsaved changes.
  • Security & Reliability
    • Added safeguards against unsafe paths, including dangling symlinks and symlink-based escapes.
    • Improved file switching to prevent stale content from appearing.

Shinigallo and others added 3 commits August 3, 2026 13:16
Workspaces are only reachable from the host filesystem today — checking on
what pi produced, tweaking a file by hand, or grabbing the finished project
means shelling into the box or the container. Adds a "Files" view backed by
a new /api/workspaces/:name/files|file|archive API: directory listing with
breadcrumb navigation, a text editor for in-place edits, single-file
download, and a .tar.gz download of the whole workspace (node_modules/.git/
etc. excluded). Path resolution rejects anything that escapes the workspace
root.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds DELETE /api/workspaces/:name/file (recursive for folders, workspace
root itself refused) plus a trash icon per row and on the open-file
viewer, with a native confirm() before deleting — same pattern already
used for sessions and skills elsewhere in the portal.

Also fixes a bug found while testing: workspace selection seeded itself
from the workspaces prop at mount time, which is empty until the parent's
async fetch resolves. A full page reload (not just an in-app navigation)
hit that empty state and never recovered, showing "Empty folder" instead
of the workspace's contents. Now syncs once the list arrives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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its a nice idea but I think it will be better to have this as a side panel of the session page itself

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The server exposes validated workspace file operations under /api. The web client adds typed file APIs, a FilesPanel for browsing and editing files, archive downloads, and a toggle in Chat.

Changes

Workspace file management

Layer / File(s) Summary
Server file API
server/src/api/files.ts, server/src/index.ts
The server validates workspace paths, rejects unresolved symlinks, and mounts file routes under /api.
Web file API contract
web/src/api.ts
The web API defines file metadata and content types and adds methods for listing, reading, saving, deleting, and downloading workspace files.
Chat file browser
web/src/components/FilesPanel.tsx, web/src/components/Chat.tsx, web/src/App.tsx, web/src/components/Sidebar.tsx
The chat view toggles a workspace file panel. The panel browses directories, edits files, deletes entries, downloads archives, and handles loading and API errors. The remaining changes add spacing only.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant Chat
  participant FilesPanel
  participant api
  participant filesRouter
  User->>Chat: Select Files
  Chat->>FilesPanel: Render workspace panel
  FilesPanel->>api: List or read workspace path
  api->>filesRouter: Request mounted /api file route
  filesRouter-->>api: Return metadata, content, or archive stream
  api-->>FilesPanel: Return file data
  FilesPanel-->>User: Display directory or editor
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8e470

The new file browser expands the portal to read, edit, and export workspace contents, but stale or out-of-order reads could save content into the wrong file or workspace, while concurrent file changes, interrupted saves, or failed archive generation could produce incorrect or incomplete results. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness and integrity risks to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

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Inline comments:
In `@server/src/api/files.ts`:
- Around line 23-43: Update workspaceDir and resolveSafe to canonicalize paths
with realpath before enforcing the workspace boundary, preventing symlink
targets from escaping WORKSPACE_ROOT. For existing targets, validate the
canonical target; for new files, canonicalize and validate the existing parent
directory before allowing writes. Preserve the current invalid-name and escape
errors while applying these checks to reads, writes, and listings.

In `@web/src/components/FilesPanel.tsx`:
- Around line 105-192: Update FilesPanel to render a selected-file section when
a file is opened, using the existing content, openFile, and related
state/actions. Add text editing with Save support, binary-file handling, and an
individual-file download link via api.fileDownloadUrl, while preserving the
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Comment thread web/src/components/FilesPanel.tsx
FilesPanel already had the state and handlers for opening, editing,
and saving a file (openEntry, save, content, dirty, binary, fileError)
plus an imported but unused Save icon — none of it was ever rendered.
Clicking a file fetched its content into state with no visible effect,
there was no way to edit or save through the UI, and the per-file
download link (api.fileDownloadUrl) was defined but never called.

Adds the editor pane: textarea bound to content/dirty, a Save button,
a per-file download link, a binary-file fallback message, error
display, and a confirm-guard against discarding unsaved changes when
switching files or closing the panel.

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67-73: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Ignore stale file-read responses.

If a user opens file A and then file B before A finishes loading, A can resolve last and overwrite B's editor content. A later save then writes A's content to B because save uses the current openFile.

Track a request token or selected path. Update binary, content, and fileError only when the response still belongs to the active file.

Proposed fix
+const fileRequestId = useRef(0);
+
 const openEntry = (name: string) => {
   if (dirty && !confirm("Discard unsaved changes?")) return;
   const rel = dirPath ? `${dirPath}/${name}` : name;
+  const requestId = ++fileRequestId.current;
   setOpenFile(rel);
   setFileError(null);
   setDirty(false);
+  setBinary(false);
+  setContent("");
   api
     .readFile(workspace, rel)
     .then((r) => {
+      if (requestId !== fileRequestId.current) return;
       setBinary(r.binary);
       setContent(r.content ?? "");
     })
-    .catch((e) => setFileError((e as Error).message));
+    .catch((e) => {
+      if (requestId === fileRequestId.current) {
+        setFileError((e as Error).message);
+      }
+    });
 };
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In `@web/src/components/FilesPanel.tsx` around lines 67 - 73, Update the
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responses from previously selected files are ignored. Track the requested file
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Opening file B before file A's read had resolved let A's response land
last and overwrite B's editor content, so a subsequent Save would write
A's stale content to B's path.

Tracks a request id per openEntry call; a read response (success or
error) only updates state when it still belongs to the active request.

Flagged by CodeRabbit on the previous commit.
Lexical checks (.., absolute overrides) never look at the filesystem, so
a symlink inside a workspace pointing outside WORKSPACE_ROOT sailed
through workspaceDir/resolveSafe untouched — list, read, write, and
delete could all follow it out of the sandbox.

Canonicalizes WORKSPACE_ROOT and every resolved target with realpath,
walking up to the nearest existing ancestor for a target that doesn't
exist yet (PUT creating a new file) so legitimate creates still work.
A workspace directory that is itself a symlink escaping the root is
now treated as not found, same as one that doesn't exist.

Verified against a workspace containing a symlink to a directory
outside the root: list/read/write through it now reject with "Path
escapes the workspace", while listing the workspace and creating a
genuinely new file still succeed.

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In `@web/src/components/FilesPanel.tsx`:
- Around line 61-83: Update the FilesPanel workspace-change handling to
invalidate pending reads by advancing fileRequestId and resetting the selected
file when workspace changes. Ensure stale read results cannot update the editor
or be saved to the new workspace, while preserving normal reads within the
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In `@server/src/api/files.ts`:
- Around line 53-63: Update realpathThroughExistingAncestor to use lstatSync
while searching ancestors, detect when the target or missing-tail entry is a
dangling symlink, and reject it before constructing or returning the writable
path. Preserve canonicalization for valid existing ancestors and ordinary
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Shinigallo and others added 2 commits August 28, 2026 04:12
existsSync() follows symlinks, so it reports false for a dangling one —
the ancestor walk in realpathThroughExistingAncestor then treated the
link's own name as an ordinary missing path component, reconstructing
a workspace-relative-looking path that passed the boundary check while
writeFileSync followed the link itself to wherever it actually points.

Walks with lstatSync instead, which sees the link as an existing entry
regardless of where its target is. realpathSync on it then throws for a
dangling target, which is now rejected explicitly instead of silently
passed through.

Verified with a dangling symlink workspace/link -> <outside>/created.txt:
PUT now rejects with "Path escapes the workspace" and no file is
created outside the workspace. Re-ran the prior symlink-escape and
legit-new-file tests to confirm no regression.

Flagged by CodeRabbit (CWE-59) on the previous commit.

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