fleet: share Claude credentials by directory env, not a seat symlink

Claude Code saves credentials by writing a sibling temp file and rename()-ing
it over the target. rename(2) replaces a symlink rather than following it, so
the managed link W-F1/W-F2 planted at <seat>/.claude/.credentials.json is
destroyed by the first token refresh and the seat silently forks its
credentials. The in-place fallback arm opens with O_NOFOLLOW and would refuse
the link anyway. Evidence, quoting the 2.1.232 binary:
docs/reports/harness/claude-credential-write-path-2026-08-14.md (jarvis-brain).

CLAUDE_SECURESTORAGE_CONFIG_DIR resolves the credential directory
independently of CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, so the temp file and the rename both land
inside the bundle. That is the property the design wanted -- share the
credential, never the transcripts -- with no symlink and no privileges.

- new fleet/credential-sharing.ts owns the harness -> credential-file and
  harness -> credential-directory-variable maps, so scaffold and launch cannot
  disagree about the mechanism. It also removes the duplicate credential-file
  name table the two already carried.
- launch composes CLAUDE_SECURESTORAGE_CONFIG_DIR from the resolved bundle
  directory and plans no credential link for Claude. The value is always the
  absolute bundle path: Claude reads an empty value as ~/.claude, which is the
  operator's own account.
- scaffold stops emitting the credential symlink and its manifest entry for
  Claude, and tolerates one left by an earlier scaffold rather than reporting
  it as a foreign file or rewriting it.
- FIRST_AUTH_REFUSAL still fires when a real file occupies the seat path.
- Harnesses absent from the map (pi, codex, opencode) keep managed links; the
  containment specs now exercise them on pi.

Answers promotion gate #1 negatively for the frozen mechanism and positively
for the replacement. E3.3 (two seats refreshing one bundle at once) is still
open.
This commit is contained in:
terra
2026-08-14 18:20:54 -05:00
parent 326a1a58b5
commit a12eeb4786
6 changed files with 245 additions and 47 deletions
@@ -36,25 +36,28 @@ function fixture(profile: Record<string, unknown> = { schema: 1, harness: 'claud
userHome: string;
agentDir: string;
namedBundleDir: string;
credentialName: string;
} {
const harness = String(profile.harness ?? 'claude');
const credentialName = harness === 'claude' ? '.credentials.json' : 'auth.json';
const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'mosaic-fleet-launch-'));
roots.push(root);
const systemHome = join(root, 'system');
const userHome = join(root, 'user');
const agentDir = join(userHome, 'fleet', 'agents', 'fred');
const namedBundleDir = join(userHome, 'auth', 'claude', 'fred_example.com');
mkdirSync(join(systemHome, 'runtime', 'claude'), { recursive: true });
const namedBundleDir = join(userHome, 'auth', harness, 'fred_example.com');
mkdirSync(join(systemHome, 'runtime', harness), { recursive: true });
mkdirSync(agentDir, { recursive: true });
mkdirSync(namedBundleDir, { recursive: true });
writeFileSync(join(systemHome, 'runtime', 'claude', 'settings.json'), '{}\n');
writeFileSync(join(systemHome, 'runtime', harness, 'settings.json'), '{}\n');
writeFileSync(join(agentDir, 'profile.json'), `${JSON.stringify(profile, null, 2)}\n`);
writeFileSync(join(namedBundleDir, '.credentials.json'), '{}\n', { mode: 0o600 });
writeFileSync(join(namedBundleDir, credentialName), '{}\n', { mode: 0o600 });
writeFileSync(
join(namedBundleDir, 'account.json'),
'{"oauthAccount":{"emailAddress":"[email protected]"}}\n',
);
symlinkSync('fred_example.com', join(userHome, 'auth', 'claude', 'primary'), 'dir');
return { root, systemHome, userHome, agentDir, namedBundleDir };
symlinkSync('fred_example.com', join(userHome, 'auth', harness, 'primary'), 'dir');
return { root, systemHome, userHome, agentDir, namedBundleDir, credentialName };
}
describe('fleet launch profile schema 1', () => {
@@ -381,6 +384,33 @@ describe('A3 credential validation', () => {
).toThrowError(/first-auth.*refusing to delete or overwrite/i);
expect(lstatSync(join(seatHome, '.credentials.json')).isSymbolicLink()).toBe(false);
});
it('points Claude at the resolved bundle directory and plans no credential link', () => {
const fx = fixture();
const plan = resolveFleetLaunchComposition('fred', {
systemHome: fx.systemHome,
userHome: fx.userHome,
});
expect(plan.credential.link).toBeUndefined();
expect(plan.credential.dir).toBe(fx.namedBundleDir);
// An empty value resolves to ~/.claude, which is the operator's own account,
// so the exported value must always be the absolute bundle path.
expect(plan.env['CLAUDE_SECURESTORAGE_CONFIG_DIR']).toBe(fx.namedBundleDir);
expect(plan.env['CLAUDE_SECURESTORAGE_CONFIG_DIR']).not.toBe('');
});
it('keeps the managed credential link for a harness with no credential-directory variable', () => {
const fx = fixture({ schema: 1, harness: 'pi' });
const plan = resolveFleetLaunchComposition('fred', {
systemHome: fx.systemHome,
userHome: fx.userHome,
});
expect(plan.credential.link).toBe(join(fx.agentDir, '.pi', 'auth.json'));
expect(plan.credential.target).toBe(join(fx.namedBundleDir, 'auth.json'));
expect(Object.keys(plan.env)).not.toContain('CLAUDE_SECURESTORAGE_CONFIG_DIR');
});
});
describe('managed plugin and skill links', () => {
@@ -513,12 +543,14 @@ describe('managed plugin and skill links', () => {
expect(readFileSync(sentinel, 'utf8')).toBe('unchanged\n');
});
// Credential links exist only for harnesses that are not pointed at their bundle
// by environment, so the containment rules are exercised on one of those.
it('refuses an exact-target unrecorded credential symlink', () => {
const fx = fixture();
const seatHome = join(fx.agentDir, '.claude');
const link = join(seatHome, '.credentials.json');
const fx = fixture({ schema: 1, harness: 'pi' });
const seatHome = join(fx.agentDir, '.pi');
const link = join(seatHome, fx.credentialName);
mkdirSync(seatHome, { recursive: true });
symlinkSync(join(fx.namedBundleDir, '.credentials.json'), link, 'file');
symlinkSync(join(fx.namedBundleDir, fx.credentialName), link, 'file');
const plan = resolveFleetLaunchComposition('fred', {
systemHome: fx.systemHome,
userHome: fx.userHome,
@@ -527,7 +559,7 @@ describe('managed plugin and skill links', () => {
expect(() => applyFleetLaunchComposition(plan)).toThrowError(
/unrecorded or retargeted symlink/,
);
expect(readlinkSync(link)).toBe(join(fx.namedBundleDir, '.credentials.json'));
expect(readlinkSync(link)).toBe(join(fx.namedBundleDir, fx.credentialName));
});
it.each(['plugins', 'skills'] as const)(
@@ -553,12 +585,12 @@ describe('managed plugin and skill links', () => {
);
it('refuses an unrecorded mismatched credential symlink', () => {
const fx = fixture();
const seatHome = join(fx.agentDir, '.claude');
const fx = fixture({ schema: 1, harness: 'pi' });
const seatHome = join(fx.agentDir, '.pi');
const foreignCredential = join(fx.root, 'foreign-credential.json');
mkdirSync(seatHome, { recursive: true });
writeFileSync(foreignCredential, '{}\n', { mode: 0o600 });
symlinkSync(foreignCredential, join(seatHome, '.credentials.json'), 'file');
symlinkSync(foreignCredential, join(seatHome, fx.credentialName), 'file');
const plan = resolveFleetLaunchComposition('fred', {
systemHome: fx.systemHome,
userHome: fx.userHome,
@@ -567,7 +599,7 @@ describe('managed plugin and skill links', () => {
expect(() => applyFleetLaunchComposition(plan)).toThrowError(
/unrecorded or retargeted symlink/,
);
expect(readFileSync(join(seatHome, '.credentials.json'), 'utf8')).toBe('{}\n');
expect(readFileSync(join(seatHome, fx.credentialName), 'utf8')).toBe('{}\n');
});
it('tolerates harness metadata files in the install root and still refuses real directories', () => {
@@ -654,14 +686,14 @@ describe('fleet launch command outcomes', () => {
['--model', 'opus'],
{
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR: join(fx.agentDir, '.claude'),
CLAUDE_SECURESTORAGE_CONFIG_DIR: fx.namedBundleDir,
MOSAIC_AGENT_NAME: 'fred',
SEAT_FLAG: 'yes',
},
{ agentDir: fx.agentDir, mosaicHome: fx.systemHome },
);
expect(lstatSync(join(fx.agentDir, '.claude', '.credentials.json')).isSymbolicLink()).toBe(
true,
);
// The bundle is reached by environment, so nothing is planted at the seat path.
expect(existsSync(join(fx.agentDir, '.claude', '.credentials.json'))).toBe(false);
});
it('sets a non-zero exit code and never invokes the launcher', () => {
@@ -743,12 +775,13 @@ describe('dry-run composition', () => {
}
}
bundle: primary -> fred_example.com ([email protected])
credential: <ROOT>/user/auth/claude/fred_example.com/.credentials.json
symlinks:
credentials: <ROOT>/user/fleet/agents/fred/.claude/.credentials.json -> <ROOT>/user/auth/claude/fred_example.com/.credentials.json
plugin code-review: <ROOT>/user/fleet/agents/fred/.claude/plugins/code-review -> <ROOT>/user/plugins/code-review
skill mosaic-tools: <ROOT>/user/fleet/agents/fred/.claude/skills/mosaic-tools -> <ROOT>/user/skills/mosaic-tools
declared env:
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR=<ROOT>/user/fleet/agents/fred/.claude
CLAUDE_SECURESTORAGE_CONFIG_DIR=<ROOT>/user/auth/claude/fred_example.com
MOSAIC_AGENT_NAME=fred
SEAT_FLAG=yes
argv: ["claude","--model","opus"]"
@@ -763,6 +796,7 @@ describe('dry-run composition', () => {
expect(readFileSync(plan.settings.snapshot, 'utf8')).toBe(
readFileSync(plan.settings.output, 'utf8'),
);
expect(lstatSync(plan.credential.link).isSymbolicLink()).toBe(true);
expect(plan.credential.link).toBeUndefined();
expect(plan.credential.dir).toBe(fx.namedBundleDir);
});
});