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Summary

Implements #1265 with context-scoped managed environment attachments.

  • Adds names-only ContextConfig.EnvVars, devsy env attach/detach, list attachment metadata, and delete cleanup.
  • Merges attached variables with explicit workspace up --env requests using deterministic resolution, explicit target override, duplicate-target validation, and stored-value initialization.
  • Adds Desktop attach/detach IPC intent handlers, renderer wrappers, attachment switches, per-entry pending/error handling, refresh, and no value analytics.
  • Adds Docker workspace-up coverage for context-only injection and detach/recreate removal.
  • Documents context scope, explicit overrides, non-sensitive values, and recreate/start semantics.

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Passed:

  • go test ./cmd/env/... ./cmd/workspace/up/... ./pkg/config/...
  • Desktop npm ci
  • Desktop npm test -- --run — 47 files, 438 tests
  • Desktop npm run check
  • Direct golangci-lint run --new-from-rev HEAD --timeout=3m ./... — 0 issues
  • git diff --check
  • The new spec uses the existing up-provider-docker label, an explicit required integration-tests matrix entry in .github/workflows/pr-ci.yml; no workflow selection change was needed.

Blocked or host-sensitive:

  • Focused Docker E2E was discovered and selected, but local execution stopped in existing Docker provider setup with failed to add docker provider and no diagnostic payload, before the spec body ran.
  • Broad go test ./cmd/... ./pkg/... exposed unrelated Darwin/host failures in cmd/internal/agentworkspace Docker CLI path selection and pkg/apple, plus a long-running delivery/link test interrupted after relevant suites passed.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Attach or detach stored environment variables to a context, and view attachment status in the environment list.
    • Attached variables are automatically available when workspaces start or are recreated. Explicit --env settings take precedence.
    • The desktop app now lets you manage attachments per context and shows where each variable is stored.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Deleting a stored value also removes its attachment. If deletion fails and the value remains available, the attachment is restored.
    • Prevent converting an attached environment variable to a secret, or an attached secret to an environment variable, without detaching it first.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified context-scoped attachments, workspace injection, and conversion requirements.

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This change adds context-scoped environment-variable attachments across configuration, CLI commands, workspace startup, and the Desktop app. Workspace startup resolves attached values into the workspace environment. Config updates use locking and atomic file replacement.

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Managed environment variables

Layer / File(s) Summary
Context configuration and safe saves
pkg/config/config.go, pkg/config/config_test.go
Context configuration stores environment-variable names. Config saves preserve provider state, resolve configured symlinks, use locking, and replace files atomically.
CLI attachment and value lifecycle
cmd/env/*, cmd/secrets/*
Environment commands manage attachments and report attachment state. Secret and environment commands reject incompatible conversions. Deletion removes bindings before deleting values and restores them in specified failure cases.
Workspace environment resolution
cmd/workspace/up/*, e2e/tests/up/*, sites/docs-devsy-sh/content/docs/developing-in-workspaces/secrets.mdx
Workspace startup combines attached references with explicit --env mappings and resolves non-sensitive values. Tests and documentation cover the behavior; an end-to-end test checks injection and detachment.
Desktop attachment controls
desktop/src/main/*, desktop/src/renderer/src/lib/*, desktop/src/renderer/src/pages/EnvPage*
Desktop IPC passes a variable name and context to attach, detach, and delete operations. The environment page displays attachment state and supports per-variable updates.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant EnvPage
  participant IPC as Desktop IPC
  participant CLI as Environment CLI
  participant Config as Config
  EnvPage->>IPC: attach or detach name and context
  IPC->>CLI: run matching command with context
  CLI->>Config: lock, load, update attachment, and save
  Config-->>CLI: save result
  CLI-->>IPC: command result
  IPC-->>EnvPage: success or error
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 67ca4

Concurrent configuration commands can silently lose environment attachments or other settings. Coordinate all configuration writers before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 67ca4

Context attachments have checks that keep secrets out of the workspace environment, but deleting an attached value can leave its stored value behind if cleanup is interrupted or fails. The effect of attachment changes on existing workspaces is not fully established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · observed: Deleting an attached value persists detachment before deleting the stored value. Interruption can leave the value stored without an attachment; if deletion fails and the subsequent read also fails, rollback does not restore the attachment. This weakens the new attachment/value cleanup invariant.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new automatic injection is scoped by the active configuration context, but it makes each attached value available to workspaces started through that context. Downstream retention after restart or detachment has not been verified.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — An interrupted or incompletely rolled-back delete can retain a stored value after its attachment disappears. The inspected path establishes a cleanup failure, not unauthorized access to that value.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Attached and explicit stored-environment references are restricted to the local store. Resolution rejects sensitive values before they reach the process-visible workspace environment.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Rollback restores an attachment when a failed store deletion is followed by a successful read. It skips restoration on every read error, including errors that do not establish the value is absent.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define a recoverable deletion postcondition for configuration and store state, and distinguish confirmed absence from transient read failure when deciding whether to restore an attachment.
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RetriggerConfidence Score: 5/5

[Medium risk] Adds context-scoped environment variable attachment feature.

The PR appears safe to merge based on the changes since the previous review and the current state of the prior threads.

Summary

This PR adds context-scoped attachments for managed environment variables across the CLI, workspace startup, and Desktop. The latest changes pass the displayed context when deleting an environment variable and add coverage for that path.

Reviews (4) · Last reviewed commit: "fix(desktop): scope env deletion to disp..."

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Follow-up fixture fix pushed in 788347d.

  • After switching to the temporary managed-env context, the E2E now provisions and selects Docker there using the established provider add/use sequence. No production context semantics or retry/timeout behavior changed.
  • Local focused up-provider-docker run plus five managed-env repeats were attempted; all were blocked in the suite BeforeEach while adding the baseline Docker provider at e2e/tests/up/provider_docker.go:37, before reaching this spec.
  • Local Go tests, golangci-lint, pre-commit, and CodeRabbit uncommitted review (0 findings) passed.
  • Fresh PR checks are running for head 788347d; Lint, Pre-commit, Desktop lint/test, Linux desktop build, and CLI Windows build currently pass. macOS/Ubuntu CLI builds and dependent E2E checks are still pending.

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Remediation phase pushed at cfe87f3.

Implemented: serialized config mutations with atomic replacement; transient context/provider override restoration (including empty originals); context-explicit, provider-agnostic env/secret mutations; safe unbind-before-delete ordering; env/secret kind-conversion guards; repeated explicit --env preservation; context-explicit Desktop attach/detach IPC with row-keyed pending/error state; regression coverage; and the new-context Docker provider setup already present from 788347d. Documentation now covers conversion invariants.

Local validation: focused Go matrix and race tests passed; full Desktop Vitest 47 files/439 tests passed; npm run check, golangci-lint, and pre-commit passed. Focused Docker E2E remains host-blocked in unchanged BeforeEach baseline provider setup at e2e/tests/up/provider_docker.go:37, before the managed-env spec. Local CodeRabbit findings were reviewed; the valid empty-provider restoration issue is fixed, while the delete-order suggestion conflicts with the handoff safety policy. Greptile CLI cannot run locally because this repository is not connected. Fresh remote checks are running on cfe87f3.

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Follow-up remediation pushed at f68b2254a (three signed commits):

  • config atomic persistence now resolves one canonical mutation target for locking, temp creation, rename, and directory sync; symlink, relative-link, and dangling-link regressions added.
  • env and local-secret deletion retain unbind-before-delete ordering, restore the original binding/index only when the value remains readable after a failed delete, leave it detached when unavailable, and join rollback errors.

Local validation passed: focused Go tests, race tests, golangci-lint, targeted prek, and git diff --check. Local CodeRabbit completed; three minor findings were intentionally declined (two target pre-existing test code, one conflicts with the handoff safety invariant).

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In `@pkg/config/config.go`:
- Around line 361-377: Update every config read-modify-save path that calls
SaveConfig, including context, provider, ide, and workspace writers, to acquire
LockConfig before loading the config and hold it through SaveConfig; reuse a
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  • cmd/env/bind.go
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  • cmd/env/list.go
  • cmd/env/set.go
  • cmd/secrets/bind.go
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  • cmd/workspace/up/up_client.go
  • desktop/src/main/__tests__/ipc-provider-jobs.test.ts
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  • desktop/src/renderer/src/lib/ipc/commands.test.ts
  • desktop/src/renderer/src/lib/ipc/commands.ts
  • desktop/src/renderer/src/lib/types/index.ts
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  • e2e/tests/up/testdata/docker-managed-env-attached/.devcontainer.json
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Comment thread pkg/config/config.go
Comment on lines +361 to +377
// LockConfig serializes read/modify/write mutations to config.yaml across
// processes. Callers must acquire it before loading the config and hold it
// until every related persistent operation is complete.
func LockConfig() (func(), error) {
configPath, err := getConfigMutationPath()
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(configPath), 0o700); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
lock := flock.New(configPath + ".lock")
if err := lock.Lock(); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("lock config %q: %w", configPath+".lock", err)
}
return func() { _ = lock.Unlock() }, nil
}

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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#!/bin/bash
# List SaveConfig callers and show whether each file also calls LockConfig.
rg -nP --type=go '\bconfig\.SaveConfig\s*\(|\bSaveConfig\s*\(' -g '!**/*_test.go' | while IFS=: read -r f l _; do
  if rg -q 'LockConfig\s*\(' "$f"; then echo "LOCKED   $f:$l"; else echo "UNLOCKED $f:$l"; fi
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Acquire LockConfig for every config read-modify-save path.

SaveConfig replaces the complete config file. The context, provider, ide, and workspace writers call SaveConfig without acquiring LockConfig, while env and secret mutations do acquire it. A concurrent unlocked save can therefore overwrite an EnvVars or provider-state update without reporting an error.

Acquire the lock before loading the config and hold it until SaveConfig completes. A shared load-modify-save helper is preferred. Otherwise, add LockConfig to every writer path. If locking is intentionally limited to env and secret commands, document that limitation and its data-loss risk.

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In `@pkg/config/config.go` around lines 361 - 377, Update every config
read-modify-save path that calls SaveConfig, including context, provider, ide,
and workspace writers, to acquire LockConfig before loading the config and hold
it through SaveConfig; reuse a shared helper if available. Preserve the existing
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… LockConfig

Add config.UpdateConfig (lock, load, mutate, save) and migrate every
unlocked SaveConfig caller: context create/delete/use/set-options, ide
set/use, provider add/delete/init/set/set-source/use/rename (whole
transaction), workspace import, pro login/logout/update-provider, the
MCP provider tools, and the up-triggered provider auto-update (reload
under lock). Resolves the CodeRabbit finding from #1266.
skevetter added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 25, 2026
… LockConfig

Add config.UpdateConfig (lock, load, mutate, save) and migrate every
unlocked SaveConfig caller: context create/delete/use/set-options, ide
set/use, provider add/delete/init/set/set-source/use/rename (whole
transaction), workspace import, pro login/logout/update-provider, the
MCP provider tools, and the up-triggered provider auto-update (reload
under lock). Resolves the CodeRabbit finding from #1266.
skevetter added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 25, 2026
… LockConfig

Add config.UpdateConfig (lock, load, mutate, save) and migrate every
unlocked SaveConfig caller: context create/delete/use/set-options, ide
set/use, provider add/delete/init/set/set-source/use/rename (whole
transaction), workspace import, pro login/logout/update-provider, the
MCP provider tools, and the up-triggered provider auto-update (reload
under lock). Resolves the CodeRabbit finding from #1266.
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