fix: resolve the install from the running binary; make upgrade failures diagnosable (#1305) - #1306
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…es diagnosable (#1305) `Installation.method()` never established where the running executable came from. It guessed two ways, and both were unsound: - A substring test on `process.execPath`. `~/.local/bin` is a generic user bin dir, so an npm install with `npm config set prefix ~/.local` was classified `curl`, and `altimate upgrade` ran `curl | bash` — silently converting an npm install into a standalone one and leaving the npm copy orphaned on PATH. - A probe loop (`npm list -g`, `brew list`, ...) returning the first manager whose output mentioned the package. That answers "is this installed anywhere?", not "did THIS binary come from you", so it picked arbitrarily whenever several installs existed. Replaced with `resolveInstall()`, which resolves `realpath(process.execPath)` and matches the package segment. The npm `bin/altimate` shim `spawnSync()`s the per-platform package, so execPath always lands under `node_modules` for package-manager installs; the optional `-<platform>-<arch>` suffix is matched explicitly. Removes up to seven subprocess spawns from the startup update-check path. Added a writability preflight so an upgrade that cannot succeed is refused before shelling out, with a message naming the directory and the exact remedy. Uses `npm root -g` rather than `<prefix>/lib/node_modules`, which is Unix-only, and derives the bin dir from `npm prefix -g` because `npm bin -g` was removed in npm 9. Also fixed an asymmetry in the failure branch: the success path logged the real stdout/stderr while the failure path discarded them, so every non-permission failure (network, `E404`, `ENOSPC`, a failing lifecycle script) collapsed into an identical `Upgrade failed for npm (exit code N).` with nothing written anywhere. The real output is now logged locally, the message carries a classified hint plus a pointer to the log, and telemetry records a stable classification code instead of the generic string — previously every failed upgrade looked identical on a dashboard. The user-facing message and the telemetry payload stay redacted. Four existing tests asserted on the source text or the exact error string and were updated to track the new contract while preserving their intent (brand guard, redaction guards). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe installer now resolves the package source from the running executable, checks upgrade target permissions before execution, classifies failures, stores raw output in local logs, and sends stable error codes in telemetry. Tests cover installation detection, redaction, logging, and Windows failure behavior. ChangesInstallation upgrade flow
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| const PNPM_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.pnpm|pnpm)[\\/]/i | ||
| const BUN_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/]\.bun[\\/]/i | ||
| const YARN_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.yarn|yarn[\\/]global)[\\/]/i |
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WARNING: Yarn-classic global installs on Windows are misclassified as npm
YARN_SEGMENT_RE matches .yarn/ and yarn/global/, but yarn v1's default global folder on Windows is %LOCALAPPDATA%\Yarn\config\global — after realpath the binary sits at ...\Yarn\config\global\node_modules\@altimateai\altimate-code-<platform>\bin\altimate-code.exe. That path satisfies PKG_SEGMENT_RE but none of the manager sub-checks, so resolveInstall() falls through to npm, and the upgrade path (including the startup auto-upgrade in src/cli/upgrade.ts:163) runs npm install -g @altimateai/altimate-code@<target> against a yarn install — silently creating a second, npm-managed binary that shadows it. That is exactly the orphaned-install scenario this PR set out to fix. The new table tests only cover the Unix ~/.yarn/global spelling.
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| const YARN_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.yarn|yarn[\\/](?:config[\\/])?global)[\\/]/i |
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WARNING: Every npm-layout path is treated as a global install — npx caches and project-local installs now silently trigger npm install -g
PKG_SEGMENT_RE matches any node_modules/@altimateai/altimate-code[-platform-arch] segment, not just package-manager global roots. ~/.npm/_npx/<hash>/node_modules/... (npx), a project-local node_modules (CLI as a devDependency), Volta package images, and ~/.bun/install/cache/... all resolve to npm/bun. upgrade() interprets those methods as "run npm install -g / bun install -g", and for patch releases this happens automatically at startup (src/cli/upgrade.ts:163, autoupdate defaults on) — silently creating a global install the user never had. The deleted probe loop returned unknown for these users (notify-only), so this is a behavior regression. Consider excluding known cache layouts (e.g. a _npx segment) or confirming the match sits under a real global root before returning a package-manager method.
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| upgrade: Effect.fn("Installation.upgrade")(function* (m: Method, target: string) { | ||
| // altimate_change start — refuse before shelling out when the target is unwritable (#1305) | ||
| const blocked = yield* preflight(m, target) | ||
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WARNING: Preflight-blocked upgrades emit no telemetry event and no log entry
The preflight branch returns before the failure-handling block, so a permission-blocked upgrade produces neither the upgrade_attempted telemetry event nor the new Effect.logWarning("upgrade failed", ...). Before this PR the root-owned-npm-prefix case actually ran npm install -g, failed with EACCES, and was recorded as an upgrade_attempted error — the PR's flagship scenario now disappears from dashboards entirely, undercutting the goal of making failures distinguishable (this class reads as "no attempt" rather than "permission failure"). Consider tracking status: "error" with the permission classification (and logging the blocked directory) before returning the error here.
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SUGGESTION: Point users at the log file, not the log directory
Global.Path.log is a directory (…/altimate-code/log); the logWarning above actually lands in opencode.log inside it (the file logger's default output, packages/core/src/observability/logging.ts:49). The directory also holds direct/*.jsonl traces and heap dumps, so "Details were written to
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packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts (2)
120-127: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse
FileSystem.FileSysteminstead of rawfs.accessSync.
isWritablecallsfs.accessSyncdirectly. This function runs insidepreflight, which executes inside the Effectfullayerclosure that already has access to Effect services. UseFileSystem.FileSystem.access(path, { writable: true })instead of the raw NodefsAPI.♻️ Suggested approach
-function isWritable(dir: string): boolean { - try { - fs.accessSync(dir, fs.constants.W_OK) - return true - } catch { - return false - } -} +const isWritable = Effect.fnUntraced(function* (fsService: FileSystem.FileSystem, dir: string) { + return yield* fsService.access(dir, { writable: true }).pipe( + Effect.map(() => true), + Effect.catch(() => Effect.succeed(false)), + ) +})Threading
FileSystem.FileSystemthrough thelayerclosure requires widening theLayer<Service, never, HttpClient.HttpClient | AppProcess.Service>type (Line 231) and its downstream compositions (defaultLayer,node).As per coding guidelines: "In Effectified services, prefer existing Effect services over ad hoc platform APIs, including
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altimate_changemarker is nested inside the still-open outer marker.Line 577 opens
altimate_change start — telemetry for upgrade resultand it does not close until line 621. Lines 580 and 619 add a second, fully nestedaltimate_change start/endpair for the diagnosability change inside that still-open block. Merge this into the surrounding comment instead of nesting a new marker.♻️ Suggested fix
- // altimate_change start — telemetry for upgrade result + // altimate_change start — telemetry for upgrade result, plus diagnosable + // failure classification and local log pointer (`#1305`) const telemetryMethod = (["npm", "bun", "brew"].includes(m) ? m : "other") as "npm" | "bun" | "brew" | "other" if (!upgradeResult || upgradeResult.code !== 0) { - // altimate_change start — make non-permission failures diagnosable (`#1305`). - // ... + // Make non-permission failures diagnosable (`#1305`): ... const classified = classifyFailure(upgradeResult?.stderr ?? "", upgradeResult?.stdout ?? "") ... return yield* new UpgradeFailedError({ stderr }) - // altimate_change end } // altimate_change endAs per coding guidelines: "Keep
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In `@packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts`:
- Around line 597-604: Update the Chocolatey failure handling around
upgradeFailure and classifyFailure so non-permission classifications use the
generic upgrade failure message, while permission classifications retain the
elevation message. Ensure network, missing-version, and disk-full results do not
include a conflicting elevation cause alongside the classified hint.
- Around line 328-344: Update the npm branch in the remediation function to use
platform-aware guidance: avoid mentioning sudo on Windows and instead direct
users to an elevated shell, while preserving the existing Unix guidance and
package/prefix details.
- Around line 518-529: Update the upgrade flow around preflight, upgradeCurl,
and upgradePowershell to resolve the standalone installation root once and pass
that root to both installer paths instead of only VERSION. Ensure both
installers honor the supplied root, keeping preflight and the actual upgrade
target aligned for legacy and non-default installations.
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In `@packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts`:
- Around line 120-127: Update isWritable and its preflight call path to use the
injected FileSystem.FileSystem service’s access operation with writable checking
instead of raw fs.accessSync. Thread FileSystem.FileSystem through the layer
closure and widen the Layer type and downstream compositions such as
defaultLayer and node as needed.
- Around line 580-619: Remove the nested altimate_change start/end markers
around the failure-diagnostics block and merge its change description into the
already-open outer marker beginning before this block. Keep the existing
logging, telemetry, and UpgradeFailedError behavior unchanged, ensuring the
marker pair remains non-nested and properly balanced.
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| const remediation = (m: Method, dir: string, target: string) => { | ||
| const pkg = `@altimateai/altimate-code@${target}` | ||
| switch (m) { | ||
| case "npm": | ||
| return `Cannot write to the npm global prefix (${dir}). Run \`sudo npm install -g ${pkg}\`, or switch to a user-owned prefix with \`npm config set prefix ~/.npm-global\`.` | ||
| case "pnpm": | ||
| return `Cannot write to the pnpm global directory (${dir}). Run \`pnpm setup\` to use a user-owned location, or re-run the install with elevated permissions.` | ||
| case "bun": | ||
| return `Cannot write to the bun global bin directory (${dir}). Set BUN_INSTALL to a user-owned location, or re-run the install with elevated permissions.` | ||
| case "yarn": | ||
| return `Cannot write to the yarn global directory (${dir}). Set a user-owned prefix with \`yarn config set prefix ~/.yarn\`, or re-run with elevated permissions.` | ||
| case "curl": | ||
| return `Cannot write to the install directory (${dir}). Fix its permissions, or re-run the installer.` | ||
| default: | ||
| return `Cannot write to the install directory (${dir}).` | ||
| } | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Make npm remediation platform-aware.
On Windows, resolveInstall() can return method: "npm" for a package-manager path. preflight() then checks the Windows npm prefix and can return the npm remediation message when the directory is unwritable. That message unconditionally tells the user to run sudo npm install -g ..., but Windows does not provide sudo. Use platform-aware wording or generic elevated-shell guidance.
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| const remediation = (m: Method, dir: string, target: string) => { | |
| const pkg = `@altimateai/altimate-code@${target}` | |
| switch (m) { | |
| case "npm": | |
| return `Cannot write to the npm global prefix (${dir}). Run \`sudo npm install -g ${pkg}\`, or switch to a user-owned prefix with \`npm config set prefix ~/.npm-global\`.` | |
| case "pnpm": | |
| return `Cannot write to the pnpm global directory (${dir}). Run \`pnpm setup\` to use a user-owned location, or re-run the install with elevated permissions.` | |
| case "bun": | |
| return `Cannot write to the bun global bin directory (${dir}). Set BUN_INSTALL to a user-owned location, or re-run the install with elevated permissions.` | |
| case "yarn": | |
| return `Cannot write to the yarn global directory (${dir}). Set a user-owned prefix with \`yarn config set prefix ~/.yarn\`, or re-run with elevated permissions.` | |
| case "curl": | |
| return `Cannot write to the install directory (${dir}). Fix its permissions, or re-run the installer.` | |
| default: | |
| return `Cannot write to the install directory (${dir}).` | |
| } | |
| } | |
| const remediation = (m: Method, dir: string, target: string) => { | |
| const pkg = `@altimateai/altimate-code@${target}` | |
| switch (m) { | |
| case "npm": | |
| return process.platform === "win32" | |
| ? `Cannot write to the npm global prefix (${dir}). Re-run from an elevated shell, or switch to a user-owned prefix with \`npm config set prefix %APPDATA%\\npm\`.` | |
| : `Cannot write to the npm global prefix (${dir}). Run \`sudo npm install -g ${pkg}\`, or switch to a user-owned prefix with \`npm config set prefix ~/.npm-global\`.` | |
| case "pnpm": | |
| return `Cannot write to the pnpm global directory (${dir}). Run \`pnpm setup\` to use a user-owned location, or re-run the install with elevated permissions.` | |
| case "bun": | |
| return `Cannot write to the bun global bin directory (${dir}). Set BUN_INSTALL to a user-owned location, or re-run the install with elevated permissions.` | |
| case "yarn": | |
| return `Cannot write to the yarn global directory (${dir}). Set a user-owned prefix with \`yarn config set prefix ~/.yarn\`, or re-run with elevated permissions.` | |
| case "curl": | |
| return `Cannot write to the install directory (${dir}). Fix its permissions, or re-run the installer.` | |
| default: | |
| return `Cannot write to the install directory (${dir}).` | |
| } | |
| } |
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In `@packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts` around lines 328 - 344, Update
the npm branch in the remediation function to use platform-aware guidance: avoid
mentioning sudo on Windows and instead direct users to an elevated shell, while
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| // altimate_change start — refuse before shelling out when the target is unwritable (#1305) | ||
| const blocked = yield* preflight(m, target) | ||
| if (blocked) return yield* new UpgradeFailedError({ stderr: blocked }) | ||
| // altimate_change end | ||
| let upgradeResult: { code: number; stdout: string; stderr: string } | undefined | ||
| switch (m) { | ||
| case "curl": | ||
| // altimate_change start — native Windows has no bash; use the PS installer | ||
| upgradeResult = | ||
| process.platform === "win32" ? yield* upgradePowershell(target) : yield* upgradeCurl(target) | ||
| upgradeResult = process.platform === "win32" ? yield* upgradePowershell(target) : yield* upgradeCurl(target) | ||
| // altimate_change end | ||
| break | ||
| case "npm": |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Pass the resolved standalone directory to both installer paths. preflight() checks resolveInstall().root, but upgradeCurl(target) and upgradePowershell(target) pass only VERSION. Both installers then default to ~/.altimate/bin; a detected legacy ~/.opencode/bin installation can pass preflight while a different directory is upgraded, leaving the running executable unchanged. Pass the resolved root at this call boundary and make both installers honor it.
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In `@packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts` around lines 518 - 529, Update
the upgrade flow around preflight, upgradeCurl, and upgradePowershell to resolve
the standalone installation root once and pass that root to both installer paths
instead of only VERSION. Ensure both installers honor the supplied root, keeping
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| const base = upgradeFailure(m, upgradeResult) | ||
| const stderr = [ | ||
| base, | ||
| classified.hint ? `Likely cause: ${classified.hint}.` : undefined, | ||
| `Details were written to ${Global.Path.log}.`, | ||
| ] | ||
| .filter(Boolean) | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Use the classified cause for non-permission Chocolatey failures
upgradeFailure("choco", result) always returns the elevation message. When Chocolatey output matches classifyFailure for a network, missing-version, or disk-full error, the final message contains a false elevation cause and a conflicting Likely cause hint. Use the generic failure message for non-permission classifications, and keep the elevation message only for permission failures.
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In `@packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts` around lines 597 - 604, Update
the Chocolatey failure handling around upgradeFailure and classifyFailure so
non-permission classifications use the generic upgrade failure message, while
permission classifications retain the elevation message. Ensure network,
missing-version, and disk-full results do not include a conflicting elevation
cause alongside the classified hint.
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<file name="packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts">
<violation number="1" location="packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts:65">
P1: When an npm prefix contains a `pnpm` path segment, `resolveInstall` misclassifies the running npm binary as pnpm and upgrades the wrong installation. Restrict this regex to the known pnpm global or virtual-store layout rather than matching any parent directory named `pnpm`.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts:67">
P1: Recognize Yarn Classic's Windows global layout in `YARN_SEGMENT_RE`. A binary under `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Yarn\config\global\node_modules` currently falls through to the npm fallback, so upgrades invoke `npm install -g` against a Yarn installation and can create a second shadowing install.</violation>
<violation number="3" location="packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts:97">
P1: Verify that a matched package path belongs to a global installation before returning `npm` or `bun`. Local `node_modules`, `_npx` caches, Volta images, and Bun caches currently resolve to global methods, so automatic upgrades can create a global install the user never had.</violation>
<violation number="4" location="packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts:520">
P2: When preflight finds an unwritable directory, the upgrade exits before logging or tracking the failure. Route this permission failure through the common diagnostic/telemetry path so the promised stable `permission` event is recorded and the log pointer is accurate.</violation>
<violation number="5" location="packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts:601">
P3: The failure message tells users "Details were written to <Global.Path.log>", but `Global.Path.log` is the log *directory*, not a file. Point users at the actual log file path (or say "log directory") so the diagnosis hint is accurate.</violation>
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P2: The claimed brand guard does not actually scan the detection implementation. The `segment` window (line 59 to `export interface ResolvedInstall`, line 78) covers only the regex-constant header, and the `methodBlock` window only covers the `method()` wrapper that calls `resolveInstall()`. Detection logic now lives in `resolveInstall()`'s body (lines 88-108), which neither `not.toContain("opencode-ai")` assertion covers. Extend the slice end marker so the resolvere body is included, so a stale upstream package-name path reintroduced inside the resolver is caught as the comment promises.</violation>
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| // the wrong manager. | ||
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P1: When an npm prefix contains a pnpm path segment, resolveInstall misclassifies the running npm binary as pnpm and upgrades the wrong installation. Restrict this regex to the known pnpm global or virtual-store layout rather than matching any parent directory named pnpm.
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<comment>When an npm prefix contains a `pnpm` path segment, `resolveInstall` misclassifies the running npm binary as pnpm and upgrades the wrong installation. Restrict this regex to the known pnpm global or virtual-store layout rather than matching any parent directory named `pnpm`.</comment>
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@@ -37,6 +39,112 @@ const UPGRADE_INSTALL_PS_URL = "https://www.altimate.sh/install.ps1"
+// plain `pnpm/global/<v>` link path (no `.pnpm` segment), so match both spellings —
+// otherwise the plain layout falls through to the npm default and routes upgrades at
+// the wrong manager.
+const PNPM_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.pnpm|pnpm)[\\/]/i
+const BUN_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/]\.bun[\\/]/i
+const YARN_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.yarn|yarn[\\/]global)[\\/]/i
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| const PNPM_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.pnpm|pnpm)[\\/]/i | |
| const PNPM_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.pnpm[\\/][^\\/]*altimate-code[^\\/]*[\\/]node_modules|pnpm[\\/]global)[\\/]/i |
| // Never auto-upgrade a pinned path. | ||
| if (env["ALTIMATE_CODE_BIN_PATH"]) return { method: "unknown" } | ||
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| if (PKG_SEGMENT_RE.test(execPath)) { |
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P1: Verify that a matched package path belongs to a global installation before returning npm or bun. Local node_modules, _npx caches, Volta images, and Bun caches currently resolve to global methods, so automatic upgrades can create a global install the user never had.
Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts, line 97:
<comment>Verify that a matched package path belongs to a global installation before returning `npm` or `bun`. Local `node_modules`, `_npx` caches, Volta images, and Bun caches currently resolve to global methods, so automatic upgrades can create a global install the user never had.</comment>
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@@ -37,6 +39,112 @@ const UPGRADE_INSTALL_PS_URL = "https://www.altimate.sh/install.ps1"
+ // Never auto-upgrade a pinned path.
+ if (env["ALTIMATE_CODE_BIN_PATH"]) return { method: "unknown" }
+
+ if (PKG_SEGMENT_RE.test(execPath)) {
+ if (PNPM_SEGMENT_RE.test(execPath)) return { method: "pnpm" }
+ if (BUN_SEGMENT_RE.test(execPath)) return { method: "bun" }
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| // the wrong manager. | ||
| const PNPM_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.pnpm|pnpm)[\\/]/i | ||
| const BUN_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/]\.bun[\\/]/i | ||
| const YARN_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.yarn|yarn[\\/]global)[\\/]/i |
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P1: Recognize Yarn Classic's Windows global layout in YARN_SEGMENT_RE. A binary under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Yarn\config\global\node_modules currently falls through to the npm fallback, so upgrades invoke npm install -g against a Yarn installation and can create a second shadowing install.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts, line 67:
<comment>Recognize Yarn Classic's Windows global layout in `YARN_SEGMENT_RE`. A binary under `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Yarn\config\global\node_modules` currently falls through to the npm fallback, so upgrades invoke `npm install -g` against a Yarn installation and can create a second shadowing install.</comment>
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@@ -37,6 +39,112 @@ const UPGRADE_INSTALL_PS_URL = "https://www.altimate.sh/install.ps1"
+// the wrong manager.
+const PNPM_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.pnpm|pnpm)[\\/]/i
+const BUN_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/]\.bun[\\/]/i
+const YARN_SEGMENT_RE = /[\\/](?:\.yarn|yarn[\\/]global)[\\/]/i
+// Homebrew bin entries are symlinks into Cellar, so realpath lands there. Match the
+// Cellar segment rather than the prefix: /usr/local is also a common npm prefix.
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| upgrade: Effect.fn("Installation.upgrade")(function* (m: Method, target: string) { | ||
| // altimate_change start — refuse before shelling out when the target is unwritable (#1305) | ||
| const blocked = yield* preflight(m, target) | ||
| if (blocked) return yield* new UpgradeFailedError({ stderr: blocked }) |
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P2: When preflight finds an unwritable directory, the upgrade exits before logging or tracking the failure. Route this permission failure through the common diagnostic/telemetry path so the promised stable permission event is recorded and the log pointer is accurate.
Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts, line 520:
<comment>When preflight finds an unwritable directory, the upgrade exits before logging or tracking the failure. Route this permission failure through the common diagnostic/telemetry path so the promised stable `permission` event is recorded and the log pointer is accurate.</comment>
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@@ -376,12 +515,15 @@ export const layer: Layer.Layer<Service, never, HttpClient.HttpClient | AppProce
upgrade: Effect.fn("Installation.upgrade")(function* (m: Method, target: string) {
+ // altimate_change start — refuse before shelling out when the target is unwritable (#1305)
+ const blocked = yield* preflight(m, target)
+ if (blocked) return yield* new UpgradeFailedError({ stderr: blocked })
+ // altimate_change end
let upgradeResult: { code: number; stdout: string; stderr: string } | undefined
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| // matches; the brand intent (our scope, never upstream's) is unchanged. | ||
| const segment = installSrc.slice( | ||
| installSrc.indexOf("const PKG_SEGMENT_RE"), | ||
| installSrc.indexOf("export interface ResolvedInstall"), |
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P2: The claimed brand guard does not actually scan the detection implementation. The segment window (line 59 to export interface ResolvedInstall, line 78) covers only the regex-constant header, and the methodBlock window only covers the method() wrapper that calls resolveInstall(). Detection logic now lives in resolveInstall()'s body (lines 88-108), which neither not.toContain("opencode-ai") assertion covers. Extend the slice end marker so the resolvere body is included, so a stale upstream package-name path reintroduced inside the resolver is caught as the comment promises.
Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/opencode/test/branding/upstream-merge-guard.test.ts, line 60:
<comment>The claimed brand guard does not actually scan the detection implementation. The `segment` window (line 59 to `export interface ResolvedInstall`, line 78) covers only the regex-constant header, and the `methodBlock` window only covers the `method()` wrapper that calls `resolveInstall()`. Detection logic now lives in `resolveInstall()`'s body (lines 88-108), which neither `not.toContain("opencode-ai")` assertion covers. Extend the slice end marker so the resolvere body is included, so a stale upstream package-name path reintroduced inside the resolver is caught as the comment promises.</comment>
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@@ -51,13 +51,26 @@ describe("Installation script branding", () => {
+ // matches; the brand intent (our scope, never upstream's) is unchanged.
+ const segment = installSrc.slice(
+ installSrc.indexOf("const PKG_SEGMENT_RE"),
+ installSrc.indexOf("export interface ResolvedInstall"),
+ )
+ expect(segment).toContain("@altimateai")
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| const stderr = [ | ||
| base, | ||
| classified.hint ? `Likely cause: ${classified.hint}.` : undefined, | ||
| `Details were written to ${Global.Path.log}.`, |
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P3: The failure message tells users "Details were written to <Global.Path.log>", but Global.Path.log is the log directory, not a file. Point users at the actual log file path (or say "log directory") so the diagnosis hint is accurate.
Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts, line 601:
<comment>The failure message tells users "Details were written to <Global.Path.log>", but `Global.Path.log` is the log *directory*, not a file. Point users at the actual log file path (or say "log directory") so the diagnosis hint is accurate.</comment>
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@@ -433,13 +575,33 @@ export const layer: Layer.Layer<Service, never, HttpClient.HttpClient | AppProce
+ const stderr = [
+ base,
+ classified.hint ? `Likely cause: ${classified.hint}.` : undefined,
+ `Details were written to ${Global.Path.log}.`,
+ ]
+ .filter(Boolean)
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Consensus Code Review — Claude + GPT 5.4 Codex
Quorum not met — OpenRouter is out of credits. The configured review panel is Claude + 7 external models (quorum = 6). Only 2 of 8 reviewers produced output this round: Claude and GPT 5.4 Codex. Gemini 3.1 Pro (Antigravity) failed on a sandbox permission gate. The other five (Kimi K2.5, MiniMax M2.7, GLM-5.1, Qwen 3.6, MiMo V2 Pro) all failed because the shared
OPENROUTER_API_KEYis out of weekly credit — confirmed via a non-concurrent retry that still returned an explicit "requires more credits" error, not just in-flight-request contention. The two findings posted here as CRITICAL/MAJOR inline comments were independently corroborated (the critical one via direct source-level tracing ofpostinstall.mjs/bin/altimate/bin/altimate-code/publish.ts, not just diff inspection), so confidence remains high despite the reduced panel.
Verdict: REQUEST CHANGES — 1 CRITICAL, 2 MAJOR posted as inline comments below. One additional MINOR issue and full context follow.
Minor Issue (not anchorable as cleanly as the others, included here)
Global.Path.log diagnostic message points at a directory, not the actual log file — packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts:601
`Details were written to ${Global.Path.log}.`,Global.Path.log is a directory (packages/core/src/global.ts:29 — log: path.join(data, "log")), not a file. The actual sink is path.join(Global.Path.log, "opencode.log") (packages/core/src/observability/logging.ts:49, fileLogger()), and the directory can contain other subdirectories too (e.g. direct/). Since the point of this PR is "make upgrade failures diagnosable," the pointer should be exact:
`Details were written to ${path.join(Global.Path.log, "opencode.log")}.`path and Global are already imported in this file.
Positive Observations
- Replacing a subprocess probe loop (up to seven package-manager spawns on the startup update-check path) with a pure, synchronous
resolveInstall(execPath, env)is a real startup latency and determinism win, and makes the logic unit-testable without real installs. - The regression test for the bug that originally motivated this PR (
.local/binmisclassification) is present and clearly named. - User-facing error messages and the telemetry payload consistently use stable classification codes (
classifyFailure()) rather than raw subprocess text. preflight()'s "skip if the directory doesn't exist yet" check correctly avoids false-positiving on package managers that create their prefix directory on first install.- Comments throughout (Cellar-not-prefix rationale, pnpm's dual-layout handling, the
npm bin -gremoval note) explain real, non-obvious constraints rather than restating the code.
Missing Tests
- Unscoped
npm install -g altimate-codelayout, including the cached-hardlink shapepostinstall.mjsactually produces (see the CRITICAL inline comment) — the most important gap. - A prefix/manager mismatch case (binary installed under one Node version, a different manager now first on
PATH). - A logger-sink test proving package-manager stderr/stdout does not reach OTLP export or
OPENCODE_PRINT_LOGSoutput. - Direct unit tests for
preflight()/globalDirs()/remediation()(currently only exercised indirectly throughInstallation.use.upgradeintegration tests for the npm/curl permission-denied cases).
Finding Attribution
| Issue | Origin | Type |
|---|---|---|
Unscoped npm install -g altimate-code misdetected as unknown, breaking auto-upgrade for the documented install path |
GPT 5.4 Codex, independently confirmed by Claude via source tracing | Consensus (2/2 reviewers) |
Preflight/upgrade uses PATH's current package manager, not the one that produced the binary |
GPT 5.4 Codex | Unique |
| Raw subprocess output logged through general logger, conditionally exported via OTLP/stderr | GPT 5.4 Codex, caveat (pre-existing on success path, OTLP opt-in) added by Claude | Unique, caveated |
Global.Path.log message points at a directory, not the log file |
Claude | Unique |
Full writeup with additional detail: reviews/pr-1306-consensus-review.md in the reviews repo.
| // i.e. it always lands under node_modules for every package-manager install. Match | ||
| // the optional `-<platform>-<arch>` suffix explicitly rather than relying on the | ||
| // wrapper name happening to be a prefix of the platform package name. | ||
| const PKG_SEGMENT_RE = |
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CRITICAL — the primary, documented npm install path (npm install -g altimate-code) is misdetected as unknown, disabling auto-upgrade for most real users
PKG_SEGMENT_RE only matches paths containing node_modules/@altimateai/altimate-code (scoped). But every install instruction in this repo (README.md:30, docs/docs/getting-started.md:27, docs/docs/getting-started/quickstart.md:13, plus the CI examples) tells users to run:
npm install -g altimate-code # unscoped — no @altimateai/ prefixThis is a real, separately-published npm package — confirmed in packages/opencode/script/publish.ts:187-221, which explicitly publishes a second, unscoped altimate-code wrapper alongside the scoped one ("Publish unscoped altimate-code wrapper package so users can npm i -g altimate-code"), with identical bin/postinstall wiring.
The chain that breaks detection:
- On every non-Windows install,
postinstall.mjshard-links (or copies) the resolved platform binary to<wrapper-root>/bin/.altimate-code— inside the wrapper package's own directory, not the nested@altimateai/altimate-code-<platform>package. - Both
bin/altimateandbin/altimate-codecheck for that cached file first, before ever walking to the nested platform package:const cached = path.join(scriptDir, ".altimate-code") if (fs.existsSync(cached)) { run(cached) // <-- this is what actually runs on essentially every invocation }
- So in the running process,
process.execPath(and its realpath, since a hard link has no symlink to resolve away) is<prefix>/lib/node_modules/altimate-code/bin/.altimate-codefor the unscoped wrapper — no@altimateaisegment anywhere in the path. PKG_SEGMENT_RErequires that segment. It doesn't match, and none of the brew/scoop/choco/standalone regexes match either.resolveInstall()returns{ method: "unknown" }.
Effect: Installation.method() returns "unknown" for the majority of real installs, update-available checks silently stop offering upgrades, and altimate upgrade hits default: return yield* new UpgradeFailedError({ stderr: "Unknown installation method: unknown" }) — the exact class of opaque failure this PR is meant to fix.
test/installation/resolve-install.test.ts is comprehensive for the scoped-wrapper/nested-platform-package shape but has no fixture for the unscoped wrapper or for the cached-hardlink shape postinstall.mjs actually produces (which is what real invocations hit after the very first run).
Suggestion: Add fixtures for the unscoped wrapper and the cached-hardlink shape, and make the regex (or a second one) recognize node_modules/altimate-code/ in addition to node_modules/@altimateai/altimate-code. Since the cached path loses the platform suffix entirely, consider having postinstall.mjs write a small marker file (e.g. .install-manager) recording which manager ran the install, and have resolveInstall() prefer that when present.
(Flagged by GPT 5.4 Codex, independently confirmed by Claude via source tracing of postinstall.mjs / bin/altimate / bin/altimate-code / publish.ts in a fresh checkout.)
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| upgrade: Effect.fn("Installation.upgrade")(function* (m: Method, target: string) { | ||
| // altimate_change start — refuse before shelling out when the target is unwritable (#1305) | ||
| const blocked = yield* preflight(m, target) |
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MAJOR — preflight/upgrade target whichever package manager is currently on PATH, not the one that produced the running binary
resolveInstall() only returns which manager produced the binary, never where (except for curl, via root). Both the writability preflight (globalDirs(), index.ts:290-320) and this upgrade() call shell out to whatever npm/pnpm/bun/yarn is currently first on PATH — not necessarily the one that installed the running binary. If the user has since switched Node versions (nvm/asdf), changed npm config set prefix, or changed PNPM_HOME/BUN_INSTALL, preflight() can check the wrong directory's writability and upgrade() can silently write to a different location than the one that actually holds the running binary — reporting success while the running executable is unchanged. text([process.execPath, "--version"]) further down (index.ts:640) discards both output and exit status, so there's no verification that the upgrade actually took effect.
This is a real gap in what "resolve the install from the running binary" promises, though it's a narrower, more expert-user-triggered scenario (multiple Node version managers, switched prefixes) than the unscoped-npm CRITICAL issue above.
Suggestion: Have resolveInstall() also report the resolved package/prefix and pass that root explicitly to preflight and to the install command (e.g. npm install -g --prefix <resolved-prefix> ...) rather than relying on ambient PATH state. After a successful upgrade, actually check process.execPath's reported version against target rather than discarding the verification call's result.
(Flagged by GPT 5.4 Codex.)
| // it here is consistency, not new exposure — the user-facing message and the | ||
| // telemetry payload both stay redacted. | ||
| const classified = classifyFailure(upgradeResult?.stderr ?? "", upgradeResult?.stdout ?? "") | ||
| yield* Effect.logWarning("upgrade failed", { |
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MAJOR — failed-upgrade diagnostics log raw subprocess output through the general logger, which can fan out to OTLP/stderr
This branch logs raw stdout/stderr via Effect.logWarning. The inline comment claims this "stays local," but Effect.logWarning goes through the app's normal logger fan-out (packages/core/src/observability.ts:12), which includes an OTLP exporter (packages/core/src/observability/otlp.ts:47-49) whenever OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT is set, and to stderr whenever OPENCODE_PRINT_LOGS=1. Package-manager stderr/stdout can contain credential-bearing registry URLs or other sensitive environment values.
Caveat (verified by Claude): this is not a new exposure this PR introduces — the success path a few lines below (Effect.logInfo("upgraded", { stdout, stderr, ... }), unchanged by this diff) already does exactly this, so the comment's "consistency, not new exposure" claim is accurate as far as it goes. But "the existing pattern is already like this" isn't the same as "the pattern is safe" — both paths remain conditionally exposed to OTLP/stderr export. OTLP export is opt-in (OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT must be set), so this isn't exploitable in a default CLI run — weigh severity with that in mind.
Suggestion: Don't route raw subprocess output through the general Effect logger/OTLP fan-out. If raw diagnostics are valuable for support, write them to a dedicated local-only file (with restrictive permissions) after basic redaction, bypassing the OTLP/console sinks — for both this call and the pre-existing success-path one.
(Flagged by GPT 5.4 Codex; caveats added by Claude.)
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Fixes #1305.
The bug
Installation.method()never established where the running executable came from — it guessed, two ways, and both were unsound.1. Substring test on
process.execPath.~/.local/binis a generic user bin directory, not a marker of a standalone install. Withnpm config set prefix ~/.local— a common way to avoid needingsudo— an npm install was classifiedcurl, soaltimate upgraderancurl … | bash, wrote a standalone binary, and left the npm-managed copy stale and orphaned. Two installs then coexisted and PATH order decided which ran.2. A probe loop that asked the wrong question.
npm list -g,brew list, etc., returning the first manager whose output mentioned the package. That answers "is this installed anywhere?", not "did this running binary come from you" — so with more than one install present the result was effectively arbitrary, and upgrades targeted an install the user was not running.On top of that, the in-app Update now button could never succeed on a root-owned npm prefix:
upgrade()shelled out as the current user with no writability check, npm failed withEACCES, and the error surfaced as a genericUpgrade failed for npm (exit code 243).The fix
resolveInstall()— resolve, don't guess. Resolvesrealpath(process.execPath)and matches the package segment. The npmbin/altimateshim is a Node script thatspawnSync()s the per-platform package, so inside the CLIexecPathis:i.e. it always lands under
node_modulesfor every package-manager install. The optional-<platform>-<arch>suffix is matched explicitly rather than relying on the wrapper name happening to be a prefix of the platform package name. Homebrew is matched on theCellarsegment (not the prefix —/usr/localcollides with a common npm prefix), and.local/binis gone.This removes up to seven subprocess spawns from the startup update-check path; the new resolver spawns nothing.
Writability preflight. An upgrade that cannot succeed is now refused before shelling out, naming the directory and the exact remedy:
Uses
npm root -grather than<prefix>/lib/node_modules(Unix-only — Windows puts packages at<prefix>/node_modulesand shims at<prefix>), and derives the bin dir fromnpm prefix -gbecausenpm bin -gwas removed in npm 9. pnpm/yarn check both the root and the bin dir, since a global install writes both. brew/scoop/choco are skipped — their tooling owns elevation.A directory that does not exist yet is not a permission problem, so only an existing unwritable directory blocks.
Non-permission failures are now diagnosable. The failure branch had an asymmetry:
The real diagnostic output was logged on success and discarded on failure. So network loss,
E404,ENOSPCor a failing lifecycle script all collapsed into the same opaque message with nothing written anywhere, and telemetry got the generic string too — every failed upgrade looked identical on a dashboard.Now: the real stdout/stderr is logged locally (the log file never leaves the machine, and the success path already wrote the same content), the user-facing message adds a classified hint plus a pointer to the log, and telemetry records a stable code (
permission,network,not-found,disk-full,no-matching-version,unknown) with the exit status. The user-facing message and the telemetry payload stay redacted — stderr is never echoed into either.Not included, deliberately
No auto-
sudo. A TUI cannot host an interactive password prompt safely,sudo npm install -gruns package lifecycle scripts as root, and it would let a network-sourced version check trigger root-level writes. The message tells the user what to run instead.Tests
New
test/installation/resolve-install.test.ts— 16 table-driven cases over fabricated layouts (npm default prefix, npm under~/.local, pnpm virtual store and plain global link, bun, yarn, brew on both Apple Silicon and Intel prefixes, standalone current and pre-v0.7.1, scoop, choco, dev build, pinnedALTIMATE_CODE_BIN_PATH).resolveInstall()is pure in(execPath, env)precisely so these layouts can be tested without real installs.Four existing tests asserted on source text or exact error strings and were updated to track the new contract while preserving their intent:
test/install/upgrade-method.test.tstoContain("exec.includes(a.name)").local/binregression testtest/branding/upstream-merge-guard.test.tsmethod:block for@altimateai/altimate-codeopencode-aitest/installation/installation.test.ts(×2)test/release-validation/windows-installer-930.test.ts"unknown: exit 1"; redaction assertions unchangedThe brand guard and the redaction guards were updated, never weakened — every
not.toContain("secret")assertion still stands.Follow-ups (not in this PR)
uninstallroutes onmethod()(cmd/uninstall.ts:62), so detection changes what gets deleted. Accuracy improves it, but it should enumerate other discoverablealtimatebinaries rather than silently removing one — otherwise a corrected detection can leave the orphan that causes the shadowing bug in the first place.vscode-extensionis unmodeled.welcome.ts:15calls it "the dominant installer by volume", yetInstallation.Methodhas no such variant; those installs resolve tounknown(notify-only), which is safe but not right.Installation.method()(upgrades) andwelcome.ts readInstallMethod()(telemetry, marker-based and single-use). This PR fixes the first only.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
Summary by cubic
Fixes install detection so upgrades target the install that produced the running binary, and makes every failed upgrade diagnosable instead of collapsing into an identical opaque message.
Bug Fixes
process.execPathand a package-manager probe loop, so upgrades often targeted the wrong install (an npm install under~/.localwas misclassified as curl and upgraded viacurl | bash, orphaning the npm copy).resolveInstall()now resolvesrealpath(process.execPath)against known install layouts and spawns nothing, removing up to seven subprocess calls from the startup update check.ALTIMATE_CODE_BIN_PATHis never attributed to an installer, so it is never auto-upgraded.Written for commit e98ba6d. Summary will update on new commits.
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