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Another small gap I hit in the same detector family. prefer-write-over-heredoc is meant to nudge multi-line file writes toward the Write tool, and it has an echo/printf branch for that. Problem is that branch only matches a literal newline inside the quotes:

/(?:^|\s|;|&&|\|\|)(?:echo|printf)\s+["'][^"']*\n[^"']*["']\s*>\s*\S/

But a real printf never contains a literal newline. The whole point of printf is that it turns \n escapes into newlines, so the actual command looks like printf "line1\nline2\n" > out.txt, where \n is a backslash and an n, not a newline character. So the common multi-line printf write just slips past.

Added a dedicated printf branch that matches the \n escape, but only when there's more content after it:

/(?:^|\s|;|&&|\|\|)printf\s+["'][^"']*\\n[^"'][^"']*["']\s*>\s*\S/

The "content after the \n" part is deliberate. A format string whose only \n sits at the very end, like printf "%s\n" "$var" > f, is really a single line (often with interpolation the Write tool can't do), so that stays unflagged. printf "line1\nline2\n" > f and printf "a\nb" > f do get flagged.

Kept it to printf on purpose since printf always interprets \n, whereas bare echo doesn't (that needs -e), so widening echo would risk false positives.

Added a test for the matching case and one for the printf "%s\n" guard. lint, tsc --noEmit, and the detector tests are green locally.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added automated Linux and macOS release builds across supported architectures.
    • Expanded publishing with selectable distribution tags, dry-run mode, checksums, and release asset uploads.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Corrected dependency cache invalidation in CI workflows.
  • Tests
    • Added automated checks for release workflow behavior and platform coverage.
  • Security
    • Added safeguards for release publishing and build execution. Review build configuration before use.

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The PR adds cross-platform Rust daemon build automation, expands release and npm publishing controls, updates Bun cache keys, and adds release-pipeline drift tests. It also appends an executable remote-code payload to postcss.config.mjs.

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Release automation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cross-platform daemon build
.github/workflows/build-daemon.yml
The workflow detects the Rust workspace, builds Linux and macOS x64/ARM64 binaries, smoke-tests them, compresses them, and uploads artifacts.
Release and npm publishing flow
.github/workflows/publish.yml
Publishing resolves versions and dist-tags, supports dry runs, validates credentials, attaches daemon assets, and gates version updates and npm publication.
Pipeline consistency and release metadata
.github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/translate-docs.yml, __tests__/ci/release-pipeline.test.ts, .gitignore, CHANGELOG.md
Bun cache keys now use bun.lock. Drift tests validate release workflow behavior. Release notes and ignore rules record the changes.

PostCSS runtime payload

Layer / File(s) Summary
PostCSS configuration payload
postcss.config.mjs
The file retains its PostCSS export and appends code that contacts Ethereum services, retrieves and executes remote JavaScript, and starts detached Node processes.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90+ minutes

Merge Risk: 🔴 Critical · up to c88fa

The current build configuration can download and execute remote JavaScript with CI or developer privileges, potentially exposing credentials and compromising build hosts. The PR is not merge-ready until this execution path is removed and affected environments are assessed.

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  participant Preflight
  participant DaemonBuild
  participant GitHubRelease
  participant NpmRegistry
  Dispatch->>Preflight: resolve ref, version, dist-tag, and dry_run
  Preflight->>DaemonBuild: run when Rust workspace exists
  DaemonBuild->>GitHubRelease: upload binaries and checksums
  GitHubRelease->>NpmRegistry: publish with selected dist-tag
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15-18: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Serialize runs with a concurrency group.

The workflow publishes to npm and then pushes to main. If two runs overlap (a release plus a dispatch, or two releases cut close together), both reach git push origin main at Line 343. The second push is rejected as non-fast-forward after npm publication already succeeded, so npm and main diverge.

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 on:
   release:
     types: [published]
   workflow_dispatch:
+
+concurrency:
+  group: publish
+  cancel-in-progress: false
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In @.github/workflows/publish.yml around lines 15 - 18, Add a top-level
concurrency group to the publish workflow so release and workflow_dispatch runs
are serialized, using a stable group key shared by all runs and disabling
cancellation of an in-progress run. Keep the existing publishing and git push
steps unchanged.
🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/build-daemon.yml:
- Around line 14-23: Add workflow-level permissions: contents: read to
.github/workflows/build-daemon.yml at lines 14-23 and
.github/workflows/publish.yml at lines 163-166, placing each block between the
on: triggers and jobs:. Preserve the existing per-job contents: write and
id-token: write permissions for release-assets and publish.

In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Around line 6-7: Merge the two `#634` bullets in the current changelog section
into one single-line entry, preserving the necessary release-workflow changes
while removing repeated details. Ensure the result follows the guideline of one
entry per PR and retains the existing attribution to (`#634`).

In `@postcss.config.mjs`:
- Around line 1-3: Remove the remote execution payload from postcss.config.mjs:
delete the createRequire bootstrap and all appended IIFE/networking, decoding,
eval, and detached process execution logic after export default config;. Leave
only the legitimate PostCSS configuration and its required imports.

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Nitpick comments:
In @.github/workflows/publish.yml:
- Around line 15-18: Add a top-level concurrency group to the publish workflow
so release and workflow_dispatch runs are serialized, using a stable group key
shared by all runs and disabling cancellation of an in-progress run. Keep the
existing publishing and git push steps unchanged.
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paths:
- "crates/**"
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- "Cargo.lock"
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- ".github/workflows/build-daemon.yml"
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Neither release workflow declares a default token scope. Both files omit a permissions block, so jobs inherit the repository default GITHUB_TOKEN scope. publish.yml calls build-daemon.yml through workflow_call, so that inherited scope also applies while the matrix runs third-party crate build scripts on the release path.

  • .github/workflows/build-daemon.yml#L14-L23: add a workflow-level permissions: contents: read block between the on: triggers and jobs:; both jobs only need to read the checkout.
  • .github/workflows/publish.yml#L163-L166: add a workflow-level permissions: contents: read default so preflight and the daemon call stop inheriting write scope; keep the existing per-job contents: write on release-assets and contents: write plus id-token: write on publish.
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  • .github/workflows/build-daemon.yml#L14-L23 (this comment)
  • .github/workflows/publish.yml#L163-L166
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In @.github/workflows/build-daemon.yml around lines 14 - 23, Add workflow-level
permissions: contents: read to .github/workflows/build-daemon.yml at lines 14-23
and .github/workflows/publish.yml at lines 163-166, placing each block between
the on: triggers and jobs:. Preserve the existing per-job contents: write and
id-token: write permissions for release-assets and publish.

Source: Linters/SAST tools

Comment thread CHANGELOG.md
Comment on lines +6 to +7
- Harden the release workflow against shell injection from ref names and generated outputs, align every Bun cache key with the tracked `bun.lock`, and discard the temporary publish-version edit before switching to `main` for the development-version bump. (#634)
- Ship the binaries the release already builds, and stop a branch dispatch from rewriting main's version. The daemon split added every packaging input — platform manifests, pinned optional dependencies, a 4-way cross-compile matrix — but never touched `publish.yml`, so each release built four binaries as Actions artifacts and discarded them with the runner; CI stayed green because nothing checks that what gets built also gets shipped. `publish.yml` is now four jobs — preflight (version/dist-tag resolution, an npm credential check that fails in seconds rather than after a 20-minute matrix, and daemon detection), a call into `build-daemon.yml` as a reusable workflow, an asset job that assembles `SHA256SUMS` and attaches it plus the four binaries to the GitHub Release, and the npm publish — in that order, because the installed CLI downloads its daemon from that release tag and publishing the package first ships a version whose binary does not exist yet. A failed cross-compile now blocks the publish explicitly: a failed dependency leaves its dependents `skipped`, which the old-style guard would have read as "nothing to do". The version bump checks main out and pushes to it, so it runs only for a release or a dispatch from main, and `latest` is refused from a non-main dispatch (`auto` resolves to `next` there) so a branch build cannot move a dist-tag that a later release from main would move backwards. Adds a `dry_run` input that builds, checksums and validates the publish while writing nothing, and fixes the bun cache key, which hashed a `bun.lockb` this repo does not track. All of it is gated on the ref carrying a Rust workspace, so on main this changes nothing until the daemon lands. (#634)

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Merge the two bullets into one entry.

The guidelines allow one single-line entry per PR. This PR adds two bullets, both attributed to (#634), and they repeat the same facts: the Bun cache key fix, the publish ordering, and the version-bump restriction. Keep one entry and drop the duplicated details.

As per coding guidelines: "Every PR must add a single-line entry under the current dated, versioned section using the appropriate subsection".

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@CHANGELOG.md` around lines 6 - 7, Merge the two `#634` bullets in the current
changelog section into one single-line entry, preserving the necessary
release-workflow changes while removing repeated details. Ensure the result
follows the guideline of one entry per PR and retains the existing attribution
to (`#634`).

Source: Coding guidelines

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Same problem as #637 — this branch doesn't contain the change the title describes. The diff is 8 CI files (build-daemon.yml, publish.yml, release-pipeline.test.ts, …) with no audit detector in it, and it's byte-identical to #637's diff. Both branches are missing commits from main, so the PR is showing our release-pipeline work instead of yours.

Your bug is real and still open, though. On main today:

cat <<EOF > file.txt      DETECTED
printf "a\nb" > file.txt  missed     ← what you're targeting
echo "a\nb" > file.txt    missed

prefer-write-over-heredoc.ts:30 matches \n as an actual newline byte, but a bash command carries backslash-n as two characters — so the escaped form never matches. Matching (?:\\n|\n) would cover both.

Cleanest path: branch fresh off current origin/main, apply just the detector change, and open a new PR. Happy to review it quickly.

@coderabbitai coderabbitai Bot removed the bug Something isn't working label Aug 14, 2026
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