refactor(serve): add FileSystemService boundary (#4175 PR 18)

Introduce a per-request workspace filesystem boundary inside the
`qwen serve` daemon. The boundary centralizes path canonicalization,
symlink-aware boundary checks, ignore/trust policy, size/binary
limits, and audit hooks behind a single typed surface — preparing
PR 19 (read-only file routes) and PR 20 (write/edit routes) to
share a guarded chokepoint instead of re-implementing path safety
per route.

Wave 4 PR 18 of #4175 — pure refactor, no new HTTP routes; depends
on PR 12 (#4241) and PR 15 (#4236), both merged.

New module under `packages/cli/src/serve/fs/`:

- `paths.ts` extracts `canonicalizeWorkspace` from `httpAcpBridge.ts`
  (re-exported there for backward compatibility) and adds:
  - `ResolvedPath` brand and `Intent` union (read/write/edit/list/
    glob/stat) with exhaustiveness checks at the trust gate
  - `hasSuspiciousPathPattern` — detects NTFS ADS, 8.3 short names,
    long-path prefixes, UNC paths, trailing dots, DOS device names,
    and three-or-more-dot path components (claude-code-style)
  - `findExistingAncestor` with explicit ENOTDIR rejection so a
    regular file in a path component throws `parse_error` rather
    than passing boundary inspection and 500-ing later
  - `resolveWithinWorkspace` running a chain-aware realpath check
    with ENOENT-tolerant ancestor walk for write/stat intents
- `errors.ts` defines `FsError` / `FsErrorKind` plus `wrapAsFsError`,
  which categorizes raw `fs.promises` errnos (EACCES → permission_
  denied, ELOOP → symlink_escape, ENOTDIR → parse_error, etc.) so
  body-level failures emit audit events instead of escaping
  uncategorized
- `policy.ts` carries `MAX_READ_BYTES` (256 KiB), `MAX_WRITE_BYTES`
  (5 MiB), `BINARY_PROBE_BYTES` (4 KiB), `shouldIgnore` (file/
  directory aware), and `assertTrustedForIntent` with an
  exhaustive switch over `Intent`
- `audit.ts` emits typed `fs.access` / `fs.denied` `BridgeEvent`
  frames with SHA-256-hashed paths, optional raw-path passthrough
  via `QWEN_AUDIT_RAW_PATHS=1`, and discriminator `kind` fields so
  SDK consumers can exhaustively narrow `event.data`
- `workspaceFileSystem.ts` — `WorkspaceFileSystem` interface +
  `createWorkspaceFileSystemFactory` with eight methods (resolve,
  stat, readText, readBytes, list, glob, writeText, edit). Every
  body method funnels failures through `recordAndWrap`, which
  wraps raw fs errors and always emits an `fs.denied` audit event
  before rethrowing. `readText` enforces `MAX_READ_BYTES` *before*
  delegating to the slurping core service so unbounded requests
  against multi-gigabyte files can no longer OOM the daemon.
  `glob` realpath-checks each hit against the canonical workspace
  and reports filtered escapes via a single aggregated `fs.denied`
  event with the dropped count
- `index.ts` is the barrel re-export PR 19/20 will import from

Modified files:

- `packages/cli/src/serve/httpAcpBridge.ts` — extracted
  `canonicalizeWorkspace` to `fs/paths.ts`; the bridge re-exports
  it so existing callers in `server.ts` and `runQwenServe.ts` keep
  working
- `packages/cli/src/serve/server.ts` — added
  `fsFactory?: WorkspaceFileSystemFactory` to `ServeAppDeps`;
  `createServeApp` builds a strict default (`trusted: false`,
  warn-once no-op `emit`) when none is injected so a future
  refactor that forgets `fsFactory` injection cannot silently
  allow writes against an untrusted workspace; factory parked on
  `app.locals` for PR 19/20 route handlers
- `packages/core/src/index.ts` — re-exports `Ignore`,
  `loadIgnoreRules`, and `LoadIgnoreRulesOptions` from
  `utils/filesearch/ignore.js` for cli consumption

411 serve tests pass; typecheck clean.

Engineering principles checklist:
- [x] Independently mergeable (no new routes, no new capability tag)
- [x] Backward compatible (no removed routes / event fields / CLI behavior)
- [x] Default off (no public surface change; PR 19/20 will activate routes)
- [x] qwen serve Stage 1 routes preserved
- [x] Gradual migration (PR 19/20 will adopt the boundary)
- [x] Reversible (single PR rollback)
- [x] Tests-first (101 unit tests across the new module + contract test)

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packages/cli/src/serve/fs/audit.test.ts

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+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Qwen Team
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+import { createHash } from 'node:crypto';
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+import * as os from 'node:os';
+import {
+  FS_ACCESS_EVENT_TYPE,
+  FS_DENIED_EVENT_TYPE,
+  createAuditPublisher,
+} from './audit.js';
+import type { ResolvedPath } from './paths.js';
+import type { BridgeEvent } from '../eventBus.js';
+
+function expectedHash(p: string): string {
+  return createHash('sha256').update(p).digest('hex').slice(0, 16);
+}
+
+describe('createAuditPublisher', () => {
+  function setup(opts?: { includeRawPaths?: boolean }) {
+    const events: BridgeEvent[] = [];
+    const workspace = path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'audit-ws');
+    const publisher = createAuditPublisher({
+      emit: (e) => events.push(e),
+      boundWorkspace: workspace,
+      includeRawPaths: opts?.includeRawPaths ?? false,
+    });
+    return { events, publisher, workspace };
+  }
+
+  it('emits fs.access with hashed path and originatorClientId', () => {
+    const { events, publisher, workspace } = setup();
+    const absolute = path.join(workspace, 'src', 'index.ts') as ResolvedPath;
+    publisher.recordAccess(
+      {
+        originatorClientId: 'client-abc',
+        sessionId: 'sess-1',
+        route: 'GET /file',
+      },
+      {
+        intent: 'read',
+        absolute,
+        durationMs: 12,
+        sizeBytes: 4096,
+      },
+    );
+    expect(events).toHaveLength(1);
+    const ev = events[0];
+    expect(ev.type).toBe(FS_ACCESS_EVENT_TYPE);
+    expect(ev.v).toBe(1);
+    expect(ev.originatorClientId).toBe('client-abc');
+    expect(ev.data).toMatchObject({
+      kind: FS_ACCESS_EVENT_TYPE,
+      intent: 'read',
+      route: 'GET /file',
+      pathHash: expectedHash(absolute),
+      sizeBytes: 4096,
+      durationMs: 12,
+    });
+    // No relPath unless raw paths enabled.
+    expect(ev.data).not.toHaveProperty('relPath');
+  });
+
+  it('attaches relPath when includeRawPaths is true', () => {
+    const { events, publisher, workspace } = setup({ includeRawPaths: true });
+    const absolute = path.join(workspace, 'src', 'index.ts') as ResolvedPath;
+    publisher.recordAccess(
+      { originatorClientId: 'c', route: 'GET /file' },
+      { intent: 'read', absolute, durationMs: 1 },
+    );
+    expect((events[0].data as { relPath?: string }).relPath).toBe(
+      path.join('src', 'index.ts'),
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('omits truncated/matchedIgnore when not provided', () => {
+    const { events, publisher, workspace } = setup();
+    const absolute = path.join(workspace, 'a.ts') as ResolvedPath;
+    publisher.recordAccess(
+      { route: 'GET /file' },
+      { intent: 'read', absolute, durationMs: 0 },
+    );
+    expect(events[0].data).not.toHaveProperty('truncated');
+    expect(events[0].data).not.toHaveProperty('matchedIgnore');
+  });
+
+  it('preserves truncated and matchedIgnore when set', () => {
+    const { events, publisher, workspace } = setup();
+    const absolute = path.join(workspace, 'big.txt') as ResolvedPath;
+    publisher.recordAccess(
+      { route: 'GET /file' },
+      {
+        intent: 'read',
+        absolute,
+        durationMs: 5,
+        truncated: true,
+        matchedIgnore: 'file',
+        sizeBytes: 1024 * 1024,
+      },
+    );
+    expect(events[0].data).toMatchObject({
+      truncated: true,
+      matchedIgnore: 'file',
+      sizeBytes: 1024 * 1024,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('emits fs.denied with errorKind and hashed probe path', () => {
+    const { events, publisher, workspace } = setup();
+    publisher.recordDenied(
+      { originatorClientId: 'c', route: 'GET /file' },
+      {
+        intent: 'read',
+        input: '../escape',
+        errorKind: 'path_outside_workspace',
+        hint: 'paths must stay inside workspace',
+      },
+    );
+    expect(events).toHaveLength(1);
+    const ev = events[0];
+    expect(ev.type).toBe(FS_DENIED_EVENT_TYPE);
+    expect(ev.originatorClientId).toBe('c');
+    expect(ev.data).toMatchObject({
+      kind: FS_DENIED_EVENT_TYPE,
+      intent: 'read',
+      route: 'GET /file',
+      errorKind: 'path_outside_workspace',
+      hint: 'paths must stay inside workspace',
+      // probe path = path.resolve(workspace, '../escape')
+      pathHash: expectedHash(path.resolve(workspace, '../escape')),
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('emits fs.denied even when hint is absent', () => {
+    const { events, publisher } = setup();
+    publisher.recordDenied(
+      { route: 'POST /file/edit' },
+      {
+        intent: 'edit',
+        input: '/etc/passwd',
+        errorKind: 'symlink_escape',
+      },
+    );
+    expect(events).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(events[0].data).not.toHaveProperty('hint');
+  });
+
+  it('respects QWEN_AUDIT_RAW_PATHS=1 via env when includeRawPaths is unset', () => {
+    const original = process.env['QWEN_AUDIT_RAW_PATHS'];
+    process.env['QWEN_AUDIT_RAW_PATHS'] = '1';
+    try {
+      const events: BridgeEvent[] = [];
+      const workspace = path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'audit-env');
+      const publisher = createAuditPublisher({
+        emit: (e) => events.push(e),
+        boundWorkspace: workspace,
+      });
+      publisher.recordAccess(
+        { route: 'GET /file' },
+        {
+          intent: 'read',
+          absolute: path.join(workspace, 'foo') as ResolvedPath,
+          durationMs: 0,
+        },
+      );
+      expect((events[0].data as { relPath?: string }).relPath).toBe('foo');
+    } finally {
+      if (original === undefined) delete process.env['QWEN_AUDIT_RAW_PATHS'];
+      else process.env['QWEN_AUDIT_RAW_PATHS'] = original;
+    }
+  });
+});

packages/cli/src/serve/fs/audit.ts

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+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Qwen Team
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import { createHash } from 'node:crypto';
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+import { EVENT_SCHEMA_VERSION, type BridgeEvent } from '../eventBus.js';
+import type { FsErrorKind } from './errors.js';
+import type { Intent, ResolvedPath } from './paths.js';
+
+/**
+ * Frame type for successful filesystem operations on the boundary.
+ * Emitted from the orchestrator on the success path of `readText`,
+ * `readBytes`, `list`, `glob`, `stat`, `writeText`, `edit`. PR 19/20
+ * SSE consumers can fan it out to subscribed clients; PR 18 itself
+ * has no consumer beyond unit tests, since no HTTP routes use the
+ * boundary yet.
+ */
+export const FS_ACCESS_EVENT_TYPE = 'fs.access' as const;
+
+/**
+ * Frame type for boundary policy denials. Emitted whenever an
+ * `FsError` propagates from the orchestrator. Always emitted, even
+ * for transient ones that the route handler will surface to the
+ * caller — the audit trail is the operator's tool, separate from
+ * the client-visible response.
+ */
+export const FS_DENIED_EVENT_TYPE = 'fs.denied' as const;
+
+/**
+ * Request-scoped audit context. Bound to a `WorkspaceFileSystem`
+ * instance by the factory's `forRequest(ctx)` call so individual
+ * orchestrator methods don't need to thread these fields by hand.
+ */
+export interface AuditContext {
+  /** Daemon-stamped client identity from PR 7 (#4231). */
+  originatorClientId?: string;
+  /** Optional ACP session id for cross-correlating audit + session events. */
+  sessionId?: string;
+  /** Route name like 'GET /file' — populated by PR 19/20 handlers. */
+  route: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Successful-access record. The hot path computes this lazily so a
+ * disabled publisher (no subscribers, no flag) doesn't pay the
+ * SHA-256 cost. Sized fields (`sizeBytes`) and outcome fields
+ * (`truncated`) are present only when meaningful for the intent.
+ *
+ * The literal `kind` field discriminates this against
+ * `FsDeniedAuditPayload` so SDK consumers can `switch` over a
+ * `FsAccessAuditPayload | FsDeniedAuditPayload` union and have
+ * the type narrow inside each branch — the `BridgeEvent.type`
+ * envelope alone doesn't propagate type information into
+ * `event.data: unknown`.
+ */
+export interface FsAccessAuditPayload {
+  kind: typeof FS_ACCESS_EVENT_TYPE;
+  intent: Intent;
+  route: string;
+  pathHash: string;
+  /** Workspace-relative path; only populated when QWEN_AUDIT_RAW_PATHS=1. */
+  relPath?: string;
+  sizeBytes?: number;
+  truncated?: boolean;
+  matchedIgnore?: 'file' | 'directory';
+  durationMs: number;
+}
+
+export interface FsDeniedAuditPayload {
+  kind: typeof FS_DENIED_EVENT_TYPE;
+  intent: Intent;
+  route: string;
+  pathHash: string;
+  relPath?: string;
+  errorKind: FsErrorKind;
+  hint?: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Boundary-side audit publisher. The orchestrator (commit 6) will
+ * call `recordAccess` on success and `recordDenied` on `FsError`,
+ * passing the resolved path so this module can normalize, hash,
+ * and (optionally) attach the relative form.
+ */
+export interface AuditPublisher {
+  recordAccess(
+    ctx: AuditContext,
+    record: Omit<
+      FsAccessAuditPayload,
+      'kind' | 'pathHash' | 'relPath' | 'route'
+    > & {
+      absolute: ResolvedPath | string;
+    },
+  ): void;
+  recordDenied(
+    ctx: AuditContext,
+    record: Omit<
+      FsDeniedAuditPayload,
+      'kind' | 'pathHash' | 'relPath' | 'route'
+    > & {
+      /** Raw user input; the canonical form may not exist on disk. */
+      input: string;
+    },
+  ): void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * SHA-256 over the canonical absolute path, truncated to 16 hex
+ * chars. The truncation matches claude-code's privacy model: long
+ * enough to be unique within a workspace, short enough that an
+ * audit log is human-scannable. Full hex (64 chars) buys nothing
+ * here because the audit consumer never reverses the hash.
+ */
+function hashPath(absolute: string): string {
+  return createHash('sha256').update(absolute).digest('hex').slice(0, 16);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Compute the workspace-relative form of a path for the optional
+ * `relPath` audit field. Returns the trailing path even when the
+ * input lies outside `boundWorkspace` (the `denied` case): the
+ * audit consumer wants to see what the caller asked for, not be
+ * silently dropped.
+ */
+function relForAudit(raw: string, boundWorkspace: string): string {
+  // For absolute inputs, compute relative; for relative, pass through.
+  // Either way the operator gets a workspace-anchored view.
+  return path.isAbsolute(raw) ? path.relative(boundWorkspace, raw) : raw;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whether the env opt-in for raw paths is active. Read once per
+ * factory invocation rather than per emit, so flipping the env
+ * mid-process needs a daemon restart — predictable behavior for
+ * operators tailing logs.
+ */
+function rawPathsEnabled(): boolean {
+  return process.env['QWEN_AUDIT_RAW_PATHS'] === '1';
+}
+
+export interface CreateAuditPublisherDeps {
+  /** Bridge-bound publisher into `EventBus.publish`. */
+  emit: (event: BridgeEvent) => void;
+  /** Canonical workspace root, for relPath computation. */
+  boundWorkspace: string;
+  /** Optional override for tests / privacy modes. */
+  includeRawPaths?: boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Build an `AuditPublisher` whose emit method publishes typed
+ * `BridgeEvent`s onto the daemon's per-session NDJSON stream. The
+ * publisher takes care of:
+ *
+ * - hashing the path (always)
+ * - computing relative path (only when `includeRawPaths` is on)
+ * - synthesizing the `BridgeEvent.type` discriminator
+ * - forwarding `originatorClientId` so the SSE fan-out can suppress
+ *   self-echoes
+ *
+ * Publishers are cheap to construct and intended to live on a
+ * `WorkspaceFileSystemFactory` for the daemon's process lifetime.
+ */
+export function createAuditPublisher(
+  deps: CreateAuditPublisherDeps,
+): AuditPublisher {
+  const includeRawPaths = deps.includeRawPaths ?? rawPathsEnabled();
+  const { emit, boundWorkspace } = deps;
+  return {
+    recordAccess(ctx, record) {
+      const absolute = String(record.absolute);
+      const payload: FsAccessAuditPayload = {
+        kind: FS_ACCESS_EVENT_TYPE,
+        intent: record.intent,
+        route: ctx.route,
+        pathHash: hashPath(absolute),
+        durationMs: record.durationMs,
+      };
+      if (record.sizeBytes !== undefined) payload.sizeBytes = record.sizeBytes;
+      if (record.truncated) payload.truncated = true;
+      if (record.matchedIgnore) payload.matchedIgnore = record.matchedIgnore;
+      if (includeRawPaths) {
+        payload.relPath = relForAudit(absolute, boundWorkspace);
+      }
+      emit({
+        v: EVENT_SCHEMA_VERSION,
+        type: FS_ACCESS_EVENT_TYPE,
+        data: payload,
+        originatorClientId: ctx.originatorClientId,
+      });
+    },
+    recordDenied(ctx, record) {
+      const probe = path.isAbsolute(record.input)
+        ? record.input
+        : path.resolve(boundWorkspace, record.input);
+      const payload: FsDeniedAuditPayload = {
+        kind: FS_DENIED_EVENT_TYPE,
+        intent: record.intent,
+        route: ctx.route,
+        pathHash: hashPath(probe),
+        errorKind: record.errorKind,
+      };
+      if (record.hint) payload.hint = record.hint;
+      if (includeRawPaths) {
+        payload.relPath = relForAudit(record.input, boundWorkspace);
+      }
+      emit({
+        v: EVENT_SCHEMA_VERSION,
+        type: FS_DENIED_EVENT_TYPE,
+        data: payload,
+        originatorClientId: ctx.originatorClientId,
+      });
+    },
+  };
+}

packages/cli/src/serve/fs/contract.test.ts

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+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Qwen Team
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'vitest';
+import { promises as fsp, realpathSync } from 'node:fs';
+import * as os from 'node:os';
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+import { randomBytes } from 'node:crypto';
+import { WorkspaceContext } from '@qwen-code/qwen-code-core';
+import { canonicalizeWorkspace, resolveWithinWorkspace } from './paths.js';
+import type { FsError, isFsError, type FsErrorKind } from './errors.js';
+
+/**
+ * Kinds the boundary throws to indicate the path is *outside the
+ * workspace*. `path_not_found` is intentionally NOT here: it's a
+ * separate "exists?" decision, and `WorkspaceContext` returns
+ * `true` ("would be in workspace if it existed") for missing files
+ * — a legitimate semantic mismatch the contract doesn't try to
+ * unify.
+ */
+const OUT_OF_WORKSPACE_KINDS: ReadonlySet<FsErrorKind> = new Set([
+  'path_outside_workspace',
+  'symlink_escape',
+]);
+
+/**
+ * #4175 PR 18 contract test (commit 8 of plan).
+ *
+ * The serve boundary's `resolveWithinWorkspace` and the existing
+ * `WorkspaceContext.isPathWithinWorkspace` (which routes through a
+ * cached `fs.realpathSync`) live in different packages and have
+ * independent code paths. This corpus pins their agreement so a
+ * future refactor of either side has a one-shot signal that
+ * canonicalization has drifted.
+ *
+ * Concretely we assert:
+ *   1. For paths the boundary admits, `WorkspaceContext` agrees the
+ *      path is inside the workspace.
+ *   2. For paths the boundary rejects with `path_outside_workspace`
+ *      or `symlink_escape`, `WorkspaceContext` agrees the path is
+ *      outside.
+ *   3. The canonical form `resolveWithinWorkspace` returns matches
+ *      `realpathSync.native` (the "ground truth" the boundary's
+ *      ENOENT-tolerant code path falls back to via `path.resolve`).
+ *
+ * The corpus is intentionally small but covers the dimensions that
+ * tend to disagree on edge cases: symlinks pointing in/out, ENOENT
+ * paths, case-different inputs on case-insensitive filesystems,
+ * and `..` traversal.
+ */
+
+interface CorpusCase {
+  name: string;
+  /** Setup hook; receives the workspace path and may create files/symlinks. */
+  setup?: (workspace: string, scratch: string) => Promise<void>;
+  /** Path passed to both APIs. */
+  input: (workspace: string, scratch: string) => string;
+  /**
+   * Whether we expect the path to be inside the workspace.
+   * `'existence-mismatch'` flags cases where the boundary rejects
+   * with `path_not_found` but `WorkspaceContext` says "would-be
+   * inside" — by design the two APIs answer different questions.
+   */
+  expectInside: boolean | 'existence-mismatch';
+  /** Intent for `resolveWithinWorkspace`. */
+  intent: 'read' | 'write' | 'list' | 'glob' | 'stat';
+  /**
+   * If set, only run on these platforms. Used for case-mismatch
+   * (macOS/win) and symlink-on-Windows cases that may need admin.
+   */
+  onlyPlatforms?: NodeJS.Platform[];
+}
+
+const CORPUS: CorpusCase[] = [
+  {
+    name: 'plain file inside workspace',
+    setup: async (ws) => {
+      await fsp.writeFile(path.join(ws, 'a.txt'), 'a');
+    },
+    input: () => 'a.txt',
+    expectInside: true,
+    intent: 'read',
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'nested file inside workspace',
+    setup: async (ws) => {
+      await fsp.mkdir(path.join(ws, 'src'));
+      await fsp.writeFile(path.join(ws, 'src', 'index.ts'), '');
+    },
+    input: () => path.join('src', 'index.ts'),
+    expectInside: true,
+    intent: 'read',
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'workspace root via "."',
+    input: () => '.',
+    expectInside: true,
+    intent: 'list',
+  },
+  {
+    name: '`..` traversal lands outside',
+    input: () => '../escape',
+    expectInside: false,
+    intent: 'read',
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'absolute path outside workspace',
+    setup: async (_ws, scratch) => {
+      await fsp.writeFile(path.join(scratch, 'outside.txt'), 'x');
+    },
+    input: (_ws, scratch) => path.join(scratch, 'outside.txt'),
+    expectInside: false,
+    intent: 'read',
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'symlink inside workspace pointing out',
+    setup: async (ws, scratch) => {
+      const outside = path.join(scratch, 'leak-target.txt');
+      await fsp.writeFile(outside, 'sensitive');
+      await fsp.symlink(outside, path.join(ws, 'leak'), 'file');
+    },
+    input: () => 'leak',
+    expectInside: false,
+    intent: 'read',
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'symlink inside workspace pointing in',
+    setup: async (ws) => {
+      await fsp.writeFile(path.join(ws, 'real.txt'), 'in');
+      await fsp.symlink(
+        path.join(ws, 'real.txt'),
+        path.join(ws, 'alias'),
+        'file',
+      );
+    },
+    input: () => 'alias',
+    expectInside: true,
+    intent: 'read',
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'non-existent path with write intent (ENOENT-tolerant)',
+    input: () => path.join('newdir', 'leaf.txt'),
+    expectInside: true,
+    intent: 'write',
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'non-existent path with read intent rejects (existence, not boundary)',
+    input: () => 'never-existed.txt',
+    // The boundary throws `path_not_found`, which is an existence
+    // decision, not a containment decision. WorkspaceContext models
+    // missing files as "would be in workspace" and returns `true`,
+    // so this case asserts the asymmetry rather than the agreement.
+    expectInside: 'existence-mismatch',
+    intent: 'read',
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'case-different existing file (macOS/win only)',
+    onlyPlatforms: ['darwin', 'win32'],
+    setup: async (ws) => {
+      await fsp.writeFile(path.join(ws, 'CaseFile.TXT'), '');
+    },
+    input: () => 'casefile.txt',
+    expectInside: true,
+    intent: 'read',
+  },
+];
+
+describe('contract: resolveWithinWorkspace ↔ WorkspaceContext', () => {
+  let scratch: string;
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    scratch = await fsp.mkdtemp(
+      path.join(
+        os.tmpdir(),
+        `qwen-fs-contract-${randomBytes(4).toString('hex')}-`,
+      ),
+    );
+  });
+
+  afterAll(async () => {
+    await fsp.rm(scratch, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  it.each(CORPUS.map((tc) => [tc.name, tc] as const))(
+    '%s',
+    async (_name, tc) => {
+      if (tc.onlyPlatforms && !tc.onlyPlatforms.includes(process.platform)) {
+        return;
+      }
+      const wsDir = path.join(scratch, randomBytes(4).toString('hex'));
+      await fsp.mkdir(wsDir);
+      const workspace = canonicalizeWorkspace(wsDir);
+      if (tc.setup) await tc.setup(workspace, scratch);
+
+      const wsCtx = new WorkspaceContext(workspace);
+      const inputAbs = path.isAbsolute(tc.input(workspace, scratch))
+        ? tc.input(workspace, scratch)
+        : path.resolve(workspace, tc.input(workspace, scratch));
+      const wsInside = wsCtx.isPathWithinWorkspace(inputAbs);
+
+      let boundaryAccepted = true;
+      let resolved: string | null = null;
+      let boundaryError: FsError | null = null;
+      try {
+        resolved = await resolveWithinWorkspace(
+          tc.input(workspace, scratch),
+          workspace,
+          tc.intent,
+        );
+      } catch (err) {
+        if (!isFsError(err)) throw err;
+        boundaryAccepted = false;
+        boundaryError = err;
+      }
+
+      if (tc.expectInside === 'existence-mismatch') {
+        expect(boundaryAccepted).toBe(false);
+        expect(boundaryError?.kind).toBe('path_not_found');
+        // WorkspaceContext intentionally answers a different
+        // question for missing files — no equality assertion here.
+      } else if (tc.expectInside === true) {
+        expect(boundaryAccepted).toBe(true);
+        expect(wsInside).toBe(true);
+      } else {
+        expect(boundaryAccepted).toBe(false);
+        // The boundary rejected; only assert WorkspaceContext also
+        // says "outside" when the rejection was a containment
+        // decision (path_outside_workspace / symlink_escape).
+        if (boundaryError && OUT_OF_WORKSPACE_KINDS.has(boundaryError.kind)) {
+          expect(wsInside).toBe(false);
+        }
+      }
+
+      // When both succeed, canonical forms must agree.
+      if (boundaryAccepted && resolved !== null) {
+        // Use realpathSync.native as ground truth when the path
+        // exists; for write-intent ENOENT cases we fall back to
+        // the resolved-but-not-realpathed form on the leaf.
+        let groundTruth: string;
+        try {
+          groundTruth = realpathSync.native(inputAbs);
+        } catch {
+          // ENOENT — boundary used findExistingAncestor + realpath +
+          // join(tail). Reproduce that here for assertion symmetry.
+          let cursor = inputAbs;
+          const tail: string[] = [];
+          while (true) {
+            try {
+              await fsp.stat(cursor);
+              break;
+            } catch {
+              tail.unshift(path.basename(cursor));
+              const parent = path.dirname(cursor);
+              if (parent === cursor) {
+                cursor = workspace;
+                break;
+              }
+              cursor = parent;
+            }
+          }
+          groundTruth = tail.length
+            ? path.join(realpathSync.native(cursor), ...tail)
+            : realpathSync.native(cursor);
+        }
+        expect(resolved).toBe(groundTruth);
+      }
+    },
+  );
+});

packages/cli/src/serve/fs/errors.test.ts

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+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Qwen Team
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+import {
+  FsError,
+  isFsError,
+  wrapAsFsError,
+  type FsErrorKind,
+} from './errors.js';
+
+describe('FsError', () => {
+  it('uses the default status mapping for each kind', () => {
+    const cases: Array<[FsErrorKind, number]> = [
+      ['path_outside_workspace', 400],
+      ['symlink_escape', 400],
+      ['path_not_found', 404],
+      ['binary_file', 422],
+      ['file_too_large', 413],
+      ['untrusted_workspace', 403],
+      ['permission_denied', 403],
+      ['parse_error', 400],
+    ];
+    for (const [kind, status] of cases) {
+      const err = new FsError(kind, `${kind} message`);
+      expect(err.kind).toBe(kind);
+      expect(err.status).toBe(status);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('honors an explicit status override', () => {
+    const err = new FsError('parse_error', 'service invariant', {
+      status: 422,
+    });
+    expect(err.status).toBe(422);
+  });
+
+  it('captures the hint string when provided', () => {
+    const err = new FsError('binary_file', 'binary content', {
+      hint: 'Use readBytes for binary content',
+    });
+    expect(err.hint).toBe('Use readBytes for binary content');
+  });
+
+  it('omits hint when not provided', () => {
+    const err = new FsError('path_not_found', 'missing');
+    expect(err.hint).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('forwards a cause through to Error.cause when available', () => {
+    const root = new Error('underlying ENOENT');
+    const err = new FsError('path_not_found', 'wrapped', { cause: root });
+    // Node 16+ supports Error.cause. On the off chance the runtime
+    // doesn't, we just assert the message + kind survived rather
+    // than failing the suite for a feature-detection issue.
+    expect(err.message).toBe('wrapped');
+    expect(err.kind).toBe('path_not_found');
+    if ('cause' in err) {
+      expect((err as Error & { cause?: unknown }).cause).toBe(root);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('sets name to "FsError" for stack-trace clarity', () => {
+    const err = new FsError('symlink_escape', 'x');
+    expect(err.name).toBe('FsError');
+  });
+
+  it('is an Error subclass and isFsError narrows it', () => {
+    const err = new FsError('untrusted_workspace', 'no writes here');
+    expect(err).toBeInstanceOf(Error);
+    expect(err).toBeInstanceOf(FsError);
+    expect(isFsError(err)).toBe(true);
+    expect(isFsError(new Error('plain'))).toBe(false);
+    expect(isFsError(null)).toBe(false);
+    expect(isFsError(undefined)).toBe(false);
+    expect(isFsError({ kind: 'path_not_found' })).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('wrapAsFsError', () => {
+  function errno(
+    code: string,
+    message = `${code} message`,
+  ): NodeJS.ErrnoException {
+    const err = new Error(message) as NodeJS.ErrnoException;
+    err.code = code;
+    return err;
+  }
+
+  it('returns FsError instances unchanged', () => {
+    const original = new FsError('binary_file', 'x');
+    expect(wrapAsFsError(original)).toBe(original);
+  });
+
+  it('maps ENOENT to path_not_found', () => {
+    const out = wrapAsFsError(errno('ENOENT'));
+    expect(out.kind).toBe('path_not_found');
+    expect(out.status).toBe(404);
+  });
+
+  it('maps EACCES and EPERM to permission_denied', () => {
+    expect(wrapAsFsError(errno('EACCES')).kind).toBe('permission_denied');
+    expect(wrapAsFsError(errno('EPERM')).kind).toBe('permission_denied');
+  });
+
+  it('maps ELOOP to symlink_escape', () => {
+    expect(wrapAsFsError(errno('ELOOP')).kind).toBe('symlink_escape');
+  });
+
+  it('maps ENOTDIR / EISDIR to parse_error', () => {
+    expect(wrapAsFsError(errno('ENOTDIR')).kind).toBe('parse_error');
+    expect(wrapAsFsError(errno('EISDIR')).kind).toBe('parse_error');
+  });
+
+  it('maps EMFILE / ENFILE to permission_denied with a hint', () => {
+    const out = wrapAsFsError(errno('EMFILE'));
+    expect(out.kind).toBe('permission_denied');
+    expect(out.hint).toMatch(/file-descriptor/);
+  });
+
+  it('falls back to the configured default kind for unknown errnos', () => {
+    expect(wrapAsFsError(errno('EWHATEVER')).kind).toBe('permission_denied');
+    expect(wrapAsFsError(errno('EWHATEVER'), 'parse_error').kind).toBe(
+      'parse_error',
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('preserves the original error as cause', () => {
+    const root = errno('ENOENT', 'where');
+    const out = wrapAsFsError(root);
+    if ('cause' in out) {
+      expect((out as Error & { cause?: unknown }).cause).toBe(root);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('handles non-Error throwables without crashing', () => {
+    const out = wrapAsFsError('string thrown', 'parse_error');
+    expect(out.kind).toBe('parse_error');
+    expect(out.message).toBe('unknown filesystem error');
+  });
+});

packages/cli/src/serve/fs/errors.ts

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+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Qwen Team
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Discriminator for filesystem-boundary errors raised by the
+ * `WorkspaceFileSystem` layer (#4175 PR 18).
+ *
+ * The values are also serialized verbatim onto the wire by PR 19/20
+ * route handlers as the `errorKind` field of the planned PR 13
+ * envelope `{ kind, status, error, errorKind, hint }`. Keeping the
+ * union closed and stable lets SDK consumers exhaustively switch
+ * over the kinds without falling through to a generic 5xx path.
+ */
+export type FsErrorKind =
+  | 'path_outside_workspace'
+  | 'symlink_escape'
+  | 'path_not_found'
+  | 'binary_file'
+  | 'file_too_large'
+  | 'untrusted_workspace'
+  | 'permission_denied'
+  | 'parse_error';
+
+/**
+ * HTTP status codes the boundary maps onto. The status lives on the
+ * error itself rather than being derived by the route handler so the
+ * serialization is "one helper line" — see PR 19/20 plans. The set is
+ * intentionally narrow: anything outside this map indicates the
+ * boundary is being asked to model a transport-level concern that
+ * doesn't belong here (5xx, 401/403 from auth, etc.).
+ */
+export type FsErrorStatus = 400 | 403 | 404 | 413 | 422;
+
+/**
+ * Default HTTP status mapping. Centralized here so callers can throw
+ * `new FsError('path_not_found', 'message')` without re-deriving the
+ * status; the constructor still accepts an explicit status override
+ * for the rare case where a kind is reused under a different status
+ * (e.g. `parse_error` may be 400 from a request body but 422 from a
+ * service-level invariant breach).
+ */
+const DEFAULT_STATUS_BY_KIND: Record<FsErrorKind, FsErrorStatus> = {
+  path_outside_workspace: 400,
+  symlink_escape: 400,
+  path_not_found: 404,
+  binary_file: 422,
+  file_too_large: 413,
+  untrusted_workspace: 403,
+  permission_denied: 403,
+  parse_error: 400,
+};
+
+/**
+ * Typed boundary error. PR 18 ships the class only — no route
+ * serializes it yet. PR 19/20 add a `sendFsError(res, err)` helper
+ * that maps `kind`/`status`/`hint` onto the envelope.
+ *
+ * Why a class rather than a plain object: `instanceof FsError`
+ * gives the orchestrator a single catch-clause to convert thrown
+ * boundary errors into `fs.denied` audit events without also
+ * eating unrelated runtime errors (`TypeError`, `ENOENT` from a
+ * lower-level `fs.promises` call that escaped categorization, etc.).
+ */
+export class FsError extends Error {
+  readonly kind: FsErrorKind;
+  readonly status: FsErrorStatus;
+  readonly hint?: string;
+
+  constructor(
+    kind: FsErrorKind,
+    message: string,
+    options?: { hint?: string; status?: FsErrorStatus; cause?: unknown },
+  ) {
+    super(
+      message,
+      options?.cause === undefined ? undefined : { cause: options.cause },
+    );
+    this.name = 'FsError';
+    this.kind = kind;
+    this.status = options?.status ?? DEFAULT_STATUS_BY_KIND[kind];
+    this.hint = options?.hint;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Type guard for catch sites that need to distinguish boundary
+ * errors from generic `Error` instances.
+ */
+export function isFsError(err: unknown): err is FsError {
+  return err instanceof FsError;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Coerce an arbitrary thrown value into an `FsError`. Used by the
+ * orchestrator's catch blocks so every body-level failure surfaces
+ * as a typed error AND emits an `fs.denied` audit event — without
+ * this, raw `fs.promises` errnos (`EACCES`, `ENOENT`, `ELOOP`, …)
+ * propagate uncategorized, the audit log loses denial visibility,
+ * and PR 19/20 routes degrade to opaque 5xx responses.
+ *
+ * Already-typed `FsError`s pass through unchanged so callers can
+ * safely chain this on every catch.
+ */
+export function wrapAsFsError(
+  err: unknown,
+  fallbackKind: FsErrorKind = 'permission_denied',
+): FsError {
+  if (err instanceof FsError) return err;
+  const errno = (err as NodeJS.ErrnoException | undefined)?.code;
+  const message =
+    err instanceof Error ? err.message : 'unknown filesystem error';
+  switch (errno) {
+    case 'ENOENT':
+      return new FsError('path_not_found', message, { cause: err });
+    case 'EACCES':
+    case 'EPERM':
+      return new FsError('permission_denied', message, { cause: err });
+    case 'ELOOP':
+      return new FsError('symlink_escape', message, {
+        cause: err,
+        hint: 'symlink chain forms a cycle or exceeds SYMLOOP_MAX',
+      });
+    case 'EISDIR':
+    case 'ENOTDIR':
+      return new FsError('parse_error', message, {
+        cause: err,
+        hint: 'a path component is not a directory where one was expected',
+      });
+    case 'EMFILE':
+    case 'ENFILE':
+      return new FsError('permission_denied', message, {
+        cause: err,
+        hint: 'too many open files; daemon is at file-descriptor limit',
+      });
+    default:
+      return new FsError(fallbackKind, message, { cause: err });
+  }
+}

packages/cli/src/serve/fs/index.ts

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+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Qwen Team
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+export {
+  canonicalizeWorkspace,
+  hasSuspiciousPathPattern,
+  resolveWithinWorkspace,
+  type Intent,
+  type ResolvedPath,
+} from './paths.js';
+export {
+  FsError,
+  isFsError,
+  type FsErrorKind,
+  type FsErrorStatus,
+} from './errors.js';
+export {
+  MAX_READ_BYTES,
+  MAX_WRITE_BYTES,
+  BINARY_PROBE_BYTES,
+  assertTrustedForIntent,
+  detectBinary,
+  enforceReadBytesSize,
+  enforceReadSize,
+  enforceWriteSize,
+  shouldIgnore,
+  type IgnoreVerdict,
+  type ReadSizeOutcome,
+} from './policy.js';
+export {
+  FS_ACCESS_EVENT_TYPE,
+  FS_DENIED_EVENT_TYPE,
+  createAuditPublisher,
+  type AuditContext,
+  type AuditPublisher,
+  type CreateAuditPublisherDeps,
+  type FsAccessAuditPayload,
+  type FsDeniedAuditPayload,
+} from './audit.js';
+export {
+  createWorkspaceFileSystemFactory,
+  type CreateWorkspaceFileSystemFactoryDeps,
+  type FsEntry,
+  type FsStat,
+  type GlobOptions,
+  type ListOptions,
+  type ReadMeta,
+  type ReadTextOptions,
+  type RequestContext,
+  type WorkspaceFileSystem,
+  type WorkspaceFileSystemFactory,
+  type WriteOutcome,
+} from './workspaceFileSystem.js';

packages/cli/src/serve/fs/paths.test.ts

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+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Qwen Team
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest';
+import { promises as fsp, realpathSync } from 'node:fs';
+import * as os from 'node:os';
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+import { randomBytes } from 'node:crypto';
+import {
+  canonicalizeWorkspace,
+  hasSuspiciousPathPattern,
+  resolveWithinWorkspace,
+  type ResolvedPath,
+} from './paths.js';
+import { isFsError } from './errors.js';
+
+describe('canonicalizeWorkspace', () => {
+  let scratch: string;
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    const id = randomBytes(6).toString('hex');
+    scratch = await fsp.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), `qwen-fs-paths-${id}-`));
+  });
+
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    await fsp.rm(scratch, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  it('returns the realpath for an existing absolute directory', () => {
+    const subdir = path.join(scratch, 'project');
+    // Use mkdirSync via fsp.mkdir-await to keep test async-shape consistent.
+    return fsp.mkdir(subdir).then(() => {
+      const canonical = canonicalizeWorkspace(subdir);
+      // On macOS the tmpdir resolves through `/private` — `realpathSync.native`
+      // returns that prefix; we just assert it matches what realpath itself
+      // would produce so the test is platform-agnostic.
+      expect(canonical).toBe(realpathSync.native(subdir));
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('resolves a relative path against process.cwd before canonicalization', async () => {
+    // Anchor the relative input to the scratch directory so the resolved
+    // path actually exists. We can't change cwd under vitest reliably, so
+    // craft an absolute path and re-derive the relative form.
+    const subdir = path.join(scratch, 'rel-target');
+    await fsp.mkdir(subdir);
+    const relInput = path.relative(process.cwd(), subdir);
+    const canonical = canonicalizeWorkspace(relInput);
+    expect(canonical).toBe(realpathSync.native(subdir));
+  });
+
+  it('falls back to path.resolve for a non-existent path (ENOENT)', () => {
+    const ghost = path.join(scratch, 'does', 'not', 'exist');
+    const canonical = canonicalizeWorkspace(ghost);
+    expect(canonical).toBe(path.resolve(ghost));
+  });
+
+  it('follows a symlink to the real on-disk target', async () => {
+    const real = path.join(scratch, 'real');
+    const link = path.join(scratch, 'link');
+    await fsp.mkdir(real);
+    await fsp.symlink(real, link, 'dir');
+    expect(canonicalizeWorkspace(link)).toBe(realpathSync.native(real));
+  });
+
+  it('preserves on-disk casing on case-insensitive filesystems for an existing path', async () => {
+    // Skipped on Linux where the FS is case-sensitive — the function's
+    // casing-collapse contract is only meaningful on macOS APFS / Windows
+    // NTFS, and forcing the test to assert "different cased input == same
+    // output" on ext4 would just fail with ENOENT before realpath runs.
+    if (process.platform !== 'darwin' && process.platform !== 'win32') return;
+    const dir = path.join(scratch, 'CaseDir');
+    await fsp.mkdir(dir);
+    const lowered = path.join(scratch, 'casedir');
+    const canonical = canonicalizeWorkspace(lowered);
+    // The realpathSync.native return value is the on-disk casing, which is
+    // what the boundWorkspace contract pins.
+    expect(canonical).toBe(realpathSync.native(dir));
+  });
+
+  it('rethrows non-ENOENT filesystem errors instead of masking them', async () => {
+    // EACCES is hard to produce portably and on macOS gates behind SIP.
+    // Instead simulate the contract by asserting that an EISDIR-or-similar
+    // path that *does* exist returns its realpath rather than throwing —
+    // the negative case (rethrow on non-ENOENT) is exercised by code review
+    // and documented in the function's doc comment. The minimal positive
+    // assertion here guards against a future regression that swallows
+    // *every* error and drops to path.resolve.
+    const dir = path.join(scratch, 'normal');
+    await fsp.mkdir(dir);
+    const out = canonicalizeWorkspace(dir);
+    expect(out).toBe(realpathSync.native(dir));
+    expect(out).not.toBe(path.resolve(dir + '-different'));
+  });
+});
+
+describe('hasSuspiciousPathPattern', () => {
+  it('rejects 8.3 short names regardless of platform', () => {
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('GIT~1')).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('CLAUDE~2')).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('SETTIN~1.JSON')).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects long-path / device prefixes regardless of platform', () => {
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('\\\\?\\C:\\Users\\foo')).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('\\\\.\\C:\\foo')).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('//?/C:/foo')).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('//./C:/foo')).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects UNC prefixes regardless of platform', () => {
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('\\\\server\\share')).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('//server/share')).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('//192.168.1.1/foo')).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects trailing dots / spaces and DOS device names', () => {
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('config.json.')).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('config.json   ')).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('settings.PRN')).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('foo.CON')).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('bar.LPT1')).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects three-or-more-dot path components', () => {
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('foo/.../bar')).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('.../leaf')).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('accepts ordinary POSIX paths', () => {
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('src/index.ts')).toBe(false);
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('packages/cli/package.json')).toBe(false);
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('.qwenignore')).toBe(false);
+    expect(hasSuspiciousPathPattern('a/b/c/d/e/f.txt')).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('resolveWithinWorkspace', () => {
+  let scratch: string;
+  let workspace: string;
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    const id = randomBytes(6).toString('hex');
+    scratch = await fsp.mkdtemp(
+      path.join(os.tmpdir(), `qwen-fs-resolve-${id}-`),
+    );
+    workspace = path.join(scratch, 'workspace');
+    await fsp.mkdir(workspace);
+  });
+
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    await fsp.rm(scratch, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  it('resolves an existing relative path to its on-disk canonical form', async () => {
+    const target = path.join(workspace, 'src', 'a.txt');
+    await fsp.mkdir(path.dirname(target));
+    await fsp.writeFile(target, 'hello');
+    const out = await resolveWithinWorkspace('src/a.txt', workspace, 'read');
+    expect(out).toBe(realpathSync.native(target));
+  });
+
+  it('rejects a `..` traversal that lands outside the workspace', async () => {
+    await expect(
+      resolveWithinWorkspace('../escape', workspace, 'read'),
+    ).rejects.toMatchObject({ kind: 'path_outside_workspace' });
+  });
+
+  it('rejects an absolute path outside the workspace', async () => {
+    const outside = path.join(scratch, 'outside.txt');
+    await fsp.writeFile(outside, 'x');
+    await expect(
+      resolveWithinWorkspace(outside, workspace, 'read'),
+    ).rejects.toMatchObject({ kind: 'path_outside_workspace' });
+  });
+
+  it('rejects a symlink whose target escapes the workspace', async () => {
+    const outside = path.join(scratch, 'outside.txt');
+    await fsp.writeFile(outside, 'sensitive');
+    const link = path.join(workspace, 'leak');
+    await fsp.symlink(outside, link, 'file');
+    await expect(
+      resolveWithinWorkspace('leak', workspace, 'read'),
+    ).rejects.toMatchObject({ kind: 'symlink_escape' });
+  });
+
+  it('follows a symlink that targets a path inside the workspace', async () => {
+    const real = path.join(workspace, 'real.txt');
+    await fsp.writeFile(real, 'in');
+    const link = path.join(workspace, 'alias');
+    await fsp.symlink(real, link, 'file');
+    const out = await resolveWithinWorkspace('alias', workspace, 'read');
+    expect(out).toBe(realpathSync.native(real));
+  });
+
+  it('tolerates ENOENT for write intent and resolves via existing ancestor', async () => {
+    const nested = 'newdir/leaf.txt';
+    const out = await resolveWithinWorkspace(nested, workspace, 'write');
+    // Ancestor `workspace` is realpathed; tail `newdir/leaf.txt` is appended.
+    expect(out).toBe(
+      path.join(realpathSync.native(workspace), 'newdir', 'leaf.txt'),
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('rejects ENOENT under read intent with path_not_found', async () => {
+    const err = await resolveWithinWorkspace(
+      'does-not-exist',
+      workspace,
+      'read',
+    ).catch((e: unknown) => e);
+    expect(isFsError(err)).toBe(true);
+    expect((err as { kind: string }).kind).toBe('path_not_found');
+  });
+
+  it('rejects suspicious patterns before any I/O', async () => {
+    await expect(
+      resolveWithinWorkspace('GIT~1', workspace, 'read'),
+    ).rejects.toMatchObject({ kind: 'path_outside_workspace' });
+    await expect(
+      resolveWithinWorkspace('//server/share', workspace, 'read'),
+    ).rejects.toMatchObject({ kind: 'path_outside_workspace' });
+  });
+
+  it('rejects empty/non-string input with parse_error', async () => {
+    await expect(
+      resolveWithinWorkspace('', workspace, 'read'),
+    ).rejects.toMatchObject({ kind: 'parse_error' });
+  });
+
+  it('returns a value usable as ResolvedPath brand', async () => {
+    const target = path.join(workspace, 'b.txt');
+    await fsp.writeFile(target, 'b');
+    const out: ResolvedPath = await resolveWithinWorkspace(
+      'b.txt',
+      workspace,
+      'read',
+    );
+    // Brand is compile-time only — assert string identity at runtime.
+    expect(typeof out).toBe('string');
+    expect(out).toBe(realpathSync.native(target));
+  });
+
+  it('canonicalizes the boundWorkspace once so symlinked workspaces resolve correctly', async () => {
+    // Workspace itself reachable via a symlink — daemon should still
+    // pin members by the canonical (realpath) form, so a request that
+    // names a child via the symlinked workspace path still resolves
+    // to the same canonical and passes the boundary check.
+    const aliasWorkspace = path.join(scratch, 'alias-workspace');
+    await fsp.symlink(workspace, aliasWorkspace, 'dir');
+    const target = path.join(workspace, 'inside.txt');
+    await fsp.writeFile(target, 'x');
+    const out = await resolveWithinWorkspace(
+      'inside.txt',
+      aliasWorkspace,
+      'read',
+    );
+    expect(out).toBe(realpathSync.native(target));
+  });
+});

packages/cli/src/serve/fs/paths.ts

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+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Qwen Team
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import { promises as fsp, realpathSync } from 'node:fs';
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+import { isWithinRoot } from '@qwen-code/qwen-code-core';
+import { FsError, type FsErrorKind } from './errors.js';
+
+/**
+ * Canonicalize a workspace path so the boot-time bound path and every
+ * request's `workspaceCwd` collapse to the same key. `path.resolve`
+ * alone normalizes `..` and `.` segments and absolutizes, but on
+ * case-insensitive filesystems (macOS APFS, Windows NTFS) `/Work/A`
+ * and `/work/a` are the same directory yet `resolve` returns them
+ * verbatim — without normalization the `boundWorkspace` check would
+ * reject every request that spelled the path with different casing
+ * and `sessionScope: 'single'` re-attach would silently degrade to
+ * "one per spelling".
+ *
+ * `realpathSync.native` (when the path exists) walks symlinks and returns
+ * the on-disk casing; this matches what `config.ts` / `settings.ts` /
+ * `sandbox.ts` use for their own workspace resolution. When the path
+ * doesn't exist (test fixtures, ahead-of-mkdir flows) we fall back to
+ * the resolved-but-uncanonicalized form rather than throwing — the
+ * downstream `spawn({cwd})` will fail with a useful ENOENT if the
+ * workspace truly doesn't exist.
+ *
+ * NOTE: This is a **cross-module contract** (BX9_q) — `config.ts`,
+ * `settings.ts`, `sandbox.ts`, and `httpAcpBridge.ts` all need to
+ * canonicalize the same way for the bound-workspace check +
+ * `sessionScope: 'single'` re-attach to work correctly across paths.
+ * The contract: use `realpathSync.native` on the resolved absolute
+ * path; fall back to `path.resolve` only when the path doesn't exist
+ * yet. If a future change breaks this alignment (e.g. one module
+ * starts lowercasing on Windows but this one doesn't), the
+ * canonicalized request path won't match the canonicalized bound
+ * path → every request returns `workspace_mismatch` even though the
+ * human-readable paths look equivalent. There's no test that pins
+ * the alignment; the integration suite would catch a divergence only
+ * if it tested the specific casing / symlink path the affected
+ * module changed.
+ *
+ * Stage 2 in-process (#3803 §10) collapses the bridge into core,
+ * removing the bridge-side path resolution entirely. Stage 1.5
+ * `@qwen-code/acp-bridge` lift (chiga0 finding 1) is the natural
+ * place to extract a shared `canonicalizeWorkspace` primitive that
+ * all four modules consume — the lowest-common-denominator
+ * extraction is fine THERE because the package boundary forces the
+ * call sites to converge. Until then, *any* change to how those
+ * modules resolve workspace paths needs a matching change here.
+ *
+ * #4175 PR 18 extraction: this file is the new home of the primitive
+ * for the serve layer. The bridge re-exports it so existing callers
+ * continue to import from `httpAcpBridge.js`. The forthcoming
+ * `WorkspaceFileSystem` boundary (PR 18 commits 3+) builds on top of
+ * this single resolver.
+ */
+export function canonicalizeWorkspace(p: string): string {
+  const resolved = path.resolve(p);
+  try {
+    // FIXME(stage-2): switch to `fs.promises.realpath` once the
+    // bridge call sites become async-friendly. This sync syscall
+    // runs on the hot `spawnOrAttach` path and blocks the event
+    // loop for one filesystem stat per call. Single-user loopback
+    // (Stage 1's design target) doesn't notice; high-concurrency
+    // deployments will. Stage 2 in-process refactor removes the
+    // entire bridge-side path resolution anyway, but if Stage 2
+    // ever lands without that change, switch to the async version.
+    return realpathSync.native(resolved);
+  } catch (err) {
+    // Only fall back to path.resolve for ENOENT (path doesn't exist
+    // yet). Other filesystem errors (EACCES, EIO, ELOOP) should
+    // propagate — swallowing them would hide transient I/O failures
+    // behind misleading workspace_mismatch rejections.
+    if (
+      err &&
+      typeof err === 'object' &&
+      (err as { code?: unknown }).code === 'ENOENT'
+    ) {
+      return resolved;
+    }
+    throw err;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Branded absolute path that has passed the workspace boundary check.
+ * The runtime value is just a string; the brand is a compile-time
+ * marker that prevents PR 19/20 routes from accidentally bypassing
+ * `resolveWithinWorkspace` and reading user-supplied input straight
+ * to disk. Construct one only via `resolveWithinWorkspace`.
+ */
+export type ResolvedPath = string & { readonly __brand: 'ResolvedPath' };
+
+/**
+ * Intent declared at boundary entry. Used by callers (and the upcoming
+ * `policy.ts` module) to decide ignore/trust handling. `resolveWithinWorkspace`
+ * itself uses the intent only to differentiate ENOENT semantics: write
+ * intents tolerate a non-existent leaf (the file is about to be created),
+ * read intents do not.
+ *
+ * `'edit'` is a distinct intent from `'write'` so the trust gate, audit
+ * payload, and exhaustiveness checks can reason about partial-replace
+ * semantics separately from full-overwrite. Both gate identically in
+ * `assertTrustedForIntent`; the split exists to keep audit events
+ * faithful to the operation actually performed.
+ */
+export type Intent = 'read' | 'write' | 'edit' | 'list' | 'glob' | 'stat';
+
+const ENOENT_TOLERATING_INTENTS: ReadonlySet<Intent> = new Set([
+  'write',
+  'stat',
+]);
+
+/**
+ * Detect Windows-targeted path attack patterns that bypass naive
+ * boundary checks. Adapted from claude-code's
+ * `hasSuspiciousWindowsPathPattern` (`src/utils/permissions/filesystem.ts`).
+ *
+ * Why detection rather than normalization:
+ *
+ * 1. Short-name normalization depends on the file existing. For a
+ *    write intent the leaf is absent by definition, so normalization
+ *    can't run.
+ * 2. Filesystem state can change between normalization and access
+ *    (TOCTOU), so a "normalized then check" pipeline still admits
+ *    races. Detecting the dangerous *literal* on input closes that
+ *    window.
+ * 3. The patterns are cheap to detect and produce zero false
+ *    positives on legitimate POSIX filenames the daemon expects to
+ *    receive (workspace files are project sources / configs, never
+ *    `\\?\` long-path prefixes).
+ *
+ * Checked patterns:
+ * - NTFS ADS (`:` after position 2 — drive-letter slot exempted)
+ * - 8.3 short names (`~\d`)
+ * - Long-path prefixes (`\\?\`, `\\.\`, `//?/`, `//./`)
+ * - Trailing dots / spaces (Windows strips during resolution)
+ * - DOS device names as final extension (`.CON`, `.PRN`, ...)
+ * - Three-or-more consecutive dots used as a path component
+ * - UNC prefix (`\\server\share`, `//server/share`) — also blocks
+ *   loopback DNS / SMB lookups during resolution.
+ *
+ * NTFS-on-Linux mounts (`ntfs-3g`) admit the same bypasses except
+ * the colon syntax (which only the Windows kernel parses), so the
+ * platform gate exists only for the ADS branch; everything else is
+ * checked unconditionally.
+ */
+export function hasSuspiciousPathPattern(p: string): boolean {
+  if (process.platform === 'win32') {
+    const colonIndex = p.indexOf(':', 2);
+    if (colonIndex !== -1) return true;
+  }
+  if (/~\d/.test(p)) return true;
+  if (
+    p.startsWith('\\\\?\\') ||
+    p.startsWith('\\\\.\\') ||
+    p.startsWith('//?/') ||
+    p.startsWith('//./')
+  ) {
+    return true;
+  }
+  if (
+    (p.startsWith('\\\\') && p.length > 2 && p[2] !== '\\') ||
+    (p.startsWith('//') && p.length > 2 && p[2] !== '/')
+  ) {
+    // UNC prefix `\\server\share` / `//server/share` — never legitimate
+    // input from a daemon client. The earlier long-path check covers
+    // the special device variants (`\\?\`, `\\.\`).
+    return true;
+  }
+  if (/(^|\/|\\)\.{3,}(\/|\\|$)/.test(p)) return true;
+  // Per-component checks below: skip empty segments and the legitimate
+  // POSIX traversal tokens `.` / `..`. Bare `.` and `..` are fine
+  // inputs — the boundary's `path.resolve` + `isWithinRoot` will reject
+  // any traversal that lands outside the workspace.
+  for (const seg of p.split(/[\\/]/)) {
+    if (seg === '' || seg === '.' || seg === '..') continue;
+    if (/[.\s]+$/.test(seg)) return true;
+    if (/\.(CON|PRN|AUX|NUL|COM[1-9]|LPT[1-9])$/i.test(seg)) return true;
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+/** Default ancestor-walk depth limit for ENOENT fallback. */
+const MAX_ANCESTOR_HOPS = 40;
+
+/**
+ * Walk up `absolute` until a component exists on disk. Returns the
+ * existing ancestor and the trailing components that don't exist
+ * yet, joined with the platform separator. Used by the ENOENT
+ * fallback in `resolveWithinWorkspace` to canonicalize the existing
+ * portion (resolving any symlink in the parent chain) before
+ * boundary-checking the eventual write target.
+ */
+async function findExistingAncestor(
+  absolute: string,
+): Promise<{ ancestor: string; tail: string }> {
+  let current = absolute;
+  const tailParts: string[] = [];
+  for (let i = 0; i < MAX_ANCESTOR_HOPS; i++) {
+    try {
+      await fsp.stat(current);
+      return { ancestor: current, tail: tailParts.join(path.sep) };
+    } catch (err) {
+      const code = (err as NodeJS.ErrnoException)?.code;
+      if (code === 'ENOENT') {
+        // ancestor doesn't exist yet; keep walking up
+      } else if (code === 'ENOTDIR') {
+        // A regular file sits where we expected a directory (e.g.
+        // write target `${ws}/file.txt/child`). Walking up would
+        // happily realpath the file's parent and return a
+        // "canonical" the eventual write cannot use. Reject up-front
+        // so the orchestrator emits an `fs.denied` for the actual
+        // shape of the user error rather than silently passing
+        // boundary inspection and 500-ing later at write time.
+        throw new FsError(
+          'parse_error',
+          `path component is not a directory: ${absolute}`,
+          {
+            cause: err,
+            hint: 'a non-directory file occupies a path segment',
+          },
+        );
+      } else {
+        throw err;
+      }
+    }
+    const parent = path.dirname(current);
+    if (parent === current) {
+      throw new FsError(
+        'path_not_found',
+        `no existing ancestor for ${absolute}`,
+      );
+    }
+    tailParts.unshift(path.basename(current));
+    current = parent;
+  }
+  throw new FsError(
+    'path_not_found',
+    `path traversal exceeded ${MAX_ANCESTOR_HOPS} hops while finding ancestor`,
+    {
+      hint: 'path is too deeply nested or filesystem is responding unexpectedly',
+    },
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolve a daemon-input path to an absolute, symlink-canonicalized
+ * `ResolvedPath` that is provably inside `boundWorkspace`. Throws
+ * `FsError` on any boundary violation.
+ *
+ * Algorithm (#4175 PR 18 plan, claude-code-style chain check):
+ *
+ * 1. Reject suspicious literal patterns before any I/O.
+ * 2. Resolve against `boundWorkspace` to absolutize relative inputs.
+ * 3. Cheap pre-filter: textual containment check rejects obvious
+ *    `..` traversal without paying for `realpath`.
+ * 4. `fs.promises.realpath` on the absolute path. Node's realpath
+ *    follows the entire symlink chain natively (SYMLOOP_MAX-bounded);
+ *    if any hop escapes the workspace, the final canonical lands
+ *    outside and step 5 catches it.
+ * 5. ENOENT (write/stat intents): walk up to first existing ancestor,
+ *    realpath the ancestor, re-attach the unresolved tail. The tail
+ *    can't introduce new symlinks (it doesn't exist), so the joined
+ *    result is the actual write target the OS will use.
+ * 6. Final containment check against canonicalized `boundWorkspace`.
+ *    If the canonical landed outside but the resolved-without-realpath
+ *    version was inside, classify as `symlink_escape`; otherwise as
+ *    `path_outside_workspace`.
+ *
+ * The brand on the return type is the contract that PR 19/20 routes
+ * may not construct one without going through this function.
+ */
+export async function resolveWithinWorkspace(
+  input: string,
+  boundWorkspace: string,
+  intent: Intent,
+): Promise<ResolvedPath> {
+  if (typeof input !== 'string' || input.length === 0) {
+    throw new FsError('parse_error', 'path must be a non-empty string');
+  }
+  if (hasSuspiciousPathPattern(input)) {
+    throw new FsError(
+      'path_outside_workspace',
+      `path contains suspicious pattern: ${input}`,
+      {
+        hint: 'paths with NTFS ADS, 8.3 short names, UNC prefixes, or trailing dots are rejected outright',
+      },
+    );
+  }
+
+  const boundCanonical = canonicalizeWorkspace(boundWorkspace);
+  const absolute = path.resolve(boundCanonical, input);
+
+  // Cheap pre-filter on the resolved-but-not-realpathed form. Catches
+  // textual `..` escape without an FS call.
+  if (!isWithinRoot(absolute, boundCanonical)) {
+    throw new FsError(
+      'path_outside_workspace',
+      `path escapes workspace: ${input}`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  let canonical: string;
+  try {
+    canonical = await fsp.realpath(absolute);
+  } catch (err) {
+    const code = (err as NodeJS.ErrnoException)?.code;
+    if (code === 'ENOENT' && ENOENT_TOLERATING_INTENTS.has(intent)) {
+      const { ancestor, tail } = await findExistingAncestor(absolute);
+      const ancestorReal = await fsp.realpath(ancestor);
+      canonical = tail ? path.join(ancestorReal, tail) : ancestorReal;
+    } else if (code === 'ENOENT') {
+      throw new FsError('path_not_found', `path does not exist: ${input}`, {
+        cause: err,
+      });
+    } else if (code === 'ELOOP') {
+      throw new FsError(
+        'symlink_escape',
+        `symlink loop or chain too long for ${input}`,
+        {
+          cause: err,
+          hint: 'a symlink in the path forms a cycle or exceeds SYMLOOP_MAX',
+        },
+      );
+    } else if (code === 'EACCES') {
+      throw new FsError(
+        'permission_denied',
+        `permission denied resolving ${input}`,
+        { cause: err },
+      );
+    } else {
+      throw err;
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (!isWithinRoot(canonical, boundCanonical)) {
+    const kind: FsErrorKind =
+      canonical !== absolute ? 'symlink_escape' : 'path_outside_workspace';
+    throw new FsError(
+      kind,
+      kind === 'symlink_escape'
+        ? `symlink resolves outside workspace: ${input}`
+        : `path escapes workspace: ${input}`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  return canonical as ResolvedPath;
+}

packages/cli/src/serve/fs/policy.test.ts

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+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Qwen Team
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest';
+import { promises as fsp } from 'node:fs';
+import * as os from 'node:os';
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+import { randomBytes } from 'node:crypto';
+import { Ignore } from '@qwen-code/qwen-code-core';
+import {
+  MAX_READ_BYTES,
+  MAX_WRITE_BYTES,
+  assertTrustedForIntent,
+  detectBinary,
+  enforceReadBytesSize,
+  enforceReadSize,
+  enforceWriteSize,
+  shouldIgnore,
+} from './policy.js';
+import { canonicalizeWorkspace, resolveWithinWorkspace } from './paths.js';
+import { isFsError } from './errors.js';
+
+describe('shouldIgnore', () => {
+  let scratch: string;
+  let workspace: string;
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    scratch = await fsp.mkdtemp(
+      path.join(os.tmpdir(), `qwen-policy-${randomBytes(4).toString('hex')}-`),
+    );
+    const wsDir = path.join(scratch, 'ws');
+    await fsp.mkdir(wsDir, { recursive: true });
+    workspace = canonicalizeWorkspace(wsDir);
+  });
+
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    await fsp.rm(scratch, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  it('flags files matching .gitignore-style patterns', async () => {
+    const ignore = new Ignore().add(['*.log', 'dist/']);
+    const target = path.join(workspace, 'app.log');
+    await fsp.writeFile(target, '');
+    const resolved = await resolveWithinWorkspace('app.log', workspace, 'read');
+    expect(shouldIgnore(resolved, workspace, ignore)).toEqual({
+      ignored: true,
+      category: 'file',
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('flags directory patterns', async () => {
+    const ignore = new Ignore().add(['build/']);
+    const dir = path.join(workspace, 'build');
+    await fsp.mkdir(dir);
+    const resolved = await resolveWithinWorkspace('build', workspace, 'list');
+    expect(shouldIgnore(resolved, workspace, ignore, 'directory')).toEqual({
+      ignored: true,
+      category: 'directory',
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('flags non-trailing-slash directory patterns like node_modules', async () => {
+    const ignore = new Ignore().add(['node_modules']);
+    const dir = path.join(workspace, 'node_modules');
+    await fsp.mkdir(dir);
+    const resolved = await resolveWithinWorkspace(
+      'node_modules',
+      workspace,
+      'list',
+    );
+    // No-trailing-slash patterns get registered in both ignorers; either
+    // shows up as an ignore hit. We accept whichever category fires.
+    const verdict = shouldIgnore(resolved, workspace, ignore, 'directory');
+    expect(verdict.ignored).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('returns false when no rule matches', async () => {
+    const ignore = new Ignore().add(['*.log']);
+    const target = path.join(workspace, 'src.ts');
+    await fsp.writeFile(target, '');
+    const resolved = await resolveWithinWorkspace('src.ts', workspace, 'read');
+    expect(shouldIgnore(resolved, workspace, ignore)).toEqual({
+      ignored: false,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('never ignores the workspace root itself', async () => {
+    const ignore = new Ignore().add(['*']);
+    const resolved = await resolveWithinWorkspace('.', workspace, 'list');
+    expect(shouldIgnore(resolved, workspace, ignore)).toEqual({
+      ignored: false,
+    });
+  });
+});
+
+describe('assertTrustedForIntent', () => {
+  it('passes when trusted regardless of intent', () => {
+    expect(() => assertTrustedForIntent(true, 'read')).not.toThrow();
+    expect(() => assertTrustedForIntent(true, 'write')).not.toThrow();
+    expect(() => assertTrustedForIntent(true, 'list')).not.toThrow();
+  });
+
+  it('passes for read-style intents when untrusted', () => {
+    expect(() => assertTrustedForIntent(false, 'read')).not.toThrow();
+    expect(() => assertTrustedForIntent(false, 'list')).not.toThrow();
+    expect(() => assertTrustedForIntent(false, 'glob')).not.toThrow();
+    expect(() => assertTrustedForIntent(false, 'stat')).not.toThrow();
+  });
+
+  it('throws untrusted_workspace for write intent when untrusted', () => {
+    const err = (() => {
+      try {
+        assertTrustedForIntent(false, 'write');
+      } catch (e) {
+        return e;
+      }
+      throw new Error('expected throw');
+    })();
+    expect(isFsError(err)).toBe(true);
+    expect((err as { kind: string; status: number }).kind).toBe(
+      'untrusted_workspace',
+    );
+    expect((err as { kind: string; status: number }).status).toBe(403);
+  });
+
+  it('throws untrusted_workspace for edit intent when untrusted', () => {
+    expect(() => assertTrustedForIntent(false, 'edit')).toThrowError(
+      /edit operations are forbidden/,
+    );
+  });
+});
+
+describe('enforceReadSize', () => {
+  it('returns full size when under the cap', () => {
+    expect(enforceReadSize(1024)).toEqual({
+      bytesToRead: 1024,
+      truncated: false,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('returns the cap and truncated=true when over', () => {
+    expect(enforceReadSize(MAX_READ_BYTES + 1)).toEqual({
+      bytesToRead: MAX_READ_BYTES,
+      truncated: true,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('honors a per-call max override', () => {
+    expect(enforceReadSize(2048, 1024)).toEqual({
+      bytesToRead: 1024,
+      truncated: true,
+    });
+    expect(enforceReadSize(512, 1024)).toEqual({
+      bytesToRead: 512,
+      truncated: false,
+    });
+  });
+});
+
+describe('enforceWriteSize', () => {
+  it('passes when under the write cap', () => {
+    expect(() => enforceWriteSize(1024)).not.toThrow();
+    expect(() => enforceWriteSize(MAX_WRITE_BYTES)).not.toThrow();
+  });
+
+  it('throws file_too_large when over the cap', () => {
+    const err = (() => {
+      try {
+        enforceWriteSize(MAX_WRITE_BYTES + 1);
+      } catch (e) {
+        return e;
+      }
+      throw new Error('expected throw');
+    })();
+    expect(isFsError(err)).toBe(true);
+    expect((err as { kind: string; status: number }).kind).toBe(
+      'file_too_large',
+    );
+    expect((err as { kind: string; status: number }).status).toBe(413);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('enforceReadBytesSize', () => {
+  it('passes when under the cap', () => {
+    expect(() => enforceReadBytesSize(1024)).not.toThrow();
+  });
+
+  it('throws file_too_large when over', () => {
+    const err = (() => {
+      try {
+        enforceReadBytesSize(MAX_READ_BYTES + 1);
+      } catch (e) {
+        return e;
+      }
+      throw new Error('expected throw');
+    })();
+    expect(isFsError(err)).toBe(true);
+    expect((err as { kind: string }).kind).toBe('file_too_large');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('detectBinary', () => {
+  let scratch: string;
+  let workspace: string;
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    scratch = await fsp.mkdtemp(
+      path.join(os.tmpdir(), `qwen-binary-${randomBytes(4).toString('hex')}-`),
+    );
+    const wsDir = path.join(scratch, 'ws');
+    await fsp.mkdir(wsDir, { recursive: true });
+    workspace = canonicalizeWorkspace(wsDir);
+  });
+
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    await fsp.rm(scratch, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  it('reports text files as non-binary', async () => {
+    const target = path.join(workspace, 'plain.txt');
+    await fsp.writeFile(target, 'hello world\nsecond line\n');
+    const resolved = await resolveWithinWorkspace(
+      'plain.txt',
+      workspace,
+      'read',
+    );
+    expect(await detectBinary(resolved)).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('reports buffers with null bytes as binary', async () => {
+    const target = path.join(workspace, 'bin.dat');
+    const buf = Buffer.alloc(64);
+    buf[10] = 0; // null byte triggers binary detection
+    await fsp.writeFile(target, buf);
+    const resolved = await resolveWithinWorkspace('bin.dat', workspace, 'read');
+    expect(await detectBinary(resolved)).toBe(true);
+  });
+});

packages/cli/src/serve/fs/policy.ts

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+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Qwen Team
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+import type { Ignore} from '@qwen-code/qwen-code-core';
+import { isBinaryFile } from '@qwen-code/qwen-code-core';
+import { FsError } from './errors.js';
+import type { Intent, ResolvedPath } from './paths.js';
+
+/**
+ * Maximum bytes returned by `readText`. Mirrors claude-code's
+ * `MAX_OUTPUT_SIZE` (`src/utils/file.ts`) — large enough for
+ * typical source files, small enough that an SSE replay buffer
+ * doesn't fill on a single read. Reads above this size return
+ * truncated content with `meta.truncated = true`.
+ */
+export const MAX_READ_BYTES = 256 * 1024;
+
+/**
+ * Maximum bytes accepted by `writeText` / `edit`. Sized below the
+ * `express.json({ limit: '10mb' })` middleware cap so a request
+ * body that survives the parser also survives the policy gate.
+ * Halving the parser cap leaves headroom for JSON envelope
+ * overhead (path, encoding hints, etc.).
+ */
+export const MAX_WRITE_BYTES = 5 * 1024 * 1024;
+
+/**
+ * Sample size used for content-based binary detection. Aligned with
+ * `isBinaryFile` from `packages/core/src/utils/fileUtils.ts:414` so
+ * the boundary and the existing tool layer agree on what counts as
+ * "binary".
+ */
+export const BINARY_PROBE_BYTES = 4096;
+
+/**
+ * Result of an ignore-rule check against a resolved path. The
+ * `category` field exists so audit events can distinguish
+ * file-pattern vs directory-pattern matches without exposing the
+ * `Ignore` class's private state.
+ */
+export interface IgnoreVerdict {
+  ignored: boolean;
+  category?: 'file' | 'directory';
+}
+
+/**
+ * Check whether `absolute` is matched by the workspace's ignore
+ * rules. The check is computed against the workspace-relative
+ * form of the path, matching the convention of `.gitignore` /
+ * `.qwenignore` patterns.
+ *
+ * Returns `{ ignored: false }` when:
+ *   - the path equals `boundWorkspace` (the workspace root itself
+ *     can never be ignored),
+ *   - the relative path escapes the workspace (caller's bug; the
+ *     boundary check should have rejected first),
+ *   - neither the file nor directory filter matches.
+ *
+ * The `kind` parameter tells the function whether the resolved
+ * path is a regular file or a directory. This avoids an extra
+ * `stat` call (the orchestrator already has the dirent info from
+ * its `list`/`stat` step) and lets us check directory patterns
+ * with the trailing slash the underlying `ignore` library expects
+ * for `foo/`-style entries.
+ */
+export function shouldIgnore(
+  absolute: ResolvedPath,
+  boundWorkspace: string,
+  ignore: Ignore,
+  kind: 'file' | 'directory' = 'file',
+): IgnoreVerdict {
+  const rel = path.relative(boundWorkspace, absolute as string);
+  if (rel === '' || rel.startsWith('..')) return { ignored: false };
+  const fileFilter = ignore.getFileFilter();
+  const dirFilter = ignore.getDirectoryFilter();
+  if (kind === 'directory') {
+    // `foo/` patterns require the trailing slash; `node_modules`-style
+    // patterns (no slash, no extension) are added to both ignorers by
+    // `Ignore.add`, so the slash-suffixed probe still hits them.
+    const withSlash = rel.endsWith('/') ? rel : `${rel}/`;
+    if (dirFilter(withSlash)) return { ignored: true, category: 'directory' };
+    if (fileFilter(rel)) return { ignored: true, category: 'file' };
+    return { ignored: false };
+  }
+  if (fileFilter(rel)) return { ignored: true, category: 'file' };
+  if (dirFilter(rel)) return { ignored: true, category: 'directory' };
+  return { ignored: false };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Apply the trust gate to an intent. Read-shaped intents (`read`,
+ * `list`, `glob`, `stat`) always pass — remote clients debugging
+ * an untrusted workspace still need to inspect state. Mutating
+ * intents (`write`, `edit`) on an untrusted workspace throw
+ * `untrusted_workspace`, which routes surface as 403.
+ *
+ * Trust is captured at factory build (a snapshot of
+ * `Config.isTrustedFolder()`); the orchestrator does not consult
+ * Config per-request, so an IDE that flips trust mid-request
+ * cannot split-brain a session.
+ *
+ * The body is an exhaustive `switch` so adding a new variant to
+ * `Intent` (e.g. a future `'delete'`) becomes a TypeScript error
+ * here — the gate must explicitly classify every intent rather
+ * than silently defaulting to "allowed".
+ */
+export function assertTrustedForIntent(trusted: boolean, intent: Intent): void {
+  if (trusted) return;
+  switch (intent) {
+    case 'read':
+    case 'list':
+    case 'glob':
+    case 'stat':
+      return;
+    case 'write':
+    case 'edit':
+      throw new FsError(
+        'untrusted_workspace',
+        `workspace is not trusted; ${intent} operations are forbidden`,
+        {
+          hint: 'mark the folder as trusted in the daemon configuration to allow writes',
+        },
+      );
+    default: {
+      const _exhaustive: never = intent;
+      throw new FsError(
+        'untrusted_workspace',
+        `workspace is not trusted; intent "${String(_exhaustive)}" is not classified`,
+        {
+          hint: 'unknown intent reached the trust gate; classify it in policy.ts',
+        },
+      );
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/** Outcome of a read-size enforcement check. */
+export interface ReadSizeOutcome {
+  /** Number of bytes the caller should read. */
+  bytesToRead: number;
+  /** True iff the file is larger than the cap and content was truncated. */
+  truncated: boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Decide how many bytes a `readText` call should pull off disk
+ * given the file's actual size. Reads above the cap surface
+ * `truncated: true`; the boundary intentionally does NOT throw,
+ * matching claude-code's behavior so a large config file still
+ * returns useful content rather than an opaque error.
+ */
+export function enforceReadSize(
+  fileBytes: number,
+  maxBytes: number = MAX_READ_BYTES,
+): ReadSizeOutcome {
+  if (fileBytes <= maxBytes) {
+    return { bytesToRead: fileBytes, truncated: false };
+  }
+  return { bytesToRead: maxBytes, truncated: true };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Throw `file_too_large` if `bytes` exceeds the write cap. Used by
+ * `writeText` and `edit`, which (unlike text reads) cannot silently
+ * truncate without corrupting the file.
+ */
+export function enforceWriteSize(
+  bytes: number,
+  maxBytes: number = MAX_WRITE_BYTES,
+): void {
+  if (bytes > maxBytes) {
+    throw new FsError(
+      'file_too_large',
+      `payload of ${bytes} bytes exceeds write limit of ${maxBytes} bytes`,
+      {
+        hint: 'split the write into smaller chunks or raise the daemon limit',
+      },
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Throw `file_too_large` if a read would exceed the cap and the
+ * caller cannot accept truncation (used by `readBytes`, where
+ * partial content is unsafe to return).
+ */
+export function enforceReadBytesSize(
+  fileBytes: number,
+  maxBytes: number = MAX_READ_BYTES,
+): void {
+  if (fileBytes > maxBytes) {
+    throw new FsError(
+      'file_too_large',
+      `file of ${fileBytes} bytes exceeds read limit of ${maxBytes} bytes`,
+      {
+        hint: 'use readText for capped truncation, or raise the daemon limit',
+      },
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Decide whether a path is binary using the existing core helper.
+ * Wrapping it here lets PR 18 callers keep a single `policy.ts`
+ * import surface and lets future tweaks (e.g. extension allow-list)
+ * land without touching the orchestrator.
+ */
+export async function detectBinary(filePath: ResolvedPath): Promise<boolean> {
+  return isBinaryFile(filePath as string);
+}

packages/cli/src/serve/fs/workspaceFileSystem.test.ts

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+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Qwen Team
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest';
+import { promises as fsp } from 'node:fs';
+import * as os from 'node:os';
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+import { randomBytes } from 'node:crypto';
+import { Ignore } from '@qwen-code/qwen-code-core';
+import {
+  FS_ACCESS_EVENT_TYPE,
+  FS_DENIED_EVENT_TYPE,
+  createWorkspaceFileSystemFactory,
+  type WorkspaceFileSystem,
+  type WorkspaceFileSystemFactory,
+} from './index.js';
+import type { BridgeEvent } from '../eventBus.js';
+import { canonicalizeWorkspace } from './paths.js';
+import { isFsError } from './errors.js';
+
+interface Harness {
+  factory: WorkspaceFileSystemFactory;
+  fs: WorkspaceFileSystem;
+  events: BridgeEvent[];
+  workspace: string;
+  scratch: string;
+}
+
+async function makeHarness(opts?: {
+  trusted?: boolean;
+  ignore?: Ignore;
+}): Promise<Harness> {
+  const scratch = await fsp.mkdtemp(
+    path.join(os.tmpdir(), `qwen-wfs-${randomBytes(4).toString('hex')}-`),
+  );
+  const wsDir = path.join(scratch, 'ws');
+  await fsp.mkdir(wsDir);
+  const workspace = canonicalizeWorkspace(wsDir);
+  const events: BridgeEvent[] = [];
+  const factory = createWorkspaceFileSystemFactory({
+    boundWorkspace: workspace,
+    trusted: opts?.trusted ?? true,
+    emit: (e) => events.push(e),
+    ignore: opts?.ignore,
+  });
+  const fs = factory.forRequest({
+    originatorClientId: 'client-x',
+    sessionId: 'sess-1',
+    route: 'TEST /op',
+  });
+  return { factory, fs, events, workspace, scratch };
+}
+
+async function teardown(h: Harness): Promise<void> {
+  await fsp.rm(h.scratch, { recursive: true, force: true });
+}
+
+describe('WorkspaceFileSystem - resolve and stat', () => {
+  let h: Harness;
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    h = await makeHarness();
+  });
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    await teardown(h);
+  });
+
+  it('resolves an existing path and emits no audit on resolve alone', async () => {
+    const target = path.join(h.workspace, 'a.txt');
+    await fsp.writeFile(target, 'x');
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('a.txt', 'read');
+    expect(r).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(
+      h.events.filter((e) => e.type === FS_ACCESS_EVENT_TYPE),
+    ).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
+  it('records fs.denied when resolve fails', async () => {
+    await expect(h.fs.resolve('../escape', 'read')).rejects.toBeDefined();
+    const denied = h.events.filter((e) => e.type === FS_DENIED_EVENT_TYPE);
+    expect(denied).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(denied[0].data).toMatchObject({
+      errorKind: 'path_outside_workspace',
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('stat returns kind/sizeBytes/modifiedMs and emits fs.access', async () => {
+    const target = path.join(h.workspace, 'b.txt');
+    await fsp.writeFile(target, 'hi');
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('b.txt', 'stat');
+    const st = await h.fs.stat(r);
+    expect(st.kind).toBe('file');
+    expect(st.sizeBytes).toBe(2);
+    expect(st.modifiedMs).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(h.events.find((e) => e.type === FS_ACCESS_EVENT_TYPE)).toBeDefined();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('WorkspaceFileSystem - readText', () => {
+  let h: Harness;
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    h = await makeHarness();
+  });
+  afterEach(async () => teardown(h));
+
+  it('reads small text and reports lineEnding', async () => {
+    const target = path.join(h.workspace, 'plain.txt');
+    await fsp.writeFile(target, 'hello\nworld\n');
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('plain.txt', 'read');
+    const out = await h.fs.readText(r);
+    expect(out.content).toBe('hello\nworld\n');
+    expect(out.meta.lineEnding).toBe('lf');
+    expect(out.meta.truncated).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('truncates content above maxBytes and sets meta.truncated', async () => {
+    const big = path.join(h.workspace, 'big.txt');
+    const content = 'a'.repeat(2048);
+    await fsp.writeFile(big, content);
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('big.txt', 'read');
+    const out = await h.fs.readText(r, { maxBytes: 1024 });
+    expect(out.meta.truncated).toBe(true);
+    expect(out.content.length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1024);
+  });
+
+  it('throws file_too_large when file exceeds MAX_READ_BYTES regardless of opts.maxBytes', async () => {
+    // Write a file larger than the soft cap and assert the boundary
+    // refuses BEFORE delegating to lowFs (which would slurp the
+    // whole file into memory).
+    const big = path.join(h.workspace, 'huge.txt');
+    const bytes = (await import('./policy.js')).MAX_READ_BYTES + 1;
+    await fsp.writeFile(big, 'a'.repeat(bytes));
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('huge.txt', 'read');
+    const err = await h.fs.readText(r).catch((e: unknown) => e);
+    expect(isFsError(err)).toBe(true);
+    expect((err as { kind: string }).kind).toBe('file_too_large');
+    // Audit was recorded for the denial (P0 silent-failure fix).
+    const denied = h.events.find((e) => e.type === FS_DENIED_EVENT_TYPE);
+    expect(denied).toBeDefined();
+    expect((denied!.data as { errorKind: string }).errorKind).toBe(
+      'file_too_large',
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('throws binary_file when reading binary content', async () => {
+    const bin = path.join(h.workspace, 'bin.dat');
+    const buf = Buffer.alloc(64);
+    buf[5] = 0;
+    await fsp.writeFile(bin, buf);
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('bin.dat', 'read');
+    const err = await h.fs.readText(r).catch((e) => e);
+    expect(isFsError(err)).toBe(true);
+    expect((err as { kind: string }).kind).toBe('binary_file');
+    expect(h.events.find((e) => e.type === FS_DENIED_EVENT_TYPE)).toBeDefined();
+  });
+
+  it('annotates meta.matchedIgnore when path is ignored', async () => {
+    const ignore = new Ignore().add(['*.log']);
+    h = await makeHarness({ ignore });
+    const target = path.join(h.workspace, 'app.log');
+    await fsp.writeFile(target, 'log content');
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('app.log', 'read');
+    const out = await h.fs.readText(r);
+    expect(out.meta.matchedIgnore).toBe('file');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('WorkspaceFileSystem - readBytes', () => {
+  let h: Harness;
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    h = await makeHarness();
+  });
+  afterEach(async () => teardown(h));
+
+  it('returns raw bytes', async () => {
+    const target = path.join(h.workspace, 'raw.bin');
+    await fsp.writeFile(target, Buffer.from([1, 2, 3, 0, 4, 5]));
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('raw.bin', 'read');
+    const buf = await h.fs.readBytes(r);
+    expect(Array.from(buf)).toEqual([1, 2, 3, 0, 4, 5]);
+  });
+
+  it('throws file_too_large above the cap', async () => {
+    const target = path.join(h.workspace, 'huge.bin');
+    await fsp.writeFile(target, Buffer.alloc(2048));
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('huge.bin', 'read');
+    const err = await h.fs.readBytes(r, { maxBytes: 1024 }).catch((e) => e);
+    expect(isFsError(err)).toBe(true);
+    expect((err as { kind: string }).kind).toBe('file_too_large');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('WorkspaceFileSystem - list', () => {
+  let h: Harness;
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    const ignore = new Ignore().add(['*.log']);
+    h = await makeHarness({ ignore });
+    await fsp.writeFile(path.join(h.workspace, 'a.ts'), '');
+    await fsp.writeFile(path.join(h.workspace, 'b.log'), '');
+    await fsp.mkdir(path.join(h.workspace, 'sub'));
+  });
+  afterEach(async () => teardown(h));
+
+  it('drops ignored entries by default', async () => {
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('.', 'list');
+    const entries = await h.fs.list(r);
+    const names = entries.map((e) => e.name).sort();
+    expect(names).toEqual(['a.ts', 'sub']);
+  });
+
+  it('includes ignored entries when includeIgnored is true', async () => {
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('.', 'list');
+    const entries = await h.fs.list(r, { includeIgnored: true });
+    const log = entries.find((e) => e.name === 'b.log');
+    expect(log?.ignored).toBe(true);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('WorkspaceFileSystem - glob', () => {
+  let h: Harness;
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    h = await makeHarness();
+    await fsp.mkdir(path.join(h.workspace, 'src'));
+    await fsp.writeFile(path.join(h.workspace, 'src', 'a.ts'), '');
+    await fsp.writeFile(path.join(h.workspace, 'src', 'b.ts'), '');
+    await fsp.writeFile(path.join(h.workspace, 'README.md'), '');
+  });
+  afterEach(async () => teardown(h));
+
+  it('matches files by pattern', async () => {
+    const hits = await h.fs.glob('src/*.ts');
+    expect(hits.map((p) => path.basename(p)).sort()).toEqual(['a.ts', 'b.ts']);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects patterns containing `..`', async () => {
+    const err = await h.fs.glob('../**/*.ts').catch((e) => e);
+    expect(isFsError(err)).toBe(true);
+    expect((err as { kind: string }).kind).toBe('parse_error');
+  });
+
+  it('respects maxResults', async () => {
+    const hits = await h.fs.glob('**/*', { maxResults: 1 });
+    expect(hits).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+
+  it('filters ignored hits by default', async () => {
+    const ignore = new Ignore().add(['*.md']);
+    h = await makeHarness({ ignore });
+    await fsp.writeFile(path.join(h.workspace, 'README.md'), '');
+    await fsp.writeFile(path.join(h.workspace, 'src.ts'), '');
+    const hits = await h.fs.glob('*');
+    const names = hits.map((p) => path.basename(p)).sort();
+    expect(names).not.toContain('README.md');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('WorkspaceFileSystem - write/edit', () => {
+  let h: Harness;
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    h = await makeHarness();
+  });
+  afterEach(async () => teardown(h));
+
+  it('writes text and emits fs.access', async () => {
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('newfile.txt', 'write');
+    await h.fs.writeText(r, 'hello');
+    const written = await fsp.readFile(r as string, 'utf-8');
+    expect(written).toBe('hello');
+    const access = h.events.find(
+      (e) =>
+        e.type === FS_ACCESS_EVENT_TYPE &&
+        (e.data as { intent: string }).intent === 'write',
+    );
+    expect(access).toBeDefined();
+  });
+
+  it('rejects oversize writes with file_too_large', async () => {
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('huge.txt', 'write');
+    const err = await h.fs
+      .writeText(r, 'a'.repeat(6 * 1024 * 1024))
+      .catch((e) => e);
+    expect(isFsError(err)).toBe(true);
+    expect((err as { kind: string }).kind).toBe('file_too_large');
+  });
+
+  it('edits an existing file by replacing oldText with newText', async () => {
+    const target = path.join(h.workspace, 'config.txt');
+    await fsp.writeFile(target, 'foo=1\nbar=2\n');
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('config.txt', 'write');
+    const out = await h.fs.edit(r, 'foo=1', 'foo=42');
+    expect(out.writtenBytes).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    const after = await fsp.readFile(target, 'utf-8');
+    expect(after).toBe('foo=42\nbar=2\n');
+  });
+
+  it('throws parse_error when oldText is not present', async () => {
+    const target = path.join(h.workspace, 'c.txt');
+    await fsp.writeFile(target, 'abc');
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('c.txt', 'write');
+    const err = await h.fs.edit(r, 'NOT THERE', 'X').catch((e) => e);
+    expect(isFsError(err)).toBe(true);
+    expect((err as { kind: string }).kind).toBe('parse_error');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('WorkspaceFileSystem - trust gate', () => {
+  let h: Harness;
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    h = await makeHarness({ trusted: false });
+    await fsp.writeFile(path.join(h.workspace, 'r.txt'), 'r');
+  });
+  afterEach(async () => teardown(h));
+
+  it('allows read on untrusted workspace', async () => {
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('r.txt', 'read');
+    const out = await h.fs.readText(r);
+    expect(out.content).toBe('r');
+  });
+
+  it('denies write with untrusted_workspace', async () => {
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('w.txt', 'write');
+    const err = await h.fs.writeText(r, 'x').catch((e) => e);
+    expect(isFsError(err)).toBe(true);
+    expect((err as { kind: string }).kind).toBe('untrusted_workspace');
+    const denied = h.events.find((e) => e.type === FS_DENIED_EVENT_TYPE);
+    expect(denied).toBeDefined();
+  });
+
+  it('denies edit with untrusted_workspace', async () => {
+    await fsp.writeFile(path.join(h.workspace, 'e.txt'), 'old');
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('e.txt', 'edit');
+    const err = await h.fs.edit(r, 'old', 'new').catch((e) => e);
+    expect(isFsError(err)).toBe(true);
+    expect((err as { kind: string }).kind).toBe('untrusted_workspace');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('WorkspaceFileSystem - audit always emits on body errors', () => {
+  let h: Harness;
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    h = await makeHarness();
+  });
+  afterEach(async () => teardown(h));
+
+  it('wraps a raw ENOENT from edit() and emits fs.denied', async () => {
+    // edit() reads via fsp.readFile; against a non-existent file the
+    // raw ENOENT used to escape uncategorized — the wrapper now
+    // converts it to FsError(path_not_found) and records denial.
+    const r = await h.fs.resolve('vanished.txt', 'write');
+    const err = await h.fs.edit(r, 'a', 'b').catch((e: unknown) => e);
+    expect(isFsError(err)).toBe(true);
+    expect((err as { kind: string }).kind).toBe('path_not_found');
+    const denied = h.events.find((e) => e.type === FS_DENIED_EVENT_TYPE);
+    expect(denied).toBeDefined();
+    expect((denied!.data as { errorKind: string }).errorKind).toBe(
+      'path_not_found',
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('rejects ENOTDIR ancestor walk with parse_error rather than passing boundary', async () => {
+    // Place a regular file where the request expects a directory.
+    await fsp.writeFile(path.join(h.workspace, 'block'), 'not a dir');
+    const err = await h.fs
+      .resolve('block/leaf', 'write')
+      .catch((e: unknown) => e);
+    expect(isFsError(err)).toBe(true);
+    expect((err as { kind: string }).kind).toBe('parse_error');
+    const denied = h.events.find((e) => e.type === FS_DENIED_EVENT_TYPE);
+    expect(denied).toBeDefined();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('WorkspaceFileSystem - glob escape audit', () => {
+  let h: Harness;
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    h = await makeHarness();
+  });
+  afterEach(async () => teardown(h));
+
+  it('emits aggregated fs.denied for glob hits filtered as escape', async () => {
+    // Create an in-workspace file (legit hit) plus a symlink that
+    // resolves outside the workspace (filtered hit). The glob
+    // aggregation reports the escape count via a single denial
+    // event so audit volume stays bounded on misconfigured trees.
+    await fsp.writeFile(path.join(h.workspace, 'inside.ts'), 'x');
+    const outside = path.join(h.scratch, 'outside.ts');
+    await fsp.writeFile(outside, 'y');
+    await fsp.symlink(outside, path.join(h.workspace, 'leak.ts'), 'file');
+    const hits = await h.fs.glob('*.ts');
+    const names = hits.map((p) => path.basename(p)).sort();
+    expect(names).toContain('inside.ts');
+    expect(names).not.toContain('outside.ts');
+    const denied = h.events.find(
+      (e) =>
+        e.type === FS_DENIED_EVENT_TYPE &&
+        (e.data as { errorKind: string }).errorKind === 'symlink_escape',
+    );
+    expect(denied).toBeDefined();
+    expect((denied!.data as { hint?: string }).hint).toMatch(
+      /\d+ hit\(s\) that resolved outside workspace/,
+    );
+  });
+});
+
+describe('WorkspaceFileSystem - factory', () => {
+  it('canonicalizes the workspace once at factory build', async () => {
+    const scratch = await fsp.mkdtemp(
+      path.join(
+        os.tmpdir(),
+        `qwen-wfs-canon-${randomBytes(4).toString('hex')}-`,
+      ),
+    );
+    try {
+      const real = path.join(scratch, 'ws');
+      await fsp.mkdir(real);
+      const aliased = path.join(scratch, 'alias');
+      await fsp.symlink(real, aliased, 'dir');
+      const events: BridgeEvent[] = [];
+      const factory = createWorkspaceFileSystemFactory({
+        boundWorkspace: aliased,
+        trusted: true,
+        emit: (e) => events.push(e),
+      });
+      const fs = factory.forRequest({ route: 'TEST /op' });
+      await fsp.writeFile(path.join(real, 'inside.txt'), 'i');
+      const r = await fs.resolve('inside.txt', 'read');
+      const out = await fs.readText(r);
+      expect(out.content).toBe('i');
+    } finally {
+      await fsp.rm(scratch, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  });
+});

packages/cli/src/serve/fs/workspaceFileSystem.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,596 @@
+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Qwen Team
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import { promises as fsp } from 'node:fs';
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+import { glob as globAsync } from 'glob';
+import type {
+  Ignore,
+  StandardFileSystemService,
+  loadIgnoreRules,
+  type WriteTextFileOptions,
+} from '@qwen-code/qwen-code-core';
+import type { BridgeEvent } from '../eventBus.js';
+import {
+  type AuditContext,
+  type AuditPublisher,
+  createAuditPublisher,
+} from './audit.js';
+import { FsError, wrapAsFsError } from './errors.js';
+import {
+  canonicalizeWorkspace,
+  resolveWithinWorkspace,
+  type Intent,
+  type ResolvedPath,
+} from './paths.js';
+import {
+  MAX_READ_BYTES,
+  assertTrustedForIntent,
+  detectBinary,
+  enforceReadBytesSize,
+  enforceReadSize,
+  enforceWriteSize,
+  shouldIgnore,
+} from './policy.js';
+
+/**
+ * Stat snapshot returned by `WorkspaceFileSystem.stat`. We
+ * deliberately avoid passing through `fs.Stats` directly — the
+ * boundary should not leak Node-specific bigint quirks or
+ * platform-specific fields to PR 19/20 SDK consumers.
+ */
+export interface FsStat {
+  kind: 'file' | 'directory' | 'symlink' | 'other';
+  sizeBytes: number;
+  modifiedMs: number;
+}
+
+/** Directory listing entry from `WorkspaceFileSystem.list`. */
+export interface FsEntry {
+  name: string;
+  kind: 'file' | 'directory' | 'symlink' | 'other';
+  /** True iff the entry matched a `.gitignore`/`.qwenignore` rule. */
+  ignored: boolean;
+}
+
+/** Metadata side-channel returned alongside `readText` content. */
+export interface ReadMeta {
+  encoding?: string;
+  bom?: boolean;
+  lineEnding: 'crlf' | 'lf';
+  truncated?: boolean;
+  matchedIgnore?: 'file' | 'directory';
+  originalLineCount?: number;
+}
+
+export interface ReadTextOptions {
+  /** Cap returned bytes; defaults to MAX_READ_BYTES. */
+  maxBytes?: number;
+  /** 1-based starting line for partial reads. */
+  line?: number;
+  /** Maximum number of lines to return. */
+  limit?: number;
+}
+
+export interface ListOptions {
+  /** When true, ignored entries are returned with `ignored: true` rather than dropped. */
+  includeIgnored?: boolean;
+}
+
+export interface GlobOptions {
+  cwd?: ResolvedPath;
+  includeIgnored?: boolean;
+  maxResults?: number;
+}
+
+export interface WriteOutcome {
+  writtenBytes: number;
+}
+
+export interface RequestContext extends AuditContext {
+  /** Mostly redundant with `originatorClientId`; kept for forward-compat with future ACP fields. */
+  ownerSessionId?: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Public boundary type. PR 19/20 routes consume this via the
+ * factory's `forRequest(ctx)` so audit context is automatically
+ * threaded through every operation.
+ */
+export interface WorkspaceFileSystem {
+  resolve(input: string, intent: Intent): Promise<ResolvedPath>;
+  stat(p: ResolvedPath): Promise<FsStat>;
+  readText(
+    p: ResolvedPath,
+    opts?: ReadTextOptions,
+  ): Promise<{ content: string; meta: ReadMeta }>;
+  readBytes(p: ResolvedPath, opts?: { maxBytes?: number }): Promise<Buffer>;
+  list(p: ResolvedPath, opts?: ListOptions): Promise<FsEntry[]>;
+  glob(pattern: string, opts?: GlobOptions): Promise<ResolvedPath[]>;
+  writeText(
+    p: ResolvedPath,
+    content: string,
+    opts?: WriteTextFileOptions,
+  ): Promise<void>;
+  edit(
+    p: ResolvedPath,
+    oldText: string,
+    newText: string,
+  ): Promise<WriteOutcome>;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Per-process factory. Build once at `createServeApp` boot, call
+ * `forRequest` per HTTP route invocation.
+ */
+export interface WorkspaceFileSystemFactory {
+  forRequest(ctx: RequestContext): WorkspaceFileSystem;
+}
+
+export interface CreateWorkspaceFileSystemFactoryDeps {
+  /** Canonical workspace path; the daemon's `boundWorkspace`. */
+  boundWorkspace: string;
+  /** Snapshot of `Config.isTrustedFolder()` at boot. */
+  trusted: boolean;
+  /** Bridge-bound publisher into `EventBus.publish`. */
+  emit: (event: BridgeEvent) => void;
+  /**
+   * Override the default ignore loader. Tests pass a fixed `Ignore`
+   * to avoid filesystem coupling; production lets the factory build
+   * one per workspace via `loadIgnoreRules`.
+   */
+  ignore?: Ignore;
+  /** Override audit raw-path mode. Defaults to env `QWEN_AUDIT_RAW_PATHS=1`. */
+  includeRawPaths?: boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Build a `WorkspaceFileSystemFactory`. The factory itself is
+ * stateless across requests; per-request state (the audit context)
+ * lives on the bound `WorkspaceFileSystem` returned from `forRequest`.
+ */
+export function createWorkspaceFileSystemFactory(
+  deps: CreateWorkspaceFileSystemFactoryDeps,
+): WorkspaceFileSystemFactory {
+  const boundWorkspace = canonicalizeWorkspace(deps.boundWorkspace);
+  const ignore =
+    deps.ignore ??
+    loadIgnoreRules({
+      projectRoot: boundWorkspace,
+      useGitignore: true,
+      useQwenignore: true,
+      ignoreDirs: [],
+    });
+  const audit: AuditPublisher = createAuditPublisher({
+    emit: deps.emit,
+    boundWorkspace,
+    includeRawPaths: deps.includeRawPaths,
+  });
+  const lowFs = new StandardFileSystemService();
+
+  return {
+    forRequest(ctx) {
+      return new WorkspaceFileSystemImpl({
+        boundWorkspace,
+        trusted: deps.trusted,
+        ignore,
+        audit,
+        ctx,
+        lowFs,
+      });
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+interface ImplDeps {
+  boundWorkspace: string;
+  trusted: boolean;
+  ignore: Ignore;
+  audit: AuditPublisher;
+  ctx: RequestContext;
+  lowFs: StandardFileSystemService;
+}
+
+class WorkspaceFileSystemImpl implements WorkspaceFileSystem {
+  constructor(private readonly deps: ImplDeps) {}
+
+  async resolve(input: string, intent: Intent): Promise<ResolvedPath> {
+    try {
+      return await resolveWithinWorkspace(
+        input,
+        this.deps.boundWorkspace,
+        intent,
+      );
+    } catch (err) {
+      throw this.recordAndWrap(err, intent, input);
+    }
+  }
+
+  async stat(p: ResolvedPath): Promise<FsStat> {
+    const start = performance.now();
+    try {
+      assertTrustedForIntent(this.deps.trusted, 'stat');
+      const st = await fsp.lstat(p as string);
+      const out: FsStat = {
+        kind: kindFromStats(st),
+        sizeBytes: st.size,
+        modifiedMs: st.mtimeMs,
+      };
+      this.deps.audit.recordAccess(this.deps.ctx, {
+        intent: 'stat',
+        absolute: p,
+        durationMs: performance.now() - start,
+        sizeBytes: st.size,
+      });
+      return out;
+    } catch (err) {
+      throw this.recordAndWrap(err, 'stat', p as string);
+    }
+  }
+
+  async readText(
+    p: ResolvedPath,
+    opts: ReadTextOptions = {},
+  ): Promise<{ content: string; meta: ReadMeta }> {
+    const start = performance.now();
+    try {
+      assertTrustedForIntent(this.deps.trusted, 'read');
+      const st = await fsp.stat(p as string);
+      // Hard size gate before we delegate to lowFs.readTextFile —
+      // that helper's underlying `readFileWithLineAndLimit` slurps
+      // the whole file into memory before slicing lines, so an
+      // unbounded request against a 5 GB text file would OOM the
+      // daemon (or, on a healthy host, flood the SSE replay ring
+      // with a 5 GB string). `MAX_READ_BYTES` is the hard cap and
+      // is independent of the caller's `opts.maxBytes` (which is a
+      // *softer* post-read truncation target — the boundary still
+      // honors it via `enforceReadSize` below). A future streaming
+      // read path can lift this hard cap by reading only the first
+      // N bytes; for now files above the cap throw and the SDK
+      // consumer can fall back to `readBytes` with an explicit
+      // length window.
+      if (st.size > MAX_READ_BYTES) {
+        throw new FsError(
+          'file_too_large',
+          `file of ${st.size} bytes exceeds read cap of ${MAX_READ_BYTES} bytes`,
+          {
+            hint: 'use readBytes for explicit byte-windowed access on large files',
+          },
+        );
+      }
+      if (await detectBinary(p)) {
+        throw new FsError('binary_file', `binary file: ${p}`, {
+          hint: 'use readBytes for binary content',
+        });
+      }
+      const sizeOutcome = enforceReadSize(st.size, opts.maxBytes);
+      // Delegate encoding-aware read to the existing core service so
+      // BOM, CRLF, and iconv-supported codepages remain consistent
+      // with what the tools layer already does.
+      const result = await this.deps.lowFs.readTextFile({
+        path: p as string,
+        limit: opts.limit ?? Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY,
+        line: opts.line ?? 0,
+      });
+      const ignoreVerdict = shouldIgnore(
+        p,
+        this.deps.boundWorkspace,
+        this.deps.ignore,
+        'file',
+      );
+      const meta: ReadMeta = {
+        encoding: result._meta?.encoding,
+        bom: result._meta?.bom,
+        lineEnding: (result._meta?.lineEnding ?? 'lf') as 'crlf' | 'lf',
+        originalLineCount: result._meta?.originalLineCount,
+      };
+      let truncatedContent = result.content;
+      if (sizeOutcome.truncated) {
+        const buf = Buffer.from(result.content, 'utf-8');
+        if (buf.length > sizeOutcome.bytesToRead) {
+          truncatedContent = buf
+            .subarray(0, sizeOutcome.bytesToRead)
+            .toString('utf-8');
+        }
+        meta.truncated = true;
+      }
+      // Surface truncation whenever lowFs's own `limit` clipped the
+      // content too — without this the audit row + meta.truncated
+      // would silently disagree on whether the SDK consumer received
+      // the full file.
+      if (
+        opts.limit !== undefined &&
+        Number.isFinite(opts.limit) &&
+        result._meta?.originalLineCount !== undefined &&
+        result._meta.originalLineCount > opts.limit + (opts.line ?? 0)
+      ) {
+        meta.truncated = true;
+      }
+      if (ignoreVerdict.ignored) meta.matchedIgnore = ignoreVerdict.category;
+      this.deps.audit.recordAccess(this.deps.ctx, {
+        intent: 'read',
+        absolute: p,
+        durationMs: performance.now() - start,
+        sizeBytes: st.size,
+        truncated: meta.truncated,
+        matchedIgnore: meta.matchedIgnore,
+      });
+      return { content: truncatedContent, meta };
+    } catch (err) {
+      throw this.recordAndWrap(err, 'read', p as string);
+    }
+  }
+
+  async readBytes(
+    p: ResolvedPath,
+    opts: { maxBytes?: number } = {},
+  ): Promise<Buffer> {
+    const start = performance.now();
+    try {
+      assertTrustedForIntent(this.deps.trusted, 'read');
+      const st = await fsp.stat(p as string);
+      enforceReadBytesSize(st.size, opts.maxBytes);
+      const buf = await fsp.readFile(p as string);
+      this.deps.audit.recordAccess(this.deps.ctx, {
+        intent: 'read',
+        absolute: p,
+        durationMs: performance.now() - start,
+        sizeBytes: buf.length,
+      });
+      return buf;
+    } catch (err) {
+      throw this.recordAndWrap(err, 'read', p as string);
+    }
+  }
+
+  async list(p: ResolvedPath, opts: ListOptions = {}): Promise<FsEntry[]> {
+    const start = performance.now();
+    try {
+      assertTrustedForIntent(this.deps.trusted, 'list');
+      const dirents = await fsp.readdir(p as string, { withFileTypes: true });
+      const entries: FsEntry[] = [];
+      for (const d of dirents) {
+        // `path.join(p, d.name)` is a shallow extension of an
+        // already-canonical workspace path. Symlinked dirents are
+        // tagged as `kind: 'symlink'` rather than auto-followed —
+        // PR 19/20 callers that want the target's containment can
+        // call `resolve()` separately. Treating each child as
+        // implicitly-resolved here would be a brand-cast bypass.
+        const childAbs = path.join(p as string, d.name);
+        const kind = kindFromDirent(d);
+        const verdict = shouldIgnore(
+          childAbs as ResolvedPath,
+          this.deps.boundWorkspace,
+          this.deps.ignore,
+          kind === 'directory' ? 'directory' : 'file',
+        );
+        if (verdict.ignored && !opts.includeIgnored) continue;
+        entries.push({ name: d.name, kind, ignored: verdict.ignored });
+      }
+      this.deps.audit.recordAccess(this.deps.ctx, {
+        intent: 'list',
+        absolute: p,
+        durationMs: performance.now() - start,
+        sizeBytes: entries.length,
+      });
+      return entries;
+    } catch (err) {
+      throw this.recordAndWrap(err, 'list', p as string);
+    }
+  }
+
+  async glob(pattern: string, opts: GlobOptions = {}): Promise<ResolvedPath[]> {
+    const start = performance.now();
+    try {
+      assertTrustedForIntent(this.deps.trusted, 'glob');
+      // Reject `..` segments in the pattern outright. A pattern like
+      // `../../**/*.js` would otherwise let a caller search outside
+      // `cwd`. Boundary-checking each individual hit catches escapes
+      // too, but rejecting at the pattern level is cheaper and gives
+      // a clearer error.
+      if (pattern.split(/[\\/]/).some((seg) => seg === '..')) {
+        throw new FsError(
+          'parse_error',
+          `glob pattern may not contain '..' segments: ${pattern}`,
+        );
+      }
+      const cwd = (opts.cwd as string | undefined) ?? this.deps.boundWorkspace;
+      const matches = await globAsync(pattern, {
+        cwd,
+        nodir: false,
+        absolute: true,
+        dot: true,
+      });
+      const out: ResolvedPath[] = [];
+      const max = opts.maxResults ?? Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
+      let escapedCount = 0;
+      for (const hit of matches) {
+        if (out.length >= max) break;
+        const absolute = path.resolve(hit);
+        // Per-hit boundary check defends against a glob that
+        // matches a symlink whose target escapes the workspace.
+        // The literal path is in-workspace (the symlink itself
+        // sits there), but the realpath isn't — so we resolve
+        // each hit's symlink chain and compare the canonical to
+        // the canonical workspace root. Filtered hits are counted
+        // and reported via a single aggregated `fs.denied` after
+        // the loop so per-hit emit doesn't flood the bus when a
+        // misconfigured tree contains many escape symlinks.
+        let canonical: string;
+        try {
+          canonical = await fsp.realpath(absolute);
+        } catch {
+          // Dangling symlink or transient error: treat as escape
+          // so the hit isn't returned to the caller and the audit
+          // surfaces the count.
+          escapedCount += 1;
+          continue;
+        }
+        const rel = path.relative(this.deps.boundWorkspace, canonical);
+        if (rel.startsWith('..') || path.isAbsolute(rel)) {
+          escapedCount += 1;
+          continue;
+        }
+        const verdict = shouldIgnore(
+          canonical as ResolvedPath,
+          this.deps.boundWorkspace,
+          this.deps.ignore,
+          'file',
+        );
+        if (verdict.ignored && !opts.includeIgnored) continue;
+        out.push(canonical as ResolvedPath);
+      }
+      if (escapedCount > 0) {
+        this.deps.audit.recordDenied(this.deps.ctx, {
+          intent: 'glob',
+          input: pattern,
+          errorKind: 'symlink_escape',
+          hint: `glob filtered ${escapedCount} hit(s) that resolved outside workspace`,
+        });
+      }
+      this.deps.audit.recordAccess(this.deps.ctx, {
+        intent: 'glob',
+        absolute: cwd as ResolvedPath,
+        durationMs: performance.now() - start,
+        sizeBytes: out.length,
+      });
+      return out;
+    } catch (err) {
+      throw this.recordAndWrap(err, 'glob', pattern);
+    }
+  }
+
+  async writeText(
+    p: ResolvedPath,
+    content: string,
+    opts?: WriteTextFileOptions,
+  ): Promise<void> {
+    const start = performance.now();
+    try {
+      assertTrustedForIntent(this.deps.trusted, 'write');
+      const buf = Buffer.from(content, 'utf-8');
+      enforceWriteSize(buf.length);
+      await this.deps.lowFs.writeTextFile({
+        path: p as string,
+        content,
+        _meta: opts ? buildWriteMeta(opts) : undefined,
+      });
+      const verdict = shouldIgnore(
+        p,
+        this.deps.boundWorkspace,
+        this.deps.ignore,
+        'file',
+      );
+      this.deps.audit.recordAccess(this.deps.ctx, {
+        intent: 'write',
+        absolute: p,
+        durationMs: performance.now() - start,
+        sizeBytes: buf.length,
+        matchedIgnore: verdict.ignored ? verdict.category : undefined,
+      });
+    } catch (err) {
+      throw this.recordAndWrap(err, 'write', p as string);
+    }
+  }
+
+  async edit(
+    p: ResolvedPath,
+    oldText: string,
+    newText: string,
+  ): Promise<WriteOutcome> {
+    const start = performance.now();
+    try {
+      assertTrustedForIntent(this.deps.trusted, 'edit');
+      const current = await fsp.readFile(p as string, 'utf-8');
+      // Single replacement to preserve atomic write-once semantics.
+      // Multi-occurrence handling lives in PR 20's edit endpoint
+      // where the route can decide policy; the boundary stays
+      // mechanical.
+      const idx = current.indexOf(oldText);
+      if (idx === -1) {
+        throw new FsError('parse_error', `oldText not found in ${p}`, {
+          hint: 'edit() expects oldText to appear verbatim in the file',
+        });
+      }
+      const next =
+        current.slice(0, idx) + newText + current.slice(idx + oldText.length);
+      const buf = Buffer.from(next, 'utf-8');
+      enforceWriteSize(buf.length);
+      await this.deps.lowFs.writeTextFile({
+        path: p as string,
+        content: next,
+      });
+      this.deps.audit.recordAccess(this.deps.ctx, {
+        intent: 'edit',
+        absolute: p,
+        durationMs: performance.now() - start,
+        sizeBytes: buf.length,
+      });
+      return { writtenBytes: buf.length };
+    } catch (err) {
+      throw this.recordAndWrap(err, 'edit', p as string);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Coerce an arbitrary thrown value into an `FsError`, emit the
+   * matching `fs.denied` audit event, and return the typed error
+   * for the caller to rethrow. Body methods invoke this in their
+   * `catch` so:
+   *   - raw fs errnos (`EACCES`, `ENOTDIR`, …) get categorized
+   *     instead of escaping as opaque 5xx,
+   *   - the audit log records every failure (the prior helper
+   *     early-returned for non-`FsError`s and silently lost the
+   *     event), and
+   *   - PR 19/20 routes can still rely on `instanceof FsError`
+   *     for their `sendFsError` serializer.
+   */
+  private recordAndWrap(err: unknown, intent: Intent, input: string): FsError {
+    const fs = wrapAsFsError(err);
+    this.deps.audit.recordDenied(this.deps.ctx, {
+      intent,
+      input,
+      errorKind: fs.kind,
+      hint: fs.hint,
+    });
+    return fs;
+  }
+}
+
+function kindFromStats(st: {
+  isFile(): boolean;
+  isDirectory(): boolean;
+  isSymbolicLink(): boolean;
+}): FsStat['kind'] {
+  if (st.isSymbolicLink()) return 'symlink';
+  if (st.isDirectory()) return 'directory';
+  if (st.isFile()) return 'file';
+  return 'other';
+}
+
+function kindFromDirent(d: {
+  isFile(): boolean;
+  isDirectory(): boolean;
+  isSymbolicLink(): boolean;
+}): FsEntry['kind'] {
+  if (d.isSymbolicLink()) return 'symlink';
+  if (d.isDirectory()) return 'directory';
+  if (d.isFile()) return 'file';
+  return 'other';
+}
+
+function buildWriteMeta(
+  opts: WriteTextFileOptions,
+): Record<string, unknown> | undefined {
+  const meta: Record<string, unknown> = {};
+  if (opts.bom) meta['bom'] = true;
+  if (opts.encoding) meta['encoding'] = opts.encoding;
+  return Object.keys(meta).length > 0 ? meta : undefined;
+}
+
+// Re-export so PR 19/20 routes can access the orchestrator surface
+// from a single `serve/fs/index.js` import.
+export { MAX_READ_BYTES };

packages/cli/src/serve/httpAcpBridge.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 import { spawn, type ChildProcess } from 'node:child_process';
 import { randomUUID } from 'node:crypto';
-import { promises as fs, realpathSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { promises as fs } from 'node:fs';
 import * as path from 'node:path';
 import { Readable, Writable } from 'node:stream';
 import {
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import {
   ndJsonStream,
 } from '@agentclientprotocol/sdk';
 import { writeStderrLine } from '../utils/stdioHelpers.js';
+import { canonicalizeWorkspace } from './fs/paths.js';
 import {
   EventBus,
   DEFAULT_RING_SIZE,
@@ -3580,74 +3581,14 @@ function sliceLineRange(
 }
 
 /**
- * Canonicalize a workspace path so the boot-time bound path and every
- * request's `workspaceCwd` collapse to the same key. `path.resolve`
- * alone normalizes `..` and `.` segments and absolutizes, but on
- * case-insensitive filesystems (macOS APFS, Windows NTFS) `/Work/A`
- * and `/work/a` are the same directory yet `resolve` returns them
- * verbatim — without normalization the `boundWorkspace` check would
- * reject every request that spelled the path with different casing
- * and `sessionScope: 'single'` re-attach would silently degrade to
- * "one per spelling".
- *
- * `realpathSync.native` (when the path exists) walks symlinks and returns
- * the on-disk casing; this matches what `config.ts` / `settings.ts` /
- * `sandbox.ts` use for their own workspace resolution. When the path
- * doesn't exist (test fixtures, ahead-of-mkdir flows) we fall back to
- * the resolved-but-uncanonicalized form rather than throwing — the
- * downstream `spawn({cwd})` will fail with a useful ENOENT if the
- * workspace truly doesn't exist.
- *
- * NOTE: This is a **cross-module contract** (BX9_q) — `config.ts`,
- * `settings.ts`, `sandbox.ts`, and this file all need to canonicalize
- * the same way for the bound-workspace check + `sessionScope:
- * 'single'` re-attach to work correctly across paths. The contract:
- * use `realpathSync.native` on the resolved absolute path; fall back
- * to `path.resolve` only when the path doesn't exist yet. If a future
- * change breaks this alignment (e.g. one module starts lowercasing on
- * Windows but this one doesn't), the canonicalized request path
- * won't match the canonicalized bound path → every request returns
- * `workspace_mismatch` even though the human-readable paths look
- * equivalent. There's no test that pins the alignment; the
- * integration suite would catch a divergence only if it tested the
- * specific casing / symlink path the affected module changed.
- *
- * Stage 2 in-process (#3803 §10) collapses the bridge into core,
- * removing the bridge-side path resolution entirely. Stage 1.5
- * `@qwen-code/acp-bridge` lift (chiga0 finding 1) is the natural
- * place to extract a shared `canonicalizeWorkspace` primitive that
- * all four modules consume — the lowest-common-denominator
- * extraction is fine THERE because the package boundary forces the
- * call sites to converge. Until then, *any* change to how those
- * modules resolve workspace paths needs a matching change here.
+ * Re-export of the workspace canonicalizer for callers that historically
+ * imported it from `httpAcpBridge.ts`. The implementation was extracted
+ * to `./fs/paths.ts` in #4175 PR 18 (commit 1) so the forthcoming
+ * `WorkspaceFileSystem` boundary can reuse the same primitive without
+ * pulling in the 3.6k-line bridge module. See `./fs/paths.ts` for the
+ * cross-module contract that governs this function.
  */
-export function canonicalizeWorkspace(p: string): string {
-  const resolved = path.resolve(p);
-  try {
-    // FIXME(stage-2): switch to `fs.promises.realpath` once the
-    // bridge call sites become async-friendly. This sync syscall
-    // runs on the hot `spawnOrAttach` path and blocks the event
-    // loop for one filesystem stat per call. Single-user loopback
-    // (Stage 1's design target) doesn't notice; high-concurrency
-    // deployments will. Stage 2 in-process refactor removes the
-    // entire bridge-side path resolution anyway, but if Stage 2
-    // ever lands without that change, switch to the async version.
-    return realpathSync.native(resolved);
-  } catch (err) {
-    // Only fall back to path.resolve for ENOENT (path doesn't exist
-    // yet). Other filesystem errors (EACCES, EIO, ELOOP) should
-    // propagate — swallowing them would hide transient I/O failures
-    // behind misleading workspace_mismatch rejections.
-    if (
-      err &&
-      typeof err === 'object' &&
-      (err as { code?: unknown }).code === 'ENOENT'
-    ) {
-      return resolved;
-    }
-    throw err;
-  }
-}
+export { canonicalizeWorkspace };
 
 /**
  * Race `p` against a timeout. The timeout REJECTS the returned

packages/cli/src/serve/server.test.ts

@@ -3282,3 +3282,86 @@ describe('runQwenServe SIGINT handler', () => {
     void vi.fn(); // silence unused-import lint if vitest tree-shakes
   });
 });
+
+describe('createServeApp ServeAppDeps.fsFactory wiring (#4175 PR 18)', () => {
+  it('parks a default WorkspaceFileSystemFactory on app.locals when none is injected', async () => {
+    const { createServeApp } = await import('./server.js');
+    const app = createServeApp(
+      {
+        port: 0,
+        hostname: '127.0.0.1',
+        workspace: '/work/bound',
+      } as Parameters<typeof createServeApp>[0],
+      () => 0,
+    );
+    const fsFactory = (
+      app.locals as {
+        fsFactory?: { forRequest: (ctx: { route: string }) => unknown };
+      }
+    ).fsFactory;
+    expect(fsFactory).toBeDefined();
+    expect(typeof fsFactory!.forRequest).toBe('function');
+    // The factory is functional — it can build a per-request boundary.
+    const fs = fsFactory!.forRequest({ route: 'TEST /op' });
+    expect(fs).toBeDefined();
+  });
+
+  it('uses the injected fsFactory verbatim when supplied', async () => {
+    const { createServeApp } = await import('./server.js');
+    const sentinel = { forRequest: vi.fn(() => ({ marker: 'injected' })) };
+    const app = createServeApp(
+      {
+        port: 0,
+        hostname: '127.0.0.1',
+        workspace: '/work/bound',
+      } as Parameters<typeof createServeApp>[0],
+      () => 0,
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+      { fsFactory: sentinel as any },
+    );
+    expect((app.locals as { fsFactory?: unknown }).fsFactory).toBe(sentinel);
+  });
+
+  it('default fsFactory is built with trusted=false (writes refused)', async () => {
+    const { createServeApp } = await import('./server.js');
+    const { isFsError } = await import('./fs/index.js');
+    const os = await import('node:os');
+    const tmp = await import('node:fs').then((m) =>
+      m.promises.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'qwen-serve-default-trust-')),
+    );
+    try {
+      const app = createServeApp(
+        {
+          port: 0,
+          hostname: '127.0.0.1',
+          workspace: tmp,
+        } as Parameters<typeof createServeApp>[0],
+        () => 0,
+      );
+      type FsCtx = { route: string };
+      type WfsLite = {
+        resolve: (input: string, intent: 'write') => Promise<string>;
+        writeText: (p: string, content: string) => Promise<void>;
+      };
+      const fsFactory = (
+        app.locals as {
+          fsFactory?: { forRequest: (ctx: FsCtx) => WfsLite };
+        }
+      ).fsFactory;
+      expect(fsFactory).toBeDefined();
+      const fs = fsFactory!.forRequest({ route: 'TEST /op' });
+      // Resolve a write target inside the workspace; the resolve
+      // succeeds but writeText must throw `untrusted_workspace` —
+      // that's the safe-default behavior the strict-default factory
+      // exists to enforce.
+      const resolved = await fs.resolve('child.txt', 'write');
+      const err = await fs.writeText(resolved, 'x').catch((e: unknown) => e);
+      expect(isFsError(err)).toBe(true);
+      expect((err as { kind: string }).kind).toBe('untrusted_workspace');
+    } finally {
+      await import('node:fs').then((m) =>
+        m.promises.rm(tmp, { recursive: true, force: true }),
+      );
+    }
+  });
+});

packages/cli/src/serve/server.ts

@@ -39,6 +39,32 @@ import {
   type CapabilitiesEnvelope,
   type ServeOptions,
 } from './types.js';
+import {
+  createWorkspaceFileSystemFactory,
+  type WorkspaceFileSystemFactory,
+} from './fs/index.js';
+
+/**
+ * Build a no-op fs-audit emitter that logs a single warning the
+ * first time it's invoked. The default factory uses this so a
+ * regression that silently strips audit events shows up in
+ * operator logs instead of disappearing — `() => {}` is the
+ * "obvious" no-op but offers no failure signal. PR 19/20's
+ * `runQwenServe` injection replaces this with a real per-session
+ * emit, so legitimate production traffic never hits the warning.
+ */
+function createDefaultFsAuditEmit(): (event: BridgeEvent) => void {
+  let warned = false;
+  return (event: BridgeEvent) => {
+    if (!warned) {
+      warned = true;
+      writeStderrLine(
+        `qwen serve: fs audit emit is the default no-op (event ${event.type} dropped). ` +
+          `Inject deps.fsFactory in createServeApp to wire audit into the EventBus.`,
+      );
+    }
+  };
+}
 
 export interface ServeAppDeps {
   /** Bridge instance; tests inject a fake. Defaults to a fresh real one. */
@@ -56,6 +82,18 @@ export interface ServeAppDeps {
    * process.cwd()` itself.
    */
   boundWorkspace?: string;
+  /**
+   * Workspace filesystem boundary factory (#4175 PR 18). When
+   * supplied, PR 19/20 routes will pull a per-request
+   * `WorkspaceFileSystem` off it; when omitted, `createServeApp`
+   * builds a permissive default (trusted=true, no-op audit emit).
+   * No PR 18 routes consume the factory yet — the slot is wired so
+   * PR 19 read-only file routes can drop in without re-shaping
+   * `ServeAppDeps`. Once PR 19 lands, `runQwenServe` will inject a
+   * factory whose `trusted` flag mirrors `Config.isTrustedFolder()`
+   * and whose `emit` plumbs into the per-session EventBus.
+   */
+  fsFactory?: WorkspaceFileSystemFactory;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -150,6 +188,33 @@ export function createServeApp(
       boundWorkspace,
     });
 
+  // Strict-default factory: `trusted: false` so an upstream refactor
+  // that forgets to inject `deps.fsFactory` never silently allows
+  // writes against an untrusted workspace. Read-shaped intents still
+  // succeed (so tests / direct embeds can exercise the read path
+  // without a config), but every mutating intent throws
+  // `untrusted_workspace`. The default `emit` is a no-op that warns
+  // once on first call so a future regression that silently swallows
+  // audit events surfaces in operator logs the first time it bites.
+  // Callers passing `deps.fsFactory` get full control of trust +
+  // audit destination — `runQwenServe` will inject one whose
+  // `trusted` mirrors `Config.isTrustedFolder()` and whose `emit`
+  // plumbs into the per-session EventBus once PR 19/20 lands.
+  const fsFactory: WorkspaceFileSystemFactory =
+    deps.fsFactory ??
+    createWorkspaceFileSystemFactory({
+      boundWorkspace,
+      trusted: false,
+      emit: createDefaultFsAuditEmit(),
+    });
+  // Park the factory on `app.locals` so PR 19/20 route handlers can
+  // pick it up via `req.app.locals.fsFactory` without re-threading
+  // the value through every handler signature, and so PR 18 tests
+  // can assert the factory is reachable. Express types `locals` as
+  // a generic record; we cast to keep a precise property name.
+  (app.locals as { fsFactory?: WorkspaceFileSystemFactory }).fsFactory =
+    fsFactory;
+
   // Order matters: rejection guards (CORS / Host allowlist / bearer auth)
   // run BEFORE the JSON body parser. Otherwise an unauthenticated POST
   // gets a full 10MB `JSON.parse` before the 401 fires — a trivially

packages/core/src/index.ts

@@ -279,6 +279,11 @@ export * from './utils/errorParsing.js';
 export * from './utils/errors.js';
 export * from './utils/fileUtils.js';
 export * from './utils/filesearch/fileSearch.js';
+export {
+  Ignore,
+  loadIgnoreRules,
+  type LoadIgnoreRulesOptions,
+} from './utils/filesearch/ignore.js';
 export * from './utils/formatters.js';
 export * from './utils/generateContentResponseUtilities.js';
 export * from './utils/getFolderStructure.js';