windows-cross died cloning busybox-w32 through a global gitclone.com
insteadOf (HTTP 502). Try ghfast/ghproxy/gitclone/github per repo instead
of forcing one proxy for every fetch.
gcc -O0 keeps unused cst_test_util.h helpers that need os_*; clang GC'd
them so only the gcc CMake step failed. Prefer ghfast/ghproxy.net for the
llvm-mingw tarball (gitclone 500 / github unreachable on the runner).
clang under strict C11 left strcasestr undeclared (returns int → pointer
truncation → SIGSEGV). Parse Content-Length portably; keep -Werror on
make check. Drop Nix for windows-cross (root /nix fails) and use pinned
llvm-mingw UCRT instead; Alpine musl gets linux-headers for audit.h.
test_subagent segfaulted in the Docker runner: the fake SSE handler took
user + strlen(user) - 1 with an empty user string. Guard JSON access and
format the child report with an empty-safe last character. Remove the
sanitizers job entirely (if: false still queued it and blocked the runner).
- Replace actions/checkout (pulls from github.com) with scripts/ci_checkout.sh
fetched from this Gitea over raw/commit.
- Remove the macOS job (no runner).
- Disable sanitizers until the Docker runner has SYS_PTRACE; it was wedging
the only slot with AddressSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL.
- Add windows-cross: Nix UCRT mingw via TUNA, bootstrap_windows.sh, verify
dist/cst-agent-*-windows-x86_64.zip. Third-party git clones go through
gitclone.com.
The sanitizers job wedged the only runner by printing AddressSanitizer
DEADLYSIGNAL forever (Docker without SYS_PTRACE). Concurrency now cancels
in-progress jobs on a new push, and make asan is wrapped in timeout -s KILL
480 with shallow ASAN_OPTIONS.
Also copy the path with memcpy after the length check so -O1 asan builds
do not warn about snprintf truncation into OS_PATH_MAX.
CI passes CFLAGS=-Werror on the command line; that wiped the library's
CFLAGS ?= ... -Iinclude -Isrc, so fsm.h could not find sashidown.h.
Always append the include paths via override CPPFLAGS.
Install was pulling bookworm packages from deb.debian.org; the domestic
Gitea runner crawls that for minutes. Rewrite sources to TUNA before
apt-get/apk, with CST_CI_MIRROR to override.
With Yama ptrace_scope=2 and no CAP_SYS_PTRACE, process_vm_readv and
/proc/<pid>/mem both fail, so sc_decide cannot read path strings and every
workspace write gets EACCES. The old probe only checked the USER_NOTIF
round trip, so CST_SANDBOX=seccomp and the forced-seccomp test pass looked
available and then failed on the first write.
sc_can_peek() forks a child, places a marker on its stack, and retries the
same sc_peek path. sc_probe() now needs that too, so those hosts fall back
to none (or keep landlock) instead of a silent deny-all sandbox.
os_temp_dir() used $TMPDIR or "/tmp" without checking either. On Termux
/tmp usually does not exist (or SELinux denies it) unless TMPDIR points at
$PREFIX/tmp, so plugin and MCP temp files failed and shell children that
need a temp file (heredocs) broke.
* os_temp_dir() picks, once, the first of $TMPDIR, $PREFIX/tmp, /tmp,
/var/tmp and ~/.cache/cst-agent/tmp where a file can really be
created; if none works it keeps the old answer
* os_temp_dir_export() at startup writes the choice back to TMPDIR, so
shell children and the sandbox's writable temp dir agree
* tests/test_tmpdir.c covers the fallbacks in fresh forks
Build
* cross build switches to pkgsCross.ucrt64 (shell-win.nix); curl (Schannel),
winpthreads and ncurses 6.6 are linked statically, so the release is
cst-agent.exe + busybox.exe (busybox-w32 Unicode) with no extra DLLs
* windres embeds a manifest with activeCodePage=UTF-8 and a version resource
* ncurses 6.6 Windows console driver patches (mouse button state, A_DIM,
wide-char declarations): scripts/patches/
* scripts/bootstrap_msys2.sh builds the same release natively in MSYS2
UCRT64; PR #1's MINGW64 notes now point there
* vendor/tre-regex (musl's TRE) provides <regex.h> on MinGW
UTF-8
* paths cross the system call boundary as UTF-16 (*W APIs); console code
pages set to 65001 and restored on exit; files are read and written in
binary mode
* child output that is not valid UTF-8 is decoded from the console, OEM or
ANSI system code page
* read_file hides CR; edit_file, apply_patch and write_file keep CRLF line
endings and a UTF-8 BOM
OS layer and processes
* os_dir_* and cst_fnmatch replace the POSIX-only directory walks in
subagent, plugins, skills, undo and fs_tools; realpath / path_under and
symlink rejection work on Windows
* every child goes through CreateProcessW with its own environment block
inside a Job Object, so timeouts and Esc end the whole process tree
Sandbox (auto mode, "auto · lowil")
* run_shell runs with a restricted Low integrity token; the workspace gets
an inheritable Low label once, the sandbox TEMP is labeled Low, and the
credentials file gets a no-read-up label
* drive roots, the profile and system folders are never labeled
* network commands still ask, since Low IL does not block the network;
Access denied and MSYS2's 0xc0000142 offer a rerun outside the sandbox
* /sandbox lists labeled folders, /sandbox reset-labels restores them
TUI
* raster console fonts are switched to Consolas / NSimSun while running
* the home logo falls back to text when the console font lacks U+2580
* mouse drag copy goes to the Windows clipboard
Distribution
* scripts/install_windows.ps1 installs a Gitea release into
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\cst-agent and adds it to the user PATH;
cst-agent-update.cmd reruns it; scripts/release_windows.sh uploads the
zip with the token taken from the environment
* scripts/run_windows.bat is gone; docs/README-windows.md is rewritten
Tests
* new test_lowil, test_win_utf8 and test_os_dir; tests made portable
(cst_test_util.h)
* scripts/win_test.sh and scripts/winvm/ run the suite on English and
Chinese Windows Server VMs as Administrator, a standard user and a
Chinese user name: 29/29 on all six
- Drag, double-click (word) and triple-click (line) selection in the log,
auto-scroll at the edges, soft-wrapped lines joined on copy.
- sashidown ANSI renderer: delimiter runs with flanking rules, so
intraword underscores (test_apply_patch.c) stay literal; unmatched
* _ and backticks are shown as-is; * and _ do not close each other.
- tests: test_textsel, test_markdown.
Query CSI ? u at startup and push the disambiguate flag on the alternate
screen when the terminal answers; CSI u reports are mapped back to legacy
input (Shift/Ctrl+Enter insert a newline, Ctrl+Backspace deletes a word).
Ctrl/Alt+Left/Right move by word, Ctrl/Alt+Delete delete the next word.
Our define_key codes move above the range ncurses uses for terminfo
extended keys.
- Child installs a seccomp filter with a listener; a supervisor thread
resolves the path of write-type syscalls (cwd, dirfd, .., symlinks,
/proc/self, /dev/stdout, both ends of rename/link) and answers
CONTINUE or EACCES; IPv4/IPv6 sockets are refused
- Probe order Landlock -> seccomp -> none, checked in a throwaway child;
CST_SANDBOX=landlock|seccomp|off
- curl connect failures count as sandbox refusals
- test_sandbox runs the detected sandbox and forced seccomp, with escape,
symlink, rename, link, chmod, stdout, ENOENT, background and network cases
- Docs: platform matrix, limits (not a security boundary, Yama and
background jobs)
- bootstrap_termux.sh installs pkg-config/binutils, builds with make,
runs the tests and installs into Termux's $PREFIX/bin.
- Makefile drops -lpthread on Android (pthreads are in bionic libc).
- TUI assumes UTF-8 on Android: nl_langinfo needs API 26, Termux
targets 24. All sources compile for aarch64-linux-android24 (NDK 27).
Tools
- Table-driven tool registry with permission classes and default/minimal
profiles; new tools: edit_file, list_dir, glob, grep, delete_file,
move_file, todo_write, web_fetch, ask_user (plus read_file paging).
- Built-in Myers diff; write tools return unified diffs.
- Persistent permission rules (.agent/permissions.json), per-turn undo
snapshots (.agent/undo), AGENTS.md project notes, auto-compact at 80%
of the model context, cancellable run_shell with process-group kill.
TUI
- Table-driven slash commands: /provider /key /effort /status /tools
/permissions /yolo /undo /retry /diff /export /copy /rename /delete
/init /max-steps /todo, with / and @ completion.
- Permission modal with diff and prefix rules, ask_user modal, todo
panel, header with model/effort/context, bracketed paste, line editing,
wide-char cursor, NO_COLOR and ASCII fallback; Esc never quits.
Startup and configuration
- API keys are entered in the TUI (hidden) and saved per provider in
<config>/credentials (0600); env variables are only a fallback.
- Last provider, per-provider model and reasoning effort are remembered
in <config>/settings.json; --effort/-e and /effort send
reasoning_effort (low|medium|high|max) to models that accept it.
- DeepSeek preset uses deepseek-flash / deepseek-v4-pro.
- Session flags --new/--continue/--resume/--list-sessions, --yolo,
--confirm.
Compatibility and tests
- ncurses detection, macOS/Homebrew support, make install, XDG config
dir, POSIX cleanups; Gitea CI (gcc/clang/asan/musl/macOS).
- Unit tests for diff, fs tools, registry, undo/perms and config;
e2e fixtures multi_file_refactor and ask_or_todo; vendored cJSON.