fix(whoami): name the .env file a token came from, not just the variable - #3741
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`whoami` reported `(via VERYFRONT_API_TOKEN)` for a token loaded out of a `.env`
in the working directory, while that variable was genuinely unset in the
developer's shell:
$ printenv VERYFRONT_API_TOKEN # unset
$ veryfront whoami
✓ Authenticated with an API key
(via VERYFRONT_API_TOKEN)
So identity is directory-dependent — the same shell reports an API key inside a
repo carrying a `.env` and the stored login one directory over — and the message
points at something the developer can see is empty. Anyone asking "why am I the
wrong user" checks their environment, finds nothing, and is stuck.
That ambiguity is not cosmetic: `veryfront project delete` infers its target
"from env/config", so which project a destructive command resolves depends on
where it was run from.
`getEnvSource()` already distinguishes an env-file value from a process one and
records the path, so this just uses it:
(via VERYFRONT_API_TOKEN from .env)
The path is cwd-relative — AGENTS.md forbids local absolute paths in
user-facing output — and a file outside the working directory degrades to its
name rather than exposing the layout above it. The stored-login branch and the
JSON envelope are unchanged.
Two tests: the env-file case (fails before this change), and a control asserting
a real environment variable still reports no file, so the message cannot start
inventing paths. Both assert the token itself never appears in output.
Found while dogfooding the deploy journey against published v0.1.1237.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe CLI now reports the source of environment-provided API tokens. It identifies ChangesAPI token source reporting
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The PR already distinguishes API tokens loaded from env files, but the CLI path should consume public framework aliases and the filename fallback should be path-flavor aware. This keeps the human output compatible with the project import boundary while preserving the JSON contract and token redaction behavior.
Constraint: CLI code must use public veryfront/* framework imports.
Rejected: Keep split("/") fallback | leaks Windows-style absolute paths when an env file is outside cwd.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Directive: Keep whoami JSON unchanged unless consumers are migrated with schema coverage.
Tested: deno fmt --check cli/auth/login.ts cli/auth/login.test.ts
Tested: deno lint cli/auth/login.ts cli/auth/login.test.ts
Tested: deno check --config deno.json cli/main.ts cli/auth/login.ts cli/auth/login.test.ts
Tested: deno test --preload=src/testing/preload.ts --no-check --allow-all cli/auth/login.test.ts
Not-tested: Repository-wide lint/typecheck/full test remain blocked by unrelated existing failures captured in the PR audit notes.
The nested-path prefix keyed off a leading ".", which matches a dot-*directory* as well as "./". A `.config/.env` was therefore the only nested path printed without the "./" prefix. Testing for a separator instead keeps a bare `.env` bare and prefixes everything nested. The existing env-file case loads its `.env` from a temp directory outside the working directory, so it takes the bare-name branch and renders ".env" either way — it cannot tell a relative path from a leaked absolute one, which is why this was invisible. Adds a case with the file under the working directory, asserting the relative form and the absence of the absolute one. It fails on the previous condition. The fixture moves the working directory through `withCwd` rather than writing into the repository: an earlier attempt created the directory in the repo root and took the full suite from green to five failures, including the cwd exclusion guards that exist to catch exactly that. The temp path is resolved with `realPath` first, because a macOS temp directory is reached through /var, a symlink to /private/var, and `cwd()` reports the resolved form.
Review — the change is right; two defects in the path rendering, one still open when I startedThe diagnosis is solid, and the reproduction note is the most useful part of the description:
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| file | before | after |
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<cwd>/.env |
.env |
.env |
<cwd>/sub/.env |
./sub/.env |
./sub/.env |
<cwd>/.config/.env |
.config/.env |
./.config/.env |
| outside cwd | .env |
.env |
Why neither defect showed up: the test only exercises the fallback
envDir is a makeTempDir() outside the working directory, so relative() returns a .. path and the code takes the bare-name branch. That renders .env — the same string the cwd case renders — so assertStringIncludes(printed, ".env") cannot distinguish a relative path from a leaked absolute one, and the headline behaviour ("the path is cwd-relative") had no coverage at all.
Added a case with the file under the working directory. It fails on the previous condition, which is how the dot-directory defect surfaced.
Two things worth recording about that test, both of which bit me:
- My first version created the fixture inside the repository working directory. The focused file passed; the full suite went from green to five failures, including the cwd-exclusion guards that exist to catch exactly this. It now moves the working directory with
withCwd, which serializes against every other caller and restores the root even on throw. - The temp path needs
realPathfirst. A macOS temp directory is reached through/var, a symlink to/private/var, andDeno.cwd()reports the resolved form — comparing the unresolved path made the fixture look like it sat outside cwd, so the assertion quietly went back to exercising the bare-name branch it was written to avoid.
Confirmed good, not changed
whoamiJSON envelope untouched, so the existing deep-equal assertion still holds.- The stored-login branch untouched.
- The control test genuinely proves a process variable reports no file.
- Both tests assert the token never appears in output.
Tests: 29 steps green; deno fmt, deno lint, deno check clean; full pre-push suite green.
On #3742
Same two files, so I checked for a collision rather than assuming one: they auto-merge cleanly, and the merged result passes and typechecks. Neither needs a rebase against the other.
A later audit commit added the nested env-file regression case and clarified the path-formatting branch. The behavior is correct, but the new explanatory comments used em dashes, which this repo avoids in edited copy. Constraint: New edits should stay ASCII unless the file already requires otherwise. Confidence: high Scope-risk: narrow Tested: deno fmt --check cli/auth/login.ts cli/auth/login.test.ts Tested: deno lint cli/auth/login.ts cli/auth/login.test.ts Tested: deno check --config deno.json cli/main.ts cli/auth/login.ts cli/auth/login.test.ts Tested: deno test --preload=src/testing/preload.ts --no-check --allow-all cli/auth/login.test.ts
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Windows path relativity can return an absolute drive path when the source .env file is on a different drive from the current working directory. Treat that result as outside the working directory and degrade to the .env basename, preserving the existing rule that user-facing auth output must not expose machine paths. Constraint: AGENTS.md forbids local absolute paths in user-facing output Rejected: Print the drive-relative path with a ./ prefix | still exposes the drive and machine layout Confidence: high Scope-risk: narrow Directive: Keep env source formatting conservative when path containment is ambiguous Tested: deno test --preload=src/testing/preload.ts --no-check --allow-all cli/auth/login.test.ts Tested: deno fmt --check cli/auth/login.ts cli/auth/login.test.ts Tested: deno lint cli/auth/login.ts cli/auth/login.test.ts Tested: deno check --config deno.json cli/main.ts cli/auth/login.ts cli/auth/login.test.ts
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In `@cli/auth/login.ts`:
- Around line 32-34: Update describeApiTokenSource and its callers to accept the
validated token, and report an env-file source only when the current
VERYFRONT_API_TOKEN value matches that token; otherwise retain the existing
non-env-file description. Ensure reportCredential/whoami pass the supplied
credential through, and add coverage for a loaded .env token differing from
injected env.apiToken.
- Around line 44-49: Update the path-display logic around relative and shown to
check isAbsolute(rel) and fall back to basename(origin.file) for absolute
cross-volume results, preserving existing handling for relative paths. Add a
Windows regression test covering origins on different volumes.
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The whoami path can validate an injected EnvironmentConfig token while the process environment still carries a different value loaded from .env. The source formatter now confirms the current VERYFRONT_API_TOKEN value matches the validated token before naming the .env file, avoiding false provenance in human output. Constraint: Source reporting must describe the credential actually validated Rejected: Trust env-loader source metadata alone | it is global process state and can describe a different token Confidence: high Scope-risk: narrow Directive: Pass credential identity into user-facing provenance helpers when global env state is involved Tested: deno test --preload=src/testing/preload.ts --no-check --allow-all cli/auth/login.test.ts Tested: deno fmt --check cli/auth/login.ts cli/auth/login.test.ts Tested: deno lint cli/auth/login.ts cli/auth/login.test.ts Tested: deno check --config deno.json cli/main.ts cli/auth/login.ts cli/auth/login.test.ts
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The cross-drive regression only needs to prove display formatting degrades to a basename. Exercising it through a synthetic drive-root fixture made cleanup dangerous on Windows and tied the test to machine drive layout, so the path rendering now has a small pure helper that the regression can call directly. Constraint: Review found bare D: cleanup can target drive-relative state on Windows Rejected: Keep filesystem fixture and remove envDir directly | still depends on a real alternate drive Confidence: high Scope-risk: narrow Tested: deno test --preload=src/testing/preload.ts --no-check --allow-all cli/auth/login.test.ts Tested: deno fmt --check cli/auth/login.ts cli/auth/login.test.ts Tested: deno lint cli/auth/login.ts cli/auth/login.test.ts Tested: deno check --config deno.json cli/main.ts cli/auth/login.ts cli/auth/login.test.ts
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Found while dogfooding the deploy journey against published v0.1.1237. Recorded as FINDING-007 in that run.
Problem
whoamireports(via VERYFRONT_API_TOKEN)for a token loaded out of a.envin the working directory, while that variable is genuinely unset in the developer's shell:Same shell, same CLI, same user. Identity depends on the working directory, and the message names a variable the developer can verify is empty. Anyone debugging "why am I the wrong user" checks their environment, finds nothing, and is stuck.
This is not only cosmetic.
veryfront project deleteinfers its target "from env/config", so which project a destructive command resolves against depends on where it was run from.Change
getEnvSource()already distinguishes an env-file value from a process one and records the path.whoamijust never asked it. Now:Verified against published 0.1.1238 in the same directory:
(via VERYFRONT_API_TOKEN)(via VERYFRONT_API_TOKEN from .env)The path is cwd-relative. AGENTS.md forbids local absolute paths in user-facing output, and a file outside the working directory degrades to its bare name rather than exposing the layout above it.
Unchanged: the stored-login branch and the JSON envelope. Adding a field there would break its existing deep-equal assertion, and the confusion is in the human output.
Tests
Both assert the token itself never appears in output.
Note on verification
My first reproduction attempt did not reproduce because it used a fake token.
reportCredentialvalidates against the API and falls through to the token store when the credential is rejected, so the env branch was never reached. The real symptom needs a valid token in a.env; the before/after above was captured that way.Summary by CodeRabbit
New features
Bug fixes