config-audit/scanners/lib/require-target-dir.mjs
Kjell Tore Guttormsen c76dc537ce fix(scanners): a target path that does not exist is an error, not a grade
Surfaced by the router dogfood: quoting the placeholder stopped the shell from
swallowing it, which moved the failure down into the CLIs — and revealed that
most of them never check the target at all. Measured:

  node scanners/posture.mjs /nonexistent/path/xyz --output-file …
  exit 0
  Health: B (86/100) — Good shape — a few items to address

Nothing in that output distinguishes it from a real audit: well-formed
envelope, all 10 areas present, 16 opportunities reported. A typo'd path did
not fail — it flattered.

Exit 3 is the right code by the plugin's own contract: 0/1/2 are PASS/WARNING/
FAIL about a configuration that WAS examined, and every command template gates
on exactly that distinction, so a bad path flowed through the whole workflow as
a clean result.

This was a consistency gap, not a design question. Measured across the nine
target-taking CLIs, four already did it right with the same message and the
same exit code (manifest, token-hotspots-cli, whats-active, optimize-lens-cli);
five did not (scan-orchestrator and drift-cli exit 1, posture,
plugin-health-scanner and fix-cli exit 0). The five now share
lib/require-target-dir.mjs, which carries that exact behaviour. The four with
inline copies are left alone — consolidating them is a cleanup, not part of
this fix.

The guard is asserted over ALL nine CLIs, so a new one cannot join the wrong
half, and a third case is covered: a target that exists but is a regular file.
A valid target — including an empty directory — is explicitly unaffected.

Suite 1483 -> 1486, frozen v5.0.0 snapshots untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDAwy1ZXRpZxht1wyCeSbF
2026-08-09 21:18:18 +02:00

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/**
* Target-path precondition shared by the target-taking CLIs.
*
* A scan target is a scan ROOT. If it does not exist, or is not a directory,
* the scanner cannot do its job — and by the plugin's exit-code contract that
* is exit 3, not a verdict. Codes 0/1/2 are PASS/WARNING/FAIL *about a
* configuration that was examined*; every command template gates on exactly
* that distinction, so returning a verdict for an unreadable target sends a
* typo'd path through the whole workflow as a clean result.
*
* Measured before this guard existed (session #56):
* node scanners/posture.mjs /nonexistent/path/xyz → exit 0,
* "Health: B (86/100) — Good shape — a few items to address"
*
* The message and exit code here are not new: `manifest.mjs`,
* `token-hotspots-cli.mjs`, `whats-active.mjs` and `optimize-lens-cli.mjs`
* already carried this exact block inline. This module is where the CLIs that
* lacked it get it from; the four that have their own copies are left alone
* (consolidating them is a cleanup, not part of this fix).
*/
import { stat } from 'node:fs/promises';
/**
* Verify that `absPath` is an existing directory.
*
* Writes the diagnostic to stderr itself, so callers stay a two-line guard:
*
* if (!(await requireTargetDir(resolvedPath))) { process.exitCode = 3; return; }
*
* Never throws, and never calls `process.exit()` — an abrupt exit discards
* unflushed stdout when the CLI is on a pipe.
*
* @param {string} absPath - Resolved absolute target path.
* @returns {Promise<boolean>} true when the target is usable as a scan root.
*/
export async function requireTargetDir(absPath) {
try {
const s = await stat(absPath);
if (!s.isDirectory()) {
process.stderr.write(`Error: ${absPath} is not a directory\n`);
return false;
}
return true;
} catch {
process.stderr.write(`Error: path does not exist: ${absPath}\n`);
return false;
}
}