llm-security/scanners/lib/own-working-tree.mjs

// own-working-tree.mjs — Is a scan target the caller's own working tree?
// Zero external dependencies.
//
// Configuration that lives INSIDE a scanned target (.llm-security-ignore,
// .llm-security/policy.json and the custom SIG ruleset it can point at) is
// honored only when the target is the caller's own working directory (or a
// subdirectory of it in the same git working tree), and NEVER when the target resolves under the OS temp
// directory (where git-clone.mjs materializes clones) — the second check is
// defense-in-depth for the case a caller's own cwd sits under tmpdir.
// Otherwise a foreign/cloned target could configure the scan of itself.
//
// S3b (v8.1.0, 2026-09-22) introduced this check in scan-orchestrator.mjs for
// the ignore file; S3c moved it here so policy-loader.mjs shares the one rule.
//
// v8.1.1 narrowed "at or below cwd": the target must also have the SAME git
// root as cwd — the nearest ancestor holding a `.git` (a directory for a
// clone, a file for a submodule or worktree), or no git root for either. A
// clone under cwd (cwd = $HOME, or a vendor clone inside a project) is
// therefore foreign. No git subprocess: the walk only stats `.git`. The
// failure direction is safe — foreign means the target's config is ignored,
// so more findings, never fewer.
//
// v8.1.2 closed the gap for foreign code with NO `.git` of its own under cwd
// (it shares cwd's git root, so the v8.1.1 rule alone called it own) for two
// install locations, which are now foreign: (1) any `node_modules` segment on the path from cwd to the
// target (an installed package; only the path BELOW cwd counts, so a package
// the user has cd'd into is own, like a clone they cd'd into), and (2) any
// target under Claude Code's plugin dir — `$CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/plugins`, default
// `~/.claude/plugins` (cache/ and marketplaces/). A general "no `.git` of its
// own" rule was not taken: it would shut out ordinary subdirectories of the
// caller's own repo. Known limits — these still count as own: a `git archive`
// export or unpacked tarball under cwd (no marker at all), and other install
// locations this rule does not name (a Python venv's site-packages, a
// composer/bundler `vendor/` dir, skills copied into a git-tracked ~/.claude).

import { resolve, sep, join, dirname, relative } from 'node:path';
import { realpathSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs';
import { tmpdir, homedir } from 'node:os';

/**
 * Nearest ancestor of `start` (inclusive) that holds a `.git` entry, or null.
 * @param {string} start - a realpath
 * @returns {string|null}
 */
function gitRoot(start) {
  let dir = start;
  for (;;) {
    if (existsSync(join(dir, '.git'))) return dir;
    const parent = dirname(dir);
    if (parent === dir) return null;
    dir = parent;
  }
}

/**
 * Claude Code's plugin dir: `$CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/plugins` (a relative value is
 * resolved against cwd), else `~/.claude/plugins`. Realpath'd when it exists.
 * @returns {string}
 */
function pluginDir() {
  const configDir = process.env.CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR || join(homedir(), '.claude');
  const dir = resolve(configDir, 'plugins');
  try {
    return realpathSync(dir);
  } catch {
    return dir;
  }
}

/**
 * @param {string} targetPath
 * @returns {boolean}
 */
export function isOwnWorkingTree(targetPath) {
  let resolvedTarget;
  let resolvedCwd;
  let resolvedTmp;
  try {
    resolvedTarget = realpathSync(resolve(targetPath));
    resolvedCwd = realpathSync(process.cwd());
    resolvedTmp = realpathSync(tmpdir());
  } catch {
    return false;
  }
  if (resolvedTarget === resolvedTmp || resolvedTarget.startsWith(resolvedTmp + sep)) {
    return false;
  }
  const plugins = pluginDir();
  if (resolvedTarget === plugins || resolvedTarget.startsWith(plugins + sep)) {
    return false;
  }
  const underCwd = resolvedTarget === resolvedCwd || resolvedTarget.startsWith(resolvedCwd + sep);
  if (!underCwd) return false;
  if (relative(resolvedCwd, resolvedTarget).split(sep).includes('node_modules')) return false;
  return gitRoot(resolvedTarget) === gitRoot(resolvedCwd);
}