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fix(tasks): single-line titles and single-token assignees on write (TASK-354) - #2483
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…ASK-354) Newlines in a title collapse to a space, and a title that is blank after that is refused. Assignee is trimmed; an inner space or control character is refused and case is kept. Applied to both create and PATCH. Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: wisp <WyJ3aXNwIiwiZGVmYXVsdCJd@agents.commonly.invalid> Agent-Model: claude/claude-haiku-5-5/default
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917-917: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReject non-string PATCH titles before the update.
If a caller sends
{ "title": null }, this branch skips validation and Line 956 placesnullin$set. The PATCH route can therefore accept a blank title despite the new title rule. Apply the POST route’s string-type check to PATCH whenevertitleis present. As per coding guidelines, “Null/undefined handling at every boundary crossing. Type-safe doesn't mean runtime-safe when data comes from JSON/DB.”🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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106-109: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReject C1 controls in
parseAssignee.
raw.trim()is intentional: the tests and helper contract define assignees as trimmed, so outer newlines such as"Nova\n"are accepted. However,\u0085remains after trimming and passes both current checks. Include the full C1 range:Suggested fix
- const hasControl = [...value].some((ch) => ch.charCodeAt(0) < 0x20 || ch.charCodeAt(0) === 0x7f); + const hasControl = [...value].some((ch) => { + const code = ch.charCodeAt(0); + return code < 0x20 || (code >= 0x7f && code <= 0x9f); + });🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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68-74: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueAdd a test for the standalone carriage-return branch.
The title regex matches
\ron its own, but the POST test at lines 68-74 sends only\r\nand\n. A lone\ris not exercised. Add a case that expects'First\rSecond'to be stored as'First Second'.🧪 Suggested test
expect(mockCreate.mock.calls[0][0].title).toBe('Fix the board lease row'); }); + test('a standalone carriage return collapses to one space before it is stored', async () => { + const res = await request(app) + .post(`/api/v1/tasks/${POD}`) + .send({ title: 'First\rSecond' }); + expect(res.status).toBe(201); + expect(mockCreate.mock.calls[0][0].title).toBe('First Second'); + }); + test('a title that is only a newline is refused as empty', async () => {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Line 267: Preserve idempotency when changing the title identity in the task
creation flow: ensure the lookup for tasks with a sourceRef also finds existing
records whose stored title is multiline, such as “Fix\nboard,” before creating a
new task. Add a compatibility lookup or migrate existing titles, and cover
replaying the same input against a previously stored multiline title.
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- Line 917: Update the PATCH title validation around fieldUpdates.title to
reject requests whenever title is present but is not a string, before adding it
to $set. Preserve the existing validation for string titles and align the type
check with the POST route.
- Around line 106-109: Update the control-character check in parseAssignee to
reject the full C1 range, U+007F through U+009F, while preserving the existing
rejection of characters below U+0020 and the intentional raw.trim() behavior for
outer whitespace.
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- Around line 68-74: Add a POST test alongside the existing newline title tests
that sends a title containing a standalone carriage return, `First\rSecond`, and
verifies the response is 201 and the stored title is `First Second`.
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| const title = titleInput === undefined ? undefined : String(titleInput); | ||
| const assignee = assigneeInput === undefined ? undefined : String(assigneeInput); | ||
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Preserve idempotency for existing multiline titles.
If an existing task has sourceRef and a title such as Fix\nboard, a replay with the same input now looks up Fix board. The lookup at Line 284 misses the existing task, and the (sourceRef, title) index permits a second task. Add a compatibility lookup or migrate existing titles before changing this identity key. Cover a replay against a previously stored multiline title.
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CODE GATE: HOLD @ e3c4d82
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backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts:861-878still callsTask.createdirectly with a merely trimmed title and rawargs.assignee. A native agent can therefore storeone\ntwoandtwo wordswithout either normalization or a 400.Taskhas no schema guard for these fields. Apply the same contract to this service write path and test it; the fixed starter tasks inauthControllerare already safe literals.backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:98collapses whitespace around newlines only.A BremainsA B, and the new test attasksApi.titleAssigneeNormalization.test.js:73explicitly expects three internal spaces. TASK-354 requires internal whitespace to collapse to single spaces, so update the normalizer and assertion.backend/routes/tasksApi.ts:108-109misses C1 control characters.nova\u0085opspasses both the ASCII-only control check and JavaScript\s, so POST/PATCH store an assignee containing a control character instead of returning 400. I ran that exact predicate on Node. Cover the full control range and pin the case.
Caller contract: commonly_create_task still advertises an optional assignee “display name,” and the board accepts free text. Before enforcing one token at every path, align those callers with the required username token so previously valid multiword input does not fail without a clear explanation.
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…-354) Title: any run of whitespace, newlines included, collapses to one space, and a title blank after that is refused. Assignee: one handle, trimmed, case kept; an inner space or any C0, DEL or C1 control character gets a 400 that asks for a handle. The rules live in utils/taskFieldNormalization and apply to the tasks API (POST and PATCH) and the native runtime's create tool. The board's assignee placeholder now asks for a handle. Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: wisp <WyJ3aXNwIiwiZGVmYXVsdCJd@agents.commonly.invalid> Agent-Model: claude/claude-haiku-5-5/default
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862-869: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReject non-string native task arguments before coercion.
The native tool schema declares
titleandassigneeas strings, but parsed tool arguments are not runtime-validated. A truthy non-string value such as{}becomes"[object Object]", passes the normalizers, and can be persisted byTask.createinstead of returning a structured invalid-input response.nullis already handled safely; this affects non-string values that survive the current truthiness checks.Suggested fix
- const title = toSingleLineTitle(String(args.title || '')); + if (typeof args.title !== 'string') { + return { content: { ok: false, error: 'title must be a string' }, error: 'invalid_title' }; + } + const title = toSingleLineTitle(args.title); if (!title) { return { content: { ok: false, error: 'title is required' }, error: 'missing_title' }; } - const assigneeParsed = parseAssignee(args.assignee ? String(args.assignee) : ''); + if (args.assignee !== undefined && args.assignee !== null && typeof args.assignee !== 'string') { + return { content: { ok: false, error: 'assignee must be a string' }, error: 'invalid_assignee' }; + } + const assigneeParsed = parseAssignee(typeof args.assignee === 'string' ? args.assignee : '');🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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488-495: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winVerify the native task write, not only its error message.
This test can pass without proving that an invalid assignee prevents
Task.create. Assert that no row is created. Add native create-task cases that check the stored title after newline collapse and the stored assignee after trimming. As per coding guidelines, “Test asserts on output only but has important side effects (DB writes, event enqueues, external calls): flag.”🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 862-869: Validate runtime types in the native task argument
handling before coercion: reject non-string title values that would otherwise be
stringified, while preserving the existing missing-title response for null,
undefined, or empty titles. In the assignee parsing path, reject non-string
values except null or undefined, and pass valid strings directly to
parseAssignee; return structured invalid-input responses without changing the
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- Around line 488-495: Extend the native create-task tests around the
commonly_create_task case to assert that an invalid display-name assignee
results in no Task.create call. Add valid create-task cases that verify the
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HOLD — backend/services/nativeRuntimeService.ts:290 still describes commonly_create_task.assignee as “Optional assignee display name”. The new dispatch validation at :866 rejects multiword display names with invalid_assignee. A native agent following its offered tool schema can now fail to create a task. Change that schema description to require a single handle, and pin the offered contract in a test.
The focused route and native suites pass (52/52). Reverting POST title normalization makes two paired assertions fail; bypassing the POST assignee refusal makes three fail. CI is green at this head. I did not measure rendered layout.
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The native tool's assignee description said display name, so an agent following its own contract now hits the 400. It now asks for the handle (agentName or instanceId, one token). Tests pin that a handle is stored and a multiword name is refused before any row is written. Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: wisp <WyJ3aXNwIiwiZGVmYXVsdCJd@agents.commonly.invalid> Agent-Model: claude/claude-haiku-5-5/default
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🟡 Minor · Reject non-string PATCH assignees before parsing. · tasksApi.ts:905-909
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReject non-string PATCH assignees before parsing.
PATCH calls
parseAssigneeonly for strings. A JSON array such as["nova ops"]therefore bypasses validation and reaches Mongoose through$set. Mongoose casts it to the string"nova ops", which persists an invalid multi-token assignee. This is separate from control characters in string assignees.Suggested fix
if (typeof fieldUpdates.assignee === 'string' && fieldUpdates.assignee.trim() === '') { fieldUpdates.assignee = null; } + if (fieldUpdates.assignee !== undefined + && fieldUpdates.assignee !== null + && typeof fieldUpdates.assignee !== 'string') { + return res.status(400).json({ error: 'assignee must be a string' }); + } if (typeof fieldUpdates.title === 'string') {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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493-504: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winCover whitespace-only titles in
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Ship it. Add a case with a whitespace-only title that assertserror: 'missing_title'and verifies thatmockTaskCreateis not called.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 905-909: In the PATCH assignee handling near parseAssignee, reject
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| assignee: { type: 'string', description: 'Optional assignee display name' }, | ||
| assignee: { type: 'string', description: "Optional assignee: the assignee's handle (agentName or instanceId, one token, e.g. nova)" }, |
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Resolve instanceId assignees before task-completion dispatch.
The completion route passes the stored assignee to recordTaskCompleted. That consumer accepts only an agentName match. An instanceId such as default can fail the membership check and skip the system exchange. Resolve instanceId values in the consumer, or remove them from the advertised assignee contract.
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