fix(registry): normalize AppWorld file_system paths to canonical ~/ form (#730) - #740
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#730) - AppWorld's process_path rejects "//" with a 422 and silently roots any non-absolute path, so agent-sent "./downloads/x.csv" is stored as "/./downloads/x.csv" — content asserts pass but tilde_path evaluation fails, and read-side calls 404/422 forever, feeding the #599 retry loop - normalize_appworld_path collapses duplicate slashes, resolves "." / ".." segments (never escaping the anchor), and anchors relative forms at home ("./x" -> "~/x", "." -> "~/", bare "x.csv" -> "~/x.csv", leading "/./" treated as the server-side echo of a relative path); canonical "~/..." and absolute "/..." pass through unchanged - pure string logic with POSIX "/" semantics on purpose: os.path (ntpath on Windows), pathlib, and expanduser would corrupt these host-independent virtual paths; backslash-containing values are left untouched - normalize_file_system_path_args scopes rewriting to the appworld benchmark, the file_system app, and string args whose key is "path" or ends with "_path", returning (args, changes) so callers can log rewrites Signed-off-by: Sergey Zeltyn <sergeyz@il.ibm.com>
- rewrite path-valued args to canonical "~/" form at the choke point every execution path shares, after the api_call trace step (the trace keeps the raw args the model produced) and before rejected_call_guard.check, so rejection signatures dedupe on canonical args and a corrected call is never short-circuited by rejections recorded under a malformed form - warn-log every rewrite with original -> normalized values so traces show when the normalizer is load-bearing vs. the model emitting clean paths Signed-off-by: Sergey Zeltyn <sergeyz@il.ibm.com>
- canonicalization cases derived from the #730 evidence: "./" prefixes, bare ".", "/./" server-side echoes, double slashes, bare relative names, dot-segment resolution, bare "~", trailing-slash preservation - pass-through cases: canonical "~/..." and absolute paths, backslash (Windows-style) values, empty and non-string values - scoping: only the file_system app, only the appworld benchmark, only "path"/"*_path" keys; unchanged input returns the original dict object - route test pins the ordering contract: the registry receives the canonical path, and a malformed and canonical spelling of the same call share one #599 rejection counter (second rejection escalates) Signed-off-by: Sergey Zeltyn <sergeyz@il.ibm.com>
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Client->>call_mcp_function: Submit file-system call
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In `@src/cuga/backend/tools_env/registry/registry/appworld_path_normalizer.py`:
- Line 105: Update the benchmark guard around the registry path-normalization
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PR Review: #740 — fix(registry): normalize AppWorld file_system paths to canonical ~/ form (#730)
I also tried to check compatibility across platforms, Linux/MacOS/Windows, while my checks are not definitive (could not explicitly test this) it looks like it should work fine on all platforms
Merge. The fix is correct, well-scoped, and provably OS-neutral. The choke-point placement and ordering contract are sound.
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- Half 2 of #730 (CSV quoting/column-order) is explicitly out of scope here and tracked separately in the issue.
- E2E validation against the repro tasks (
f323bae_1,6b6ca61_1,33e202d_1) is pending a cuga-eval run per the PR body; the warn-log will confirm when the normalizer is load-bearing.
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A/B smoke validation on AppWorld (main vs. this branch)Ran the 4-task #730 smoke set twice under identical conditions — Mistral-Medium-3.5 via RITS, cuga-eval
Tasks: Normalizer activity: 3 rewrites, 3 correct, 0 false positivesUntouched, as scoped: 42 clean Mechanism: the #599 seed call now succeeds
The remaining 422 on the branch is semantically honest rather than a path artifact: the file lives under Task outcomes: unchanged, assert-for-assert
Both arms: 25% pass rate, 0.717 avg match, ~112s/task. Per-task token and duration deltas run in both directions and are n=1 noise. Read
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- The gate read settings.advanced_features.benchmark, which is captured when cuga.config is imported; an embedding process that sets DYNACONF_ADVANCED_FEATURES__BENCHMARK afterwards left normalization off even though the resolved benchmark was appworld (review feedback from @sami-marreed and CodeRabbit) - resolved_benchmark() consults the process environment first and falls back to settings, so both orderings enable the rewrite; the eval path (env set before any cuga import) is unaffected - Tests: env set after import still normalizes, and an env that moved off appworld wins over a stale appworld settings value; existing settings-based cases clear the env var so they exercise the fallback deterministically Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Sergey Zeltyn <sergeyz@il.ibm.com>
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🟡 Minor · Cover raw arguments in the persisted api_call trace.
src/cuga/backend/tools_env/registry/registry/api_registry_server.py:339-353
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCover raw arguments in the persisted
api_calltrace. The endpoint recordsrequest.model_dump_json()before normalization whentrajectory_pathis provided. The current test omitstrajectory_pathand checks only guard and tool arguments, so it would still pass if normalization moved before trace creation. Add a trajectory-backed assertion that the trace contains./owe_list.csvwhile the tool receives~/owe_list.csv.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/cuga/backend/tools_env/registry/registry/api_registry_server.py`:
- Around line 339-353: Update the normalization test around
normalize_file_system_path_args to provide a trajectory_path, then inspect the
persisted api_call trace and assert it retains the raw ./owe_list.csv argument
while the tool invocation receives the canonical ~/owe_list.csv value. Keep the
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- The route test now passes trajectory_path and asserts the recorded api_call step keeps './owe_list.csv' while the same request reaches the registry as '~/owe_list.csv' — moving normalization above the trace step would fail the suite instead of silently changing what trajectories show (CodeRabbit follow-up on the ordering contract) - Fake settings object now backs both cuga.config.settings and the server module's global, so the endpoint's settings.update tracker enablement is inert in the test Signed-off-by: Sergey Zeltyn <sergeyz@il.ibm.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Reviewed 9065791. No blocking findings. The earlier benchmark-gate issue is fixed with resolved_benchmark() and regression tests covering both environment-override directions. Normalization remains scoped to AppWorld file_system calls, preserves raw api_call traces, and runs before rejected-call tracking.
The intentional bare-relative x.csv -> ~/x.csv behavior is acceptable for this benchmark; explicit absolute paths remain unchanged.
Validation: 64 normalizer and rejected-call-guard tests passed locally; current CI workflows pass. AppWorld evaluations were not rerun as part of this review.
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Fixes #730 (Half 1 — tilde-path mangling; the CSV-convention half is prompt-side in cuga-eval and tracked separately in the issue)
Summary
On the AppWorld hard suite, generated code sometimes addresses
file_systemwith cwd-relative paths (./downloads/habit_tracker.csv,directory_path=.). AppWorld'sprocess_pathrejects//with a 422 and silently roots any other non-absolute path, so the write is stored as/./downloads/habit_tracker.csv— content asserts pass but thetilde_pathassert fails — and read-side calls 404/422 forever, feeding the #599 retry loop (6b6ca61_1: 175 identical rejected calls).Root cause of the model behavior: the CugaLite base prompt's sandbox-workspace section ("use relative paths for every file operation") leaks into
file_systemAPI arguments. This PR adds the deterministic backstop at the tool boundary rather than a prompt change (deliberately scoped out to avoid prompt drift across deployments).Changes:
appworld_path_normalizer.py(new):normalize_appworld_pathcollapses duplicate slashes, resolves./..segments (never escaping the anchor), and anchors relative forms at home —./x→~/x,.→~/, barex.csv→~/x.csv, leading/./treated as the server-side echo of a relative path. Canonical~/…and absolute/…pass through unchanged./semantics on purpose:os.path(ntpath on Windows),pathlib, andexpanduser(host home injection) must never touch these host-independent virtual paths. Backslash-containing values are left untouched.advanced_features.benchmark == "appworld", only thefile_systemapp, only string args whose key ispathor ends with_path. Inert everywhere else — production MCP tools that document relative paths are never rewritten.api_registry_server.py: hook at the/functions/callchoke point — after theapi_calltrace step (traces keep the raw args the model produced), beforerejected_call_guard.checkso [Bug]: CugaLite re-issues an identical rejected API call across dozens of turns; a 100%-failed execution produces no course correction #599 signatures dedupe on canonical args and a corrected call is never short-circuited by rejections recorded under a malformed form. Every rewrite is warn-logged withoriginal -> normalized.Reviewer sign-off requested on one rule: bare relative
x.csv→~/x.csv. AppWorld has no cwd concept and its silent/-prepend is itself a trap, so home is the only sane anchor — but this is the one rewrite that changes semantics for a hypothetical root-level target. The conservative fallback is to normalize only dot-prefixed/double-slash forms.Testing
test_appworld_path_normalizer.py): canonicalization cases derived from the [Bug]: File-export conventions lose otherwise-correct AppWorld tasks — '/./' instead of '~/' paths, CSV quoting/header/column-order mismatches #730 evidence, pass-through and scoping cases, and a route test pinning the ordering contract (canonical path on the wire; malformed + canonical spellings share one [Bug]: CugaLite re-issues an identical rejected API call across dozens of turns; a 100%-failed execution produces no course correction #599 rejection counter).tests/unit+tests/integration: 1,694 passed (3 pre-existingtest_sdk_citations.pyfailures reproduce identically on cleanmain; pass in isolation).f323bae_1,6b6ca61_1,33e202d_1) is pending a cuga-eval run; the rewrite warn-logs will show when the normalizer is load-bearing. Runs has shown that solution works, although most tasks failed due to other reasons.Summary by CodeRabbit
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