test(mcp): os.homedir spy in lifecycle.test.ts leaks across test files → 6 permission tests fail on CI
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 84/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- bun, typescript
Research direction
Start at packages/opencode/test/mcp/lifecycle.test.ts:250 and inspect the beforeEach spy setup, then run the lifecycle suite and packages/opencode/test/permission/next.test.ts. The work is done when the spy is cleaned up between tests, the six permission cases pass, and the full bun test suite no longer has order-dependent failures; consider the proposed smoke test for regression coverage.
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Description
Symptom
The CI / TypeScript job (which runs the full bun test suite) fails intermittently on 6 tests in packages/opencode/test/permission/next.test.ts:
fromConfig - expands tilde to home directoryfromConfig - expands \$HOME to home directoryfromConfig - expands \$HOME without trailing slashfromConfig - expands exact tilde to home directoryevaluate - matches expanded tilde patternevaluate - matches expanded \$HOME pattern
Failure output shows two DIFFERENT os.homedir() return values in the same test — one at test-execution time, one at expect().toEqual() time:
error: expect(received).toEqual(expected)
[
{
"action": "allow",
- "pattern": "/tmp/mcp-lifecycle-home-Zz7Y0f/projects/*",
+ "pattern": "/tmp/mcp-lifecycle-home-VvysFV/projects/*",
"permission": "external_directory",
}
]
The mcp-lifecycle-home- prefix is the smoking gun — the two paths come from mkdtempSync(path.join(tmpdir(), "mcp-lifecycle-home-")).
Root cause
packages/opencode/test/mcp/lifecycle.test.ts:250 installs a spy on os.homedir in beforeEach but never restores it:
beforeEach(() => {
spyOn(os, "homedir").mockImplementation(() => mkdtempSync(path.join(tmpdir(), "mcp-lifecycle-home-")))
// …
})
There is no matching afterEach that calls .mockRestore() (per-spy) or mock.restore() (all mocks). When bun runs test files in the same worker process, the spy persists past lifecycle.test.ts and pollutes any downstream test that calls os.homedir(). Each new call inside the spy hits mkdtempSync again, so two calls in the same downstream test return two different random temp dirs — which is exactly what test/permission/next.test.ts observes.
Reproducibility
- Passes locally in isolation (
bun test test/permission/next.test.ts→ 80/80). LocalHOMEis stable, no spy is installed. - Passes locally in isolation (
bun test test/mcp/lifecycle.test.ts→ clean). - Fails on CI when the full suite runs, because file order in the worker exposes the leak.
Impact
release.ymlis unaffected — the release workflow runstest/branding/ + test/install/only (see.github/workflows/release.yml:47), not the full suite, so tag builds ship green.- PR checks are affected — the required
CI/TypeScriptjob fails on any PR whose test-run order exposes the leak, forcing an admin bypass or a re-run gamble. This bit PR #1041 (v0.9.3 release PR).
Fix
Two clean options — pick whichever fits the file's style:
Option A — per-spy restore (explicit, mirrors the beforeEach setup):
import { afterEach, beforeEach, spyOn } from "bun:test"
let homedirSpy: ReturnType<typeof spyOn>
beforeEach(() => {
homedirSpy = spyOn(os, "homedir").mockImplementation(() =>
mkdtempSync(path.join(tmpdir(), "mcp-lifecycle-home-")),
)
// …
})
afterEach(() => {
homedirSpy.mockRestore()
})
Option B — blanket restore (also cleans up any other spy installed during a test):
import { afterEach, mock } from "bun:test"
afterEach(() => {
mock.restore()
})
Regression test
Add a smoke test that asserts os.homedir() returns the process's real home immediately after the lifecycle.test.ts suite completes:
// packages/opencode/test/mcp/lifecycle-spy-leak.test.ts
import { test, expect } from "bun:test"
import os from "os"
test("os.homedir spy from lifecycle.test.ts must not leak", () => {
expect(os.homedir()).not.toMatch(/mcp-lifecycle-home-/)
})
Or, less surgical but more general — a bun:test hook in a top-level preload that runs mock.restore() at file boundaries.
Priority
Low-medium — no production impact, no data risk. Purely a CI/DX problem: it forces PR authors to either re-run the check hoping for a favourable file order or ask for an admin bypass on unrelated PRs. Fix is small and self-contained; regression test would prevent recurrence.
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