[robobun]

Problem

• A root file: package with relative file: dependencies of its own fails to resolve: error: Could not find package.json for "file:../packages/bun-types" dependency "@types/bun". From a lockfile: error: refusing to install dependency shared-lib with unsafe folder path "../packages/shared-lib".
• The escape check from Hardening: input validation and bounds tightening across 27 subsystems (round 6) #31417 (PackageManagerEnqueue.rs, PackageInstaller.rs) rejects any transitive folder path that leaves the project root, whoever declared it. Worked in 1.3.14, broke in 1.4.0. Fixes bun install 1.4.0 fails to resolve a nested local file: dependency #40314.

Fix

• Both sites call Lockfile::is_trusted_folder_dependency(id): the declaring package is the root, a workspace, or a Folder package the root or a workspace depends on directly, or a plain override names the dependency (install: trust file: paths from root package.json overrides/resolutions #32452, unchanged). The package-lock.json migration (npm_lock.rs) applies the same rule.
• A file: path in one of those package.jsons is user authored, like a root file: dependency, which may already point anywhere. Registry, git, and tarball packages stay constrained, as does a folder one of them ships.
• The anchor is checked, not assumed: a migrated or hand-written lockfile can carry dependencies for a folder a registry package ships.
• Verified: bun-install.test.ts (3 tests fail on main), migration/migrate.test.ts (1 fails on main), and the other install suites (Notes).

Background

• A file: dependency becomes a Folder package. Its lockfile path is root relative, so an outside package starts with ../.
• bin_target_escapes_package_dir detects a path that leaves its base directory. Hardening: input validation and bounds tightening across 27 subsystems (round 6) #31417 applied it to transitive folder paths so a registry package cannot link local directories.
• Overrides come from the root package.json only. A flat rule makes every edge of that name root authored (install: trust file: paths from root package.json overrides/resolutions #32452 whitelists it). A nested rule covers one edge, so contains_name ignores it.

Notes

This repo's own test/ directory hits the bug on bun update (bun-plugin-svelte is a file: dependency outside the project and declares "@types/bun": "../bun-types"). Minimal repro: a root package.json with { "dependencies": { "plugin": "file:../packages/plugin" } } where packages/plugin/package.json declares "shared-lib": "../shared-lib".

The two sites that picked local_package_features with the same three-tag match (Tree.rs, PackageManagerResolution.rs) now call is_local_package() too. The overlong-path check and the #32452 carve-out are unchanged.

Rebase on current main (requested in the PR comments): main already has Lockfile::get_parent_pkg_of_dependency (#38867, returns Option<PackageID>), so this branch uses it instead of its own copy. Visibility follows main (pub(crate)).

One test on main conflicts in behavior, not in text. #38333 added rejects a nested "<field>" rule pointing at a file: path outside the project. Its parent is pkg-a: file:./pkg-a, a local folder package, so this change exempts the path and the nested rule installs. The test is re-anchored on a registry parent (baz from the dummy registry declaring shared: 1.0.0), which the name-based check still rejects, with the same two error lines. A second test asserts the local-parent case installs, from package.json and from the lockfile. The same re-anchoring was already done for the two tests from #31417/#32452 that pinned the old behavior with a local folder parent.

Test changes in bun-install.test.ts:

• New: installs transitive file: dependencies of a local file: package that point outside the project. Runs bun install (fresh), bun update, and bun install from the saved lockfile with an empty node_modules. Asserts both transitive packages are linked under the declaring package.
• New: applies a root "<field>" file: path to a registry package's dependency (the install: trust file: paths from root package.json overrides/resolutions #32452 carve-out, with a remote parent, at both sites).
• New: installs a nested "<field>" rule pointing at a file: path outside the project for a local file: package's dependency.
• The different name reject test now points at an existing folder with a package.json (absolute path), so a bypassed check would link loot and fail the test.
• Re-anchored on a registry parent: does not install a registry package's transitive file: dependency that points outside its package, still rejects a registry package's transitive file: dependency that escapes when a different name is in "<field>", rejects a nested "<field>" rule pointing at a file: path outside the project for a registry package's dependency.

Trust anchor: is_dependency_of_local_package accepts a Folder parent only when is_workspace_declared_package(parent) finds it in the root or a workspace resolution list. Without that, a lockfile with evil (registry) -> inner (Folder, node_modules/evil/inner) -> loot (file:/outside) was installed, because the migration writes dependencies for inner while bun's resolver never would. refuses to install an escaping file: dependency that a registry package's own folder declares in the lockfile (hand-written bun.lock) and a file: dependency declared by a registry package's own folder is still skipped (migration) cover both layers.

Migration: in npm_lock.rs the gate at link_package only exempted Root | Workspace parents. A blanket Folder exemption would also migrate o -> p: "" in the external-link--root fixture (a registry spec that npm resolved to a bare folder beside o, which does not exist as a package), so the exemption is limited to a Folder parent with a file: spec. That is the case this PR is about: the path is written in that package.json. The existing out-of-tree migration tests are unchanged.

Fail-before was checked with main's src/install/ swapped in: the three positive tests fail with the errors above, and everything else in the file has the same result as on main (the remaining failures there are the network-dependent bitbucket/gitlab/external URL tests). Suites run with the fix: bun-install, overrides, nested-overrides, bun-workspaces, bun-update, bun-add, bun-dedupe, isolated-install.

#33159 (merged) materializes transitive file: dependencies of local file: packages at install time. This PR removes the resolve-time and install-time rejection of their paths, and the positive test asserts the combined result.

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Walkthrough

The installer now classifies local package resolutions and permits their escaping file: dependencies. Remote package dependencies remain restricted unless explicitly trusted by a root override. Tests cover registry, local, nested, override, migration, and frozen-lockfile cases.

Changes

Local file dependency path-escape handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Local package classification and dependency trust src/install/resolution.rs, src/install/lockfile.rs, src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerResolution.rs, src/install/lockfile/Tree.rs	Adds Tag::is_local_package() and uses it for dependency classification and local versus remote feature selection.
Path-escape guards for folder dependencies src/install/PackageInstaller.rs, src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerEnqueue.rs	Uses trusted-folder classification to allow escaping dependencies from local packages and reject untrusted dependencies.
Migration handling for local declarations src/install/migration/npm_lock.rs, test/cli/install/migration/migrate.test.ts	Tracks root and workspace folder declarations during migration. Tests cover trusted out-of-tree local dependencies and rejected registry dependencies.
Install and nested dependency coverage test/cli/install/bun-install.test.ts	Tests registry rejection, local-package success, explicit overrides, parent-qualified nested rules, frozen-lockfile installs, runtime resolution, and lockfile entries.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, alii, dylan-conway

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In `@src/install/lockfile.rs`:
- Around line 1006-1020: The trust check in is_dependency_of_local_package is
too broad because ResolutionTag::Folder alone does not guarantee the package is
rooted in user-controlled ancestry. Update this helper to walk the declaring
package’s parent chain from get_parent_pkg_of_dependency and only return true
for Folder packages whose ancestry ultimately reaches Root or Workspace;
otherwise fail closed and return false. Keep the existing Root/Workspace
handling, but make the Folder case verify the full chain before trusting it.

In `@test/cli/install/bun-install.test.ts`:
- Around line 9379-9383: The install test currently only verifies that
plugin/package.json exists, so it can miss regressions where transitive local
folder deps are resolved in the lockfile but not actually installed. Update the
assertions in bun-install.test.ts to also check for
plugin/node_modules/shared-lib and plugin/node_modules/shared-dev-lib after the
install path, using the existing exists/join pattern near the plugin package
assertion. This strengthens the invariant for the installer behavior and ensures
the transitive local packages are really present on disk.
- Around line 9576-9587: The test in bun-install.test.ts is using a relative
escaped file target that can still fail with MissingPackageJSON for unrelated
reasons, so it does not prove the escape guard is working. Update the setup in
the withContext/dummyRegistryForContext case to point loot at an absolute
fixture outside the workspace that has its own package.json, matching the
pattern used by the registry test, so that if the guard is bypassed the
install/link of loot would actually succeed and the test would fail for the
correct reason.

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[robobun]

CI status: every test lane that runs this diff is green. The only failed job on the last two builds (66994, 67016) is :darwin: 26 aarch64 - test-bun, and it fails before running a single test:

Error: buildkite-agent artifact download timed out after 120s for step 'darwin-aarch64-build-bun'. Refusing to continue with a partial download (would silently fall back to the wrong binary).

Unrelated PR builds in the same window hit the identical error on that queue (for example build 66986), so it is agent infrastructure, not this change. Retrying that one job should clear it.

[claude]

I didn't find any bugs, but this relaxes the #31417 path-traversal guard based on an invariant about how Folder-tagged packages can declare dependencies — worth a human confirming that trust boundary before merge.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR narrows the transitive file: path-escape guard added in #31417. Previously, any folder dependency not declared by root/workspace whose stored path escaped the project root was rejected at both resolve time (PackageManagerEnqueue.rs) and install time (PackageInstaller.rs). The fix exempts dependencies whose declaring package is itself local (Root | Workspace | Folder), via new Lockfile::is_dependency_of_local_package / get_parent_pkg_of_dependency helpers and a resolution::Tag::is_local_package() predicate. Two existing match-on-tag sites in Tree.rs and PackageManagerResolution.rs are refactored to use the same predicate (no behavior change there). Two docs files have autofix-only formatting changes. Tests are added for the new allowed case and the existing #31417/#32452 negative tests are re-anchored on a registry-declared parent so they still exercise the guard.

Security risks

This is a relaxation of a path-traversal guard. The soundness argument is that a Folder-tagged package can only ever declare dependencies if it was itself declared by the root or a workspace (because only those folder dependencies have their package.json parsed; transitive folder deps under remote packages are recorded as resolutions with empty dependency lists in get_or_put_resolved_package). That invariant is documented on the helper and was discussed in the CodeRabbit thread, where the author also noted that an explicit ancestry walk regresses bun update due to orphaned edges. The reasoning looks correct to me, but it depends on a non-local invariant in the enqueue path rather than on a structural property of the data, so a maintainer familiar with the resolver should confirm there's no other way a remote-originated package can end up with a Folder parent that owns dependencies.

Level of scrutiny

High. bun install is production-critical, and this changes the trust boundary for filesystem paths supplied by package manifests. Even though the net effect is a targeted regression fix (the repo's own test/ directory currently fails bun update), the mechanism is loosening a security check rather than tightening one.

Other factors

The PR is well-described, includes positive and negative tests covering both the enqueue and installer paths, and the bug-hunting system found nothing. All CodeRabbit threads are resolved with substantive author responses. The remaining CI failure (musl build) appears infrastructural rather than related to the change. I'm deferring rather than approving solely because of the security-sensitive nature of the guard being relaxed.

[robobun]

For whoever picks this up, the two places to verify the invariant the exemption relies on:

• FolderResolution::get_or_put (which reads a folder dependency's package.json and therefore populates a dependency list) is only reached from the is_workspace_dependency branch of get_or_put_resolved_package, i.e. when the declaring package is the root or a workspace.
• Every other folder dependency takes the transitive branch right below it, which appends a package with only a name and a resolution ("these are always new"), so a folder package declared by a registry/git/tarball package never owns dependencies and can never be the declaring package this helper classifies.

The only way to materialize a dependency-owning Folder package under a remote parent is to write it into bun.lock yourself (or migrate a package-lock.json that npm produced on this machine). Both are the user's own trusted input and can already point root file: dependencies at any path, so they grant nothing new. Within bun-generated state, the one-level check and a full ancestry walk are equivalent; the walk was also tried and it regresses bun update because the previous root dependency edges are orphaned during an update (details in the resolved review thread above).

Behavior-wise this restores what bun 1.2.x did for these chains; only remote-declared file: paths remain constrained.

[Jarred-Sumner]

What happens if the package is a file: of a file: package? Like if npm package "foo": "file:./foo" dependency - and then foo has a "etc": "file:/etc" dependency?

[robobun]

Nothing gets resolved or linked from /etc. foo's own dependencies never exist in that scenario, with or without this PR.

A folder dependency declared by anything other than the root or a workspace (here foo, declared by a registry package) takes the transitive branch in get_or_put_resolved_package: bun appends a package with just a name and a file: resolution, with an empty dependency list, and never reads that folder's package.json ("transitive folder dependencies do not have their dependencies resolved"). So "etc": "file:/etc" never becomes a dependency, nothing is enqueued for it, and nothing is installed from it. That is also why the exemption's predicate is sound: only root and workspace declared folder dependencies ever get their package.json parsed, so a Folder package that declares dependencies is always one the user pointed the project at.

Checked on this branch with exactly that chain (outer package declares B: "file:./B", B/package.json declares "etc": "file:/etc"):

$ bun install
2 packages installed        # the outer package and the dependency-less B stub
$ grep etc bun.lock         # no match
$ find node_modules -name 'etc*'    # nothing

The released build prints the same thing.

If the registry package declares the escaping path itself ("etc": "file:/etc" in its own dependencies), its declaring package is the registry package, so it is still rejected with Could not find package.json for "file:/etc" dependency "etc". That exact shape is one of the re-anchored tests in this PR (does not install a registry package's transitive file: dependency that points outside its package: the registry manifest declares loot: "file:<absolute path outside the project>").

The only way foo can end up owning an etc dependency edge is a lockfile that already encodes it: a hand written bun.lock, or a migrated lockfile that another package manager resolved on that machine. With such a lockfile the exemption does apply to that edge, but whoever writes the lockfile can already point a root level file: package at any absolute path (the root/workspace install branch has never had an escape check), so it does not add a capability, and registry content alone cannot create that state. If you would rather folder parents only be trusted when their declaring chain reaches the root or a workspace, so hand written lockfiles are covered too, I can key it on the chain. The straightforward parent-edge walk regresses bun update (the previous root dependency edges are orphaned mid update, and the walk lands on one), so it has to be written as "some dependency edge that resolved to the declaring folder package is itself a root or workspace dependency".

[robobun]

Opened #33159 for the other half of this story: once a local file: package's transitive file: dependency makes it past the escape check, the hoisted installer still sources it from dirname(node_modules.path) (the declaring package's install dir) and rewrites the resulting ENOENT into InstallResult::Success, so it never lands in node_modules. Lockfile::Package::parse stores those paths relative to the top-level dir, so the right base is the cwd.

That is why the "installs transitive file: dependencies of a local file: package that point outside the project" test here only asserts the lockfile entry and node_modules/plugin/package.json; node_modules/plugin/node_modules/shared-lib is still not materialized with this change alone. Once both land, that test can also assert the nested install.

The two changes are independent (different repros, different layers). They conflict on one comment line in PackageInstaller.rs; whichever lands second rebases trivially.

[claude]

I didn't find any bugs, but this relaxes a path-escape security guard in the package manager based on a non-obvious invariant (that a dependency-declaring Folder package is always root/workspace-originated), so it's worth a human confirming the trust boundary — particularly the hand-written/migrated-lockfile edge case discussed in the thread.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR narrows the transitive file: path-escape guard added in #31417 so it only applies to dependencies declared by remote packages (registry, git, tarball). It adds resolution::Tag::is_local_package(), Lockfile::get_parent_pkg_of_dependency(), and Lockfile::is_dependency_of_local_package(), then threads the new predicate into the two guard sites in PackageInstaller.rs and PackageManagerEnqueue.rs. Two existing sites in Tree.rs and PackageManagerResolution.rs that already open-coded the Root|Workspace|Folder match are refactored to call the new helper (behavior-neutral). Tests in bun-install.test.ts are rewritten to re-anchor the negative cases on a registry-declared parent (since local-folder-declared parents are now allowed) and new positive tests are added for the local-package chain.

Security risks

This is a deliberate relaxation of a path-traversal guard. The soundness of trusting Tag::Folder as "local" rests on the invariant that only root/workspace-declared folder dependencies ever have their package.json parsed, so a remote package cannot introduce a dependency-declaring Folder parent. The author documented this on the helper and explained it in the thread; CodeRabbit initially flagged it and then withdrew after the explanation. The author also acknowledged that a hand-written bun.lock or a migrated npm lockfile could encode a Folder package with dependencies under a remote parent, in which case the exemption would apply — arguing that such lockfiles are already user-trusted input equivalent to writing a root file: dependency. That reasoning is plausible but is exactly the kind of trust-boundary judgment a maintainer should sign off on.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is production package-manager code that gates whether arbitrary filesystem paths get linked into node_modules. The change is small in line count but semantically significant, and two existing negative tests were re-anchored (not just supplemented) because their previous fixtures now pass.

Other factors

The PR is well-argued and thoroughly tested (fresh install, update, and install-from-lockfile paths; both check sites; both override fields; registry-declared negative cases retained). The discussion thread already covers the ancestry-walk alternative and why it regresses bun update. Nothing blocking was found by the bug hunter. Deferring solely because relaxing a security guard on an invariant that isn't mechanically enforced warrants a human maintainer's confirmation.

[robobun]

CI status for the current head (59d55f8, build 67523): every install lane is green; three jobs are red, none related to this change.

• :darwin: 26 aarch64 - test-bun fails before running any test: buildkite-agent artifact download timed out after 120s for step 'darwin-aarch64-build-bun'. The same error appears on unrelated PRs' builds on that queue.
• :alpine: 3.23 x64 - test-bun and :alpine: 3.23 x64-baseline - test-bun fail on test/js/node/test/parallel/test-net-connect-memleak.js (collected === true after globalThis.gc()), a GC timing test for net sockets that is flaky on musl and untouched by this PR.

test/cli/install/bun-install.test.ts and the rest of the install suites pass on every lane that ran them.

[robobun]

Heads-up from #38814, which touches the same Tag::Folder block: it adds resolution::Tag::is_local_package(), Lockfile::get_parent_pkg_of_dependency and Lockfile::is_dependency_of_local_package in the shape this PR defines them, and uses the last one to read a file: folder declared by a local file: package from disk (so folder packages can now declare dependencies at any depth). If #38814 lands first, this PR shrinks to the two escape-check consumers plus tests, and the invariant in the helper's doc comment needs restating: a folder package that declares dependencies is no longer necessarily root- or workspace-declared, but it is still only reachable from the root through local packages, because registry-declared folders get no dependency list. The escape check itself is left as it is today in #38814, so the question this PR raises is unaffected.

[robobun]

Issue #40314 is a user report of this bug on 1.4.0 stable: a file: dependency outside the project root declares its own file: dependency, and install fails with the exact error in this PR description.

I verified the cause on the issue repro against canary 4448a2e. The escape check in the Tag::Folder arm of get_or_put_resolved_package (src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerEnqueue.rs:2851 on current main) rejects the stored root-relative path ../packages/a with MissingPackageJSON. Adding a root override for the nested dependency, which only takes the overrides carve-out in that check, makes the same install succeed and link both packages. The regression window also matches: the constraint from #31417 is in the 1.4.0 tag and not in 1.3.14.

This branch now conflicts with main after #38333. A rebase would let it close #40314.

[ejc3]

We hit this exact failure evaluating bun 1.4.0 stable against the production fleet layout modeled by the --preset fleet shape in node-monorepo-perf: ~30k apps consuming a few hundred shared libs as chained file: deps, with every chain escaping the app's project root (app -> file:../../libs/a, lib a -> file:../b).

On a 25-package slice of the real tree, bun install resolves 4,153 registry packages and then fails all 22 local lib resolutions with Could not find package.json for "file:../../libs/<name>" -- and the printed root-relative path is correct and exists on disk, matching the resolve-time rejection this PR removes. A/B on the same 1.4.0 binary: the inside-root vendored shape from #33159's repro installs green, and moving the same three packages so the chain escapes the project root (apps/app -> file:../../libs/lib -> file:../util) reproduces the failure. For this layout the escape check is the only remaining blocker, and it currently makes bun uninstallable for the whole fleet shape.

Happy to test a build of this branch against the real tree if that would help land it.

[dylan-conway]

@robobun sync and fix conflicts pls

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Inline comments:
In `@src/install/lockfile.rs`:
- Around line 863-881: Update is_dependency_of_local_package to treat folder
dependencies enqueued through enqueue_dependency_to_root as root-equivalent when
get_parent_pkg_of_dependency returns None, while preserving the existing
local-package check for dependencies with a parent package.

In `@src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerEnqueue.rs`:
- Around line 2852-2858: Update the escape-trust condition in the PackageManager
enqueue logic to match the consolidated three-part check used by
PackageInstaller, combining bin_target_escapes_package_dir,
is_dependency_of_local_package, and overrides.contains_name. Preserve the
existing behavior for local packages while applying the same override handling
as PackageInstaller.

Apply the same fix in `@src/install/PackageInstaller.rs` around lines 1458 - 1479:
The same duplicated escape-trust condition is evaluated at install time.

In `@test/cli/install/bun-install.test.ts`:
- Around line 10804-10806: Update the stderr assertion associated with runErr to
trim surrounding whitespace before comparing it with an empty string, while
leaving the runOut and runExit assertions unchanged.
- Around line 10667-10672: Add an assertion in the test covering the overridden
“shared” dependency to verify its file-based package is materialized in
node_modules, matching the sibling local-package test’s invariant; use the
existing fixture’s shared/index.js and preserve the current lockfile and
registry-request assertions.

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[claude]

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🟣 src/install/migration/npm_lock.rs — Same-class escape check in npm_lock migration not relaxed for Folder parents — is_local at line 679 only matches Root | Workspace, so the !is_local && self.is_external_folder(...) gate at lines 770-775 still skips a local file: package's outside-project file: dependencies during package-lock.json migration.

  Extended reasoning...

  A user with npm's package-lock.json (root depends on "plugin": "file:../packages/plugin", and plugin's package.json declares "shared-lib": "file:../shared-lib") runs bun install. Migration walks plugin (res_tag Folder), computes is_local = false (line 679 excludes Folder), so at line 770 the child ../packages/shared-lib hits is_external_folder and is dropped with warn: skipped "shared-lib" from package-lock.json: transitive folder dependency ... is outside the project. Relative to the base branch this is pre-existing behavior, but it is the exact bug class this PR fixes at PackageManagerEnqueue.rs:2852 and PackageInstaller.rs:1459 and the exact predicate the PR extracted into resolution::Tag::is_local_package(); per REVIEW.md "Fix the whole class in the same PR" the migration escape gate should use res_tag.is_local_package() (or add | resolution::Tag::Folder) so migrating from npm produces the same result as a fresh bun install now does. The PR description does not list this site as intentionally excluded.

  Verification: pre-existing — The same-class escape gate in the npm package-lock.json migration path was not relaxed alongside the enqueue/installer paths. At /home/claude/bun/src/install/migration/npm_lock.rs:679: rust let res_tag = self.this.packages.items_resolution()[id as usize].tag; let is_local = matches!(res_tag, resolution::Tag::Root | resolution::Tag::Workspace); Folder is excluded, so…

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Code review found no new issues

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Inline comments:
In `@src/install/lockfile.rs`:
- Around line 893-905: The is_trusted_folder_dependency method currently trusts
every dependency matching a plain override name, regardless of its occurrence or
override value. Update this method and the relevant OverrideMap lookup to match
the specific dependency occurrence and validate the override value before
granting trust, while preserving unconditional trust for dependencies of local
packages and scoped parent-qualified rules.

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[claude]

I re-reviewed after the latest push and didn't find any new issues. Because this change relaxes a path-escape guard on file: dependencies — a security boundary — a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• The new is_workspace_declared_package anchor: a Folder parent is trusted only when it appears in a root/workspace resolution list, so a registry-shipped folder's escaping file: dep is still refused at install time.
• The mirrored local_declared bitset in npm_lock.rs: FIFO queue ordering guarantees the bit is set by the root/workspace pass before the folder entry is linked, and it is never set from a non-local parent.
• Both layers now have a negative test for the registry→folder→escaping-file: chain (hand-written bun.lock and package-lock migration).

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR loosens the transitive file:-path escape rejection so that a file: package the user pointed at (from root or a workspace) may itself declare file: dependencies that leave the project root, while registry/git/tarball packages — and any folder they ship — remain constrained. It touches PackageInstaller.rs and PackageManagerEnqueue.rs (call sites), lockfile.rs (three new predicates), resolution.rs (is_local_package), npm_lock.rs (migration parity via a local_declared bitset), and adds ~500 lines of test coverage across bun-install.test.ts and migrate.test.ts.

Security risks

The check being relaxed exists to stop a registry package from symlinking arbitrary local directories into node_modules. The previous iteration of this PR trusted any Folder parent, which allowed evil (npm) → inner (file:./inner) → loot (file:../../..) to bypass both the migrator and the installer. Commits 64b811ae and b5ee3466 add an explicit anchor: a Folder parent is trusted only when is_workspace_declared_package finds it in the root's or a workspace's resolution list, and the migrator only sets local_declared when the declaring entry is Root/Workspace. I traced the FIFO cursor in migrate_packages to confirm the bit is set on the parent's pass before the child is dequeued, and confirmed the negative case (registry-declared folder) leaves the bit unset so is_external_folder still fires. The new hand-written-lockfile test and the migration test both cover this chain.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is a trust-boundary relaxation in the package manager's path-escape defense, and the correctness argument depends on lockfile invariants (which packages can carry dependency lists for a Folder resolution) that differ between fresh resolve, saved lockfile, and npm migration. A maintainer familiar with the install pipeline should confirm the anchor is sufficient and that no other producer of Folder resolutions with dependency lists exists.

Other factors

Test coverage is thorough — positive (fresh install, bun update, install-from-lockfile) and negative (registry parent, registry-shipped folder, unrelated override name) cases are all exercised, and the re-anchored existing tests keep asserting the original rejection. dylan-conway is actively engaged on the PR (dismissed review + comment on 08-27), which further supports deferring to a human sign-off rather than auto-approving.