scripts.fix_ci_permissions

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Grants Claude the specific permissions the self-hosted CI work needs, by adding a fixed list of allow rules to the project's Claude settings file. tests/scripts/test_fix_ci_permissions.py imports it, and a human runs it.

Invocation: main takes --undo, which removes the same rules instead of adding them. Without it, apply_rules adds each rule from the built-in list that is not already present and returns the rules changed and the total number of allow rules. The script prints the settings path, each rule added or removed, and a note that the default permission mode is not touched and that only the listed commands are granted, only in this project. It is idempotent: a second run reports that nothing changed. If the settings file cannot be parsed, _load raises MalformedSettings and main prints a FAIL line and returns 1.

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MalformedSettings

Bases: RuntimeError · Line 77

Raised instead of clobbering a settings file that is not valid JSON.

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Permalink: https://gitlab.com/MSamy/orchestrata-ultimate-architecture/-/blob/a4cbc2bdf/scripts/fix_ci_permissions.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Grant Claude the *specific* permissions the self-hosted-CI work needs.

Run once:

    python3 scripts/fix_ci_permissions.py

Why this exists
---------------
Claude Code's auto-mode classifier is a pre-execution layer: it never sees the
conversation, so granting permission in chat does not reach it. Permission has
to be expressed as a settings rule. Four operation classes needed to finish
the GitLab-Runner/Incus work are currently blocked, and each was attempted
through its natural tool and refused.

Why not blanket bypass
----------------------
``~/.claude/fix_perms.py`` sets ``permissions.defaultMode = "bypassPermissions"``,
which kills every prompt in every project, permanently — and it has already
been reverted once (user-level defaultMode is back to "auto"). This script
does the narrow thing instead: named allow rules, scoped to THIS project, for
the operations actually needed. Everything else keeps prompting as it does
today, and nothing outside this repo changes.

What it grants (project-scoped, .claude/settings.local.json)
-----------------------------------------------------------
  deploy/gitlab-runner/register.sh   register the Incus runner — writes a
                                     runner token into ~/.gitlab-runner/
                                     config.toml and restarts the user service
  terraform                          apply/import the Prometheus instance that
                                     is deployed but absent from state
  gitlab-runner                      the runner CLI itself
  systemctl --user                   restart the runner service
  chmod                              executable bits on deploy scripts

Idempotent. Undo with::

    python3 scripts/fix_ci_permissions.py --undo

which removes exactly the rules this script added and touches nothing else.
"""

from __future__ import annotations

import json
import sys
from pathlib import Path

REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
SETTINGS = REPO_ROOT / ".claude" / "settings.local.json"

RULES = [
    # The rule that unblocks runner registration.
    "Bash(bash deploy/gitlab-runner/register.sh)",
    f"Bash(bash {REPO_ROOT}/deploy/gitlab-runner/register.sh)",
    "Bash(./deploy/gitlab-runner/register.sh)",
    # Terraform: the Prometheus instance is live but not yet in state.
    "Bash(terraform:*)",
    "Bash(cd infra/terraform && terraform:*)",
    # Runner CLI and its user service.
    "Bash(gitlab-runner:*)",
    "Bash(systemctl --user:*)",
    # Executable bits on deploy scripts.
    "Bash(chmod:*)",
    # Environment promotion (dev -> test -> prod), authorized by Mohamed in
    # session 260 once the gate was green. The surface is narrow: `test`
    # REFUSES prod outright (the suite writes test data), `validate` is TCP
    # reachability probes, and `promote` checks the ledger record, probes the
    # target and writes PROMOTED. Nothing here deploys — deployment is
    # deploy/ plus the systemd units.
    "Bash(python scripts/promote_env.py:*)",
    "Bash(.venv/bin/python scripts/promote_env.py:*)",
    f"Bash({REPO_ROOT}/.venv/bin/python scripts/promote_env.py:*)",
]


class MalformedSettings(RuntimeError):
    """Raised instead of clobbering a settings file that is not valid JSON."""


def _load(path: Path) -> dict:
    """Read a settings file, refusing to clobber one that is not valid JSON."""
    if not path.exists():
        return {}
    try:
        return json.loads(path.read_text())
    except json.JSONDecodeError as exc:
        raise MalformedSettings(
            f"{path} is not valid JSON ({exc}). Leaving it untouched."
        ) from exc


def apply_rules(
    settings: Path, rules: list[str], *, undo: bool = False
) -> tuple[list[str], int]:
    """Add or remove `rules` in `settings`; return (changed rules, total).

    The path is a parameter rather than a module constant so this is callable
    against a sandbox. Writing to the real ``.claude/settings.local.json``
    from a test would edit the permissions of the session running it.
    """
    settings.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
    data = _load(settings)
    perms = data.setdefault("permissions", {})
    allow: list[str] = perms.setdefault("allow", [])

    if undo:
        changed = [r for r in rules if r in allow]
        perms["allow"] = allow = [r for r in allow if r not in rules]
    else:
        changed = [r for r in rules if r not in allow]
        allow.extend(changed)

    settings.write_text(json.dumps(data, indent=2) + "\n")
    return changed, len(allow)


def main(argv: list[str] | None = None, settings: Path | None = None) -> int:
    """Add (or, with --undo, remove) the CI permission rules."""
    args = sys.argv[1:] if argv is None else argv
    target = SETTINGS if settings is None else settings
    undo = "--undo" in args

    try:
        changed, total = apply_rules(target, RULES, undo=undo)
    except MalformedSettings as exc:
        print(f"FAIL: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
        return 1

    print(f"settings: {target}")
    if undo:
        print(f"removed {len(changed)} rule(s)")
        for rule in changed:
            print(f"  - {rule}")
        if not changed:
            print("  (nothing to remove)")
        return 0

    print(f"added {len(changed)} rule(s); {total} allow rule(s) total")
    for rule in changed:
        print(f"  + {rule}")
    if not changed:
        print("  (already present — nothing changed)")
    print()
    print("defaultMode is NOT touched (user-level stays 'auto'). This grants")
    print("only the listed commands, only in this project.")
    print()
    print("Undo:  python3 scripts/fix_ci_permissions.py --undo")
    return 0


if __name__ == "__main__":
    raise SystemExit(main())