fix(devtools): contain asset RPC paths and the storage denylist to what the UI may touch

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Stacked on #1107. Closes out plans/005 and plans/006 (the two open P1 hardening items) before a stable tag.

Assets RPC (server-rpc/assets.ts)

• fix(devtools): harden RPC surface against traversal, spoofing, and dead auth UI #1086 hardened writeStaticAssets; getImageMeta, getTextAssetContent, deleteStaticAsset and renameStaticAsset still accepted any absolute path from the browser. All of them now require the path to be under one of the scanned public directories (app + layers), with a separator-aware check so publicX/ siblings do not pass.
• The text preview limit was client-controlled; it is capped at 10 000 characters.
• Collision rename produced log-1..png for logo.png (off-by-one on the extension plus a doubled dot). Extracted as collisionFreePath(); now logo-1.png, logo-2.png, LICENSE-1.

Storage RPC (server-rpc/storage.ts)

• root / build / src / cache mounts were filtered from getStorageKeys but getStorageItem / setStorageItem / removeStorageItem served them anyway — on Nitro dev that is the project filesystem. The same denylist gates the item operations now.

Tests exercise behaviour, not implementation: the assets suite runs the real RPC against a temp directory (out-of-tree reads/deletes/renames rejected, in-tree read served and capped), the storage suite mounts real unstorage memory drivers and checks the denied mount is invisible to list and item calls while a user mount works.

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Walkthrough

Asset RPC operations now restrict paths to scanned public directories, cap text previews at 10,000 characters, and use collision-free upload naming. Storage item operations skip ignored keys. Tests cover the asset restrictions and storage mount filtering. The client plugin now uses a Plugin-typed constant, and the settings import suppression comment is removed. Workspace dependency settings change, and the Nitro patch and completed plans are removed.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0f937

This change restricts asset and storage RPC operations to safe locations and fixes collision-renamed upload filenames. It ships with tests for these behaviors, and no concrete merge-blocking risk was found.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 044c9

The change reduces direct access to unintended resources, but two verified bypasses remain: asset paths can escape through existing symlinked directories, and alternate storage-key spellings can reach denied mounts. These capabilities predate this PR; the inspected changes do not demonstrate increased authority or new exposure. Actual network reachability still depends on authentication and deployment configuration.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A caller able to invoke these RPCs acts with the DevTools process's backing-resource permissions. Asset escape requires an appropriate existing symlink within a permitted public directory; denied storage access requires the corresponding mount to exist. Exposure can include project files and configured external stores, but no cross-tenant or cross-environment expansion is demonstrated.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — The retained asset finding remains supported: a path beneath a symlinked public-directory parent passes lexical containment, then reads, deletes or renames an outside target. Rename destinations can likewise resolve outside the public tree. The unrestricted operations already existed at the merge base, so this is incomplete hardening of pre-existing authority, not a demonstrated new capability. The stronger write-path canonicalization does not protect these other methods.
• observed — The retained storage finding remains supported: keys such as root/nuxt.config.ts or :root:nuxt.config.ts evade the raw-prefix denylist but normalize to root:nuxt.config.ts before driver dispatch. This preserves read, write and removal access to a configured denied mount. Canonical spellings are now blocked, but the broader item authority and the relevant unstorage version predate this PR.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Installed transport code defaults client authentication to enabled and supplies an authorization function requiring a trusted session for non-anonymous methods. Explicit configuration or an environment variable can disable that gate, and Nuxt's disableAuthorization option configures an opt-out. This is significant counterevidence against assuming unrestricted anonymous invocation, but complete dispatch enforcement, origin policy and deployed settings remain unresolved.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Asset uploads retain check-then-write collision selection and concurrent batch writes without rollback; rename collision decisions remain cache-backed. Partial failure, repetition or concurrency can therefore leave partial or stale state. These mechanics predate the PR and are not active PR concerns. Storage guards run before driver invocation, but their key-identity mismatch persists across repeated and concurrent requests.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Bind asset authorization to canonical permitted roots and the filesystem target or destination parent actually used, including symlink and replacement-race handling. Apply storage policy to the same normalized key and effective mount identity used by driver dispatch.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 40.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 5 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the asset path containment and storage denylist changes.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the asset RPC hardening, storage denylist changes, and related tests.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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packages/devtools/test/storage-denylist.test.ts (1)

17-34: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the backing mounts after denied writes and removals.

The setStorageItem calls are not observable: getStorageItem returns null for ignored keys, and getStorageKeys filters them out. Those assertions can still pass if the write guard is removed. The test never calls removeStorageItem for root or src. Use an observable backing store, seed ignored keys, and assert that denied writes leave storage unchanged and denied removals preserve the seeded values.

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Review comment at @packages/devtools/test/storage-denylist.test.ts around lines
17 - 34:
Update the test `hides project-backed mounts from listing and from every item
operation` to verify denied writes and removals against the backing storage
rather than filtered RPC reads. Seed keys in the `root` and `src` mounts,
attempt writes and removals for those keys, and assert the seeded values remain
unchanged; keep the existing listing and `db` mount assertions.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @packages/devtools/src/server-rpc/assets.ts:
- Around line 22-27: Update assertInsideAssets to compare canonicalized target
and layer-root paths rather than lexical paths, resolving the nearest existing
ancestor so symlinked targets and parent directories cannot escape containment.
If validation becomes asynchronous, await it in getTextAssetContent,
getImageMeta, deleteStaticAsset, and renameStaticAsset.

Review comments at @packages/devtools/src/server-rpc/storage.ts:
- Line 100: Update shouldIgnoreStorageKey to normalize each key with unstorage’s
normalizeKey before extracting and checking its mount prefix. Add tests
confirming both `/root:nuxt.config.ts` and `:root:nuxt.config.ts` are denied.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @packages/devtools/test/storage-denylist.test.ts:
- Around line 17-34: Update the test `hides project-backed mounts from listing
and from every item operation` to verify denied writes and removals against the
backing storage rather than filtered RPC reads. Seed keys in the `root` and
`src` mounts, attempt writes and removals for those keys, and assert the seeded
values remain unchanged; keep the existing listing and `db` mount assertions.

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• packages/devtools/src/runtime/plugins/devtools.client.ts
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• packages/devtools/src/server-rpc/assets.ts
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