[maria-rcks]

Problem

Private GitHub release images in pull request descriptions load without authentication and return 404.

Change

Recognize release-download URLs, look up the release by tag through the authenticated REST service, and stream the exact asset's binary API response. The credential comes from the same selection every GitHub REST request uses (saved token, app sign-in, then GH_TOKEN/gh), and the lookup and the download share it. An app credential that cannot see the repository hands on to the user's own credential once, and public releases still load anonymously. The token only goes to GitHub hosts over https, never to signed object-store redirects. Web, desktop, and mobile share the classifier.

Verification

• The extended release tests fail on the previous head and pass now. vp run check:changed passed through Blacksmith on head 5f2adcf: format, lint, knip, GraphQL check, typecheck of affected packages, and focused tests.
• Chrome check from the first pass: real release images in https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/19703 load through the server proxy. The screenshots use public GitHub data and a simulated anonymous 404.
• Unverified: live private-account rendering, native clients, and remote/relay/tunnel execution. Macroscope wants human approval for the auth-sensitive path.

Evidence

Same PR description and crop. Direct browser release downloads return a simulated 404 in both captures; the server uses real GitHub requests.

Takeover

Replaces https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/21015, with thanks to @mwolson for the original implementation.

Built with GPT-6.1-Sol in the Codex harness on T3 Code; review fixes by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code.

Fixes #21014

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 5f2adcf

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Adds private GitHub release-media loading through authenticated API downloads, while preserving public-download fallback. Existing authorization and media-response safeguards limit exposure, with no persistent-data or product-default changes.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 9ef1256 · PR result: 5f2adcf · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Walkthrough

The change recognizes GitHub release-download URLs as media. It looks up releases through the GitHub API and fetches matching assets by ID. If credentialed fetching does not return a successful response, it requests the original URL without a token.

Changes: GitHub release media

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Release URL parsing and recognition packages/source-control-github/src/shared/gitHubMedia.ts, packages/source-control-github/src/shared/definition.test.ts	The parser recognizes valid release-download URLs, decodes their components, and rejects URLs or components that fail validation. Tests cover encoded characters, canonical hosts, and rejected URL forms.
Authenticated release asset fetching packages/source-control-github/src/server/gitHubMediaFetch.ts, packages/source-control-github/src/server/gitHubMediaFetch.test.ts	GitHubMediaFetch validates release metadata, matches assets by exact name, and requests matching asset IDs as octet-stream. After a failed app-credential attempt, it tries a personal credential. If no credentialed attempt succeeds, it fetches the original URL without a token. Tests cover redirects and fallback cases.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHubMediaFetch
  participant GitHubREST
  participant GitHubAPI
  participant AssetHost
  GitHubMediaFetch->>GitHubREST: Look up release by owner, repo, and tag
  GitHubREST-->>GitHubMediaFetch: Return release assets with IDs and names
  GitHubMediaFetch->>GitHubAPI: Request exact matching asset by ID
  GitHubAPI-->>GitHubMediaFetch: Return asset response or redirect
  GitHubMediaFetch->>AssetHost: Follow redirect without authorization

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Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code issue 21014: The issue reports private GitHub release images failing in PR descriptions. This change adds release URL recognition and authenticated API asset fetching.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 5f2ad

No actionable issue remains identified for the release-image change. It is mergeable after normal checks.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description explains the problem, change, and verification, and it reports unverified cases. However, scope approval is still outstanding for this authentication-sensitive change.	Add a link to a triaged issue or discussion that includes explicit maintainer approval of the direction and scope. If this focused fix qualifies for an exception, explain why it is an obvious bug that does not need prior approval.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly describes the private GitHub release image fix.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Note

Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

verified exact head ad56e4719f9ae47c5458eff50b98fcb68fb26026 against github/main (c677d5fc45) on this linux boat vm. no code changes were needed.

• installed each checkout with vp i and ran one background dev server at a time with isolated state. used repository playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome. created a project and thread through each web app, selected codex gpt-6.1-sol, and completed real provider turns running pwd and git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree.
• reproduced main's missing release-media support through the authenticated websocket API: assets.createUrl rejected two existing private github release assets with AssetGitHubMediaUrlValidationError.
• the same requests on this head minted signed asset URLs and returned real image/gif responses: 2,554,314 bytes and 17,563 bytes. both decoded at 480×480. both sha256 hashes exactly matched github's live release asset metadata. the second release tag contains / and #. no requests were intercepted or mocked.
• nearby behavior: an existing private raw image returned 200 with identical bytes on both heads. the public release image and adjacent user-attachment image in https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/19703 rendered in the actual pr panel. main used direct release URLs; this head used /api/assets. opened the image gallery, advanced to the user-attachment image, and closed it with escape.
• 14 existing focused tests in gitHubMediaFetch.test.ts and definition.test.ts passed through blacksmith-check. current-head ci reports 31 successful checks, zero pending or failing.

short server transcript, with private contents and signed URLs omitted

matching public description and viewport below. these show preserved public rendering; the private regression is proven by the API transcript, not these screenshots.

Not verified

• a release image embedded in a live private pr description. the author's private fixture returns 404 for this account. private release downloading and browser decoding were verified separately against accessible existing assets through the running server.
• native electron, macos/windows, ios/android, and remote/relay/tunnel execution were unavailable or outside this linux web pass.
• live anonymous fallback without github credentials was not exercised; the focused tests cover it.

screenshots were inspected at full size. the exported video and uploaded t3 browser player were checked for playback and seeking. nothing was merged, rebased, force-pushed, closed, or relabeled.

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