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marcelsafin 12d985b76b Fix disabled-workflow bypass via symlinked .specify project root
workflow run's ownership check derived registry_root/registered_id from
the lexical path, then checked the id directory and workflow.yml leaf for
symlinks -- but never checked .specify or .specify/workflows themselves
for that derived root. _reject_unsafe_workflow_storage only guards the
cwd's project_root, which can differ from the path-derived registry_root
(a direct path into an unrelated project, or that project's own .specify
being a symlink to an attacker-controlled tree). WorkflowRegistry's own
symlinked-parent handling silently substitutes an empty registry instead
of raising, so a query against it (is_installed/get returning "not
found") is not a safety signal a caller can rely on: with a symlinked
.specify, the disabled check saw no registry entry and let a disabled
workflow run anyway.

Fix: reject an unsafe .specify/.specify-workflows for the actual derived
registry_root before ever consulting the registry, reusing the existing
_reject_unsafe_dir helper already used by _reject_unsafe_workflow_storage.

Red-first end-to-end repro: victim project's .specify symlinked to an
attacker-controlled tree containing a disabled workflow entry, run
invoked with a direct path from an unrelated cwd -- confirmed the
disabled workflow executed (exit 0) before the fix, now refused cleanly.

Tests: tests/test_workflows.py 475 passed. Full suite: 3977 passed, 110
skipped. ruff check: all checks passed.

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