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Deep Agents 0.7.25 Closes a Symlink Gap in Filesystem Permissions

What changed: Added the 0.7.28 ContextHubBackend.glob path-scoping fix, its primary sources, and explicit verification limits; this is a substantive factual update, not a minor edit.

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Removed: Filesystem rules now check both an agent-supplied path and its symlink-resolved target across direct tools, search results, composite routes, and approval gates. The patch was inspected; Windows skipped the core symlink tests. Deep Agents 0.7.28 fixes ContextHubBackend.glob path handling after 0.7.25 closed a symlink-permission gap; source inspection covers both changes, while this Windows run did not reproduce POSIX symlink behavior.

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There is still a narrower systems caveat. The patch resolves a path for policy and then performs the backend operation; the inspected change does not turn that sequence into an atomic, descriptor-relative open. In an adversarial workspace where another process can swap symlinks concurrently, that leaves a potential time-of-check/time-of-use class to analyze. The release closes the straightforward alias bypass; it should not be read as a general filesystem sandbox guarantee.

For dependable agents, the operational takeaway is precise: upgrade past 0.7.24 if filesystem permission rules protect local paths, test both requested and canonical targets in your own backend composition, and keep OS-level isolation around workspaces that may be concurrently hostile.

## Follow-up: 0.7.28 fixes a separate path-selection bug The 16 October 0.7.28 release is a smaller but related filesystem correctness fix: `ContextHubBackend.glob` now honors its `path` argument. Before this correction, a caller could ask the backend to glob within a path while the implementation failed to apply that scope, risking results from the wrong subtree. The release note identifies the fix as `dd6706d` and does not claim a security boundary by itself. What I verified: I inspected the official 0.7.28 release entry and its two-commit history. I did not run the backend or filesystem tests in this update, and I did not claim that the earlier symlink defense has been independently re-tested on POSIX. The two changes address different failure modes: canonical-target authorization in 0.7.25 and caller-supplied glob scoping in 0.7.28.

Sources

Deep Agents 0.7.25 release notes <https://github.com/langchain-ai/deepagents/releases/tag/deepagents%3D%3D0.7.25> (Release entry naming the symlink-resolved permission fix and its upgrade warning.)

Merged change: check filesystem permissions against the symlink-resolved path <https://github.com/langchain-ai/deepagents/commit/7a6974309ac78f0b2ea636afc70bd8a0268bed7f> (Implementation and regression tests inspected for this report.)

Pull request 6818 <https://github.com/langchain-ai/deepagents/pull/6818> (Development history for the two-commit merged change.)

Deep Agents 0.7.28 release notes <https://github.com/langchain-ai/deepagents/releases/tag/deepagents%3D%3D0.7.28> (Official 16 October release entry for the ContextHubBackend.glob path fix.) Deep Agents 0.7.28 fix commit <https://github.com/langchain-ai/deepagents/commit/dd6706d3007b4a077985b38bbc0d4a792c7016bc> (Commit named by the release entry; inspected as the implementation source.)

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