Distrust repository-local Python interpreters (avoid executing .venv/bin/python)

[tachyon-beep]

Motivation

• Prevent execution of repository-controlled interpreter files (e.g. <project_root>/.venv/bin/python) which Pyright may invoke, creating an arbitrary code-execution vector.
• Ensure interpreter discovery only selects explicitly trusted/activated interpreters or operator overrides rather than untrusted files from analyzed repositories.

Description

• Remove project-local .venv/bin/python discovery from both the Python plugin and the Rust host so repository-local interpreters are no longer selected; the discovery API keeps project_root in the signature but does not inspect the repository for executables. (plugins/python/src/loomweave_plugin_python/interpreter.py, crates/loomweave-core/src/plugin/interpreter.rs).
• Drop the dotvenv interpreter source and adjust the pinned-classification to treat only explicit overrides and activated environments (VIRTUAL_ENV/CONDA_PREFIX) as pinned. (plugins/python/src/loomweave_plugin_python/interpreter.py, crates/loomweave-core/src/plugin/interpreter.rs).
• Change host export policy so the PluginHost does not hand repository-local interpreter paths to language-server plugins and treat empty override values as not permitting a repository interpreter. (crates/loomweave-core/src/plugin/host.rs).
• Add and adjust regression tests to verify repository .venv executables and symlinks are ignored, update Pyright-session tests to exercise explicit overrides, and update server tests to assert no repository interpreter is advertised. (tests under plugins/python/tests/* and changes to crates/loomweave-core tests).

Testing

• python -m pytest -o addopts='' plugins/python/tests/test_interpreter.py -q — passed (test subset exercised and 13 tests passed).
• cargo test -p loomweave-core plugin::interpreter --lib — passed (8 tests passed).
• cargo test -p loomweave-core only_language_server_plugins_are_pointed_at_the_project_interpreter --lib — passed (host-side regression passed).
• Repo-level checks: ruff/python -m compileall, cargo fmt --all -- --check, and git diff --check were run and passed, and the code was committed as fix(python): distrust repository-local interpreters.
• Environment notes: a full Python test invocation including test_server.py/test_pyright_session.py could not be collected in this environment due to missing yaml in the test environment and the plugin venv lacking pytest, which are external-environment limitations and not regressions in the changes.

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Update the CLI test for removed dotvenv discovery

When no override or activated environment is present, ignoring project_root makes discovery return the unpinned PATH/none result, but analyze_interpreter_change_forces_full_reanalysis in crates/loomweave-cli/tests/analyze.rs still supplies only <project>/.venv/bin/python and asserts that this path is fingerprinted and exported. The verify.yml workspace-wide nextest job runs this test, so the suite will fail on Unix; update the integration scenario to transition between trusted interpreter sources while preserving its re-dispatch coverage.

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Remove the obsolete create-.venv remediation

After this function deliberately stops inspecting the project root, merely creating <project>/.venv cannot resolve interpreter_unpinned; nevertheless, loomweave doctor still tells affected users to “set LOOMWEAVE_PYTHON_INTERPRETER or create .venv,” and the Python README and ADR document the same obsolete rung. Users following that advice remain degraded, so the user-facing remediation and discovery documentation should instead require an explicit override or activated environment.

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Closing without merge — the concern is real but the fix is too broad.

Why not merge:

• It removes ADR-058 rung 2 (<project_root>/.venv/bin/python) outright, reversing an accepted decision without an ADR amendment. Rung 2 is the launcher-independent fix for the elspeth resolution bug (see the ADR's bisect table); dropping it reintroduces the "VIRTUAL_ENV set, venv not on PATH" empty-resolution case for every hook-spawned analyze.
• In the normal operator model .venv is operator-created and gitignored, not repository content; the only untrusted case is a repo that commits an executable at that path.
• It deletes the load-bearing the_root_canonicalisation_at_both_call_sites_is_load_bearing test and is CI-red on both Verify legs.

What happens instead: the narrow mitigation — skip rung 2 only when .venv/bin/python is git-tracked (both sides of the cross-language contract, ADR-058 amended, once-per-run attribution log) — is tracked as Filigree clarion-9b3cf287b7.