[BUG] [v0.1.0] search_replace_all corrupts files with literal escape sequences

[R-Panic]

File Corruption in search_replace_all

Version: v0.1.0

Issue:
Search/replace writes literal \n instead of actual newlines.

Reproduce:
Replace with: text\nmore
File contains: text\nmore (visible backslashes)

Expected:
text
more

Impact:

• Files corrupted
• Code unrunnable
• Data loss

Severity: MEDIUM

[atlas-cortex]

❌ Validation Summary — Issue #53524

Code verification failed: The bug report mentions a command or feature called search_replace_all. I searched the entire codebase for search_replace_all using grep and find but found no occurrences of it. There is a search_replace module and a replace_all flag in multi_edit.rs and hunk.rs, but no search_replace_all command or function. Since the feature does not exist, the bug is not plausible.

Confidence Score: 4/5

• This issue does not meet the minimum requirements for a valid bounty submission.

Validation Checks

Check	Status	Detail
Media Evidence	❌ Fail	No screenshot or video attached
Spam Detection	✅ Pass	Score: 68% — borderline, consulted LLM
Duplicate Detection	✅ Pass	No significant overlap with existing issues
Code Verification	❌ Fail	Bug not found in source code (confidence: 100%) — screenshots invalid — The bug report mentions a command or feature called search_replace_all. I sear
LLM Evaluation	❌ Fail	Code verification failed: The bug report mentions a command or feature called search_replace_all. I searched the entir...

Action Items

• Ensure the bug report describes a real command/feature in Cortex
• Verify that the described behavior matches the actual code
• Provide screenshots showing actual CLI output, not source code

Validation Pipeline

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Raw Evidence

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  "media": {
    "hasMedia": false,
    "accessible": false,
    "urls": [],
    "evidence": [
      "No media URLs found in issue body"
    ]
  },
  "spam": {
    "overallScore": 0.6763736263736264,
    "details": "template=0.13 (5 recent issues compared); burst=1.00 (6 issues in 2h window); parity=0.00; overall=0.35 (threshold=0.7); llm_spam=1.00 (The issue provides a clear title, steps to reproduce, and expected versus actual behavior regarding a bug with literal escape sequences in search_replace_all. However, it completely lacks visual evidence (screenshots or videos). According to the strict evaluation standards, missing evidence automatically renders an issue invalid, regardless of the clarity of the text.)"
  },
  "duplicate": {
    "isDuplicate": false,
    "similarity": 0.46396485669176507,
    "topSimilar": [
      {
        "issueNumber": 51638,
        "title": "[BUG] [v0.0.7] `parse_search_replace()` treats literal `=======` inside content as the delimiter — corrupts the edit silently",
        "similarity": 0.46396485669176507
      },
      {
        "issueNumber": 51134,
        "title": "[bug] [v0.0.7] [cortex-engine] EscapeNormalizedReplacer fallback uses byte offset from normalized string to slice original content",
        "similarity": 0.4128136133187528
      },
      {
        "issueNumber": 52949,
        "title": "[BUG] [v0.0.7] `Edit` tool: `occurrences_replaced` uses exact `old_str` matches on **original** content after fuzzy `replace_all` — undercounts when strategies don’t match `old_str` literally",
        "similarity": 0.40675373176131274
      },
      {
        "issueNumber": 51147,
        "title": "[bug] [v0.0.7] [cortex-engine] fuzzy_replace always sets start_index: 0 and end_index: old_str.len() regardless of actual match location",
        "similarity": 0.3915899897002828
      },
      {
        "issueNumber": 52975,
        "title": "[BUG] [v0.0.7] In add, Search Doesn't Highlight Matching Characters",
        "similarity": 0.3864602885829523
      }
    ]
  },
  "codeVerification": {
    "plausible": false,
    "confidence": 1,
    "reasoning": "The bug report mentions a command or feature called `search_replace_all`. I searched the entire codebase for `search_replace_all` using `grep` and `find` but found no occurrences of it. There is a `search_replace` module and a `replace_all` flag in `multi_edit.rs` and `hunk.rs`, but no `search_replace_all` command or function. Since the feature does not exist, the bug is not plausible.",
    "codeEvidence": "No search_replace_all command or feature found in the codebase.",
    "screenshotValid": false,
    "screenshotReasoning": "No screenshots were provided in the bug report."
  }
}

_{Validated by Atlas • 2026-05-10}