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Makes Ghost's config immutable and validated, and types config.get() from the schema — without moving a single call site.

Builds on #31326 (merged), which fixed two places that wrote through into config. This change needs those: once config is frozen, both become silent breakage.

Supersedes #30722.

Why

Config is loaded by nconf and read through config.get('a:b'). That returns any, hands out a live reference into nconf's stores, and for an object-valued key deep-merges a hit from each of nine stores on every call.

How

nconf's job ends at layering the sources. loadNconf() hands its merged tree to createConfig(), which validates it against a zod schema, deep-freezes it, and returns the object everything reads from then on. Nothing reads nconf again after load.

One representation, so the whole config is immutable — not only the part a schema names. The schema is loose, so a key it doesn't list is still validated and frozen, just typed any.

A schema adds a type. config.get() is typed from it, so a covered key path returns that key's type at every existing call site. No codemod, no half-migrated state:

config.get('url')                 // string, frozen, validated
config.get('paths:contentPath')   // any — no schema yet, unchanged
config.get(someVariable)          // any

Only url and env are schemafied here, both no stricter than assertions the loader already ran. This change installs the mechanism; it validates nothing new.

Reads get much cheaper, since a path walk replaces a nine-store merge:

nconf frozen tree
get('database') 949 ns 25 ns
get('database:client') 90 ns 31 ns
get('url') 278 ns 22 ns
get('database').connection.filename 956 ns 22 ns
{...get('database')} 949 ns 56 ns

Retaining the tree costs 34 KiB (117 top-level keys, 59 of them environment variables). #30722 avoided caching the merged tree on the grounds that it would hold every environment variable; measured, that isn't a reason.

Measured on a Pro-like config

Benchmarked against a matched main baseline on the Pro image (5000 requests, dedicated runner). Sanity first, since the numbers are meaningless without it: calibration 364 vs 370 ms (this branch's host 1.6% slower), steal 0.006% / 0.009% — both far under the 1% contamination threshold.

The finding that does not depend on run-to-run noise is attribution. nconf is in the baseline CPU profile at 1834 ms self time, 1.7% of busy time, and is absent entirely from this branch's profile — its nine-store merge no longer runs on request paths:

base:   busy 106712 ms   ... | nconf | 1834 | 1.7% |
stack:  busy 105362 ms   ... (no nconf row)

load.cpu_s agrees directionally at 104.6 → 102.7 (−1.78%), on the slower host — but that is one run per side, and per-endpoint p99s swing ±15–22% in both directions, so treat it as directional only.

Boot is unchanged. boot.cpu_s reads +6.55% from a single sample, but boot wall over 5 runs is faster here (2480 vs 2518 ms mean, within ±75–93 ms stddev), and the obvious suspect is ruled out — zod was already loaded at boot on main (identical 95 files; main's RSS is in fact 3 MB higher). load.heap_used_bytes −59% is GC sampling, not a result.

Notes for review

  • set()/reset() are test-only, and now rebuild atomically from the loaded sources plus the overrides recorded so far. This had to change: nconf's reset() empties every store and configUtils.restore() reapplies 117 keys one at a time, so for the length of a restore the config did not validate — 61 top-level keys, all environment variables, no url and no env. Validation is atomic, so the rebuild must be. test/utils/config-utils.js needed no changes.
  • writePath copies a level on the way down if it's frozen, because an override's value is often something a test read back out of config.
  • z.looseObject adds an index signature, which collapses the key-path union to string and silently types everything any. OmitIndexSignature strips it at each level. Worth knowing before adding a nested section.
  • The path union is cheap. A synthetic 90-key schema three levels deep yields 2969 paths and adds 0.23s to a cold tsc --noEmit over ghost/core.
  • The schema must stay loose. nconf.env() runs with no whitelist, so every process environment variable is a top-level config key — config.get('PATH') resolves today. Closing the schema needs that whitelisted first, in its own change.
  • Only the environments we run ourselves are strict. development and test* throw on a violation; production, and whatever NODE_ENV a self-hoster picks, log and carry on. A schema mistake should fail a developer's boot, never a live site's. GHOST_CONFIG_SCHEMA_STRICT overrides either way.
  • Transforms are deliberately still out. They're the natural home for sanitizeDatabaseProperties and makePathsAbsolute, and a single representation is what makes them safe, but they're their own change.
  • One test was doing read-modify-write on a config object and now sets the path directly. The four adapter-manager config fakes get simpler — they build a plain object instead of an nconf provider with hand-bound helpers.

A third write-through site, and how it was found

MigratorConfig.js hands config.get('database') straight to knex-migrator, whose connect() assembles knex's options by mutating what it is given — connection.timezone, charset, decimalNumbers, and a delete of connection.filename. On main that write succeeds; once config is read-only it is simply dropped, because knex-migrator is sloppy-mode CommonJS and does not throw. The migrator's connection would silently lose all of it.

It now gets a _.cloneDeep copy. cloneDeep and not structuredClone: this hands a tree to a third party, so it must not throw on a value it cannot clone — and structuredClone throws outright on a Proxy, which matters for the guard below.

Found by temporarily swapping the deep freeze for a Proxy whose set trap throws, then running the unit, integration and e2e suites against both MySQL and SQLite, plus a development boot. It was the only violation anywhere:

result under the guard
unit 9323 pass, 0 violations
integration (MySQL / SQLite) 483 / 483 pass, 0 violations
e2e (MySQL / SQLite) 2661 / 2660 of 2662, 0 violations
development boot boots, admin 200, 0 violations

On enforcement

A runtime guard can't carry this; the compiler has to. Ghost's .js files are sloppy-mode CommonJS, where writing to a frozen object is silently dropped rather than thrown.

node --use-strict does not fix that, contrary to what an earlier version of this description claimed. It makes only the entry point strict — a require()d CommonJS module keeps its own strictness, with or without tsx:

entry strict:           true
required module strict: false

So a suite run under the flag proves nothing about the modules under test. The options that would actually enforce the freeze are 'use strict' directives across the 1330 production .js files (6 have one today), or the Proxy guard above gated to the test environment, since a trap throws regardless of the caller's strictness. The guard is the cheaper one and would have caught all three write-through sites. Worth doing as its own change, not this one.

Testing

Unit 9327, integration 483, e2e 2662 of 2662. tsc --noEmit on both tsconfigs, eslint clean.

The e2e suite is unstable on this machine independently of this change: each full run leaves one or two failures from a rotating set (the actions audit log, themes upload, a nock net-connect in click tracking), and every one of them passes when its file is run on its own. CI is the signal for those. A development boot is clean with no read-only errors, and all four shipped environments validate under GHOST_CONFIG_SCHEMA_STRICT=true and come back frozen.

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Validate boundary config values with Zod before exposing them as validated config, and derive their types with z.infer. Do not expose unvalidated paths as any; use unknown or a separately typed unvalidated view for paths without schemas. Do not cast a failed parse result to ValidatedConfig; reject it or preserve its unvalidated type.

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Default custom environments to warn-only behavior.

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ghost/core/test/unit/shared/config/validated.test.ts-129-145 (1)

129-145: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the spies and env stubs in hooks.

mockRestore() and vi.unstubAllEnvs() run only when the assertions pass. If an assertion fails, console.error stays mocked for later tests. GHOST_CONFIG_SCHEMA_STRICT also stays set, and that changes strictness for later tests. Move this cleanup into an afterEach.

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   describe('validateConfig', function () {
+    afterEach(function () {
+      vi.restoreAllMocks();
+      vi.unstubAllEnvs();
+    });

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Move cleanup for the spies and environment stubs in the validateConfig test
suite into an afterEach hook so it runs even when assertions fail. Use
vi.restoreAllMocks() and vi.unstubAllEnvs(), and remove the per-test cleanup
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Invalidate the cached view after the write, not before it.

invalidating clears current first and then calls fn(...args). Suppose another code path reads config.validated or a schemafied get() between those two steps, or fn itself reads config internally. In that case validateConfig rebuilds current from the old store values. The cache then stays stale after the write finishes. For example, nconf.set can call into merge logic that reads get.

A plainer risk applies in production, where validation is non-strict. Each read after a write re-runs structuredClone of the full config, plus a parse and a deep freeze. This cost is bounded, but it is safer to clear the cache after the write. Clearing after the write also keeps the cache consistent if fn throws partway through.

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+      } finally {
+        current = undefined;
+      }
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136-166: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Move env and spy cleanup into an afterEach hook.

vi.unstubAllEnvs() and mockRestore() run at the end of each test body. If an assertion fails, these calls do not run. GHOST_CONFIG_SCHEMA_STRICT and the console.error spy then leak into later tests. A leaked GHOST_CONFIG_SCHEMA_STRICT=true makes every later lenient-environment test throw. The repository guideline says: "Cleanup belongs in suite hooks that still run when an assertion fails."

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   describe('validateConfig', function () {
+    afterEach(function () {
+      vi.unstubAllEnvs();
+      vi.restoreAllMocks();
+    });

After adding the hook, remove the inline vi.unstubAllEnvs() and error.mockRestore() calls.

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Move environment-stub and console-spy cleanup from the test bodies in the
validateConfig suite into an afterEach hook, so cleanup still runs when
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83-83: The lenient path freezes unvalidated subtrees that get() never serves.

If validation fails in a non-strict environment, raw is the full clone. The clone includes every top-level key, and each key is deep-frozen. This is safe because get() reroutes only schema paths. It still freezes and retains a second copy of the full config, including all environment variables. On the success path, result.data also keeps unknown keys by reference from the clone. Both paths therefore behave the same way, and the change has no functional impact. No action is required.


1-177: LGTM!

ghost/core/test/unit/shared/config/validated.test.ts (1)

215-223: Restore the sinon stub in a hook.

If the assertion on Line 219 fails, stub.restore() does not run. The leak is limited because each test creates its own provider. No change is needed.

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ghost/core/test/unit/server/data/db/connection.test.ts-12-16 (1)

12-16: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make the test independent of the module cache.

The test calls require(...connection) and depends on that call running configure(). If another test in the same worker already loaded the module, the module is cached and configure() does not run again. The "unchanged config" assertion then passes without testing anything. Clear the require cache entry before you require the module. Restore the cache in an afterEach hook. The testing guide says: "Keep time, randomness, environment, and ordering deterministic."

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Update the test around the `connection` require to evict its module from Node’s
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Add an `afterEach` hook that restores the original cache entry so the test does
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ghost/core/core/shared/config/validated.ts-190-193 (2)

190-193: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The value passed to config.set is frozen in place.

writePath stores the caller's value by reference. validateConfig then deep-freezes the whole tree, and that tree includes the stored object. A test that calls config.set('adapters', obj) and later mutates obj loses that write without an error in sloppy-mode JS. This violates the "does not freeze the sources" guarantee that applies to createConfig. To fix this, clone the value when you record it.

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     set(key: string, value: unknown): void {
-      overrides.set(key, value);
+      overrides.set(key, structuredClone(value));
       rebuild();
     },
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Update the set method to clone value before storing it in overrides, so rebuild
and validation cannot freeze the caller’s original object. Preserve the existing
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190-193: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the override map when strict validation rejects an override.

set() records the override before rebuild(). If strict validation throws, the rejected value remains in overrides. A later valid set() rebuilds from base and reapplies the rejected value, so it can throw again. Clear or restore the override when rebuild() fails.

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Update the set() method so that if rebuild() throws after an override is
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ghost/core/test/unit/shared/config/validated.test.ts-118-121 (1)

118-121: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the environment and mocks in afterEach.

The shared hook restores console.error, but it does not call vi.unstubAllEnvs(). A failed assertion can therefore leave GHOST_CONFIG_SCHEMA_STRICT active for later tests.

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   describe('validateConfig', function () {
+    afterEach(function () {
+      vi.unstubAllEnvs();
+      vi.restoreAllMocks();
+    });
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- Around line 190-193: Update the set method to clone value before storing it in
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Preserve the existing rebuild flow.
- Around line 190-193: Update the set() method so that if rebuild() throws after
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Review comments at @ghost/core/test/unit/shared/config/validated.test.ts:
- Around line 118-121: Add an afterEach hook in the validateConfig test suite to
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Config is loaded by nconf and read through `config.get('a:b')`, which returns
`any` and hands out a live reference into nconf's stores. There are ~350 such
reads in `ghost/core/core` across 78 top-level keys, so validating all of it at
once is not a change anyone could review or safely ship.

The schema is therefore allowed to grow one key at a time, and `config.get()` is
typed from it: a key path the schema covers resolves to that key's validated,
deep-frozen value with a real type, and everything else reads straight from nconf
with the `any` it has always had. Call sites do not move. A key gains validation,
freezing and a type at every existing `config.get('that:key')` in the same change
that adds its schema, so there is no half-migrated state to reason about and no
codemod to land.

Only `url` and `env` are schemafied here. Both are deliberately no stricter than
what the loader already asserted, so this validates nothing new.

Two details worth knowing about the typing. `z.looseObject` adds an index
signature, which collapses the key-path union to `string` and silently types
everything as `any` unless it is stripped at each level - hence `Known<T>` in
schema.ts. And the path union stays cheap: a synthetic 90-key schema three levels
deep produces 2969 paths and adds 0.23s to a cold `tsc --noEmit` over ghost/core.

Writing through nconf drops the validated view rather than rebuilding it, because
`configUtils.restore()` writes one key at a time and re-validating part-way
through would reject a config that is only briefly incomplete. Production never
calls `set`, so this costs nothing there.

Production only warns on a schema violation. Ghost(Pro) injects config through
environment variables this repo cannot see, so a schema this repo got subtly
wrong should be a log line rather than a fleet-wide boot crash-loop. Development
and test boot strictly, and GHOST_CONFIG_SCHEMA_STRICT overrides either way.
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🟡 Minor · Treat undefined as an unset override in createConfig.set(). · config-utils.js:9-10

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Treat undefined as an unset override in createConfig.set().

configUtils.set('paths:contentPath', ...) calls clearDerivedContentPaths(). If the loaded config contains an explicit adapters:redirects:FileStore:basePath, the current set(..., undefined) stores a present undefined value and masks that loaded value. normalizeAdapterPaths() then applies the content-path default, so tests can use the wrong redirects directory. nconf previously fell through to the lower-priority value.

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       overrides.delete(key);
-      overrides.set(key, cloned);
+      if (value !== undefined) {
+        overrides.set(key, cloned);
+      }
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[warning] 11-11: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.readFileSync(path.join(configDir, ...parts), 'utf8')
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1-234: LGTM!

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1-238: LGTM!

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@acburdine acburdine added the perf-tests Run performance tests with this PR. label Oct 3, 2026
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The schema already validated config, but only the key paths it named were served
from the validated result - everything else still read nconf's live stores. Two
representations, kept in sync by invalidating one whenever the other was written.

That split is what blocked the two things this is for. Freezing only covered the
schemafied part, so the config a caller could still mutate was most of it. And a
transform could never be safe: a transformed parent and a raw read of an unlisted
path beneath it would disagree, because they came from different places.

nconf's job now ends at layering the sources. loadNconf() hands its merged tree to
createConfig(), which validates it once, deep-freezes it, and returns the object
everything reads from then on. The whole config is immutable, not only the typed
part, because the schema is loose: a key it does not name is still validated and
frozen, just typed `any`. Call sites are unchanged - `get()` walks the frozen tree
instead of merging nine stores.

set() and reset() stay for tests, and both now rebuild the whole tree from the
loaded sources plus the overrides recorded so far. That had to change: nconf's
reset() empties every store and configUtils.restore() reapplies 117 keys one at a
time, so for the length of a restore the config did not validate - 61 top-level
keys, all of them environment variables, no `url` and no `env`. Validation is
atomic, so the rebuild has to be too. configUtils needs no changes at all now.

writePath copies a level on the way down if it is frozen, because an override's
value is often something a test read back out of config.

One test was doing read-modify-write on a config object and now sets the path
directly. Nothing else in the tree needed changing: the two places that wrote
through into config are fixed in the preceding commits.

Verified: unit 9320, integration 483, e2e 2661 (one known cross-test flake in the
actions audit log, clean in isolation). A development boot is clean - no read-only
errors - and all four shipped environments validate under
GHOST_CONFIG_SCHEMA_STRICT=true and come back frozen.
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MigratorConfig.js hands `config.get('database')` straight to knex-migrator, and
its connect() assembles knex's options by mutating what it is given: it sets
connection.timezone, charset and decimalNumbers, and deletes connection.filename.

On main that write succeeds, and leaks into config like the two cases fixed in
the preceding commits. Once config is read-only it stops succeeding - and
knex-migrator is sloppy-mode CommonJS, so it does not throw either. The write is
simply dropped, and the migrator's connection silently loses its timezone,
charset and decimalNumbers.

It now gets a clone. cloneDeep rather than structuredClone: this hands a tree to
a third party we do not control, so it must not throw on a value it cannot
clone - and structuredClone does throw on a Proxy, which rules it out for the
read-only guard described below.

Found by temporarily replacing the deep freeze with a Proxy whose set trap
throws, then running the unit, integration and e2e suites against both MySQL and
SQLite plus a development boot. Deep-freezing could not have found it: Ghost's
production .js files and its dependencies are sloppy-mode CommonJS, where a write
to a frozen object is dropped without an error. That guard is worth having under
test as its own change; this was the only violation it found.
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The obvious reading of schema.ts is that every key should end up in it. Following
that would make shared/config - the bottom of the dependency graph, which knows
nothing about any feature today - describe bulkEmail, tinybird, machinePayments
and the rest. The lowest-level module in the tree would gain inbound knowledge of
the highest-level features.

The split that avoids it: keys boot cannot start without stay central and fail at
load; everything else is the feature's concern, parsed by the feature when it
initialises. That needs nothing new - the tree is loose and frozen, and parsing a
frozen subtree returns a fresh unfrozen object, so a feature can validate its own
slice next to the code that reads it today. It is also the better place for it,
since a feature-scoped schema can use strict objects, defaults and coercion that
would be reckless centrally, and a broken Mailgun config should not stop Ghost
serving pages.

Also records the two alternatives that were considered and rejected, so they are
not re-proposed: self-registration at import time cannot work when config is the
first thing loaded, and generating schema.ts from per-feature schemas buys
load-time failure for config that should not fail boot.

Corrects two things while here. The `node --use-strict` note was wrong - the flag
makes only the entry point strict, and a required CommonJS module keeps its own
strictness, so it cannot enforce the freeze at all. And the list of places that
wrote through into config was missing knex-migrator, which is the instructive one:
when a dependency assembles its own options from what you hand it, it needs a
copy.
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z.toJSONSchema() carries .meta() descriptions and examples straight through, so
the schema can generate a config reference for self-hosters later. That only
works if the metadata is there, and writing it with the key costs a line while
retrofitting it across every key is a sweep nobody will volunteer for.

So it is now a step in the SCHEMA.md instructions, and the two keys that have
schemas today carry their own descriptions rather than telling the next person to
do something the existing examples do not.

.meta() registers in zod's registry and does not affect parsing, so the
round-trip test over the shipped env configs is unchanged.
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Config is deep-frozen after validation, which makes it immutable but not loud.
Ghost's `.js` files and its CommonJS dependencies are sloppy-mode - 1324 of the
1330 `.js` files under `core/` carry no `'use strict'` - and a write to a frozen
object there is dropped without an error. `node --use-strict` does not help: it
makes only the entry point strict, and a `require()`d CommonJS module keeps its
own strictness. So each of the three write-throughs fixed in #31326 and #30936
was silent, and the next one would be too.

guard.ts swaps the freeze for a proxy whose `set`, `defineProperty`,
`deleteProperty` and `setPrototypeOf` traps throw, naming the key path. A trap
fires whatever mode the caller is in, so a write that production would merely
lose fails a developer's boot or CI instead:

    TypeError: Ghost config is read-only: attempted write to `paths:contentPath`.

It is on in `development` and `test*`, matching the environments that already
validate strictly, and `GHOST_CONFIG_GUARD` overrides either way.

Production keeps the frozen object. The two cannot be combined: a proxy over a
deep-frozen target may not return a wrapped child, because the invariant for
non-writable, non-configurable properties forbids handing back anything other
than the target's own value - so a guarded tree is deliberately left unfrozen
and relies on the traps instead. Freezing is also the cheaper read: on a
microbenchmark a scalar read goes from 4.5ns to 21ns and a spread of a config
object from 120ns to 2.4µs. That is immaterial to the test suite, but not worth
paying on every request to catch a class of bug CI now catches first.

Three details that are easy to get wrong:

- The `getOwnPropertyDescriptor` trap is required. Without it,
  `Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(guarded, k).value` hands back the raw child
  and a write through it misses every trap. Wrapping the descriptor's value is
  only legal because a guarded tree is left unfrozen.
- Children are wrapped lazily from the get trap and memoised in a WeakMap per
  underlying object, so only what is read pays for it, `===` stays stable across
  reads of the same subtree, and cycles terminate.
- Symbols and functions pass through unwrapped - symbols carry iterators and
  inspection hooks, and the functions are array and object methods. Class
  instances are left alone for the same reason: wrapping something with internal
  slots breaks it.

writePath() now copies every level it traverses rather than only frozen ones.
Copy-on-write was keyed on `Object.isFrozen`, which is never true under the
guard, so a nested override wrote in place into an object an earlier `get()` had
handed out: `set('paths', {contentPath: '/first'})` followed by
`set('paths:contentPath', '/second')` retroactively changed the first result.
Guarded and unguarded config have to answer identically - the guard exists to
make a write loud, not to change what config does. Cloning override values on
each rebuild would fix it too, but every `set()` replays every override, which
would make configUtils.restore's 117 keys quadratic in deep clones.

A sloppy-mode fixture covers the premise directly: it writes to frozen config
from a module with no directive and asserts the write is silently dropped, so
the reason the guard exists stays tested rather than only described in
SCHEMA.md.

Verified on a Pro staging boot with `GHOST_CONFIG_GUARD=true` - the only way to
exercise the Pro image's own code, and the Redis-cluster and Pro-adapter paths
CI never constructs. Nothing threw.
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