From 76e7aec0e809b90e395b9db04f6219fdc79b6f93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Brahy <john@brahy.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:40:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(gsd): avoid EISDIR crash in file loader

---
 src/resources/extensions/gsd/files.ts         |  3 ++-
 .../gsd/tests/files-loadfile-eisdir.test.ts   | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 src/resources/extensions/gsd/tests/files-loadfile-eisdir.test.ts

diff --git a/src/resources/extensions/gsd/files.ts b/src/resources/extensions/gsd/files.ts
index a444deadc..0c26ab100 100644
--- a/src/resources/extensions/gsd/files.ts
+++ b/src/resources/extensions/gsd/files.ts
@@ -590,7 +590,8 @@ export async function loadFile(path: string): Promise<string | null> {
   try {
     return await fs.readFile(path, 'utf-8');
   } catch (err: unknown) {
-    if ((err as NodeJS.ErrnoException).code === 'ENOENT') return null;
+    const code = (err as NodeJS.ErrnoException).code;
+    if (code === 'ENOENT' || code === 'EISDIR') return null;
     throw err;
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/resources/extensions/gsd/tests/files-loadfile-eisdir.test.ts b/src/resources/extensions/gsd/tests/files-loadfile-eisdir.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cff1d4876
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/resources/extensions/gsd/tests/files-loadfile-eisdir.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import test from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import os from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+import fs from "node:fs";
+
+import { loadFile } from "../files.ts";
+
+test("loadFile returns null for directory paths instead of throwing EISDIR", async () => {
+  const tmp = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "gsd-loadfile-eisdir-"));
+  const dirPath = path.join(tmp, "tasks");
+  fs.mkdirSync(dirPath);
+
+  try {
+    const result = await loadFile(dirPath);
+    assert.equal(result, null);
+  } finally {
+    fs.rmSync(tmp, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+});