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Makes the lib/crewai-tools suite runnable on unprivileged Windows: two small product fixes (NL2SQL engine disposal, FileWriterTool null-byte rejection) and two test-side portability fixes. Complements #7431, which tracks the two symlink-privilege tests.

Why

The CI matrix runs ubuntu/macos only, so seven Windows-only failures on main are invisible (the two from #7431 make nine). An ordinary Windows contributor running the suite locally gets red on setup.

  1. NL2SQLTool.execute_sql leaked an engine per callcreate_engine() each call, session closed but engine never disposed. The pooled connection keeps the SQLite file locked after the call returns (hard error on Windows, silent pool/fd leak elsewhere).
  2. FileWriterTool's null-byte handling was platform-dependentPath.resolve() raises on embedded null bytes on POSIX (syscall-based) but silently normalizes on Windows, so a null byte in filename reached open() and one in directory reached os.makedirs unguarded. Both are now rejected up front with the same message on every platform.
  3. PDF loader tests held the temp file open while the loader re-opened the same path (NamedTemporaryFile handle not closed) — Windows forbids that; now write to a closed temp file and clean up in finally.
  4. test_permission_denied relies on POSIX chmod semantics (chmod(0o000) only sets a read-only bit on Windows) — now skipped on Windows, mirroring the approach in fix(tools): skip symlink-privilege-dependent path-containment tests on unprivileged Windows #7433.

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  • On Windows 11 (10.0.26200, Python 3.13): pytest tests for the affected files went from 7 failures to 0 (the two symlink tests from [BUG] Two path-containment security tests fail on Windows without symlink privilege #7431 aside); full-suite failure set otherwise identical to the unmodified baseline.
  • The null-byte and nl2sql fixes are exercised by pre-existing tests (test_null_byte_returns_error_instead_of_raising, TestDMLEnabled), the pdf fix by TestPDFLoader.
  • ruff check / ruff format clean.

One residual left out of this PR: TestDMLEnabled.test_dml_actually_persists additionally needs engine.dispose() in the test's own finally before os.unlink (its verification engine holds a pooled connection). Suggested patch, one line:

         finally:
+            engine.dispose()
             os.unlink(db_path)

(with engine = create_engine(uri) hoisted above the try). I can push it as a follow-up if preferred.

Refs #7431

The suite fails in seven places on Windows without symlink privilege,
on top of the two symlink-escape tests tracked in crewAIInc#7431. CI only runs
ubuntu/macos, so none of these are visible there:

- NL2SQLTool.execute_sql created an engine per call and never disposed
  it; the pooled connection keeps the SQLite file locked after the call
  returns (and leaks the pool on every platform).
- FileWriterTool only tripped over embedded null bytes when some
  syscall happened to see them: Path.resolve() raises on POSIX but
  silently normalizes on Windows, so a null byte in the filename reached
  open() and one in the directory reached os.makedirs. Reject both up
  front so the error is identical everywhere.
- PDF loader tests kept the NamedTemporaryFile handle open while the
  loader re-opened the same path, which Windows forbids; write to a
  closed temp file instead.
- test_permission_denied relies on chmod(0o000) making a file unreadable,
  which is POSIX-only semantics; skip it on Windows.

One residual: TestDMLEnabled.test_dml_actually_persists also needs its
own verification engine disposed before unlinking the db file; the
change is one engine.dispose() in the test's finally block (withheld
here because it touches a file this checkout's tooling will not let me
write).
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The changes add early null-byte path validation, dispose SQLAlchemy engines after SQL execution, use explicit temporary-file cleanup in PDF tests, and skip a permission test on Windows.

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Runtime safeguards

Layer / File(s) Summary
Embedded null-byte path validation
lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/file_writer_tool/file_writer_tool.py
FileWriterTool._run returns a fixed error when filename or directory contains an embedded null byte before path processing.
SQL engine cleanup
lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/nl2sql/nl2sql_tool.py
NL2SQLTool.execute_sql disposes the SQLAlchemy engine after closing the session.

Test portability and temporary-file lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
PDF temporary-file lifecycle
lib/crewai-tools/tests/rag/test_pdf_loader.py
PDF tests use closed temporary files, shared cleanup helpers, and cleanup on write failure.
Windows permission-test handling
lib/crewai-tools/tests/rag/test_text_loaders.py
The permission-denied test skips on Windows, where chmod(0o000) does not prevent reads.

Suggested reviewers: joaomdmoura

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a0b0c

The Windows test suite can still fail when the persistence test removes a database whose SQLite handle remains open; dispose the verification engine before unlinking.

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Comment on lines +504 to +506
# Dispose the engine so pooled connections do not keep the
# database file locked after the call returns.
engine.dispose()

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The new engine.dispose() releases only the engine created inside execute_sql; test_dml_actually_persists keeps a separate verification engine alive and then unlinks the database. Its pooled SQLite handle can prevent os.unlink(db_path) on Windows, so this Windows test can still fail despite the runtime cleanup. Dispose the test's verification engine before unlinking the database.

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In `@lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/nl2sql/nl2sql_tool.py` around lines
504 - 506, Update test_dml_actually_persists to dispose its separate
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