fix(app): #1458 — the empty-workspace landing's titlebar portals crash every real boot (current-main slice, manifest-clean)

[aarontrowbridge]

A current- slice per the #1465 doctrine: small, test-guarded, manifest-clean (drift gate PASS, classification + files registered).

The bug (live on origin/main today): EmptyWorkspaceLanding renders SessionChatsDropdown + StatusPopoverV2 into titlebar portals — components that read the per-directory SYNC context — at the "/" route, which never sits inside a SyncProvider. At real-boot timing (workspace projects arrive over the wire AFTER the app mounts) the no-directory window renders the landing briefly on every boot, and the useSync() throw kills the whole route tree — including the reactive landing effect, so no draft is ever created and the app stays frozen at "/".

Why the unit suite never saw it: the landing tests mock the contexts; the crash only exists in the real render tree. Caught live by the e2e fleet rig during the #1360 integration (issue #1458 has the full diagnosis: the CDP trace, the route-tree kill, the frozen-at-"/" boot).

The fix: drop the two titlebar portals (chrome dots on a momentary landing); keep the mark + open-folder content. A guard test pins the landing's import graph free of directory-scoped context components so a future portal re-add fails the suite instead of the boot.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • File edits made in a task session now refresh file state for the affected session and its parent, including when viewed from another directory.
  • Opening a workspace with no folder no longer requires directory-specific session or status controls.

• Improvements

  • Background session loading is paced per server, helping keep foreground activity responsive.
  • Session data cleanup runs less frequently, reducing repeated background work.

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The changes centralize diff-version tracking in ServerSession, add scheduled session warming, defer session-mirror pruning, remove titlebar controls from the empty-workspace landing, and update app-bundle packaging checks and tests.

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Shared diff-version tracking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track file edits in ServerSession packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/context/server-session.ts, packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/context/server-session.test.ts, packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/context/global-sync/types.ts, packages/app-bundle/manifest.json	ServerSession records task ancestry and increments diff versions for completed file-editing parts. It clears tracking data on eviction and session deletion. Tests cover edit tools, ancestor updates, duplicate events, and eviction.
Expose the shared diff-version record packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/context/directory-sync.ts, packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/context/directory-sync.test.ts, packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/context/global-sync/*, packages/app-bundle/manifest.json	Directory sync routes diff-version access to ServerSession. Directory state and global-sync code no longer maintain the directory-side diff-version and parent-session tracking.
Check diff-version protections during packaging packages/app-bundle/scripts/known_fixes.mjs, packages/extension/scripts/build_app_bundle.mjs, packages/extension/test/deploy_guard.test.ts, packages/extension/test/overlay_known_fixes_964.test.ts	Known-fixes checks cover shared tracking and directory cache ownership. The build checks known fixes before applying the CI advisory path. Tests cover missing protections and packaging outcomes.

Session warming

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add warming scheduler and prefetch utilities packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/context/session-warm.ts, packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/context/session-warm.test.ts	The new utilities schedule up to three warm chains at a time per scheduler key and provide bulk and open-tab warming. Tests cover URL keys, concurrency, lineage, and prefetch order.
Use warming utilities in the prewarmer packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/app.tsx, packages/app-bundle/manifest.json	The prewarmer schedules bulk warming by server origin and delegates open-tab prefetching to the new utility.

Session mirror pruning

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Debounce pruning per scope packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/context/session-mirror.ts, packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/context/session-mirror.test.ts	Completed saves schedule a prune after a 60-second delay. Tests check deferred pruning and independent scheduling by scope.

Empty-workspace landing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Render the landing without titlebar controls packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/pages/empty-workspace-landing.tsx, packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/test-browser/empty-workspace-landing.test.ts, packages/app-bundle/manifest.json	The landing no longer mounts sessions and status controls in the titlebar. The browser test checks rendering, a sibling effect, and the Open Folder request.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SessionLineagePrewarmer
  participant WarmScheduler
  participant SessionAPI
  SessionLineagePrewarmer->>WarmScheduler: Schedule warm chains by server origin
  WarmScheduler->>SessionAPI: Resolve lineage and prefetch messages

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sequenceDiagram
  participant BuildAppBundle
  participant KnownFixesCheck
  participant PackagingStage
  BuildAppBundle->>KnownFixesCheck: Check required overlay fixes
  KnownFixesCheck-->>BuildAppBundle: Return check result
  BuildAppBundle->>PackagingStage: Stage output when checks pass

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Suggested reviewers: jeonghun-jj-lee

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e3f4d

This change fixes the empty-workspace crash and centralizes file-edit invalidation. However, the new background session warming can pile up duplicate work, stall warming on additional servers, and leave recent sessions cold after a lineage error. The deferred cleanup of the local session cache can also let it grow past its limit when visits are short. These behaviors should be fixed before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description explains the bug, cause, fix, and regression coverage, but it does not follow the required template. It omits the required Closes issue line, change-type selection, verification select…	Rewrite the description using the repository template. Add a Closes #<issue-number> line, select the applicable change type, record build/test or typecheck verification, and provide manual testing notes. Retain the existing bug, cause, fi…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 23.53% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 17 functions across 16 files. (1 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the empty-workspace landing titlebar portal crash. It includes extra reconciliation and manifest details, but it remains specific and related to the main change.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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[jeonghun-jj-lee]

Reconciled this branch with current main at #1472 (12d03e3) without force-pushing. The stale manifest was regenerated from the combined overlay; the brittle import-graph assertion is now a provider-less rendered landing regression test that also verifies the sibling draft effect and Open Folder postMessage path.\n\nLocal evidence on reconciled head e3f4d783:\n- focused browser regression: 1/1\n- app browser suite: 53/53\n- app typecheck: clean\n- node packages/app-bundle/scripts/drift_gate.mjs: PASS\n- diff hygiene: clean\n\nGitHub CI is now the next mechanical gate. This PR remains unmerged and still needs a human approval after a green run.

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Inline comments:
In `@packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/app.tsx`:
- Around line 943-944: Update the session-list handling around warmBulkSession
to normalize and remember every row before scheduling lineage and message
prefetch; do not limit remembering to sessions selected for immediate network
work.
- Line 935: Update the connection loop around warmScheduler.warm so awaiting one
server’s warm batch does not block scheduling work for later servers; collect
the warm promises and await them after all servers are scheduled, or otherwise
handle them without blocking the loop.

In `@packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/context/session-mirror.test.ts`:
- Line 100: Update the test setup and cleanup around the indexedDB override so
the cached module-level dbPromise and related session-mirror state cannot leak
across tests; use a test-only reset seam or Bun isolation, while preserving the
existing globalThis.indexedDB restoration.

In `@packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/context/session-mirror.ts`:
- Around line 84-87: Ensure the mirror cap is enforced even when the debounced
timer in the `pendingPrunes`/`pruneMirror` flow is discarded on page close.
Schedule pruning when the mirror database is opened again, or perform bounded
cleanup during writes without scanning the full store after every save.

In `@packages/app-bundle/overlay/packages/app/src/context/session-warm.ts`:
- Line 57: Update the `warm` queueing flow so overlapping timed passes cannot
enqueue unbounded duplicate work: make passes single-flight or coalesce pending
entries by session identity, while preserving the existing `pool.queue`
processing behavior.
- Around line 80-82: In the session-warm flow, a rejected resolveLineage
currently prevents message prefetch from running. Keep lineage resolution first
on the success path, but handle its failure separately so shouldPrefetch and
prefetch(BULK_WARM_MESSAGES) are still attempted afterward.

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[jeonghun-jj-lee]

main advanced to 7063bf63 (#1490) during the first CI watch. I merged that current base normally, without conflicts or force-push; reconciled head is now 71bd5afd. The new base touched only .github/workflows/release.yml and AGENTS.md; the application delta remains exactly the landing, its browser regression test, and manifest provenance.\n\nI reran the focused landing test (1/1), app browser suite (53/53), app typecheck, and drift gate before restarting CI.\n\nCodeRabbit’s six warm/mirror findings were independently triaged: those file blobs are identical to current main and outside this PR’s three-file delta. They are not a #1473 merge blocker; the underlying current-main concerns will be tracked separately rather than folded into this scoped landing fix.

[jeonghun-jj-lee]

lgtm