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fix(terminal): show recovery guidance when a project folder is missing - #23251
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ApprovabilityVerdict: Approved at Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a small, localized terminal bug fix that surfaces error-only attach failures without replaying unchanged output and adds clear missing-folder recovery guidance. The remaining additions are disposable development fixtures and a focused regression test, with no default, schema, security, or deployment changes. You can add or adjust custom eligibility rules. Learn more. |
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- Line 20: Update the setup example’s fixture.reset calls so all three fixture
threads, including the away and long-path threads, are reset rather than only
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Reset all three fixture threads in the setup example.
fixture.reset(environmentId) resets only fixture.threadId. The procedure says reset clears all three fixture threads, so prior terminal state can remain in the away and long-path threads. Call reset for each fixture thread ID, or state clearly that the operator must reset each thread separately.
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Update the setup example’s fixture.reset calls so all three fixture threads,
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| await NodeFSP.rename(fixture.renamedPath, fixture.projectPath); | ||
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Reject an existing project path unless it belongs to this fixture.
If /tmp/triage-16923/project already contains an unrelated repository, prepare accepts it. The script then overwrites fixture.txt and can commit changes already staged in that repository. Check fixture ownership before writing or running Git commands, and limit any fixture commit to its own file.
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Thanks for the fix! Main already handles error-only terminal session updates in 28df7a246f. Please cut this PR down to the remaining missing-folder recovery guidance and its focused regression test; the mounted-terminal change is already covered. |
Problem
Renaming a project's directory while a thread is open makes a new terminal fail with an unexplained missing-cwd error. An attach failure can also leave an already mounted terminal blank because its output and version have not changed.
Change
Tell the user which folder is missing and to restore it at the original path before retrying. Deliver changed attach errors to an already mounted terminal without replaying unchanged output or repeating the same error. The wire error shape is unchanged. Include disposable fixtures for rebuilding the evidence.
Scope and approval
Fixes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/16923
GitCafe: https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/16923
Triaged bug via the automated issue flow: #16923. The report explicitly accepts clear recovery guidance as a fallback to relocation. This fix follows that scope; it does not add project relocation.
Verification
Verification remains incomplete: round-three reviews returned MERGE and FIX_FIRST; the proof audit returned INSUFFICIENT for the full layout/state matrix. No production bug or sensitive-surface finding was reported. The independent rebuild proves one genuine delivery from the changed mounted effect; deterministic four-cell/counter coverage and the listed layout/state rows remain unverified. Desktop/Electron and WSL2, native iOS/Android, and remote transports require further verification. Do not auto-land.
Wide capture pairs also include sidebar width, relative-time, tooltip, cursor and consequent geometry differences unrelated to this fix. Those are disclosed below; they are not a claim of changed production behavior.
The contract regression failed before the fix because the decoded missing-folder error did not include a recovery instruction. Afterward, all six focused tests across
packages/contracts/src/terminal.test.tsandapps/web/src/components/ThreadTerminalDrawer.test.tspassed. The existing node helper tests do not mount the terminal; mounted delivery uses the real-app proof below, with its timing limits stated explicitly.Affected-package typechecks passed for 29 packages before the final main merge. Targeted formatting, lint, and Knip checks passed after correcting the fixture tooling. Final integration results follow below.
Primary integrated verification used a real Linux web app, a persisted Codex thread, and a disposable Git project: rename the project, create a terminal, observe the recovery instruction, restore the folder, create another terminal, and run
printf 'RECOVERED\n'successfully. An existing shell remained usable after rename; failure required a fresh terminal.Evidence index, artifact manifest, rebuild data and diff script.
Rendering environment
Linux 6.1.102 x86_64; Google Chrome 154.0.8037.92; SwiftShader Vulkan renderer;
DPR 2; visualViewport.scale 1 (100% page zoom); 24-bit screen color. CSS viewports:
1440x900 wide and 390x844 narrow. Narrow is web, never native mobile proof.
T3 Preview saved wide PNGs at 1280x800 and narrow PNGs at 780x1688. Wide video is
2880x1800; narrow video is 780x1688. Originals are retained without resizing.
MP4/H.264 uses variable frame rate; ffprobe metrics are in video-environment.json.
No claim of a fixed 30 fps is made.
Theme preferences explicitly light/dark through the app's persisted theme keys
and storage event. Default terminal size 13; app font system sans; terminal family
fallback includes Liberation Mono and Symbols Nerd Font Mono. Exact resolved font
binary versions and OS font scaling/color profile were not independently measured.
Reduced motion false. Animations and cursor blinking remain enabled; cursor phase
is not locked and contributes unexplained pixels. Scroll coordinates 0,0.
Date replaced in the page after authentication with 2026-10-21T12:00:00Z; monotonic
performance time and timers remain real. Shell is real bash with original startup
prompt; recovery input unsets PROMPT_COMMAND, sets PS1 to fixture$ and clears its
own terminal before printf RECOVERED. The recording retains the original shell
prompt during startup. No personal files or provider output were included.
Before: production files restored from b5a226e49c, fixture overlay retained at a3da62d35b. This was a coordinated three-file source overlay, not a checkout whose HEAD was the baseline. Parent restarted the same isolated sandbox, baseline ready 01:04:17 UTC. After: clean production HEAD a3da62d35b, implementation inherited from ca0ff3e90c; parent restart ready 01:09:10 UTC. Identical dependencies/browser and fixture IDs were reused. Eight videos below are the final accepted set; earlier initial-head captures are superseded.
Browser/server capture ownership released to parent at 01:12:30 UTC. Folder restored. No further browser actions by this agent. Parent owns server session60622 and will stop it after the independent auditor's rebuild. No production changes, PR, comments, push or merge by this evidence task.
Read this before interpreting the pixels
Dates were frozen through the committed fixture, but existing relative-time subscriptions still advanced; sidebar labels differ (18m/27m, 23m/32m, or now). Wide left sidebar width was not successfully normalized: baseline is visibly narrower than final head, moving header/composer/terminal origin and changing thread truncation. The source viewport dimensions and themes match, but these are not strict pixel-identical fixtures. The raw diffs retain all incidental changes; no masking, alignment, cropping or threshold suppression was applied. Narrow web sidebar is closed on both sides.
The named “cold” checkpoint means first open, and “warm” means subsequent New Terminal in the same page; those names describe actions and do not by themselves prove the surface/error causal ordering. Final W-L trace observes New Terminal's live surface ready at performance.now 52906.1ms and error write at 53198.2ms (292.1ms later), with no intervening reset. Baseline W-L has surface-ready with no error write and remains blank through cold/warm/stable. This is useful natural-race evidence, but error-arrival time and output/version invariants were not captured. Other cells often receive the error during setup. A browser-only attempt to delay actual WebSocket responses did not intercept the already-live socket (zero held/released events), and is not a successful timing gate. No deterministic mounted/error-only claim is made.
Recordings have a written timestamp narration below; no audio track was added. Offsets are tool-completion observations relative to the logged recording-start completion, rounded to 0.01s; browser-tool latency means they are approximate video seek points. External rename/restore events are recorded in the log and narrated; the filesystem action has no in-page animation. “Stable” is a second checkpoint without another mutation, not a complete truth-table test.
Recordings and narrated timelines
Contact sheets (before left, after right; rows cold/warm/stable/recovery): comparison-W-L.png, comparison-W-D.png, comparison-N-L.png, comparison-N-D.png
Upload integrity: all 80 public PNGs downloaded and matched local SHA-256; zero mismatches. A default Python User-Agent returned403; Mozilla User-Agent succeeded. Shell locale, exact font binaries, OS scaling and color profile were not measured. Source revision attribution follows the parent-controlled restart/restore messages, not an independent process source hash.
W-L: 1440×900 CSS, light
Before — recording metadata start
2026-10-22T01:05:23.740Z. Fixture was reset and folder renamed before recording. 3.60s click Toggle terminal drawer; 6.22s cold checkpoint; 9.10s click New Terminal while missing; 11.19s warm checkpoint; 12.95s unchanged-session checkpoint; 15.20s external rename restores exact original folder; 16.99s click New Terminal; send real bash printf command; 18.63s RECOVERED checkpoint; 20.50s stop.Before W-L lifecycle recording
After — recording metadata start
2026-10-22T01:10:08.925Z. Fixture was reset and folder renamed before recording. 2.41s click Toggle terminal drawer; 6.08s cold checkpoint; 12.48s click New Terminal while missing; 15.18s warm checkpoint; 18.87s unchanged-session checkpoint; 22.39s external rename restores exact original folder; 24.29s click New Terminal; send real bash printf command; 25.88s RECOVERED checkpoint; 28.10s stop.After W-L lifecycle recording
W-D: 1440×900 CSS, dark
Before — recording metadata start
2026-10-22T01:05:54.005Z. Fixture was reset and folder renamed before recording. 1.78s click Toggle terminal drawer; 3.97s cold checkpoint; 7.71s click New Terminal while missing; 10.21s warm checkpoint; 12.88s unchanged-session checkpoint; 14.57s external rename restores exact original folder; 16.09s click New Terminal; send real bash printf command; 17.81s RECOVERED checkpoint; 19.69s stop.Before W-D lifecycle recording
After — recording metadata start
2026-10-22T01:11:07.946Z. Fixture was reset and folder renamed before recording. 3.70s click Toggle terminal drawer; 7.40s cold checkpoint; 11.96s click New Terminal while missing; 14.58s warm checkpoint; 18.89s unchanged-session checkpoint; 25.12s external rename restores exact original folder; 31.37s click New Terminal; send real bash printf command; 35.88s RECOVERED checkpoint; 38.89s stop.After W-D lifecycle recording
N-L: 390×844 CSS, light
Before — recording metadata start
2026-10-22T01:06:42.115Z. Fixture was reset and folder renamed before recording. 1.40s click Toggle terminal drawer; 4.81s cold checkpoint; 7.52s click New Terminal while missing; 9.61s warm checkpoint; 12.39s unchanged-session checkpoint; 15.18s external rename restores exact original folder; 16.93s click New Terminal; send real bash printf command; 18.32s RECOVERED checkpoint; 21.59s stop.Before N-L lifecycle recording
After — recording metadata start
2026-10-22T01:11:53.409Z. Fixture was reset and folder renamed before recording. 1.71s click Toggle terminal drawer; 3.90s cold checkpoint; 7.98s click New Terminal while missing; 10.79s warm checkpoint; 12.37s unchanged-session checkpoint; 14.69s external rename restores exact original folder; 16.18s click New Terminal; send real bash printf command; 17.61s RECOVERED checkpoint; 19.51s stop.After N-L lifecycle recording
N-D: 390×844 CSS, dark
Before — recording metadata start
2026-10-22T01:07:24.521Z. Fixture was reset and folder renamed before recording. 1.30s click Toggle terminal drawer; 3.40s cold checkpoint; 5.77s click New Terminal while missing; 7.86s warm checkpoint; 9.69s unchanged-session checkpoint; 11.78s external rename restores exact original folder; 13.78s click New Terminal; send real bash printf command; 14.67s RECOVERED checkpoint; 16.46s stop.Before N-D lifecycle recording
After — recording metadata start
2026-10-22T01:12:19.548Z. Fixture was reset and folder renamed before recording. 0.81s click Toggle terminal drawer; 2.53s cold checkpoint; 4.65s click New Terminal while missing; 6.71s warm checkpoint; 8.31s unchanged-session checkpoint; 9.83s external rename restores exact original folder; 11.03s click New Terminal; send real bash printf command; 12.20s RECOVERED checkpoint; 13.12s stop.After N-D lifecycle recording
Visible differences, inspected across all 16 checkpoint pairs
[terminal] Terminal folder does not exist: /tmp/triage-16923/project. Restore the folder at this path before retrying.once. On wide layouts the full error fits one terminal line. Warm/stable show two single-session groups with Terminal 2 selected; the intended active session matches across revisions. First open uses overlay controls; additional sessions reserve the right sidebar. Wide sidebar geometry, text truncation, relative timestamps and resulting main-column/composer shifts differ as disclosed above. The cold title tooltip differs; stable title tooltip is present on both. Cursor position follows the newly printed line.Terminal cwd does not exist: /tmp/triage-16923/project; final prints the full restore instruction. Both fit one terminal line at this width. Session/group identity and selected Terminal 2 match at warm/stable. Same wide geometry/time differences apply. Final cold has a title tooltip absent in baseline cold; both stable frames have it. Dark theme remains dark throughout.RECOVEREDmarker and thefixture$prompt from a real new bash PTY; Terminal 3 selected, three single groups, New Terminal tooltip visible. Both narrow recovery pairs (N-L and N-D) are exactly pixel-equal at zero threshold. Wide recovery retains sidebar geometry/time/composer displacement. Recovery allocates a new terminal, and does not establish automatic retry, preserved prior-session error history, or original terminal focus behavior. Input was sent through the actual terminal write RPC, not typed via keyboard; this proves live shell input/output, not keyboard-focus correctness.Checkpoints and difference method
Original whole-viewport screenshots below are unmodified. Diff0 is absolute RGB difference, gain1, threshold0; Diff0 ×4 is a clipped fourfold diagnostic amplification. DiffT8 is white where max absolute RGB channel delta is strictly >8/255. Counts are changed pixels / total pixels, not changed channels. No mask or antialias exclusion.
python3 diff.pyregenerates the files with Pillow/NumPy. Video metadata and all raw observations are in the final manifest and evidence bundle.W-L = 1440×900 CSS light; W-D = 1440×900 CSS dark; N-L = 390×844 CSS light; N-D = 390×844 CSS dark. Narrow cells are web.
Matrix disposition
The requested full minimum C+L matrix is not complete: four C pairs supplied, all four L pairs and optional H remain uncaptured. Deadline and unstable browser/server setup consumed the available session; those gaps are explicit rather than silently passed.
Independent rebuild
The auditor independently verified 88 local artifact hashes and recomputed all 16 raw differences, strict >8/255 threshold maps and pixel counts. A narrow/light rebuild matched the saved terminal region exactly; whole-image differences were 8,604/1,316,640 pixels (0.6535%), including a displaced empty-chat label and breadcrumb chevron.
A real New Terminal failure wrote from the changed session-update effect about 20 ms after surface readiness. The preserved stack distinguishes that effect from initialization. This is one observed post-mount delivery, not deterministic timing, direct output/version-counter proof, or a paired supplemental recording. Independent rebuild notes, mounted-effect stack.
Main integration
Merged 89fe509232 with a merge commit, producing 4869caf62f. All seven PR files are byte-identical to captured head a3da62d35b; the new main commits do not change the relevant terminal renderer, session state or server manager. Final scoped tests: six tests passed across both focused files (29.49 s). Final targeted format: seven files passed; targeted lint passed. Earlier Knip checks passed.
Implementation: Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude Agent in T3 Code. Integration and evidence: GPT-6.1-Sol via Codex in T3 Code.
Fixes #16923