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Problem

Mobile Add Project fails when a home-relative destination is already registered: Local folder shows “Failed to mutate project”, and Clone attempts the occupied destination. Absolute local duplicates also show a redundant alert. Reproduce with New thread → Add project → Local folder or Git URL, then submit an existing project root as ~/…/.

Change

Resolve home-relative paths through the host’s existing folder browser before comparing registered roots. Reuse the matching project’s new-task draft before creating or cloning, preserving any supplied prompt. If prompt-draft storage fails, the clone screen keeps the prompt and shows the error for retry. Local-folder and both clone implementations share the lookup; new destinations retain their existing creation behavior. Includes bare HOME and Windows home-prefix handling and a reproducible fixture script.

Scope and approval

Fixes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/23246

Triaged bug via the automated issue flow: GitCafe issue #23246. Mobile-only fix for the reported existing-destination behavior.

Verification

  • Red proof: four issue tests failed on baseline, while three existing tests passed. HOME and Windows regressions were also run red before their fixes.
  • Final focused vp test run src/features/projects/AddProjectScreen.test.ts: 10 passed, including failed draft storage and successful retry. Targeted lint and mobile typecheck passed in both final independent code reviews; both returned MERGE.
  • vp run check:changed: passed — format, lint, knip, mobile/scripts typechecks, and 11 tests across two files on the latest head.
  • Real isolated server reproduced duplicate creation rejection; real EAS iOS app reproduced the failures before and opened the existing draft afterward. Primary integrated check also opened the registered HOME project without an alert.
  • Full evidence index, narrated steps/timestamps, environment, fixture and identity/RPC audit. Fixture matrix.

Evidence

EAS iPhone 17, iOS 26.5, portrait/light, 402×874 logical; recordings 1206×2622, screenshots 402×874. Baseline a50cd989ae; candidate artifact 7c0efc9c5e. Fixture commit follows the artifact; current main was subsequently merged without changing the fix files. Captures describe those artifact SHAs, rather than claiming a rebuilt post-merge artifact.

Row Coverage Actual operation/result Before recording After recording
L1 PAIRED PASS Absolute P/; local Add project button. Before: duplicate alert; after: silent Bike documents draft. Before After
L2 PAIRED PASS ~/t3-23246-repro/bike-documents/; keyboard Done. Before: Failed to mutate project; after: silent existing draft. Before After
C1 PAIRED PASS, tracked Existing P/ Git destination, no prompt. Before tracked clone attempted and failed; after silently reused existing project without clone RPC. Before After
C2 UNVERIFIED No real connected environment advertising projectCloneTracking=false. No legacy native claim. — —
P1 PAIRED PASS, tracked Real prompt/repository link; P/ destination. Before tracked clone failed; after Bike documents draft retained exact Fix the bike. Before After
P2 UNVERIFIED Legacy prompt route: no compatible real legacy environment. — —
N1 CANDIDATE ONLY Unregistered Q via ~/ without trailing slash. Exactly one new registered project; picker then selecting project opens usable draft. Baseline control was not captured before first session expired. Missing Register / Open draft
N2 CANDIDATE ONLY Fresh tracked clone R from real prompt link. Exactly one project and one tracked clone RPC; real Git checkout, prompt retained, completed draft. Baseline control not recorded. Transient progress spinner not independently sampled. Missing After
N3 UNVERIFIED Legacy fresh clone: no compatible real legacy environment. — —
E1 UNVERIFIED No real filesystem.read-disabled/browse-failure environment was available; normal browse succeeded. No injected harness claimed as native proof. — —
E2 UNVERIFIED Only one isolated connected environment; second-environment same-path control not seeded. — —

Each paired sheet embeds full Before | After | Diff0 (absolute RGB ×4, zero tolerance) | DiffT (max-channel delta >16/255), with source labels. These are result frames; the linked videos above show the interactions.

Before, after, Diff0 and DiffT: C1-result-paired-sheet.png

Before, after, Diff0 and DiffT: HOME-result-paired-sheet.png

Before, after, Diff0 and DiffT: L1-result-paired-sheet.png

Before, after, Diff0 and DiffT: L2-result-paired-sheet.png

Before, after, Diff0 and DiffT: P1-result-paired-sheet.png

Bare HOME also has before and after recordings.

Capture limits and unverified coverage

Four of eleven matrix rows have paired native recordings; HOME is an additional regression pair. N1/N2 are candidate-only controls. C2/P2/N3 (legacy clone capability), E1 (browse unavailable), and E2 (second environment) remain unverified. Android and a Windows host remain unverified (cannot-verify android, cannot-verify windows-host); unit tests cover both clone implementations and Windows path normalization. Dark theme and other viewports were not captured. No native claim is made for these missing rows.

What else changed: status clock was not frozen; keyboard visibility, caret/field scroll, folder-list scroll and focus differ. Error forms become draft screens as intended. Sessions/tunnel origin changed after recovery. HOME was registered before candidate checks; N1/N2 later added control projects. One baseline input frame contains an earlier error banner; L2 input was recovered from video with codec noise. The full index discloses these differences and pixel metrics. No claim that nothing else changed or that the full matrix passed.

Proof-audit pass 2: incomplete, with L1 independently reproduced, all ten delivered diff metrics recomputed exactly, and 30 artifact hashes matched. C2/P2/N3/E1/E2 remain unverified; N1 returns to the picker before selection, N2 transient progress was not captured, and frozen-clock conditions were unmet. Legacy real prompt-link callers omit the prompt; the route-level unit test does not prove real legacy-link preservation. The independent reproduction retained an earlier draft prompt, unlike the published empty-composer HOME pair.

Independent audit and primary integrated recordings:

audit-L1-video-check.png
audit-L1-retry.mp4
audit-reproduction-metrics.json
lead-native-home.mp4

Post-review follow-up: unique default fixture roots and rejection of unrelated existing directories passed isolated real-CLI checks. Prompt-storage failure/retry is unit-tested; no updated native artifact or native failure-path capture was produced. Success-path recordings remain at the explicitly stated artifact SHA.

Models: GPT-6.1-sol and Claude Opus 5.5 through T3 Code (Codex and Claude harnesses).

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A filter path segment ending in [] resolves to the list of every element's
value, so a task can run only when, say, an issue carries a given label:
{path: 'body.issue.labels[].name', op: 'equals', value: 'needs more info'}.
equals, in and startsWith match when any element does, notEquals only when
none equals the value, exists when the list is not empty. Placeholders
accept the same syntax and render the list.

Before this, filters could only compare scalars and arrays satisfied
exists alone, so a GitHub issue_comment hook had to wake the bound thread
on every comment in the repository and let the agent discard the rest.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Local folder and clone submissions for a root that is already registered,
typed as ~/path or absolute, should open that project's draft silently,
keep a clone's prompt, and never start a clone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…23246)

Local folder and clone submissions now look up the registered project
before creating or cloning anything. A `~` path is resolved through the
host's filesystem browser first, since the server expands it. A match
opens that project's draft without an alert and keeps a clone's prompt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Path resolution trims ~/ to ~, which getFilesystemBrowsePath does not treat
as a browse query, so the lookup browsed an empty path and matched the
server cwd's parent instead of HOME.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…23246)

The browse helper only recognizes ~/, so a Windows ~\ path browsed an empty
directory, which filesystem.browse rejects, and the duplicate stayed
unresolved. Rewrite the ~\ prefix to ~/ on Windows hosts before the lookup.
The test browse mock now fails an empty partialPath as the contract does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Mobile folder and clone-destination flows now reuse registered projects and resolve home-relative paths before matching. The reported path-whitespace issue remains subject to the separate correctness gate; no additional material approval risk was identified.

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Checked the clone-bypass behavior against the reported requirement and current diff: an existing registered destination opens its draft before either clone implementation, with the supplied prompt retained. No correctness change is needed for this comment. The human-approval gate remains in place; native verification gaps are listed in Verification.

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Eligible home-relative destinations are resolved through filesystem browsing. Local-folder and clone submissions now check for a registered project at the resolved path and open its task draft, optionally with a prompt, instead of creating or cloning it.

Changes: Mobile existing-project lookup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Home-relative path resolution
apps/mobile/src/features/projects/AddProjectScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/projects/AddProjectScreen.test.ts
The browse-path hook resolves eligible ~, ~/, and Windows ~\ paths. Test mocks model host platforms and filesystem browse results.
Existing-project lookup and navigation
apps/mobile/src/features/projects/AddProjectScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/projects/AddProjectScreen.test.ts
Local-folder and clone submissions check for a matching project before creating or cloning. A match opens its task draft with an optional prompt. Archived matches are unarchived; an alert appears if unarchiving fails. Tests cover local and clone submissions for existing projects.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

  • Issue 23237 — The changes check for an existing project and open its new-task draft for home-relative and absolute destinations.

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

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The mobile scope comes from GitCafe issue #23246, whose title is “Mobile Add Project fails when the destination is already a project”. GitHub issue https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/23246 is a different web-composer report. This PR is linked directly to the GitCafe mobile issue; the web-composer requirements are outside this fix. The three inline findings are being checked against the source.

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Addressed all three inline findings in 2d219bb022: failed prompt-draft creation keeps the screen and prompt, shows the error, and permits retry; default fixture roots are unique; existing nonfixture directories are rejected before either target changes. The regression failed before the fix and all 10 focused mobile tests pass. Isolated real-CLI fixture checks and check:changed pass (11 tests across two files, format, lint, knip and affected typechecks). The new error path remains unverified natively.

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Cross-referencing #31109 and its proposed implementation #31106. Your mobile project-reuse fix provides relevant context for occupied destinations. The new proposal covers the web/desktop Add-to-another-machine dialog, including explicit Replace/Combine/Cancel choices and preserving an existing matching checkout during Combine. Path normalization and reuse behavior are the overlap to consider. The proposal remains under review.

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🟠 High projects/AddProjectScreen.tsx:401

resolveHomePath turns a valid ~/ work input into /home/user/work, so if work is registered it selects that unrelated project and clone callers target the wrong destination. getCloneDestinationPath trims browsePath.filterQuery; append the filter verbatim to result.value.parentPath instead.

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In file @apps/mobile/src/features/projects/AddProjectScreen.tsx around line 401:

`resolveHomePath` turns a valid `~/ work` input into `/home/user/work`, so if `work` is registered it selects that unrelated project and clone callers target the wrong destination. `getCloneDestinationPath` trims `browsePath.filterQuery`; append the filter verbatim to `result.value.parentPath` instead.

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