fix: keep the shell-exit delta baseline across host rebuilds - #1212
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe session now captures a workspace baseline on first host launch, persists it in a versioned sidecar, and restores it after daemon restart. The retained baseline passes through host rebuilds and reattachment. Store APIs and regression tests cover persistence and change detection. ChangesWorkspace baseline persistence
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The baseline now survives host rebuilds, but if the initial workspace scan fails, change detection can remain unavailable without a clear warning explaining why. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or a follow-up to log that failure. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Session
participant Store
participant DiskLoader
participant DeltaSource
participant Host
Session->>Store: load baseline sidecar
Store->>DiskLoader: read delta-baseline.json
DiskLoader-->>Session: return baseline or absence
alt baseline is absent or invalid
Session->>DeltaSource: arm workspace baseline
Session->>Store: persist serialized arm result
end
Session->>Host: spawn with retained baseline
Host->>DeltaSource: report workspace changes against baseline
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The shell-exit prompt's "changed since activation" baseline was armed in Host::build, which runs once per host launch rather than once per session. Exiting a session with "keep filesystem" tears the host down but leaves the session and its files in place; a later reattach builds a new host, which re-snapshotted the already-modified workspace as its baseline. A second exit then diffed against that dirty baseline, found nothing new, and dropped the save-changes option even though uncommitted changes remained. Move the baseline onto the Session actor, which outlives the host: it is armed once before the first host launches and reused across every teardown and rebuild, so a reattach keeps the activation-time reference point. Host construction now receives the baseline instead of arming its own.
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Do we want to commit this to storage somehow so the delta survives minimald restarts?
The baseline moved onto the Session actor survives host rebuilds, but the actor itself dies with the daemon: a restart minted a fresh actor that re-armed against the by-then-modified workspace, recreating the stale- baseline symptom for the restart case (upgrade, crash, VM reboot). Persist the arm result to a delta-baseline.json sidecar in the session directory, following the composition sidecar's pattern: opaque bytes through the sessions store (atomic tmp + rename), a versioned wire format owned by the daemon's change-detection code, written once at first arm and reloaded when a fresh actor finds itself unarmed. A failed arm is persisted verbatim, so a restart honors "change detection disabled" instead of re-snapshotting a dirty tree and calling it clean. Every failure degrades to a fresh walk or to skipping persistence with a warning; the prompt's change detection never blocks a launch. A regression test boots a second daemon on the first one's state dir and asserts a pre-restart change is still reported after reattach. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@twitchyliquid64 Good call — done in 2a36fc5. The arm result now persists to a New regression test boots a second daemon on the first one's state dir and asserts a pre-restart change is still reported after reattach. |
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In `@crates/minimald/src/session.rs`:
- Around line 1802-1806: Add a warning log when
DeltaSource::arm(workspace_root).await returns None, before persisting the
result through session_delta::to_sidecar_bytes. Include enough context to
identify the failed workspace arm while preserving the existing sidecar
persistence behavior for the failed result.
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| let delta = DeltaSource::arm(workspace_root).await; | ||
| // Persist the arm result — a failed arm included, so a restart | ||
| // honors "change detection disabled" instead of re-snapshotting a | ||
| // tree the session may already have modified. | ||
| match session_delta::to_sidecar_bytes(delta.as_ref()) { |
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Log a warning when the fresh arm fails.
Line 1802 returns None when the workspace walk fails or overruns WALK_TIMEOUT. The code then persists that failure as a sidecar marker, so every later restart reloads it and never retries the walk. Change detection stays disabled for the remaining life of the session.
No log line records the failed walk. The operator only observes SessionDeltaResponse::Unavailable and a missing save lane, with nothing explaining the cause.
Add a warning on the None arm result.
🔎 Proposed fix to log the failed arm
let delta = DeltaSource::arm(workspace_root).await;
+ if delta.is_none() {
+ tracing::warn!(
+ session_id = %self.record.id(),
+ "the workspace baseline walk failed; change detection is disabled \
+ for this session, including across daemon restarts",
+ );
+ }
// Persist the arm result — a failed arm included, so a restart
// honors "change detection disabled" instead of re-snapshotting a
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| let delta = DeltaSource::arm(workspace_root).await; | |
| // Persist the arm result — a failed arm included, so a restart | |
| // honors "change detection disabled" instead of re-snapshotting a | |
| // tree the session may already have modified. | |
| match session_delta::to_sidecar_bytes(delta.as_ref()) { | |
| let delta = DeltaSource::arm(workspace_root).await; | |
| if delta.is_none() { | |
| tracing::warn!( | |
| session_id = %self.record.id(), | |
| "the workspace baseline walk failed; change detection is disabled \ | |
| for this session, including across daemon restarts", | |
| ); | |
| } | |
| // Persist the arm result — a failed arm included, so a restart | |
| // honors "change detection disabled" instead of re-snapshotting a | |
| // tree the session may already have modified. | |
| match session_delta::to_sidecar_bytes(delta.as_ref()) { |
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In `@crates/minimald/src/session.rs` around lines 1802 - 1806, Add a warning log
when DeltaSource::arm(workspace_root).await returns None, before persisting the
result through session_delta::to_sidecar_bytes. Include enough context to
identify the failed workspace arm while preserving the existing sidecar
persistence behavior for the failed result.
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The shell-exit prompt's "changed since activation" baseline was armed in
Host::build, which runs once per host launch rather than once per session. Exiting a session with the "keep filesystem" option tears the host down but leaves the session and its files in place; a later reattach builds a fresh host that re-snapshots the already-modified workspace as its baseline. A second exit then diffs against that dirty baseline, sees no new changes, and drops the save-changes option even though uncommitted changes are still present.This moves the baseline onto the
Sessionactor, which outlives the host: it is armed once before the first host launches and reused across every teardown and rebuild, so a reattach keeps the activation-time reference point.Hostconstruction now receives the baseline instead of arming its own. A regression test drives a keep-exit followed by a reattach and asserts the pre-exit change is still reported.Verification
cargo fmt --all --check --manifest-path target/Cargo.toml— cleancargo clippy --workspace --locked --manifest-path target/Cargo.toml -- -D warnings— clean, no warningscargo build --workspace --locked --manifest-path target/Cargo.toml— okcargo test --workspace --locked --manifest-path target/Cargo.toml— all tests passed (exit 0), including the newsession::tests::workspace_baseline_survives_keep_exit_and_reattachNote
Fix shell-exit delta baseline to persist across host rebuilds
WorkspaceBaselineenum in session.rs to hold the workspace change-detection snapshot per session lifetime, withUnarmedandArmedvariants.DeltaSource::arm; subsequent host rebuilds reuse the stored baseline instead of re-snapshotting.Host::spawnandHost::buildin session_host.rs, removing the internal arm call from the build path.Macroscope summarized e1cbeaa.
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