feat(tui): add session-scoped plan mode and durable plan editing - #1008
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- restrict plan file permissions to owner only (0o700 dir, 0o600 file) - surface editor failures from /plan open in the transcript - simplify fileExists to return a bool - collapse redundant plan path resolution in planText
/plan open was non-functional because run.go assigned the live program to a copy of the model after tea.NewProgram had already captured it by value; the field is removed and tea.ExecProcess is used directly. Shift+Tab no longer silently drops plan mode, planmode.DraftSystemPrompt is wired into plan-mode runs, plan file paths reject symlink escapes, read errors are no longer swallowed, opening a new plan file seeds it from the agent's draft instead of leaving it blank and shadowing that draft, /plan off restores the prior permission mode instead of forcing Auto, and the session slug is stable when no session ID exists yet.
…g, and persistence Make a bare /plan toggle off when already active instead of only reprinting the plan. Scope plan mode to the session that entered it: /new and /resume to a different session now exit plan mode instead of leaking a stale grant or restore-mode across sessions. Create the active session before naming its plan file so a fresh TUI no longer collides on a shared plan.md. Persist every update_plan call to the plan file so it is the durable source of truth instead of an in-memory snapshot. Replace the preflight Lstat symlink check with os.Root, closing the check/use race via descriptor-relative operations. Skip the plan-file permission assertions on Windows, where POSIX mode bits aren't meaningful.
…odes exitPlanMode() unconditionally reset permissionMode to Auto before restoring permissionModeBeforePlan, so /new and /resume to a different session dropped an explicit Ask/Auto choice made outside plan mode. Only touch permissionMode when actually leaving PermissionModePlan.
…tus and notes /plan open let the user edit the plan file in $EDITOR, but the edit was never synced back into the in-memory update_plan, so it kept driving execution off the stale pre-edit draft. reloadPlanFromFile() now parses the saved file and pushes it back into update_plan via a new SetPlan method. The first version of that parser discarded each item's [status] bracket (resetting everything to pending on reload) and mis-parsed a "Notes: ..." continuation line as its own bogus plan step. Both are fixed: status is parsed back through the tool's existing normalization, and a Notes line folds into the preceding item instead of becoming a new one.
The palette showed "/plan - Show planning mode status" but /plan actually toggles plan mode and supports open/off subcommands.
…and session reset - executeRequestPermissions now denies plan/spec-draft mode unconditionally, instead of relying on the registry-based ToolAdvertised gate, which only fires when the tool happens to be present in whatever registry the caller passed in. - /new and /resume now clear the shared update_plan state and sticky plan panel on a session switch, not just the permission mode. - A successful $EDITOR exit from /plan open now always emits planEditorFinishedMsg, so edited plan content actually reloads instead of being silently dropped. - /plan open now blocks while a run is active, matching the bare /plan toggle's guard. - parsePlanFileLines now folds multi-line Notes blocks instead of treating continuation lines as bogus new steps.
…ext, other findings - /plan open now stages the plan file for $EDITOR in config.UserConfigDir() instead of handing it a workspace-relative path: ReadPlan/WritePlan resolve through os.Root and can't be redirected, but the external editor process opens its argument path with ordinary I/O, so a sandboxed tool invocation could previously replace the plan file with a symlink between our protected write and the editor's open. The OS temp directory doesn't avoid this since the sandbox's default write scope explicitly includes it. - A user-edited plan now gets recorded as a session event on reload, so it actually reaches the model's context instead of only updating the update_plan tool's in-memory state, which the model has no way to observe on its own. - /resume now hydrates the destination session's own persisted plan file after a session switch, instead of leaving update_plan and the sticky panel empty until the next update_plan call risks overwriting it. - formatPlanItems/parsePlanFileLines now indent multi-line Content continuations the same way Notes continuations already were, so agent-authored multi-line plan steps survive a round-trip through $EDITOR instead of shattering into bogus new pending steps. - WritePlan now Chmods the plan directory and file unconditionally after MkdirAll/OpenFile, since those only apply their mode at creation and would otherwise leave a pre-existing, more permissive dir/file broadly readable. - /plan open now checks plan mode is active before ensureActiveSession instead of after, so an invalid invocation doesn't leave a persistent empty session behind in /resume.
- StageForEditor rejects a staging directory that XDG_CONFIG_HOME has redirected into the sandbox's default-writable roots (the workspace or the OS temp directory) instead of silently staging somewhere a sandboxed process could symlink-swap. - The staged file is created per invocation via os.CreateTemp: a random, unpredictable name opened with O_EXCL, so a planted path is refused rather than followed, and two Zero instances editing the same resumed session no longer overwrite each other's staged draft. Cleanup removes only the file this invocation created. - Clearing every line in the editor now records an explicit plan-cleared user event in the session context, so the next run does not replay the discarded plan from the earlier update_plan call. - $VISUAL/$EDITOR values are parsed with POSIX shell word-splitting (mvdan.cc/sh/v3/shell, already a dependency) instead of strings.Fields, so quoted executable paths with spaces and flags launch correctly. - The /plan palette description says the literal "off" subcommand, and the help expectation matches.
…an state, lossless plan encoding
- The editor staging containment check now judges physical paths: the
staging directory is created first, resolved with EvalSymlinks, checked
against the symlink-resolved workspace and temp roots, and the staging
itself is anchored on the resolved path. An XDG_CONFIG_HOME symlinked
into a sandbox-writable root no longer passes on its lexical spelling.
- update_plan refuses to apply once its run context is cancelled, with the
check sharing the mutex that guards SetPlan, so a cancelled run's late
call can no longer repopulate the plan the UI just reset for a new
session; the UI-side file sync also runs only on successful results, so
a refused call cannot rewrite the old session's plan file either.
- The plan file encoding round-trips losslessly: indentation is decided
before content (a continuation reading "2. validate" stays a
continuation), continuations whose text would read as structure
("Notes:" or a leading backslash) are escaped, and whitespace-only
indented lines survive as blank continuation lines. Round-trip tests
cover the adversarial cases and assert a fixed point on the second pass.
…xisting ancestor The macOS and Windows CI runners spell temp paths through symlinks (/var -> /private/var) and 8.3 short names (RUNNER~1): a staging directory that does not exist yet kept its lexical spelling while the existing roots resolved to physical form, so the containment comparison silently missed. physicalPath now resolves the deepest existing ancestor and rejoins the remainder, giving both sides the same spelling.
The planEditorFinishedMsg handler reloaded the edited plan file into both the update_plan tool and the sticky panel, but emitted no visible confirmation, so a bare /plan open with no other change looked like a no-op. Append a system message noting the reload (or a clear when the edited file is empty), and cover the full Update message path with a test asserting the tool state, panel, and transcript are all updated.
Three review findings: - Unknown /plan subcommands (a typo like "openx", or "status") fell through the switch to the bare toggle and silently exited the read-only mode. They now return a usage error; only bare /plan toggles. - WritePlan opened the plan path with O_TRUNC, destroying the previous durable plan before the new content landed, and followed a symlink that resolves inside the workspace — a planted .zero/plans/<slug>.md symlink would redirect plan mode's one allowed write over an arbitrary workspace file. It now refuses symlinked targets and writes an owner-only O_EXCL temporary sibling renamed into place. - The update_plan result callback re-read the shared tool's CurrentPlan() after the call released its mutex, so a cancel plus /new or /resume in that window persisted the wrong session's plan (or an empty reset) under the old run's session ID. A successful call now carries its own plan snapshot in the result meta and the callback persists exactly that snapshot. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ctive Plan mode promises a read-only turn, but sessionStart/sessionEnd fire on every run and beforeTool/afterTool fire around allowed read calls, and all four execute configured host commands outside the advertised-tool and sandbox gates — so a project hook could mutate the workspace or spawn a process from a session that advertises it cannot. Gate all four dispatch points on the run's permission mode, with a regression test asserting no hook command launches during a plan-mode run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Entering plan mode replaced options.SystemPrompt wholesale with planmode.DraftSystemPrompt, discarding any embedder-configured system prompt for the whole duration of plan mode. Layer the plan-mode instructions onto the configured prompt instead, falling back to the plain draft prompt when nothing was configured. Also chmod the plan-edit staging directory unconditionally after MkdirAll, so a pre-existing, loosely permissioned directory no longer undermines the staging design's symlink-race protection.
Plan mode still suppresses executable hooks so a read-only planning turn cannot spawn host processes via session or tool hooks. Spec-draft keeps the existing trust model so trusted worktrees inherit trust under --use-spec --worktree (TestExecSpecWorktreeInheritsTrustEndToEnd). Also close two plan-mode advertisement gaps that Gitlawb#642 already fixed: exclude process-spawning lsp_navigate, and require Safety metadata for tools instead of a name-only ask_user/update_plan allowlist, with a spoofed-name regression test.
update_plan is read-only and auto-allowed, but the TUI persisted every successful call into .zero/plans under the workspace. Store durable plans under the user config directory (scoped by workspace) so Ask mode and plan mode no longer create workspace files without a write grant. Also verify the editor staging directory is a plain owner-only dir after chmod (reject group/world-writable or symlink paths), cover the pre-existing permissive staging-dir case, and assert plan mode layers DraftSystemPrompt onto a configured agent system prompt rather than replacing it.
…ing checks os.UserConfigDir (what config.UserConfigDir defers to outside darwin) reads %AppData% on Windows and ignores XDG_CONFIG_HOME there, so tests that only set XDG_CONFIG_HOME silently fail to isolate plan storage on Windows and fall through to the runner's real profile directory. Set AppData too wherever a test overrides the config root. Also skip the new group/world-writable check in verifyPrivateDirectory on Windows: NTFS reports a directory's POSIX mode via ACLs rather than the bits os.Chmod sets, so the check rejected every staging directory unconditionally and made /plan open never launch $EDITOR on Windows, the same rationale already used to skip the file-mode assertion in TestWritePlanUsesRestrictivePermissions.
slugify alone maps distinct session/workspace IDs that differ only by separator (plan_a vs plan-a) onto the same path. pathKey appends a SHA-256 suffix of the exact original string so durable plans stay isolated across those collisions. Refs Gitlawb#643
…n mode completion, and continuation whitespace
…ool policy vetoes Reset plan mode when drafting or approving specs, preserve beforeTool policy vetoes during plan mode, reject plan storage in temp tree, and hash unmodified identifiers in pathKey. Refs Gitlawb#643
… by main Both were thin unscoped wrappers around the Scoped variants, deleted upstream in Gitlawb#706 since nothing else called them directly. Only this branch's tests still did; switch to the Scoped calls main's own tests already use.
Reset plan mode and in-memory plan state when entering a BTW side session so /btw matches the /new and /resume session-switch guards. Move SetTempDirForTest into export_test.go so cmd/zero no longer depends on testing. Drop the unused model.program field. Clarify that plan mode suppresses lifecycle and afterTool hooks only, while beforeTool still runs for fail-closed vetoes, and pin that behavior with a regression test.
Block /plan inside /btw, re-sync parent plan on leaveBTW, fall back to Ask when exitPlanMode has no prior mode, clear plan only after successful /spec session create, and omit plan_snapshot from session tool events. Refs Gitlawb#854
…load Fail closed when the workspace root cannot be resolved for editor staging, use a non-colliding blank-session pathKey sentinel, copy on SetPlan so enforceSingleInProgress cannot mutate the caller, surface plan-file read errors from the editor reload path, and tighten regression coverage for workspace containment, StageForEditor, and plan_snapshot metadata. Refs Gitlawb#854
…mode Bind plan reads at open with O_NOFOLLOW on Unix, route StageForEditor through the temp-dir test seam so CI staging privacy checks pass, surface durable plan reload failures from /btw return and /resume, fix plan_command switch/lint nits that fail CI, and pin afterTool suppression in plan mode. Refs Gitlawb#854
Final-component O_NOFOLLOW left intermediate directory swaps able to redirect plan reads outside the storage tree. Open the plans base as os.Root and read relative to that handle so traversal cannot escape, and refuse a symlink final component. Add intermediate-symlink and plain-file regression coverage. Refs Gitlawb#854
Co-Authored-By: cairn-code <cairn-code@users.noreply.github.com>
…ment editorStagingDirIsPrivate compares physical paths so a staging directory that resolves into the workspace or the OS temp dir is refused, but physicalPath resolved through filepath.EvalSymlinks, which hands a junction straight back: os.Lstat maps one to ModeIrregular rather than ModeSymlink. A junction needs no SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege, so it is the reparse point an unprivileged process can actually plant, and the check the function documents did not hold on the one platform where that matters. Resolve through GetFinalPathNameByHandle on Windows instead, which asks the filesystem what the handle resolved to and so accounts for every reparse type at once; VOLUME_NAME_DOS also returns long names, subsuming the 8.3 short-name normalization the comparison already needed. verifyPrivateDirectory now rejects a reparse point explicitly rather than relying on its !IsDir test firing by accident, which is why a junctioned staging directory was refused with "is not a directory". The Windows staging tests skip wherever directory-symlink creation is privileged, which is why this went unnoticed; the new ones use the junction helper the storage tests already rely on. Verified on NTFS: both containment tests fail before this change and pass after it. Refs Gitlawb#854
Prevent queued messages from auto-launching on turn completion while plan mode is active, requiring explicit exit or submission before running. Refs Gitlawb#854
Greptile SummaryAdds a complete TUI plan-mode workflow with durable per-workspace/session storage, editor round-tripping, cancellation handling, and restricted agent tooling.
Confidence Score: 5/5The PR appears safe to merge; no concrete blocking or independently actionable non-blocking issue remains. The changed workflow consistently restricts plan-mode tools, restores session state, atomically persists plans, and applies platform-specific containment protections, with focused tests covering the principal lifecycle and filesystem boundaries.
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| Filename | Overview |
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| internal/planmode/planmode.go | Introduces durable plan path derivation, storage-root handling, staging orchestration, stale-file sweeping, and editor commit behavior. |
| internal/planmode/write_unix.go | Implements handle-relative, no-follow Unix writes and staging with atomic replacement and lock-backed cleanup. |
| internal/planmode/write_windows.go | Implements Windows handle-relative storage and staging with reparse-point protections and atomic rename semantics. |
| internal/tui/plan_command.go | Adds the /plan state machine, editor workflow, permission-mode restoration, and cancellation-safe lifecycle handling. |
| internal/tui/model.go | Integrates plan state and asynchronous plan messages into the central TUI update flow. |
| internal/agent/loop.go | Propagates plan snapshots from executed tools while preserving plan-mode hook restrictions. |
Sequence Diagram
sequenceDiagram
participant U as User
participant T as TUI
participant A as Agent loop
participant P as Plan storage
participant E as Editor
U->>T: /plan on
T->>A: Enter PermissionModePlan
A-->>T: Restricted tools + plan snapshots
T->>P: Persist durable plan
U->>T: Edit plan
T->>P: Create contained staging file
T->>E: Open staged plan
E-->>T: Editor exits
T->>P: Commit staged content atomically
T->>P: Clean up staging files
U->>T: /plan off
T->>A: Restore prior permission mode
T->>T: Resume deferred work
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Agent and tool behavior
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participant Operator
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Operator->>TUI: Enter plan mode
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Agent->>UpdatePlan: Submit plan
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Agent-->>TUI: Publish accepted snapshot
TUI->>Planmode: WritePlanIfUnchanged
Operator->>TUI: Open plan
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45-45: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 TrivialKeep the synthetic fixture; do not rotate credentials. The test intentionally passes the
ghp_...value throughscrubResultSecretsand checks thatPlanSnapshotandCurrentPlanpreserve it. The repository has no scanner allowlist convention, so omit the inline-marker recommendation.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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internal/tui/session_test.go (1)
1037-1037: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse
agent.PermissionModeAutoin both session-switch tests.
exitPlanModefalls back toAskwhen no prior mode exists. WithAskas the input, an unconditional fallback still passes.Autoverifies that/newand/resumepreserve the explicit non-Plan mode.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@internal/planmode/write_unix.go`:
- Around line 266-271: The staging cleanup closure must be idempotent by
guarding its body with sync.Once. Update internal/planmode/write_unix.go lines
266-271 so unix.Close(lockFd) and removals run only once, and apply the same
sync.Once guard to the cleanup closure in internal/planmode/write_windows.go
lines 430-436 so windows.CloseHandle(lockH) runs only once.
In `@internal/tui/model.go`:
- Line 5881: Update planSnapshotFromResult and the updatePlanTool.Run result
handling to distinguish an absent PlanSnapshot from an intentionally empty one
returned for plan: []. Preserve the empty snapshot as valid so planUpdateMsg and
planmode.WritePlan clear the durable plan, while still rejecting results without
a snapshot. Add a regression test covering an empty-plan update and its
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In `@internal/tools/update_plan_test.go`:
- Line 45: Replace the hardcoded credential-like value assigned to secretToken
with a clearly inert synthetic fixture, updating related expectations in
scrubResultSecrets, PlanSnapshot, and CurrentPlan checks as needed while
preserving the test’s intended behavior.
In `@internal/tui/session_test.go`:
- Line 1037: Update both session-switch tests in the relevant test flow to
initialize permission mode with agent.PermissionModeAuto instead of
agent.PermissionModeAsk, ensuring /new and /resume verify preservation of an
explicit non-Plan mode.
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459-460: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPreserve literal leading backslashes in continuation lines.
unescapePlanContinuationremoves the first\from every continuation line. A user-edited line such as\src\filereloads assrc\file, so the editor round trip changes plan content. Only remove prefixes emitted byescapePlanContinuation, and add a round-trip test for a literal leading backslash.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@internal/planmode/planmode.go`:
- Around line 375-376: The conflict check in CommitStagedEdit is separate from
the durable write, allowing concurrent edits to overwrite each other. Introduce
or reuse a per-plan lock or conditional-update mechanism acquired by both
CommitStagedEdit and WritePlan, and perform the durableHash/baseHash validation
and replacement within that atomic operation.
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- Around line 459-460: Update unescapePlanContinuation to remove a leading
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In `@internal/tui/plan_command_test.go`:
- Around line 1231-1232: Update both content assertions in the plan command test
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
The editable, resumable plan is a useful feature with a purpose distinct from the orchestration work in #829. The ten findings below concern concrete persistence, editor, platform, and test behavior. They include failures discussed on #854. The separate question about Plan-mode lifetime needs a maintainer decision; it should not become an implicit instruction to redesign session permissions.
Why the fixes need to cover complete operations
The pattern across these findings is that a safeguard works at one step, while the next step relies on a stronger guarantee than that safeguard provides. For example:
- Atomic replacement prevents a partially written file, but does not make a baseline comparison and replacement atomic across processes.
- A process-local mutex serializes callers inside one instance, but does not order competing instances or establish whether a cancelled callback is older than an accepted editor change.
- A conflict error protects the durable file, but unconditional cleanup then destroys the user's rejected edit.
- Storage recognizes an unchanged editor file, but the TUI loses that result and infers a user edit from a lossy parse.
- A path is outside the selected OS temporary directory, but can remain inside another directory the sandbox already permits writes to.
These observations explain why repairing the cited line alone can leave a closely related failure reachable. They do not require a new storage system or a rewrite of the TUI. The useful unit of repair is the complete operation: identify the input and owner, validate the preconditions, accept or reject the change, publish the result to its consumers, and handle recovery and cleanup according to that result.
The findings fall into four groups:
| Area | Findings | Contract to establish |
|---|---|---|
| Durable plan writes and recovery | 1, 2, 4, 5 | A writer must have a valid basis for replacing the plan; competing writes must be ordered; an older cancelled publication must not replace newer accepted state; rejected user work must remain recoverable. |
| Editor completion and plan presentation | 6, 7 | Distinguish an unchanged operation from an accepted edit, and make displayed plan semantics agree with the accepted plan. Raw file formatting need not be identical to the display. |
| Existing platform boundaries | 3, 8 | Use the actual sandbox writable-root rules and preserve the pathname semantics of the supported operating system. |
| Regression protection | 9, 10 | Tests must own newly introduced persistence dependencies and retain the unrelated integration assertions already present on main. |
Please address each group's complete failure path and its existing callers together. The grouping is not a request to combine everything into one abstraction: interprocess atomicity, publication freshness, and recovery are distinct obligations even if they share some implementation.
Findings
1. [P2] Make the baseline check atomic across Zero processes
internal/planmode/planmode.go:382
Failure path and evidence. Two Zero instances resume the same workspace/session and stage independent edits from durable plan A. Both enter CommitStagedEdit, read A, and pass the baseline comparison. Both then replace the durable file. The second replacement silently loses the first accepted edit. Four processes committing distinct edits from the same baseline all succeeded in a reproduction; competing edits should not all be accepted against that one baseline.
Root cause. lockPlan uses a process-local mutex. Atomic rename protects each individual replacement, while the staging locks belong to unique editor files. Neither makes the durable read/check/replace operation indivisible across instances. A competing direct WritePlan can also change the file between the editor's comparison and replacement. The resolved atomicity request is therefore not satisfied across processes.
Required outcome. Coordinate the complete baseline check and replacement with every writer of the same durable plan, including WritePlan. An interprocess lock or an equivalent conditional replacement mechanism can satisfy this; the implementation choice is open. Keep independent sessions independent, retain atomic replacement and the existing no-follow protections, and preserve the behavior where an unchanged stale editor does not overwrite newer durable content.
Regression coverage. Use separate processes, not only goroutines, and synchronize them so they compete from the same baseline. Cover editor versus editor and editor versus WritePlan. Verify that a stale edited snapshot cannot silently replace an already accepted competing value. Also cover an unchanged stale editor, which should preserve the newer durable value without introducing an unnecessary write.
2. [P2] Fail closed when the editor baseline is unavailable
internal/planmode/planmode.go:386
Failure path and evidence. If reading .basehash fails, CommitStagedEdit skips no-op and conflict detection and proceeds with an unconditional write. Both Unix and Windows staging ignore failures creating that sidecar, so staging can report success without establishing a baseline. With the sidecar unavailable, changing the durable plan and then committing the older edited snapshot replaces the newer value without a conflict.
Root cause. The baseline is required to authorize safe replacement, but is treated as optional metadata on the error path. The staging result does not guarantee that the later commit has the information it needs. This is separate from finding 1: even perfect interprocess locking cannot validate an absent baseline.
Required outcome. Report success from staging only after establishing the required baseline. If that baseline is unavailable or invalid at commit, report an error rather than silently authorizing replacement. Preserve the valid empty-plan and unchanged-editor cases. Handle sidecar creation/write failures explicitly on both supported platform implementations.
Regression coverage. Inject baseline creation and write failures and verify that staging does not report a usable successful operation. Exercise a missing, unreadable, or invalid baseline at commit after a competing durable change. Assert that the durable value is preserved and the error is surfaced. Pair commit-failure cases with the recovery assertions in finding 4.
3. [P1] Exclude every sandbox-writable temporary root
internal/planmode/planmode.go:489
Failure path and evidence. This requires a redirected configuration layout: for example, XDG_CONFIG_HOME beneath /tmp while TMPDIR points to a different directory. Both the durable-path check and editor staging accept that layout because they only exclude effectiveTempDir(). However, the sandbox's existing default writable roots include /tmp on Unix even when TMPDIR points elsewhere. On Windows, the equivalent mismatch is that the sandbox includes both TEMP and TMP, while the check uses the selected OS temporary directory.
Impact. The accepted durable plan and editor staging file can reside in a root writable by a same-user sandboxed process. Mode 0700 does not isolate them from a process running as that same user. The process can alter staged content or replace the pathname that the unsandboxed editor subsequently reopens. This defeats the reason the staging area is treated as trusted. The finding is conditional on the redirected layout; it is not a claim that ordinary default config locations are exposed.
Root cause. The plan package approximates the sandbox's trust boundary using a single temporary directory. The actual boundary is the complete set of default writable roots. Physical-path resolution and private permissions cannot compensate for using an incomplete root set.
Required outcome. Validate both durable storage and editor staging against that complete set, using the appropriate physical-path comparisons. Preserve legitimate redirected config ancestors outside those roots and the protected-root/descendant no-follow behavior. Reusing the root rules or otherwise ensuring parity is sufficient; changing the sandbox's existing writable-root policy is outside this fix.
Regression coverage. Cover Unix /tmp with a different TMPDIR, Windows with distinct TEMP and TMP, and physical aliases into those roots. Assert rejection for both durable writes and staging. Include a legitimate redirected config location outside writable roots to ensure the repair does not reintroduce rejection of supported config layouts.
4. [P2] Preserve edited content when write-back fails
internal/tui/plan_command.go:262
Failure path and evidence. The user opens a plan, makes changes, saves, and exits the editor successfully. Another instance has modified the durable plan in the meantime. CommitStagedEdit returns a conflict, but the callback's unconditional defer cleanup() deletes the staged file containing the user's saved work. A durable write failure reaches the same cleanup path. The error is visible, but the edited copy is gone.
Root cause. Cleanup treats successful completion and failed write-back as equivalent. Conflict detection protects the durable value but does not complete the user-facing recovery contract. The existing storage conflict test can pass without detecting that the TUI callback destroys the rejected work afterward.
Required outcome. Make saved edits recoverable when write-back fails and report where the user can retrieve them. Release the staging liveness lock appropriately, and ensure the recovery copy is not immediately removed by the normal cleanup path. The location and retention mechanism are implementation choices. This does not require indefinite retention of every temporary file, and successful commits should retain normal cleanup behavior.
Regression coverage. Exercise the editor completion callback, not only CommitStagedEdit. Cover conflict and ordinary write failure after a saved edit. Assert that the newer durable value remains intact where applicable, the saved edit remains accessible, and the error identifies its recovery location. Verify that locks are released and successful commits do not accumulate staging files. Check how a later staging sweep treats any recovery location chosen by the fix.
5. [P2] Prevent cancelled runs from overwriting a newer accepted plan
internal/tui/model.go:5894
Failure path and evidence. A successful update_plan callback is delayed before its durable write. Cancellation clears pending and activeRunID while the old run remains in flushRunIDs. /plan open checks pending and exiting, so a newer editor commit can complete before the old callback resumes. The callback then replaces that accepted edit with its old snapshot. A controlled scheduling reproduction through the actual runAgent/OnToolResult path produced exactly this overwrite.
Impact. The UI rejects a stale planUpdateMsg by run ID, but that rejection does not protect the subsequent disk write. The visible plan and durable plan can therefore diverge, and the user's newer work can be lost from storage.
Root cause. Capturing the correct session ID and immutable result snapshot solves cross-session provenance, but does not establish whether that result is fresh enough to publish now. The durable writer is outside the UI's stale-run filter. A per-plan mutex alone is insufficient: it can serialize an obsolete callback after a newer accepted edit and faithfully perform the wrong replacement.
Required outcome. Prevent obsolete cancelled-run publication from superseding newer accepted state for the same session. For example, ordering new plan acceptance after outstanding publication drains, or validating publication freshness at the acceptance boundary, can satisfy the requirement. Preserve legitimate cancelled-run session/checkpoint flushing, captured session identity, and successful empty-plan snapshots. A standalone cancellation check that leaves another check/write race is not a complete ordering guarantee.
Regression coverage. Hold a successful result callback before publication, cancel the run, and exercise the chosen behavior for a subsequent editor operation or same-session update. Release the old callback and verify it cannot replace newer accepted content. Assert durable state as well as UI state. Preserve separate tests for legitimate late event flushing and for a result belonging to a different captured session.
6. [P2] Make plan status agree with the accepted plan
internal/tui/plan_command.go:359
Failure path and evidence. Save an edit containing two [in_progress] rows. Reload canonicalizes the accepted plan so that the first row becomes completed in the tool, panel, and editor-authored context. The durable file retains both active rows, and /plan status displays those raw bytes. The user therefore sees different step status depending on which surface they inspect.
Root cause. Reload consumers use canonical plan semantics, while the status renderer treats source text as the displayed semantic result. The tool/panel/context disagreement described in the earlier #854 review has been corrected; the narrower status disagreement is what this finding addresses.
Required outcome. Have /plan status report the same accepted canonical state as the tool and panel. Fixing the display boundary is sufficient. Preserving raw user-authored file formatting is compatible with this request; byte-for-byte equality between source text and the displayed plan is not required. This finding does not ask for a file watcher or a new persistence format.
Regression coverage. Accept an editor file with multiple active rows and supported status aliases. Compare the semantic content/status/notes shown by /plan status with the tool, panel, and editor-authored context after completion and reload. If the implementation deliberately retains raw file text, test that policy separately rather than requiring a byte-identical canonical rewrite.
7. [P2] Carry editor no-op detection through to the TUI
internal/tui/model.go:1487
Failure path and evidence. An agent plan item contains first\r\nsecond. Open the editor and exit without changing a byte. CommitStagedEdit recognizes that the staged bytes are unchanged, but returns no operation result distinguishing that case. Reload normalizes the internal newline to \n; planItemsEqual only trims the ends. The TUI treats the representation difference as an edit, changes the in-memory plan, and appends the false user-authored “I edited the plan file directly” event to future model context.
Root cause. The storage layer has the evidence needed to recognize a no-op, but the completion message loses it. The UI then guesses whether the user edited the file by comparing values across a lossy formatting/parsing boundary. Structural inequality there is not proof of user action. The earlier no-op request on #854 is not satisfied for this case.
Required outcome. Preserve reliable edit/no-op information through completion and base the user-authored event on that outcome. When both the staged and durable content are unchanged, opening and closing the editor should not mutate the accepted plan or invent an edit event. Genuine edits and clears must continue to reach the next turn. If another writer changed the durable plan while this editor stayed unchanged, preserve the newer value and distinguish any hydration from an edit authored by this user.
Regression coverage. Drive staging, unchanged commit, and TUI completion together using CRLF and supported multiline/notes content. Assert zero false edit events and unchanged accepted state for a true no-op. Pair those cases with actual edits and an empty clear, asserting the appropriate single user event. Include unchanged editor bytes after a competing durable write so preserving the newer value does not become a false authorship claim.
8. [P2] Preserve quoted UNC editor paths on Windows
internal/tui/plan_command.go:293
Failure path and evidence. Set the editor to a conventional quoted Windows executable path such as "\\server\shared tools\vim.exe" --wait. Because the value begins with a quote, splitEditorCommandFor bypasses windowsEditorFields and invokes POSIX shell.Fields. That parser reduces the two leading backslashes to one. The resulting executable is a local root-relative path instead of the UNC path, so /plan open cannot launch the intended editor.
Root cause. The parser selects Windows pathname handling based partly on whether the command is quoted. Quoting protects spaces but does not change the operating system's pathname semantics. Quoted drive-path tests do not exercise the significant doubled prefix in UNC paths.
Required outcome. Preserve Windows executable path semantics for quoted and unquoted forms, including spaces in the executable path and the existing argument behavior. Keep Unix parsing unchanged. Use the parser approach that meets those cases; this does not call for general shell-command execution or expanded shell features.
Regression coverage. Assert the exact parsed executable and arguments for quoted UNC paths, quoted drive paths with spaces, unquoted Windows paths, and the supported extended path form. Retain the existing Unix quoting cases. Checking that parsing merely succeeds is insufficient; the path prefix must survive unchanged.
9. [P2] Restore the removed agent-loop integration assertions
internal/agent/loop_test.go:3975
Evidence and impact. Relative to current main, the branch removes the assertion that the aborted flaky-2 placeholder carries IsError. It also removes the OnContext forwarding and matching trace PrefixHashes assertions from TestRunTracingWrapperStampsUsage. Equivalent integration checks are absent at this head. These removals reduce protection against future protocol and trace regressions; they do not prove those production behaviors are currently broken.
Root cause. A shared test-file change associated with plan work has dropped unrelated assertions that the mainline integration suite already provided. Moving other tests successfully does not replace these particular checks.
Required outcome. Restore the two protections at the same integration boundary, either in the existing tests or equivalent tests. Preserve the structured tool-error and cancellation-retry tests that were relocated successfully. This request does not include unrelated production changes, a broad test rewrite, or a claim that all tests mentioned in an older review are missing.
Regression coverage. The aborted-placeholder test should assert both recognizable aborted content and structured error status. The tracing test should verify callback forwarding and agreement between the callback's context evidence and the recorded prefix evidence. Lower-level unit assertions alone do not establish that the Run integration forwards and records the values correctly.
10. [P2] Give legacy plan-entry tests an owned session store
internal/tui/plan_mode_test.go:21
Failure path and evidence. /plan on now calls ensureActiveSession, but the original plan-entry tests construct newModel with its default session store. They consequently create persistent sessions under the developer's actual data directory. Making that data root unavailable causes TestPlanCommandEntersAndExitsPlanMode, TestPlanCommandRestoresPriorModeOnExit, and TestPlanCommandOnTwiceDoesNotClobberSavedMode to fail before entering Plan.
Root cause. A previously in-memory command acquired a persistence dependency, but its older callers in the test suite were not updated to supply that dependency. Config/staging isolation alone does not isolate the session store. This is a test-isolation failure activated by the new entry path, not a request to remove production session creation.
Required outcome. Inject test-owned session storage into every affected model and isolate any remaining config/data roots using the platform's actual resolution rules. Preserve production session creation on /plan on. Check the legacy entry tests as well as the newer editor tests that already use dedicated helpers.
Regression coverage. Run the affected entry tests with explicit test stores and unavailable ambient data storage in an isolated test environment. Verify that the commands enter and exit the requested mode and that session writes are confined to the injected roots. Exercise the supported platform root-resolution paths without writing into or changing permissions on a developer's real profile.
Suggested repair sequence and acceptance checks
- Preserve the existing regression baseline and isolate test storage. Address findings 9 and 10 so subsequent validation does not drop unrelated protections or create real user sessions. These are narrow test changes.
- Close the trusted-path mismatch. Align the plan storage/staging checks with existing sandbox roots, retaining the supported redirected-config and no-follow behavior. Keep Windows editor argument parsing as a bounded compatibility fix.
- Define and implement durable write outcomes across all current writers. Address interprocess comparison/replacement, required baseline handling, and cancelled publication ordering together. Then carry rejected write-back into recoverable editor completion. Verify findings 1, 2, 4, and 5 as distinct cases; solving one does not establish the others.
- Carry editor outcomes into presentation and context. Make no-op/edit/conflict/error distinguishable wherever the TUI needs that distinction, and make status use the accepted semantic plan. A small return value or existing-state adjustment may be sufficient; no particular new framework is required.
- Run the complete affected operation cases before requesting another review. Cover normal edit, unchanged editor, empty clear, competing writer, absent baseline, failed commit, cancellation with a delayed callback, and reload. For each case assert the relevant durable value, active plan/display, user-authored event, and recovery/cleanup result. Use actual separate processes for cross-process claims and the TUI callback for user-visible completion claims.
The acceptance target is that the listed failure paths are prevented without losing behavior already established by the feature: session-specific plan identity, immutable successful snapshots including empty clears, legitimate cancelled-run event flushing, supported editor syntax, valid config redirection, and cleanup of successful or genuinely abandoned staging operations. Test the applicable combinations at their real boundaries rather than adding one isolated assertion per error message.
A focused repair explanation would help close this as one coherent change: for each finding, identify the accepting/rejecting boundary, the other writers or consumers it covers, and the regression that demonstrates the full outcome. Please keep unrelated cleanup and speculative architectural changes out of that repair. The root-cause groupings above are intended to reduce repeated partial fixes while leaving implementation choices open.
Needs maintainer decision
Clarify whether Plan mode ends when switching sessions
internal/tui/session.go:77
The implementation and transition tests deliberately treat Plan as session-scoped: /new, cross-session /resume, and /btw restore the prior permission mode for the destination; returning from BTW preserves the parent's mode. Same-session resume preserves Plan. /spec also exits Plan, but its implementation run follows explicit spec approval.
That behavior conflicts with the entry text saying write tools stay hidden until /plan off and the earlier request on #854 to preserve Plan until an explicit exit. The change in behavior is established, but the intended policy is not settled by those conflicting signals. It is therefore separate from the ten code/test findings above.
If Plan is session-scoped, make that lifetime clear in the entry/transition notices and preserve the destination and parent-session semantics consistently. If Plan is intended to remain in force until an explicit exit, agree on which transitions preserve it or require an explicit exit/confirmation before implementing that policy. Requiring inheritance across every new conversation would be product drift if session-scoped behavior is intended.
Once the policy is settled, exercise entry, same-session resume, cross-session resume, new session, BTW entry/return, spec approval, and explicit /plan off from the relevant prior modes. Assert the actual run permission mode as well as the user-visible notice. Resolve this decision explicitly; do not infer it from the persistence fixes or turn it into an unrequested permission-system redesign.
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/plan openreloads a continuation such as\\src\file,unescapePlanContinuationremoves one leading backslash.formatPlanItemsthen persists the shortened content, so later reloads retain the wrong value. Use an unambiguous encoding/decoding pair and add an exact editor-reload/persist/reload test for this input.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@internal/planmode/planmode.go`:
- Around line 111-118: Update lockPlan to accept a context and exit its
ErrLockHeld retry loop when ctx.Done() is closed, rather than sleeping until the
five-second deadline; pass runCtx from WritePlanIfUnchanged through the locking
path, and continue using context.Background() for CommitStagedEditResult until
that API supports contexts.
In `@internal/planmode/review_regression_test.go`:
- Around line 134-139: Update the non-Windows environment setup in the relevant
subtests to set TMPDIR to each subtest’s intended value, including the second
case, so defaultTempWriteRootCandidatesForGOOS and the WritePlan/StageForEditor
checks consistently reject sandbox-writable roots.
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In `@internal/tui/plan_command.go`:
- Around line 447-466: The escape/unescape pair must preserve continuation
content beginning with multiple backslashes, including `\\src\file`, across
editor reload and persistence. Update `escapePlanContinuation` and
`unescapePlanContinuation` to use unambiguous encoding/decoding without
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Set TMPDIR for each non-Windows subtest.
On non-Windows systems, defaultTempWriteRootCandidatesForGOOS includes /tmp and TMPDIR. When TMPDIR remains first, the second subtest is not rejected on systems where t.TempDir() is outside /tmp, so WritePlan and StageForEditor can accept the sandbox-writable root.
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t.Run(filepath.Base(configRoot), func(t *testing.T) {
+ if runtime.GOOS != "windows" {
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
The durable-plan work from the earlier review round is largely landed on this head. Interprocess locking, baseline sidecars, sandbox temp-root parity, editor recovery on failed commit, cancelled-callback ordering, canonical /plan status, and the targeted regression tests all check out. I am not re-opening those threads.
What remains is one architectural gap, not a fresh pile of unrelated defects: several surfaces still treat “plan updated” and “plan durably published” as the same event. They are not when WritePlanIfUnchanged fails. Fixing that single boundary should close this review without another round of point patches.
Why this PR has seen so many review cycles (and how to stop dripping feedback)
This branch has ~60 commits and multiple review passes because the work keeps adding correct local safeguards while the next layer still assumes a stronger guarantee than the prior layer actually provides. That pattern is visible across the resolved items too:
- Atomic rename protects one file replacement, but does not by itself make “read baseline → compare → replace” indivisible across processes — hence the interprocess lock work.
- A process-local mutex serializes one instance, but staging locks belong to unique editor files — hence separate acceptance-lock tests.
- Conflict detection protects the durable file, but cleanup used to destroy rejected edits — hence
PreserveStagedEdit. - Storage can recognize an unchanged editor file, but the TUI used to infer authorship from a lossy parse — hence
EditResult. - A path can be outside
TMPDIRbut still inside another sandbox-writable root — henceDefaultTempWriteRoots.
Each round fixed a real hole. The remaining feedback is not “you missed twelve new features.” It is the same root pattern one level up: publication is split across consumers that do not share one outcome.
The root cause (please fix this, not another symptom)
Today, a successful update_plan tool call produces three parallel truths:
| Surface | Updated when | On failed durable write |
|---|---|---|
Shared update_plan tool |
During Run() on the agent goroutine |
New plan (already committed in tool) |
| Sticky panel | Immediately via planUpdateMsg in OnToolResult |
New plan (optimistic) |
| Durable file under config | Only if WritePlanIfUnchanged succeeds |
Old plan (unchanged) |
/plan status (planText) |
Reads durable file when exists=true |
Old plan (by design of planText) |
Resume / /plan on reload / BTW return success reload |
Reads durable file | Old plan |
The code comments say the durable file is the single source of truth for /plan reads and restart/resume. That contract is true on the happy path and false on the failure path above. A transcript error row tells the operator persistence failed, but nothing reconciles the other rows in the table — so the session can keep planning against a newer in-memory plan while every reload path silently reverts to disk.
This is not a request for a new storage system, an ACP rewrite, hook policy changes, exec/ACP parity, or broader plan-mode redesign. Those would be scope drift and are explicitly out of this review.
This is a request for one publish boundary in the TUI (and its BTW return path) with a documented contract:
- Accept — durable write succeeded → update panel, tool (if needed), status, BTW reload targets together.
- Reject — durable write failed → either roll back optimistic UI state to the last accepted durable snapshot, or mark the session as “durable lagging” and make status/reload/BTW follow the same accepted in-memory snapshot until a retry succeeds. Pick one semantics; do not leave mixed readers.
Fix the complete operation (validate → publish → propagate → recover), not another line in isolation.
Anti-drift guardrails for this repair
Please do not expand this PR with:
- ACP
emitPlanmigration (internal/acp/agent.gois unchanged in this diff; pre-existing race class; follow-up issue is fine). - exec/ACP durable persistence (pre-existing; TUI-scoped PR).
beforeToolhook suppression changes (intentional fail-closed veto tradeoff; tested).- Silent-editor-reload UX changes (
TestEditorCompletionCarriesAuthorshipAndCanonicalStatusexpects no authorship event for external reload). - Plan-mode lifetime redesign (see maintainer decision below — messaging/policy only unless product says otherwise).
Please do keep: interprocess lock, baseline sidecar, staging containment, editor recovery, WritePlanIfUnchanged concurrency, and existing happy-path behavior.
Merge readiness
- Review gate:
reviewDecisionisCHANGES_REQUESTED(maintainer + CodeRabbit). Merge state isblockedeven though the branch is mergeable and CI is green. - Branch freshness: head is current with
main(0 behind / 0 ahead); no rebase blocker. - Supersedes closed #854; this is the active plan-mode line.
Findings
1. [P2] Establish one publish outcome for plan updates when durable persistence fails
internal/tui/model.go:5888, internal/tui/plan_command.go:482, internal/tui/btw.go:230
What happens today
On every successful update_plan in OnToolResult:
planSnapshotFromResultextracts the immutable snapshot from the completed call.runtimeMessageSink(planUpdateMsg{...})updates the sticky panel immediately.planmode.WritePlanIfUnchanged(runCtx, ..., planBaseline)attempts the durable write.- On error, only a transcript row is added:
"plan file write error: ...". Panel and tool state are left on the new snapshot.
planText() (used by /plan and /plan status) always prefers the durable file when one exists:
content, exists, readErr := planmode.ReadPlan(...)
...
if exists {
content = formatPlanItems(tools.CanonicalizePlanItems(parsePlanFileLines(content)))
return header + "\n" + strings.TrimRight(content, "\n")
}
// only falls back to in-memory draft when no durable file yetSo after a failed write when a durable file already exists, operators can see:
- Sidebar / sticky panel → new plan (from step 2)
/plan status→ old plan (from disk)- In-session agent execution → new plan (tool updated during
Run()) - Resume,
/plan onreload, cross-session hydration → old plan (disk)
The failure is not silent (transcript error exists), but the consumers disagree about which plan is authoritative. The data-loss class is resume/reload/BTW return, not “the agent keeps working in-session.”
Failure paths that trigger this (all already handled at the storage layer; the gap is consumer alignment)
- Baseline conflict —
"plan changed since this run's last accepted update"(concurrent editor, second instance, hidden parent run). - Lock timeout —
lockPlanretry exhausted (~5s). - Run-start read poison —
planBaselineErrfrom initialReadPlanatrunAgentWithOptionsstart blocks everyWritePlanIfUnchangedfor the run while panel/tool still advance (model.go:5473,5902-5905). - Cancelled run context — write rejected after cancel (panel may already have updated).
- I/O errors — permissions, symlink refusal, etc.
BTW boundary (same root cause, not a separate architecture bug)
While BTW is open, hidden parent runs route planUpdateMsg into m.btw.parentPlanItems and update the parent panel via routeBTWMessageToParent. If the parent’s durable write failed, the parent tool may still hold the newer plan from Run().
On leaveBTW:
- Error / missing file paths — correctly restore
savedParentPlaninto tool + panel (btw.go:230-260). - Success reload path —
reloadPlanFromFile()overwrites panel and tool from disk without comparing toparentPlanItemsor the fresher in-memory parent state (btw.go:246-247).
So BTW return can regress the parent to stale disk precisely when the error path would have preserved the snapshot. That asymmetry exists because reload success assumes disk is authoritative — which is only true if step 3 above succeeded.
Required outcome (pick one coherent strategy; do not patch one callsite)
Implement a single plan publish step used by OnToolResult and consulted by BTW return. Smallest acceptable shapes:
Option A — Persist-then-propagate (recommended; matches “durable is source of truth”)
- Call
WritePlanIfUnchangedfirst with the snapshot. - Only on success: emit
planUpdateMsg, advanceplanBaseline, and treat disk as authoritative forplanText/ reload / BTW. - On failure: do not emit
planUpdateMsg; leave panel aligned with last accepted durable state (tool state needs an explicit decision: either rollback to match durable, or document that tool may lead panel until next successful publish — but panel must not race ahead of durable if status reads disk).
Option B — Propagate-with-rollback
- Keep optimistic panel update if you want responsiveness.
- On write failure: roll back panel (and tool if it was optimistically advanced beyond durable) to the pre-call or last-accepted snapshot; keep the transcript error.
- Ensure
planTextand reload paths read the same rolled-back state.
Option C — Explicit “durable lagging” mode
- On write failure: set a session-scoped flag / generation counter.
- While lagging:
planText, BTW reload, and resume hydration follow the accepted in-memory snapshot (or last successful durable baseline), not raw disk. - Clear lagging on next successful publish.
Any option is fine. Inacceptable: leaving panel on the new snapshot while planText/reload/BTW success path read stale disk.
BTW-specific guidance (within the same strategy)
Make leaveBTW success reload consistent with the publish outcome:
- If parent durable is authoritative → reload is correct only when last parent publish succeeded.
- If parent publish failed during BTW → success reload must not clobber fresher
parentPlanItems; mirror the error-path restore logic or skip reload when durable is known stale.
Do not add a second special case; reuse the same “last accepted plan” notion from the publish step.
Regression coverage (required so this does not drip back)
Add one integration test (TUI callback path, not only planmode unit tests) that:
-
Seeds a durable plan file.
-
Forces
WritePlanIfUnchangedto fail (mock/spy, injected error, or baseline conflict). -
Asserts all of:
- panel state
planText()//plan statusoutput- shared tool state (per chosen strategy)
- BTW return behavior if parent publish failed during isolation
agree with each other and with the chosen publish contract.
Existing tests cover happy path, editor recovery, cancelled callback vs editor, and interprocess lock — they do not cover failed publish consumer alignment.
What “done” looks like
- One helper or clear sequence owns publish → propagate → recover.
- No duplicated “update panel then maybe write disk” logic scattered without shared outcome.
- BTW return uses the same accepted-plan notion.
- Failed publish cannot produce sidebar ≠ status ≠ resume.
2. [P3] Honor cancellation while waiting for the plan lock
internal/planmode/planmode.go:100
What happens today
WritePlanIfUnchanged accepts runCtx, but lockPlan retries ErrLockHeld with time.Sleep(10ms) for up to five seconds without checking ctx.Err(). Cancellation is only observed after lock acquisition (writePlan line ~157).
Impact
When lock contention coincides with run cancellation, the publication callback can block for seconds even though the write will ultimately fail. This is responsiveness/cleanup hygiene, not data corruption. It becomes more noticeable once publish-then-propagate (Finding 1) makes the callback more critical.
Required outcome
Pass context.Context into lockPlan (or check ctx.Err() in the retry loop) and return promptly on cancellation. Keep the existing 5s lock-acquisition deadline for non-cancelled callers.
Regression coverage
Small unit test: cancelled ctx + contended lock returns before deadline without writing.
Needs maintainer decision
Clarify Plan mode lifetime across session transitions
internal/tui/session.go:77, internal/tui/plan_command.go:479
Observed behavior (consistent in code + tests): Plan is session-scoped. /new, cross-session /resume, /btw, and /spec exit Plan and restore the destination/parent permission mode, with notices in several paths. Same-session resume preserves Plan.
Conflicting signals: Entry copy still reads as if write tools stay hidden until /plan off, and #854 discussion included “preserve until explicit exit.”
This is policy/messaging, not a code defect in the persistence fix. Please confirm session-scoped Plan is intended. If yes, tighten entry/transition notices only — do not bundle permission-model changes into the publish-outcome repair. If Plan should survive specific transitions, product needs to name which ones before implementation.
Prior review items — verified addressed on this head
The ten items from the 2026-09-06 maintainer review appear resolved here:
- Interprocess baseline check + replace (file lock + process tests)
- Required editor baseline sidecar (staging fails closed; commit rejects missing/invalid baseline)
- Full sandbox temp-root set (
DefaultTempWriteRoots) - Editor recovery on failed write-back (
PreserveStagedEdit+ TUI callback tests) - Cancelled-run publication ordering (
WritePlanIfUnchanged+ delayed callback test) - Canonical
/plan status(viaformatPlanItems(CanonicalizePlanItems(...))) - Editor no-op detection (
EditResult; no false authorship event) - Windows
$EDITORparsing (UNC/quoted paths) - Restored agent-loop integration assertions (
IsError, trace prefix forwarding) - Test-owned session stores in legacy plan-entry tests
Do not regress these while fixing Finding 1.
Suggested repair sequence (one coherent commit series)
- Introduce the publish outcome (Finding 1) in
OnToolResult— one helper, one contract, one integration test for failed publish. - Align BTW return with the same accepted-plan notion — no independent reload semantics.
- Thread ctx through
lockPlan(Finding 3) — small, isolated. - Resolve Plan lifetime messaging with maintainer input — copy-only unless told otherwise.
If you describe the chosen publish strategy (A/B/C above) and point to the integration test in the PR reply, that gives a clear merge gate and avoids another drip round of “what about this callsite?”
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I came to this as a first reviewer and found jatmn already there with the right finding, so I am not adding to the pile. Matching the state rather than contradicting it; the split publish outcome is the blocker and I agree with it. It is the "two representations of one fact with no contract between them" shape, and the table in that review is the clearest statement of it I have seen on this repo.
What follows is only to save you re-defending ground that is already solid. I went at the new package independently and these are clear:
Plan path derivation. No traversal. Nine hostile session IDs through pathKey, including ../../../../etc/passwd, ..\..\..\windows\system32\x, C:/Windows/System32/evil, an embedded NUL and a 500-character string: every one produces a single component, no separators, bounded length. The slug-plus-hash construction does what its comment claims.
Editor staging. The reasoning in StageForEditor is the most careful thing in this diff. Recognising that XDG_CONFIG_HOME can point the staging directory back into a default-writable sandbox root, and then closing it with editorStagingDirIsPrivate plus an unpredictable O_EXCL filename rather than one of those alone, is the right shape. splitEditorCommand handling quoted paths and refusing POSIX escapes on Windows paths is the detail I expected to be wrong.
Write guards. The only unguarded WritePlan is the seed-if-absent path at plan_command.go:223, reached under !exists. There is a small window between that check and the write where two instances could both seed, but both write the same draft-derived content, so it is cosmetic.
The /spec gate change. Base blocked commandSpec in plan mode and this head does not, which reads like a narrowed gate until you follow it. It is deliberate and safe: /spec now creates the draft session, clears plan state, exits plan mode and tells the operator, and PermissionModeSpecDraft is gated at the same three sites in loop.go as PermissionModePlan. Read-only to read-only. Flagging it because the next reviewer will trip on that diff line and should not have to re-derive it.
Session switches. resetPlanForSessionSwitch clears only in-memory state; the durable file is session-keyed so another session's plan is not touched. Applied at every switch site: btw.go, both in session.go, and spec_mode.go.
Mechanical. internal/planmode, internal/tui, internal/tools green on Windows. internal/planmode green on Linux and clean under -race. Builds for linux and darwin. The read-only enforcement itself is pre-existing on main, so this PR is the UX and persistence around a gate that already had teeth.
I did not audit the ACP paths or the TUI wiring in the depth jatmn did, and I am not claiming coverage of 8672 lines. The above is what I drove myself.
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Summary
Add a session-scoped
/planworkflow to the TUI, with durable per-workspace/session storage outside the workspace and external editing through$VISUALor$EDITOR. A plan update is accepted only after its durable write succeeds, so failed saves cannot leave the tool and panel ahead of status and reloads.Refs #854. This PR continues the plan-mode work from the closed PR.
Changes
/plan on,/plan status,/plan open, and/plan off, permission-mode restoration, and lifetime notices. Switching sessions exits Plan mode; returning from BTW restores the parent's mode.<!-- zero-plan-format: 2 -->so leading backslashes remain literal. Retain the legacy decoder and convert older plans with a baseline check before staging; an unchanged editor still produces no authored edit. Document the marker and continuation quoting in the README.Test plan
Validated with Go 1.26.6:
make fmt-check,go vet ./..., and full Linuxgo test ./....go run ./cmd/zero-release buildandgo run ./cmd/zero-release smoke.make lint-staticwith pinned golangci-lint v2.12.2;make vulncheckwith pinned govulncheck v1.3.0.internal/tuiandinternal/planmode, Windows plan/editor/BTW/storage tests, and macOS arm64 TUI test cross-compilation.git diff HEAD --check.Windows temporary-directory cleanup failures were intermittent; the affected tests passed on focused reruns. The macOS check above is cross-compilation, not native execution.
On
d5411482, Linux and macOS CI passed. Windows CI failed inTestExecCommandForegroundServerReturnsSessionAndServesHTTP:server output did not include listening address. The test is unchanged frommainand expects the address in the initial 500 ms output window. A maintainer rerun is needed; GitHub rejected the rerun request because it requires repository admin rights.Regressions were run against the original PR head and the fixed code:
TestPlanPublicationFailureKeepsConsumersAlignedforces conflicts, lock failures, startup read errors, and persistent unreadability through the actual TUI agent/tool callback path. It checks the tool, panel, status, durable file, model error result, and BTW return; success, empty clears, and completion without a live sink are also covered. The original code failed withtool accepted rejected publicationandmodel error result = false, want true for durable publication.TestCancelledParentPlanMessageCannotReplaceBTWSnapshotfailed on the original code withcancelled parent replaced accepted BTW snapshot.TestPlanEditorPreservesLiteralBackslashesfailed on the original code witheditor reload changed literal backslashes, losing one backslash from a two-backslash path. Fixed tests also cover legacy decoding, CRLF, continuation quoting, and conversion without a false edit event.The earlier
TestPlanPublicationCancelsWhileLockIsHeldregression returnedlockutil: lock is heldon the original implementation instead ofcontext deadline exceeded; the fixed code preserves the durable plan while honoring cancellation.The publication integration regression also checks read-versus-write error labels across live, BTW, and completion delivery. On the previous head it failed with
publication failure reported the wrong operation; the fixed code names the operation that failed.Prior reviewer feedback addressed
TMPDIRand an actual directory beneath/tmp.Summary by CodeRabbit
/plan opento edit plans externally and reload changes into the session.