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What Changed

Added always-on automatic reconciliation of external agent sessions (Claude Code, Codex) when projects become available on a connected environment.

A new useAgentSessionAutoReconcile hook is mounted in the chat layout route. When environment shells bootstrap, it calls the existing idempotent agentSessions.import RPC for every known project, surfacing agent work already on disk in the thread list — without requiring a manual "Import agent sessions…" action.

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Note: Reopened after backlog sweep close of #10386. Rebased onto current main (head 09f86ffa7). Still wanted — dual-machine Connect + Claude RC history visibility; E2E verified on box against 0.0.39-nightly with fixtures under /workspace/charlie-evosim/….

What shipped

  • useAgentSessionAutoReconcile hook: watches the project list, triggers agentSessions.import once per project per mount cycle
  • Failure classification + logging (no silent swallow); only mark reconciled after definitive outcomes so server upgrades can retry
  • Hook mounted in ChatRouteLayout (_chat.tsx)
  • Unit tests for selection + failure classification

Out of scope

  • Connect-cloud / account-wide session inbox
  • Live attach to running claude --remote-control
  • Cross-environment merged thread list

Checklist

  • This PR is small and focused
  • I explained what changed and why
  • No UI chrome — invisible background reconciliation
  • Rebased onto current main

Maintainer manual QA checklist

  1. Open existing project whose workspaceRoot matches agent session cwd on disk
  2. Without using the Import UI, external sessions appear (or appear shortly after open) with history
  3. Re-open / re-reconcile does not duplicate import: threads (thread id prefix import:; title may be human-readable)
  4. Opening a thread does not auto-start a provider turn
  5. Mismatched expectedWorkspaceRoot fails clearly / skips safely
  6. Server must include feat(web): first-run welcome wizard with agent setup and project import #5362 (agentSessions.import); pre-feat(web): first-run welcome wizard with agent setup and project import #5362 servers log unsupported-server once

Test commands

npx vp test run apps/web/src/hooks/useAgentSessionAutoReconcile.test.ts
npx vp test run apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionImporter.test.ts
npx vp test run apps/server/src/project/AgentSessionScanner.test.ts
npx vp run --filter web typecheck

Supersedes / continues #10386.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Automatically imports agent sessions for applicable environment projects when opening chat.
    • Retries interrupted or unexpected import failures up to three times, with delays between attempts.
    • Rechecks server support after startup and handles temporarily unavailable environments.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Prevents already reconciled projects from being imported again.
    • Distinguishes unsupported servers from other connection and protocol failures.
    • Prevents retry attempts from continuing after leaving the chat.

cursoragent and others added 3 commits September 9, 2026 17:06
When environment shells bootstrap, automatically import external Claude
Code and Codex sessions for every known project. This surfaces agent
work already on disk in the thread list without requiring a manual
"Import agent sessions…" action.

The new useAgentSessionAutoReconcile hook reuses the existing idempotent
agentSessions.import RPC. Each project is reconciled once per mount
cycle; failures are silently ignored since a missing agent home is not
actionable for the user.

Refs: pingdotgg#6994, pingdotgg#6680

Co-authored-by: Lewis Marshall <lewismarshall@users.noreply.github.com>
The original hook swallowed all import failures silently (.catch(() => {})),
making E2E debugging impossible when the server doesn't support the
agentSessions.import RPC (e.g. t3@0.0.38 predates PR pingdotgg#5362).

Changes:
- Add classifyImportFailure() that distinguishes four failure kinds:
  unsupported-server (RpcClientError), interrupted, expected domain
  errors, and unexpected defects.
- Log unsupported-server with a one-time console.warn naming the
  required server version and PR pingdotgg#5362. Skip further import attempts
  for that environment.
- Log expected errors (project not found, workspace mismatch, scan
  error, auth) with console.warn including project context.
- Log unexpected errors with console.error for debugging.
- Log successful imports with console.info when importedCount > 0.
- Add 10 new unit tests for classifyImportFailure covering all
  error classifications.

Co-authored-by: Lewis Marshall <lewismarshall@users.noreply.github.com>
selectUnreconciledProjects no longer eagerly adds keys to the reconciled
set. The hook marks a project reconciled only after:

- A successful import (importedCount + skippedCount returned).
- A definitive domain error (project not found, workspace mismatch,
  scan error, auth error) — these won't resolve without user action.

Transient failures (unsupported-server, unexpected defect, interrupted)
leave the project eligible for retry on the next render cycle. This
fixes the scenario where imports fail against an old server (pre-pingdotgg#5362)
and the project is permanently marked done, preventing retry after a
server upgrade without a full client remount.

Also: console.info now logs for every successful import (even when
importedCount is 0) with projectId, workspaceRoot, and skippedCount
for E2E observability.

Co-authored-by: Lewis Marshall <lewismarshall@users.noreply.github.com>
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@juliusmarminge Following up from the backlog close on #10386 — rebased onto current main as requested and reopened here.

Still wanted: always-on per-env reconcile of on-disk Claude/Codex sessions via existing agentSessions.import (no manual Import). E2E’d on our Connect box against 0.0.39-nightly after #5362.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes project opening from a passive flow into an automatic external-session reconciliation workflow that can scan agent history and persist imported threads across all known projects. Its reconnect and server-compatibility behavior also has unresolved operational risks that merit human validation.

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The PR adds automatic agent-session imports for bootstrapped environment projects. It refines failure classification, limits retries to three attempts per project, handles bootstrap changes and cleanup, integrates the hook into the chat route, and adds lifecycle tests.

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Agent session reconciliation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Project selection and failure contracts
apps/web/src/hooks/useAgentSessionAutoReconcile.ts, apps/web/src/hooks/useAgentSessionAutoReconcile.test.ts
The hook adds stable environment-and-project keys, selects unreconciled projects, classifies only the missing import method as unsupported-server, and treats other RPC failures as retryable. Tests cover these contracts.
Bounded retry execution
apps/web/src/hooks/useAgentSessionAutoReconcile.ts, apps/web/src/hooks/useAgentSessionAutoReconcile.test.ts
The hook reserves per-project attempts, prevents overlapping imports, schedules five-second retries up to three attempts, re-evaluates unsupported servers after bootstrap loss, and clears timers during cleanup. Tests cover retry limits, project changes, bootstrap changes, and unmounting.
Chat route integration
apps/web/src/routes/_chat.tsx
ChatRouteLayout imports and invokes useAgentSessionAutoReconcile.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ChatRouteLayout
  participant useAgentSessionAutoReconcile
  participant EnvironmentProjects
  participant agentSessionImport
  ChatRouteLayout->>useAgentSessionAutoReconcile: invoke hook
  EnvironmentProjects->>useAgentSessionAutoReconcile: provide bootstrapped unreconciled projects
  useAgentSessionAutoReconcile->>agentSessionImport: import project
  agentSessionImport-->>useAgentSessionAutoReconcile: return success or classified failure
  useAgentSessionAutoReconcile->>useAgentSessionAutoReconcile: record outcome or schedule bounded retry
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apps/web/src/hooks/useAgentSessionAutoReconcile.ts (2)

150-154: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The reconciled-key cleanup contradicts the unsupported-server guard, and key is shadowed.

Line 149 adds the environment to unsupportedServersRef, and Line 123 then skips every project of that environment for the rest of the mount cycle. Deleting the already-successful keys therefore has no observable effect; it only discards successful reconciliation state. The loop variable key at Line 150 also shadows the outer key from Line 121.

Remove the cleanup loop, or rename the inner variable if the deletion is intentional for a later retry path.

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         if (kind === "unsupported-server") {
           unsupportedServersRef.current.add(project.environmentId);
-          for (const key of reconciledRef.current) {
-            if (key.startsWith(`${project.environmentId}\0`)) {
-              reconciledRef.current.delete(key);
-            }
-          }
           console.warn(
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In `@apps/web/src/hooks/useAgentSessionAutoReconcile.ts` around lines 150 - 154,
Remove the reconciledRef cleanup loop that iterates over keys prefixed by
project.environmentId in the unsupported-server handling, preserving successful
reconciliation state while unsupportedServersRef skips future projects for that
environment; do not change the surrounding guard or reconciliation flow.

58-61: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

classifyImportFailure maps Success to "expected".

The function name and the doc comment describe failure classification only. Returning "expected" for a success makes isDefinitiveOutcome report true for a successful result, which is correct by accident. A caller that classifies before checking _tag gets a misleading label. Consider narrowing the parameter to the failure case, or adding a "success" variant.

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In `@apps/web/src/hooks/useAgentSessionAutoReconcile.ts` around lines 58 - 61,
Update classifyImportFailure so successful results are represented explicitly
rather than mapped to the failure label "expected"; add a "success"
classification variant and return it for the Success tag, then update
isDefinitiveOutcome or other consumers to handle the new classification while
preserving existing failure classifications.
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In `@apps/web/src/hooks/useAgentSessionAutoReconcile.ts`:
- Line 66: Update the classification logic around isRpcClientError in
useAgentSessionAutoReconcile so "unsupported-server" is returned only when the
RPC error carries its not-implemented signal. Classify other RpcClientDefect
cases, including socket closure and protocol failures, as "unexpected" so
auto-reconcile remains retryable.
- Around line 110-114: Update the reconciliation flow in
useAgentSessionAutoReconcile around selectUnreconciledProjects so unexpected
import failures are tracked per project, retried only up to a bounded limit, and
subject to a delay between attempts. Preserve reconciliation for successful
imports and avoid issuing further agentSessions.import calls once a project
reaches the retry limit.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/web/src/hooks/useAgentSessionAutoReconcile.ts`:
- Around line 150-154: Remove the reconciledRef cleanup loop that iterates over
keys prefixed by project.environmentId in the unsupported-server handling,
preserving successful reconciliation state while unsupportedServersRef skips
future projects for that environment; do not change the surrounding guard or
reconciliation flow.
- Around line 58-61: Update classifyImportFailure so successful results are
represented explicitly rather than mapped to the failure label "expected"; add a
"success" classification variant and return it for the Success tag, then update
isDefinitiveOutcome or other consumers to handle the new classification while
preserving existing failure classifications.

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