fix(mountsync): stop reporting an already-landed write as a conflict - #460
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A bare directory-style `pathScope` such as `["/ramp/transactions"]` (no trailing wildcard) was forwarded VERBATIM as the server WebSocket `path=` filter. The data plane (internal/httpapi/websocket.go `webSocketPathMatches`) matches `path=` as either an EXACT path, a trailing-`**` subtree glob, or per-segment `*` wildcards with equal segment counts — so a bare directory prefix matches ZERO children. The subscription opened its WS and silently received no events (proven: `path=/ramp/transactions` -> 0 events; `path=/ramp/transactions/**` -> 6; no filter -> 6). The client-side `matchChangeSegments` uses the same equal-length rule, so the miss was doubly silent. Fix: in `RelayFileChangeSubscription`, expand each wildcard-free `pathScope` entry into BOTH the exact path AND its `.../**` subtree filter (new `expandDirectoryScope` helper). The union makes a directory scope match its whole subtree while keeping an exact-FILE scope correct (the exact filter still matches the file; the `/**` filter only matches its non-existent children). Entries that already contain a `*`/`**` wildcard are honored verbatim — precise globs are never broadened. Both the server `path=` filter and the client-side `matches()` derive from the same expanded `pathScopes`, so they stay consistent. `from=now`: verified `subscribe()` ALREADY defaults to `from=now` (RelayFileSync defaults `from` to "now" at construction, mirroring `connectWebSocket`), so no behavior change was needed; added a regression test to lock it and keep it opt-outable via `from`/`cursor`. Hit while shipping a real customer example (Gil / Ramp transactions.cleared -> agent wake). Tests: bare-prefix pathScope now yields the exact + subtree filters and delivers child events; wildcarded scope unchanged; exact-file scope stays correct; `from=now` default. Full SDK suite (286) + typecheck + build green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015WYmTdAm9bL6JEUV8R73oL
…(Option A) Maintainer decision on PR #458: adopt Option A. A wildcard-free `pathScope` entry is DEFINED as a directory subtree scope — it matches the path and everything under it. It is NOT exact-file: Relayfile creates descendants under file-looking paths (e.g. `/linear/issues/ENG-1.json/replies/draft.json`), so a bare path can never be assumed to name a leaf. Exact/precise scoping is done with a glob (trailing `/**` or per-segment `*`) or the `paths` argument. The union expansion `{X, X + "/**"}` is unchanged (it correctly matches the directory node plus its subtree). This commit corrects the documented semantics that Codex flagged (client.ts:698): stop claiming exact-file scopes stay narrow — that was never safe given descendant creation under file-looking paths. - expandDirectoryScope comment: rewritten to state the deliberate directory-subtree semantic and why exact-file is not an option. - Constructor comment: same. - SubscribeOptions.pathScope: JSDoc added documenting directory-scope. - docs/proactive-runtime-contract.md: pathScope documented. - Test renamed/rewritten: "treats a wildcard-free file-looking pathScope as a DIRECTORY scope (matches descendants)" now emits a descendant under `/linear/issues/ENG-1.json` and asserts it IS delivered, instead of asserting exact-file narrowness. Other tests unchanged (bare prefix matches subtree; already-globbed entries verbatim; from=now default). Full SDK suite (286) + typecheck + build green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015WYmTdAm9bL6JEUV8R73oL
… arg (globs) The Option-A doc update told callers to scope an exact file "via the `paths` argument", but `RelayFileClient.subscribe(globs, onChange, options?)` has no `paths` parameter and `SubscribeOptions` has no such field. The exact-file recipe is to pass the exact path as a glob in the first positional `globs` argument (matched exactly unless it contains a `*`/`**` wildcard). Corrected in all three places that had the wrong reference: - SubscribeOptions.pathScope JSDoc (types.ts) - docs/proactive-runtime-contract.md - expandDirectoryScope comment (client.ts) No behavior change; docs/comments only. Full SDK suite (286) + typecheck + build green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015WYmTdAm9bL6JEUV8R73oL
The transport retries 429/5xx internally, so a write whose response was lost is re-sent carrying the expectedRevision the first attempt used. The server — now holding the revision that first attempt created — answers 409. Nothing has diverged: the remote holds exactly the bytes we were trying to write. `handleWriteError` treated that as a conflict, and the cost is not cosmetic. It materializes a conflict artifact and leaves the outbox entry unresolved, and the warm-start audit then refuses to boot the sandbox at all (`relayfile_mount_intent_warm_audit_unresolved_outbox`), so a delivery that SUCCEEDED wedges every later run of the agent — recoverable only by destroying the sandbox. Observed 2026-09-04 on repo-intel: two Slack messages landed in `.relay/outbox/failed/` with `lastError: revision conflict`, `expectedRevision: 0`, against a remote already at `rev_2930381`. Both were byte-identical to the remote — `cmp` clean, and the failed entry's own recorded `hash` equalled the remote content hash — so the writes had landed and were filed as failures anyway. Every subsequent run then died at `elapsedMs=0`. On a conflict, read the remote and compare content. If its hash equals the snapshot we were pushing, the write already succeeded: adopt the revision the remote holds, clear any conflict artifacts, and return success. This mirrors the idempotent-delete case a few lines below, which already treats "the remote is already in the state I asked for" as success rather than as a conflict. The comparison is on content, never on revision — an equal hash is positive evidence the remote is what we wanted. A read error, a decode error, an empty local hash, or any mismatch falls straight through to the existing conflict handling, so this can only ever turn a false conflict into a success and never suppress a real one. Both directions are tested, and the positive test was confirmed to FAIL without the fix (it materializes the artifact) rather than passing vacuously. The divergence test passes with and without, which is the control. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01U1KdhQH9QodhnsxSMo6ax7
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR updates mount sync conflict handling and proactive runtime subscription scopes. Matching remote writes now resolve as acknowledged writes. Wildcard-free subscription scopes now include their path and descendants, while explicit wildcards remain unchanged. ChangesMount sync conflict handling
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Matching remote writes are now acknowledged to avoid false conflicts, but an empty remote revision can leave later local edits unable to sync and archived as conflicts. Scoped subscriptions also retain an unresolved path-filtering contract concern, so these cases should be addressed before merge. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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When a per-file conflict has a matching remote hash, this return nil is still interpreted by flushOutboxRecordChunk as a handled write error: its err == nil branch at lines 3623-3625 calls failOutboxRecord, which archives the successfully delivered command under .relay/outbox/failed with the conflict message. Thus the lost-ack scenario continues to be reported as a failed write and can still trigger the downstream warm-start audit described in this change; the added test misses this because it checks only the conflict artifact and tracked state, not the outbox.
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In `@docs/proactive-runtime-contract.md`:
- Line 55: Update the pathScope documentation around client.open() to state that
server-side WebSocket filtering is bypassed when open handles are active, or
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| - The shape aligns with spec §3.2 `RelayfileChangeEvent` so the M2 event SDK can alias it directly. | ||
| - `options.aclToken` scopes the underlying watch to that token's visible paths. For M2, any valid workspace token is accepted; narrower path-scoped tokens land with the auth work. | ||
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| - `options.pathScope` is an additional path filter (applied both server-side as a `path=` WS filter and client-side) on top of the token's visibility. A **wildcard-free** entry is a **directory subtree** scope: `"/ramp/transactions"` matches that path and everything under it. A bare path is **not** treated as an exact-file match — Relayfile creates descendants under file-looking paths (e.g. `/linear/issues/ENG-1.json/replies/draft.json`), so a wildcard-free scope always means "this directory and its subtree". For a precise scope, pass an explicit glob (a trailing `/**` subtree, or per-segment `*` wildcards), which is honored verbatim; for a single exact file, pass that exact path as a glob in the first `subscribe(globs, ...)` argument (e.g. `["/linear/issues/ENG-1.json"]`) — the `globs` list is matched exactly unless an entry contains a `*`/`**` wildcard. |
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Document the open() exception or retain the server-side scope.
When client.open() is active, RelayFileChangeStreamManager.serverPathFilters() returns []. A later scoped subscribe() then uses an unfiltered WebSocket stream. Client-side filtering still prevents callback delivery outside pathScope, but the server-side filtering promised here does not occur. Document this exception or retain subscription path filters when open handles exist. Add a combined-use test.
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In `@docs/proactive-runtime-contract.md` at line 55, Update the pathScope
documentation around client.open() to state that server-side WebSocket filtering
is bypassed when open handles are active, or preserve the promised filtering by
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Review caught that the first version of this fix did not fix the reported bug.
Codex (P1) and cubic (P1, confidence 10) flagged it independently, and they
were right.
`handleWriteError` returning a nil error is how it reports "handled", and
`flushOutboxRecordChunk` treats every handled per-file error as a FAILURE:
if err == nil {
if failErr := s.failOutboxRecord(record, writeErr.Message); ...
So resolving the conflict still archived the command under
`.relay/outbox/failed`. The conflict artifact was gone, but the unresolved
outbox entry remained — and it is that entry, not the artifact, that the
warm-start audit refuses to boot a sandbox with
(`relayfile_mount_intent_warm_audit_unresolved_outbox`). The agent stayed
exactly as wedged.
The original tests passed throughout, because they asserted on the conflict
artifact and tracked state and never once looked at the outbox. That is the
failure this repo keeps rediscovering: a test that returns the shape of success
without exercising the property that matters.
`handleWriteError` now returns `(idempotent bool, err error)`, and the caller
acknowledges an idempotent write exactly as it acknowledges any other delivered
one. It has a single call site, so the signature change is contained.
Also fixes cubic's P2 on the same path: the idempotent branch adopted the
remote revision with no rewind guard. The realtime watcher releases `s.mu`
while the bulk POST is in flight, so a WebSocket revision can advance tracked
state past the revision we just read back, and adopting the older one rewinds
it. Mirrors the guard `reconcileBulkWrite` already uses for the same race —
the write still landed, so it is still an idempotent success; we simply do not
overwrite newer state to say so.
Two tests added at the outbox level, which is where the bug actually lives:
an idempotent write is acked and leaves nothing pending, and — the control — a
genuine divergence is STILL filed as failed, so this cannot silently swallow
real write failures.
The new test was confirmed to FAIL without the ack (`outbox/failed holds 1
record(s)`) rather than passing vacuously, which is the check the previous
version of this change skipped.
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Both P1s were correct, and the fix was wrong. Thank you — this is now fixed in The P1 (Codex + cubic, independently). if err == nil {
if failErr := s.failOutboxRecord(record, writeErr.Message); ...So resolving the conflict still archived the command under Codex's diagnosis of why my tests missed it is also exactly right: they asserted on the conflict artifact and tracked state and never looked at the outbox.
The P2 (cubic) on the rewind guard was also valid and is fixed in the same commit. The idempotent branch adopted the remote revision with no guard, so a WebSocket revision that advanced tracked state while the bulk POST was in flight would be rewound by the older read-back. It now mirrors Tests are now at the outbox level, where the bug lives:
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Addresses cubic's P1 (confidence 9) on the follow-up review.
The accepted-write branch marks the path before acknowledging, and says why:
// The cloud accepted this record. Only now claim up-path ownership:
// watcher noise and per-path bulk errors must leave the point-in-time
// snapshot authoritative, while an admitted write must not be replayed
// with older bytes (or inferred absent) when the full pull resumes.
An idempotent write is an admitted write — the remote holds our exact bytes —
so it needs the same claim. Without it a full pull still in flight is free to
replay the path with older bytes or infer it absent, silently undoing a
delivery that succeeded.
Marked before the ack so the window cannot be lost.
The test initially failed WITH the fix applied, which was the test's fault and
worth recording: `markFullPullUpPath` and `fullPullPathTouchedByUpPath` are
both no-ops unless `fullPullActive`, so a test that never sets it asserts
something that cannot hold in either direction. It now activates the full pull,
which is the race being described, and was confirmed to fail without the mark.
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In `@internal/mountsync/syncer.go`:
- Line 4134: Update the idempotent-write handling around remoteRevision so an
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Addresses CodeRabbit's remaining finding. A matching content hash was treated as sufficient, but the revision has to be usable too. If the read-back camens with an empty Revision, the branch adopted it, cleared the tracked revision, and acknowledged the outbox record. The next local edit then falls back to `ExpectedRevision: "0"`, which `Store.BulkWrite` rejects against an existing file — so the path would never sync again, and the delivery that "succeeded" would have quietly made things worse than the conflict it replaced. An empty revision now falls through to the ordinary conflict handling, which keeps the record retryable. The test asserts only that the record is not acknowledged. What the fall-through leaves in tracked state is pre-existing behaviour this change does not own, and asserting on it would have pinned someone else's semantics — the first version of the test did exactly that and failed for the wrong reason. Confirmed to fail without the guard (`outbox/acked holds 1 record(s)`). Full ./internal/mountsync/ suite green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01U1KdhQH9QodhnsxSMo6ax7
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The transport retries 429/5xx internally, so a write whose response was lost is re-sent carrying the
expectedRevisionthe first attempt used. The server — now holding the revision that first attempt created — answers 409. Nothing has diverged: the remote holds exactly the bytes we were trying to write.handleWriteErrortreated that as a conflict, and the cost is not cosmetic:relayfile_mount_intent_warm_audit_unresolved_outbox)A delivery that succeeded therefore wedges every later run of the agent, recoverable only by destroying the sandbox.
Observed
2026-09-04, repo-intel. Two Slack messages landed in
.relay/outbox/failed/:against a remote already at
rev_2930381. Both were byte-identical to the remote —cmpclean, and the failed entry's own recordedhashequalled the remote content hash — so the writes had landed and were filed as failures anyway. Every subsequent run then died atelapsedMs=0before reaching any outbound call.The change
On conflict, read the remote and compare content. If its hash equals the snapshot we were pushing, the write already succeeded: adopt the revision the remote holds, clear conflict artifacts, return success.
This mirrors the idempotent-delete case a few lines below, which already treats "the remote is already in the state I asked for" as success rather than as a conflict.
The comparison is on content, never on revision — an equal hash is positive evidence the remote is what we wanted. A read error, a decode error, an empty local hash, or any mismatch falls straight through to the existing conflict handling. This can only ever turn a false conflict into a success; it can never suppress a real one.
Tests
…IdenticalRemoteContentIsNotAConflict…DifferentRemoteContentStillConflictsThe positive test was confirmed to fail without the change rather than passing vacuously; the divergence test is the control that a real conflict still conflicts. Full
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