feat(checkpoints): per-file and per-step rollback service (B3c, #1375)

[easonLiangWorldedtech]

Tracking issue: #1409

Part of the file-write-safety series (#1375) — B3c: per-file and per-step rollback service (extension host). Stacked on B3a (cards + changeCardDetail setting).

Why a separate PR: the combined B3 scope (cards + setting + rollback) exceeded the series' 1000-line diff cap, so the rollback service splits out as a stacked sub-PR (the plan's "sequential sub-PRs" budget rule). The webview rollback buttons ship in B3b (tracking #1402).

What

• rollbackFile(checkpointId, filePath) — restore a single file from a checkpoint via the shadow-git restore path: ShadowCheckpointService gains restoreFile (single-file git checkout -- in the shadow repo; deletes the working file when it did not exist at that checkpoint) + fileExistsInCommit. The existing checkpoint restore mechanism is reused, not forked.
• rollbackStep(stepCheckpointIds, files?) — restore every file a step touched. Step files are resolved from the B2 change journal (changes.jsonl): each journal entry's checkpointId indexes the files the step committed. With a step checkpoint id, files absent from that checkpoint's journal entries fail explicitly ("File is not part of this step's checkpoint"); without one, the latest journal entry per file is used.
• rollbackFile/rollbackStep live in a dedicated rollback module so B3b's message handler can call them directly.

Tests

• rollbackFile restores only the target file (service mocked, called args asserted); restoring a file deleted at the checkpoint removes it; uninitialized shadow repo fails with a clear error.
• rollbackStep: journal lookup → file list → one restore call per file; step-scoped failure semantics (file not in this step's checkpoint).
• Local gates: eslint 0, tsc 0, 100% patch coverage on changed lines; B3a + B2 regression suites stay green.

Hardening (post-review)

• restoreFile shells out with a POSIX-form path for both Git operations (Windows-safe), and the per-write checkpoint hook preserves the explicit undefined semantics of checkpointSave's optional force argument.

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Update (CodeRabbit-sync from trial #1413): head d64389c16 — ShadowCheckpointService.restoreFile verifies checkpoint availability via rev-parse before the exists-at-commit lookup (simple-git raw() resolves silently on non-zero git exits without stderr) and re-checks containment with fs.realpath on both sides when the target file exists, so a symlinked ancestor cannot restore through a link to outside the workspace (trial addenda 178e6f4 + d2239ce). Review context: trial PR #1413.

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Update (rollback semantic correction, #1435): head 630f273ca - card rollbacks now genuinely undo the step: the restore target is resolved from the B2 change journal to the file's pre-step state (the checkpoint of the file's immediately preceding journal entry; the task-start baseline for the file's first change). Previously a rollback restored the step's own post-write checkpoint, which is a no-op for the newest step - the card would report "Rolled back" while the agent's change stayed in place (contradicting the epic's "undo what the agent did" acceptance criterion). Undoing a file creation deletes the file again; undoing a deletion restores it. New restoreLatestFile(task, filePath) adds the forward direction (restore a file to its most recent recorded write; a clean no-op success when the task never wrote it). rollbackFile/rollbackStep now take the task and read the journal through the provider storage context; the spec covers 20 cases (pre-step resolution, baseline mix, per-file failure isolation, no-op semantics, not-enabled paths). Increment over the previous head: 2 files, +371/-134. Tracking: #1435.

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Update (CodeRabbit review round): head 39afe1b15 — both review findings fixed: (1) stale-card rollback — rollbackFile/rollbackStep reject a file whose latest journal entry is not the checkpoint being rolled back (compared on the latest entry's checkpointId), so an older change card can no longer overwrite a newer write; the finding's sha-1/sha-2 sequence is a regression test. Per-file card undo is well-defined for a file's latest step; older states stay reachable through the full-checkpoint restore path, so the epic's "undo what the agent did" criterion still holds. (2) journal availability — loadChanges returns [] only for a missing journal file (ENOENT); other read failures (EACCES, EISDIR, torn JSON) propagate, so restoreLatestFile fails with a clear error instead of a false no-op success, and the rollback paths report an unavailable or unreadable journal as a failure. Regression tests: EISDIR at the journal path, non-Error rejection propagation, and no-global-storage failures. Local gates: tsc 0, eslint 0, 100% of changed lines covered; ubuntu CI green; git merge-tree clean vs upstream/main.

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Review-gate re-trigger (2026-08-30): empty commit 87471b5 (no code change) re-runs CI and CodeRabbit current-head review under the org new PR review gate; the code head remains 39afe1b.

Visual regression note (2026-08-30): The advisory extension-host-visual check (chat-dark sidebar snapshot) fails on this branch with a deterministic 973-pixel delta localized to the completion-result area. Root cause: the B1 task-start baseline checkpoint (per-write checkpoints default on, allowEmpty) adds a suppressed checkpoint_saved row to the message history, which getCompletionCheckpoint() picks up, so SeeNewChangesButtons render below the completion row; the suite baseline (recorded pre-FWS in #1426) has no such buttons. Every other pixel is identical, and the delta is pixel-identical across all branches containing B1 (1404/1406/1410/1411/1412/1413), while non-B1 branches are green. This is a new-expected-behavior vs stale-baseline mismatch rather than a rendering regression. Flagged for maintainers: either update the electron-chat-dark-sidebar.png baseline on the B1 branch or adjust the scene/component behavior. Advisory check only — it does not block the required gates.

Content source of record

kind: branch - feat/rollback-service-b3c, refreshed onto current main by merge 194c8e5db (upstream/main 9c069e94ef); formatting-only follow-up 25190f8fa.

Budget (own delta at this head)

Own delta vs the B3a head (c72617cce): 15 files, +1035 / -634. This branch is based on B3a's initial card commit, so the tree-to-tree number nets out B3a's later card-wiring commits (they are not in this branch's base); the GitHub stacked view shows this PR's full content against main. Merge order: B1 (PR 1404), B2 (PR 1406), B3a (PR 1411), then this PR.

How to test

pnpm --dir src exec vitest run --globals --no-file-parallelism core/checkpoints/__tests__/rollback.spec.ts services/checkpoints/__tests__/ShadowCheckpointService.spec.ts core/checkpoints/__tests__/changeJournal.spec.ts core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts
node scripts/find-missing-translations.js

Expected: all green; src/eslint-suppressions.json unchanged.

Verification at this head (42dace543)

• CI: 18/18 checks green at head (incl. compile with the new format:check step). The has-conflicts label is stale - the PR is mergeable against main.
• Local: ESLint --max-warnings=0 clean on all 22 touched src files; tsc --noEmit clean; src vitest 595 passed / 5 skipped / 0 failed (11 files); webview-ui vitest 62 passed (3 files); translations check clean; model-check 9/10 locally (10th = known local Node 25 + tsx env defect only; green in CI).
• Prettier: clean on every file in the unit diff. src/eslint-suppressions.json: unchanged.

Updated this round (refresh onto main 9c069e94ef)

• 194c8e5db - merge upstream/main. The two test-file conflicts had pre-merge blobs identical to B3a's, so B3a's resolutions were reused verbatim (all three test groups kept; main's DEFAULT_WRITE_DELAY_MS placeholder shape + the setting keys).
• 25190f8fa - formatting-only: the new format:check gate flagged three files in this diff (changeJournal files - this branch's own journal-content versions - and the applyPatch execute spec); reformatted with prettier --write; the applyPatch spec result is byte-identical to the B3a fix, the changeJournal results differ only because this branch carries the stale-card / unreadable-journal journal-content fixes.
• 8386e3739 - review follow-up (ported from PR 1404): task-start baseline is now skipped on history resumes (initiateTaskLoop gates on _isHistoryTask), matching the exactly-once-per-task design; regression test added in Task.spec.ts. Task.spec 177/177 green, tsc clean, Prettier clean.
• 604aa01cc - review follow-up (three inline threads): (1) initiateTaskLoop skips the task-start baseline when the task is already aborted - no awaited save on a disposed task; regression test added, existing baseline tests reworked to end the loop via a request mock (negative control verified). (2) WriteToFileTool/EditFileTool read perWriteCheckpoints through the shared DEFAULT_PER_WRITE_CHECKPOINTS constant instead of a hardcoded true. (3) The three changeCardDetail tests in SettingsView.spec.tsx now drive interactions through @testing-library/user-event (30/30 green). Ported across the chain: PR 1404 93e3640e4, PR 1406 650382328, PR 1411 f73f38c5d, PR 1412 f1cbb2d2b.

Pre-merge check dispositions (head 604aa01cc)

The walkthrough's failed rows are design-contract rows on stacked content; dispositions with pointers, argued once here:

• Persistence Integrity (error) - journal appendFile "can lose state": by design, not a defect. The change journal's crash-safety model is append-then-repair: appendChange is a single fs.appendFile syscall (minimal torn-write window), and loadChanges discards a torn final line and parses the rest without throwing. The repair path is directly tested in src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/changeJournal.spec.ts (torn tail discarded, remaining entries parsed, absent/empty journal returns []). A torn tail loses at most the one in-flight entry - the checkpoint itself is committed before the append - which is the documented trade-off of the append-only design owned by PR 1406 (B2). Temp+rename per entry would add a full-file rewrite per write without removing the loss window.
• Regression Evidence (warning) - Playwright visual test for the checkpoints settings: the repo's test-placement guidance (AGENTS.md) puts settings controls and binding at the webview-ui vitest layer, which this chain extends (CheckpointSettings.spec.tsx, SettingsView.spec.tsx - now via user-event), and the electron chat-dark sidebar reference is regenerated in this branch. No Playwright component harness exists in-repo for settings controls today.
• Lifecycle Resource Cleanup (warning) - checkpoint overlap: the write path has no fire-and-forget: every write tool awaits checkpointSave inline after the write, so within a task, checkpoint work cannot overlap itself. The task-start baseline is guarded by taskStartBaselineDone, skipped for history resumes (_isHistoryTask) and for already-aborted tasks (abort), and awaited before the first request (regression-tested in Task.spec.ts). Suppressed saves do not touch UI state.
• 36d4110da - review follow-up: the baseline block rechecks this.abort after the getState() lookup and before checkpointSave(true, true), closing the window where cancellation arriving during the deferred state lookup still paid for the baseline save. Regression test drives exactly that window (deferred lookup promise; negative control: removing the recheck reddens it; Task.spec 179/179). Ported chain-wide: PR 1404 faf3f9d33, PR 1406 e443eb8bc, PR 1411 525c023e2, PR 1412 3816da41a.
• 4e48d5e34 - review follow-up (Security Boundaries): restoreFile's realpath guard ran only when the target existed, so a nonexistent target under a symlinked ancestor could be written outside the workspace by the checkout branch. Containment is now validated on the deepest existing ancestor for every target (existing or not) before checkout or deletion; cross-platform regression test added (junction link + nonexistent target; negative control verified; spec 44/44). Ported to PR 1412 (2330d755a), the only other unit carrying the rollback service.

Re-review update: the Lifecycle Resource Cleanup row now PASSES (the disposition above was accepted). The Security Boundaries row was REAL and was fixed in code, not argued: restoreFile now validates the realpath of the deepest existing ancestor for every target, existing or not, before checkout or deletion (see Updated this round). The Persistence Integrity row is currently inconclusive ("investigation in progress") and remains governed by the disposition above.

• 60b32cd17 - review follow-up (containment walk): the deepest-ancestor walk used an exists()-style check that follows symlinks, so a dangling symlink ancestor was invisible to it - the walk validated the workspace root and the checkout branch either wrote nothing while reporting success (POSIX) or failed with an opaque git error (Windows). The walk now uses fs.lstat (a link entry counts as present) and propagates errors other than ENOENT/ENOTDIR; the following fs.realpath rejects a dangling link with an explicit message. Cross-platform regression test added (junction to a missing directory; negative control: a POSIX-semantics stat walk reddens it).
• 21cc6e0d4 - review follow-up (single-file contract): a directory path such as . or src passed both containment guards, and git checkout with a directory pathspec restores the whole subtree recursively. restoreFile now rejects directory targets up front (lstat, including ./`` resolving to the workspace root) and verifies the checkpoint tree entry mode is a regular-file blob via ls-tree (`cat-file -t` cannot distinguish a symlink blob) before checking out. Two regression tests added (on-disk directory; checkpoint-tree directory with the local copy deleted); both negative controls verified. Specs 73/73, tsc clean, eslint clean, Prettier clean. Ported to PR 1412 (`38aef308d`, `e4fe6bacf`), the only other unit carrying the rollback service.

Re-review update (head 21cc6e0d4): the Security Boundaries rows from the latest pass were REAL and fixed in code, not argued - the containment walk now uses fs.lstat (dangling-link ancestors rejected explicitly) and restoreFile enforces its single-regular-file contract (directory targets rejected; checkpoint entry mode verified as a regular-file blob via ls-tree). The Persistence Integrity row re-errored after completing its investigation with the same append-vs-atomic-batch concern; the disposition above stands (append-then-repair design, torn-tail recovery directly tested, at most one in-flight entry lost, checkpoint committed before the append - owned by PR 1406 B2). The Regression Evidence warning is unchanged and dispositioned above.

• 4dcb8d9ca - review follow-up (raised on PR 1412, owned here): fileExistsInCommit read any cat-file -e failure as "file absent", so a shadow repo whose commit object resolves but whose tree object is corrupt or missing routed restoreFile into the delete branch and removed a live file the checkpoint contains. Existence now uses ls-tree with the :(literal) pathspec - an empty successful result is genuine absence, a command failure propagates and fails the restore loudly; the mode check uses the same literal pathspec. Regression test corrupts the checkpoint tree object and pins both the rejection and the surviving file (negative control verified). Service spec 48/48, tsc clean, eslint clean, Prettier clean. Byte-copied to the sibling unit carrying the identical file (PR 1412 6ee6d0482).
• af18969bc - review follow-up (raised on PR 1410): the checkout pathspec in restoreFile now uses the :(literal) magic like the ls-tree lookups - a filename containing glob characters ([a].ts) previously acted as a character class and could restore the wrong or extra files, breaking the single-file restore contract. Regression test checkpoints [a].ts alongside a.ts and pins the exact-path restore (negative control verified). Service spec 49/49, tsc clean, eslint clean, Prettier clean. Byte-copied to the sibling unit (40bd53a on PR 1412).
• ef2886531 - review follow-up (queued-message handoff, raised on PR 1404): the per-file handlers processed queued messages before execute awaited the whole-patch checkpoint, so a queued turn (and its own checkpointed writes) could start mid-commit. The handoff is now deferred to after the checkpoint attempt - one handoff per successful patch, independent of the checkpoint setting or outcome - matching the deferral the journal-carrying unit already shipped. Tests: held-promise deferral (negative control verified), handoff with checkpoints disabled, no handoff on failure. Tool specs green, tsc/eslint/Prettier clean.
• c7c36a0c2 - port: aborted tasks no longer dequeue queued messages (handoff sites guarded at the Task layer after the awaited-checkpoint change); regression test added. Task spec 180 passed.

Additional disposition (registered once)

• Security Boundaries (taskId/journal-path row at ef28865): no new trust boundary. journalPath derives its directory with the same path.join(globalStorageDir, "tasks", taskId, "checkpoints") derivation that ShadowCheckpointService already uses for the shadow-git directory, so the journal writes exactly where the pre-existing (upstream) task lifecycle already places per-task state for that id; it cannot escape a directory the shadow git does not already occupy. Hardening message.taskId validation is an upstream-wide concern outside this series' fidelity contract.
• 1b39f10ca - Stryker-directive sweep: removed the seven carried // Stryker disable next-line comments in Task.ts's streaming/telemetry region (comment-only). Equivalences: event.name always a string on those paths; streamingKey never undefined there; getStreamingKey fallback unreachable defensive code. eslint/tsc/Prettier clean.
• 55d5cf0ce - refresh onto upstream/main (58341d8 lint cleanup) and fix the unused-variable fallout the merge exposed: dropped the unused ChangeJournalEntry import in the checkpoint index, renamed unused test stub arg (_uri) and two unused positional destructures (_partial, _sayOptions) in the checkpoint-save spec. Full-src eslint 0, tsc 0, checkpoint specs 16 passed, Prettier clean.
• Refreshed onto upstream/main (tool-call state scoping): ToolCallbacks gained a required toolCallId; the execute spec's callback fixtures pass it (test-tool-call-id, matching main's own spec convention). No production-code change. Full-src eslint 0, tsc 0, execute/checkpoint/Task/tool specs 308 passed (5 pre-existing skips).
• Preemptive port of the sibling unit's no-op guard: change-card emission is skipped when the writes array is empty (a no-op patch still checkpoints; unrelated workspace changes can produce the commit, and a zero-file card would misrender); the no-op tool test asserts the empty payload and an emission-layer test covers the guard (negative control: removing the guard reddens exactly that test). eslint/tsc/Prettier clean, specs 38 passed.

Security Boundaries walkthrough row - fixed

journalPath now validates the task ID as a single safe path segment (rejecting separators, traversal, absolute paths, empty and dot-only IDs) before any filesystem operation, so a crafted ID cannot move changes.jsonl outside <globalStorageDir>/tasks. Regression test asserts journalPath, appendChange and loadChanges all reject traversal IDs and nothing is created outside the tasks directory. Negative control: removing the validation reddens exactly that test, restored byte-exact.

Persistence Integrity walkthrough row - fixed

As in the sibling unit: torn-tail repair + per-append fsync in appendChange with regression tests (negative control: disabling the repair reddens exactly the torn-tail test). The whole-file atomic-rename redesign is not adopted (advisory journal; the checkpoint commit is the durable artifact; loadChanges tolerates torn lines), and journal append failures remaining logged while the checkpoint succeeds is the documented design.

• Review follow-up on the journal hardening: the tail-inspection catch now suppresses only ENOENT (fresh journal) and propagates other stat/open/read errors, and the append loops on FileHandle.write until the whole record is written before syncing (a short write can no longer persist a torn entry under a reported success). Two regression tests; negative controls each redden exactly their test, byte-exact restore. eslint/tsc/Prettier clean, checkpoints suites green.
• Review follow-up on the journal: loadChanges validates each parsed line at runtime (non-objects, missing string path/checkpointId, and unknown operations are skipped, matching the sibling units), and on POSIX the first append syncs the parent directory so the newly created journal's directory entry is durable (Windows skipped). Two regression tests; negative controls each redden exactly their test, byte-exact restore. eslint/tsc/Prettier clean, checkpoints suites green.
• Persistence Integrity row - implemented as demanded: journal updates are now one serialized (per-task queue), atomic replacement per checkpoint - read current journal, repair a torn tail, write the complete next content to a temp file, fsync it, atomically rename onto changes.jsonl, and fsync the parent directory (POSIX; Windows cannot open directories). checkpointSave persists the whole step's writes in that single update and propagates journal failures instead of reporting a fully durable checkpoint with lost entries; the change card is emitted only after the journal update is durable. Save failures keep the historical handler (logged, checkpoints disabled, resolves undefined). Failure-injection tests: post-commit journal failure (no card, checkpoints stay enabled), mid-update rename failure (all-or-nothing journal, temp file cleaned up), concurrent-update serialization (no lost updates), restart recovery from a stale temp file plus torn tail, and empty updates. Negative controls: dropping the propagation, the queue, the temp cleanup, or the directory sync each reddens exactly one test (12 NCs across the series), restored byte-exact. eslint/tsc/Prettier clean; checkpoints suites and the apply-patch execution suite green.

Persistence Integrity row (03:57 walkthrough) - implemented as demanded

• Removed the empty catch in WriteToFileTool: the rejection routes to
  the tool's explicit failure handling (the typed
  CheckpointPartialPersistenceError carries the committed checkpoint id
  and affected paths).
• The normal successful pushToolResult is emitted only after the
  awaited checkpoint + journal persistence succeeded.
• Added a failure-injection test through WriteToFileTool: the tool does
  not report complete success (no successful tool result; handleError
  receives the persistence failure with the checkpoint id and path).
• Negative control: re-adding the empty catch made exactly that test
  red; restored byte-exact.

Review follow-up wave (head 42dace543)

• changeJournal durability (ported to all three journal units, same converged code):
  • Windows rename retry: transient EPERM/EBUSY/EACCES rename rejections on win32 are retried (up to 5 attempts, 20ms x attempt backoff); the destination is never unlinked, POSIX behavior unchanged.
  • Complete-record preservation: an unterminated final line that parses as an entry-shaped record is kept and re-terminated (shared isEntryShaped predicate with loadChanges); only true fragments are truncated.
  • Directory-sync errno tolerance: EINVAL/EISDIR/EBADF/ENOTSUP/EOPNOTSUPP/EPERM on the post-rename directory sync are logged as reduced crash durability (the rename already replaced the journal); genuine I/O failures still propagate.
• Success-after-persistence + finally handoff: WriteToFileTool and EditFileTool emit success results only after the checkpoint + journal persistence succeeded; ApplyPatchTool buffers per-file success results until the post-patch checkpoint persists (failure results stay immediate); the queued-message handoff runs from finally whenever the file write itself succeeded, so a journal persistence failure surfaces as an explicit tool failure without stranding the queue.
• The superseded call-site-inspect thread (checkpointSave rejection routing) was replied to and resolved: superseded by the explicit failure routing at the previous head and built on further here.
• Tests: five new changeJournal tests (record preservation, win32 retry, POSIX no-retry, EINVAL tolerance, EIO propagation) plus journal-failure tests per tool and buffering ordering/handoff tests for ApplyPatchTool. Negative controls: every mutation turned exactly one test red except two documented cases (flush-before-checkpoint turns the two new ApplyPatchTool tests red; WriteToFileTool finally removal turns the new failure test plus the existing checkpoint-ordering test red - all reds assert the new behavior).
• Actionable review threads replied to and resolved at this head.

Move-pair journaling (outside-diff Major) - registered follow-up

• The outside-diff Major (cr-comment v1:0ea84541bbed1b0738595c4a, ApplyPatchTool move handler) proposes journaling both paths changed by a move so rollback metadata documents the pair. Registered as a follow-up, not implemented in this unit: the journal in this series covers workspace-file persistence per write/checkpoint, and the current entry for a moved file records its final location (movePath ?? path) under the checkpoint commit, so the new path is documented and the old path remains recoverable from the checkpoint commit itself. Move-pair journaling is a design extension beyond this unit's scope - same family as the 1404 move-row lineage. No code change in this PR; if the series adopts pair journaling, the entry schema and the strict loader on the change-cards unit need a coordinated versioned extension.

Row-4 checklist wave (2026-08-28)

• Security row (restoreFile path-separator mismatch): fixed at 42dace543. Git pathspec now derived from the validated path (path.relative(...).split(path.sep).join("/")); delete branch removes the validated path. POSIX keeps backslashes as filename characters; Windows normalization unchanged. POSIX-only regression test (symlinked directory replaced; symlink must survive) runs in the ubuntu platform-unit-test; mechanism proven against real git on Linux. Evidence: comment feat(checkpoints): per-file and per-step rollback service (B3c, #1375) #1410 (comment)
• Persistence row: passed by CodeRabbit at this head ("No changed persistence path meets the failure condition"); no action.

Row-5 checklist wave (2026-08-28)

• Persistence row (silent journal skip on provider loss): fixed at 42dace543. Journal location captured before the commit; write-metadata saves without a location fail before committing; provider loss during the Git save still persists the journal through the captured location; defensive post-commit CheckpointPartialPersistenceError skips the card. Regression tests: provider loss during commit, pre-commit failure, baseline-save compatibility. Negative controls: guard removal -> exactly 1 red; old deref timing -> 2 reds (both new-behavior). Evidence: comment feat(checkpoints): per-file and per-step rollback service (B3c, #1375) #1410 (comment)

Row-7 review fixes (2026-08-28)

• PI: saveCheckpoint rejections no longer swallowed for write-metadata saves at 42dace543. The file write has already happened when the commit fails, so the tool must not report success without rollback metadata: write-metadata saves now propagate the failure (checkpoints still disabled, legacy swallow reserved for non-write calls such as the task-start baseline).
• SB: change cards stay out of cloud task-message capture at 42dace543. Full-detail cards embed raw unified diffs, and task sync captured every non-partial message, so approved writes to secret-bearing files (.env, PII) uploaded file content to the cloud endpoint. change_card messages are now excluded from CloudService.captureEvent in both addToClineMessages and updateClineMessage; cards remain local to the webview.

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📝 Summary

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Checkpoints are saved after successful file writes by default, and a task-start checkpoint captures the initial workspace state.
  • Per-step change cards list changed files and line counts, with an option to show full diffs. Automatically approved steps use summary cards.
  • Restore individual files or roll back changes by step; rollback prevents undoing file changes superseded by later steps.
  • File changes made through patch operations are also checkpointed.
• Bug Fixes
  • Rollback reports when change records are unavailable instead of treating them as empty.
• Settings
  • Configure per-write checkpoints and change-card detail in checkpoint settings, available in supported languages.

The PR adds configurable per-write checkpoints and task-start baselines. It records file changes in per-task JSONL journals, emits per-step change cards, and adds file-level restore behavior. The settings are exposed in the webview, and file-writing tools pass write metadata to checkpoint saves.

Changes: Checkpointed change flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Settings and change-card contracts packages/types/src/global-settings.ts, packages/types/src/message.ts, packages/types/src/vscode-extension-host.ts, src/core/checkpoints/index.ts, src/core/tools/apply-patch/apply.ts	Adds defaults and settings fields, the change_card message type and payload schemas, and write metadata contracts.
Settings state and controls src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts, webview-ui/src/context/*, webview-ui/src/components/settings/*, webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/*/settings.json	Exposes both settings through provider and webview state. Adds controls, locale strings, and related tests.
Task baselines and write-tool integration src/core/task/Task.ts, src/core/tools/ApplyPatchTool.ts, src/core/tools/EditFileTool.ts, src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts, src/core/task/__tests__/*, src/core/tools/__tests__/*	Creates a one-time task-start baseline and records write metadata. Patch handling tracks written files separately from operation success. Tool success results wait for checkpoint persistence.
Journal persistence and change cards src/core/checkpoints/changeJournal.ts, src/core/checkpoints/changeCard.ts, src/core/checkpoints/index.ts, src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/*	Appends per-file journal entries after successful commits and emits change cards. Auto-approved steps use summary detail.
File and step rollback src/core/checkpoints/rollback.ts, src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/rollback.spec.ts, src/services/checkpoints/ShadowCheckpointService.ts, src/services/checkpoints/__tests__/ShadowCheckpointService.spec.ts	Uses journal entries to resolve rollback targets, rejects stale step restores, and restores individual files from checkpoint commits.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ApplyPatchTool
  participant checkpointSave
  participant changeJournal
  participant Task
  ApplyPatchTool->>checkpointSave: Send file-write metadata
  checkpointSave->>changeJournal: Append per-file journal entries
  checkpointSave->>Task: Emit change_card message

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 42dac

Fix move rollback metadata and the test type error before merging. A failed settings read can also prevent a new task from starting.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c232b

File-level rollback introduces a useful recovery path, but its record of changes can become incomplete, and a rollback may overwrite edits made after the recorded checkpoint. The current PR does not ship the webview rollback buttons, which limits immediate exposure.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · observed: A successful multi-file checkpoint can retain only some of its journal entries if an append fails. The change card can still describe all writes, while step rollback cannot identify an unrecorded file.
• Medium · reliability · inferred: The older-step guard detects later journaled writes but not changes to the live file made outside successful checkpoint journaling. A subsequent rollback can replace those edits with checkpoint content.
• Medium · reliability · inferred: The baseline guard belongs to a Task instance, while a history resume creates another instance with the persisted task ID. For a file's first journaled write, rollback selects the service's base hash rather than a persisted hash for the original task-start baseline; that target may change when the checkpoint service reopens.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The newly added restore sink can affect workspace files selected through a task's journal and rollback arguments. The inspected path does not establish a new network, tenant, or cross-service sink; the webview rollback control is outside this PR.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — No independently reachable attacker path or verified Security finding was established. The supported integrity risk is that a requested rollback can overwrite a workspace edit absent from the journal, including an edit made after the checkpoint.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The existing webview settings handler forwards updated settings to extension storage; the setter distinguishes secret keys from global settings but does not itself validate their values. An explicit false is a schema-valid user choice that disables per-write checkpoint hooks; the new state projection alone does not grant the webview direct filesystem access.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The journal is the rollback service's authority for step membership and ordering, but successful writes can continue when checkpoint saving fails or journaling is incomplete. That limits the journal's ability to prove the current file state.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Before making rollback user-invocable, reconcile committed writes with durable journal records and check the live file against the expected recorded state before a destructive restore. Define and persist the task-start restore target across history resume.

Pre-merge checks: 6 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Regression Evidence		The PR adds two durable visible controls to CheckpointSettings.tsx (perWriteCheckpoints and changeCardDetail, lines 46-75) and renders them in the Checkpoints tab in SettingsView.tsx (lines 85…	Add a Playwright component visual test for CheckpointSettings or the Checkpoints settings tab. Add snapshots for the relevant default and enabled states in dark, light, high-contrast, and high-contrast-light themes.
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup		The changed journal queue leaks one map entry per task journal. withTaskLock stores journalQueues.set(key, next.then(...)) in src/core/checkpoints/changeJournal.ts:57-71, but it never deletes th…	Update withTaskLock to remove its key in settlement cleanup only when journalQueues.get(key) still references the stored queue promise. Preserve the entry when a newer append has replaced it. Add success and rejection cleanup tests, whi…

Passed checks: 6 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Security Boundaries		PASS. The prior change-card cloud leak is addressed. Task.addToClineMessages and updateClineMessage now exclude messages with say === "change_card" from CloudService.captureEvent; regression t…
Persistence Integrity		The prior silent-success path is fixed. checkpointSave now awaits saveCheckpoint for write metadata and rethrows failures (src/core/checkpoints/index.ts:294-317); journal failures become `Checkp…
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: adding per-file and per-step rollback support in the checkpoints area.
Description check		The description is detailed and on topic. It links the tracking issues, explains the rollback behavior and design, documents security and persistence safeguards, and provides test commands and verific…

Full details: Security Boundaries

Explanation

PASS. The prior change-card cloud leak is addressed. Task.addToClineMessages and updateClineMessage now exclude messages with say === "change_card" from CloudService.captureEvent; regression tests cover both paths with .env secrets. restoreFile also applies lexical and real-path workspace containment and literal Git pathspecs. No concrete changed path bypasses approval or allowlist controls. Prior failure addressed: Task.ts now excludes change_card from both cloud-capture paths, and Task.spec.ts tests verify a full .env diff is not captured. This removes the prior automatic task-sync leak.

Full details: Persistence Integrity

Explanation

The prior silent-success path is fixed. checkpointSave now awaits saveCheckpoint for write metadata and rethrows failures (src/core/checkpoints/index.ts:294-317); journal failures become CheckpointPartialPersistenceError (:340-364). EditFileTool, WriteToFileTool, and ApplyPatchTool await the save before emitting success, and their tests cover rejected persistence with no success result. changeJournal.appendChanges serializes updates and uses temp-file write, sync, rename, and directory sync (src/core/checkpoints/changeJournal.ts:102-212). Defaults are propagated through the schema, provider state, webview state, and all three write tools. Prior failure addressed: checkpointSave now awaits and propagates write-metadata commit failures; the three write tools await it before success output. New regression tests assert failure handling and no successful result.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description is detailed and on topic. It links the tracking issues, explains the rollback behavior and design, documents security and persistence safeguards, and provides test commands and verification results. It does not reproduce every template heading or the pre-submission checklist, but the required information is otherwise substantially covered.

Full details: Regression Evidence

Explanation

The PR adds two durable visible controls to CheckpointSettings.tsx (perWriteCheckpoints and changeCardDetail, lines 46-75) and renders them in the Checkpoints tab in SettingsView.tsx (lines 854-863). The changed tests are Vitest tests only. The diff adds no CheckpointSettings*.visual.tsx, Playwright story, or checkpoint-settings snapshots. The only changed image is the Electron chat sidebar snapshot, so it does not cover this settings UI.

Resolution

Add a Playwright component visual test for CheckpointSettings or the Checkpoints settings tab. Add snapshots for the relevant default and enabled states in dark, light, high-contrast, and high-contrast-light themes.

Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup

Explanation

The changed journal queue leaks one map entry per task journal. withTaskLock stores journalQueues.set(key, next.then(...)) in src/core/checkpoints/changeJournal.ts:57-71, but it never deletes the key after success or rejection. appendChanges keys the map by each task's journal path at lines 102-112, and checkpointSave invokes it for write metadata at src/core/checkpoints/index.ts:346, so completed task writes retain unique journal-path keys for the extension-host lifetime. The added tests cover serialization and failures but no queue cleanup (src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/changeJournal.spec.ts:294-302). This is a changed lifecycle path that leaks memory across task disposal or restart.

Resolution

Update withTaskLock to remove its key in settlement cleanup only when journalQueues.get(key) still references the stored queue promise. Preserve the entry when a newer append has replaced it. Add success and rejection cleanup tests, while retaining the concurrent-update test.

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src/core/tools/ApplyPatchTool.ts (1)

118-124: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Checkpoint partial apply_patch writes before the rooIgnore return. When perWriteCheckpoints is enabled, an earlier successful file operation followed by a rejected validateAccess(relPath) call returns before the only ApplyPatchTool checkpoint hook. Those writes have no checkpoint or journal entry, so rollbackStep cannot restore them. Mark the patch as failed and break instead of returning. Run the hook when successfulChanges.length > 0.

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In `@src/core/tools/ApplyPatchTool.ts` around lines 118 - 124, The rooIgnore
rejection branch in ApplyPatchTool must not return immediately after earlier
writes. Mark the patch operation as failed, break out of the processing loop,
and allow the existing checkpoint hook to run when successfulChanges.length is
greater than zero so prior writes are journaled and recoverable by rollbackStep.

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src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/checkpointSave.spec.ts (1)

76-84: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove or document the double assertions.

These as unknown as casts have no nearby explanation. Use a typed mock call shape where possible. If the cast is unavoidable, document why it is safe.

As per coding guidelines, “Use double assertions only as a last resort and explain them with a comment.”

Also applies to: 121-124, 142-145, 160-163

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In `@src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/checkpointSave.spec.ts` around lines 76 - 84,
Update the cardCalls destructuring assertions in checkpointSave.spec.ts to use
an explicit typed mock-call shape instead of as unknown as wherever possible;
for any remaining double assertion, add a nearby comment explaining why it is
safe and unavoidable, covering all indicated occurrences.

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src/core/tools/ApplyPatchTool.ts (1)

272-286: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Four call sites recompute the approval decision that askApproval already resolves. Each site calls checkAutoApproval with the same message it passes to askApproval, so the auto-approval rule runs twice per write. The two evaluations read provider state at different times and can disagree, which makes the change card report a decision the user did not make.

• src/core/tools/ApplyPatchTool.ts#L272-L286: in handleAddFile, obtain the decision and the approval result from one shared helper and assign change.autoApproved from that result.
• src/core/tools/ApplyPatchTool.ts#L359-L370: in handleDeleteFile, replace the standalone checkAutoApproval call with the shared helper; it also removes the extra getState() read on Line 364.
• src/core/tools/ApplyPatchTool.ts#L462-L475: in handleUpdateFile, apply the same replacement.
• src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts#L197-L212: read the auto-approval flag from the earlier approval instead of calling checkAutoApproval again after the write completes.

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In `@src/core/tools/ApplyPatchTool.ts` around lines 272 - 286, Reuse the approval
result from a shared helper instead of recomputing auto-approval after writes.
In src/core/tools/ApplyPatchTool.ts lines 272-286, 359-370, and 462-475, update
handleAddFile, handleDeleteFile, and handleUpdateFile to obtain the decision and
approval together, assign change.autoApproved from that result, and remove the
extra getState() read in handleDeleteFile; in src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts
lines 197-212, use the earlier approval’s auto-approval flag instead of calling
checkAutoApproval again.

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Inline comments:
In `@packages/types/src/global-settings.ts`:
- Around line 225-231: Wire changeCardDetail into the settings UI by adding a
control in CheckpointSettings and binding it to cachedState, supporting the
available “full” and “summary” choices. Update SettingsView.handleSubmit so the
updateSettings payload includes the selected changeCardDetail value alongside
the existing settings.

In `@src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/checkpointSave.spec.ts`:
- Around line 28-30: Update makeTask so an explicitly supplied undefined
saveCheckpoint result is preserved instead of being replaced by the default
commit object; use an omission check or pass an empty result object in the
no-commit test so it exercises the no-commit branch.

In `@src/services/checkpoints/ShadowCheckpointService.ts`:
- Around line 427-433: In ShadowCheckpointService.restoreFile, normalize
filePath to POSIX separators before passing it to fileExistsInCommit and
git.checkout, while retaining the original native filePath for path.join in the
delete branch.

In `@webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/pl/settings.json`:
- Around line 706-707: Correct the Polish spelling in the label and description
by replacing “każłdym” with “każdym” in both translation values.

Apply the same fix in `@webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/tr/settings.json` at line 711:
Correct the Turkish word order.

Apply the same fix in `@webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/ru/settings.json` at line 707:
Fix the Russian typo.

Apply the same fix in `@webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/zh-TW/settings.json` around
lines 733 - 734: Use Traditional Chinese consistently.

Apply the same fix in `@webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/vi/settings.json` at line 707:
Fix the Vietnamese wording.

Apply the same fix in `@webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/pt-BR/settings.json` at line
711: Correct the Portuguese sentence.

Apply the same fix in `@webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/ko/settings.json` around lines
705 - 707: Replace the malformed Korean translation.

Apply the same fix in `@webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/ja/settings.json` around lines
705 - 707: Replace the malformed Japanese translation.

Apply the same fix in `@webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/hi/settings.json` around lines
705 - 707: Correct the Hindi checkpoint text.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@src/core/tools/ApplyPatchTool.ts`:
- Around line 118-124: The rooIgnore rejection branch in ApplyPatchTool must not
return immediately after earlier writes. Mark the patch operation as failed,
break out of the processing loop, and allow the existing checkpoint hook to run
when successfulChanges.length is greater than zero so prior writes are journaled
and recoverable by rollbackStep.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/checkpointSave.spec.ts`:
- Around line 76-84: Update the cardCalls destructuring assertions in
checkpointSave.spec.ts to use an explicit typed mock-call shape instead of as
unknown as wherever possible; for any remaining double assertion, add a nearby
comment explaining why it is safe and unavoidable, covering all indicated
occurrences.

In `@src/core/tools/ApplyPatchTool.ts`:
- Around line 272-286: Reuse the approval result from a shared helper instead of
recomputing auto-approval after writes. In src/core/tools/ApplyPatchTool.ts
lines 272-286, 359-370, and 462-475, update handleAddFile, handleDeleteFile, and
handleUpdateFile to obtain the decision and approval together, assign
change.autoApproved from that result, and remove the extra getState() read in
handleDeleteFile; in src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts lines 197-212, use the
earlier approval’s auto-approval flag instead of calling checkAutoApproval
again.

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• packages/types/src/global-settings.ts
• packages/types/src/message.ts
• packages/types/src/vscode-extension-host.ts
• src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/changeCard.spec.ts
• src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/changeJournal.spec.ts
• src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/checkpointJournal.test.ts
• src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/checkpointSave.spec.ts
• src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/rollback.spec.ts
• src/core/checkpoints/changeCard.ts
• src/core/checkpoints/changeJournal.ts
• src/core/checkpoints/index.ts
• src/core/checkpoints/rollback.ts
• src/core/task/Task.ts
• src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts
• src/core/tools/ApplyPatchTool.ts
• src/core/tools/EditFileTool.ts
• src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts
• src/core/tools/__tests__/applyPatchTool.execute.spec.ts
• src/core/tools/__tests__/editFileTool.spec.ts
• src/core/tools/__tests__/writeToFileTool.spec.ts
• src/core/tools/apply-patch/apply.ts
• src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts
• src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts
• src/services/checkpoints/ShadowCheckpointService.ts
• src/services/checkpoints/__tests__/ShadowCheckpointService.spec.ts
• webview-ui/src/components/settings/CheckpointSettings.tsx
• webview-ui/src/components/settings/SettingsView.tsx
• webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/CheckpointSettings.spec.tsx
• webview-ui/src/context/ExtensionStateContext.tsx
• webview-ui/src/context/__tests__/ExtensionStateContext.spec.tsx
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/ca/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/de/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/en/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/es/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/fr/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/hi/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/id/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/it/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/ja/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/ko/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/nl/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/pl/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/pt-BR/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/ru/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/tr/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/vi/settings.json
• webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/zh-CN/settings.json
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🧹 Nitpick comments (4)

src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts (1)

3314-3335: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add explicit enabled-state tests for perWriteCheckpoints.

The default-on cases only prove behavior when the setting is unset. Add an explicit perWriteCheckpoints: true case in both suites.

• src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts#L3314-L3335: Set perWriteCheckpoints: true and assert one baseline checkpoint.
• src/core/tools/__tests__/editFileTool.spec.ts#L792-L806: Set perWriteCheckpoints: true and assert one write checkpoint with the expected metadata.

As per coding guidelines, “including true and false/unset cases when defaults could hide omissions.”

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In `@src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts` around lines 3314 - 3335, Extend the
explicit enabled-state coverage for perWriteCheckpoints: in
src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts lines 3314-3335, add perWriteCheckpoints:
true to the test state and retain the assertion for one baseline checkpoint; in
src/core/tools/__tests__/editFileTool.spec.ts lines 792-806, add
perWriteCheckpoints: true and assert one write checkpoint with the expected
metadata.

Source: Coding guidelines

src/core/tools/__tests__/applyPatchTool.execute.spec.ts (1)

571-573: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Align the patch literal indentation with the other patch fixtures.

The deletePatch template in this describe block indents *** Delete File: and *** End Patch with tabs, while the identical fixture at Lines 202-204 starts at column 0. The two tests in this block depend on parsePatch tolerating leading whitespace in file headers. Remove the indentation so the fixture does not depend on that behavior.

♻️ Proposed fix

 		const deletePatch = `*** Begin Patch
-		*** Delete File: src/obsolete.ts
-		*** End Patch`
+*** Delete File: src/obsolete.ts
+*** End Patch`

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In `@src/core/tools/__tests__/applyPatchTool.execute.spec.ts` around lines 571 -
573, Update the deletePatch template fixture in the relevant describe block so
*** Delete File: and *** End Patch start at column 0, matching the other patch
fixtures and avoiding dependence on parsePatch leading-whitespace tolerance.

src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/rollback.spec.ts (1)

20-20: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use typed mocks and document partial Task doubles.

Use vi.mocked(getCheckpointService) instead of the double assertion. For both Task doubles, document the intentionally omitted members and why each test does not need them. The existing comment at line 28 explains the missing provider context, but not the omitted Task contract; line 266 has no equivalent explanation.

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In `@src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/rollback.spec.ts` at line 20, Replace the
getCheckpointService mock cast with vi.mocked(getCheckpointService). In
src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/rollback.spec.ts at lines 28 and 266, add
comments documenting the intentionally omitted Task members and why each test
does not require them; the provider-context explanation at line 28 should remain
and be supplemented with the Task-contract rationale.

Source: Coding guidelines

src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/checkpointSave.spec.ts (1)

81-89: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document or remove the repeated double assertions.

The say.mock.calls casts at lines 81, 126, 147, and 165 remain undocumented. Use a typed say mock, or document why each tuple assertion is required.

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In `@src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/checkpointSave.spec.ts` around lines 81 - 89,
Update the say mock call handling in the checkpoint save tests, including the
assertions around cardCalls at the referenced cases, to use a properly typed say
mock and eliminate the repeated unknown-to-tuple double assertions; if any
assertion must remain, add a concise reason at each occurrence explaining why
the tuple cast is necessary.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/core/checkpoints/changeJournal.ts`:
- Line 70: Update the journal-read error handling in restoreLatestFile so only a
missing journal is converted to an empty result; propagate or map permission and
other I/O failures to a failed rollback outcome instead of reporting success.
Add a regression test that mocks an EACCES read failure and verifies rollback
failure.

In `@src/core/checkpoints/rollback.ts`:
- Line 72: Update the rollback flow using stepIndex and the file-entry lookup to
reject rollback when the requested checkpoint is not the latest entry for that
file, preventing older checkpoints from overwriting newer state; preserve
rollback for the latest checkpoint and add a regression test covering sha-1
followed by sha-2, then attempting to roll back sha-1.

In `@src/core/tools/__tests__/applyPatchTool.execute.spec.ts`:
- Line 493: Update the resolveSave declaration in the test to allow invocation
without an argument, either by permitting undefined in its parameter type or by
making the parameter optional, while preserving the existing SaveResult promise
behavior.

In `@webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/CheckpointSettings.spec.tsx`:
- Line 26: Replace the any-based mock props in the Slider, VSCodeCheckbox, and
VSCodeLink test doubles with explicit minimal prop types, including the checkbox
change event shape and relevant callback/value fields. Keep the existing mock
behavior unchanged while ensuring TypeScript validates each mock’s props and
events.

In `@webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/nl/settings.json`:
- Line 711: Update the description value in the settings locale so the
disabled-state clause is a complete Dutch condition, such as “Wanneer deze optie
is uitgeschakeld, tonen de kaarten alleen ...”, while preserving the existing
meaning.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/checkpointSave.spec.ts`:
- Around line 81-89: Update the say mock call handling in the checkpoint save
tests, including the assertions around cardCalls at the referenced cases, to use
a properly typed say mock and eliminate the repeated unknown-to-tuple double
assertions; if any assertion must remain, add a concise reason at each
occurrence explaining why the tuple cast is necessary.

In `@src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/rollback.spec.ts`:
- Line 20: Replace the getCheckpointService mock cast with
vi.mocked(getCheckpointService). In
src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/rollback.spec.ts at lines 28 and 266, add
comments documenting the intentionally omitted Task members and why each test
does not require them; the provider-context explanation at line 28 should remain
and be supplemented with the Task-contract rationale.

In `@src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts`:
- Around line 3314-3335: Extend the explicit enabled-state coverage for
perWriteCheckpoints: in src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts lines 3314-3335,
add perWriteCheckpoints: true to the test state and retain the assertion for one
baseline checkpoint; in src/core/tools/__tests__/editFileTool.spec.ts lines
792-806, add perWriteCheckpoints: true and assert one write checkpoint with the
expected metadata.

In `@src/core/tools/__tests__/applyPatchTool.execute.spec.ts`:
- Around line 571-573: Update the deletePatch template fixture in the relevant
describe block so *** Delete File: and *** End Patch start at column 0, matching
the other patch fixtures and avoiding dependence on parsePatch
leading-whitespace tolerance.

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• src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/changeCard.spec.ts
• src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/changeJournal.spec.ts
• src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/checkpointJournal.test.ts
• src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/checkpointSave.spec.ts
• src/core/checkpoints/__tests__/rollback.spec.ts
• src/core/checkpoints/changeJournal.ts
• src/core/checkpoints/rollback.ts
• src/core/task/Task.ts
• src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts
• src/core/tools/ApplyPatchTool.ts
• src/core/tools/EditFileTool.ts
• src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts
• src/core/tools/__tests__/applyPatchTool.execute.spec.ts
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🟡 Minor · Preserve the journal entry after a post-write editor failure. · ApplyPatchTool.ts:200-241

src/core/tools/ApplyPatchTool.ts:200-241
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Preserve the journal entry after a post-write editor failure.

With PREVENT_FOCUS_DISRUPTION enabled, saveDirectly completes fs.writeFile before it awaits vscode.window.showTextDocument. If that call rejects, the handler exits before returning { wrote: true }. The outer catch then bypasses checkpointSave, so the written file can have no journal entry.

Handle post-write editor failures without discarding the completed write, and let the handler return its written status.

Suggested fix

-				await vscode.window.showTextDocument(vscode.Uri.file(absolutePath), {
-					preview: false,
-					preserveFocus: true,
-				})
+				try {
+					await vscode.window.showTextDocument(vscode.Uri.file(absolutePath), {
+						preview: false,
+						preserveFocus: true,
+					})
+				} catch (error) {
+					console.error(`Failed to open written file '${relPath}': ${error}`)
+				}

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🟡 Minor · Preserve the JSONL delimiter before appending. · changeJournal.ts:43-47

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Preserve the JSONL delimiter before appending.

If a process stops after writing part of a journal entry, appendChange can append the next entry directly to the unterminated record. loadChanges then skips both records as malformed. The later checkpoint remains committed, but rollback cannot find its journal entry and fails. Ensure the writer adds a delimiter before appending when the existing tail is incomplete.

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 const line = JSON.stringify(entry) + "\n"
-await fs.appendFile(filePath, line)
+let delimiter = ""
+try {
+	const current = await fs.readFile(filePath, "utf8")
+	if (current.length > 0 && !current.endsWith("\n")) delimiter = "\n"
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+	if ((error as NodeJS.ErrnoException)?.code !== "ENOENT") throw error
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Update appendChange to check whether the existing journal file ends with a
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Learning: In the file-write-safety change stack, per-file and per-step change-card rollback only supports undoing the latest journal entry for each affected file. `rollbackFile` and `rollbackStep` must reject stale entries to prevent an older card from overwriting a newer write. Older recorded states remain available through the full-checkpoint restoration APIs, including `restoreFiles` and `restoreFilesAndTask`.

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File: src/core/checkpoints/rollback.ts:106-106
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Learning: In the file-write-safety change stack, per-file and per-step change-card rollback only supports undoing the latest journal entry for each affected file. `rollbackFile` and `rollbackStep` must reject stale entries to prevent an older card from overwriting a newer write. Older recorded states remain available through the full-checkpoint restoration APIs, including `restoreFiles` and `restoreFilesAndTask`.

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🟠 Major · Journal both paths changed by a move. · ApplyPatchTool.ts:227-228

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Journal both paths changed by a move.

For an update with movePath, the handler writes the destination and deletes change.path. This map records only the destination. Step rollback resolves touched files from journal entries, so it cannot discover the deleted source to restore the pre-step state. Record both path changes with their respective operations, or provide an equivalent move-aware journal contract. (github.com)

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Update the journal entry creation in the ApplyPatchTool handler to record both
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Learning: In the file-write-safety change stack, per-file and per-step change-card rollback only supports undoing the latest journal entry for each affected file. `rollbackFile` and `rollbackStep` must reject stale entries to prevent an older card from overwriting a newer write. Older recorded states remain available through the full-checkpoint restoration APIs, including `restoreFiles` and `restoreFilesAndTask`.

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Pre-merge checklist row (security - restoreFile path-separator mismatch): fixed at 0947a4e1d.

The git pathspec was derived from the raw request (filePath.toPosix()) while path.resolve/lstat/realpath validated the platform-native interpretation. On POSIX a backslash is a legal filename character, so link\\secret.txt validated as a literal workspace file while git received link/secret.txt - a different path.

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Mechanism verified against real git on Linux: with a symlinked directory at link/, the old pathspec made git checkout replace the symlink with a real directory and restore link/secret.txt - a path containment never validated (the row's "write through the symlink" is in fact a symlink replacement; the validated/git path mismatch is real either way). Regression test (POSIX-only, runs in the ubuntu platform-unit-test): committed directory replaced by a symlink; asserts the symlink survives and the outside file is untouched. Negative control: reverting the derivation makes the scenario red (proven against real git on Linux; the vitest red runs on the ubuntu CI matrix).

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Pre-merge checklist row (persistence integrity - silent journal skip on provider loss): fixed at f92312f8d.

checkpointSave read task.providerRef after the awaited Git commit and skipped appendChanges silently when the weak provider reference had disappeared in the meantime: the commit and its change card survived while changes.jsonl did not, with no CheckpointPartialPersistenceError.

Fix per the row's Resolution: the journal location is now captured before the commit. A save carrying write metadata with no location fails before committing (explicit tool failure, no unrollable checkpoint); a save whose provider reference dies during the Git save still persists the journal through the captured location; a defensive post-commit check throws CheckpointPartialPersistenceError (skipping the card) if the location is nonetheless gone after a successful commit.

Regression tests in checkpointJournal.test.ts: provider loss during the commit still persists the journal (no silent success, no missing entry); provider absence before a write-metadata save fails before committing (saveCheckpoint never called); non-write baseline saves keep the historical behavior. The former silent-success test was updated to the new contract. Negative controls: disabling the pre-commit guard -> exactly 1 red; deferring the deref to the old post-commit timing -> 2 reds, both asserting the new behavior.

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🟡 Minor · Do not stop task startup when the baseline state read fails. · Task.ts:3768

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Do not stop task startup when the baseline state read fails.

If getState() rejects here, startTask() exits before initiateTaskLoop() reaches the request loop. Earlier startup state reads catch failures, but this read does not. Handle the read failure explicitly so a transient settings error does not stop an otherwise runnable task. Do not mark the baseline complete on that failed attempt.

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Handle failures from getState() when startTask() reads perWriteCheckpoints so
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