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fix(events): clear stale pending questions from remote servers - #451

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Problem

A pending question (form) from a connected remote server could stay stuck in the badge and notifications sheet. Clicking it opened a session that never loaded: either "Session not found" or a spinner that never stopped.

The cause was client-side pending state that nothing ever cleared, combined with pinning that kept selecting the dead item.

Changes

  • Deleted or missing sessions: session.deleted and a 404 on the session page now clear that session's pending forms and permissions (forgetPendingActionsForSession).
  • Reconnect: pending items are reconciled per server on browser reconnect, on a remote server's resync, and when a server is enabled after connect, covering every tracked directory for that server instead of only local repos or subscribed directories.
  • Unknown directories: a pending session with no known directory is looked up on its server; its directory is remembered and reconciled, or its items are dropped if the session returns 404.
  • Unreachable servers: when reconciling a remote server fails with status 0, 502 or 504, its pending items are dropped; a later successful resync restores any that are still pending.
  • Removed or disabled servers: once the server list loads, pending items from remote servers that are no longer enabled are purged.
  • Pinning: the viewed session's pending item now takes precedence over a pinned item from another session.
  • Proxy: GET/HEAD requests to a remote server now fail with a 504 if headers don't arrive within 30s. Streamed bodies and non-GET requests are not affected.

Validation

  • Frontend: vitest run src/contexts src/pages/__tests__: 299 passed
  • Backend: vitest run test/routes/opencode-server-proxy.test.ts: 17 passed
  • pnpm lint: 0 errors. Frontend and backend tsc --noEmit are clean.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Bodyless upstream requests now time out after 30 seconds with a gateway timeout response, while streaming and body-bearing requests continue normally.
    • Pending forms, permissions, and actions are cleared when sessions are deleted or remote servers become unavailable.
    • Reconnecting sessions now reconcile remembered directories and prioritize actions from the currently viewed session.
    • Missing sessions now display the appropriate not-found message and discard their pending actions.

- Drop pending forms and permissions when a session is deleted or its page returns 404
- Reconcile remembered remote directories on browser reconnect, not only local repos
- Purge pending items from remote servers that are disabled or removed
- Prefer the viewed session's pending item over a pinned item from another session
- Time out remote proxy GET/HEAD requests that never send headers (504)
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The proxy adds configurable header timeouts for bodyless requests. The frontend updates pending-action selection, remote reconciliation, and session cleanup after session deletion or a 404 response.

Changes: Upstream Proxy Timeout

Layer / File(s) Summary
Header timeout behavior and coverage
backend/src/routes/opencode-server-proxy.ts, backend/test/routes/opencode-server-proxy.test.ts
The proxy applies a configurable timeout while waiting for headers on bodyless requests. It returns HTTP 504 on timeout and retains HTTP 502 for other fetch failures. Tests cover GET timeouts, POST requests, and streamed responses.

Frontend Pending Actions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Queue selection and remote reconciliation
frontend/src/contexts/EventContext.tsx, frontend/src/contexts/EventContext.test.tsx
Pending forms and permissions use viewed-session selection rules. Remote pending actions are reconciled by server and directory. Actions from unavailable or deleted sessions are removed.
Session-scoped action cleanup
frontend/src/contexts/EventContext.tsx, frontend/src/contexts/EventContext.test.tsx, frontend/src/pages/SessionDetail.tsx, frontend/src/pages/__tests__/SessionDetail.*.test.tsx
The forms context exposes session-scoped cleanup. Session deletion and a 404 session query clear pending actions for that session.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 539f1

If one directory on a remote server times out, pending forms or permission prompts from that server's other directories may disappear from the UI. They reappear only after a new event or a resync. The impact is limited, but the prune should be narrowed to the failed directory before merge, or the owner should accept the behavior.

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Review comments at @frontend/src/contexts/EventContext.tsx:
- Around line 395-396: Update reconcilePendingActionsForDirectories and
reconcileBySessionForDirectory to filter completed request results against
current server availability before applying them. Ensure actions from servers
disabled while reconciliation was in flight are excluded, while preserving
results for currently enabled servers; do not rely solely on the cleanup effect.
- Around line 512-515: Update forgetPendingActionsForSession and the
pending-action fetch reconciliation flow to use an invalidation token: advance
the session’s token during cleanup, capture the token when starting each fetch,
and skip applying forms or permissions when the captured token is stale.
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- Reconcile pending forms and permissions per server on reconnect, remote resync, and when a server is enabled after connect
- Resolve the directory of pending sessions with no known directory, dropping them when the session returns 404
- Drop a remote server's pending items when reconciling it fails as unreachable (status 0, 502, 504)
- Generalize the pending-item pruning helper

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- Around line 697-699: Update the unreachable-server handling in
reconcilePendingActionsForDirectories so pruning is limited to pending actions
whose serverId matches the failed server and whose session directory, from
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if (!isLocalOpenCodeServer(serverId) && isUnreachableServerError(error)) {
prunePendingActions((item) => item.serverId === serverId)
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Limit the unreachable-server prune to the failed directory.

reconcilePendingActionsForDirectories runs one fetch per directory key in parallel with Promise.all. A 502 or 504 error for one directory key calls prunePendingActions((item) => item.serverId === serverId). That call removes every pending action for the server. The removed actions include actions that another directory reconciled successfully in the same pass.

The proxy now returns 504 when response headers do not arrive within 30 seconds. One slow listPendingPermissions or listPendingForms call can therefore hide valid prompts from other directories on a reachable server. The prompts stay hidden until a new permission.asked or form.created event arrives, or until syncForSession runs. The remote session can then wait for input that the UI does not show.

Prune only the sessions that map to the failed directory key. Sessions with no known directory are already handled through getSession in reconcilePendingActionsForServer.

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--- "a/frontend/src/contexts/EventContext.tsx"
+++ "b/frontend/src/contexts/EventContext.tsx"
@@ -693,10 +693,13 @@
         ])
         reconcilePermissionsForDirectory(directory, pendingPermissions, serverId)
         reconcileFormsForDirectory(directory, pendingForms, serverId)
       } catch (error) {
         if (!isLocalOpenCodeServer(serverId) && isUnreachableServerError(error)) {
-          prunePendingActions((item) => item.serverId === serverId)
+          const sessionDirectories = useSessionStatus.getState().directories
+          prunePendingActions((item) =>
+            item.serverId === serverId && sessionDirectories.get(item.sessionID) === key,
+          )
         }
         if (import.meta.env.DEV) {
           console.warn(`Failed to fetch pending actions for ${directory}:`, error)
         }
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if (!isLocalOpenCodeServer(serverId) && isUnreachableServerError(error)) {
prunePendingActions((item) => item.serverId === serverId)
}
if (!isLocalOpenCodeServer(serverId) && isUnreachableServerError(error)) {
const sessionDirectories = useSessionStatus.getState().directories
prunePendingActions((item) =>
item.serverId === serverId && sessionDirectories.get(item.sessionID) === key,
)
}
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Review comment at @frontend/src/contexts/EventContext.tsx around lines 697 -
699:
Update the unreachable-server handling in reconcilePendingActionsForDirectories
so pruning is limited to pending actions whose serverId matches the failed
server and whose session directory, from
useSessionStatus.getState().directories, matches the failed directory key.
Preserve the existing handling for sessions without a known directory.

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