fix(task-history): atomic per-task merge and drop shared index file (#1231) - #1261
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 2 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughTask-history persistence now uses per-task JSON files as its source of truth. Locked merge writes preserve concurrent fields. Initialization and reconciliation scan task files directly. Webview imports now invalidate and reconcile the store instead of flushing an index. ChangesTask-history persistence
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The PR improves cross-host task-history writes by removing the shared index and merging per-task updates, but a remaining task-ID mismatch can still cause one task’s persisted data to overwrite another’s, while test setup and teardown issues can obscure failures. Merge should wait for these correctness and test-reliability issues to be addressed. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant WebviewMessageHandler
participant TaskHistoryStore
participant safeWriteJson
participant TaskHistoryFile
WebviewMessageHandler->>TaskHistoryStore: import tasks
WebviewMessageHandler->>TaskHistoryStore: invalidateAll()
WebviewMessageHandler->>TaskHistoryStore: reconcile()
TaskHistoryStore->>TaskHistoryFile: scan and validate per-task files
TaskHistoryStore->>safeWriteJson: persist task deltas
safeWriteJson->>TaskHistoryFile: locked read-merge write
safeWriteJson-->>TaskHistoryStore: complete persistence
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src/core/task-persistence/__tests__/fixtures/taskHistoryProcessWorker.ts (1)
172-174: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winConsider validating
stagepayloads with the shared history schema.
isHistoryItemchecks onlyid. Astagemessage that omitsts,number, ortaskpasses validation and reachesstore.upsert(). The store then persists a partial record, and the failure surfaces later as a confusing index assertion.
packages/types/src/history.tsderivesHistoryItemfromhistoryItemSchema. UsehistoryItemSchema.safeParsehere so invalid IPC payloads fail at the boundary with a precise message.♻️ Proposed refactor
-import type { HistoryItem } from "`@roo-code/types`" +import { historyItemSchema, type HistoryItem } from "`@roo-code/types`"function isHistoryItem(value: unknown): value is HistoryItem { - return !!value && typeof value === "object" && "id" in value && typeof value.id === "string" + return historyItemSchema.safeParse(value).success }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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225-232: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winPrevent
afterEachfrom masking the original test failure.
close()callssend()at line 121.send()rethrowsthis.terminalErrorat line 74. When a worker has already failed,Promise.allrejects andafterEachthrows. The reported error is then the teardown error, not the assertion or worker error that caused the failure.Settle each close independently so teardown never replaces the primary failure.
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afterEach(async () => { try { - await Promise.all(workers.map((worker) => worker.close())) + await Promise.all(workers.map((worker) => worker.close().catch(() => undefined))) } finally { workers.forEach((worker) => worker.kill()) await fs.rm(storageRoot, { recursive: true, force: true }) } })🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/core/task-persistence/__tests__/fixtures/taskHistoryProcessWorker.ts`:
- Around line 172-174: Update isHistoryItem to validate the complete value with
the shared historyItemSchema.safeParse result instead of checking only id, so
stage IPC payloads missing required fields such as ts, number, or task are
rejected before store.upsert().
In `@src/core/task-persistence/__tests__/TaskHistoryStore.process.spec.ts`:
- Around line 225-232: Update the afterEach teardown to settle each
worker.close() independently instead of using Promise.all, while still closing
every worker before killing them and removing storageRoot. Ensure close failures
do not cause teardown to throw or mask the original test failure.
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Thank you @edelauna for this PR. In my honest opinion, this is taking the wrong route! Firstly, It pretends to "close" the original issue, while it only addresses the surface of the general design flaw laid out in the original issue. But maybe more importantly, it just shifts the problem of concurrency away from the global If I have understood the solution correctly, it does:
While in theory, the tasks' history_item.json is written atomically, there is a fraction window, where the file does NOT exist during write (1. rename existing->backckup, 2. rename new->existing, 3. delete backup). In such a case the whole process may fail or the task at hand being ignored (I have not totally traced through the exception handling). While this is recoverable, as the process which is just updating that history file will also eventually update the global index and the item will be re-inserted, it still is a potential point for future failures. But also, I'm not sure if a directory scan of ALL files/dirs in tasks directory, the reading and parsing of ALL history_item.jsons it the right approach. Possible alternative: if we do a re-read of ALL tasks during every update (with 5 second window of gathering local changes), would it not be much more efficient to simply drop the global index altogether and scan the directories the few times we really need to read it (namely when displaying history index in ui)? That is not happening as often as every 5 seconds with working tasks. These are my two cents. But I do hope we find a better solution than the one suggested here. Nonetheless, thanks again for taking the time to resolve this issue! |
Thanks for the feedback @martin-rueegg - saying this closes #1231 was maybe an over reach - I'll think on the feedback provided as better solution to the issue. |
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src/core/task-persistence/TaskHistoryStore.ts (1)
889-897: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftRestore cross-process index reconciliation or narrow the PR objective.
writeIndex()builds_index.jsonfrom the current host's cache.safeWriteJsonmakes each replacement atomic, but it does not merge caches or read peer task files. Two stores can still overwrite each other's entries. The supplied cross-instance test confirms this when the final index contains onlytask-bafter both stores flush.This does not prevent the lost-update race from issue
#1231. It only preserves per-task files and repairs the index after a later reconciliation. The timer andflushIndex()also callwriteIndex()outsidewithLock, so an in-process flush can persist an older cache snapshot. If prevention remains the objective, protect an authoritative task-file scan and index write with the shared_history.lock, or remove_index.jsonas a correctness source. Update the regression test to assert a complete index without requiring a later forced reconciliation. Otherwise, document that clobbering is accepted and only eventual self-healing is guaranteed.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/core/task-persistence/__tests__/TaskHistoryStore.crossInstance.spec.ts`:
- Around line 195-209: Add a separate concurrent-writer regression test
alongside the existing recovery scenario that overlaps two flushIndex calls for
task-a and task-b, waits for both operations to complete, then reads _index.json
and asserts it contains both entries. Keep the current reconcile-based scenario
unchanged as recovery coverage, and exercise the lowest persistence layer
represented by the concurrent flush behavior.
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In `@src/core/task-persistence/TaskHistoryStore.ts`:
- Around line 889-897: Update writeIndex and the timer/flushIndex paths to
reconcile the authoritative task files and write the complete merged index while
holding the shared _history.lock, preventing concurrent stores or stale
in-process snapshots from clobbering entries. Adjust the cross-instance
regression test to verify both task entries are present immediately, without
relying on later forced reconciliation.
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In `@src/core/task-persistence/TaskHistoryStore.ts`:
- Around line 908-927: The index merge currently treats task directories as
live, allowing deleted entries to reappear after delete(). Update the index
flush logic around safeWriteJson and its merge callback to build on-disk IDs
from valid history_item.json records, filter both next.entries and peer entries
by that set, and coordinate scanning with task-file writes to avoid interpreting
atomic replacement windows as deletions. Add persistence-layer regressions
covering deletion without removing the directory and a stale peer flush after
deletion.
In `@src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts`:
- Around line 91-102: Move the merge-processing block guarded by options.merge
inside the existing try/finally that invokes releaseLock, so exceptions from the
merge callback still release the lock. Add a regression test that makes merge
throw, then verifies a subsequent write successfully acquires the same lock.
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| // Compute actual diffs against cached state, mirroring upsertCore. | ||
| const deltaFirst = Object.fromEntries( | ||
| Object.entries(updatedFirst).filter(([k, v]) => !deepEqual(v, (first as Record<string, unknown>)[k])), |
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to have a single point of truth, AND make it testable in isolation, would it not be good to extract the three delta calculations into one local private method?
same for line 1013 and 241?
| await safeWriteJson(filePath, item) | ||
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| await safeWriteJson(filePath, item, { | ||
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I wonder if it would be good to extract the merge functionality into a local function of it's own to make it testable in isolation
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Thank you, @edelauna, for having considered my feedback. I think the current solution is much cleaner and safer. Awesome work! It is still worth considering in a next phase, to maybe have a per-workspace index, only including the task-ids. this could allow the "workspace" filter field to be populated easily and speed up the index scan, if only a specific workspace is of interest. But that is an addition, rather than a fix. So maybe we could create a follow-up PR once the fix is reviewed and merged. Thank you for the effort. 🙏 - Having regular issues with my index, I'm looking forward to get this patch ASAP. |
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352-359: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRequire the record ID to match the task directory ID.
reconcile()storesitemundertaskIdwithout checkingitem.id. Iftasks/task-a/history_item.jsoncontains task B,get("task-a")returns task B. A laterupsert()can then write task B’s file.Treat a record as live only after
item.id === taskId. Add a reconciliation regression for a mismatched file. As per coding guidelines, “For regressions, add the test at the lowest layer that would have failed.”Proposed fix
const item = await this.readTaskFile(taskId) -if (item) { +if (item?.id === taskId) { + liveIds.add(taskId) const previous = this.cache.get(taskId) this.taskFileMtimes.set(taskId, mtimeMs) if (!deepEqual(previous, item)) { this.cache.set(taskId, item) } }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts`:
- Around line 101-105: The safeWriteJson read/merge path should only treat
missing files and JSON parse failures as a null existing value; update its catch
handling to rethrow other filesystem errors such as EACCES and EIO instead of
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The shared-index removal is a strong simplification, but the per-task merge still validates lifecycle transitions against stale host-local state. The inline blocker below reproduces a completed task being moved back to delegated; please fix that before merging. I also left one documentation nit.
| // Write per-task file (source of truth) | ||
| await this.writeTaskFile(merged) | ||
| const delta = existing ? ({ id: item.id, ...this.computeDelta(existing, item) } as HistoryItem) : undefined | ||
| await this.writeTaskFile(merged, delta) |
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What prevents a stale host that cached active from applying a delegated status delta after another host has already written terminal completed? Please validate status transitions against the record read under the file lock, and cache/publish the actual merged record so a preserved peer status is not left stale in memory.
| // Write per-task file (source of truth) | ||
| await this.writeTaskFile(merged) | ||
| const delta = existing ? ({ id: item.id, ...this.computeDelta(existing, item) } as HistoryItem) : undefined | ||
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Nit: can the nearby upsert() comment that still says this schedules a debounced index write, plus the reconciliation comment that says it scans directories “vs index,” be updated now that this PR removes the index and its scheduler?
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Related GitHub Issue
Closes #1231
Description
Multiple extension hosts sharing the same task-history storage directory could corrupt task data. Each host rebuilt and overwrote the shared
tasks/_index.jsonfrom its own partial cache, silently dropping entries written by other hosts. Per-taskhistory_item.jsonfiles were also vulnerable: a host with a stale cache could overwrite fields that another host had updated on disk.This change:
Removes
_index.jsonentirely. The shared index file was derived state and the sole source of cross-process clobbering.initialize()now scans task directories directly viareconcile({ forceRefresh: true }). For the task counts in this system (tens to hundreds), the directory scan is sub-millisecond.Adds atomic per-task read-modify-write.
safeWriteJsongains amergeoption: a callback that reads the current file under the already-held advisory lock and lets the caller merge before writing.writeTaskFileuses this to compute a diff-delta (only fields the caller actually changed) and apply it to the disk version, so fields updated by another host are preserved rather than reverted from a stale cache.Fixes cross-host delete detection.
reconcile()now checks forhistory_item.jsonexistence (not just directory presence) when deciding whether a task is live. Adelete()that removes only the file is correctly detected by peer hosts on their next reconciliation.Same-field conflicts remain last-writer-wins by design.
Test Procedure
tsc --noEmit: clean.Cross-instance tests cover:
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