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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds recursive session-file watching, session-change publication, SSE notifications, session-list refreshes, and transcript reloads for externally modified sessions. ChangesSession change propagation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Externally started sessions may still fail to refresh after a transient file-resolution race, and failed event connections can leave background resources running. These bounded issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Suggested reviewers: Poem
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In `@lib/session-watcher.ts`:
- Around line 66-69: Update the session watcher subscription flow so listeners
are registered before ensureWatcher() runs, allowing a missing
sessionsDir/ENOENT failure to schedule a retry while subscribers remain active.
Add retry scheduling after the failed watcher setup, and cancel any pending
retry timer when the final listener unsubscribes; preserve the existing watcher
cleanup behavior.
- Around line 55-59: Update the watch callback in lib/session-watcher.ts to
handle a missing filename by performing a full session-tree rescan and notifying
subscribers through the filename-independent refresh path before returning.
Preserve the existing pendingPaths handling for valid .jsonl filenames, and
ensure the rescan invalidates caches and emits the sessions-changed SSE frame.
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lib/session-watcher.ts (1)
1-49: LGTM!Also applies to: 73-87
lib/session-change-bus.ts (1)
1-26: LGTM!lib/session-change-bus.test.mjs (1)
1-49: LGTM!app/api/agent/running/events/route.ts (1)
2-2: LGTM!Also applies to: 34-43, 60-60
components/SessionSidebar.tsx (1)
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hooks/useAgentSession.ts (1)
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| pendingPaths.add(join(sessionsDir, name)); | ||
| if (!flushTimer) flushTimer = setTimeout(flush, DEBOUNCE_MS); | ||
| }); | ||
| watcher.on("error", () => { |
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🔥 The Roast: This error handler is the software equivalent of a car's check engine light that just removes the bulb. When fs.watch emits an error (EMFILE, filesystem hiccup, platform refusal), you close the watcher, set it to null, and walk away like nothing happened. Every subscriber in the listeners Set is now screaming into the void, and you didn't even leave a note. They'll never receive events again, and they'll never know why.
🩹 The Fix: On watcher error, either clear the listeners Set or emit a terminal event so subscribers can clean up. At minimum, notify the SSE route so it can log or surface the degradation.
| watcher.on("error", () => { | |
| watcher.on("error", () => { | |
| watcher?.close(); | |
| watcher = null; | |
| for (const listener of [...listeners]) { | |
| try { listener([]); } catch { /* a dead watcher must not crash survivors */ } | |
| } | |
| listeners.clear(); | |
| }); |
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| // Sessions omp writes outside the web UI produce no RPC events, so the | ||
| // only signal that they advanced is the file itself. | ||
| const unsubscribeFiles = subscribeSessionFileChanges((sessionIds) => { |
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🔥 The Roast: This callback is a zombie. When encode throws because the controller is already closed, you catch the error and move on — but the listener stays registered in session-watcher.ts's Set forever. Every subsequent file change will reanimate this corpse and make it fail all over again. It's like a telemarketer who keeps calling after you've changed your number.
🩹 The Fix: Unsubscribe yourself when you detect a closed controller. The unsubscribeFiles function is right there in the closure — use it.
| const unsubscribeFiles = subscribeSessionFileChanges((sessionIds) => { | |
| const unsubscribeFiles = subscribeSessionFileChanges((sessionIds) => { | |
| try { | |
| encode({ type: "sessions-changed", sessionIds, refreshSessionList: true }); | |
| } catch { | |
| unsubscribeFiles(); | |
| } | |
| }); |
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🏆 Best part: The debouncing and promise coalescing in 💀 Worst part: The watcher error handler silently kills the stream for all subscribers. This is the kind of silent failure that turns "it works on my machine" into "why is production frozen?" 📊 Overall: Like a first pancake — the shape is wrong but the ingredients are there. The architecture is sound (separate watcher + bus + ownership guard), but the error handling needs to grow a spine. Files Reviewed (6 files)
Fix these issues in Kilo Cloud Previous Review Summary (commit 36d0a9b)Current summary above is authoritative. Previous snapshots are kept for context only. Previous review (commit 36d0a9b)Verdict: 2 Issues Found | Recommendation: Address before merge Overview
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🏆 Best part: The debouncing and promise coalescing in 💀 Worst part: The watcher error handler silently kills the stream for all subscribers. This is the kind of silent failure that turns "it works on my machine" into "why is production frozen?" 📊 Overall: Like a first pancake — the shape is wrong but the ingredients are there. The architecture is sound (separate watcher + bus + ownership guard), but the error handling needs to grow a spine. Files Reviewed (6 files)
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Hi, thank you for the original session-streaming work. While reviewing and testing the PR, we found a few reliability issues around sessions started outside the web UI: External session file changes were not consistently propagated to the running-session UI. The result keeps the original feature intact while making external-session updates more reliable and preventing stale SSE/watchers from accumulating. Thank you for the original contribution, we’ve kept the feature and applied the reliability fixes so it is ready to merge. |
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In `@app/api/agent/running/events/route.ts`:
- Around line 37-42: In the encode failure handler within the
subscribeSessionFileChanges callback, replace the unsubscribeFiles-only cleanup
with streamCleanup?.() so the running-session subscription, heartbeat interval,
and file-change listener are all released when the stream controller closes.
In `@lib/session-watcher.ts`:
- Around line 61-64: Update the session resolution flow around
resolveSessionIdByPath so paths that resolve to no session ID are retried with a
bounded attempt limit, or trigger a full refresh notification, instead of being
silently discarded. Preserve successful session ID deduplication and SSE
notification behavior, and add a regression test covering an initial unresolved
result followed by successful resolution.
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| unsubscribeFiles = subscribeSessionFileChanges((sessionIds) => { | ||
| try { | ||
| encode({ type: "sessions-changed", sessionIds, refreshSessionList: true }); | ||
| } catch { | ||
| try { unsubscribeFiles?.(); } catch { /* already cleaned up */ } | ||
| } |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Run complete stream cleanup after an enqueue failure.
At Lines 40-42, unsubscribeFiles() removes only the file-change listener. The running-session subscription and heartbeat interval continue after the controller is closed. Call streamCleanup?.() instead so the route releases all stream resources.
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- try { unsubscribeFiles?.(); } catch { /* already cleaned up */ }
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| unsubscribeFiles = subscribeSessionFileChanges((sessionIds) => { | |
| try { | |
| encode({ type: "sessions-changed", sessionIds, refreshSessionList: true }); | |
| } catch { | |
| try { unsubscribeFiles?.(); } catch { /* already cleaned up */ } | |
| } | |
| unsubscribeFiles = subscribeSessionFileChanges((sessionIds) => { | |
| try { | |
| encode({ type: "sessions-changed", sessionIds, refreshSessionList: true }); | |
| } catch { | |
| streamCleanup?.(); | |
| } |
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In `@app/api/agent/running/events/route.ts` around lines 37 - 42, In the encode
failure handler within the subscribeSessionFileChanges callback, replace the
unsubscribeFiles-only cleanup with streamCleanup?.() so the running-session
subscription, heartbeat interval, and file-change listener are all released when
the stream controller closes.
| void Promise.all(paths.map((path) => resolveSessionIdByPath(path).catch(() => undefined))) | ||
| .then((ids) => { | ||
| const sessionIds = [...new Set(ids.filter((id): id is string => Boolean(id)))]; | ||
| if (sessionIds.length === 0) return; |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Retry unresolved session paths.
At Line 61, a transient scan failure or a file that is not indexed yet becomes undefined. Lines 63-64 then discard the change without notifying SSE subscribers. A session created or renamed during this window can remain stale until another filesystem event occurs.
Requeue unresolved paths with a bounded retry, or schedule a full refresh notification. Add a regression test where the first resolution returns no session ID.
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In `@lib/session-watcher.ts` around lines 61 - 64, Update the session resolution
flow around resolveSessionIdByPath so paths that resolve to no session ID are
retried with a bounded attempt limit, or trigger a full refresh notification,
instead of being silently discarded. Preserve successful session ID
deduplication and SSE notification behavior, and add a regression test covering
an initial unresolved result followed by successful resolution.
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Problem
A session that
ompwrites from a terminal — or that a harness starts by launchingomp— never updates while it is open in ompweb. The file grows, the transcript stays frozen, and you have to reload the page to see the turn that just landed.The cause is that live updates are only wired to sessions ompweb spawns itself:
/api/agent/running/eventsreportsgetRunningRpcSessionIds(), and nothing watches the session files. For an externally-owned session there is no RPC stream, so no signal exists that it advanced.We hit this running omp under a wrapper: the session shows up in the sidebar and reads correctly, but watching a run means refreshing repeatedly.
Change
lib/session-watcher.ts— a debounced (250 ms) recursive watch of<agentDir>/sessions. On change it callsinvalidateSessionListCache(), resolves the changed paths throughresolveSessionIdByPath, and reports the session ids. Created on first subscribe, closed on last unsubscribe.app/api/agent/running/events/route.ts— forwards those ids as asessions-changedframe alongside the existingrunningframes, withrefreshSessionList: true.lib/session-change-bus.ts— a tiny in-process pub/sub, because the SSE is consumed bySessionSidebarwhile the open transcript lives inuseAgentSessionunder a sibling component. This avoids threading a callback throughAppShellandChatWindow.SessionSidebar— onsessions-changed, reuses the existing 300 ms-debounced list refresh and republishes the ids.useAgentSession— reloads the open transcript when the changed ids include the current session and no event stream is attached, so a session ompweb owns keeps its RPC stream as the single authority and never sees a competing refetch.Notes on the approach
/api/agent/[id]/eventslooked like the natural place, but it callsstartRpcSessionon a cache miss — subscribing there for an externally-owned session would spawn a secondompagainst a JSONL the runningompalready owns, which is exactly what the README warns about. Hence the global stream plus the ownership guard.Failure is soft: if the sessions directory does not exist yet, or a platform refuses a recursive watch, the watcher stays
nulland behaviour is unchanged.Verification
Against a production build (
npm run build), appending a line to a session file ompweb did not start:— naming exactly the session whose file changed.
npm run typecheckandeslintare clean.npm testpasses with three new cases for the bus (fan-out, unsubscribe/empty batches, and a throwing subscriber not stopping others). One pre-existing failure is unrelated:lib/worktree.test.mjsfails on macOS before this change too, comparing/var/...against its/private/var/...realpath.I deliberately did not add a test for the watcher itself —
fs.watchtests are timing-dependent and I did not see a precedent for them in the suite. Happy to add one if you would like it.Summary by cubic
Streams live updates for sessions started outside the web UI by watching session files and forwarding changes over the running-events SSE. Previously, these sessions stayed frozen until a manual reload; now the sidebar refreshes and the open transcript reloads when their files grow, while RPC-owned sessions keep their stream as the single authority.
/api/agent/[id]/eventsbecause it starts an RPC session on cache miss, which could spawn a secondompon a file already owned by a running process.Written for commit a5475f6. Summary will update on new commits.
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