perf(web): Open Source Licenses downloads its manifest once per session

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🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 on behalf of Oliver

Problem

Settings → Open Source Licenses fetched, parsed and schema-decoded the third-party license manifest every time the page mounted. Leaving the page aborted the request, so every revisit started over.

Fix

The manifest loads once per session and is shared by every visit, including one that arrives while a request is still in flight. A failed request clears the cache, so Retry starts a fresh one. The shared request has a 30 s timeout that covers both the fetch and reading the body, so a stalled download shows "The license manifest took too long to load." with Retry instead of staying stuck on loading. Leaving the page no longer aborts the request; the page just ignores a result that arrives after it unmounts.

The license rows and their animation are unchanged.

Trade-off

On a revisit, the page skips the manifest request (including an HTTP-cache revalidation), the JSON parse and the schema decode. The parse and decode are the main-thread work: the manifest is about 1 MB (1,005,886 bytes in a recent production build). In exchange, the decoded manifest stays in memory for the rest of the session once the page has been opened.

Validation

• On the current branch: web typecheck passes, and lint on OpenSourceLicenses.tsx reports no errors. The two remaining warnings come from the useEffect that was already there.
• Headless production checks ran on an earlier version of this PR that also reworked the license rows. Its manifest loading code is identical to the current version's. Those checks confirmed that repeat visits made no new manifest request, and covered failure, Retry, and navigating away mid-request. They were not rerun after the row changes were removed.

Scope and approval

There is no prior issue or discussion for this. It's a focused performance improvement with no intended behavior change. CONTRIBUTING lists performance improvements among the changes most likely to be accepted. It's part of a Settings performance series: #17119, #17120, #17121, #17122, #17123.

Implemented by GPT-6.1 Sol (Codex harness, delegated through T3 Code), trimmed to the manifest change by Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code). Review follow-up by Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code in T3 Code).

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 4e4359b

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The change is confined to the licenses settings panel and replaces repeated fetch/parse work with a shared, retryable, time-bounded promise. It introduces no new capability, schema or infrastructure impact, and the surrounding license rendering behavior is unchanged.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The license panel caches manifest requests with a 30-second timeout and clears the cache after failures. License notices use button-controlled disclosures. Opening a notice does not close other open notices.

Changes

Open-source license panel

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Share manifest loading apps/web/src/components/settings/OpenSourceLicenses.tsx	The panel caches the manifest request and clears the cache after failure. Effect cleanup ignores later results without aborting the shared request.
Control notice disclosures apps/web/src/components/settings/OpenSourceLicenses.tsx	License notices use buttons with generated content IDs and disclosure attributes. Opening a notice selects it without closing another open notice. Closing clears the selection only when that notice is selected.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Refactor

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Merge Risk

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 499d1

The change speeds up the Open Source Licenses page by caching the manifest and rendering notices only while they are open. No actionable merge-blocking risk was identified.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3e4ee

The change preserves manifest validation and external-link protections. Its main design risk is narrow: while a license download remains stalled, reopening the page reuses that request rather than starting a fresh attempt. The identified impact is confined to displaying license notices.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: A pending fetch or response-body read remains cached without an application deadline or invalidation path. While it remains pending, subsequent panel mounts reuse it and show loading without Retry. Previously, leaving the panel aborted its request and reopening initiated another attempt. Sharing therefore extends this conditional availability failure across panel lifetimes within the same client module; it does not establish a cross-user or privileged security impact.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The identified pending-request failure affects license panels sharing one client-module instance. The inspected change creates neither a cross-user cache nor persistent state writes or additional service authority. An attacker-controlled trigger for the conditional stall was not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Manifest data still passes through schema and entry validation before display. Source URLs remain restricted to HTTP(S), notices remain React text children rather than injected markup, and external links retain noreferrer and noopener. The PR comparison shows these protections predate the change and are retained.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Rejection recovery is supported, but pending-work recovery is not bounded by the application. Browser or transport failure can eventually release the cache, and a fresh client-module instance starts without the retained promise; no duration guarantee was established. This is a narrow failure-containment issue rather than evidence of a verified security exploit.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — A shared-loader-owned deadline spanning fetch and body consumption could bound pending failure persistence while preserving request deduplication. Expiry would need to invalidate the failed request and permit recovery without cancelling shared work merely because one consumer unmounts.

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Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: sharing the Open Source Licenses manifest request once per session. It uses a concise conventional commit format.
Description check		The description includes the required Problem, Fix, Trade-off, Validation, and Scope and approval information. It explains the failure and retry behavior, timeout behavior, performance trade-off, and …

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/settings/OpenSourceLicenses.tsx:
- Around line 35-40: Add a timeout to the shared request in loadLicenseManifest
so a stalled fetch rejects instead of leaving licenseManifestPromise pending
indefinitely. Ensure the timeout rejection flows through the existing catch
handler, which clears the cached promise so a later visit can retry.

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