fix(server): cache settled refinements for unrecognized hosts

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Problem

Explicit-context lookups repeat hosting CLI probes for unrecognized remotes. When no provider claims a remote, the project walk and host-wide fallback repeat that work across checkouts. A settled answer should serve compatible lookups without another probe set.

The issue reports one canonicalRef taking 20.8 seconds across 12 refinements and 24 listLogins calls. Those are the reporter's measurements.

Change

The registry caches settled refinement verdicts, including "nobody claimed it", for five minutes, with a capacity of 512. Explicit-context lookups and identity refinement use it. Cache.get shares concurrent misses. Each caller keeps its own remote URL and name.

The key combines the detected provider name and base URL, the remote's server and mount prefix, and requested host. URL-form keys retain scheme and port and remove the final two path segments. SCP-form keys use the host. Mount path case is preserved.

A verdict is cached only when the integrations needed to choose it answered. Verified missing executables and recognized no-login responses are answers. Operational or unrecognized responses remain inconclusive. A later provider claim is returned without caching if an earlier command or integration could not answer. Settled verdicts get five minutes; inconclusive verdicts get zero TTL.

Each registry instance subscribes to settings changes and clears its verdict cache when a change arrives. External CLI login changes appear after expiry or a server restart. Capacity eviction can also cause another lookup.

Scope and approval

Closes #12060, labelled accepted. Julius's triage confirms the server performance bug and asks for cached unknown-host refinement with broken-checkout fallback intact.

PullRequestService stays unchanged, with no public settled field. Julius's later review of #12071 gives the reason:

I think the PullRequestService change can go. With the host cache and Cache.get sharing lookups, the old firstSuccessOf walk costs one probe, then cache hits for the other checkouts.

The project walk and host-wide fallback retain their routing and reuse compatible verdicts. Host classification and SSH alias detection remain out of scope. No client, contract-package, or dependency changes.

Carried forward

This carries forward the closed, unmerged #12071 by @JorrinKievit.

Kept five-minute caching of settled verdicts, including negative answers, concurrent sharing through Cache.get, and zero TTL for inconclusive verdicts.

Changed the key to an Equal/Hash object that preserves mount and context identity and applies the verdict to each caller's context. Spawn-error origin replaces the filesystem-exists probe for missing executables. Credential and login readers preserve enough diagnostics to distinguish answers from operational failures. Settings-stream invalidation replaces invalidation in discover. The PR-service walk change and public verdict flag are dropped. The fix uses the current source-control packages and retains custom-host refinement from #11059, with settings moved onto host definitions by #17901.

Verification

Linux x64, Node 24.21.0. Runs unset GH_TOKEN and GITHUB_TOKEN; evidence runs also isolated home and temporary directories.

With the same final registry test file, main ed0f7b908b has four failures and 27 passes; the repaired branch 2c69169cd6 passes all 31.

Registry tests, same final test file on both sides: R1, R2, R3 and R5 fail on main with the expected and received values shown, and all 31 pass at 2c69169cd6.

Main's expiry and settings assertions fail because explicit-context lookups see a new login immediately. Coverage includes separate lowercase prefixes and case-distinct Forgejo mounts. The four original failed-probe cases retry on both versions. Added guards pass for unreadable glab config, an unconfirmed glab host, real credential-reader recovery, two real Forgejo login-reader recoveries, and a tea claim after fj failed. These services use fake processes and files.

Ten synthetic checkouts share one synthetic unrecognized host. Each lookup passes an explicit context. Main has no settled-refinement cache for explicit-context lookups, so this workload repeats the hosting probes. These ten explicit-context lookups share one cache key. The counting test records one set of calls while that settled entry remains cached, and concurrent misses share the lookup. Fakes count glab spawns, fj and tea login-reader calls, and GitHub credential-reader calls behind the real registry. One sweep gives 10 to 1 calls per fake. Three sweeps at 0, +2 and +4 minutes give 30 to 1 cumulatively. Ten concurrent lookups on a fresh registry give 10 to 1 and retain each caller's repository URL. The throwaway counting test passed on both versions and was deleted.

Counting test, before to after: 10 to 1 calls per fake for one sweep, 30 to 1 cumulatively for three sweeps, and 10 to 1 for concurrent lookups.

Focused repair checks ran under env -u GH_TOKEN -u GITHUB_TOKEN. The evidence rerun covered only the registry and counting tests. Other results below come from the repair report.

From apps/server:

vp test run src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.test.ts src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.test.ts src/sourceControl/SourceControlDiscovery.test.ts

Three files, 226 passed at 3f6d0f8d54. The final registry rerun used vp test run src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.test.ts: 31 passed at 2c69169cd6.

Each package ran vp test run --config ../../vite.config.ts --dir . at 3f6d0f8d54:

Working directory	Result
packages/source-control-core	5 files, 46 passed
packages/source-control-forgejo	1 file, 21 passed
packages/source-control-github	11 files, 351 passed
packages/source-control-gitlab	5 files, 135 passed
packages/source-control-gitcafe	5 files, 79 passed

At 2c69169cd6, GitLab reran vp run test: 5 files, 135 passed. npm run typecheck passed with zero errors in all five packages and apps/server; GitLab and server reran it at the final head. Suggestions remained in unchanged code.

From the repository root at 3f6d0f8d54:

vp lint --report-unused-disable-directives   apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.test.ts   apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.ts   packages/source-control-core/src/server/discovery.ts   packages/source-control-forgejo/src/server/ForgejoCli.ts   packages/source-control-forgejo/src/server/ForgejoSourceControlProvider.ts   packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeSourceControlProvider.ts   packages/source-control-github/src/server/GitHubCredentials.ts   packages/source-control-github/src/server/GitHubSourceControlProvider.ts   packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabSourceControlProvider.ts
vp fmt --check   apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.test.ts   apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.ts   packages/source-control-core/src/server/discovery.ts   packages/source-control-forgejo/src/server/ForgejoCli.ts   packages/source-control-forgejo/src/server/ForgejoSourceControlProvider.ts   packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeSourceControlProvider.ts   packages/source-control-github/src/server/GitHubCredentials.ts   packages/source-control-github/src/server/GitHubSourceControlProvider.ts   packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabSourceControlProvider.ts

Both exited 0. Lint reported one existing empty-import warning; format was clean. At 2c69169cd6, both changed files passed:

vp lint apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.test.ts packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabSourceControlProvider.ts
vp fmt --check apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.test.ts packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabSourceControlProvider.ts
vp run knip:check

All exited 0, clean. Knip also passed at 3f6d0f8d54. Repair revert checks failed as intended and passed after restoration.

Not checked:

• macOS, Windows/WSL, live GitHub including Enterprise, GitLab or Forgejo servers, or real hosting CLI execution in these tests.
• Repository-local glab configuration and how glab reads it from a checkout.
• A running T3 server or UI, PR-list and git-status calls to resolveHandle end to end, or wall-clock and CPU timing.
• Production settings-stream delivery, registry sharing between server and WebSocket scopes, and subscription cleanup on socket teardown. R3 checks a supplied test stream only.
• Expiry and settings reset outside the test clock or in the counting test. R2 and R3 cover them under the test clock.
• Counts for lookups without an explicit context, through the registry's remote discovery path.
• The full repository test suite and upstream CI. The evidence rerun did not repeat other repair checks or guard-test revert checks.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes runtime provider-discovery caching and authentication-result handling across the server and multiple source-control integrations. Its cross-package behavior changes and authentication implications warrant human review.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Unknown-remote discovery now distinguishes settled results from failed or incomplete probes. Provider integrations classify CLI and credential outcomes. The registry shares settled refinements across matching remotes and invalidates them when server settings change.

Changes

Unknown Remote Discovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Refinement verdict contract packages/source-control-core/src/server/discovery.ts, packages/source-control-gitcafe/src/server/GitCafeSourceControlProvider.ts	Refinement now returns a provider claim and settlement status. Missing executables are distinguished from other probe failures.
Provider probe outcomes packages/source-control-forgejo/src/server/*, packages/source-control-github/src/server/*, packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/*, apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.test.ts	Provider discovery distinguishes missing, unauthenticated, and unresolved CLI results. Tests cover provider retries, Forgejo mount matching, and probe failures.
Shared registry cache apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.test.ts	The registry shares unknown-remote refinements by normalized key, caches settled results for five minutes, and invalidates the cache on settings changes. Tests cover concurrent lookups, expiry, and invalidation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Registry as SourceControlProviderRegistry
  participant Cache as Unknown-remote cache
  participant Refinement as refineUnknownRemoteProvider
  Registry->>Cache: Look up verdict by normalized key
  Cache->>Refinement: Evaluate an uncached key
  Refinement-->>Cache: Return provider claim and settled status
  Cache-->>Registry: Return verdict and apply provider to caller context

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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 72315

A non-missing fj failure can be mistaken for no login in some Forgejo operations. This is a localized risk, but may leave those operations using incomplete login information.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 72315

The change affects 6 systems.

Changed systems: packages/source-control-forgejo, apps/server, packages/source-control-github, packages/source-control-core, packages/source-control-gitcafe, packages/source-control-gitlab

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — packages/source-control-forgejo (library) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — apps/server (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — packages/source-control-github (library) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — packages/source-control-core (library) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.test.ts: The test imports additional contract settings, process errors, and provider kinds.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.test.ts: The test adds platform and Effect dependencies for crypto, deferred/concurrent work, filesystem, HTTP, process errors, streams, test clocks, host processes, and source-control test services, plus the process runner.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.test.ts: Adds fixtures for the default unauthenticated glab response and for GitHub’s not-signed-in credential failure, including its structured process-exit cause.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.test.ts: makeRegistry accepts an optional stream of server-settings changes and an optional Forgejo CLI service override.

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Pre-merge checks | 4

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: caching settled refinements for unrecognized hosts.
Description check		The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the behavior, linked issue, implementation scope, test evidence, and known limitations…
Linked Issues check		The changes meet the coding requirements in [#12060]. SourceControlProviderRegistry applies a 512-entry, five-minute cache to unknown-remote refinements, including no-claim verdicts. Cache.get sha…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within [#12060]. The registry, discovery status handling, credential diagnostics, and provider login handling support settled unknown-host refinement and broken-checkout fallback. The…

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packages/source-control-core/src/server/discovery.ts (1)

370-378: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Stop probing integrations after the first claim.

Effect.forEach(input.specs, ask) runs every spec, including those after the first claim. The fold reads only verdicts up to and including the first claim. Specs after a claim still spawn CLIs or read credentials, and each one can take up to probeTimeoutMs (5 seconds). The registry caches settled verdicts, but every cache miss or unsettled lookup still pays this extra latency on the request path. Run the specs one by one and return on the first claim.

♻️ Proposed change

-    const verdicts = yield* Effect.forEach(input.specs, ask);
-    // The first claim wins. It is settled only if every integration before it answered, since one
-    // that could not ask might have claimed first.
-    let settled = true;
-    for (const verdict of verdicts) {
-      settled &&= verdict.settled;
-      if (verdict.provider !== null) return { provider: verdict.provider, settled };
-    }
-    return { provider: null, settled };
+    // The first claim wins. It is settled only if every integration before it answered, since one
+    // that could not ask might have claimed first.
+    let settled = true;
+    for (const spec of input.specs) {
+      const verdict = yield* ask(spec);
+      settled &&= verdict.settled;
+      if (verdict.provider !== null) return { provider: verdict.provider, settled };
+    }
+    return { provider: null, settled };

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Review comment at @packages/source-control-core/src/server/discovery.ts around
lines 370 - 378:
Update the discovery flow around `ask` to process `input.specs` sequentially
instead of using `Effect.forEach`. Accumulate `settled` and return immediately
when a verdict has a provider, without probing any later specs; preserve the
final null-provider result when no spec claims.

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Review comments at @packages/source-control-core/src/server/discovery.ts:
- Around line 370-378: Update the discovery flow around `ask` to process
`input.specs` sequentially instead of using `Effect.forEach`. Accumulate
`settled` and return immediately when a verdict has a provider, without probing
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• apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.test.ts
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🟡 Minor · Preserve non-missing-executable fj failures. · ForgejoCli.ts:357-358

packages/source-control-forgejo/src/server/ForgejoCli.ts:357-358
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve non-missing-executable fj failures.

listLogins returns a missing-cli error when fj version fails for a reason other than a missing executable. loginsOrNone catches by reason alone and converts that failure to an empty login list. Check the spawn cause before applying the fallback.

The refineUnknownRemote path already checks isMissingExecutable directly, so this catch does not make that path return a settled no-claim.

🐛 Suggested fix

       Effect.catchIf(
-        (error) => error.reason === (input.command === "fj" ? "missing-cli" : "invalid-response"),
+        (error) =>
+          error.reason === (input.command === "fj" ? "missing-cli" : "invalid-response") &&
+          (input.command !== "fj" || isMissingExecutable(error.cause)),
         (): Effect.Effect<ReturnType<typeof parseForgejoLogins>> => Effect.succeed([]),
       ),

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Update the `loginsOrNone` catch predicate so `missing-cli` from `fj` falls back
to an empty login list only when `isMissingExecutable(error.cause)` is true.
Preserve the existing `invalid-response` fallback and propagate other `fj`
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- Around line 357-358: Update the `loginsOrNone` catch predicate so
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