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Problem

Storage cleanup removes a thread worktree whose only local work is an edit to a tracked file flagged git update-index --assume-unchanged or --skip-worktree. The keep check reads git status, which does not report those edits, and non-forced git worktree remove does not check them either, so the edit is deleted without any warning. Reproduced on main 9e85538: three worktree threads, a skip-worktree edit in one and an assume-unchanged edit in another, policy worktreeAfterDays: 1. Delete now reported "3 removed, 0 kept" and both edits were gone.

Change

localChangesReason now also runs a hidden-edit check, so it applies under every keep policy, in the final pre-removal re-check, and inside submodules:

• It streams git ls-files -s -v and keeps only flagged entries: a lowercase tag (assume-unchanged), or S (skip-worktree) unless core.sparseCheckout is on. Sparse checkouts flag every out-of-cone file, and Git clears the flag on files it finds on disk.
• Flagged entries missing from disk are ignored. Present ones are compared with the index object id: regular files through one batched git hash-object --stdin-paths, symlinks by their target text. A type mismatch keeps the worktree.
• Names Git has to quote, or that are not valid UTF-8, keep the worktree, as do more than 10,000 flagged entries.
• The kept entry reads "Has uncommitted changes hidden from git status ()".

A clean worktree costs two extra git calls (config and the streamed listing). Large repositories are still cleaned: a 220k-file checkout is removed as on main.

Scope and approval

Fixes #30998

Covered here: items 3 and 4 of the issue. The other items are not defects on main:

• (1) The default Uncommitted changes policy deleting ignored files is documented behaviour; Any local files protects them.
• (2) Removing a checkout keeps its branch, so local commits survive.
• (5) Submodules are force-removed only after the existing recursive checks for local changes and unpushed history pass.
• (6) A failed git read fails the entry, so the checkout is kept.

Verification

• Red first: keeps tracked edits that git status hides (--assume-unchanged), (--skip-worktree), and compares flagged tracked symlinks by target (missing) fail on main with outcome: "removed". keeps hidden edits to files named with a Unicode line separator and keeps hidden edits to files whose names are not valid UTF-8 (Linux only) each failed on an earlier commit of this branch before their fix. removes worktrees whose flagged files are unchanged or outside a sparse checkout and compares flagged tracked symlinks by target (tracked.txt) guard against keeping too much.

• vp test run src/storageCleanup.test.ts: 182/182 pass. vp run check:changed on the merge with main passes: format, lint, knip, typecheck, and tests.

• Timing, measured by the implementer with a temporary harness, not committed:

  Case	main	this PR
  220k files, clean	removed, 38.5 s	removed, 40.3 s
  150k-file sparse checkout	removed, 1.3 s	removed, 1.6 s

  Most of the time in both is deleting the files.

• Runtime transcript from the real dev server, on a fresh database per side, using the drivers below:

Runtime transcript (before on main 9e85538, after on df4dd9d)

Runtime transcript for pingdotgg/t3code#30998 (storage cleanup deletes checkouts holding edits git status hides)

Setup (same on both sides, fresh database created by each side's own dev server, T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0):
  driver-setup.sh  - one repo (README, config.txt, .gitignore), three worktree threads via
                     `t3 thread start --worktree main --branch fx-<name> --provider devReplay --model multi-turn`
  driver-edits.sh  - fx-skipwt: `git update-index --skip-worktree config.txt`, edit config.txt
                     fx-assume: `git update-index --assume-unchanged config.txt`, edit config.txt
                     fx-clean : untouched
  driver-age.py    - server stopped; move the three threads' timestamps back 15 days in the scratch dev DB
  settings.json    - storageCleanup = { worktreeAfterDays: 1, worktreeKeepWhen: "any-local-files" }
  Restart the dev server, then Settings -> Maintenance -> Delete now.

After driver-edits.sh (both sides):
  == fx-skipwt: status=[] flag=S content=LOCAL OVERRIDE
  == fx-assume: status=[] flag=h content=LOCAL EDIT
  == fx-clean: status=[] flag=H content=base

BEFORE - main 9e85538535, Settings -> Maintenance -> Last run:
  3 removed, 0 kept
  fx-assume  Inactive for 15 days   16.0 KB
  fx-clean   Inactive for 15 days   16.0 KB
  fx-skipwt  Inactive for 15 days   16.0 KB
  $ git -C repo worktree list
  .../repo  d6ccc67 [main]                 <- all three checkouts gone, both hidden edits deleted

AFTER - fix/issue-30998 df4dd9d669, Settings -> Maintenance -> Last run (second Delete now, after the 60 s settle grace):
  1 removed, 2 kept
  fx-clean   Inactive for 15 days   16.0 KB
  fx-skipwt  Has uncommitted changes hidden from git status (config.txt)
  fx-assume  Has uncommitted changes hidden from git status (config.txt)
  $ cat fx-skipwt/config.txt  -> LOCAL OVERRIDE
  $ cat fx-assume/config.txt  -> LOCAL EDIT
  $ git -C repo worktree list
  .../repo                                   ba09694 [main]
  .../worktrees/repo/fx-assume               ba09694 [fx-assume]
  .../worktrees/repo/fx-skipwt               ba09694 [fx-skipwt]

Driver scripts (scratch, not committed; synthetic data only)

driver-setup.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Synthetic fixture for #30998: one repo, three worktree threads (skip-worktree, assume-unchanged, clean).
set -euo pipefail
R="$1"; WT="$2"; BASE="$WT/.t3"
t3() { node "$WT/apps/server/src/bin.ts" "$@" --base-dir "$BASE"; }
mkdir -p "$R"; git init -q -b main "$R/repo"; cd "$R/repo"
git config user.email fixture@example.test; git config user.name Fixture
printf 'hello\n' > README; printf 'base\n' > config.txt; printf '*.local\n' > .gitignore
git add . && git commit -qm init
t3 project add "$R/repo" 2>&1 | tail -1
for b in skipwt assume clean; do
  t3 thread start --worktree main --branch "fx-$b" --provider devReplay --model multi-turn --title "fx-$b" "$R/repo" "reply ok" 2>&1 | tail -1
done

driver-edits.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Hidden edits for #30998: skip-worktree and assume-unchanged edits to config.txt; third checkout clean.
set -euo pipefail
W="$1"
git -C "$W/fx-skipwt" update-index --skip-worktree config.txt; printf 'LOCAL OVERRIDE\n' > "$W/fx-skipwt/config.txt"
git -C "$W/fx-assume" update-index --assume-unchanged config.txt; printf 'LOCAL EDIT\n' > "$W/fx-assume/config.txt"
for b in skipwt assume clean; do
  echo "== fx-$b: status=[$(git -C "$W/fx-$b" status --porcelain --ignore-submodules=none)] flag=$(git -C "$W/fx-$b" ls-files -v config.txt | cut -c1) content=$(cat "$W/fx-$b/config.txt")"
done

driver-age.py

# Moves fixture threads' timestamps back 15 days in a scratch dev database (server stopped).
import sqlite3,sys,re,datetime
db,ids=sys.argv[1],sys.argv[2:]
iso=re.compile(r'\d{4}-\d\d-\d\dT\d\d:\d\d:\d\d(?:\.\d+)?Z')
cut=(datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc)-datetime.timedelta(days=2)).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
def back(m):
    s=m.group(0)
    if s[:10] < cut: return s  # already aged
    d=datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(s.replace("Z","+00:00"))-datetime.timedelta(days=15)
    return d.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.")+f"{d.microsecond//1000:03d}Z"
c=sqlite3.connect(db)
tables={"orchestration_v2_projection_threads":None,"orchestration_v2_projection_runs":None,"orchestration_v2_projection_run_attempts":None,"orchestration_v2_projection_messages":None,"orchestration_v2_projection_nodes":None,"orchestration_v2_projection_turn_items":None}
for tbl in tables:
    cols=[r[1] for r in c.execute(f"PRAGMA table_info({tbl})")]
    for t in ids:
        for row in c.execute(f"select rowid,* from {tbl} where thread_id=?",(t,)).fetchall():
            new={col:(iso.sub(back,v) if isinstance(v,str) else v) for col,v in zip(cols,row[1:])}
            c.execute(f"update {tbl} set "+",".join(f"{k}=?" for k in new)+" where rowid=?",(*new.values(),row[0]))
    print(tbl,"aged")
c.commit()
for r in c.execute("select thread_id,status,requested_at,completed_at from orchestration_v2_projection_runs"): print(r)

Not checked: no UI changes, so there are no captures. Not run on Windows or macOS. The symlink check relies on readlink returning EINVAL for regular files there, as the existing cleanup code already does. Git older than 2.37 and sparse.expectFilesOutsideOfPatterns=true can still miss an edited out-of-cone file present on disk, as main does. A change to only the executable bit is not detected; no file content is lost in that case.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at bfebff2

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Storage cleanup now checks for tracked edits hidden from Git status before removing worktrees, including submodules. The added checks preserve affected worktrees without changing cleanup defaults or broadening deletion.

No code changes detected at 5326163. Prior analysis still applies.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 04be2b3 · PR result: 5326163 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Walkthrough

Storage cleanup now detects tracked-file changes that Git status omits for assume-unchanged and skip-worktree entries. It compares flagged files and symlinks with the Git index and keeps the worktree when it detects a difference or cannot safely inspect an entry.

Changes: Hidden tracked edit protection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Detect hidden tracked changes apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts	The cleanup code inspects flagged index entries, compares regular-file content and symlink targets with the index, and returns a reason for detected differences or when the inspection limit is exceeded. It also adds a helper to read nested error codes.
Apply and test the cleanup check apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts, apps/server/src/storageCleanup.test.ts	localChangesReason checks for hidden changes after ordinary Git status changes and before applying the retention policy. Tests cover hidden edits, invalid-UTF-8 filenames, sparse-checkout cases, and symlink targets.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, only21mil

Merge Risk: Low · previous review fb9ee

The change keeps worktrees whose tracked edits are hidden by assume-unchanged or skip-worktree flags, which fixes the main data-loss path. Two narrow gaps remain. In sparse-checkout setups, an edit hidden with skip-worktree can still be missed and the worktree deleted. On checkouts with symlinks disabled, a clean flagged symlink worktree is kept indefinitely. Neither is likely to affect most users, but the first is worth closing or accepting explicitly.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing storage cleanup from removing worktrees with edits hidden from Git status.
Description check		The description includes all required sections and provides clear problem details, implementation scope, linked issue context, focused verification results, limitations, and test outcomes.
Linked Issues check		[#30998] The PR adds hiddenTrackedChange to localChangesReason. It detects assume-unchanged and skip-worktree entries, compares regular files and symlink targets with the index, and keeps ambi…
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR changes are limited to apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts and apps/server/src/storageCleanup.test.ts. The implementation and tests directly support [#30998] by preserving tracked edits…

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Explanation

[#30998] The PR adds hiddenTrackedChange to localChangesReason. It detects assume-unchanged and skip-worktree entries, compares regular files and symlink targets with the index, and keeps ambiguous, failed, or excessive inspections. The check runs before each applicable keep-policy decision, including final removal checks and submodule checks. Tests cover hidden edits, unchanged and sparse-excluded files, symlinks, Unicode line separators, and invalid UTF-8 names. Existing checks retain the issue's other required cases. The reported 182 storage-cleanup tests pass.

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Explanation

The whole-PR changes are limited to apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts and apps/server/src/storageCleanup.test.ts. The implementation and tests directly support [#30998] by preserving tracked edits hidden from git status. The errorCode extraction is a supporting refactor for the same filesystem inspection. No unrelated change is shown.

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Minor · Keep missing flagged files in non-sparse checkouts · storageCleanup.ts:681-705

apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts:681-705
Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Keep missing flagged files in non-sparse checkouts

If a flagged tracked file is deleted in a non-sparse checkout, hiddenTrackedChange skips it. Cleanup can then remove the worktree, losing the deletion state when the checkout is recreated. Keep these worktrees while still allowing expected absent sparse-checkout entries.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts around lines 681 - 705:
Update hiddenTrackedChange’s handling of null entries from the onDisk scan: treat a missing flagged tracked file as a hidden change in non-sparse checkouts, while continuing to allow files absent because of sparse-checkout rules. Reuse the existing sparse-checkout detection mechanism to distinguish these cases.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts:
- Around line 681-705: Update hiddenTrackedChange’s handling of null entries
from the onDisk scan: treat a missing flagged tracked file as a hidden change in
non-sparse checkouts, while continuing to allow files absent because of
sparse-checkout rules. Reuse the existing sparse-checkout detection mechanism to
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Evidence

Created three completed worktree threads with committed config.txt. Hid separate tracked edits using assume-unchanged and skip-worktree; git status was empty for all three. Set one-day retention and Any local files, aged the isolated fixtures while stopped, restarted, waited beyond the grace period, then clicked Settings → Maintenance → Cleanup → Delete now.

Environment: real Linux web development app, Chrome, 1280×800, light theme, fresh synthetic data per commit. Machine/path metadata is hidden identically in both captures.

Before	After
f7b81e1d11	24a6f1d4a6
Before recording	After recording

Base removed all three directories. Head removed only the clean control, retained both exact edited contents, and reported “Has uncommitted changes hidden from git status (config.txt)” for each.

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Major · Inspect skip-worktree entries in sparse checkouts too. · storageCleanup.ts:658

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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Inspect skip-worktree entries in sparse checkouts too.

When core.sparseCheckout=true and sparse.expectFilesOutsideOfPatterns=true, Git does not clear skip-worktree flags for files present on disk. This is documented behavior. (git-scm.com)

This filter excludes those S entries. An edited file can therefore pass both cleanup checks without a content comparison and be deleted. Inspect present S entries regardless of sparse-checkout mode, or conservatively retain the worktree when inspection is incomplete.

Extend the sparse-checkout coverage with this configuration. The test in apps/server/src/storageCleanup.test.ts, Line 2727, does not enable sparse checkout.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts at line 658:
Update the `hiddenTag` filter so present skip-worktree (`S`) entries are inspected even when sparse checkout is enabled, and retain the worktree if inspection is incomplete. Extend the sparse-checkout cleanup test to enable `core.sparseCheckout=true` and `sparse.expectFilesOutsideOfPatterns=true`, verifying that an edited present `S` entry is not deleted.

Minor · Handle unchanged symlink placeholders when core.symlinks=false. · storageCleanup.ts:707-708

apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts:707-708
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Handle unchanged symlink placeholders when core.symlinks=false.

With core.symlinks=false, Git checks out mode 120000 entries as regular files containing the link target. These are valid, unchanged checkouts. (git-scm.com)

If such an entry is flagged, Line 707 excludes it from hashing and Line 708 always reports a hidden edit. Cleanup then retains the clean worktree on every sweep.

Read core.symlinks and compare supported regular-file placeholders with the indexed link blob without applying content filters. Extend the symlink table to cover unchanged and edited placeholders.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts around lines 707 - 708:
Update the symlink handling around the `entry.type` and `entry.mode` checks so supported regular-file placeholders under `core.symlinks=false` are compared with the indexed symlink blob as raw content, without applying content filters. Extend the symlink table to distinguish unchanged placeholders from edited ones, retaining clean worktrees and reporting edits through the existing `reason(entry.file)` path.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts:
- Around line 707-708: Update the symlink handling around the `entry.type` and
`entry.mode` checks so supported regular-file placeholders under
`core.symlinks=false` are compared with the indexed symlink blob as raw content,
without applying content filters. Extend the symlink table to distinguish
unchanged placeholders from edited ones, retaining clean worktrees and reporting
edits through the existing `reason(entry.file)` path.
- Line 658: Update the `hiddenTag` filter so present skip-worktree (`S`) entries
are inspected even when sparse checkout is enabled, and retain the worktree if
inspection is incomplete. Extend the sparse-checkout cleanup test to enable
`core.sparseCheckout=true` and `sparse.expectFilesOutsideOfPatterns=true`,
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Evidence

Create three completed replay worktree threads with committed config.txt. Hide and edit one file using assume-unchanged and another using skip-worktree; leave the third clean. Confirm empty Git status in all three. Enable one-day inactive cleanup and Any local files under Settings → Worktrees. Restart to release idle sessions, wait for the initial sweep, pause the isolated server to age fixture projection timestamps by two days, resume, then click Settings → Maintenance → Delete now and expand Last run.

Both sides: real web app in Chromium, 1280×800, light theme, fresh isolated databases and synthetic fixtures. Fixture paths are masked and UI transitions disabled for stable captures.

Proven: scenarios:prove exited 0. Base removed all three checkouts and both edited files disappeared. Head removed only the clean control, preserved both exact edited contents, and reported hidden changes for each.

Before	After
2597756eec	bfebff2d2d
Delete now recording	Delete now recording

Scenario driver, not committed. Recordings show the cleanup interaction and hold the final frame for readability. All captures were inspected before upload.

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