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Summary

  • Preserve base-variant drafts across navigation, clear only successfully saved/deleted drafts, keep refused edits, and retain delayed custom-layer Undo until restoration settles.
  • Bind imports to the exact serialized preview and required hash. Validate titles and normalized bodies, bound external regular-file reads, preserve referenced files after uncertain writes, and accept supported quoted TOML keys and trailing whitespace.
  • Refuse composite TOML values before scalar edits can orphan multiline content. Report an unreadable existing config before claiming there is nothing to import.
  • Keep the title enabled and focused during debounced read previews while discarding stale responses; confirmed writes retain the mutation guard. Distinguish HTTP/network measurement failures from genuine busy results.
  • Add recovery-only Repair with stale-revision refresh. Retain the canonical transaction lock and recovery implementation merged in fix(codex): serialize config writers under one canonical lock and bind recovery to it (carry #6774) #6811.
  • Update all eight prompt guides, complete the French/Turkish/Traditional Chinese base-variant sections, and correct affected Chinese GUI punctuation. Keep the owning structure contract current.
  • Preserve full device/inode/UID evidence with BigInt stats for lock retry fences. Distinct 64-bit file IDs cannot collapse into the same numeric witness; POSIX ownership checks remain exact.
  • Run GUI tests in CI's existing file-isolation mode through the pinned wrapper; retain strict wrapper and canonical-path race assertions.

Carries source commits 0c112d94592c6d6ee7b319c6d002a4a48d9ef5e1 and 99d8dc227fcd51a2f8236703792feae7cc9384c4. The original Devin AI contributor credit appears once in the product commit series.

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Current head: c60290dd40bc9efa098c633c99f9b4529b70d4c1; tree: a88e4bb8d78b53967343e496808bcdf4f62c440a. Reviewed identity base remains d25391ddccb0d9d03128ea5f9bc734e904c84e24. The installed immutable policy and actual normal-push hook passed all six submission commits. Existing pinned Bun 1.4.0 and dependencies were reused; no local installation or settings change was made.

  • Focused write/adopt regressions: 71 pass / 0 fail. Bun confirms valid multiline TOML fixtures before set/reset refusals; original config bytes, journal and store remain unchanged. An EISDIR fixture checks config_unreadable.
  • Import-connected prompt regressions: 275 pass / 0 fail across seven selected files, relative to the previous published head. Route regressions: 77 pass / 0 fail. Focused GUI: 74 pass / 0 fail.
  • Unchanged GUI-input evidence from 826bead8241ce235a01737589f045ceb9dbca385: full GUI: 3,045 pass / 0 fail, using bun test --isolate --timeout=60000 tests. Typecheck, privacy, structure, GUI lint/i18n lint/build and all 28 layout/file-size checks passed on the final candidate contents. Docs build passed: 569 pages / 79,288 internal links. An initial French-anchor build failure was corrected; the final build is the passing evidence.
  • Full actual-App Firefox 153.0 checks passed using 826bead8241ce235a01737589f045ceb9dbca385's freshly built dashboard and synthetic API fixtures. A preview held beyond 350 ms preserved title focus; out-of-order responses retained the newest title/hash; confirm kept the write guard, and its late response updated state after Close's earlier GET. An HTTP 503 showed the localized failure copy. Zero page errors and zero unhandled API paths.
  • Browser used the cached official binary, its default sandbox, and no custom arguments/preferences. Normal process execution outside the shell filesystem wrapper was required because the wrapper makes /proc/self/uid_map read-only.
  • Current-head CI: Cross-platform CI is running for c60290dd40bc9efa098c633c99f9b4529b70d4c1; native Windows verification is pending. React Doctor passed. The previous head's Windows failure remains recorded: stale-rename EBUSY fencing expected one attempt and observed two. It was not rerun. This follow-up changes the stat witness instead of retrying the failed assertion.
  • Upstream freshness: the identity base remains d25391ddccb0d9d03128ea5f9bc734e904c84e24. Static merge with observed dev 04861658a9ba3cb4fef38f587aec3d9fe74d01b7 is clean, as is the union with fix(grok): claim coupon redemptions before dispatch and reconcile uncertain outcomes #6870. No rebase or policy change was made; the current CI checkout will be recorded separately.
  • Lock-fencing reproduction and fix: three regression cases give two file IDs (2^54 and 2^54 + 1) identical bytes and the same owner while injecting EPERM, EBUSY or EACCES before stale rename. The old numeric witness treats these IDs alike and wrongly permits takeover. The BigInt default preserves their distinction and refuses before a second destructive attempt, preserving both files. Existing native replacement assertions are unchanged. Windows file-ID documentation describes the 64-bit identifier; stat API documentation describes BigInt stats. The original failed job did not log its IDs, so its exact native values remain unknown.
  • Current follow-up local checks: focused lock coverage 282 pass / 0 fail / 1 native-Windows skip, prompt import-connected coverage 275 pass / 0 fail, and the actual fix(grok): claim coupon redemptions before dispatch and reconcile uncertain outcomes #6870 union 282 pass / 0 fail. Typecheck, privacy, structure and all 28 layout/file-size checks passed on the contents committed here. The broader four-file lock run has 354 pass / 3 fail / 1 skip; the exact same three native-admission failures reproduce on the fixed base (351 pass / 3 fail / 1 skip). These environment failures are retained separately, not reported as passing. The focused lock command's two nonexistent coupon-test arguments were ignored by the runner; only its three existing lock/config files contribute to that first total. The coupon regressions were executed in the actual union worktree.
  • Not run locally: full root suite and native Windows/macOS. Focused/import-connected coverage uses the documented resource exception. Earlier native-admission failures reproduced on clean base because system temporary-directory ownership violates the tests' premise; an unchanged shared React fixture also fails without file isolation. Those failures are recorded separately and are not passing evidence. Existing source-head checks remain historical; the previous-head hosted results remain historical; current-head native coverage is pending.
  • Manual author security review covered the unchanged management write gate, preview hash/revision binding, bounded regular-file reads, canonical transaction lock, preserved recovery state and the new pre-journal/readability refusals. No new secret logging or credential destination. This does not replace maintainer security review; no paid Cloud scan was run.

Screenshots from the unchanged GUI inputs at 826bead8241ce235a01737589f045ceb9dbca385 show the complete actual dashboard with clearly labeled synthetic test data and mocked API responses. No actual user installation or account was accessed. Captures are on the separate assets branch.

Synthetic dashboard: title focus retained during delayed import preview

Synthetic dashboard: HTTP measurement failure classified correctly

Earlier full-dashboard checks of dirty-close confirmation, refused-save draft retention and delayed Undo remain linked as historical behavior evidence: refused draft, delayed Undo.

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  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
  • Author security review covered secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults. Explicit maintainer security review remains pending before merge.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Custom prompt layers show their combined size against the 128 KiB limit and offer a text preview. Deletions can be undone briefly, and explicitly overridden settings can be reset to follow future defaults.
    • Import an external base prompt as a managed variant after reviewing its preview. Imports are rejected if the source or title changes before confirmation. Variants are limited to 64 KiB, and editing preserves drafts when switching options.
    • A guided repair flow can recover interrupted prompt changes and reports remaining discrepancies.
  • Improvements
    • Prompt editing warns about credential-like content and instructions that conflict with built-in guidance. Measurement and configuration errors are reported more clearly.
    • Prompt documentation has been expanded across supported languages.

luvs01 and others added 2 commits October 10, 2026 00:22
Carry prompt panel UX and backend follow-ups from source commits
0c112d9 and
99d8dc2 onto current dev.
Keep recovery-only Repair on the canonical lock contract already merged
upstream, preserve outgoing drafts, and bound external source reads.

Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Match the GUI test script to CI file isolation. Non-isolated runs allow a
pre-existing fixture to leave a readonly React act global that prevents
prompt-panel tests from entering their test bodies. Preserve the pinned
runner, all assertions, product behavior and dependency lockfiles.
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The Codex prompt tools add base-prompt import and variant editing, safer TOML updates and journal recovery, and GUI controls for prompt composition, lint, reset, undo, and measurement. Tests and documentation cover these changes.

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Codex Prompt Management

Layer / File(s) Summary
Safe configuration edits and reset
src/codex/prompt-layers/encoding.ts, src/codex/prompt-layers/toml-read.ts, src/codex/prompt-layers/toml-edit.ts, src/codex/prompt-layers.ts, src/server/management/codex-prompt-routes.ts, gui/src/components/codex-set/PromptLayerRow.tsx, gui/src/components/codex-set/PromptLayerDialog.tsx, gui/src/pages/codex-set-prompt.tsx, gui/tests/codex-set-prompt-layers.test.tsx, tests/codex-integration/codex-prompt-scalar-scope.test.ts
Toggle reset deletes the explicit key. TOML reads and edits account for quoted keys and lexical scope, preserve comments, and reject unsupported forms.
Base-prompt import and variant editing
src/codex/prompt-layers/*, src/server/management/codex-prompt-routes.ts, src/server/management/route-registry.ts, gui/src/components/codex-set/BaseVariantDialog.tsx, gui/src/pages/codex-set-prompt.tsx, gui/tests/codex-set-base-variants.test.tsx, tests/codex-integration/codex-prompt-writes.test.ts, tests/codex-integration/codex-prompt-base-variants.test.ts
The API previews external prompt files and imports them as managed variants after hash and revision checks. The GUI previews titles, retains drafts per variant, and validates saves.
Journal recovery and guarded writes
src/codex/prompt-layers.ts, src/codex/prompt-journal.ts, src/server/management/codex-prompt-routes.ts, gui/src/pages/codex-set-prompt.tsx, tests/codex-integration/codex-journal-recovery.test.ts, tests/codex-integration/codex-prompt-route.test.ts, tests/codex-integration/codex-prompt-scalar-scope.test.ts
Repair offers recovery for a present journal. Recovery replays recorded file images under locks and checks targets before rename attempts.
GUI prompt composition, lint, undo, and measurement
gui/src/components/codex-set/custom-layer-state.ts, gui/src/components/codex-set/CustomLayerRow.tsx, gui/src/components/codex-set/prompt-lint.ts, gui/src/components/codex-set/PromptLayerDialog.tsx, gui/src/pages/codex-set-prompt.tsx, gui/src/styles-codex-set.css, gui/tests/codex-set-custom-layers.test.tsx, tests/gui/codex-set-prompt.test.ts
The GUI displays layer sizes and combined text, flags credential-like text and instruction overrides, and offers timed deletion undo. It also displays probe failures and supports remeasurement.
Probe parsing, docs, and test setup
src/codex/prompt-text-probe.ts, docs-site/src/content/docs/*/guides/codex-prompt.md, structure/*, gui/src/i18n/*, gui/package.json, scripts/test-layout/layout.json, tests/ci-workflows/test-runner-bun.test.ts, tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json
AGENTS.md extraction accepts headings without a path suffix and maps unmatched sections as unmapped. Localized guides and structure documents describe prompt-management behavior. The GUI test command uses Bun isolation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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  actor User
  participant BaseVariantDialog
  participant CodexSetPrompt
  participant CodexPromptRoutes
  participant PromptLayers
  User->>BaseVariantDialog: Request import preview
  BaseVariantDialog->>CodexSetPrompt: Request preview
  CodexSetPrompt->>CodexPromptRoutes: Send preview request
  CodexPromptRoutes->>PromptLayers: Preview external file
  PromptLayers-->>CodexPromptRoutes: Return normalized text and hash
  CodexPromptRoutes-->>CodexSetPrompt: Return preview
  CodexSetPrompt-->>BaseVariantDialog: Display preview
  User->>BaseVariantDialog: Confirm import
  BaseVariantDialog->>CodexSetPrompt: Submit title and preview
  CodexSetPrompt->>CodexPromptRoutes: Send revision and preview hash
  CodexPromptRoutes->>PromptLayers: Import confirmed variant
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Keep the strict GUI script assertion aligned with the isolated pinned
runner command. The runtime checks still prove the Bun pin, working
directory, name filters and failure propagation.
Resolve the published config target before comparing rename destinations so
Windows short TEMP paths still exercise the post-write superseded races.
Use a noncanonical fixture spelling and verify each injected edit before
checking file and journal preservation.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/fr/guides/codex-prompt.md:
- Around line 73-80: The French, Turkish, and Traditional Chinese guides omit
base-variant documentation present in the English guide. In
docs-site/src/content/docs/fr/guides/codex-prompt.md (lines 73–80),
docs-site/src/content/docs/tr/guides/codex-prompt.md (lines 76–84), and
docs-site/src/content/docs/zh-tw/guides/codex-prompt.md (lines 66–72), add the
base-variant editor guardrails including the 64 KiB limit, the “Import it as a
variant” flow with its hash-bound preview, and the model_instructions_file table
row; use the zh-cn guide as the source for Traditional Chinese.

Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/codex-prompt.md:
- Around line 154-159: Remove the unmatched closing ::: immediately after the
variant-editor paragraph in the documentation content; leave the paragraph and
surrounding directive structure unchanged.

Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/ru/guides/codex-prompt.md:
- Around line 104-106: Replace the incorrect word in the Russian sentence near
the Codex description with wording meaning “instructing,” such as
“предписывающие,” so it correctly describes prompts telling the model to discard
previous instructions.

Review comments at @gui/src/components/codex-set/PromptLayerDialog.tsx:
- Around line 204-222: Update the probe result handling in the page’s
request-failure paths to mark HTTP and fetch errors with a failure kind, then
update the PromptLayerDialog probe-message selection to show busy only when
failure is undefined and use textUnavailable for other unrecognized failures;
keep retry limited to genuinely busy or cancelled results.

Review comments at @gui/src/i18n/zh-TW.ts:
- Line 1578: Update the new Traditional Chinese strings in the `codexSet`
translations to use full-width punctuation consistently: replace ASCII commas,
question marks, colons, and parentheses with their full-width Chinese
equivalents, including the strings around `codexSet.group.transitionDesc`,
`codexSet.custom.deleteConfirm`, and `codexSet.dialog.probeNotFound`.

Review comments at @gui/src/i18n/zh.ts:
- Line 1381: Update the affected Simplified Chinese strings, including
codexSet.group.transitionDesc, to use full-width Chinese punctuation: replace
ASCII commas, question marks, colons, and parentheses with their full-width
forms, preserving the text and meaning.

Review comments at @gui/src/pages/codex-set-prompt.tsx:
- Around line 318-320: Update importBase so it sets busyId to "base-import" only
for confirmed writes; read-only previews should leave the title input enabled
while baseImportSeq continues to discard stale previews.

Review comments at @src/codex/prompt-layers/toml-edit.ts:
- Around line 107-111: In the bare-value branch of `splitValueComment`, reject
values whose first non-whitespace character is `[` or `{` as
`UnsupportedTomlForm` before matching the bare token. This prevents an opener
for a multiline array or inline table from being treated as a complete value.

Review comments at @src/server/management/codex-prompt-routes.ts:
- Around line 413-429: In the route that calls previewBaseImport, check config
readability with readPromptLayers before previewing; if readState.readable is
false, return config_unreadable with the config path, matching the guard in the
/adopt route. Keep the existing title validation and preview handling unchanged.

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The scalar line editor matched assignments line by line, so assignment-shaped
prose inside a multiline developer_instructions value could be edited as the
real key: a confirmed base import rewrote the prose and left
model_instructions_file pointing at the original file. Lines are now
classified by lexical scope across the whole file; only lines that start
outside every string and composite span are assignment or table candidates,
and an unterminated span refuses the edit before any write. Ordinary multiline
values and multi-line arrays keep working.

Quoted toggle keys are now read with the same decoded-key matcher the writer
uses, so a successful write no longer returns a defaulted snapshot. The base
variant dialog reconciles an existing variant to its canonical saved title and
body when no newer edit arrived, so a normalized save is not reported dirty.
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Maintainer review follow-up pushed as 54c6819 on this branch.

  • The scalar TOML editor matched assignments line by line, so assignment-shaped text inside a multiline developer_instructions value could be edited as the real model_instructions_file: a confirmed import rewrote that prose and left the real key pointing at the original file. Lines are now classified by lexical scope across the whole file; only lines that start outside every string or composite span are assignment/table candidates, and an unterminated span refuses before any write. Ordinary multiline values and multi-line arrays (e.g. MCP args) keep working.
  • Quoted toggle keys are read with the same decoded-key matcher as the writer, so a successful write returns the written value instead of a defaulted snapshot.
  • Saving an existing base variant reconciles the editor to the canonical saved title/body (when no newer edit arrived), so a normalized save is no longer reported dirty.

New regressions live in tests/codex-integration/codex-prompt-scalar-scope.test.ts (registered in both layout maps) and gui/tests/codex-set-base-variants.test.tsx. Local: typecheck, 449 + 112 focused root tests, GUI tsc + 77 isolated GUI tests, structure and privacy checks pass.

Toggle reads matched quoted assignments line by line, so assignment-shaped
prose inside a multiline value could be reported as the setting and a
successful write could return a snapshot that disagreed with the file. The
lexical scanner moves to encoding.ts and toggle reads use scopedBool, which
skips lines that start inside a string or composite span and bounds tables by
top-level headers only. Files whose spans never close keep the plain scan.
When Bun refuses a Codex-valid config (for example an i64 beyond the JS safe
range), the model_instructions_file reader falls back to a line scan. That scan
read root lines without lexical scope, so a model_instructions_file line inside
a multiline value could be taken as the setting and a confirmed base import
would install that file. The fallback now uses scopedRootLines, which skips
lines that start inside a string or composite span.
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The fallback line scan kept the trailing carriage return, and JavaScript's '.'
does not match it, so a CRLF line with a trailing comment was reported as
unreadable and a base import refused an existing source. Strip the CR before
matching.
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Further maintainer follow-ups after independent review (head now dcfc25f):

  • 06d53c1: toggle reads use the same lexical scope as writes (scopedBool), so assignment-shaped prose in a multiline value is never reported as the setting and a successful write returns a matching snapshot.
  • a3ac268: when Bun refuses a Codex-valid config (e.g. an i64 beyond the JS safe range), the model_instructions_file fallback scan now skips lines inside strings/composites, so a base import cannot pick up a path named in prose.
  • dcfc25f: that fallback also reads CRLF lines with a trailing comment.

Each fix has a regression in tests/codex-integration/codex-prompt-scalar-scope.test.ts that failed before the change. An independent review on a merge with current dev found no remaining defects (typecheck, 621 prompt tests, GUI tsc + 77 isolated tests, structure and privacy checks, plus TOML/toggle/import probes including CRLF/BOM).

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Not merged yet: FIX-NEEDED at head dcfc25f3006a284bd37aee479cce3aabfaca95d2.

How the decision was made. This PR was reviewed in two rounds by a PRO/CON pair. The rule was fixed before review: merge only if no P0/P1 remains unrefuted. Both sides found the same two P1s at this head, and both agree:

  1. A toggle can publish invalid TOML. If the skills table header is quoted or spaced, and [skills] also appears inside a multiline string, flipping the toggle appends a second [skills] header. commit() then publishes it, because it only compares byte hashes. The edit should be refused, or the result should be validated as TOML before it is published.
  2. Repair can overwrite newer config bytes. Suppose a leftover journal's restore rename hits a transient sharing error (EBUSY), and another process edits the file during the retry. The retry renames the old image over the newer bytes and deletes the journal. The underlying recovery gap already exists on dev. This PR's Repair route exposes it directly: dev answers 409 repair_unsupported, while this PR returns 200 after losing data. The retry must re-check file identity and content before the rename, or return 409 recovery_required and keep the journal.

What is already fixed. The earlier review's P1, a multiline-scope scalar overwrite, is fixed at this head.

Next step. A minimal patch that closes both findings, with regression tests, was prepared during the review. Maintainers will offer it on this branch.

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/**
* Root-scope lines that start outside every string and composite span. Used by
* fallbacks that scan lines because the parser refused the file (for example a
* Codex-valid i64 Bun cannot represent): prose inside a multiline value must not
* be read as a setting. A file whose spans never close keeps the plain scan.
*/
export function scopedRootLines(content: string): string[] {
const lines = content.split("\n");
const starts = lexicalLineStarts(lines);
if (starts === null) return rootLines(content);
const out: string[] = [];
for (let i = 0; i < lines.length; i += 1) {
if (!starts[i]) continue;
if (TABLE_HEADER.test(lines[i]!)) break;
out.push(lines[i]!);
}
return out;
}

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Do not scan unclosed spans as root-scope lines.

When lexicalLineStarts returns null for an unclosed multiline value, scopedRootLines returns rootLines(content). A model_instructions_file assignment inside that value can then be treated as the real setting. The prompt snapshot can show a false base selection, and an import refusal can report the false path. The external file is not read, but the UI reports incorrect configuration state.

Return no scoped lines for an unclosed span. This preserves parser-fallback reads when spans close and keeps unreadable configurations from producing a false setting.

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-  if (starts === null) return rootLines(content);
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/**
* Root-scope lines that start outside every string and composite span. Used by
* fallbacks that scan lines because the parser refused the file (for example a
* Codex-valid i64 Bun cannot represent): prose inside a multiline value must not
* be read as a setting. A file whose spans never close keeps the plain scan.
*/
export function scopedRootLines(content: string): string[] {
const lines = content.split("\n");
const starts = lexicalLineStarts(lines);
if (starts === null) return rootLines(content);
const out: string[] = [];
for (let i = 0; i < lines.length; i += 1) {
if (!starts[i]) continue;
if (TABLE_HEADER.test(lines[i]!)) break;
out.push(lines[i]!);
}
return out;
}
/**
* Root-scope lines that start outside every string and composite span. Used by
* fallbacks that scan lines because the parser refused the file (for example a
* Codex-valid i64 Bun cannot represent): prose inside a multiline value must not
* be read as a setting. A file whose spans never close keeps the plain scan.
*/
export function scopedRootLines(content: string): string[] {
const lines = content.split("\n");
const starts = lexicalLineStarts(lines);
if (starts === null) return [];
const out: string[] = [];
for (let i = 0; i < lines.length; i += 1) {
if (!starts[i]) continue;
if (TABLE_HEADER.test(lines[i]!)) break;
out.push(lines[i]!);
}
return out;
}
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Review comment at @src/codex/prompt-layers/toml-read.ts around lines 121 - 139:
Update scopedRootLines so a null result from lexicalLineStarts returns no lines
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…port Cancel through the draft guard

Two review findings at dd1133c:

- importBaseVariant compared the preview hash before either write lock was
  held, so a source rewritten during lock acquisition was activated as the
  older approved copy. The locked build now re-reads the source and refuses
  with import_body_changed unless it still serializes to the previewed hash
  and path; the unreferenced variant copy is cleaned up as for other
  provable refusals.
- The import preview's Cancel called onClose directly and unmounted the
  dialog, discarding unsaved base-variant drafts without the confirmation
  Close and Escape show. It now uses requestClose.

Both regressions fail on dd1133c and pass here.
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Maintainer follow-up commits on this branch (pushed under maintainerCanModify), on top of dcfc25f300:

  • 9b17dce635: Fixes the two P1 findings from the merge review. An ambiguous table header (duplicated or in an alternate form) is now refused with unsupported_form and leaves the bytes unchanged. Previously it could make a write that claimed success but was wrong. The journal also re-checks the target content before every rename attempt in recovery, commit and rollback. A retry can no longer overwrite bytes a peer wrote in between: it returns recovery_required and keeps the journal.
  • 9fa3f176ff: Whitespace only.
  • dd1133cfbd: Adds retry regressions for commit, rollback and the store target, and updates structure/codex-prompts.md.
  • ca9b7e6b7b: Fixes two P2 findings from an independent review:
    • Import now re-reads the source under both write locks and refuses with import_body_changed when it no longer matches the previewed hash. Before, an edit made while the locks were being acquired was ignored and the older copy was activated.
    • The import preview's Cancel now goes through the same unsaved-draft confirmation as Close and Escape.

Every new regression was confirmed to fail on the earlier head before the fix. Focused runs at ca9b7e6b7b:

  • prompt and journal suites: 675 pass, 0 fail;
  • the three base/custom/prompt GUI files: 78 pass, 0 fail;
  • typecheck, oxlint, and the file-size ratchet and test-layout guards all pass.

Hosted CI on this head decides readiness. Two follow-ups are left out of scope: reader parity for the alternate header forms that are now refused, and the CON-3 window narrowing to the instant between the locked re-read and the config publish.

Co-authored-by credit for @luvs01 is preserved by the squash of this PR.

Update: d19c316199 follows ca9b7e6b7b and fixes a P2 the delta review found in that recheck. When a concurrent writer selected the copied variant during the locked window, the recheck refusal deleted a file that the live config now named. Cleanup now deletes the copy only after the live config is shown not to reference it, for every refusal. The new regression fails on ca9b7e6b7b and passes here. Focused prompt and journal suites: 676 pass, 0 fail; typecheck passes.

Update: 6fc126f052 closes the matching alias case in that cleanup guard. If the live config names the copied variant through a symlink, the copy now also counts as referenced: canonical destinations are compared, and the copy is kept unless the selection provably does not exist. The new regression fails on d19c316199 and passes here. Focused prompt and journal suites: 677 pass, 0 fail; typecheck passes.

…rences it

The locked import recheck added in ca9b7e6 refuses with
import_body_changed when the selection is no longer the previewed external
file. Cleanup treated every non-uncertain refusal as proof the copy was
unreferenced, so a non-cooperating writer that selected the visible copy in
the meantime was left pointing at a deleted file. Cleanup now deletes the
copy only after variantStillReferenced shows the live config does not name
it, for every refusal.

The new regression fails on ca9b7e6 and passes here.
…rence

variantStillReferenced compared only lexically resolved paths, so a live
model_instructions_file naming a symlink to the freshly copied variant was
read as unreferenced and the refused import deleted the prompt in force.
It now also compares canonical destinations, and keeps the copy unless the
selection provably does not exist.

The new regression fails on d19c316199 and passes here.
…dows

The journal retry regressions intercepted renameAtomicFile only when the
destination equalled realpathSync(fixture path). On windows-latest the
plain realpath of a temp-dir path can keep its 8.3 short form while the
transaction publishes to the realpathSync.native form, so the hooks never
fired (windows 4/9 in run 38087693507: intercepted=false, peerEdits=0).
Both sides are now resolved with realpathSync.native. Test-only change.
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Maintainer integration into dev at exact head ed40eb6c876b9fbbbdebc80bad4578e615bc8e51. Independent review PASS at this exact head (lane M1). The debate's two P1s are fixed with fail-first regressions. Thank you @luvs01. On this head, the latest run of every workflow succeeded.

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lidge-jun merged commit 77a260f into lidge-jun:dev Oct 10, 2026
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