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Problem

Fixes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/23734

On Windows with NTFS, reading keybindings.json (such as by Defender, backup agents, or search indexing) updates the file's last-access timestamp (atime). This fires an fs.watch change event. Previously, revalidateAndEmit invalidated the cache and published to changesPubSub unconditionally, causing the client to receive keybindingsUpdated events and display spurious 'Keybindings updated' toasts even though the file content was completely unchanged.

Change

In apps/server/src/keybindings.ts:

• Added structural state comparison helpers (isSameKeybindingsConfigState, isSameResolvedRule, isSameResolvedShortcut, isSameWhenAst, isSameConfigIssue) to compare two KeybindingsConfigState values without unnecessary serialization.
• Retained lastEmittedStateRef in the service instance, initialized during startup and kept synchronized on each change emission.
• In revalidateAndEmit, checked whether the reloaded state equals lastEmittedStateRef. If keybindings and issues are structurally identical, change emission to changesPubSub is suppressed.
• Added revalidate to the Keybindings service interface for deterministic revalidation testing.

Scope and approval

Fixes bug https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/23734. The change is strictly scoped to the server keybindings watcher and cache revalidation logic in apps/server/src/keybindings.ts.

Verification

• Added an automated regression test in apps/server/src/keybindings.test.ts verifying that revalidating an unchanged config produces 0 change events, while modifying the file content correctly emits the updated keybindings.
• Ran the test suite via vp test run src/keybindings.test.ts (19 of 19 tests passed in ~1s).
• Ran vp lint and vp fmt with 0 errors and 0 warnings.
• Ran TypeScript compilation with zero type errors.

Model: Claude Fable 5.1. Harness: Claude Code.

Fixes #23734

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 97ed582

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a narrowly scoped server bug fix that suppresses redundant keybindings update notifications while preserving emissions for real configuration changes. A focused regression test covers both unchanged revalidation and changed configuration behavior.

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Walkthrough

Keybindings revalidation now compares loaded configuration with the last emitted state. It skips change events when that state is unchanged. The service exposes revalidate, and a test covers unchanged and changed configurations.

Changes: Keybindings revalidation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track and compare keybindings state apps/server/src/keybindings.ts	Configuration states are compared using resolved rules and configuration issues. The service records the initial state and each emitted state. Revalidation skips emission when the loaded state matches.
Expose and test revalidation apps/server/src/keybindings.ts, apps/server/src/keybindings.test.ts	The Keybindings service exposes revalidate. The test checks that unchanged configuration emits no event and that changed configuration emits an event containing threadPanel.toggle.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#24494 — It changes the same keybindings emission path. It reloads and emits state after upsert and remove operations.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 30642

The change stops redundant keybindings-updated notifications when the configuration is unchanged. A regression test covers the unchanged and changed cases. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: the server stops emitting keybindings change events when revalidation finds unchanged content. It uses the conventional commit form and matches the changeset, which ad…
Description check		The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections. The Problem section explains the NTFS atime trigger and the spurious toast. The Change section lists the…
Linked Issues check		Directly linked issue #23734 requires that the keybindings update push and toast occur only when the keybindings configuration changes. The whole-PR diff (merge base 96aa40e to head 30642f2) meets thi…
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR diff changes only apps/server/src/keybindings.ts and apps/server/src/keybindings.test.ts. Every hunk maps to #23734. The equivalence check, lastEmittedStateRef, the emitChange ref update,…

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Explanation

The title names the main change: the server stops emitting keybindings change events when revalidation finds unchanged content. It uses the conventional commit form and matches the changeset, which adds structural state comparison and suppresses redundant emission in apps/server/src/keybindings.ts.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections. The Problem section explains the NTFS atime trigger and the spurious toast. The Change section lists the helpers, the retained lastEmittedStateRef, the suppression check, and the new revalidate method. The Scope section links issue 23734. The Verification section gives the test, the run results, lint, format, and typecheck outcomes, and the model and harness. The Scope section names no maintainer request and does not need one. Minor gap: the template asks for the parent conventional title style and a short problem statement, which the description provides. The description is complete enough to pass.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Directly linked issue #23734 requires that the keybindings update push and toast occur only when the keybindings configuration changes. The whole-PR diff (merge base 96aa40e to head 30642f2) meets this in apps/server/src/keybindings.ts. (1) lastEmittedStateRef is added. Startup sets it to the loaded initial state. emitChange sets it before publishing. (2) revalidateAndEmit, under upsertSemaphore, reads the previous state, reloads the config after cache invalidation through reloadConfigState, and calls emitChange only when previousState is absent or isSameKeybindingsConfigState reports a difference. (3) isSameKeybindingsConfigState is built with Schema.toEquivalence over ResolvedKeybindingsConfig and Schema.Array(ServerConfigIssue). Changed content still reaches emitChange. (4) The regression test in apps/server/src/keybindings.test.ts revalidates unchanged content, writes a new mod+k threadPanel.toggle rule, revalidates, and awaits the first buffered event through Stream.runHead. It checks that this event contains the new rule, so a wrongly emitted unchanged event would fail the test. The reviewed diff does not show the earlier helper functions; they were replaced by the schema-based equivalence. The runtime behavior of Schema.toEquivalence on these schemas was not executed in this review. The PR reports a passing test run. The issue has no non-coding requirements. Incremental diffs from previous reviewed heads were not used.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The whole-PR diff changes only apps/server/src/keybindings.ts and apps/server/src/keybindings.test.ts. Every hunk maps to #23734. The equivalence check, lastEmittedStateRef, the emitChange ref update, the reloadConfigState extraction, the suppression check in revalidateAndEmit, and the startup ref initialization implement the requested behavior. The import change from type ServerConfigIssue to a value import is required because the schema is now used at runtime. The revalidate member added to the Keybindings service exposes revalidateAndEmit for the deterministic regression test. The test changes add Option and Stream imports and one test case. reloadAndEmit still emits unconditionally, which is outside the watcher revalidation path and is not changed by this PR. The diff shows no client, contract, or configuration changes.

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Addressed the review note on the regression test in 9383494.

The test no longer consumes the subscription in a scoped fork and asserts on an array right after revalidate returns. It now reads the subscription with an awaited Stream.runHead. Because revalidate publishes before it returns, an event wrongly emitted for the unchanged config would be buffered ahead of the real change; the test asserts that the first buffered event carries the new mod+k rule, which covers both the no-event and the changed-config case without a timing window. No wall-clock timeout is used, since it would not fire under the test clock.

Checks run locally on this branch:

• vp test run apps/server/src/keybindings.test.ts: 19 passed.
• Same test with the suppression check in revalidateAndEmit temporarily removed: fails with expected false to be true, then restored.
• vp lint apps/server/src/keybindings.test.ts and vp fmt --check: clean.
• vp run --filter t3 typecheck: no errors.

[juliusmarminge]

The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

the fix is written and reviewed, but proving it needs something no worker has:

• Permanent blocker: Windows with NTFS last-access updates enabled is required to reproduce the unchanged-file read triggering a watcher event. This Linux VM cannot execute that reproduction, and substituting another trigger is prohibited by the brief.
• Real shortcut edits propagating the updated binding and notification were not verified.

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