fix(write-to-file): run diff cleanup when handleError rejects (split 5/6 of #1066)

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U6 — execute() error-path cleanup invariant

Part of the upstream PR 1066 split. Own issue: 1937. Content source of record: 72143527fd33306e5541116093c2cbf803cce9e0..pr-1066-audit).

Why this unit exists: execute() cleanup invariant: the finally around handleError, the writeApproved flag and the consecutive-mistake-counter order. Soft budget overshoot: 439 a+d (single provider group, single gate scope).

Boundaries

• base: e3c10401f
• head: 9b93a6f88
• content source: 72143527fd33306e5541116093c2cbf803cce9e0..pr-1066-audit (local)

Fidelity (machine-verified)

zdt split verify --contract U6.json --worktree <wt> --head 9b93a6f88

Result: PASS — standalone 439 a+d / 2 files (SOFT-OVERSHOOT (rationale required in PR body))

• src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts: OK (content subset of source)
• src/core/tools/__tests__/writeToFileTool.spec.ts: OK (content subset of source)

Budget rationale (soft overshoot): see the deviations list

Design contract

• issue: the split plan

Chain position

Merge order is fixed: U12 (1927) -> U4 -> U5 -> U3 -> U6 -> U7 -> FINAL (1928). This PR is opened against main because the split branches live on the fork; the diff GitHub shows is therefore cumulative through this unit. The unit's own content is the delta from the previous unit head (U3), listed under Fidelity above. The sole merge target of the series is the FINAL integration PR (1928); merging the chain in order keeps every bot-visible diff clean.

Verification (this unit, as pushed)

• Tests: 259 passed / 5 skipped
• changed-line coverage: 14 covered / 0 uncovered — PASS
• ESLint: clean on every touched file; suppression counts unchanged
• No .changeset file, no CHANGELOG edit.

Recreate policy

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Linked issue

Closes #1937 (unit U6 of the upstream PR 1066 split).

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Round update — Lifecycle Resource Cleanup

Shared root cause behind the Lifecycle Resource Cleanup row (all five units of 1066). handlePartial() registers this task's partial-stream entry — and its TaskAborted listener — before it checks the prevent-focus-disruption experiment. With the experiment enabled the delta returns without ever showing a preview and never reaches execute()'s teardown, so the entry and the listener stay attached for the rest of the task's life, and a streamFailed mark armed by an earlier failed delta keeps suppressing this task's later diff previews. The sibling units carry the same release in their own PRs, each verified red-first with a negative control.

This unit (U6): execute() is already covered by the finally { this.resetTaskPartialState(task) } block, so only the suppressed-preview return in handlePartial() lacked a release; it now has one.

Red first: the new test failed with expected 1 to be +0. Green: 57 passed / 5 skipped. Negative control: removing the release turns exactly that one test red; restored green.

Main refresh. Merged org main 036245c5e (U1 1927). U1's content no longer appears in this diff: 10 files +2048/−45 → 7 files +1593/−40, 0 behind main. Conflicts were confined to src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts (and Task.ts on U7) — the region U1 rewrote; resolved by taking main's version of the shared save-stage tests (try/finally plus the fixed-task-id ui_messages.json cleanup from cf9206a42) rather than re-implementing U1.

Verification after the merge: Task.spec 172 passed, writeToFileTool.spec 57/5, eslint 0/0.

Scope declared in the split plan

CodeRabbit's Out of Scope Changes row asks to either narrow this PR to the execute() cleanup scope or update the linked split. The plan was updated first, per this chain's planned-and-issued rule - see, comment 6076465965 (2026-10-09), which declares U6's scope at head c6b77fbce. The files outside the execute() cleanup scope are therefore planned, not drift:

• src/core/tools/BaseTool.ts - partial-stream state ownership: the per-task taskPartialStreamState map and its release pair live in BaseTool, so the prevent-focus-disruption release cannot be expressed without touching it.
• src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts + src/__tests__/removeClineFromStack-delegation.spec.ts - teardown wiring: the shared finalization and the diff-view reset the cleanup path calls are owned there.
• partial-stream lifecycle in handlePartial() - it registers the per-task entry and the TaskAborted listener; releasing that registration is the defect this unit fixes.

Chain merge order: U1 1927 (merged) -> U2 1928 -> U3 1931 -> U4 1929 -> U5 1930 -> U6 1932. The same root cause is fixed once and ported; every port commit cites the source commit.

Rows from the 2026-10-09 review

Two rows in that review need files outside the execute() cleanup set. The scope was extended in the split plan before the fix was pushed: (retired fork tracking item 41).

• Persistence Integrity - DiffViewProvider.revertChanges() must roll the created file and directories back even when open() failed before activeDiffEditor was assigned. Same root cause as 1930; ported verbatim from 7b783452c / 6cae369d9.
• Lifecycle - handlePartial() re-checks that this task's stream entry is still live after each await (provider state, filesystem probe, partial ask, open()).
• Regression Evidence - the missing-content execute() test, same shape as the three on 1929.

Fix commit: 443993e57. Negative controls are one-to-one (each re-check and each release site kills exactly its own test).

Split-unit issue reference

No approved upstream issue exists for this change. This pull request is one unit of a declared split of a larger change, and the split plan, the unit boundaries and this unit's acceptance criteria are recorded on the tracking issue in this repository: #1989. That issue is the home for this unit's review dispositions and follow-up registrations, which is why no approved issue is linked above.

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Stryker directive sweep: removed all three // Stryker disable next-line comments in WriteToFileTool.ts per maintainer directive (mutation-diff is advisory; suppression comments are no longer accepted). Equivalence rationale preserved here:

• ConditionalExpression (path-stabilization check): the !== undefined clause is redundant - when lastSeenPartialPath is undefined the second clause only matches an undefined partialPath, which the !!partialPath in the return value rejects either way.
• AssignmentExpression (commit-point rollback stand-down): the approval flag already stands the rollback down, so removing the assignment changes no observable behaviour today; it stays because this branch lands the write without a diff view and the commit point is the fact that says so.
• LogicalOperator (rollback guard): writeCommitted is the second, independent stand-down - every path that sets it has already set writeApproved, so no test can tell && from || here; it stays because it names the durable fact the provider signals at the save, not the approval fact, and it is the guard that survives if the approval flag moves.
  CR round (Data-Integrity MAJOR, refused-restore save): restorePreStreamBuffer() ignored the boolean from vscode.workspace.applyEdit; a refused edit left the streamed content in the buffer and saveBufferClean() persisted it - unapproved output on disk, worse when the close also failed because discardFileTab() then throws before removeCreatedFile(). The restore now reports whether it applied, the save is gated on it (mirroring discardUnapprovedStream()), the close-failure message distinguishes an un-restored buffer, and the misleading comments are corrected. New focused test mocks applyEdit resolving false and asserts no save plus the filesystem rollback still running (negative control: exactly one red with the fix stashed). Verification: DiffViewProvider suite 99/99, ESLint --max-warnings=0, tsc --noEmit and Prettier clean.

CR round 3 (Data-Integrity MAJOR, close over unconfirmed buffer): the refused-restore guard fixed the save but not the close. Both failure modes now stop the rollback and report it: a refused restore throws before tabGroups.close() (closing the dirty tab would trade the rollback report for a save-confirmation prompt over unapproved content), and saveBufferClean() returns document.save()'s confirmation - an unconfirmed clean state stops the close the same way. The close-failure message no longer needs the restored/un-restored branch. Tests: refused restore -> no close + rollback-failure report; save() resolving false -> no close + report (negative controls: exactly one red each with the fix stashed; the existing refused-close test's save double now resolves true, matching the confirmed-save precondition). Verification: DiffViewProvider suite 100/100, ESLint --max-warnings=0, tsc --noEmit and Prettier clean.

Lint follow-up: upstream main re-enabled @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars for src, which exposed dead code in this branch on the merge ref. Cleared: the unused stateFor helper in writeToFileTool-partial-state-cleanup.spec.ts, and the default onParameterParseFailure implementation's three ignored parameters in BaseTool.ts now carry the rule's _ prefix (JSDoc updated to match). Focused suites re-run green; ESLint --max-warnings=0, tsc --noEmit and Prettier clean.

Verification at this commit: writeToFileTool suites 79 passed / 5 skipped; tsc --noEmit clean; ESLint --max-warnings=0 clean; Prettier clean (comment-only diff).

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Updated this round (Persistence Integrity check): the walkthrough at the previous head reported that reset() awaited the diff-view close before clearing the session with no finally, so a rejected close left relPath, editType, isEditing and the placeholder ownership behind; the next execution then skipped open(), reused the stale create session, and a later denial's rollback unlinked the path derived from the stale relPath - the file the previous write had approved. All three claims verified real at that head (not stale): the missing finally, the write-path caller that swallows the reset error, and the rollback deleting the relPath-derived path. Fixed: reset() now clears the whole session in a finally while still propagating the close failure, and the rollback deletes only the placeholder this edit owns, snapshotted and cleared before any await. A regression test covers the approved-write, failed-reset, denied-write sequence (negative control: exactly one red with the source fix stashed). DiffViewProvider suite 101 passed; ESLint max-warnings=0 clean with the file's suppression count unchanged; typecheck and Prettier clean.

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Updated this round (main refresh): merged upstream main (8018cba40) into the branch; the merge itself was clean. The merge-ref compile job then flagged six test doubles this branch added to the write-tool spec: main made toolCallId a required member of ToolCallbacks, and those literals predate the change. Added the missing toolCallId to them, matching the value main's own doubles in the same file use. Verification at this merge: typecheck clean; write-tool spec 68 passed / 5 skipped; DiffViewProvider spec 101 passed; ESLint max-warnings=0 clean; Prettier clean.

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Updated this round (re-review follow-ups): three review threads addressed. (1) The modify branch of the rollback no longer returns early when the editor never opened - only the document work is skipped, so the shared preview-tab restore and session reset always run and a failed open cannot leave stale session state behind; the no-editor spec now asserts the session is released (negative control: exactly one red with the fix stashed). (2) The unapproved-stream discard now reuses the shared ENOENT-tolerant file/dir removal helpers instead of inline copies; mutating the shared helper to drop the tolerance turns exactly one existing discard test red, proving the reuse is covered. (3) The delegation spec now asserts the release detaches the registered abort listener with the same function reference, not just the map entry (negative control: deleting the detach call turns exactly that test red). Verification: DiffViewProvider suite 101 passed, delegation suite 24 passed, typecheck clean, ESLint max-warnings=0 clean, Prettier clean.

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Updated this round (Persistence Integrity check, denial path): the new-file rollback reached the delete with the streamed content still in the diff tab's modified side - the tab is a TabInputTextDiff that the file-tab discard does not match, and the diff-view close skips dirty tabs, so the placeholder was unlinked underneath an open dirty buffer one save away from recreating the deleted file. The rollback now restores the modified side to its pre-stream content and confirms a clean save before any tab or file goes, then closes the diff tab and only then unlinks; a refused restore or an unconfirmed save stops the rollback before the close and the delete and propagates. New regression test drives the denial through a dirty TabInputTextDiff and asserts the order restore -> save -> close -> unlink with only the empty pre-stream content ever written (negative control: exactly one red with the source fix stashed); the pre-existing denial test was updated to the restore-then-save contract with its own negative control. Suite 102 passed; typecheck, ESLint max-warnings=0 and Prettier clean.

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Updated this round (Persistence Integrity check, commit path; Regression Evidence warning): saveChanges() awaited the document save without checking its boolean result, so a save resolving false still crossed the commit point - onCommit ran and placeholder ownership was released although nothing had persisted. The commit point now requires a confirmed save; an unconfirmed one throws before onCommit, leaving the uncommitted cleanup state (placeholder still owned) for the execute error path, which already handles a pre-commit saveChanges rejection without reporting success. Both coverage gaps named by the warning are closed: a focused open() test rejects the placeholder write and asserts ownership stays unset while the rollback cleans created directories without unlinking the unowned path, and a clean-document saveChanges() test asserts the commit callback runs and ownership is released without a save. Each new test carries a negative control (exactly one red under the corresponding mutation). Suite 105 passed; typecheck, ESLint max-warnings=0 and Prettier clean.

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Updated this round (Persistence Integrity check, execute path): the execute path conflated approval with a confirmed commit - writeApproved was set before saveChanges(), so a save-confirmation failure before onCommit skipped the discard and reset() cleared the placeholder ownership anyway, stranding the empty placeholder on disk unowned where a later attempt would mistake it for the pre-existing target. The execute path now distinguishes the two: when saveChanges() fails before onCommit, the owned empty placeholder is removed before reset() forgets the ownership (ENOENT-tolerant release), while the dirty editor keeps the approved content for a manual save or retry and the created directories stay in place for that save. New execute-level regression test (save resolving false: no success result, placeholder removed before reset, buffer not discarded) plus provider unit tests for the release, each with a negative control. Suites 176 passed; typecheck, ESLint max-warnings=0 and Prettier clean.

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Updated this round (Persistence Integrity check, placeholder-removal failure): a placeholder removal that rejects (EPERM/EACCES) was logged only, and the cleanup then reset the session anyway - forgetting the ownership and stranding the empty placeholder unowned with no user-visible hazard and no retry path. The execute path now treats a failed removal as a rollback hazard: reset() is skipped so the provider keeps owning the placeholder and the diff session stays open for a retry, and the hazard is reported in the chat like a failed rollback. New execute-level regression test (pre-commit save failure followed by a rejecting removal: failure surfaced, no success result, reset cannot strand the placeholder) plus a unit test pinning that a rejecting unlink preserves ownership, each with a negative control. Suites 178 passed; typecheck, ESLint max-warnings=0 and Prettier clean.

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Updated this round (Persistence Integrity check, rollback ownership): revertChanges() and discardUnapprovedStream() released placeholder ownership up front, before the awaited restore, tab cleanup and unlink - a denied new-file edit whose rollback then failed left the empty placeholder on disk unowned with no hazard and no retry path. Ownership is now released only when the unlink succeeds; execute() skips reset() while the provider still owns a placeholder (new ownsPlaceholder signal) and reports the hazard in the chat, the same discipline as the pre-commit save-failure path. The two coverage gaps the review flagged are closed: handlePartial releases the stream state when the filesystem probe rejects, and a rejecting hazard report is logged without aborting the teardown. Six new tests, each with a negative control (exactly one red). Suites 184 passed; typecheck, ESLint max-warnings=0 and Prettier clean.

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📝 Summary

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved recovery from interrupted file writes by restoring unapproved changes while preserving approved or saved content when a later step fails.
  • Cleared temporary write activity when a task is cancelled, fails, or is removed from history.
  • Improved parsing-error handling so partial edits are finalized and relevant streaming errors are reported.
  • Improved rollback of new-file edits, including when editor cleanup fails or files are already missing.
  • Ensured new-file directories are created during execution rather than during partial streaming.

WriteToFileTool now tracks partial streams by task and handles streaming, parse, and execution failures. DiffViewProvider restores streamed buffers and cleans up owned files and directories. Failed-history cleanup clears tool state before task disposal.

Changes: Write failure handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Partial-stream state and recovery src/core/tools/BaseTool.ts, src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts, src/core/tools/__tests__/*, src/__tests__/removeClineFromStack-delegation.spec.ts	BaseTool delegates parse failures to a hook. WriteToFileTool tracks task-scoped stream state, handles cancellation, and cleans up stream and parse failures. Tests cover task isolation and recovery behavior.
Diff-view rollback and artifact cleanup src/integrations/editor/DiffViewProvider.ts, src/integrations/editor/__tests__/DiffViewProvider.spec.ts	DiffViewProvider tracks owned placeholders, restores streamed buffers, and removes owned files and created directories. Tests cover rollback, abandoned streams, save commit points, and cleanup errors.
Write execution and approval-aware cleanup src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts, src/core/tools/__tests__/writeToFileTool.spec.ts	Directory creation occurs during execution. Failure cleanup discards unapproved content, removes an owned placeholder before commitment, and preserves committed content. Tests cover execution errors and direct saves.
Failed-task state teardown src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts, src/__tests__/removeClineFromStack-delegation.spec.ts	Failed-history cleanup clears WriteToFileTool state before task disposal. A test verifies the cleanup order.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant BaseTool
  participant WriteToFileTool
  participant DiffViewProvider
  participant ToolCallbacks
  BaseTool->>WriteToFileTool: Invoke parse-failure hook
  WriteToFileTool->>DiffViewProvider: Discard unapproved streamed content
  WriteToFileTool->>ToolCallbacks: Report retained streaming error when present

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ef77e

Several failure paths during write rollback can leave an orphaned empty file or unapproved content in an open editor. Add the ownership guard to partial-stream and parse-failure cleanup, create the placeholder exclusively, and avoid unlinking when a buffer restore is refused before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9b93a

The change strengthens file-write failure recovery while preserving approval checks. Remaining uncertainty concerns recovery when saving messages or restoring files fails.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• observed — The sensitive outcomes remain task-message persistence and filesystem edits made with the extension's existing authority. Write paths can resolve outside the workspace and are represented as such in approval metadata. The changed streaming state is task-instance scoped rather than shared across providers by path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Execution retains the ignore-access check and protected-file approval context. Both direct and editor-backed save paths follow successful askApproval. Setting isAnswered during failure finalization is distinct from the writeApproved flag and does not authorize a save.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Checked normal provider disposal aborts tasks before draining their disposal, allowing the new abort callback to release streaming state. Failed-history cleanup covers the direct-disposal exception explicitly. Task abort and disposal reuse promises, and streaming-state deletion safely tolerates an already-removed entry.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Connect the production missing-nativeArgs rejection path to the new teardown boundary. Its existing early exit still bypasses BaseTool.handle, so malformed model output is not universally covered by the added parse-failure cleanup.
• proposed — Give failed rollback and failed terminal-message persistence explicit reconciliation ownership, retaining enough state for actionable recovery. This would strengthen existing best-effort guarantees without treating successful teardown as proof that restoration succeeded.

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Failed checks: 2 errors · 2 warnings · 1 inconclusive

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Persistence Integrity		A changed rollback path does not handle a failed save result. In DiffViewProvider.discardUnapprovedStream(), the new-file cleanup awaits document.save() but ignores false at `src/integrations/ed…	Check the boolean result of document.save() in discardUnapprovedStream(). Treat false as a rollback failure. Preserve placeholder ownership and the retry session, or otherwise prevent the dirty buffer from being saved after the placeh…
Linked Issues check		The description includes Closes: #1937 but later states that no approved upstream issue exists and identifies issues #1989 and #703 for related tracking. This does not clearly establish one approved…	Link the approved issue that authorizes this unit, use one canonical issue reference in the description, and ensure the closing keyword points to that issue.
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup		The cancellation race remains in the changed execute error path. WriteToFileTool.execute() now runs discardUnapprovedStreamBeforeReset() and resetDiffViewAfterWrite() in the finally after `han…	Add a per-task serialized diff-cleanup owner shared by WriteToFileTool.execute() and task disposal. When cancellation or disposal starts, make execute() await the existing cleanup and skip its own discard/reset, or route both paths thro…
Description check		The description contains extensive implementation and test details, but it does not follow the required template sections or include the required completed checklist. It also contains conflicting issu…	Rewrite the description using the required headings, add the test procedure and completed checklist, document the documentation impact, and resolve the conflicting issue references.
Out of Scope Changes check		The raw summary includes changes across BaseTool, ClineProvider, partial-stream lifecycle, WriteToFileTool, and DiffViewProvider. The objectives describe some of these as cumulative or split-plan scop…	Provide the authoritative per-unit diff against the previous split-unit head and update the linked split plan so every changed file has an explicit scope assignment.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Regression Evidence		Focused regression coverage is present. WriteToFileTool.handlePartial() now releases state when fileExistsAtPath() rejects, and writeToFileTool.spec.ts:645-677 injects that rejection and verifie…
Security Boundaries		No changed path introduces a concrete security-boundary failure. WriteToFileTool.execute() still checks rooIgnoreController.validateAccess() before any write and still requires askApproval() bef…
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main fix: running write-to-file diff cleanup when handleError rejects. It is specific and related to the changeset.

Full details: Regression Evidence

Explanation

Focused regression coverage is present. WriteToFileTool.handlePartial() now releases state when fileExistsAtPath() rejects, and writeToFileTool.spec.ts:645-677 injects that rejection and verifies state deletion, listener removal, error reporting, and no diff cleanup. reportPlaceholderStranded() catches rejected task.say(), and writeToFileTool.spec.ts:1536-1561 verifies teardown continues, reset remains skipped, and the logging path runs. The broader changed cleanup and rollback behavior also has focused unit coverage in the touched tool and DiffViewProvider suites. Prior failure addressed: The two prior omissions now have direct tests: filesystem-probe rejection at writeToFileTool.spec.ts:645-677 and rejected stranded-placeholder reporting at writeToFileTool.spec.ts:1536-1561.

Full details: Security Boundaries

Explanation

No changed path introduces a concrete security-boundary failure. WriteToFileTool.execute() still checks rooIgnoreController.validateAccess() before any write and still requires askApproval() before saveDirectly() or saveChanges() (WriteToFileTool.ts:343-357, 444-458, 486-500). The new rollback paths track the owned placeholder and remove only that path, which preserves approval and ownership boundaries (DiffViewProvider.ts:596-603, 697-711). No changed code executes input as a command or exposes secrets or PII.

Full details: Persistence Integrity

Explanation

A changed rollback path does not handle a failed save result. In DiffViewProvider.discardUnapprovedStream(), the new-file cleanup awaits document.save() but ignores false at src/integrations/editor/DiffViewProvider.ts:674-680. If VS Code returns false, cleanup still skips dirty tabs, unlinks the placeholder, and returns success. WriteToFileTool then resets the provider at src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts:539-552. The remaining dirty buffer can later recreate an empty file from a denied write. The added discard tests cover rejected edits and unlink failures, but not a false save result.

Resolution

Check the boolean result of document.save() in discardUnapprovedStream(). Treat false as a rollback failure. Preserve placeholder ownership and the retry session, or otherwise prevent the dirty buffer from being saved after the placeholder is removed. Report the rollback hazard and add a regression test for a false save result, including the no-reset and ownership behavior.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

The description includes Closes: #1937 but later states that no approved upstream issue exists and identifies issues #1989 and #703 for related tracking. This does not clearly establish one approved linked issue.

Resolution

Link the approved issue that authorizes this unit, use one canonical issue reference in the description, and ensure the closing keyword points to that issue.

Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup

Explanation

The cancellation race remains in the changed execute error path. WriteToFileTool.execute() now runs discardUnapprovedStreamBeforeReset() and resetDiffViewAfterWrite() in the finally after handleError() rejects (src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts:524-567). During the production handleError, Task.say() can await while Task.isStreaming remains true (src/core/assistant-message/presentAssistantMessage.ts:306-318, src/core/task/Task.ts:4068-4624). An abort emits TaskAborted and starts Task.dispose(); disposal independently starts diffViewProvider.revertChanges() (src/core/task/Task.ts:3510-3518, 3632-3643). The partial-state listener only removes map state (src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts:100-126), so it does not serialize or transfer diff cleanup. These operations can concurrently restore buffers, close tabs, delete artifacts, and reset the provider. The added test only rejects a mock handleError and does not connect it to task disposal (src/core/tools/__tests__/writeToFileTool.spec.ts:1721-1764).

Resolution

Add a per-task serialized diff-cleanup owner shared by WriteToFileTool.execute() and task disposal. When cancellation or disposal starts, make execute() await the existing cleanup and skip its own discard/reset, or route both paths through one idempotent cleanup promise. Serialize provider, editor, and filesystem operations before releasing partial-stream state. Add an integration test that aborts during rejected handleError() and verifies one cleanup sequence.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description contains extensive implementation and test details, but it does not follow the required template sections or include the required completed checklist. It also contains conflicting issue-link information.

Resolution

Rewrite the description using the required headings, add the test procedure and completed checklist, document the documentation impact, and resolve the conflicting issue references.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The raw summary includes changes across BaseTool, ClineProvider, partial-stream lifecycle, WriteToFileTool, and DiffViewProvider. The objectives describe some of these as cumulative or split-plan scope, but the supplied context contains conflicting scope statements.

Resolution

Provide the authoritative per-unit diff against the previous split-unit head and update the linked split plan so every changed file has an explicit scope assignment.

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❌ Patch coverage is 92.22973% with 23 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
src/integrations/editor/DiffViewProvider.ts	91.36%	2 Missing and 10 partials ⚠️
src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts	95.17%	0 Missing and 7 partials ⚠️
src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts	0.00%	2 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️
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• src/__tests__/removeClineFromStack-delegation.spec.ts
• src/core/assistant-message/__tests__/presentAssistantMessage-custom-tool.spec.ts
• src/core/task/Task.ts
• src/core/task/__tests__/Task.spec.ts
• src/core/tools/BaseTool.ts
• src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts
• src/core/tools/__tests__/writeToFileTool-partial-state-cleanup.spec.ts
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The cross-file directory race is unsupported.

The inspected spec-file search found this fixed task UUID and its uuid.v7 mock only in Task.spec.ts. Other specs use the same storage root, but that does not establish that they write to the directory this test removes.

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Correct for this unit in isolation — and it is exactly what the sibling unit U7 (#1928
p1066/u7-early-return-denial-cleanup) adds. In that branch, each of the three early returns calls the
teardown before returning:

• missing path: finalizePartialToolAskAfterFailure → revertDiffChangesBeforeReset →
  resetDiffViewAfterWrite → this.resetTaskPartialState(task) → return
• missing content: same four calls
• .rooignore denial: same four calls

This PR (#1932, U6) only moves the finally cleanup so it also runs when handleError() rejects, so the
state the finding describes is left behind here. The split keeps each unit to one behaviour change; U7 is
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Persistence Integrity (Error) - real at the reported head; fixed.

The walkthrough ran at the previous head and the claim verified true there: the denial path reaches revertChanges() with the streamed content in the diff tab's modified side; discardFileTab() matches only TabInputText tabs while openDiffEditor() creates a TabInputTextDiff; closeAllDiffViews() skips the dirty diff tab; and the placeholder was unlinked underneath the open dirty buffer - unapproved content one save away from recreating the deleted file. The earlier TabInputTextDiff regression test did cover only the discard path, as the row says.

Fixed at the new head per the row's Resolution: the new-file rollback now restores the modified side to its pre-stream content and confirms a clean save before any tab or file goes, then closes the diff tab and only then unlinks the placeholder; a refused restore or an unconfirmed save stops the rollback before the close and the delete and propagates as the rollback hazard. Regression test invokes revertChanges() with a dirty TabInputTextDiff and asserts the order applyEdit -> save -> closeTab -> unlink with the replaced text empty (negative control: exactly one red with the source fix stashed); the pre-existing denial test was updated to the restore-then-save contract (its own negative control: exactly one red). Suite 102 passed; typecheck, ESLint max-warnings=0 and Prettier clean. CI pending at comment time.

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Persistence Integrity (Error) - second finding at the new head; fixed. Regression Evidence (Warning) - both gaps closed.

The save-confirmation finding verified true: saveChanges() awaited updatedDocument.save() without checking its boolean result, so a save resolving false (the declared Thenable<boolean> contract) still invoked onCommit and cleared placeholderPath - execute() reported an unpersisted write as durable and the placeholder could no longer be rolled back. The prior round covered the revertChanges()/discard call sites; this is the commit-path call site named by the row.

Fixed at the new head per the Resolution: the commit point now requires save() to return true; otherwise saveChanges throws before onCommit, preserving the uncommitted cleanup state (placeholder still owned). execute() already handles a pre-commit saveChanges rejection without reporting success - the existing execute-level test (keeps approved diff content in the editor when saving fails after approval) exercises exactly that path, which the false result now joins.

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• open() now has a focused test rejecting fs.writeFile() for a new file: placeholderPath stays unset, and the rollback rmdirs the created directories without unlinking the unowned path (negative control: moving the ownership assignment before the write turns exactly one test red).
• saveChanges() now has a clean-document test (isDirty === false with an onCommit callback): the callback runs and placeholder ownership is released without a save (negative control: removing the commit signal turns exactly one test red).
• The false-result commit test itself: no commit callback, placeholder stays owned, persistence error thrown (negative control: exactly one red with the source fix stashed).

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🟠 Major · Do not unlink a placeholder while its diff buffer still contains… · DiffViewProvider.ts:674-677

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Do not unlink a placeholder while its diff buffer still contains rejected content.

If applyEdit() returns false in discardUnapprovedStream(), the code records editorFailure but continues to this unlink. closeAllDiffViews() skips the dirty diff tab, so the tab remains open with unapproved content after its file is removed. A later save can recreate the rejected file. The same cleanup ordering needs review when the empty-buffer save returns false. Keep the placeholder until the buffer is restored and its tab is safely closed; report the rollback failure without discarding the ownership needed for recovery. VS Code confirms that a dirty tab can remain open when closing is cancelled. (code.visualstudio.com)

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Update discardUnapprovedStream so a failed applyEdit or empty-buffer save stops
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Establish placeholder ownership with exclusive creation.

When another process creates the path after the tool classifies it as new, fs.writeFile(absolutePath, "") truncates that file. This code then claims ownership, so a denied write can unlink a file this edit did not create. A write can also fail after creating the path; in that case, ownership is never recorded and rollback leaves the placeholder behind. Create the placeholder exclusively, and record ownership as soon as exclusive creation succeeds. Add regression cases for an existing path and for failure after creation. Node’s default w flag creates or truncates; wx fails if the path exists. (nodejs.org)

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Persistence Integrity (Error) - third finding at the new head; fixed.

The claim verified true: execute() sets writeApproved = true before calling saveChanges(), so when the new save-confirmation gate threw before onCommit, the catch skipped the unapproved-stream discard (correctly - the content is the user's accepted edit) but reset() then cleared placeholderPath and createdDirs anyway: the empty placeholder stayed on disk unowned, a later attempt would treat it as the pre-existing target, and a later denial's rollback no longer recognized it. Approval was being conflated with a confirmed commit.

Fixed per the Resolution's first option, scoped to the placeholder: when saveChanges() fails before onCommit, the execute path now removes the owned empty placeholder (new DiffViewProvider.discardOwnedPlaceholder(), ENOENT-tolerant like the other rollback deletes) BEFORE reset() clears the ownership, while the dirty editor keeps the approved content for a manual save or retry - the created directories are deliberately left in place because that save needs them. A failed placeholder removal is logged, matching the file's other cleanup helpers.

Regression coverage as demanded: an execute-level test drives save() resolving false (saveChanges throwing before the commit callback) and verifies no success result (handleError, no write result pushed), the buffer is NOT discarded, and the placeholder removal happens before reset (order assertion). Provider unit tests cover the release itself: unlink + ownership release, no-op without ownership, ENOENT tolerance. Each new test carries a negative control (exactly one red with the corresponding source change stashed).

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Persistence Integrity (Error) - fourth finding at the new head; fixed.

The claim verified true at 346ee8b: the false-save cleanup removed the owned placeholder before reset(), but a removal that rejects (EPERM/EACCES) was only logged (WriteToFileTool.ts:181-187), and the surrounding cleanup always called reset() (:518-523), which clears placeholderPath (DiffViewProvider.ts:1460-1477) - stranding the empty placeholder unowned with no user-visible hazard and no retry path.

Fixed per the Resolution: the placeholder-removal failure is now a reported rollback hazard, and the owned state is preserved until removal succeeds - the execute path skips reset() when the removal fails, so the provider still owns the placeholder and the diff session stays open for a retry, and the hazard is reported in the chat the same way a failed rollback is (reportPlaceholderStranded). discardOwnedPlaceholder() already preserved placeholderPath across a rejecting unlink; a new unit test pins that contract (mutation probe: releasing ownership before the unlink turns exactly one test red). The demanded execute-level regression test drives pre-commit save failure followed by a rejecting discardOwnedPlaceholder() and verifies the failure is surfaced (chat error naming the placeholder, plus the console line), no success result is pushed, and reset() does not run - so it cannot silently strand the placeholder as unowned (negative control: exactly one red with the source fix stashed).

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535-557: Report a stranded placeholder even when no revert ran.

In the writeApproved && !writeCommitted branch, reverted stays true. The else if (strandedPlaceholder) branch therefore runs, and the report is reached. The two flags cannot both be set in one pass, because they come from exclusive branches. Skipping reset() keeps placeholderPath and the diff session, as the provider test documents.

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Reject a different path before reusing the retained diff session.

If placeholder removal fails, the current session remains active for its original path. A later write with a different path skips open() because isEditing is already true, then update() and saveChanges() can persist the new content under the original path. Reject the path before the outer try so a rejecting handleError cannot run cleanup that resets or discards the retained session.

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diff --git a/src/integrations/editor/DiffViewProvider.ts b/src/integrations/editor/DiffViewProvider.ts
@@
 	constructor(
 		private cwd: string,
 		task: Task,
 	) {
 		this.taskRef = new WeakRef(task)
 	}
 
+	isEditingDifferentPath(relPath: string): boolean {
+		return this.isEditing && this.relPath !== relPath
+	}
+
 	async open(relPath: string): Promise<void> {

diff --git a/src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts b/src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts
@@
 		const isWriteProtected = task.rooProtectedController?.isWriteProtected(relPath) || false
 
+		if (task.diffViewProvider.isEditingDifferentPath(relPath)) {
+			try {
+				await handleError(
+					"writing file",
+					new Error("A different write path cannot be used while the current diff session is still open."),
+				)
+			} finally {
+				this.resetTaskPartialState(task)
+			}
+			return
+		}
+
 		// The point of no return for this write. saveChanges() persists the document and then keeps

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Persistence Integrity (Error) - fifth finding at the new head; fixed. Regression Evidence (Warning) - both named coverage gaps closed.

The claim verified true at e61e004: revertChanges() snapshotted placeholderPath and cleared it before any await (src/integrations/editor/DiffViewProvider.ts:727-728), so a denied new-file edit whose rollback then failed - refused restore (:758-767) or EPERM unlink (:780-782) - left the empty placeholder on disk with ownership already forgotten; execute()'s cleanup ran over the top of it and reset() cleared the session, stranding the file unowned with no hazard reported and no retry path.

Fixed per the Resolution: ownership is released only when the artifact removal succeeds. revertChanges() (and discardUnapprovedStream(), which had the same up-front clear) now keep placeholderPath set until removeCreatedFile lands, releasing it immediately after the unlink so a later directory failure cannot strand an ownership whose file is gone; the created-directory state likewise survives a failed rollback. execute() checks the provider's new ownsPlaceholder signal in its finally and skips reset() while the placeholder remains owned - the same discipline as the pre-commit save-failure path - and reports the hazard in the chat. The demanded execute-level regression test drives a denied new-file edit whose rollback and discard both reject EPERM and verifies the placeholder stays owned, reset is not called, and the hazard is user-visible (negative control: exactly one red with the tool fix stashed). Three provider tests pin the ownership contract (failed unlink keeps it, successful unlink releases it before the directory loop, discard keeps it too; negative controls via source stash and a release-ordering mutation, each exactly one red).

Regression Evidence (Warning): both omitted negative paths now have focused tests - a filesystem-probe rejection during a stabilized partial delta releases the stream state and abort listener and still reaches handleError (negative control: removing the boundary release turns exactly one test red), and the stranded-placeholder test variant rejects task.say() and verifies the failure is logged, handleError still ran, and the session stays unreset (negative control: dropping the report's catch turns exactly one test red).

Suites 184 passed (5 pre-existing skips); typecheck, ESLint max-warnings=0 and Prettier clean. CI pending at comment time.

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- Around line 541-545: Update cleanupFailedPartialStream() and
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Repo: Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code PR: 1932
File: src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts:312-318
Timestamp: 2026-10-10T05:02:49.492Z
Learning: In src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts, resetting DiffViewProvider clears bookkeeping but does not restore dirty streamed content. Cleanup of an unapproved partial write must call discardUnapprovedStream() before reset(). cleanupFailedPartialStream() performs this sequence and reports a warning if discard fails.

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Preserve placeholder ownership when partial cleanup fails.

If discardUnapprovedStream() fails while the provider still owns the placeholder, both cleanupFailedPartialStream() and onParameterParseFailure() call resetDiffViewAfterWrite() unconditionally. reset() clears placeholderPath, so the empty placeholder remains on disk without an owner. Apply the same ownership guard used by execute() and report the stranded placeholder.

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 	private async cleanupFailedPartialStream(task: Task): Promise<void> {
 		const reverted = await this.discardUnapprovedStreamBeforeReset(task)
-		await this.resetDiffViewAfterWrite(task)
+		const stranded = !reverted && task.diffViewProvider.ownsPlaceholder
+		if (!stranded) {
+			await this.resetDiffViewAfterWrite(task)
+		}
 		if (!reverted) {
 			await this.reportRevertFailure(task)
 		}
+		if (stranded) {
+			await this.reportPlaceholderStranded(task)
+		}
 	}

Apply the same guard in onParameterParseFailure() before calling resetDiffViewAfterWrite().

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Review comment at @src/core/tools/WriteToFileTool.ts around lines 541 - 545:
Update cleanupFailedPartialStream() and onParameterParseFailure() to skip
resetDiffViewAfterWrite() when cleanup fails and task.diffViewProvider still
owns the placeholder; preserve that ownership and report the stranded
placeholder, matching the guard in execute().

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