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Fixes #298

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Settings refresh showed false 5000/5000 because /rate_limit lags live usage. Fix prefers live headers and blocks stale inflate in same window. Verified search -> refresh stays reduced, next search decreases normally. Tests pass, only 2 related files changed.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved rate-limit tracking by ignoring invalid counter data and avoiding unnecessary decreases in the remaining-request count.
    • Rate-limit information can now be recovered from available response data when headers are missing or invalid.
    • Rate-limit details are cleared when a new personal access token is saved, preventing information from the previous token from being displayed.
    • Rate-limit information now clears when its reset window expires.

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Walkthrough

The GitHub service validates rate-limit data from response headers and body fields. AppContext validates rate-limit update events, tracks current state, and applies refresh results under defined conditions.

Changes

Rate-limit handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Validate and select rate-limit data
src/services/github.js
The service validates header and body counters, selects the first valid source, and emits update events only when response headers contain valid counters.
Apply rate-limit updates
src/context/AppContext.jsx
AppContext rejects events with non-finite limit or remaining values. It preserves current data when the fetched limit matches, the fetched remaining count is higher, and the current reset window is active. Expiration and PAT changes clear the stored rate-limit state.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested labels: Typescript Lang

Suggested reviewers: ri1tik

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7fc82

Changing a PAT while requests are in flight can briefly restore the previous PAT’s quota display. The issue is limited to that timing, but both update paths should be guarded.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7fc82

The changes improve quota validation without changing how credentials authorize GitHub requests. However, an outstanding response can restore quota information belonging to a removed or replaced credential. The demonstrated impact is misleading, persisted quota state—not credential restoration or an authorization bypass.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: Credential-change clearing does not invalidate outstanding quota writes. A refresh started with the old PAT can finish after replacement or removal and repopulate both shared state and persistent storage. Identity-free response events can also repopulate cleared state. The asynchronous race predates the PR, but refresh persistence is new, extending stale results across reloads until expiration. Inspected consumers use this information for display, limiting the demonstrated impact to quota-state ownership and recovery.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated affected scope is shared quota information in the browser application and its origin-local storage, including counters and warnings across routes. No server-side authorization or cross-tenant effect was established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A delayed response can commit counters after a credential transition without attacker involvement. The inspected path ends in quota display and persistence, not permission enforcement; it supports the ownership concern but does not establish an authorization-bypass attack path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — GitHub response counters pass through finite, nonnegative validation before service use. The browser event receiver separately checks finite limit and remaining values, but accepts no request identity. Dispatching a forged event requires execution in the same browser context; this event boundary and identity omission predate the PR.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Credential-change clearing and expiration constrain stale quota lifetime, but neither is a terminal barrier against later writes. Recovery can therefore require another valid response or expiration rather than relying solely on clearing.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bind quota writes to an opaque credential generation and explicit reset-window provenance, validating both at a common commit point. Invalidate outstanding generations on PAT changes without placing raw credentials in event payloads.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: preventing quota refresh from incorrectly restoring the displayed quota to 5000.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed [#298] src/services/github.js uses validated live rate-limit headers before body fallbacks. src/context/AppContext.jsx rejects an increase from a same-limit refresh while the current reset window …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes in src/context/AppContext.jsx and src/services/github.js validate rate-limit data, persist accepted quota updates, and clear quota state when the PAT changes. Each change supports the …
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/context/AppContext.jsx:
- Around line 138-142: Update the stale-read guard in AppContext so rate-limit
state is associated with the active PAT, or clear the previous rate-limit state
when savePat changes the PAT. Ensure a higher remaining count from the newly
authenticated PAT is accepted even when its limit matches the previous PAT’s
limit.
- Around line 137-142: Update AppContext’s rate-limit state handling so
refreshRateLimit compares fetched results against a synchronous ref holding the
latest rate-limit value, including updates from rate-limit-update events. Keep
the ref synchronized when accepting updates and clearing expired state, and use
it to prevent stale refresh results from overwriting newer state or local
storage.
- Around line 141-142: Update the refresh guard’s windowActive check in
AppContext so an unknown or zero rateLimit.reset is not treated as an active
window; only a positive reset timestamp that is still in the future should block
higher refresh results.

Review comments at @src/services/github.js:
- Around line 137-140: Update readRateLimitHeaders and asValidRateLimit to
reject missing or null raw counters before numeric conversion, while continuing
to accept legitimate zero values. This ensures absent headers or explicit null
body properties do not become false zero-counter updates or block the
fetchRateLimit body fallback.

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🟡 Minor · Discard quota events from requests made with a superseded PAT. · github.js:65-70

src/services/github.js:65-70
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Discard quota events from requests made with a superseded PAT.

If the PAT changes while explore is waiting for a GitHub response, the request still uses its captured PAT. fetchWithCache can then dispatch that response’s valid quota counters. savePat clears the quota, but the event handler accepts and persists the old counters, so the old quota can reappear in the UI. Compare the request’s PAT with the current saved PAT before dispatching; the refreshRateLimit guard does not cover this event path.

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   const live = readRateLimitHeaders(res.headers)
-  if (live) {
+  const currentPat = localStorage.getItem('oe_pat') || ''
+  if (live && pat === currentPat) {
     window.dispatchEvent(
       new CustomEvent('rate-limit-update', { detail: live })
     )
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In fetchWithCache, discard quota updates from requests made with a superseded
PAT by comparing the request’s captured pat with the currently saved PAT before
dispatching rate-limit-update. Keep dispatching valid quota counters when the
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/context/AppContext.jsx:
- Line 148: Update refreshRateLimit and savePat to prevent a pending rate-limit
request from an earlier PAT overwriting the current quota: capture a PAT
generation when refreshRateLimit starts, discard its result if savePat has since
advanced the generation, and increment the generation whenever savePat runs.

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- Around line 65-70: In fetchWithCache, discard quota updates from requests made
with a superseded PAT by comparing the request’s captured pat with the currently
saved PAT before dispatching rate-limit-update. Keep dispatching valid quota
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[BUG]: Refresh button in Settings falsely resets API quota to 5000/5000

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