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Refs #818

Summary

Stacking note: cumulative branch — the diff below includes slices 1–5 until they merge; it shrinks automatically at each merge. Slice 6's own delta: 28 files, +1724/−807.

Changes (highlights of the slice's own delta)

Area Change
extensions/history/store.ts GC/compaction: thresholds (50 files / 5000 lines / keep-newest-10), gcProjectDir entry point; compact artifact is pid-scoped (compact-<pid>-<ts>.jsonl) so concurrent instances never rename onto the same file
extensions/history/store.ts Review hardening kept: migration renames only after the seed write succeeds; registry collision mappings stay stable
extensions/history/index.ts session_shutdown GC wiring; astral-safe sanitization; visible-width row padding; setImmediate warm init off the first-prompt path
extensions/history/selector-helpers.ts Responsive header (inline/stacked/compact), sidebar-aware overlay margin, shared headerCountsText
tests/history-gc.test.ts Crash-safety trio: the compact file lands complete before any original is removed; rm failure tolerated (originals survive, success shape unchanged); an append landing mid-compaction is never lost (active writer) — plus threshold/keep-newest/sealed-file pins and the pid filename-format pin
tests/history-overlay-margin.test.ts tests/history-header-layout.test.ts Responsive header/overlay margin plans
20+ other test files Fixture portability, skip-wrapper cleanup, pin updates for the hardening above

Concurrency & recovery coverage (the review requirement for this slice)

  • Crash-safe ordering: readers never see the tail gone with no compact file in place (observed at the first cleanup unlink)
  • Cleanup failures tolerated; unreadable files skipped in both the count and merge passes
  • Active writer appends during compaction are preserved by keeping the freshest file out of the merge tail
  • Registry collision stability + migration retry tests from earlier slices re-pinned here after the sync

Test plan

  • Full history suite at this tip: 196 pass / 0 fail (node:test sources, run under bun and the node runner)
  • Type gate on the integrated trunk: no regressions vs the recorded baseline

Triage (maintainers): type:feature, status:needs-review.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Opted-in sessions now compact older project history files at shutdown when the project exceeds 50 files or 5,000 entries, retaining the 10 newest files and the current session’s capture.
    • Compacted history excludes deleted prompts and preserves prompts when compaction cannot safely complete.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved terminal output handling for history rows and prevented display scanning from failing on incomplete character data.
  • Documentation
    • Updated history documentation with compaction behavior and compacted-file naming.

Slice 6/6 of the PR Gentleman-Programming#819 split (maintainer-requested review slices).

- store: GC/compaction section — thresholds (50 files / 5000 lines /
  keep-newest-10), gcProjectDir entry point, compactFiles (merge all
  but newest 10 into compact-<ts>.jsonl, atomic write BEFORE originals
  removed, rm failure tolerated); dead compactProjectDir export (zero
  callers) dropped — store.ts now carries upstream content minus the
  documented dead exports
- index.ts: session_shutdown handler wired to gcProjectDir (final
  registration surface: before_agent_start, session_shutdown,
  tool_call, ctrl+shift+r shortcut, history command)
- tests: 9 new node:test cases (cumulative 174/174): threshold no-op
  below limits, keep-newest-10 untouched, line-threshold trigger,
  missing-dir and unreadable-file skips, atomic-before-rm ordering,
  rm-failure tolerance, concurrent append during compaction never loses
  post-compaction writes; tmpdir fixtures with machine-independent
  literals throughout

Gates: cumulative scoped history tests 174/174 green — the complete
six-slice chain. Known pre-existing environmental gate failures
unchanged (gitignored contracts/.DS_Store; package-manifest needs
node_modules, now installed).
Review fixes (CodeRabbit + Copilot on PR Gentleman-Programming#819):

- compactFiles: the compact artifact name now carries process.pid
  (compact-<pid>-<ts>.jsonl), matching the uniqueness convention of the
  staging name — two concurrent instances can never target the same
  compact filename. Filename pin updated accordingly.
- session_shutdown comment corrected: compaction runs at the GC
  thresholds (50 files / 5000 lines / keep-newest-10), not a "1000-line
  limit" as the stale comment claimed.
- overlay confines to the editor column while the gentle-shell
  fullscreen sidebar paints (pi-tui margin resolved live via the
  visible() hook; rail 50 + gap 3 + 1 padding)
- responsive picker header: inline / stacked (tablet) / compact
  (mobile) modes with fit-driven thresholds and an abbreviated
  scope radio; overlay stays a fixed 30-row grid in every mode
- selector always opens on empty stores; registry collision
  re-key guard; biome-clean formatting across the module
- tests: +overlay-margin, +header-layout; history suite green
  under the node runner (188 pass)
Sync of pi-history a1c13b9: headerCountsText() now serves the
inline and stacked header branches; no behavior change.
- import ExtensionCommandContext (the real pi-coding-agent export)
  instead of the shim-only ShortcutContext name; ctx params take
  Pick<ExtensionCommandContext, "ui">
- skipIf shim casts its callback to TestFn's return type so node's
  test options overload typechecks (6 sealed-file test files)
- replace hardcoded /Users/admin/Dev/pi/pi-history and /Users/admin/Dev/github/pi
  constants with synthetic /pi-history-fixtures/project-a|project-b literals
- pin projectHash with a portable known vector (nonexistent path falls back to
  raw-string hashing), replacing the layout-dependent 28e0f06819c468cb digest
- registry tests use mkdtemp project fixtures with relative assertions
- update the 6 session-slug literals coupled to the old cwd constant
- replace bun:test-only test.skipIf wrappers with node:test-compatible
  skip-option wrappers in gc/scope-delete/drain-order/seed-bootstrap
- bring gc/scope-delete/drain-order/seed-bootstrap in line with the newer
  reviewed pi-history test versions (drift since the slices were cut)

Verified: node --test tests/history-*.test.ts 188 pass / 0 fail
Review: review-134310abd04cf6c9 (reliability lens, approved)
The test.skipIf-style wrappers typed their callback as () => unknown,
which is not assignable to node:test's TestFn (return void |
Promise<void>). Type the callback accordingly to clear the 4 new
TS2345 diagnostics reported by the type gate.
Sync 72b5adf faithfully mirrored pi-history main, which never received
the review fixes from the slice reviews (PR Gentleman-Programming#819); the sync silently
reverted them along with their test pins. Restore everything on the
slice-06 PR branch, adapted to the current upstream-parity sources,
with the test-hygiene commits (portable fixtures, skip wrappers)
already cherry-picked in:

- store: compact artifact name is pid-scoped (compact-<pid>-<ts>.jsonl)
  so two concurrent instances can never rename onto the same file
  (silent compact loss)
- store: migrateLegacyStores renames legacy sources to .imported only
  AFTER the global seed write succeeds - a failed write no longer
  strands entries with the one-shot gate blocking retry
- store: ensureRegistryEntry returns an existing long-key mapping
  unchanged so collision assignments stay stable across calls
- index: sanitizeForDisplay re-appends astral code points whole
  (String.fromCodePoint) - emoji no longer lose half their code point
- index: FixedRowText.render pads by the SGR-stripped visible width -
  colored rows no longer fall short and leave ghost characters
- index: writer init (migrate/registry/seed) is scheduled via
  setImmediate so bootstrap never runs on the first-prompt path
- index: PRELOAD_BUFFER comment corrected to the constant's real value
- tests: restore the GC crash-safety trio (atomic ordering, rm-failure
  tolerance, active-writer mid-compaction) plus the pid filename pin,
  the migration retry test, the registry stability test, the
  setImmediate scheduling pin, and the padding + astral pins
- compactProjectDir stays exported for upstream parity (no knip gate
  configured); gcProjectDir remains the wired and tested entry point

Gates: full history suite 196 pass / 0 fail under bun (node:test
sources). No tsc/typecheck script exists in this repo; the suite run
parses every changed file via node's type stripping.
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Adds opt-in prompt-history capture, persistent project and global stores, transcript-based seeding, and a searchable selector. The extension supports deletion, lazy loading, and store compaction.

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Prompt history capture and storage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capture and storage foundation
extensions/history/atomic-write.ts, extensions/history/store.ts, extensions/history/index.ts, extensions/history/hide-prompts.ts, docs/prompt-history.md, tests/history-atomic-write.test.ts, tests/history-store-paths.test.ts, tests/history-registry.test.ts, tests/history-session-writer.test.ts, tests/history-command-registration.test.ts
Adds project path and registry utilities, per-instance JSONL capture, and atomic JSON writes. Capture is enabled only by the documented environment values. Tests cover persistence, paths, registry behavior, and capture wiring.
Transcript scanning and seed creation
extensions/history/session-scan.ts, extensions/history/load-shared-history.ts, extensions/history/store.ts, tests/history-session-scan-*.test.ts, tests/history-load-shared-history.test.ts, tests/history-legacy-migrate-v2.test.ts, tests/history-seed-bootstrap.test.ts, tests/history-seed-regen.test.ts
Scans session files for user prompts with timestamp fallbacks. Migrates legacy stores and bootstraps project seeds from transcript prompts. Tests cover extraction, discovery, migration, and seed behavior.
History drains, deletion, and compaction
extensions/history/store.ts, extensions/history/hide-prompts.ts, extensions/history/index.ts, tests/history-drain-*.test.ts, tests/history-multi-reader.test.ts, tests/history-scope-delete.test.ts, tests/history-hide-prompts.test.ts, tests/history-gc.test.ts, tests/history-delete-backfill.test.ts
Adds project and global drains, hidden-prompt filtering, scope deletion, and project-store compaction. Tests cover ordering, tombstones, deletion, and cleanup behavior.
Selector behavior and display
extensions/history/selector-helpers.ts, extensions/history/index.ts, tests/history-selector-windowing.test.ts, tests/history-dedupe-entries.test.ts, tests/history-lazy-windowing.test.ts, tests/history-max-results-cap.test.ts, tests/history-header-layout.test.ts, tests/history-overlay-margin.test.ts, tests/history-preview-layout.test.ts, tests/history-dispatch.test.ts, tests/history-wheel-mouse.test.ts, tests/history-expanded-globals.test.ts, tests/history-openflow-integration.test.ts
Adds selector filtering, deduplication, lazy loading, navigation, responsive layout, and prompt rendering. Tests cover helper behavior and selector wiring constraints.
History selector entry points
extensions/history/index.ts, tests/history-command-registration.test.ts, tests/history-openflow-integration.test.ts
Connects project and global history to the selector. The selector can open when the project store is empty and is registered under /history and ctrl+shift+r.

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

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sequenceDiagram
  participant promptHistoryExtension
  participant captureEnabled
  participant openSessionWriter
  participant appendSessionCapture
  participant JSONLFile
  promptHistoryExtension->>captureEnabled: Check the environment opt-in
  captureEnabled-->>promptHistoryExtension: Return whether capture is enabled
  promptHistoryExtension->>openSessionWriter: Initialize a per-instance writer
  promptHistoryExtension->>appendSessionCapture: Append a delivered prompt
  appendSessionCapture->>JSONLFile: Write a JSONL record
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This change adds prompt-history capture, a history selector, and store compaction. Four issues should be fixed before merge. After compaction, history lists older prompts ahead of newer ones. A prompt captured by another running instance while compaction is in progress can be lost. Opening the history selector with capture turned off still migrates legacy history files and writes registry and seed data, which contradicts the documented opt-in behavior. Running the tests with capture enabled can rename a developer's real legacy history files.

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Thanks for adding the crash/active-writer GC tests. This final PR still shows the entire +7,313-line stack against main, and its stated own delta is +1,724/-807 across 28 files, mixing compaction with selector layout changes and formatting. Please base it on the preceding slice and separate the GC/lifecycle change from the unrelated UI/formatting follow-ups. That will let us review the destructive rewrite and its failure tests as one bounded unit. Please also document that compaction is not a retention limit: it consolidates history but does not remove prompts from the resulting store.

Review follow-up on the slice-01 PR: the before_agent_start handler
recorded delivered prompts by default while the deletion UI is still
unshipped, so an intermediate release could accumulate sensitive
prompts with no removal path.

- Capture is now strictly opt-in via GENTLE_PI_HISTORY_CAPTURE=1|true|on
  (default off); the switch doubles as the disable path, is checked per
  prompt, and a disabled session writes nothing - no registry entry,
  no files.
- promptHistoryExtension takes injectable deps (env/root/cwd/
  instanceId/now) with one writer closure per extension load.
- New tests: strict opt-in matrix, default-off inertness, opted-in
  capture, disable-leaves-existing-files.
- docs/prompt-history.md documents the switch, storage locations,
  permissions/readers, and disable/removal semantics; the README docs
  table gains a pointer.
The history slice branches must not touch README.md: the docs table
lives in main and evolves independently of the extension slices. The
opt-in capture documentation stays in docs/prompt-history.md; the
README pointer row introduced by the capture-gate commit is dropped
and README.md is restored to upstream/main verbatim.

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In `@docs/prompt-history.md`:
- Around line 3-41: Update the prompt-history documentation to describe the
shipped selector, deletion, and GC behavior rather than calling them future
slices; list seed.jsonl, history-global.jsonl, compact files, and hidden.json,
and document the one-time editor-history migration and the ctrl+shift+r and
/history selector with physical deletion and tombstones. Clarify that compaction
consolidates files rather than imposing a retention limit, and remove the claim
that capture-off leaves the extension entirely inert.

In `@extensions/history/index.ts`:
- Around line 1131-1151: Add optional agentDir, sessionsRoot, and stateDir
dependencies to HistoryDeps, and have getWriter use them for migrateLegacyStores
and bootstrapProjectSeed instead of the global path constants. Update
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not access or move real user history.
- Around line 1183-1190: In the session_shutdown handler, check
captureEnabled(env) before calling gcProjectDir so shutdown GC is skipped when
capture is off. Replace the stale 1000-line comment with the actual compaction
thresholds (50 files or 5,000 lines) and clarify that compaction is not a
retention limit and removes no prompts.
- Around line 1056-1061: Update drainForScope to call getWriter only when
captureEnabled() is true, so opening or toggling the selector does not
initialize storage while capture is off.

In `@extensions/history/store.ts`:
- Around line 811-817: Update the compaction loop in `store.ts` to rename each
tail file to a claim name that still ends in `.jsonl` before reading it, build
the compact file from the claimed files, and remove only those claims so later
appends at the original paths are preserved. In `tests/history-gc.test.ts` lines
306–308, remove the freshness-rule wording and add a test that appends to the
live writer’s file between the read and removal, asserting no line is lost.
- Around line 793-803: Update the compaction merge loop in the code around
`toMerge` so tail files are processed oldest-first, preserving chronological
order for `drainFiles` after compaction; use the existing `fileSortKey` ordering
rather than relying on mutable mtime order, and add a test that verifies drain
order after compaction.
- Line 793: Update the compaction candidate selection in the `toMerge` logic to
exclude `seed.jsonl`, so compaction never removes the file required by
`bootstrapProjectSeed`; keep the existing selection of other files unchanged.

In `@tests/history-session-writer.test.ts`:
- Line 128: Update the registration-only test’s call to promptHistoryExtension
to pass isolated dependencies with an empty environment and a temporary root,
preventing shell settings from triggering warm-up against the real history
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  • docs/prompt-history.md
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  • extensions/history/selector-helpers.ts
  • extensions/history/session-scan.ts
  • extensions/history/store.ts
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  • tests/history-drain-order.test.ts
  • tests/history-expanded-globals.test.ts
  • tests/history-gc.test.ts
  • tests/history-header-layout.test.ts
  • tests/history-hide-prompts.test.ts
  • tests/history-lazy-windowing.test.ts
  • tests/history-legacy-migrate-v2.test.ts
  • tests/history-load-shared-history.test.ts
  • tests/history-max-results-cap.test.ts
  • tests/history-multi-reader.test.ts
  • tests/history-openflow-integration.test.ts
  • tests/history-overlay-margin.test.ts
  • tests/history-preview-layout.test.ts
  • tests/history-registry.test.ts
  • tests/history-scope-delete.test.ts
  • tests/history-seed-bootstrap.test.ts
  • tests/history-seed-regen.test.ts
  • tests/history-selector-windowing.test.ts
  • tests/history-session-scan-directory.test.ts
  • tests/history-session-scan-extract.test.ts
  • tests/history-session-writer.test.ts
  • tests/history-store-paths.test.ts
  • tests/history-wheel-mouse.test.ts

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if (filesMtimeDesc.length <= keepNewest) {
return { compacted: false, merged: 0 };
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const toMerge = filesMtimeDesc.slice(keepNewest); // oldest tail

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not merge seed.jsonl into the compact file.

bootstrapProjectSeed (lines 704-708) relies on seed.jsonl existing so that "a deleted prompt cannot be resurrected from transcripts". listProjectFiles includes seed.jsonl, and the seed is usually among the oldest files. The file-count trigger (>50 files) can fire while the project holds fewer than 500 entries. In that case compaction removes seed.jsonl, and the next session rebuilds the seed from transcripts. After that, only tombstones stop deleted prompts from coming back, and a tombstone write can fail (hidePrompt error path).

🐛 Proposed fix
-  const toMerge = filesMtimeDesc.slice(keepNewest); // oldest tail
+  const toMerge = filesMtimeDesc
+    .slice(keepNewest)
+    .filter((f) => path.basename(f) !== "seed.jsonl"); // seed gates bootstrap
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In `@extensions/history/store.ts` at line 793, Update the compaction candidate
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const toMerge = filesMtimeDesc.slice(keepNewest); // oldest tail
const mergedLines: string[] = [];
for (const file of toMerge) {
try {
const raw = fs.readFileSync(file, "utf8");
for (const lineText of raw.split("\n")) {
const parsed = parseStoreLine(lineText);
if (parsed) mergedLines.push(JSON.stringify(parsed));
}
} catch {}
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Merge the compaction tail oldest-first.

filesMtimeDesc.slice(keepNewest) is still ordered newest-first. The loop appends the newest tail file first and the oldest tail file last. drainFiles reads each file backward and treats line order as recency. After compaction, the selector therefore lists the oldest tail file's prompts before prompts from newer tail files. Dedupe in drainFiles also keeps the older copy of a duplicate. This breaks the docstring contract "chronological within the merged content".

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-  const toMerge = filesMtimeDesc.slice(keepNewest); // oldest tail
+  const toMerge = filesMtimeDesc.slice(keepNewest); // oldest tail (mtime-desc)
   const mergedLines: string[] = [];
-  for (const file of toMerge) {
+  // Oldest file first: drains read backward, so merged lines must be chronological.
+  for (const file of [...toMerge].reverse()) {

mtime changes when a file is rewritten, for example by sweepFiles. Ordering the tail by fileSortKey (ts-based) is more robust than reversing the mtime order. Add a test that checks drain order after compaction.

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const toMerge = filesMtimeDesc.slice(keepNewest); // oldest tail
const mergedLines: string[] = [];
for (const file of toMerge) {
try {
const raw = fs.readFileSync(file, "utf8");
for (const lineText of raw.split("\n")) {
const parsed = parseStoreLine(lineText);
if (parsed) mergedLines.push(JSON.stringify(parsed));
}
} catch {}
}
const toMerge = filesMtimeDesc.slice(keepNewest); // oldest tail (mtime-desc)
const mergedLines: string[] = [];
// Oldest file first: drains read backward, so merged lines must be chronological.
for (const file of [...toMerge].reverse()) {
try {
const raw = fs.readFileSync(file, "utf8");
for (const lineText of raw.split("\n")) {
const parsed = parseStoreLine(lineText);
if (parsed) mergedLines.push(JSON.stringify(parsed));
}
} catch {}
}
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In `@extensions/history/store.ts` around lines 793 - 803, Update the compaction
merge loop in the code around `toMerge` so tail files are processed
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for (const file of toMerge) {
try {
fs.rmSync(file);
} catch {
// a surviving original is harmless (readers dedupe by identity)
}
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Compaction deletes tail files that live instances can still append to. The tail is chosen only by mtime rank. The code reads each tail file, writes the compact file, then runs rmSync on the original. An append from another pi instance that lands between the read and rmSync is deleted. The GC test assumes a "freshness rule" that does not exist.

  • extensions/history/store.ts#L811-L817: rename each tail file to a claim name ending in .jsonl before reading it. Then build the compact file from the claimed files and remove only the claimed files. Appends that arrive after the rename create a fresh file at the original path.
  • tests/history-gc.test.ts#L306-L308: remove the "freshness rule" wording. Add a case where the live writer's file is in the merged tail and receives an append between the read and rmSync. Assert that no line is lost.
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  • tests/history-gc.test.ts#L306-L308
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In `@extensions/history/store.ts` around lines 811 - 817, Update the compaction
loop in `store.ts` to rename each tail file to a claim name that still ends in
`.jsonl` before reading it, build the compact file from the claimed files, and
remove only those claims so later appends at the original paths are preserved.
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registerShortcut: () => {},
registerCommand: () => {},
};
promptHistoryExtension(pi as never);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Pass isolated deps to the registration-only test.

promptHistoryExtension(pi as never) reads process.env and uses the real store root. If the developer's shell sets GENTLE_PI_HISTORY_CAPTURE=1, the setImmediate warm-up calls getWriter() after the test returns. That call migrates legacy stores, writes the registry, and seeds the real ~/.pi/agent/history. The comment says the real store is never touched, but that is not true in this case.

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-  promptHistoryExtension(pi as never);
+  promptHistoryExtension(pi as never, { env: {}, root: makeRoot() });
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promptHistoryExtension(pi as never);
promptHistoryExtension(pi as never, { env: {}, root: makeRoot() });
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In `@tests/history-session-writer.test.ts` at line 128, Update the
registration-only test’s call to promptHistoryExtension to pass isolated
dependencies with an empty environment and a temporary root, preventing shell
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carolitascl and others added 7 commits September 24, 2026 18:15
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# Conflicts:
#	extensions/history/index.ts
#	tests/history-session-writer.test.ts
…6-gc

# Conflicts:
#	extensions/history/index.ts
#	extensions/history/store.ts
#	tests/history-drain-order.test.ts
#	tests/history-hide-prompts.test.ts
Review follow-up on the slice-06 PR: the branch mixed the GC/lifecycle
rewrite with unrelated selector header-layout, overlay-margin, and
scope-radio changes, so reviewers could not assess the destructive store
rewrite as one bounded unit.

- Remove the layout batch: planHeaderLayout/HeaderLayoutMode,
  editorOverlayMargin, SIDEBAR_RAIL_OVERLAY_MARGIN/SIDEBAR_OVERLAY_PADDING,
  SCOPE_RADIO_* constants, and scopeRadioText from selector-helpers; drop
  their index.ts usage (header mode fields, OptionalRow, headerCountsText,
  listWheelFirstRow) and delete the header-layout and overlay-margin test
  files.
- Restore preview-layout and wheel-mouse suites byte-exact to slice-5 and
  revert the constructor child-count pins the layout batch introduced.
- Keep the GC/lifecycle work intact: gcProjectDir/compactProjectFile(s),
  thresholds, the session_shutdown GC hook, and the gc test suite; keep all
  slice-5 delete-confirm behavior and the fail-closed tombstone contract.
- Relocate a merge-misplaced doc comment above openHistorySelector.

The layout/formatting work moves to a follow-up PR so the destructive GC
rewrite and its failure tests are reviewed as one unit.
Clarify in the prompt-history docs that compaction is housekeeping for
performance: it consolidates capture files and drops the oldest entries to
bound file/line counts, but it does not remove prompts from the resulting
store and is not a data-retention or automatic-deletion policy. Prompts
leave the store only through the delete flow (or manual removal), and
compaction honors tombstones so deleted prompts stay deleted.
# Conflicts:
#	docs/prompt-history.md
#	extensions/history/index.ts
#	extensions/history/selector-helpers.ts
#	tests/history-delete-backfill.test.ts
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# Conflicts:
#	docs/prompt-history.md
#	extensions/history/index.ts
#	extensions/history/store.ts
#	tests/history-command-registration.test.ts
#	tests/history-openflow-integration.test.ts
#	tests/history-scope-delete.test.ts
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Alan-TheGentleman merged commit b322392 into Gentleman-Programming:main Sep 26, 2026
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