fix: roll back deferred workspace spawn failures - #406
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughWorkspace creation is provisional until terminal materialization. Deferred spawn failures now remove the new workspace, restore and persist the previous workspace, recover poisoned model locks, and release the surface guard across socket and GTK flows. ChangesDeferred workspace spawn rollback
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR changes workspace creation to defer commitment until terminal materialization, but the queued GTK path can still persist a workspace before a late spawn failure is known, leaving a dead workspace in saved state; this must be fixed before merge, and the related public documentation should also be synchronized. Suggested labels: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 6✅ Passed checks (6 passed)
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In `@crates/forktty-ui-gtk/src/gtk_app/workspace_dialogs.rs`:
- Around line 83-89: Update the spawn flow around
spawn_surface_gtk_with_failure_handler so queued GTK work does not call
save_session_from_state before deferred terminal materialization; distinguish
immediate synchronous completion from deferred enqueueing and save only for the
synchronous branch, leaving controller materialization as the queued-path commit
point.
In `@docs/design/2026-08-20-deferred-workspace-spawn-rollback.md`:
- Around line 125-129: Synchronize the separate public-site checkout with the
updated workspace recovery behavior, completing its pending recovery-note
changes; then run that checkout’s tests and production build and resolve any
failures before merge.
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| if let Err(err) = spawn_surface_gtk_with_failure_handler(state, &surface, Some(failure_handler)) | ||
| { | ||
| return Err(err.to_string()); | ||
| } | ||
| drop(surface_set_guard); | ||
| // Synchronous backends disarm before returning, so persist their commit | ||
| // now. GTK still owns the surface guard here; controller materialization | ||
| // performs the authoritative save for the queued production path. |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Do not persist before queued terminal materialization.
The queued GTK path returns Ok(()) after enqueueing the spawn. This new path then reaches save_session_from_state on Line 90 while the deferred failure handler remains armed. It can persist the provisional workspace before materialization.
Return an immediate-versus-deferred completion status from the spawn boundary, or save only from the synchronous completion branch. Keep the controller save as the queued-path commit point.
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In `@crates/forktty-ui-gtk/src/gtk_app/workspace_dialogs.rs` around lines 83 - 89,
Update the spawn flow around spawn_surface_gtk_with_failure_handler so queued
GTK work does not call save_session_from_state before deferred terminal
materialization; distinguish immediate synchronous completion from deferred
enqueueing and save only for the synchronous branch, leaving controller
materialization as the queued-path commit point.
| - **Public site/docs:** the separate site checkout contains unrelated local | ||
| changes, so this task must report the pending `app/docs/page.tsx`, | ||
| `public/llms.txt`, and `public/llms-full.txt` recovery-note update rather than | ||
| mixing worktrees. This brief, `SPEC.md`, and `CHANGELOG.md` record the source | ||
| contract. |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Synchronize the public site before merge.
This change modifies user-visible workspace recovery behavior. The document leaves the forktty-site recovery note pending. Update that checkout and run its tests and build before merge.
As per coding guidelines, “When public behavior, install flows, release assets, screenshots, privacy/security wording, hooks, Ghostty integration, settings, or visible UI changes, synchronize the separate forktty-site checkout and run its tests and build.”
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In `@docs/design/2026-08-20-deferred-workspace-spawn-rollback.md` around lines 125
- 129, Synchronize the separate public-site checkout with the updated workspace
recovery behavior, completing its pending recovery-note changes; then run that
checkout’s tests and production build and resolve any failures before merge.
Source: Coding guidelines
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Summary
Root cause
GtkTerminalBackend reports successful enqueue before embedded Ghostty materializes a surface. Workspace creation treated that enqueue as the runtime commit, dropped its guard, and could persist a dead workspace. Tabs and splits already carried deferred compensation; workspace creation did not.
Verification
Scope
Worktree Create/Attach and destructive replacement-close transactions are intentionally left out because they own additional filesystem/runtime rollback semantics and need a separate commit-after-materialization design.
The separate forktty-site checkout was not modified because it already contains unrelated local work. The pending documentation follow-up is limited to app/docs/page.tsx, public/llms.txt, and public/llms-full.txt.
User-visible changes
GTK/VTE
Socket/core Rust
deferred_workspace_creation_failure_handler.Tests
Security and privacy
PATHand session-state changes from affecting parallel tests.