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Summary

  • add a versioned, bounded NDJSON workspace operation journal with secret redaction, corruption tolerance, and restrictive filesystem permissions
  • tee lifecycle status events into the journal without changing existing human output or making journal failures fatal
  • add devsy workspace events in plain and JSON modes and expose lastOperation from workspace status JSON
  • cover up/reset/rebuild, stop, delete, and hidden import lifecycle paths
  • document the v1 local event contract; desktop UI and hosted synchronization remain out of scope

Validation

  • go test ./pkg/workspacejournal -count=1
  • go test ./pkg/status ./pkg/client -count=1
  • gofmt and git diff --check
  • exact published branch tree verified against the locally tested implementation

The broader ./cmd/workspace ./cmd/workspace/up test invocation exceeded the local 110-second execution window without reporting a failure. CI should run the repository checks.

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  • New Features

    • Added workspace events to view recent workspace operation history in table or JSON format.
    • Workspace status JSON now includes details about the most recent operation, including its outcome and errors.
    • Workspace start, import, stop, and delete activity is now recorded for later review.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved visibility into workspace operation failures by preserving error messages, hints, and context in operation history.

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The change adds a rolling workspace operation journal. Workspace commands write status events to it, workspace events reads them, and JSON workspace status exposes the latest terminal operation. Tests validate persistence, retention, redaction, event output, and status integration.

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Workspace journal and event visibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Journal storage and retention
pkg/workspacejournal/journal.go, pkg/workspacejournal/journal_test.go
Adds segmented NDJSON storage, secret redaction, size-based rotation and pruning, filtered reads, terminal-event lookup, and focused journal tests.
Operation reporting integration
cmd/workspace/journal.go, cmd/workspace/up/journal.go, cmd/workspace/{delete,import,status_reporter,stop}.go, cmd/workspace/up/up.go, pkg/status/status.go
Attaches workspace operation reporters to the journal for delete, import, stop, and up operations. Adds the importing-workspace phase and label.
Event command and status representation
cmd/workspace/events.go, cmd/workspace/workspace.go, cmd/workspace/status.go, pkg/client/client.go
Adds the workspace events command with JSON and table output. Adds LastOperation and its supporting public types to workspace status.
Journal-backed operation validation
e2e/tests/up/up.go
Validates journal JSON output and confirms that workspace status reports the successful workspace-up operation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant WorkspaceCommand
  participant StatusReporter
  participant WorkspaceJournal
  participant EventsCommand
  participant StatusCommand
  WorkspaceCommand->>StatusReporter: report workspace operation
  StatusReporter->>WorkspaceJournal: append workspace event
  EventsCommand->>WorkspaceJournal: read workspace events
  WorkspaceJournal-->>EventsCommand: return filtered events
  StatusCommand->>WorkspaceJournal: read last terminal event
  WorkspaceJournal-->>StatusCommand: return operation summary
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Workspace history can omit valid operations, and delete setup failures lose expected plain and JSON failure output. Correct both regressions before merge.

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Review updates pushed:

  • removed docs/contracts/workspace-operation-events-v1.md from this repository
  • switched plain workspace events output to the shared pkg/table renderer used by other DevSy CLI tables
  • added E2E coverage to the existing local-workspace lifecycle test, proving workspace up persists queryable JSON events and feeds workspace status --output json lastOperation
  • split journal reading into smaller functions and fixed formatting, complexity, modernization, and gosec findings

The contract was not copied into another repository yet. operating-system may be the right consolidated home, but repository-purpose access was blocked by the organization's OAuth restriction during this run, and the review asked for placement to be grounded before publishing elsewhere.

Local checks now pass for journal/status/client unit tests, the workspace command build, E2E package compilation, formatting, diff checks, and scoped journal lint. Pre-commit and full lint are running again in CI; this remains a draft until both are green.

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In `@cmd/workspace/delete.go`:
- Around line 90-94: Update the multi-workspace deletion flow in deleteMultiple
so each iteration wraps the output reporter with only that target’s
withWorkspaceJournal reporter, then passes it via status.WithReporter to
deleteWorkspace. Preserve the existing single-workspace behavior and avoid
sharing or combining journal reporters across targets.

In `@cmd/workspace/import.go`:
- Line 103: Update execute and the import flow to parse the import data and call
setDefaultIDs before invoking withWorkspaceJournal, ensuring an omitted
--workspace-id uses the derived exportConfig.Workspace.ID. Reuse this parsed
configuration through an internal import helper so Run does not parse the data
again.

In `@cmd/workspace/journal.go`:
- Line 15: Wrap both journal reporter branches with status.ForPipeline using
status.PipelineWorkspaceUp before passing them to status.Tee, so the journal
receives the pipeline marker. Update cmd/workspace/journal.go at line 15 and
cmd/workspace/up/journal.go at line 15; apply the same change at both sites.

In `@cmd/workspace/stop.go`:
- Line 67: Update NewStopCmd/runArgs so the reporter created for normal
workspace stop execution is wrapped with withWorkspaceJournal after resolving
the workspace, then pass that wrapped reporter to cmd.run/status.Run instead of
the unwrapped reporter.

In `@pkg/workspacejournal/journal.go`:
- Line 273: Update decodeEvent to validate schemaVersion 1 records after JSON,
SchemaVersion, and workspace checks: reject events with a zero timestamp or
empty pipeline, phase, or state, while continuing to allow optional fields to be
omitted.
- Line 186: Update activeSegment to derive the next segment filename from the
highest existing segment sequence number, not len(paths)+1; parse the existing
events filenames, find the maximum number, increment it, and preserve the
existing filename format so pruned segments cannot be reused.
- Line 261: Update readSegment to handle scanner.Err reporting an oversized line
by discarding input through the next newline, then continuing to scan subsequent
records instead of aborting the journal read. Preserve the existing behavior for
valid records and malformed JSON lines, and ensure Read can still return later
events and lastOperation data.

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  • cmd/workspace/status_reporter.go
  • cmd/workspace/stop.go
  • cmd/workspace/up/journal.go
  • cmd/workspace/up/up.go
  • cmd/workspace/workspace.go
  • e2e/tests/up/up.go
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return err
}
return cmd.Run(ctx, devsyConfig)
reporter = withWorkspaceJournal(reporter, cmd.WorkspaceID)

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

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Resolve the imported workspace ID before creating the journal reporter.

When --workspace-id is omitted, execute passes an empty cmd.WorkspaceID to withWorkspaceJournal. Run derives the workspace ID later from exportConfig.Workspace.ID. The journal reporter captures the empty ID, so persisted events have an empty WorkspaceID. Read then excludes those events when queried with the derived workspace ID.

Parse the import data and call setDefaultIDs before creating the reporter. Reuse that parsed configuration through an internal import helper instead of parsing it again in Run.

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In `@cmd/workspace/import.go` at line 103, Update execute and the import flow to
parse the import data and call setDefaultIDs before invoking
withWorkspaceJournal, ensuring an omitted --workspace-id uses the derived
exportConfig.Workspace.ID. Reuse this parsed configuration through an internal
import helper so Run does not parse the data again.

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Add a versioned, bounded NDJSON workspace operation journal with secret redaction, corruption tolerance, and restrictive filesystem permissions. Tee lifecycle status events into the journal without changing human output or making journal failures fatal. Add workspace events output and expose the last operation in workspace status JSON.
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RetriggerConfidence Score: 4/5

The PR is not yet safe to merge because argument-less workspace deletion can prompt twice and journal the operation under a workspace other than the one deleted.

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  1. P1 Delete Prompts Twice

Summary

The PR adds a bounded, redacted local workspace operation journal and exposes it through workspace events and status output. Follow-up changes resolve the previously reported import, stop, delete-key, and oversized-record concerns, but eager resolution for argument-less deletion introduces a double interactive selection.

  • Persists lifecycle events as versioned NDJSON with rotation, pruning, corruption tolerance, redaction, and restrictive permissions.
  • Adds workspace events and lastOperation status JSON data.
  • Journals workspace up, import, stop, and delete lifecycle operations.
  • Resolves explicit delete targets to workspace IDs before journaling.
Diagram
%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
  CLI[Workspace lifecycle command] --> Status[Status reporter]
  Status --> Human[Human or JSON output]
  Status --> Journal[Workspace journal reporter]
  Journal --> Redact[Redact environment secrets]
  Redact --> Bound[Apply record and segment bounds]
  Bound --> NDJSON[Private NDJSON segments]
  NDJSON --> Events[workspace events]
  NDJSON --> Last[lastOperation in status JSON]
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In `@cmd/workspace/delete.go`:
- Around line 90-92: Update the Run configuration-loading path around loadConfig
so errors are passed to status.Run using the base reporter before returning,
ensuring both plain and JSON modes emit the delete-operation failure event while
preserving the existing success flow.

In `@pkg/workspacejournal/journal.go`:
- Line 283: Align the record-size handling in Append and the reader used by Read
and Last: replace the hard-coded 64 KiB limit with the same
maxSegmentBytes-based limit accepted by writes, and enforce that shared limit
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return status.Run(ctx, reporter, status.Operation{Phase: status.PhaseDeletingWorkspace},
func(context.Context) error { return err })
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workspaceIDs := resolveJournalWorkspaceIDs(ctx, devsyConfig, cmd.Owner, args)

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P1 Delete Prompts Twice

When workspace delete is run without an argument, this eager journal-ID lookup opens the interactive workspace selector. The existing delete path then opens the selector again. The user can choose different workspaces, causing the operation to be journaled under the first selection while the second selection is actually deleted. Resolve the target once and reuse its client and ID for deletion and journaling.

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