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fix(webview): detect dead webview renderer via heartbeat and auto-reload - #1715
Closes: #1675 (mitigation; the underlying memory-growth investigation remains in #630 / #1542).
Description
A dead webview renderer leaves Zoo Code with a gray sidebar or tab while task execution continues in the extension host. This PR detects missing renderer heartbeats and repairs the affected interface without automatically reloading the VS Code window.
The webview sends a heartbeat on mount and every 30 seconds. The extension checks every 60 seconds. A visible view with no heartbeat for more than 90 seconds starts recovery. Hidden views and late watchdog ticks receive a new grace window so throttling or host suspension does not trigger an immediate reload.
Recovery first assigns fresh HTML to the affected webview. If no heartbeat arrives within ten seconds, it recreates that host. Sidebar recovery checks that the scoped remove-view and focus commands exist before using them. Tab recovery creates a replacement panel and guards disposal by panel identity. Both paths retain the provider and its task stack, including an interrupted task.
Every attempt counts, including HTML-generation failures. Three attempts exhaust the budget. One startup heartbeat does not refill it: periodic heartbeats must span 60 seconds of sustained health. Exhaustion or failed/unavailable host recreation logs a warning and offers Reload Window or Show Logs. A window reload requires the user's action. A late action from an old warning is ignored after heartbeats return.
Recovery rechecks ownership, disposal, visibility and heartbeat revisions after asynchronous work. An obsolete operation cannot overwrite a replacement view. HTML generation uses the normal development/production selection. The development-server probe has a five-second timeout with a translated timeout message in all 18 locales; a timeout stays distinct from an unavailable server.
The Electron test harness shares isolated VS Code setup between visual and heartbeat scenarios. The heartbeat project uses production timers and a local mock provider. It covers stopped heartbeat delivery, real renderer-process termination with task preservation, and a sidebar hidden past the stale threshold.
Test Procedure
Run provider tests: pnpm --dir src exec vitest run core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts.
Run the webview heartbeat tests: pnpm --dir webview-ui exec vitest run src/__tests__/App.spec.tsx.
Run type checks: pnpm --dir src run check-types and pnpm --filter @roo-code/vscode-e2e check-types.
Build Electron fixtures: pnpm --filter @roo-code/vscode-e2e visual:build.
Run the smoke suite: xvfb-run -a pnpm --filter @roo-code/vscode-e2e exec playwright test -c playwright-electron.config.ts --project=heartbeat.
At pushed head 437abced0b, all three Electron smoke scenarios passed. Stopped heartbeats triggered document recovery. Terminating the isolated webview renderer restored the task UI, preserved the same task stack, and resumed periodic heartbeats. Hiding the sidebar past the stale threshold preserved its document. The hidden-sidebar scenario passed on a focused rerun after an overnight clock jump caused the first run's controller deadline to expire. This is not evidence for OS suspend/resume behavior.
Review follow-up awaiting push
The following changes are currently local and uncommitted, rather than part of 437abced0b:
Increase the crash-recovery poll from 150 to 210 seconds and correct its timing comment.
Assert that recovery ownership clears after sidebar, tab and failed recreation. Cover a second incident, the real ten-second replacement wait, disposal, delayed replacement, and slow HTML generation.
Retain sidebar recovery intent after the bounded wait expires, so a late replacement cannot refill the incident budget or evict an interrupted task. Capture that intent before asynchronous resolution.
Raise the Extension Host visual CI job timeout from 20 to 35 minutes for setup, builds, repeated visual scenes and the production heartbeat waits.
Update the heartbeat documentation without relying on an intermediate commit SHA.
Local follow-up validation: all 280 provider tests pass; extension and E2E type checks pass; targeted ESLint and formatting checks pass. Existing ESLint suppression counts did not increase. The extension and production webview build pass. The real renderer-crash Electron scenario also passes against the rebuilt local follow-up (2.8 minutes), including task-stack preservation and resumed periodic heartbeats.
Pre-Submission Checklist
Issue Linked: This PR is linked to an approved GitHub Issue (see "Related GitHub Issue" above).
Scope: My changes are focused on the linked issue (one major feature/fix per PR).
Self-Review: I have performed a thorough self-review of my code.
Testing: New and/or updated tests have been added to cover my changes (if applicable).
Updated apps/vscode-e2e/src/visual/heartbeat.md with recovery behavior, limits, test instructions and manual-check boundaries.
Additional Notes
Known limitations
Recreating the webview can lose unsent composer text, pending image attachments and scroll position. The extension-host task stack is retained.
Sidebar recreation uses generated VS Code commands. They are checked before use and exercised against the pinned VS Code version, but they are not a stable extension API contract.
A replacement that takes longer than ten seconds can show a failure warning before later heartbeats restore liveness. The local follow-up preserves its task and incident budget; it does not extend the production ten-second wait.
The heartbeat timestamp from the webview is not trusted for timing; the extension uses its own clock.
Electron tests do not reproduce OS minimize/sleep/resume scheduling. Those remain manual checks. Slow replacement beyond ten seconds is covered by provider tests, not by a deliberately delayed real VS Code replacement.
This PR mitigates renderer failure. It does not resolve the underlying memory growth tracked in #630 / #1542.
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Webviews recover automatically when a visible view stops responding.
Recovery is paused while a view is hidden and canceled if it is hidden, replaced, or disposed during recovery.
Automatic recovery is limited to three attempts, with the limit reset after sustained activity.
Sidebar task state is preserved during host recovery, and closing an older tab no longer clears its replacement.
If recovery fails, options are provided to retry, reload the VS Code window, or view logs.
If the local development server does not respond within five seconds, the built extension interface is used instead.
New Features
Webviews send periodic activity signals with a timestamp.
Added a command to retry interface recovery while retaining the current task.
The webview sends periodic heartbeats. ClineProvider tracks heartbeat age and visibility, then reloads or recreates a stale visible webview under bounded recovery rules. The changes add retry controls, unit and Electron tests, and model-checking coverage for recovery and view lifecycle behavior.
Changes: Webview heartbeat and recovery
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Summary
Heartbeat protocol and client emission packages/types/src/vscode-extension-host.ts, webview-ui/src/App.tsx, src/core/webview/webviewMessageHandler.ts, webview-ui/src/__tests__/App.spec.tsx
The message type accepts webviewHeartbeat with an optional timestamp. App sends a heartbeat on mount and every 30 seconds, and the handler records it through ClineProvider. Tests check message timing and interval cleanup.
ClineProvider checks visible views for heartbeats older than 90 seconds every 60 seconds. It resets grace after delayed ticks or visibility changes, and limits recovery to three attempts until 60 seconds of healthy heartbeats. It assigns regenerated HTML only while the provider and view remain current and visible. If no heartbeat returns within 10 seconds, it attempts host recreation. Failures offer retry, Reload Window, or Show Logs. The HMR probe times out after five seconds and uses production HTML on probe failure. The retry command targets the visible provider or the registered provider. Tests cover recovery, cancellation, budgets, disposal, tabs, panel replacement, and probe failures. Localized strings cover the HMR timeout and retry command.
Recovery model checking scripts/check-webview-recovery.ts, scripts/tsconfig.webview-recovery.json, package.json, .github/workflows/code-qa.yml, docs/architecture/webview-recovery-model.md
A bounded checker explores recovery ownership and sidebar and tab host transitions using production policy functions. It checks policy contracts, required reachable states, and representative faulty policies. CI runs the checker and its type check; documentation describes the model and its limits.
Electron recovery scenarios and shared harness apps/vscode-e2e/src/visual/electronHarness.ts, apps/vscode-e2e/src/visual/heartbeat.electron.ts, apps/vscode-e2e/src/visual/electron.visual.ts, apps/vscode-e2e/src/visual/sceneController.ts, apps/vscode-e2e/playwright-electron.config.ts, apps/vscode-e2e/src/visual/heartbeat.md, .github/workflows/visual-regression.yml
A shared Electron harness manages VS Code scenes, optional mocks, artifacts, and cleanup. The heartbeat project tests blocked heartbeat delivery, renderer termination, and sidebar retention. Scene polling supports configurable timeouts and probe requests that publish a fresh theme fixture with current task IDs. The Playwright configuration runs the heartbeat project once and retains the visual project's existing repeat rule. Documentation describes the scenarios and test commands. The visual-regression job timeout increases from 20 to 35 minutes.
sequenceDiagram
participant App
participant webviewMessageHandler
participant ClineProvider
participant WebviewHost
App->>webviewMessageHandler: Send webviewHeartbeat with timestamp
webviewMessageHandler->>ClineProvider: Record heartbeat
ClineProvider->>ClineProvider: Check heartbeat age and visibility
ClineProvider->>WebviewHost: Recreate host if HTML reload does not restore heartbeats
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Possibly related issues
Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code#2156: The PR detects an unresponsive renderer and reloads the affected webview, but does not address the rendering cause.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 4c8b6
The recovery changes have no established production-blocking defect in the available evidence. The renderer-termination test can time out despite individually successful phases; reconcile its timing allowances. Late host-command ordering remains unverified.
Security Architecture Review
Security architecture risk:🔵 Low · up to 09855
Recovery is limited to the current visible webview, with safeguards against disposal, replacement and concurrent recovery. The heartbeat does not grant new task or credential authority. Runtime recovery behavior remains less certain than the source-level controls.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
observed — The new recovery sink is HTML assignment to the owning provider's current visible view. Its post-await checks prevent obsolete recovery from assigning HTML to a replaced or disposed view.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — A script already able to send messages through the webview channel can report liveness and postpone watchdog recovery. This is limited recovery influence: the new message case does not invoke task, filesystem, credential or agent-operation sinks.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Messages from replaced views are rejected by a view-identity check. Heartbeat decisions use host time rather than renderer-supplied time, and recovery rechecks identity, epoch, heartbeat revision and visibility after asynchronous work. These are lifecycle controls, not additional message authentication.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Repeated resolution of the same live view can register additional message listeners in both the base and head. Automatic recovery does not invoke that resolver, so the inspected change does not establish increased exposure through this pre-existing lifecycle gap.
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Lifecycle Resource Cleanup
Same-view re-resolution still leaks view-scoped resources. initializeWebviewView calls clearWebviewResources() only when this.view !== webviewView (ClineProvider.ts:1126-1130), then registers an…
Make resolveWebviewView idempotent for the current view, or dispose and replace the current view's subscriptions before registering a new set while preserving recovery epoch and watchdog ownership. Add a regression test that resolves the …
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Title check
The title clearly identifies the main change: heartbeat-based detection and automatic recovery of dead webview renderers. It is concise and specific. The implementation reloads or recreates the affect…
Description check
The description is complete and directly related to the change. It includes the linked issue, implementation details, recovery behavior, limitations, test procedures, reported results, documentation u…
Linked Issues check
Directly linked issue [#1675] asks for an error and recovery path for the gray screen. Its expected result is "Error and recovery." The PR mitigates this by detecting renderer failure and recovering t…
Out of Scope Changes check
The changes map to the recovery objective of [#1675] or to its verification:
Focused provider coverage now exercises the stale initial-resolution paths. ClineProvider.spec.ts:1878-1924 defers initial HTML, covers resolve and rejection, invalidates the epoch, checks that stal…
Security Boundaries
No changed path meets the security failure conditions. In src/core/webview/webviewMessageHandler.ts, the new webviewHeartbeat case records liveness only; it does not use the supplied timestamp or …
Persistence Integrity
No changed persistence path meets the failure condition. Recovery keeps the existing task registry and skips removeClineFromStack() when recoveringHost is true. Tab disposal clears the panel refer…
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The title clearly identifies the main change: heartbeat-based detection and automatic recovery of dead webview renderers. It is concise and specific. The implementation reloads or recreates the affected webview host rather than automatically reloading the VS Code window.
Full details: Description check
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The description is complete and directly related to the change. It includes the linked issue, implementation details, recovery behavior, limitations, test procedures, reported results, documentation updates, and checklist items. It does not explicitly include the template's Writing Style or Test Helpers checklist items, but the required information is otherwise substantially covered.
Full details: Linked Issues check
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Directly linked issue [#1675] asks for an error and recovery path for the gray screen. Its expected result is "Error and recovery." The PR mitigates this by detecting renderer failure and recovering the view. Evidence at head 4c8b6cf, per the whole-PR summary:
Detection: webview-ui/src/App.tsx sends webviewHeartbeat on mount and every 30 seconds. ClineProvider.ts runs a 60-second watchdog. A visible view with no heartbeat for more than 90 seconds starts recovery. Hidden views and delayed ticks receive a new grace window.
Recovery: ClineProvider.ts reloads HTML first. If no heartbeat arrives within ten seconds, it recreates the sidebar or tab host. Provider and task state is retained. The sidebar path checks command availability before use. The tab path guards disposal by panel identity.
Bounded budget: webviewRecoveryPolicy.ts limits attempts to three. Sixty seconds of periodic health resets the budget.
User fallback: exhaustion or failed recreation shows a warning with Reload Window, Show Logs, or Retry. Reload requires user action.
Stale-operation guards: recovery rechecks ownership, disposal, visibility, and heartbeat revision after async work.
Automated tests: ClineProvider.spec.ts covers stale detection, grace windows, budget, host replacement, and guards. App.spec.tsx covers heartbeat timing. heartbeat.electron.ts covers stopped heartbeats, real renderer termination with task-stack preservation, and hidden-sidebar retention.
The PR does not fix the underlying memory growth. It states this limit and points to #630 / #1542. The issue text does not require that root-cause fix. The issue's stated expected result is recovery, so this requirement is met at the reviewed head.
Limits of this assessment: it relies on the whole-PR summary and the PR description. The author reports the Electron and unit test results at head 437abce and later heads. This review did not rerun tests. The local uncommitted follow-up changes described in the PR body are not part of the reviewed head. They were not assessed.
Full details: Out of Scope Changes check
Explanation
The changes map to the recovery objective of [#1675] or to its verification:
Recovery command: retryWebviewRecovery in registerCommands.ts, packages/types/src/vscode.ts, src/package.json, and its localized titles. It is the user-facing retry for the recovery fallback.
Tab disposal guard in registerCommands.ts: prevents a closed old panel from clearing its replacement. This supports the tab recovery path.
HMR probe timeout (errors.hmr_probe_timeout in the 18 locale files and the probe in ClineProvider.ts): HTML generation during recovery uses this probe. A five-second bound keeps recovery from stalling on an unresponsive dev server. The PR description states this link.
Tests and harness: ClineProvider.spec.ts, App.spec.tsx, registerCommands.spec.ts, and the Electron harness split (electronHarness.ts, electron.visual.ts, heartbeat.electron.ts, sceneController.ts, playwright-electron.config.ts). These validate the recovery behavior. The visual harness split supports the heartbeat scenarios.
Documentation: heartbeat.md and docs/architecture/webview-recovery-model.md.
Verification tooling: scripts/check-webview-recovery.ts, scripts/tsconfig.webview-recovery.json, and the package.json scripts. The model checker exercises the production recovery policy helpers. The code-qa.yml change runs it in CI.
CI: visual-regression.yml raises the Extension Host visual job timeout. The PR description states that the heartbeat waits and repeated scenes need the time.
eslint-suppressions.json: one suppression count drops from 196 to 195. This is a test-file change in the recovery test suite and does not add suppressions.
No change was found that is unrelated to gray-screen recovery. The verification tooling and CI changes are larger than a minimal fix. They support the same recovery path, so they are in scope. A reviewer comment says the PR will be split. That is a process decision and does not make the current changes out of scope.
Full details: Regression Evidence
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Focused provider coverage now exercises the stale initial-resolution paths. ClineProvider.spec.ts:1878-1924 defers initial HTML, covers resolve and rejection, invalidates the epoch, checks that stale HTML and message listeners are not installed, and verifies a replacement view works. :1927-1967 defers state hydration and verifies stale state cannot change terminal settings. Existing disposal and replacement tests also verify epoch cleanup and recovery ownership. No durable visible UI change requires a component snapshot here. Prior failure addressed: Commit 4c8b6cf adds deferred initial HTML resolve/reject and deferred hydration tests. They invalidate the resolve epoch, assert stale setup is skipped, and verify a healthy replacement remains operational.
Full details: Security Boundaries
Explanation
No changed path meets the security failure conditions. In src/core/webview/webviewMessageHandler.ts, the new webviewHeartbeat case records liveness only; it does not use the supplied timestamp or execute input. In src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts, recovery executes only fixed, provider-scoped VS Code commands after checking command availability and current-view/generation state. Window reload requires an explicit warning action. The HMR probe remains loopback-only and now has a fixed timeout. No changed production path exposes secrets or PII, invokes a shell, or bypasses an approval or allowlist control.
Full details: Persistence Integrity
Explanation
No changed persistence path meets the failure condition. Recovery keeps the existing task registry and skips removeClineFromStack() when recoveringHost is true. Tab disposal clears the panel reference only when the disposed panel is still current. Sidebar and tab replacement paths guard stale asynchronous work. The changed test protocol awaits writes and publishes probe results through a temporary file followed by rename, with cleanup on failure.
Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup
Explanation
Same-view re-resolution still leaks view-scoped resources. initializeWebviewView calls clearWebviewResources() only when this.view !== webviewView (ClineProvider.ts:1126-1130), then registers another disposal callback, message listener, focus-tracker entry, visibility listener, and configuration listener (1139-1160, 1231-1292). A repeated resolve of the same view therefore retains all prior registrations. The changed heartbeat handler dispatches every retained message listener to updateWebviewHeartbeat() (webviewMessageHandler.ts:703-706), duplicating lifecycle work after view restoration.
Resolution
Make resolveWebviewView idempotent for the current view, or dispose and replace the current view's subscriptions before registering a new set while preserving recovery epoch and watchdog ownership. Add a regression test that resolves the same view repeatedly and verifies one disposal callback, one message listener, one focus-tracker entry, one visibility listener, and one configuration listener. Verify that replacement and final disposal release every registration.
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In `@src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts`:
- Around line 701-703: Extend the reload command test around
vscode.commands.executeCommand to mock a rejected promise, advance the fake
timers, and assert that mockOutputChannel.appendLine receives the expected
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In `@src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts`:
- Line 3424: Replace the global workbench.action.webview.reloadWebviewAction
call in the watchdog handling this.view with an instance-scoped helper that
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Stop the watchdog when the sidebar webview is disposed.
This call starts an interval for both panel types. The sidebar disposal path at Line 1145 only calls clearWebviewResources(). It does not clear webviewWatchdogInterval or remove the disposed this.view reference.
The interval can continue polling a disposed view for the remaining provider lifetime. Move watchdog cleanup into clearWebviewResources() or a shared stopWebviewWatchdog() helper. Clear this.view when it refers to the disposed view.
Add a sidebar-disposal test that advances timers and verifies that no recovery reload occurs.
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In `@src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts` at line 1090, Update the sidebar disposal
path around clearWebviewResources() and the watchdog started by
startWebviewWatchdog() so disposal always clears webviewWatchdogInterval and
removes the disposed this.view reference. Reuse a shared stopWebviewWatchdog()
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In `@src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts`:
- Around line 748-749: Update the test around resolveWebviewView to assert
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The watchdog fires reloadWebviewForRecovery() without tracking it, so the
recovery could reassign webview.html after the provider was disposed or the
watched view was disposed/replaced while the HTML was being generated.
Track the operation with an epoch token: capture it before the await and
bail out before assigning webview.html when the provider is disposed, the
epoch changed, or this.view no longer references the captured view.
clearWebviewResources() bumps the epoch so sidebar view disposal and
provider disposal invalidate any in-flight recovery.
Also add fake-timer watchdog coverage for the tab-panel branch
(WebviewPanel shape): a hidden tab does not reload, the
onDidChangeViewState callback resets the heartbeat grace window when the
tab becomes visible, and a stale heartbeat reloads a visible tab.
Address two minor review threads on the watchdog spec:
- Cover the reload rejection path: stub the recovery HTML regeneration to
reject and assert the failure is logged and webview.html is untouched.
- Assert the watchdog interval was actually scheduled before the sidebar
disposal test disposes the view, so the post-disposal null check proves
the watchdog was stopped rather than never having started.
@coderabbitai review — head is now ba72a4e. Both warnings addressed: (1) Regression Evidence — tab-panel branch coverage added (WebviewPanel-shaped mock: hidden tab no reload, becoming visible resets grace, stale heartbeat reloads). (2) Lifecycle Resource Cleanup — reloadWebviewForRecovery now captures an epoch token and bails without assigning webview.html when the provider is disposed, the epoch changed, or the view was replaced; covered by 3 mid-recovery fake-timer tests. The two minor test threads also landed (reload-rejection reinterpreted onto the current path — the old command no longer exists; watchdog-active precondition assertion). 175/175 ClineProvider tests pass.
Assert the recovery budget after each heartbeat in the replenishment test.
The check at ClineProvider.spec.ts:1256-1264 asserts only the final assignHtml count. With a 30 s healthy window, the attempt counter resets at the heartbeat at line 1260. The final count still reads 4, so this early reset passes the test. Assert the counter after each heartbeat. A premature reset then fails the test.
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1258 - 1262:
Update the webview recovery replenishment test around `updateWebviewHeartbeat`
to assert `webviewRecoveryAttempts` after each heartbeat: capture a positive
count before the first heartbeat, verify it remains unchanged through the
30-second healthy window, and verify it resets to zero only after the full
recovery interval. Keep the final `assignHtml` count assertion.
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- Line 94: Move the directory creation in startScene into the existing try block
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extensionsPath also reach the catch cleanup for temporaryRoot.
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Review comments at @src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts:
- Around line 3621-3622: Update the recovery-attempt-limit check in the watchdog
to skip reportWebviewRecoveryFailure while webviewRecoveryInFlightEpoch matches
webviewRecoveryEpoch. Once the current recovery settles and the marker is
released, allow a later stale-view tick to report the failure.
- Around line 3813-3814: Update the Reload Window confirmation flow to capture a
dedicated heartbeat counter and compare it when handling the response, rather
than comparing webviewHeartbeatRevision, which can change during a grace reset.
Increment the counter only when a heartbeat is received; keep view replacement
and grace resets from changing it so the reload proceeds unless a new heartbeat
arrives.
---
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Review comments at @src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts:
- Around line 1258-1262: Update the webview recovery replenishment test around
`updateWebviewHeartbeat` to assert `webviewRecoveryAttempts` after each
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- Around line 3625-3627: Update getHMRHtmlContent so its Development-mode
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- Around line 3818-3819: Update the Reload Window recovery flow guarded by the
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Minor · Bound the sidebar removal and focus awaits so host recovery cannot… · ClineProvider.ts:3788-3790
src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts:3788-3790 Minor · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Bound the sidebar removal and focus awaits so host recovery cannot stay locked.
If removeView or focus never settles, webviewHostRecoveryInProgress stays true. Later recreation attempts then return at the guard without logging, and the attempt budget is not reset. Add a deadline around these awaits so the finally cleanup always runs.
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Bound the `removeView` and `focus` awaits in the sidebar recovery flow with a
deadline so either operation timing out still reaches the `finally` cleanup.
Preserve the existing recovery behavior when both operations settle, and ensure
the timeout cannot leave `webviewHostRecoveryInProgress` locked or the recovery
attempt budget unreset.
The guard at ClineProvider.ts:1253 skips removal whenever recoveringHost is true. Every existing test that resolves a view with an aborted task runs with recovery active, and each one asserts that the task is retained. No test calls resolveWebviewView with an aborted task while recovery is inactive and checks that removal runs. Disabling that removal branch would leave the current suite passing.
Add a test that:
sets task.abort = true and adds the task to provider["taskRegistry"],
spies on removeClineFromStack without mocking it,
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Add a test for the normal, non-recovery path in resolveWebviewView: register an
aborted task in taskRegistry, spy on removeClineFromStack without mocking it,
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sidebarRemoved becomes true only when the removal command's promise fulfills. If removal disposes the view but its command then rejects, the catch path clears pendingSidebarRecovery despite a replacement still being possible.
The delayed replacement may be treated as user-opened, resetting its incident budget and evicting an interrupted task.
This can occur when: The generated removeView command removes the old sidebar and rejects after that side effect; a replacement resolves later.
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- Around line 3785-3786: Update the catch path around
resolveWebviewView(replacement) to restore a valid provider state when
resolution fails after publishing the replacement. Do not simply dispose the
replacement, since that also disposes the provider and its task; ensure recovery
clears or replaces this.view and allows the existing retry mechanism to proceed.
- Around line 3803-3806: Update the catch block in ClineProvider so a focus
rejection clears pendingSidebarRecovery even when removeView succeeded; do not
leave the exhausted recovery incident’s marker for a later user-opened view.
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- Around line 3788-3790: Bound the `removeView` and `focus` awaits in the
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operations settle, and ensure the timeout cannot leave
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---
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- Line 1253: Add a test for the normal, non-recovery path in resolveWebviewView:
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Restore recovery when a sidebar replacement fails to resolve.
3795-3796: Minor · Stability & Availability · Poor tradeoff
Restore recovery when a sidebar replacement fails to resolve.
If a replacement sidebar view's resolveWebviewView rejects, no message listener or watchdog is installed. The recovery wait then times out, shows a warning, and leaves the sidebar noninteractive. The tab path restores its watchdog, but the sidebar path has no equivalent. Restoring the watchdog alone does not retry, because reporting the failure exhausts the recovery budget. The fix belongs in resolveWebviewView, since VS Code calls it for the sidebar.
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Update the replacement-failure handling in resolveWebviewView to retry sidebar
recovery when resolving the replacement view rejects, ensuring the failure does
not exhaust the recovery budget before another attempt. Do not rely on
restarting the watchdog alone; the sidebar must regain its message listener and
become interactive.
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- Around line 3839-3840: Update the recovery-stop handling around
webviewRecoveryFailureReported so a terminal stop records its final failure
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The test named "keeps retries available when a published sidebar rejects after the replacement wait" never advances timers after rejectHtml runs. Its assertions hold whether or not a watchdog tick retries. The getWebviewHtml mock also returns a new pending promise on each call, so a retry would not resolve. Replace the mock with one that resolves distinct HTML, advance timers past the stale-heartbeat window, and assert attempt 2 and the replacement's HTML. The existing assertions before the advance stay unchanged.
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A failed focus command clears pendingSidebarRecovery immediately. If VS Code has already scheduled an independent replacement resolution, that late resolver may classify the view as an ordinary open and apply ordinary task cleanup.
An interrupted task retained for UI repair may be evicted when the late replacement initializes.
This can occur when: Sidebar removal succeeds, focus rejects after scheduling a replacement resolve, and that resolve begins after the failure handler clears the marker and releases host-recovery ownership.
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- Around line 3859-3862: Update the recovery handling around
replacementPublished and reportWebviewRecoveryFailure so a timed-out wait does
not leave the next manually opened sidebar inheriting the prior incident’s
exhausted attempt budget or reported-failure state. Keep the recovery marker
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Minor · Bound the automatic renderer-termination test's sequential waits… · heartbeat.electron.ts:130-136
apps/vscode-e2e/src/visual/heartbeat.electron.ts:130-136 Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Bound the automatic renderer-termination test's sequential waits to its 8-minute budget.
The automatic case in heartbeat.electron.ts runs several waits in sequence under one test.setTimeout(8 * 60_000). Their individual limits sum to more than 8 minutes. Each wait can finish inside its own limit and still exhaust the whole-test timeout. Playwright then fails the test during the probe or cleanup phase, even though no single operation failed.
Either raise the test timeout so it covers the sum of the per-phase limits, or lower the per-phase limits so their sum fits in the budget. The sum is about 13 minutes of allowances in the worst case, so the timeout alone would need a value near that figure.
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Starting a new generation resets extension-side ownership but cannot cancel a focus or remove command already issued by the old generation. A late host effect could replace a successfully retried view after the new operation has cleared its pending marker.
The newly repaired interface can disappear, or a late replacement can reset its budget and evict an interrupted task.
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For persisted settings, verify the complete schema/storage/runtime/webview round trip, shared default semantics, and focused true plus false/unset tests.
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src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts
src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts
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src/activate/registerCommands.ts
scripts/check-webview-recovery.ts
src/core/webview/webviewRecoveryPolicy.ts
apps/vscode-e2e/src/visual/heartbeat.electron.ts
src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts
src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts
Reserve end-to-end coverage for behavior that requires the real VS Code host, workspace APIs, extension activation, webview messaging, file watchers, or a full workflow.
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Verify extension/webview contracts, cancellation and error propagation, VS Code lifecycle correctness, and behavior under retries and partial failure.
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src/package.nls.ja.json
src/package.nls.ko.json
src/package.nls.zh-CN.json
src/package.nls.pl.json
src/package.nls.de.json
src/package.json
src/package.nls.es.json
src/package.nls.json
src/package.nls.pt-BR.json
src/package.nls.ca.json
src/package.nls.id.json
src/package.nls.zh-TW.json
src/package.nls.tr.json
src/package.nls.vi.json
src/package.nls.ru.json
src/activate/__tests__/registerCommands.spec.ts
src/activate/registerCommands.ts
src/core/webview/webviewRecoveryPolicy.ts
src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts
src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts
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src/package.nls.ko.json
src/package.nls.zh-CN.json
src/package.nls.pl.json
src/package.nls.de.json
src/package.json
src/package.nls.es.json
src/package.nls.json
src/package.nls.pt-BR.json
src/package.nls.ca.json
src/package.nls.id.json
src/package.nls.zh-TW.json
src/package.nls.tr.json
src/package.nls.vi.json
src/package.nls.ru.json
packages/types/src/vscode.ts
docs/architecture/webview-recovery-model.md
src/activate/__tests__/registerCommands.spec.ts
src/activate/registerCommands.ts
scripts/check-webview-recovery.ts
apps/vscode-e2e/src/visual/heartbeat.md
src/core/webview/webviewRecoveryPolicy.ts
apps/vscode-e2e/src/visual/heartbeat.electron.ts
src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts
src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts
Source excerpt: Keep the Electron matrix limited to high-value shell integration scenes that require the real VS Code host.
Learnt from: edelauna
Repo: Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code PR: 1715
File: src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts:3863-3866
Timestamp: 2026-10-31T20:26:37.203Z
Learning: Within repository "Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code", only for files matching one of ["src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts"]: When reviewing sidebar recovery in src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts, do not infer manual-open intent or focus-request ownership from a resolve callback after a timeout. While a recovery marker is pending, verify that ambiguous late or manual resolves preserve the existing incident budget. Accept an explicit user retry as authorization for a fresh bounded incident, and verify that generation or epoch guards prevent stale extension-side continuations from changing that incident. Do not treat these guards as cancellation of VS Code commands already issued.
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apps/vscode-e2e/src/visual/heartbeat.electron.ts
[warning] 204-204: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.writeFile(${running.donePath}.probe, "probe")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
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[warning] 207-207: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.readFile(${running.donePath}.probe.result, "utf8")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
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Related GitHub Issue
Closes: #1675 (mitigation; the underlying memory-growth investigation remains in #630 / #1542).
Description
A dead webview renderer leaves Zoo Code with a gray sidebar or tab while task execution continues in the extension host. This PR detects missing renderer heartbeats and repairs the affected interface without automatically reloading the VS Code window.
The webview sends a heartbeat on mount and every 30 seconds. The extension checks every 60 seconds. A visible view with no heartbeat for more than 90 seconds starts recovery. Hidden views and late watchdog ticks receive a new grace window so throttling or host suspension does not trigger an immediate reload.
Recovery first assigns fresh HTML to the affected webview. If no heartbeat arrives within ten seconds, it recreates that host. Sidebar recovery checks that the scoped remove-view and focus commands exist before using them. Tab recovery creates a replacement panel and guards disposal by panel identity. Both paths retain the provider and its task stack, including an interrupted task.
Every attempt counts, including HTML-generation failures. Three attempts exhaust the budget. One startup heartbeat does not refill it: periodic heartbeats must span 60 seconds of sustained health. Exhaustion or failed/unavailable host recreation logs a warning and offers Reload Window or Show Logs. A window reload requires the user's action. A late action from an old warning is ignored after heartbeats return.
Recovery rechecks ownership, disposal, visibility and heartbeat revisions after asynchronous work. An obsolete operation cannot overwrite a replacement view. HTML generation uses the normal development/production selection. The development-server probe has a five-second timeout with a translated timeout message in all 18 locales; a timeout stays distinct from an unavailable server.
The Electron test harness shares isolated VS Code setup between visual and heartbeat scenarios. The heartbeat project uses production timers and a local mock provider. It covers stopped heartbeat delivery, real renderer-process termination with task preservation, and a sidebar hidden past the stale threshold.
Test Procedure
pnpm --dir src exec vitest run core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts.pnpm --dir webview-ui exec vitest run src/__tests__/App.spec.tsx.pnpm --dir src run check-typesandpnpm --filter @roo-code/vscode-e2e check-types.pnpm --filter @roo-code/vscode-e2e visual:build.xvfb-run -a pnpm --filter @roo-code/vscode-e2e exec playwright test -c playwright-electron.config.ts --project=heartbeat.At pushed head
437abced0b, all three Electron smoke scenarios passed. Stopped heartbeats triggered document recovery. Terminating the isolated webview renderer restored the task UI, preserved the same task stack, and resumed periodic heartbeats. Hiding the sidebar past the stale threshold preserved its document. The hidden-sidebar scenario passed on a focused rerun after an overnight clock jump caused the first run's controller deadline to expire. This is not evidence for OS suspend/resume behavior.Review follow-up awaiting push
The following changes are currently local and uncommitted, rather than part of
437abced0b:Local follow-up validation: all 280 provider tests pass; extension and E2E type checks pass; targeted ESLint and formatting checks pass. Existing ESLint suppression counts did not increase. The extension and production webview build pass. The real renderer-crash Electron scenario also passes against the rebuilt local follow-up (2.8 minutes), including task-stack preservation and resumed periodic heartbeats.
Pre-Submission Checklist
apps/vscode-e2e/src/visual/heartbeat.md.Visual Snapshots
N/A.
Videos (interaction / animation only)
N/A.
Documentation Updates
Updated
apps/vscode-e2e/src/visual/heartbeat.mdwith recovery behavior, limits, test instructions and manual-check boundaries.Additional Notes
Known limitations
This PR mitigates renderer failure. It does not resolve the underlying memory growth tracked in #630 / #1542.
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