desktop: file sidebar does not refresh when files or folders change on disk #50666

Summary

In the OpenCode desktop app the file explorer sidebar shows a stale listing. Files and folders created, renamed, moved, or deleted on disk do not appear or disappear until the app is restarted.

Environment

• opencode version: desktop 2.0.14 (OpenCode.exe FileVersion 2.0.14.0); server/CLI also reports v2.0.12
• OS: Windows 11 (Windows_NT 10.0.26200)
• Terminal: desktop app (GUI), no terminal environment
• Shell: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
• Install/channel: latest, installed at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\@opencodedesktop (updater channel latest)
• Active plugins: none found in config

Reproduction

1. Open a project in the OpenCode desktop app (e.g. C:\Users\...\Projects\CubeSat).
2. Create a new folder named hello (through the sidebar/new-folder action, or with an external tool).
3. Observe the sidebar file list — hello does not appear.
4. Restart the app — hello now appears.
5. After restarting, create another file/folder — it again does not appear until the next restart.

The reverse is also observed: a file that was moved/deleted outside the app stayed listed in the sidebar until a restart.

Expected Behavior

The sidebar file list updates without a restart when files or folders are created, renamed, moved, or deleted on disk.

Actual Behavior

The sidebar keeps a stale snapshot: newly created items are missing and deleted/moved items remain visible. Reproducible consistently, both for changes made through the app and through external tools. Only a full app restart refreshes the list.

Additional Context

• The server log shows a watcher is registered on the project root, plus watchers on AGENTS.md and the skill directories:

  message="watcher started" path="C:\Users\...\Projects\CubeSat" type=entries backend=node ignores=0
  message="watcher started" path="C:\Users\...\Projects\CubeSat\AGENTS.md" type=file backend=node ignores=0
  

  but the client's file list never updates from those events.

• The project was initially not a Git repository, and the server repeatedly logged:

  level=WARN message="worktree discovery failed" directory="C:\Users\...\Projects\CubeSat" strategy=git error=Worktree.DirectoryUnavailableError
  

  After running git init, the server successfully executes git worktree list --porcelain and the warnings stop, but the sidebar still does not refresh. So fixing worktree discovery alone does not resolve the issue.

• Restarting only the desktop app appears to reconnect to the same shared background service (server run id unchanged), which may preserve stale state; a full restart is required to see the correct listing.

• Concrete example from the session: the sidebar kept showing docs/CubeSat-Summary.md after that file had been moved/renamed, and never showed the newly created docs/星载软件与飞控/ folder.

• Workaround: fully restart the desktop app.