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fix(web): turning a retention rule on no longer saves 8 days before you pick an age - #14792

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Fixes #14743.

Problem

In Settings → Storage, turning a retention rule on (inactive worktrees, browser artifacts, rotated logs) saved 8 days the moment the switch flipped, and the days field only appeared afterwards. Every cleanup-settings change queues a sweep, so someone who meant to set 30 days first activated an 8-day rule they never chose, which could delete worktrees, captures or logs that the intended rule would have kept.

Change

RetentionControl now opens a local draft when the switch is turned on and saves nothing until an age is committed:

  • Switch on: the field appears with 8, focused and selected. Nothing is saved.
  • Enter saves the age on screen, including the untouched 8. Typing an age and leaving the field (Tab, click elsewhere) or pressing a stepper saves it, as an enabled rule already does.
  • Leaving the control without committing an age, Escape, or switching back off cancels: the rule stays off and nothing is saved. Escape is consumed, so it does not also close Settings.
  • Text the number field cannot parse (for example +) never saves anything; in particular it never falls back to a number that is no longer on screen.
  • Enter or Escape pressed to finish an IME composition leaves the draft alone.
  • Turning an enabled rule off still saves immediately, and an enabled rule's editing is unchanged.

After an age is committed the control keeps showing it until the saved value comes back from the server, so it does not flash "Off" in between. Each draft has its own identity, so a late callback from a draft that was cancelled, replaced or unmounted (a stepper held with the mouse and released afterwards) cannot save.

One step outside the component: useRunScopedPlan in useScopedSettings.ts now resolves whether anything was saved. The control needs that to stop showing a rule as on when its save failed ("Setting not saved"); without it the switch would stay on with nothing saved. When only some of the selected environments saved, the rule keeps showing on, next to the row's "Mixed across selected machines" status, because cleanup is then active somewhere. The existing callers ignore the result and behave as before.

Scope and approval

Triaged bug: #14743, following the "Likely fix" in the triage comment: keep the fix in RetentionControl, show a local draft of 8, do not call onChange until an age you can see is committed, keep off-switching immediate, and leave the rule off when leaving without committing. No storage reporting and no Save/Discard flow. Web only; desktop renders the same code and there is no mobile retention control.

Verification

Real web client, before and after. Headless Chromium 153 at 1400×900 against vp run dev on an empty database, main at 54084ae versus this branch. Every server.updateSettings frame the page sent was recorded with its offset from the switch click, and the persisted value was read after each step.

Before (main): switching on saves 8 at once, then 30 After: nothing is saved until Enter; one save, 30
Before: switching "Delete inactive worktrees" on saves 8 days immediately, typing 30 saves again After: switching on opens a draft of 8, typing 30 and pressing Enter saves 30 once
Steps on "Delete inactive worktrees" Before: writes After: writes
Switch on, type 30, Enter 8 at +15 ms, then 30 on blur 30 only, on Enter
Switch on, click elsewhere 8 (rule stays on at 8) none, back to Off
Switch on, Enter 8, once
Switch on, Escape none, Off, Settings stays open
Switch on, type 30, click the switch off none
Switch on, type +, Enter, click elsewhere none, Off
Switch on, type 30, replace with +, click elsewhere none, Off
Switch on, type 30, Tab 30, once
Switch on, press the + stepper 9, once
Switch on, Tab to the switch, Escape none, Off, Settings stays open
Switch on, hold the − stepper to 7, Escape, switch on again from the keyboard, release the mouse none, the fresh draft still shows 8
Rule on at 30, switch off null, once null, once

More recordings of the new flow: cancel by clicking away, Enter on the default, Escape, switching off after typing, unparseable text, Escape from the switch, held stepper. "Delete old browser artifacts" was checked the same way as the first row and behaves identically.

The recordings were taken before three small later changes, none of which alters a recorded scenario: the control closes its draft when it unmounts, a partial save keeps the rule on, and IME composition keys are ignored. Those paths are covered by unit tests, not by the recordings.

Tests. StorageSettings.test.tsx drives the real panel in a DOM with pointer, keyboard and focus events and asserts what is shown and exactly which writes happen: enabling saves nothing on all three rules; Enter, typed ages, steppers, leaving, Escape (from the field and from the switch), switching off while drafting, unparseable text, a save that fails, a partial save, a save whose value arrives late, clearing the field while saving, composing Enter and Escape, a held stepper released after the draft was cancelled or the control unmounted, and an already-enabled rule. Against main's StorageSettings.tsx all but the two already-enabled-rule tests fail. Web typecheck, targeted lint, format and knip are clean.

Not checked: Safari and touch input. The cancel-on-leave rule relies on the browser moving focus to the stepper buttons when they are pressed, which Chromium and Firefox do; Safari does not focus buttons on click, so a stepper tap on an untouched draft there may cancel the draft instead of stepping it. A failed save was exercised in tests only, not against a real failing server.

Implemented with Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5, coordinated by Claude Fable 5.1); tests, independent review and evidence capture by GPT-6 Astra via Codex.

…ou pick an age

The retention switch saved 8 days the moment it was turned on, and the days field
only appeared afterwards. Every cleanup settings change queues a sweep, so a rule
meant to be 30 days could delete worktrees, browser captures or rotated logs under
an 8-day rule nobody chose.

Turning the switch on now opens a local draft of 8 with the field focused and saves
nothing. Enter, a typed age or a stepper saves the age on screen; leaving the
control without committing, Escape or switching back off cancels with no write.
Text the number field cannot parse never saves. Turning a rule off still saves
immediately.

The committed age stays visible until the saved value arrives. The settings update
now resolves whether its writes succeeded so a failed save does not leave the
switch on, and each draft has its own identity so a late callback from a cancelled
or unmounted draft cannot save.

Fixes pingdotgg#14743
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Retention settings now open an unsaved eight-day draft when enabled. Committing a value uses asynchronous scoped saves. The editor handles save outcomes, cancellation, keyboard and focus behavior, and external updates.

Changes

Storage retention editor

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scoped save-result contract
apps/web/src/components/settings/useScopedSettings.ts
useRunScopedPlan now awaits planned writes and returns whether they succeeded. It reports unavailable plans and failed environments through notifications.
Retention drafts, commits, and cancellation
apps/web/src/components/settings/StorageSettings.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/StorageSettings.test.tsx
Enabling a rule opens an unsaved eight-day draft. Commits clamp ages to 1–3650 days and close the session on save failure. Tests cover editing, cancellation, focus, stepper interactions, pending saves, and external updates.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge


Merge Risk | ⚪ Minimal · up to 5b49c

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 5b49c

The retention draft change is ready to merge after normal checks; no actionable merge-blocking issue was established.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5b49c

The change reduces accidental cleanup activation and preserves existing settings permissions. Remaining uncertainty concerns overlapping edits and incoming saved values, rather than a demonstrated new access path or privilege increase.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A retention commit can affect multiple selected, authorized environments. The relevant assets are managed worktrees, saved browser artifacts, and rotated logs; the inspected path does not establish new reach into unselected environments or greater server authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — UI-controlled ages remain settings patches checked against required environment permissions and server RPC authorization. Production scope-search changes remount the settings content, and the control clears its token on unmount; this counters the suggested stale-draft write across an ordinary scope-selection change.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Partial scoped saves are not atomic across environments: the runner reports success if anything saved and identifies failures through notifications. The editor preserves a partially saved rule and permits a subsequent off write rather than treating partial failure as complete rollback.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make authoritative value replacement explicitly invalidate the imperative session token, and define how acknowledgements interact with newer edits. This would strengthen the retention lifecycle without implying that the unresolved callback path is a verified new vulnerability.

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Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main fix: enabling a retention rule no longer saves the default 8-day value before the user selects or commits an age.
Description check Passed The description is complete and follows the required sections. It explains the problem, implementation, scope and approval, focused verification results, limitations, UI evidence, and the agents and h…
Linked Issues check Passed Issue [#14743] requires an initial age choice without first saving 8 days. RetentionControl opens an 8-day local draft and does not call onChange until a visible age is committed. It cancels an un…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes to RetentionControl, useRunScopedPlan, and StorageSettings.test.tsx support issue [#14743]. The save-result change lets the control reflect total and partial persistence outcomes. Th…

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes when retention cleanup becomes persisted and active for worktrees, browser artifacts, and logs, while adding substantial focus, draft, asynchronous-save, and stale-callback handling. The scope and tests are strong, but the cleanup side effects and new state machine merit human review.

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…the draft alone

When some of the selected environments saved a retention age and others failed,
the control treated it as a failed save and fell back to the representative
value, which could read "Off" while cleanup was active elsewhere. The settings
update now resolves whether anything was saved, so the control falls back only
when nothing was.

Enter and Escape pressed to finish an IME composition no longer commit or cancel
the draft.

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🟠 Major · Invalidate stale stepper commits after an external value update. · StorageSettings.tsx:45

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Invalidate stale stepper commits after an external value update.

Base UI can call the stable onValueCommitted callback when a held stepper is released. After the external update rerenders this component, the callback uses a commit() closure with session === null, so clearing openRef alone does not trigger the existing guard. Reject a sessionless stepper commit when its value no longer matches the current draft.

🐛 Suggested fix
  if (savedValue !== value) {
    setSavedValue(value);
    setDraft(value);
+   openRef.current = null;
    setSession(null);
  }

- const commit = (next: number | null) => {
+ const commit = (next: number | null, eventDetails?: { reason?: string }) => {
+   const stepperCommit =
+     eventDetails?.reason === "increment-press" || eventDetails?.reason === "decrement-press";
+   if (!session && stepperCommit && next !== draft) return;
    if (session && openRef.current !== session.token) return;
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Update the external-value reset around setSession(null) and the commit function
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Re the outside-diff comment in this review ("Invalidate stale stepper commits after an external value update", StorageSettings.tsx:45): not changing this in this PR.

Once an external saved value arrives there is no draft session any more, so a held stepper released afterwards goes through the ordinary enabled-rule path, which this PR leaves as it is on main. base-ui commits lastChangedValueRef.current ?? valueRef.current on release (useNumberFieldButton.js, onStop), so the only way to save a number other than the one on screen is to release within one tick (about 60 ms) of the external update, and the field then shows the committed number. An enabled rule on main behaves the same way when an external update lands during a hold. Rejecting sessionless stepper commits whose value differs from the draft would change that existing behavior for every enabled rule, which is outside #14743.

The draft-specific stale callbacks (a hold released after Escape, after switching off, or after the control unmounted) are closed by the per-draft token and covered by tests.

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[Bug]: Enabling retention activates eight days before a different initial age can be chosen

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