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Problem

When a GitHub repository lookup fails in Add Project, the user only sees a generic message: "Source control repository operation lookupRepository failed for github: The source control operation could not be completed." Web shows it as a toast, mobile as the in-form banner. GitHub's own useful message, like "Repository not found. Check the owner and name and try again.", is stripped on the server, so a typo in owner/repo looks the same as a missing credential or a rate limit.

Reproduce on main: Add Project → GitHub repository → enter octocat/this-repo-does-not-exist-t3-lookup → Enter.

Change

Lookup stays exact. The failure now says what went wrong, in the place the user is looking:

  • Server: mapRepositoryError still masks raw CLI/API text, but passes through an exact allowlist of GitHub messages that are already written as user-facing copy (owner/name format, not found, missing or expired credential, rate limit).
  • Shared client: sourceControlRepositoryErrorMessage prefers that detail over the wrapped operation message.
  • Web: the failure shows inside the palette as role="alert" instead of a toast. Typing clears it, and a stale lookup can't overwrite a newer query.
  • Mobile: the in-form banner shows the same message. Editing the field clears it and drops a pending lookup.

The server, shared helper and both clients change together because the message is removed on the server and each client formats the error itself; fixing only one layer leaves the generic text on screen.

Scope and approval

There is no prior issue or discussion. I'm submitting this as a small, focused fix for an obvious bug: a failed lookup hides a message the provider already produces, and the user can't tell why it failed. It adds no feature, setting or workflow, and exact owner/repo lookup is unchanged.

Two things go slightly beyond swapping the text, both part of showing this one error correctly:

  • On web the error moves from a toast to the palette's empty state, so it sits next to the input it refers to and clears when that input changes.
  • Pending lookups are invalidated when the input or flow changes (raised in CodeRabbit's review), so an old failure can't appear against a newer query.

The messages newly sent to clients are fixed strings with no repository names, tokens or CLI output in them. mapRepositoryError is shared, so the same allowlisted text can also appear on clone and publish failures.

Verification

Manual, with the lookup octocat/this-repo-does-not-exist-t3-lookup:

  1. Before (main @ d45d1a1): web shows the generic toast; mobile shows the generic text in the banner.
  2. After: web shows "Repository not found. Check the owner and name and try again." in the palette with no toast; mobile shows it in the banner.
  3. Editing the input clears the error on both.
  4. Retrying with octocat/Hello-World succeeds and moves on to the destination step.

Focused tests: vp test run apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlRepositoryService.test.ts packages/client-runtime/src/operations/projects.test.ts passes (2 files, 36 tests). They cover the allowlisted detail reaching SourceControlRepositoryError.detail with the original cause kept, and the client helper preferring that detail.

Not checked: iOS, and the credential and rate-limit messages, which I did not trigger by hand. Mobile was checked on an Android emulator only.

Screenshots and recordings

Web: fail → edit → retry

Web lookup fail, edit, retry

Web: before (main @ d45d1a1), generic toast Web: after (this PR), in-palette alert
Mobile: before (main @ d45d1a1), generic message Mobile: after (this PR), GitHub's message

All before/after pairs use the same lookup, octocat/this-repo-does-not-exist-t3-lookup. Mobile shots are T3 Code Dev on an Android emulator; the gear in the corner is Expo's development-client button, not product UI.

Mobile: fail → edit → retry (this PR)

Mobile: typed Mobile: error Mobile: cleared on edit Mobile: retry

Recordings: web MP4 · mobile MP4

Agent: Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, run through T3 Code.

Add Project GitHub lookup still requires an exact owner/repo match and
replaces provider failures with a generic toast. Keep lookup exact, but
surface allowlisted GitHub details and show them in the palette (and
mobile banner) instead of a top-right toast.
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Verdict: Approved at cbb1b59

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The PR is a focused add-project error-reporting fix: it preserves lookup behavior, safely forwards only approved provider messages, and prevents stale failures from appearing for newer input. Its UI and shared-runtime changes are bounded, with targeted tests and no schema, deployment, security, billing, or configuration-default impact.

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Repository lookup errors now expose approved provider details. Shared client helpers select an error message. The mobile screen and web command palette display lookup errors and ignore stale results.

Changes: Repository lookup errors

Layer / File(s) Summary
Select safe provider error details
apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlRepositoryService.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlRepositoryService.test.ts
The service selects approved Bitbucket and GitHub error details. Other provider errors use the generic fallback. A test checks the GitHub detail and original cause.
Format repository error messages
packages/client-runtime/src/operations/projects.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/operations/projects.test.ts
New helpers extract a non-empty repository error detail and select it before an ordinary error message or the fallback. Tests cover the selection behavior.
Display errors and invalidate stale lookups
apps/web/src/components/CommandPaletteResults.tsx, apps/web/src/components/CommandPalette.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/projects/AddProjectScreen.tsx
The web command palette displays lookup errors in an alert-styled empty state and clears lookup state when the query or palette flow changes. The mobile screen and command palette ignore stale lookup results. Both use the shared formatter.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to cbb1b

The Add Project flow now prevents stale lookups from restoring an outdated view, and the changed error mapping does not introduce a new actionable risk. The PR is ready to merge after normal checks.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to cbb1b

The newly displayed GitHub messages are fixed, approved text, and repository lookup does not gain additional privileges. Stale-result protection improves. Remaining uncertainty concerns diagnostic information retained in nested errors and cleanup when leaving a lookup screen.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • observed — The changed detail policy reaches repository lookup, clone preparation/cloning, and publishing through the shared server mapper. The new formatter is directly consumed by the web and mobile Add Project lookup flows.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The top-level allowlist is not necessarily a complete wire-redaction boundary: the repository error retains the original cause, whose provider-error message incorporates raw detail. This path predates the PR and is not shown to have expanded. Exact nested-cause encoding was not revalidated, so it is not retained as a newly introduced security finding.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Error formatting does not authorize project creation. Web confirmation checks permissions for the clone-flow environment; mobile destination submission rechecks source-control-write and orchestration-operate scopes. The WebSocket server retains session-scoped authorization middleware.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Generation checks contain stale success and failure updates after input changes without aborting the underlying lookup. Web close cleanup depends on the external dialog lifecycle; mobile adds no explicit navigation/unmount invalidation. Those lifecycle guarantees remain partially verified, and the inspected base comparison does not establish a newly introduced privilege bypass.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — As separate hardening, verify the actual encoded repository-error response and keep raw diagnostic causes server-side, or replace them with explicitly safe wire diagnostics. This would make the redaction guarantee cover nested causes as well as displayed detail.
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The lookup-error fix has focused tests, but the PR explicitly lacks before/after screenshots for its web and mobile UI changes. Please add those images and a short recording showing a failed lookup, editing the input, and retrying, as required by the verification guide. The browser failure explains the gap; it doesn't demonstrate the changed UI.

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Typing or leaving the GitHub lookup step kept the in-flight generation
valid, so a miss could still paint after the user had moved on.
Invalidate that generation and reset pending state when the query or
flow changes, on web and mobile.

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The web and mobile recordings now demonstrate the requested fail → edit → retry interactions. To clarify the before/after screenshot requirement, “before” means the UI before this code change. Please add a pre-fix screenshot of the generic lookup error on web and mobile alongside the post-fix images already supplied. No further recording is needed.

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🟡 Minor · Invalidate the pending lookup when handling an add-project open… · CommandPalette.tsx:1748-1753

apps/web/src/components/CommandPalette.tsx:1748-1753
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Invalidate the pending lookup when handling an add-project open intent.

OpenAddProject can update an already-open palette. The multi-environment branch then changes the view without invalidating the lookup. If the lookup resolves afterward, its unchanged generation allows it to set the flow to the old repository confirmation step.

🐛 Suggested fix
   const openAddProjectFlow = useCallback(() => {
+    invalidatePendingCloneLookup();
     // With no connected environment there is nothing to browse, so the only
     // useful next step is connecting one.
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     addProjectEnvironmentGroups,
     addProjectEnvironmentOptions.length,
     defaultAddProjectEnvironmentId,
+    invalidatePendingCloneLookup,
     navigate,
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Update openAddProjectFlow to invalidate any pending clone lookup before handling
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@juliusmarminge thanks for clarifying. The PR description now has before and after shots for both web and mobile, where "before" is main @ d45d1a1 from before the code change, and all of them use the same lookup, octocat/this-repo-does-not-exist-t3-lookup. They're under "Screenshots and recordings" in the description.

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