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GitLab MR browser paths include an installation prefix, while API project identities do not. Passing the browser path directly can fail or read and comment on a different project with the same path spelling.

Resolve actual HTTP clone/MR URLs through glab repo view and use the returned project identity. Lookup failures stop the operation. Raw API/SSH references retain raw semantics, including when their spelling matches an HTTP checkout. Repository-only MCP link/watch resolves the actual MR URL before storing it; legacy agent display URLs remain raw until relinked. This consumes the optional persisted metadata in #21575.

Rebuilt from @fixfon’s #20241. Retained the project JSON decoder and real CLI resolution; replaced ambiguous fallback behavior with explicit URL provenance and raw-selector routing. Original eight added regression cases became two provider cases, one MCP failure case, and extensions to existing service/reactor/persistence cases.

Verification at 12b3a0c5bd:

  • Before: four expected failures → after: 559 passing focused cases in 13 files. Scoped server/contracts/source-control typechecks, lint and formatting pass.
  • Real GitLab 18.4.6 CE mounted at /gitlab, glab 1.118.0, two private projects with colliding paths and MR 1: nine integrated MCP → service → CLI → SQLite/Sync/initial Watch cases. Parent independently reran all nine. HTTP checkout reads select project 1; raw MCP/legacy agent references select project 2. Existing-link watch makes zero host reads.
  • Real service proof: comments reach the correct project, unavailable explicit URLs never fall back, and restored URL-specific disk caches make zero host reads.
  • Four independent review rounds: fixed wrong-project fallback, generated-link provenance, HTTP checkout inheritance, and redundant existing-link watch reads. Final round has no blocking findings.

Full live-proof boundaries: identities supplied to real services, isolated in-memory SQLite and fixture-only credentials; glab uses a configured portless alias to loopback port 8924. This does not establish universal nonstandard-port configuration. Initial watch state was verified; actual wake/agent delivery, MCP HTTP transport, UI, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Electron were not executed. URL-specific UI/reactor caches can make additional host reads; invalidation remains tuple-wide. Existing interactive cross-project URL loss and simultaneous link-key collisions are unchanged. No UI changed, so screenshots do not apply. CI and human approval are separate gates.

CI follow-up: the browser WorkflowOpeningBlock.browser.test.tsx:103 highlighting assertion failed twice on this head. The web/client implementation is unchanged; this remains a CI gate. The lower layer passed after one unrelated SSH-test retry. Human approval is required. Not merge-ready.

Implemented with GPT-6.1 Sol; tests/proof with GPT-6 Astra; reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol, through T3 Code with Codex and Claude Code harnesses.

Fixes #20226

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@juliusmarminge juliusmarminge changed the title worktree git 11/gitlab project resolution fix(server): resolve prefixed GitLab merge requests to their project Oct 19, 2026
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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This cross-cutting runtime fix changes repository routing and adds project-resolution calls across existing GitLab pull-request reads and writes, rather than making a localized correction. An unresolved Medium finding also reports that the new path cache misses identical lookups, so the change warrants human review.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider Metric Main baseline This PR Impact PR ceiling
Codex Total thread wire 4.9 KiB 5.0 KiB +23 B (+0.5%) 6.8 KiB ✅
Codex Thread snapshot wire 3.8 KiB 3.8 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 4.9 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket wire 1.2 KiB 1.2 KiB +23 B (+1.9%) 2.0 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket decoded 20.8 KiB 20.9 KiB +41 B (+0.2%) 29.3 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn messages 1 2 +1 (+100.0%) 8 ✅
Claude Total thread wire 5.0 KiB 5.0 KiB +24 B (+0.5%) 6.8 KiB ✅
Claude Thread snapshot wire 3.8 KiB 3.8 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 4.9 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket wire 1.2 KiB 1.2 KiB +24 B (+2.0%) 2.0 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket decoded 21.2 KiB 21.2 KiB +41 B (+0.2%) 29.3 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn messages 1 2 +1 (+100.0%) 8 ✅

Baseline: 1e951e9 · PR result: 0310f0c · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

  • Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
  • Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Pull-request references now preserve optional web URLs through service and provider calls. GitLab operations resolve URL provenance to project paths. MCP handlers resolve target URLs for links and watches. Sync and watch reactors pass URL provenance into pull-request references.

Changes: Pull-request URL provenance and GitLab routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Carry web URLs through pull-request service references
packages/source-control-core/..., apps/server/src/pullRequest/...
Service references and provider requests carry optional web URLs. Routing, provider calls, cache keys, viewed-file requests, and guide-service inputs preserve the URL.
Resolve GitLab project paths from web URLs
packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/...
The GitLab CLI normalizes URLs, resolves project paths, and caches successful results. Provider operations use the resolved project when a web URL is present.
Resolve URLs for MCP links and watches
apps/server/src/mcp/...
MCP handlers remove URL credentials and resolve GitLab details before creating links or enabling new watches. Tests cover success, failure, and existing-link paths.
Pass link URLs into sync and watch references
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/...
Sync and watch reactors include repository web URLs in pull-request references when available. Agent links use null when no repository web URL exists.

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Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MCPHandlers
  participant PullRequestService
  participant GitLabPullRequestProvider
  participant GitLabPullRequestCli
  participant glab
  MCPHandlers->>PullRequestService: Resolve GitLab pull-request details
  PullRequestService->>GitLabPullRequestProvider: Read detail with webUrl
  GitLabPullRequestProvider->>GitLabPullRequestCli: resolveProjectPath(cwd, webUrl)
  GitLabPullRequestCli->>glab: Query normalized project URL
  glab-->>GitLabPullRequestCli: Return project path JSON
  GitLabPullRequestCli-->>GitLabPullRequestProvider: Return decoded project path
  GitLabPullRequestProvider-->>PullRequestService: Return pull-request detail
  PullRequestService-->>MCPHandlers: Return canonical URL and repositoryWebUrl
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packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabPullRequestCli.ts: 1

1112-1131: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Define the supported glab URL-parsing contract.

resolveProjectPath passes the normalized full URL to glab repo view, but the fixture removes /gitlab/ and .git before matching the project. The test therefore does not exercise glab's parser.

The repository does not declare a supported glab version. Full URLs and .git suffixes are supported by glab, while custom-port parsing changed in glab v1.82.0 and subfolder installations have separate parser issues. Document the minimum supported version and add targeted coverage for HTTP, custom ports, relative-path prefixes, and .git URLs. Verify subfolder behavior separately rather than assuming the fixture models it.

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Update the GitLab CLI integration around resolveProjectPath to define and
document the minimum supported glab version, then add targeted coverage for HTTP
URLs, custom ports, relative-path prefixes, and .git URLs using behavior that
exercises glab’s actual URL parser. Verify subfolder installations separately;
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/pullRequests/handlers.ts:
- Around line 268-274: Move the GitLab provider detail lookup used by
resolveLink into the existing pull-request domain service, and update the MCP
handler to call that service method and map its typed error rather than
performing the lookup itself.

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- Around line 1112-1131: Update the GitLab CLI integration around
resolveProjectPath to define and document the minimum supported glab version,
then add targeted coverage for HTTP URLs, custom ports, relative-path prefixes,
and .git URLs using behavior that exercises glab’s actual URL parser. Verify
subfolder installations separately; do not infer their behavior from the fixture
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CI follow-up: the lower layer’s SSH zombie-process test passed on the single retry, and its current checks pass. This upper head still fails WorkflowOpeningBlock.browser.test.tsx:103 (missing asynchronous Shiki highlighting) on both attempts; neither this test nor its web/client implementation changed in this stack. The upper layer is not merge-ready until that CI failure is cleared, and Macroscope also requires human approval. I did not alter an unrelated browser test to bypass the gate.

For the glab compatibility nit: evidence uses the actual glab 1.118.0 binary against a real GitLab 18.4.6 /gitlab installation, not a parser stub. Clone URLs ending in .git, HTTP/MR URLs, both colliding projects, and the configured custom-port setup were exercised. The body explicitly records the portless alias caveat. No minimum-version claim is inferred for older glab releases; a maintainer using an older CLI should verify that version or use the verified version before landing.

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operation: "resolveProjectPath",
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}),
}).pipe(Effect.flatMap((url) => Cache.get(projectPaths, { cwd, webUrl: url }))),

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🟡 Medium server/GitLabPullRequestCli.ts:1125

Identical resolveProjectPath calls miss projectPaths, so each call launches another glab repo view instead of reusing the cached result or in-flight lookup. Each call passes a fresh { cwd, webUrl } object as the key, and Cache compares these keys by reference; use a stable serialized key or an Effect structural key.

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In file @packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabPullRequestCli.ts around line 1125:

Identical `resolveProjectPath` calls miss `projectPaths`, so each call launches another `glab repo view` instead of reusing the cached result or in-flight lookup. Each call passes a fresh `{ cwd, webUrl }` object as the key, and `Cache` compares these keys by reference; use a stable serialized key or an Effect structural key.

? yield* resolveLink(target, input, project).pipe(
Effect.mapError((cause) => new PullRequestWatchFailedError({ cause })),
)
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🟠 High pullRequests/handlers.ts:314

If the link is unlinked after before is read but before dispatch, this sends the watch command without link; the reducer then finds no link and leaves the thread unchanged, so watch_pull_request completes without starting the watch. Include the already-read link in the command's fallback link payload when before exists, so the reducer can restore it without another host lookup.

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In file @apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/pullRequests/handlers.ts around line 314:

If the link is unlinked after `before` is read but before dispatch, this sends the watch command without `link`; the reducer then finds no link and leaves the thread unchanged, so `watch_pull_request` completes without starting the watch. Include the already-read link in the command's fallback `link` payload when `before` exists, so the reducer can restore it without another host lookup.

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