fix(installtxn): put back an install a killed commit left behind - #997
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CommitDir publishes by two renames: the live target moves into a workspace backup, then the staged copy is renamed into place. Neither is journaled, so a process killed between them left the target absent with the install's only copy retained in a workspace nothing ever read. plugins.Load and skills.Load enumerate directories, so the extension simply disappeared, while the lockfile went on listing it. Recovering needed one fact the transaction never wrote down: which install a backup belonged to. CommitDir now records that before it moves anything, and Recover puts the backup back when the target is absent. Recovery is a second data-loss surface, so it is bounded on every side. It refuses a name that is not a single element inside the install root, never replaces a live target, identifies a workspace by the name StageDir gives one rather than by contents alone, and leaves intact anything it cannot attribute. Every path that takes the install lock recovers, not just the two that install. Recovering on the install path alone is worse than not recovering: a removal takes the not-present branch, drops the lockfile entry and reports success while the backup it never looked at stays on disk, and the next install republishes it, reinstating an extension the user deleted. Removal and the terminalpet install hold the same lock and now do the same thing first. Recovery stays an explicit call rather than a side effect of Lock, matching how the other staged-swap transactions here invoke their repair pass and keeping a filesystem mutation visible at the sites that cause it.
WalkthroughTransaction commits now record their target names. A new ChangesInstallation transaction recovery
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change can still restore an outdated installation after a later removal if cleanup is interrupted, causing a deleted extension to reappear and remain loadable. Merge should wait for stale backups to be retired or otherwise distinguished from interrupted publishes. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Installer as Plugin, skill, or terminal pet installer
participant Lock as Directory lock
participant Recover as installtxn.Recover
participant Filesystem
Installer->>Lock: acquire installation lock
Installer->>Recover: recover abandoned transaction workspaces
Recover->>Filesystem: inspect target metadata and retained backup
Recover->>Filesystem: restore backup when target is absent
Installer->>Filesystem: continue installation or removal
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In `@internal/installtxn/installtxn.go`:
- Around line 152-153: Update the existing-target branch in the install
transaction recovery flow to retire the matching backup and clean its workspace
before continuing, so recovery cannot later restore a stale extension after the
target is removed. Preserve the existing behavior when the target does not
exist, and add a regression test covering recover, remove, then recover.
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Retire backups that lose to an existing target.
Line 152 skips a workspace while its target exists, but leaves its backup for future recovery. If a process is killed after publishing the new target and before workspace cleanup, Remove later deletes that target. The next install or remove then restores this stale backup and recreates an extension that the user removed.
When the existing-target policy wins, remove the matching backup and clean the workspace. Alternatively, record a commit phase that lets recovery distinguish a completed publish from an interrupted one. Add a regression test for recover → remove → recover.
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In `@internal/installtxn/installtxn.go` around lines 152 - 153, Update the
existing-target branch in the install transaction recovery flow to retire the
matching backup and clean its workspace before continuing, so recovery cannot
later restore a stale extension after the target is removed. Preserve the
existing behavior when the target does not exist, and add a regression test
covering recover, remove, then recover.
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I found an issue that needs to be addressed before this is ready.
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[P1] Retire a backup once its update has already reached the live target
internal/installtxn/installtxn.go:151
The recovery record currently identifies which target a backup belongs to, but not whether the staged replacement ever became live. That leaves a second crash window: an update can die afterstagedhas been renamed intotargetbut beforepreviousand its workspace are removed. On the next locked operation,Recoversees the live target and skips the workspace, preserving its marked old backup. A subsequent plugin or skill removal then deletes the live target and its lockfile entry, but not that skipped backup; the next install sees the target absent and restores the old tree. The removed extension is therefore loadable again without a lockfile entry.Address the root cause by making recovery distinguish a backup from an interrupted pre-publish swap from one superseded by a successfully published target. For example, record/advance a transaction phase atomically enough for recovery to retire a superseded backup, or make the target-present recovery branch safely retire only a fully attributable backup. Preserve the existing conservative behavior for malformed/unattributable workspaces and the legitimate first-rename interruption where the target is genuinely absent; do not overwrite a live target. Please add regression coverage for: update → interruption after the second rename → remove → later install/recovery, for both plugin and skill paths.
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Fixes #996.
CommitDirpublishes by two renames: the live target moves into the transaction workspace asprevious, then the staged copy is renamed into place. Neither is journaled, so a process killedbetween them left the target absent with the install's only copy retained in a workspace nothing
ever read.
plugins.Loadandskills.Loadenumerate directories, so the extension disappearedwhile the lockfile went on listing it.
Recovery needed one fact the transaction never wrote down: which install a backup belonged to.
CommitDirnow records that before it moves anything, andRecoverputs the backup back when thetarget is absent.
Recovery is bounded on every side, because it is a second data-loss surface. It refuses a
recorded name that is not a single path element inside the install root, never replaces a live
target, identifies a workspace by the name
StageDirgives one rather than by contents alone, andleaves intact anything it cannot attribute.
Every path that takes the install lock recovers, not just the two that install. This is the
part worth reviewing closely. Recovering on the install path alone is worse than not recovering at
all:
Removetakes its not-present branch, drops the lockfile entry and reports success while thebackup it never looked at stays on disk, and the next install republishes it, reinstating an
extension the user deleted. Both
Removepaths and theinternal/terminalpetinstall hold thesame lock and now do the same thing first.
Recovery stays an explicit call rather than a side effect of
Lock. That matches how the otherstaged-swap transactions in this repo invoke their repair pass, and it keeps a filesystem mutation
visible at the sites that cause it. Binding it to lock acquisition would cover all five callers for
free, but an acquire function that mutates the filesystem is a surprising contract, and this
repository has no precedent for it.
Behavior change
An interrupted install is now put back the next time anything takes that install root's lock,
rather than staying lost. A workspace left by a version before this change carries no recorded
target, so
Recoverskips it and it is left in place rather than reclaimed.Verification
Each defect was reproduced first, with a passing control, then each guard was ablated individually
and confirmed to fail without it:
publishcallback fails.Recoverfromplugins.Installor fromskills.Install, and that package's recovery testfails while the other stays green.
Recoverfromplugins.Remove, and the removal test fails with the removed plugin back ondisk and loadable again.
to contain the same two entries.
Two guards could not be made to fail and are called out rather than claimed: the backup-presence
check is an early-out that the following rename already catches, and the live-target check cannot
be falsified on Linux because Go's
os.RenamereturnsEEXISTeven for an empty destinationdirectory. POSIX permits replacing an empty directory, so the check stays and its test pins the
contract rather than one platform's syscall.
gofmt,go vet,go test ./... -race,zero-release buildandzero-release smokeare clean onlinux/arm64, with the four affected packages repeated at
-count=3. Cross-compiled forwindows/amd64 and darwin/arm64. macOS and Windows are otherwise untested locally and rest on CI;
the change is directory renames, which is where Windows differs most.
Known residuals
RemoveDirwrites no marker, so its workspace stays unattributable and is skipped.That window predates this change and is unaffected by it.
through the install path, since recovery runs under the lock before every commit, and a workspace
it does not restore from is skipped intact rather than deleted.
persist. Reclaiming it is a deletion decision that belongs with its own justification.
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