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open_workspace currently treats bootstrap context as an all-or-nothing checkout concern: global context is repeated across projects/worktrees, while reused checkouts can suppress changed instructions or skills. The model-facing result also includes internal review/diagnostic state that it does not need.

This refactors workspace context into explicit global/project instruction, skill, and agent scopes with project-relative paths, and keeps review/diagnostic bookkeeping in card/internal state. DevSpace now persists per-conversation scope fingerprints so unchanged context can be omitted across checkout/worktree/project switches and restarts, while changed scopes are returned as replacement snapshots. Hidden fingerprints include nested instruction and SKILL.md contents so branch-only instruction changes invalidate correctly; server guidance defines retention and reread behavior across compaction.

The persistence change adds the workspace_conversation_contexts migration for conversation-scope fingerprints.

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  • New Features

    • Workspace context is retained across conversations and projects, reducing repeated instructions, skills, and agent information.
    • Reopened workspaces return only context that has changed.
    • Worktree sessions can reuse unchanged context while remaining independent sessions.
    • Skill files support paths relative to the active workspace.
    • Workspace results organize instructions, skills, and agents by scope.
    • Workspace cards continue to display complete context when unchanged details are omitted.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of file line endings and unreadable files during context updates.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified context reuse, path handling, session behavior, retention, and workspace review cards.

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The change adds persisted conversation context fingerprints. open_workspace now returns changed global and project context in scoped structures. Workspace and skill resolution carry scope information. Tests and documentation cover scoped reuse, replacement, worktree behavior, and card reconstruction.

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Conversation Context Reuse

Layer / File(s) Summary
Context persistence and profile scope
src/db/*, src/workspace-store.ts, src/local-agent-profiles.ts, src/*agent*.test.ts, src/oauth-store.test.ts
Adds the conversation-context table and transactional fingerprint claims. Local agent profiles now include global or project scope.
Workspace context and path resolution
src/workspaces.ts, src/skills.ts, src/skills.test.ts
Carries conversation and project metadata through workspace reuse. Reloads skills for reused workspaces. Resolves relative skill paths from the workspace root.
Scoped open_workspace output
src/server.ts
Replaces flat context fields with scoped instructions, skills, and agents. Fingerprints are computed asynchronously and changed context is emitted selectively.
Workspace output and lifecycle tests
src/server.test.ts
Tests scoped output, relative paths, changed-context replacement, checkout reuse, worktree reuse, and provider refresh.
Card compatibility and workflow documentation
src/ui/*, docs/*
Updates card field derivation and documents scoped context reuse, retained fingerprints, and workspace-relative skill paths.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to acdef

This refactor deduplicates workspace context across conversations and worktrees, but concurrent or reordered worktree opens could retain stale instructions, skills, or agent profiles for the active workspace, and fingerprint records may accumulate without cleanup. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up for these bounded risks.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant open_workspace
  participant WorkspaceRegistry
  participant SqliteWorkspaceStore
  Client->>open_workspace: Open workspace
  open_workspace->>WorkspaceRegistry: Open or reuse session
  WorkspaceRegistry-->>open_workspace: Workspace context and resources
  open_workspace->>SqliteWorkspaceStore: Claim context fingerprints
  SqliteWorkspaceStore-->>open_workspace: Changed context keys
  open_workspace-->>Client: Scoped context and workspaceId
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A rabbit checks the scopes at dawn
Changed context hops along
Global leaves, project stays
Fingerprints mark reuse days
Worktrees bloom with paths anew

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The PR restructures open_workspace output into independently deduplicated global and project scopes and persists their fingerprints across conversation opens and restarts.

  • Adds durable conversation-context fingerprint storage and its database migration.
  • Emits scoped instructions, skills, agent profiles, and provider snapshots with project-relative paths.
  • Refreshes reused workspace context and invalidates snapshots when nested instruction or skill contents change.
  • Keeps review and diagnostic bookkeeping in internal card metadata rather than model-facing output.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The filesystem-race failure in context fingerprinting should be fixed before merging because it can prevent an otherwise valid workspace from opening.

Newly added unguarded reads of discovered instruction and skill files allow concurrent file changes or permission changes to turn context invalidation into a complete open_workspace failure.

Files Needing Attention: src/server.ts

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
src/server.ts Builds scoped snapshots and fingerprints, but unguarded fingerprint file reads can abort workspace opening during ordinary filesystem races.
src/workspace-store.ts Atomically persists and claims conversation-scoped fingerprints using a composite key.
src/workspaces.ts Carries conversation and project identity through workspace opens, refreshes reused context, and resolves relative skill reads from the workspace root.
src/db/migrations.ts Adds the ordered migration for durable conversation-context fingerprints.
src/db/schema.ts Defines a schema aligned with the new migration and store lookup key.
src/ui/tool-result.ts Reconstructs legacy card fields from the new scoped structured-content representation.
src/local-agent-profiles.ts Tags loaded agent profiles with global or project ownership while preserving project-over-global shadowing.
src/skills.ts Allows model-facing relative skill paths to resolve against the active workspace root.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
  participant C as MCP client
  participant S as open_workspace
  participant W as Workspace registry
  participant F as Filesystem
  participant D as SQLite context store
  C->>S: Open project with conversation scope
  S->>W: Load or reuse workspace
  W->>F: Discover instructions, skills, and profiles
  F-->>W: Context paths and snapshots
  W-->>S: Workspace context
  S->>F: Read nested instruction and SKILL.md contents for fingerprints
  S->>D: Claim scope fingerprints
  D-->>S: Changed scope keys
  S-->>C: Workspace ID and changed context snapshots
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In `@docs/gotchas.md`:
- Around line 137-139: Update the worktree-mode documentation around the phrase
“creates a new isolated workspace” to state precisely that it creates a new
managed worktree and a new workspace session. Preserve the surrounding
explanation about omitted model-visible state and use the glossary distinctions
consistently.

In `@src/server.ts`:
- Around line 364-366: Update fileContentFingerprint to use asynchronous
readFile and return a distinct fallback fingerprint when the file is missing or
unreadable instead of propagating the read error. In the open_workspace handler,
await fingerprinting for availableAgentsFiles and resolved skill filePath inputs
before calling conversationContextOutput, preserving the existing output flow
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480-480: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Restore restart-persistence coverage.

Line 480 removes the fixture state needed to close the first server and create a second server with the same state directory. The change also removes the restart test. This file no longer verifies that open_workspace suppresses unchanged context after a server restart for the same conversation scope. Add a lifecycle test that restarts the server and calls open_workspace again with the same session identifier.

As per coding guidelines, verify the actual user-consumption path, including restart requirements.

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In `@src/server.test.ts` at line 480, Add restart-persistence coverage in the
server lifecycle tests by retaining the client/project fixture state, closing
the first server, and creating a second server with the same state directory.
Call open_workspace again using the same session identifier and verify unchanged
context is suppressed for that conversation scope.

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In `@src/server.test.ts`:
- Line 480: Add restart-persistence coverage in the server lifecycle tests by
retaining the client/project fixture state, closing the first server, and
creating a second server with the same state directory. Call open_workspace
again using the same session identifier and verify unchanged context is
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I did not restore the separate restart integration test suggested in the latest nitpick. This branch had just trimmed redundant server.test.ts lifecycle coverage; restart persistence is already exercised by the workspace/store lifecycle tests, while the model-facing server tests stay focused on the scoped output contract. No production behavior was changed for that suggestion.

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