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User Impact

  • Before: every domain load spent the whole capture on the main thread. Source snapshot capture blocks the main thread for ~2 s after each script compile in a large project #3222 measured 1.9–2.3 s on a project with 781 files / 3.3 MB of sources.
  • After: the main thread reads the capture inputs and returns; the copy runs in the background. get-compile-status holds the compile completion until the capture ends (up to 30 s), so commands sent after uloop compile behave as before. A pause point re-armed on the first update tick after a reload no longer waits for the whole capture when the file on disk matches the compiled PDB.

Changes

  • HotReloadSourceSnapshotCapture is now a gate that holds one in-flight capture task:
    • StartIfNeeded reads the inputs on the main thread, starts the capture in the background, and returns at once. A finished capture is never repeated; callers during a capture share the same task. A failed, empty, or cancelled capture leaves the gate unmarked, so the next caller starts a new one.
    • EnsureCapturedAsync (hot-reload apply) awaits the task, then switches back to the main thread. EnsureCapturedBlocking (pause point port) waits on it.
    • IsHoldingCompileCompletion is true while a capture runs, for up to 30 s; past that it is false and logs hold_cap_exceeded once.
    • CancelInFlight cancels the token when a compile starts or a domain reload is about to happen.
    • The finish handler reads task.Exception into a local before logging, because the VibeLogger methods are compiled out without ULOOP_DEBUG, and an exception that is never read raises UnobservedTaskException. A capture cancelled through its token ends Faulted with OperationCanceledException (it runs through Task.Run without the token), so that case is logged as cancelled.
  • Wiring: the composition root builds the gate with HotReloadSnapshotCaptureInputs.ReadOnMainThread and Task.Run. The startup no longer waits for the capture, and sets HotReloadSnapshotCaptureCoordination.IsHoldingCompileCompletion. The pause point port gets IsInFlight for its live-file shortcut.
  • CaptureAfterDomainReload takes a CancellationToken and checks it before copying.
  • New VibeLog entries: hot_reload_source_snapshot_capture_started (with mainThreadMs), _cancelled, _failed, _empty, _hold_cap_exceeded. Documented in docs/vibe-logs.md; docs/hot-reload.md says the capture runs in the background.
  • ADR 0014 records the decision, the options considered, and when to revisit it.

This PR assumes the integration branch does not yet pass the cancellation token into CaptureAssemblies; once #3283 lands, a follow-up commit here forwards the token from CaptureAfterDomainReload.

What the capture touches off the main thread

ReadOnMainThread reads everything that needs Unity's APIs: CompilationPipeline.GetAssemblies, the registered packages, and the compile start record. On the pool, the capture path only does file IO and PDB reads. The remaining Unity calls there are Debug.LogWarning / Debug.Assert and Application.dataPath in the static initializer of the shared PDB document index, all of which Unity allows from any thread. The package immutability check that asks the Package Manager (ShouldSkipImmutablePackageSources) is not on the capture path any more.

Exits and invariants

Exit One capture at a time Readers see only a published snapshot uloop compile returns after the capture
Captured _inFlight holds one task readers wait, then read Ready is false until it finishes
Throws in-flight state cleared the exception reaches awaiting readers; the startup only logs failed the hold ends when it finishes
Empty same no snapshot, as before same
Cancelled same gate unmarked; the next caller starts over a compile keeps Ready false by itself
Pause point shortcut starts nothing reads the live file only when the PDB checksum matches —
30 s cap — readers keep waiting the hold ends, with a log entry

Why blocking on an in-flight capture has no test of its own

EnsureCapturedBlocking while a capture runs is covered indirectly:

  1. StartIfNeeded_WhileInFlight_ReturnsTheSameTaskAndDoesNotStartAnother pins that a caller during a capture gets the in-flight task.
  2. The wait itself is the single GetAwaiter().GetResult() line, and EnsureCapturedBlocking_WhenTheCaptureThrows_RethrowsAndLeavesItUnmarked fails when that line is removed.
  3. It cannot deadlock the main thread: the finish handler runs with ExecuteSynchronously on TaskScheduler.Default, so it never needs the main thread to complete the task.

An EditMode test cannot finish a task while it keeps the main thread blocked without starting another thread, which the EditMode test guardrails forbid.

Verification

  • uloop compile: 0 errors. The C# ConfigureAwait guard (ConfigureAwaitGuardTests) passes locally.
  • uloop run-tests --filter-type regex --filter-value "HotReloadSourceSnapshotCaptureTests|HotReloadEditorStartupTests|HotReloadCompositionRootTests|HotReloadDefaultFilesTests|HotReloadPatcherContractTests|HotReloadPatcherTests|HotReloadDomainTests|PausePointScriptPathFormTests|HotReloadWarmUpTests|CompileStatusBridgeCommandTests|HotReloadPackageSourceE2ETests|HotReloadSourceSnapshotTests|HotReloadLiveSourceVerificationTests": 174 passed, 0 failed.
  • HotReloadSourceSnapshotCaptureTests has 17 gate tests, one per row of the caller × gate state table. The startup test that expected the capture's exception to reach the caller is replaced by CaptureSourceSnapshotBeforeServingCommands_WhenTheCaptureFails_LogsFailedAndLeavesItForTheNextCall.
  • Mutation: removing GetAwaiter().GetResult() from EnsureCapturedBlocking fails EnsureCapturedBlocking_WhenTheCaptureThrows_RethrowsAndLeavesItUnmarked.
  • Live checks in the development project with ULOOP_DEBUG:
    • After a compile, the VibeLog shows capture_started (trigger: domain_load) followed by captured, and the captured entry was written off the main thread (domain_reload_state: UnavailableOffMainThread). mainThreadMs was 90–233 and captureMs 436–509 across three reloads; the higher numbers came while the Editor was in the background.
    • HotReloadPackageSourceE2ETests passed 2/2 in a domain whose snapshot was captured on the pool. It checks that package sources have a baseline, so it would fail if reading the Packages/<name>/... path did not work off the main thread.
    • Edit a method, uloop compile, edit again, then uloop hot-reload --compile-on-skip off: Applied, 1 method patched.
    • With a --persist pause point armed, a forced compile and a normal compile both re-armed it after the reload (pause_point_enable in the VibeLog, then pause-point-status reports Enabled).

…task gate

The capture after each domain load took 1.9-2.3 s of main thread time,
so the Editor and the first commands after a compile waited on it.
The main thread now only reads the inputs Unity's APIs provide, and
the file copy runs on the thread pool.

- The gate keeps one in-flight capture task. Callers share it, a
  finished capture is never repeated, and a failed or cancelled one
  is left for the next caller.
- get-compile-status holds the compile completion while a capture
  runs, capped at 30 s, so a command sent after uloop compile still
  sees the snapshot of the compiled sources.
- hot-reload awaits the capture instead of blocking the main thread.
  A pause point re-armed on the first tick returns a live file the
  PDB confirms instead of waiting for the whole capture.
- A compile start or an upcoming domain reload cancels the in-flight
  capture.
- The capture logs started, captured, cancelled, failed, empty, and
  hold-cap entries.
The vibe-logs reference lists the new capture entries, the hot reload doc says the capture runs off the main thread, and ADR 0014 records the considered options and when to revisit the decision.
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Walkthrough

Hot-reload source snapshot capture now collects Unity-dependent inputs on the main thread and performs snapshot work asynchronously. The capture gate reuses in-flight work, supports waits and cancellation, retries unsuccessful outcomes, and limits compile-completion holds to 30 seconds. Startup, hot-reload, pause-point, logging, tests, and documentation use the updated lifecycle.

Changes

Source snapshot capture

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capture gate and cancellation
Packages/src/Editor/FirstPartyTools/HotReload/Shared/*
The capture gate starts background capture, reuses its in-flight task, and provides asynchronous and blocking waits. It retries after cancellation, failure, or an empty result. Compile completion waits for up to 30 seconds, and capture outcomes use separate log events.
Production capture lifecycle
Packages/src/Editor/FirstPartyTools/HotReload/HotReloadCompositionRoot.cs, HotReloadEditorStartup.cs, HotReloadTools.cs, HotReloadWarmUpEditorHooks.cs, Shared/HotReloadConstants.cs, docs/adr/*, docs/hot-reload.md, docs/vibe-logs.md
Production wiring starts capture without waiting at startup, awaits it before hot-reload file selection, and blocks at pause points. Reload and compile shutdown cancel in-flight capture. The documentation describes the lifecycle and log events.
Capture lifecycle tests
Assets/Tests/Editor/HotReload/*.cs
Tests cover background execution, task reuse, retries, wait behavior, cancellation, and compile-hold timing. Caller tests use capture test doubles, and snapshotter tests pass cancellation tokens.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HotReloadTools
  participant HotReloadSourceSnapshotCapture
  participant TaskRun
  participant HotReloadSourceSnapshotter
  HotReloadTools->>HotReloadSourceSnapshotCapture: EnsureCapturedAsync
  HotReloadSourceSnapshotCapture->>TaskRun: Schedule capture with collected inputs
  TaskRun->>HotReloadSourceSnapshotter: CaptureAfterDomainReload with cancellation token
  HotReloadSourceSnapshotter-->>TaskRun: Return capture result
  TaskRun-->>HotReloadSourceSnapshotCapture: Complete capture task
  HotReloadSourceSnapshotCapture-->>HotReloadTools: Complete async wait
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Hot reload can miss an immediate retry after a failed, empty, or cancelled snapshot capture. Fix the retry timing before merging, or accept this bounded risk.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e55fe

Background capture improves responsiveness, but cancellation does not reliably stop snapshot publication when another compile begins. Existing baseline verification limits incorrect source acceptance, while recovery from overlapping compilation and capture remains uncertain.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Compile/reload cancellation does not revoke background snapshot publication ownership. Once production capture passes its initial token check, it can continue copying, publishing, cleaning up, and stamping assemblies, then mark the gate captured despite cancellation. If rebuilt DLLs become visible before that work stops, previously collected source lists can be published under a later assembly identity; matching persisted stamps can then suppress repair after gate recreation. Fresh per-domain gates and PDB verification limit the impact, but do not guarantee recapture. The demonstrated code gap concerns generation ownership and failure containment; the resulting compile-overlap failure is inferred, not a verified security bypass.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated lifecycle risk affects the selected project's compiled-source snapshots and dependent hot-reload or pause-point operations. Virtual Player capture can read main-project assemblies while retaining snapshots under its own project root. Broader transport, tenant, or environment exposure was not established by this source slice.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The inspected base-to-head tool change preserves caller-supplied Files, snapshot-derived defaults, and the existing orchestrator invocation. Awaiting capture does not itself introduce a new file-input source or execution authority. No authorization bypass was demonstrated; upstream caller authentication remains outside the inspected path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Compiled assembly identity and PDB checksums remain the authority for accepting a snapshot baseline. Capture-time checks use the collected package roots, and the shared PDB document cache synchronizes document lookup and preload through its lock. These controls counter incorrect baseline acceptance but do not grant cancelled work permission to publish a later generation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The remaining concern is recovery and generation ownership rather than proven privilege escalation: checksum rejection can contain incorrect baseline use while leaving missing baselines unrepaired when completion state or persisted stamps suppress another capture. Establishing recovery therefore requires publication and stamp ownership to be tested across compile interruption, not only token-observing test doubles.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make cancellation and assembly-generation ownership explicit throughout capture. Observe cancellation during copying and before publication, cleanup, and stamp writes; prevent cancelled work from marking the gate captured. Pin or revalidate the generation associated with the collected source list, and exercise interruption followed by fresh-domain recovery against the real publication path.



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/// <summary>
/// Returns a completed task when this domain is captured, the running capture's task when one
/// runs, and otherwise the task of a capture started now. Main thread only, because the
/// inputs are read from Unity here. An exception while reading them reaches the caller and
/// starts nothing.
/// </summary>
internal Task<bool> StartIfNeeded(string trigger)
{
Debug.Assert(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(trigger), "trigger must not be null or empty.");
if (_captured)

lock (_lock)
{
if (_captured)
{
return Task.FromResult(true);
}

if (_inFlight != null)
{
return _inFlight;
}
}

Stopwatch mainThreadWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
HotReloadSnapshotCaptureInputs inputs = _readInputsOnMainThread();
CancellationTokenSource cancellation = new CancellationTokenSource();
Stopwatch poolWatch = new Stopwatch();
Task<bool> task = _runInBackground(() =>
{
poolWatch.Start();
try
{
return _capture(inputs, cancellation.Token);
}
finally
{
poolWatch.Stop();
}
});
Debug.Assert(task != null, "runInBackground must return a task.");
lock (_lock)
{
_inFlight = task;
_inFlightCancellation = cancellation;
_inFlightStartedUtcTicks = _utcNowTicks();
_holdCapLogged = false;
}

VibeLogger.LogInfo(
HotReloadConstants.VibeLogSourceSnapshotCaptureStarted,
"Hot reload started the source snapshot capture of this domain.",
new { trigger, mainThreadMs = mainThreadWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds });
// Why the continuation is attached after the task is published: a task that already
// finished then runs it right here, and it finds the published task to clear.
// Why ExecuteSynchronously on the default scheduler: the bookkeeping must not wait for the
// main thread, which a pause point may be blocking on this very task.
task.ContinueWith(
finished => OnFinished(finished, cancellation, trigger, poolWatch),
CancellationToken.None,
TaskContinuationOptions.ExecuteSynchronously,
TaskScheduler.Default);
return task;
}

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rg -n -F --glob '*.cs' -- 'new HotReloadSourceSnapshotCapture' Packages Assets/Tests
rg -n -F --glob '*.cs' -- 'Task.Run' Packages/src/Editor/FirstPartyTools/HotReload
rg -n -F --glob '*.cs' -- 'runInBackground' Packages/src/Editor/FirstPartyTools/HotReload Assets/Tests/Editor/HotReload
printf '%s\n' '--- composition root construction context ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.cs' -- 'SourceSnapshotCapture =' Packages/src/Editor/FirstPartyTools/HotReload

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Publish completion only after clearing _inFlight.

StartIfNeeded publishes the Task.Run task, but OnFinished runs only from its continuation. A main-thread reader can observe the task as completed before that continuation clears _inFlight. The reader then receives the completed failed, empty, or cancelled task, so it does not start the documented retry. Apply can therefore repeat the failure or continue after an empty capture without retrying.

Publish a task whose completion is signaled after OnFinished completes, and return that task to all readers.

Suggested fix
-            Task<bool> task = _runInBackground(() =>
+            TaskCompletionSource<bool> completion = new TaskCompletionSource<bool>();
+            Task<bool> task = _runInBackground(() =>
             {
                 poolWatch.Start();
                 try
@@
             lock (_lock)
             {
-                _inFlight = task;
+                _inFlight = completion.Task;
                 _inFlightCancellation = cancellation;
                 _inFlightStartedUtcTicks = _utcNowTicks();
                 _holdCapLogged = false;
@@
             task.ContinueWith(
-                finished => OnFinished(finished, cancellation, trigger, poolWatch),
+                finished =>
+                {
+                    OnFinished(finished, cancellation, trigger, poolWatch);
+                    if (finished.IsCanceled)
+                    {
+                        completion.TrySetCanceled();
+                    }
+                    else if (finished.IsFaulted)
+                    {
+                        completion.TrySetException(finished.Exception.InnerExceptions);
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        completion.TrySetResult(finished.Result);
+                    }
+                },
                 CancellationToken.None,
                 TaskContinuationOptions.ExecuteSynchronously,
                 TaskScheduler.Default);
-            return task;
+            return completion.Task;
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/// <summary>
/// Returns a completed task when this domain is captured, the running capture's task when one
/// runs, and otherwise the task of a capture started now. Main thread only, because the
/// inputs are read from Unity here. An exception while reading them reaches the caller and
/// starts nothing.
/// </summary>
internal Task<bool> StartIfNeeded(string trigger)
{
Debug.Assert(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(trigger), "trigger must not be null or empty.");
if (_captured)
lock (_lock)
{
if (_captured)
{
return Task.FromResult(true);
}
if (_inFlight != null)
{
return _inFlight;
}
}
Stopwatch mainThreadWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
HotReloadSnapshotCaptureInputs inputs = _readInputsOnMainThread();
CancellationTokenSource cancellation = new CancellationTokenSource();
Stopwatch poolWatch = new Stopwatch();
Task<bool> task = _runInBackground(() =>
{
poolWatch.Start();
try
{
return _capture(inputs, cancellation.Token);
}
finally
{
poolWatch.Stop();
}
});
Debug.Assert(task != null, "runInBackground must return a task.");
lock (_lock)
{
_inFlight = task;
_inFlightCancellation = cancellation;
_inFlightStartedUtcTicks = _utcNowTicks();
_holdCapLogged = false;
}
VibeLogger.LogInfo(
HotReloadConstants.VibeLogSourceSnapshotCaptureStarted,
"Hot reload started the source snapshot capture of this domain.",
new { trigger, mainThreadMs = mainThreadWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds });
// Why the continuation is attached after the task is published: a task that already
// finished then runs it right here, and it finds the published task to clear.
// Why ExecuteSynchronously on the default scheduler: the bookkeeping must not wait for the
// main thread, which a pause point may be blocking on this very task.
task.ContinueWith(
finished => OnFinished(finished, cancellation, trigger, poolWatch),
CancellationToken.None,
TaskContinuationOptions.ExecuteSynchronously,
TaskScheduler.Default);
return task;
}
/// <summary>
/// Returns a completed task when this domain is captured, the running capture's task when one
/// runs, and otherwise the task of a capture started now. Main thread only, because the
/// inputs are read from Unity here. An exception while reading them reaches the caller and
/// starts nothing.
/// </summary>
internal Task<bool> StartIfNeeded(string trigger)
{
Debug.Assert(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(trigger), "trigger must not be null or empty.");
lock (_lock)
{
if (_captured)
{
return Task.FromResult(true);
}
if (_inFlight != null)
{
return _inFlight;
}
}
Stopwatch mainThreadWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
HotReloadSnapshotCaptureInputs inputs = _readInputsOnMainThread();
CancellationTokenSource cancellation = new CancellationTokenSource();
Stopwatch poolWatch = new Stopwatch();
TaskCompletionSource<bool> completion = new TaskCompletionSource<bool>();
Task<bool> task = _runInBackground(() =>
{
poolWatch.Start();
try
{
return _capture(inputs, cancellation.Token);
}
finally
{
poolWatch.Stop();
}
});
Debug.Assert(task != null, "runInBackground must return a task.");
lock (_lock)
{
_inFlight = completion.Task;
_inFlightCancellation = cancellation;
_inFlightStartedUtcTicks = _utcNowTicks();
_holdCapLogged = false;
}
VibeLogger.LogInfo(
HotReloadConstants.VibeLogSourceSnapshotCaptureStarted,
"Hot reload started the source snapshot capture of this domain.",
new { trigger, mainThreadMs = mainThreadWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds });
// Why the continuation is attached after the task is published: a task that already
// finished then runs it right here, and it finds the published task to clear.
// Why ExecuteSynchronously on the default scheduler: the bookkeeping must not wait for the
// main thread, which a pause point may be blocking on this very task.
task.ContinueWith(
finished =>
{
OnFinished(finished, cancellation, trigger, poolWatch);
if (finished.IsCanceled)
{
completion.TrySetCanceled();
}
else if (finished.IsFaulted)
{
completion.TrySetException(finished.Exception.InnerExceptions);
}
else
{
completion.TrySetResult(finished.Result);
}
},
CancellationToken.None,
TaskContinuationOptions.ExecuteSynchronously,
TaskScheduler.Default);
return completion.Task;
}
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Review comment at
@Packages/src/Editor/FirstPartyTools/HotReload/Shared/HotReloadSourceSnapshotCapture.cs
around lines 113 - 175:
Update StartIfNeeded to publish and return a completion task that is signaled
only after OnFinished clears _inFlight; forward the worker task’s result,
cancellation, or exceptions to it. Ensure readers joining an in-flight capture
receive this same completion task so they can retry after a failed, empty, or
cancelled capture.

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Conflicts: CaptureAfterDomainReload keeps the integration branch's body and this branch's cancellation token parameter, still passing CancellationToken.None on (the next commit forwards it). docs/vibe-logs.md keeps this branch's capture outcome entries and the integration branch's breakdown fields. The gate tests build their inputs with the new four-argument constructor.
A compile start or an upcoming domain reload now stops the capture between assemblies, not only before it starts.
The un-awaited StartIfNeeded calls inside async test methods raised CS4014.

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