[saphid]

Problem

On web and desktop, deleting a thread that has a side chat never offers to delete the thread's worktree, even when no other thread uses it. With the default settings ("delete worktree on thread delete" off), the worktree is left on disk after the thread and its side chats are gone.

A side chat is a fork of its parent and copies the parent's worktreePath. deleteThread asks "Delete the worktree too?" only when no other thread uses that worktree. Both of its checks counted the parent's side chats as other users: the shell scan (getOrphanedWorktreePathForThread) and the server's getWorktreeThreadIds list. But the server deletes those side chats in the same thread.delete (Orchestrator.liveSideChatIds), so nothing is left using the worktree.

Change

deleteThread now adds the target's side chats (lineage.sideChat === true and parentThreadId === target) to the set of threads the delete removes. It uses that one set for both occupancy checks, the same way it already skips threads in a multi-select delete. This matches the server's automatic cleanup, where worktreeOwner in storageCleanup.ts already treats a side chat as part of its parent's worktree. Subagent children are not affected. They outlive the parent, so they still keep the worktree.

The server list now matches every spelling of the worktree path. Before, getWorktreeThreadIds compared stored paths with raw string equality. A thread launched with t3_thread_launch and existing_worktree stores the path as given, for example /repo/wt/ (see #24489). With side chats out of the occupancy set, an idle subagent stored under such a spelling could be missed, and the prompt would appear while that subagent still uses the worktree. The SQL filter in ProjectionStore.selectShellThreadRows is now a loose match. readShellSnapshotRows then keeps only the rows where normalizeProjectPathForComparison gives the same result for both paths, the same helper the client check uses. Two other callers of this filter, scratch-folder promotion and the worktree branch rename, now also find threads stored under another spelling of their path.

Scope and approval

This is a very small, focused fix for an obvious bug, so it has no prior issue. It changes about 12 lines in one function so that the client's occupancy check matches what the server deletes. It also makes the server's worktree lookup match paths the same way the client already does (about 15 lines), because this change relies on that lookup. It adds no new behavior or settings. Mobile has no worktree prompt, so it is not affected.

Overlap search: I searched the local PR index and GitHub ("side chat worktree", "delete worktree too", and issues for "side chat delete worktree") and found no matches. Open #29164 changes the archived-thread branch of deleteThread (draft and terminal cleanup), not these checks.

Verification

• New test in useThreadActions.permissions.test.ts: "offers to delete the worktree that only its side chats share". On main it fails with AssertionError: expected "vi.fn()" to be called once, but got 0 times (no prompt). With the fix it passes, and the requests are stopSession, delete, removeWorktree, refreshStatus.
• vp test run on useThreadActions.permissions, useThreadActions.undo, useThreadActions, and worktreeCleanup tests: 70/70 pass. After rebasing on current main, the permissions file passes 37/37.
• vp run check:changed passes (format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests, react compiler).
• The existing ProjectionStore.test.ts case "SQL shells read a subagent family and a worktree's threads" now also checks a subagent stored as <path>/. Before the server fix it fails with AssertionError: expected [ 'thread:family:child', …(2) ] to have the same members as [ 'thread:family:root', …(3) ]. It also checks that a POSIX path with different case stays separate, and that C:\RÉPO\wt matches a query of c:/répo/wt/. ProjectionStore 49/49 and ThreadLaunchService 45/45 pass. vp run check:changed passes.
• Not checked: a real desktop delete. The new test covers the shell-scan path. The server-list path (shellThreadFamilies) uses the same set, but no test covers it directly.

Reviewed with sol-loop: 1 round with GPT-6.1 Sol on high for the web change (approved), and 2 rounds for the server path fix. In round 1 Sol found that SQLite's ASCII-only lower() missed non-ASCII Windows paths, which is now fixed. Round 2 approved.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 779063d

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Deleting a thread with side chats can now offer worktree cleanup, with normalized path matching for occupancy checks. Existing authorization, shared-worktree protection, and destructive confirmation remain in place.

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Findings

Recognize forward-slash Windows UNC paths.
Use each sibling's stored worktree path in the branch-rename guard.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts:
- Around line 6751-6752: Update normalizeProjectPathForComparison to recognize
UNC paths with either backslash or forward-slash separators and normalize both
spellings to the same comparison form, while preserving existing Windows
drive-path handling and the worktree matching behavior in ProjectionStore.
- Around line 6751-6752: Update the sibling update loop in the branch-rename
flow to pass each sharing thread’s stored worktree path as expectedWorktreePath
instead of the requested worktreeCwd. Preserve the existing guard that compares
against the stored path so sibling updates succeed when the stored path uses an
alternate spelling.

Walkthrough

Thread deletion now includes matching side chats when checking worktree occupancy. Shell snapshot filtering compares normalized worktree paths, with tests for trailing slashes, POSIX case sensitivity, and Windows path normalization.

Changes: Thread deletion

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Worktree occupancy and deletion test apps/web/src/hooks/useThreadActions.ts, apps/web/src/hooks/useThreadActions.permissions.test.ts	deleteThread includes matching side chats in its removed set when checking for surviving threads and worktree occupants. The test verifies confirmation and the resulting deletion requests.

Shell snapshot path matching

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Normalized worktree path filtering apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts	The shell query selects worktree paths and filters snapshot rows by normalized path. Tests cover trailing-slash aliases, POSIX case sensitivity, and Windows path normalization.

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Low · up to 77906

Worktree deletion now accounts for side chats, which fixes the intended bug. Two narrow edge cases remain. Windows UNC paths written with forward slashes may not be recognized as the same worktree, so a thread sharing it can be missed. Alias-spelled sibling threads may also keep their old branch name after a rename. Both are bounded and can be handled shortly after merge.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
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The description clearly covers the problem, implementation, scope rationale, tests, results, limitations, and tool usage. It explains the related server path normalization change and identifies that real desktop deletion and direct server-list coverage were not checked.

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Note

Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

verified unchanged at 779063da15bef6b3e1c3f9dfe9fa812ec6e30be0 on this linux vm. i reproduced the bug first on github/main at 61c3794c32, then checked out the exact pr head and installed dependencies. one background dev server ran at a time, with isolated state. playwright drove /usr/bin/google-chrome against the dev web client. the project, new worktrees, parent threads, and side chats were created through the app. all conversation turns used real codex gpt-6.1-sol, without mocks or seeded data.

• main: deleting the parent deleted its side chat without offering worktree deletion; the checkout remained on disk.
• pr: the same flow offered "Delete the worktree too?". confirming deleted both conversations and removed the checkout.
• canceling the first confirmation kept the parent. canceling the worktree prompt deleted the conversations and retained the checkout.
• another ordinary thread sharing the checkout prevented the worktree prompt. it survived parent/side-chat deletion and completed a follow-up codex turn.
• authenticated websocket queries returned that survivor for both the canonical path and its trailing-slash spelling. a differently cased posix path returned no occupants.

read-only database and filesystem assertions after the ui actions:

main: parent + side chat deleted; worktree still exists
pr confirm: parent + side chat deleted; worktree absent
pr cancel worktree prompt: parent + side chat deleted; worktree retained
pr shared checkout: parent + side chat deleted; survivor + worktree retained

blacksmith: 164 focused tests passed across thread actions, worktree cleanup, projection store, and thread launch. vp run check:changed d8a829e5ecd6626f8fdee23ef20ca9758e056251 passed format, lint, knip, graphql, affected typechecks, tests, and react compiler checks. current github ci checks also pass.

before, main after confirming thread deletion, with no worktree prompt:

after, the pr offers worktree deletion for the matching parent and side-chat scenario:

short interaction capture, including both confirmations and the resulting empty thread view:

surviving thread completes a new provider turn after the shared parent is deleted:

Not verified

native electron, ios/android, macos/windows filesystem behavior (including unc aliases), other providers, remote/relay connections, bulk/archived deletion, idle subagent occupancy, and branch rename/scratch promotion with aliased stored paths were not exercised in this linux web pass.