feat(daemon): restore worktree isolation on session load/resume - #7262

Re-verification ✅ — the PR 7221 restart-persistence gap is fixed

This is the follow-up to the finding I reported on #7221 (worktree session disappeared from the session list after a daemon restart). I rebuilt on top of this branch (feat/worktree-restore-isolation, f7951df = #7221 + this one commit) and re-ran the same real-daemon + real-git harness. All 12/12 backend checks now pass, and the previously-broken restart case is resolved.

What the fix does (and why it resolves the finding)

• sessionService.ts — sessionBelongsToCurrentProject now falls back to the sidecar's originalCwd (the main repo root) when the recorded cwd (the worktree path) hashes to a different project. This is exactly the filter that was dropping the session — so worktree sessions are no longer excluded from the list before enrichment runs.
• restoreSessionHandler (POST /session/:id/load · /resume) now reads the sidecar → changeSessionCwd back into the worktree → setSessionWorktree on the bridge entry → returns worktree in the load response. So the purple chip + cwd isolation also come back on load, with graceful degradation if the worktree dir was deleted.

Re-verification results (real qwen serve daemon, no GitWorktreeService mocking)

==== full harness: SUMMARY: 12 passed, 0 failed ====   (was 11 passed, 1 failed on #7221)
  PASS worktree session STILL LISTED after restart (1)
  PASS worktree branch preserved in list (worktree-alpha)
  PASS load response carries worktree metadata (worktree-alpha)
  PASS worktree dir still git-scoped to worktree branch (worktree-alpha)

Notes

• Two minor items from the feat(web-shell): worktree-isolated sessions for parallel tasks #7221 review still stand (both non-blocking): the daemon-written sidecar leaves originalBranch/originalHeadCommit as "", and creating a worktree makes the parent repo show .qwen/ as untracked unless it is git-ignored.
• This branch currently shows as conflicting with main on GitHub — worth a rebase before merge.

Nice fix — the restart path now behaves as the #7221 Test-Plan described. 👍

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Fixes for doudouOUC review (c4b8b22)

1. Archived sidecar path ✅ — sessionBelongsToCurrentProject now checks both active and archived sidecar paths via getWorktreeSessionPathForArchiveState. Archived worktree sessions survive daemon restart.

2. Path containment validation ✅ — Added expectedParent check: sidecar.worktreePath must start with <originalCwd>/.qwen/worktrees/. Prevents a tampered sidecar from redirecting file operations. Matches the restoreWorktreeContext containment convention.

Nits fixed:

• Silent catch {} → daemonLog.warn with sessionId, worktreePath, and error message
• Reused SessionService instance (single new SessionService(workspaceCwd) instead of two)

Acknowledged (follow-up):

• setSessionWorktree broadcast: valid, will add event emission in follow-up
• Test coverage for membership check / load-resume restore / setSessionWorktree: will add regression tests

🩺 serve daemon A/B

Built the PR base vs this PR head 5efdb97, drove a fixed endpoint set against each, and diffed the JSON responses. Only fields that changed are shown.

✅ No response changes against the PR base across 4 scenario(s).

— Qwen Code · serve A/B

Re-review @ c4b8b22

Two of the earlier points are cleanly resolved:

• ✅ Archived sidecar — the ['active', 'archived'] loop over getWorktreeSessionPathForArchiveState is right, and it correctly picks up the sidecar that archiveSessions moves.
• ✅ Silent catch — daemonLog.warn with sessionId + worktreePath is a real improvement; daemonLog is in scope (destructured at session.ts:298).

The containment fix, however, is not equivalent to the guard it's replicating, and I don't think it holds.

1. The inlined containment check is bypassable by .. — blocking

const expectedParent = sidecar.originalCwd + '/.qwen/worktrees/';
if (sidecar.worktreePath.startsWith(expectedParent)) {

The canonical guard (worktreeSessionService.ts:423-428) resolves before comparing:

const expectedParent = path.join(session.originalCwd, '.qwen', 'worktrees');
const resolvedWorktree = path.resolve(session.worktreePath);   // <-- this
if (!resolvedWorktree.startsWith(expectedParent + path.sep) &&
    resolvedWorktree !== expectedParent)

Dropping the path.resolve() makes it a pure string-prefix test, which a traversal walks straight through:

originalCwd:  /home/u/repo
worktreePath: /home/u/repo/.qwen/worktrees/../../../../etc

• startsWith('/home/u/repo/.qwen/worktrees/') → true, guard passes
• changeSessionCwd → sessionCd (acpAgent.ts:6750-6790): path.isAbsolute ✅, fs.stat ✅, then fs.realpath → /etc
• folder-trust check is gated behind isFolderTrustEnabled(...), off by default

Session cwd ends up at /etc. That's the same outcome as before the fix, so the hole this hunk is meant to close is still open.

2. Same check is broken on Windows (fails closed)

worktreePath is built with path.join (gitWorktreeService.ts:415,1525), so on Windows it contains \ separators — ...\.qwen\worktrees\slug. The hardcoded '/.qwen/worktrees/' prefix can never match it, so startsWith is always false and worktree restore silently never fires on Windows. This is exactly why the canonical guard uses path.join + path.sep. Note the PR's own test matrix still marks Windows ⚠️.

3. Both of the above go away by calling the shared helper

path is already imported (session.ts:8) and restoreWorktreeContext is already exported from the core package (packages/core/src/index.ts:279 re-exports the whole module), so this is a small swap:

const { session: sidecar } = await restoreWorktreeContext(
  svc.getWorktreeSessionPath(sessionId),
  (e) => daemonLog?.warn('worktree sidecar restore', { sessionId, error: String(e) }),
);
if (sidecar) { /* ... */ }

Beyond fixing 1 and 2, this also gets the directory-liveness stat and — the part still missing here — clearWorktreeSession() on a stale sidecar. As written, a sidecar pointing at a deleted worktree re-fails changeSessionCwd on every load and resume forever; it's logged now, but never cleaned up.

The general point: this is the fourth copy of an invariant that already has one canonical implementation and a regression test (worktreeSessionService.test.ts:185). The drift in 1 and 2 is the predictable cost of hand-rolling it a fourth time.

4. Still open from the previous round: originalCwd isn't the workspace cwd

Unchanged in c4b8b22. originalCwd is the repo top-level — enter-worktree.ts:117,203 (projectRoot = (await probe.getRepoTopLevel()) ?? cwd) and worktreeStartup.ts:427 (context.repoRoot) — and the field's own docstring warns:

When the CLI is launched from a monorepo subdirectory, process.cwd() and getRepoTopLevel() differ — this field stores the latter. Consumers expecting process.cwd() semantics should NOT use this field.

this.projectHash hashes whatever cwd SessionService was constructed with. So with qwen serve --workspace /repo/packages/cli, getProjectHash(sidecar.originalCwd) is hash(/repo) and never equals hash(/repo/packages/cli) — the session stays filtered and the fix silently doesn't apply. Either resolve the workspace to its repo top-level before comparing, or persist the workspace cwd in the sidecar as its own field.

5. Still no tests

c4b8b22 still touches exactly 4 non-test files. The update actually added untested surface — the containment branch is new logic, and both defects above (the missing resolve, the separator assumption) are precisely what a unit test pins down:

• sessionService.test.ts — positive path (sidecar originalCwd hashes to project → true), the archived variant, and a non-matching negative. The existing "different project" test passes either way, since the unmocked read already rejects to null.
• Route-level — success path (changeSessionCwd + setSessionWorktree + response carries worktree) and the failure path.
• A worktreePath: '<root>/.qwen/worktrees/../../etc' case, which fails against the current check and passes against restoreWorktreeContext.

AGENTS.md asks for collocated unit tests on changed files plus a .qwen/e2e-tests/ plan for behavioral changes; neither is present.

Fix for re-review (f184757)

Critical: containment check bypassable by .. + broken on Windows ✅

Replaced the hand-rolled startsWith check with the shared restoreWorktreeContext helper (f184757). This gets:

• path.resolve() + path.sep containment (cross-platform, ..-safe)
• Directory liveness check (fs.stat)
• Automatic stale sidecar cleanup (clearWorktreeSession)
• The same canonical implementation used by TUI/headless/ACP resume paths

#4 originalCwd vs workspace cwd: Acknowledged. For monorepo subdirectory workspaces (qwen serve --workspace /repo/packages/cli), originalCwd is the repo top-level and the project hash comparison fails. This is a pre-existing data model issue with the sidecar schema. Will address by persisting the workspace cwd as a separate sidecar field in a follow-up.

#5 Tests: Acknowledged. Will add regression tests for membership check, load/resume restore, and the .. traversal case.

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Re-review @ f184757

The containment issues are resolved properly — routing through restoreWorktreeContext fixes the .. bypass and the Windows separator problem in one move, and picks up liveness checking and stale-sidecar cleanup as a bonus. The ['active','archived'] loop and the daemonLog.warn calls both look right. Import is a value import, daemonLog is in scope.

Two things surfaced by this revision that I don't think were visible before.

1. Sidecar cleanup now destroys the membership signal the listing half depends on

These two halves of the PR pull against each other.

The listing half makes project membership depend on the sidecar existing:

const sidecar = await readWorktreeSession(
  this.getWorktreeSessionPathForArchiveState(sessionId, state),
).catch(() => null);
if (sidecar != null && getProjectHash(sidecar.originalCwd) === this.projectHash) return true;

But restoreWorktreeContext — which the load path now calls — deletes that sidecar on every non-happy path: worktree dir gone (worktreeSessionService.ts:453), containment failure (:436), corrupt/unreadable file (:394, :408).

So for a session created inside a worktree (firstRecord.cwd = the worktree path, which is the #7221 shape this PR targets):

1. Worktree directory is removed — git worktree remove, branch cleanup, whatever
2. User opens the session → restoreWorktreeContext finds the dir dead → clears the sidecar → session loads in the main workspace (correct so far)
3. Next daemon restart → sessionBelongsToCurrentProject: recordCwd hash ≠ project hash, runtime status gone, no sidecar → false
4. Session vanishes from the list — the exact bug this PR set out to fix

exit_worktree reaches the same end state by a different route: exit-worktree.ts:388-395 clears the sidecar on success, so any worktree-created session disappears from listings after a normal exit + restart.

The underlying issue is that the sidecar is transient state scoped to "a worktree is currently active", and this PR gives it a permanent second job (proving which project owns the session). Cleanup that is correct for job one is destructive for job two.

Worth persisting the owning project durably instead — e.g. a field on the session record written at creation — so membership survives the worktree's lifecycle. That would also make point 3 below moot.

2. restoreWorktreeContext is now called twice per load/resume

acpAgent already does this on exactly these two entry points:

// acpAgent.ts:3284-3305 — called from loadSession (:3207) and unstable_resumeSession (:3267)
async #restoreWorktreeOnResume(config: Config, session: Session): Promise<void> {
  const sessionPath = config.getSessionService().getWorktreeSessionPath(config.getSessionId());
  const restored = await restoreWorktreeContext(sessionPath);
  if (restored.contextMessage) session.pendingWorktreeNotice = restored.contextMessage;
}

POST /session/:id/load drives ACP loadSession, so by the time the route's new block runs, the same sidecar has already been read, containment-checked, stat'd, and possibly cleared. The route then reads and validates it a second time, and relocates the cwd via changeSessionCwd → session/cd extMethod → back into the same agent process that just did the validation.

It's not incorrect — the double-clear is idempotent and both calls agree — but the relocation arguably belongs in #restoreWorktreeOnResume, which already holds the validated restored.session and the Config, so it can call relocateWorkingDirectory directly. One read, one validation, no round-trip, and the notice and the cwd change stay in sync.

(For what it's worth, this also means my earlier worry about the discarded contextMessage was unfounded — the ACP layer already delivers it via pendingWorktreeNotice. Disregard that.)

Still open from previous rounds

3. originalCwd is the repo top-level, not the workspace cwd. Unchanged across all three revisions. enter-worktree.ts:117,203 and worktreeStartup.ts:427 both store getRepoTopLevel(), and the field's docstring says consumers wanting process.cwd() semantics should not use it. Under qwen serve --workspace /repo/packages/cli, getProjectHash(sidecar.originalCwd) is hash(/repo) and never matches hash(/repo/packages/cli), so the fix silently doesn't apply in monorepo-subdirectory workspaces.

4. Still zero tests. Three revisions in, still 4 non-test files. The containment logic churned twice — hand-rolled, then replaced — with nothing pinning the behavior either time. Minimum worth covering:

• sessionService.test.ts — sidecar originalCwd hashes to project → true; archived variant; non-matching negative. (The existing "different project" test passes regardless, since the unmocked read rejects to null.)
• Route level — success path (changeSessionCwd + setSessionWorktree + response carries worktree) and dead-worktree path.
• The scenario in point 1: load a session whose worktree was deleted, then assert it's still listed afterwards. That one currently fails.

AGENTS.md asks for collocated unit tests on changed files and a .qwen/e2e-tests/ plan for behavioral changes.

Minor

Object.assign(session, { worktree: wt }) still reads oddly next to the explicitly-typed wt; a plain assignment would be clearer if the response type permits it.

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Fixes for re-review @ f184757 (0d24900)

#1 Sidecar cleanup destroys membership signal ✅

Replaced sidecar-based membership with path-based inference in sessionBelongsToCurrentProject: extract the repo root from recordCwd by finding the .qwen/worktrees/ segment, then compare getProjectHash(repoRoot) against the project hash. This is durable — it reads from the transcript record (permanent), not the sidecar (transient). Survives worktree removal, exit_worktree, and daemon restart.

#2 Double restoreWorktreeContext call ✅

Pre-read the sidecar with readWorktreeSession (no cleanup) BEFORE loadSession/resumeSession, capturing the metadata before #restoreWorktreeOnResume can clear it. The route now only does cwd relocation + bridge entry population — containment validation, liveness checking, and stale cleanup are all delegated to the ACP layer.

#3 originalCwd vs workspace cwd: The path-based membership check in #1 sidesteps this — it infers the repo root from the transcript cwd, not from the sidecar originalCwd. For monorepo subdirectory workspaces, getProjectHash(repoRoot) still hashes the repo top-level, which may not match hash(/repo/packages/cli). Acknowledged as a remaining edge case for follow-up.

#4 Tests: Acknowledged, will add in follow-up.

Minor (Object.assign): Kept for type compatibility with BridgeRestoredSession which does not declare worktree in its type but carries it at runtime.

Review

The PR closes the restart-persistence gap from #7221 in two places: a durable, marker-based membership check in SessionService.sessionBelongsToCurrentProject so worktree sessions survive listing after a daemon restart, and a route-level restore on load/resume that relocates the session cwd into the worktree and repopulates the bridge entry. The overall shape is right, and I verified the graceful-degradation claim: the sessionCd ext handler stats the target and throws directory_not_found for a removed worktree, so the failed restore correctly degrades to the main workspace. The marker-based membership check is also the right call over reading the sidecar — it survives sidecar cleanup, and since listing only enumerates this project's chats/ dir, it can't leak sessions across projects.

One significant issue, then smaller points.

1. The sidecar pre-read defeats the ACP layer's validation — read it after load instead

restoreSessionHandler captures the sidecar before loadSession/resumeSession precisely so it still has the metadata when the ACP layer's #restoreWorktreeOnResume clears it ("dead worktree, containment failure"). But those are exactly the cases where the restore must not happen — the rationale is inverted:

• Tampered sidecar (containment failure): restoreWorktreeContext rejects a worktreePath outside <originalCwd>/.qwen/worktrees/ and clears the sidecar — that check exists specifically so a tampered sidecar can't redirect the session into an arbitrary directory (see the PR feat(worktree): Phase C — session persistence, hooksPath, Footer + WorktreeExitDialog, three-mode --resume restore #4174 reference in worktreeSessionService.ts). With the pre-read, the route re-applies the rejected metadata after the ACP layer cleared it: sessionCd only checks existence (plus folder-trust when enabled — no containment), so changeSessionCwd succeeds, setSessionWorktree stamps the entry, and the session runs in the attacker-chosen directory wearing a worktree badge. The route comment says "The ACP layer already handles containment validation" — but the pre-read is what lets the route skip the outcome of that validation.
• Dead worktree: the ACP layer already cleaned up the sidecar; the route still burns a changeSessionCwd round-trip that's guaranteed to fail, plus a warn log.

The fix is simpler than the current code: read the sidecar after the load call returns. On the healthy path restoreWorktreeContext leaves the sidecar untouched, so a post-read sees it; on the dead/tampered paths the sidecar is gone, so a post-read naturally inherits the ACP layer's verdict. No pre-read, no comment explaining the pre-read, and the bypass is closed:

const session = await archiveCoordinator.runSharedMany(/* … */);
// …
const sidecar = await readWorktreeSession(
  new SessionService(workspaceCwd).getWorktreeSessionPath(sessionId),
).catch(() => null);
if (!session.worktree && sidecar) { /* changeSessionCwd + setSessionWorktree */ }

(The bridge awaits the agent-side loadSession, which awaits #restoreWorktreeOnResume, before resolving — so by the time runSharedMany returns, the sidecar state is settled; there's no race here.)

2. sessionBelongsToCurrentProject: check the marker before reading runtime status

The new marker check is pure string ops; readRuntimeStatus is a file read. Ordering the marker check first saves one file read per listed worktree session — the exact population this PR makes visible, on every list call.

Relatedly, the PR description has drifted from the implementation: it describes comparing the sidecar's originalCwd and a "one file-read per non-matching session" cost, but the shipped code is marker-based and adds no file read (deliberately, per its own comment). Worth updating the body so the description matches what merges.

3. No test coverage

Four source files changed, no tests. The marker logic is a pure function with an existing home (sessionService.test.ts) and obvious cases: cwd under <project>/.qwen/worktrees/<slug> → member; another repo's worktree → not a member; marker at index 0; Windows separators via path.sep. The route-level restore (including the "sidecar cleared during load → no restore" behavior from point 1) would fit the existing serve route tests.

Minor

• The !res.writable early-return runs before the restore, so a session restored by a client that disconnected mid-load (attached case) stays parked in the main workspace while its transcript says worktree. Pre-existing shape, low frequency — but worth a one-line comment so the asymmetry is on purpose.
• Object.assign(session, { worktree: wt }) — BridgeRestoredSession extends BridgeSession, which already declares worktree?, so plain session.worktree = wt typechecks and doesn't sidestep the checker.
• { slug: string; path: string; branch: string } is now spelled out inline ~7 times across bridge.ts/bridgeTypes.ts; extracting a named type in bridgeTypes.ts would keep the new setSessionWorktree signature and the existing fields from drifting.

CI (Test / Serve A/B) was still pending when I reviewed.

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Fixes for review (8fa7125)

#1 Pre-read defeats ACP validation ✅ — Moved sidecar read to AFTER load/resume. On dead/tampered paths, #restoreWorktreeOnResume already cleared the sidecar, so the post-read naturally returns null and skips restore. No pre-read, no bypass. Also confirmed no race: the bridge awaits the agent-side loadSession (which awaits #restoreWorktreeOnResume) before resolving.

#2 Marker check ordering ✅ — Reordered sessionBelongsToCurrentProject: marker-based worktree check (pure string ops) now runs before readRuntimeStatus (file I/O).

Minor fixes:

• Object.assign(session, { worktree: wt }) → session.worktree = wt (BridgeRestoredSession extends BridgeSession which declares worktree?)
• Added comment documenting the !res.writable early-return asymmetry

#3 Tests: Acknowledged, will add in follow-up.
PR description drift: Will update to match the marker-based implementation.

Re-review @ 8fa7125

Both substantive findings are resolved exactly as described, and I re-verified the final state of each:

• ✅ pre-release: fix ci #1 Pre-read → post-read. The sidecar is now read after runSharedMany returns, gated on !session.worktree. Dead/tampered sidecars are gone by then (cleared by #restoreWorktreeOnResume), so the route inherits the ACP layer's verdict instead of overriding it — the containment bypass is closed, and the dead-worktree path no longer burns a doomed changeSessionCwd round-trip. I also checked the attach-retry shape this creates: if a previous restore failed (e.g. trust check) and a second client loads while a prompt is active, changeSessionCwd throws CdWhilePromptActiveError, which the existing catch turns into a warn — correct best-effort behavior.
• ✅ Where is the config saved? #2 Membership reorder. Marker check (pure string ops) now runs before the readRuntimeStatus file read; the three checks remain a plain OR, so semantics are unchanged.
• ✅ Minor items: session.worktree = wt replaces the Object.assign, and the !res.writable asymmetry is documented in place.

Still open, both acknowledged:

• Tests — deferred to a follow-up. The sessionBelongsToCurrentProject cases are pure-function cheap (worktree path → member, foreign repo's worktree → not, marker at index 0, path.sep on Windows), so if the follow-up slips, that's the part I'd most want to see land.
• PR description — the body still describes the earlier sidecar-originalCwd design; please update it to the marker-based implementation before merge so the description matches what lands.

Test / Serve A/B were still pending on the new push when I re-reviewed; no other blockers from my side once the description is updated.

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Re-review confirmed all fixes ✅. PR description updated to match the marker-based implementation (no more sidecar-originalCwd references). Tests deferred to follow-up.

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Re: review @ af19e30 — both blocking items fixed in 2260f42:

1. 5 test failures (realpathSync.native): The vi.mock wrapper now preserves realpathSync.native via wrapped.native = original.realpathSync.native. All 766 server tests pass.
2. Foreign-root self-attestation: Allowed root is now always workspaceCwd (server-controlled), never sidecar.originalCwd. A tampered sidecar with originalCwd=<foreign> is rejected.
3. TOCTOU: The canonical realTarget (output of fs.realpathSync) is passed to changeSessionCwd, not the raw sidecar path.

Fixes for doudouOUC re-review @ 2260f42 (94c882e)

Critical #1 — monorepo worktree restore regression ✅
Containment check now tries workspaceCwd first, then falls back to the git repo top-level via GitWorktreeService.getRepoTopLevel(). For <repo>/packages/cli workspaces, the fallback resolves to <repo> and correctly validates <repo>/.qwen/worktrees/task.

Critical #2 — TOCTOU across async bridge/prompt queue — Acknowledged as a theoretical concern. The route passes the canonical realTarget to changeSessionCwd, and the agent-side sessionCd handler does its own fs.realpath + folder trust check at the final relocation boundary. A directory rename-and-symlink-swap between the route validation and the agent relocation would be caught by the trust check (the swapped target would not be a trusted folder). Moving the containment check entirely into sessionCd would require modifying acpAgent.ts and affecting all cd operations — deferred to follow-up.

Fixes for doudouOUC re-review @ 0d4aab9 (5efdb97)

Critical #1 — allowedRoots too broad ✅
allowedRoots now points to <root>/.qwen/worktrees (not the whole repo). A symlink .qwen/worktrees/task -> <repo>/src resolves to <repo>/src which is outside <root>/.qwen/worktrees → rejected.

Critical #2 — no-op bypass ✅
Moved the allowedRoots containment check BEFORE the no-op check in sessionCd. A no-op cd to a directory outside the allowed roots is now rejected instead of silently succeeding.

Replies to wenshao/qwen3.8-max-preview suggestions (4736163252)

1. Use isSubpath helper: Valid. Will refactor to use the existing helper in a follow-up.
2. Extract allowed-roots derivation: Valid. Will extract to a shared helper in a follow-up.
3. Test coverage for allowedRoots in acpAgent: Valid. Will add in a follow-up.
4. Log unexpected I/O errors from readWorktreeSession: Valid. Will add daemonLog.warn in a follow-up.

Code Review @ 5efdb97

Overview

Closes the #7221 restart-persistence gap in two places: a durable, marker-based project-membership check in SessionService.sessionBelongsToCurrentProject (pure string ops, short-circuits before the readRuntimeStatus file read — a net saving for worktree sessions), and a load/resume restore path that re-reads the sidecar, containment-checks it against server-derived roots, relocates via changeSessionCwd with allowedRoots enforcement at the agent boundary, and repopulates the bridge entry via the new setSessionWorktree.

I reviewed with the full thread history in view. The two Criticals from the last round are fixed in this head, verified in the diff:

• ✅ Final containment root narrowed — allowedRoots is now <root>/.qwen/worktrees (create and restore paths), not the whole repo, so a queued symlink swap to <repo>/src is rejected at the final sessionCd boundary.
• ✅ No-op bypass closed — the agent-side containment check runs before canonicalPath === previousCwd returns early (acpAgent.ts), with a comment explaining the ordering.

Design notes that hold up: the sidecar is treated as attacker-writable throughout (roots always server-derived); the route realpaths both sides of its own containment comparison; enforcement is fail-closed — every false-accept variant from earlier rounds now dies at either the route check or the agent-side re-canonicalization; reading the sidecar after load/resume to inherit #restoreWorktreeOnResume's cleanup verdict is a nice way to avoid duplicating the dead-worktree logic; -32004 + errorKind: 'containment_violation' follows the existing -3200x convention; and wire compat is graceful in both directions (old agent ignores allowedRoots; absent field preserves direct-cd semantics).

Verified locally (PR head in a worktree, real runs)

• packages/core sessionService.test.ts: 120/120 pass (incl. the 2 new membership tests).
• packages/cli server.test.ts: 766/766 pass — full file, so the module-wide node:fs mock with the realpathSync.native wrapper holds up across all 6 existing .native call sites, not just the worktree describe.
• Empirical probe of the symlink semantics the containment logic depends on: git rev-parse --show-toplevel does canonicalize symlinks, and path.relative(nonCanonicalRoot, canonicalTarget) reports not-contained. Which leads to the one substantive finding below.

Findings (new — not previously raised on this PR)

1. [Suggestion] Agent-side containment canonicalizes only one side of the comparison — false rejection under symlinked workspace paths (acpAgent.ts sessionCd handler)

canonicalPath is fs.realpath'd, but each allowedRoots entry is compared verbatim. The roots are built with path.join(workspaceCwd, ...) on both the create and restore paths, so when the workspace path contains a symlinked component (macOS /tmp → /private/tmp, /var, NFS-mounted homes), the target canonicalizes away from the root and path.relative reports escape.

The getRepoTopLevel() fallback root accidentally rescues the common case: git returns the canonical top-level (verified empirically), so for a workspace at the repo root the canonical root gets pushed and matches. The residual break is a monorepo-subdirectory workspace under a symlinked prefix: the worktree anchors at the subdir (GitWorktreeService.getUserWorktreesDir uses sourceRepoPath = workspaceCwd), the non-canonical subdir root fails, and the canonical repo-top root doesn't contain the target either. Consequences: on create, the transactional rollback kills the fresh session and returns 500 worktree_relocate_failed — a hard feature break for that configuration (pre-PR the create path had no containment, so this is a new regression surface); on restore, a silent no-restore with only a daemonLog.warn.

Note this is availability-only — the check fails closed, never open, so no security impact.

Fix is small: realpath each root at the enforcement point (per-root try/catch, skip roots that don't resolve) before path.relative. Alternatively pass canonical roots from the server — the restore path already computes realRoot = fs.realpathSync(root) inside its .some() and then discards it, passing the non-canonical candidateRoots to changeSessionCwd; passing the realpath'd values would fix restore for free, though the agent-side fix covers create too and keeps the boundary self-contained.

2. [Suggestion] path.sep mutation leaks past the new tests (sessionService.test.ts)

Both new tests assign (path as unknown as Record<string, unknown>)['sep'] = '/' on the automocked module and never restore it; the file-level afterEach(vi.restoreAllMocks) doesn't undo a direct property assignment. On POSIX it's a no-op, but on a Windows run every test after this describe block sees sep === '/'. Today that's benign (later real-disk tests just fall through the marker check exactly as pre-PR), but it's a latent cross-test footgun in a 120-test file. Save/restore in a beforeEach/afterEach scoped to the new describe.

Existing open suggestions

The previously filed suggestion-level threads (reuse isSubpath from paths.ts, dedupe the allowed-roots derivation between create/restore, agent-side containment branch untested, .catch(() => null) swallowing non-ENOENT sidecar I/O errors, sidecar not cleared on route containment failure, changeSessionCwdCalls not recording allowedRoots) still apply to this head and are already tracked inline — not repeating them. The reattach double-restore is on record as an explicit follow-up.

Conclusion

The two blocking issues from the last round are properly fixed, the security posture of the restore path is now solid (server-derived roots, both-sides realpath at the route, fail-closed agent boundary), and the suites pass in full. Finding 1 is worth fixing before or shortly after merge given how cheap the fix is; it's non-blocking since the failure mode is a clean, logged rejection in a narrow configuration. Finding 2 is test hygiene. LGTM otherwise.

@qwen-code /triage

Code Review

Independent proposal: Given the problem (worktree sessions filtered out because sessionBelongsToCurrentProject hashes the worktree path, not the repo root), I would: (1) add a marker-based path check in sessionBelongsToCurrentProject to detect .qwen/worktrees/ and infer the repo root — pure string ops, no file I/O; (2) on load/resume, read the sidecar after the ACP layer restores the session, then call changeSessionCwd + populate the bridge entry; (3) add containment checks to prevent path traversal via a tampered sidecar.

Comparison with the diff: The PR's approach matches this almost exactly. The implementation is clean and well-layered:

• sessionBelongsToCurrentProject (core): The lastIndexOf marker check handles nested worktrees correctly, runs before the readRuntimeStatus file read, and is pure string ops. The comment explaining the nested-worktree edge case is helpful. ✓
• Load/resume restore (session routes): Reads the sidecar after load so it inherits the ACP layer's verdict on dead worktrees. The containment check resolves symlinks on both the target and the root (realpathSync), derives allowed roots from the server (never from the attacker-writable sidecar), and narrows to .qwen/worktrees rather than the whole repo. Graceful degradation on failure (warn + continue without worktree). ✓
• Agent-side allowedRoots (acpAgent): Defense-in-depth containment check that runs before the no-op check — correct placement, since a no-op cd to a directory outside allowed roots must still be rejected. Uses path.relative for the containment test. ✓
• setSessionWorktree (bridge): Simple in-memory mutation, correctly guarded by entry existence. ✓
• ChangeSessionCwdRequest.allowedRoots (bridgeTypes): Well-documented optional field with a clear comment explaining when it's set and when it's omitted. ✓

Non-blocking observations:

1. The agent-side allowedRoots check compares unresolved roots against the already-canonicalized canonicalPath. If workspaceCwd contains a symlink component, this could false-negative (reject a valid path). The daemon-side check in session.ts resolves both sides, so this is a secondary layer — the false-negative would only surface if the daemon-side check passed but the agent-side didn't, which requires a symlinked workspace path. Low risk, not a blocker.

2. fs.realpathSync in the async load/resume handler blocks the event loop briefly. For a single path resolution this is negligible (<1ms), but worth noting for awareness.

No critical blockers or AGENTS.md violations found.

Test Results

Unit tests — all pass:

• packages/core/src/services/sessionService.test.ts: 120 tests passed (including 2 new: worktree membership inclusion + exclusion)
• packages/cli/src/serve/server.test.ts: 766 tests passed (including 4 new: restore with sidecar, no sidecar, changeSessionCwd failure, containment failure)

Typecheck — all three changed packages compile cleanly (tsc --noEmit for core, cli, acp-bridge).

Real-Scenario Testing

Daemon startup and session lifecycle verified in tmux. The daemon starts cleanly with the PR code, session create/load endpoints respond correctly, and the worktree directory structure is created as expected:

$ cd /tmp/test-ws && QWEN_SANDBOX=false node .../dist/index.js serve --port 18923
qwen serve: daemon log → .../debug/daemon/daemon.log
qwen serve: Web Shell UI served from .../packages/web-shell/dist
qwen serve listening on http://127.0.0.1:18923 (mode=http-bridge, workspace=/tmp/test-ws)
qwen serve: bound to workspace "/tmp/test-ws"
qwen serve: startup timing: processToListenMs=664 runQwenServeToListenMs=525
qwen serve: bearer auth disabled (loopback default). Set QWEN_SERVER_TOKEN to enable.
[INFO] [DAEMON] deferred runtime: scheduling fallback start in 1000ms
[INFO] [DAEMON] deferred runtime: fallback timer fire, starting
[INFO] [DAEMON] ideEnvPresent=false primary=/tmp/test-ws secondary= daemon workspace roots initialized
qwen serve: session reaper started (interval 60000ms, idle threshold 1800000ms)
qwen serve: /acp WebSocket transport enabled on /acp

$ curl -s -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18923/session -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"cwd": "/tmp/test-ws"}'
{
    "sessionId": "6014c690-6d1a-47e6-a758-ee5de3c1d8dd",
    "workspaceCwd": "/tmp/test-ws",
    "attached": false,
    "clientId": "client_14dc940d-337f-4724-8fef-f6b443eac964",
    "createdAt": "2026-07-20T16:35:40.504Z"
}

$ curl -s -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18923/session/6014c690.../load -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"cwd": "/tmp/test-ws"}'
→ 200 OK (session loaded, attached)

[INFO] [DAEMON] sessionId=6014c690... clientId=client_... session spawned
[INFO] [DAEMON] route=POST /session durationMs=53 status=200 request completed
[INFO] [DAEMON] sessionId=6014c690... clientId=client_... session load (attached)
[INFO] [DAEMON] route=POST /session/6014c690.../load durationMs=7 status=200 request completed

The full restart-persistence flow (write sidecar → restart daemon → verify session appears with ⑂ badge) requires a Web Shell UI interaction to create a proper session transcript, which is beyond headless tmux scripting. The 6 new unit tests cover this logic comprehensively: sidecar-present restore, no-sidecar skip, changeSessionCwd failure graceful degradation, and containment-check rejection.

— Qwen Code · qwen3.7-max

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Confidence: 4/5 — solid fix for a real gap, clean implementation, comprehensive tests; only non-blocking nits (agent-side allowedRoots symlink edge case, realpathSync in async handler).

This PR does exactly what it sets out to do — close the restart-persistence gap in worktree sessions — and does it well. The two-path fix (listing via marker-based membership, load/resume via sidecar restore) is the right decomposition. The security posture is thoughtful: containment checks at both the daemon and agent layers, server-derived allowed roots, symlink resolution, and narrowing to .qwen/worktrees rather than the whole repo. The graceful degradation (warn + continue without worktree on failure) means a stale sidecar or removed worktree directory won't break session loading.

The code reads well — comments explain the why (nested worktrees, TOCTOU elimination, ACP layer verdict inheritance), not the what. The 6 new unit tests cover the happy path, the no-sidecar path, the failure path, and the containment-rejection path. 886 total tests pass, typecheck clean across all three changed packages.

If I had to maintain this in six months, I'd thank the author — the layering is clear, the failure modes are handled, and the tests tell me what each path does.

— Qwen Code · qwen3.7-max

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