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…navigation Since #832 the window title, page URL and field placeholder are re-read on every focus poll under the 50 ms AX timeout and compared with == inside the session identity. A host busy with a burst of synthetic insertions (Chromium during rapid Tab accepts) times one read out; the nil failed the equality as a focused-field change, FocusTracker advanced the focus sequence for it, the session was torn down, and the next Tab reached the page. Add FocusedInputSessionIdentity.continues: process, bundle and focus sequence must match exactly, while a surface fact agrees unless both reads are known and differ. Use it everywhere a live snapshot is compared with a stored one, apply the same rule in FocusedInputPollingSignature.continuesField, and have FocusTracker carry the last known facts through a blank poll so A -> nil -> B is still detected as navigation.
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSession identity checks now tolerate unreadable optional surface facts while requiring matching process, bundle, and focus sequence. Focus polling carries known surface facts forward. Suggestion and visual-context paths use the continuity checks. ChangesSession Continuity
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23-27: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winStore the carried-forward identity, not the raw poll identity.
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snapshot.sessionIdentitywithout any change. If one poll reads the title as nil,lastSessionIdentityloses the known title. Then a later poll with a different known title passescontinuesagainst the nil value. The generation does not bump. In this state, a sequence of title A, then nil, then title B with the same focus sequence and identical text keeps the old generation.FocusTrackerdoes not always catch this case either. Its signature also requires the frame/anchor to continue. That check can fail in other ways, but the case here is a reused composer whose frame does not change. For that case, the tracker catches the navigation because its signature carries A forward. So the focus sequence normally advances, and the risk stays small. The remaining gap is therefreshIfStaleor cached-snapshot path, which can materialize before the tracker's next poll. Consider merging known facts intolastSessionIdentity, ascarryingKnownSurfaceFactsdoes. The same A → nil → B pattern applies toSuggestionInteractionState.hasFocusedElementChanged, because it compares againstcurrentContext.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @Cotabby/Services/Suggestion/State/ContextBuffer.swift:
- Around line 23-27: Update ContextBuffer’s session identity handling to carry
forward known surface facts when a poll omits them, rather than storing the raw
snapshot.sessionIdentity. Use carryingKnownSurfaceFacts to preserve the prior
title across an A → nil → B sequence, and apply the same carried-forward
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The session-keeping checks tolerate a surface fact the poll failed to read. excerpt(for:) feeds screen text into a request, so a chat switch that reuses the composer, frame and URL while its new title is momentarily unreadable must not condition the new chat on the previous chat's excerpt. Withhold the excerpt for that poll instead; the capture survives for the next readable one.
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🟡 Minor · Restart capture when a continuing snapshot gains a readable… · VisualContextCoordinator.swift:80
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRestart capture when a continuing snapshot gains a readable surface fact.
When the session starts with a nil title, URL, or placeholder,
continuesaccepts a later snapshot that supplies that fact. The field coalescer then ignores the call because the element and focus sequence are unchanged.activeSessionIdentityremains unchanged, soexcerpt(for:)rejects the retained capture because it requires exact identity equality. This can withhold screen context for the rest of the active session, including refreshed captures.Do not merge the new fact into
activeSessionIdentity. A nil surface fact is a wildcard, so the same transition can represent navigation to a new chat. Cancel the old session and schedule a fresh capture when a continuing snapshot adds a previously unreadable fact. This drops the old excerpt before the new capture and preserves the chat-isolation check.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Line 80: Update the session-continuation handling around
`snapshotContext.sessionIdentity.continues(previous)` to detect when a
continuing snapshot adds a previously unreadable title, URL, or placeholder.
Cancel the old session and schedule a fresh capture for that transition; do not
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Summary
Rapid Tab accepts in a browser still lost the suggestion and let Tab reach the page after #838. The remaining cause is in #832: it removed
SurfaceContextCache, so the window title, page URL and field placeholder are now re-read from the host on every focus poll (each a bounded AX call underAXHelper's 50 ms messaging timeout), and it folded those three facts intoFocusedInputSessionIdentity, whichreconcile, acceptance validation,hasFocusedElementChangedandFocusTracker's poll signature all compare with==. During a burst of synthetic insertions Chromium is busy and one of those reads times out and returns nil. That nil failed the equality as a "focused field changed",FocusTrackeradvanced the focus sequence for it, the session was torn down, and the next Tab found no overlay and was passed through to the host. Slow Tabs never hit it because the host was idle by the next read.The fix is one pure rule: a surface fact that reads as nil is unreadable, not changed; navigation is one known value replaced by a different known value.
FocusedInputSessionIdentity.continues(_:)encodes it (process, bundle and focus sequence still exact), every live-snapshot consumer uses it instead of==(reconciler, interaction state, continuation plan, speculative-generation checks, context buffer, visual-context coordinator),FocusedInputPollingSignature.continuesFieldapplies the same rule, andFocusTrackerstores each continuing poll with unreadable facts carried from the previous one so a navigation that straddles a blank poll (A → nil → B) is still detected on the B poll. #832's intent is preserved: identical draft text in another conversation (different known title or URL) still rejects.Validation
CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO,build/DerivedData): first pass 143 targeted tests surfaced two pre-existing tests whose fixtures relied on nil meaning "no title" (updated to a known title, see below); then the full unit suite:Executed 2653 tests, with 16 tests skipped and 0 failures,** TEST SUCCEEDED **. DerivedData cleaned.FocusModelsTests(identity rule),FocusedInputPollingSignatureTests(blank poll continues; carried facts catch A→nil→B),SuggestionSessionReconciliationTests(blank read during insertion lag keeps the session; a different known title still rejects),SuggestionInteractionStateTests, and two coordinator tests inSuggestionCoordinatorAcceptanceTests: three rapid Tabs where the second one's pre-accept refresh reads nil title/URL are all consumed, and a refresh that reads another conversation still passes Tab through.swiftlint --stricton the changed files: no findings on changed lines (two pre-existing findings inSuggestionInteractionStateTestsfrom 8b1210d/c458da33).==on a nil-vs-value identity returned.invalidfromreconcile, which ispassTabThrough), but a trace from the installed app running with-cotabby-debugshould still be attached before merging: look fortab-passed-throughpreceded by "focused field changed" in~/Library/Logs/Cotabby/cotabby.jsonl.Linked issues
Refs #832, #838
Risk / rollout notes
FocusedInputSessionIdentitykeeps itsHashable/==(still used by tests and as cache keys); only the live comparisons switch tocontinues. A nil-tolerant==would not be transitive or hash-consistent, which is why this is a separate method.windowTitle: nil) as the original and a known title as the change:FocusedInputPollingSignatureTests.test_identityFactsDistinguishReusedComposerAndBreakContinuity,SuggestionSessionReconciliationTests.test_identicalTextInAnotherConversationRejectsEvenDuringInsertionLag,SuggestionInteractionStateTests.test_hasFocusedElementChanged_tracksSessionIdentityNotAXWrapperChurn(plusContextBufferNavigationTestsandSuggestionConversationIsolationTestsfixtures). Under the new rule nil means "unreadable", so their originals now carry a known title/URL; the assertion they make (a different known value is navigation) is unchanged.Summary by CodeRabbit
The PR appears safe to merge, with a non-blocking loss of visual-context excerpts for sessions that begin with an unreadable surface fact.
Summary
The PR treats temporarily unreadable title, URL, and placeholder values as continuing the same focused field while retaining known values in focus polling to detect later navigation. The follow-up change requires exact identity before supplying a visual excerpt to a prompt. That guard also prevents excerpts from being used when a field’s initially unreadable facts later become readable.
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%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%% flowchart LR A["Session starts with unreadable title"] --> B["Identity stored with nil title"] B --> C["Same field later reports known title"] C --> D["Refresh keeps session and captures excerpt"] D --> E["Exact identity check rejects excerpt"]Reviews (2) · Last reviewed commit: "Keep exact identity for handing a screen..."