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A zoom level could be lost when a pill was resized, or a focus committed, before the level's save landed. Both saved whole documents outside the zoom chain, built before the level. Raised by CodeRabbit on #694 (predates it).

Fix

  • updateZoomSpan and commitZoomFocus now queue on the zoom chain (queueZoomWrite, extracted from saveZoomPatch). The document is read inside the chain, with the same project, epoch and unknown-save guards.
  • Focus commit trade-off. Queueing alone moves the loss, it does not remove it: the level landing first also replaces the dragged document on screen, so the commit would then drop the focus. The commit therefore keeps the drag's last value and puts it back on top of such a write, as one undo step.
  • Unchanged otherwise: the pre-drag historyBase, and the rollback on failure (still only while the dragged document is on screen).
  • Realistic case: the inspector's Reset focus point (live write + commit in one click) right after a level button.

Tests

  • Two regressions in useTimeline.test.ts: level + resize, and level + focus commit (both fields kept, one undo step each). Both fail on main.
  • vitest src/lib/ai-edition/store (12 files, 212 tests), both tsc configs, lint: green. The write audit table is unchanged.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Zoom depth and focus edits are preserved when multiple changes are made before a save finishes, including resizing the zoom pill or committing a focus adjustment.
    • Undo restores both the prior focus and depth when a zoom save captures an in-progress focus adjustment.
    • Failed focus saves no longer overwrite newer zoom changes. A focus adjustment remains visible while a save is unresolved and is rolled back if the save later fails.
    • Committing an abandoned focus adjustment after undo no longer restores its old position or clears redo history.

A pill resize and a focus commit saved whole documents outside the zoom
chain, built before a level still being saved: whichever landed last put
the other's field back. Both now queue on the chain and read the
document inside it, with the pane writes' project, epoch and unknown-save
guards.

Queueing alone would not save the focus: the level landing first also
replaces the dragged document on screen. The commit keeps the drag's
last value and puts it back on top of such a write, one undo step. The
pre-drag base and the rollback on failure are unchanged otherwise.
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Zoom patches, span edits, and focus commits now use queued writes that read the latest document. Focus commits preserve drag edits across intervening zoom writes. Regression tests cover concurrent updates, undo and redo behavior, and rollback after a delayed save failure.

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Timeline zoom and focus writes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Queue zoom patches and span edits
src/lib/ai-edition/store/useTimeline.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/store/useTimeline.test.ts
Zoom patches and span edits use a shared write queue. The queue checks the project and write epoch, reads the latest document, and blocks writes while a timed-out save may still land. A regression test checks that a depth update and span resize both remain after concurrent saves.
Preserve focus edits during queued writes
src/lib/ai-edition/store/useTimeline.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/store/useTimeline.test.ts
Focus drags retain their normalized edit and write epoch. Commits reapply the edit over intervening zoom writes and use conditional undo and rollback behavior. Tests cover separate undo steps, redo history, undoing a zoom write that saved a live drag, and rollback when a delayed save fails.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2426c

Focus changes can still remain unsaved or be lost during overlapping saves. Resolve these save interactions before merging unless the risk is explicitly accepted.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0c1f1

The change addresses a document-editing race and adds safeguards against stale saves and failed commits. No new security boundary or material security exposure was established, but some interactions with other document writers remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The established affected asset is the active editor project document and its undo history. The examined paths do not establish broader tenant, service, credential, or deployment exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The queue rejects work for a different project or write epoch; the save path also checks the epoch after the native save returns. These controls limit stale results being installed in the editor, although the save path notes that bytes may already have reached disk before an epoch change is detected.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Unknown save outcomes block subsequent same-epoch zoom writes until settlement, while focus rollback is conditional on document identity and epoch rather than overwriting an intervening result.
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In `@src/lib/ai-edition/store/useTimeline.ts`:
- Around line 797-814: Track the write epoch with each pending zoom focus edit
in zoomFocusEditRef, recording it when the edit is stored. In commitZoomFocus,
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An abandoned focus drag left its last value behind. After an undo took
that focus away, a bare commit put it back as a new undo step and wiped
the redo. The value now carries the write epoch it was made in, and the
commit ignores it once an undo or a replacement has moved past it.

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🟠 Major · Restore the pre-drag focus after a timed-out save fails. · useTimeline.ts:677-694

src/lib/ai-edition/store/useTimeline.ts:677-694
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Restore the pre-drag focus after a timed-out save fails.

commitZoomFocus clears its rollback state before the queued save settles. A timeout therefore skips the outcome === false rollback. saveDocument returns false on a late failure but does not restore the document. The live focus can remain on screen and enter a later save. Retain the rollback state until the save settles, then restore it only while the dragged document remains current and its epoch still matches.

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In `@src/lib/ai-edition/store/useTimeline.ts` around lines 677 - 694, Update
commitZoomFocus to retain its pre-drag rollback state when the save times out,
then restore that focus if the save later fails, but only while the dragged
document is still current and its epoch matches. Reuse the existing timeout
settlement handling around saveWithDeadline and clear the rollback state once
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In `@src/lib/ai-edition/store/useTimeline.ts`:
- Around line 677-694: Update commitZoomFocus to retain its pre-drag rollback
state when the save times out, then restore that focus if the save later fails,
but only while the dragged document is still current and its epoch matches.
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On the zoom chain the focus commit gives up waiting at the save deadline,
and it skipped the rollback then: a save that failed afterwards left the
dragged focus on screen for a later save to persist. The commit now
waits for that answer and rolls back on a late failure, still only while
the dragged document is on screen, and now only in its own epoch.
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@coderabbitai Outside-diff finding (restore the pre-drag focus after a timed-out save fails): fixed in 0c1f1a0. When the save times out, commitZoomFocus now waits for its late answer and rolls back if it fails. As before, only while the dragged document is still on screen, and now also only in the commit's own write epoch. A new test covers a failure after the deadline.

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- Line 829: Update the queued zoom-save flow in updateZoomDepth so saving live
focus from updateZoomFocusLive preserves the pre-drag history base for
commitZoomFocus, or excludes the uncommitted focus from that save. Ensure Ctrl+Z
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@EtienneLescot, thanks for the results. I verified commit 0c1f1a0a. After a timeout, commitZoomFocus waits for the save result and rolls back on failure only if the dragged document remains on screen in the commit’s write epoch. The new test covers a failure after the deadline. This addresses the finding.


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A zoom write run while a focus drag was on screen saved the dragged focus
with it, recording the dragged document as its undo base. The commit then
found the focus saved and recorded nothing, so no Ctrl+Z could bring the
old focus back. Such a write now records the pre-drag document instead:
one undo takes the drag off with it.

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🟡 Minor · Defer a focus commit blocked by an unknown zoom save. · useTimeline.ts:802-854

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Defer a focus commit blocked by an unknown zoom save.

NewEditorShell invokes commitZoomFocus once on pointer release and discards its promise. If an earlier depth save times out, queueZoomWrite returns false for the focus commit before it invokes the focus callback. commitZoomFocus then restores rollback. The earlier depth save can still complete in the same epoch and install its pre-drag document, which restores the older focus on screen and on disk.

Treat the unknown-save guard as deferral for focus commits. Wait for the same-epoch save to settle, recheck the project and epoch, and then run the existing focus merge. This preserves the focus edit whether the depth save succeeds or fails.

Suggested fix
-	const unknownZoomSavesRef = useRef<Array<number>>([]);
+	const unknownZoomSavesRef = useRef<Array<{ epoch: number; save: Promise<boolean> }>>([]);
 	const queueZoomWrite = useCallback(
-		(write: (doc: AxcutDocument, historyBase: AxcutDocument | undefined) => Promise<boolean>) => {
+		(
+			write: (doc: AxcutDocument, historyBase: AxcutDocument | undefined) => Promise<boolean>,
+			opts: { waitForUnknown?: boolean } = {},
+		) => {
 			const epoch = currentWriteEpoch();
 			const projectId = useProjectStore.getState().projectId;
 			return enqueueZoomWrite(async () => {
 				if (useProjectStore.getState().projectId !== projectId || currentWriteEpoch() !== epoch) {
 					return false;
 				}
-				if (unknownZoomSavesRef.current.filter((stuck) => stuck === epoch).length > 0) {
-					return false;
+				const stuck = unknownZoomSavesRef.current.filter(({ epoch: stuckEpoch }) => stuckEpoch === epoch);
+				if (stuck.length > 0) {
+					if (!opts.waitForUnknown) return false;
+					await Promise.all(stuck.map(({ save }) => save));
+					if (useProjectStore.getState().projectId !== projectId || currentWriteEpoch() !== epoch) {
+						return false;
+					}
 				}
...
-					unknownZoomSavesRef.current.push(epoch);
+					unknownZoomSavesRef.current.push({ epoch, save });
 					void save
...
-							unknownZoomSavesRef.current = unknownZoomSavesRef.current.filter(
-								(stuck) => stuck !== epoch,
-							);
+							unknownZoomSavesRef.current = unknownZoomSavesRef.current.filter(
+								(stuck) => stuck.save !== save,
+							);
-		const outcome = await queueZoomWrite((doc) => {
+		const outcome = await queueZoomWrite((doc) => {
...
-		});
+		}, { waitForUnknown: true });
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In `@src/lib/ai-edition/store/useTimeline.ts` around lines 802 - 854, Update
queueZoomWrite and commitZoomFocus so a focus commit waits for unresolved zoom
saves from the same write epoch instead of returning false and rolling back.
After those saves settle, recheck the project and epoch before running the
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@coderabbitai Outside-diff finding "Defer a focus commit blocked by an unknown zoom save": not taken, on purpose.

  • It is the chain's policy. While a zoom save's answer is unknown, later zoom writes are refused instead of racing it. The level buttons hand the level back to the document and the user retries (see FloatingInspector's settle). A refused focus commit does the same: the drag visibly snaps back, it is not a silent loss.
  • The suggested diff would stall the chain. Waiting for the stuck save inside queueZoomWrite parks every later zoom write behind a save that may never settle. That is what the unknown-save refusal exists to prevent (refuses zoom writes while a save is unknown and recovers when it settles).
  • It needs a bridge silent for 10 s. An automatic retry path for this case alone is not worth it here. If we want deferred commits, it should be one policy for every zoom write, in its own PR.

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@EtienneLescot, thanks for clarifying. I checked the write path. queueZoomWrite refuses writes while a save is unknown in the same epoch. If that refusal blocks commitZoomFocus, the commit rolls back the live drag when the dragged document is still on screen in that epoch. Waiting inside the chain would defeat the refusal policy. I withdraw the deferred-commit finding.


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Timestamp: 2026-09-25T19:54:22.948Z
Learning: In `src/lib/ai-edition/store/useTimeline.ts`, `queueZoomWrite` intentionally refuses later zoom writes while a timed-out save remains unresolved in the same write epoch. It does not wait for that save inside the chain, because the save may never settle. A refused `commitZoomFocus` rolls back the live drag only if its document remains on screen in the commit's write epoch. Deferred commits, if introduced, should use one policy for all zoom writes rather than a focus-only retry.

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