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Reject accidental empty workspace persistence overwrites

Prevents automatic persistence writes from clearing durable workspace state with an empty list after restart or sync, requiring an explicit opt-in flag for intentional clears and threading that flag through main, renderer, and control-surface persistence paths.

workspace persistencedurable app stateallow-clear flagSQLite persistence owner guard

What Happened

  • Prevents automatic persistence writes from clearing durable workspace state with an empty list after restart or sync, requiring an explicit opt-in flag for intentional clears and threading that flag through main, renderer, and control-surface persistence paths.
  • Prevents automatic persistence writes from clearing durable workspace state with an empty list after restart or sync, requiring an explicit opt-in flag for intentional clears and threading that flag through main, renderer, and control-surface persistence paths.
  • 1 evidence item attached for review.

What is Different

Before

Scattered source updates, isolated context, and manual follow-up across multiple feeds.

Now

Introduced an explicit ownership check in persistence flow that blocks accidental empty-workspace writes, while keeping user-requested clearing as a dedicated opt-in path; the flag is wired through the main, renderer, and control-surface layers and covered by unit, contract, IPC, and control-surface tests.

Why Track This

Why It Matters

Operators and developers using opencove will be less likely to lose saved workspace configuration unexpectedly after restart or sync, because automatic background persistence no longer wipes durable state unless the clear action is explicitly requested. This reduces recovery incidents and accidental data loss, but teams should continue watching for any legitimate clear workflows that fail to pass the new allow flag and thereby appear as no-ops.

Impact

Operators and developers using opencove will be less likely to lose saved workspace configuration unexpectedly after restart or sync, because automatic background persistence no longer wipes durable state unless the clear action is explicitly requested. This reduces recovery incidents and accidental data loss, but teams should continue watching for any legitimate clear workflows that fail to pass the new allow flag and thereby appear as no-ops.

What To Watch Next

  • Watch whether workspace persistence becomes a repeated pattern.
  • Track follow-up changes around AI IDE.
  • Compare future signals against this evidence trail.
  • Re-check risk flags: flag_not_propagated_in_future_workflow_changes, clear_intent_regression_for_edge_sync_paths.
Open Topic TimelineOpen Technical EventOpen Original Sourceflag_not_propagated_in_future_workflow_changes / clear_intent_regression_for_edge_sync_paths / unexpected_manual_clear_behavior_reported_by_users

Supporting Evidence

GITHUB PULL REQUESTHigh Trust

DeadWaveWave/opencove PR #265: fix: reject accidental empty workspace overwrites

Adds a guard so automatic workspace sync cannot overwrite existing persisted workspaces unless a new allow-clear flag is explicitly enabled for that write path.