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Brennan BensonandMerge Sim 84432d3aa1 fix(native-chat): repair a structured chat tab permanently fenced by an inherited publication epoch (#18906)
* fix(native-chat): repair a structured tab fenced out by a returning publisher

A publication epoch is retired whenever another publisher takes over a worktree, and a
retired epoch is then rejected forever. But a live publisher can return after transient
interlopers - a `removed:` retraction, then a headless rebuild whose version restarts at
1 - and the structured tab publish inherits the worktree's existing epoch rather than
minting one, so it arrives under the blacklisted epoch and is dropped. The chat tab never
reaches the tab bar.

The fence is right to reject the frame: it cannot tell a returning publisher apart from a
delayed frame queued by a dead generation, whose version can outrank the live cursor. So
the drop is no longer final - it schedules one bounded, debounced authoritative
`session.tabs.listAll`, and only that census may revive an epoch, and only the one it
names current. Subscription frames stay fenced exactly as before.

* fix(native-chat): decay the structured tab repair cap and prune its state

The attempt cap latched: three transient RPC failures left `exhausted` set for the
renderer's lifetime, permanently hiding a chat tab behind a single console warning. It
now decays, so a worktree that has been quiet for a minute gets its full budget back.

The repair map was also missing from the sweep that drops publisher cursors for vanished
worktrees, leaking an entry per deleted worktree. Pruning it there required inverting the
repair lane's dependency on the inventory refresh, which is now injected.

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-05 18:45:34 -07:00
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