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useAtCompletion had no transition out of AtCompletionStatus.ERROR on a pattern change. One failed file-system crawl or search left @ completion silently empty for the rest of the session in that working directory: typing more characters looked like it should retry and dispatched nothing. The only escapes were deleting the @, disabling the hook, or changing cwd.

A pattern change from ERROR now dispatches RESET, which returns the machine to IDLE, whose existing branch re-enters initialization and then search. The retry is bounded to one attempt per distinct normalized pattern, so a genuinely broken directory does not re-crawl on every render and a retry that fails again does not loop.

Reviewers should look at two decisions in usePatternChangeHandler: why the retry dispatches RESET instead of INITIALIZE, and why the attempted pattern is recorded when the action dispatches rather than when it is scheduled. Each has a test that fails without it.

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ERROR is reachable two ways, and they leave the state differently:

  • useInitializationHandler catches a rejected createFileSearcher. state.pattern is still null here, because only the SEARCH action writes it.
  • performSearch catches a rejected FileSearch.search. state.pattern holds the pattern that failed.

Both now recover.

Why RESET and not INITIALIZE. INITIALIZE leaves state.pattern alone. On the search-failure path that value is the pattern that just failed, so as soon as the retry crawl succeeded useInitializationHandler would dispatch a SEARCH for it: a wasted search of a pattern the user has already typed past. Its result is discarded by the shouldDispatchResult guard, so nothing wrong reaches the screen, but the work is pointless. RESET clears the pattern and hands control to the IDLE branch, which is the state machine's existing entry point. The search-failure test asserts FileSearch.search was called exactly twice; dispatching INITIALIZE there makes it three.

Why the retry bound is a ref and not state.pattern. On the initialization-failure path state.pattern is null, so a normalizedPattern !== state.pattern guard would be true forever and the hook would re-crawl on every render, spinning without end on a directory that is genuinely broken. attemptedPatternRef records the normalized pattern that work was last started for, and the ERROR branch fires only when the current pattern differs from it.

Why the bound is written at dispatch time. The retry is debounced by the existing SEARCH_DEBOUNCE_MS (150 ms), and a debounced action can still be cancelled by the effect cleanup. A case-only edit arriving inside that window (alph then ALPH) cancels the pending retry and normalizes to the same value, so a bound written at schedule time would record a retry that never happened and leave completion stuck in ERROR. Writing it inside the dispatch closure fixes that.

Refactor. The debounce-and-dispatch body is now shared by the search path and the retry path, so it was extracted into startPatternWork, and the three copies of the timer teardown into clearDebounceTimer. This is a behavior-preserving extraction of code that already existed; it was required because adding the ERROR branch pushed usePatternChangeHandler past the repository's max-lines-per-function (80) and sonarjs/cognitive-complexity (30) limits.

Out of scope and deliberately not done: surfacing the error in the UI (there is no error affordance today), time-based retry, backoff, and retry counters.

Acceptance criteria and the reasoning behind each are recorded in project-plans/issue3373-at-completion-error-recovery.md.

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Six behavioral tests were added to packages/cli/src/ui/hooks/useAtCompletion.test.ts, all driving the real hook against a real temp directory with FileSearchFactory.create stubbed only to inject the failure:

  1. Recovery after a rejected initialize, cwd unchanged.
  2. Recovery after a rejected search, plus the assertion that the failed pattern is not replayed.
  3. A case-only edit inside the retry debounce still recovers.
  4. The retry is bounded to one attempt per distinct normalized pattern (FileSearchFactory.create called once across alp, alp, ALP, with the clock driven past the debounce).
  5. A retry that fails again settles in ERROR without spinning (create called exactly twice).
  6. A retry whose own search also fails does not strand the hook; a third pattern still recovers.

To confirm they bite, each was run against the unfixed code:

  • On main, tests 1, 2, 5, and 6 fail.
  • Reverting only the RESET decision to INITIALIZE fails test 2.
  • Reverting only the dispatch-time bound to a schedule-time bound fails test 3.
  • Replacing the ref bound with normalizedPattern !== state.pattern fails test 4.

Manual check: point the CLI at a directory whose crawl can be made to fail, type @, then keep typing. Before this change the list stays empty forever; after it, the next character retries and suggestions appear.

Full local cycle on the candidate head: npm run test, npm run lint, npm run typecheck, npm run format, npm run build, and the stepfun-37 startup smoke all pass.

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Fixes #3373

Related to #2019, whose ERROR-path coverage was limited to cwd-change recovery precisely because same-directory recovery did not work.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved recovery after failed file crawls and searches.
    • Prevented duplicate retries and retry loops when patterns change or searches fail repeatedly.
    • Ensured case-only pattern edits trigger the correct recovery behavior.
    • Improved handling when completion is disabled or no pattern is available.
    • Corrected loading-state reporting while suggestions are being fetched before an error is shown.

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The completion hook centralizes debounced pattern work, retries changed patterns after errors, and clears timer state consistently. Tests now verify loading before crawl and search failures settle into error states.

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At-completion recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Centralize pattern work and ERROR recovery
packages/cli/src/ui/hooks/useAtCompletion.ts
The hook centralizes timer cleanup, abort handling, attempted-pattern tracking, debounced searches, and retries from ERROR for changed patterns.
Validate loading and error transitions
packages/cli/src/ui/hooks/useAtCompletion.test.ts
Tests assert that loading starts before crawl and search failures settle into ERROR with empty suggestions.

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The change is localized and keeps retries bounded, but the crawl-failure tests may not deterministically exercise recovery from the ERROR state if the pattern changes too early; merge is reasonable with explicit owner follow-up to make that assertion reliable.

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The implementation satisfies issue [#3373] by recovering from ERROR after pattern changes, retrying initialization and search with unchanged cwd, bounding retries per normalized pattern, and adding behavioral coverage.

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Before this change, a single transient failure during @ completion initialization or search left useAtCompletion stuck in AtCompletionStatus.ERROR for the rest of the session in that working directory. Because usePatternChangeHandler only started work from IDLE, READY, or SEARCHING, typing additional characters after an error dispatched nothing; the only recoveries were deleting the @, disabling the hook, or changing cwd. After this PR, a pattern change while in ERROR dispatches RESET, which returns the state machine to IDLE and lets the existing initialization/search flow retry. The retry is bounded to one attempt per distinct normalized pattern, so a genuinely broken directory does not re-crawl on every keystroke and a retry that fails again does not loop. The handler was also refactored into shared startPatternWork and clearDebounceTimer helpers to stay within the repository’s function-length and cognitive-complexity limits.

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Bug Fixes

  • Let @ completion recover from a failed file-system crawl or search instead of staying silently empty for the rest of the session.
  • Prevent duplicate retries and retry loops when patterns change or searches fail repeatedly.
  • Ensure case-only pattern edits inside the retry debounce window still trigger the correct recovery behavior.
  • Correct loading-state reporting while suggestions are being fetched before an error is shown.

Refactor

  • Extract shared debounce-and-dispatch logic into startPatternWork and timer teardown into clearDebounceTimer within usePatternChangeHandler.

Tests

  • Add six behavioral tests covering recovery after failed initialization and search, case-only edit handling, one retry per normalized pattern, prevention of infinite retry loops, and recovery through consecutive failing searches.
  • Add a test pinning that error-wait assertions cannot pass on the pre-crawl loading state.

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Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
  User->>usePatternChangeHandler: types @pattern
  usePatternChangeHandler->>atCompletionReducer: dispatch INITIALIZE
  atCompletionReducer->>useInitializationHandler: status = INITIALIZING
  useInitializationHandler->>FileSearchFactory: createFileSearcher(config, cwd)
  FileSearchFactory->>FileSearch: create and initialize
  FileSearch-->>useInitializationHandler: throws
  useInitializationHandler->>atCompletionReducer: dispatch ERROR
  atCompletionReducer->>usePatternChangeHandler: status = ERROR
  User->>usePatternChangeHandler: types another character
  usePatternChangeHandler->>atCompletionReducer: dispatch RESET
  atCompletionReducer->>usePatternChangeHandler: state = IDLE
  usePatternChangeHandler->>atCompletionReducer: dispatch INITIALIZE
  atCompletionReducer->>useInitializationHandler: status = INITIALIZING
  useInitializationHandler->>FileSearchFactory: createFileSearcher(config, cwd)
  FileSearchFactory->>FileSearch: create and initialize
  FileSearch-->>useInitializationHandler: success
  useInitializationHandler->>atCompletionReducer: dispatch INITIALIZE_SUCCESS
  atCompletionReducer->>usePatternChangeHandler: status = READY
  usePatternChangeHandler->>atCompletionReducer: dispatch SEARCH
  atCompletionReducer->>useSearchHandler: status = SEARCHING
  useSearchHandler->>performSearch: fileSearch.search(pattern)
  performSearch->>FileSearch: search(pattern, signal)
  FileSearch-->>performSearch: results
  performSearch->>atCompletionReducer: dispatch SEARCH_SUCCESS
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Title Clear and descriptive: includes scope (cli), fix type, linked issue #3373, and the behavior being restored.
Description Contains all required sections: TLDR, Dive Deeper, Reviewer Test Plan, Testing Matrix, and Linked issues / bugs.
Linked Issues The useAtCompletion hook/test changes directly satisfy #3373: they add an ERROR→RESET recovery path on pattern change, bound retries to one per normalized pattern, and include the requested behavioral tests and loading-state assertions. The PR also references #2019 as related.
Out of Scope Multiple changed files are unrelated to #3373: useBracketedPaste.test.ts, useTerminalSize.ts, useTerminalSize.test.ts, scripts/tmux-script.issue2016-composer.fake.json, .github/workflows/interactive-ui.yml, packages/cli/src/ui/inkRenderOptions.test.ts, scripts/tests/interactive-ui.test.ts, scripts/tests/interactive-ui-paths.bun.test.ts, packages/cli/src/ui/layouts/DefaultAppLayout.test.tsx, and packages/agents/src/core/coreToolScheduler.denial-transitions.test.ts. The PR description also explicitly excludes UI error surfacing, time-based retry/backoff, and retry counters.

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@coderabbitai on the "wait for the crawl failure before changing the pattern" finding: the premise does not hold in this hook, but the tests now pin that fact rather than relying on it implicitly.

The predicate cannot match the values the hook starts with. renderHook wraps the mount in act, so usePatternChangeHandler dispatches INITIALIZE and useSyncLoadingState propagates it before renderHook returns. INITIALIZE sets isLoading: true (useAtCompletion.ts reducer), so at the moment the first waitFor predicate runs, isLoadingSuggestions is already true. The pre-existing test should be in a loading state during initial file system crawl asserts exactly that immediately after renderHook.

There is also no intermediate state that satisfies the predicate. While the status is INITIALIZING, isLoading stays true: SET_LOADING only applies in SEARCHING, and the only actions that clear the flag are INITIALIZE_SUCCESS, ERROR, and RESET. With initialize rejecting, ERROR is the only one reachable. So isLoadingSuggestions === false with empty suggestions is precisely the ERROR settle the tests are waiting for, not a pass-through from INITIALIZING.

Independent evidence from the retry-bound tests: retries at most once per distinct normalized pattern asserts FileSearchFactory.create was called exactly once after the pattern changes, and does not loop when a retry fails again waits for it to reach exactly two. Neither count is reachable unless the hook is in ERROR at the point of the rerender.

Changed in 459093b: each of the four affected tests now asserts expect(result.current.isLoadingSuggestions).toBe(true) before the wait, so a future change that let the wait short-circuit on the pre-initialization state would fail the test instead of passing silently. Full suite, lint, typecheck, build and the startup smoke re-run green on the new head.

Declining the deferred-rejection rewrite: it would add a manual promise and an act round-trip to four tests to guard against a state the reducer cannot produce.

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@acoliver Thanks for the detailed explanation. I verified it against the current PR code.

INITIALIZE sets isLoading to true. For the failed-crawl setup, the wait can reach isLoadingSuggestions === false with empty suggestions only after the ERROR dispatch. Commit 459093b also adds the initial loading assertions to all four affected tests.

The retry-count assertions provide independent confirmation that the retry tests enter ERROR before the pattern rerender.

I withdraw the finding. The deferred-rejection rewrite is not needed.

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#3373)

useAtCompletion had no transition out of AtCompletionStatus.ERROR on a
pattern change, so a single failed file-system crawl or search left `@`
completion silently empty for the rest of the session in that directory.
Typing more characters looked like it should retry and did not; the only
escape was deleting the `@` or changing cwd.

A pattern change from ERROR now re-enters initialization. The retry is
bounded by the normalized pattern that work was last started for, so a
genuinely broken directory retries once per distinct pattern rather than
on every render, and a retry that fails again does not loop.

The debounce-and-dispatch body shared by the search path and the new
retry path is extracted into startPatternWork, and the three copies of
the timer teardown into clearDebounceTimer, which keeps the effect
within the lint limits for function length and cognitive complexity.
Review follow-ups on the #3373 retry path.

The retry now dispatches RESET rather than INITIALIZE. INITIALIZE leaves
state.pattern alone, so on the search-failure path useInitializationHandler
would replay a search for the pattern that had just failed as soon as the
retry crawl succeeded. RESET clears it and hands control to the IDLE
branch, the state machine's existing entry point.

The attempted pattern is now recorded when the retry dispatches instead of
when it is scheduled. A debounced retry can still be cancelled by the
effect cleanup, which a case-only edit arriving inside the debounce window
does; recording early marked that cancelled retry as made and left
completion stuck in ERROR.

Adds coverage for both: the search-count assertion in the search-failure
test pins the absent replay, and two new tests cover a case-only edit
cancelling the pending retry and a retry whose own search fails again.
The at-completion recovery tests wait for the loading flag to clear as
their signal that the crawl has failed. They now assert the flag is set
first, which rules out the wait passing on the value the hook holds
before initialization is dispatched.
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