fix(webview): detect dead webview renderer via heartbeat and auto-reload

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Related GitHub Issue

Closes: #1675 (mitigation — see Additional Notes)

Description

On very long sessions the webview can turn into the unrecoverable "gray screen of death": the webview's renderer process crashes (a platform-level failure — a React ErrorBoundary already wraps the whole app, so this is not a JS render error and cannot be caught in-page), and the only remedy was restarting VS Code.

This PR adds heartbeat-based crash detection and automatic recovery:

• Webview side (webview-ui/src/App.tsx): posts a lightweight webviewHeartbeat message on mount and every 30s, using the exact webviewDidLaunch pattern. Interval is cleared on unmount.
• Extension side (ClineProvider): a per-provider watchdog (startWebviewWatchdog, started from resolveWebviewView, cleared in dispose(), double-start guarded) ticks every 60s. If the view is visible but no heartbeat arrived for >90s, the renderer is dead: log one line and run VS Code's workbench.action.webview.reloadWebviewAction to bring the webview back.
• Hidden-view safety: hidden webviews throttle timers, so heartbeats can't be trusted while hidden. Both visibility listeners (onDidChangeViewState / onDidChangeVisibility) reset the heartbeat timestamp when the view becomes visible, granting a full grace window instead of false-reloading.

Task execution is unaffected throughout — it lives in the extension host; only the UI reloads.

Test Procedure

• src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts (+6 tests, fake timers): fresh heartbeat → no reload; visible + stale >90s → exactly one workbench.action.webview.reloadWebviewAction; hidden + stale → no reload; hidden-stale then visible → grace reset; dispose() stops the watchdog; double resolveWebviewView does not stack intervals.
• webview-ui/src/__tests__/App.spec.tsx (+2 tests): heartbeat on mount and every 30s; no heartbeats after unmount.
• cd src && ./node_modules/.bin/vitest run core/webview → 28 files / 511 passed.
• cd src && pnpm run check-types → 0 errors; webview-ui and packages/types typechecks → 0 errors.
• ESLint on all 6 touched files → clean (suppression counts unchanged).

Pre-Submission Checklist

• Issue Linked: This PR is linked to an approved GitHub Issue (see "Related GitHub Issue" above).
• Scope: My changes are focused on the linked issue (one major feature/fix per PR).
• Self-Review: I have performed a thorough self-review of my code.
• Testing: New and/or updated tests have been added to cover my changes (if applicable).
• Visual Snapshot (UI changes only): N/A — no rendered-state change (recovery path only).
• Documentation Impact: No documentation updates are required.
• Contribution Guidelines: I have read and agree to the Contributor Guidelines.

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Additional Notes

Known limitation: a watchdog-triggered reload restarts the webview page, so unsent composer text, pending image attachments, and scroll position are lost (task state itself is safe — it lives in the extension host). This is strictly better than the status quo (gray screen → full VS Code restart loses the same plus session continuity). Follow-up idea: persist the draft into extension state before reload / on change.

Design notes:

• The reload is intentionally retried every 60s while stale (no cap) so recovery is persistent; after a successful reload, heartbeats resume and stop further reloads.
• workbench.action.webview.reloadWebviewAction reloads all webviews in the window, so a pathological crash-loop would periodically reload other views too. Follow-up: scope the reload to our own view (re-set webview.html or dispose + re-resolve) and/or add backoff.
• This mitigates the crash; the underlying memory growth on very long sessions remains tracked by feat(webview): incremental clineMessages delivery for focused task #630 / perf: remove globalState write-through for taskHistory #1542.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Webview panels now send regular responsiveness updates and recover automatically if they stop responding while visible.
  • Hidden panels are not reloaded, and recovery waits for a grace period to avoid unnecessary reloads during brief interruptions.
  • If a panel responds again, is hidden, or is replaced before recovery completes, the stale recovery is discarded.

Walkthrough

The webview sends timestamped heartbeat messages every 30 seconds. ClineProvider tracks heartbeats and visibility, then regenerates HTML when a visible view has a stale heartbeat. It checks view identity and lifecycle state before assigning generated HTML.

Changes

Webview heartbeat watchdog

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Heartbeat protocol and client emission packages/types/src/vscode-extension-host.ts, webview-ui/src/App.tsx, webview-ui/src/__tests__/App.spec.tsx	The message type supports webviewHeartbeat and an optional timestamp. The webview sends a heartbeat on mount and every 30 seconds, then clears the interval on unmount. Tests cover message timing and unmount behavior.
Provider heartbeat tracking and recovery src/core/webview/webviewMessageHandler.ts, src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts	The message handler records heartbeat updates. ClineProvider checks visible views for stale heartbeats, regenerates HTML, and assigns it only when the provider and view remain eligible. View-specific subscriptions are disposed when views are replaced or resources are cleared.
Watchdog lifecycle validation src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts, src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.taskHistory.spec.ts	Tests cover stale-heartbeat recovery, visibility, disposal, recovery failures, in-flight recovery, replacement views, and provider isolation. Webview disposal fixtures no longer invoke callbacks during registration.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant App
  participant webviewMessageHandler
  participant ClineProvider
  App->>webviewMessageHandler: Send webviewHeartbeat with timestamp
  webviewMessageHandler->>ClineProvider: Update heartbeat
  ClineProvider->>ClineProvider: Check heartbeat age and view visibility
  ClineProvider->>ClineProvider: Regenerate HTML and conditionally assign it

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 32543

Hiding and reopening the webview can cause one user action to be handled more than once. This is a localized issue, but its subscription cleanup should be fixed.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 32543

The new recovery path is limited to the active webview, and no new privileged operation was identified. A failed view replacement can leave an older watchdog managing the new view, creating a risk of unwanted or repeated UI reloads. Recovery behavior in a crashed renderer has not been verified here.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: Replacing a view leaves the existing watchdog running during asynchronous initialization. If initialization fails before the replacement’s listener and disposal callback are installed, the old interval can continue treating the replacement as stale and attempt further HTML reloads.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The new recovery sink is an HTML assignment to the provider’s current visible webview, not a command or a write to a separate data store.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A renderer able to send or withhold heartbeats can influence whether its own UI is considered stale, but the inspected heartbeat path does not grant it control over the recovery HTML or a more privileged operation. No introduced security finding was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The extension records its own receipt time instead of trusting the webview-supplied timestamp. Listener entry checks current-view identity, and recovery rechecks ownership after asynchronous HTML generation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Replacement invalidates an in-flight recovery but does not transfer or stop the existing timer before the replacement finishes initialization; an initialization failure can leave recovery ownership incomplete.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Transfer or stop watchdog ownership when replacement begins, and establish cleanup if asynchronous view initialization fails before subscriptions are installed.

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❌ Failed checks (3 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Regression Evidence	⚠️ Warning	Focused coverage is incomplete for the new stale-resolve lifecycle guard. resolveWebviewView has a second guard after the separate await this.getState() at `src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts:1109-…	Add focused ClineProvider tests that resolve getWebviewHtml first, hold the post-HTML getState() await, then dispose the provider or replace the view before releasing it. Assert that the stale resolve installs no listeners or watchdog…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup	⚠️ Warning	The replacement path can leave the heartbeat watchdog attached to a disposed or still-initializing view. When resolveWebviewView receives a different view, lines 1067-1075 bump the epoch and dispose…	Stop the existing watchdog when a different view becomes current, before assigning the replacement view or starting its asynchronous resolve. Register a disposal/staleness guard for the replacement before the first await, or use a per-resol…
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description includes the required issue, implementation, test procedure, checklist, and notes. However, it says recovery invokes VS Code’s global reload command, while the change summary says reco…	Update the description to match the implemented HTML regeneration and reassignment recovery path. Refresh the test procedure and results to reflect the current tests and reported totals.

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR meets the coding objective in issue [#1675]. App sends an immediate heartbeat and repeats it every 30 seconds. ClineProvider checks visible views every 60 seconds and reloads stale views af…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changed files support heartbeat messaging, stale renderer recovery, webview lifecycle handling, message typing, or automated tests for these behaviors. The ClineProvider.taskHistory.spec.ts fixt…
Security Boundaries	✅ Passed	No concrete security-boundary failure is introduced. webview-ui/src/App.tsx sends only a heartbeat and timestamp; src/core/webview/webviewMessageHandler.ts ignores the timestamp and performs only …
Persistence Integrity	✅ Passed	No changed persistence path matches the failure conditions. The PR adds in-memory heartbeat fields, watchdog lifecycle handling, and webview.html regeneration. The new webviewHeartbeat handler onl…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: heartbeat-based detection and automatic recovery of an unresponsive webview renderer.

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Explanation

Focused coverage is incomplete for the new stale-resolve lifecycle guard. resolveWebviewView has a second guard after the separate await this.getState() at src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts:1109-1144; this guard prevents listener and watchdog installation after disposal or view replacement during state hydration. The pending-resolve tests at src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts:1423-1473 hold getWebviewHtml, so they exit through the earlier guard and never exercise this changed path. The PR also documents persistent retries while the view remains stale, but the recovery tests cover only the first successful reload and a retry after failure, not a subsequent watchdog tick after a successful reload without a heartbeat.

Resolution

Add focused ClineProvider tests that resolve getWebviewHtml first, hold the post-HTML getState() await, then dispose the provider or replace the view before releasing it. Assert that the stale resolve installs no listeners or watchdog, and that the replacement retains only its own resources. Add a fake-timer test that completes one successful recovery, leaves the heartbeat stale, advances another watchdog interval, and asserts that a second recovery starts.

Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup

Explanation

The replacement path can leave the heartbeat watchdog attached to a disposed or still-initializing view. When resolveWebviewView receives a different view, lines 1067-1075 bump the epoch and dispose the old view subscriptions, but they do not call stopWebviewWatchdog(). The old interval therefore continues to read the provider-wide this.view. The replacement resolve then awaits getWebviewHtml at line 1097 and getState at line 1109 before it registers the replacement's onDidDispose callback at line 1209 or starts the replacement watchdog. If the old view was stale and visible, and replacement view B is disposed or remains pending during that interval, the 60-second callback at lines 3495-3503 can invoke recovery for B. If B's resolve never completes, the interval is not cleaned up. If B is disposed before line 1209, no disposal callback can clear this.view or the interval, and the pending resolve can also continue installing listeners and a watchdog for the disposed view. This causes a watcher leak and duplicate recovery/HTML-generation work after view replacement.

Resolution

Stop the existing watchdog when a different view becomes current, before assigning the replacement view or starting its asynchronous resolve. Register a disposal/staleness guard for the replacement before the first await, or use a per-resolve disposed token that its onDidDispose callback updates. On any replacement or disposal, clear the watchdog, invalidate recovery, drop the current view, and return before assigning HTML or installing subscriptions. Start one watchdog only after the resolve completes and the view is still current and undisposed.

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Stop the watchdog when the sidebar webview is disposed.

This call starts an interval for both panel types. The sidebar disposal path at Line 1145 only calls clearWebviewResources(). It does not clear webviewWatchdogInterval or remove the disposed this.view reference.

The interval can continue polling a disposed view for the remaining provider lifetime. Move watchdog cleanup into clearWebviewResources() or a shared stopWebviewWatchdog() helper. Clear this.view when it refers to the disposed view.

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@coderabbitai review — head is now ba72a4e. Both warnings addressed: (1) Regression Evidence — tab-panel branch coverage added (WebviewPanel-shaped mock: hidden tab no reload, becoming visible resets grace, stale heartbeat reloads). (2) Lifecycle Resource Cleanup — reloadWebviewForRecovery now captures an epoch token and bails without assigning webview.html when the provider is disposed, the epoch changed, or the view was replaced; covered by 3 mid-recovery fake-timer tests. The two minor test threads also landed (reload-rejection reinterpreted onto the current path — the old command no longer exists; watchdog-active precondition assertion). 175/175 ClineProvider tests pass.

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🟡 Minor · Dispose existing view subscriptions before installing them again. · ClineProvider.ts:1067-1076

src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts:1067-1076
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Dispose existing view subscriptions before installing them again.

VS Code can call resolveWebviewView again for an existing view. On that path, this.view === webviewView, so the current code keeps the old subscriptions and adds another message listener. One heartbeat then calls webviewMessageHandler twice and increments the heartbeat revision twice. User messages can also be handled more than once.

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 		if (this._disposed || this.view !== webviewView) {
 			return
 		}
 
+		this.disposeResolvedViewResources()
+
 		// Sets up an event listener to listen for messages passed from the webview view context
 		// and executes code based on the message that is received.

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Review comment at @src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts around lines 1067 - 1076:
In resolveWebviewView, call disposeResolvedViewResources before installing
subscriptions on every resolution, including when this.view is the same
webviewView, so existing message and other view listeners are replaced rather
than duplicated; keep the replacement-specific recovery handling conditional.

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Review comments at @src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts:
- Around line 1067-1076: In resolveWebviewView, call
disposeResolvedViewResources before installing subscriptions on every
resolution, including when this.view is the same webviewView, so existing
message and other view listeners are replaced rather than duplicated; keep the
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Addressed the latest review round in aa666fc (with 1c9ac52):

Obsolete-view message gating (review thread r4117106787) — setWebviewMessageListener is now bound to the resolved view/panel and returns early when this.view !== webviewView, so a replaced view's messages (including heartbeats) can no longer keep the provider-wide timestamp fresh while the current renderer is dead. Covers both sidebar and tab shapes.

Lifecycle Resource Cleanup warning — view-scoped subscriptions (message, visibility, active-editor, configuration, and the view's own onDidDispose registration) now live in a per-view disposable set that is drained on a different-object replacement and in clearWebviewResources(); visibility/heartbeat callbacks are additionally guarded with this.view === webviewView. Same-view re-resolve is untouched; provider dispose() still tears everything down. Side benefit: a stale tab panel's late dispose() no longer clears resources out from under a live replacement view.

Regression Evidence warning — new specs pin the negative paths: a replaced view's message is ignored while the current view's dispatches (heartbeat-revision exact counts); A's subscriptions are each disposed exactly once with only B's remaining; a replaced sidebar view's late dispose keeps B's watchdog active and B still recovers on a stale heartbeat; a replaced tab panel's viewState/message callbacks are ignored.

Out of Scope Changes error — restart-persistence.test.ts restored byte-identical to the merge base (verified git diff 08d05eb0f HEAD on that file is empty); it will go in a separate PR if still wanted.

Verification: vitest run core/webview 28 files / 532 passed; tsc --noEmit clean; eslint clean (suppression counts unchanged). Pre-push independent diff review: P0=0, P1=0.

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@coderabbitai review — head is now aa666fc. The previous review round's findings were addressed in aa666fc (obsolete-view message gating, per-view subscription disposal on replacement, negative-path replacement specs, and the out-of-scope e2e change reverted). Please re-review the new head.

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Addressed the remaining Lifecycle Resource Cleanup warning and thread r4120880767 in 9f05e75:

Stale-resolve guard — resolveWebviewView() now checks this._disposed || this.view !== webviewView immediately after its awaits (getWebviewHtml() / getState()) and before any listener install or startWebviewWatchdog(). A resolve that went stale mid-await (provider disposed, or view replaced by a different-object resolve) bails without installing anything, so a disposed provider can no longer grow a fresh watchdog interval and a pending resolve cannot duplicate the replacement view's subscriptions. The single guard covers both sidebar and tab shapes; the block from guard to install is synchronous, so there is no interleaving window, and nothing created before the guard needs unwinding (verified per-line). Normal resolves, same-view re-resolves, and dispose-then-revive (new provider instance) are unaffected.

The pre-guard side effects that remain (the initial webview.html assignment landing on the stale view itself, and the getState().then module-global Terminal/TTS setters) are reapplied/idempotent for the resolving view and cannot touch the replacement view.

Regression coverage — two new specs: provider disposed while initial HTML generation is pending → no watchdog interval, zero resolved-view subscriptions; replacement view resolved while the first resolve is pending → only B's subscriptions exist, B's watchdog is active, and provider.view === B. Both fail if the guard is removed.

Verification: vitest run core/webview 28 files / 534 passed; tsc --noEmit clean; eslint clean (suppressions unchanged). Pre-push independent re-review: P0=0, P1=0.

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@coderabbitai review — head is now 9f05e75. The Lifecycle Resource Cleanup warning and thread r4120880767 were addressed: resolveWebviewView now bails (this._disposed || this.view !== webviewView) after its awaits and before any listener install or watchdog start, with dispose-mid-resolve and replacement-mid-resolve regression specs. Please re-review the new head.

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Addressed the final review thread (r4120882..., "using a destroyed webview throws an exception") in 325436d:

Guarded initial HTML assignment — the initial webviewView.webview.html = await this.getWebviewHtml(...) in resolveWebviewView() is now guarded: the generated HTML lands in a local, and the assignment happens only when !this._disposed && this.view === webviewView. A resolve that went stale during HTML generation (provider disposed, view self-disposed, or replaced by a different-object resolve) no longer touches the obsolete view — no exception from assigning to a destroyed webview, no HTML landing on a superseded view.

Kept as two guards rather than one combined guard after both awaits: moving the assignment below getState() would change the existing error semantics (today the webview keeps its HTML when getState() rejects). The dispose-mid-resolve and replacement-mid-resolve specs now also assert html === "" on the stale view, pinning both stale arms; normal resolves cover the passing arm unchanged.

Verification: vitest run core/webview 28 files / 534 passed; tsc --noEmit clean; eslint clean (suppressions unchanged: 7/198). Pre-push independent re-review of the delta: P0=0, P1=0, no findings.

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When this happens to me, I can return it to normal without restarting and it continues working (well, it was working behind the scenes, too, as far as I can tell): leftclick and drag the ZooCode tab to another location in the UI and unclick, and it will pop back up (then just drag it back to its original location, and all is normal again).