refactor(code-index): isolate watcher sessions and preserve batch outcomes

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Summary

Implements the watcher-session portion of the split from #1821. This PR is based on current main (including #1834) and does not include the file-preparation changes from #1836.

• Extract watcher startup, subscription ownership, and partial-startup cleanup into a dedicated session owner.
• Reuse pending and active sessions; prevent stopped initialization from reviving a disposed watcher.
• Derive final status from batch summaries, including individual file errors.
• Ignore terminal and empty progress updates that would overwrite the final result.
• Keep startup, subscription registration, and batch event handling in small focused methods.
• Add cancellation checks around asynchronous watcher startup completion.

Tests

• 31 tests pass across watcher-session, orchestrator, and file-watcher suites.
• Session coverage includes partial registration failure, stopped initialization, reuse, late callbacks, and real state-manager integration.
• Orchestrator regression coverage verifies stopping during watcher initialization cannot publish a completed status.
• Focused ESLint passes with no increased suppressions.
• Repository-wide lint passed in the commit hook; repository-wide type checks passed in the push hook.

Scope

No scan-policy changes, file-preparation extraction, settings changes, or changelog entries.

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src/services/code-index/interfaces/watcher-session.ts (1)

1-9: LGTM!

src/services/code-index/code-index-watcher-session.ts (2)

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2-3: 🎯 Functional Correctness

The path import already exists at src/services/code-index/code-index-watcher-session.ts:1, so path.basename(currentFile) has the required binding. No import change is needed.

src/services/code-index/__tests__/code-index-watcher-session.spec.ts (1)

4-4: LGTM!

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• Bug Fixes
  • Stopping indexing during watcher startup preserves the stopping state and prevents incomplete indexing from being reported as complete.
  • Watcher events received during shutdown are ignored, and indexing status reflects file-level errors and batch outcomes.
  • Watchers are cleaned up after initialization or subscription failures, helping prevent stale events and incomplete shutdowns.
  • Restarting indexing after a stop or startup failure prevents an earlier startup from interfering with the new session.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for watcher startup, shutdown, recovery, restarts, and indexing outcomes.

Walkthrough

CodeIndexWatcherSession now manages watcher creation, startup, subscriptions, batch progress, state updates, and disposal. CodeIndexOrchestrator delegates watcher lifecycle operations to the session and checks for aborts around indexing completion. The service factory returns a watcher factory instead of a watcher instance.

Changes

Watcher lifecycle and indexing state

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Watcher factory construction and wiring src/services/code-index/interfaces/file-watcher-factory.ts, src/services/code-index/processors/file-watcher-factory.ts, src/services/code-index/service-factory.ts, src/services/code-index/manager.ts, src/services/code-index/processors/__tests__/processor-factories.spec.ts	The watcher factory stores its options and creates watchers on demand. The service factory returns the factory, and the manager passes it to CodeIndexOrchestrator. Tests verify that service creation does not instantiate a watcher and that repeated factory calls return distinct watchers.
Watcher session startup and cleanup src/services/code-index/interfaces/watcher-session.ts, src/services/code-index/code-index-watcher-session.ts, src/services/code-index/__tests__/code-index-watcher-session.spec.ts	CodeIndexWatcherSession creates watchers through a factory and reuses pending or active startup. It cleans up subscriptions and the watcher after stop or initialization failure. Tests cover cancellation, replacement sessions, late startup results, and stale callbacks.
Batch state and progress reporting src/services/code-index/code-index-watcher-session.ts, src/services/code-index/__tests__/code-index-watcher-session.spec.ts	CodeIndexWatcherSession reports file progress and sets state from batch and file outcomes. Tests cover empty batches, error outcomes, recovery, mixed file results, and events received while stopping.
Orchestrator lifecycle and abort handling src/services/code-index/orchestrator.ts, src/services/code-index/__tests__/orchestrator.spec.ts	The orchestrator delegates watcher startup and shutdown to CodeIndexWatcherSession and checks for aborts around indexing completion. Tests cover stopping during watcher initialization and restarting after stop, clear, or initialization failure.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CodeIndexOrchestrator
  participant CodeIndexWatcherSession
  participant IFileWatcherFactory
  participant IFileWatcher
  CodeIndexOrchestrator->>CodeIndexWatcherSession: start()
  CodeIndexWatcherSession->>IFileWatcherFactory: create()
  IFileWatcherFactory-->>CodeIndexWatcherSession: IFileWatcher
  CodeIndexWatcherSession->>IFileWatcher: initialize()
  IFileWatcher-->>CodeIndexWatcherSession: initialization completes
  CodeIndexWatcherSession-->>CodeIndexOrchestrator: startup completes

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The watcher-session change is mergeable after normal checks; no actionable merge-blocking risk is established.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f33af

Existing workspace and configuration checks remain in place, but stopping and restarting indexing may allow work from an earlier watcher to write after its replacement starts. That could leave the workspace index out of date, including for deleted files.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: A stopped watcher's in-flight batch can continue writing to the vector store while its replacement session operates on that store. Without write fencing or draining, completion order could restore stale embeddings after a newer file change or deletion.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The evidenced write exposure is the configured workspace's vector index and cache. No new cross-workspace destination or external entrypoint is established by the changed wiring.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A workspace file change can start a batch whose asynchronous upsert survives watcher disposal. If a replacement processes a later deletion first, the earlier upsert could leave deleted-file embeddings in the index. The earlier implementation also permitted in-flight writes after stop; this PR adds replacement-session overlap, not a new attacker entrypoint.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The session guards status callbacks by stopped state and global Stopping state. Those controls govern status publication, not authorization or ordering of vector-store writes already started by a watcher.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Overlapping batches can finish out of order because the debounce trigger does not serialize asynchronous processing. The new status handler lacks batch ordering, although the prior handler also could report Indexed despite batch errors; this is not established as a worsened security exposure.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Before treating stop as complete or activating a replacement, drain or cancel in-flight batches, or fence their vector-store writes by session generation. Test a delayed old upsert against a new session's deletion.

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❌ Failed checks (3 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Regression Evidence	⚠️ Warning	The new abort guards around watcher startup and completion lack complete focused coverage. orchestrator.ts now checks signal.throwIfAborted() immediately before and after markIndexingComplete() …	Add a focused orchestrator test, parameterized for full and incremental scans, that defers vectorStore.markIndexingComplete(), calls stopIndexing() while that promise is pending, then resolves it. Assert that the final state is `Standby…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup	⚠️ Warning	The restart path can retain an active batch task after disposal. CodeIndexWatcherSession.stop() disposes the current watcher at code-index-watcher-session.ts:31-38, and the changed factory creates…	Add explicit active-batch cancellation or draining to the watcher lifecycle. dispose() must cancel active file processing, vector-store retries, and pending timers, and each async phase must check the cancellation state before continuing …
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description explains the implementation scope and test results, but it omits the required linked GitHub issue, the pre-submission checklist, documentation impact, and other template sections.	Add the required Related GitHub Issue entry with an approved issue number, complete the Pre-Submission Checklist, and provide the required Documentation Updates and any applicable Additional Notes or reviewer contact information.

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Security Boundaries	✅ Passed	No changed path meets the security failure conditions. The new watcher session only creates the configured watcher, subscribes to its internal events, and updates local indexing status. The factory wi…
Persistence Integrity	✅ Passed	No changed persistence path meets the failure condition. The PR changes watcher lifecycle, event handling, and factory wiring. It does not modify CacheManager, FileWatcher batch writes, or vector-…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main changes: isolating watcher sessions and preserving batch outcomes.

Full details: Regression Evidence

Explanation

The new abort guards around watcher startup and completion lack complete focused coverage. orchestrator.ts now checks signal.throwIfAborted() immediately before and after markIndexingComplete() on both full and incremental paths (lines 123-144). The added orchestrator test only stops while watcher.initialize() is pending (lines 349-380), and all tests use an immediately resolved markIndexingComplete(). No test stops after markIndexingComplete() starts and before it resolves, so the regression where the orchestrator publishes Indexed after a cancellation is not covered.

Resolution

Add a focused orchestrator test, parameterized for full and incremental scans, that defers vectorStore.markIndexingComplete(), calls stopIndexing() while that promise is pending, then resolves it. Assert that the final state is Standby and that Indexed is never published. Add a separate race test if needed to exercise the guard immediately after watcher startup and before markIndexingComplete() is called.

Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup

Explanation

The restart path can retain an active batch task after disposal. CodeIndexWatcherSession.stop() disposes the current watcher at code-index-watcher-session.ts:31-38, and the changed factory creates a new FileWatcher on the next start() at code-index-watcher-session.ts:20-27 and file-watcher-factory.ts:9-21. However, FileWatcher.dispose() only clears the debounce timer. An already-running triggerBatchProcessing() continues into processBatch() and its asynchronous file, vector-store, retry, and cache operations at file-watcher.ts:176-187 and 421-501. If a file event is processing when stopIndexing() is called and indexing restarts, the old batch can overlap the new scan or watcher batch for the same file. This permits work after disposal and duplicate indexing during restart.

Resolution

Add explicit active-batch cancellation or draining to the watcher lifecycle. dispose() must cancel active file processing, vector-store retries, and pending timers, and each async phase must check the cancellation state before continuing or updating the cache and vector store. Alternatively, expose a drain promise and make CodeIndexWatcherSession.start() await the stopped session before creating or initializing its replacement watcher. Add a regression test that starts a batch, disposes the watcher, restarts the orchestrator, and verifies that the old batch cannot process or update shared state concurrently with the new session.

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Review comments at @src/services/code-index/__tests__/orchestrator.spec.ts:
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Can the retry path dispose this still-active watcher before discarding its orchestrator to prevent orphan watchers after a batch failure?

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Could startup preserve a watcher batch failure received during this wait instead of overwriting it with the subsequent success status in either scan path?