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Summary

Three field-editor defects, each reproduced from a user report and fixed at its root:

1. Form builder — renaming a field dropped focus after every character

The field list keyed each card by the field's name — the one property the Field Name input rewrites on every keystroke — so each character changed the card's React key, unmounting the card (and the input) mid-word and forcing the author to click back in before every next character. Card keys are now minted by the list and follow the field through a rename, so renaming keeps the card — and the input's focus — in place. Drag ids, selection and update targeting still work by name, unchanged.

2. Schema Builder — Label punctuation became underscores in the derived Name

toSnakeName translated the label character-by-character: every space, period, apostrophe or colon became its own underscore, so phone no. derived phone_no_ and a punctuation-only label minted a name of pure underscores. The derivation now follows the rule the builder's other name/slug derivations already apply (startingFieldName, toKebabName): a run of anything that is not a letter or a digit collapses to one underscore, and nothing dangles at either end — phone no. derives phone_no. Already-clean names are untouched, and the collection slug (which derives through the same function) gets the same behavior.

3. Entry editor — a Code field's content overflowed its box

Field rows lay fields on bare Nfr grid tracks, which are minmax(auto, Nfr) and honor an item's min-content — and CodeMirror draws its document with white-space: pre, so one long unwrapped line grew the track past the form panel and painted the code outside the field's border. Each row item's automatic minimum is now zeroed ([&>*]:min-w-0 beside the existing [&>*]:!w-full), so tracks keep their proportional width and long lines scroll inside CodeMirror's own scroller. Reaches both the main form rows and nested group interiors (both render through FieldRow).

Testing

Each fix was proven red → green against unmodified main first, then the commits were cherry-picked onto this branch and their tests re-run together:

  • FieldCards.test.tsx (plugin-form-builder): the Field Name input must remain the same DOM node and hold focus across a rename — failed on main with the node replaced per keystroke.
  • to-snake-name.test.ts + GeneralTab.test.tsx: the derivation rule plus the user-visible Label → Name flow (phone no. → phone_no) — failed on main with phone_no_.
  • FieldRow.test.tsx: the row's item contract (each field may shrink below its content's width) — failed on main with the class absent. This one pins the class contract; jsdom does no layout, so the visual containment rests on the grid sizing mechanism and is worth a quick manual glance at a Code field holding one long line.

Full suites at each fix's commit: plugin-form-builder 397/397; admin lib/builder + schema-builder 478/478; admin EntryForm + FieldRenderer neighborhood 345/345 — with check-types, lint and the fallow gate clean on every touched package.

Changeset

One combined changeset (.changeset/field-editor-ui-fixes.md) covering all three fixes, per the one-changeset-per-PR rule.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Field cards now retain focus and editing state when a field is renamed, including while temporarily cleared.
    • Label-derived field names now handle punctuation consistently, removing unnecessary underscores.
    • Existing valid field names are preserved during unrelated edits.
    • Form fields can shrink within grid columns, preventing long code values from overflowing and allowing them to scroll within the field.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for field renaming, label-to-name conversion, valid name preservation, and responsive field layout behavior.

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The changes update entry-form grid sizing, normalize generated field names, preserve legal stored names, and maintain field-card identity during renames. Tests cover grid classes, punctuation handling, label synchronization, focus retention, and empty-name edits.

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Grid sizing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Grid child width contract
packages/admin/src/components/features/entries/EntryForm/FieldRow.tsx, packages/admin/src/components/features/entries/EntryForm/FieldRow.test.tsx
FieldRow adds [&>*]:min-w-0 to its grid and tests the required grid class tokens.

Snake name normalization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Snake name normalization rules
packages/admin/src/lib/builder/field-transformers.ts, packages/admin/src/lib/builder/to-snake-name.test.ts
toSnakeName collapses non-alphanumeric runs, trims edge underscores, and returns an empty string for punctuation-only input.
Stored names and label synchronization
packages/admin/src/lib/builder/field-transformers.ts, packages/admin/src/lib/builder/to-snake-name.test.ts, packages/admin/src/components/features/schema-builder/field-editor-sheet/GeneralTab.tsx, packages/admin/src/components/features/schema-builder/field-editor-sheet/__tests__/GeneralTab.test.tsx
Legal stored names remain unchanged during conversion. Invalid names are re-derived. Auto-derived names from the previous rule continue to track label edits.

Field card identity

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stable keys during field renames
packages/plugin-form-builder/src/admin/components/builder/FieldCards.tsx, packages/plugin-form-builder/src/admin/components/builder/FieldCards.test.tsx
FieldCards transfers stable keys when names change. Tests verify value, DOM identity, and focus retention.
Empty-name selection synchronization
packages/plugin-form-builder/src/admin/context/FormBuilderContext.tsx
updateField re-selects a renamed field when the new name is an empty string.

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: mobeenabdullah

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 07467

Label edits can silently rename manually chosen field identifiers and affect stored data or API keys. Fix automatic-name detection before merging.

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cli/commands/dev-server.ts:1143-1148
cli/commands/migrate-field-groups.ts:110-115
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The PR appears safe to merge; the latest changes address the remaining manual-name rewrite concern without introducing a new actionable defect.

Summary

This PR fixes three field-editor defects and adds focused regression coverage:

  • Preserves form-builder card identity, selection, and input focus while field names change, including the temporarily empty state.
  • Collapses punctuation runs in label-derived schema names while preserving valid stored field identifiers and narrowly recognizing names produced by the legacy derivation.
  • Allows entry-form grid children to shrink so wide CodeMirror content remains contained and scrollable.
  • Includes the required single lockstep patch changeset for all published packages.

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`## Code Review Rules` section from AGENTS.md, applying the root section
together with whichever nested AGENTS.md sits nearest the changed files. This
repository had no such section, so the one reviewer that runs on everything was
working from no repository knowledge at all.

The rules encode only what CI cannot decide. Formatting, types, lint, the
comment convention, changeset presence, design tokens and bare `Error` in
product code all already gate, and a reviewer relitigating a mechanical check
costs a round and settles nothing. What is left is behaviour: published-surface
compatibility, dialect parity, the plugin-sdk boundary, preconditions running
before the work they guard, access decisions having one path, one question
having one implementation, a test separating correct from plausibly broken, and
migrations reaching databases that already exist.

The nested files carry what is local to them. admin gets both-scheme visual
checks, catalog-driven field pickers, the table invariants a type cannot
express, the parsed error envelope and the externalized bundle. nextly gets the
canonical response shapes, error codes carrying their status, surface-only
field types staying out of the schema pipeline, and the CLI commands that were
deleted on purpose.

Each rule states the problem and the safe path rather than naming a function,
so it survives the code being refactored underneath it.

* chore(ci): keep two automatic reviewers, not four

Measured on #1892 and confirmed on #1890 and #1891: Codex, Greptile, CodeRabbit
and Qodo all reviewed automatically, on top of the on-demand nextly-review-bot
and two human reviewers. Four always-on reviewers is not defence in depth — it
is four overlapping findings lists to triage, each billed, each inflating the
number of remediation rounds a pull request needs without a matching gain in
what gets caught.

Codex stays as the standing reviewer: it runs on every pull request and is the
one that reads the `Code Review Rules` this repository now carries, so it is
the one repository knowledge can steer. CodeRabbit stays as the second opinion
with a different failure mode. nextly-review-bot stays untouched — it is
on-demand and costs nothing unless someone asks for it, which is what makes it
the right tool for an elevated-risk change.

Qodo is removed here by deleting the config that made it run. Greptile has no
repository-level configuration and must be turned off at the app installation.

The reviewing-a-pr skill named CodeRabbit and Greptile as the reviewers to
verify findings against; it now names the two that actually run.

* feat(root): give each worktree its own ports and test database

Several agents working at once need several checkouts, and three things here
are per-machine rather than per-checkout. Two are obvious: the playground binds
:3000 and the Playwright suite binds :3100.

The third is not obvious and fails as a flaky test rather than as a collision.
Integration suites give TEST-OWNED tables a random per-file prefix, which makes
files independent — but Nextly's SYSTEM tables have fixed names
(`nextly_schema_events` and its neighbours) and cannot be prefixed. Within one
run `fileParallelism: false` handles that. Across two worktrees it is not
handled at all: both point at `nextly_test` on the same container, and the
second run drops and recreates a system table the first is still using. So the
isolation has to be a separate DATABASE per checkout, not a prefix.

`pnpm worktree new <branch>` creates the checkout, allocates the lowest free
slot, and writes the slot's `PORT`, `E2E_PORT` and `NEXTLY_TEST_DB` into that
worktree's `.claude/settings.local.json` — gitignored and per-checkout, so a
Claude Code session started there picks them up with nothing further to do. It
creates the slot's database inside whichever test containers are running and
names the ones it skipped. The containers stay shared, because they set a fixed
`container_name` and only one compose project can own them.

Slot 0 is the documented defaults, asserted by a test: an existing checkout
that never runs this behaves exactly as before.

`NEXTLY_TEST_DB` carries a database NAME rather than a URL, and that is
load-bearing. Postgres 15 is on 5434 and 17 on 5435, so a single
`TEST_POSTGRES_URL` in the environment would point the `:postgres15` lane at
the 17 container and report a pass for a version it never ran against.

Two defects found by running it rather than reading it, both now covered:

An unallocated checkout reported no slot, so the first worktree created was
given slot 0 — the main checkout's port and its database, the exact collision
this exists to prevent. Absence of a claim is not absence of an occupant.
`lowestFreeSlot` now REFUSES an unreadable slot rather than filtering it out,
because dropping an entry you cannot read turns "I do not know what this
checkout holds" into "it holds nothing".

check-agent-contract reported `.claude/settings.local.json` as a stale path. It
is gitignored and absent from a fresh clone by design, so it now asks
`git check-ignore` rather than re-parsing the ignore rules. Break-verified that
the exemption stays narrow: an ignored path is silent, a tracked path that does
not exist is still reported.

Verified against real containers: two worktrees took slots 1 and 2 with
distinct ports, `nextly_test_w1` and `nextly_test_w2` were confirmed present on
both Postgres and MySQL by querying the servers rather than trusting the
command's own report, and removing slot 1 returned it to the pool.

* feat(root): give a worktree a teardown path, and make cleanup the rule

`pnpm worktree new` allocated a checkout, two ports and a database on every
running test container, and nothing gave any of it back. That is an unfinished
feature rather than a missing convenience: slots are small integers, so an
abandoned checkout holds its ports and its databases indefinitely and the next
parallel session finds the pool smaller than it should be.

`pnpm worktree remove <branch|path>` returns all of it. It drops the slot's
databases BEFORE removing the checkout, because once the checkout is gone the
slot is free and a later `new` could take it while the old databases still hold
another run's tables. It refuses to remove the checkout it is running in, and
it never drops slot 0 — that database is shared by the main checkout and every
unallocated one, so a removal taking it would break everyone else's test run
from a command whose whole purpose is tidying up. The guard is a pure function
with its own test for that reason.

A branch git declines to delete is reported and kept rather than forced, since
an unmerged branch is better kept by accident than lost on purpose.

AGENTS.md states the general rule: anything a task brings up, that task takes
down, and tooling that allocates ships its teardown in the same change. A
create with no matching remove is not a follow-up.

Verified end to end against live containers: a worktree took slot 1 and
`nextly_test_w1` on both engines, remove dropped both databases, returned the
slot to the pool and deleted the branch, and the servers were queried
afterwards rather than the command's own report being trusted.

* fix(root): make worktree isolation hold under concurrency and failure

Review found that the isolation mechanism could reproduce the collisions it
exists to prevent, and could destroy work while doing it. Seven defects, each
of which reads as correct code.

SLOT ALLOCATION WAS NOT ATOMIC. The first version read the worktree list,
picked the lowest free number, and only then wrote the settings file — three
steps with nothing holding between them, so two agents running `new` at once
both chose the same slot and got identical ports and an identical database.
The claim is now the CREATE: `openSync(file, "wx")` fails with EEXIST when the
file exists and the filesystem decides that, so two processes racing for one
slot cannot both succeed. No lock to acquire, hold or leak. Claims live in the
shared `.git` directory, so every checkout of the clone agrees, and a claim
naming a checkout that no longer exists is reclaimed.

PORT SERIES INTERSECTED. Each port had its own arithmetic series — playground
at 3000 + 10n, e2e at 3100 + 10n — and those cross: slot 10's playground port
IS slot 0's e2e port. Independent series look separated at the slots anyone
tries by hand. Each slot now owns a contiguous BLOCK of ten ports from 3200
upward, which cannot intersect by construction, and slot 0 keeps the documented
3000/3100/3101 exactly. `E2E_PROD_PORT` was never allocated at all, so two
worktrees running the production Playwright suite collided on 3101 despite
holding different slots; it is in the block now. A test walks 64 slots and
asserts every one of the 192 ports is distinct.

REMOVAL DESTROYED UNFINISHED WORK. It passed `--force` to `git worktree remove`
and `-D` to `git branch` unconditionally, so a routine cleanup discarded
uncommitted files and unmerged commits. The comment beside it claimed git would
decline to delete an unmerged branch — true of `-d`, never of `-D`, so the
comment described code that was not there. Both are non-force by default now
and `--force` opts in.

REMOVAL MATCHED BY PATH SUFFIX. Asking to remove `feature` selected a checkout
whose generated path ended `-fix-feature` and then force-deleted it. The
porcelain output states the branch outright; matching is exact, on branch or
path, and ambiguity returns nothing rather than a best guess.

A FAILED DATABASE DROP STILL RELEASED THE SLOT. Postgres refuses to drop a
database with a live connection, and the documented cleanup order stops the
containers first — so the ordinary case landed in a catch that reported
"container not running", and the checkout was removed and its slot reissued
while a populated `nextly_test_w<n>` remained. The next holder would inherit
another run's fixed-name system tables, which is the collision the mechanism
exists to prevent. The slot is now RESERVED instead, `list` says so, and
`worktree sweep` drops the databases and releases it once the containers are
back.

PROVISIONING FAILURES READ AS SUCCESS. One catch treated a stopped container, a
bad credential and a SQL error identically, and `new` succeeded regardless — so
a checkout could point at a database that does not exist, and the integration
suites SELF-SKIP when they cannot connect, turning a broken setup into a green
run. The container is probed separately now, so "not running" is established
rather than inferred from a failure, and a failure against a running container
exits non-zero. `worktree provision` retries after `docker start`.

GIT_DIR was not cleared before shelling out to git. This repository has already
lost time to a turbo invocation that inherited that pointer and never returned.

The contract checker had three gaps of its own. It read only backtick fences,
so a stale command inside a `~~~` block passed. It required a `/` in every
path, so `context7.json` and `AGENTS.measured.md` could be renamed away while
it stayed green — dropping that requirement outright reports 20 valid
references, measured, so the separating property is whether any file in the
repository carries that basename; that reports none of the 20 and all three
probe deletions. And its anchor accepted any file under `.claude/rules`, so
either of the two rules AGENTS.md promises are always loaded could be deleted
while the other kept the directory non-empty.

It also missed four citations of the moved `derived-checks` rule, all in `.ts`
source comments. The cleanup that missed them searched only Markdown and .mjs
and then reported none — a population that excluded every file carrying the
problem. Those four are fixed, and the checker now scans every tracked file for
guidance citations rather than only the instruction files. It excludes its own
test, which necessarily contains dead paths as fixtures; the cost of that is
stated where the exclusion is, and break-verification confirms a stale citation
in any other test file is still caught.

Where a reference names a tool's own subcommand — `pnpm --filter playground
nextly generate:types` — the launcher is checked and the subcommand is REPORTED
as unverified rather than passing silently. Listing a tool's commands here would
be a second copy of them, and silence from a checker reads as coverage.

Every fix is break-verified. 1,451 script tests pass.

* fix(root): stop a refused removal from destroying what it refused to touch

Six defects from review, all in code added to answer the previous round.

A REFUSED REMOVAL STILL DROPPED THE DATABASES. Teardown ran before
`git worktree remove`, so a dirty checkout — exactly the case the non-force
default exists to protect — kept its files while every running container lost
its database. A routine cleanup partially destroyed the environment it was
meant to preserve.

Git goes first now. The slot cannot be reissued in the meantime because the
claim is marked `pendingCleanup` BEFORE the checkout disappears, and
`isReclaimable` refuses such a claim, so the window where the path is gone but
the teardown is unresolved is not a window anyone can take. A refusal restores
the claim and says the databases are untouched.

Verified end to end against a running container: a dirty worktree is refused,
`nextly_test_w1` survives, the uncommitted file survives, and the claim carries
no stale reservation. Cleaning the worktree and repeating drops the database
and releases the slot.

THE CLAIM EXISTED EMPTY WHILE IT WAS BEING WRITTEN. `openSync(file, "wx")`
creates the name and fills it afterwards, so between those calls the file
parsed as nothing — and an unreadable claim was treated as reclaimable, so a
concurrent run could unlink it and take a slot its owner believed it held. The
atomic create was never the whole race.

The claim is written to a scratch file and LINKED into place, so the name only
ever appears complete, and an unreadable claim now HOLDS its slot: "I cannot
tell who owns this" is not "nobody owns this". Losing the reclaim race is
ordinary rather than exceptional, so a concurrent unlink reporting ENOENT is
tolerated instead of aborting the command.

`ensurePrimaryClaim` had the same shape with a worse blast radius: it created
`0.json` and then shelled out to git, so a throwing git call left an empty file
that short-circuited every later call and read as an unowned slot — handing the
next worktree the primary checkout's ports and the shared `nextly_test`
database. git is asked before anything is created.

A FENCE CARRYING AN INFO STRING CLOSED ITS BLOCK. A nested ```typescript inside
a backtick block ended it, so every following line was read as prose and the
rest of the document went unchecked while still reporting clean. A closing
fence must now carry nothing after the marker.

`--json` PRINTED PROSE AFTER THE JSON. The unverified-subcommand footer
followed the object, so `JSON.parse` on stdout failed while the command exited
0. JSON mode emits the object and nothing else; the entries are already in it.

THE PROVISION HINT NAMED A SUBSET of the containers it checks, so following it
and retrying left postgres15 skipped and exited 1 again with no new
information. It is derived from the container list now.

One refinement that follows from the last of those: the claim records WHICH
containers received the database, and teardown only holds the slot for those.
Before, every removal taken while the containers were down reserved its slot
forever, and clearing it meant starting every container to drop databases that
were never created — friction with no safety behind it. A claim that predates
the record still holds its slot, because unknown is not empty.

Validated bounded: 1,460 script tests at --maxWorkers=2, memory never below
7.4 GiB, swap untouched. The one container started for the end-to-end check has
been stopped again.
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