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feat(task-title): auto-generate task titles for new root tasks - #2398
This PR implements automatic task title generation for new root tasks. When a task starts, the system generates a short, user-friendly title (5–10 words in the user's language) in the background without blocking task execution or showing errors in chat.
Key Implementation Details
Data Model: Add optional autoTitle field to HistoryItem. Display priority: manual title > auto title > original prompt. This separation ensures manual titles always win structurally.
Storage Layer: Implement setAutoTitleIfAbsent method in TaskHistoryStore that validates disk state under lock before recording. This prevents deleted tasks from reappearing in multi-host scenarios.
Title Generation Service: Create TaskTitleService with concurrent queue (max 2 parallel requests, per-task deduplication). Trigger on first API call (totalTokensIn > 0), not at task creation, to avoid race conditions with the first agent request.
Generation Logic: Extract first 1,000 characters of prompt (skip images, truncate code blocks), send to TASK_TITLE support prompt, clean output (remove think tags, prefixes, extra punctuation), and emit 42-character fallback if LLM fails or times out.
Cancellation Policy:
User cancels: record free fallback title
Task deleted: skip recording
Task switched: continue (do not abort)
Exclusions: Skip subtasks, resumed tasks, short prompts (≤42 chars), and rate-limited profiles.
Settings: Add taskTitleGenerationEnabled (default: true) and taskTitleApiConfigId (optional, falls back to task profile).
Design Trade-Offs
Separate field: Avoids complex logic for manual-title precedence, rename cancellation, and retry state.
No Task.ts changes: Provider owns the service and subscribes to task events, keeping lifecycle/run-state/rate-limit code isolated.
No rate-limit clock integration: Prevents agent retry logic loops; instead, skip LLM for rate-limited profiles and record fallback only.
Trigger on first API call: Ensures history item exists and avoids competing with the first agent request.
15-second timeout: settleOnAbort wraps the promise so fallback is recorded even if provider ignores abort signal.
Multi-Host Safety
setAutoTitleIfAbsent validates disk state under lock: if record is missing, invalid, or already has autoTitle, it returns false without updating. This prevents a deleted task from reappearing when a late response arrives from another host.
Webview Changes
Update useTaskSearch selector to include both display title and original prompt, so users can still search by prompt text.
Fix TaskTitleEditor to treat auto title as a starting value; if user saves the same text, title clears (no change = no manual title).
Update ExtensionStateContext to handle late taskHistoryItemUpdated arrival before currentTaskItem.
Provider abort behavior: 14 providers support signal + timeout (HTTP request truly stops); 4 support signal only (client-side 15-second timeout via settleOnAbort); 9 ignore both (HTTP request continues up to apiRequestTimeout, late results are discarded). Follow-up PRs address per-provider optimizations (following feat(api): abort signal support for requesty (completePrompt + shared helpers) #1537 pattern).
Settings & Localization
UI: Prompts settings tab for TASK_TITLE, with toggle and API profile picker (parallel to ENHANCE tab).
18 locales: en, ko, ja, zh-CN, zh-TW, es, fr, de, it, pt-BR, ru, tr, vi, hi, id, pl, ca, nl.
Documentation string warns: lightweight non-reasoning profile recommended, cost not in task total, Copilot/VS Code LM consume quota, alternative profile sends prompt start to that provider.
Baseline images committed for regression coverage.
Documentation Updates
No documentation updates are required.
Additional Notes
Cost and Provider Behavior
Call cost: ~1,100–1,300 input tokens (150 for instruction + up to 1,000 for prompt; English ~250, Korean ~700) + 20–40 output tokens. Single call per task, no retries. Cost not included in task total; follow-up issue to aggregate auxiliary calls.
Provider abort signal handling varies; 15-second client-side timeout ensures promise settles even if provider ignores signal. Late responses are discarded by lock validation.
Reasoning model thinking tokens: Instruct users to select a lightweight profile in settings to avoid excessive token consumption.
Related to AGENTS.md
Task lifecycle model unchanged; no changes to src/core/task-persistence/taskLifecycle.ts or src/core/task/Task.ts.
- Add `autoTitle` field to HistoryItem for auto-generated titles
- Implement TaskTitleService with concurrent queue (max 2 parallel requests)
- Add generateTaskTitle pure function with cleaning and fallback logic
- Integrate with first API call trigger (when totalTokensIn > 0)
- Add display priority: manual title > auto title > original prompt
- Support TASK_TITLE customizable support prompt
- Add `taskTitleGenerationEnabled` and `taskTitleApiConfigId` settings
- Update task history store with setAutoTitleIfAbsent method
- Fix history search to include both display title and original prompt
- Update TaskTitleEditor to preserve auto title when unchanged
- Add cancel/abort handling: user cancel → fallback; delete → skip
- Exclude subtasks, resumed tasks, short prompts, and rate-limited profiles
- 18 locales: en, ko, ja, zh-CN, zh-TW, es, fr, de, it, pt-BR, ru, tr, vi, hi, id, pl, ca, nl
New tasks can receive automatically generated titles. Title generation is enabled by default and can be turned off or configured to use a selected API configuration or the task’s configuration.
Generated titles appear in task headers and history. Custom titles take precedence; you can edit generated titles and search history by title or task prompt.
Improvements
Task titles are preserved during concurrent updates, and deleted tasks aren’t restored by title generation.
Task history updates now appear for the active task, including when its details are still loading.
Localization
Added translations for task-title settings across supported languages.
This change adds background task-title generation for new root tasks. It stores generated titles in autoTitle, keeps manual titles separate, updates provider and webview state, and adds settings, history display behavior, search support, tests, and localized prompt text.
Adds the enabled-by-default task-title setting, API profile selection, prompt type, localized prompt text, and settings controls. E2E configurations disable title generation, and a gallery story renders the prompts settings.
Title generation and scheduling src/core/task-title/TaskTitleService.ts, src/core/task-title/generateTaskTitle.ts, src/core/task-title/__tests__/*
Adds input preparation, title cleanup, fallback generation, and scheduling for eligible root tasks. The service limits concurrency, checks profiles, and handles cancellation, disposal, and timeouts.
Adds a locked write that sets autoTitle only when the task exists and still lacks one. Tests and the concurrency model cover stale writes, deletion, competing writes, and manual-title coexistence.
Provider lifecycle and state integration src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts, src/core/webview/__tests__/*, src/__tests__/ClineProvider.delegation.spec.ts
Connects generation to task creation and token usage, cancels it on user cancellation or deletion, and disposes the service with the provider. State projections expose the settings, and history snapshots preserve title fields.
Generated titles in task history and headers webview-ui/src/components/chat/TaskHeader.tsx, webview-ui/src/components/history/*, webview-ui/src/context/ExtensionStateContext.tsx, webview-ui/src/context/__tests__/ExtensionStateContext.spec.tsx, webview-ui/src/utils/highlight.ts, webview-ui/src/utils/__tests__/highlight.spec.ts
Task headers and history prefer manual titles, then generated titles, then the original prompt. Search includes both display titles and task text. Highlighting escapes output when there are no match positions, and pushed history updates can populate the current task item.
sequenceDiagram
participant ClineProvider
participant TaskTitleService
participant generateTaskTitle
participant TaskHistoryStore
ClineProvider->>TaskTitleService: report task creation and token usage
TaskTitleService->>generateTaskTitle: request title for an eligible task
generateTaskTitle-->>TaskTitleService: return generated title or failure
TaskTitleService->>ClineProvider: provide generated title or fallback
ClineProvider->>TaskHistoryStore: persist title if absent
TaskHistoryStore-->>ClineProvider: return updated history item
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Possibly related PRs
Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code#2370: Generates background titles for new root tasks and protects them from concurrent manual-title writes.
Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code#2363: Generates background titles for new root tasks, applies fallback titles, and preserves manual titles.
Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code#2122: Adds user-assigned task titles and rename behavior, which this change preserves alongside generated titles.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 959b3
The deletion race lacks the intended regression coverage, but no current failure of task-title persistence was established. The change is mergeable with that test gap tracked for follow-up.
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The new locked auto-title recheck lacks a real-store race test. TaskHistoryStore.realConcurrency.spec.ts:481-495 deletes the task before calling setAutoTitleIfAbsent and mocks readTaskFile, but …
Add a focused real-store test that pauses after the initial auto-title read, deletes the task from another store, and verifies that the locked write does not recreate it. Also cover a competing auto-title written during that interval.
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup
Title requests can continue after cancellation or timeout. generateTaskTitle.ts:132-135 stops waiting, but OpenAiHandler.completePrompt ignores the signal and timeout (openai.ts:357-378). The ha…
Ensure cancellation and timeout stop underlying title requests and release handlers, or prevent unsupported providers from starting them. Add regression tests for request cleanup and queue concurrency after cancellation and timeout.
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The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: automatic title generation for new root tasks.
Description check
The description covers the linked issue, implementation, design choices, test procedures, visual snapshots, documentation impact, checklist, and contact details. It lists test commands and reviewer st…
Linked Issues check
Issue [#2333] requires background titles for new root tasks, a 15-second request limit, a normalized 42-character fallback, and protection for manual titles, resumed tasks, and subtasks. `TaskTitleSer…
Out of Scope Changes check
The settings, localization, history search and display changes support title generation in issue [#2333]. The concurrency-model and store tests validate title persistence and deletion behavior. The E2…
Security Boundaries
No concrete security-boundary failure was found in the changed paths. Title requests check the selected profile against the organization allowlist. Search highlighting escapes generated titles before …
Persistence Integrity
No changed persistence path meets the failure conditions. Auto-title writes use the locked safeWriteJson merge, and the settings default reaches the runtime consumer. The new two-store tests cover s…
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The description covers the linked issue, implementation, design choices, test procedures, visual snapshots, documentation impact, checklist, and contact details. It lists test commands and reviewer steps, though it does not report test results.
Full details: Linked Issues check
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Issue [#2333] requires background titles for new root tasks, a 15-second request limit, a normalized 42-character fallback, and protection for manual titles, resumed tasks, and subtasks. TaskTitleService schedules after positive input-token usage, limits concurrent jobs, excludes subtasks and existing history items, and records a fallback after request or preflight failure. generateTaskTitle applies the 15-second timeout and builds the fallback from whitespace-normalized prompt text. The task-title prompt requests 5–10 words in the prompt language. setAutoTitleIfAbsent protects stored titles and deleted records. The changed tests cover generation, cancellation, persistence concurrency, and display behavior.
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The settings, localization, history search and display changes support title generation in issue [#2333]. The concurrency-model and store tests validate title persistence and deletion behavior. The E2E and visual configuration changes disable title generation to isolate tests. The reviewed changes show no unrelated work.
Full details: Security Boundaries
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No concrete security-boundary failure was found in the changed paths. Title requests check the selected profile against the organization allowlist. Search highlighting escapes generated titles before rendering HTML.
Full details: Persistence Integrity
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No changed persistence path meets the failure conditions. Auto-title writes use the locked safeWriteJson merge, and the settings default reaches the runtime consumer. The new two-store tests cover stale saves after both successful and skipped title writes. Prior failure addressed: Commit bd83f1e changes cacheAutoTitle to copy only autoTitle onto an existing cache baseline. The two-store tests save a stale snapshot after the title write and assert that the peer's architect mode remains.
Full details: Regression Evidence
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The new locked auto-title recheck lacks a real-store race test. TaskHistoryStore.realConcurrency.spec.ts:481-495 deletes the task before calling setAutoTitleIfAbsent and mocks readTaskFile, but the new method reads through readTaskFileForAutoTitle. The test therefore does not reach the merge guard at TaskHistoryStore.ts:1054-1057. The concurrency model reproduces that guard separately and cannot verify the store implementation. The previous profile-error and policy-cancellation gaps are addressed by the service changes and tests.
Resolution
Add a focused real-store test that pauses after the initial auto-title read, deletes the task from another store, and verifies that the locked write does not recreate it. Also cover a competing auto-title written during that interval.
Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup
Explanation
Title requests can continue after cancellation or timeout. generateTaskTitle.ts:132-135 stops waiting, but OpenAiHandler.completePrompt ignores the signal and timeout (openai.ts:357-378). The handler remains undisposed until the request ends (single-completion-handler.ts:21-32). Meanwhile, TaskTitleService.ts:139-145 starts queued requests, so stalled requests can accumulate beyond the two-job limit. The previous policy-check race is fixed by the cancellation check at TaskTitleService.ts:190.
Resolution
Ensure cancellation and timeout stop underlying title requests and release handlers, or prevent unsupported providers from starting them. Add regression tests for request cleanup and queue concurrency after cancellation and timeout.
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Review comments at @src/core/task-title/generateTaskTitle.ts:
- Around line 76-80: Update the title-cleaning logic in cleanTitle so it removes
only paired Markdown emphasis markers at word boundaries, preserving underscores
and asterisks inside identifiers and globs. Add coverage for snake_case,
__init__.py, and *.ts, and verify **Title:** x is handled correctly after the
title-prefix stripping step.
Review comments at @src/core/task-title/TaskTitleService.ts:
- Around line 62-67: TaskTitleService.onTaskCreated retains the live task in
candidates if it leaves the stack before first API usage. Add a discard(taskId)
method that removes the candidate, and call it from
ClineProvider.removeClineFromStack after detaching listeners for tasks that
leave the registry without user cancellation.
Review comments at @src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts:
- Around line 467-474: Update resolveProfile and the TaskTitleService
profile-resolution flow to reject title profiles excluded by the current
organization allow-list before sending the task prompt; when generation falls
back to the task profile, validate that profile against the same current
allow-list before using it. Preserve the existing undefined result for rejected
profiles.
Review comments at @webview-ui/src/components/settings/PromptsSettings.tsx:
- Around line 283-285: Associate the API configuration label in the task-title
settings block with its SelectTrigger: give the label a unique id and reference
it from the trigger with aria-labelledby, preserving the existing data-testid
and styling.
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Failed pre-merge checks:
- Linked Issues check:
Remove the short-prompt exclusion so eligible new root tasks with prompts of 42
characters or fewer receive a title. Use the first 42 message characters as the
failure and timeout fallback. Add tests for both requirements.
- Regression Evidence:
Add provider tests for title generation after token usage and for user versus
non-user cancellation. Add a SettingsView test that changes both settings, saves
them, and checks the update payload, including clearing the selected profile.
- Security Boundaries:
Validate the effective title profile against the current organization allowlist
before every title request. Skip generation or use an allowed fallback when the
profile is prohibited. Add tests for prohibited saved profiles and policy
changes.
- Persistence Integrity:
Distinguish a confirmed missing record from read and parse failures. Preserve
the cache and report or retry failures. Add a test for a read error followed by
a stale save after a peer update.
- Lifecycle Resource Cleanup:
Remove unscheduled candidates when their task is evicted or disposed. Preserve
the existing behavior that lets already scheduled title requests continue across
task switches. Add a regression test for switching before positive token usage.
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File: webview-ui/AGENTS.md:0-0
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Learning: Applies to webview-ui/** : Source excerpt:
# AGENTS.md
## Visual Tests (Playwright Story Gallery)
### When a UI change needs a snapshot
If your PR changes anything a user would notice at a glance — layout, spacing, theme tokens, brand elements, gradients, mask/blur effects, hover/empty/error states — **add a `*.visual.tsx` snapshot to the same PR**. Do not attach screenshots to the PR description as evidence; commit the baseline instead so future PRs get regression coverage automatically.
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File: webview-ui/AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-31T02:58:12.596Z
Learning: Applies to webview-ui/** : Source excerpt:
# AGENTS.md
## Unit & State Tests (Vitest + JSDOM)
- For `SettingsView`, preserve the cached-state pattern from the repo root guidance: inputs should operate on local `cachedState` until the user saves, and tests should distinguish automatic initialization from real user edits.
Learning: 2026-10-31T02:58:12.596Z
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File: webview-ui/AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-31T02:58:12.596Z
Learning: Applies to webview-ui/** : Source excerpt:
# AGENTS.md
## Visual Tests (Playwright Story Gallery)
### Authoring rules
- Keep behavioral assertions in Vitest. A `*.visual.tsx` test should establish a deterministic state and make a focused screenshot assertion.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code PR: 0
File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-20T22:54:54.079Z
Learning: Source excerpt:
# AGENTS.md
## Persisted Setting Checklist
- [ ] If the webview uses the setting, include it in `ExtensionState` in `packages/types/src/vscode-extension-host.ts` and any relevant message types.
Applied to files:
packages/types/src/vscode-extension-host.ts
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File: webview-ui/AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-31T02:58:12.596Z
Learning: Applies to webview-ui/** : Source excerpt:
# AGENTS.md
## Visual Tests (Playwright Story Gallery)
### When a UI change needs a snapshot
Skip a visual test when the change is behavior-only (state transitions, handler wiring, validation) — those belong in Vitest. Visual tests are for what JSDOM cannot verify.
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File: webview-ui/AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-31T02:58:12.596Z
Learning: Applies to webview-ui/** : Source excerpt:
# AGENTS.md
## Unit & State Tests (Vitest + JSDOM)
- Prefer local `webview-ui` tests for React/webview behavior. If a change is about component rendering, local state, hooks, form dirty-state, validation, or prop wiring inside the webview, add or update Vitest coverage under `webview-ui/src/**/__tests__` instead of reaching for `apps/vscode-e2e`.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code PR: 0
File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-20T22:54:54.079Z
Learning: Source excerpt:
# AGENTS.md
## Persisted Setting Checklist
- [ ] Define the setting, validation, and optionality in `packages/types/src/global-settings.ts` (or the appropriate provider/settings schema). Define a shared default constant when multiple readers need the same default.
Applied to files:
packages/types/src/global-settings.ts
Learning: 2026-08-20T02:34:19.719Z
Learnt from: edelauna
Repo: Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code PR: 1261
File: src/core/task-persistence/__tests__/TaskHistoryStore.crossInstance.spec.ts:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-08-20T02:34:19.719Z
Learning: In Zoo-Code task-history persistence code, treat each task's `history_item.json` as the source of truth; do not reintroduce `tasks/_index.json` or `TaskHistoryStore.flushIndex()`. `TaskHistoryStore.reconcile()` should discover state by scanning task directories, and cross-instance updates should use the `safeWriteJson` merge callback while holding the store's advisory lock.
Applied to files:
src/core/task-persistence/TaskHistoryStore.ts
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File: docs/architecture/task-lifecycle-model.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-20T22:55:17.293Z
Learning: Applicability reference:
AGENTS.md: # AGENTS.md
## Task Lifecycle Changes
- Read `docs/architecture/task-lifecycle-model.md` before changing task status, delegation, interruption, completion, abandonment, persistence ownership, or scheduler fan-out behavior.
Source excerpt:
# Task lifecycle model-check suite
## Extending the model
Completion-readiness changes belong in `scripts/check-completion-persistence.ts`; shared-store interleavings belong in `scripts/check-task-store-concurrency.ts`. Optional fan-out work belongs in `scripts/check-task-fanout-protocol.ts` and its separately scoped ticket until production transitions exist. Do not weaken bounds or remove an invariant merely to make CI pass. If state growth becomes difficult to control, split independent protocols or move the model to TLC/Quint with an implementation trace adapter rather than silently sampling the state space.
[warning] 451-451: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.readFile(taskFile(storagePath), "utf8")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
(detect-non-literal-fs-filename-typescript)
[warning] 501-501: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.writeFile(taskFile(storagePath), JSON.stringify(item("other-task")))
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
(detect-non-literal-fs-filename-typescript)
[warning] 506-506: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.readFile(taskFile(storagePath), "utf8")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
(detect-non-literal-fs-filename-typescript)
[warning] 514-514: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.readFile(taskFile(storagePath), "utf8")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
- Check the effective title profile against the current organization
allow-list before each request; a prohibited profile gets only the
fallback title.
- Evict the cache in setAutoTitleIfAbsent only when the task file is
confirmed missing, so a read or parse error cannot let a stale save
overwrite a peer's fields.
- Generate titles for prompts of any length and use the first 42
characters of the prompt as the fallback, as issue Zoo-Code-Org#2333 specifies.
- Store only the task id, parent id, and profile for unscheduled
candidates, and drop them when the task leaves the stack.
- Strip markdown emphasis only around words so identifiers such as
snake_case and __init__.py stay intact.
- Add provider event-wiring tests and a SettingsView save test.
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Minor · The "deleted after the early disk read" test… · TaskHistoryStore.realConcurrency.spec.ts:483-488
src/core/task-persistence/__tests__/TaskHistoryStore.realConcurrency.spec.ts:483-488 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
The "deleted after the early disk read" test overrides a method that setAutoTitleIfAbsent never calls.
The test replaces readTaskFile on storeA. setAutoTitleIfAbsent reads the disk only through readTaskFileForAutoTitle (Lines 1038 and 1069 of TaskHistoryStore.ts). That method calls readFileWithMissingRetry directly.
The override is therefore dead. The test runs the same path as "does not recreate a task deleted by another host". It never simulates a stale early read that finds the record before the delete. The merge-callback guard is the safeguard that this test exists to cover, and the test does not exercise it.
Override readTaskFileForAutoTitle so its first call returns the stale record as found.
🐛 Proposed fix
- const readTaskFile: unknown = Reflect.get(storeA, "readTaskFile")- if (!stale || typeof readTaskFile !== "function") throw new Error("test setup failed")- const original = readTaskFile.bind(storeA) as (id: string) => Promise<HistoryItem | null>- let reads = 0- Reflect.set(storeA, "readTaskFile", async (id: string) => (reads++ === 0 ? stale : original(id)))+ const readForAutoTitle: unknown = Reflect.get(storeA, "readTaskFileForAutoTitle")+ if (!stale || typeof readForAutoTitle !== "function") throw new Error("test setup failed")+ const original = readForAutoTitle.bind(storeA) as (id: string) => Promise<unknown>+ let reads = 0+ Reflect.set(storeA, "readTaskFileForAutoTitle", async (id: string) =>+ reads++ === 0 ? { kind: "found", item: stale } : original(id),+ )
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around lines 483 - 488:
Update the “deleted after the early disk read” test to override
readTaskFileForAutoTitle, the method used by setAutoTitleIfAbsent, rather than
readTaskFile. Make its first call return the stale record in the method’s
expected “found” result shape, then delegate subsequent calls to the original
method so the test exercises the merge-callback guard without reimplementing
production logic.
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minimal, and validate.
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Review comments at @src/core/task-title/TaskTitleService.ts:
- Line 188: Update TaskTitleService.run so failures from deps.resolveProfile and
deps.isProfileAllowed do not bypass fallback-title recording: guard both calls,
treat a resolveProfile rejection as undefined and use the task profile, and
continue to record the fallback title when profile resolution or eligibility
checking fails.
---
Outside diff comments:
Review comments at
@src/core/task-persistence/__tests__/TaskHistoryStore.realConcurrency.spec.ts:
- Around line 483-488: Update the “deleted after the early disk read” test to
override readTaskFileForAutoTitle, the method used by setAutoTitleIfAbsent,
rather than readTaskFile. Make its first call return the stale record in the
method’s expected “found” result shape, then delegate subsequent calls to the
original method so the test exercises the merge-callback guard without
reimplementing production logic.
---
Failed pre-merge checks:
- Linked Issues check:
Change `fallbackTitle` to truncate the original message at its first 42
characters without normalizing its whitespace first. Update the fallback tests
to verify that the result preserves the original message prefix.
- Regression Evidence:
Escape titles when no display-title positions match. Add a regression test with
an HTML-containing title and a query that matches only the original prompt;
verify that the rendered title is escaped.
- Security Boundaries:
Escape title text when there are no highlight positions, or render the title as
text instead of HTML. Add a test using the real highlight function and a
prompt-only search with an HTML-bearing title.
- Lifecycle Resource Cleanup:
Recheck cancellation after the policy lookup. Ensure title requests propagate
cancellation and the request timeout to every supported provider, so
cancellation releases the underlying request and handler. Add regression tests
for cancellation during policy lookup and for providers that ignore the signal.
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For persisted settings, verify the complete schema/storage/runtime/webview round trip, shared default semantics, and focused true plus false/unset tests.
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File: AGENTS.md:0-0
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# AGENTS.md
## Test Placement Guidance
- Use `it.each` for repeated cases and share the setup in a helper. Do not copy a test body per input.
Learnt from: CR
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File: webview-ui/AGENTS.md:0-0
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# AGENTS.md
## Unit & State Tests (Vitest + JSDOM)
- For `SettingsView`, preserve the cached-state pattern from the repo root guidance: inputs should operate on local `cachedState` until the user saves, and tests should distinguish automatic initialization from real user edits.
Learnt from: CR
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File: webview-ui/AGENTS.md:0-0
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# AGENTS.md
## Visual Tests (Playwright Story Gallery)
### Authoring rules
- Keep behavioral assertions in Vitest. A `*.visual.tsx` test should establish a deterministic state and make a focused screenshot assertion.
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Learning: Applies to webview-ui/** : Source excerpt:
# AGENTS.md
## Unit & State Tests (Vitest + JSDOM)
- When a regression can be proven with a component or webview integration test, keep it in `webview-ui`. Do not promote it to e2e just because the UI is hosted inside VS Code.
[warning] 513-513: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.writeFile(taskFile(storagePath), "{ torn")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
(detect-non-literal-fs-filename-typescript)
[warning] 521-521: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.writeFile(taskFile(storagePath), other)
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
(detect-non-literal-fs-filename-typescript)
[warning] 530-530: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.readFile(taskFile(storagePath), "utf8")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
(detect-non-literal-fs-filename-typescript)
[warning] 535-535: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.readFile(taskFile(storagePath), "utf8")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
highlightFzfMatch returned the raw text when there were no match positions.
Since the search also covers the original prompt, a prompt-only match passed
an unescaped title to dangerouslySetInnerHTML.
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Failed pre-merge checks:
- Regression Evidence:
Add service tests for rejected profile resolution and cancellation during a
pending policy check. Handle profile-resolution failure with the appropriate
fallback, and recheck cancellation before starting generation.
- Persistence Integrity:
Make history updates apply only fields the caller intended to change, or
preserve the snapshot's original baseline when computing the delta. Add a
two-store test that saves a stale snapshot after an auto-title write and
verifies that the peer's mode change remains.
- Lifecycle Resource Cleanup:
Recheck cancellation after the policy lookup and before starting the completion.
Ensure supported title providers stop underlying requests and release handlers
on cancellation or timeout, or prevent unsupported providers from starting such
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Check persistence and lifecycle invariants: awaited atomic writes, rollback or explicit partial-failure behavior, cross-window state consistency, stale listeners/watchers, cancellation, idempotency, and safe restart/resume without lost or d...
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setAutoTitleIfAbsent replaced the cached record with the full disk record.
A later stale save from this host then diffed against the peer's fields and
wrote its old values back. Copy only autoTitle into the cache and return the
disk record for display.
…or cancel during them
A rejected profile lookup or policy check skipped the fallback title, and a
cancel while the policy check was pending still started the request.
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- Regression Evidence:
Add a focused real-store test that pauses after the initial auto-title read,
deletes the task from another store, and verifies that the locked write does not
recreate it. Also cover a competing auto-title written during that interval.
- Lifecycle Resource Cleanup:
Ensure cancellation and timeout stop underlying title requests and release
handlers, or prevent unsupported providers from starting them. Add regression
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Closes: #2333
Description
This PR implements automatic task title generation for new root tasks. When a task starts, the system generates a short, user-friendly title (5–10 words in the user's language) in the background without blocking task execution or showing errors in chat.
Key Implementation Details
autoTitlefield toHistoryItem. Display priority: manual title > auto title > original prompt. This separation ensures manual titles always win structurally.setAutoTitleIfAbsentmethod inTaskHistoryStorethat validates disk state under lock before recording. This prevents deleted tasks from reappearing in multi-host scenarios.TaskTitleServicewith concurrent queue (max 2 parallel requests, per-task deduplication). Trigger on first API call (totalTokensIn > 0), not at task creation, to avoid race conditions with the first agent request.TASK_TITLEsupport prompt, clean output (remove think tags, prefixes, extra punctuation), and emit 42-character fallback if LLM fails or times out.taskTitleGenerationEnabled(default: true) andtaskTitleApiConfigId(optional, falls back to task profile).Design Trade-Offs
settleOnAbortwraps the promise so fallback is recorded even if provider ignores abort signal.Multi-Host Safety
setAutoTitleIfAbsentvalidates disk state under lock: if record is missing, invalid, or already hasautoTitle, it returns false without updating. This prevents a deleted task from reappearing when a late response arrives from another host.Webview Changes
useTaskSearchselector to include both display title and original prompt, so users can still search by prompt text.TaskTitleEditorto treat auto title as a starting value; if user saves the same text, title clears (no change = no manual title).ExtensionStateContextto handle latetaskHistoryItemUpdatedarrival beforecurrentTaskItem.Cost & Provider Abort
settleOnAbort); 9 ignore both (HTTP request continues up toapiRequestTimeout, late results are discarded). Follow-up PRs address per-provider optimizations (following feat(api): abort signal support for requesty (completePrompt + shared helpers) #1537 pattern).Settings & Localization
TASK_TITLE, with toggle and API profile picker (parallel toENHANCEtab).Test Procedure
Unit & Integration Tests
Pure function layer (
generateTaskTitle.spec.ts):Service layer (
TaskTitleService.spec.ts):totalTokensIn = 0events ignored.Store layer (
TaskHistoryStore.realConcurrency.spec.ts):setAutoTitleIfAbsent: success, already set, disk missing (cache cleared, no record), id mismatch, empty value rejected.Concurrency model (
scripts/check-task-store-concurrency.ts):auto-title-aaction verifies: old save/rename does not reverttitle,autoTitledoes not disappear, deleted record does not reappear.Provider (
ClineProvider.taskHistory.spec.ts,ClineProvider.spec.ts):updateTaskHistorypreservesautoTitle.getStateToPostToWebviewreturns both settings (true/false/unset cases).Webview (component specs):
cachedState+ Save flow.Visual (
PromptsSettings.visual.tsx):TASK_TITLEtab toggle and profile picker (dark, light, high-contrast themes).Test Commands
Manual Smoke Test
Pre-Submission Checklist
generateTaskTitle.spec.ts: cleaning and fallback cases.TaskTitleService.spec.ts: service behavior and concurrency.TaskHistoryStore.realConcurrency.spec.ts: store state under concurrent load.scripts/check-task-store-concurrency.ts.TASK_TITLEtab in PromptsSettings.PromptsSettings.visual.tsxfor TASK_TITLE tab (toggle, profile picker, dark/light/high-contrast).src/test-utils/patterns where appropriate.Visual Snapshots
Snapshot added:
webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/PromptsSettings.visual.tsxDocumentation Updates
Additional Notes
Cost and Provider Behavior
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