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Feature proposal and scope discussion: Ideas #10828.

Selecting a project on a machine without a checkout currently leads to an empty settings screen. Users must recreate the checkout and project configuration manually.

Add a copy flow to web and desktop project settings. Users can clone the origin repository’s default branch using the destination’s Git credentials, or make a one-time copy of the current files, Git history and uncommitted work. Both options carry project settings and actions across. The destination picker reuses the existing filesystem browser controls and browses the selected machine.

The action is available when a connected, compatible machine is missing a checkout in the project group. Machines already represented in the group are excluded from the destination list. Existing folders are never overwritten, the source stays intact, and subsequent changes do not sync automatically. Conversations and provider credentials stay on the source. Ignored files are optional and included by default.

Transfers use authenticated, bounded chunks through the client. The server uses the tar package for snapshots; users do not need a system tar executable. Copies are limited to 10 GB.

Validation

  • 20 focused tests passed for snapshot preservation, rejected destinations and links, transfer coordination and cleanup, destination filtering, and RPC authorization.
  • Formatting and scoped lint passed, with one existing memo-dependency warning in the project settings panel.
  • Web, server, contracts, and shared client runtime typechecks passed after updating to upstream main (5e6cc2b8). Desktop and mobile typechecks passed before that update.
  • Scoped unused-file/dependency checks and the web production build passed before the upstream update.
  • Exercised web and desktop copying, fresh checkout, destination browsing, and macOS-to-Linux transfer through an SSH tunnel.

Windows and T3 Connect relay execution remain unverified. Native mobile has no copy UI in this change. Desktop development runs, but the desktop packaging/declaration build still reports errors outside the changed files; full CI has not run.

Before and after

Before and after: missing checkout settings

Copy dialog and destination folder browser

Copy dialog

Destination folder browser

Watch the interaction video (23 seconds, MP4)

The evidence uses disposable generic project directories. The before image renders the base project-settings component against the same test environment; the after image renders this branch.

The interaction recording shows the missing-checkout entry point, checkout mode selection, browsing and selecting a destination parent folder, the ignored-files option, and a completed one-time copy.

Implemented with GPT-6 in Codex.

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This change adds project transfer contracts, server-side snapshot handling, client-side chunk streaming, and project settings controls for copying projects between connected environments.

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Project transfer

Layer / File(s) Summary
Transfer contracts and RPC
packages/contracts/src/projectTransfer.ts, packages/contracts/src/rpc.ts, packages/contracts/src/environment.ts
Defines transfer operations, results, errors, size limits, RPC wiring, and the optional environment capability.
Snapshot files and archive validation
apps/server/src/project/ProjectTransferFiles.ts, apps/server/src/project/ProjectTransferFiles.test.ts
Creates snapshots, streams bounded chunks, reserves destinations, validates archive contents, and restores project files.
Server transfer lifecycle
apps/server/src/project/ProjectTransfer.ts, apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/auth/RpcAuthorization.ts, apps/server/src/environment/ServerEnvironment.ts, apps/server/package.json
Prepares source projects, transfers snapshot data, registers destination projects, applies settings, and exposes the authorized WebSocket method.
Client transfer orchestration
packages/client-runtime/src/state/projectTransfer.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/projectCommands.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/projectTransfer.test.ts
Streams fixed-size chunks between environments, reports progress, handles cancellation, validates responses, and releases transfer endpoints.
Settings transfer interface
apps/web/src/components/settings/ProjectTransferDialog.tsx, apps/web/src/components/DirectoryPicker.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/projectTransferTargets.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/ProjectSettingsPanel.tsx, docs/user/project-settings.md
Adds transfer controls, destination filtering, directory browsing, settings integration, tests, and user documentation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90+ minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8676e

No concrete merge-blocking risk is established.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ProjectTransferDialog
  participant ClientRuntime
  participant SourceEnvironment
  participant DestinationEnvironment
  User->>ProjectTransferDialog: Select source, destination, path, and mode
  ProjectTransferDialog->>ClientRuntime: Start project transfer
  ClientRuntime->>SourceEnvironment: Prepare snapshot
  ClientRuntime->>DestinationEnvironment: Begin transfer
  loop Snapshot chunks
    ClientRuntime->>SourceEnvironment: Read chunk
    ClientRuntime->>DestinationEnvironment: Write chunk
  end
  ClientRuntime->>DestinationEnvironment: Finish transfer
  DestinationEnvironment-->>ClientRuntime: Project ID and workspace path
  ClientRuntime-->>ProjectTransferDialog: Report result
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main change: copying project checkouts between machines.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the change, motivation, UI behavior, transfer details, validation, screenshots, video, and known verification limits. It does not use the template headings or checklist format…
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apps/web/src/components/settings/ProjectTransferDialog.tsx (1)

55-61: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Reuse the shared capability predicate.

supported repeats the connected-plus-projectTransfer test that projectTransferTargets already applies at Line 62. If either copy changes, canCopy and ready disagree with the destination list. Export the predicate from projectTransferTargets.ts and call it here.

♻️ Proposed extraction

In apps/web/src/components/settings/projectTransferTargets.ts:

+/** A machine that is connected and can take part in a project transfer. */
+export function supportsProjectTransfer(environment: TransferEnvironment | undefined): boolean {
+  return (
+    environment?.connection.phase === "connected" &&
+    environment.serverConfig?.environment.capabilities.projectTransfer === true
+  );
+}
+
 export function projectTransferTargets<T extends TransferEnvironment>(
   environments: readonly T[],
   checkouts: readonly { environmentId: EnvironmentId }[],
 ): T[] {
   const occupied = new Set(checkouts.map((checkout) => checkout.environmentId));
   return environments.filter(
     (environment) =>
-      !occupied.has(environment.environmentId) &&
-      environment.connection.phase === "connected" &&
-      environment.serverConfig?.environment.capabilities.projectTransfer === true,
+      !occupied.has(environment.environmentId) && supportsProjectTransfer(environment),
   );
 }

In this file:

-  const supported = (id: EnvironmentId) => {
-    const environment = environments.find((item) => item.environmentId === id);
-    return (
-      environment?.connection.phase === "connected" &&
-      environment.serverConfig?.environment.capabilities.projectTransfer === true
-    );
-  };
+  const supported = (id: EnvironmentId) =>
+    supportsProjectTransfer(environments.find((item) => item.environmentId === id));
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In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/ProjectTransferDialog.tsx` around lines 55 -
61, Extract and export the shared connected-and-projectTransfer capability
predicate from projectTransferTargets.ts, then replace the local supported
predicate in ProjectTransferDialog with that predicate so canCopy/ready use the
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/server/src/project/ProjectTransferFiles.ts`:
- Line 140: The unsafe or duplicate path validation message uses the internal
import alias “NodePath”; update the error text assigned to problem to say “path”
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In `@apps/web/src/components/settings/ProjectTransferDialog.tsx`:
- Around line 55-61: Extract and export the shared connected-and-projectTransfer
capability predicate from projectTransferTargets.ts, then replace the local
supported predicate in ProjectTransferDialog with that predicate so
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  • apps/web/src/components/settings/projectTransferTargets.ts
  • docs/user/project-settings.md
  • packages/client-runtime/src/state/projectCommands.ts
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  • packages/client-runtime/src/state/projectTransfer.ts
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}
if (!safe(name) || entries.has(name))
problem = "The snapshot contains an unsafe or duplicate NodePath.";

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the leaked identifier in the error message.

The message contains NodePath, which is the import alias for node:path. The user sees "unsafe or duplicate NodePath." Use "path".

✏️ Proposed fix
-          problem = "The snapshot contains an unsafe or duplicate NodePath.";
+          problem = "The snapshot contains an unsafe or duplicate path.";
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problem = "The snapshot contains an unsafe or duplicate NodePath.";
problem = "The snapshot contains an unsafe or duplicate path.";
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In `@apps/server/src/project/ProjectTransferFiles.ts` at line 140, The unsafe or
duplicate path validation message uses the internal import alias “NodePath”;
update the error text assigned to problem to say “path” instead, without
changing the surrounding validation logic.

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