fix(review): use the selected thread's repository

[tris203]

What Changed

Review previews and expanded file contents use the selected thread's repository. Remove the launch-directory restriction and the UI fallback that retried against the server's directory.

Why

When T3's dev server runs inside one worktree, reviewing another worktree was rejected as outside the configured workspace root. The fallback could then show changes from the worktree running T3 instead. The server's launch directory is a default workspace, not the boundary for other projects and worktrees.

Validation

The regression test covers switching between two projects and an external worktree, reading the corresponding file contents, and rejecting file paths that escape the selected repository.

• Installed dependencies with pnpm i.
• pnpm exec vp test run apps/server/src/review/ReviewService.test.ts: passed.
• pnpm --filter t3 --filter @t3tools/web run typecheck: passed.
• Targeted lint and formatting checks on all three changed files: passed; lint reported two warnings in unchanged DiffPanel code (refs during render and an extra effect dependency).
• CI checks and all test shards passed on f4c9ebf27c.

Local checks ran on Node 24.3.0, which produces an engine warning against the repository's required ^24.13.1. No visual layout changes.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Diff previews and file contents now use the currently selected repository or worktree.
  • Switching between projects and worktrees displays the corresponding changes and files.
  • Empty non-repository directories and invalid path traversal are handled with clear errors.
  • Removed fallback behavior that could display results from a different workspace.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at fbb31cc

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a narrowly scoped review bug fix that makes diff previews and file contents use the selected thread’s repository, including external worktrees, while removing the incorrect launch-directory fallback. Regression coverage exercises repository switching and path traversal protection, with no schema, default, deployment, or static-analysis changes.

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[tris203]

Checked the approvability concern against the RPC and filesystem code. Removing this particular launch-directory restriction is intentional: running the dev server in worktree A must not prevent reviewing a thread in worktree B or another project. The restriction covered ServerConfig.cwd and the default worktrees directory, not the set of projects owned by the environment.

Both review RPCs still require review:write (apps/server/src/auth/RpcAuthorization.ts:122-123). Existing VCS operations also accept the requested repository directory, and standard client permissions are environment-scoped (packages/contracts/src/auth.ts). Working-tree file expansion still checks both the resolved path and real path against the selected repository root, including symlink escapes (apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts:2409-2450). The regression test also checks traversal rejection.

This does broaden repository selection for a token with review:write; it does not retain launch-directory confinement. That confinement is the bug addressed here, so I am retaining the implementation rather than reintroducing it. A project-scoped authorization model would be a separate change across repository operations.

CI checks and all test shards passed on f4c9ebf27ced9bddc86d7efb84dd82834c633888.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

ReviewService now resolves VCS data directly from the requested cwd. Its tests use real Git repositories and worktrees. DiffPanel removes the workspace-root fallback query and uses the active cwd.

Changes

Diff resolution flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Direct VCS resolution apps/server/src/review/ReviewService.ts	ReviewService removes workspace-boundary dependencies and validation. Diff preview and file-content requests detect repositories directly from input.cwd.
Real Git integration coverage apps/server/src/review/ReviewService.test.ts	The tests use real Git repositories and worktrees. They verify previews, file contents, empty-directory behavior, project switching, and traversal rejection.
Active cwd preview query apps/web/src/components/DiffPanel.tsx	DiffPanel uses one branch diff preview query against activeCwd and removes the retry against serverConfig.cwd.

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DiffPanel
  participant ReviewService
  participant GitRepository
  DiffPanel->>ReviewService: request branch preview with activeCwd
  ReviewService->>GitRepository: detect repository from activeCwd
  GitRepository-->>ReviewService: return diff preview
  ReviewService-->>DiffPanel: return preview

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The change intentionally uses the selected repository for previews and file contents, including external worktrees. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains in the supplied evidence.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary change: review operations now use the selected thread's repository.
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apps/server/src/review/ReviewService.test.ts (1)

87-88: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Make the traversal assertion fail loudly on the wrong error tag.

Line 87 asserts the tag. Line 88 then re-checks the same tag before asserting detail. If the tag ever changes, line 87 reports it, so the guard on line 88 only exists to satisfy the type narrowing. Use a narrowing helper or assert that keeps both checks unconditional, so a future refactor cannot silently skip the detail assertion.

♻️ Proposed adjustment

-        assert.strictEqual(escaped._tag, "GitCommandError");
-        if (escaped._tag === "GitCommandError") assert.include(escaped.detail, "outside");
+        assert.strictEqual(escaped._tag, "GitCommandError");
+        assert.include((escaped as { readonly detail: string }).detail, "outside");

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In `@apps/server/src/review/ReviewService.test.ts` around lines 87 - 88, Update
the traversal test around escaped._tag so the GitCommandError tag assertion also
narrows the type for the subsequent detail check; keep the detail assertion
unconditional rather than guarding it with a repeated tag condition.

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In `@apps/server/src/review/ReviewService.test.ts`:
- Around line 87-88: Update the traversal test around escaped._tag so the
GitCommandError tag assertion also narrows the type for the subsequent detail
check; keep the detail assertion unconditional rather than guarding it with a
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[tris203]

Reviewed CodeRabbit's test-assertion nitpick. The existing assert.strictEqual(escaped._tag, "GitCommandError") already throws if the tag is wrong, so the following detail assertion cannot silently be skipped in a passing test. The guard provides TypeScript narrowing without the proposed structural cast. Keeping the existing assertions; the regression test passed locally and in CI.

The docstring-coverage warning is also not actionable for this change: the repository's documentation guidance prefers types, tests, and concise comments over restating implementation. ReviewService already includes the relevant explanation of why the server launch directory is not a filesystem boundary.

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[tris203]

Note

Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of @tris203

Closing as superseded by #17724, which merged the same fix with a narrower approach: it removes the DiffPanel fallback that retried at the server cwd, and keeps the review workspace guard while extending it to accept registered project roots.

That covers what this PR set out to fix, so removing the guard outright is no longer needed.