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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 6 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds a configurable keep-alive setting, persistence, and localized UI. Implements reusable Claude CLI sessions with stable fingerprints, reservations, mutable tool permissions, idle cleanup, runtime integration, and tests. ChangesClaude session persistence
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ConversationTurn
participant claudeRuntimeProvider
participant HeldClaudeSession
participant ClaudeCLI
ConversationTurn->>claudeRuntimeProvider: submit prompt and session settings
claudeRuntimeProvider->>HeldClaudeSession: reserve compatible session
HeldClaudeSession->>ClaudeCLI: send prompt through promptStream
ClaudeCLI-->>HeldClaudeSession: return messages and result
HeldClaudeSession-->>claudeRuntimeProvider: forward turn messages
claudeRuntimeProvider-->>ConversationTurn: complete turn
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The opt-in setting keeps Claude processes alive across conversation turns, improving follow-up latency but changing process lifecycle and event delivery. At the current head, replacement cleanup can lose track of the active process, while timeout/abort cleanup and background completion delivery remain at risk; these issues can leave processes running or prevent users from receiving completion updates, so the PR needs fixes or explicit owner acceptance before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@server/modules/providers/list/claude/claude-runtime.provider.js`:
- Line 772: Update the MCP fingerprint in the configuration used near the mcp
field so it hashes the complete effective mcpServers configuration, including
each server’s command, URL, arguments, and environment, rather than only sorted
server names. Use a stable serialization or digest so equivalent configurations
produce the same value and any configuration change invalidates reuse of the
existing process.
- Around line 780-786: Update the reusable-session path around reusable.matches
and applyTurn so a changed tool policy, including skipPermissions, rebuilds the
held session or refreshes canUseTool before runTurn; do not reuse a callback
that captures stale first-turn sdkOptions. Add a regression test covering an
unlisted non-interactive tool after skipPermissions is disabled.
In `@src/components/settings/hooks/useSettingsController.ts`:
- Line 258: Update the saveSettings dependency list to include
claudePermissions.keepSessionAlive, ensuring the auto-save effect reruns when
this checkbox changes and persists the new value.
In `@src/i18n/locales/es/settings.json`:
- Around line 442-444: Translate both keepSessionAlive strings in
src/i18n/locales/es/settings.json lines 442-444 into Spanish, and translate both
corresponding strings in src/i18n/locales/zh-CN/settings.json lines 442-444 into
Simplified Chinese; preserve the existing JSON structure and meaning.
Apply the same fix in `@src/i18n/locales/fr/settings.json` around lines 417 - 418:
The same new setting strings remain untranslated.
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… process Three findings from the review on siteboon#1233, all of them real. The MCP fingerprint compared server names only. A server that keeps its name but changes command, url, arguments or environment is a different server, and the running process still had the old one. The whole configuration is compared now, serialized with the keys in a fixed order so an equal configuration always gives an equal string. The tool policy was not compared at all. `canUseTool` reads `allowedTools` and `disallowedTools` off the options object it was built with, so a held process would have gone on judging tools by the policy of its first turn. It is part of the fingerprint now: change it, and the next turn gets its own process. Worse, the permission mode had the same problem while being changed live. `setPermissionMode` tells the SDK, but the callback reads `sdkOptions.permissionMode` - so turning "skip permissions" back off would have left it approving everything. The mode is written into the held options object as well, and a test covers exactly that: sabotaging the write turns it red. And the switch was never saved: `keepSessionAlive` was missing from `saveSettings`' dependency list, so the auto-save effect did not re-run when the checkbox changed. The setting's two strings are translated into all eleven locales now instead of standing in as English. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… process Three findings from the review on siteboon#1233, all of them real. The MCP fingerprint compared server names only. A server that keeps its name but changes command, url, arguments or environment is a different server, and the running process still had the old one. The whole configuration is compared now, serialized with the keys in a fixed order so an equal configuration always gives an equal string. The tool policy was not compared at all. `canUseTool` reads `allowedTools` and `disallowedTools` off the options object it was built with, so a held process would have gone on judging tools by the policy of its first turn. It is part of the fingerprint now: change it, and the next turn gets its own process. Worse, the permission mode had the same problem while being changed live. `setPermissionMode` tells the SDK, but the callback reads `sdkOptions.permissionMode` - so turning "skip permissions" back off would have left it approving everything. The mode is written into the held options object as well, and a test covers exactly that: sabotaging the write turns it red. And the switch was never saved: `keepSessionAlive` was missing from `saveSettings`' dependency list, so the auto-save effect did not re-run when the checkbox changed. The setting's two strings are translated into all eleven locales now instead of standing in as English. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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803-805: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winUse the held-session closer for timeout and abort cleanup.
The held-session branch assigns a no-op to
releasePromptStream. The background timeout,finally, and the session-ID re-registration then use that no-op instead of theheldSession.close()callback installed during initial registration. A background wait can therefore exceedBG_WAIT_CEILING_MS, and an abort after the first SDK message can leave the held process open.Keep the process alive after a successful turn, but call
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In `@server/modules/providers/list/claude/claude-runtime.provider.js`:
- Around line 777-780: Update mapCliOptionsToSDK and the tools fingerprint used
by the runtime so automatic plan-mode entries do not prevent reuse when
permission mode changes from default to plan; retain the immutable
user-specified tool policy while updating held SDK options for applyTurn. Add a
regression test covering the default-to-plan transition, unless the
implementation intentionally restarts the process and documents that behavior.
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In `@server/modules/providers/list/claude/claude-runtime.provider.js`:
- Around line 803-805: Update the held-session branch around heldPrompt.release
so releasePromptStream uses the existing heldSession.close callback instead of a
no-op. Preserve the session through a successful turn, while ensuring timeout,
finally, abort, failure cleanup, and session-ID re-registration invoke
heldSession.close().
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219-219: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftKeep a message handler active after a background-work result.
When a turn starts background work,
server/modules/providers/list/claude/claude-runtime.provider.jskeeps the process open for later SDK messages.runTurn()settles on the firstresultand clearsthis.turn. This line then drops the background-work messages, including the follow-upresult, beforehandleTurnMessagecan notify the client.Keep a persistent handler until the background-work lifecycle ends, or let
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225-225: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRemove only the session that is still registered.
holdSession()replaces and closes an incompatible session under the same key. When the old query finishes, this unconditional deletion removes the replacement fromheldSessions. The next turn then starts another process while the replacement remains alive until its idle timer fires.Delete the entry only when
heldSessions.get(this.sessionKey) === this. Apply the same identity check to all registry-removal paths.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@server/modules/providers/list/claude/claude-runtime.provider.js`:
- Line 799: Update queryClaudeSDK so the held session is reserved before
applyTurn() applies live options when keepSessionAlive is enabled. Ensure
HeldClaudeSession.runTurn() or an equivalent reservation/queue mechanism claims
the turn first, causing concurrent requests to wait or fail before mutating
shared sdkOptions or process settings.
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In `@server/modules/providers/list/claude/claude-held-session.js`:
- Line 219: The message handler in the held-session turn flow must remain active
after an initial background-work result, so later SDK messages and the follow-up
result reach handleTurnMessage. Update runTurn and the this.turn lifecycle
coordination with claude-runtime.provider.js, or move settlement control into
handleTurnMessage, ensuring the held turn is not cleared until background work
completes and the client is notified.
- Line 225: Guard registry removals in the Claude held-session lifecycle,
including the path containing heldSessions.delete(this.sessionKey), so deletion
occurs only when heldSessions.get(this.sessionKey) === this. Apply the same
identity check to every removal path, preserving replacement sessions registered
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Every turn started its own `query()`: a new CLI process that rebuilt the
session from disk through `resume`. Robust - each turn begins clean, and a
server restart costs nothing because the state is in the session file - but
it pays the startup and the rebuild again for every message.
There is now a switch in Settings → Agents → Permissions. With it on, the
process from the first turn stays and the next message goes into the same
stdin stream, which is what the SDK's streaming input is for.
Measured against two turns of one conversation, both orders, so a warm
cache cannot explain it:
Turn 1 Turn 2
per message 5401 / 5425 ms 4674 / 4390 ms
held 3728 / 4165 ms 1092 / 1224 ms
About 3.3 seconds off every follow-up message.
Off by default, because holding a process has its price: one per open
conversation, a broken state is carried along instead of cleared by the
next turn, and nothing survives a server restart anyway.
A held process only serves a turn it was actually started for - same
working directory, MCP servers, effort and writer. Model and permission
mode are the exception: those the SDK sets on the live process
(`setModel`, `setPermissionMode`), so switching them costs no restart.
Anything else, and the turn gets a fresh process as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… process Three findings from the review on siteboon#1233, all of them real. The MCP fingerprint compared server names only. A server that keeps its name but changes command, url, arguments or environment is a different server, and the running process still had the old one. The whole configuration is compared now, serialized with the keys in a fixed order so an equal configuration always gives an equal string. The tool policy was not compared at all. `canUseTool` reads `allowedTools` and `disallowedTools` off the options object it was built with, so a held process would have gone on judging tools by the policy of its first turn. It is part of the fingerprint now: change it, and the next turn gets its own process. Worse, the permission mode had the same problem while being changed live. `setPermissionMode` tells the SDK, but the callback reads `sdkOptions.permissionMode` - so turning "skip permissions" back off would have left it approving everything. The mode is written into the held options object as well, and a test covers exactly that: sabotaging the write turns it red. And the switch was never saved: `keepSessionAlive` was missing from `saveSettings`' dependency list, so the auto-save effect did not re-run when the checkbox changed. The setting's two strings are translated into all eleven locales now instead of standing in as English. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The tool policy joined the fingerprint so a changed one could not reach a callback built around the old one. But plan mode adds read-only tools of its own on top of that policy, so stepping into a plan changed the fingerprint and cost a fresh process - for a mode the SDK switches live. Only the policy the user set is compared now. The entries the mode adds move to the running process instead, into the options `canUseTool` reads at call time; without that the reuse would be worse than the restart, asking about every Read the plan makes. Whatever the callback remembered mid-conversation is in neither list and is carried over. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`applyTurn` sets the model and the permission mode on the live process and writes the tool list into the options the running turn's callbacks read from. It ran before `runTurn` looked at `busy`, so a second message arriving while the first was still being answered changed all of that and only then failed as busy - and the running turn carried on under the second one's model and permissions. The claim comes first now, through `reserve()`. A refused turn stops before touching anything, and it stops there deliberately rather than falling through to a second process: `holdSession` would close the one that is mid-turn. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The problem
Every turn starts its own
query(): a new CLI process that rebuilds the sessionfrom disk through
resume. That is robust — each turn begins in a clean process,and a server restart costs nothing because the state lives in the session file —
but it pays the startup and the rebuild again for every single message.
claude-runtime.provider.jssays so plainly:What this adds
A switch in Settings → Agents → Permissions: Keep the process alive for the
whole conversation. With it on, the process from the first turn stays and the
next message goes into the same stdin stream — which is what the SDK's streaming
input is for.
query()takes an async iterable as its prompt, and that iterablemay keep yielding.
Measured
Two turns of one conversation, both orders, so a warm prompt cache cannot explain
the difference:
About 3.3 seconds off every follow-up message, a factor of 3.6.
Off by default
Holding a process has a price, and each of these is a reason someone might not
want it:
fresh process;
What still forces a new process
A held process serves a turn only if it was started for it: same working
directory, MCP servers, effort and writer. Anything else and the turn gets a
fresh process exactly as before.
Model and permission mode are the exception — the SDK sets those on the live
process (
setModel,setPermissionMode), so switching them costs no restart.Effort has no live setter, so a change there does start a new one.
The writer is part of that comparison on purpose: the options built for the first
turn (
canUseTool, the hooks) close over that turn's writer, and rather thanreach through a stale socket, a turn arriving on a different one gets its own
process.
Notes
for awaitloop intohandleTurnMessageso both paths share it — no behaviour change there; theextracted body contains no
await,return,continueorbreak.unref'd soit can never keep the server process alive on its own.
claude-held-session.test.tscover two turns on one process, thecompatibility comparison, a closed session refusing further turns, and the model
only being pushed when it changed. Verified by sabotage: dropping the writer
comparison turns one of them red.
npm testis 305 passing / 0 failing,npm run typecheckclean,eslintcleanon the touched paths.
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