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Summary

  • reduce cold-start work by coordinating cloud lifecycle and deferring AI/provider and local-data loading
  • bound in-memory caches and add disk-backed pull request caching
  • streamline Welcome dashboard refreshes and repository window lifecycle/screen fitting
  • expand regression coverage for lifecycle, persistence, cache, pull request, and welcome flows

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  • git diff --check origin/main...HEAD
  • App build/test not run in this PR creation step

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  • New Features

    • Added a setting to choose whether repository windows fill the available screen area; new windows now use a larger default size.
    • The Welcome screen refreshes repository activity and attention information more efficiently, showing cached results while updates load.
    • Pull request results persist between sessions and can be cleared from Advanced Settings.
    • The Welcome window returns after the last repository window closes.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented outdated or cancelled background requests from overwriting current results.
    • Improved cleanup of cached data and pending AI chat work when accounts or windows change.
    • Limited memory used by repository branch and history caches.
    • AI provider availability now refreshes as needed, helping avoid unnecessary checks.

Read API keys on demand and share availability tasks per provider.
Invalidate availability instead of refreshing all providers from Welcome.
Refresh visible AI surfaces by revision and skip managed usage unless requested.
Introduce PullRequestDiskCache actor for SQLite-backed PR list, detail, and changes caching off the main thread.
Drop in-memory dictionary caches from PullRequestController and release screen data on exit.
Invalidate and clear disk cache on account removal, logout, and Clear Cache; guard stale responses with load IDs and epochs.
Add access-ordered BoundedMemoryCache for branch list and history snapshots. Limit undo stacks to 50 entries and drop unreferenced file snapshots. Cancel tasks and free trees on window close.
Track app-wide repository window count and reopen Welcome when the last window closes.
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#	macgit/Views/History/RevisionBrowserView.swift
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  • macgit/Services/BranchListCache.swift
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The changes revise local-data access, Welcome and AI refresh behavior, pull-request caching, cloud account synchronization, and cache and window lifecycles. They also add tests for these flows and document implementation status and outstanding checks.

Changes

Cold-start and memory lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
On-demand local storage
macgit/Services/LocalData*, macgit/Services/LocalSQLiteDatabase.swift, macgit/Services/LocalGitProviderAccountStore.swift, macgit/App/*SyncController.swift, macgit/App/RepositoryBookmarkController.swift, macgit/Services/RepoSettingsStore.swift, macgit/Services/RepositoryVisibilityCache.swift, macgitTests/LocalData*Tests.swift, macgitTests/*Bookmark*Tests.swift, macgitTests/*Sync*Tests.swift, macgitTests/RepositoryVisibilityControllerTests.swift
Store preparation keeps three collections resident. Async reads and scoped transactions access other collections. Store consumers and tests use the new APIs.
Welcome dashboard and AI availability
macgit/ViewModels/WelcomeDashboardModel.swift, macgit/Views/MainWindow/WelcomeView.swift, macgit/App/AIProviderController.swift, macgit/Views/Common/*AI*, macgit/Views/FileStatus/*, macgit/Views/MainWindow/RepositoryAIChatView.swift, macgitTests/WelcomeDashboardRefreshTests.swift, macgitTests/AIProviderAvailabilityTests.swift
Welcome refreshes publish available cached activity, apply repository-scoped invalidation, and refresh activity and attention concurrently. AI availability refreshes are deferred, can target selected providers, and discard stale results.
Pull-request disk cache
macgit/Services/PullRequestDiskCache.swift, macgit/App/PullRequestController.swift, macgit/App/GitProviderAccountController.swift, macgit/Models/PullRequest*.swift, macgit/Views/PullRequests/PullRequestListView.swift, macgit/Views/Common/AdvancedSettingsView.swift, macgitTests/PullRequest*Tests.swift
Pull-request list, detail, and changed-file results use SQLite caching with request-specific keys, expiry, and size limits. The controller guards asynchronous results and schedules cache removal.
Cloud account lifecycle
macgit/App/AppCloudLifecycleController.swift, macgit/App/FeatureAccessController.swift, macgit/App/macgitApp.swift, macgitTests/AppCloudLifecycleControllerTests.swift, macgitTests/FeatureAccessControllerTests.swift
Feature-policy observation starts once. Account synchronization processes the active account before the newest queued account and skips superseded queued updates.
Bounded caches and window lifecycle
macgit/Services/BoundedMemoryCache.swift, macgit/Services/BranchListCache.swift, macgit/Services/GitUndoModels.swift, macgit/Views/History/HistoryView.swift, macgit/App/RevisionBrowserController.swift, macgit/App/RepositoryAIChatController.swift, macgit/App/RepositoryWindowLifecycleController.swift, macgit/App/AppState.swift, macgit/Views/MainWindow/*, macgit/Views/Common/*ToolbarButton.swift, macgitTests/*CacheTests.swift, macgitTests/GitUndoManagerTests.swift, macgitTests/RepositoryWindowLifecycleControllerTests.swift, macgitTests/RevisionBrowserControllerTests.swift, docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-27-memory-cold-start.md
Branch, history, and undo data receive bounds or cleanup behavior. Window lifecycle handling restores the Welcome window after the last repository window closes. A persisted setting controls initial repository-window sizing. The plan document records implementation details, tests, and outstanding checks.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PullRequestController
  participant PullRequestDiskCache
  participant GitProvider
  PullRequestController->>PullRequestDiskCache: Read request key and generation
  alt Cache hit
    PullRequestDiskCache-->>PullRequestController: Return cached result
  else Cache miss
    PullRequestController->>GitProvider: Fetch pull-request result
    GitProvider-->>PullRequestController: Return result
    PullRequestController->>PullRequestDiskCache: Save result with captured generation
  end
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 737e4

The new Swift files comply with the current license guidance. No actionable merge-blocking issue remains from the supplied evidence; normal checks can proceed.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8b538

Private pull-request content can now remain on disk after the app closes. Access is limited to the local user’s files, and normal sign-out clears the cache, but expiry alone does not promptly remove stored content.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Moving PR details and file patches from memory to a persistent, readable SQLite cache extends their lifetime beyond the app session and potentially beyond their application-level TTL when no later cache operation removes them.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Exposure is confined to the local cache file and its contents for repositories accessed by this OS user, rather than an established remote entrypoint. The cache permits up to 32 MiB total and 2 MiB per entry.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A process able to read the current OS user’s files could inspect cached PR content after the app closes without going through the provider-credential check. An expired entry can remain in the database until a later matching read or cache save removes it.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The app requires a matching account and credential before a PR cache read, sets database permissions to 0600, and clears the shared cache on a recorded cloud-UID change. These controls do not make cached content inaccessible to other processes running as that same OS user.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Generation checks and awaited cache maintenance limit stale same-process writes after removal. The cloud-UID cache owner is held in memory, so the inspected code does not establish durable cache ownership across process restarts.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Consider a durable account-owner binding and a defined deletion policy for sensitive cached payloads on sign-out, expiry, and restart; if persistence is necessary, evaluate protection against other same-user processes.
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docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-27-memory-cold-start.md (1)

3-3: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Complete the Superpowers roadmap.

Link each phase to its per-phase plan. Mark each phase [pending], [in progress], or [completed]; the current implementation checkboxes do not provide those statuses. As per coding guidelines, complex features need “a top-level roadmap under docs/superpowers/plans/ linking to per-phase plans” with those phase labels.

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Review comment at @docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-27-memory-cold-start.md at
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Update the roadmap’s phase entries for Welcome, AI, PR cache, local storage,
cloud lifecycle, and remaining cache/lifecycle to link to their per-phase plans
and include a [pending], [in progress], or [completed] status; preserve the
existing implementation details and reflect the current runtime-interaction
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @macgit/App/AppCloudLifecycleController.swift:
- Line 1: Add the project-standard complete AGPL license header to
macgit/App/AppCloudLifecycleController.swift (line 1),
macgitTests/LocalDataOnDemandTests.swift (line 1), and
macgitTests/AppCloudLifecycleControllerTests.swift (line 1), ensuring each
header includes the markers required by the pre-commit hook.

Review comments at @macgit/App/RepositoryWindowLifecycleController.swift:
- Line 1: Add the full required AGPL header, including both required markers, to
each affected file: macgit/App/RepositoryWindowLifecycleController.swift at line
1, macgitTests/BoundedMemoryCacheTests.swift at line 1, and
macgitTests/RepositoryWindowLifecycleControllerTests.swift at line 1.

Review comments at @macgit/Services/BranchListCache.swift:
- Line 78: Update the generation handling in BranchListCache so eviction does
not reset a key’s generation while a loader started under an older generation
may still finish. Preserve or advance the generation across invalidation and
eviction, using outstanding-loader tracking or a non-reverting epoch so stale
loaders cannot insert branches.

Review comments at @macgit/Services/GitUndoModels.swift:
- Line 311: Replace the all-or-nothing `snapshotIDs.isDisjoint(with:
retainedSnapshotIDs)` guard with per-entry filtering that computes the snapshot
IDs absent from `retainedSnapshotIDs`, then pass only those unreferenced IDs to
the deletion path while preserving shared snapshots.

Review comments at @macgit/Services/LocalSQLiteDatabase.swift:
- Line 71: Update read(collections:) to use a read-only transaction that does
not start with BEGIN IMMEDIATE, avoiding a writer reservation while preserving
the collection snapshot behavior.

Review comments at @macgit/Services/PullRequestDiskCache.swift:
- Line 1: Replace the SPDX-only line with the project’s full AGPL v3 header
block in macgit/Services/PullRequestDiskCache.swift at line 1,
macgit/Services/BoundedMemoryCache.swift at line 1, and
macgitTests/PullRequestDiskCacheTests.swift at line 1; ensure each header
includes the required license name and email markers.

Review comments at @macgitTests/AIProviderAvailabilityTests.swift:
- Line 1: Replace the SPDX-only line with the project AGPL header block in both
macgitTests/AIProviderAvailabilityTests.swift (line 1) and
macgitTests/WelcomeDashboardRefreshTests.swift (line 1), including the required
“GNU Affero General Public License” and “trantienthanh2412@gmail.com” markers.

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Review comments at @docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-27-memory-cold-start.md:
- Line 3: Update the roadmap’s phase entries for Welcome, AI, PR cache, local
storage, cloud lifecycle, and remaining cache/lifecycle to link to their
per-phase plans and include a [pending], [in progress], or [completed] status;
preserve the existing implementation details and reflect the current
runtime-interaction check as pending.

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  • docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-27-memory-cold-start.md
  • macgit/App/AIProviderController.swift
  • macgit/App/AppCloudLifecycleController.swift
  • macgit/App/AppState.swift
  • macgit/App/FeatureAccessController.swift
  • macgit/App/GitFlowConfigurationSyncController.swift
  • macgit/App/GitProviderAccountController.swift
  • macgit/App/PullRequestController.swift
  • macgit/App/RepositoryAIChatController.swift
  • macgit/App/RepositoryBookmarkController.swift
  • macgit/App/RepositoryCommitRuleSyncController.swift
  • macgit/App/RepositoryVisibilityController.swift
  • macgit/App/RepositoryWindowLifecycleController.swift
  • macgit/App/RevisionBrowserController.swift
  • macgit/App/macgitApp.swift
  • macgit/Models/PullRequestChangedFile.swift
  • macgit/Models/PullRequestModels.swift
  • macgit/Services/BoundedMemoryCache.swift
  • macgit/Services/BranchListCache.swift
  • macgit/Services/Commit.swift
  • macgit/Services/GitProviderAccountPreferenceStore.swift
  • macgit/Services/GitUndoModels.swift
  • macgit/Services/LocalDataError.swift
  • macgit/Services/LocalDataStore.swift
  • macgit/Services/LocalDataTransaction.swift
  • macgit/Services/LocalGitProviderAccountStore.swift
  • macgit/Services/LocalSQLiteDatabase.swift
  • macgit/Services/PullRequestDiskCache.swift
  • macgit/Services/RepoSettingsStore.swift
  • macgit/Services/RepositoryVisibilityCache.swift
  • macgit/ViewModels/WelcomeDashboardModel.swift
  • macgit/Views/Common/AIProvidersSettingsView.swift
  • macgit/Views/Common/AdvancedSettingsView.swift
  • macgit/Views/Common/BadgeToolbarButton.swift
  • macgit/Views/Common/ConflictMergeToolView.swift
  • macgit/Views/Common/GeneralSettingsView.swift
  • macgit/Views/Common/ToolbarButton.swift
  • macgit/Views/FileStatus/AIProviderMenu.swift
  • macgit/Views/FileStatus/CommitSheetView.swift
  • macgit/Views/FileStatus/FileStatusView.swift
  • macgit/Views/History/HistoryView.swift
  • macgit/Views/History/RevisionBrowserView.swift
  • macgit/Views/MainWindow/ContentView.swift
  • macgit/Views/MainWindow/MainWindowView.swift
  • macgit/Views/MainWindow/RepositoryAIChatView.swift
  • macgit/Views/MainWindow/WelcomeView.swift
  • macgit/Views/MainWindow/WindowInitialScreenFitModifier.swift
  • macgit/Views/PullRequests/PullRequestListView.swift
  • macgitTests/AIProviderAvailabilityTests.swift
  • macgitTests/AppCloudLifecycleControllerTests.swift
  • macgitTests/AppSettingsSnapshotTests.swift
  • macgitTests/BoundedMemoryCacheTests.swift
  • macgitTests/BranchListCacheTests.swift
  • macgitTests/CloudAIProviderTests.swift
  • macgitTests/FeatureAccessControllerTests.swift
  • macgitTests/GitFlowConfigurationSyncTests.swift
  • macgitTests/GitUndoManagerTests.swift
  • macgitTests/LocalDataMigrationTests.swift
  • macgitTests/LocalDataOnDemandTests.swift
  • macgitTests/PullRequestControllerTests.swift
  • macgitTests/PullRequestDiskCacheTests.swift
  • macgitTests/RepoSettingsStoreTests.swift
  • macgitTests/RepositoryBookmarkTests.swift
  • macgitTests/RepositoryCommitRuleSyncControllerTests.swift
  • macgitTests/RepositoryVisibilityControllerTests.swift
  • macgitTests/RepositoryWindowLifecycleControllerTests.swift
  • macgitTests/RevisionBrowserControllerTests.swift
  • macgitTests/WelcomeDashboardRefreshTests.swift

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Review follow-up: fixed the three functional findings in 737e412 and resolved all seven review threads. App build, build-for-testing, and git diff --check passed. Regression tests were compiled, not executed; the app was not launched. The license findings and roadmap nitpick rely on superseded guidelines: current AGENTS.md permits SPDX headers and explicitly says not to create specs/plans/roadmaps unless requested, with existing docs serving as reference. Existing license headers and planning documents were therefore retained.

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