F3 SLICE-3 host fixes: disk-compare sync detection + self-minimized seam edits (INV-9) (#6)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/attributionController.ts

@@ -8,12 +8,13 @@
  * FileSystemWatcher live in CoauthorStore / extension.ts (the sidecar is
  * co-owned with ThreadController).
  */
+import * as fs from "node:fs";
 import * as vscode from "vscode";
 import { CoauthorStore } from "./store";
 import { newId, type AttributionRecord, type Provenance } from "./model";
 import { buildFingerprint, resolve, type OffsetRange } from "./anchorer";
 import { applyChange, coalesce, type LiveSpan } from "./attributionTracker";
-import { PendingEditRegistry } from "./pendingEdits";
+import { minimizeReplace, PendingEditRegistry } from "./pendingEdits";
 
 /** Test-facing snapshot of live attribution state for a document. */
 export interface RenderedSpan {
@@ -136,8 +137,11 @@ export class AttributionController implements vscode.Disposable {
   private onDidChange(e: vscode.TextDocumentChangeEvent): void {
     if (!this.isTracked(e.document) || e.contentChanges.length === 0) return;
     const docPath = this.docPathOf(e.document.uri);
-    if (!e.document.isDirty) {
+    if (!e.document.isDirty && this.matchesDisk(e.document)) {
-      // Disk sync (revert / reload): re-resolve, never attribute (PUC-4).
+      // Disk sync (revert / external reload): buffer now equals the file on
+      // disk — re-resolve, never attribute (PUC-4). A real edit can also
+      // arrive with isDirty still false (VS Code flips the flag after the
+      // change event), but then the buffer no longer matches the disk.
       this.loadAll(e.document);
       return;
     }
@@ -152,7 +156,10 @@ export class AttributionController implements vscode.Disposable {
       };
       const hit = this.pending.match(docPath, { start: edit.start, end: edit.end, text: change.text });
       const author = hit ? hit.provenance : this.currentAuthor();
-      s.spans = applyChange(s.spans, edit, author, {
+      // On a seam hit, attribute the agent's FULL intended replacement (the
+      // registered edit is diff-minimized for transport only): same delta,
+      // wider span — the agent owns every char it asserted (INV-9).
+      s.spans = applyChange(s.spans, hit?.full ?? edit, author, {
         newId: () => newId("at"),
         now: () => new Date().toISOString(),
         turnId: hit?.turnId,
@@ -162,6 +169,17 @@ export class AttributionController implements vscode.Disposable {
     this.render(e.document);
   }
 
+  /** True when the document buffer is byte-identical to the file on disk. */
+  private matchesDisk(document: vscode.TextDocument): boolean {
+    try {
+      return fs.readFileSync(document.uri.fsPath, "utf8") === document.getText();
+    } catch {
+      // Unreadable/missing file: treat as a real edit (attribute), per
+      // fail-open honesty — misclassifying a sync as an edit is recoverable.
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
   // ---- the seam (INV-9) ---------------------------------------------------------------
 
   /**
@@ -170,6 +188,8 @@ export class AttributionController implements vscode.Disposable {
    * document version or a rejected edit — never partial-applies (spec §6.9).
    * The pending edit is unregistered unconditionally afterwards (a no-op when
    * `match` already consumed it), so a no-op edit never leaks a registration.
+   * The replace is self-minimized (common prefix/suffix trimmed) to mirror the
+   * host's WorkspaceEdit diff-minimization, so registered == applied == delivered.
    */
   async applyAgentEdit(
     document: vscode.TextDocument,
@@ -181,17 +201,29 @@ export class AttributionController implements vscode.Disposable {
     if (!this.isTracked(document)) return false;
     if (opts?.expectedVersion !== undefined && document.version !== opts.expectedVersion) return false;
     const docPath = this.docPathOf(document.uri);
+    const startOffset = document.offsetAt(range.start);
+    const endOffset = document.offsetAt(range.end);
+    const oldText = document.getText(range);
+    const { prefix, suffix } = minimizeReplace(oldText, newText);
+    const minStart = startOffset + prefix;
+    const minEnd = endOffset - suffix;
+    const minText = newText.slice(prefix, newText.length - suffix);
+    if (minStart === minEnd && minText.length === 0) {
+      // Replacement equals the existing text — a no-op; nothing to attribute.
+      return true;
+    }
     const pendingEdit = {
       docPath,
-      start: document.offsetAt(range.start),
+      start: minStart,
-      end: document.offsetAt(range.end),
+      end: minEnd,
-      newText,
+      newText: minText,
       provenance,
       turnId: opts?.turnId,
+      full: { start: startOffset, end: endOffset, newLength: newText.length },
     };
     this.pending.register(pendingEdit);
     const we = new vscode.WorkspaceEdit();
-    we.replace(document.uri, range, newText);
+    we.replace(document.uri, new vscode.Range(document.positionAt(minStart), document.positionAt(minEnd)), minText);
     const ok = await vscode.workspace.applyEdit(we);
     this.pending.unregister(pendingEdit);
     return ok;

src/pendingEdits.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,27 @@
  */
 import type { Provenance } from "./model";
 
+/**
+ * Greedily trim the common prefix then common suffix between the replaced
+ * text and its replacement (non-overlapping), mirroring the host's own
+ * WorkspaceEdit diff-minimization so a registered seam edit matches the
+ * change event VS Code actually delivers (INV-9).
+ */
+export function minimizeReplace(
+  oldText: string,
+  newText: string,
+): { prefix: number; suffix: number } {
+  const max = Math.min(oldText.length, newText.length);
+  let prefix = 0;
+  while (prefix < max && oldText[prefix] === newText[prefix]) prefix++;
+  let suffix = 0;
+  while (
+    suffix < max - prefix &&
+    oldText[oldText.length - 1 - suffix] === newText[newText.length - 1 - suffix]
+  ) suffix++;
+  return { prefix, suffix };
+}
+
 export interface PendingEdit {
   docPath: string;
   /** half-open [start, end) offsets of the replaced range. */
@@ -15,6 +36,14 @@ export interface PendingEdit {
   newText: string;
   provenance: Provenance;
   turnId?: string;
+  /**
+   * The agent's full intended replacement before self-minimization (pre-edit
+   * half-open range + replacement length). The minimized start/end/newText are
+   * transport-only (so the registration matches the host-delivered change);
+   * attribution uses this extent — the agent owns every char it asserted,
+   * including chars the minimized diff left unchanged.
+   */
+  full?: { start: number; end: number; newLength: number };
 }
 
 export class PendingEditRegistry {

test/pendingEdits.test.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
-import { PendingEditRegistry } from "../src/pendingEdits";
+import { minimizeReplace, PendingEditRegistry } from "../src/pendingEdits";
 import type { Provenance } from "../src/model";
 
 const AGENT: Provenance = {
@@ -30,3 +30,22 @@ describe("PendingEditRegistry (INV-9)", () => {
     expect(reg.match("d.md", { start: 0, end: 0, text: "x" })).toBeNull();
   });
 });
+
+describe("minimizeReplace (host diff-minimization mirror)", () => {
+  it("trims a common suffix (the E2E-observed case)", () => {
+    expect(minimizeReplace("target sentence", "REWRITTEN-BY-CLAUDE sentence")).toEqual({ prefix: 0, suffix: 9 });
+  });
+  it("trims a common prefix", () => {
+    expect(minimizeReplace("Hello world", "Hello there")).toEqual({ prefix: 6, suffix: 0 });
+  });
+  it("trims both, never overlapping", () => {
+    expect(minimizeReplace("aba", "aa")).toEqual({ prefix: 1, suffix: 1 });
+    expect(minimizeReplace("aaaa", "aa")).toEqual({ prefix: 2, suffix: 0 });
+  });
+  it("identical texts minimize to nothing", () => {
+    expect(minimizeReplace("same", "same")).toEqual({ prefix: 4, suffix: 0 });
+  });
+  it("disjoint texts trim nothing", () => {
+    expect(minimizeReplace("abc", "xyz")).toEqual({ prefix: 0, suffix: 0 });
+  });
+});