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wsh workspace list and wsh blocks list's default "all workspaces" enumeration are built on wcore.ListWorkspaces, which excludes any workspace missing Name, Icon, or Color. That's intentional for its other callers: the frontend workspace switcher (WorkspaceService.ListWorkspaces) and, as caught in review, the Electron Workspace menu (emain-menu.ts) and Alt+Ctrl+<N> workspace-switch shortcuts (emain-tabview.ts) — all three rely on unsaved (scratch) workspaces staying excluded, since CreateWindow deliberately creates one of those for a new window (CreateWorkspace(..., applyDefaults=false)) and DeleteWorkspace auto-cleans it up on close unless it's since been named.

The bug is that the exact same exclusion also blinds the CLI to those workspaces — and everything inside them. Confirmed against a real user's database: a workspace holding their own long-running Claude Code session's active tab had never been named, and was completely invisible to wsh blocks list the entire time it was in continuous daily use.

Fix (revised twice through review)

  • wcore.ListWorkspaces is completely unchanged — still excludes unsaved workspaces, still shared by the frontend switcher.
  • New wcore.ListAllWorkspaces includes them too, without ever writing anything to the database.
  • A prior revision of this PR pointed the shared WorkspaceListCommand RPC at the new function, on the claim that it was CLI-only — codex correctly caught that this RPC is also called from emain-menu.ts and emain-tabview.ts (Electron main-process code, a call-site my original search missed entirely), which would have added blank scratch-workspace entries to the Workspace menu and shifted keyboard-shortcut indices. Fixed by adding a separate WorkspaceListAllCommand RPC (regenerated through the real codegen: cmd/generatego, cmd/generatets) and pointing only wsh workspace list / wsh blocks list at it. WorkspaceListCommand itself, and every one of its other callers, is untouched.

Test plan

pkg/wcore/workspace_test.go — real (non-mocked) sqlite-backed tests via wstore.InitWStore():

  • ListWorkspaces excludes an unsaved workspace and never mutates it.
  • ListAllWorkspaces includes it too, also without mutating anything.
go test ./pkg/wcore/... ./pkg/wshrpc/...

Also verified a full npm run build:prod (electron-vite, compiles main/preload/renderer together) to confirm emain-menu.ts/emain-tabview.ts build clean and unaffected against the regenerated bindings.

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ListWorkspaces silently continue'd past any workspace missing Name,
Icon, or Color, excluding it (and every tab/block inside it) from
every listing built on top of it - wsh workspace list, wsh blocks
list's default enumeration, and (since it's the same canonical
listing function) very likely the app's own workspace switcher.

This isn't a half-created/zombie-record guard: CreateWorkspace always
backfills these three fields via UpdateWorkspace immediately after
insert, so there's no legitimate transient state where a real
workspace has any of them empty. A workspace found that way is a
genuine, live workspace - most likely one that predates these fields
or hit a migration gap - being permanently and silently hidden.

Confirmed against a real user's database: a workspace with
name=NULL/icon=NULL/color=NULL held a tab that was the CLI's own
current shell's tab (WAVETERM_TABID), fully live, invisible to `wsh
workspace list` and `wsh blocks list` the entire time.

Fix: backfill the same default values UpdateWorkspace already uses
when it encounters a blank field, persist them once, and include the
workspace normally - color is cycled against the workspace count
already backfilled in this pass rather than a recursive
ListWorkspaces call, since UpdateWorkspace's own approach (calling
ListWorkspaces to count) would recurse here. An already-complete
workspace takes the pre-existing code path entirely untouched.

Added a real (not mocked) sqlite-backed test using an isolated
temp-dir DB via the actual wstore migrations: confirms an incomplete
workspace is included and its backfill persisted (not just patched on
the returned value), an already-complete workspace is left untouched,
and confirmed the test fails against the unpatched code (reproduces
the exact drop) before passing against the fix.

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ListWorkspaces now returns only saved workspaces. ListAllWorkspaces returns saved and unsaved workspaces. Listing no longer fills or persists missing workspace fields. Tests verify both behaviors. The existing RPC command keeps saved-workspace filtering, while the new command supports unsaved workspaces for CLI workspace and block listings.

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A workspace listing may still report success after a backfill persistence failure, leaving incomplete workspace data stored; this unresolved data-integrity risk should be addressed before merge.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: adding ListAllWorkspaces so the wsh CLI can access unsaved and scratch workspaces.
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In `@pkg/wcore/workspace.go`:
- Line 422: Update the backfill persistence flow in ListWorkspaces to check and
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Codex correctly flagged two P1s against the original backfill approach,
and coderabbit a real error-handling gap in the same code - all three
pointed at a genuine design conflict, not just implementation bugs:

CreateWindow deliberately creates a blank, unsaved scratch workspace
for a new window (CreateWorkspace with applyDefaults=false), and
DeleteWorkspace auto-cleans one of those up on window close unless
it's since been named (checks Name/Icon non-empty). The frontend
switcher (WorkspaceService.ListWorkspaces, backed by this same
wcore.ListWorkspaces) treats blank Name/Icon as a meaningful "unsaved"
state it renders differently. Backfilling and persisting defaults the
moment anything calls ListWorkspaces - which the switcher does on
mount - would silently "save" scratch workspaces the user never asked
to keep, breaking DeleteWorkspace's cleanup and orphaning them. It also
had a real concurrent-write race (read via DBGetAllObjsByType, then a
later blind DBUpdate could stomp a concurrent change to the same
workspace) and swallowed DBUpdate's error entirely.

Fix: stop trying to fix this by mutating data. ListWorkspaces keeps its
exact original behavior (exclude unsaved workspaces, switcher-facing,
zero risk to the existing scratch-workspace lifecycle). New
ListAllWorkspaces includes them too, without ever writing anything -
this is what wsh workspace list / wsh blocks list need instead, since
CLI tooling has to see every live workspace's tabs and blocks
regardless of whether the user bothered to name it. Only
WshServer.WorkspaceListCommand (which backs those two CLI commands,
confirmed via call-site search - never called from the frontend, which
uses the separate WorkspaceService.ListWorkspaces) is switched to the
new function.

Confirmed against a real user's database: an unsaved workspace held
their own long-running Claude Code session's tab, completely invisible
to wsh blocks list the whole time it was in continuous daily use.

Rewrote the test to match: ListWorkspaces still excludes an unsaved
workspace AND never mutates it; ListAllWorkspaces includes it, also
without mutating it. Both verified with a real (non-mocked)
sqlite-backed store via wstore.InitWStore() under an isolated temp dir.

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@andrewinalaska andrewinalaska changed the title fix(wcore): backfill missing workspace Name/Icon/Color instead of dropping it fix(wcore): add ListAllWorkspaces so wsh CLI sees unsaved/scratch workspaces Sep 16, 2026
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All three findings here were correct and pointed at a real design conflict, not just implementation nits — addressed in 432be08 with a redesign rather than a patch:

  • codex P1 (unsaved workspace lifecycle): confirmed — CreateWindow deliberately creates unnamed scratch workspaces (applyDefaults=false), and DeleteWorkspace/the frontend switcher both depend on blank Name/Icon meaning "unsaved". The fix no longer touches or persists anything into any workspace. ListWorkspaces keeps its exact original behavior (switcher-facing, excludes unsaved); a new ListAllWorkspaces includes them too, purely by not filtering — never by writing.
  • codex P1 (atomicity): moot now — there's no write at all, so no read-then-write race is possible.
  • coderabbit (swallowed error): moot for the same reason.

New tests in pkg/wcore/workspace_test.go (real sqlite via wstore.InitWStore(), not mocked) assert both functions leave an unsaved workspace's stored fields completely untouched, in addition to checking inclusion/exclusion.

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codex caught a real regression in 432be08: WorkspaceListCommand isn't
CLI-only, despite the comment claiming otherwise. emain-menu.ts's
Electron Workspace menu and emain-tabview.ts's Alt+Ctrl+<N> workspace
shortcuts both call it directly, and both rely on unsaved (scratch)
workspaces staying excluded - the menu labels them by
workspacedata.name (blank for a scratch workspace) and the shortcuts
index into the list positionally. My earlier call-site search covered
pkg/, frontend/, and cmd/ but missed emain/ entirely, a third source
tree in this repo (Electron main-process TS) - so the "never called
from the frontend" claim in the previous commit was wrong.

Fix: leave WorkspaceListCommand's behavior completely unchanged
(excludes unsaved workspaces, used by emain AND the frontend switcher).
Add a new WorkspaceListAllCommand RPC that includes them, regenerated
through the real codegen (cmd/generatego, cmd/generatets) rather than
hand-edited, and point only wsh workspace list / wsh blocks list at it.

Verified: go build/vet/test clean, and a full `npm run build:prod`
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emain-menu.ts and emain-tabview.ts still compile clean against the
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Good catch — my "never called from the frontend" claim in the last revision was wrong. My call-site search covered pkg/, frontend/, and cmd/, but missed emain/ (Electron main-process TS) entirely, a third source tree in this repo. Confirmed both call sites directly (`emain-menu.ts:49`, `emain-tabview.ts:76`) and their reliance on unsaved workspaces staying excluded (menu labels, positional shortcut indexing).

Fixed in 9fb4a55 by NOT touching the shared `WorkspaceListCommand` RPC at all — it's back to its exact original behavior. Added a separate `WorkspaceListAllCommand` RPC instead (generated via the real codegen, not hand-written), and pointed only `wsh workspace list`/`wsh blocks list` at it. Verified with a full `npm run build:prod` (electron-vite, compiles main/preload/renderer together) that both emain files still build clean and are completely unaffected.

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