Field session on a nested SvelteKit app surfaced a self-reinforcing leak:
localStorage is per-origin, two projects reused 127.0.0.1:5174, and a
React project's leftover cycling session was resumed inside the Svelte
project. Its checkpoints then materialized a ghost session in the new
project's durable store that kept reattaching after every discard, and a
stale adapter module 401'd on live.js, hiding the picker.
Four fixes:
- Server: only session-creating events (generate, steer) may mint a
journal. Progress events (checkpoints, mount acks, accept/discard) for
unknown ids are refused with 404 unknown_session and never enqueued, so
foreign browser state cannot create ghost sessions. Browser sends are
gated so progress never overtakes its own creating POST (the Go-time
checkpoint and generate are concurrent fetches; the first sweep caught
the out-of-order arrival breaking every SvelteKit flow). Steer
checkpoints now follow the steer event for the same reason.
- Browser: saved sessions carry the server's appRoot; a session stamped
by another project is dropped at load time. Unstamped legacy state is
caught by the unknown_session refusal, which clears local state and
re-arms the picker with an explanatory toast.
- SvelteKit adapter: the layout import carries a token-derived revision
query so a helper restart changes the module specifier and no Vite
client/SSR cache can serve an adapter with a rotated-out token;
live-inject --port reads the running helper's token from server.json
instead of writing an unauthenticated live.js URL; script load failures
log an actionable console error; and adapter removal is byte-exact
(the old regex swallowed the next line's indentation).
- live.mjs resolves surface briefs from appRoot, then contextRoot, then
repoRoot, matching context.mjs in nested-app repos.
Tests: server unknown-session rejection units, adapter revision/
byte-exact-removal units, and a foreign-session e2e scenario that seeds
another project's localStorage state and asserts it is cleared, no ghost
journal materializes, and picking still works.
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>