fix(ui): restore cards after host reload

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ChatGPT can restore a tool result after a hard reload without preserving the original result _meta, which left DevSpace's workspace and review cards without the data they depended on. This keeps MCP Apps _meta.card as the rich fast path for hosts that provide it, but removes it as a requirement for historical rendering.

open_workspace can now rebuild its card from structured content alone. show_changes keeps its model-facing result small with workspaceId, reviewRef, and result text while the full review remains in _meta.card; the reviewRef points at durable Git-backed review history, so ChatGPT can reopen the exact historical review through the existing tool without advancing the current checkpoint. The same Git-backed review can also be inspected locally with devspace show-changes <review-ref>. No database migration or stored patch copy is introduced.

Stacked on #245.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added the show-changes CLI command with plain-text and optional JSON output.
  • Reviews now provide references for reopening historical changes after reloads or later reviews.
  • Added compact tool results while preserving detailed review information in cards.
  • Improved review and workspace card restoration across connections and browser reloads.

• Documentation

  • Expanded workflow and troubleshooting guidance for review references, restoration, and CLI usage.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of legacy results, delayed connections, and restored tool metadata.
  • Invalid or unknown review references are now rejected.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds Git-backed reviewRef values, historical review retrieval, compact show_changes output, a show-changes CLI command, shared tool-result decoding, and UI restoration of review cards after host reloads.

Changes

Review restoration flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Git-backed review checkpoints src/review-checkpoints.ts, src/review-checkpoints.test.ts	readReviewRef now accepts only known DevSpace review commits. Tests cover historical restoration, manager restarts, and workspace-scoped validation.
Server and CLI review access src/server.ts, src/server.test.ts, src/cli.ts, src/cli-show-changes.test.ts, docs/...	show_changes returns compact structured data and preserves detailed review data in card metadata. Historical refs can reopen reviews without advancing the checkpoint. The CLI prints reviews as text or JSON. Documentation describes the result and recovery behavior.
Tool-result decoding and validation src/ui/tool-result.ts, src/ui/tool-result.test.ts, src/ui/vite-env.d.ts, src/ui/card-types.ts, src/ui/card-types.test.ts, package.json	Shared helpers decode structured content, metadata, legacy payloads, and ChatGPT globals. Card fields receive type validation and normalization. UI tests run in the default test script.
Workspace card restoration src/ui/workspace-app.tsx	The app queues early results, restores host globals after connection, reloads historical reviews, handles stale requests, and removes the globals listener during teardown.

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

Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to 809f1

This change restores cards after reload and reopens historical reviews, but incomplete review metadata can still produce an empty card and arbitrary Git commits may be shown as valid DevSpace reviews. These correctness issues can misrender or reopen the wrong review, so merge should wait for validation fixes or explicit owner acceptance.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant Host as ChatGPT host
participant App as workspace-app
participant Decoder as tool-result decoder
participant Server as show_changes server
participant Checkpoints as ReviewCheckpointManager
participant Git as Git repository
Host->>App: Provide toolOutput and toolResponseMetadata
App->>Decoder: Decode tool result
Decoder-->>App: Return card or review-reference result
App->>Server: Request historical review by reviewRef
Server->>Checkpoints: Read review by reference
Checkpoints->>Git: Resolve and validate review commit
Git-->>Checkpoints: Return review data
Checkpoints-->>Server: Return review result
Server-->>App: Return compact result and card metadata
App-->>Host: Render restored review card

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A rabbit checked a review mark bright,
Git kept the patch in sight.
Cards crossed the host,
No review was lost,
And reloads restored it right.

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Greptile Summary

The PR makes review cards reloadable from Git-backed references, compacts model-facing show_changes output, and adds local inspection through the CLI.

• Stores review snapshots as parent-linked commits and supports workspace-scoped historical lookup.
• Reconstructs workspace and review cards from structured host output, including metadata-free reloads.
• Adds devspace show-changes <review-ref> [--json] and accompanying tests and documentation.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The CLI review lookup should be fixed before merging because a valid but unrelated commit hash is silently displayed as a DevSpace review.

Server-side historical restoration is workspace-scoped, but the new CLI path omits equivalent review-history validation and interprets any resolvable full commit hash as a review snapshot.

Files Needing Attention: src/review-checkpoints.ts, src/cli.ts

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
src/review-checkpoints.ts	Adds durable parent-linked review snapshots and historical lookup, but the standalone reader accepts arbitrary repository commits as review references.
src/server.ts	Compacts structured review output and restores historical reviews through workspace-scoped ancestry validation.
src/ui/tool-result.ts	Decodes current, legacy, and restored tool-result shapes into workspace or review cards.
src/ui/workspace-app.tsx	Adds deferred result handling and asynchronous historical-review restoration with stale-request protection.
src/cli.ts	Adds the show-changes command, which currently relies on the overly permissive standalone review-reference reader.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
participant Host
participant UI as Workspace app
participant Server as MCP server
participant Review as Review checkpoints
Host->>UI: Restore workspaceId + reviewRef
UI->>Server: show_changes with reviewRef metadata
Server->>Review: reviewByRef(workspaceId, root, reviewRef)
Review-->>Server: Summary, files, and patch
Server-->>UI: Compact structured result + rich card metadata
UI-->>Host: Render historical review

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src/cli-show-changes.test.ts (1)

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Add a packaged CLI integration test.

This test invokes src/cli.ts through tsx, while the package exposes dist/cli.js as the devspace binary. It does not cover the packaged command or argument forwarding. Test devspace show-changes <review-ref> with and without --json.

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In `@src/cli-show-changes.test.ts` around lines 39 - 61, Update the CLI
integration test around cliArgs to invoke the packaged devspace binary backed by
dist/cli.js instead of loading src/cli.ts through tsx. Verify both devspace
show-changes <review-ref> and the same command with --json, preserving the
existing plain-output and JSON assertions while confirming arguments are
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In `@src/review-checkpoints.ts`:
- Around line 184-191: Update readReviewRef to validate review-history
membership for the resolved commit before calling readReviewCommit, matching the
checks used by reviewByRef so ordinary Git commits such as HEAD are rejected.
Pass the required workspace identity through the existing workspace-scoped API,
using workspaceId as the opaque handle returned by open_workspace.
In `@src/ui/tool-result.ts`:
- Around line 16-32: Update the structured review-result branch around metaCard
selection so an empty or incomplete card payload cannot be treated as a valid
show_changes card; require the necessary review card fields before returning the
card result, otherwise return the existing review-reference result using
workspaceId and reviewRef. Add a regression test covering
structuredContent.reviewRef with an empty _meta.card object.
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In `@src/cli-show-changes.test.ts`:
- Around line 39-61: Update the CLI integration test around cliArgs to invoke
the packaged devspace binary backed by dist/cli.js instead of loading src/cli.ts
through tsx. Verify both devspace show-changes <review-ref> and the same command
with --json, preserving the existing plain-output and JSON assertions while
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