[SunkenInTime]

#548 left two mouse back and forward cases for a follow-up. Both were run in a Windows driver build against dev Convex. One turned out worse than its description, and both are fixed here.

What a user hit

Forward (or back) into a cloud strategy that can no longer be read. Steps: in my own cloud strategy, open a teammate's share link, press back to mine, the teammate deletes theirs, press forward. Nothing visibly happened: my strategy stayed on screen with no message. But the app had already pointed its cloud reader and its upload queue at the deleted strategy. The next agent I placed in my strategy turned the sync button red, was filed as "1 unsent change to a strategy that was deleted cannot be saved", and never reached my strategy.

The #548 note said the open throws and history drops the entry. It does not throw. A failed read keeps the last value beside the error (Riverpod does this for every AsyncValue), and that value is the strategy that was open before. openCloudStrategy only checked for a missing value, so it went on and "opened" the old strategy again, wired to the new one.

Back, then home before the strategy has loaded. Nothing is recorded while a back or forward is under way, so when it gave way to the reader leaving, history kept believing the strategy they left was still open. Opening a strategy from the library and pressing back then opened that other strategy instead of returning to the library, and a second back bounced to the first again.

Fix

• openCloudStrategy fails when the snapshot it is handed is not the strategy it asked for. Its doc already said it throws when the strategy could not be read.
• An open over the strategy on screen has let go of that strategy by the time its read fails, so there is nothing to stay on. Back and forward now do what a failed open from the library does: the "Could not load strategy" message, and back to the library (_openCloudInPlace). Lost access and a disabled share link keep their own messages and their own way out, which were already there.
• A back or forward that did not arrive records where the reader ended up once it is over. Ending up somewhere new counts as a move like any other, so the forward entries go, as they do when the reader clicks home.

I did not change what happens when a local strategy's open throws. That needs the saved strategy to exist and the disk to fail, and I could not make it happen in a build.

Seen in the running build

Windows driver builds of main (15c8465) and of this branch, dev Convex, two test accounts. Both builds carried the same uncommitted hooks: a mouse-button step, a hold on the first cloud read, and a line that prints the history.

Steps	Before	After
Forward into a strategy its owner deleted	own strategy stays, no message; reader and queue point at the deleted one	"Could not load strategy", library
Then place an agent in own strategy	sync red, change filed under the deleted strategy, leaving is held up	not possible; own strategy reopens as saved, sync clean
Forward into a strategy whose link was disabled	"This share link was disabled by its owner", library; history still says own strategy is open	same message, library; history says library
Back, home while it loads (read held 8 s), open own strategy from the library, back	the shared strategy opens; back again returns to own	library
right-click-cloud	not run	CLEAN

Tests: three new ones, each fails on main. One opens a real StrategyProvider over a strategy whose read fails. Two drive back presses through MouseNavigation: one where the open throws, one where the reader goes home mid-load. mouse_navigation_test, remote_editor_snapshot_provider_test and open_attempt_test pass.

Client only. No change to Convex, the library format or sync.

Not covered

• An edit made in the moment between pressing back and the other cloud strategy appearing goes through the same re-pointed queue. I did not test that window.
• The loss was shown with a deleted strategy, where the server refuses the change. I did not test a target that fails to read but still exists.
• Web build not run; the code path is shared.
• Found on the way, not fixed here: back from a strategy opened inside a cloud folder skips the folder and lands in the library root (FolderProvider.findFolderByID answers null for every cloud folder, so history takes it for deleted).

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Walkthrough

Cloud strategy opening now rejects snapshots for a different strategy. Mouse navigation restores history targets after failed navigation and handles errors when opening cloud strategies in place. Tests cover snapshot-read failures, history changes, and failed cloud opens.

Changes: Cloud strategy navigation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Validate cloud strategy snapshots lib/providers/strategy_provider.dart, test/remote_editor_snapshot_provider_test.dart	openCloudStrategy rejects an absent snapshot or one with a different strategy ID. A regression test verifies that a shell-read error is thrown instead of continuing with the previously loaded strategy.
Handle navigation and cloud-open failures lib/widgets/mouse_navigation.dart, test/mouse_navigation_test.dart	Failed history walks restore the target and record location changes made during navigation. In-place cloud opens report errors; access-loss and revoked-share errors leave the current strategy in place, while other errors show a toast, clear the strategy, and pop the route when it remains on top. Tests cover history changes and failed cloud opens.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Low · up to 46eba

This change stops a strategy that fails to load from taking over the open one, and returns the reader to the library with a message. A few edge cases remain: Forward can lose its destination after a failed load, history reconciliation can throw if the widget is closed mid-navigation, and a stale failed open can close a newer one. These are narrow and recoverable, so it is mergeable with follow-up fixes.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names a real and central change: a strategy that fails to load no longer replaces the strategy that is currently open. The changeset supports this. openCloudStrategy now rejects a snapshot t…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Explanation

The title names a real and central change: a strategy that fails to load no longer replaces the strategy that is currently open. The changeset supports this. openCloudStrategy now rejects a snapshot that is absent or whose publicId differs from the requested ID, and the mouse navigation code shows a failure toast and returns to the library when a cloud open fails. The title does not mention the second part of the change, which records history after an unsuccessful back or forward walk. That omission is acceptable because the title does not need to cover every detail. The title is also a single sentence of 16 words. The phrase "Back and forward" is a little vague on its own, but the rest of the title makes the primary change clear.

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Actionable comments posted: 3

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Review comments at @lib/widgets/mouse_navigation.dart:
- Line 281: Update the reconciliation after _walkHistory so it records the
actual library location without clearing the restored forward destination. Avoid
calling _recordLocationChange in a way that empties _forwardStack; preserve B so
the reader can retry Forward.
- Line 281: In the `_navigateTo` cleanup path, check `mounted` before calling
`_recordLocationChange` when navigation did not arrive, so disposed
`MouseNavigation` instances do not access `ref` through `_deriveLocation`.
- Line 421: Update _open so errors from an attempt that has been superseded
return false silently, while errors from the current attempt continue to
propagate; preserve the existing OpenGaveWay handling. This prevents
_openCloudInPlace from clearing the strategy opened by a newer attempt.

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• lib/providers/strategy_provider.dart
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Preserve the forward destination during reconciliation.

If forward navigation from A to B fails, _openCloudInPlace clears the editor. _walkHistory restores B to _forwardStack, then this call detects the library location. However, _recordLocationChange clears _forwardStack, which immediately removes B again. The reader cannot retry B with Forward.

Reconcile the actual location without clearing the restored forward destination.

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Review comment at @lib/widgets/mouse_navigation.dart at line 281:
Update the reconciliation after _walkHistory so it records the actual library location without clearing the restored forward destination. Avoid calling _recordLocationChange in a way that empties _forwardStack; preserve B so the reader can retry Forward.

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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Check mounted before reconciling history.

If MouseNavigation is disposed while _navigateTo waits, this finally block still calls _recordLocationChange. That method calls _deriveLocation, which accesses the disposed widget's ref. Guard the new reconciliation call with mounted.

Based on learnings: check mounted after an await before accessing inherited widget state.

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Review comment at @lib/widgets/mouse_navigation.dart at line 281:
In the `_navigateTo` cleanup path, check `mounted` before calling `_recordLocationChange` when navigation did not arrive, so disposed `MouseNavigation` instances do not access `ref` through `_deriveLocation`.

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[SunkenInTime]

Left as is, on purpose. After the failed forward the reader is in the library, which is a move like clicking home, and every other move drops the forward entries. Keeping B would also mean a forward from the library that pushes an editor for a strategy that just failed to load. The description said the entry stays; that sentence was wrong and is corrected.

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Analysis chain

Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -u
printf '%s\n' '--- repository guidance filenames ---'
fd -HI -t f '^(AGENTS\.md|CLAUDE\.md)$' . -E .git
printf '%s\n' '--- applicable repository guidance ---'
for f in AGENTS.md lib/AGENTS.md lib/widgets/AGENTS.md; do
  if [ -f "$f" ]; then printf '\n--- %s ---\n' "$f"; cat "$f"; fi
done
printf '\n%s\n' '--- navigation outline ---'
ast-grep outline lib/widgets/mouse_navigation.dart --items all --match '_walkHistory|_recordLocationChange|_deriveLocation|_navigateTo' --view expanded
printf '\n%s\n' '--- navigation implementation ---'
cat -n lib/widgets/mouse_navigation.dart | sed -n '150,185p;245,290p;310,365p;385,435p'
printf '\n%s\n' '--- relevant navigation tests ---'
rg -n -C 3 'mounted|dispose|disposed|forward|gave way|while.*load' test/mouse_navigation_test.dart

Length of output: 19616

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@SunkenInTime Thanks for the clarification. I withdraw the forward-history finding: returning to the library is a new move, so clearing the forward entries is intentional.

The separate mounted concern remains. If MouseNavigation is disposed while navigation is waiting, Line 281 can still call _recordLocationChange, which reads ref. I’m not marking the thread as addressed.

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Learnings added

Learnt from: SunkenInTime
Repo: SunkenInTime/icarus PR: 563
File: lib/widgets/mouse_navigation.dart:281-281
Timestamp: 2026-11-13T22:54:13.366Z
Learning: Within repository "SunkenInTime/icarus", only for files matching one of ["lib/widgets/mouse_navigation.dart"]: In `lib/widgets/mouse_navigation.dart`, when an in-place cloud strategy open during forward navigation fails and returns the reader to the library, `_walkHistory` reconciles the changed location through `_recordLocationChange`, which intentionally clears forward history, including the failed destination. Treat the return to the library as a new navigation rather than requiring the failed destination to remain available through Forward.

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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Don't clear a newer open when a superseded open fails.

_open suppresses only OpenGaveWay. When an open that has already been replaced fails in one of its awaited steps, such as setStorageDirectory at lib/providers/strategy_provider.dart:420, its error propagates unchanged. _openCloudInPlace then clears the strategy that replaced it at lib/widgets/mouse_navigation.dart:421, and the reader is sent back to the library with a load-failure toast. Errors from a superseded open should end that open silently.

Suggested fix

   Future<bool> _open(Future<bool> Function(OpenAttempt opening) steps) async {
     final attempt = ++_openAttempt;
     try {
       return await steps(OpenAttempt(() => attempt == _openAttempt));
     } on OpenGaveWay {
       // The newer open, or the close, owns the outcome.
       return false;
+    } catch (_) {
+      // A failure of an open that was already replaced belongs to the newer open.
+      if (attempt != _openAttempt) return false;
+      rethrow;
     }
   }

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Review comment at @lib/widgets/mouse_navigation.dart at line 421:
Update _open so errors from an attempt that has been superseded return false silently, while errors from the current attempt continue to propagate; preserve the existing OpenGaveWay handling. This prevents _openCloudInPlace from clearing the strategy opened by a newer attempt.

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[SunkenInTime]

Not changing this here. It needs the older open to fail for its own reason in the same moment a newer one has replaced it, the same double coincidence as the fourth case #548 left out, and I could not make it happen in a running build. Before this PR that error went unhandled, so the newer strategy was not protected by design either.