feat(server): run a project action before a worktree is removed

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Problem

A project action can run when T3 Code creates a thread's worktree (runOnWorktreeCreate) and each time the thread settles (runOnSettle), but nothing runs when the worktree is removed. Whatever setup started for that worktree, such as containers or a database, is left running after T3 Code deletes the checkout, and the compose file or script needed to stop it goes with the checkout.

Change

Adds runOnWorktreeRemove next to the other two lifecycle flags, both in t3.json and on saved actions. In the action editor it is the Run in a worktree before it is removed switch, and the action shows an "on remove" badge and menu label.

ProjectSetupScriptRunner.runBeforeWorktreeRemove runs the project's remove action in the worktree and waits for it to finish, then removal goes ahead. It is called on the two paths that remove a worktree:

• Automatic storage cleanup, after all of its eligibility checks and right before git worktree remove.
• The vcs.removeWorktree RPC, which web sends when you delete a thread together with its worktree. Its handler calls GitWorkflowService.removeWorktreeWithAction, which runs the action only when path is a linked worktree of cwd, so a request for the main checkout or another directory never runs it there.

The worktree is removed even if the script fails or runs past 5 minutes, so a broken script never strands a worktree or blocks later cleanup sweeps. Failures log the exit code and the last 20 output lines. The script runs in a terminal like setup and settle actions do, with the same shell and T3CODE_PROJECT_ROOT/T3CODE_WORKTREE_PATH. The thread is often already deleted, so the shell is owned by a worktree-remove id and closed with its history before the checkout goes. Rolling back a worktree that failed during creation (ThreadLaunchService, the MCP handoff) does not run it, because setup never finished there.

Storage cleanup holds the per-path workspace lease while it removes a worktree, and TerminalManager.open takes the same lease, so opening the script's shell would wait on cleanup forever. withWorkspaceLease is now reentrant for the fiber that holds it: the holder's nested take runs, and every other caller still waits.

Mobile has no action editor. It shows the "(on remove)" label through the shared projectScriptMenuLabel, and mobile thread deletion relies on automatic cleanup, which is covered. The storage cleanup section of docs/user/project-settings.md describes the option.

Scope and approval

There is no prior discussion. This is a focused configuration option for an established capability: project actions already have two worktree lifecycle triggers, creation and settle, and this adds the remaining one, removal. Projects that don't set it behave exactly as before. The option only controls which action runs at that point.

Verification

• vp test run on ProjectSetupScriptRunner, workspaceLease, terminal Manager, GitManager, ThreadLaunchService, ThreadSettlementService, WorktreeMcpService, storageCleanup, web projectScripts and projectScriptEditor.permissions, and shared t3ProjectFile: 381 passed. After the review fix, GitWorkflowService, GitManager, ProjectSetupScriptRunner and ws: 138 passed. The new GitWorkflowService test checks that a linked worktree runs the action (matched by real path, or given relative to cwd) while the main checkout and an unrelated directory do not, and fails with the check removed.
• The runner tests check that removal waits for the script (its shell stays open until the completion sentinel), that a failing script still lets removal continue and closes its shell with deleteHistory, that a worktree outside any project runs nothing, and that a script that never finishes stops being waited on after 5 minutes (TestClock).
• The new terminal Manager test opens a terminal while holding the workspace lease for its cwd. Against the old workspaceLease.ts it fails with Test timed out in 5000ms; with this change it passes. The lease test checks that the holder's nested take runs while another fiber waits for release.
• tsc --noEmit passes in apps/server, apps/web, packages/contracts and packages/shared. Targeted lint and formatting pass on changed files.
• In the web dev app with isolated state, I added an action, turned on the new switch and saved. The actions list shows "on remove", and the server's settings.json stores runOnWorktreeRemove: true.

	Before	After
Action editor
Project actions

End to end in the web dev app (isolated state, macOS, zsh) on 7c032c3, before the linked-worktree check was added, against a throwaway repo whose remove action appends to a log outside the worktree, sleeps 3 seconds, and records whether the worktree still exists before and after the sleep:

• Deleting a thread and confirming "Delete the worktree too?" (vcs.removeWorktree): the action ran with $PWD, T3CODE_WORKTREE_PATH and T3CODE_PROJECT_ROOT set to the worktree and project, saw the worktree at both checks (10:19:36 and 10:19:39), and the worktree was gone at 10:19:40. No terminal history was left behind.
• Deleting a thread with "Delete worktrees with deleted threads" on (storage cleanup, which holds the workspace lease): with the action changed to end in exit 3, it ran to completion inside the worktree, the server logged worktree remove script did not succeed with exitCode: 3 and the output tail, and storage cleanup removed worktree followed 50 ms later.

After the review fix, on 9dcddb5, I reran the manual path with the worktree location set to /tmp/t3-remove-e2e/worktrees. /tmp is a symlink on macOS, so the thread stored /tmp/.../t3-58071e4c while git worktree list reported /private/tmp/.../t3-58071e4c. The action still matched it as a linked worktree, ran in it (pwd -P was the /private/tmp path), saw it at both checks (11:59:49 and 11:59:52), and the worktree was gone at 11:59:53. The client never sends a non-worktree path, so the main-checkout and unrelated-directory cases are covered by the unit test only.

Not checked: the desktop and mobile clients, and Windows.

Model: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context). Harness: Claude Code in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds an opt-in, user-facing lifecycle workflow that runs arbitrary project actions before both manual and automatic worktree deletion, with terminal and lease-coordination changes and a five-minute wait. Existing defaults remain unchanged, but the cross-cutting production behavior and destructive cleanup integration warrant human review.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds a configurable project script role that runs before a worktree is removed. The runner waits for the script or a five-minute timeout, then closes its terminal. Automatic cleanup and linked-worktree removal invoke the runner before removing a worktree.

Changes

Worktree Removal Scripts

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define and configure the removal-script role packages/contracts/src/project.ts, packages/contracts/src/t3ProjectFile.ts, packages/shared/src/projectScripts.ts, apps/web/src/projectScripts.ts, apps/web/src/projectScripts.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/projectScriptEditor.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ProjectScriptsControl.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/*, apps/web/src/components/projectScriptEditor.permissions.test.tsx, packages/shared/src/t3ProjectFile.test.ts, docs/user/project-settings.md	Project script contracts, role selection, editor state, imports, labels, and tests now include runOnWorktreeRemove. Scripts with cleanup roles are excluded from primary-script selection.
Run and test removal scripts apps/server/src/project/ProjectSetupScriptRunner.ts, apps/server/src/project/ProjectSetupScriptRunner.test.ts, apps/server/src/workspace/workspaceLease.ts, apps/server/src/workspace/workspaceLease.test.ts, apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.test.ts, apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.test.ts	The runner selects removal scripts, waits for completion or timeout, closes the terminal, and logs unsuccessful results. Workspace leases track held paths and allow a fiber to reacquire its current lease.
Invoke scripts before worktree removal apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts, apps/server/src/git/GitWorkflowService.ts, apps/server/src/git/GitWorkflowService.test.ts, apps/server/src/ws.ts	Storage cleanup and linked-worktree removal call the runner before removing a worktree. The Git workflow checks whether the requested path matches a linked worktree before running the action.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant StorageCleanup
  participant GitWorkflowService
  participant ProjectSetupScriptRunner
  participant Git
  StorageCleanup->>ProjectSetupScriptRunner: Run before-worktree-removal script
  ProjectSetupScriptRunner-->>StorageCleanup: Complete or reach timeout
  StorageCleanup->>Git: Remove worktree
  GitWorkflowService->>Git: List worktree paths
  GitWorkflowService->>ProjectSetupScriptRunner: Run script for a linked worktree
  ProjectSetupScriptRunner-->>GitWorkflowService: Complete or reach timeout
  GitWorkflowService->>Git: Remove worktree

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Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 744a4

Configured actions are restricted to linked worktrees, but concurrent automatic cleanup and user removal can block each other before the timeout begins. Startup failures or interruption can also leave removal-owned shells behind.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: Automatic cleanup acquires the workspace lease before opening its removal terminal. The RPC removal path opens a terminal under the shared worktree-remove owner lock, then waits for that workspace lease. If the RPC acquires the owner lock while cleanup holds the lease, cleanup can subsequently wait for the owner lock while the RPC waits for cleanup’s lease. Neither reaches the completion timeout. This newly introduced circular wait can strand teardown and block subsequent removal terminals sharing that owner; same-fiber lease reentrancy does not resolve the competing-fiber case.
• Medium · reliability · inferred: The new removal-owned shell is closed only after completion is awaited. A command-write failure after terminal opening is logged and suppressed without closing that terminal, allowing deletion to continue. Interruption during completion propagates and skips both terminal closure and Git removal. Unlike existing thread-owned setup shells, these terminals use a synthetic owner and lack per-removal cleanup finalization. They can therefore outlive the operation, retain history or running processes, and impede later automatic cleanup. Manager shutdown cleans processes, but does not provide operation-level recovery.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The action executes through the existing host terminal mechanism, whose environment inherits the host environment subject to its blocklist. Its effective resource exposure depends on the configured command and host process privileges, not merely the worktree directory. The new lifecycle trigger does not itself add a deployment identity or credential grant.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — A session with source-control:write can newly trigger the configured removal command through vcs.removeWorktree without terminal:operate. This expands configured-action reachability relative to the base, but does not expose a caller-supplied shell command. Existing lifecycle commands and configured Git hooks are important counterevidence against treating every indirect shell execution as a permission bypass.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — WebSocket upgrade authentication and per-RPC scope enforcement remain in place. The runner selects the first removal-enabled action from resolved project settings; an unknown project is treated as having no removal script. Linked-worktree validation limits the directories in which the RPC initiates that action.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The retained transition concerns affect failure containment and ownership of teardown processes rather than establishing unauthenticated compromise. Normal completion and timeout close the removal terminal, and manager shutdown provides a process-cleanup backstop, but neither resolves circular waits before completion nor guarantees cleanup when an individual removal is interrupted.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make the delegation policy explicit: document whether source-control:write authorizes configured lifecycle commands, and enforce any additional scope requirement consistently at both client and server boundaries. This is a policy-hardening proposal, not a verified authorization vulnerability.

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Explanation

The pull request adds a new user workflow: users can configure a worktree-removal action, and the server runs it before deleting worktrees. The new runBeforeWorktreeRemove behavior in apps/server/src/project/ProjectSetupScriptRunner.ts is invoked from automatic cleanup in apps/server/src/storageCleanup.ts and from the vcs.removeWorktree path in apps/server/src/git/GitWorkflowService.ts. This matches the Approvability rule: “Adds a subsystem or user workflow.”

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