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fix: Rerunning compile after COMPILE_WAIT_TIMEOUT now reattaches instead of failing as busy - #3039

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Summary

  • After uloop compile returns COMPILE_WAIT_TIMEOUT, rerunning it now waits for the compile that is still running, as the error's next actions promise, even while that compile keeps the Editor's main thread busy. Before, the rerun failed with UNITY_SERVER_BUSY.

User Impact

  • Before: while a long compile blocked the Editor's main thread, the rerun's status check got no answer in time, so the command sent a new compile, which the Editor rejected as busy (UNITY_SERVER_BUSY, "'compile' was not executed because Unity is busy running 'compile'"). The promised reattach never happened, and an agent could not tell whether the Editor had frozen.
  • After: when the Editor acknowledges the status check but cannot answer it in time, the rerun keeps polling the running compile and returns its result, or COMPILE_WAIT_TIMEOUT again if the compile is still running when --timeout-seconds runs out.
  • Unchanged: when the Editor does not acknowledge the check at all, cannot be reached, or returns another error, the command still starts a new compile and keeps the record of the earlier one.
  • The implicit compile of uloop run-tests and the compile fallback of uloop hot-reload go through the same path, so in the same situation they now wait for the running compile too (up to the default 10 minutes; uloop run-tests --skip-compile skips the implicit compile).

Changes

  • The compile status query keeps the send outcome and marks a query that the Editor acknowledged but did not answer before the deadline. The Editor writes that acknowledgment from its IPC thread before it switches to the main thread, so the acknowledgment shows the server is alive and only the main thread is blocked. This is the same rule the new-compile path already uses to decide whether to poll for the result.
  • The reattach probe now returns its last query's error instead of a bare failure flag, and the reattach waits in the existing attach loop when that error is an acknowledged timeout and the command's own deadline has not passed.
  • Each failed probe is logged with the path taken as cli_compile_attach_probe_failed in the CLI Vibe log, so a case like this one can be traced from the log.

Verification

  • go test ./internal/projectrunner -run 'TestRunCompileAttach|TestQueryCompileStatusFromUnity' in cli/project-runner: 23 tests pass, 11 of them new, including two that run the real status query against local servers, one that acknowledges the query and one that does not.
  • Five mutations each make the targeted tests fail: ignoring the acknowledgment, dropping the command-deadline check, deciding on the first probe error, waiting when any probe query went unanswered, and skipping the classification in the status query.
  • The command-deadline test still catches the dropped check when the run is held up for 70ms before the probe starts, as on a loaded machine.
  • go vet ./..., golangci-lint fmt --diff, golangci-lint run ./..., scripts/check-code-complexity.sh, scripts/check-file-length.sh.
  • go test ./... in cli/project-runner passes except one existing test that could not bind a Unix socket in the local environment; CI runs it.

Closes #3032

After COMPILE_WAIT_TIMEOUT, rerunning uloop compile is supposed to
reattach to the in-flight compile, as the COMPILE_WAIT_TIMEOUT and
UNITY_SERVER_BUSY next actions promise. While that compile blocked the
Editor's main thread, the get-compile-status probe timed out, the
command sent a new compile instead, and single-flight rejected it as
UNITY_SERVER_BUSY (#3032).

Unity writes the dispatch ack from its IPC thread before it switches to
the main thread, so a probe that runs out of time after the ack shows
the server is alive and only the main thread is blocked. That case now
enters the existing attach wait. A timeout before the ack, a failed
connection, any other error, and the caller's own deadline keep the old
path: a new compile, with the pending record kept.

- The status query keeps the send outcome and marks an acknowledged
  timeout, the same rule shouldWaitForCompileStatus applies to a new
  compile.
- The probe decides on its last query's error, the Editor's latest
  state.
- Each failed probe is logged with the path taken as
  cli_compile_attach_probe_failed, since #3032 could not be traced from
  the CLI Vibe log.

The same path also serves the run-tests implicit compile and the
hot-reload compile fallback.
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Status-query errors now distinguish acknowledged requests that receive no final response. When that occurs and the caller context remains active, pending compile attachment waits for the existing compile instead of starting a new one.

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Pending compile attachment

Layer / File(s) Summary
Classify status-query outcomes
cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_wait.go, cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_status_query_test.go
Status queries classify acknowledged requests that time out before a final response. Tests cover deadlines with and without an acknowledgment.
Choose the pending-compile path
cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_attach.go, cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_attach_probe_test.go
Pending probes return errors. An acknowledged unanswered probe waits for the pending compile if the caller context is active. Other failures follow the new-compile path. Tests check record state and log entries across probe outcomes.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 92f5f

A rerun may still hit UNITY_SERVER_BUSY when Unity does not acknowledge the status probe, despite the timeout message promising reattachment. Clarify the guidance so users know to wait for the original compile and retry.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 92f5f

The change is limited to how the compile command resumes an existing operation. The reviewed path preserves the pending record when waiting fails and does not introduce a new production entrypoint. No material security risk was identified, though coverage is not complete.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The reviewed transition affects a pending record under one project root and that project's Unity IPC compile interaction; the flagged test function does not add an attacker-reachable production entrypoint.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The client sets RequestAccepted after an IPC accepted-phase response. Only acceptance paired with a final-response timeout produces the new unanswered classification; a timeout without acceptance does not.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The new branch avoids submitting another compile on an acknowledged timeout. Polling can terminate on a result, disappearance, timeout, or cancellation, with record cleanup differentiated by outcome.
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 78.57% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 28 functions across 4 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed For issue [#3032], the PR preserves the status-query send outcome and identifies an acknowledged final-response timeout as an unanswered probe. The attachment path then waits for the existing in-fligh…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The production changes classify compile-status probe failures, select the existing wait path, preserve probe errors, and log failed probes. The tests verify these behaviors across the shared compile a…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: rerunning compile after COMPILE_WAIT_TIMEOUT reattaches to the in-flight compile instead of failing because Unity is busy.
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TestRunCompileAttachProbeContextDeadlineDoesNotWait pins the check that
keeps the reattach from waiting once the caller's own deadline has
passed. It relied on the caller's 100ms deadline landing after the
probe's 40ms deadline. When more than 60ms passed before the probe set
its deadline, as on a loaded machine, the probe stopped on its own check
of the finished context and returned a bare ctx.Err(). That error starts
a new compile with or without the check, so removing the check went
unnoticed.

- The fake status query now also waits out the probe deadline before
  answering. Timers never fire early, so the probe always reports the
  acknowledged-then-timed-out error and the check alone decides.
- The test now asserts the new-compile decision in the Vibe log instead
  of only the absence of the attach wait.

Found by the independent review of the pull request. With a 70ms delay
injected before the run, the committed test passed with the check
removed, while the fixed test fails; without that mutation both pass.

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🟡 Minor · Make timeout guidance match the unacknowledged-probe fallback. · compile_attach.go:49-63

cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_attach.go:49-63
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make timeout guidance match the unacknowledged-probe fallback.

When the status probe times out before Unity acknowledges it, isUnansweredStatusProbe returns false. The changed branch logs "new_compile" and submits a fresh compile request. If the original compile is still active, Unity can return UNITY_SERVER_BUSY. This contradicts the timeout guidance that says rerunning uloop compile will reattach. The Vibe log records the branch but does not guide the CLI user.

Update the guidance to describe the fallback and the required retry.

Suggested fix
-	reattachAction := "Unity keeps compiling and refuses other commands with UNITY_SERVER_BUSY until it finishes. Re-run `uloop compile`: it will reattach to the in-flight compile and wait for its result instead of starting a new one."
+	reattachAction := "Unity keeps compiling and refuses other commands with UNITY_SERVER_BUSY until it finishes. Re-run `uloop compile` to try to reattach to the in-flight compile. If Unity does not acknowledge the status probe, the CLI starts a new compile request, which can return UNITY_SERVER_BUSY while the original compile is still active. Wait for the original compile to finish, then retry."
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Review comment at @cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_attach.go
around lines 49 - 63:
Update the reattach guidance used by the pending-compile flow around
attachWaitForPendingCompile to explain that an unacknowledged status probe may
cause the CLI to submit a new compile request and receive UNITY_SERVER_BUSY.
Tell users to wait for the original compile to finish before retrying.

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Review comments at @cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_attach.go:
- Around line 49-63: Update the reattach guidance used by the pending-compile
flow around attachWaitForPendingCompile to explain that an unacknowledged status
probe may cause the CLI to submit a new compile request and receive
UNITY_SERVER_BUSY. Tell users to wait for the original compile to finish before
retrying.

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Re-running uloop compile after COMPILE_WAIT_TIMEOUT returns UNITY_SERVER_BUSY instead of reattaching when the Editor main thread is blocked

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