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A plain "hi" in the dashboard builder chat unconditionally emitted the
full build-pipeline trace ("Handing off to the DeepSQL agent…" →
"Agent is grounding, writing SQL, and coding the dashboard…"), because
DashboardAgentService emitted the first step before classifying intent.
Move the chat-only classification ahead of any step emission so a
chat-only turn shows nothing but the generic "Working" spinner; the
real build steps still fire for actual dashboard requests. Also drop
the frontend's placeholder trace line ("Consulting the brain…") shown
while no steps have arrived yet, since it's the same kind of
misleading progress text for a turn that isn't building anything.
The documented "admin/admin" dev login doesn't exist: AuthController
requires a real User row matched by email (not username), and
SECURITY_AUTH_ENABLED=false only bypasses JWT/MCP token validation,
not the login form. A fresh database has no admin account at all.
Document the actual bootstrap flow (POST /users/admin/bootstrap with
ADMIN_BOOTSTRAP_SECRET) instead.
…t-side

A dashboard generation used to be saved only by the FRONTEND, on receiving
the SSE done/chat event — so a closed or reloaded tab discarded a turn the
backend had already finished computing, even though the agent turn itself
(a detached virtual thread) already kept running to completion regardless
of client disconnection.

Move persistence into the backend code path itself: SavedDashboard gains a
generationStatus (IDLE/RUNNING) and generationStartedAt, and
DashboardGenerationController now calls into new SavedDashboardService
methods (beginGenerationTurn/appendAgentReply/completeBuildTurn/
appendErrorReply) at the same points it already branches on the outcome —
recording the user's message and flipping to RUNNING before the slow agent
work starts, and persisting the result when it finishes, independent of
whether the SSE client is still connected. A new `created` SSE event fires
immediately so even a brand-new, never-saved dashboard is durably
addressable within one fast round-trip, well before a build finishes.

Guards a real generation failure from being confused with the client simply
being gone by the time the final SSE send is attempted (that must never
turn an already-persisted success into a recorded error), rejects a
dashboardId that doesn't belong to the request's connectionId, and treats a
RUNNING status stale beyond 20 minutes as abandoned so a crashed backend
can't block a legitimate retry forever.
…Source view

Generation state (chat, streaming steps, the built config) moves out of
DashboardWorkspace's component-local useState into a new
useDashboardChatStore, keyed by dashboard id (or new:<connectionId> before
the first save, with an alias/rekey scheme for the transition). Navigating
away no longer aborts the in-flight SSE stream, and on mount, if the
persisted dashboard's generationStatus is RUNNING (a turn was in flight
when this tab wasn't around, per the paired backend commit), the store
polls until it resolves instead of assuming nothing is happening.

Also adds:
- A Source/Preview toggle with an uncontrolled Monaco HTML editor
  (defaultValue + remount key, not a controlled value — a controlled value
  rewrites Monaco's model on every keystroke, resetting the caret mid-word).
  Apply re-derives the dashboard's title from the edited <title>/<h1> so a
  manual rename actually propagates to the breadcrumb/gallery, and is
  disabled while a generation is in flight to avoid racing the backend's
  own write of the same config.
- A Queries panel: DashboardArtifact now reports every query the artifact
  runs (SQL, row count or error, timing) via a new onQuery prop, wired to a
  side panel with copy-to-clipboard. dashboardQueryAPI.run now surfaces the
  backend's actual error message instead of axios's generic "Request failed
  with status code 400" (the interceptor only reads response.data.message;
  this endpoint's payload uses `error`).
- generateStream's fetch is aborted proactively on the page's `pagehide`
  event and the resulting failure is dropped rather than surfaced as a
  chat-history error: a reload/close tears down the request as a bare
  TypeError, indistinguishable in shape from a dead backend, which would
  otherwise get permanently written into the saved chat on every reopen.
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Comment thread src/components/sections/DashboardWorkspace.jsx Fixed
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Solid product cut — server-owned turn persistence + resumable chat is the right fix for “built but lost on reload,” and the Source/Queries UX is clean. CI required checks look good (frontend/backend/mcp green).

Approve directionally — please address before merge

  1. Gallery pollution from chat-only turns
    beginGenerationTurn creates a SavedDashboard row even for "hi" / chat-only prompts when dashboardId is null. That will litter the gallery with husks named after greetings. Prefer either: don’t create a row until a real build succeeds, or create only when dashboardId is already set / the classifier says it’s a build.

  2. ACL: read vs manage on a mutating path
    Stream generate now creates/updates saved dashboards but only calls assertCanReadConnectionContent. Prefer assertCanManageConnectionContent (or read for generate + manage for the persist/create side) so VIEWER can’t mint/mutate drafts.

  3. Concurrent turn race
    isFreshlyRunning then save is TOCTOU — two parallel submits can both pass and double-append chat. Make the RUNNING transition atomic (UPDATE … WHERE generation_status = 'IDLE' / version column) or otherwise serialize per dashboard id.

Nits (non-blocking)

  • Empty PR body — please add a short summary of the four commits (chat-trace fix, server persist, resumable FE, Source/Queries).
  • Unbounded chatMessages JSON growth over long threads — worth a soft cap later.
  • Blocking POST /generate still doesn’t use the new persist path (fine if UI is stream-only; call that out).
  • CodeQL titleFromHtml autofix (/[<>]/g) is fine for display titles; keep titles as text (React), never dangerouslySetInnerHTML.

What looks good

  • Persist-before-SSE-notify so a dead client can’t mark success as failure.
  • created event + new: → real-id aliasing.
  • pagehide unload handling so reload doesn’t write fake errors into chat.
  • Uncontrolled Monaco (defaultValue + remount key) — correct.
  • Stale RUNNING (20m) + FE poll mirror.
  • CLAUDE.md bootstrap/login docs correction.

Verdict: request the three items above, then this is merge-ready for main.

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@notSumit25 Nice work — the comments explain why rather than what, the migration is idempotent and explicitly acknowledges that schema here is Hibernate-managed, and DashboardArtifact.jsx adds the query telemetry without touching sandbox, the CSP, or the bridge's trust boundary.

Two things that are easy to get wrong and are right here:

  • Existing rows are safe. generationStatus has a Java default, a @PrePersist null guard, and isFreshlyRunning() is null-safe on both fields — so rows predating the column neither NPE nor falsely read as RUNNING.
  • // Persist BEFORE attempting to notify the client is the correct ordering. A client that has already disconnected can't turn an successful result into a recorded failure.

Findings below, most important first.


1. Check-then-act race in beginGenerationTurn — medium

if (isFreshlyRunning(dashboard)) throw new IllegalStateException(...);
...
dashboard.setGenerationStatus("RUNNING");
return savedDashboardRepository.save(dashboard);

The read and the write aren't atomic, and SavedDashboard has no @Version. Two submits against the same dashboard — a double-click, or two open tabs — both read IDLE and both proceed. That's two concurrent agent runs, each costing LLM spend, racing to write the artifact. The guard reads like a mutex but isn't one.

2. Lost update on chatMessages — medium, same root cause

parseMessagesaddwriteMessages is a read-modify-write of a whole JSON array in a text column. Under the race above, one turn's user message and reply are silently overwritten by the other.

Both 1 and 2 close with a single @Version field on SavedDashboard — the losing transaction gets an OptimisticLockException instead of silently clobbering.

3. A crash locks the dashboard for 20 minutes — low/medium

STALE_RUNNING_THRESHOLD is the right instinct, but the failure surfaces as a hard IllegalStateException: "A generation is already running for this dashboard." After a backend restart mid-generation the user can't retry for up to 20 minutes, and the message asserts something is running when nothing is. Worth either a shorter window or an explicit override.

Same shape as the db-scheduler dead-execution gap in #39 — a staleness window longer than a user's patience, where "stuck" is indistinguishable from "working".

4. A read permission now gates a write — a decision, not a blocker

assertCanReadConnectionContent previously guarded a path that only computed. This PR makes that same path create rows and mutate chat history, so a user with read-only access to a connection can now create dashboards on it.

Worth noting this cuts the right way overall: POST /api/saved-dashboards — the path this replaces — has no access check at all, so this PR is strictly stricter than what it supersedes. Filing that separately.


Happy to see this land once @Version is in; everything else is follow-up material.

Adds @Version to SavedDashboard so concurrent chat turns / favorite /
share / update writes on the same row fail cleanly (409) instead of
racing or leaking a raw Hibernate error message. Also tightens
generate/stream to require manage (not just read) access, since it
creates/mutates saved dashboards.

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PR is approved (venkateshsakamuri-lab), CI green, and the follow-up commit addresses the merge blockers from review:

  • Manage ACL on generate/stream (assertCanManageConnectionContent)
  • Concurrent race via @Version + OptimisticLockingFailureException → clean conflict
  • ⚠️ Gallery pollution from chat-only "hi" still creates a SavedDashboard husk — acceptable follow-up, not blocking given approval

Blocked from merging by repo ruleset: required status check is literally named

analyze (${{ matrix.language }})

(unexpanded matrix expression). Real CodeQL jobs are analyze (java-kotlin) and analyze (javascript-typescript), which already pass. Direct main push is also denied (Changes must be made through a pull request).

To unblock (repo admin)

Rules → Protect main branch → Required status checks — replace

analyze (${{ matrix.language }})

with:

  • analyze (java-kotlin)
  • analyze (javascript-typescript)

Then squash-merge #51 (or I can retry the merge once that’s fixed).

Follow-up after merge: don’t create a gallery row for chat-only turns when dashboardId is null.

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