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What

The Studio formats and artifact list move from component state into TanStack Query, with the open artifact and its viewers under one key prefix, so a single artifacts event refreshes all of them.

  • Keys: new features/studio/query-keys.ts. studioKeys.formats(ws, selection), studioKeys.artifacts(ws), and studioKeys.artifact(id) under studioKeys.openArtifacts(). ArtifactPanel and the xlsx, html, quiz and flashcards viewers read under that prefix.
  • useStudio keeps its interface, so the dashboard and panels are unchanged:
    • formats are a query keyed by the selection token, keeping the last answer while a new one loads;
    • the list's lost-notice backstop is refetchInterval while a row is pending or processing, still every 10 s;
    • an artifacts event invalidates the list and every open artifact. It cancels a list read still in flight first, so an older answer can't land last, which the existing race test pins;
    • the ready and failed toasts compare each new read of the list with the one before;
    • mutations update the cached list.
  • A latent bug, fixed in passing: the quiz and flashcards viewers cached their saved progress under ["artifact", id], a key nothing read, because the panel read ["artifact-panel", id]. They now write to the panel's key, which is what their comment says they meant.

Why

docs/architecture/overview.md listed under Known gaps that the sources and Studio lists reload themselves as component state, "so nothing else that shows a document or an artifact is invalidated by the same event". It shows up for users: regenerating an artifact that is open in the side panel left the panel on the old generation until it was closed and reopened.

Fixes

No issue. This narrows that Known gaps line to the sources list, which is a bigger hook and left for its own PR. overview.md (Frontend) and studio.md say the list and open artifacts refresh on the event.

How to test

cd surfsense_local/frontend
pnpm test
pnpm lint && pnpm exec tsc --noEmit
cd ../.. && python scripts/check_docs.py
  • New artifact-panel.test.tsx test: with the Studio list and an open artifact mounted, an artifacts event shows the artifact's new generation. It failed before the change.
  • use-studio.test.ts keeps all its cases. Hooks now render inside a query client, and the backstop test also fakes setInterval, which TanStack's refetchInterval uses.
  • studio-panel.test.tsx renders through @/test-utils for a query client. The unavailable-format test now waits for the server's answer to disable the catalog card, which lands a tick later than before.

Full frontend suite: 444 passed.

High-level PR Summary

This refactor moves Studio artifact management from component state into TanStack Query with a unified key structure. The main improvement is that when artifacts are regenerated, open panels now automatically refresh to show the new generation, fixing a bug where users had to manually close and reopen panels. The change introduces a new query-keys.ts file to organize cache keys under a single prefix, allowing a single artifacts event to invalidate both the artifact list and all open artifact viewers simultaneously. A secondary fix corrects quiz and flashcard viewers which were previously writing progress to a cache key that nothing read.

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1 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/query-keys.ts
2 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/use-studio.ts
3 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/artifact-panel.tsx
4 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/viewers/quiz/quiz-viewer.tsx
5 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/viewers/flashcards/flashcards-viewer.tsx
6 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/viewers/xlsx-viewer.tsx
7 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/viewers/html-viewer.tsx
8 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/artifact-panel.test.tsx
9 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/use-studio.test.ts
10 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/studio-panel.test.tsx
11 docs/architecture/overview.md
12 docs/architecture/studio.md

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Open artifact panels and viewers refresh to show the latest content after an artifact update.
    • Artifact files load from the selected generation, preventing outdated content from appearing after regeneration.
    • Studio lists retain newly created artifacts when earlier requests finish late and refresh while jobs run. Completion notifications appear when jobs finish.
  • Documentation

    • Updated the architecture and Studio guides to describe artifact refresh behavior and current state management.

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Walkthrough

Studio formats and artifacts now use TanStack Query. Artifact events invalidate workspace artifact lists and open-artifact queries. Studio viewers use shared artifact query keys and generation-specific file URLs. Tests cover refreshed artifact content and cache updates during pending list requests.

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Studio artifact synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Query-backed workspace state and event handling
surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/query-keys.ts, surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/use-studio.ts, surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/use-studio.test.ts, surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/studio-panel.test.tsx, docs/architecture/*
Studio formats and artifacts use TanStack Query with shared keys. Workspace artifact events cancel and invalidate the artifact-list query and invalidate open-artifact queries. Create, regenerate, cancel, and remove update the query cache. Tests and architecture descriptions cover query-backed state and event behavior.
Shared open-artifact cache and viewer refresh
surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/artifact-panel.tsx, surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/viewers/flashcards/flashcards-viewer.tsx, surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/viewers/quiz/quiz-viewer.tsx, surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/viewers/html-viewer.tsx, surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/viewers/xlsx-viewer.tsx, surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/artifact-panel.test.tsx
ArtifactPanel and viewers use the shared artifact query-key namespace for artifact data and viewer state. A test checks that an artifact event refreshes the open panel with updated content.
Generation-specific artifact file requests
surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/api.ts, surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/viewers/*
Artifact file URLs include the artifact generation. Document, PDF, and presentation loading effects rerun when generation changes. Download URLs are built directly with the download parameter.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant StudioWorker
  participant useStudio
  participant QueryClient
  participant ArtifactPanel
  StudioWorker->>useStudio: Emit artifacts event
  useStudio->>QueryClient: Cancel and invalidate artifact-list query
  useStudio->>QueryClient: Invalidate open-artifact queries
  QueryClient->>ArtifactPanel: Refetch invalidated artifact query
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 07605

Open artifact viewers now request the refreshed generation, and no remaining issue requires a fix before merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 07605

The refresh design preserves the inspected access and rendering controls. A narrow concurrency race can mix older saved progress with regenerated content, but its demonstrated scope is local display state rather than increased privileges or cross-user access.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: Delayed quiz or flashcard progress responses can cross generation boundaries in the shared detail cache. Each completion merges returned progress into the current detail by artifact ID without comparing generations. If regeneration refreshes the detail before an older response arrives, obsolete progress can be attached to the newer content. The base wrote to a different, unread cache key; this PR makes that merge visible to the panel. Backend generation validation and loading-time runner unmounting mitigate ordinary transitions, but neither prevents a late cache write. The supported consequence is inconsistent local progress or viewer state, not an authorization bypass.
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Security Blast Radius

  • observed — An event targets one workspace list but invalidates the shared open-view prefix, including detail and query-backed file reads. It does not invalidate the entire application cache. The dashboard is keyed by active workspace ID, so switching workspaces remounts its inspection state rather than retaining the previous open panel.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Generated content remains downstream of the existing rendering boundaries. HTML is fetched and rendered through srcDoc with scripts allowed but without allow-same-origin. DOCX retains a script-disabled iframe, restrictive content policy, disabled altChunks, and removal of non-fragment links. The inspected PR changes request and refresh identity, not those controls; these observations are not a general proof that generated content is safe.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Backend quiz and flashcard progress validation rejects stored state from another generation. DOCX refresh cleanup also prevents a cancelled render from replacing newer pages. These are meaningful containment controls, but backend validation does not protect a client-only merge of a delayed progress response.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make progress cache updates conditional on the returned generation matching the current detail generation, and explicitly bind runner state to content identity. Validate delayed mutation completions across regeneration, unmounting, and cached-generation transitions.
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🟡 Minor · Include the generation in media file URLs. · artifact-panel.tsx:144

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Include the generation in media file URLs.

When an artifact event refetches an open panel after regeneration, the image and podcast viewers still build src from the artifact ID and file role. The unchanged URL can leave the loaded image or audio showing the previous file. Include the generation in both URLs so the new generation uses a distinct resource URL.

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diff --git a/surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/viewers/media-viewer.tsx b/surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/viewers/media-viewer.tsx
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-  const src = primary ? fileUrl(artifact.id, primary.role) : null
+  const src = primary
+    ? `${fileUrl(artifact.id, primary.role)}?generation=${artifact.generation}`
+    : null
diff --git a/surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/viewers/podcast-viewer.tsx b/surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/studio/viewers/podcast-viewer.tsx
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-  const src = primary ? fileUrl(artifact.id, primary.role) : null
+  const src = primary
+    ? `${fileUrl(artifact.id, primary.role)}?generation=${artifact.generation}`
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Both CodeRabbit points are fixed in 16180d9.

  • Older list reads overwriting actions (inline thread): setList cancels an in-flight list read before writing an action's result. There is a new test for it.
  • Media URLs after regeneration (outside the diff): fileUrl(id, role, generation) now puts ?generation=N in the URL.
    • It applies to every viewer, not only image and podcast. The pdf, docx and pptx viewers fetch in effects keyed on artifact.id, so they would also have kept the old file. Those effects now depend on artifact.generation too.
    • downloadUrl builds its own URL rather than appending to fileUrl.

Studio tests: 68 passed. The dashboard and chat tests pass when run on their own (88). They timed out in one full run on a heavily loaded machine.

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Merged into dev, thanks. It merges cleanly onto the newer Studio work (Refine, versions), keeps useStudio's interface, and fixes the quiz and flashcards cache that wrote ["artifact", id] while the panel read ["artifact-panel", id]. One thing for a follow-up PR, not blocking:

generation changes before the file does.

  • What happens on Regenerate: modules/artifacts/service.py:123 bumps artifact.generation when Regenerate is requested. The old files stay attached, at the same path, until worker/studio/shared/persist.py:70 replaces them at the end of the run.
  • What the open panel then does: it re-reads on the job-start event and loads fileUrl(id, role, generation=N+1), which returns the old bytes. The image, infographic and podcast viewers keep that src when the run ends, so they never reload. Quiz and flashcards seed their state once (quiz-viewer.tsx:96-100) from the old question list.
  • What's already the case on dev: readArtifactFile (api.ts:273-277) still requests quiz and flashcards with no token at all, so the browser can answer from its cache.

That window is rare in one window, but overview.md:103 says "a regenerated artifact that is open shows its new generation".

The root-cause fix is to key file reads on the stored file instead of the generation:

  • expose checksum_sha256, which is already stored (modules/artifacts/models.py:92), on ArtifactFileRead;
  • use it in fileUrl, readArtifactFile, the file query keys and the quiz and flashcards remount key.

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