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Summary

Fixes #1749.

Load all pages of the console's public template and snapshot lists when they fit a bounded loading budget. Requests run sequentially, with at most 20 requests, 1,000 records per page, 10,000 accumulated records, and a 30-second deadline for the entire load. Repeated or cyclic cursors fail immediately. A stalled fetch is cancelled; exceeding a budget reports a load error instead of returning a partial list. Existing query parameters and smaller requested page sizes are preserved.

Validation

  • Upstream Pull CI on 0746553d passed, including all 400 console tests, TypeScript checking, and the production build. Unrelated suites follow the repository's normal scope rules.
  • The 14 pagination cases cover multiple pages, cursor escaping, request-size clamping, failed continuations, repeated/cyclic cursors, request and record limits, exact-budget success, and cancellation at a deadline shared across pages. The new bounds regressions fail against the previous unbounded implementation and pass here.
  • A synthetic two-page reproduction against main at 29c1de7e returns only the first page and fails the complete-list assertion.
  • cargo arch and the console checks on this exact revision also passed in Linux. Local Windows type checking and the production build passed; two unchanged POSIX shell tests require Linux and pass there.
  • Gitleaks passed at commit. No live SPACE deployment or Firecracker smoke was run for this console-only change.

Severity and risk

Severity: low. Existing resources are hidden from console selectors/catalogs once their list exceeds the first API page.

Lists that exceed the loading budget now fail explicitly. The limits apply to the public-list helper's callers; changing them is a deliberate console policy change. Reverting this PR restores first-page-only loading.

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Comment thread ui/src/lib/public-api.ts Resolved
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dipeshbabu force-pushed the fix/ui-follow-public-list-cursors branch from 736dfe3 to 0746553 Compare November 10, 2026 19:58
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getPublicPage now follows continuation cursors and collects results across pages. It caps page size and enforces page-count, total-item, repeated-cursor, and timeout limits. Tests cover successful pagination and rejection or cancellation at those limits.

Possibly related issues

Possibly related PRs

  • perplexityai/SPACE#1525 — Its Templates list uses the UI API layer, and this change retrieves templates from continuation pages when the catalog spans multiple pages.

Severity of issue fixed: Low

Merge Risk: High · up to 07465

Large existing template or snapshot lists can now fail in console selectors when they exceed the new bounds. Confirm those bounds are acceptable for deployed lists before merging.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 07465

Pagination increases the work performed by each list read, but explicit request, item, and timeout limits contain it. The inspected requests retain existing authentication and resource-access controls. No introduced security vulnerability was identified, although broader security coverage and deployment behavior remain incomplete.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • observed — A list invocation can now generate up to 20 sequential API requests rather than one. The helper rejects pages exceeding 1,000 items and accumulated results exceeding 10,000 items. These are per-invocation controls, not a global concurrency or server-work bound.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — A response cursor changes only the encoded query parameter, not the destination path or origin. Every continuation uses the existing /api/v1 transport, authentication-header construction, and same-origin credential policy.
  • inferred — The inspected continuation flow does not gain cross-organization or administrative authority: each page is independently constrained by the existing server visibility and sandbox-ownership checks. This conclusion is limited to the inspected application flow.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — One abort signal covers the complete traversal and reaches fetch. Abort checks bracket each page request, the timer is cleared in finally, and failures do not return accumulated partial data. Regression cases exercise continuation failure, cursor cycles, budget boundaries, and a stalled continuation under the shared deadline.

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Description Follows The Pr Template Error The PR description has no ## Summary, ## Validation, or ## Severity and risk sections. The AI assistance: line is present. Add the three sections. Include what the change does, validation and results, and severity and risk.
Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test Warning The PR fixes pagination in ui/, but the Validation section does not name a regression test. It reports three failing cases and describes their coverage without identifying a test. Name a test, such as does not return a partial list when a later page fails, and state that it fails without the fix and passes with it.
Passed Passed checks: 4 passed

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Title check Passed The title starts with the lowercase area prefix "ui:" and summarizes the change with a relevant lowercase phrase. It has no trailing period or ticket ID.
Weakened Safeguards Are Justified Passed The diff adds pagination safeguards and tests. It does not remove or weaken a test, assertion, lint, CI check, or repository guard.
Agent Tooling Runs No New Commands Passed The diff changes UI application code and tests only. It does not change agent tooling files or add agent-executed commands.
Public-Safe Content Passed The diff, title, and description contain no content covered by the failure conditions. The resource identifier in the test is an example.

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ui/src/lib/public-api.ts: 1

38-38: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Low value

Unverified finding
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path.split('?', 2) drops any query text after a second ?.

JavaScript split with a limit truncates the result. It does not keep the remainder. For a path such as /templates?limit=5&label=a?b, query becomes limit=5&label=a. The request silently loses part of the query. Current callers pass no second ?, so the practical risk is low. Split on the first ? only to avoid silent truncation.

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-  const [pathname, query] = path.split('?', 2);
-  const params = new URLSearchParams(query);
+  const queryStart = path.indexOf('?');
+  const pathname = queryStart < 0 ? path : path.slice(0, queryStart);
+  const params = new URLSearchParams(queryStart < 0 ? '' : path.slice(queryStart + 1));

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Console template and snapshot lists stop at the first API page

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