fix(host): review round 6 — progressive selection-anchored landing; anchor on actual parent entries; focus-flag hygiene

.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-28-directory-picker-capability-seam.i18n.yaml

@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 # side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
 # after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
 #   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write .agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-28-directory-picker-capability-seam.md
-2026-07-28-directory-picker-capability-seam.md: 51d71d15cb5144d555a5b156d9b108d7a2ad41b8
-2026-07-28-directory-picker-capability-seam.zh.md: 60bc14c13d1e4655faefbd5eaa63469119bf0ca3
+2026-07-28-directory-picker-capability-seam.md: ad2aa904beddb2fe941883c3c1827702dbec9964
+2026-07-28-directory-picker-capability-seam.zh.md: 30e719ad9b4e8374496106b447e961a042c7d8b6

.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-28-directory-picker-capability-seam.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Placement and policy rulings folded into this decision:
 - **Dependency survey (hand-roll vs adopt).** Node's stdlib *is* the maintained cross-platform OS layer (`readdir(withFileTypes)`, `homedir`, path semantics); surveyed alternatives fail the dependency bar — file-manager packages (`node-file-manager`, `files-and-folders`, Syncfusion's provider) are whole HTTP apps (fit), drive-letter helpers (`drivelist` native addon, `windows-drive-letters` ~7y stale) fail health/proportionality. The browse backend is a thin adapter over stdlib.
 - **Hidden entries: return-and-flag.** The host stamps `hidden` (POSIX dot convention) and returns everything; the client filters. Display policy stays client-side, and the show-hidden toggle shipped as exactly that client-only change: a fixed-label footer toggle whose state lives in the pressed presentation (`aria-pressed` + check glyph), a dot-led path-draft prefix reveals the hidden entries it names, and the current selection is exempt from both the hidden and the prefix filter (it anchors the two-pane view). Windows' `FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN` is not exposed by dirents — documented limitation until a native probe pays for itself.
 - **Path-editor cancel scope: the dialog card.** The browse client's path editor cancels on Escape and on focus leaving the card, both observed at a card-scope wrapper rather than the input — after Tab parks focus on a filtered row the input is off the event path, yet Escape must collapse the editor (not the dialog) and a later focus departure must still cancel. Non-cancel exemptions: window/tab focus loss, in-card focus moves, and pointer paths (rows and the toggle suppress focus steal on mousedown while editing). Separators for seeding and draft-tail filtering are inferred from `listing.home`; the wire-field alternative below records the deferred authoritative form. Combobox semantics between the editor and the list it filters (`aria-expanded`/`aria-controls`/active-descendant, result announcements) are likewise deferred — today they read to assistive tech as separate widgets.
-- **Navigation lands selection-anchored.** Away from the display root, the browse client's navigate (a crumb jump or a submitted path) lists the target's parent level with the target selected and its children on the right — two panes throughout, so a crumb jump reads as stepping back one pane rather than collapsing to a single column. The display root (home, or a rootward chain with no parent crumb) keeps the single wide level; the parent leg runs under the same supersession scope as the landing, and its failure falls back to the single-pane landing quietly — the target listed fine, and nobody asked to see the parent.
+- **Navigation lands selection-anchored, progressively.** Away from the display root (the same collapse the crumb header renders, so crumbs and pane shape never disagree), the browse client's navigate commits the target level the moment it arrives — the editor closes and loading ends on that first settlement, so an Enter-submitted navigation is never withdrawn waiting on more — and a parent leg then upgrades the landing in place: the target's actual parent-level entry re-selected (platform case folding on Windows), its children on the right, so a crumb jump reads as stepping back one pane rather than collapsing to a single column. The parent leg runs under the landing's supersession scope and is aborted on the wire by any newer intent; a failed parent leg, or a truncated parent window lacking the target, leaves the committed single-pane landing — the upgrade must never orphan the selection it exists to anchor.
 - **Symlinks: follow for enterability.** `stat` probes symlinks (broken/cyclic → skipped); crumbs keep the logical path the operator navigated, and `workspace.create` already canonicalizes via realpath at adoption.
 - **Listing levels are bounded, and streamed.** One `list` call returns at most `maxEntries` rows (config, default 1000 — GitHub's web-UI directory-listing bound). The level streams via `opendir` into a name-sorted window of `maxEntries + 1` candidates, so memory stays O(maxEntries) and enterability probing touches only windowed candidates; the wire `DirectoryListing` carries a required `truncated` flag so the client states incompleteness instead of silently missing tail entries. A windowed broken symlink is not backfilled from beyond the window — the eviction already marks the level truncated. Window insertion is binary with an O(1) full-window tail rejection (an oversized level must not pay a window scan per dirent), and `list(path, signal)` threads the carrier's request signal so a scan of a stalled network directory cannot outlive a disconnected caller — every await in the scan (open, each read, each symlink probe) races the signal, an aborted exit abandons rather than awaits the close (Node queues close behind in-flight reads), and abandoned settlements are swallowed so cleanup can never surface as an unhandled rejection. An unbounded level is a memory/responsiveness hole for large or adversarial directories.
 - **Whole-filesystem scope, no roots config.** `workspace.create` accepts arbitrary paths and the API serves bash-driving methods, so a browse root would be UX scoping, not a boundary; configurability without a consumer fails the evidence bar. Deferred until a deployment needs it.

.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-28-directory-picker-capability-seam.zh.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ web GUI 的"打开本地文件夹"流程被焊死在一种交互上：`host.pick
 - **依赖调研（手写 vs 引入）。** Node 标准库本身就是维护中的跨平台 OS 层（`readdir(withFileTypes)`、`homedir`、路径语义）；调研过的替代品都过不了依赖门槛——文件管理器包（`node-file-manager`、`files-and-folders`、Syncfusion 的 provider）是整套 HTTP 应用（契合度不过），盘符工具（原生插件 `drivelist`、约七年未更的 `windows-drive-letters`）健康度／比例失当。browse 后端是标准库上的薄适配。
 - **隐藏条目：返回并打标。** 宿主标注 `hidden`（POSIX 点前缀约定）并返回全部条目；客户端过滤。展示策略留在客户端，"显示隐藏"开关正是作为这一纯客户端改动落地：标签固定的 footer 开关，其状态由按下态呈现承载（`aria-pressed` + 勾选符号）；以点开头的路径草稿前缀会显出它所指名的隐藏条目；当前选中项则不受隐藏与前缀两种过滤影响（它锚定着双栏视图）。Windows 的 `FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN` 不被 dirent 暴露——记为限制，直到原生探测值回其成本。
 - **路径编辑器的取消范围：对话框卡片。** browse 客户端的路径编辑器在按 Escape 与焦点离开卡片时取消，两者都在卡片范围的包装层而非输入框上监听——Tab 把焦点停到某个过滤命中的行之后，输入框已不在事件路径上，但 Escape 仍须收起编辑器（而非对话框），其后的焦点离开也仍须取消。不取消的豁免：窗口／标签页失焦、卡片内焦点移动，以及指针路径（编辑期间行与开关在 mousedown 时抑制焦点夺取）。预填与草稿末段过滤所用的分隔符从 `listing.home` 推断；下文的线上字段替代方案记录了被延期的权威形态。编辑器与其过滤的列表之间的 combobox 语义（`aria-expanded`／`aria-controls`／active-descendant、结果播报）同样被延期——目前二者在辅助技术看来是彼此独立的控件。
-- **导航以选中项为锚落地。** 在展示根之外，browse 客户端的导航（crumb 跳转或提交的路径）列出目标的父层级，选中目标并在右侧展示其子项——全程双栏，因此 crumb 跳转读作后退一栏，而不是塌缩成单列。展示根（home，或没有父 crumb 的抵根链）保持单个宽层级；父层级这一程与落地共用同一 supersession 范围，其失败会静默回退到单栏落地——目标本身列举无误，本也没有人要求查看父层级。
+- **导航以选中项为锚、渐进落地。** 在展示根之外（与 crumb 头部渲染的是同一塌缩，因此 crumb 与分栏形态永不相左），browse 客户端的导航在目标层级到达的那一刻即提交它——这次首个落定即关闭编辑器并结束加载，因此 Enter 提交的导航绝不会为等待更多内容而被撤回——随后父层级这一程就地升级这次落地：重新选中目标在父层级中的实际条目（Windows 上按平台惯例折叠大小写），右侧展示其子项，因此 crumb 跳转读作后退一栏，而不是塌缩成单列。父层级这一程在落地的 supersession 范围下运行，任何较新的意图都会在线上将其中止；父层级这一程失败，或被截断的父窗口缺少目标时，都保留已提交的单栏落地——升级的存在正是为了锚定选中项，绝不能反而让它悬空。
 - **符号链接：为可进入性而跟随。** 用 `stat` 探测符号链接（断链／循环→跳过）；面包屑保留操作者导航的逻辑路径，`workspace.create` 在接纳时本就做 realpath 规范化。
 - **列举层级有上限，且流式处理。** 单次 `list` 至多返回 `maxEntries` 行（配置项，默认 1000——GitHub 网页端目录列举的同一上限）。层级经 `opendir` 流入一个按名排序、容量 `maxEntries + 1` 的候选窗口，内存保持 O(maxEntries)，可进入性探测只触及窗口内候选；线上 `DirectoryListing` 携带必填的 `truncated` 标志，让客户端明示不完整而不是静默缺尾。窗口内的断链符号链接不从窗口外回填——发生过驱逐本身已把层级标记为截断。窗口插入为二分查找、满窗尾部单次比较即拒绝（超大层级不能为每个 dirent 付出一次全窗扫描），且 `list(path, signal)` 透传载体的请求信号，滞塞网络目录的扫描不会在调用方断连后继续存活——扫描中的每个 await（打开、每次读取、每次符号链接探测）都与信号赛跑，中止路径放弃而非等待 close（Node 会把 close 排在在飞读取之后），被放弃的 settlement 全部吞掉，清理不会以未处理拒绝的形式冒出。无上限的层级对超大或恶意构造的目录就是内存／响应性漏洞。
 - **全盘可浏览，不做 roots 配置。** `workspace.create` 接受任意路径且 API 本就提供驱动 bash 的方法，浏览根只会是 UX 范围而非边界；没有消费方的可配置性过不了证据门槛。等到有部署需要再做。

packages/host/directory-picker-browse/README.i18n.yaml

@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 # side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
 # after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
 #   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write packages/host/directory-picker-browse/README.md
-README.md: 51e27115b5179796810c19b618b08a3523de8d10
-README.zh.md: 4caeff1c2ebfea2c12e6bb598dae2c34f2e34d84
+README.md: 23153881b84dcb71dfb05d4f297a5818c410ca77
+README.zh.md: d7010e2941a801ba6358082824330eaae46e42b7

packages/host/directory-picker-browse/README.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The **in-app browsing backend** of the [directory-picker seam](../directory-pick
 
 Behavior facts: listings return **directories only**, name-sorted, with symlinks-to-directories followed (broken/cyclic links skipped — the probe `stat` failing means "not enterable") and a host-owned `hidden` flag (POSIX dot convention) left for the client to act on; `crumbs` is the root-to-target ancestor chain, the root crumb labeled by its full path (`/`, `C:\`); an absent `list` path means the host account's home directory. `createDirectory` is non-recursive (a missing parent is a real failure, not a level to invent) and validates the name as a single non-blank segment even when called directly, mirroring the wire schema's fence. Both primitives reject an explicit path that is not fully qualified — relative forms, and on Windows the rooted drive-less forms (`\foo`, `/foo`) and incomplete UNC prefixes (`\\`, `\\server`) that `isAbsolute` accepts — with `directory-unreadable`/`directory-create-failed`, instead of letting `resolve` rebase it under the host process cwd or current drive. One `list` call returns at most `maxEntries` rows (config, default 1000 — the bound GitHub's web UI applies to directory listings), and the level streams through a bounded window so memory stays O(maxEntries) no matter how many children the directory holds: a cut level keeps the name-sorted head, counts hidden rows against the bound, probes only windowed candidates, and reports `truncated: true` so the client can say the level is incomplete (a windowed broken symlink is not backfilled from beyond the window — the eviction already marks the level truncated); window insertion is binary with an O(1) full-window tail rejection, and `list` threads the caller's `AbortSignal` so a disconnect or timeout stops the scan instead of letting it outlive the caller. Failures throw the seam's typed `DirectoryPickerError`. Policy rationale: [the directory-picker capability seam Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-28-directory-picker-capability-seam.md).
 
-**Dual-face package**: the browser half (`./client`) fills [ui-workspace's](../../client/ui-workspace/README.md) two directory-flow holes with the in-app **Select Workspace Directory** dialog (figma `Harness` 813-23126 family — Miller two-column view whose navigations land selection-anchored: a crumb jump or a submitted path lists the target's parent level with the target selected, so stepping back keeps two panes while the display root keeps the single wide level; breadcrumb with a click-to-edit path zone whose editor seeds a trailing separator, prefix-filters the listed level from the draft's final segment while typing (case-insensitively, over the listed — possibly truncated — rows only; Enter still navigates by the exact text), and cancels on Escape or when focus leaves the dialog card (window/tab switches and in-card focus moves keep the draft); a fixed-label show-hidden footer toggle over the host's `hidden` flags, with a dot-led typed prefix revealing its matches and the current selection exempt from both filters; nested New-folder dialog), driving `host.listDirectory`/`host.createDirectory` and registering its own locale namespace (`directory-browser`, zh default / en). One cordis.yml row therefore composes both sides of the browse interaction; the client carries no capability-kind branching, and mounting a second flow package fails at load (the holes are `single` kind).
+**Dual-face package**: the browser half (`./client`) fills [ui-workspace's](../../client/ui-workspace/README.md) two directory-flow holes with the in-app **Select Workspace Directory** dialog (figma `Harness` 813-23126 family — Miller two-column view whose navigations land selection-anchored: a crumb jump or a submitted path commits the target immediately, then re-selects its actual entry in its parent level once that level arrives — two panes, so stepping back never collapses (a failed or truncated parent leg keeps the single-pane landing; the display root keeps the single wide level); breadcrumb with a click-to-edit path zone whose editor seeds a trailing separator, prefix-filters the listed level from the draft's final segment while typing (case-insensitively, over the listed — possibly truncated — rows only; Enter still navigates by the exact text), and cancels on Escape or when focus leaves the dialog card (window/tab switches and in-card focus moves keep the draft); a fixed-label show-hidden footer toggle over the host's `hidden` flags, with a dot-led typed prefix revealing its matches and the current selection exempt from both filters; nested New-folder dialog), driving `host.listDirectory`/`host.createDirectory` and registering its own locale namespace (`directory-browser`, zh default / en). One cordis.yml row therefore composes both sides of the browse interaction; the client carries no capability-kind branching, and mounting a second flow package fails at load (the holes are `single` kind).
 
 ## Model Experience
 

packages/host/directory-picker-browse/README.zh.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 行为事实：列举**只返回目录**、按名称排序，指向目录的符号链接会被跟随（断链／循环链接被跳过——探测 `stat` 失败即"不可进入"），并携带宿主判定的 `hidden` 标志（POSIX 点前缀约定），展示决策留给客户端；`crumbs` 是从根到目标的祖先链，根 crumb 以完整路径标注（`/`、`C:\`）；`list` 不带路径即列举宿主账户的家目录。`createDirectory` 不递归（父目录缺失是真实失败，不是要补造的层级），且即便被直接调用也把名称校验为单个非空段，与协议 schema 的栅栏一致。两个原语都拒绝非完全限定的显式路径——相对形态，以及 Windows 上 `isAbsolute` 会放行的无盘符有根形态（`\foo`、`/foo`）与不完整的 UNC 前缀（`\\`、`\\server`）——报 `directory-unreadable`／`directory-create-failed`，而不是任由 `resolve` 把它重定位到宿主进程 cwd 或当前盘符之下。单次 `list` 至多返回 `maxEntries` 行（配置项，默认 1000——GitHub 网页端对目录列举采用的同一上限），且层级以流式方式经过一个有界窗口，无论目录有多少子项内存都保持 O(maxEntries)：被截断的层级保留按名排序的头部、隐藏行计入上限、只探测窗口内候选，并报告 `truncated: true`，供客户端提示层级不完整（窗口内的断链符号链接不会从窗口外回填——发生过驱逐本身已把层级标记为截断）；窗口插入为二分查找、满窗尾部单次比较即拒绝，且 `list` 透传调用方的 `AbortSignal`，断连或超时会停止扫描而不是让它在调用方离开后继续。失败抛出 seam 的类型化 `DirectoryPickerError`。策略依据：[目录选择能力 seam Agent Note](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-28-directory-picker-capability-seam.md)。
 
-**双面包**：browser half（`./client`）以应用内 **选择工作区目录** 对话框（figma `Harness` 813-23126 家族——Miller 双列视图，其导航以选中项为锚落地：crumb 跳转或提交的路径会列出目标的父层级并选中目标，因此后退仍保持双栏，而展示根保持单个宽层级；带点击即编辑路径区的面包屑，其编辑器预填尾随分隔符、输入时以草稿末段对所列层级做前缀过滤（不区分大小写，且仅作用于已列出、可能被截断的行；Enter 仍按确切文本导航）、按 Escape 或焦点离开对话框卡片即取消（窗口／标签页切换与卡片内焦点移动保留草稿）；基于宿主 `hidden` 标志、标签固定的"显示隐藏"footer 开关，键入以点开头的前缀会显出其匹配项，且当前选中项不受这两种过滤影响；嵌套新建文件夹对话框）填入 [ui-workspace](../../client/ui-workspace/README.md) 的两个目录流洞，驱动 `host.listDirectory`／`host.createDirectory`，并注册自己的 locale 命名空间（`directory-browser`，zh 默认／en）。因此一行 cordis.yml 同时组合浏览交互的两侧；client 侧不含任何能力 kind 分支，挂载第二个流程包会在加载期失败（洞为 `single` kind）。
+**双面包**：browser half（`./client`）以应用内 **选择工作区目录** 对话框（figma `Harness` 813-23126 家族——Miller 双列视图，其导航以选中项为锚落地：crumb 跳转或提交的路径会立即提交目标，待父层级到达后再在其中重新选中目标的实际条目——双栏，因此后退绝不塌缩（父层级这一程失败或被截断时保持单栏落地；展示根保持单个宽层级）；带点击即编辑路径区的面包屑，其编辑器预填尾随分隔符、输入时以草稿末段对所列层级做前缀过滤（不区分大小写，且仅作用于已列出、可能被截断的行；Enter 仍按确切文本导航）、按 Escape 或焦点离开对话框卡片即取消（窗口／标签页切换与卡片内焦点移动保留草稿）；基于宿主 `hidden` 标志、标签固定的"显示隐藏"footer 开关，键入以点开头的前缀会显出其匹配项，且当前选中项不受这两种过滤影响；嵌套新建文件夹对话框）填入 [ui-workspace](../../client/ui-workspace/README.md) 的两个目录流洞，驱动 `host.listDirectory`／`host.createDirectory`，并注册自己的 locale 命名空间（`directory-browser`，zh 默认／en）。因此一行 cordis.yml 同时组合浏览交互的两侧；client 侧不含任何能力 kind 分支，挂载第二个流程包会在加载期失败（洞为 `single` kind）。
 
 ## 模型体验
 

packages/host/directory-picker-browse/src/client/DirectoryBrowser.module.css

@@ -261,8 +261,9 @@
 }
 
 /* Show-hidden toggle: a subtle fixed-label text button left of the gap;
- * the pressed state seats a check glyph before the label (Menu's selected
- * vocabulary) instead of flipping the wording. */
+ * the pressed state seats a check glyph after the label (Menu's selected
+ * vocabulary; trailing so the label never shifts) instead of flipping the
+ * wording. */
 .showHiddenToggle {
   display: inline-flex;
   align-items: center;

packages/host/directory-picker-browse/src/client/DirectoryBrowser.tsx

@@ -5,7 +5,10 @@
  * breadcrumb, and a click-to-edit path zone; below it a Miller view — one
  * full-width level until a row is selected, then two columns splitting the
  * row evenly (256px floor; level | selected folder's children) around a
- * hairline divider. Selecting in the
+ * hairline divider. Navigations land selection-anchored: a crumb jump or a
+ * submitted path commits the target immediately, then re-selects it in its
+ * parent level once that level arrives, so stepping back keeps two panes
+ * away from the display root. Selecting in the
  * right column shifts the view one level deeper. "New folder" opens a nested
  * create dialog targeting the selected folder (or the level itself) and
  * selects the created folder. Open adopts the selected folder, falling back
@@ -215,12 +218,27 @@ export function DirectoryBrowser({ open, listDirectory, createDirectory, onOpen,
   }, [supersede, listDirectory])
 
   /**
-   * Replace the whole view with a freshly navigated level. Away from the
-   * display root the landing keeps the navigated directory SELECTED inside
-   * its parent level (left pane = parent, right pane = its children), so a
-   * crumb jump or a submitted path reads as stepping back one pane instead
-   * of collapsing to a single column; the display root (the home level, or
-   * a chain with no parent) keeps the single wide level.
+   * Launch a follow-up listing under the CURRENT supersession seq: a newer
+   * intent aborts it like the leg it continues, and it supersedes nothing.
+   */
+  const continueScan = useCallback((path: string): Promise<DirectoryListing> => {
+    const controller = new AbortController()
+    scanController.current = controller
+    return listDirectory(path, controller.signal)
+  }, [listDirectory])
+
+  /**
+   * Replace the whole view with a freshly navigated level. The target level
+   * commits the moment it arrives (single wide level: the editor closes and
+   * loading ends on this first settlement, so an Enter-submitted navigation
+   * is never withdrawn waiting on anything further). Away from the display
+   * root — the same collapse the crumb header renders, so crumbs and pane
+   * shape never disagree — a parent leg then upgrades the landing in place:
+   * the target's ACTUAL parent-level entry re-selected (left pane = parent,
+   * right pane = the target), so a crumb jump reads as stepping back one
+   * pane. A failed parent leg, or a truncated parent window that lacks the
+   * target, leaves the committed single-pane landing — the upgrade must
+   * never orphan the selection it exists to anchor.
    */
   const navigate = useCallback((path?: string) => {
     const { seq, scan } = launchListing(path)
@@ -228,46 +246,38 @@ export function DirectoryBrowser({ open, listDirectory, createDirectory, onOpen,
     setError(null)
     scan.then((target) => {
       if (seq !== requestSeq.current) return
+      setParent(target)
+      setSelected(null)
+      setChild(null)
+      setLoading(false)
+      setPathDraft(null)
+      // Arity is label-independent: only the collapsed chain's depth decides.
+      if (displayCrumbs(target, '').length < 2) return
       const parentCrumb = target.crumbs.at(-2)
-      const anchor = target.crumbs.at(-1)
-      if (target.path === target.home || parentCrumb === undefined
-        /* v8 ignore next -- narrowing: the anchor crumb exists whenever a parent crumb does (root-to-target inclusive chain). */
-        || anchor === undefined) {
-        setParent(target)
-        setSelected(null)
-        setChild(null)
-        setLoading(false)
-        setPathDraft(null)
-        return
-      }
-      // Two-pane landing: the parent leg runs under the same supersession
-      // scope (a newer intent aborts it like the first leg).
-      const controller = new AbortController()
-      scanController.current = controller
-      listDirectory(parentCrumb.path, controller.signal).then((parentLevel) => {
+      /* v8 ignore next -- narrowing: a two-deep display chain implies a parent crumb (root-to-target inclusive). */
+      if (parentCrumb === undefined) return
+      continueScan(parentCrumb.path).then((parentLevel) => {
         if (seq !== requestSeq.current) return
+        // Windows resolves a typed path preserving its case; anchor on the
+        // parent level's actual entry so selection comparisons hold.
+        const sep = separatorOf(parentLevel)
+        const fold = (value: string): string => (sep === '\\' ? value.toLowerCase() : value)
+        const match = parentLevel.entries.find(entry => fold(entry.path) === fold(target.path))
+        if (match === undefined) return
         setParent(parentLevel)
-        setSelected(anchor)
+        setSelected(match)
         setChild(target)
-        setLoading(false)
-        setPathDraft(null)
       }, () => {
-        if (seq !== requestSeq.current) return
-        // The target listed fine and is what the user asked for; a parent
-        // leg failure quietly falls back to the single-pane landing rather
-        // than surfacing an error for a level nobody requested.
-        setParent(target)
-        setSelected(null)
-        setChild(null)
-        setLoading(false)
-        setPathDraft(null)
+        // Swallows the parent-leg failure (its abort included): the
+        // committed single-pane landing stands, and nobody asked to see
+        // the parent level.
       })
     }, (reason: unknown) => {
       if (seq !== requestSeq.current) return
       setLoading(false)
       setError(failureText(reason))
     })
-  }, [launchListing, listDirectory])
+  }, [launchListing, continueScan])
 
   // Editor-close focus parking (consumed by the refocus effect below the
   // miller-row ref): a pick parks on the selection's row, Enter and an
@@ -302,6 +312,10 @@ export function DirectoryBrowser({ open, listDirectory, createDirectory, onOpen,
       // An unreadable selection cannot be the committing target while the
       // breadcrumb still names the level: fall back to the single pane.
       setSelected(null)
+      // Clearing the selection can unmount the very row the pick parked
+      // focus on (a dot-revealed hidden row re-hides); the refocus effect
+      // re-parks on the edit zone only if focus actually fell to body.
+      refocusEditZone.current = true
     })
   }, [launchListing, pathDraft])
 
@@ -350,6 +364,10 @@ export function DirectoryBrowser({ open, listDirectory, createDirectory, onOpen,
     setPathDraft(null)
     setFolderDraft(null)
     setCreateError(null)
+    // A close mid-flight (failed Enter, then Cancel) may leave refocus
+    // flags armed; retire them so a later render cannot consume them.
+    refocusPick.current = false
+    refocusEditZone.current = false
   }, [open, navigate, supersede])
 
   /** The folder a create or Open acts on: the selection, else the listed level. */
@@ -436,6 +454,9 @@ export function DirectoryBrowser({ open, listDirectory, createDirectory, onOpen,
     }
     if (refocusEditZone.current) {
       refocusEditZone.current = false
+      // Re-park only when the close actually dropped focus to body; focus
+      // the user parked elsewhere (a surviving row) stays theirs.
+      if (document.activeElement !== document.body) return
       const zone = editZoneRef.current
       /* v8 ignore next -- narrowing guard: crumb mode renders the edit zone whenever the editor just closed. */
       if (zone === null) return
@@ -483,8 +504,9 @@ export function DirectoryBrowser({ open, listDirectory, createDirectory, onOpen,
           event.stopPropagation()
           // Escape while the input holds focus is about to unmount it; with
           // focus already parked on a row, that row survives the cancel and
-          // keeps focus naturally.
-          if (document.activeElement === pathInputRef.current) refocusEditZone.current = true
+          // keeps focus naturally. Assignment (not a conditional set) also
+          // retires a stale flag a failed or still-upgrading Enter left.
+          refocusEditZone.current = document.activeElement === pathInputRef.current
           cancelPathEdit()
         }}
         // Focus leaving THIS dialog card while editing cancels like Escape.

packages/host/directory-picker-browse/tests/directory-browser.spec.tsx

@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ describe('DirectoryBrowser', () => {
     expect(signals[2]?.aborted).toBe(true)
   })
 
-  it('jumps back through a crumb into a fresh single-column level', async () => {
+  it('a crumb jump to the display root (home) lands the single wide level', async () => {
     mount()
     await waitFor(() => { expect(screen.getByRole('listitem')).toBeTruthy() })
     fireEvent.click(rowButton(screen.getByRole('listitem')))
@@ -235,35 +235,130 @@ describe('DirectoryBrowser', () => {
     expect(columns()).toHaveLength(1)
   })
 
-  it('drops a parent leg that settles after a newer intent, resolving or rejecting', async () => {
-    const settlers: { resolve: (value: DirectoryListing) => void; reject: (reason: unknown) => void }[] = []
-    const listDirectory = vi.fn(async (path?: string) => {
-      if (path === HOME) {
-        return new Promise<DirectoryListing>((resolve, reject) => { settlers.push({ resolve, reject }) })
+  it('commits the target immediately, aborts a superseded parent leg on the wire, and drops its late resolution', async () => {
+    const signals: (AbortSignal | undefined)[] = []
+    const settlers: ((value: DirectoryListing) => void)[] = []
+    // Only the FIRST explicit HOME request (the parent leg) hangs; the later
+    // home crumb jump lists normally.
+    let homeCalls = 0
+    const listDirectory = vi.fn(async (path?: string, signal?: AbortSignal) => {
+      signals.push(signal)
+      if (path === HOME && ++homeCalls === 1) {
+        return new Promise<DirectoryListing>((resolve) => { settlers.push(resolve) })
       }
       return listingFor(path)
     })
     mount({ listDirectory })
     await waitFor(() => { expect(screen.getByRole('listitem')).toBeTruthy() })
-    // Enter lands the target leg; the parent leg hangs. Escape supersedes
-    // the landing, and the late parent RESOLUTION must change nothing.
     fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'browser.editPath' }))
     fireEvent.change(screen.getByLabelText<HTMLInputElement>('browser.editPath'), { target: { value: DOCS } })
     fireEvent.keyDown(screen.getByLabelText('browser.editPath'), { key: 'Enter' })
+    // The target leg commits at once: editor closed, single-pane DOCS level,
+    // while the parent leg (upgrade) is still in flight.
+    await waitFor(() => { expect(screen.getByRole('listitem').textContent).toBe('harness') })
+    expect(screen.queryByLabelText('browser.editPath', { selector: 'input' })).toBeNull()
+    expect(columns()).toHaveLength(1)
     await waitFor(() => { expect(settlers).toHaveLength(1) })
-    fireEvent.keyDown(screen.getByLabelText('browser.editPath'), { key: 'Escape' })
-    await act(async () => { settlers[0]!.resolve(listingFor(HOME)) })
+    // A newer jump aborts the pending parent leg ON THE WIRE, not merely
+    // dropping its settlement.
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'browser.home' }))
+    expect(signals[2]?.aborted).toBe(true)
+    await waitFor(() => { expect(screen.getByRole('listitem').textContent).toBe('Documents') })
+    // Its late resolution changes nothing either.
+    await act(async () => { settlers[0]!(listingFor(HOME)) })
     expect(columns()).toHaveLength(1)
-    expect(screen.getByRole('listitem').textContent).toBe('Documents')
-    // Same shape, late parent REJECTION: equally silent.
+    expect(rowButton(screen.getByRole('listitem')).getAttribute('aria-current')).toBeNull()
+  })
+
+  it('keeps the single-pane landing when the truncated parent level lacks the target', async () => {
+    const listDirectory = vi.fn(async (path?: string) => {
+      // The parent leg names HOME explicitly; serve it a truncated window
+      // that misses Documents (the initial open uses the absent-path form).
+      if (path === HOME) return { ...listingFor(HOME), entries: [], truncated: true }
+      return listingFor(path)
+    })
+    mount({ listDirectory })
+    await waitFor(() => { expect(screen.getByRole('listitem')).toBeTruthy() })
     fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'browser.editPath' }))
     fireEvent.change(screen.getByLabelText<HTMLInputElement>('browser.editPath'), { target: { value: DOCS } })
     fireEvent.keyDown(screen.getByLabelText('browser.editPath'), { key: 'Enter' })
-    await waitFor(() => { expect(settlers).toHaveLength(2) })
-    fireEvent.keyDown(screen.getByLabelText('browser.editPath'), { key: 'Escape' })
-    await act(async () => { settlers[1]!.reject(new Error('late')) })
+    await waitFor(() => { expect(screen.getByRole('listitem').textContent).toBe('harness') })
+    // The upgrade would orphan the selection (no source row): it stays off.
+    await act(async () => {})
     expect(columns()).toHaveLength(1)
-    expect(screen.queryByRole('alert')).toBeNull()
+    expect(screen.queryByText('browser.truncated')).toBeNull()
+  })
+
+  it('anchors the upgrade on the parent level actual entry under Windows case folding', async () => {
+    const ROOT = 'C:\\'
+    const TYPED = 'c:\\users'
+    const winRoot: DirectoryListing = {
+      path: ROOT,
+      home: ROOT,
+      crumbs: [{ name: 'C:\\', path: ROOT, hidden: false }],
+      entries: [{ name: 'Users', path: 'C:\\Users', hidden: false }],
+      truncated: false,
+    }
+    const winUsers: DirectoryListing = {
+      path: TYPED,
+      home: ROOT,
+      crumbs: [{ name: 'C:\\', path: ROOT, hidden: false }, { name: 'users', path: TYPED, hidden: false }],
+      entries: [],
+      truncated: false,
+    }
+    mount({ listDirectory: vi.fn(async (path?: string) => (path === TYPED ? winUsers : winRoot)) })
+    await waitFor(() => { expect(screen.getByRole('listitem')).toBeTruthy() })
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'browser.editPath' }))
+    fireEvent.change(screen.getByLabelText<HTMLInputElement>('browser.editPath'), { target: { value: TYPED } })
+    fireEvent.keyDown(screen.getByLabelText('browser.editPath'), { key: 'Enter' })
+    // The typed case differs from the real entry; the upgrade selects the
+    // parent level's ACTUAL entry so aria-current and exemptions hold.
+    await waitFor(() => {
+      expect(rowButton(within(columns()[0]!).getByRole('listitem')).getAttribute('aria-current')).toBe('true')
+    })
+    expect(within(columns()[0]!).getByText('Users')).toBeTruthy()
+  })
+
+  it('re-parks focus on the edit zone when a failed pick unmounts a dot-revealed row', async () => {
+    const listDirectory = vi.fn(async (path?: string) => {
+      if (path === `${HOME}/.config`) {
+        throw new DirectoryBrowseError({ code: 'directory-unreadable', message: 'denied', details: { path } })
+      }
+      return listingFor(path)
+    })
+    mount({ listDirectory })
+    await waitFor(() => { expect(screen.getByRole('listitem')).toBeTruthy() })
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'browser.editPath' }))
+    fireEvent.change(screen.getByLabelText<HTMLInputElement>('browser.editPath'), { target: { value: `${HOME}/.co` } })
+    const row = rowButton(screen.getByRole('listitem'))
+    fireEvent.mouseDown(row)
+    fireEvent.click(row)
+    // The failed selection re-hides the picked row; focus fell to body and
+    // re-parks on the crumb edit zone.
+    await screen.findByRole('alert')
+    expect(screen.queryByText('.config')).toBeNull()
+    expect(document.activeElement).toBe(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'browser.editPath' }))
+  })
+
+  it('leaves focus on a surviving row when its pick fails', async () => {
+    const listDirectory = vi.fn(async (path?: string) => {
+      if (path === DOCS) {
+        throw new DirectoryBrowseError({ code: 'directory-unreadable', message: 'denied', details: { path } })
+      }
+      return listingFor(path)
+    })
+    mount({ listDirectory })
+    await waitFor(() => { expect(screen.getByRole('listitem')).toBeTruthy() })
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'browser.editPath' }))
+    fireEvent.change(screen.getByLabelText<HTMLInputElement>('browser.editPath'), { target: { value: `${HOME}/do` } })
+    const row = rowButton(screen.getByRole('listitem'))
+    row.focus()
+    fireEvent.mouseDown(row)
+    fireEvent.click(row)
+    // Documents survives the cleared selection (it is not hidden): the
+    // user's focus on it is not yanked to the edit zone.
+    await screen.findByRole('alert')
+    expect(document.activeElement).toBe(row)
   })
 
   it('falls back to the single-pane landing when the parent leg of a navigation fails', async () => {