fix(fs): cap file list and abort untracked scan to prevent session init timeout on large repos

[ricardo-leiva]

Problem

When adding a large project (e.g. a Django monorepo with 100k+ tracked files or unignored __pycache__ / venv / staticfiles directories), the session initialization consistently times out with:

Session initialization timed out after 30000ms

The root cause is FsService.listRepoFiles, which runs git ls-files --others --exclude-standard (untracked files) unbounded and concurrent with session startup. For repos with large untracked trees, this call can return millions of paths and hold the workspace-server event loop busy allocating hundreds of MB of JavaScript strings and objects — starving the initializationResult() IPC promise past the 30 s deadline.

Changes

packages/workspace-server/src/services/fs/service.ts

• Replaces the single listAllFiles() call with a private fetchAllFiles() helper that:
  • Runs listFiles (tracked) and listUntrackedFiles (untracked) in parallel, as before
  • Arms an 8-second AbortController on the untracked scan; falls back to [] on timeout or error — tracked files always show up
  • Caps the combined array at 50 000 entries (Array.length truncation, no copy) before building the directory tree, bounding peak allocation regardless of repo size

packages/workspace-server/src/services/fs/service.test.ts

• Updates mocks from listAllFiles to listFiles + listUntrackedFiles (now mocked separately, matching the new implementation)
• Adds two new test cases: cap enforcement at 50 k and graceful fallback when untracked scan is aborted

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How did you test this?

• Adding prompt: "assess repo architecture and give me a detailed report" doesn't fail with big repos (used posthog monorepo)
• All 8 FsService unit tests pass (vitest run)
• Biome lint: clean (biome lint — no fixes applied)
• Host boundary check: no new violations (node scripts/check-host-boundaries.mjs)
• Pre-commit hook: typecheck passed

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### Issue 1 of 1
packages/workspace-server/src/services/fs/service.test.ts:59-69
**Weak cap assertion may miss over-budget entries from derived directories**

The cap (`MAX_REPO_FILES = 50_000`) is applied to the raw file-path list before `deriveDirectories` adds extra entries. The test asserts `entries.length <= 50_000`, but `entries` is the combined files + derived directory entries returned by `listRepoFiles`. For the flat test input (`file${i}.ts`, no path separators) there are zero derived directories, so `entries.length` equals exactly 50,000 — but if the test used files with nested paths, `entries.length` could legitimately exceed 50,000 even with the cap in place.

Using `toBe(50_000)` for the current flat input would make the assertion precise and document the expected count, while a follow-up test with nested paths would confirm that the entries total can exceed the cap when directories are derived.

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