fix: restore live streaming in VS Code

Forward SSE chunks without reserializing events
Prevent generic proxy from buffering SSE endpoints
Add regression tests for VS Code stream proxy

packages/vscode/src/bridge-proxy-runtime.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import { describe, expect, it, mock } from 'bun:test';
+
+const { handleProxyBridgeMessage } = await import('./bridge-proxy-runtime');
+
+const createDeps = () => ({
+  tryHandleLocalFsProxy: mock(() => Promise.resolve(null)),
+  buildUnavailableApiResponse: mock(() => ({ status: 503, headers: {}, bodyText: '' })),
+  sanitizeForwardHeaders: mock((headers) => headers || {}),
+  collectHeaders: mock(() => ({})),
+  base64EncodeUtf8: mock((text) => Buffer.from(text, 'utf8').toString('base64')),
+});
+
+describe('bridge proxy runtime', () => {
+  it('does not buffer SSE endpoints through the generic API proxy', async () => {
+    const deps = createDeps();
+
+    const response = await handleProxyBridgeMessage(
+      { id: '1', type: 'api:proxy', payload: { method: 'GET', path: '/global/event?lastEventId=evt-1' } },
+      undefined,
+      deps,
+    );
+
+    expect(response?.success).toBe(true);
+    expect(response?.data).toMatchObject({
+      status: 400,
+      headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
+      bodyText: JSON.stringify({ error: 'SSE requests must use api:sse:start' }),
+    });
+    expect(deps.tryHandleLocalFsProxy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(deps.buildUnavailableApiResponse).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});

packages/vscode/src/bridge-proxy-runtime.ts

@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ const collectProxyResponseHeaders = (headers: Headers, deps: Pick<ProxyRuntimeDe
   return result;
 };
 
+const isSseProxyPath = (requestPath: string): boolean => {
+  try {
+    const parsed = new URL(requestPath, 'https://openchamber.invalid');
+    return parsed.pathname === '/event' || parsed.pathname === '/global/event';
+  } catch {
+    return requestPath === '/event' || requestPath === '/global/event';
+  }
+};
+
 type ProxyRuntimeDeps = {
   tryHandleLocalFsProxy: (method: string, requestPath: string) => Promise<ApiProxyResponsePayload | null>;
   buildUnavailableApiResponse: () => ApiProxyResponsePayload;
@@ -65,9 +74,18 @@ export async function handleProxyBridgeMessage(
         typeof requestPath === 'string' && requestPath.trim().length > 0
           ? requestPath.trim().startsWith('/')
             ? requestPath.trim()
-            : `/${requestPath.trim()}`
+          : `/${requestPath.trim()}`
           : '/';
 
+      if (isSseProxyPath(normalizedPath)) {
+        const data: ApiProxyResponsePayload = {
+          status: 400,
+          headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
+          bodyText: JSON.stringify({ error: 'SSE requests must use api:sse:start' }),
+        };
+        return { id, type, success: true, data };
+      }
+
       const localFsResponse = await deps.tryHandleLocalFsProxy(normalizedMethod, normalizedPath);
       if (localFsResponse) {
         return { id, type, success: true, data: localFsResponse };
@@ -86,14 +104,6 @@ export async function handleProxyBridgeMessage(
         ...ctx?.manager?.getOpenCodeAuthHeaders(),
       };
 
-      if (normalizedPath === '/event' || normalizedPath === '/global/event') {
-        if (!requestHeaders.Accept) {
-          requestHeaders.Accept = 'text/event-stream';
-        }
-        requestHeaders['Cache-Control'] = requestHeaders['Cache-Control'] || 'no-cache';
-        requestHeaders.Connection = requestHeaders.Connection || 'keep-alive';
-      }
-
       try {
         const response = await fetch(targetUrl, {
           method: normalizedMethod,

packages/vscode/src/sseProxy.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, mock } from 'bun:test';
+
+const originalFetch = globalThis.fetch;
+const { openSseProxy } = await import('./sseProxy');
+
+const createManager = () => ({
+  getApiUrl: () => 'http://127.0.0.1:4096/',
+  getWorkingDirectory: () => '/repo',
+  getOpenCodeAuthHeaders: () => ({ Authorization: 'Bearer test-token' }),
+  onStatusChange: () => ({ dispose() {} }),
+});
+
+const createSseResponse = (chunks) => {
+  const encoder = new TextEncoder();
+  return new Response(new ReadableStream({
+    start(controller) {
+      for (const chunk of chunks) {
+        controller.enqueue(encoder.encode(chunk));
+      }
+      controller.close();
+    },
+  }), {
+    status: 200,
+    headers: { 'content-type': 'text/event-stream; charset=utf-8' },
+  });
+};
+
+describe('VS Code SSE proxy', () => {
+  afterEach(() => {
+    globalThis.fetch = originalFetch;
+  });
+
+  it('forwards upstream SSE chunks without reserializing event data', async () => {
+    const upstreamChunks = [
+      'id: evt-1\n',
+      'data: {"type":"message.part.delta","properties":{"delta":"hi"}}\n\n',
+    ];
+    let fetchInput;
+    let fetchInit;
+    globalThis.fetch = mock((input, init) => {
+      fetchInput = input;
+      fetchInit = init;
+      return Promise.resolve(createSseResponse(upstreamChunks));
+    });
+
+    const received = [];
+    const controller = new AbortController();
+    const proxy = await openSseProxy({
+      manager: createManager(),
+      path: '/global/event',
+      headers: { 'Last-Event-ID': 'evt-0' },
+      signal: controller.signal,
+      onChunk: (chunk) => received.push(chunk),
+    });
+
+    await proxy.run;
+
+    expect(fetchInput).toBe('http://127.0.0.1:4096/global/event');
+    expect(fetchInit.headers.Authorization).toBe('Bearer test-token');
+    expect(fetchInit.headers['Last-Event-ID']).toBe('evt-0');
+    expect(proxy.headers['content-type']).toContain('text/event-stream');
+    expect(received.join('')).toBe(upstreamChunks.join(''));
+  });
+
+  it('adds the active directory for directory-scoped event streams', async () => {
+    let fetchInput;
+    globalThis.fetch = mock((input) => {
+      fetchInput = input;
+      return Promise.resolve(createSseResponse(['data: {"type":"server.connected"}\n\n']));
+    });
+
+    const proxy = await openSseProxy({
+      manager: createManager(),
+      path: '/event?foo=bar',
+      signal: new AbortController().signal,
+      onChunk: () => {},
+    });
+    await proxy.run;
+
+    const url = new URL(fetchInput);
+    expect(url.pathname).toBe('/event');
+    expect(url.searchParams.get('foo')).toBe('bar');
+    expect(url.searchParams.get('directory')).toBe('/repo');
+  });
+});

packages/vscode/src/sseProxy.ts

@@ -1,14 +1,6 @@
-import { createOpencodeClient } from '@opencode-ai/sdk/v2';
 import type { OpenCodeManager } from './opencode';
 import { waitForApiUrl } from './opencode-ready';
 
-type StreamEvent<TData = unknown> = {
-  data: TData;
-  event?: string;
-  id?: string;
-  retry?: number;
-};
-
 type OpenSseProxyOptions = {
   manager: OpenCodeManager;
   path: string;
@@ -50,27 +42,13 @@ const sleep = (ms: number, signal: AbortSignal) => new Promise<void>((resolve) =
 
 const getAbortReason = (signal: AbortSignal) => signal.reason ?? new DOMException('Aborted', 'AbortError');
 
-const serializeSseEventBlock = (event: StreamEvent<unknown>): string => {
+const normalizeSsePath = (path: string): { pathname: '/event' | '/global/event'; searchParams: URLSearchParams; directory: string | null } => {
-  const lines: string[] = [];
-  if (typeof event.id === 'string' && event.id.length > 0) {
-    lines.push(`id: ${event.id}`);
-  }
-  if (typeof event.event === 'string' && event.event.length > 0) {
-    lines.push(`event: ${event.event}`);
-  }
-  if (typeof event.retry === 'number' && Number.isFinite(event.retry)) {
-    lines.push(`retry: ${event.retry}`);
-  }
-  lines.push(`data: ${JSON.stringify(event.data)}`);
-  return lines.join('\n');
-};
-
-const normalizeSsePath = (path: string): { pathname: '/event' | '/global/event'; directory: string | null } => {
   const parsed = new URL(path, 'https://openchamber.invalid');
   const pathname = parsed.pathname === '/global/event' ? '/global/event' : '/event';
   const directory = parsed.searchParams.get('directory');
   return {
     pathname,
+    searchParams: new URLSearchParams(parsed.searchParams),
     directory: typeof directory === 'string' && directory.trim().length > 0 ? directory.trim() : null,
   };
 };
@@ -79,41 +57,105 @@ const resolveDefaultDirectory = (manager: OpenCodeManager): string => {
   return manager.getWorkingDirectory() || 'global';
 };
 
-const createAuthedClient = async (manager: OpenCodeManager, headers?: Record<string, string>) => {
+const createSseUrl = (baseUrl: string, pathname: '/event' | '/global/event', searchParams: URLSearchParams, directory: string): URL => {
+  const base = `${baseUrl.replace(/\/+$/, '')}/`;
+  const url = new URL(pathname.replace(/^\/+/, ''), base);
+  for (const [key, value] of searchParams) {
+    url.searchParams.append(key, value);
+  }
+  if (pathname === '/event' && !url.searchParams.has('directory')) {
+    url.searchParams.set('directory', directory);
+  }
+  return url;
+};
+
+const createSseHeaders = (manager: OpenCodeManager, headers?: Record<string, string>): Record<string, string> => ({
+  Accept: 'text/event-stream',
+  'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
+  Connection: 'keep-alive',
+  ...(headers || {}),
+  ...manager.getOpenCodeAuthHeaders(),
+});
+
+const createSseResponseHeaders = (response: Response): Record<string, string> => ({
+  'content-type': response.headers.get('content-type') || SSE_RESPONSE_HEADERS['content-type'],
+  'cache-control': response.headers.get('cache-control') || SSE_RESPONSE_HEADERS['cache-control'],
+});
+
+const fetchSseResponse = async (
+  manager: OpenCodeManager,
+  path: string,
+  headers: Record<string, string> | undefined,
+  signal: AbortSignal,
+): Promise<Response> => {
   const baseUrl = await waitForApiUrl(manager);
   if (!baseUrl) {
     throw new Error('OpenCode API URL not available');
   }
 
-  return createOpencodeClient({
+  const { pathname, searchParams, directory } = normalizeSsePath(path);
-    baseUrl,
+  const resolvedDirectory = directory || resolveDefaultDirectory(manager);
-    headers: {
+  const targetUrl = createSseUrl(baseUrl, pathname, searchParams, resolvedDirectory);
-      ...(headers || {}),
+
-      ...manager.getOpenCodeAuthHeaders(),
+  const response = await fetch(targetUrl.toString(), {
-    },
+    method: 'GET',
+    headers: createSseHeaders(manager, headers),
+    signal,
   });
+
+  if (!response.ok) {
+    await response.body?.cancel().catch(() => {});
+    const error = new Error(`OpenCode SSE request failed (${response.status})`);
+    (error as Error & { status?: number }).status = response.status;
+    throw error;
+  }
+
+  if (!response.body) {
+    throw new Error('OpenCode SSE response missing body');
+  }
+
+  return response;
 };
 
-const getSseOptions = (
+const pipeSseResponse = async (response: Response, signal: AbortSignal, onChunk: (chunk: string) => void): Promise<void> => {
-  signal: AbortSignal,
+  if (!response.body) {
-  onChunk: (chunk: string) => void,
+    throw new Error('OpenCode SSE response missing body');
-  wrapDirectory?: string,
+  }
-) => ({
+
-  signal,
+  const reader = response.body.getReader();
-  sseMaxRetryAttempts: 0,
+  const decoder = new TextDecoder();
-  onSseEvent: (event: StreamEvent<unknown>) => {
+
-    const nextEvent = wrapDirectory
+  try {
-      ? {
+    while (!signal.aborted) {
-          ...event,
+      const { done, value } = await reader.read();
-          data: {
+      if (done) {
-            directory: wrapDirectory,
+        break;
-            payload: event.data,
+      }
-          },
+      if (value && value.length > 0) {
+        const chunk = decoder.decode(value, { stream: true });
+        if (chunk.length > 0) {
+          onChunk(chunk);
         }
-      : event;
+      }
-    onChunk(`${serializeSseEventBlock(nextEvent)}\n\n`);
+    }
-  },
+
-});
+    const remaining = decoder.decode();
+    if (!signal.aborted && remaining.length > 0) {
+      onChunk(remaining);
+    }
+  } finally {
+    try {
+      await reader.cancel();
+    } catch {
+      // ignore cancel failures during stream shutdown
+    }
+    try {
+      reader.releaseLock();
+    } catch {
+      // ignore release failures after reader shutdown
+    }
+  }
+};
 
 export const openSseProxy = async ({
   manager,
@@ -122,45 +164,22 @@ export const openSseProxy = async ({
   signal,
   onChunk,
 }: OpenSseProxyOptions): Promise<OpenSseProxyResult> => {
-  const client = await createAuthedClient(manager, headers);
-  const { pathname, directory } = normalizeSsePath(path);
-  const resolvedDirectory = directory || resolveDefaultDirectory(manager);
-
   // Reconnect logic with exponential backoff
   let reconnectAttempts = 0;
 
-  const connect = async (): Promise<{ stream: AsyncIterable<unknown> }> => {
+  const connect = async (): Promise<Response> => {
     try {
+      const { pathname } = normalizeSsePath(path);
       console.log(`[SSE] Connecting to ${pathname} (attempt ${reconnectAttempts + 1}/${MAX_RECONNECTS + 1})`);
 
-      if (pathname === '/global/event') {
+      const result = await fetchSseResponse(manager, path, headers, signal);
-        try {
-          const result = await client.global.event(getSseOptions(signal, onChunk));
-          // Reset reconnect counter on successful connection
-          reconnectAttempts = 0;
-          return result;
-        } catch (error) {
-          if ((error as Error)?.name === 'AbortError' || signal.aborted) {
-            throw error;
-          }
-          // Fallback to directory event on error
-          console.warn('[SSE] Global event failed, falling back to directory event', error);
-          const result = client.event.subscribe(
-            { directory: resolvedDirectory },
-            getSseOptions(signal, onChunk, resolvedDirectory),
-          );
-          reconnectAttempts = 0;
-          return result;
-        }
-      }
-
-      const result = client.event.subscribe(
-        { directory: resolvedDirectory },
-        getSseOptions(signal, onChunk),
-      );
       reconnectAttempts = 0;
       return result;
     } catch (error) {
+      if ((error as Error)?.name === 'AbortError' || signal.aborted) {
+        throw error;
+      }
+
       // Implement reconnect logic
       if (!signal.aborted && reconnectAttempts < MAX_RECONNECTS) {
         reconnectAttempts++;
@@ -184,16 +203,12 @@ export const openSseProxy = async ({
     }
   };
 
-  const result = await connect();
+  const response = await connect();
 
   const run = (async () => {
+    let activeResponse = response;
     try {
-      for await (const _ of result.stream) {
+      await pipeSseResponse(activeResponse, signal, onChunk);
-        void _;
-        if (signal.aborted) {
-          break;
-        }
-      }
     } catch (error: unknown) {
       const cause = (error as { cause?: { code?: string } } | null)?.cause;
 
@@ -212,11 +227,8 @@ export const openSseProxy = async ({
 
             // Attempt to reconnect
             try {
-              const newResult = await connect();
+              activeResponse = await connect();
-              for await (const _ of newResult.stream) {
+              await pipeSseResponse(activeResponse, signal, onChunk);
-                void _;
-                if (signal.aborted) break;
-              }
               return; // Successfully reconnected
             } catch (reconnectError) {
               console.error('[SSE] Reconnect failed', reconnectError);
@@ -231,7 +243,7 @@ export const openSseProxy = async ({
   })();
 
   return {
-    headers: { ...SSE_RESPONSE_HEADERS },
+    headers: createSseResponseHeaders(response),
     run,
   };
 };