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What

A user can write a note, reopen and edit it, and rename any source, from the sources panel.

  • API (sources/api.ts): createNote (POST /workspaces/{id}/documents), updateDocument (PATCH …/documents/{doc}, sending only the fields given) and getDocument (GET …/documents/{doc}, to reopen a note with its text). All go through requestJson.
  • Hook (use-sources.ts): writeNote, editNote, rename and loadNote. Like retry/cancel, they replace the row with what the server answered, and a created note is put first since the list is newest first. Each returns whether it saved, so its dialog closes only then.
  • Panel (sources-panel.tsx), behind new optional props, so existing callers and tests are untouched:
    • onRename adds Rename to every row's menu;
    • notes adds a New note button beside Add, and Edit note to a note's row.
  • Dialogs, one file each:
    • note-editor-dialog.tsx (title and body) reads the note once per opening through useQuery and starts its fields from it until edited, so no effect writes state.
    • rename-source-dialog.tsx edits the name only.
    • source-title.ts mirrors the server's title rule: 1 to 500 characters after trimming.
    • Following the Base UI notes, open is kept apart from what a dialog shows, and its data is cleared in onOpenChangeComplete.
  • The dashboard wires both into the real panel.

Why

The API routes existed, but the panel offered no way to use them.

The constraints from the issue:

  • Rename sends title alone. PATCH answers 409 for content on anything that isn't a NOTE. The rename dialog is shared by files and notes and never sends content.
  • No second refresh path. An edited note comes back pending, so hasActiveIngestion turns true and the existing poll carries the row to ready.
  • Titles are checked before the request, using the same 1 to 500 characters after trimming, with maxLength on both inputs. A name of spaces disables the submit button. The server's answer stays authoritative, and its error lands in the panel's existing error slot.
  • Artifacts are untouched: the list still asks only for FILE and NOTE.
  • Keyboard and screen reader: every new control is a real button or menu item with a visible label, and every field has a <label>.

Fourteen new strings are translated into all nine languages per the translate skill, and "note" is added to its glossary as a recurring term. docs/architecture/documents.md: What is editable and Notes describe the panel's controls, and the Known gaps line is removed.

Fixes #1953

How to test

cd surfsense_local/frontend
pnpm test
pnpm typecheck && pnpm lint
pnpm translations:verify && (cd ../.. && node scripts/check_translations.mjs)
cd ../.. && python scripts/check_docs.py

src/features/sources/source-notes.test.tsx, written first, drives useSources with SourcesPanel and records every write:

  • Writing a note sends POST {title, content}, and the note appears in the list.
  • Renaming a file sends PATCH {title} and nothing else, and the new name shows.
  • Edit note reopens the note's saved text, and the edit is sent as PATCH {title, content}.
  • A name of only spaces disables Rename and sends nothing.

src/features/sources and src/features/dashboard: 56 passed.

High-level PR Summary

This PR adds the ability to create, edit, and rename sources (files and notes) directly from the sources panel. New API functions connect the frontend to existing backend routes for creating notes (POST /documents), updating documents (PATCH /documents/{id}), and fetching document content (GET /documents/{id}). The panel now includes a New note button and menu options for Rename (all sources) and Edit note (notes only). Two new dialogs handle the UI: one for writing/editing notes with title and body fields, and another for renaming any source. Title validation (1–500 trimmed characters) happens client-side before requests are sent. All 14 new UI strings are translated into nine languages, and comprehensive tests verify the write, rename, and edit flows.

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1 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/sources/source-title.ts
2 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/sources/api.ts
3 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/sources/use-sources.ts
4 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/sources/rename-source-dialog.tsx
5 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/sources/note-editor-dialog.tsx
6 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/sources/sources-panel.tsx
7 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/dashboard/dashboard-page.tsx
8 surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/sources/source-notes.test.tsx
9 docs/architecture/documents.md
10 .agents/skills/translate/glossary.md
11 surfsense_local/frontend/translations/en.json
12 surfsense_local/frontend/translations/ja.json
13 surfsense_local/frontend/translations/ko.json
14 surfsense_local/frontend/translations/zh-CN.json
15 surfsense_local/frontend/translations/hi.json
16 surfsense_local/frontend/translations/de.json
17 surfsense_local/frontend/translations/es.json
18 surfsense_local/frontend/translations/fr.json
19 surfsense_local/frontend/translations/pt-BR.json
20 surfsense_local/frontend/translations/ru.json

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  • New Features
    • Create and edit notes directly from the sources panel. Saved titles and content are available when reopening a note.
    • Rename sources from their row menus. Titles must contain 1–500 characters.
    • These note and renaming features are available in English, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese.

The API could create and edit notes and rename any document, but the
panel offered neither. New note opens an editor that writes one; a
note's row gains Edit note, which reopens its text; every row gains
Rename, which sends the title alone so a file is never sent content it
would refuse. Titles are checked against the server's 1 to 500
characters before sending, and an edited note returns pending so the
existing ingestion poll carries it to ready.

Fixes MODSetter#1953
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The sources panel now supports creating and editing notes and renaming documents. New API operations and source-hook actions handle document reads and updates. The panel includes localized dialogs and row actions, with tests and architecture documentation updated for these workflows.

Changes

Source note and rename operations

Layer / File(s) Summary
Document API and source state operations
surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/sources/api.ts, surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/sources/use-sources.ts
The API adds document retrieval, note creation, and document updates. useSources exposes note loading, writing, editing, and renaming, and updates the document list after successful operations.
Source panel dialogs and actions
surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/sources/source-title.ts, surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/sources/note-editor-dialog.tsx, surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/sources/rename-source-dialog.tsx, surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/sources/sources-panel.tsx, surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/dashboard/dashboard-page.tsx, surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/sources/source-notes.test.tsx, surfsense_local/frontend/translations/*.json, .agents/skills/translate/glossary.md, docs/architecture/documents.md
The panel adds a New note control, note editing for note rows, and rename actions for document rows. Dialogs validate titles and handle loading and save results. Dashboard wiring, tests, translations, glossary text, and architecture documentation cover the workflows.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant SourcesPanel
  participant NoteEditorDialog
  participant useSources
  participant createNote
  User->>SourcesPanel: Select New note
  SourcesPanel->>NoteEditorDialog: Open without a document ID
  User->>NoteEditorDialog: Enter title and content, then save
  NoteEditorDialog->>useSources: Call writeNote(title, content)
  useSources->>createNote: Send title and content
  createNote-->>useSources: Return created document
  useSources-->>NoteEditorDialog: Return save result
  NoteEditorDialog-->>User: Close after successful save
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 427a6

Note creation, note editing and source renaming in the sources panel look ready to merge. Failed saves show a toast and keep the dialog open so users can retry.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 427a6

Saving changes while a source is still being processed can allow older work to restore outdated text or names. This creates a bounded risk to saved-source integrity, rather than a demonstrated expansion of access to other systems.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: The new panel allows editing or renaming a source while ingestion is running. An older ingestion job can subsequently overwrite the accepted content or title and index its superseded text because completion checks cancellation, not document revision. For content edits, the newly queued job can inherit the restored old body instead of recovering the edit. This undermines persistent source integrity and can make text the user replaced searchable again.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new operations affect document bodies, titles and derived search entries in the local app's data store. The identified overlap failure is document-specific; no new cross-service authority, credential access or tenant boundary was demonstrated.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A normal user can edit a processing note, receive a successful save, and subsequently have an older job restore and reindex superseded text. This is a source-integrity failure path, not a verified privilege-escalation or cross-workspace attack.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The server rejects document IDs belonging to a different workspace and restricts content mutation to NOTE documents. The dashboard is keyed by active workspace ID, remounting its panel on workspace changes and countering the suspected survival of an open dialog across workspaces.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Single-thread job execution serializes workers but does not serialize API mutations against a running worker. Cancellation checks and list polling therefore do not guarantee recovery of an edit overwritten by an older ingestion snapshot.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bind ingestion to a document revision and atomically reject stale content, title and index commits. Ensure a superseded job leaves the latest revision queued for processing rather than marking it ready with old content.
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Comment thread surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/sources/use-sources.ts
The server announces a new note before its POST answers, so the change
refetch can put the row in the list first; prepending it again left two
rows with one id. Drop any copy before prepending, as upload does.
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Reviewed this. The API calls match the backend exactly, removing a note that already arrived through an event before adding the POST's answer is right, and the four tests fail without the change. One blocker, and it isn't in your code: the panel puts a race the backend already had in front of users.

A rename or note edit made while the row is processing is undone

begin_job reads the row once, and with expire_on_commit=False (shared/db.py:146) that copy is never refreshed. finish_job then writes it back, content=document.content, title=document.title (worker/jobs.py:82-83). update_document in modules/documents/router.py has no processing guard, unlike delete, so:

  • a file renamed during its parse gets its upload name back when ingest finishes. Right after upload is when people rename, and that's when the parse runs;
  • a note edited during its ingest gets its old text written back (worker/ingestion/pipeline.py:48-49), and the re-ingest the edit queued then indexes the old text, so the edit is lost.

Greying out Rename and Edit while a row is processing would only narrow the window, so the fix belongs at the cause.

What to change

  • Make finish_job write only status and error_message, plus the columns its caller passes, never what it read at begin_job:
    • worker/studio/job.py passes the title and content that persist() just set;
    • worker/ingestion/pipeline.py passes content=markdown only for a file. A note's content is the user's, and ingest only reads it. Ingest never passes title.
  • Add tests under tests/integration/worker/: a title committed between begin_job and finish_job survives the finish, and a note edited mid-ingest ends with its new text indexed.
  • It's backend work outside what The sources panel cannot write a note or rename a document #1953 scoped, so a small separate PR is fine. This one can merge as it is once that fix is on dev.

Not blocking:

  • A failed save keeps the dialog open but shows its error only in the panel's Alert, behind the dialog's backdrop (sources-panel.tsx:566-576). Show it in the dialog, or as a toast as chat rename does.
  • editNote always sends content (use-sources.ts:288), so saving an unchanged note, or changing only its title, queues another ingest.

Push the fix to this branch, or link the separate PR here, and it will be reviewed again.

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Thanks for the review.

  • Blocking (finish_job overwriting edits made during ingest): fixed in fix(local): keep a rename or note edit made while a document ingests #2148, as you suggested. finish_job now writes only what the job produced (the parsed text for a FILE, the title and content for a Studio output), so a rename or note edit made mid-ingest survives. It has integration tests for both cases.
  • Errors behind the dialog: a failed note save or rename now shows a toast (sources_note_save_toast, sources_rename_toast, translated into all locales) instead of the panel alert, and the dialog stays open.
  • Content on title-only edits: the editor now sends content only when it changed, so renaming a note no longer re-ingests it. There is a test for this (PATCH {title} only).

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