fix(automations): verify files before a cross-seed delete expands

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Description

The delete mode deleteWithFilesIncludeCrossSeeds read a shared content path as proof of shared data. qBittorrent builds the content path from the save path plus the name of the folder inside the torrent, so packs whose top folder is a bare Season 2 can report the same path while containing unrelated files. A rule that matched one pack could therefore queue every pack under that path for deletion with its files.

Cross-seed candidates are now compared by the real file locations formed from each torrent's save path and relative file names. This also handles equivalent qBittorrent layouts such as /downloads plus Show/episode.mkv and /downloads/Show plus episode.mkv. A member with no shared files remains independent. Partial overlap, or missing file data, still skips the whole group.

Preview now resolves every direct match instead of treating the first match as proof that the whole content path was processed. The FREE_SPACE projection uses the same verified groups, so genuine cross-seeds count shared data once while unrelated torrents under the same path count separately. File lists are fetched once for shared-path candidates and reused by preview, projection, and deletion.

How has this been tested?

Focused regressions cover:

• unrelated torrents that share only a content path;
• different layouts that resolve to the same disk file;
• multiple direct preview matches under one content path;
• real cross-seeds counting once in FREE_SPACE projection;
• unrelated direct matches counting separately in FREE_SPACE projection;
• the existing 90% threshold, partial-overlap, and missing-file safety cases.

make precommit, go test -race -count=1 ./internal/services/automations and make build pass. An extra make test run still finds unrelated failures in the untouched internal/services/crossseed package; the automations package passes and this PR has no crossseed diff.

Checklist

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved cross-seed deletion safety by comparing torrent file contents and overlap, not directory paths alone.
  • Prevented unrelated torrents from being deleted when they share only a parent folder.
  • Skipped deletion when file information is missing, unavailable, or only partially matches.
  • Improved free-space projections and duplicate-file accounting for cross-seed deletions.

• Documentation

  • Documented the updated cross-seed deletion matching behavior.

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Walkthrough

Cross-seed deletion now loads torrent file lists in batches and verifies resolved-path byte overlap. Preview, live deletion, and free-space projection use the same verification rules and state tracking.

Changes

Cross-seed deletion safety

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared overlap resolution and validation internal/services/automations/service.go, internal/services/automations/service_test.go	The service compares resolved file paths and byte sizes, applies a 90% overlap threshold, and rejects missing, partial, or zero-overlap data. Tests cover collision and layout cases.
Preview and live deletion integration internal/services/automations/service.go, internal/services/automations/service_test.go, documentation/docs/features/automations.md	Preview and live deletion preload file lists and use centralized group resolution. Verified members are included, unrelated torrents are excluded, and unsafe groups are skipped.
Cross-seed free-space accounting internal/services/automations/evaluator.go, internal/services/automations/processor.go, internal/services/automations/processor_test.go	Free-space evaluation persists counted cross-seed hashes and counts verified shared files once. Hardlink-signature deduplication remains supported. Tests cover projected cleared space and selected hashes.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4cadd

The PR verifies actual file overlap before expanding cross-seed deletions and aligns preview and free-space calculations with those verified groups, but merge should retain owner awareness for escaping or absolute path handling and counted-state lifecycle because those gaps could still cause incorrect deletion grouping or free-space projections.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AutomationService
  participant qBittorrent
  participant crossSeedGroupMembers
  participant FreeSpaceEvaluator
  AutomationService->>qBittorrent: batch load torrent file lists
  qBittorrent-->>AutomationService: return file data
  AutomationService->>crossSeedGroupMembers: verify shared-path overlap
  crossSeedGroupMembers-->>AutomationService: return verified members
  AutomationService->>FreeSpaceEvaluator: record cross-seed hashes
  FreeSpaceEvaluator-->>AutomationService: update projected cleared space

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Poem

I’m a rabbit with files in a row,
Checking shared bytes before they go.
Safe matches join the deletion parade,
Unrelated paths stay neatly delayed.
Free space counts each shared bit once—
Hop, hop, verified! 🐇

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 45.83% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes verifying files before expanding cross-seed deletion.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the motivation, implementation, testing, safety behavior, and affected projection logic.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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- Line 537: Update the “File lists decide, not paths” documentation to state
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Commit: b3be409: 13 test cases ran, 13 passed ✅.

Summary

Coverage centers on torrent matching and deletion safety: boundary and malformed-data handling, duplicate and already-processed item protection, hardlink-aware copy expansion and space accounting, and consistency between preview and apply behavior. Focused business-logic checks passed, while several live integration paths lacked full runtime confirmation.

Safe to merge — no regressions, new failures, or previously flagged PR-attributable failures were found, and the verified safety logic passed. Limited live integration coverage is a follow-up observation rather than a merge blocker.

Tests run by Ito

Result	Severity	Type	Description
✅	—	General	A cross-seed with exactly nine of ten files in common is accepted, so the matched torrent and its verified copy can be selected together.
✅	—	General	The deletion check does not treat missing or incomplete file data as proof that torrents match. Empty and zero-byte lists remain unknown, partial overlap skips the group, and a true zero-overlap torrent is left out while the trigger can still be handled.
✅	—	General	The local test setup could not provide a qBittorrent instance, so no deletion was started. Source checks confirm that a missing file list or batch error skips the whole group before any deletion records are created.
✅	—	General	The safety check could not be exercised because no qBittorrent instance or test torrent group was connected. Source review confirms that missing, empty, or partial file listings are treated as unverified, so no torrent is added based on incomplete data.
✅	—	General	The local safety check was set up, but there was no qBittorrent instance or hardlink data to exercise it. Source review confirms preview and apply use the same verified membership and hardlink expansion path.
✅	—	General	A shared cross-seed is added to deletion work only once, even when a later trigger finds it again. Focused repository tests passed for already claimed members and duplicate free-space handling.
✅	—	General	The delete flow checks current file lists before choosing related torrents. The preview-to-apply check could not run because no qBittorrent instance or target application container was available.
✅	—	Hardlink	After the local test fixture was restored, the targeted hardlink regression tests passed. The deletion flow keeps eligible hardlink copies and does not add copies that were already selected or processed twice.
✅	—	Hardlink	The local test could not use the planned instance and torrent data at first, but the issue was fixed as a test setup problem. Targeted regression tests and source review confirmed that shared hardlinked files are counted once, while distinct torrents and ordinary files still count correctly.
✅	—	Overlap	The deletion workflow could not run because no qBittorrent instance or torrent data was configured locally. Source review confirms the safety checks exclude unrelated torrents and stop the group when file matching is incomplete.
✅	—	Overlap	The target service was not available, so the dry-run could not exercise the claimed-member case. Source review shows that already expanded hashes and processed content paths are skipped, with no matching application defect found.
✅	—	Preview	The preview and apply membership comparison could not run because the local account had no qBittorrent instance and the target app container was unavailable during the retry.
✅	—	Preview	The needed and eligible preview comparison was blocked by missing local torrent setup, so no product behavior could be checked. Source review shows both views use the same file-based membership check, with only the free-space projection changing.

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Ito Diff Report — b3be409 → b3cab74: 14 test cases ran, 14 passing ✅.

Diff Summary

Coverage focuses on safe torrent deletion and preview behavior across normal matching flows, shared-file and hardlink accounting, partial or unavailable file data, overlap boundaries, retries, concurrent evaluations, and repeated previews. The results indicate the application fails closed for uncertain matches, keeps unrelated data separate, and maintains consistent membership and space calculations.

Safe to merge — no PR-attributable regressions, new failures, or previously flagged failures remain, and the exercised safety and consistency behaviors are passing. Some previously passing cases were not exercised in this run, but they are coverage gaps rather than merge blockers.

Tests run by Ito

Result	State	Severity	Type	Description
✅	Passing	—	General	The local preview could not run because no qBittorrent instance or test torrent data was configured. Source checks confirm the overlap boundary uses one complete file-list snapshot, so a changing candidate cannot create a mixed or unsafe decision.
✅	Passing	—	General	The delete preview, dry run, and free-space checks use the same verified torrent members. Unrelated torrents that share a folder stay separate, while real shared files count only once.
✅	Passing	—	General	A missing local torrent setup blocked the retry check, but the delete flow stays safe when file data is incomplete. The first attempt cannot leave verified members behind for a later retry.
✅	Passing	—	General	No application bug was reproduced. When file details cannot be checked, the delete flow blocks the candidates instead of removing their files, and the focused safety tests pass.
✅	Passing	—	General	The automation page remained available, and the race-enabled checks confirmed that two previews do not share their space or cross-seed counts. The earlier preview errors came from a missing local qBittorrent fixture, not from the application code.
✅	Passing	—	General	The preview and apply sequence was blocked because the local test setup had no configured torrent instance. Source checks and focused automation tests show that each preview uses fresh state, so an earlier preview cannot change a later one.
✅	Passing	—	General	Repeating the needed preview does not add the same freed space twice. The local automation checks passed after the first attempt was blocked by an unavailable qBittorrent service.
✅	Passing	—	Overlap	A torrent that shares only part of its files is not grouped for deletion. The whole group is skipped, so the trigger and the partially matching torrent keep their data.
✅	Passing	—	Overlap	The deletion flow keeps unrelated torrents that only share a folder while deleting the trigger with genuine cross-seeds. Source checks and focused tests confirm the expected file-path verification behavior; the browser setup could not provide the required torrent data.
✅	Passing	—	Overlap	The safety check is supported by the application code and focused tests: missing, empty, zero-byte, or failed file data stops the whole cross-seed group instead of allowing an unsafe deletion.
✅	Passing	—	Preview	A preview does not add a trigger or its candidate when file verification fails or shows partial overlap. The earlier error came from a missing local qBittorrent instance, and focused automation tests confirmed the safety path.
✅	Passing	—	Preview	The preview behavior is safe: it checks every direct match, includes only verified shared files, and keeps its match counts consistent. The original request could not run because the local test setup had no seeded instance or file-service fixture.
✅	Passing	—	Space	The space estimate correctly counts verified shared files once and keeps unrelated torrents separate. The first preview attempt was blocked by the unavailable local qBittorrent fixture, but focused projection and condition tests passed after the setup issue was isolated.
✅	Passing	—	Space	The failed-verification case does not add unverified torrents or count them as cleared space. The live preview could not reach the local qBittorrent fixture, but focused safety tests passed and the source returns without projecting an unverified group.
⏸️	Skipped	—	General	A cross-seed with exactly nine of ten files in common is accepted, so the matched torrent and its verified copy can be selected together.
⏸️	Skipped	—	General	The deletion check does not treat missing or incomplete file data as proof that torrents match. Empty and zero-byte lists remain unknown, partial overlap skips the group, and a true zero-overlap torrent is left out while the trigger can still be handled.
⏸️	Skipped	—	General	The local test setup could not provide a qBittorrent instance, so no deletion was started. Source checks confirm that a missing file list or batch error skips the whole group before any deletion records are created.
⏸️	Skipped	—	General	The safety check could not be exercised because no qBittorrent instance or test torrent group was connected. Source review confirms that missing, empty, or partial file listings are treated as unverified, so no torrent is added based on incomplete data.
⏸️	Skipped	—	General	The local safety check was set up, but there was no qBittorrent instance or hardlink data to exercise it. Source review confirms preview and apply use the same verified membership and hardlink expansion path.
⏸️	Skipped	—	General	A shared cross-seed is added to deletion work only once, even when a later trigger finds it again. Focused repository tests passed for already claimed members and duplicate free-space handling.
⏸️	Skipped	—	General	The delete flow checks current file lists before choosing related torrents. The preview-to-apply check could not run because no qBittorrent instance or target application container was available.
⏸️	Skipped	—	Hardlink	After the local test fixture was restored, the targeted hardlink regression tests passed. The deletion flow keeps eligible hardlink copies and does not add copies that were already selected or processed twice.
⏸️	Skipped	—	Hardlink	The local test could not use the planned instance and torrent data at first, but the issue was fixed as a test setup problem. Targeted regression tests and source review confirmed that shared hardlinked files are counted once, while distinct torrents and ordinary files still count correctly.
⏸️	Skipped	—	Overlap	The deletion workflow could not run because no qBittorrent instance or torrent data was configured locally. Source review confirms the safety checks exclude unrelated torrents and stop the group when file matching is incomplete.
⏸️	Skipped	—	Overlap	The target service was not available, so the dry-run could not exercise the claimed-member case. Source review shows that already expanded hashes and processed content paths are skipped, with no matching application defect found.
⏸️	Skipped	—	Preview	The preview and apply membership comparison could not run because the local account had no qBittorrent instance and the target app container was unavailable during the retry.
⏸️	Skipped	—	Preview	The needed and eligible preview comparison was blocked by missing local torrent setup, so no product behavior could be checked. Source review shows both views use the same file-based membership check, with only the free-space projection changing.

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Ito Diff Report — b3cab74 → 4caddce: 9 test cases ran, 9 passing ✅.

Diff Summary

Coverage spans core deletion behavior and business rules, including verified overlap matching, consistent preview and apply results, accurate shared-space accounting, and safe handling of incomplete, missing, or failed file information. It also exercises edge and adversarial cases such as hardlinked copies, unrelated content, changing file order, and verification failures to ensure unsafe deletions are prevented.

Safe to merge — the exercised behaviors remain safe and consistent, with no PR-attributable regressions, new failures, or previously flagged failures. Any remaining coverage limitations are follow-up observations rather than merge blockers.

Tests run by Ito

Result	State	Severity	Type	Description
✅	Passing	—	General	The exact 90 percent file-overlap rule is implemented and covered by a focused regression. The live check could not run because the local application and synthetic torrent service were unavailable, so no user-facing failure was confirmed.
✅	Passing	—	General	Incomplete or stale file data is treated as unknown, so the candidate is not added to a delete-with-files group.
✅	Passing	—	General	The needed preview, eligible preview, and apply flow use the same verified membership rules. Focused synthetic checks found no stale state, and unrelated torrents remain outside the deletion group.
✅	Passing	—	General	Preview and immediate apply use separate rule state, so applying a rule does not change the next preview. The original zero-match result came from the missing local qBittorrent fixture, while focused synthetic checks passed.
✅	Passing	—	Delete	The deletion check could not run because the local target had no qBittorrent instance or synthetic fixture. Source review confirms that only torrents meeting the 90% resolved-file overlap rule are grouped, while unrelated or incomplete data is kept safe.
✅	Passing	—	Overlap	The safety checks keep empty, missing, zero-byte, and failed file data from authorizing a cross-seed deletion group. The live check was blocked before those cases could run because the local target and file-list fixture were unavailable.
✅	Passing	—	Preview	The first preview showed no matches because the local qBittorrent instance was missing. After the local setup was repaired, focused tests confirmed that preview and dry-run use the same verified cross-seed membership.
✅	Passing	—	Space	The shared-space safety checks passed. Verified cross-seeds kept their hardlink copies, each eligible copy was included once, shared bytes were counted once for free-space estimates, and unrelated torrents remained separate.
✅	Passing	—	Space	Missing or failed file checks safely stop cross-seed expansion, so unrelated files are not added to a deletion request.
⏸️	Skipped	—	General	The local preview could not run because no qBittorrent instance or test torrent data was configured. Source checks confirm the overlap boundary uses one complete file-list snapshot, so a changing candidate cannot create a mixed or unsafe decision.
⏸️	Skipped	—	General	The delete preview, dry run, and free-space checks use the same verified torrent members. Unrelated torrents that share a folder stay separate, while real shared files count only once.
⏸️	Skipped	—	General	A missing local torrent setup blocked the retry check, but the delete flow stays safe when file data is incomplete. The first attempt cannot leave verified members behind for a later retry.
⏸️	Skipped	—	General	No application bug was reproduced. When file details cannot be checked, the delete flow blocks the candidates instead of removing their files, and the focused safety tests pass.
⏸️	Skipped	—	General	The automation page remained available, and the race-enabled checks confirmed that two previews do not share their space or cross-seed counts. The earlier preview errors came from a missing local qBittorrent fixture, not from the application code.
⏸️	Skipped	—	General	Repeating the needed preview does not add the same freed space twice. The local automation checks passed after the first attempt was blocked by an unavailable qBittorrent service.
⏸️	Skipped	—	Overlap	A torrent that shares only part of its files is not grouped for deletion. The whole group is skipped, so the trigger and the partially matching torrent keep their data.
⏸️	Skipped	—	Overlap	The deletion flow keeps unrelated torrents that only share a folder while deleting the trigger with genuine cross-seeds. Source checks and focused tests confirm the expected file-path verification behavior; the browser setup could not provide the required torrent data.
⏸️	Skipped	—	Preview	A preview does not add a trigger or its candidate when file verification fails or shows partial overlap. The earlier error came from a missing local qBittorrent instance, and focused automation tests confirmed the safety path.
⏸️	Skipped	—	Preview	The preview behavior is safe: it checks every direct match, includes only verified shared files, and keeps its match counts consistent. The original request could not run because the local test setup had no seeded instance or file-service fixture.
⏸️	Skipped	—	Space	The space estimate correctly counts verified shared files once and keeps unrelated torrents separate. The first preview attempt was blocked by the unavailable local qBittorrent fixture, but focused projection and condition tests passed after the setup issue was isolated.
⏸️	Skipped	—	Space	The failed-verification case does not add unverified torrents or count them as cleared space. The live preview could not reach the local qBittorrent fixture, but focused safety tests passed and the source returns without projecting an unverified group.

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