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Why

The WP Credits developer track asks students to set up Xdebug, and a toolkit site has no way to step debug: PHP runs in Playground, so there is no php.ini to add it to. Issue #723 makes the case.

What changes

• Setting: "Step debugging (Xdebug)" under Settings → Sites. Off by default, because it slows every request. Like the PHP version and WP_DEBUG, it applies at the next server start, and reaches runCLI() as xdebug: true.
• Debugging row: when the setting is on, the site's details read WP_DEBUG · SCRIPT_DEBUG · Xdebug, like the other two flags. Main reports with the URL whether the running server has Xdebug, and the row adds a notice when that differs from the setting:
  • warning: "Xdebug is turned on, but this site started before that. Restart the server to use it."
  • warning: "Xdebug is on for other site. Stop that site's server, then restart this one to use it here."
  • warning: "This site started without Xdebug because another site's server had it. Restart the server to use it."
  • info: "Xdebug is still on for this site until you restart the server."
• Set up Xdebug for your editor: while the running server has Xdebug, a menu under the row offers the editors the app detects that have a setup: VS Code, Cursor, PhpStorm and Zed, each with its own dialog. Detection is the same as the site menu's "Open in". If none of the four is found, there is nothing to set up, and the row offers no setup. "Set up Cursor" is VS Code's setup under Cursor's name. "Set up Zed" gives a .zed/debug.json for the Xdebug adapter in Zed's PHP extension, with the same listener and mapping. Sublime Text gets no setup, because its PHP debugger needs Node.js on the host (Offer Xdebug setup for Sublime Text #758). "Set up VS Code" has numbered steps and a copyable "Listen for Xdebug" launch.json that listens on 127.0.0.1 only. "Set up PhpStorm" has the steps and the values to enter, each by its PhpStorm field name with a copy button: host, port, and the path mapping. The host is the site's address with its port and the port is 80, because that is how Playground describes the server to PHP, and PhpStorm matches on it. A Core site maps /wordpress to the checkout's src/, not build/: the build copies the PHP line for line, and src/ is what contributors edit. A Gutenberg site maps the plugin's mount to the checkout. The copy buttons follow the design system's copy pattern, except for useCopyToClipboard (Make every copy button follow the design system's copy-to-clipboard pattern #751).
• One running server has Xdebug at a time: Playground hard-codes port 9003, and every site serves from /wordpress, so an editor cannot tell two sites apart. Main checks at each start: a site started while another site's running server has Xdebug starts without it. Its Debugging row names the site whose server has Xdebug now, worked out from each site's server report, or says to restart once none does.
• A start can be cancelled: while a server starts, its button and the header menu offer Cancel ("Cancel the development server start") instead of a disabled "Starting…". With Xdebug, Playground's own requests while it starts can stop in the editor. A stop before the server is spawned cancels the start in main, and the window ignores what a cancelled start sends afterwards. A start with Xdebug is given 15 minutes before it fails, instead of 2.
• Focus rings in the details: the details panel clips at its edges so it can slide shut, and a focus ring at the left edge was cut off. The panel now keeps room for a ring on both sides, for every control in it.
• Excludes: two things debugging leaves in a checkout go in their own .git/info/exclude block, so existing sites get it too:
  • the .playground-xdebug-root link the Playground CLI leaves in the server's working folder, which for Gutenberg is the checkout;
  • .vscode/launch.json and .zed/debug.json, which neither wordpress-develop nor Gutenberg ignores. Only those files: Gutenberg tracks launch-example.json and others in .vscode/, and a change to those is still work.
• Docs: new guide page, Step debugging with Xdebug, and an entry in Settings. The README "Ideas" line is gone.

Not in it: writing .vscode/launch.json or .zed/debug.json into the checkout, Sublime Text (#758), opening the preferred editor's setup directly (once #753 lands), a per-site port, a per-site toggle, restarting a server when the setting changes, and any check that VS Code is listening.

How to test this

Platforms: macOS tested by hand; Windows still to do on the Buildkite build for this head. The launch.json path uses Windows separators there, and the CLI's link is a junction.

The journey tests/e2e/journeys/xdebug.spec.js covers the toggle, the Debugging row in each state, the editor menu following detection (Cursor and Zed found, and no setup when none is), each dialog, the launch.json mapping, the PhpStorm values, the focus ring on the menu button after a dialog closes, and the row for a site started while another site has Xdebug. Main's start-time check is in ipc-wiring.test.cjs, since the journeys stub the start. Run the journey from the repository root with npx cross-env TOOLKIT_HIDE_WINDOWS=1 playwright test --project=journeys tests/e2e/journeys/xdebug.spec.js. What it cannot reach is real Xdebug and VS Code:

Starting state: a built Core site, and VS Code with the PHP Debug extension (by Xdebug).

1. Settings → Sites → turn on Step debugging (Xdebug). Start the site's development server.
   • The Debugging row reads WP_DEBUG · SCRIPT_DEBUG · Xdebug, with Set up Xdebug for your editor under it.
2. Select Set up Xdebug for your editor, choose VS Code, then select Copy launch.json. Paste it into .vscode/launch.json in the site folder, and start Listen for Xdebug in VS Code.
3. Set a breakpoint in src/wp-settings.php, and load the site.
   • VS Code stops on that line in src/, not a copy in build/.
4. Repeat 1 to 3 on a Gutenberg site, with a breakpoint in one of the checkout's PHP files.
5. Optional, with PhpStorm, Cursor or Zed (each tested by hand on a Gutenberg site): choose it from the same menu on the Core site, follow its steps, and check a breakpoint in src/ stops there. The menu lists only the editors installed in their default locations, and does not appear if none of the four is.
6. With the Core site's server still running, start the Gutenberg site's server.
   • The Gutenberg site's Debugging row says Xdebug is on for the Core site, and has no setup menu.
   • Loading a Gutenberg page does not stop in VS Code.
7. Stop the Core site's server.
   • The Gutenberg site's row now says it started without Xdebug because another site's server had it, and to restart.
8. Stop and start the Gutenberg site's server.
   • The Gutenberg site now has the setup menu, and its breakpoints stop.
9. With VS Code listening and a breakpoint in src/wp-settings.php, start the Core site's server.
   • VS Code may stop there while the site still shows Server starting…. Select Cancel: the server stops, and the site offers Start development server without saying the start failed.
10. Stop the editor's listener and load the site again.

• The site loads normally.

What must not have happened:

• On both sites, the ticket card does not count .vscode/launch.json or .playground-xdebug-root as a change, and neither is in the patch. On Gutenberg, an edit to the tracked .vscode/launch-example.json still is.
• With the setting off, nothing about Xdebug appears and the server starts as before.

Risks and limitations

• Windows untested by hand. Tested by hand on macOS only (Core and Gutenberg, real VS Code breakpoints).
• An editor detection misses gets no setup. Detection checks each editor's usual install location, so it misses, for example, PhpStorm from JetBrains' own installer on Windows. Such a person sees only the editors that were found, or no setup at all; the guide still gives the values by hand. A choice: offering setup only for what is installed.
• Cursor tested by hand on macOS only. With the launch.json from "Set up Cursor", Cursor stopped on a breakpoint on a Gutenberg site. Not tried on a Core site or on Windows.
• Zed tested by hand on macOS only. With a Gutenberg site, the copied .zed/debug.json and the PHP extension installed, Zed stopped on a breakpoint in the checkout, so the pathMappings key works. Without the extension, Zed says no debug tasks were found, which the dialog and guide now explain (6337ec6). Not tried on a Core site or on Windows.
• PhpStorm tested by hand on macOS only. On a Gutenberg site with PHP 8.3, PhpStorm stops on a breakpoint once the server is entered as Playground describes it to PHP: Host 127.0.0.1:9400 (the address with its port), Port 80 (f4db94c). With Host 127.0.0.1 and Port 9400, which the dialog gave before, PhpStorm found no server and detached every request with "Cannot bind file /internal/shared/auto_prepend_file.php to the web server project". The values were read from the site's own requests and match what Playground's PhpStorm integration writes. Not tried on a Core site or on Windows.
• Only PHP 8.3 tested by hand.
• One running server has Xdebug at a time. By design: the first one started with the setting on keeps it, and later ones start without it. Per-site ports would need Xdebug's client_port set by hand, since Playground does not expose it.
• Two real servers untested by hand. The start-time check is covered by a unit test of main, including a second start while the first is still starting, and the window's side by a three-site journey, but not yet by two real Playground servers.
• Cancelling a start changes every start, not just Xdebug ones. The starting button was disabled on purpose, to stop a second click starting a second server (A Gutenberg site's dev server serves before npm run dev has rebuilt build/, so the first wp-admin load fails #488). It now cancels, and is named apart from Stop, so the journeys that wait for Stop still mean a running server. A cancelled start that a stop reaches after the spawn is killed the same way as a running server.
• PhpStorm listens on every network interface by default. The launch.json for VS Code is bound to 127.0.0.1; the PhpStorm setting that does the same is not checked or documented yet.
• Depends on Xdebug 3.4. The src/ mapping works because the bundled Xdebug 3.4 reports VFS paths. Playground already writes a path map that Xdebug 3.5 will honour, which would map to build/. A comment in src/renderer/xdebug.cjs flags it for the next Playground bump.
• Unrelated journey failures. i18n.spec.js › "the Logs are fully translatable" fails locally on clean trunk as well as on this branch (a strict-mode violation on .log-pane-note), and passes some runs. tray.spec.js › "a site that could not be deleted does not bring the logs up later…" failed once in the last full run and once in three reruns, and fails the same way on 38f0392, before the last commit; it does not touch the server's start.
• The head is not re-reviewed. CodeRabbit reviewed 9024fc3 (three findings, two fixed in d8f28cb, one declined). A fresh-context self-review covered d8f28cb..f4db94c (one finding, fixed in f201fb5). f201fb5 itself and CodeRabbit on the head are still to come.

Related

Fixes #723

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Design decisions and alternatives considered

• Show the config, don't write it. Playground's experimentalUnsafeIdeIntegration can write .vscode/launch.json. That file lands in the checkout and would end up in a patch, and its mapping points at build/, where a contributor's breakpoints are not.
• Follow the running server, not the setting. The setting applies at the next start, so showing it as done while an old server runs would leave a student wondering why nothing stops.
• One server at a time instead of per-site ports. Playground hard-codes 9003. Overriding it means setting Xdebug's ini or environment ourselves, which I have not proven works.
• Enforced at the start, not by a per-site setting. WordPress Studio allows Xdebug on one site's setting at a time and restarts the site on save. A per-site setting alone would still let two running servers have Xdebug (turn it off on a running site, which keeps it until a restart, and on for another), so the rule is enforced where servers start, and the setting stays global.
• A second server starts without Xdebug rather than not at all. Refusing the start would block a contributor who only wants to look at another site.
• No "VS Code is listening" light. Probing 9003 cannot tell VS Code from anything else, or which site's window is listening.

Review outcome (required — see AGENTS.md)

1 high and 2 low [fix here], 1 low [follow-up]; all 3 [fix here] fixed, and the follow-up handled with a comment.

• Fixed (🔴): the Gutenberg checkout picked up the CLI's .playground-xdebug-root link as work. It is now excluded, with a test in ipc-wiring that is red without the exclude.

• Fixed (🔵): a failed copy of launch.json was silent. It now shows an error notice, like the path copy. Since 400df42 it shows an error icon on the button instead, following the copy pattern.

• Fixed (🔵): whether the block shows, and with what, lived in index.jsx. It is now xdebugSection in src/renderer/xdebug.cjs, with tests.

• Follow-up (🔵): the Xdebug 3.5 path-map dependency, noted in a comment in xdebug.cjs.

• Review: completed. Separate agent context, against .github/instructions/code-review.instructions.md. Base trunk 33afc45; it covered the uncommitted work before the fixes. npm run lint and npm test passed (2,258 tests, 2 skipped).

• Since review: the three fixes and the comment above, committed as 5fbbdd1. Then 2289a1e moved the UI from the Server section into the Debugging row and a dialog, e32a99c and the head commit relabelled its button, 8efc32d added the PhpStorm tab, and a later commit excluded .vscode/launch.json, all after review by hand. All are covered by tests and re-run journeys; none was re-reviewed by a fresh context.

• CodeRabbit, first run: completed on 33afc45..5fbbdd1. 1 finding: the guide's breakpoint checklist only fit Core. Fixed in 784100f.

• After design review (400df42, ec80452): the notices, the editor menu and per-editor dialogs, the copy pattern, the focus-ring room, and the start-time check, with the "also running" notice removed. Lint clean, unit suite 2,262 passed and 2 skipped, all 168 journeys passed on ec80452. Not yet reviewed by a fresh context or by CodeRabbit.

• Copilot, on ec80452: 1 high, 2 medium, 2 low, all [fix here]. Fixed in 38f0392: the launch.json listens on 127.0.0.1 (checked by a spike: Playground's Xdebug reaches 127.0.0.1, not ::1); the holder notice no longer goes stale; a start with Xdebug has 15 minutes, not 2; the journey checks what the copy buttons copy and how they report it; one siteDisplayName helper. Not done: moving the copy result's two-entry lookup into a .cjs helper, since the journey covers it. Each thread has a reply.

• Self-review, on 784100f..38f0392: completed. Separate agent context, against the review instructions. 1 medium and 1 low, both [fix here], both fixed in 9024fc3. Medium: the 15-minute limit left a starting server with no control to end the wait (Gutenberg: updating trunk runs two full builds (npm run build, then the resumed npm run dev rebuilds from scratch) #507); a start can now be cancelled. Low: the holder notice knew only whether the holder named at the start was still up, so after a handoff it sent the contributor to a restart that would not give them Xdebug, and the decision sat in index.jsx; the reports carry the Xdebug flag again and xdebug.cjs works out the current holder, with unit tests. No findings in security, performance or cross-platform.

• Tests on 9024fc3: lint clean, unit suite 2,272 passed and 2 skipped, 166 of 169 journeys passed; the three failures are the two unrelated ones under Risks and the i18n journey for the starting state, which needed its new string and passes since.

• CodeRabbit, third run: requested on 38f0392 and rate limited ("Review rate limited"). The request after the wait completed on 784100f..9024fc3 (22 files). 3 findings, 2 fixed in d8f28cb and 1 declined:

  • Fixed: a Cancel while the debug.log tail came up had no start in main to cancel, so the start went on and spawned a server the window ignored. The hook now checks for a cancel after the tail. New journey in dev-server.spec.js, red without the fix.
  • Fixed: the editor chosen for the setup dialog outlived a server that stopped, so the next start with Xdebug opened the dialog unasked. It is cleared whenever Xdebug stops being on. New journey in xdebug.spec.js, red without the fix.
  • Declined: two pending starts for one site replacing each other's cancel record in main. The hook never has two starts for one site pending, so the app can't produce it.

• f3041da, editor detection, Cursor and Zed: added after review, at the author's request. Unit tests for xdebugEditors and zedDebugConfig, the exclude test now covers .zed/debug.json, and a new journey walks the menu with Cursor, Zed and Sublime Text detected and then none. Each failed before the change. Lint clean, unit suite 2,277 passed and 2 skipped. The xdebug, site-header, patch-apply, pr-checkout, dev-server and i18n journeys: 70 passed, 1 failed (the i18n Logs journey that fails on trunk). Not reviewed by a fresh context or by CodeRabbit.

• Self-review, on 9024fc3..f4db94c: completed. Separate agent context, against the review instructions. 1 medium, [fix here], fixed in f201fb5: the menu fell back to VS Code and PhpStorm only when no editor with a setup was found, so an editor detection missed vanished as soon as another was found, and the fallback flashed before detection finished. At the author's call the menu now offers only detected editors, and no setup when none is found, with the trade-off under Risks. A note, not a finding: a cancel during the debug.log tail leaves a renderer listener attached until the next start; left as is. No findings in security, performance or tests. Lint clean and unit suite 2,277 passed and 2 skipped on f4db94c; on f201fb5 the same, and the 4 Xdebug journeys pass.

• Tests on d8f28cb: lint clean, unit suite 2,272 passed and 2 skipped, dev-server.spec.js and xdebug.spec.js all passed (9). The full journey suite was not re-run.

• CodeRabbit, second run: the first request for the later commits was refused ("Review limit reached"). The request after the wait completed on 5fbbdd1..784100f (12 files). 1 finding, outside the diff: when playground:start returns a server that is already running, the renderer ignores its URL, and now its xdebug flag too. Left as a follow-up: that response and the renderer ignoring it both predate this PR, which only adds xdebug to it.

Implementation notes

• Spike before building: on Apple Silicon with the app's Electron 43.6.0 Helper, xdebug: true loads Xdebug 3.4.8 and stops on /wordpress/wp-settings.php:66 during boot and on page loads. With nothing on 9003, pages return 200, and nothing reaches debug.log or the server output, so there is no log noise to quiet.
• Checked on a real wordpress-develop clone: every PHP file in build/ matches its src/ copy, except index.php, wp-admin/index.php (the src/ copies are build stubs), version.php (one line), and a few build-only files.
• Xdebug's start_with_request=yes and idekey come from @php-wasm/node. No port option exists.

Screenshots or recording

These show the UI before 400df42 (tabs in one dialog, the old notes and buttons). Updated screenshots are in a comment; they predate the Cancel button and the holder notices.

Details section with Xdebug enabled and notice

Details section with Xdebug config button

VS Code setup modal

PHP Storm setup modal

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The change adds an off-by-default Xdebug setting and passes it to Playground at server startup. Only one running site receives Xdebug at a time. The renderer reports the server’s Xdebug state and provides VS Code and PhpStorm setup details. Startup can be cancelled while pending. Documentation and unit and end-to-end tests cover setup, status, ownership, and cancellation.

Assessment against linked issues

Objective	Addressed	Explanation
Add an off-by-default setting that enables Xdebug at the next server start [#723]	✅
Show editor connection details, port, and path mappings in site details [#723]	✅

Out-of-scope changes

Code Change	Explanation
Add inline padding to the dashboard sidebar (src/renderer/shell.css:332-342)	This layout change is separate from the Xdebug setting, server startup, or editor setup objectives in #723.

Possibly related issues

• Changed files lists editor folders like .idea, and sometimes far more files than expected #737: The change excludes .vscode/launch.json through local Git excludes, matching the issue’s narrow concern about editor-file noise.
• Make every copy button follow the design system's copy-to-clipboard pattern #751: The Xdebug setup dialog adds copy buttons; the issue specifically concerns their use of useCopyToClipboard.

Possibly related PRs

• WordPress/contributor-toolkit#714: Adds appendExcludeBlock and its one-time behavior, which this change uses to add Xdebug-related local exclusions.

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 9024f

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Restore state from an already-running server response.

When startServer returns an existing server, it provides url and xdebug without invoking the URL callback. Apply the same state updates and openExternal behavior as the callback.

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       if (res && res.ok === false && !stoppingRef.current && !runningRef.current) {
         // translators: %s: why the server did not start.
         appendRuntime(`${sprintf(__('Dev server failed to start: %s'), res.error || __('unknown error'))}\n`);
         setServerFailure('start');
         revealServerLog();
         stopDevServer().catch(() => {});
         return;
       }
+      if (res && res.ok === true && res.url && !runningRef.current && !stoppingRef.current) {
+        const u = res.url.replace(/\/$/,'/');
+        setServerUrl(u);
+        setServerXdebug(Boolean(res.xdebug));
+        window.api.openExternal(u);
+        setRunning(true);
+        runningRef.current = true;
+        setStarting(false);
+        serverStartRequestedRef.current = false;
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Hey @ryanwelcher,
I performed the test on VsCode on Windows and here are the results.

1. Turn on debug
   When the server is already on before turning debug on, in the debug section an error is shown informing the use to restart the server.

When the server is switched on after turning debug on, a button (set up Xdebug for your editor) is displayed under the debug section.

2. Xdebug with different php versions
   In both core and a Gutenberg, all the php versions worked with Xdebug.

3. Breakpoints in core work only on the src folder as intended.

4. Two sites with Xdebug on
   Vscode only allows Xdebug to be used on one site at a time as they're both listening on the same port.
   This is confirmed on the debug section by an error message, after start the second site's server.

Also, confirmed that a breakpoint on site 1 then you load a page on site 2 triggers Xdegub on site 1.
5. Site works fine when Xdebug is switched off.

I'll trying setting up PHPStorm and testing it there.

[jameskoster]

Some design suggestions:

• Consider using Notice for the yellow Debugging text in the details section.
• "Set up your editor" to trigger a Menu with the two options so we can remove the tabs from the dialog. Dialog title becomes "Set up VS Code" or equivalent.
• Ensure we're following the copy-to-clipboard guidance here.
• Improved formatting and hierarchy for the lists in dialogs, e.g.:

[huzaifaalmesbah]

Test Report: Step Debugging (Xdebug) with VS Code

Tested on macOS (Apple Silicon) with a WordPress Core site (wordpress-develop, PHP 8.3) against commit 784100f.

Test Results:

• Settings & Status: Enabled Step debugging (Xdebug) under Settings → Sites. After restarting the server, the Debugging row updated to WP_DEBUG · SCRIPT_DEBUG · Xdebug and displayed the "Set up Xdebug for your editor" button as expected.
• Editor Configuration: Opened the dialog, copied the launch.json configuration for VS Code, and added it to .vscode/launch.json.
• Step Debugging: Started "Listen for Xdebug" in VS Code (using the PHP Debug extension), placed a breakpoint in src/wp-settings.php, and requested the site. Execution paused at the breakpoint in src/ cleanly.
• Git Exclude Hygiene: Verified that .vscode/launch.json and .playground-xdebug-root were properly added to .git/info/exclude and neither showed up as unstaged changes or in patch generation.

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Minor UI / Polish Finding:

• Persistent Focus Ring on Button: When clicking "Set up Xdebug for your editor", the modal opens as expected. However, after dismissing/closing the modal, the focus returns to the button and leaves a prominent focus ring / outline visible until clicking elsewhere.

[ryanwelcher]

Thanks @jameskoster, all four are in 400df42:

• The Debugging row's messages are notices now: a warning to restart the server, an info notice while Xdebug stays on until a restart, and a warning when another site is also running with Xdebug.
• "Set up Xdebug for your editor" opens a menu with VS Code and PhpStorm. Each opens its own dialog, "Set up VS Code" or "Set up PhpStorm", so the tabs are gone.
• The copy buttons follow the pattern: minimal, the label stays "Copy", a check or error icon for two seconds after each copy, and the result announced with speak(). The one gap is useCopyToClipboard with onError, which needs @wordpress/compose 9, and the app is on 8.9 through @wordpress/components. Make every copy button follow the design system's copy-to-clipboard pattern #751 covers that, plus the app's other copy buttons, which don't follow the pattern yet.
• The steps and the PhpStorm values follow your mockup, and the VS Code dialog uses the same layout.

[ryanwelcher]

Thanks for testing, @huzaifaalmesbah. Focus going back to the button when the dialog closes is intended, so a keyboard user lands where they were. What was wrong is that the ring was cut off on the left, because the details panel clips at its edges. 400df42 gives the panel room for a focus ring on both sides, and the Xdebug journey now checks that the ring fits.

[ryanwelcher]

Updated Screenshots:

Setup modals

Copied indicator

Info notices

Focus fix

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🟡 Changes recommended

The debugger setup exposes port 9003 beyond localhost, and bootstrap breakpoints can trigger the startup watchdog and terminate valid debug sessions.

5 open issues

• Bind the generated debugger listener to loopback · New
• Refresh the Xdebug owner when servers start or stop · New
• Prevent the startup watchdog from killing paused debugger sessions · New
• Test copy-result feedback and restart its timer · New
• Share and test the site display-name helper · New

What changed in this PR

Adds opt-in Xdebug support to the toolkit’s Playground servers, addressing #723 so contributors can step through PHP without installing a separate PHP environment.

Changes:

• Adds a default-off setting, startup configuration, and single-server Xdebug ownership.
• Shows runtime status and VS Code/PhpStorm setup instructions, while excluding debugging artifacts from patches.
• Adds documentation, unit coverage, and an editor-setup journey.

Review: 5 [fix here] · 0 [follow-up]. GitHub Copilot completed this review of the supplied diff; head/base SHAs were not independently verified. Lint and tests were not run.

File	Description
tests/​unit/​xdebug.test.cjs	Tests editor mappings and runtime notices.
tests/​unit/​site-details.test.cjs	Tests the Debugging row’s Xdebug states.
tests/​unit/​settings.test.cjs	Tests Xdebug defaults and validation.
tests/​unit/​runner-wiring.test.cjs	Tests forwarding Xdebug to Playground.
tests/​unit/​preload-listeners.test.cjs	Tests Xdebug status delivery.
tests/​unit/​ipc-wiring.test.cjs	Tests ownership, startup reporting, and exclusions.
tests/​e2e/​journeys/​xdebug.spec.js	Exercises settings, notices, dialogs, and focus.
src/​settings.cjs	Registers the default-off Xdebug setting.
src/​server-runner.js	Enables Playground’s Xdebug option.
src/​renderer/​xdebug.cjs	Builds editor configuration and status messages.
src/​renderer/​site-details.cjs	Adds Xdebug details and setup availability.
src/​renderer/​shell.css	Styles setup dialogs and preserves focus rings.
src/​renderer/​index.jsx	Connects runtime status, dialogs, and copying.
src/​renderer/​hooks/​use-dev-server.jsx	Tracks each server’s Xdebug state.
src/​renderer/​components/​xdebug-setup-dialog.jsx	Provides editor instructions and copy controls.
src/​renderer/​components/​site-details.jsx	Renders notices and the editor menu.
src/​renderer/​components/​settings-dialog.jsx	Adds the Xdebug toggle.
src/​preload.js	Passes Xdebug metadata to the renderer.
src/​main.js	Controls ownership and excludes debugging artifacts.
README.md	Removes Xdebug from future-work ideas.
package.json	Declares the accessibility announcement dependency.
package-lock.json	Records that direct dependency.
docs/​guide/​step-debugging.md	Documents setup, mappings, and limitations.
docs/​guide/​settings.md	Documents the new setting.
docs/​.vitepress/​config.mjs	Adds the debugging guide to navigation.

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[ryanwelcher]

Fixed in 38f0392: the launch.json sets "hostname": "127.0.0.1". I checked which address works first: Playground's Xdebug reaches a listener on 127.0.0.1 or on every address, but not one on ::1, so it's 127.0.0.1 and not localhost. A unit test and the journey both check it.

[ryanwelcher]

Fixed in 38f0392. Main still names the holder once, at the start, but the site now names it only while that site's server is up, using the server state the sites list already has. Once it stops, the row says "This site started without Xdebug because another site's server had it. Restart the server to use it.", and the restart is told whoever holds it then. The journey now runs two sites through the handoff: the holder is named, stops, the note changes, and a restart gets Xdebug. It fails without the change.

[ryanwelcher]

Fixed in 38f0392, though not by dropping the limit. Nothing can stop a server while it starts (Stop is disabled until it reports its address), so with no limit a paused or hung start couldn't be cancelled. A server started with Xdebug now gets 15 minutes and others keep 2. Unit tests check both limits with mocked timers. A pause longer than 15 minutes during startup still ends the start.

[ryanwelcher]

Partly done in 38f0392. The journey now copies launch.json and the PhpStorm File/Directory value, and checks the copied text, that the button keeps its name, the check and error icons, the speak() announcement, and that a second copy restarts the two seconds. I didn't pull the result mapping into a .cjs helper: it's a two-entry lookup, and the journey covers what it decides.

[ryanwelcher]

Fixed in 38f0392: siteDisplayName(sitePath, label) in sites-list.cjs, used by the sites list, the site's own page and the Xdebug notice. Tests cover a label, a padded label, a blank label, a missing one and a Windows path.

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Major · Architecture · 🟡 medium · [fix here] — Recheck the generation… · use-dev-server.jsx:120-135

src/renderer/hooks/use-dev-server.jsx:120-135
Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Architecture · 🟡 medium · [fix here] — Recheck the generation before starting the server

If cancellation completes while startDebugTail() is pending, the resumed start can spawn a server after the stop. Its URL callback is ignored, so the renderer shows the site as stopped while the server runs.

Suggested fix

     await startDebugTail();
+    if (over()) return;
     try {

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Review comment at @src/renderer/hooks/use-dev-server.jsx around lines 120 - 135:
Recheck the start generation with over() immediately after startDebugTail()
resolves and return if it has been canceled, before calling
window.api.startServer. Preserve the existing start and callback handling for
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Minor · Clear xdebugEditor when the server stops having Xdebug, or the setup dialog… · index.jsx:1553

src/renderer/index.jsx:1553
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Clear xdebugEditor when the server stops having Xdebug, or the setup dialog can reopen on its own.

The dialog gets editor={xdebug && xdebug.on ? xdebugEditor : null}. Only onClose resets xdebugEditor.

1. The dialog is open, for example on 'vscode'.
2. The server stops or crashes. xdebug.on becomes false and the dialog closes, but xdebugEditor stays 'vscode'.
3. The contributor restarts the server with Xdebug. xdebug.on becomes true.
4. The dialog opens without being asked.

Reset the state whenever Xdebug stops being on. SiteRow stays mounted for every site, so the stale value persists.

🐛 Proposed fix

   const [xdebugEditor, setXdebugEditor] = useState(null);
+  const xdebugOn = Boolean(xdebug && xdebug.on);
+  useEffect(() => { if (!xdebugOn) setXdebugEditor(null); }, [xdebugOn]);

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Review comment at @src/renderer/index.jsx at line 1553:
Update the xdebugEditor state handling in SiteRow to clear the selected editor
whenever Xdebug is no longer on, not only when the dialog closes. Preserve the
existing editor selection behavior while Xdebug remains on.

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- Around line 4333-4341: Update the playground:start handler to prevent a new
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Review comments at @src/renderer/hooks/use-dev-server.jsx:
- Around line 120-135: Recheck the start generation with over() immediately
after startDebugTail() resolves and return if it has been canceled, before
calling window.api.startServer. Preserve the existing start and callback
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Review comments at @src/renderer/index.jsx:
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Architecture, 🟡 medium, [fix here]: prevent overlapping starts for one site.

A second playground:start can replace the first start’s cancel record. If a stop then arrives before either start spawns, it cancels only the second start. The first can still spawn a server after the stop.

Reject or safely share a pending start instead of replacing its record. Preserve cancellation and listener cleanup for both requests.

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Review comment at @src/main.js around lines 4333 - 4341:
Update the playground:start handler to prevent a new request from replacing an
existing pending start’s cancellation record; reject or safely share the pending
start for that site. Preserve correct cancellation and listener cleanup for both
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[ryanwelcher]

Not changing this one. Two starts for one site can't both be pending in the app: the window's hook holds a second start while one is pending (serverStartRequestedRef in use-dev-server.jsx), and after a Cancel the first start's record is already marked cancelled before a new start can replace it. AGENTS.md asks us not to guard states the app's own flows can't produce.

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@ryanwelcher You’re right. The renderer guards pending starts, and stoppingRef prevents a new start while the stop request completes. I did not establish an app flow that produces the race I described, so I withdraw the finding.

That assessment follows the existing AGENTS.md guidance on guards for app-produced states. I’ll leave the thread open for a human to resolve.

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Repo: WordPress/contributor-toolkit PR: 0
File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-20T15:17:54.053Z
Learning: Source excerpt:
# AGENTS.md

## Commands

**Scope guards by what the app itself can do.** A state the app cannot produce through its own flows is out of scope by default: a rebase, a multi-commit cherry-pick or a `git am` left half done from a terminal, a checkout adopted from a linked worktree. The app must not destroy such a state when it meets one (#352), and saying "I do not understand this repository" is a valid answer; modelling each one, or offering to finish it, is not. Prefer one honest refusal over a family of cases, and record the cases you deliberately left out in the PR's Risks section rather than as issues.

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File: AGENTS.md:0-0
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Learning: Source excerpt:
# AGENTS.md

## Commands

Prefer the simplest fix for reproducible user-facing failures. Do not add defensive state or branches for hypothetical edge cases unless a test demonstrates a realistic path.

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[ryanwelcher]

Thanks, @coderabbitai. The two findings outside the diff are fixed in d8f28cb:

• Recheck the generation before starting the server (use-dev-server.jsx): fixed with the one-line check after startDebugTail(). A new journey in dev-server.spec.js holds the tail open, cancels, then lets it finish, and checks that no server is asked for. It failed before the fix.
• Clear xdebugEditor when Xdebug stops being on (index.jsx): fixed as suggested. A new journey in xdebug.spec.js opens the VS Code dialog, lets the server go by itself, starts it again and checks that the dialog stays closed. It failed before the fix.

The overlapping-starts finding in main.js is answered on its thread.

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@ryanwelcher Thanks for the fixes. I checked d8f28cb: both changes and their regression journeys are present. I did not run the journeys.

The overlapping-starts finding remains in its separate thread.

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Learning: Applicability reference:
AGENTS.md: # AGENTS.md
## Before opening a pull request
### Every pull request says how to test it by hand
**A journey can carry this section, and when one does, do not also write out the clicks.** "A green test suite does not replace it" is about the unit suite, which never opens a window; a layer-4 journey drives the same app through the same flow a person would, on both platforms, on every non-draft pull request. So when the change is covered by a journey that walks the reported path, name that journey and the command that runs it, say it is red without the change, and spend the section on what the journey cannot reach instead — a real `wordpress-develop` clone, an `npm install` that takes minutes, an OS dialog, a Windows path with a space. A bug that lives in none of those is one a person does not need to reproduce by hand. Writing the journey is the better use of the same effort, and [TESTING.md](TESTING.md) says which ones belong in the default suite.

AGENTS.md: # AGENTS.md
## Markdown in this repository
**Do not hard-wrap prose. One paragraph is one line, however long.** Markdown imposes no line limit — a wrapped paragraph and a single long line render identically — so the wrapping is a convention, and this repository's convention is not to. Every `.md` here follows it: `README.md`, `docs/`, this file, `TESTING.md`, `CONTRIBUTING.md`, the review instructions and the templates.

AGENTS.md: # AGENTS.md
## Commands
Run the E2E journeys locally with `npm run test:e2e:hidden`, which sets `TOOLKIT_HIDE_WINDOWS=1` on every platform, so the app does not take the screen and the focus from the person at the machine. [TESTING.md](TESTING.md) says what a hidden run cannot see.

AGENTS.md: # AGENTS.md
## Commands
**[TESTING.md](TESTING.md) is the canonical description of the suite** — the five layers it is made of, which one a new test belongs in, what each layer is blind to, and how to read a failure. Read it before adding or moving a test; do not restate it elsewhere.

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# Testing

## Conventions

- A bugfix's test must fail on the old code. A test written after the fix pins whatever the current behaviour is, rather than the correction.

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