`autoReadKey` cached the manifest key of the entry it had read for. When the
selected entry left `skills` — a refresh in flight, a disconnect — the render
emptied the preview but the ref kept the key. An identical entry reappearing
therefore matched the cache, the automatic read was skipped, and the viewer
stayed blank with no recovery short of reselecting. Clearing the guard while
no entry is selected is what lets the reappearance re-read.
Also corrects the guard's stated scope. It cannot survive a `ScreenStage`
remount — a remount mints a fresh ref — so the round-11 comment claiming it
did was wrong. That read is correct behavior rather than a gap: `previewState`
is local state and dies with the same unmount, so on return the viewer is
empty and the read is what refills it. Suppressing it would mean hoisting the
preview bytes above `ScreenStage` and showing bytes fetched under a connection
that may no longer exist.
The reappearance test is a real regression guard: restoring the defect fails
it while the older one-read-per-selection test still passes, so it is both
detecting and non-redundant. That older test remains a specification, for the
reason it already states, and now points at this one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01R4441JdNLZerCVM7mDDSfB
Signed-off-by: cliffhall <cliff@futurescale.com>
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