A crash mid-session will not lock your project forever. SyncNow is built to recover.
While a session runs, the assistant sends regular heartbeats. If the app, the assistant, or the whole PC drops out, those heartbeats stop arriving. SyncNow notices the silence and, after a grace period, lets the session lapse and returns the project to Free.
What recovery looks like
- Heartbeats stop because the session died unexpectedly.
- SyncNow waits out the grace period, then expires the stale session.
- The project releases its lock and is available again.
- You or the assistant START a fresh session and pick up where things stood.
Will I lose work?
Changes already written to the host through the proxy are done; they are real and on the activity timeline. What a crash costs you is the clean END changelog, since the session never closed properly. The timeline still shows what was touched, so you can reconstruct the state. If a project still shows Busy after a crash and you do not want to wait for expiry, just revoke the stale session to free it immediately.
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