[Bug]: Android drops a direct environment with "stopped responding" when the server config snapshot is large (~1 MB+)#23731

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• I searched existing issues and did not find a duplicate.
• I included enough detail to reproduce or investigate the problem.

Area

apps/mobile

Steps to reproduce

1. Run a t3 serve 0.1.0 environment with several provider instances (6 Claude/Codex instances plus OpenCode with an OpenRouter catalog of ~466 models) and agents working across many folders.
2. Pair the Android app (store build 2.0.0, OTA current on 2026-10-22) over a direct Tailscale route.
3. Open the environment on mobile data.

Expected behavior

The environment connects and stays connected.

Actual behavior

The socket opens, the client sends subscribeServerConfig, receives the snapshot, then never sends another RPC. About 20 s later it closes and shows "Failed to connect. Reconnecting… Reason: stopped responding." It reconnects and drops again in a loop (28 cycles in 15 minutes in our server traces).

What we measured on the server side:

• The subscribeServerConfig snapshot was 3.1 MB; 2.4 MB of it was providers[].workspaceSnapshots (the duplication described in #21181). After a service restart it was 0.9 MB and grew back to 1.2 MB within 30 minutes of normal agent use.
• The server answers Ping in ~2 ms, before and after the snapshot, both on loopback and through its Tailscale HTTPS address.
• The network path is not the bottleneck: 1 MB reached the phone over the same route in 3.6 s.
• With the snapshot at 0.9 MB the loop continued. Disabling the OpenCode instance (snapshot 0.57 MB) let the phone connect and stay connected.
• The same snapshot decodes without error against packages/contracts ServerConfigStreamEvent on current main, so this is not a schema mismatch.
• A second 0.1.0 environment with a small provider list connects fine from the same phone at the same time.

This looks like the client blocking while it processes a large config snapshot, long enough for the 15 s PING_TIMEOUT in packages/client-runtime/src/rpc/protocol.ts to fire. The same environment held a 15-minute connection earlier the same morning, before the phone picked up a newer OTA.

Impact

Major degradation: the environment is unusable from the phone.

Version or commit

Server 0.1.0; Android app 2.0.0 with OTA from main as of 2026-10-22.

Environment

Android 16 (Samsung S25 Ultra), direct route over Tailscale, mobile data. Server on macOS (arm64).

Logs or stack traces

Workaround

Restart the server to clear workspaceSnapshots and shrink provider model lists (OpenCode provider.openrouter.whitelist). Both only buy time while #21181 is open.