fix(server): a handoff too large for the context window no longer wedges the thread#19414
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- apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts:238 · **<sub><sub></sub></sub> Carry deferr
- apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ContextHandoffDelivery.ts:85 · **<sub><sub></sub></sub> Reuse the de
- apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ContextHandoffDelivery.ts:103 · **🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration** | **🟠 Major** | **⚡ Quick win** <details> <summary>🔎 Support
- apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ContextHandoffDelivery.ts:103 · **<sub><sub></sub></sub> Retain the r
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts · Earlier revision 00b509db · right 238
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@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ export const layer: Layer.Layer<
(handoff) =>
handoff.status === "ready" &&
(handoff.targetRunId === run.id ||
+ (handoff.deferred === true && handoff.toProviderThreadId === run.providerThreadId) ||
CP2 Badge Carry deferred context to newly selected provider threads
When the first turn after a portable fork or merge defers its handoff and the following ordinary turn chooses a different provider thread (for example, a larger-window provider), this equality leaves the deferred record attached to the old thread, so it is never passed to deliverContextHandoffs. The replacement provider-switch handoff cannot substitute for it: apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:5827-5830 reads only the target thread, and historicalMessage in packages/provider-core/src/server/handoffBudget.ts:138-168 rejects the handoff turn item that references the source transcript. The new provider therefore starts without the fork or merge context; carry or fold deferred records into the newly selected provider thread.
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AConfirmed: switching providers can omit the deferred portable fork/merge context. The row owns one destination and delivery receipt; broadening selection would misattribute delivery, while retargeting it would steal the original provider's retry state when switching back. Safe forwarding needs separate per-destination tracking or propagation through provider-switch history. The same propagation gap also exists after successful portable delivery. That exceeds this PR's bounded same-provider retry scope, so I have left the guard unchanged and this finding unresolved pending an explicit scope decision.
JMaintainer scope decision: keeping this PR to oversized-handoff deferral and retries on the same provider thread, as requested for this takeover.
I rechecked the forwarding finding against ProviderTurnStartService and provider-switch history selection. The destination guard protects a record with one destination and one native delivery receipt. Removing it would misattribute a receipt or consume the original destination's retry state. The missing propagation of portable fork/merge history also occurs after successful delivery, so fixing that broader existing behavior requires its own forwarding/receipt design.
@Alb11747's analysis is correct. I am treating this as a separate follow-up, not a blocker for the bounded deferral fix, and resolving this thread with that scope decision. The current takeover verifies repeated budget-zero turns, durable restart, compaction, eventual delivery and no replay using real Codex/Claude sessions; the PR body records the remaining forwarding limitation.
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ContextHandoffDelivery.ts · Earlier revision 27cde708 · right 85
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@@ -81,7 +80,17 @@ export const deliverContextHandoffs = Effect.fn("orchestrationV2.deliverContextH
});
if (historyCost(selected.messages, selected.context) > budget) {
if (input.deferInline) return { context: "", delivered: Effect.void, unsent: Effect.void };
- return yield* new ContextHandoffBudgetError();
+ yield* Effect.forEach(
+ pending.filter((handoff) => handoff.deferred !== true),
+ (handoff) => input.persist({ ...handoff, deferred: true }),CP2 Badge Reuse the deferred missed-run handoff
When missedItems is nonempty because a failed or interrupted attempt never produced a provider turn, this persists the freshly allocated retryHandoff as deferred. On the next turn that handoff is selected, but only settled deliveries populate coveredItemIds, so missedItems remains nonempty and prepareProviderHandoff allocates another handoff for the same items; every low-budget turn then adds another durable handoff and duplicate context-handoff.updated events, and eventual delivery updates all of them. Reuse or suppress the already-deferred missed-run handoff instead of accumulating one per turn.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L17-L17
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AFixed in 72a3594ef1. Missed-run recovery now excludes history already represented by a selected deferred handoff, including omitted item IDs. The integration regression checks a stable handoff ID/count across repeated deferrals, eventual single delivery, and no replay on the next turn.
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ContextHandoffDelivery.ts · Earlier revision 27cde708 · right 103
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@@ -90,6 +99,8 @@ export const deliverContextHandoffs = Effect.fn("orchestrationV2.deliverContextH
(handoff) =>
input.persist({
...handoff,
+ // Sent (or possibly sent) now, so later turns must not retry it.
+ deferred: undefined,
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| 2 | sed -n '220,320p' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts |
| 3 | rg -n 'delivery\.unsent|deliverContextHandoffs|persist\("pending"\)|deferred' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts |
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Keep deferred handoffs selectable until the inline prompt is accepted.
On the no-native-thread path, persist("pending") clears deferred before the prompt is sent. A process stop before startTurn accepts the prompt leaves the handoff ready with no deferred flag and no delivery marker. The turn-start selection then skips it, because the source run is a completed ordinary turn rather than a /compact turn. Clear deferred only when the inline delivery is recorded, so a stopped send stays selectable. A crash after acceptance but before that record can resend the handoff once.
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| 1 | --- "a/apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ContextHandoffDelivery.ts" |
| 2 | +++ "b/apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ContextHandoffDelivery.ts" |
| 3 | @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ |
| 4 | input.persist({ |
| 5 | ...handoff, |
| 6 | // Sent (or possibly sent) now, so later turns must not retry it. |
| 7 | - deferred: undefined, |
| 8 | + ...(status === "pending" ? {} : { deferred: undefined }), |
| 9 | ...(nativeThreadId === undefined |
| 10 | ? {} |
| 11 | : { |
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| 1 | ...(status === "pending" ? {} : { deferred: undefined }), |
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| 6 | Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ContextHandoffDelivery.ts at |
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| 8 | Update the deferred-state handling in the handoff persistence flow so persisting |
| 9 | "pending" retains the deferred flag; clear deferred only when inline delivery is |
| 10 | recorded. This keeps an interrupted prompt selectable at turn start. |
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✅ Addressed in commit 72a3594
AFixed in 72a3594ef1. Pending writes now retain the deferred retry marker; injected/inline delivery clears it only when settled. Regression coverage checks both interrupted inline preparation without a native thread and lost native-injection acknowledgement followed by replacement.
C@Alb11747 Thanks for the fix in 72a3594ef1. The supplied code retains deferred during pending writes and clears it when injected or inline delivery settles. This addresses the interrupted-send finding.
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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ContextHandoffDelivery.ts · Earlier revision 27cde708 · right 103
Original diff
@@ -90,6 +99,8 @@ export const deliverContextHandoffs = Effect.fn("orchestrationV2.deliverContextH
(handoff) =>
input.persist({
...handoff,
+ // Sent (or possibly sent) now, so later turns must not retry it.
+ deferred: undefined,CP2 Badge Retain the retry marker through pending delivery
When a deferred handoff is retried after its original target run has completed, this pre-delivery pending write removes the only condition that selects it on later runs. If injectHistory then fails ambiguously (or the final delivery write fails), the next start replaces the uncertain native thread, but the original handoff is excluded because its target run is completed, deferred is gone, and delivery is defined. Portable fork or merge-back history cannot be reconstructed by the replacement thread's same-thread history handoff, so that context is silently lost; keep the marker until injected/inline settles or explicitly select pending handoffs for the replacement.
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AFixed in 72a3594ef1. Pending writes now retain the deferred retry marker; injected/inline delivery clears it only when settled. Regression coverage checks both interrupted inline preparation without a native thread and lost native-injection acknowledgement followed by replacement.