fix(server): background wakes no longer block usage-limit auto-resume#20804

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Background-task wakes could start a completed turn after a usage-limit failure, hiding the failure from automatic recovery and clearing its snooze. Messages dispatched as queue_after_active now wait behind that failure during the reset window and preserve snoozed or settled state. After a known reset, new work starts when no eligible armed auto-resume remains pending. Automatic recovery and intentional immediate resumes still start ahead of held work.

The same usage-limit check now serves dispatch, queue startup, and queue resume. This applies to composer queue sends, MCP queue sends, and delegated/background deliveries through the shared server orchestrator; no client or wire-contract changes are needed.

Missing or malformed reset timestamps keep the usage-limit queue protection. Already-queued work keeps the existing queue gates; this changes dispatch of new arrivals. A wake held during the window without auto-resume still needs a later arrival or manual continuation. Bound scheduled tasks can accumulate queued runs during the window; those runs drain after a successful continuation.

Scope and approval

Maintainer takeover of #20804, credited to @dev-ankit for identifying and fixing the recovery failure. Original commits are preserved; current main was merged rather than rebasing the contributor branch. The batch authorizes preparation only. Macroscope's separate human approval gate for usage-limit runtime behavior remains outstanding; this PR has not been merged.

Verification

  • PR-specific regression cases: 2 β†’ 3 in the existing runtimeLayer.test.ts. They cover snoozed automatic recovery, explicit settlement followed by intentional manual resume, and a new arrival after reset without auto-resume. The snoozed case also checks that an arrival at reset waits behind the pending continuation.
  • Against main without the fix, the two original hold cases fail: runs become failed, starting instead of failed, queued. With the fix restored, both pass. The assertions also check unchanged recovery metadata, snooze and settlement, then failed, queued, starting after continuation.
  • The expired-window regression failed before its fix (failed, queued instead of failed, starting) and passes afterward.
  • 140 tests passed across runtimeLayer, QueuedRunOrder, DelegatedCompletionDelivery, ClaudeAutomaticDelivery.integration, CommandPolicy, and RunFinalizationQueue.
  • Server typecheck, targeted lint and formatting pass. Two lint warnings already present on main remain outside this diff.
  • Headless server test fixtures verify persisted orchestration, queue order, finalization, delegated deliveries and Claude automatic delivery. No actual provider-account reset window or running full-app scheduler was exercised. This backend change has no visual surface requiring screenshots.
  • macOS, Windows, iOS, Android and Electron desktop were not run on this headless Linux VM. Shared server paths cover those clients, but this is not a claim of native-client verification.

Independent whole-diff reviews: round 1 found an expired-window new-arrival hold (Opus), reproduced with a failing test and fixed. Both Codex gpt-6-sol and Claude Opus 5.5 found no remaining code blockers in round 2. Current-head GitHub CI passed, including lint, build/typecheck, all eight server shards, package tests and both fingerprint runs; unrelated jobs skipped. No unresolved review threads remain.

Prepared by gpt-6.1-sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code; focused tests by gpt-6-astra and independent reviews by gpt-6-sol and claude-opus-5-5.

Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#32286 Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#16815

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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval β€” This production change alters whether queued messages start, how settled or snoozed threads recover, and when usage-limited work resumes. Because it directly affects plan usage-limit and entitlement behavior, its runtime impact warrants human review despite the focused scope and regression tests.

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Walkthrough

The orchestrator now identifies provider-specific usage-limit blockers during dispatch. It retains queued work during qualifying reset or auto-resume windows and preserves snoozed or settled state while a blocker remains. Tests cover same-provider and other-provider wakes, reset timing, snooze, and settlement.

Changes: Usage-limit recovery

Layer / File(s)Summary
Provider-specific limited-run detection
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts
usageLimitHoldingRun returns the usage-limit-blocked run for a matching provider instance. usageLimitHoldsQueue derives its result from that run.
Dispatch recovery and queueing
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts
Dispatch resolves intent before thread-state updates. It retains a usage-limit blocker when the reset is in the future or matching auto-resume is pending. It clears settled or snoozed state only when no blocker remains. Tests cover five wake scenarios and their recovery state.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix Β· Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

  • pingdotgg/t3code#21705 β€” The change uses provider-instance-aware holding for queued dispatches, but the reported cross-account sequence is not shown as fully resolved.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#18928 β€” The change preserves settled state while a background wake is held, but it does not prevent inactivity auto-settlement.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#28362 β€” The change covers settled-thread recovery and preserves state while a wake is held, but it does not prevent settlement after a pull-request merge.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#26037 β€” The change covers holding queued work and recovery dispatch, but does not establish that all paused work drains after continuation.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#27047 β€” The change holds queue_after_active messages during a usage-limit window, but the summary does not establish behavior for every composer or MCP send.

Possibly related PRs

  • pingdotgg/t3code#24030 β€” Changes the same dispatch behavior by queueing background wakes behind usage-limit-blocked runs.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#31219 β€” Changes blocked-run selection and recovery validation for notification wakes.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#32454 β€” Addresses the same notification-wake recovery flow by preserving the blocked run.

Suggested labels: bugfix, macroscope-review

Suggested reviewers: only21mil

Merge Risk: External image Low Β· up to 7078c

Background wakes no longer block usage-limit recovery. One minor gap remains: after the reset time passes, an explicit Resume of the queue can still be rejected, and a new message can start ahead of earlier queued work. This is a small, bounded inconsistency to follow up on.

Architecture risk: External image Medium Β· up to f8675

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: apps/server

Architecture concerns No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Systems and components

  • observed β€” apps/server (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed β€” Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts: Replaced the boolean-only usage-limit helper with usageLimitHoldingRun, which identifies the matching blocked run and provider instance; usageLimitHoldsQueue now delegates to it.
  • observed β€” Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts: Message dispatch now resolves its mode before queue-state transitions, identifies a provider-specific usage-limit holding run for queued messages, and releases that hold after a finite reset time has passed unless a valid auto-resume recovery still targets the same run, reset, thread, and provider conditions. Settled threads are unset only when no limit hold remains.
  • observed β€” Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts: Snoozed threads are unsnoozed only when no usage-limit hold remains.
  • observed β€” Modified behavior in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts: The earlier local initialization of dispatchMode was removed because dispatch intent is now resolved before usage-limit handling.

Reliability and maintainability

  • inferred β€” Risk-relevant change factors for apps/server: blast_radius_2; direct_dependents_2
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Title checkPassedThe title clearly identifies the server fix for background wakes and usage-limit auto-resume behavior.
Description checkPassedThe description provides detailed problem, change, scope, approval context, verification results, limitations, and linked issues. It omits the explicit Problem and Change headings, but the required in…
Linked Issues checkPassedThe changes address [#32286] and [#16815]. Orchestrator.ts holds same-provider queue_after_active arrivals during an active usage-limit reset window. It preserves pending auto-resume, snooze, and …
Out of Scope Changes checkPassedThe changes are limited to usage-limit queue handling in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts and focused regression tests in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts. The…
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The changes address [#32286] and [#16815]. Orchestrator.ts holds same-provider queue_after_active arrivals during an active usage-limit reset window. It preserves pending auto-resume, snooze, and settlement state. After the reset, it releases new work when no eligible auto-resume remains pending. The shared dispatch path covers background and delegated deliveries. runtimeLayer.test.ts covers snoozed recovery, settled recovery, provider differences, expired and unknown reset times, and post-reset dispatch.

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The changes are limited to usage-limit queue handling in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts and focused regression tests in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts. These changes directly support [#32286] and [#16815]. No unrelated product behavior, client changes, or wire-contract changes are demonstrated.

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Taking over this one as maintainer for batch usage-billing-05. I will preserve the original commits, rebuild and verify the focused usage-limit queueing behavior, and push additive fixes here. Thanks @dev-ankit for identifying the background-wake recovery failure. This batch will not merge the PR.

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……@@ -4881,7 +4890,43 @@ const makeOrchestrator = Effect.fn("orchestrationV2.Orchestrator.layer")(functio
4925+ ) {
4926+ limitedRun = null;
4927+ }
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Use one reset-expiry rule for dispatch, queue start, and queue.resume.

The reset-expiry release exists only in dispatchMessage, at Lines 4919-4928. usageLimitHoldingRun and usageLimitHoldsQueue do not check resetAt. The two other gates still call usageLimitHoldsQueue:

  • startNextQueuedRun at Line 1393.
  • The queue.resume handler.

After a known reset, both gates still hold the queue. The PR describes one usage-limit check for dispatch, queue startup, and queue resume. This code does not implement that.

Here is how it fails when auto-resume is not armed:

  1. A wake arrives before the reset and queues behind limitedRun.
  2. The reset time passes.
  3. The user clicks Resume. queue.resume rejects it with "Continue the limited thread before resuming its queue."
  4. A new message sent after the reset clears limitedRun and starts at once. It runs ahead of the earlier queued wake.

The result is that queued work runs out of order, and the explicit Resume action fails where a new message succeeds.

Move the reset-expiry and autoResumePending logic into one helper that takes now. Then call that helper from all three gates.

♻️ Sketch of the shared helper
ts
1function activeUsageLimitHold(
2 projection: Pick<
3 OrchestrationV2ThreadProjection,
4 "thread" | "runs" | "turnItems" | "providerSessions" | "runtimeRequests"
5 >,
6 providerInstanceId: ModelSelection["instanceId"],
7 nowMs: number,
8): OrchestrationV2Run | null {
9 const run = usageLimitHoldingRun(projection, providerInstanceId);
10 if (run === null) return null;
11 const failure = latestRootProviderFailure(run, projection.turnItems);
12 const resetMs = Date.parse(failure?.resetAt ?? "");
13 if (!Number.isFinite(resetMs) || resetMs > nowMs) return run;
14 return autoResumePending(projection, run, failure, resetMs) ? run : null;
15}

startNextQueuedRun and queue.resume must load runtimeRequests for this helper.

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8Centralize the reset-expiry and auto-resume handling in an active usage-limit
9helper that accepts the current time, building on usageLimitHoldingRun and
10latestRootProviderFailure. Replace the direct hold checks in dispatchMessage,
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Awesome, I ran into this too. Thanks for fixing.

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the proof has no capture anyone can open:

  • Base regression: no usage-limit failure and background-notification sequence was executed.
  • Head recovery: continuation priority at reset, held notification draining, and post-reset arrivals were not observed.
  • Permanent blocker: first-party Claude usage-limit flows are unavailable in this environment. The scenario guide explicitly excludes usage-limit-stopped runs; the replay provider filters vendor frames and discards background frames after a completed turn.
  • No capture upload was attempted because no runtime evidence was produced.

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