fix(server): name temporary branches after the first provider turn#21975

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Problem

An empty launch can name a worktree branch before the user sends a message, spending the naming attempt on empty context.

Change

Move existing naming into a scoped service triggered after actual provider turn acceptance. Preserve custom naming, shared active/archived metadata, expected-branch/worktree checks, recorded checkout retry, and rollback after persistent publication failure or a successful receipt without metadata progress.

Rebuilt from @t3dotgg’s #15040, keeping this layer to one concern. Six original claims are already fixed on the pinned main, including configured-home session forking. Those implementations are preserved.

Stack: #21969 → #21970 → #21971 → #21972 → #21974 → #21975 → #21976

Scope and approval

Maintainer takeover authorized for batch scheduler-tasks-05. Layer 6 of seven; coordinator owns landing and approval decisions. This is a focused correction to existing behavior.

Verification

Provider-start, project-settings, launch, and isolated memory suites: 206 passed, including runtime coverage. Empty launch traverses the effect worker and provider-start path. Other naming controls use real temporary Git/SQL or the existing Git boundary; persistent metadata failure verifies rollback. A real Git checkout before the first provider-reaching message preserves the selected HEAD, temporary ref SHA, and metadata. Transient metadata compensation reads and writes retry after Git rollback without repeating the Git rename; a real-Git, two-persisted-sharer case verifies recovery. Recovery is scoped in memory and does not survive restart. Arbitrary concurrent external Git commands between status check and rename are outside scope.

Fresh post-fix verification: workflow/transcript 8, selected ACP 11, complete launch suite 87: 106 distinct passes, independently reproduced by Opus. Four previously failing regressions now pass. Earlier unaffected checks are reused; the historical 422 count is not a fresh run. Full server TS7 found zero errors and one fixture warning (exit 2); the warning was corrected and its scoped fixture/import check passed with zero warnings. Targeted lint and diff checks pass.

R5 Opus and Sol cleared all seven layers and the cumulative diff. Four completed parallel rounds: R1, R3, R4, R5; R2 was cancelled before verdict. Current head-specific before/after evidence and limits.

This layer: bf59077, based on 4b4b408. CI will receive one delayed check; unfinished checks are handed to the coordinator.

Headless Linux, Node 24. Native Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, packaged Electron, real account-based provider execution, and relay/tunnel connections were not verified. No UI behavior changed.

Implementation: Codex gpt-6.1-sol; tests: Codex gpt-6-astra; review: Claude claude-opus-5-5 and Codex gpt-6-sol, through T3 Code.

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MmacroscopeappBotreviewed · 1 inline thread15d ago

apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/TemporaryBranchNaming.tsline 147Outdated · 0d95f07Open thread

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	144	+	Effect.catchCause((cause) =>
	145	+	Effect.gen(function* () {
	146	+	// Undo partial publication if persistence is unavailable, including children that inherited it.
	147	+	yield* git.renameBranch({

MmacroscopeappBoton line 14715d ago

🟠 High orchestration-v2/TemporaryBranchNaming.ts:147

If publication updates one sharer and a later update fails, this handler renames Git back to oldBranch, but a failure in sharing(renamed.branch) or a rollback dispatch aborts compensation. The already-updated thread then points to renamed.branch, which no longer exists, and attempted prevents another naming pass; persist and retry rollback reconciliation so a storage failure cannot abandon it.

No longer relevant as of bf5907721000daa03b3d25faac742f0f7640ee83

JJulius Marminge15d ago

Fixed in bf59077. After Git rollback completes once, a separate scoped metadata phase retries reads and CAS-guarded writes with capped backoff; it never retries the completed Git rename. A real-Git/two-persisted-sharer regression fails before and now recovers both rows after a transient rollback-write failure. No-progress receipts still terminate. This is in-memory transient recovery: shutdown cancels it, restart does not resume it, and Git rollback failure retains its existing path; no cross-restart durability is claimed. Both R5 reviewers verified this scope.

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This change moves temporary branch naming to the first accepted provider turn and introduces a substantial asynchronous Git and thread-metadata compensation workflow. Because it changes existing production-path timing and branch/persistence side effects, the implementation merits human review despite its focused purpose and extensive tests.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ No successful main baseline artifact is available yet. This run establishes the initial measurement.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	—	5.0 KiB	—	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	—	3.8 KiB	—	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	1.2 KiB	—	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	20.9 KiB	—	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	—	2	—	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	—	5.0 KiB	—	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	—	3.8 KiB	—	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	1.2 KiB	—	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	21.2 KiB	—	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	—	2	—	8	✅

Baseline: unavailable · PR result: bf59077 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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📝 Walkthrough

Temporary branch naming now runs after a provider turn starts successfully. The naming service generates names, checks Git state, and updates thread metadata. Thread launch preparation no longer performs branch naming.

Changes: Temporary Branch Naming

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Branch-name generation and publication `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/TemporaryBranchNaming.ts`	Adds a service that selects a model, generates a name, and checks branch and worktree state before renaming. It updates metadata for threads that share the worktree and restores Git and metadata state if publication fails.
Turn-start integration and launch tests `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.test.ts`	Provider turn startup schedules naming after a successful turn. Thread launch preparation no longer names branches. Tests cover naming after accepted turns, selected checkouts, cancellation, and publication failures and rollback.
Runtime and test harness wiring `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.test.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnStartService.testkit.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectSettingsUpgrade.integration.test.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/*`	Runtime layers provide the naming service. Test kits and replay harnesses add mock dependencies and allow caller-supplied naming and turn-start layers.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1	sequenceDiagram
2	participant ProviderTurnStartService
3	participant TemporaryBranchNaming
4	participant ProjectSettings
5	participant TextGeneration
6	participant Git
7	participant ThreadMetadata
8	ProviderTurnStartService->>TemporaryBranchNaming: Schedule after successful startTurn
9	TemporaryBranchNaming->>ProjectSettings: Resolve naming settings and model selection
10	TemporaryBranchNaming->>TextGeneration: Generate branch name
11	TemporaryBranchNaming->>Git: Check and rename temporary branch
12	TemporaryBranchNaming->>ThreadMetadata: Update metadata for threads sharing the worktree

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bf590

Temporary worktree branches are now renamed in the background after the first accepted provider turn, not at launch. If a rename's metadata update fails and the rollback also fails, the logs show only the rollback error and hide the original failure. That makes rare incidents harder to diagnose but does not affect users. The change is mergeable, ideally with that logging fix.

Pre-merge checks: ^Passed 4

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Added 9 commits15d ago

test(server): supply branch naming dependencies in runtime fixtures0bfb658
test(server): cover branch naming after an empty launch5776951
test(server): preserve user-selected checkout on first provider turn9658783
refactor(server): release unused launch naming contextac29ccf
fix(server): name temporary branches after provider turn acceptancebb2753c
fix(server): preserve user-selected checkouts during branch naming1ded51b
test(server): preserve typed branch naming completion checks7daafba
fix(server): retry branch metadata compensation after Git rollbackbf59077
test(server): expose partial branch rollback inconsistencye967663

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7	Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/TemporaryBranchNaming.ts:
8	- Around line 143-176: Update the Effect.catchCause handler around the rollback
9	in TemporaryBranchNaming so failures from git.renameBranch or the metadata
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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/TemporaryBranchNaming.tslines 143–176Open thread

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	173	+	}),
	174	+	);
	175	+	return yield* Effect.failCause(cause);
	176	+	}),

CcoderabbitaiBoton lines 143–17615d ago

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Keep the original publication failure when compensation fails.

The handler at Line 143 captures cause from the failed metadata publication. Line 175 re-fails with cause only when compensation succeeds. Compensation can fail in two ways:

The reverse git.renameBranch at Lines 146-151 fails. For example, the worktree is locked, or the old ref name now exists.
The rollback loop ends with BranchMetadataPublicationStalled.

In both cases the handler fails with the compensation error, and the code drops cause. The log at Lines 181-184 then reports only the secondary failure. Operators cannot see why publication failed in the first place, such as a storage outage or a stalled receipt.

Catch the compensation failure and log it. Then re-fail with the original cause.

🛠️ Proposed fix

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1	Effect.catchCause((cause) =>
2	Effect.gen(function* () {
3	// Undo partial publication if persistence is unavailable, including children that inherited it.
4	yield* git.renameBranch({
5	cwd,
6	oldBranch: renamed.branch,
7	newBranch: oldBranch,
8	exactName: true,
9	});
10	// Git is already restored; retry only metadata reads and guarded writes.
11	yield* Effect.gen(function* () {
12	...
13	}).pipe(
14	Effect.retry({ ... }),
15	);
16	- return yield* Effect.failCause(cause);
17	- }),
18	+ }).pipe(
19	+ Effect.catchCause((rollbackCause) =>
20	+ Effect.logError("Temporary worktree branch rollback failed", {
21	+ threadId: input.threadId,
22	+ cause: rollbackCause,
23	+ }),
24	+ ),
25	+ Effect.andThen(Effect.failCause(cause)),
26	+ ),
27	),

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1	Effect.catchCause((cause) =>
2	Effect.gen(function* () {
3	// Undo partial publication if persistence is unavailable, including children that inherited it.
4	yield* git.renameBranch({
5	cwd,
6	oldBranch: renamed.branch,
7	newBranch: oldBranch,
8	exactName: true,
9	});
10	// Git is already restored; retry only metadata reads and guarded writes.
11	yield* Effect.gen(function* () {
12	const visited = new Set<ThreadId>();
13	while (true) {
14	const remaining = yield* sharing(renamed.branch);
15	if (remaining.length === 0) break;
16	for (const thread of remaining) {
17	if (visited.has(thread.id))
18	return yield* new BranchMetadataPublicationStalled({ threadId: thread.id });
19	visited.add(thread.id);
20	yield* update(thread.id, renamed.branch, oldBranch, "branch-rollback");
21	}
22	}
23	}).pipe(
24	Effect.retry({
25	while: (error) => error._tag !== "BranchMetadataPublicationStalled",
26	schedule: Schedule.exponential("100 millis").pipe(
27	Schedule.modifyDelay(({ duration }) =>
28	Effect.succeed(Math.min(Duration.toMillis(duration), 5000)),
29	),
30	),
31	}),
32	);
33	}).pipe(
34	Effect.catchCause((rollbackCause) =>
35	Effect.logError("Temporary worktree branch rollback failed", {
36	threadId: input.threadId,
37	cause: rollbackCause,
38	}),
39	),
40	Effect.andThen(Effect.failCause(cause)),
41	),
42	),

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6	Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/TemporaryBranchNaming.ts
7	around lines 143 - 176:
8	Update the Effect.catchCause handler around the rollback in
9	TemporaryBranchNaming so failures from git.renameBranch or the metadata rollback
10	loop are logged as compensation failures, then fail with the original
11	publication cause rather than allowing a rollback failure to replace it.
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