fix(server): reuse timeline indexes while paging long threads#24422

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Problem

Loading older history rebuilt the entire thread's timeline index for every page. On Linux with Node v26.12.1, the reporter's synthetic 13,000-item workload returned 73 pages and took a median 5,399.7 ms of in-process server time per complete scrollback.

Change

Reuse timeline indexes for the eight most recently paged threads. Validate each cached index against the latest committed event across the thread and its fork ancestors, and invalidate affected entries when projections are applied. The revision query explicitly uses the existing stream index so fork paging does not scan unrelated environment events. History and timeline paging retain their existing contracts and payload hydration.

Scope and approval

Fixes https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/20427

Triaged bug via the automated issue flow. GitCafe: https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/20427

Verification

The regression failed on the test-only baseline with four whole-thread reads over four history pages, expected at most one. Both paging APIs pass on the fix, including fork-source invalidation and a committed-event update that bypasses local projection invalidation. Raw red output.
vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/threadHistoryPaging.test.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadSearch.test.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadFind.test.ts: 92 passed on the final head. Scoped lint, formatting, and server typecheck passed. Raw test output.
Same warm synthetic workload, one warmup and three measured walks, Node v26.12.1: 13,000 items / 73 pages fell from 5,399.7 ms to 535.6 ms median; per-page median fell from 72.93 ms to 6.74 ms. Final 1,000- and 5,000-item walks took 35.7 ms and 210.9 ms. Every final repetition verified exact ordered IDs and uniqueness. Evidence index, commands, scripts and raw results.
The fork-revision query was checked with 300,000 newer unrelated events: the indexed query took about 0.0034 ms versus 92.7 ms without the index hint, returning the same maximum. Query benchmark bundle.
An authenticated browser-to-dev-server HTTP walk on final head 597cc5ac returned all 13,000 items across 73 successful pages. This is a runtime correctness check; concurrent review/evidence load and transport/parsing make its 3.71-second total unsuitable for a controlled server-time comparison. Runtime transcript, request driver.

Server-only change; the visual fixture matrix is empty. No rendering or provider adapter changes. Packaged desktop/mobile clients and remote/tunnel connections were not exercised. Timings cover warm synthetic in-process paging, not production latency or cold storage. Per-page JavaScript filtering remains, and the cache bounds entry count rather than bytes.

Implementation and regression tests: Claude Opus 5.5 through Claude Agent. Issue lead, evidence, and independent review: GPT-6.1 Sol through Codex; additional independent review: Claude Opus 5.5 through Claude Agent.

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fix(server): the timeline cache check seeks each thread's newest event by index0decbeb
test(server): reproduce #20427 whole-thread reads on every history page2492e71
Merge main into fix/issue-20427597cc5a
fix(server): paging a long thread no longer rebuilds its whole timeline on every pageef0c031

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Verdict: Approved at 597cc5a

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused server-side performance fix that reuses bounded timeline indexes during history and timeline paging while preserving existing payload and paging contracts. Regression coverage includes long-thread paging, fork invalidation, and externally committed updates.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.9 KiB	20.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.2 KiB	21.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: a46f80e · PR result: 597cc5a · 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

ProjectionStoreV2 now caches timeline indexes for history and timeline page reads. It validates cached indexes against the latest thread-event sequences for the indexed threads. SQL tests cover pagination across 600 items and timeline updates in forked threads.

Changes: Timeline index reuse

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track indexed threads and invalidate affected entries `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts`	Timeline indexes now record the thread IDs they cover. Applying an event invalidates cached indexes that include that event’s thread.
Validate cached indexes and exercise page reads `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts`	History and timeline pages use a cache that checks the latest event sequences across indexed threads, rebuilds stale indexes, and retains up to eight entries. SQL tests check pagination and fork timeline updates.

Priority: External image Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

pingdotgg/t3code#20427 — Reports repeated full-thread index reads for history and timeline pages, the behavior this cache addresses.

Possibly related PRs

pingdotgg/t3code#18594 — Changes ProjectionStore history pagination and tests the same page-reading path.
pingdotgg/t3code#24169 — Changes server-side history-page selection in ProjectionStore.
pingdotgg/t3code#24417 — Changes client requests for multiple history pages, which use the server paging path.

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, macroscopeapp, yash-singh1

Merge Risk: External image Low · up to 597cc

Paging results remain correct, but switching among many threads can cause avoidable index rebuilds. Refresh cache recency and strengthen the history test; the remaining merge risk is low.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	Passed	The title "fix(server): reuse timeline indexes while paging long threads" matches the main change. The raw summary and objectives both describe caching timeline indexes for the eight most recently pag…
Description check	Passed	The description follows the template structure. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. The Problem section gives the reported issue, the reproduction workload, and the …
Linked Issues check	Passed	Issue `#20427` requires reducing repeated whole-thread index rebuilds during history and timeline paging. `ProjectionStore.ts` adds an eight-entry per-thread timeline-index cache, tracks fork source thr…
Out of Scope Changes check	Passed	The reviewed changes are limited to `ProjectionStore.ts` and its regression tests. The implementation, cache validation, invalidation, query-index hint, and paging tests directly support issue `#20427`.…

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The title "fix(server): reuse timeline indexes while paging long threads" matches the main change. The raw summary and objectives both describe caching timeline indexes for the eight most recently paged threads, with invalidation on projection writes and cache validation against the latest committed V2 thread event. The title follows the conventional commit format the template asks for and is specific enough for a teammate scanning history.

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The description follows the template structure. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. The Problem section gives the reported issue, the reproduction workload, and the measured cost. The Change section explains the cache, the validation against committed events, and the query index use. The Scope section links issue #20427 and a triaged bug. The Verification section lists focused test results, the regression red run, synthetic timings, a query benchmark, and an authenticated HTTP walk, and it states what was not exercised. The template's scope requirement asks for a triaged issue or maintainer-approved discussion. The description links a triaged issue through an automated flow, but it does not show a maintainer approval comment. The description's verification and scope content is otherwise thorough, so this is a minor gap rather than a missing section.

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Issue #20427 requires reducing repeated whole-thread index rebuilds during history and timeline paging. ProjectionStore.ts adds an eight-entry per-thread timeline-index cache, tracks fork source threads, validates cached indexes against the latest committed thread event, and invalidates affected entries during apply. Both paging APIs use the snapshot-aware cache. The PR summary reports regression coverage for multi-page reads, fork-source changes, and committed-event invalidation, plus passing focused tests.

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The reviewed changes are limited to ProjectionStore.ts and its regression tests. The implementation, cache validation, invalidation, query-index hint, and paging tests directly support issue #20427. No unrelated rendering, provider, client, or transport changes are present in the supplied change summary.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts: 1

2201-2205: External image Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
Assert exactly one whole-thread read in the history loop.
isAtMost(..., 1) also passes when the tracer captures no statements. wholeThreadReads counts db.query.text span attributes, so a broken capture yields 0 and the check passes without testing the read count.
On this fresh thread, the first history page builds the timeline index with one unbounded turn-item read. Later pages reuse the cached index because no event is written during paging. The history loop should therefore produce exactly one counted statement. Use strictEqual so that a silent capture failure fails the test.
Keep the timeline assertion unchanged.

✅ Proposed fix

diff
1 - assert.isAtMost(
2 + assert.strictEqual(
3 wholeThreadReads(history.statements),
4 1,
5 `getThreadHistoryPage read the whole thread on each of ${historyPages} pages`,
6 );

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6 Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts
7 around lines 2201 - 2205:
8 Update the whole-thread read assertion using wholeThreadReads in the history
9 loop to require exactly one captured statement, so a missing trace fails the
10 test; leave the timeline assertion unchanged.

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7	Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts:
8	- Around line 5475-5479: Update the cache-hit path in the timeline index lookup
9	so a valid hit refreshes its Map recency before returning. Use the existing
10	timelineIndexes Map to move the threadId entry to the newest position,
11	preserving the cached value and return behavior.
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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.tslines 5475–5479Open thread

…	…	@@ -5441,6 +5455,39 @@ export const layer: Layer.Layer<ProjectionStoreV2, never, SqlClient.SqlClient> =
	5476	+	cached !== undefined &&
	5477	+	(yield* latestThreadEventSequence(threadId, cached.index.threadIds)) === cached.sequence
	5478	+	)
	5479	+	return cached.index;

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1	set -o pipefail
2	printf '%s\n' '--- callers and cache references ---'
3	rg -n -F -- 'readSnapshotTimelineIndex' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2 \|\| test "$?" -eq 1
4	rg -n -F -- 'TIMELINE_INDEX_CACHE_LIMIT' apps/server/src \|\| test "$?" -eq 1
5	printf '%s\n' '--- changed-file diff ---'
6	git diff --no-ext-diff --unified=35 a46f80ee28d9b498bb8b407c8b60bd4e93bbe2e3 597cc5acc28f1a40b196e8169797488ca90a3a83 -- apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/threadHistoryPaging.test.ts
7	printf '%s\n' '--- paging callers and nearby test coverage ---'
8	rg -n -F -- 'getThreadHistoryPage' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2 apps/server/src \|\| test "$?" -eq 1
9	rg -n -F -- 'getThreadTimelinePage' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2 apps/server/src \|\| test "$?" -eq 1

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Refresh cache recency on a hit.

The cache evicts the oldest Map entry, but a cache hit does not move that entry. After eight other thread indexes are inserted, an actively paged thread can be evicted and rebuild its index on the next page.

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1	if (
2	cached !== undefined &&
3	(yield* latestThreadEventSequence(threadId, cached.index.threadIds)) === cached.sequence
4	- )
5	- return cached.index;
6	+ ) {
7	+ timelineIndexes.delete(threadId);
8	+ timelineIndexes.set(threadId, cached);
9	+ return cached.index;
10	+ }

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1	if (
2	cached !== undefined &&
3	(yield* latestThreadEventSequence(threadId, cached.index.threadIds)) === cached.sequence
4	) {
5	timelineIndexes.delete(threadId);
6	timelineIndexes.set(threadId, cached);
7	return cached.index;
8	}

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5
6	Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts around
7	lines 5475 - 5479:
8	Update the cache-hit path in the timeline index lookup so a valid hit refreshes
9	its Map recency before returning. Use the existing timelineIndexes Map to move
10	the threadId entry to the newest position, preserving the cached value and
11	return behavior.
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