perf: reduce remote reconnect and command delays#25754

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Problem

Remote reconnects send stale growing-message updates, connection setup repeats a descriptor request, and old-history loads block Send and Stop.

Change

Coalesce reconnect replay before sizing it, reuse one fresh descriptor per direct connection attempt, and give history its own serial queue. This shared client path covers web, desktop, and mobile.

Scope and approval

Maintainer takeover: the three remote-performance fixes are approved to ship together. Direct connections use descriptor metadata read before ticket creation; identity checks, protocol validation, relay fallback, replay budgets, and history merge guards remain in place.

Verification

Regressions failed before each fix and passed afterward. 130 focused client tests and vp run check:changed passed. iOS simulator: paired with an isolated server and opened a chat with 400 fixture messages.

Benchmark	Before	After
Reconnect replay RPC JSON, 64 growing updates	559,383 B	16,845 B (-97%)
Cold direct prepare HTTP requests	3	2
Send dispatch while history waits	0.329s	0.004s
Stop dispatch while history waits	0.532s	0.055s

Command timings are three-sample means from remotePerformance.bench.ts, with 250ms injected history delay and a 50ms mock reply. Host scheduling was noisy; these are not phone, Wi-Fi, durable receipt, or provider-stop timings. Cold setup saves one request; its wall-clock results were too noisy for a latency claim. Descriptor reuse now observes metadata before ticket creation; runtime identity and protocol checks still apply.

Agent implementation and staged review: GPT-6.1 Sol via Codex in T3 Code. Design input: Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.

Takeover

Taken over from @Bil0000. The three fixes are unchanged: an independent implement pass and two review rounds found nothing smaller or more correct. Main is merged in by merge commit. The tests are cut to one per fix, plus the existing cache test updated to the new behaviour (ws.test.ts, threadCommands.test.ts, authorization/layer.test.ts). Each new test fails with its fix reverted. The identity-mismatch test also asserts that no websocket ticket is requested. Dropped: the test with hardcoded byte totals, the extra DPoP and protocol variants, and the 250-line remotePerformance.bench.ts addition. The bench is evidence, not a test; it is uploaded here. The benchmark table above came from that file; the numbers below are the reproducible ones.

Evidence

No render path changes, so the evidence is paired before/after timed transcripts from the same scratch driver on both sides (synthetic in-memory state, three samples per timing fixture). The full index has every fixture, and the matrix lists the branches covered.

Row	Before 5808469018	After db41c18dc6	Transcripts
R1 reconnect replay, 64 growing assistant updates	64 items / 558,381 B	1 item / 16,789 B	before · after
R1 same + completion	65 items / 575,172 B	2 items / 33,580 B	same
R1 replay over budget (129 events or >1 MiB)	snapshot	snapshot	same
R2 cold direct prepare (saved bearer, primary bearer, SSH, direct DPoP)	3 HTTP (2 descriptor GETs)	2 HTTP (1 descriptor GET)	before · after
R2 warm prepare (<10 s)	2 HTTP: ticket → descriptor	2 HTTP: descriptor → ticket	same
R2 warm identity swap	blocked after a ticket was issued	blocked before any ticket request	same
R3 primary without bearer, pure relay, mismatched direct probe → relay	unchanged	unchanged	before · after
R3 preflight → connect	6 HTTP	5 HTTP	same
R3 direct ticket fails transiently, retried then relay	7 HTTP	8 HTTP	same
R4 Send while history load pending (250 ms injected), ms	250.7 / 252.0 / 252.1	0.9 / 0.7 / 1.0	before · after
R4 Stop while history load pending, ms	252.3 / 252.4 / 252.2	0.7 / 0.6 / 0.7	same
R4 Send / Stop with no history load	~1–3 ms (first sample JIT)	~1–2 ms	same

Environment: VM fs-22, Linux 6.1.102 x86_64, Node v26.12.1 (R1: v24.22.1), vite-plus v1.4.0 / Vitest v5.0.5, identical driver bytes on both sides. The three benchmarked fixes are unchanged since db41c18dc6; later revisions add the identity-mismatch assertion and merge main.

What else changed:

Replay survivors keep their original sequence, so the client sees sequence gaps. The live stream already produces these gaps through the same coalescer.
Completion, run and identity boundaries, unrelated events, snapshot fallback, the synchronized marker and the live tail are unchanged.
The 10 s bearer descriptor cache is removed. Every direct authorization now reads a fresh descriptor before requesting a ticket, so a warm prepare reorders its two requests and a transiently failed direct retry costs one extra GET.
Protocol and update metadata now come from the descriptor read before the ticket, not the one read after it.
History loads still run one at a time per thread, as do Send, Stop and the other thread commands. Final projections, history metadata and Stop's detached repair outcomes match before and after.
Drivers: R1 · R1 shell · R2/R3 · R4 · R4 history · coverage

Verification log

Final integration at b532bbd304: merged current main and resolved the import conflict by retaining both coalescer imports and dropping the upstream-removed, unused bufferLiveStream import. No change to the three fixes.
vp run check:changed passed format, lint, both knip checks, GraphQL validation, typechecks for 9 affected packages, and 63 tests. An additional targeted run of resolver, thread synchronization, thread atom, and live coalescer tests passed 61 tests. Some resolver tests overlap the changed-file run.
Final integration and audit: GPT-6.1 Sol through Codex in T3 Code. No new browser/device or real-network latency measurements were taken for the import-only conflict resolution.
Tests: the PR added 6 test cases plus a bench; the takeover keeps 4 new test cases and 1 updated one. Revert check: each new test fails with its fix reverted, and all fail on merge-base 5808469018.
Focused runs at head: client-runtime layer.test.ts 25/25, layer+threadCommands+resolver 54/54, server ws.test.ts 9/9. Typecheck passes for client-runtime and server; lint and format are clean on the changed files.
Review round 1: reviewer A (GPT-6.1 Sol) and reviewer B (Claude Opus 5.5) found no code bugs. Both returned FIX_FIRST only for missing runtime evidence and the stale benchmark table, which are addressed above. CodeRabbit's nit (the identity-mismatch test must prove no ticket is requested) is fixed in 6fb0a78318. Macroscope approved.
Proof audit: pass 1 derived 4 transcript rows; the capture covers 4/4. Pass 2 checked every transcript (SHAs, samples, numbers) and rebuilt R2 independently with matching counts. It flagged two index wording errors (R1's Node version, and the R4 claim about a failing repair), corrected in the linked index; no recapture was needed.
CI: all 32 checks green on 6fb0a78318.
Unverified: real network, device and relay latency. No surface outside Linux is involved.
Takeover by Claude Opus 5.5 (lead, tests, implement, reviewer B) and GPT-6.1 Sol (reviewer A, proof audit, evidence capture) in Claude Code / T3 Code.

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perf(server): skip stale message updates during reconnecte56b3e1

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Verdict: Approved at 6fb0a78

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This reduces reconnect payloads and duplicate descriptor requests, and lets history loading avoid blocking thread commands. Existing identity checks and replay safeguards remain in place, with no apparent product-default or authorization-policy changes.

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Walkthrough

The changes update persisted thread replay coalescing, remote-environment descriptor verification and propagation, and history-loading command serialization. Tests cover replay output, direct bearer preparation, and command dispatch while history loading is blocked.

Changes: Thread replay

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Replay coalescing and validation `apps/server/src/ws.ts`, `apps/server/src/ws.test.ts`	Persisted replay events are coalesced before resume planning and delivery. A test checks that replay retains the latest streaming update and completed update, then emits the synchronization marker and subsequent live event.

Connection authorization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Descriptor verification and propagation `packages/client-runtime/src/authorization/service.ts`, `packages/client-runtime/src/connection/resolver.ts`, `packages/client-runtime/src/authorization/layer.test.ts`	Direct endpoint verification fetches a descriptor on each call. Bearer and direct-endpoint DPoP authorization return the verified descriptor, and brokers preserve authorization fields for resolver use. The resolver uses a supplied descriptor when present and otherwise fetches one. Tests cover direct bearer preparation and descriptor validation on each authorization call.

Thread command coordination

Layer / File(s)	Summary
History loading and command dispatch `packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadCommands.ts`, `packages/client-runtime/src/state/threadCommands.test.ts`	The `loadEarlierHistory` serial key gains a `history:` prefix. A test checks that message dispatch proceeds while history loading is blocked.

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1	sequenceDiagram
2	participant AuthorizationService
3	participant RemoteEnvironment
4	participant ConnectionBroker
5	participant ConnectionResolver
6	AuthorizationService->>RemoteEnvironment: Fetch and verify descriptor
7	RemoteEnvironment-->>AuthorizationService: Return descriptor
8	AuthorizationService-->>ConnectionBroker: Return authorized environment
9	ConnectionBroker-->>ConnectionResolver: Pass prepared connection
10	ConnectionResolver->>ConnectionResolver: Use supplied descriptor or fetch one

Possibly related PRs

pingdotgg/t3code#21778: Both changes affect orchestration-v2 thread replay and the replay or snapshot decision flow.
pingdotgg/t3code#21082: Both changes affect thread resume replay and synchronization-marker ordering.

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In a narrow development setup, an endpoint change during connection can route requests to the wrong environment. This risk is bounded but worth noting.

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perf(client): keep sends responsive during history loads805adb5
perf(client): reuse fresh descriptors during connection setupeeb09e8
test(client): benchmark remote setup and history contentioned63c24

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The scope warning remains valid. These fixes are independent; the author explicitly requested keeping them in this existing PR. The description now says that maintainer approval is still needed for the combined scope and the pre-ticket descriptor observation. It also states each agent's role. The PR remains unmerged; no maintainer approval is claimed.

JJulius Marminge16d ago

Taking over this one

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into pr-25754277e236

BBil000016d ago

@juliusmarminge PR should be ready to merge

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test: takeover tests for #25754 message loading speedupsdb41c18

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packages/client-runtime/src/authorization/layer.test.ts: 1

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Assert that an identity mismatch prevents the ticket request.
The second ticket response allows the test to pass if preparation requests a bearer ticket before rejecting the mismatched descriptor. Remove that response and assert that the failed preparation makes only one ticket request.

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1 Response.json({
2 ...DESCRIPTOR,
3 environmentId: "another-environment",
4 orchestrationProtocolVersion: ORCHESTRATION_PROTOCOL_VERSION,
5 }),
6 - websocketTicket("second-ticket"),
7 ],
8 });
9
10 const [first, second] = yield* prepareDirectBearer(harness, 2);
11
12 expect(first?._tag).toBe("Success");
13 expect(second).toMatchObject({
14 _tag: "Failure",
15 failure: { _tag: "ConnectionBlockedError", reason: "configuration" },
16 });
17 + expect(
18 + harness.fetch.calls.filter(([url]) =>
19 + String(url).endsWith("/api/auth/websocket-ticket/rpc"),
20 + ),
21 + ).toHaveLength(1);

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