perf(server): cancelling a task reads only the tasks and runs it uses#29652

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Problem

Fleet traces (2026-10-30 → 11-02) on nucbox-1 put OrchestratorMcpService.cancelTask as a first suspect in server.heap.spike events: median +1.07 GB per spike, 14/day, with mentions rising from 11 to 19/day.

cancelTask read far more than it used:

assertStoppable called getThreadRecords(threadId, ["subagents"]) with no filter for the child and again for every app-owned thread under it. A thread that dispatched many tasks decoded all of them, full prompts included, just to find their child thread ids.
loadProjection read runs, messages, provider threads/turns, runtime requests and context transfers for the parent, when cancel uses only thread.runtimeMode/interactionMode. It read them again for the child, when cancel uses only runs.
readTask, cancel's first call, decoded every task under the child, though delegatedTaskProgress looks only at active or undelivered ones.

Fix

New column-only store read listAppOwnedChildThreadIds (SELECT child_thread_id … WHERE origin = 'app_owned', deduplicated, task order). It goes through ThreadManagementService with the same legacy-transcript guard as getThreadRecords. assertStoppable recurses over it.
The parent read takes only the thread row (fields: []), and the child read takes only runs. Both keep the same error mapping (loadThreadRecords now backs loadProjection).
The readTask child read adds omitSettledSubagents: true. The tasks it skips (terminal status with acknowledged, delivered or disposed delivery) can't satisfy delegatedTaskProgress's children predicate, so the work state stays the same. Task status and waits get the same saving.

Behavior is unchanged: the same threads are checked in the same order. A follow-up that reuses a child thread is checked once instead of twice, and that check has no side effects.

Verification

The cancel-over-raised-grandchild fixture in OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts now has older settled tasks on both the parent and the child. All three cases still return the same outcome, and they now assert that no subagent read is unfiltered. On main all three fail on that assertion.
The ProjectionStore.test.ts settled-subagents fixture covers listAppOwnedChildThreadIds, including a child thread shared by two tasks and tasks with no child thread.
vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (3 packages) and tests (9 files) all pass.

Scope and approval: maintainer-authored fix from the 2026-11-02 fleet trace audit

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Verdict: Approved at 5a7a3b5

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Cancellation and task-progress reads now load less data, avoiding full task decoding where only child IDs or runs are needed. Existing cancellation actions and mode safeguards remain intact, with no product-default changes.

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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	21.6 KiB	21.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 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	1.3 KiB	1.3 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 30084f0 · PR result: 5a7a3b5 · 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

The projection store now lists child thread IDs for app-owned subagents and exposes the lookup through orchestration services. MCP progress and cancellation paths use filtered or selective record reads.

Changes: Child Thread Lookup and Cancellation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Expose app-owned child-thread lookup `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadManagementService.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnControlService.test.ts`, `apps/server/src/relay/AgentAwarenessRelay.test.ts`	The projection store lists distinct child thread IDs for app-owned subagents, ordered by subagent start time and ID. The orchestrator and thread management service expose the lookup. Tests cover the returned IDs and add the method to test doubles.
Use selective reads in MCP progress and cancellation `apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts`, `apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts`	MCP record loading accepts selected fields and an optional filter. Progress reads omit settled subagents. Cancellation retrieves descendant child thread IDs and loads only the records needed for its checks. Tests cover subagent-read filters and descendant lookup.

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

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1	sequenceDiagram
2	participant MCP as OrchestratorMcpService
3	participant ThreadManagement as ThreadManagementService
4	participant Orchestrator as OrchestratorV2
5	participant ProjectionStore as ProjectionStoreV2
6	MCP->>ThreadManagement: listAppOwnedChildThreadIds(threadId)
7	ThreadManagement->>Orchestrator: listAppOwnedChildThreadIds(threadId)
8	Orchestrator->>ProjectionStore: listAppOwnedChildThreadIds(threadId)
9	ProjectionStore-->>Orchestrator: child thread IDs
10	Orchestrator-->>ThreadManagement: child thread IDs
11	ThreadManagement-->>MCP: child thread IDs
12	MCP->>MCP: recursively check child runs

Suggested reviewers: adamulek123, voltcrash, t3dotgg

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The selective reads have no identified merge-blocking behavior risk. Provider-native exclusion would benefit from a focused test.

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Follow-up Comments

_Nitpick Add a named span for this lookup.

5358-5361: External image Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
Add a named span for this lookup.
Wrap the lookup in Effect.fn("ProjectionStore.listAppOwnedChildThreadIds") so traces identify this store operation. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
As per coding guidelines: “Default to named spans for service operations and I/O.”
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6 Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts around
7 lines 5358 - 5361:
8 Wrap the lookup in listAppOwnedChildThreadIds with a named Effect.fn span using
9 the name ProjectionStore.listAppOwnedChildThreadIds, preserving its current
10 parameters and SQL query.

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_Nitpick Add a provider-native child-thread fixture.

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Add a provider-native child-thread fixture.
The lookup test has no provider-native subagent with a child thread. Add one with a distinct non-null child ID and assert that listAppOwnedChildThreadIds excludes it. Without this case, removing the origin = 'app_owned' predicate would not fail the test.
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6 Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts
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8 Extend the lookup test around listAppOwnedChildThreadIds with a provider-native
9 subagent fixture that has a distinct, non-null child thread ID, and assert that
10 the returned app-owned IDs exclude it while retaining the existing expected IDs.

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apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts
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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderTurnControlService.test.ts
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadManagementService.ts
apps/server/src/relay/AgentAwarenessRelay.test.ts

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JJulius Marminge8d ago

Re the follow-up "Add a named span for this lookup" (ProjectionStore.ts 5358-5361): leaving it as is. It matches its sibling single-query reads in the store (getMessageCount, getSubagentCount, getNextTurnItemOrdinal), and the only caller path already carries the named ThreadManagementService.listAppOwnedChildThreadIds span with the sqlite span inside it, so a store-level span would duplicate an existing tracing boundary.