fix(server): release device sessions when threads settle#32935

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Problem

Settling a finished thread leaves its agent-device session alive, so another thread cannot use the same simulator (DEVICE_IN_USE). Archive, thread deletion, and project deletion also omit device cleanup.

Fixes #32930. Related reports: #17470 and #32511.

Change

Queue device cleanup through the existing orchestration outbox and call the existing host-owned close operation. Simulators stay booted, and other threads keep their sessions.

Each open receives a private cleanup identity. Lifecycle commands capture the eligible identities in the durable effect, so delayed or retried cleanup cannot close a newly reopened session, even within the same millisecond. The deletion planner receives the captured identities as input. Client/RPC contracts and provider adapters are unchanged.

The tests and short user-guide update cover this same lifecycle change.

Scope and approval

Maintainer decision requested before review/merge: #25832 explicitly keeps devices open on settle, following terminal behavior. This PR proposes releasing their exclusive claims on manual and automatic settle as requested in #32930/#32511. That settle-policy change has not received explicit maintainer approval; this PR is a concrete implementation for that decision, not a claim that approval already exists.

Archive/delete cleanup overlaps the lifecycle portion of #25832. This PR does not add claim-owner UI, an idle timeout, or any separate enhancement.

Verification

Before: copied the new integration regression into an isolated checkout of baseline 8e6a7323050e, keeping its server code unchanged. Manual settle, automatic settle, archive and delete all fail after draining the effect worker: one device session remains, expected zero.
After: the same four cases pass. A fifth test holds the clock fixed and reopens the same device before queued cleanup executes; the reopened session survives. Other-thread preservation and keeping devices booted are asserted.
vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts -t 'releases devices without powering them off|preserves devices reopened after settlement': 5 passed.
vp run check:changed: formatting, lint, both knip passes, generated GraphQL verification, affected-package typechecks, and 295 tests in 12 files passed.
Earlier focused device/orchestration/project-deletion/host suites: 247 passed.

Screenshot proof and transcripts

The screenshot is a capture of the actual before/after regression report, not an application/device screenshot. Tests use the real orchestrator, effect worker and DeviceService with a simulated host on Linux. Live iOS/Android devices and live SSH/EAS hosts were not exercised.

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Eesoxjem2d ago

Contribution triage: needs maintainer decision

Assessed head: c3fadc8dc6442f79aa661f700a4e7ac55e0674ba. Trusted policy revision: af65a55dc77f. The complete 13-file diff, current description, linked reports, comments/reviews, and verification artifacts were checked. The author is not in the validated exemption list; draft status does not change the requirements.

Unresolved product scope: maintainer-authored #25832 explicitly says, “Thread settle does not release devices.” This PR adds release on manual and automatic settle to address #32930/#32511. The linked bug report and the concrete reproduction establish the symptom, but do not establish approval to change that policy.

Question for maintainers: should settling a thread release its exclusive agent-device sessions, or should cleanup remain limited to explicit close, archive and deletion? Please confirm the intended direction and scope under prior approval.

The changes address one underlying device-lifecycle problem: cleanup scheduling, captured session identities, execution, regression coverage, fixture updates, and the corresponding user guidance. The supplied baseline failure, fixed-clock reopen regression, raw transcripts, screenshot report, and passing changed-file checks substantiate the automated server behavior. Live simulator/emulator and remote-host verification remains explicitly unperformed.

Per contribution-triage, the PR remains open and pending that maintainer answer, not marked eligible. No macroscope-review label was applied and no review completion is claimed. Review handoff can be reassessed after the scope decision.

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Walkthrough

Device sessions now have IDs that allow cleanup to target only sessions captured for a thread. Settle, archive, and deletion paths enqueue cleanup effects, which the worker executes through ResourceCleanupService.

Changes: Device session cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Session identity and targeted close `apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts`	Each opened session receives a UUID. The service exposes a thread’s session IDs and accepts optional IDs to limit which sessions `close` selects.
Cleanup effect execution `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectOutbox.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ResourceCleanupService.ts`	The effect schema and worker handle `device.cleanup`. `ResourceCleanupService` calls `DeviceService.close` with the thread ID and captured session IDs.
Thread lifecycle cleanup scheduling `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadDeletion.ts`, `apps/server/src/project/ProjectService.ts`	Settle and archive commands capture session IDs for cleanup effects. Thread deletion plans also include captured IDs, including for child-thread deletion.
Lifecycle tests and device documentation `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadDeletion.test.ts`, `apps/server/src/project/ProjectService.deletion.test.ts`, `apps/server/src/guest/GuestShareService.test.ts`, `apps/server/src/provider/userInputAttachments.test.ts`, `docs/user/devices.md`	Tests cover cleanup on settle, auto-settle, archive, and deletion, including delayed cleanup and reopened sessions. Device documentation describes session release while simulators and emulators remain running.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

mermaid

1	sequenceDiagram
2	participant Orchestrator
3	participant EffectOutbox
4	participant EffectWorker
5	participant ResourceCleanupService
6	participant DeviceService
7	Orchestrator->>DeviceService: Capture thread session IDs
8	Orchestrator->>EffectOutbox: Enqueue device.cleanup with captured IDs
9	EffectWorker->>ResourceCleanupService: Execute cleanup for thread and IDs
10	ResourceCleanupService->>DeviceService: Close matching sessions

Possibly related issues

pingdotgg/t3code#17470 — Reports that settle and archive do not release device claims; this change adds cleanup for those lifecycle paths.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: External image Moderate · up to 07796

Settling, archiving, or deleting a thread now releases its device sessions. In two edge cases a session or its exclusive device claim can survive: a device open that is still in flight, or an SSH host that stays unreachable past the short retry window. The device would then stay locked to the finished thread. Both cases should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge, and the settle-policy change still needs maintainer approval.

Pre-merge checks: ^Passed 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	Passed	The title "fix(server): release device sessions when threads settle" matches the main change: settling a thread now queues device cleanup that closes its device sessions through the orchestration outb…
Description check	Passed	The description follows the template's sections: Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification. It states the problem (settled threads keep device sessions, causing DEVICE_IN_USE) and the fix …
Linked Issues check	Passed	Directly linked issue `#32930` has three coding requirements. Each is supported by code at the reviewed head. (1) Settle releases the exclusive device claim without powering off the device. Orchestrato…
Out of Scope Changes check	Passed	Each changed file connects to `#32930`. DeviceService.ts: per-open cleanup identity, sessionIdsForThread, and ID-filtered close. ResourceCleanupService.ts: cleanupDevices and the "device" error operatio…

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The title "fix(server): release device sessions when threads settle" matches the main change: settling a thread now queues device cleanup that closes its device sessions through the orchestration outbox. It is specific, follows conventional commit style, and does not list files. It omits archive and deletion cleanup, which is a narrower scope than the full changeset but still a real part of it.

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Explanation

The description follows the template's sections: Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification. It states the problem (settled threads keep device sessions, causing DEVICE_IN_USE) and the fix (outbox-queued cleanup using the existing close operation, with identity capture for reopened sessions). Verification includes specific focused test commands, pass counts, and before/after results, and it names what was not tested (live iOS/Android devices and live SSH/EAS hosts). The Scope section explicitly flags that maintainer approval for the settle-policy change has not been received, which is a substantive open item rather than a missing section. The conventional commit title is present in the PR title. The description is mostly complete.

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Explanation

Directly linked issue #32930 has three coding requirements. Each is supported by code at the reviewed head.

(1) Settle releases the exclusive device claim without powering off the device. Orchestrator.ts queues a device.cleanup effect for thread.settle, covering manual and automatic settle. ResourceCleanupService.ts cleanupDevices calls devices.close({ threadId }, { sessionIds }) with no shutdown flag. DeviceService.ts runs shutdown work only when input.shutdown is set (ending = input.shutdown ? ...), so simulators stay booted.

(2) Cleanup targets only the original session identity, including same-millisecond reopens. DeviceService.ts assigns each open a UUID from SecureRandom.uuidV4(), stores it in a WeakMap keyed by the session object, and close() filters on options.sessionIds when supplied. A reopened session is a new object with a new UUID, so a delayed close does not end it. Captured IDs are fixed in the durable effect, so timestamp equality does not matter.

(3) Archive and delete cleanup run. Orchestrator.ts queues device.cleanup for thread.archive and passes captured device session IDs to planThreadDeletion (ThreadDeletion.ts requires deviceSessionIds). ProjectService.ts does the same for child-thread deletion.

The PR adds regression tests in runtimeLayer.test.ts for manual settle, auto-settle, archive, delete, other-thread preservation, booted devices, and reopen-after-settle. The reported before/after results are PR evidence. I did not run these tests. The maintainer decision on settle policy (#25832, the PR description, and the linked issue) is a non-coding approval gate, so it is not assessed here.

Limits: the Orchestrator.ts whole-PR diff could not be read in this assessment. Its behavior is taken from the supplied summary and the prior assessment.

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Explanation

Each changed file connects to #32930. DeviceService.ts: per-open cleanup identity, sessionIdsForThread, and ID-filtered close. ResourceCleanupService.ts: cleanupDevices and the "device" error operation. EffectOutbox.ts and EffectWorker.ts: the device.cleanup request and its execution. Orchestrator.ts: device session capture for archive, settle, and deletion. ThreadDeletion.ts and ProjectService.ts: device session IDs passed to deletion planning for thread and project deletion. ThreadDeletion.test.ts and ProjectService.deletion.test.ts: expectations updated for the new effect. GuestShareService.test.ts and userInputAttachments.test.ts: no-op or mock DeviceService layers required by the new ResourceCleanupService dependency. runtimeLayer.test.ts: regression tests. docs/user/devices.md: a short note on the settle, archive, and delete behavior, which is part of the same lifecycle change. No change lacks a connection to the linked objective. The PR does not add claim-owner UI, idle timeout, or other enhancements, as stated in the PR description.

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WWladefantrequested changes · 2 inline threads2d ago

Independent full source review at exact HEAD c3fadc8dc6442f79aa661f700a4e7ac55e0674ba, base 6417151c093e54dbba0e6c824c69d03983793b9a.

Reviewer: GPT-6 / OpenAI (Wladefant), separate from PR author esoxjem. The implementer model is not disclosed. The temporary Superboard #1899 / #6545600082 exception permits a qualified separate same-family review; this is not author self-review.

CHANGES_REQUESTED — P2: replay-safe device cleanup loses the session target after process reconstruction.

The durable effect stores only captured opaque sessionIds and is explicitly included in REPLAY_SAFE_EFFECT_TYPES_AFTER_PROCESS_LOSS. Those IDs are resolvable only through DeviceService's process-local WeakMap<DeviceSession, string>. A reconstructed DeviceService starts with state.sessions = [] and a fresh WeakMap. EffectWorker replays device.cleanup and ResourceCleanupService calls devices.close({threadId}, {sessionIds}); close selects only currently resident session objects whose WeakMap IDs match. After process loss the selection is empty, so no releaseAgentSession/agent-device close is issued, yet the cleanup effect can complete successfully. The external agent-device claim can remain live and later work can receive DEVICE_IN_USE.

This finding is already source-documented in PR comment #6723385800; this formal review records the same concrete P2 as a review verdict, not a new duplicate defect. Required correction: make the replay payload sufficient to address the original host/device/session without relying on process-local objects (for example, durable non-secret host/device/session identity with an idempotent release path), or do not claim replay safety until the cleanup target can be resolved. Add a service-reconstruction/replay regression proving the original claim is released exactly once, a second replay is harmless, and unrelated/reopened sessions are preserved. Do not persist provider credentials or broaden cleanup authority.

Separate product-scope gate: this PR also releases devices on thread settle. Maintainer PR #25832 explicitly preserves the policy that settling does not release devices; the existing contribution-triage comment #6721363353 requests a maintainer decision. Archive/delete cleanup can be reviewed independently, but the settle behavior must not be treated as approved until maintainers explicitly resolve that direction.

Exact-head CI: all-event inventory returned 9 runs for this SHA: 8 successful supporting/CI runs and 1 Mobile EAS Preview skipped. Normal CI #42479283616 completed successfully; Lint, Test, Build/Typecheck, eight Test Server shards and aggregate Check succeeded. Test Web, Release Smoke, Rust and Mobile Native Static Analysis were skipped. The fetched shard logs did not expose a directly attributable selected count for the changed DeviceService/cleanup modules; that count remains UNKNOWN and is not claimed as passing.

Current T3 main is 401318317177a375f064d4fabd18d49fb4b5231f; compare from this PR head is 5 main-only commits / 1 PR-only commit. Current-main composition has not been tested. Original author retains the 13-file branch. No merge, installation, deployment, device operation, session migration or physical Windows/macOS acceptance is authorized or claimed.

apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectOutbox.tsline 137Outdated · c3fadc8Open thread

…	…	@@ -130,6 +134,7 @@ export const REPLAY_SAFE_EFFECT_TYPES_AFTER_PROCESS_LOSS = [
130	134		"scheduled-tasks.cleanup",
131	135		"terminal.cleanup",
132	136		"preview.cleanup",
	137	+	"device.cleanup",

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apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.tsline 289Outdated · c3fadc8Open thread

…	…	@@ -279,6 +285,8 @@ export const makeWithHosts = Effect.fn("DeviceService.makeWithHosts")(function*
280	286		const settings = yield* ServerSettings.ServerSettingsService;
281	287		const digest = yield* Digest.Digest;
	288	+	const random = yield* SecureRandom.SecureRandom;
	289	+	const sessionIds = new WeakMap<DeviceSession, string>();

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8	- Line 4515: Coordinate captureDeviceSessions for command.threadId with any
9	in-flight DeviceService.open completion before archive or deletion proceeds, so
10	cleanup captures the final session ID and releases the old agent-device claim.
11	Preserve intentional opens that begin after the lifecycle transition settles,
12	and add a regression test that controls the open-versus-transition ordering.
13	- Line 4522: Update handling of the device.cleanup request so cleanup remains
14	pending or is recoverable when the SSH host is temporarily disconnected; do not
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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.tsline 4515Open thread

…	…	@@ -4504,6 +4511,19 @@ const makeOrchestrator = Effect.fn("orchestrationV2.Orchestrator.layer")(functio
4505	4512		}
4506	4513
	4514	+	if (command.type === "thread.archive" \|\| command.type === "thread.settle") {
	4515	+	const sessionIds = yield* captureDeviceSessions(command.threadId);

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Serialize session capture with in-flight opens.

An open started before archive or deletion can finish after this capture. If it replaces an existing session, the queued cleanup no longer matches the new ID, so the old agent-device claim can remain owned by the archived or deleted thread. DeviceService.open publishes after asynchronous host work and does not take the thread command lock. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Coordinate open completion with the lifecycle transition, while preserving intentional reopens after settlement. Add a regression test that controls this ordering.

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8	Coordinate captureDeviceSessions for command.threadId with any in-flight
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10	captures the final session ID and releases the old agent-device claim. Preserve
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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.tsline 4522Open thread

…	…	@@ -4504,6 +4511,19 @@ const makeOrchestrator = Effect.fn("orchestrationV2.Orchestrator.layer")(functio
	4519	+	id: `effect:${command.commandId}:device.cleanup`,
	4520	+	commandId: command.commandId,
	4521	+	threadId: command.threadId,
	4522	+	request: { type: "device.cleanup", sessionIds },

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Keep cleanup pending while an SSH host reconnects.

If five cleanup attempts occur before the SSH host reconnects, the worker marks this effect failed. The default backoff totals only 1.5 seconds, while SSH reconnection can take longer. The session and exclusive claim then remain after settlement, archive, or deletion. Use a retry policy or recovery path that can complete cleanup after reconnection. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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8	Update handling of the device.cleanup request so cleanup remains pending or is
9	recoverable when the SSH host is temporarily disconnected; do not let the
10	default five-attempt backoff permanently fail the effect before reconnection.
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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectOutbox.tslines 108–109Open thread

…	…	@@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ export const OrchestrationEffectRequestV2 = Schema.Union([
106	106		}),
	107	+	Schema.Struct({
	108	+	type: Schema.Literal("device.cleanup"),
	109	+	sessionIds: Schema.Array(Schema.String),

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_{_{P2 Badge}} Persist recoverable targets for replayed device cleanup

If the server crashes after the lifecycle command commits but before cleanup finishes, this replay-safe effect persists only UUIDs whose association with devices exists in DeviceService.makeWithHosts's in-memory WeakMap. The restarted service recreates that map and initializes sessions to an empty array, so replayed cleanup matches nothing and is marked successful without contacting a host. The local agent-device daemon can survive the crash and is reused by LocalDeviceHost.startAgentDeviceDaemon, leaving its exclusive claim intact and subsequent threads receiving DEVICE_IN_USE. Persist or recover the generation-qualified cleanup targets so the durable effect can actually release pre-crash claims.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ResourceCleanupService.tslines 95–99Open thread

…	…	@@ -81,6 +88,18 @@ export const layer = Layer.effect(
	96	+	.close({ threadId }, { sessionIds })
	97	+	.pipe(
	98	+	Effect.mapError(
	99	+	(cause) => new ResourceCleanupError({ operation: "device", threadId, cause }),

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_{_{P1 Badge}} Keep device cleanup pending while an SSH host reconnects

When a thread with an SSH device session is settled, archived or deleted during a reconnect, DeviceService.close fails immediately because host.current is null. Passing that error directly to the production worker exhausts its default five attempts in approximately 1.5 seconds (EffectWorker.ts:660, 833–843), while SshDeviceHost reconnects independently with a 1–30-second backoff. The cleanup then remains failed, and reconnecting does not reschedule it. Consequently, a short SSH outage can leave the old thread's exclusive device claim held after connectivity returns, so another thread still receives DEVICE_IN_USE. Defer or requeue cleanup until the host reconnects rather than exhausting the bounded execution retries on temporary unavailability.

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

verified exact head 077964b1e8650b79d5ef241019e30e4317fde862 on a linux boat vm using the real dev web app, repository Playwright, /usr/bin/google-chrome, codex gpt-6.1-sol, and a real kvm android 11 emulator. projects and threads were created through the app. no mocks or seeded fixtures.

before: on github/main at 2922e8fb5952277793e0915b6adbceb58ebef1b0, thread a opened android settings through device_open and its returned command. after settling a, thread b's command failed with DEVICE_IN_USE.
after: the same flow on this head succeeded. thread b opened settings and snapshot -i returned 17 visible nodes. the emulator stayed booted.
isolation: while b owned the device, c received DEVICE_IN_USE. settling c preserved b's original claim; b's existing command still captured a snapshot with exit 0.
archive: archiving b released its claim; c then opened settings and captured a snapshot with exit 0.
delete: after confirming deletion of c and waiting for it to disappear, d opened settings and captured a snapshot with exit 0. an initial browser-script attempt navigated away before deletion completed; it was retried with the completed deletion explicitly observed.

runtime observations from the running server's isolated database and emulator:

text

1	device.cleanup: 5 succeeded, 0 failed; each completed on attempt 1
2	adb -s emulator-5554 shell getprop sys.boot_completed
3	1

blacksmith verification:

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1	vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts -t 'releases devices without powering them off\|preserves devices reopened after settlement'
2	5 passed, 118 filtered out

existing head ci has no failing or pending checks; some jobs are skipped. no source changes or pushes were needed.

main: second thread receives DEVICE_IN_USE after settlement

pr: second thread opens settings and captures a snapshot after settlement

settlement and successful real codex device acquisition; navigation loading omitted

Not verified

native ios, native t3 mobile and electron clients, macos/windows, remote/ssh/eas/simlock hosts, reconnect/crash recovery, an open racing a lifecycle transition, project deletion, and automatic settlement through the live scheduler were not exercised. the five focused tests cover automatic settlement and reopen preservation at the integration layer only. existing review concerns about reconnect, process-loss replay, and in-flight opens remain unresolved by this verification. this pass does not resolve the separate settle-policy decision.

JJulius Marminge13h ago

Thanks for this. #32524 makes the same change and is the one being kept: Keep #32524 for the shared settle problem reported in #32930 and #32511. Its current head has 44 successful checks, none failing or pending, and a Git merge-tree comparison against current main completed without conflicts. It is the narrower implementation: two production files, using the existing settlement service, with per-device failure isolation, asynchronous releases, and a guard checked under the lifecycle lock to preserve re-engaged threads. This PR additionally implements archive/delete cleanup, which the alternative does not cover; that remaining scope should be tracked separately rather than carrying a competing settle implementation. Main contains neither device.cleanup nor sessionIdsForThread, so this is not already on main.

Closing as a duplicate.