fix(server): archived threads no longer start work after setup finishes#14907

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Problem

A workspace preparation completion can release a preparing V2 run after its thread was archived, transition it to starting, and enqueue provider-turn.start. The release path does not check the terminal thread state before preparing checkpoints and scheduling provider work.

Reproduced against b4d3d51ac9. Macroscope flagged this in the merged orchestrator V2 PR: preparation-release finding.

Change

Reject prepared-run.release when its thread is archived or deleted, before preparing checkpoints, changing run state, or scheduling provider work. If preparation finishes while archived, ThreadLaunchService records its rejected release as a failed run through the existing failure path. After unarchive, a new send starts a new run; this change does not add suspended-setup resumption.

Scope and approval

This is a small, focused fix for an obvious lifecycle invariant violation under CONTRIBUTING.md. It changes one existing command path, with no new capabilities, settings, product defaults, dependencies, wire changes, or diagnostic suppressions. The shared server path applies across clients and connection modes without provider-specific changes.

Duplicate search included open, merged, and closed PRs. #11635 already covers terminal-thread checks in message.dispatch; that overlapping fix is intentionally excluded here. Its diff does not cover prepared-run.release. #14240 addressed session teardown in the removed V1 reactor.

Verification

Red: vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts --maxWorkers=1 --no-file-parallelism -t 'rejects prepared-run.release after thread.archive' reproduces successful admission after archiving on the original code.
Green: 46 passing focused tests in Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts and ThreadLaunchService.test.ts, with one worker and no file parallelism. Command-level regressions cover archive/delete rejection, unchanged projection and an empty release outbox. The launcher regression blocks setup with deferred signals, archives the thread, completes setup, and waits on persisted events: the run fails without provider turns or checkpoint scopes. After unarchive, a new send starts a distinct run and enqueues provider work. It fails without the release guard (starting instead of failed). Real orchestration, persistence, projection and outbox run; external setup and provider execution are isolated.
GOMAXPROCS=1 tsc --noEmit -p apps/server/tsconfig.json — passes. Effect emitted advisory suggestions; no compiler errors.
vp lint apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.test.ts --threads 1 --report-unused-disable-directives — passes with pre-existing warnings for unused layerUnavailable and optional chaining in an unchanged launcher test.
fallow audit --base bf7121d7a2 --threads 1 --format json --quiet --explain (Fallow 3.31.0) — pass, three changed files, zero introduced dead-code, complexity, duplication, or styling findings. Existing findings remain outside this fix; the tool notes incomplete import-graph evidence from skipped vendored .repos sources.
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Prepared-run release now rejects archived or deleted threads. Tests verify that rejection leaves the thread projection and outbox unchanged. Another test covers archiving a thread during setup and sending a new message after unarchiving.

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Inactive thread release

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Release guard and validation `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts`, `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.test.ts`	Release rejects archived or deleted threads with an `OrchestratorDispatchError`. Tests verify that rejection leaves the projection and outbox unchanged. A setup test checks that archiving prevents release effects, and that a later send after unarchiving starts a distinct run and emits a provider-turn start request.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e770f

The check prevents new work from starting on inactive threads. However, setup completion on an archived thread can now mark its prepared run failed, so unarchiving cannot resume that same run through the release path.

Retained concerns

Low · reliability · inferred: Reversing archive does not restore the prepared run after production setup completion encounters the new rejection. ThreadLaunchService converts that rejection into nonretryable prepared-run.fail, while release requires the run to remain preparing. The test demonstrates recovery only by bypassing this failure handler and explicitly issuing a fresh release after unarchive. This changes the rollback semantics of a reversible lifecycle action across preparation and thread-state ownership.

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Security Blast Radius

inferred — The directly affected execution authority is provider work for the identified thread and run. The change narrows release eligibility on the shared server path rather than adding callers, privileges, or a new trust boundary.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — The persisted thread lifecycle state is checked before admitting preparation completion into checkpoint creation and provider-start scheduling. An archived or deleted thread therefore cannot obtain those release effects through this command path.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

observed — Preparation scheduling releases its in-memory reservation on termination. Worktree removal in the inspected preparation error handler is conditional on interruption; an inactive-thread dispatch rejection is not that cleanup branch. Complete resource cleanup across archive and asynchronous setup remains unverified, rather than an established leak or security finding.

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Keep archived setup runs pending for release after unarchive.

If setup finishes while its thread is archived, ThreadLaunchService dispatches prepared-run.release once. The guard rejects it, and schedulePreparation then dispatches prepared-run.fail, so the same run cannot be released after unarchive. Preserve the run in preparing so it can be explicitly released after unarchive, and cover this path through ThreadLaunchService.

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Llux20d ago

Your trace through schedulePreparation is correct: a rejected release invokes prepared-run.fail. The PR description and direct-dispatch retry test incorrectly suggested that the normal launcher would preserve that run for resumption. I have corrected the description and replaced that artificial retry assertion with a regression through the real ThreadLaunchService and ThreadManagementService.

The regression blocks setup with deferred signals, archives the thread, completes setup, and waits on persisted preparation events. It verifies that the run fails, no provider turn or checkpoint scope is created, and the rejected release has no outbox effects. After unarchive, a fresh send starts a distinct run and enqueues provider-turn.start. Without the guard, the same regression fails with starting instead of failed.

I am retaining the archive guard: preventing provider work from starting after archive is the bug reported in the original Macroscope finding. The existing archive path cancels queued delivery and detaches provider sessions (see Orchestrator.ts around the "done with this thread" comment); unarchive does not currently re-release completed preparations. Parking a run and adding a release-on-unarchive workflow would be a separate behavior change, and simply removing the archive rejection would restore the original bug.

Validation: 46 focused tests pass with one worker; server typecheck passes; targeted lint and formatting pass (only pre-existing warnings). Fallow audit results are reported in the updated PR description.

CcoderabbitaiBot20d ago

@Lucenx9 Thanks for the clarification. My trace was correct, but my recommendation assumed a resumption contract that does not exist. I withdraw the finding. The agent prompt’s instruction to remove the archive rejection was also incorrect; that would restore the original bug.

Keep the archive guard. The launcher regression you describe covers the relevant behavior: release rejection prevents provider work, prepared-run.fail ends the preparation, and a fresh send after unarchive starts a distinct run. Preserving and resuming the original run would require a separate behavior change.

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1	Learnt from: Lucenx9
2	Repo: pingdotgg/t3code PR: 14907
3	File: apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:7363-7369
4	Timestamp: 2026-10-02T22:15:41.156Z
5	Learning: In apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadLaunchService.ts, schedulePreparation dispatches prepared-run.fail when prepared-run.release is rejected. The archive guard in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts intentionally prevents checkpoint preparation and provider work after archive. Unarchiving does not re-release completed preparations; a fresh send can start a distinct run. Do not recommend removing the archive guard or assume that archived preparations must remain resumable.

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Review (COMMENT — cannot self-approve)

This review was written with Grok Bot. GitHub rejects self-approvals, so this is submitted as COMMENT rather than APPROVE even though I found no blocking issues.

Updated for head 6cf266d (test(server): cover archived preparation through the launcher).

Against CONTRIBUTING / PR template

Check	Result
One underlying problem	Yes — archived/deleted threads must not start provider work after setup
Obvious focused bug exception (no prior issue required)	Reasonable — lifecycle invariant
Scope stays on the fix	Yes — dispatch guard plus focused tests; no unrelated cleanup
Verification evidence	Orchestrator refusal tests remain. Launcher coverage added on `6cf266d`. CI on this head: Lint, Typecheck, Test, Test Web, Release Smoke pass; Test Server 1–6 and Macroscope Approvability still pending at review time
Conventional title / Problem–Change–Scope–Verification body	Matches `.github/pull_request_template.md` and AGENTS.md PR guidance
Reverse state covered	Unarchive path now lives in `ThreadLaunchService.test.ts`: setup that finishes while archived fails the run with no provider turn, and a new send after unarchive starts

Correctness

Guard in dispatchPreparedRunRelease still sits after projection load and before checkpoint preparation, run-state transition, or provider-turn.start.
6cf266d moves the unarchive assertion out of Orchestrator.control-reads.test.ts and into the launcher: archive during setup, fail the prepared run, empty outbox, then unarchive and sendToThread → started / starting plus provider-turn.start. That matches the requested coverage (setup finishing while archived, then a new turn after unarchive) better than releasing the same prepared run.
Orchestrator tests still reject prepared-run.release on archive and delete, with projection and outbox unchanged.

Findings

No blocking issues in the correction. I am not inventing nits.

Maintainer note: a third-party APPROVE is still needed before merge; this COMMENT is not a merge approval.

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