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fix(server): recover failed and interrupted checkpoint captures#21833

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server-misc-06/checkpoint-processes
server-misc-06/checkpoint-recovery
opened25d agobyJJulius Marminge
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Stack: depends on #21832, which bounds owned checkpoint-process termination.

Exhausted checkpoint retries leave the turn waiting, and Stop rejects checkpoint-only work after the provider has finished. Forward retry state into capture settlement: the last failed attempt marks the still-current waiting run/root failed and records one notice. Stop interrupts local checkpoint work, cancels its outbox effect and leaves held messages resumable, without interrupting an already-finished provider. Both run.interrupt and thread.stop use this path.

Success and failure settlement share the existing short thread-command lock and transactional status/attempt guard. Git and workspace work stay outside the lock so Stop remains responsive. Stopped runs retain their status when a checkpoint is later captured; redelivery remains idempotent. Deterministic refs remain available for the next baseline when settlement loses a race.

Before: seven targeted regressions fail on main (121 pass out of 128), and thread-wide Stop has a separately confirmed failing case. After: the four affected suites increase from 117 to 129 cases, covering native cleanup, retry exhaustion, nullable-attempt persistence, capture/Stop ordering, both Stop entry points and queue resume. The original one-off stall suite and fake-provider scaffolding were replaced by existing persistence/service fixtures; test diff falls from net 591 to 557 lines while checking distinct failure boundaries.

Maintainer gate: confirm checkpoint-only Stop and the failed-turn notice policy. Linux tests use real SQLite and actual outbox/drain behavior; a live provider and the other native platforms were not exercised.

Verification on Linux x86_64 / Node 24.21.0: the complete stack passed 257 tests across nine focused suites, server typecheck, scoped formatting and lint (three pre-existing warnings). The final integrated primary pass passed 144 tests across VcsProcess, processRunner, CheckpointCaptureService, FoundationPersistence and ThreadStop. No browser or live provider was used. macOS, Windows, iOS, Android and Electron desktop remain unverified.

Based on @jackroberts236's #18280. The original identified both owned-process cleanup and checkpoint recovery; this replacement follows the current service and outbox paths. No dependency patch or aggregate capture timeout.

Implemented through T3 Code with Codex GPT-6.1-Sol; regression tests by Codex GPT-6-Astra. Independent full-stack reviews by Claude Opus 5.5 and Codex GPT-6-Sol.

Review round 1: Claude Opus 5.5 and Codex GPT-6-Sol reviewed both whole layers and the combined diff at the published heads; neither found a code blocker. Opus independently passed 129/129 changed-suite tests.

Policy input: Stop can also cancel a healthy capture just as a provider finishes, leaving that turn without its checkpoint/diff. Exhausted capture marks the completed provider run failed, so delegated parents see failure even if its answer exists. These trade-offs require maintainer sign-off. The held-queue regression proves explicit resume; automatic unheld-queue continuation uses the unchanged published-event handler and was inspected rather than newly parameterized.

Follow-up verification: fixed native PID framing by waiting for a complete newline and accepting one positive safe integer before cleanup. Final source passed 231/231 tests across eight focused suites, independently repeated by Opus; Sol passed the four changed suites (129/129), and the primary repeated native/process tests (55/55). Both reviewers made a second clean whole-stack pass. Production code is unchanged from the previously typechecked implementation; final scoped lint/format passed. Updated-head CI passed.

The older-pending-capture cancellation finding was checked independently by both reviewers and rejected: captures commit atomically with terminal state, and earlier pending captures block later provider starts even during backoff. Guarded duplicate/late terminals and recovery preserve that order. A synthetic reordered-outbox test was discarded. No run-specific cancellation machinery was added.

Final head 53ffd32: latest CI passed, including build/typecheck, lint, eight server shards and aggregate Check. CodeRabbit succeeded with no further findings; no unresolved threads. Older cancelled runs (and the upper layer's superseded failed aggregate) are not treated as successful; the later run is the final evidence. Human approval remains pending.

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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This PR changes the production lifecycle of checkpoint captures and Stop handling, including retry exhaustion, durable failed/interrupted states, cancellation races, and queue resumption. The extensive tests reduce risk but do not make these significant runtime and work-gating changes suitable for automatic approval.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ No successful main baseline artifact is available yet. This run establishes the initial measurement.

ProviderMetricMain baselineThis PRImpactPR ceiling
CodexTotal thread wire—5.0 KiB—6.8 KiB✅
CodexThread snapshot wire—3.8 KiB—4.9 KiB✅
CodexLive turn WebSocket wire—1.2 KiB—2.0 KiB✅
CodexLive turn WebSocket decoded—20.9 KiB—29.3 KiB✅
CodexLive turn messages—2—8✅
ClaudeTotal thread wire—5.0 KiB—6.8 KiB✅
ClaudeThread snapshot wire—3.8 KiB—4.9 KiB✅
ClaudeLive turn WebSocket wire—1.2 KiB—2.0 KiB✅
ClaudeLive turn WebSocket decoded—21.2 KiB—29.3 KiB✅
ClaudeLive turn messages—2—8✅

Baseline: unavailable · PR result: 53ffd32 · 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

Checkpoint capture now writes conditionally under the thread lock, marks non-retryable failures on waiting runs, and supports Stop or interrupt while capture is in progress. Tests cover retry, redelivery, concurrency, and queue resumption.

Changes: Checkpoint capture lifecycle

Layer / File(s)Summary
Conditional capture and failure settlement
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointCaptureService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EventSink.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/EffectWorker.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunFinalizationService.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/ProviderReplayHarness.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointCaptureService.test.ts		Capture and failure updates use conditional writes under the thread lock. A non-retryable, non-interruption failure marks a still-waiting run and its root node failed, and emits a system notice when a root node exists. Tests cover retries, redelivery, and capture outcomes.
Interrupting checkpoint-waiting runs
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/FoundationPersistence.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadStop.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/CheckpointCaptureService.test.ts		Interrupt and Stop can select a waiting run without pending background work. Tests cover stale conditional writes, Stop and interrupt during capture, retry exhaustion, and resuming a held queued run.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1sequenceDiagram
2 participant CheckpointCaptureService
3 participant ThreadCommandExecutor
4 participant EventSink
5 CheckpointCaptureService->>ThreadCommandExecutor: Acquire thread command lock
6 ThreadCommandExecutor-->>CheckpointCaptureService: Provide locked execution
7 CheckpointCaptureService->>EventSink: writeIfRunCurrent with capture or failure events
8 EventSink-->>CheckpointCaptureService: Return conditional write result

Possibly related PRs

  • pingdotgg/t3code#18280: Covers related checkpoint retry exhaustion, cancellation during checkpoint-only Stop, and thread-locked conditional settlement.

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 62db9

Stop and interrupt can now cancel a turn that is still capturing its checkpoint, and a turn whose capture keeps failing is now marked failed. One narrow problem remains. Stopping a run mid-capture cancels every pending checkpoint capture on that thread, so an earlier interrupted turn on the same thread can lose its restore point. The fix is small and the change is otherwise mergeable, but scoping the cancellation to the stopped run is recommended first.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.tslines 9437–9443Outdated · 62db97fOpen thread
……@@ -9385,6 +9385,64 @@ const makeOrchestrator = Effect.fn("orchestrationV2.Orchestrator.layer")(functio
9440+ } satisfies {
9441+ readonly effectTypes: ReadonlyArray<OrchestrationEffectRequestV2["type"]>;
9442+ readonly reason: string;
9443+ };
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6rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -e 'checkpoint.capture' -e 'effect:checkpoint.capture' -e 'request.runId' apps/server/src/orchestration-v2
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8nl -ba apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts | sed -n '9360,9475p'
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6nl -ba apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts | sed -n '9065,9135p'
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9nl -ba apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/RunExecutionService.ts | sed -n '660,725p'
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Scope checkpoint cancellation to the stopped run.

cancelUnsettled cancels every pending or running checkpoint.capture effect for the thread. The Stop branch provides only the effect type, so it can cancel an earlier interrupted run's capture while that capture is still unsettled. Scope the cancellation to the current run, such as with request.runId or the exact effect ID.

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8Update the Stop branch’s cancellation request used by cancelUnsettled to scope
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JJulius Marminge25d ago

Checked this against both capture producers, late terminals and recovery; I could not reproduce the proposed state through the supported lifecycle. Finalization commits terminal state and its deterministic capture atomically. The effect lane blocks a later provider start behind every earlier pending capture, including retry backoff. A newer run therefore cannot reach checkpoint-only waiting while an older capture remains pending/running. Stale-attempt/status guards and deterministic effect IDs prevent late/duplicate captures; process-loss recovery requeues in place without changing row order. The Stop fallback enqueues its capture in the same terminal transaction as well.

A synthetic test only reproduced this after placing the newer capture before the older capture and removing normal outbox work. We discarded it because that bypasses the production chronology. Both fresh independent reviewers traced these paths and agree; resolving as a false positive without adding run-ID filtering for unreachable state.

CcoderabbitaiBot25d ago

@juliusmarminge Thanks for the detailed explanation. I withdraw this finding.

I considered the thread-wide cancellation scope without accounting for outbox ordering. Earlier unsettled captures block later provider starts, including during retry backoff. The newer run therefore cannot reach checkpoint-only waiting while an older capture remains unsettled. Run-ID filtering is not needed for the proposed failure case.

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2Repo: pingdotgg/t3code PR: 21833
3File: apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Orchestrator.ts:9437-9443
4Timestamp: 2026-10-19T18:36:44.567Z
5Learning: In pingdotgg/t3code's TypeScript orchestration-v2 lifecycle, RunExecutionService.ts and the Stop fallback in Orchestrator.ts persist terminal run events and deterministic checkpoint.capture effects atomically. EffectOutbox.ts blocks later provider starts behind earlier unsettled captures, including retry backoff. Process-loss recovery requeues effects without changing row order. Thus, a newer run cannot reach checkpoint-only waiting while an older capture remains pending or running; do not flag thread-wide checkpoint cancellation on the assumption that this overlap is reachable.

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