fix(server): preserve reconnect sync progress on unreliable networks#26422

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Problem

Unreliable connections can get stuck in a sync loop: reconnect, start downloading a large snapshot, fail partway through, then start the same download from scratch. Because an incomplete snapshot cannot be applied, the client's last update pointer never moves forward.

Change

Stream normal thread catch-up in small pages instead of replacing large replays with a single snapshot. The client applies received events and advances its last update pointer before synchronization finishes. If the connection drops, the next connection resumes from that progress.

Bound replay reads by event count and payload size, preserve event order, and skip unknown events without truncating catch-up. A lightweight existence query detects recreated threads without restoring the replay's payloads first. First-time loads and recreated threads retain the existing snapshot behavior. Individual oversized events remain intact.

Scope and approval

Submitted under CONTRIBUTING.md's exception for a very small, focused fix of an obvious bug. The defect is that reconnect retries can repeatedly discard transfer progress and never catch up. This change uses the existing event cursor and replay transport to preserve that progress; it adds no new user workflow, setting, or wire contract. No prior triaged issue or maintainer approval is claimed.

Verification

vp test run apps/server/src/ws.test.ts apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.test.ts apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.sequence.test.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ThreadStream.test.ts packages/client-runtime/src/state/threads-sync.test.ts — 79 tests pass.
Covers interrupted large replays, byte-heavy payloads, unknown events, deferred page fetching, and bypassing payload statistics on ordinary reconnects.
tsc --noEmit -p apps/server/tsconfig.json and tsc --noEmit -p packages/client-runtime/tsconfig.json pass.
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Verdict: Approved at 112363c

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Thread reconnects preserve incremental sync progress instead of restarting with large snapshots. Byte-bounded replay pages limit decoding memory, while invalid cursors and recreated threads retain snapshot safeguards.

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fix(server): preserve reconnect sync progress on unreliable networksa0b16a1

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Walkthrough

The event store now supports byte-bounded replay pages and sequence-range event checks. Thread subscriptions use incremental pages to catch up through the high-water mark, then resume live delivery. Tests cover replay continuation and client synchronization across session replacement.

Changes: Thread replay and synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary

Byte-bounded aggregate replay
apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.ts, apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.sequence.test.ts, apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.test.ts readAgentEvents accepts an optional page-byte limit. The query retains the first event even if it exceeds the limit, and byte-limited pagination can continue after a short page. The store also exposes hasAgentEvent for a thread, event type, and sequence range. Tests cover the existence check, payload changes during page consumption, and reading an earlier page when a later payload is malformed.

Thread catch-up and synchronization
apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/ws.test.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/threads-sync.test.ts For resume ranges without thread.created, thread replay reads incremental pages and advances through the captured high-water mark. It then emits a completion marker and resumes live delivery. Tests cover large event counts, padded payloads, unknown rows, and client resubscription after an update.

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Byte-bounded aggregate replay `apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.ts`, `apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.sequence.test.ts`, `apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.test.ts`	`readAgentEvents` accepts an optional page-byte limit. The query retains the first event even if it exceeds the limit, and byte-limited pagination can continue after a short page. The store also exposes `hasAgentEvent` for a thread, event type, and sequence range. Tests cover the existence check, payload changes during page consumption, and reading an earlier page when a later payload is malformed.
Thread catch-up and synchronization `apps/server/src/ws.ts`, `apps/server/src/ws.test.ts`, `packages/client-runtime/src/state/threads-sync.test.ts`	For resume ranges without `thread.created`, thread replay reads incremental pages and advances through the captured high-water mark. It then emits a completion marker and resumes live delivery. Tests cover large event counts, padded payloads, unknown rows, and client resubscription after an update.

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1	sequenceDiagram
2	participant ThreadSubscription
3	participant OrchestrationEventStore
4	participant ThreadSyncState
5	ThreadSubscription->>OrchestrationEventStore: Read incremental replay pages
6	OrchestrationEventStore-->>ThreadSubscription: Return stored events
7	ThreadSubscription-->>ThreadSyncState: Deliver replay events and completion marker
8	ThreadSyncState->>ThreadSubscription: Resubscribe after the last applied sequence

Possibly related PRs

pingdotgg/t3code#22630: Changes replay-floor handling and snapshot fallback in the same thread-resume path.
pingdotgg/t3code#25754: Changes persisted thread-update coalescing before replay sizing in ws.ts.
pingdotgg/t3code#21082: Changes thread resume batching and completion-marker placement.

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Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, yash-singh1, juliusmarminge

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Replay sizing is bounded, and no merge-blocking issue remains identified.

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The title "fix(server): preserve reconnect sync progress on unreliable networks" matches the main change: reconnect catch-up now streams bounded pages and keeps the client's update pointer, so a dropped connection resumes from saved progress instead of restarting the snapshot download. It follows the conventional commit format the template requests and is specific enough for a teammate scanning history. The title names the server scope, while the changeset also touches the client-runtime package (threads-sync). That is a minor gap and does not make the title misleading.

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The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections, and each is substantively filled in. The Problem section explains the reconnect loop and the expected behavior. The Change section explains the paged streaming, the existence query, and the preserved snapshot path for first-time loads and recreated threads. The Scope section cites the CONTRIBUTING.md exception for a very small, focused bug fix and states that no prior issue or approval is claimed. The Verification section lists the exact test command, the 79 passing tests, and the TypeScript and lint checks. It also states what was not run, which is browser and native mobile verification. The model and harness line is present at the end, as the template asks. Two points are weak. The scope justification is contestable, since the change touches server replay, persistence, and client sync, and a reviewer may not agree it is a very small fix. The description also does not mention the follow-up commit that the objectives reference. Neither gap leaves the template largely incomplete, so the check passes.

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apps/server/src/ws.tsline 945Outdated · a0b16a1Open thread

…	…	@@ -919,7 +942,7 @@ export const subscribeOrchestrationV2Thread = Effect.fn("ws.orchestrationV2.subs
920	943		afterSequence: input.afterSequence,
921	944		throughSequence: highWater,
922		-	maxEvents: THREAD_RESUME_MAX_REPLAY_EVENTS,
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Avoid full-gap payload restoration before incremental replay.

getAgentReplayStats runs before the replay branch with maxEvents: highWater - input.afterSequence. Its SQL restores payloads and calculates byte sizes for every matching event in that gap. The incremental branch uses only hasCreateEvent, so large reconnect gaps can perform unnecessary database and JSON work before delivering the first page.

Add a cheap thread.created existence query with the same range filters. Run the existing capped stats query only when that check finds a create event, because that branch uses eventCount and rawPayloadBytes.

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QQard12d ago

Fixed in 2edf1ff7e. Ordinary catch-up now uses a payload-free EXISTS query scoped to the thread, event type, sequence range, and V2 events. Only ranges containing a creation event run the existing capped replay statistics query. Added coverage proving ordinary reconnects bypass stats and that the existence check respects range/thread/version boundaries without decoding payloads. All 79 focused tests and server typechecking pass.

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@Qard Thanks for the fix in 2edf1ff7e. The supplied code confirms that ordinary catch-up bypasses getAgentReplayStats. Ranges with a creation event retain the capped statistics query. This addresses the reported performance issue.

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Added 1 commit12d ago

perf(server): avoid restoring payloads before reconnect replay2edf1ff

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apps/server/src/persistence/OrchestrationEventStore.ts:449-456 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Bound the replay page before its payloads are read.
readApplicationRows applies LIMIT ${input.limit} inside the base query, and the byte window is a separate outer query over that result. The outer filter depends on window sums, so it cannot shrink the inner read. With the reader's 500-row page size, up to 500 payload_json values are read and materialized for one replay page. Each page returns only the events that fit the byte budget, which can be one large event. The same work repeats on each following page, so the cursor advances slowly on threads with large events.
Select the byte-bounded rows first, using the same size measure the outer filter uses, then apply restoredPayloadJson only to the selected rows. Check that the byte accounting still matches restored payload sizes for prompt-anchored events before changing the query.

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Added 1 commit12d ago

perf(server): stop replay sizing when the byte page fills03ebabc

QQard12d ago

@coderabbitai Addressed the outside-diff finding from review 5681979109 in 03ebabcab. The byte-bounded path now materializes only candidate IDs, then walks restored byte sizes in sequence order until the page fills, with at most one overflow candidate. It no longer restores all 500 candidate payloads for every page. Sizing still uses the actual restored JSON, so prompt anchors, Unicode, quotes, and newlines are accounted for correctly.

The regression test fails with the previous query because it processes a malformed payload on a later page before delivering the first page. It passes with the bounded walk; full paged replay also preserves every prompt-backed event. All 79 focused tests, server typechecking, and targeted lint pass.

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@Qard Thanks for the fix. I inspected 03ebabcab. The query now materializes only candidate IDs and bounds payload restoration to the page plus at most one overflow candidate. It still sizes the restored JSON.

The regression test covers prompt-backed replay and first-page delivery before processing a later malformed payload. This addresses the outside-diff finding. I did not rerun the reported checks.

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Mmaria8d ago

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Thanks, Qard. The existing-cursor approach, byte-bounded restored-payload reads, unknown-event handling and interrupted-stream coverage address the reconnect loop without changing the wire contract.

The fork has maintainer edits disabled, so I rebuilt this on current main as https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/28404. It preserves the original paging implementation and release credit.

I compared the original diff against the replacement. The duplicate legacy stats/replay-size/snapshot branch is removed: creation plus a surviving thread still gets a snapshot; other catch-up uses the bounded replay path. The client cursor regression and event-store coverage are retained in their existing test files. The stats-call mock was dropped from the interruption case so it reproduces main's actual snapshot fallback. No production client or wire changes were added.

All 79 focused tests and Blacksmith check:changed pass, including nine package typechecks, lint and knip. Two independent source reviews found no actionable issues. Real-client capture and CI are still being completed on the replacement. This original PR remains open.

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Closing in favor of Maria’s writable replacement, which preserves contributor credit, byte-bounded event-store paging and the interrupted-replay cursor test. #28404 #26422 comment